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London, England, 1836-06-15 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1836.

A public Meeting of the parish of St. Marylebone
took place on Monday last, on the subject of the Irish
Municipal Reform Bill, at which Lord NUGENT,
who was present, said, " The very bulwarks and sanc-
tuary of the Constitution were now menaced by attack
from the Lords ; and if the people, giving effect and
spirit to the House of Commons, did not press for-
ward and nobly discharge their duty, then he would
say that centuries might elapse before they would re-
gain that vantage ground which the Commons and the
people now enjoyed. All rights and privileges being
given for the benefit of the people, if the Lords en-
deavoured, by systematic attempts, to neutralize the
best efforts of the Commons for improving the condition
of the people, then it was high time that the Lords
should be checked in their career. Neither the hallu-
.cinations nor the violence of their Lordships should be
indulged at the expense of justice to the people. Let
it not be disguised, Ireland should no longer be go-
verned by, or for the Lords." These are the words of
truth—the convictions of an experienced statesman—
and will no doubt make the requisite impression on the
minds of all who read them. , It is, indeed, full time,
as Lord NUGENT aptly remarks, that the Tory Peers
should be " checked in their career." There is no
necessity to wait till they have perpetrated more mis-
chief, and placed themselves "still more in the wrong ;"
they have done quite enough mischief already, and are
quite as much in the, wrong, as they are ever
likely to be. They cannot be more inveterate in their
hostility to Reform than they now are ; why, then,
delay the period of " checking them in their career ? "
They do not thank us for our forbearance. They at-
tribute it, as a matter of course, to fear, and act ac-
cordingly. As at present established, the Constitu-
tion is like a man palsied in one side, and the House
of Lords is its paralytic side. Let us hasten then to
apply a prompt, searching, vigorous remedy, propor-
tioned to the exigency of the case ; otherwise the dis-
order, now confined to one portion of the Constitution,
will assuredly spread over the whole system.

The Lords' " Amendments," as they have been
jocosely termed, on the Irish Corporation Bill, were
last night disposed of by the House of Commons in
the summary way that such amendments deserved ; and

the usual form was gone through of appointing a Com-
mittee to draw up reasons for not agreeing to them.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD made a motion for re-
placing on the footing on which they stood in the ori-
ginal Bill, all the towns which had been excluded by
the Lords. This motion, as might have been antici-
pated, found hardly any supporters. The circumstance
of its being seconded by Mr. Sergeant JACKSON, in
consequence of °Bandon, which the Learned Sergeant
represents, being the town selected by the mover to
begin with, occasioned no small merriment in the
House.- The Tory party made no attempt to disturb
the unanimity of the House, being doubtless con-
vinced of the impropriety of such a proceeding, after
the declaration of Sir ROBERT PEEL that it was their
duty to bow to so " great and decisive a majority" as
that of Saturday morning. Sir ROBERT may well
call it a great and decisive majority. It is within
two of double the majority which carried the repeal
of the Test and Corporation Acts, against a Govern-
ment of which the Right Honourable Baronet was a
Member. On that occasion the Tory leader of the
House of Commons felt it his duty to yield to a deci-
sion of his own House against himself. In the pre-
sent case he is similarly situated, with this very
striking difference, that his own House has given it
against him by—as we have said—nearly twice the
former majority.
We do not find, however, that there is the same
harmony among the Tories out of doors, as there is in the
House, with respect to the course to be pursued by the
party. The organs of the factious portion of the Peerage
are in that very unenviable state of mind, which is, in
common parlance, called a " quandary." They must
say something, and they know not what to say. The
thunder" of Printing-house-square sleeps for the
present. To the vote of the House of Commons,
therefore, may be applied the words inscribed on
FRANKLIN'S tomb—Eripuit fillmen ccelo sceptrum-
gue tyrannis. The thunder-bolt and the thunderer, to
he sure, are somewhat different ; but the tyrants are the
same—the same perverse, blind, and besotted Oli-
garchs who lost Great Britain her American colonies,
and thtis threw away the brightest jewel in the British
crown. But without pursuing this illustration farther,
we return to the tone assumed by the Opposition Pa-
pers. The Times is pacific, and the Morning Post
is all bluster and braggadocio. The Lords surrender,
indeed ! No, never ! This was our Contemporary's
lofty tone on Monday. " The Lords," says he, " have
taken a position from which nothing can remove
them, or nothing at least which the present House
of Commons can hope to accomplish, or dare ven-
ture to attempt." And again, " Their Lordships
have hitherto acted upon principles and feelings which
identify them with the people of Great Britain.
They are invincible, and omnipotent in the unity of
their principles and feelings with those of a mighty
nation. They have nothing to retract—nothing to
rescind—nothing to qualify," &c. This is in the
true vein of King CAMBYSES, or rather of Captain
I3OBADIL. It is all very high and very fine as far as
words go, but it is mere swagger, and most injudicious
swagger too. If this' writer speak the sentiments of
the Tory Peers, or if those Peers regard him as their
oracle, we can hardly he surprised at any folly or in-
fatuation of which they may be guilty. The House
of Peers, " invincible"—" omnipotent"—and what,
reader, is the great element of this omnipotence ? Only
mark—" the unity of their principles and feelings with
those of a mighty nation !! !" A richer piece of bur-
lesque than this has seldom come under our observa-
tion. We have only to substitute the words impotent
for omnipotent, and contrariety for unity, and the
picture is true to the life ; for if there be one feature
In the character of the House of Lords more pro-
minent than another, it is its notorious want of sy
party with the principles and feelings of the people.

