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THE SiMil LON DON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1836.

they had Hie advantage of the full concurrence and cordial
co-operation of such members of the Administration as have
seats in the Upper House of Parliament, as was indeed natu-
rally to be expected, considering that several of the highest
Ministers of the Crown had already, as Commissioners,
concurred in the suggestions upon which those proceedings
were founded. But, nevertheless, obstructions did arise.
The proposed Church reforms were not sufficiently inimical
to the Church, or sufficiently favourable to the wishes of •
these who, having abandoned the Church, are anxious to
- pull it down, to satisFy a certain section of the supporters
of Government in the House of Commons. This section
of the House of Commons forthwith began to bluster and
bully the very feeble and incompetent person who has the
misfortune to be the Ministerial leader in that assembly.
Lord John Russell yielded to their dictation, and consented
to stultify the Ministry, and to defeat the legislative labours
of the House of Lords, by the abandonment of measures
which, on the recommendation of Ministers, the House of
Lords had passed. All the obstruction to successful legis-
lation in this interesting department of public affairs arose in
the House of Commons ; none of it in the House of Lords.
Whatever failure has occurred in. realising the anticipa-
tions of the King's Speech as to Church Reform in Eng-
land—and the failure has been deplorable—is to be
ascribed exclusively to the rancorous sectarianism which
has its representatives in the House of Commons, or
to the weakness, the folly, and the inconsistency of
Ministers, and not, in any manner or degree, to the
reluctance of the House of Lords to reform the Church

Establishment, so as to " render it more efficient for the
holy purposes for which it has been instituted." Having
thus shown %rho were the " obstructives" who prevented
wholesome and necessary legislation in reference to that
most important department of public affairs, which occu-
pied the first place in the admonitory passages of the
King's Speech, let us now proceed to the second recom-
mendation. We here allude to the question of tithe in
England and Wales. " A measure," we again quote from
his Majesty's Speech, " will he submitted to you, having
for its end the rendering this mode of providing for the
Clergy more fixed and certain, and calculated to relieve
it from that fluctuation and those objections to which it has
hitherto been subject." Their own recommendation upon
this matter, contained in the King's Speech, was not
neglected by Ministers, nor was the measure they
brought forward in pursuance of it obstructed either
by the opponents or the friends and supporters of the Ad-
ministration. A law has since been enacted upon this sub-

