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brown' off the bed clothes (in doing Which he was much
burned about the hands and other parts), be snatched up
the child, which, however, bad suffered so severely, tat it

had since died.
The witness was not subjected to much examination by
the Magistrate. He stated, however, that from what had
transpired, his suspicions fell on the prisoner, who, in, con-
sequence of some previous violence and threats to another
servant, had just been discharged by her mistress.
Mr. Buck, a neighbour, deposed that in consequence of
the discovery of fire in the prosecutor's house he went
there, and accompanied him to the bed-room on the first
floor, where the bed was found in flames, and the infant was
taken from it by the agonised father as already mentioned.
He assisted in extinguishing the fire there, and afterwards
went, accompanied by another neighbour, to other parts of
the house. In a room on the second floor was an appa-
rently unused bedstead, with only a palliasse upon it, and
that also was burning, but the fire bad not advanced much,
And was easily extinguished.
Mr. TWItFORD asked him if he could discern any con-
nection between that fire and the fire previously discovered

in the other bedroom.
Tho witness said certainly not. The rooms were in dif-
ferent parts of the house, without any communication be-
tween them ; and upon the discovery of the fire in the upper
room by him and his neighbour he immediately gave cx.
pression to the conviction which he felt, that it had been
wilfully occasioned.
Mr. Roberts, another respectable inhabitant of Clifton-
street, was present with the last witness at the discoveries
mentioned by him, and confirmed his statement.
jespector Brundley, of the G division of police, stated
that .be bad been to examine the premises. In the bed-
room of the first-floor the bed and furniture had been burnt,
and the dPor of the romp appeared to have been on fire.
In the room on the upper-floor there was a mattrass on a
bed-stead which had evidently been on fire on two of the
sides, but was extinguished without much damage, there
being no loose linon or furniture about it. The rooms in
which the fires bad ben were far apart, on distinct floors,
and there was no commuoication between them.
A smart little girl, about 32 years of age, who was em-
ployed as nursery-maid, said that about half-past six on
Monday evening she went up stairs to put the infant to
bed in the chamber' of her master and mistress, on the first
floor; and about an hour afterwards she went up to the
room again, to fetch an article for her master. She then
went up without a light, and everything appeared to be
safe. No person went up stairs after that, and previously
to the fire except the prisoner, who had been discharged
from the service ; and, being then on the point of leaving,
went up stairs to get up her things, some of which were in
the upper room, where the mattrass was afterwards found
on fire.
The witness being particularly examined as to what bad
previously passed between her and the prisoner, explained
that the latter was of a very passionate disposition, and, on
one occasion, after some dispute between them, the pri-
soner flew into a violent passion, in the course of which
she took off her shawl and threw it on the fire, but caught
it off again before it was consumed. On another occasion,
only a few days ago, the witness said she was cleaning
the fender, with which she happened to touch the prisoner,
who became enraged, and threatened to poison or other-
wise murder her. These threats had such an effect on
witness that she left the house and went off home to her
mother, who afterwards called upon her master and mis-
tress, and the prisoner received notice to quit on Monday
evening. It was after eight when the prisoner went up to
get her things, and the witness said she was sure the pri-
soner was the only person who went up after the child
was put to bed.
Mr. TWYFORD asked her whether her mistress's bed-
room door was open or shut at the time ? The witness
said she had left it open.
Mr. TWYFORD—For what purpose
The witness said she was sitting in the kitchen, and had
left the bed-room door open, in order that she might bear
if the child awoke and cried. She was listening for that
purpose, and no person could have gone up stairs without
her hearing it.
Mr. Hancock confirmed the statement of the young
witness as to the inquiry that took place upon her com-
plaint of the threats of the prisoner, and the consequent
discharge of the latter by their mistress.
It was stated that the prisoner had left the house only
about five minutes before the alarm of fire was triven, and
she was apprehended yesterday morning at her mother's at
Mile-end by Emes, police constable 164 G.
The prisoner wept, and seemed distresied, but did not
offer a word in explanation or defence.
Mr. TWYFORD, after briefly remarking upon the suspi-
cious circumstances which had been detailed, remanded the
prisoner until a Coroner's Inquest should have been held
on the deceased infant.

THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.

