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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1836.

We hardly recollect the opening of a Session of
Parliament on the first and second sittings of which
so many important notices of motions were given as
on the first sitting of the present. In The Sun
of yesterday may be found a column of notices
respecting Bills and Resolutions of the House on
the subjects of Tithe Composition—lrish Munici-
pal Reform—County Rates—Orange Lodges—Poor
Laws for Ireland—Polish Nationality—Church Re-
form—Removal of the Bishops from the House of
Lords—Pensions—Agricultural Distress—Revision
of Taxation—and many other most important ques-
tions. Among these we are glad to find a notice of
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, setting forth
that on the Bth of March, he purposes bringing in a
Bill to amend and consolidate the laws relative
to the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. We have
only to express our regret that a measure
so imperatively called for by the country should be so
long delayed. The Stamp duty certainly is not among
those questions which have not been duly considered.
No plea can now be put forth as to its novelty and
unexpectedness ; and if there be any whose interests
will suffer from its operation, they undoubtedly
have :had sufficient warning to make prepa-
rations against the worst. But though the delay
in bringing forward this question is greater than we
were prepared to expect, the measure of amelioration
may be so framed as fully to satisfy us and the country,
for a partial disappointment. The Government will
now have it in its power to prove the sincerity of its
dependence upon the honesty of an unfettered Press.
This is the measure that must seal the doom of the
Tories.

The zeal manifested by Don CARL Os for the sal-
vation of the English Protestant prisoners, whom he
scrupled to murder previous to their being baptized in
the Catholic faith, appears to have doubly endeared
him to his pious Tory partizans in the House of
Commons. No doubt they are delighted with the
prospect of raising a Prince to the Spanish throne,
who regards the consequences of dying in the
faith of the Church of England as a punish-
ment too great, even for the crime of rebellion against
his sacred person and authority. But their exhibition
in the House of Commons last night was nevertheless
most unfortunate for the cause which they volunteered
to advocate. Their wailings over the atrocities perpe-
trated
by command of the QUEEN'S Generals, gave

rise to disclosures, on the part of Lord P- ALMER-
STON, for which the faction was by no means pre-
pared. Mr. GROVE PRICE was the principal
Tory performer on this occasion—and seldom
has it been our lot to witness a part so lu-
gubriously acted. The Honourable Gentleman
was overpowered by the depth of his emotions when he
came to discuss, the impious project for devoting the
conventual property to the uses of the State. There
was not a spot in Spain pressed by the sandalled foot,
or shadowed by the greasy garment of a mendicant
monk, which did not appear as sacred in the eyes of
the Honorable Gentleman, as the ground encompass-
ing the burning Bush in the vicinity of Horeb.
In fact, we expected, when the Hon. Gentleman had
got this far in his speech, that he was about to give
notice of a motion for restoring to the Church of Rome
the conventual property—especially the Abbey lands—
confiscated during the reigns of HENRY VIII. and
EDWARD VI., in England. But in this we were
disappointed, notwithstanding his very feeling appeal
to the sympathies of the Hon. and Learned Member
for Dublin.