ject, from which, although it is certainly less safe, and, pro-
bably, may prove less efficacious, than the measure pro-
posed by Sir R. Peel, considerable advantages to the
Church as well as to the owners and occupiers of land
are to be expected. If Ministers shall appear, however, to
have been in any degree successful in this instance, they
will have succeeded by means of a process so tedious, so
perplexing, and so clumsy, that it contributed more, per-
haps, than any other circumstances to the general sterility
of the session. The measure promised in the King's speech,
and brought forward by Lord John Russell, was a mere
abortion. It had manifestly been concocted in utter igno-
rance of the subject to which it related. It had to be taken
to pieces and re-constructed half-a-dozen times before it
could be converted into such a Bill as even the House of
Commons could consent to pass. It received amendment
after amendment, now at the suggestion of some opponent
of the Administration, now -at the suggestion of some
friend. Tory, Whig, and Radical, each contributed his
quota of improvement, so that when the measure had to
receive the Royal assent, nothing remained of the original.
The banquet of legislation which Ministers had promised to
give was gradually converted into a pic-nic, to which the no-
minal founders of the feast were discovered in the end to
have contributed little or nothing. The waste of labour
and of time was immense, from the inability of Minis-
ters to produce an adequate, or even a rational mea-
sure. And, as a necessary consequence, multitudes of
other Bills of great importance were sent up to the House
of Lords in a state so crude, or at so late a period of the
year, that it was physically impossible that they should re.-
ceive the attention they deserved and required, and there-
fore they were lost. Here again we repeat the question,
Who were the Obstructives ?" Did the House of Lords
waste their time upon this single measure so as necessarily
to prevent them from doing anything else ? Did they imi-
tate in this respect the example of Lord John Russell and
his supporters in the House of Commons ? No, they
proceeded in the matter like men of sense and men of busi-
ness. They made such corrections in the measure as they
thought necessary or expedient ; but they did not deal with
it as if this Bill and this alone was to fill up the whole Par-
liamentary year. They did not act, in short, after the
manner of Lord John Russell. Nobody can pretend to
say, when they compare the conduct of the House of Lords
with that of the House of Commons in the particular instance
before us, that it is the former body that has chiefly ob-
structed the business of legislation. The next admonition of
the King's Speech related to the removal of " any cause of
offence or trouble to the consciences" of Dissenters.
This has been followed by the Bill which provides
for the general registration of births, and for the cele-
bration of marriages without the assistance of the Church.
This portion of the King's Speech has not been wholly ne-
glected. Something has been done in consequence of it ;
but whether it has been beneficially, or even safely, done,
remains yet to be seen. The measure possesses this pro-
perty in common with all that have ever been introduced
by the present Administration, that it creates some very
desirable patronage. This is an object never overlooked in
Whig reforms. His Majesty then recommended some pro-
vision to be made for the more speedy and satisfactory ad-
ministration of justice, particularly in the Court of Chan-
cery ; and the admonition has produced the scheme of Lord
Cottenham for the reform of our equitable jurisdictions, a
scheme which was no sooner brought forth than it was ex-
tinguished by the laughter and the ridicule of men of all
parties. The King expressed in the next sentence of his
Speech his anxious desire that Parliament might " be able
to effect a just settlement of the question of tithe in Ire-
land, upon such principles as will tend at length to esta-
blish harmony and peace in that country." Here, we can-
not but remark, that there is not a syllable about the prin-
ciple of appropriation. The object recommended to the
Legislature was " to effect a just settlement of the ques-
tion of tithe in Ireland." And how did Ministers set about
to accomplish the desire which they advised the So-
vereign to express ? By embarrassing their measure for the
settlement of the tithe question, with a provision entirely
foreign to its nature, and to which it. was morally certain
that the House of Lords would not consent—by producing
their measure in a form in which they knew it would not
become law, and by doggedly refusing to permit the sepa-
ration of enactments having no natural connection with
each other, and the continued junction of which must, as
they well knew, be fatal to the Bill. Can there be a stronger
proof than this conduct affords, of hypocrisy and bad faith ?
And are Ministers who thus contrive the defeat of their
own measures, or are their adherents to be listened to with
any degree of patience, when they accuse others of ob-
structing the course of legislation ? The Municipal Cor-
porations in Ireland form the subject of the next passage
in the Royal Speech. The measure which Ministers intro-
duced for the reform as it was called of these bodies, but in
reality for their destruction, and the creation of new ones under
the absolute dominion of Mr. O'Connell, was defeated most

justly and wisely by the House of Lords. The Ministerial
attempt to get up a clamour out of doors upon the defeat of
this project, and the complete and miserable failure of
this attempt, not only in Great Baitain but in Ireland,
are circumstances which will not soon be forgotten by the
nation. They have damaged the character of the Admi-
nistration more than any-other of the numerous vices into
which they have plunged, or any other of the innumerable
disgraces which have befallen them. The condition of the
poorer classes of the King's subjects in Ireland, although
especially recommended in the King's Speech to the atten-
tive consideration of the Legislature, has been wholly
neglected by Ministers throughout the session. Two
measures relating to this most important subject were pro-
posed, by Sir H. Musgrave and Mr. Powlett Scrope re-
spectively, but here his Majesty's Ministers were the suc-
cessful " Obstructivcs." The dominion of Mr. O'Connell,
their ally, would be endangered by any measure calculated
for the real benefit of the millions of the Irish population
which sufficiently explains why no attempt has been
made to realise the promissory passage of the King's
Speech. Of the numerous measures which the House
of Commons accepted from his Majesty's Ministers
during the session, and which the House of Lords
in its wisdom thought proper to reject, some were
condemned because they evidently had other objects
in view than those which they professed ; some be-
cause their professed object was evidently mischievous ;
many because the business of the House of Commons
had been so conducted by Ministers as to lead to an
accumulation of Bills on the table of the House of Lords at
an advanced period of the Session, when there was not
time for their deliberate examination. But there are very
few of them indeed of which the country has any reason to
regret the loss or the postponement. The House of Lords
has presented to the nation a specimen of high minded and
courageous independence, an example of noble firmness in
the assertion of' the Constitutional rights it enjoys for the
advantage and protection of all ranks and classes of the
people of England, which are of incomparably greater value
than any, or than all, the Ministerial Bills which their Lord-
ships, in the honourable and uonscientioas discharge of their
duty, have thought fit to destroy, And we sincerely be-
lieve that no Session of Parliament was ever brought to a
conclusion in Great Britain when the House of Lords en-
joyed a larger share of the best and most valuable kind of
popularity.—Morning Post.
To the astonishment of every one, not omitting his own
colleagues, Lord Melbourne, in the course of his angry
reply to Lord Lyndhurst's. searching and overwhelming
attack on Thursday, actually went out of his way to justify

