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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1836.

The Dublin Election Committee has just decided
against Mr. O'CoNNELL.

The House of 6;;;;777Qed last night with
the English Tithe Bill, as far as the 50th clause. The
chief subject of discussion was the 34th clause, which
gives to a certain proportion of the tithe-owners or
tithepayers of a parish, the option of having the tithe
re-valued ; and enacts that in such cases of re-valua-
tion, the Commissioners Sall fit the maximum of the
tithe taken in kind at 75, and the minimum at 60
per cent. of the gr'..iss violate. This clause was stoutly
opposed by sr.one Honourable Mc;mb
much too ers, as being
vourable to the tithe-owner, while
others eAntended that it legalized the downright rob-
bery of the Church. Sir ROBERT PEEL wished the
consideration of the clause to be postponed, and urged
thestale objection that it made no allowance for the
gilifferent qualities and circumstances of land, and pu-
nished the forbearance of the lenient clergyman, while
it rewarded the selfishness of the rigorous exactor.
Mr. CAYLEY asserted that it would have the effect
of raising the amount of tithe from twenty to thirty
per cent., which proves, if it be true, that the land.
lords have hitherto taken as good care of themselves
in the matter of tithe as in that of rent. Mr.
NV!,rmirrisoN moved the rejection of the clause in
ioto, and, by way of a clenching argument against it,
stated that very little tithe was paid in kind, while it
unfortunately happens that the clause applies only to
tithe taken in kind. The Hon. Member's motion was
lost, and the original clause, as amended by Lord
Jrniii RUSSELL, carried,
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.oniteur of Thursday, which we have re-
ceived with the other Paris Tapers of the same date,
contains the following telegraphic announcement
" After carrying the intrenchments of the Carlists, the
troops of General Evans stopped at the yenta of Ernani,
where they ttok rest. By accounts of the 9th, it appears
they occupied the whole of the heights from St. Sebastian to
the yenta, where they were fortifying themselves. Ernani

n-as strengthened on the 7th by the arrival of three Carlist
battalions. Eguia was engaged in sending seven more in that
direction, in order to attack the English. Segastibelza, who
was killed in the affair of the sth, has been succeeded by Ito-
riz9. Letters from Portugalettc of the 6th say, that on the
sth a continued firing of musketry was heard in the direction
of "Llodio. It was probably occasioned by the engagement
which is supposed to have taken place on the sth between
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Cordova and Eguia. No particulars of that ell"" entav e
been yet received ; but the Carlists. events, 'do not claim
the victory. The Christin`n7 entered Estella on the nth. On
the 7th the British naval force stationed at Bilboa received a
reinforccinent of six hundred marines, and Severn; ofncers.
A reinforcement, of one thousand men, has also reached
Bilboa."

The above includes all that is important in the Jour-
nals of Thursday, with the exception of the following

extracts :

(Private Correspondtnec of the Messager.)
BAYONNE, MAY 7..-4 f I would communicate et.ll the news
circulated by the Quldnuncs of our city., Most of which is
taken from journals printed here. I might tel: 3ou of the
march of the English in dot4ile tptick time on the high rid tt)
Tolosa ; but these accennts appear to me to be. tho ques-
tionable. Evans, Aktr his victory, took geed care not to go
too far from St, Sebastian ; he stopped at Areamendi, half
way between Or:. town and Ernani. This moderate success
can only be the result of a plan agreed on before hard with
Genera) Cordova ; and I consider it to be the more prudent,
as the English, if they advance further, would find besides the
enemy, who knows very well how to defend himself, only a de-
scAate country, without provisions or inhabitants. Before he
Penetrates into the interior, General Evans must drive the
Carlists from Iron and Fontaralbia, and the more so as they
might intercept his convoys. The loss of the latter in the
affair of the sth, seems to have been exaggerated, for later
accounts make it amount to no more than 145 killed and 230
wounded. The steam-boat which arrived at St. Sebastian
yesterday reports that a heavy cannonade had been fired in the
-direction of Llodio ; if, as I believe the fact is so, Cordova
must have had an engagement yesterday at the same time that
Evans made his sally. But these are only conjectures, the
accuracy of which I cannot ascertain till to-morrow or the
day after.

The Christinos have resolved not to be inferior to the
Carlists in Vandalism, for immediately after the action at St.
Sebastian they set fire to nine country houses which the others
had spared. Whenever, you hear of Chapelgorris and Chapel-
, zurris (red caps and white caps) you may hear these are brave
men, but also men who strangely abuse the privilege of vic-
tory.—Messager, May 12.
PARIS, MAY 11.—NEWS FROM NAVARRE.—Wo have not
heard of the arrival of any letters from Madrid by express, but
we have some from Bayonne of the 7th. Some of them affirm
that the Carlists defeated by Evans have already been re-in-
forced by six battalions, under Gurrea and Gomez, from the
Valley of Lanz. These troops occupied on the 6th Oyarzum
and Ernani, and their outposts exchanged musket shot with the
vanguard of the English. It is affirmed that Gurrea intends
to drive the English back into St. Sebastian, but he waits for
the artillery which is to be sent him from Tolosa. It is as-
tonishing that we hear nothing of General Bernelle, who, see-
ing the line of his adversaries weakened, would certainly not
remain' inactive in sight of the troops left in it.
The death of Segastibelza and of Frero is fully confirmed ;
their bodies passed through Tolosa on the 26th, as well as
160 wounded sent to Bergarra, where the military hospitals of
the Pretender arc established. On the 7th, in the morning,
information was received at Bayonne, that some companies of
the fine battalion of Chapelgoris had just landed at Socca
with orders to proceed immediately to attack Irun, n here there
are 300 Carlists with two pieces of artillery.

