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London, England, 1836-04-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, I-:•6.

O'CONNELL'S seeking, nor did he desire it, brit ra-'
titer that it was forced upon lids ; and that in no part
of the transacti' kkia he contemplate personal benefit
to hinivir. Therefore, in the broadest and fullest
sense of the word, he was bound giVe a f'ull and en-
tire :acquittal of ate Mori. and- Learned Gentleman.
Sir Rogritt PEEL, with that sagacity for which he
distinguished, saw at once the blundeT Which Mr.
TIA RDY had made ; and thekkgh ale hight Hon. Ba-
ronet laboured htedto extricate him) tie
!edged that had he been deni.gqtts, he would not have
advised such a prNei:tl'ing. We give the fullest credit
to thisstatement of the Right Hon. the Member for
Tarnworth. He is too able a (Itttician to afford his
political opponents epprtunities of appearing more
immaculate itt en, eves of their countrymen,
The speech of Sir F. POLLOCK proves the extent
to which some men will go in .sarrifieing their own
character in defence of their party. A more gratui-
tous instance of self-immolation was never offered
at the shrine of Toryism, than the Honourable
Gentleman's exposition of his own conduct, during the
Investigation of the Select Committee on the Carlow
Election. In fact, the whole burden of his speech
last night went to prove, that he was himself wilfully
and knowingly guilty of a neglect of a duty imposed
upon him by the House of Commons. Sir F. PoL-
LOCK, it appears, has such a veneration for the tech-
nicalities of his profession, that rather than depart
from them, even in the presence of a Committee of
the House of Commons—a tribunal perfectly distinct
from the regular Courts of Law—he chooses to fail
in the only object which he ought to have in view—
the eliciting of the whole truth ! But why did
he not mention these professional scruples to the
Committee at the time of its sitting ? Why
even did lie not say something of them when
the Report was brought up ? Was it not his
duty to have pointed out those obstacles to the
discovery' of the truth, which, to him as a lawyer,
hedged in by precedents, were insurmountable ? He
was bound to have ascertained the extent of the Com-
mittee's jurisdiction, before confining himself within
the limits prescribed to special pleaders at the Old
Bailey. 'Whatever may be thought of Sir F. PoL-
LOCK as a practising lawyer, his speech last night
proves that he is deficient of every element that goes
to constitute the mind of a great statesman. His plea
was that of a pettyfogging attorney—not the argument
of an enlightened constitutional legislator. Nor was
it much to his credit to insinuate what he might have
done, had - he not been trammelled by professional
technicalities.

In his zeal to save the sinking cause of Conservatism
Sir F. POLLOCK travelled back for nearly a century in
search of a precedent establishing the right of Parlia-
ment to punish constituencies for intentional corrup-
tion. This was not enough. The Hon. Gen-
tleman ought to have found a precedent for punishing
constituencies neither actually nor intentionally guilty
of bribery. This would have just hit the case before
the House. Or, if he failed in finding such a prece-
dent, any other establishing the Parliamentary right
of punishing constituencies, upon a suspicion of
bribery by any faction of the House of Commons,
would have done just as well. But the Oxford case was
entirely distinct from the Carlow affair. The Corpo-
ration of Oxford was itself the constituency ; it offered
to sell itself for a sum of money, to be applied to pur-
poses quite distinct from Parliamentary representation ;
it might so sell itself : and therefore the final act being
alike criminal and possible, it is a principle of our law
that the offer to commit it would constitute a criminal
offence. But Mr. O'CONNELL is neither an elector
of Carlow, nor a patron of the county ; and there-
fore, though he might purchase, he could not
possibly sell the representation of it, because he neither
has the whole nor any part of it. In fact Mr. O'CoN-
NELL has been accused of an impossible crime. The
influence which he has in Carlow is that of which
Parliament cannot deprive him ; and, standing apart
from the tenure of property, is clearly beyond the cog-
nizance of the Legislature. With all his sophistry,
and quibbling, Sir F. POLLOCK failed in showing
greater analogy between the case of the Corporation of
Oxford in 1767, and the Carlow Election in 1836,
than there is between ARISTOTLE'S work on meta-
physics, and Master SIMPSON'S treatise on the act
of dancing Hornpipes.