and lament over the rejected newspaper registration clause,
which, in an evil hour for their scanty remains of reputa-
tion, the Ministers in the House of Commons had assented
to—assented to, to gratify those warm and consistent ad-
vocates of the liberty of the Press, their Radical allies. It
is said that when " the wine is in the wit is out." It is
equally true that when a man, either in public or private
life, gives way to heat and passion, reason loses its com-
mand, and he either gives way to venomous personality,
or to the utterance of things totally at variance with his
sober conviction, and sometimes to both. Such, it is to he
hoped, was Lord Melbourne's situation on the memorable oc-
casion alluded to ; and such unfortunately has been more than
once the case during the late mystifying period of the Noble
Viscount's Parliamentary life. if we could believe Lord Mel-
bourne to be deliberately in earnest in his alleged approbation
of the measure in question, we should cease to give him
credit for that share of understanding as well as of political
consistency, which, notwithstanding the false position in
which he allows himself to be placed, we have hitherto felt
inclined to give him credit for. We look upon it, however,
as nothing more than an ebullition of querulous pique and
resentment—unworthy, certainly, of any man, and, above
all, of a man at the head of public affairs, but excusable
as a weakness of our common nature, from which greater
men than Lord Melbourne have shown themselves not ex-
empt. Till, however, this indiscreet avowal is retracted, we
are entitled to consider Lord Melbourne among the bitter-
est enemies of the liberty of the Press. This, indeed,
would turn out to be no great wonder, when we consider
that his Lordship is now the nominal head of a party
which, under colour of advocating freedom in every
way, have proved themselves at all times, when in
power, its bitterest foes, and the greatest tyrants of
which party annals furnish us with any records. The
tender mercies of their poor law speaks volumes in con-
firmation of this. The measure in question, which has thus
called forth Lord Melbourne's volunteer eulogium and re-
gret, was one of the most reprehensible, because the most
wanton and useless inroads upon the liberty of the Press
which has ever been attempted ; and, having been assented
to, as we would fain hope, in an unguarded moment, is one
which a sensible man would be glad to be rid of, and would
have allowed to descend into the tomb of the Capulets
without notice, and certainly without regret. But not so
the leader of the liberty-loving Whigs. He tells us (in a
tone of passion and fury, it is true), that he only regrets
the loss of the manacles with which he hoped to have bound
us. As a mere effort of spite and chagrin, which we as-
sume it to have been, it was unworthy of Lord Melbourne's
station ; but if we are to take it in earnest, and as his deli-
berate, though not calm opinion, we thank him in the name
of the Press for the warning ; and shall hope to profit by
it.—Morning Herald.
Mr. Hume's services in the cause of Reform have been
great and manifold. Few men have laboured more success-
fully—none more zealously—to secure to the people of this
country the benefits of good and cheap government. 'The
nation owe him a debt of gratitude which they never can
repay ; his spirited conduct on Saturday vastly increases
the amount of obligation. Nothing could have been better
timed than his speech on that occasion. One only oppor-
tunity was afforded the Representatives of the people of
repelling the attack made on themselves, or of resenting the
insult offered to the country by the " man to whom God
has given great talents, but whose application has been
hitherto under the direction of the devil." Mr. Hume
promptly seized the opportunity ; he did more—he turned
it to the best account. His speech was an able one :it
was, moreover, quite to the purpose. The Tories may now
save themselves the trouble of posting the Lyndhurst oration,
as advised by the Times, on the walls of every house in the
country. Mr. Hume's masterly speech has taken the sting
out of it : it cannot now do the slightest harm ; it may be
productive of much good, as indicating the spirit by which
the Tory Aristocrats in the hereditary House are actuated
both towards the people and their representatives. Mr.
Hume's seasonable and triumphant refutation of the Lynd-
hurst harangue will be read with the deepest interest and
the highest gratification from one end of the empire to the
other. To the report of it, which we give in another part
of our paper, we beg, therefore, to refer our readers. But
there is one part of it of such paramount importance, as to
deserve the special attention of the people of England : we
allude to that part of it in which, after most triumphantly
fastening on the Lords the guilt of strangling every useful
measure sent up to them, and proving that they, and they
alone, will be responsible for whatever consequences may
follow, he boldly proclaims the imperative necessity of taking
those steps which will wrest from the Upper House the
means of doing future mischief. " Are we," he says, "to be
stopped and interrupted in this way, without opposing the
power by which all our exertions in the cause of Reform are
rendered nugatory ? Can we, I should like to know, suffer
this determined opposition to go on much longer without
raising the question, How long shall such a power con-
' tinue ?'" Assuredly not. The grand error of the Reformers
has been, that this opposition to all good government has
been allowed to go on much tea long. We foresaw, before the
commencement of the Sessio7i, what would be the conse-
• quence of having a House of Lords constituted as that
branch of the Legislature is at present—time after time
• did we foretell it, too. But the warning was unheeded.
Regrets, however, are unavailing now ; nor, indeed, are we
sure, if after all it ought to be matter of regret, that another
Session of indulgence has been given the Lords. They
now stand forth in all their native hideousness. They have
torn with their own hands the mask from their face. Will
any man, not absolutely blinded by the virulence of party
• spirit, any longer affect to doubt that the Peers are deter-
mined not only to strangle every measure of reform sent
• up to them by the other House, but to perpetrate the
mischief under the aggravating circumstances of at the same
time studiously insulting both the Commons and the
people ? Then, therefore, comes a recurrence of Mr.
Hume's question—" How long are the Lords to have this
" power ?" Will the people endure a repetition of the con-
duct they have pursued this Session, when Parliament
• again meets ? If they would not, they must have recourse
• to the necessary measures to prevent it. What are these?
• They are obvious as the light of the day. The House of
Lords must be reformed, that is the plain English of the
matter. What avails it that the nation makes sacrifices
unknown in any other country to return able and faithful
representatives to Parliament ? What signify the Hercu-
lean labours of these representatives, for seven long months,
with scarcely a day's intermission ? Both the exertions of
the people and of the Commons go for nothing. The most
carefully digested measures of the latter,' demanded
• by the voice of the former, are destroyed by a single
breath from the hereditary legislators. The House of
Commons, in fact, is, virtually speaking, no longer
a branch of the Constitution, and the people have
consequently no voice in the legislation of the country.
The Peers at this moment may be said to constitute the
Legislature, apart from both the Commons and the King.
No measures can reach the King but through the Lords,
and they will suffer no measure of importance to pass
which the people demand, and which the Commons pre-
pare. 'The anomaly has existed too long—it must now be
put an end to. One course only is open—the people must
take the remedy into their own hands. They must, we
repeat, set in earnest about the work of re-modelling the
Lords. And to do this effectually, no time must be lost.
Parliament will meet again in five months—possibly sooner
—let, then, the Reformers be tip in every part of the coun-
' try ; let meetings take place throughout the width and
breadth of the empire, to discuss the best means of accom-
plishing that reform of the Upper House by which alone
the master grievance under which the people of England la-
bour can be remedied.—Morning Advertiser.

