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London, England, 1836-08-19 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1836.

We have received the most important intelligence
from Spain. The QUEEN REGENT has accepted
the Constitution of Cadiz. The fact is thus stated
in a second edition of the Journal de Paris of Wed-

nesday night :
" The Government received to-day the two follow-
ing despatches, which we publish verbatim
ILDEFONSO, ism, 6 O'CLOCK
" A military insurrection has compelled the
QUEEN RECENT to accept at 2 o'clock this morning,
the Constitution of 1812. All is perfectly tranquil
here at the present moment. The soldiers have re-
turned to their barracks.' "
" 'MADRID, 13TH INST., 6 O'CLOCK P.M.
" The news of the events of St. Ildefonso are be-
ginning to circulate at Madrid. The public tranquil-
lity has not yet been disturbed. The Council of Mi-
nisters has assembled.'"
PRICE OF THE Fuses AT TORTONI'S, WEDNESDAY NIGHT,
11 O'CLOCK —French 3 per Cents. 79f. 823 c. ; Spanish
Actives, 30.
The Gazette de France of yesterday, received by
express, contains the following
Alarm has spread this day at the Bourse upon
the news that the Ministry was dissolved, in con-
sequence of a division created by the question of an in-
tervention.

"M. TIIIERS having persevered in considering a
direct and immediate intervention as necessary to the
Government, required the adoption of such a determi-
nation. He obtained a majority in the Council ; but a
PREDOMINANT WILL having formally declared itself
on the opposite side, the five Ministers who demanded
the intervention have resigned.

" It is stated that • a Congress of the European
Powers is about to assemble, to deliberate upon the
affairs of Spain.
The language of Lord PALMERSTON, in the
English Parliament, proves that the insurrection of the
towns, and proclamation of the Constitution of 1812,
do not interfere with his political views. He spoke so
as to give reason to understand that the English co-
operation would continue even in favour of the Con-
stitution of the Cortes, provided that Constitution were
acknowledged by the QUEEN. This is a way of pre-
paring the subjection of CHRISTINA to the insurrec-
tion. Thus English intervention in the Peninsula is
generally revolutionary, in virtue of the Quadruple
Treaty of Alliance. Is it thought that an intervention
on the part of France could be of any other nature ?"
The acceptance of the Constitution of 1812 by the
Queen Regent of SPAIN, and the dissolution of the
French Cabinet, are most important announcements.
The " predominant will" which triumphed over a ma-
jority at the council board, is of course no other than
the Sovereign of the FRENCH. For once we approve
of 'his MAJESTY'S determination. If the object of
TRIERS, in advising an active intervention, was to
compel the QUEEN to renounce the Constitution after
having formally accepted it, we think the KING was
decidedly right, in resisting such a proposition. The
time for such intervention is past. TRIERS was right
before, but he is wrong now. The occurrences which
are reported to have taken place at San Ildefonso have
completely changed the question. A timely interven-
tion directed solely against the Carlists, would have
firmly established the QUEEN'S Government, one effect
of which would be, that the Spanish nation would rest
satisfied with the liberties secured to it by the Estatuto
Real. This intervention, though repeatedly solicited
by the Spanish Cabinet, was refused by Louis '
LIPPE, on the plea that while the adoption of such a

course would appear an uncalled for 'meddling of
foreigners in the internal affairs of Spain, it wontl
also excite jealousies in the bosoms' of other So-

vereigns, and so peril the peace of Europe.
With what semblance of justice then could the.
KING declare for an intervention which would crush
the Constitutionalists, having previously observed
a neutrality when implored by the Government of
Spain to co-operate with it against the Carlists ? The
champions of liberal institutions have unquestionably
as strong claims upon the sympathies of the CITIZEN
KING as the abettors of an iron despotism.
We trust that if no violence has been offered to the
person of the REGENT, no attempt will be made by
the Government of France to induce her MAJESTY to
play over again the part of the,brutal tyrant FERDI-
NAND, and so alienate from her the affections of the
Spanish people. Anything like treachery will be fatal
to her and to her daughter. We are happy to have
learned from the mouth of Lord PALMERSTON, that
from our Government the people- of Spain will meet
with no opposition in the adoption of any Constitu-
tion most suitable to their wants and wishes, provided
it preserve the recognized succession to the Spanish
Throne.

