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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1836.

Mr. GROVE PRICE, we perceive, talks of taking
the sense of the House of Commons—possibly this
evening—on the subject of O'CONNELL'S intended
motion for a Reform of the Lords, by proposing that
it be expunged from the Journals. This is a manoeuvre
growing out of the mixed fear and desperation of the
Tories, which it is impossible can succeed. The Re-
presentatives of the People cannot so far forget them-
selves, as to acquiesce in a motion which, if carried,
would put. a stop to the further progress of Reform, by
perpetuating the oligarchical despotism of the Lords.
And why should this be? What is there in the insti-
tution of the Upper House that should entitle it to
greater reverence or forbearance than the Lower ? Is
it its hereditary wisdom ? Alas, that is but another
name for hereditary imbecility. Is it its hereditary
virtue and morality ? There is nothing of hereditary
growth, but pride and prejudice. Why, then, we re-
peat,
_should the Lords be treated with greater deference
than the Commons? We reformed the latter when they
required it ; and with the same zeal and unceremo-
niousness
should we set about the reform of the former.
As for Mr. PRICE'S motion, the bare announcement
of it is an insult to the people ; for what is it but to
say, " No matter how the Lords behave to you ; no
matter how many measures intended for your welfare they
reject with contempt ; it is your duty to submit humbly
to all their caprices, for their's is a sacred institution ;
and even to whisper of reforming it, is an offence
against the majesty of the Constitution, which the
Commons, as sworn guardians of that Constitution,
are bound to denounce in the strongest terms of which
language is capable." Now we say it is impossible
that the people's representatives can listen ford an in-
stant to a motion of which the above is a correct inter-
pretation—unless, indeed, they are prepared to aban-
don the free exercise of legislation, and confess them-
selves the mere vassals of the Lords. Justice to the
country demands that they insist on justice; from the
aristocracy, at whatever hazard, adopting as their
motto—Fiat justitia, ruat cerium. If the Peers
are to be held above the reach of Reform,
to what purpose have we been struggling for
the last five years ? Small, indeed, has been
our gain by the expulsion of boroughmongery from
the House of Commons, if its factious and tyrannical
spirit is still to be allowed to take refuge in the House
of Lords. But the country will not permit a grievance
like this to continue long without a remedy. We see
a spirit at work in the provinces ;at Bath—at Ipswich
—at Bungay—at Edinburgh—and generally through-
out Ireland—that will soon bring the Lords to their
senses. Let the collision between the two Houses
come when it may, the country' is fully prepared for it
—fully resolved, too, that if one is to be worsted in
the struggle, that one shall not be the Commons. .

If the Lords intended—as no doubt they
did—to
set Ireland in a flame, they have succeeded to their
heart's content. From the Giant's Causeway to Cape
Clear, all is in commotion. There is but one shout
throughout the length and breadth of the land, and
that shout is, " British rights, or ,a Repeal of the
Union I" In England and Scotland too, " Justice to
Ireland" is the rallying cry of every public Meeting.
The popular mind is roused to the vast importance of
the question which the madness of the House of Lords
has put in issue. If this infatuated body is to be
allowed an unrestricted swing—if it is to act with-

out the aid of any other counsellors than its own
prejudices and i!s own selfishness—it is evident to every
thinking mind that the dismemberment of the Empire
is an event for which we must prepare ourselves. It
is utterly in vain to suppose that Ireland, treated as
she has been by the Lords, insulted, outraged, de-
graded in the face of the whole world, will submit to
a humiliation which would prove her really to be that
which her bitterest enemies have represented her—
unfit to be received within the circle of civilized com-
munities. If she cannot obtain justice, has she not a
right to demand a Repeal of the Union ? Is there a
man of right feeling or sound thinking in the couttry
who can deny this right ? No, not one such does
deny it. The fact is, the ardour of the people on this
subject, outruns that of the Press. The people feel
that the Lords have violated the sacred claims of
justice—those claims which it requires no laboured
effort of reasoning to define or to elucidate, but which
come home at once to the bosom of every honest man,
whatever be his station in life. Every man asks him-
self, how he would like such treatment himself ? The
Englishman and the ScotAmu have only to consult
their own hearts. They have only to ask how they
would feel, and what they would do, had the House of
Lords swept away their ancient national institutions on
the plea that they were not fit to be trusted with the
managemement of them. Resistinee to tyranny
is the first instinct of nature in such a case.
Shall we wonder, then, that there is a community of
feeling between the three portions of the empire on
this point? Ireland nobly assisted England and Scot-
land to achieve the reform of their institutions. Eng-
land and Scotland are now proving that they are re-
solved to repay the obligation. Let the Lords look
to it.