The speech of Lord PALMERSTON was characterized
by much ability, and great clearness in all matters of
detail. His allusion to the modest retirement of Don
CARLOs was peculiarly happy. "It might be true,"
said the Noble Lord, " as the Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
G. PRICE) asserted, that Don CARLOS was the
chosen of the great mass of the population, and that
he had under his command the great majority of the
men at arms. But, if it were so, did it not ap-
pear strange that he should remain shut up in the
mountains of Biscay, and so remain, in spite of the
loans that had been sent to him from. this country, and
in spite of four millions of money raised for him in
Hamburgh ? He must say that he could not but ex-
press his astonishment at the surprisingly modest re-
tirement of DON CARLOS in the mountains of
Biscay." These expressions of the Noble Lord were
cheered by the House ; and well they might, for they
offered the best posirible .refutation of the state-
ments put forth by the Tories who played the part
of the champion of Don CARLOS on this occasion.
With respect to the late correspondence between the
Bishop of. LEON and the Foreign Secretary, about
which so much has been said by the Post and Herald,
abusive of the English Government, the Noble Lord
gave the following explanation :
"He would now allude to his correspondence with the
Bishop of Leon. So far from wishing to deny having
written that letter to the Bishop of Leon, which appeared
in the newspapers, he could fairly assure the House that
he felt great satisfaction in avowing that be did write that
letter.---( Cheeri from the Ministerial benches.) The ap-
plication contained in the letter of the Bishop of Leon was
ill-timed. It was not his wish, after the praise that had been
bestowed upon the Bishop of Leon by the Hon. Memher for
Sandwich, to say anything disrespeetful to his character. The
Bishop of Leon was, while in London, the accredited agent,
or at least deep in the confidence, of Don Carlos. Shortly
before the receipt of the Bishop of Leon's letter, he
(Lord Palmerston) sent an Officer on a special mission to
Don Carlos, with the view of obtaining the repeal of the
bloody edict of Durango, which declared that all foreigners
found in arms should be barbarously and immediately mur-
dered. Don Carlos, with his own lips, refused to accede to
this proposition. A month after this he received a long and
fulsome letter from the Bishop of Leon, reminding him that
much blood and treasure had been spent in Spain. To this
letter he made the reply that had become public, and he made
it to the Bishop of Leon in his capacity as councillor to Don
Carlos. But let not the House suppose because he wrote
such a reply to the Bishop of Leon, he was indifferent to the
subject which his letter alluded to. On the contrary, he had
done volvitarily what was requested a month before, although
be had declined to bow to the dictation of the Bishop of Leon.
The Bishop of Leon's letter was dated the 10th of October,
and on the Ist of September ho (Lord Palmerston) had sent
instructions to Spain, to endeavour to obtain an exchange of
prisoners, no less than twenty-seven officers being at that time
in the custody of the Queen's Generals.''
To prevent all cavilling about the correctness of the
above extract, we have copied it verbatim from the
columns of the Post of this morning. Are the Con-
servatives, as they delight to style themselves, now sa-
tisfied on the score of the humanity of Don CARLOS
The treaty cf Durango turns out to' be no fabrica-
tion of the QUEEN'S party, as the Tories maintain-
ed ; and by virtue of it several Englishmen have already
been wrapped in a bloody shroud, after having pre-
viously undergone the cruel mockery of a monk's
baptism in the religion of their murderers.
It is, however, but justice to the better-informed
class of Tories in the House of Commons, to admit
that they appeared ashamed of the cause undertaken by-
their friends. The faction which goes all lengths to
support to Don CARLOS in Parliament is composed of
men who individually would ruin any cause by offer-
ing to support it. Should Don CARLOS ascend the
Spanish throne, an event which can never happen, we
know of no way in which he could employ his British
Parliamentary partisans to more advantage, than in
re-occupying the deserted Dominican convents. In
time they might be made fit agents of the Holy Office.

The Paris Papers of Thursday contain no news of
any importance. In the early part of the sitting of
the Chamber of Deputies on that day, the discussion
on M. Gouvi's project for reducing the Five per
Cents. commenced, but had not concluded when the
mails left Paris. The belligerents in Spain have per=
formed no feat more warlike than the murder of some
unarmed prisoners since the affair of the 17th ult.
Some shots were ,fired on the 25th, but the parties
might. as well have saved the powder :

