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London, England, 1836-05-10 00:00:00

rations that they are a sink of corruption, and only to
be purified by being abolished altogether. It is strange
they never discovered this before. For the last thirty
years and upwards these municipal bodies have been
just as corrupt as they are now ; but then they were
useful to the Tories, by assisting them to hold out
against Emancipation and Reform, and keep up
Orange Ascendancy throughout Ireland. Now, how-
ever, that they can be of no further service to the
Conservative cause, they are abandoned without re-
morse, and even twitted with their unblushing profli-
gacy. Stich is Tory gratitude. Mark too the hypo-
crisy of these men ! They tell us that their chief
objection to Mr. O'LOGHLIN'S Corporation Bill
is, that it will be productive of a system of exclu-
siveness and agitation, which is abhorrent to their
notions of propriety ; though it is by that very system,
and none other, that they have for ages been enabled
to rule Ireland with a rod of iron ! But agitation is
not agitation, nor is exclusiveness, exclusiveness, when
either answer a Tory purpose. Both are then perfectly
constitutional, and only assume the form of nuisances
when they tell against the interests of faction.
But the country will not be hood-winked by
this logic ; and still less will it hold with the
Duke of WELLINGTON, that the Ministerial measure
is a " tyrannical " one. " Tyrannical," indeed 1
Truly that is a most atrocious species of tyranny
which invests a country with the management of its
own affairs ; which legislates for the benefit of the
many, instead of for the selfish, purblind interests of
the few ; and strikes at the root of all those invidious
distinctions which have so. long rendered life and pro-
perty insecure in Ireland. If this be tyranny, how
beneficent must have been the sway of the Tories for
the last fifty years !. They—tolerant creatures!—
never, never yet tyrannized over us in this
fashion. We honourably acquit them of even
the suspicion of such an act. There was no tyranny
in their war-taxes ; no tyranny in their Six Acts.; no
tyranny in their new gaols and barracks strewed all
over the kingdom—the tyranny began with the Whigs,
who would insist on diminishing taxation, annihilating,
the borouglunongers, and treating the people like ra-
tional- beings, instead of brute beasts. The phrase
tyranny " comes with peculiar grace ficim the lips of
a Tory ; and henceforth we shall never hear it uttered,
without thinking of that most tolerant and enlightened
party.

Meantime, what is to be done w:th their Lordships'
amendments ?—for this is the great, indeed the sole,
question to be considered now. Will the Commons
accept the Corporation Bill in its present mangled
condition ; and if they do, -will Ireland ? Certainly
Both must insist on the measure being
passed in its original integrity. Enough has been
already conceded to their Lordships ; and it is
now high time that the people should be on the look-
out for themselves ; fur they may depend on it, that
tho more they submit, the more sacrifices will be ex-
acted from them by a capricious and disdainful Aris-
tocracy. Lord LYNDHURST, we perceive, from a
natural modesty, declines giving a title to his new
Corporation Bill. We will supply him with one.
Let entitle it " a Bill for the purpose of putting
Ireland out of the pale of British Legislation, and per-
petuating discord tluough the entire length and breadth
of the country."

not.

The Factories' Act Amendment Bill was rea:l a
second time last night in the House of Commons,
after a very warm and interesting discussion, and a
division in which the numbers were 178 to 176.
When the numbers are so nearly balanced on a ques-
tion which does not admit of the operation of party
influences, the natural inference is, that the subject is
one on which it is not easy to legislate. There is,
however, in cases such as that under consideration,
one great principle which, if steadily kept in view,
will always suffice to smooth difficulties, and render
legislation safe—the principle of humanity. If this
principle be violated, it is in vain to expect, either that
the law will be obeyed or the law makers respected.
We are perfectly aware of the utility of manufactures
—nay, we do not hesitate to say that they form the
basis of Four national prosperity ; and we are sure our
readers will bear us out when we say, that we have
ever been the strenuous opponents of every measure
tending to impose restrictiogs ..upon trade and com-
merce. But when it appears to us that the claims of
commerce are opposed to those of humanity, we must
take part with the latter. In our view the prosperity
of a country is not merely the quantity wealth it
possesses, but .the number of happy human beings
it contains. To purchase wealth therefore at the ex-
pense of human happiness is not good policy-; other-
wise we did Wrong in striking off the chains from
our West Indian slaves.