PARIS, Ave. 16.—Nothing new was known on 'Change
respecting the events in Spain ; the mail did not arrive either
yesterday or the day before, nor bad it arrived up to four
o'clock to-day. It is impossible, however, that the Govern-
ment can have been without news from Spain for three days.
Its silence seems to indicate that the news it has received is
not favourable to the Queen's Government. Military opera-
tions seem to become more active. Basilio has been com-
pletely annihilated at Benuesm by Colonel Asperos. Quilez
has experienced the same fate. A very sharp action took
place between him and Soria, in which the latter obtained the
ictory. Gomez has not entered Leon, as at first intended, but
has gone in the direction of Cotes. When Cordova perceived the
movement be advanced towards Ogna, so that Gomez is now
surrounded on all sides : it is thought it will be difficult for
him to escape this time, and his situation is considered as des-
perate. Cordova, by retaining the command till the arrival
of Saarsficld, has behaved very differently from Rodel, who
abandoned the army, on hearing that his successor was appointed
and left it in a manner without a General. Cordova has, on
this occasion at least, better understood his duty. General
Lebeau, who succeeds General Bernelle, entered Pourgette
on the 11th, and Col. Conrad has entered Spain lith a bat-
talion.—Messager.
_ _

The police las arrested above 40 persons. It is said
that most of them are deeply implicated in the crimes which
have lately been committed in the capital.—Journal du Com-
merce, Aug. 17.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, AUGUST 17.
Plve per Cenji.., 108 f. 95c. SOc. 85c. 90c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 40c.
Three per Cents. 80f. 80f. sc. 79f. 95c. 90c.
Bank Actions, 2,270 f.
Rolm de Naples, 100 E 30c
Roman Five per Cents., 10251.
Spanish Actives, 3:% 33 34%%%.
Spanish Differes, 14.4.
Spanish Passives, 9% 10 9%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 1033(.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 274 c.; money, 251. 25e.
Three months, paper, 25f. 10e. ; money, 25f. 10c.
--Cows Authentigue.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—The fall in the Three per
Cent. Rentes is attributed to the statement made in the House
of Commons by Lord Palmerston, that the British troops
would remain neutral between the Constitutionalists of 1812
and the Christinos. The Rentes were in the morning at 80f.
20c., but have since fallen to 79f. 90c., and improved again to
80f. sellers, present price. The Spanish Active Stock opened
at 33, but have since been done at 32+.
LAST Paicas.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 95c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. —c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, —; New Loan, —; Actives, 321; Pas-
sives, 9i ; Ducats, 100 50 ; Romans, 1021; Pedros,
Belgians, 1031 ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, :—f. —c. ;
tliguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 25 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 14+; Fire per Cent. nape-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.

Madrid Papers have been received, through the or-
dinary channels, to the 9th inst. The National Guards
appeared resolved to treat the Decree of General
QUESADA, ordering them to bring in their arms
under penalty of death for disobedience, with the
greatest contempt. Neither the Alcaldes nor the re-
gular troops are in a mood to second the decrees of the
Captain-General, whose assumption of the language
of a conqueror is the subject of universal ridicule.

The Tory Journals are in raptures with the speech
delivered by Lord LYNDHURST last night in the
House of Lords. So are we. It is just the sort of
suicidal oration calculated to produce results diame-
trically the reverse of those which were anticipated
from it. A more pitiful display of combined spleen,
, sophistry, and baffled ambition, has not been made in
[ the House since the Bishop of EXETER took his de-
parture for his long-deserted diocese. How shall we
describe this gew-gaw patch-work—this clumsy mosaic
—which, by courtesy, we suppose, we must call a
speech, as we call his Highness of CUMBERLAND
" illustrious ?" It is not eloquent, for truth and
earnestness are necessary to constitute eloquence. It
is not argumentative, for common sense is the ground-
work of argument. What then is it ? Sheer sophis-
try from first to last, relieved here and there by piquant
touches of sarcasm, and jocular allusions to the em-
barrassments of a Ministry ; which same embarrass-
ments have been chiefly occasioned by the factious con-
duct of the Tory Ex-CriANcEtLoR himself! And
this speech the Conservative organs think will tell well
with the country. The fools ! Why it is throughout
a premeditated insult to the people—a last attempt at
aiistocratic swagger—a blustering devil-me-care vindi-
cation of the intolerant bearing of the Flouse of Lords.
In one respect it is frank enough. It tells us, in
direct terms, that we have nothing to expect
from this Institution, which; so far from being
ashamed of, actually glories in, its conduct, and
will not fail to repeat it, whenever opportunity
serves. More than this, it proceeds- on the assump-
tion that the House of Commons is a mere assembly
of Incapables; that the middle and lower classes are
little better ; and that the House of Lords alone is
in full possession of its senses. Was ever effrontery
equal to this ? But, thank Heaven, we have the
means of reducing it to its level. Impudence is not
energy, and if we do but actively bestir ourselves, we
shall find our hereditary Legislators change their pre-
sent haughty attitude, and humbly cry Peccavi on their '
knees.