ment :

The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER alone had
the courage to expose the Tory conspiracy to ruin Mr.
O'CoNNELL, under the pretence of a zeal for Consti-
tutional purity of election. When he put the question
direct to Mr. HARDY and the Gentlemen who took part
with him, whether there would have been a word spoken
about Carlow had Mr. O'CONNELL not been impli-
cated in it, the Conservatives looked as blank as when
Sir B. PEEL announced the dissolution of the nine
days' wonder, which took the title of a Conservative
Administration.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir R. PEEL both
bore testimony to the good conduct and efficiency of
the Metropolitan Police force. The former said, "so
far as he had been able to judge of the police, he
had reason to be satisfied, both with the small portion
which was under the authority of the police Magis-
trates, and the larger body which was under the direc-
tion of the Commissioners of Police." The Right
Hon. Baronet expressed himself to a similar effect—
a eulogium which is no more than the Police force de-
serve; for—notwithstanding the violent prejudices that
were raised against them, on the first institution of
their body, and in which we never took a part, but
on the contrary, endeavoured to allay them—they have
almost uniformly conducted themselves,' and not sel-
dom on occasions that required the exercise of the
utmost discretion, with consummate tact and modera-
tit-A As for the two Commissioners to whom
_Sir
ROBERT PEEL alludes, as having acted "with un-
abated zeal and activity in the discharge of the duties
which had devolved upon them, and also in perfect
harmony together," we agree with him in thinking
that, in consideration of their character and conduct,
and " the complete success of the experiment," they
have a claim " to some additional remuneration."

The question of Irish Tithes comes on in the House
of Commons on Monday, when Lord MoRPETIr
will submit the Ministerial plan for converting tithe
into a rent-charge on land in that part of the kingdom.
There is no reason to believe that the forthcoming
measure will differ any material degree from that
brought forward last Session, which was hurked in
the House of Lords. The commutation will be based
on the principle of deducting from the gross value of
the tithe, a portion equivalent to the expences incurred
by the tithe-owners in collecting, housing, marketing,
&c., as is proposed to be done in the English Tithe
Bill now before the House; with due provisions for ap-
propriating to national purposes any surplus that may
remain after the wants of the Protestant clergy have
been supplied. That • any Tithe Bill for Ireland
should be recommended to the country by the MEL-
BOURNE Administratiou without containing such pro-
visions, is a calumny which nothing but factious
.stu-
pidity could have invented. It is almost toond gross
, •
even for the Tories who have hatched and circulates
into discredit, and
in order to bring the Government
who are driven to their wit's end—no
wyeeeltilothnerto,, only
may be said—for means wherewith to great
assailan
an I,'rni- 1
nistration, which all their attacks •
served to establish more firmly in the a qe‘To
con_
Pe!'"u4do,
distance it

fidence of the nation. Lord .IVlontiEni stated last
night, in answer to a questidn asktid By fair lt. .pEtt.;
that he would Sin Monday move a iesOlniiiin iii the
following terms :—" To corn. miitc the cOniTiOsitibn of
tithes upon a rent-charge upon OWnerS of property,
and to make furthet O'ctilsions for the better regula:
titan o dues and ic3,tnnek"----24 itSolli-
tion se) *oirdeti, say, as to
compiAt'ti.ti ie appropriation principle without afford-
ing any pretext to the factious part of the House to
resist it. Even Sir ROBERT was eonstfiiitikl 03 ad:
mit that 'tilde waa nothing objectionable in it.

The whole of the Paris Journals have been re;
ceived. The followifig ttrkt ekt?act3 from !item !