The motion for a Committee of Inquiry into the
Danish Shipping Claims comes on in the. House of
Commons to-morrow evening, the 3lst. It is an in-
quiry as to the equity of compensating claims for
losses occasioned to British subjects through the acts
of the British Government, by which a large sum of
money was produced to the Treasury, through the
seizure of Danish merchant ships prior to any cause of
hostility. It is to consider upon what grounds the
book debts have been exciusively compensated out of
the proceeds of shipping, for they were provided for
by the treaty of Kiel ; and whether these book-debts
had, in reality, a more equitable claim than those of
the poor mariners who lost all their property, and were
imprisoned, because their own Government committed a
wrong against the Danes, i❑ the first instance ; mis-
leading their own subjects at the same time to
venture up the Baltic in pursuit of their accus-
tomed trade, and then leaving them to the mercy
of their enemies. Instead of resisting these just
claims, Ministers ought to be glad of an opportunity
of affording another precedent of doing justice ; and
it ought even to be laid down as a law, that Govern-
ment, in a case of an aggressive war, is bound to pro-
vide indemnity for its subjects who may suffer through
the aggression, and that the droits accruing ought to
be appropriated to that purpose.

The Spanish Cortes are dissolved. This important
measure took place on the 23d inst. During the sit-
ting of the Procuradores on the 21st, a resolution was
proposed and carried by a majority of 'seventy-eight to
twenty-nine votes, to the effect that the ISTURIZ Cabi-
net did not enjoy the confidence of the Estamento.
This resolution, in conjunction with the previous vote
of the 16th, deprived the President of all controul in
the Chamber ; and he found. himself, at the close of
seven days from his appointment as Minister, reduced
to the alternative of dissolving the Cortes, or resigning.
He chose the former—but in consequence of a olunder
on his own part the Cortes were not dissolved till the
23d, though they were to have been dismissed on
the 22c1.