And to this it must come ere long. The old
English spirit is not extinct among us. We still pos •
sess the energies that enabled us to carry the Reform
13111. - Why then, it may be asked, do we not stir on
the instant ? Because it is better to bide our time.
Events are working for us. The Lords themselves
are bus) in our behalf. Have we not a LYNDHURST
and an EXETER, supplying us night after night with
arguments in favour of a Reform in the upper branch
of the Legislature ?—and can we have better advocates
than these ? Impossible. Let but these Tory De-
structivcs proceed next session- as they have hitherto
done, and as they threaten us they will still continue
to do, and we shall find the question of a Reform in
the Lords settled, with scarce an effort on our parts. '
When the fruit is ripe, there is no occasion to shake the
tree for it. We have but to pick it up quietly from the
ground.

Lord LYNDHURST, forsooth, taunts Ministers with
having done little or nothing this Session. Well, and
how should they, thwarted as they have been, in all
their best resolutions, by the most malignant and fac-
tious opposition that ever reared its Hydra head in
Parliament ? But we deny his Lordship's proposition.
Considering the means at their command, Ministers
have effected very considerable good. They have
proved themselves honest and unflinching ; they have
shown that the country may place implicit confidence
in them ; and more than this, they have probed the
House of Lords to the quick; exposed the rank jug-
glery of its proceedings ; tested its sincerity by its
acts ; and taught us to estimate it at its fitting worth.
Is this nothing ? From the tenor of Lord LYND-
HURST'S speech, it is plain that he at least thinks
otherwise.

Our Tory Contemporaries one and all assert, that his

Lordship's speech is the most triumphant vindication
that has vet beer► made of the proceedings of his
Order during the Session. Our reply to this is—lre-
land ! Mark the condition to which patrician legisla-
tion has reduced that country ! At the commence-
ment of the Session it was tranquil, contented, and
full of confidence. Now, it is all earthquake. Truly,
their Lordships have much to boast of here ! They
found a nation quiet ; they have left it agitated from
one extremity to the other. Then, as regards the
Dissenters. They found this influential body favourably
disposed towards them ; they have made it their bit-
terest enemy, and foremost, at the present moment,
to join with Ireland in the cry of " Reform the
Lords." Here again is a worthy subject for aristo-
cratic boasting.
But we need not pursue this subject further ;
suffice, therefore, to say, that the Lords have ingeni-
ously contrived, in one single Session, to draw down on
themselves the hatred of Ireland ; the hostility of the
Dissenters ; and the distrust of the enlightened Church
Reformers—a sianal proof how much effectual mischief
may be done in a limited time, if people have but a
genius for it.
Lord MELnouRNE's replylo the "Whig and some-
thing more" Ex-Chancellor, was in the most trium-
phant vein of cutting sarcasm. He literally flayed him
alive. Dismissing his sophistries as beneath contempt,
he applied himself at once to the main burden of his
song, which was, that Ministers, not having the sup-
port of the House of Lords, ought in duty to resign.
" I will continue," said his Lordship, "to hold office, not
for the love of office, but for the benefit of my coun-
try, and hold it I will, until I am removed from
it." This is a frank, manly declaration, and the
people will respond to it with enthusiasm. Equally
effective in its way was his Lordship's applica-
tion to the Noble Baron, of the description given by
the Earl of BRISTOL of another pseudo-legislator,
that " the malignity of his practices had been greatly
aggravated by those rare talents of which GOD had
given him the use, but of which the Devil directed
the application." If Lord LYNDHURST be not
callous as the nether mill-stone, he must be stung to
the heart's core by this remorseless castigation.

One word more, and we have done. Lord LYND-
HURST, we perceive, talks of threatening Ministers
with an appeal to the people—intimating thereby that
the Tories are quite ready to play over again the same
game that they played in the instance of the last dis-
solution. Let them make the experiment. 'We in-
treat—we conjure them to do so. But no„they will
attempt nothing of the sort. As Lord HOLLAND
observed in his apt and pungent speech, they are far
too shrewd to hazard an intrigue which would have no
other result than to rouse the country, to a man,
against them.

