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London, England, 1837-05-26 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1837.

In the House of Lords yesterday, a Private Bill was
brought up and read. A petition for the abolition of
Church-rates presented, and then their Lordships, who ap-
parently met only to separate, adjourned.
In the House of Commons Mr. H. HINDE inquired
whether it was the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to
lay on the table of the House a Bill founded on the reso-
lution passed the other night, on the subject of Church-
rates? The CHANCELEOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
had he known it was the intention of the Hon. Member to
put the question, he would have been prepared to give a
definite answer. He wished, however, the Hon. Gentle-
man would not press for an answer now.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD'S motion for leave to bring
in a Bill to repeal the Irish Coercion Act was opposed by
Lord MORPETH, and, on a division, negatived by 87
against 5.
Mr. MACKINNON having moved the appointment of a
Select Committee to take into consideration the claim of
Mr. TALBOT and other claimants on the French Com-
pensation Fund, the House divided, and declared against
the motion by a majority of 49 over 39.
Lord DUDLEY STUART then brought forward his motion
for copies of the correspondence between the Government
of this country and those of Russia, Prussia, and Austria,
relative to Cracow. During the progress of the Noble
Lord's speech, the House was twice counted. The first
time it was ascertained that 45 Members were present,
but the second time there were only 31, and the House
e as then, of course, " counted out."

A Cabinet Council met this morning at twelve
o'clock at the Foreign Office.

The Tories are just now making a desperate effort
to secure the return of their raw, unfledged candidate,
Mr. MONTEITH, for Glasgow ; and as a means of
enabling them to do so, have been propagating, during
the week—as we learn by our spirited provincial
Contemporary, the Scots Times—the most atrocious
calumnies against the Liberal candidate, Mr. DEN-
NISTOUN. 'Not content with designating this gentle-
man as a revolutionist, anarchist, and so forth, the
Glasgow Conservative faction have actually had the
audacity to charge him with having burned the Bible I
At a public meeting of his fi iends, held on Monday
last, Mr. DEN NIsTouN thus alluded to this calumny :*
" It was with mingled feelings of grief and indignation,"
he observed, " that he had learned that his opponents
had resorted to the circulation of reports of the most
gross, infamous, and malicious nature, to hurt his
cause. It had been circulated, and even printed, that
Ire had been guilty of burning the Bible ! In answer
to that report he would energetically say, it was a
base, cowardly, and calumnious falsehood. If these
terms were not sufficiently strong, let stronger terms
be suggested to him, and he would use them." How
desperate must be the condition of a party, that can
only hope to achieve a victory by having recourse to
slanders like the one we have just quoted I In olden
times the Tories, however bigoted and despotic
they might be, at least carried on their party
warfare in something like a manly, straight-forward
spirit ; but now they are remarkable only for their
trimming, tortuous policy, and the utter absence of all
gentlemanlike feeling. Disappointment is the Ithu-
tiel spear that has touched, and brought them out in
their true colours. There is no sacrifice of principle
that they are not now ready to make for a restoration
to office and its emoluments. A few years ago they
would have scorned the bare idea of propagating slan-
ders and falsehoods by the gross ; but that which was a
mere ordinary sense of propriety then, is considered mere
prudery now ; and accordingly we find this demoralized
faction not thinking it beneath their dignity to descend
to the most paltry and disgraceful attacks on private
character ; not hesitating an instant to brand Mr.
LEADER as an " Atheist," because he opposed them
at Westminster; or Mr. DENNISTOUN, as guilty of

sacrilege, because he bids fair to triumph over them at
Glasgow. And this is the party to whom Sir F.BURDET T
has thought it just and fit to lend his unqualified sup-
port ! So long as a shred of good feeling and decency
hung about them, this "fine old English gentleman"
held them in the most scornful abhorrence ; but
the instant they cast aside every idea of common
propriety, and degenerate into a mere shameless,
ribald faction—that instant he takes them to his
arms, impressed with the discovery—appropriate
enough we must confess—that they have at length
become fully worthy of the honor of his august pa-
tronage I The sound and enlightened portion of the
community always disliked the Tories ; but can now
entertain no other feeling towards them, than that of
sovereign contempt. Their unhesitating meanness and
their paltry calumnies must long since have convinced
all reflecting men that they are irreclamable.

The organs of the Opposition are exhibiting a most
feverish anxiety respecting the intentions of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers with regard to the Church-rate ques-
tion. The faction dread the introduction of a Bill
into the House of Commons, and justly, because with
however small a majority the Bill might pass—should
it even not pass the Commons at all—a great and im-
portant point would be gained, and a foundation for fu-
ture success laid, by the mere bringing in of the mea-
sure. They therefore deprecate further proceedings
with all their might. Now, if they think that Ministers
will be diverted from their purpose out of complai-
sance to them—out of any vain notion of conciliating
their good will—they will, we hope and trust, find them-
selves grievously mistaken. Lord MELBOURNE and
his colleagues have had ample experience to prove, that
the most fruitless and foolish of all attempts is the at-
tempt to conciliate their political opponents. They
know that, act as they may, the Tories would stir
heaven, earth, and hell to destroy them, and this
knowledge must always excite in their minds a well-
grounded suspicion that there is danger in pursuing
the path pointed out by such guides. We conceive
that Ministers are bound to push the Church-rate
measure as far as they can—that is to say, until an
absolute negative is put upon it in the House of Com-
mons. This the country at large, and the Dissenters
in particular, have a right to expect ; and any thing
short of this, will not, and ought not to give them
satisfaction. Nor can we see any shadow of
reason why this course should not be adopted.
If it be that said there is no chance of finally
carrying the measure with so small a majority, we
answer there is just the same chance of carrying it with
a majority of one as with a majority of eighty. No
one ever expected that this measure would at present
pass that limbo of legislation, the House of Lords.
There it must at all events have stuck for a season,
longer or shorter, according as circumstances may
bring on the " awakening" so anxiously longed for by
all well-wishers to the Constitution.