A well-informed correspondent at Portsmouth, states
in a letter, dated yesterday, that Lieutenant CosTicAN
and part of the detachment of Royal Marine Artillery,
sent to Spain in the Carron steamer, have been safely
landedat the Desierte Convent, near Bilboa, where they
are constructing and fortifying redoubts. The same
gentleman writes as follows respecting the late engage-
ment before St. Sebastian :

" All and every letter from St. Sebastian concur in stating,
. that notwithstanding the desperate efforts of the British Le-
gion, the Carlist works would never have been carried had it
not been that the convent was fired and a breach made in its
walls (capable of admitting 100 men abreast), by the shells
thrown by the detachment of Royal Marine Artillery on board
the Ph(rnix steamer, every one of which, 47 in number, being
fired with the most scientific precision at a range of 1,500
yards, burst into the very midst of the enemy, dealing death
and destruction around.

" A Christino officer, who went over the ground imme-
diately after the close of the action, was astonished at the
number of Carlists who had been killed or mortally wounded
by the splinters from those shells."

New York Papers to the 16th instant have been
received. They bring important advices from Texas,
and some account of the state of the Indian War in
Florida. General SANTA ANNA has taken the field
in real earnest, having previously vowed not to sheathe
his sword till the Texeans make an unconditional sur-
render of life, liberty, and property, and consent to be
dealt with according to his pleasure. In the spirit of
this dreadful vow, he has butchered, without mercy,
all who have fallen into his hands. The war is one of
utter extermination. No quarter is given ; and even
where it is promised the blood-thirsty savages slaughter
their prisoners in cold blood. The following dread-
ful account of the war in Texas is extracted from the
New Orleans Bulletin of the Ist ult. :
We learn by the passengers of the schooner Cumanche,
eight days from Texas, that on the 25th of February the
Texean garrison in Bexar of 150 men, commanded by Lieut.-
Col. B. Travis, was attacked by the advance division of Gen.
Santa Anna's army, consisting of 2,000 men, who were re-
pulsed with the loss of many killed, between five hundred to
eight hundred men, without the loss of one man of the
Texeans. About the same time Colonel Johnson, with a party
of seventy men, while reconnoitering the westward of San
Patricio, was surrounded in the night by a large body of
Mexican troops. In the morning the demand of a surrender
was made by the Mexican commander, unconditionally, which"
was refused; but an offer of surrender was made as prisoners
of war, which was acceded to by the Mexicans ; but no
sooner had the Texeans marched out of their quarters and
stacked their arms than a general fire was opened upon them
by the whole Mexican force. The Texians attempted to
escape, but only thref; of them succeeded, one of whom was
Colonel Johnson,
On the 6th of March, about midnight, the Alamo was as-
saulted by the whole force of the Mexican army, commanded
by Santa Anna in person ; the battle was desperate until
daYli:6-'nt, when only seven men belonging to the Texcan
gP.erison were found alive, who cried for quarter, but were
told that there was no mercy for them ; they continued fight-
, ing until the whole were butchered. One woman, Mrs.
Dickinson, and a negro of Travis, were the only persons
whose lives were spared. We regret to say that Colonel
David Crocket, his companion Mr. Benton, and Colonel
Bonham, of South Carolina, were among the number slain.
General Bowie was murdered in his bed, sick and helpless.
General Cos, on entering the fort, ordered the servant of
Colonel Travis to point out the body of his master; he did
so, when Cos drew his sword and mangled the face and limbs
with the malignant feeling of a Cumanche savage. The
bodies of the slain were thrown into a heap in the centre of
the Alamo and burned. The loss of Mexicans in storming
the place was not less than 1,000 killed and mortally wounded,
and as many wounded—making their loss in the first assault
between 2,000 and 3,000 men. The flag used by the Mexi-
cans was a blood red one, in place of the constitutional one.
The effect of the fall of Bexar throughout Texas was
electrical. Every man who could use a rifle, and was in a
condition to take the field, marched forthwith to the scat of
war. It is believed that not less than 4,000 riflemen were on
their way to the army when the Cumanche sailed, determined
to wreak their vengeance on the Mexicans.
The general determination of the people of Texas is to
abandon all their occupations and pursuits of peace, and con-
tinue in arms until every Mexican east of the Rio del Norte
shall be exterminated.

Mr. RICHARD Er is, President of the Convention
of Texas, has addressed a Proclamation to the people
of the United States, in which he implores them to
assist the Texeans in their struggle for freedom :
" Friends and Brothers," runs this document, " we, the
citizens of Texas, threatened with an indiscriminate slaughter
by the Mexicans, of a complicated and cruel disposition, now
in this hour of trial turn our thoughts and our hearts, with an
unwavering- confidence, to the land of our common nativity,
and we ask you for assistance. Our numbers are few, but our
hearts arc firm, and our nerves are strong to the high resolve
of liberty or death. Will you, brothers and friends, refuse to
do us as in the hour of your calamity was nobly done for you?
And will you calmly witness the destruction of your kindred
and triumph of tyranny, and make no effort to save the one or
arrest the other? It cannot, it will not be."
That the assistance so earnestly besought will be
rendered, is doubtful, but without it the Texcans can.
not long make head against the forces under command
of SANTA ANNA. The death of the eccentric
Colonel CROCKET will be as sincerely lamented by the
people of England, as by his admirers in the United
States.

The accounts from Florida are uninteresting—no-
,hing decisive has yet taken place.

We have advices from Alexandria to the Bth of
April. The plague had appeared in that city, but its
ravages were fewer, and less danger apprehended from
it, than during any other season within the memory of
the oldest inhabitants. MEHEMET ALI was prepa
ring for another
campaign in the Hedjas, principally
to protect the ports of Djedda, Hadeida, Mocha, and