Up to the morning of the 23d no address had
been sent to the electoral juntas, and great doubts
existed in the public mind in Madrid as to whether an
election of Deputies would take place for some months
longer. In the mean time nothing is known as to the
means by which the Government proposes to carry on
the affairs of the country. The treasury is empty, and
every attempt that has been made to raise money has
signally failed. Public credit is on the brink of ruin.
All bills drawn upon the treasury that have come in
since the fall of the MENDIZABAL administration
have been protested ; and it is apprehended that those
payable in the provinces, out of the local revenues,
will also be dishonoured.. To acid to the perplexity of
the new President, several of his colleagues are pre-
paring to desert him, and some have already placed their
resignation in his hands. SOLARTE, who is still
in Paris, has addressed a letter to ISTURIZ, in
which he has inclosed his resignation of the Fi-
nance Department. General SEOANE has like-
wise declined the part of War Minister. Senor
EGEA, who was appointed, ad interinz, Minister
of Finance in the absence of SOLARTE, was offered
the department permanently/ but he declined it on
hearing that the President was about to have recourse
to the perilous experiment of a dissolution of the
Cortes. There is, therefore, now no Finance Minis-
ter, the office at present being as much a sinecure as
that of purse-bearer to the Lord Chancellor of England.
Senor BARRIO AYUSCO, Procurador for Soria, has
accepted the Portefeuile of Grace and Justice. Gene-
ral SANTIAGA MENDEZ VIGO, who is with the army,
is appointed Minister of War.
Such is the troubled aspect of affairs in Spain. All
the previous readiness and foresight of IsTuatz seem
to have deserted him since his appointment to the Pre-
sidency of the Council. His incompetence to discharge
the functions of his high office is visible at every move-
ment. In the Chambers he has committed nothing
but blunders ; and his mouth has only been opened to
the alienation of his former friends and adherents. He
resembles an inexperienced swimmer, ignorant of the
strength of currents and the eddying of whirlpools, who
for the first time attempts to breast a rapid stream; be-
cause he has succeeded in keeping his chin above wa-
ter in a bath. We are not surprised that he has had
recourse to desperate means to save himself ; for he
knows well that if he fail now, he is lost for ever. Suc-
cess only will prevent the world from saying that the
means by which he obtained office were as infamous as
his failure was sudden, signal, and deserved.
It is reported that, rather than recal MENDIZABAL,
the Regent will open her private coffers, and place the
funds therein carefully treasured at the disposal of Is-
TURIZ. We doubt the truth of this rumour. The
Regent is as fond of money as Lout s-Pli 'LIPPE him-
self, and we believe she would make any sacrifice of
feeling rather than part with a single real of her wealth.
She is unquestionably immensely rich. During the
last four years of FERDINAND S reign she divided
her time between political intrigues and the amassing
together of property in money and jewels—of every frac-
tion of which she is still possessed. Her object was to
guard against the worst that might happen ; but though
the money so acquired would go a great way towards
extricating the Government of her daughter from its
difficulties, she has hitherto refused to refund a real of
what undoubtedly belongs to the nation, and ought to
be applied for its relief in so great an emergency.
On the 22d, accounts had been received in Madrid
of juntas forming at Barcelona, Valencia, Seville,
Cadiz, Murcia, and various other places in
Spain, for the purpose of petitioning against
the ISTURIZ Cabinet. In several places the
people had declared, that in the event of the Cortes
being dissolved they would pay no taxes—nor do we
suspect that the threat was an idle one. The disso-
lution of the Cortes was a dangerous expedient, to
which no Minister in his senses would have had re-
course. Besides the dissolution of the late Cortes,
summoned as. they Were for a specific purpose—
namely, the passing of an electoral law—is in itself a
stretch of the Royal preroative, for the advising of
which, _the President of the Council has subjected
himself to an impeachment. Nothing could have jus-
tified the dissolution of the Chambers, but a refusal,
on their part, to adopt the proposed law, for the rati-
fication of which they had been called together.

A Morning Contemporary publishes the following
exiness from Paris, in a second edition :
" PARIS, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 11 P.M.
" It is understood here that the movement of Cordova is
part of a combined series of operations, to which Evans and
Bernelle, and the whole force at Cordova's disposal, are

parties." The annexed is the telegraphic dispatch which was
received at five o'clock, p.m., announcing the victory :
" Cordova set out from Vittoria on the 23d, at the head of
three divisions. After an engagement, in the course of which
he drove back the Carlists on Onate, causing them considerable
loss, he occupied the heights of the Sierra of San from Adrian
as far as Aranza. De la Torre, who commanded the Carlists,
was seriously wounded. The Christinos had about 200 men
put hors-de-combat. Brigadier-General O'Donnel was among
the number of wounded. During the night of the 233, Cor-
dova had taken possession of the positions of Arlaban, &c."
We believe the above to be a mere fabrication ; but
even if correct it is of little importance. CORDOVA'S
occupation of Onate and Arlaban was announced in
this Journal in the early part of last week.

We have just received an account of an important
public Meeting on the subject of the Irish Municipal
Bill, which was held on Friday last at Taunton, and
at which Sir THOMAS LETHBRIOGE expressed him-
self strongly in favour of a Reform in the House of
Lords. We regret that from press of matter we are
compelled to leave over the report of this Meeting till
to-morrow. We have accounts also of numerous other
Meetings, all of which show that the country is at
length fully roused, and determined to put down the
irresponsible authority of the Upper House. The
City of London will meet in the course of a few days,
on the Irish Corporation Bill ; when, 'from all we can
hear, some startling truths will bespoken, calculated to
give their Lordships the cholic.