THE FORGERY OF TIIE BANK.—Attempts are
said to have been made to hush up this affair, and keep the
proceedings from the public, which have, of course, given the
affair tenfold interest, and made every one curious to learn
what were really the facts. These may briefly be told. Mr. --,
an attorney, was in a joint account for the sum of 7,9001.
Three per Cent. Consols, and in December, 1835, he is stated
to have forged a power of attorney to that amount. As the
law at present stands, the only forgeries now punished with
death are those of powers of attorney and wills. It is sup-
posed, as the accused party had to forward the half-yearly di-
vidends to the owners, that he calculated there would be little
risk of detection for a very considerable period. By some
chance, however, his co-trustees discovered what had taken
place, gave information against him, and the attorney was ar-
rested in his own office. It was only by accident that this de-
linquency was not sooner discovered. At the time the for-
gery was committed one of the gentlemen in the Bank, whose
duty it is to examine signatures, had some doubt of the one
now called in question. When this happens it is the usual
practice to refer the subject to the parlour, where the Direc-
tors take the proper steps to set the matter at rest. The
forged signature came in due form before them, but they hav-
ing examined it, believed it to be genuine. At present it is
unnecessary to mention the differences of opinion said to exist
as to the steps now proper to be taken, further than to say,
that while a certain party called for justice another thought
the case one in which mercy might properly be shown. The
individual whose name was forged, according to report, cannot
bring his memory to bear on the subject at all.
HYDROPHOBIA.—On Wednesday Mr. Thomas, the
Secretary to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, summoned a ruffian named Charles Brookes before the
Magistrates at Union-Hall, for brutally ill-treating a dog, near
Rowland Hill's chapel, in the Blackfriars-road. It appeared
from the evidence, that the offender had not only over-driyen
the poor animal in a heavy dog-part, pyF Alien it ink from
exhaust*, hp bo •sp, ileyercly beatpn it %rich a heavy stick,
that when taken oyt of the harness it was completely in a
rabid state, and had actually inflicted a severe bite on its in-
human task-master. The Magistrate, in the course of a se-
vere comment on the brutality evinced by the fellow, observed
that one-half of the numerous cases of hydrophobia had their
origin in the cruelty exercised towards dogs—an opinion fully
borne out by the celebrated Yauatt, who has recently pub-
lished a work on canine madness. The offender was fined 20s.
and costs, and in default of payment to be committed to pri-
son for one month, with hard labor,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

The Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. Cory, arrived on Thursday
from the River Gambia, to which quarter she had been sent
with presents from the King of England to the native
Chiefs on the coast of Africa, between that river and the
southern border of the Great Desert of Sahara, including
the King of Traza, a tribe of Moorish Arabs, who are the
principal collectors of and dealers in the valuable gums of
the extensive forests of that country. These presents con-
sisted of double and single barrelled guns, pistols, beads, and
a coarse blue cotton cloth, and nave been distributed as re-
wards for the friendly disposition shown towards the trade
of this country, at a period when the French were endea-
vouring by every means in their power to interrupt the
trade, and incense the natives against us. Under the pru-
dent management of Lieutenant-Governor Randall, of the
Gambia, who had the care of the distribution of these pre-
sents, matters have been put en a better footing than here-
tofore, and a large increase of trade is looked to as a con-
quence. A disturbance had occurred at M'Arthy Island,
about 400 miles up the Gambia river, in which all the Go-
vernment stores had been burnt ; the cause of it was not
known. The Rolla brig had been at the Gambia, but had
gone again to Sierra Leone, at which latter place upwards
of twenty pirate vessels were still lying, seized by our cruizers
under the new law, because they were fitted to receive
slaves, and waiting to be condemned ; but in the mean
time the greatest part of their Spanish crews were dying of
the country epidemic. Our squadron and the settlements
were considered healthy. The Pantaloon left the Gambia
on the llth of July.
The Glasgow steamer arrived on Tuesday from San Se-
bastian, with about 32 officers and 150 men from the Bri-
tish legion. She left that port on Friday morning, the
12th inst., but brings no news ; no military occurrence had
taken place since the Ist inst., on the evening of which
doy a reconnoissance took place, to ascertain if the Car-
lists were fortifying the positions which General Evans's
out-posts occupied previous to his attack on Fontarabia.
This movement occurred in the evening, and lasted two
hours, with.the loss of about 20 men. The whole legion
was dispirited and dissatisfied, for want of money ; they
were on the eve of mutiny, and, for want of employment,
were getting disorganised. The casualties continued very
great, and notwithstanding so many recruits have been sent
out, we doubt if 4,000 British bayonets could, on an
emergency, be mustered. A very intelligent officer rated
the number as low as 3,000, and the most flattering en-
thusiast states them to be 5,000. Even at this number
what a fearful loss of life has taken place in an untoward
speculation to support a liberal cause for a worthless people,
incapable of appreciating the exertions which have been
made for them. Our countrymen have been deceived, but
not disgraced, and the sooner they quit such an ungrateful
service the better. The following officers came home in
the Glasgow, very few of whom, we suspect, mean to re-
turn :—Colonels Fortescue, Swan, Finucane, C. P. Yard-
ley ; Captains Palmer, Ogilvie, Pearce, Haggarty, Town
(an amateur), McDougal (Commissariat to the Fleet) ;
Lieutenants Disney (Ist Lancers), Wade (2d Lancers),
Scarth (ditto) ; Messrs. Cross, Harr, Hambrook, Robert-
son (Surgeons) ; Mr. Manchu (Commissariat); Mr. Riddle
(Mate of Salamander).
The Columbia steamer, Mr. Henderson, Commander,
arrived on Thursday from Jamaica, with invalids from the
squadron and garrison. She left Port 'Royal on the 2d of
July, and Crooed Island on the 10th, and sailed' all the
way home. She left at Jamaica the Forte, Cruizer, Car-
ron, steamer, and Magnificent. The Admiral, in the Mel-
ville, had gone from Bermuda to Halifax. The ships and
islands were healthy. The Columbia sailed for Chatham
last evening, to be paid off.