S►r GREY S K IPW T H has announcTd his intention of
offering himself as a candidate for the Southern Division
of Warwickshire. As this gentleman is a Reformer in
the most enlightened and comprehensive meaning of the
term, we trust the 'Warwickshire Reformers will exert
themselves to the utmost to secure his return. They
may rely on it they will not easily find a better man
to repre:•rent- them. In his address, Sir GREY
observes, " MY .attachment to the principles of a
wise and temperate Reform is not diminished.
Evety circiunstance connected with the public affairs
of the empire convinces me that a reform of the abuses
which have crept into the management of them, is
ab-
solutely necessary." These are just the sentiments of
a man who understand:; the character of the age in
which he lives ; and South Warwickshire cannot do
better than secure him for her representative.

Madrid papers to the 6th inst. have been received.
The account of the defeat of Colonel VALDEZ by
the Carlists under CAB RERA, had reached that capi-
tal. It differs in no respect from the report of that

affair which we published yesterday. In the French
papers received this morning, the number of Christinos
made prisoners is 700 ; in the Spanish journals,
600 ; in the former, the number of officers shot in
cold blood by command of CABRERA, is 70 ; in
the latter, 54. One atrocity connected with the death
of these gentlemen deserves to be recorded. When
led out to execution, CABRERA ordered a band of
music to play the most lively airs, and the brutal sol-
diery were ordered to dance while the officers were be-
ing shot 1 This trait of cannibalism will render CA-
BRERA d6ubly dear to the bands fighting. under his
rebellious standard.

It is rumoured that the Government is more than
ever persuaded that the war cannot be terminated
this year without foreign intervention. CORDOVA
will not move unless assisted by a French
army. He even told IsTuatz that he could only
act on the defensive. Yet this poltroon and
traitor to his country is loaded with honours, while the
brave EVANS is left to make what head he may
against the whole army of Don CARLOS. As for
General BERNELLE, he can do nothing without a
large reinforcement, and that he is not likely to get
in the present temper of Louis PHILIPPE.
The provincial authorities begin to send in their
adhesion to the new Government. The country is
tranquil, as far as regards the change of Ministers.
Senor OLIVAN has been appointed under Secretary
for the Department of the Interior. He was a mem-
ber of the late Cortes.

The German Papers received this morning are filled
with accounts of the processions, reviews, and rejoicings
at Vienna, during the festival of Corpus Christi. All
the members of the Imperial family of Austria vied
with each other in honouring the French Princes. It
was supposed that they would be induced to prolong
their visit, and that, on their return to Paris, they
would remain some days at the Court of Turin.
The Brussels Papers state that the KING, QUEEN,
and PRINCE ROYAL, were about to set out on a visit
to the King of the FRENCH.
On the 10th inst. the Duchess of GLOUCESTER
left Liege, and proceeded on her tour to Germany.
DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, JUNE 13.
Money. MN.
Acts Al Debt, 2% per Cent. 56 561 i
Loan (1530) 5 per cent.
A wort Syndic, 434 per cent g73i 98M
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent Bl4 52
Commercial Company, 4'4 per cent 174 175 N
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.

The whole of the French journals of Sunday have
been received. They are more taken up with disserta-
tions on the late freaks of the House of Lords, and
the chances of a " collision" in England, than with
their own affairs, with the exception of the African
expedition. The following extracts from them include
all that is either new or interesting to our readers :
PARIS, JUNE 12.--The Ministerial journals announce that
the King of Naples is to come to Marseilles. Notwithstand-
ing the semi-official character of the intelligence, we hesitate
to believe it correct, because all our letters from Italy state
that his Majesty is going to Vienna; and letters from Vienna
of the 4th say that he was expected there.
The cholera has penetrated into Upper Italy ; it is at the
gates of Milan, where it is every moment expected to appear.
We are informed that this circumstance has contributed to the
change in the route of the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours,
and induced them to give up their visit to Italy. It seems
that their Royal Highnesses will leave Vienna on the 13th at
the latest.
PARIS, JUNE 13.—Yesterday morning, (says a journal), the
President of the Council received dispatches from Madrid.
It is said that St. Aguirre Solarte and Gen. Alava were im-
mediately sent for ; they, too, had received letters from their
Government. The reports are, that the intervention be-
comesmore and more a question on which the existence of the
Government of the daughter of Ferdinand VII. depends.
However, the President of the Council eluded, as before,