We have received letters and papers from Lisbon to
the 21st inst. inclusive. The Marchioness FICA LHO,
her MAJESTY'S especial favourite, had been created a
Duchess. The disturbances at Tras-os-Montes were
far from being put down, and the inclination for rioting
and disaffection throughout the country was fomented
by the efforts of the Opposition, who had leagued
themselves with persons suspected of Miguclite prin-
ciples, for the purpose of embarrassing the CARVALHO
Administration.

German and Brussels Papers have been received.
Extracts from them will be found in another column.

The whole of the Paris papers of Friday and Satur-
day have been received. They announce the dissolu-
tion of the Spanish Cortes, but bring no advices of
importance from the North of Spain.
The subject of discussion in the French Chambers
on Thursday and Friday was the home Budget, when
severe censures were passed on the immorality of the
French theatre. M. TITTERS admitted the extent of
the evil, but doubted the propriety of all interference
on the part of the Government. The grants were
voted as proposed by zhe Minister of Finance, without
amendments. Annexed are extracts :
PARIS, MAY 28.—The Algcrine Moniteur of 20th May,
which has been received at Paris to day, contains no news re-
specting the colony or the military operations on the Tafna.
A letter from Algiers says that on the'receipt of the news of
the re-occupation of Medcah by the partizans of Abdel Ka-
der, numerous arrests took place among the most influential
Moors at Algiers. who were suspected of a secret correspon-
dence with the Emir. Notice was immediately sent to him
that their life should answer that of the Europeans who were
made prisoners in Medeah. These arrests have caused some
agitations among the native population, and illutapha Pacha,
who was a member of the Municipality, had thought it his
duty to give in his resignation.--Illessager, May 28.

FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS,

MAT 27.

Five per Cents., 107 E 95c. 85c. 8 C. 75c.
Four per Cents., 10If. 25c.
Three per Cents., 81f. Buc. 70c. 65c.
Bank Actions, 2,275 E
Rente de Naples, 1021 65c, 50c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102 1013¢ 104.

Spanish Actkies, 42 40% 41.
Spanish Differes, 19%'4.
Spanish Passives. IV•Xii§%li.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents , 82.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 53% 53 52%.
tlaytian Loan, 400 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.

O lemma!), paper, Ze. 371Ae ; money, 251. 37%c.
ritree months, paper, 251. 2.5.; ; money, 2Sf.
on rs Au/he/162u".
FRENCH FUNDS.—PaRis, MAY 23.

F.ve per Cents., 107 f. 81c. 75c. 85c. 'B'c.
Four per Cents., 101E'. :25c.
Three per Cents. 81f 55c. 50c. 00c. 65c.
National Loan. 1071. 70c.
Bank Aclions,:42;sf. 2,2721 50c. 2,275 E
Rente de Naples, lth!f. 40c 35c. 15c.
Roman Five per ('eats.. 101 102 101%.
Spanish Active; 3' 40.
Spanish Differes,
Spanish Passives, 12 1 INYA.
Portugue,v Loan, Five per Cent.s.,lBl.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 52%4, Mi.
EicusNuß ON LONNON.
One month, paper, 25f. 37t4c. ; money, 25t
Three months, paper, 251 25e. ; money, 25f. 25,:.
—Cours Aulhenligue.
BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—At half past one o'clock the
Three per Cents. were sold at 81f. 52ic. at the opening of the
Bourse, the first price being 81f. 55c. ; they subsequently im-
proved to 81f. 65c., and are now 81f. 60c.
- -

The Actives opened at 39k, and got up to 40, but they have
since declined to 394.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 90c. ; Age
per Cents., 81f. 65c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; TMe
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
bards, —; Differes, 134 ; New Loan, —; Actives, 40 ; Pas-
sives, 111; Ducats, 102 55 ; Romans, 1011 —; Pedros, 81 ;
Belgians, —; Dutch, ---f. —c. ; Haytians, —f. —c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 11; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuclics, —; Royal Loan, —.