PA'Rts, Anti. ‘I—STEN;s OF THF. MORNING.—A telegraphic
despatch announces that Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg
entered Lisbon on the Bth of April at noon, and that the mar.
riage of her Mesty, the Queen of Portugal, with his Royal
Highness otat celebrated on the 9th, at one o'clock in the af-
ternoon. •

It remains to be seen what will be done with respect to the
inistry.-21foteiteur.
A letter eom St. Petersburr reports the following speech
of the Emperor Nicholas ;—"lngland will not intervene in
Spain. We shall imitate it in Spain by ( Q.y. not) inter-
vening in Turkey. If it attacas our principles, we
attack its commerce. It could not remain in the Peninsula;
as for us, if we once entered Constantinople, we should re-
main there." England, however, interferes; we shall see
what will follow.—Journal du Commerce.

M. Thiers has recently consented to give:the guarantee of
France for a payment of 1,500,000 francs on the last series of
the Greek Loan. It has been stipulated that this sum shall
not be employed for the expenses of the Government,
but in paying the arrears of interest due on the
40 millions, which have already been swallowed up. Thus
the first two series of the loan have been employed in repaying
the expence of a Bavarian army, the presence of which has
contributed to keep up the revolt in Greece. The last, as it
seems, will be employed in paying annually the interest of the
RUM lent, till the loan is completely exhausted.
It was worth while truly to fight the battle of Navarino, to
send our army to Greece, to banish our treasures in the blood
of our soldiers in order to csta'elish a Bavarian Prince, who
does not know either how to give a constitution to a country
which does not, however, owe its liberty to him, or to main-
tain, with the resources of the country, an authority which is
contested by all parties.
. . _

It is affii•med for certain that the French Government has
resolved on allowing 6,000 men to be added to the Foreign
Legion; the men to be taken exclusively from the French re-
giMents. Above all things, it is said particular care will be
taken in the selection of the officers, who will be authorised
to retain their rank, and to reckon the time that they may
serve in the Spanish army as if it had been passed in the
French service.

Recent letters from Algiers announce' that before quitting
Mesdeah, Marshal Clausel formed an entrenched camp, de-
fended by four blockhouse, in advance of that place. It is
supposed he will do the same at Miliana, and leave some com-
panies of auxiliary troops in these two towns, under the order
of the Bey, whom he has installed there.—Messayer, April 21.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, APRIL 21. •
Five per Cents., RIS . 107£ 85c. 90c.
Four and a Half nor Cents. 104 f.
• Four per Cents., 100 f. 80c.
Three per Cents., 82f. 82f. sc. S2E
Bank Actions, 2,240 f. 2,242 f. 50c. 2,240£
Rente de Naples, 102£ 10c. 102 f.
Roman Fire per Cents., 165 104%%.
Spanish Actives, 454%1A.
Spanish Difibres, 23.
Spanish Passives, 14M04.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102 N.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 81%.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 55.
Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 57E, 50. c.
flaytian Loan, 3951.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON. •
One month, paper, —c. —c.; money, 251. 45e
Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 251 30c.
—(oqrs d uthentigne.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—The Rentes were, at the
opening of the Bourse, at e2f. 15c. buyers, but the price has
since receded to 82f. 10c. sellers. Little business is doing.
The Spanish securities are rather worse, but as all the docu-
ments have been deposited to receive the dividend, very little
business is doing in this. stock.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 10c. ; Three
per Cents., 82f. 10c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
bards, —; Differes, 161 ; New L6an, ; Actives, 45 ;
Passives, 141 ; Ducats, 102 15 ; Romans, 1041; Pedros, 841 ;
Belgians, 1021 ; Dutch, 57f. 50c. ; Haytians, 395 f. —c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 1741- ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 23; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.