The object of the amendment proposed to be made
in the Factory Act, is to increase the number of hours
of labour to which children are now subjected in manu-
facturing establishments, from eight hours a-day to
twelve. Now to us it does appear too much to exact
12 hours' labour from children of from 10 to 13 years
of age, that labour too carried on in close, crowded,
and heated rooms. We should at least have expected
to see a clear case made out for the necessity of the
proposed alteration by its advocates ; but we are
bound to say that no evidence whatever has
been produced to show - that any of the bad
consequences said to flow from the restriction of
juvenile labour to eight hours will be in the least pre-
vented by its extension to twelve. We may remark,
too, that those Members of Parliament who have had
most experience in manufactories are for the shorter
period.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Sunday. At a late hour on Saturday evening the
Government received the following telegraphic com-
munication, which was published in the Journal de
Paris, and copied officially by the Moniteur:—

" On the sth the British Legion made a sortie from St.
Sebastian. They carried, without meeting with any serious
resistance, the first part of the Carlist works, but the second
was defended with obstinacy.
" The English Admiral, having landed 800 men of the
Legion, kept up a well-fed fire for an hour ; at nine o'clock
the Carlists fled, abandoning four pieces of cannon.
" General Evans pursued them to Hernani, which he occu-
pied on the following day.
" The English fought with much intrepidity. They have
lost nearly two hundred men killed, alid have had twice as
many wounded.

"The loss of the Carlists has been considerable."

The above confirms the account we published yester-
day. Its importance is derived rather from being the
first direct act of British intervention, than from even
the greatness and the possible results of a victory,
which opens an uninterrupted communication with
France. England is now fairly committed, nor do we
see how the Government can decline following up the
victory thus obtained by English troops, under the
command of an English Admiral. From accounts
which have reached us from various well-informed
quarters, we learn that peddling intervention will not
suffice to put down the rebellion during the present
campaign. If we would tranquillize Spain, we must
bestir ourselves, and go to work in good earnest, by
sending a large regular force into the country, to co-
operate effectually with the QUEEN'S army in the
North. This- has been our opinion from the com-
mencement of the civil war, and every circumstance
that has occurred since only tends to confirm it.
The Chamber of Peers and Deputies sat on Satur-
day. The Deputies were engaged with petitions pray-

ing that the licenses of the gambling-houses of Paris
would not be renewed. MM. LA FITTE, DE LA-
MA RTINE, SALVETRE, and DE LAROCHEFOU-
CAULD LIANCOURT, supported the prayer of the pe-
titioners, and denounced the gambling-houses as the
haunts of lust, avarice, theft, robbery, despair, mur-
der, and suicide. The President of the Council did
not dare to deny that such haunts of vice were the abo-
mination of the French capital, but maintained that
the Government could not part with a revenue of
5,500,000 francs ! Has M. THIERS read MANDE-

VILLE'S famous, or rather infamous, tract on Public
Stews ? If not, we recommend him to get it, as it
developes a source of revenue which such a Minister
would hardly fail to make available. What is the mora-
lity or the life of a people in comparison with the expen-
sive pleasures of the Orleans dynasty ? M. THIERS is
not chargeable with the common vice of upstarts—ingra-
titude. He would prefer seeing France one great
gambling-house, filled from one end to the other with
all the enormities cited in the eloquent and enthusiastic
speech of LAMARTIpIE, rather than that an inch should
be clipped from the ample dimensions of the regal robe
'enveloping the portly figure of his patron LOUIS-
PHILLIPPE. The following, are extracts from the
Papers of Sunday :
It would appear, from a statement of the General Society
of Shipwrecks of Piris, that from the Ist of March to the 15th
of April, 1836, 50 vessels, 15 of which were French, 2 Bel-
gian, 2 Sardinian, 2 Danish, and 1 Roman, were lost on the
coast of France; 233 seamen perished, among them were the
78 fishermen of Teste, who left behind upwards of 100 or.
phans. Thirty vessels went down with their cargoes, and part
of their crews; 9 suffered considerable damage, and 11 were
saved without much injury.
PARIS, APRIL 7.—Lord Granville, the English Ambassador,
had a conference yesterday with M. Thiers at the Foreign•
Office.