Nothing has been heard of Sir Charles Paget's squadron
since it left Plymouth on the 11th instant. The Russell,
74, has not yet completed her fitment, and the Minden, 74,
is detained by the prevalence of a fever of a mild sort
among her crew-150 of whom are at the hospital.
The Sylvia tender arrived from Sheerness on Wednesday,
with supernumeraries for the ships fitting out here, and re-
turned on the following day.
The Madagascar, 46, Captain Sir John Peyton, K.C.H.,
went out of harbour on Monday, and sailed yesterday for
Plymouth, whence she will proceed, with the Galatea (coal
depot ship), to Jamaica.
A Board of Admiralty, which it is understood will be
composed of the First Lord (Earl Minto), Sir Charles Adam,
and Lord Dalmeny, will pay an official visit to this port on
Monday next.
By the new arrangement, the number to be borne on the
books of the Victory (bearing the pendant of the Captain
of the Ordinary at this port) is 662, including two addi-
tional Lieutenants, one Master, one Acting Master, two
additional ditto, two Second Masters, two Masters' Assis-
tants, and one Assistant Clerk. The number of second
class boys 88, of third class boys 25, able seamen 279, and
the present number of Warrant Officers.
Yesterday arrived the Waries and Harriet, from Quebec,
laden with timber. To-day from London, the Eden (con-
vict ship), Capt. Mollison, and the Fairlie, Capt. Ager, for
Van Diemen's Land.

The Reindeer packet, Lieutenant Dicken, arrived at
Falmouth on Wednesday, from Tampico, Vera Cruz, and
Havannah, whence she sailed on the 25th June, 3d July,
and 17th July ; has brought about 133,000 dollars on
freight, and three passengers. Mexico is reported to be in
a very unsettled state, and when the Reindeer sailed an in-
surrection was daily anticipated.
The barque Severn passed by this afternoon from Can-
ton for London. She left Canton the 10th of February,
Cape of Good Hope, 18th of May ; St. Helena 14th June
Passengers landed are, Mrs. Ward and family, Mr. Thomas
and family, Messrs. Hamilton, and Mr. J. S. Ward. She
spoke, on her passage, the ship Waterloo, ship Trusty,
and Anne (whaler.) We cannot learn that she brings any
news.