By the New York Packet just arrived, we have
papers from that city down to the 2d instant. It ap-
pears that a Bill was reported in the Senate for the
immediate increase of the American army. The most
important intelligence from the South is, that a
Treaty has been negociated with the Indians, who, it
appears, have engaged to await the decision of the
Cabinet at Washington upon it. The subjoined ex•
tracts show the operations previous to this arrange-

TEXAS.-ARMY OF OPERATION.

Sir,—According to information received after my leaving
Matamoras, I learned that the insurgent forces had sent their
cavalry towards Golied, for making incursions. I therefore
made an effort, and forcing a march during three nights and
three days, I arrived there at dawn of day, not having more
than 100 cavalry. I attacked the enemy in the houses that
served for barracks. There were left 16 dead and 21 pri-
soners, among whom were some officers. All the army with
100 horses, are in my possession.

JOSE UREA.

Since the above was in type, we learn that Colonel Grant
and Major Morris have been killed by the Mexican forces un-
der Rodrigues, and their forces dispersed with the loss of
32 killed and four prisoners.
We further learn by the schooner Turner, in 7 days from
Matagordo, that General Cos, with 4,000 Mexicans, had made
an assault on Fort Alamo, and after a short action was com-
pletely defeated and routed, with the loss of 500 men—his
best troops—killed on the spot.
Santa Anna was called off in time to prevent an insurrec.
tion in the interior of Mexico. This, however, is only a
rumour.

By a Quebec Gazette Extraordinary, which has just
been "received, we find that the Provincial Parliament
of Lower Canada has been abruptly closed by his Ex-
cellency the GOVERNOR, in a speech, from which we
give the following important extracts :
The advanced season of the year, and the want of a suf-
ficient number of Members in both liquses for the dispatch of
public business, render it expedient that I should prorogue this
Parliament.

It is to ..
me a matter of sincere regret, that the offers of
peace and conciliation, of which I was the bearer to this coun-
try, have not led to the result which I had hoped for. The
consequence of their rejection, and of the demands which have
been made on his Majesty, I will not venture to predict. In the
speech with which I opened the Session, I announced that
should you consent to discharge the arrears due to the public
officers, and provide for their maintenance, pending the inquiries
which his Majesty had commanded to be made in the province,
no part of the surplus revenue of the Crown should be touched
during these inquiries without your assent. As no provision has
been made for the purposes contemplated in that proposal, I
shall be under the necessity of applying the revenue, at the
disposal of the Crown, as far as they will .extend, to the pay-
ment of the public servants, and towards the current expenses
of the Civil Government.

What further measures must be adopted, for the remova
of the difficulties to which the affairs of the province are re-
duced, the authorities in England must now determine..

EXETER-HALL MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The last
of these grand entertainments took place last night. The
subject selected for the evening's performance was the " Mes-
siah," and never before did we hear it performed with more
grandeur and beauty. Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Seguin, and Mrs.
Knyvett, supported with much skill and judgment the airs of
this master-piece of the great composer, and Mr.. Sapio, Mr.
Machin, and others, were very effective in those of a bolder
style. The choruses were executed with the greatest preci-
sion. In short, the whole performance gave universal satis-
faction. The Hall was fashionably attended, but not so
crowded as on previous nights.
DREADFUL FIRE AND Loss OF LlFE.—About
four o'clock this morning the inhabitants of Fenchurch-street
and its neighbourhood were dreadfully alarmed, by a fire
breaking out in the house occupied by Mr. William Symes,
No. 5, Fenchurch-buildings, which is entirely destroyed. So
rapidly did the flames spread, and being at such an early hour,'
when the inmates were fast asleep, it was with the greatest
difficulty that they were aroused to a sense of their danger.
The engines were soon on the spot, and having an abundant
supply of water, the fire was confined to the house in which it
commenced ; but, dreadful to relate, Mr. W. Symes, an
elderly gentleman, has fallen a prey to the devouring element,
and his body is not yet found. The engines still continue to
play on the ruins ; and it is impossible at present to give any idea
how the fire originated, or the amount of property destroyed.
Lieut. Bisson, R.N., has received orders from the
Admiralty to hire a steamer to tow the Quail to England.
OUR ARISTOCRACY.—About eight o'clock on
Thursday evening, the 7th inst., the Marquis of Waterford
being determined to embrace the first opportunity of giving
the inhabitants of Beverley a display of his high breeding,
commenced by throwing a quantity of meat out of a butcher's
shop into the street. A poor blacksmith passing by at the time
foolc
seized a piece of mutton, and had no sooner got it under biz
jacket than he was attacked by the accomplished Nobleman,
and dragged into the shop, having received a severe thrashing,
bereavedan d lear learned the
herth ewhep
valuel of
s,
lor man complained bitterly of the usage he had met with.
A rather S Solomon's
o thanmo n' as adviin e
his" folly." The Meet a bear
17"-
gentleman who was in company with the Noble pugilist at
the tune, sympathised with the poor fellow, gave him half-a-
the piece of mutton for which he had been drubbed,
'-"n to go home.—Hull Observer, -