We have received very disastrous ,accounts from La Besse.
Mevre and La Besse Bourgoyne. The melting of the snow
which fell about a week ago in the mountains of Morvan, and
were so immediately preceded by copious rains, has so swelled
the rivers Yonne and La Cure, and the numerous streams
which flow into them, as to cause them to rise fifteen feet above
their ordinary level. The inhabitants of Lower Burgundy,
who are now at Paris are under the most serious alarms. Yes-
terday and to-day the arrival of the diligences and mails has
been suspended ;no letters arc come. The little that we know
of these disasters is communicated by some travellers who
come from the vicinity of the places which are overflowed. We
are told of bridges carried away, walls thrown down, manu-
factories destroyed. We should be happy to consider these
fears and reports as exaggerated. Unhappily the extraordi-
nary rise of the Seine in Paris itself sufficiently indicates the
catastrophe which must have afflicted the unfortunate inhabi-
tants of the banks of the Yonne and Cure. This rise was at
six o'clock this morning eighteen feet at the Port Royal.
We dare not dwell on the deplorable results of this deluge.
Yesterday morning the streets of .Sens were inundated so that
all communication was impossible. To-day, at 4 o'clock,
neither the post from Lyons nor any public conveyance from
Burgundy had arrived.
An account from Switzerland, of the 29th of April. says,
" The measures ordered by France against the Canton of Bale
country are not only rigorously executed but new ones are
added to them. Great discontent prevails on this account
among the inhabitants of Birsch ; they demand permission to
make reprisals, and as their wish has not been acceded to, a
late assembly of the poople at Bruningen resolved not to sutler
any Jew to pass the frontiers of. the Canton of Bale-country,
and to place guards chosen from among themselves to prevent
this prohibition from being disregarded. Besides, the popu-
lation of the country is so irritated against the French Jews
that even if no guard were placed on the frontiers no indi-
i idual of that nation would dare to show himself in the ter-
ritory of Bale."—Messager, May 8.

Madrid Journals of -the 29th ult., received this
morning, announce that the Cabinet is still in a state
of disorganization. Nothing certain appears to be
known as to the cause of this delay in its re-construc-
tion. The prevailing opinion was that the newly ap-
pointed Ministers were insisting upon terms which
MENDIZABAL would pot concede—namely, that they
were each to be regarded as having pledgel themselves
to the adoption of no particular line of policy.

We have received New Brunswick Papers to the
27th of March inclusive. , Their contents are gene-
rally satisfactory. We can only make room for the
speech of his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, on
closing the Session of the Colonial Legislature

" Mr. President, and Honourable Gentlemen of the Le.
gislative Council,
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
" The subjects of your deliberations, during the present
Session, have been more numerous and important than any
heretofore laid before the General Assembly of this province,
and it is earnestly to be hoped that the various Acts that have
emanated therefrom, and to which I have given my assent, may
tend in their operation to the further prosperity of his Ma..
jesty's loyal subjects in this already highly flourishing, happy►
and contented colony.
" In now relieving you from laborious duties, I rely with
confidence upon your encouraging and promoting, by,your
individual influence among the people at large, more feeling of
attachment to our excellent Constitution, and of dutiful affec-
tion to our gracious Sovereign, for which the inhabitants of
New Brunswick have been ever conspicuous."

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY).

CITY,-TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Arrival this morning one French mail ; ship letters from
Ceylon sth December, and Barbadoes.
The English Mail for November, which has been so long
missing, arrived on Saturday evening last from the West
Indies, via Bermuda and Halifax.