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF THE
BRITISH LEGION.—ST. SEBASTIAN, AUG. 12.—YOU have
heard of the unsettled state of the Government, owing to
the popular explosions in the cities and great towns in the
kingdom. The country is on the brink of anarchy. Mean-
while, excepting the late disturbances in the Scotch regi-
ments, the soldiers of the Legion are going on steadily, and
from the judicious measures adopted by Lieut -General
Evans, I do not apprehend any recurrence of the insubordi
nate spirit evinced a short time ago. Notwithstanding the
reports to the contrary in England, you may rely on the
fact, that nearly all the soldiers of the Legion have been
paid in full to the 30th of June last, though the officers are
still five months in arrear. Tile Lieut.-General's health is
rapidly improving, but it is not likely that any movement
will take place while the Government remains in its present
unsettled state. Colonel Wild, the British Commissioner,
went to St. Jean de Luz the day before yesterday in the
Phoenix, en route to Pampluna, to have an interview with
General Saarsfield, the successor of Cordova, who is re-
moved from the command of the Spanish armies. Two
regiments, or battalions rather, of the French Legion from
Pau, are to pass the Pyrenees on the 16th, to join General
Evans.

The Imogene, 28, Capt. H. W. Bruce, sailed on Mon-
day from Rio de Janeiro. Capt. Tait, Commander Smart,
and other Officers appointed to the Dublin, and other ships
in the South American station, are on board as passengers.
—The same day the Brazilian corvette, the Dous de Julho,
Capt. Ropozo, which has been lying here for several weeks
past, sailed for Brest.—The Mulgrave, 74, sailed on Sun-
day, in charge of Mr. Walker, Second Master Attendant,
with a party of riggers, and a division of the crew of the
Russell, for Milford, where she is to remain as a lazaretto.
The Carysfort, 26, built after the Vestal, by Sir Wm.
Symonds, and just launched at Milford, is to be brought
round to this port and immediately commissioned.
The Pluto steamer, Lieut. Duffil, arrived here on Sun-
day from St. Sebastian, which she left on the 10th instant.
She has brought home Capts. Mallock and Garmston, and
Lieuts. Chambers and Branch, and 12 privates, sick and
wounded, of the Royal Marines belonging to the battalion
serving with the Legion.—The Constitution of 1812 had
been proclaimed at Bilboa, and apprehensions were
entertained that St. Sebastian would follow the example.
The British Legion was in a very unsatisfactory state,
and complained loudly that their pay was withheld,
above 60,000 dollars being due. The Glasgow was to
sail on the 11th, with two hundred and fifty invalids, and 30
officers who have retired from the service. General Evans
was slowly recovering ; but it was not supposed he would
be able to undergo fatigue for a month. When the Pluto
left, three companies of the Royal Marines were quartered
on the heights near Passages, employed in fortifying them ;
and the other four were in barracks, converted for their
accommodation, in the town. The Carlists were in the
constant habit of making night attacks upon the advanced
posts, and drawing off again by daylight, thus keeping the
sentries continually on the watch. A great number of the
Marine battalion had been upon the sick list, from dysen-
tery, but were daily getting better. A supply of new mus-
kets, with percussion locks, had been received from England,
and were being tried against those of the old construction.
The Wizard, 10, is ordered to be brought f2.rw4r-d ?or
commission, and the defects of the Mvisquite, \Veazle, and
Icarus, 10 gun are io be made good for three years'
Service: !Pile , rocris, and Ferret, 10 guns each, are sold
out of the service.

Lord Wilton's yacht the Zariffa arrived hero oo Saturday
from Jersey, and has been haulad on the graving slip to
have the damages which she sustained by getting on shore
off that place repaired, The Scorpion, 10, Lieut. Robil-
hard, has been undocked, and will soon be ready to go out
of harbour. The Galatea was taken into dock on Tuesday
to have her defects made good, preparatory to her proceed-
jag to the West Indies as a coal depot.
-The Emerald tender arrived at Portsmouth on Satur-
day, from this port, The Sylvia tender, on Wednesday,

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