MAIiUJi

Letters from Burgos or the Mite thqtt the Bishop of
Pal(•neiti„ the Right R6vererid Father in God, senoil Don
Caries Ltdier4a, lilts ljeeri arrested ili the act of gob:, over to
thb rebels: He 1:04 lirotiglittititO .BurE,;es at 4 o'clock on the
atterneoli Of that day hy.the Civil Govertid of the place; Don
Junier Quinto, and 111,,ged in prison ti,it secret with his chap
tiyoServants; .a ,guide.. The people
as fie itteets tc7cerpec lint with
threatening gestures and cries of mitera I but ihd respect
they bore to the civil Governor and the laws, and the
presence of an armed escort restrained any acts of vio-
lence. The Magistrate above mentioned has used the
greatdSt exertions to apprehend the Bishop, pursuing him
od hofsebatti drain f, geferai SdeeesSiVe nights, from the
moment. reCeiired Intelligente of his escape front his dio-
cese.• But the capture was effected by to officer of Carbi-
neers Francisco Briones, watching smugglers
at
Fillattti, Where fib secured the fugitives after a smart
chase. 'they travelled Stith false fugitives
and a large
sum in gold was found upon them. Amongot their papers
some arc said to be of the greatest importance, as connected
with the plans itritipurposes of the Pretender.
The British legion was to march on the 12th to Bilboa, by
way of Durango, this latter place being occupied by the Car-
lists in force. It great battle will most likely be ((night.
. The division which yesterday took place in the Chamber of
the Procuradores, may be considered as decisive of the rela-
tive strength of the parties. It was on the 11th paragraph
of the Address. 115 members were present, 3 of whom ob-
i tained from voting altogether, 102 voted with the Ministry
and 10 only for the Oppositon, namely—lsturiz, Galiano,
Count de Las Navas, Flores Calderon, Cabeliero Flores Es-
treda, Benavides, Gamundo, Parejo, and De Pedro ; a result
palpably refuting the assertions of your Tory papers with re-
gard to the sentiments entertained by the newly elected Cham
ber towards the Mendizabal Administration.
M. Fernandez Pereira, a new Member, greatly distin-
guished himself in this debate, in one of the most brilliant
speeches heard this Session.
The Funds improved yesterday upon Change ; grid 1..r0m
the army the accounts bear the most favourable aspect. That
superb body of men, the Queen's Cazadores, to the number of
3,000, exercised yesterday. Two battalions are to join the
army of the North.
The British Legion was to march on the 12th to Bilboa,
by way of Durango ; this place being occupied by the Car-
lists, and a most important position, its possession would, no
doubt, be severely contested.
April 14.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE. O'CLOCK

From the Quebec paper, 16th March. A rumour has been
circulated for some time past that Sir Charles Grey, one of the
Royal Commissioners, had determined to return to England ;
we believe the rumour is now confirmed.