Consols opened this morning at 923 for the Account, same
for Money. Ministers being in the minority last night in the
House of Lords has not at present had any effect on the funds.
Exchequer Bills, 17 19 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock,
2111 2121; India Stock, 258.1 2591.
The telegraphic dispatch of the sortie of General Evans,
and defeating the Carlists, has not improved the Spanish
Market ; Spanish, 461; Passive, 14 141; Deferred, 221
Portuguese, 861.

HALF-PAST-ONE.

As yet we have no further particulars of General Evans's
victory at liernani. The speculators are anxiously waiting
for further information before they enter into extensive opera-
tions in the Spanish Securities.
Consols have been during the morning at 92if both for time
and money, with little doing in the British Market ; Exche.
quer Bills, 17 19 ; India Bonds, 3 3 ; Bank Stock, 2111 to
2121: India Stock, 2581 to 259 L
In the Foreign Market Spanish Stock was heavy, and re-
ceded from 46+ to 454 ; at present 45i 46k. This may be
attributed to the Spanish Ministry not being formed. By the
last accounts from Madrid Spanish Passive 14ia; Deferred
22a 23 ; Portuguese 861 ; 3 per Cents., 541 55 ; Colombian
324 33 ; Mexican 354 364 ; Dutch Two-and-half per Cents.,

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

Console for the Account, 92i.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock .212% Omni.= — pm.
3 per Cent. Red 91% India 5t0ck...... ..... ... ......... 259
3 per Cent Cons 92 Ditto Bonds
3% per Cent.
3% per Cent. Red. ..... ....... ...... 981 Ditto Old Annuities .... .....
New 354 per Cent 100% Ditto New Anntutief; —
I per Cent. Assented
.Ditto 500/ . l7 p
Long Annuities to expire -Ditto 500/ l7 rm.
JB4l 1860 l5 15-16 Bank Stock for Opg. 212
Oct 1850 ladia Stock for Act. l—
Jan. 1860 16% Consols for Act.
92
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent — , Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. 87
Belgian, 5 per cent lOl% Ditto, New Ditto B6 ,x.i
Brazilian Bonds .. 86% Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent. — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.' —
Chilian, 6 per cent ' Ditto, Metallic
.
Colombian, 6 per cent.
Ditto 1831
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent ......... -f. —e,
Greek Bonds, 1825.5 per cent. Exchange. .............. ..... —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent. — French, 3 per cent ......... —I, —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825
Peruvian,
1825, 6 per cent, ... Ditto, 5 per cent. ..... '... ..... R/2 %

SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter Railway
61,4
Cheltenham and Great Western Railway .............. 5-
Commercial Blackwall Railway
Eastern Counties Railway
7
Great Western Railway 49
London and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's)
London and Brighton Railway (Rennie's) ...............
Iy
London anti Blackwall Railway ................................ .
London and Croydon Railway
Manchester South Union Railway .........................
Northern and Eastern Railway
Preston and Wyre Railway P2%
South Eastern Railway .
7
York and North Midland Railway
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'clocl
List.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMMITTEE ON
Tilt BILL—At a late stage of the proceedings to-day, during
the cross-examination of the engineer (J. Braithwaite, Esq.),
Mr. Halcombe informed the Committee that he was instructed
to tyithdraw all opposition to the measure on the part of the
Great Northern Railway.

Cauncir RATES.—The Churchwardens of Great
Coggeshall, complained against Lewis Allen, and nine other
persons, principally Quakers, for non-payment of the Church-
rates.—Essex Herald.

On Monday morning this town was visited by a tre-
mendous gale of wind, which has been blowing very cold from
the North for some days past, and hail showers have been very
frequent. Several French Loggers, and also some fishing-
boats from Yarmouth have been anchored under the lea of the
town, but one of them, nevertheless broke from her moorings
on Tuvsday, and was blown out to se4.-13righton Guardian.