The Lords dispatched another Bill last night.
Every day, every hour, brings with it additional proofs
that the House of Peers, as long as it is allowed to
continue irresponsible to the people, will do its utmost
to thwart the wishes, and oppose the interests, of the
people. Until the principle of responsibility be in-
fused, by some means or other, into this Assembly,
there can be no security for good, no protection against
bad, legislation. The Peers will continue to be—
what they have ever been—an Order not only distinct
as to rank from the rest of the community, but
possessing interests and feelings directly at variance
with those of the people. When, therefore, we see
fire and water agree, then, and not till then, may we
expect to see a hereditary assembly of unaccountables
harmonise in legislation with representatives chosen by
popular election.
The main illustration of this now almost universal

opinion which last night afforded, was the throwing
out of one of the Bills intended to remedy the defects
of the Municipal Corporation Bill. All the
provisions necessary for this purpose were embo-
died in one measure which the Lords metamor-
phosed in such a manner as never was heard of be-

fore. Conference after conference was held between

the Houses to no purpose. Even a " Free and Easy"
produced no good effect. The Commons yielded all
that could be given up without compromising the in-
terests of the boroughs—those very interests which it
was the object of the measure to protect ; but the
Lords would not stir a peg—not an inch would they
budge, unless the Corporation charities were placed in
the same corrupt hands which had misapplied them
to further the ends of Toryism. This Bill was ac-
cordingly lost.
Ministers, however, anxious that the country should

have the benefit of as much of the measure as both
Houses had agreed upon, brought in four short Bills,
containing nothing—not a single item more than the
Lords had already concurred in. Yet the moment it is
proposed to go into Committee upon one of these Bills,
up starts the great Obstructor and moves its rejection.
It is accordingly thrown over the table, without one so-
litary reason being offered that can bear a moment's
hearing. It is rejected merely for rejection's sake, and
that is the truth of the matter.

To
Ila say, as Lord LYNDItunsT pretended to say,
that the Lords cannot sanction in four parts, that
which they could not sanction as a whole, is a mere
sophism, because they had sanctioned every thing
that this Bill contained. Besides, it follows from the
rejection of this Bill, that on their own principles they
must reject the others, which they do not seem dis-
posed to do, if we may judge from what toak place
last night. We should have thought, that what is
passing in Spain might have led their Lordships to
pause a little in their mad career. Some of them
understand the English of ea ira. Let them go home
and meditate upon that text during the recess.

Brussels anti German Papers have been received.
The following extract from a Frankfort paper of the
15th, is deserving of the attention of the monied in-
terest :

VIENNA, A t'U CLIT 6.--For these three days, in consequence
of a reaction from abroad, there has been a great scarcity of
money in our market, from which, for some months past, large
remittances in specie have been made to foreign countries.
News having been received from London that the Bank of
England has raised the rate of discount, a similar measure is
expected here. Several Members of the Bank Committee
have already called attention to the disadvantages of tile pre-
sent rate of discount, four and a half per Cent., which must
lead to remittances of specie to foreign places, because discount
is every where higher. The crisis in Si•ain has prcbably its
influence on this state of things.

DUTCH FUNDS-- AmsTeito.tu, Aug. 16.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 214 per Cent. 55.X 56
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent
Montt Syndic, 44i per cent 97s' 9814
Ditto, ditto, :112 per cent 2/01,1 81
Commercial Company, 4,.; per c,nt lS2i 183? i
Ditto (14132 and 1833) 5 per cent.: 101,4 104 k%
'man 16:36, 4 rier cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 05%
Two months ......
—Dutch Papers, Aug. 17.
12E1..(11 AN 1' UNDS—INITSSELA, AUG. 16.
Actual Dcbt, 2,4 per Cent.
Itotlischild's Loan, 5 per Cent.
1,,,a1l of Oh', Hill. 4 per Cent lfoili,
Loan of Thirty Millions 95%
Society of Commerce, 4 s per Cent I3S
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l'24
...Brussels Papers, Aug. 18.

The Speaker and Mrs. Abercromby leave Carlton-
terrace early in the ensuing week for their seat near Chester..
field. Mr, !falph bcrprprphy, only ?pri of the night Hon.
Gentleman, resident Minister at Florence, is shortly expected
to arrive in England,
Lady Myko purcliaBe4 that beautiful house in
Park-lane, so long the abode of the late Marchioness Wellesley.
The 'Jon, Douglas Halliburton will entertain a party
of sporting Gentlemen neXt month at Pitcur, in Forfarshire.
Sir James Graham, M.p„ 4.0 family arrived at
Netherby last week from 4ontlon. The Highs Hon. Baronet
has visited the north for the purpose of jointing 4 may of friends
in the diversion of grouse shooting on his oxtcnOve moors.—
Cumberland Paqucf,