PARIS, FEB. 4.—A letter from Barcelona of the 27th, pub-
lished by the .Journal of Perpignan, says, " The taking of the
Hermitage of the Hort is now a certain fact. The Carlist
garrison, finding it impossible to hold out any longer in this
position, fortified by art, and which nature seemed to have
rendered impregnable, attempted to force their passage through
the ranks of the besiegers, and almost all perished. Aliralles,
their chief, was taken prisoner and shot. A hundred Chris-
tinos, who were kept prisoners in the Hermitage, were re-
leased and taken to the hospital of San Lorenzo. They were
like spectres, in-the most deplorable condition, in consequence
of their captivity and the hunger they had endured.
" Ramon Xandero, editor of El Castalan, who concealed
himself after the affair of the 4th and sth, has been discovered,
arrested, and conveyed to the citadel. It is not yet know n
what measures will be adopted with respect to this prisoner, as
well as all those who have been arrested since the others were
transported."
The Ex-Consul and Senator of the kingdom of Italy, Gon-
falenieri, arrived at Vienna on the night of the 25th of January
from the prison of Spielberg, under strong escort, on his way
to Trieste, to embark for America. He will obtain his liberty
on giving a promise in writing before his departure never to
return to the Austrian dominions without permission previously
obtained.—Messager, Feb. 4.
FRANKFORT, JAN. 30.—Exchange on London, 1311 ; Two
Months, 151.—Frankfort Paper, Jan. 31.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, FEERMARY 4.
Five per Cents., 110 f. 10c. 20c. 25c. 30e. 20e. 15c.
Four per Cents., 102 f. 20c. 30c.
Three per Cents. S 1 f. 81f. 13c.
Bank Actions, 2,162 f. 50c.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 85c. soc.
Roman Five per Cents., 10334.
Spanish Actives, 411%%.%.
Spanish Differes, 24 .
Passives, 16 15% 16.
Three per Cent. Rentes, 23.
Rente Perpetuelle, 3154.
Royal Spanish Loan, 374 %VS.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 1041%N•
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., ts.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 53%
Hay tian Loan, 410 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 45c. ; money, 251 45e.
Three months, paper, 25f. 32Se. ; money, 25f. 30e,
—Cours Authentique.

BOURSE, THREE o'CLocx.—The payments for the accounf
have passed off smoothly, and the Three per Cents. opened at
81f. 25c., being a higher quotation than that of the close ?t
yesterday. The price has since receded, the proceedings in
the Chamber being looked for with anxiety. The Spanish
Actives opened at 48i, but have since gone back to 481-. Very
little business is doing in the funds.

I QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 110 f. 60c. ; Three
per Cents., 31f. 25c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
bards, —; Differes, 181; New Loan, —; Actives, 48f ;
Passives, 16; Ducats, 99 95 ; Romans, 104; Pedros, 84 ;
Belgians, 1041; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 410 f. —c. ;
argue is ' • Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, • iniCon-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 24y ; Fire per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, 3Th ; Royal Loan, —.

Again, from a heavy press of Parliamentary and
other matter, we are compelled to omit our usual
" Spirit of the Public Journals," and content ourselves

instead with brief extracts from them. The Times
defends, at some length, the late Tory amendments ill
the Houses of Lords and Commons, and observes—.

" The different treatment of the amendment proposed by
the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, in the two
Houses of- Parliament, has been universally remarked upon as
disgraceful to one or other of the two sections of his Majesty's
Government—the party which opposed, or the party which
accepted that amendment. The amendment merely objected
to a specific pledge. Why should that pledge have been
exacted by Minisers from Parliament ?"
The Morning Chronicle, after alluding to Lord
STANLEY'S conduct on Thursday night, deprecates
strongly all changes of- Ministry, and warns the Tories
how they attempt to bring about a re-action :

" We hope sincerely for the sake of the country—for the
quiet advancement of the present prosperous condition of our
industry—for the security of the mighty interests concerned
in the maintenance of peace and order, that we shall have no
change. But those who provoke the chances which may lead
to it, must be responsible for the consequences ' • and we tell
those leaders of the Tory faction, that a fearful account will
be required at their hands, if we are driven for the selfish gra-
tification of their interests and passions into another re-action.
The result in such a case cannot be doubtful ; and it is
well that the Tories should look the danger fairly in the face."
The Morning Herald contents itself with denying
that the Tories attempted to put forth their whole
strength on Tuesday's division :

" Never was so large a price paid by a Ministry for so mi-
serable a triumph. Let us examine what was, after all, the
display of strength, for the sake of which Ministers thought
fit to expose themselves as they have done. They obtained a
majority of 41 in a House from which 131 of its Members were
absent. It was stated by Sir Robert Peel, and no one, we
presume, even among his political enemies, will doubt his word,
that until the King's Speech appeared, no amendment was in-
tended. There was, therefore, no special muster of the Con.
servative force with that view."

The Morning Post strives hard to prove that the
defeat of the Tories was no defeat at all ; and the
Morning Advertiser, .with more success, shows that
it was one of the most signal that they have sustained
for years.