, 1836.

wik' m; ;ht arrest Don Carlos slwold inflict on him the pu-
nishment due to the crime of high treason."
MADRID, Nov. 26.—The interest of Madrid is at this
moment equally divided between the north and the south—
the fate of Bilboa and the fortunes of Gomez. Of Bilboa
we know nothing heyon,l what the Carlists tell us. Gomez
has taken to the Serrania de Ronda, where lie ought to be
destroyed, whether we look to the character of the troops
in pursuit of him, or to the nature of the country. The
Serrania is an island of mountains running along the coast.
It is full of tenable positions and numerous small villages ;
but to leave it some leagues of plain must be crossed,
whether in the direction of Granada, of Seville, or Gibraltar
There are 20,000 of the best troops in Spain at his heels,
all now bent on his destruction. Riviero, with Road's divi-
sion, is the nearest upon him ; on the 17th it was in or near
Montilla, and Alaix was not far off. It was not known at
Cordova and Seville, whence the letters are (hated, where
Narvaez was ; but, assuredly, lie has not lost ground. Nar-
vaez is a lineal descendant of hint who accompanied Cortes
to the New World, and is a native of the country into
which Gomez has now penetrated. It is to be hoped he
will avenge his native mountains.
The Ministry is still incomplete. Lopez, having made
the discovery of his own deficiency, gave in his resignation,
now a week ago—and no Minister of the Interior has yet
been found. Lopez is a young man of imagination and
fire ; but his only law seems to be Spanish law and the
history of the French Revolution. Neither one nor the
other has served him. The Interior is very different from
the department of Grace and Justice ; and he candidly
confessed to his clerks and secretaries that he did under-
stand a word of their expedientes. As for his other re-
source—the History of the French Revolution, and the
Life of Mirabcau—his failure was here still more signal.
Nothing could be more ridiculous than his position when he
had to change his tremendous " Terror, Terror, Terror !"
which he pronounced in the Courts in his usual volcanic
manner, into the puling " Rigour, Rigour, Rigour," which
he was obliged to say he believed he had uttered. As for
the Ministry of War nobody will take it ; and the Govern-
ment are about to nominate ad interim, the Brigadier Ro-
driguez Vera, a patriotic officer and Deputy to the Cortes.
Oraa, being found one of the best Quarter-Master-
Generals that perhaps ever existed, is about to be withdrawn
from the army, and made Captain-General of Valencia, for
which he is unfit. Oraa is called by the Carlists the " hoary
wolf." He is one of the finest specimens of a soldier that
ever drew sword—cautious, brave, impenetrable, with a
knowledge of the country down to the number of the trees
on the height of the rocks ; in fact, in any particular spot ;
never troubling himself with politics ; always in the field
early and late, aware of the proceedings and character of
ever officer and almost every soldier in his army ; having
all his pride in his duty, and a most perfect sympathy with
the hardships and privations of his men. His son, Marcel-
lino, was killed a few months ago : he was a glorious young
man, with all his father's loyalty and bravery, but more than
his father's fire. Oraa doted upon him, but he never shed
a tear over him, or uttered a complaint, nor turned a senti-
ment, but every body observed he looked much greyer—the
old wolf came out of his den still more hoary. The ap-
pointment of Captain-General of Valencia—a charming
appointment, more particularly for a man who has been
three years in the horrid climate, and still more horrid war-
fare, of the provinces—arrived just as the army was pre-
paring to set out for the difficult service of relieving the
siege of Bilboa. Most men would have gone off directly,
for he had richly earned his reward. But he said, "No ;
I cannot leave my men as long as they have such lantern
jaws ; let us go to Bilboa together, and see if we can't fill
their bellies, and get them some shoes. That done, perhaps
I may go to Valencia."
On Monday the reforms in the Constitution are to be
proposed in the Cortes. All Europe—at least all that part
which is liberal and rational—will be satisfied that this Go-
vernment and this Cortes wish for nothing unreasonable.
It would have been just as easy to have enlarged the Esta-
tuto as to contract the Constitution ; but events got dread-
fully entangled with each other during the blind and head-
long reign of Isturitz. We are to have two Chambers—
the one a popular Chamber like the present, the other a
Senate like the United States—without hereditary honours,
but chosen by the Crown ; the Crown to have a veto on
all laws, and the convocation and dissolution of the Cortes
—Ministers eligible for deputies, and deputies for Minis-
ters—the Executive to he strengthened, and the representa-
tion to be extended—the initiative to be possessed by the
Chambers as well as by the Government.
The Cortes yesterday took into consideration the pro-
priety of confirming the decision of the former Cortes for
the exclusion from the throne. The proposition was
passed unanimously. The President of the Council of
Ministers declared, in the name of the Government, all
transaction, all accommodation with the rebel Prince im-
possible. He had raised a sea of blood between him and
the throne ; nothing was left for the rebels but to lay down
their arms and leave the country, or to acknowledge Isabel
II.; if not, he exclaimed, " War !—war to extermina-
tion." It must be remembered that Calatrava is a calm,
modest man, a judge by profession and taste, and by no
means the sort of person he is vulgarly considered in Eng-
land. He was followed by Lopez, the Minister of the In-
terior, in the same tenor, and by Arguelles, who made a
brilliant charge against the traitor Prince.
Caballero proposed an addition, that in case of Don Car-
los falling into the hands of any officer or magistrate, he
should be bound to put him to death the instant the iden-
tity of his person was ascertained.
Nov. 27.—Intelligence has been received that Gomez
was on the 21st in Gaucin, about 25 miles from Gibraltar,
and Rivcro in Ronda, about five or six leagues behind him.
It is clear that Gomez is in rapid flight, and is proceeding
in dreadful disorder. The road he goes is left strewed with
dead, chiefly of prisoners and peasants. In the little district
of Moron the Alcade picked up nine dead.
SIEGE OF BILBOA.
(From the French papers of Sunday.)
BAYONNE, Nov. 30.—The Carlists are spreading a re.
port that Espartero was defeated on the 27th, in the neigh-
bourhood of Somorostro. According to them the loss of
the Christino General amounted to 3,000 men ; but this is
evidently an exaggerated account. If the news had been
true, even in part, the bells of Irun would doubtless have
been set in motion. On the morning of the 28th the
Carlists obtained possession of St. Augustin.
BAYONNE, Nov. 22.—The Carlists have again opened
their fire on Bilboa. On the 25th and 26th their artillery
never ceased cannonading the fort of St. Augustin, which
is now nothing more than a heap of ruins. The enemy's
batteries, when the last news were dispatched, were within
half a gun's shot distance from the exterior works of the
town.