With regard to the lessees, by whose flinching from
the late division the majority was so much diminished,
we must say, that they are very.simple, short-sighted
gentlemen, if they imagine they can thus escape the
doom that awaits them. Whatever becomes of the
Church-rate question—and of its ultimate success we

have not the slightest doubt—a new system of dealing
with the Bishops' tenants is inevitable. As soon may
they expect that the ravens, when they hare once snuffed
the prey will turn aside from it, as that the Bi-
shops will desist, till they have got the uttermost
farthing that they can screw out of the lessees.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday have
been received. In the official columns of the Moni-
teztr we find the following telegraphic despatch from the
Spanish frontier :

" BAYONNE, MAY 22, lIALF•PAST 12, P.M.—The Carlist
army under Don Sebastian passed the river Arragon on the
19th, at Galipienzo, the bridge of which they re-established.
Irribarren left Tafalla the same day, and took the road to
Caparroso.

Evans quittci Irun yesterday (21st). and joined Eipartero
at liernani. Three battalions occupy Irun, Fontarabia, and
Oyurzun."

• Had Don SEBASTIAN intended to penetrate into Ca-
talonia the Journal des Debats is of opinion that he
would have crossed the Arragon at Sanguessa, and
not at Galipienzo, which is three leagues lower down
the stream, anti not in the nearest direction for that pro-
vince. The Carlist expedition appears to be making fora
central position on the confines of Arragon, Catalonia,
and Valencia, to admit of a junction with the bands of
SERRA DOR, FORCADELL, and CABRERA. The
passage of the Ebro will probably be attempted be-
tween Tudela and Sarragosa. CADPARROSO, in the di-
rection of which IRRIBA RREN was marching on the
19th, is on the route to Tudela, which the Christino
General is endeavouring to reach before the arrival of
the Carlists. Should he be too late, the passage of
the Ebro by Don SEBBSTIAN and his troops will not
be difficult. The moving columns stationed to guard
the passes of the river are numerically too weak, and
too much scattered, to oppose the passage of such a
large force, especially as the Infante is supplied with
boats and rafts for the construction of a floating bridge.
Don SEBASTIAN is said to be at the head of sixteen
strong battalions, 1,200 horse, six field-pieces, and
two howitzers—a formidable force when compared with
that of IRRIBA ItREN, which consists only of twelve
battalions and 600 cavalry, already twenty-four hours
march in the rear of the enemy. Don CARLOS, VIL-
LA REAL, and most of the principal officers of the Pre-
tender, had joined the expedition on the 18th. In the
meanwhile a courier, who left Madrid on the 17th, and
passed through Saragossa on the 19th, witnessed the
enthusiasm with Which the national guards were pre-
paring to meet the Carlists should they approach that
city. Four tbousand of these brave fellows were then
in readiness to take the field at a moment's notice. All
the other cities through which the courier passed were
busied in organising troops, and throwing up works to
defend them from the attacks of the enemy. Besides
a junction of the troops under Generals Ittrlts A R REN
and BIJERENS, would place the Viceroy in a condi-
tion to cope successfully with Don SEBASTIAN'S
whole force, were he even to receive no assistance
from the detachments now occupying Miranda, Lodosa,
and Logrona, and the national guards of the frontier
towns of Arragon, Valencia, and Catalonia.
In Navarre the scarcity of provisions is so great that
a famine is apprehended. Don CARLOS has ordered
his troops to seize all the corn they can find, and con-
vey it to magazines for the use of" the army, as the old
contractors have refused all further supplies, unless the
arrears are paid up. It was rumoured at Bayonne
that famine had more to do with the march of Don
SEBASTIAN towards the Ebro than the appearance of
ESPARTERO, the Carlists having had 50,000 hecto-
-1 tres of wheat destroyed by water, which penetrated
the cave in which it was secretly deposited for greater
safety.

Of domestic news there is little of any moment in the
French papers. Some collision has taken place be-
tween the members of the present and the late Cabinet
on the question of Sugar Duties. IT. D tic HATEL,
while in office, had prepared and brought in a Bill re-
ducing the import duties on colonial sugar one half,
without reference to the taxation of sugar manufac-
tured from beet-root. The Bill was not passed in the
last Session, and was therefore revived in the present
in nearly its original form. In the interim a vast im-
provement has taken place in the manufacture of sugar
extracted from beet-root, and the consumption has be-
come so general that the present Minister of Finance,
iVI. de LAPLANGE, has arrived at the conclusion that
not only ought the import duty on colonial sugar to
be lowered for the benefit of the planter and the mer-
chant, but that a duty ought to be imposed on beet-
root sugar, on the plea that all manufactured sugar is a
commodity which ought to be made to contribute to the
national revenue. The ex-Ministers exclaim against
this, urging that the interests of the home agriculturists
will be sacrificed by such a measure, and further, that the
beet-root growers had received from them assurances
that no tax would be imposed on home-grown Sugar.
To these objections M. de LAPLANGE replies, that
he will neither sacrifice the merchants and colonists
to the interest of the beet-root growers, nor give up
fifty millions of revenue to redeem pledges, with whose
obligations he for one never charged himself. As im-
mense fortunes are sunk in the cultivation of beet-
root, and as the agriculturists depend upon it as the
staple of their produce, the question of taxing the
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sugar produced from it will excite a
every part of France.bultievynt
tirieestdc in.
We cannot thinkl
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