An Evening Cotemporary has discovered . the
overwhelming defeat of the Tories, on Thurs night,
re
has been entirely owing to the " late snow storm."
If it had not been for this vexatious weather, they
would have had a majority of 45 in favour of, instead
of against, them. But this horrid snow-storm !
There is no telling what mischief it has done to
the. Conservatives. Just as they were about to
achieve an easy victory ; just as they had every reason
to calculate on the attendance of all their supporters,
down came the snow-storm, and prevented five-and=
forty Tories from proceeding on their road to London.
Never was such an unconstitutional storm heard of !
It literally deserves to be impeached. It did not stop
the Liberals on their road to town ; no, no ; it was far
too cunning for that ; it allowed them to pass, and
contented itself with blocking up the Tories, just as
the. Red Sea permitted the Israelites to cross it, -but
drowned PHARAOH and his host when they attempted
the same passage. We need not add that the Tories,
to a man, are most rancorous in their denuncia-
tions of this partial and prejudiced tempest. They
imagine that it has taken a most unhandsome ad-
vantage of them. What right had it to come down
just at the very moment when their supporters were
half-way from their country-houses to St. Stephen's ?
It should have known better what was due to the
dignity of Conservative , Members. So argue the
Tories, through their crafty Evening organ, the
Standard; though, to our thinking, they should
rather be grateful to the snow-storm, than sulky with
it, seeing that it has furnished them with a far better
excuse than any other they have yet put forth, for their
late signal defeat in the Commons.

To make way for the proceeding of the coaches in
the west-of England, stopped by the heavy fall and drift of
snow on Tuesday, it was necessary to have hundreds of men
to remove the snow from the road between Devizes and 'Marl-
borough. For nearly 14 miles this work had to be done ;
and in some places the snow was even with the roof of the
coach. Five coaches on Monday morning were stopped cn
Marlborough-h:11 for seven hours. Nothing like such obstruc-
tion has been experienced since 1815 ; there was then a three-
days' stoppage. A gradual thaw, however, followed the fall,
which still continues ; the snow is consequently fast disap-
pearing.
REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW.—Lord Wil-
liam Bentiuck will walk the course.—Scots Tines.

It is not long since we were enabled to furnish our
sporting readers with the result of a few days shooting at
Ranton Abbey, the hospitable scat of the Earl of Lichficl:l.
The following statement of one day's sport on Friday the 29th
ult., the produce of six guns, for the accuracy of which we
can vouch, will form, as we think, a suitable pendant to the
former achievement, and prove it should seem, that the
game laws have in no degree injuriously affected the inex-
haustible preserves of his Lordship at this well known and
attractive spot :