A bulletin of General Eguia of the 26th ult. stated that
in the course of the evening this fort would be levelled to
the ground, and he concludes by saying that before -two
days have elapsed the Carlists will be masters of the place.
General Iturralde, who was at Zalduendo, a quarter of a
mile distant from Narvaja, was surprised on the night
before last by Martin Varea, who had left Vittoria with a
small detachment. The General and his wife and children
were taken to Vittoria.
An Englishman of the name of Hawkins, who was some
time ago arrested at the moment when he was setting off
for London with documents for a loan to be managed by
M. Ouvrard, and detained once more within this last fort-
night at the frontier on his return from London, is now in
confinement at the Gendarmes barrack ; he had, at first,
directed his course upon Bordeaux.
Correspondences from the head quarters of General Du-
rango. dated November 28, contain the following informa-
tion :—" Espartero's column, on its way from Portugalette
to relieve Bilboa, was attacked at Baracaldo by the Car-
lists, who charged with the greatest vigour. The Chris-
tino troops were obliged to fall back, after losing part of
their artillery and baggage. While this work was going on,
another Carlist division had taken St. Augustin's Fort by
assault. More than 80 Christinos were taken prisoners in
the fort. The loss of the besiegers, as also that of the gar-
rison of St. Sebastian, is considerable. The Christinos'
themselves set the
.convent on fire the moment they could
no longer defend it. The two houses in the neighbour-
, hood of St. Augustin's Fort are also in the possession of
the Carlists.

(From the French Papers of Monday.)
In reference to the recent appearance of Carlist troops
within eight miles of Madrid, it is stated that Gomez de-
sired that Cabrera should excite the fears of Government,
and thereby cause the recall to Madrid of the division of
Narvaez or that of Ribiero ; and being thus free from their
pursuit he might continue his march up towards Andalusia.
This, therefore, is the entire tactics of the Carlists—by be-
sieging Bilboa, they engage the whole attention of a nu-
merous army in the North ; and by approaohing Madrid,
they endeavour to disperse the forces which are engaged in
the South.—La Charte.
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the Ist contains the
following intelligence :—" The reports of the march of Go-
mez towards the Sierra de Ronda are confirmed. His object,
it appears, is to reach the plain of Gibraltar. The intention
of the Chiefs appears to be to place themselves and their
booty in safety, and to dissolve the great body of rebels,
which would then disperse in small bands. Advices from
Gironne give some particulars of the taking of Verges, a small
town near the river Ter, in Catalonia. On the morning of
the 23d, the Carlist Chief Zorilla made his appearanco
before the town, at the head of 326 infantry and 5 dragoons,
He then proceeded immediately to the residence of M•
Taulera, and condemned him, for having refueed to open the
door of his house on the first sewmons, to be shot along
with his son.
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Four National Guards were also maseacred ; and a young
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lady of 13 years of age, and wve‘l of the most respectable
inhabitants ót the town were seized. &Ana then aban-
doed tno to the pillage of his soldiers, and exacted