TILE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

onr arrivals this morning arc two French, two Ostend, the
Dutch and Hambro' mails ; also a mail from Lisbon. by the
Scornion ; sailed on the 15th of May ; and by the Pandora
on the 22d of May ; a mail from Malta, by the Eclipse, sailed
on the 24th of April, Alexandria on the 13th of April, and
Gibraltar on the 12th of May. Ship letters from New York.
The New York Papers to the Ist of May have the follow-
ing :
" CONORESS.—SENATE, APRIL 28.—The Vice President
laid before the Senate a Report from the Secretary of the
Navy, stating that one and a half millions annually would only
be required in addition to her naval services. In the House
of Representatives, the Deposit Bank question came on for
discussion ; the Army Appropriation Bill was debated at
length, in which Mr. Mackeob defended the Administration
from the charge of corruption. The House then adjourned."
The news from Spain, received this morning bx the express
from Paris, confirms what we stated a few days since, that the
Cortcs would be dissolved, and that the new Ministry were
determined to hold out to the last. Great excitement is caused
in the City by this hews : particularly among the Spanish
Bondholders—this desperate act, it is greatly feared, will
throw the whole of Spain into a state of great agitation ; and
the speculators at present are at a loss to know on what prin-
ciple the new Ministers intend to act.
Spanish Active Bonds, in consequence of the above intelli-
gence, are much depressed. They closed on Saturday at
40:43 ; receded this morning to 381 39; at present 39 to 3941;
Passive 101 111 ; Deferred 171 181 ; Portuguese 82 83 ;
Three per Cents. 51 52; Colombian 30}; Mexican 32 34;
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. 56 11.
To-morrow being settling-day in the Foreign Market it is
expected that several of the out-of-the-house gentlemen will
prove minus, owing to the great fall this Account in Spanish
of about 8 per cent.
Consols may be quoted at 911 92 for the Account ; Money
914—little doing in the British Market; Exchequer Bills
12 14 ; India Bonds par, 2 prem. ; Bank Stock 210} 211 i;
India Stock 257} 2581.
HALF-PAST ONE.

We beard of a report in the City, early this morning, that
news had been received of the defeat of the Carlists, which we
did not credit at first ; since which we have received the
Journal de Paris, with the telegraphic despatch. The Paper
is dated Sunday, which we notice elcevrhere.
Consols may be quoted 91i 92 for the Account, and for
Money 91i ; Exchequer Bills, 12 14 ; India Bonds 2i prem. ;
Bank Stock, 2111 ; India, 258.
In the Foreign Market, Portuguese, 831 ; Three per
Cents., 52'1 ; Spanish Passive, 11+; Deferred, lit 181;
Active, 391 40; Columbian, 29 + ; Mexican, 33 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 56 .
iT.HREE O' CL 0 CR.
Consols for the Account, 91+ 92.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILROAD.—Another rail-
road strikes us as likely to be highly advantageous, and dis-
tinguished by similar peculiarities with Cundy's Brighton-
road—we m?an the Eastern Counties Railroad, which will
traverse, without doing injury to private property, and cer-
tainly without damage to the picturesque, the counties of
Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk. The peninsula formed by the
last-named county, the actual termination of all roads at the
edge of the sea upon that coast, at a distance comparatively
small from London, will, by means of this road, be brought
forward, and receive benefits of which, however susceptible, it
is at present deprived. The far-famed cattle of Norfolk, its
poultry, its fish, its corn—in fact all its agricultural produce,
is now kept from the London markets, because the expense of
conveyance is more than double that at which canal navigation
already transports the products of the northern parts of the em-
pire to the metropolis. The distance by the Eastern Coun-
ties Railroad from London to Norwich is only four miles more
than a direct straight line, and the advantages derivable, not
only to London, but to the various provincial towns and cities
with which it will communicate, from the rapid conveyance
and certain supply of the most desirable luxuries of life, are
incalculable. The whole of the capital required for its forma-
tion has been subscribed, and the Bill, which has received the
support of every place through or near which it is to pass, has
gone through the Committee, and will be read on Wednesdu
for the third time. In both these cases we sec utility and
convenience combined, and combined, moreover, with facility
and security.—John Bull.
Chando's Leigh, Esq., the President of the Lea
-
mington- Mechanics' Institution, has presented to that Society
a copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.— Warwick Ad-
vertiser,