Hares
Pheasants
Woodcocks.
Rabbits
Moorhens

238
283

In one day

. TII E STOCK EXCHANGE FRA CH.—Emmet For-
rester, the officer employed to follow Lakeman, and obtain if
possible the sanction of the French authorities for his removal
to England, will, if, as is expected, unsuccessful in his applica-
tion to be allowed to treat Lakeman as his prisoner, cause him
to be apprehended for travelling in a wrong name, and impri-
soned : and it is known when a thief is locked up in a strange
country where he can have no accomplices, it is no difficult mat-
ter to ease him of whatever plunder he may be personally in
possession of. Lakeman was an intimate acquaintance with
Scott, who some time ago ran away after having robbed Clerk-
enwell parish of a large sum of money. In the Mayoralty of Sir
James Shaw, in 1806, there was a robbery committed upon se-
veral stockbrokers in a similar way, to the amount of 30,000/ ,
and Sir Jame sadvised the plundered persons to follow the
thief to France, and.strip him of the fruits of his enterprise.
They did so, and came away with the whole of the money,
leaving the impoverished rogue in prison for travelling in a
false name, without a farthing in his pocket.
Yesterday evening, about half-past 5 o'clock, the
following fatal accident occurred in Regent's Circus :—A
gentleman, named Boyd, alighted from his horse at the Green
Man and Still, and left the animal in charge of .a boy, with
directions that he should merely lead it about; he, however,
imprudently ventured to mount it, when the animal, being very
high spirited, started off at full speed towards Holborn, and
an elderly gentleman, attired in black, who unfortunately was
crossing the road from Langham-place to Regent-street, was
run violently against and knocked down by the horse, which
continued its career to the corner of Berners-street, where it
threw its rider head foremost to the ground, and severely
injured him. The attention of several persons having been
directed to the Circus by loud cries of " There's a man
killed," a number rushed forward to the middle of the road,
and perceived some one lying on his back apparently dead, and
surrounded by a pool of blood, which was still flowing from
wounds on his head. He was immediately conveyed by some
police constables, who were quickly in attendance, to the
shop of Mr. Bridge, chemist, whence he was removed on a
shutter to the Middlesex Hospital, on arriving at which place
life was completely extinct, his skull having been fractured
in different places to a frightful extent. In order to ascer-
tain who the deceased was, his pockets were searched, and in
them was found a letter addressed to the " Rev. E. Barker ;"
but nothing was discovered which could afford any clue as
to his residence or connexions. In his fob was a valuable
gold watch, and on his fingers two gold rings. The body
remains at the hospital, and the youth through whose diso-
bedienceof orders the melancholy and fatal event was caused
is in custody.
BRIBERY.—It is affirmed that certain of the voters
for Tory candidates at the municipal elections, are now re-
ceiving five shillings a-head for their independent suffrages.
This, we suppose, is with a view to training them for the new
system.

On Monday morning at Lewes, tickets were distri-
buted among such of the voters of the Honourable Henry
Fitzroy at the last election as were willing to accept them,
entitling the holders to a certain quantity of coals ;—plumpers
to a quarter of a ton, and split votes to half the quantity ! !...._
Ab Rosie.

Accounts from Tunis mention that there had been
a great falling off in the crop of olives, and a still greater de-
ficiency in that of wool. This latter was one of the principal
articles of export, but little would be exported this season.
This deficiency was caused entirely by the long prevailinc,
drought.
We regret to learn that Henry Grattan, Esq.,
M. P., has been confined to his chamber for the last fortnight
by severe indisposition ; but his illness, it is hoped, is not of
so serious a nature as to prevent his immediate attention to
Parliamentary duties.—Dublin Register.
DEATH OF THE HON. SIR THOS. PAKENHAM,
G. C. 8., ADMIRAL OF THE RED.—We announce with regret
the decease of this distinguished Officer, which took place at
his seat in Ireland on Tuesday last. The deceased Admiral
was son of Thomas Lord Longford by Lady Elizabeth, who
was made a Countess after his death. He was certainly one of
the most distinguished Officers of the British navy, a man re-
markable for talent, prompt dcci§ion, courage, and judgment.
He first went to sea in 1770.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER, in his robes of State, took the Chair at
One o'Clock.
There were not more than twenty Members present at the
sitting of the House, but in a few minutes the number was in-
creased to upwards of fifty.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Russell, Sir
G. Gray, Mr. C. Fergusson, Mr. Fox Maule, Colonel Leith
Hay, and Sir R. Stewart, appeared in the Windsor uniform
—the mover of the Address (Sir John Wrottesley) in De-
puty Lieutenant's uniform ; and the seconder (Mr. Parker) in
a Court dress.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
that part of his Majesty's Speech relative to the estimates for
the year having been read,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER movedtbat
the supplies be granted.—Agreed to.
The RIGHT HON. GENTLEMAN then gave notice that, on
Monday next, he should move that the House do resolve itself
into a Committee of Supply.
COUNTY RATES (IRELAND).
Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN gave notice of his intention to bring
in a Bill for regulating the county assessments in Ireland.

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LAW OF LIBEL.
Mr. CHARLES BULLER gave notice of his intention
co move on the 26th of March for the appointment of a Select
Committee to inquire into the Law of Libel.
PRESENATION OF THE ADDRESS.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL appeared at the Bar, ind an-
nounced to the House that his Majesty had been graciously
pleased to appoint that day at two o'clock for receiving the
Address, at St. James's.
The House then adjourned, and the Speaker proceeded in
his state carriage to the Palace, attended by a great number of
the Members present.