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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1838.

In the House of Lords last night the Marquis of LON-
72'"DERRY entertained their Lordships with a rambling
dissertation on the past, present, and, what he would re-
commend, as the future policy of her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment in Spain. The Noble Marquis has afforded the
13lintry so many opportunities of ascertaining his peculiar
'lotions upon this rather stale subject—his style of oratory
is so familiar to, and so properly appreciated by, all who
take any interest in the proceedings of the August Assem-
bly of which he considers himself an ornament, and
which, in condescending to enlighten, he never fails to
amuse by his harlequin displays of statesmanship—
that it would be wasting the time of our readers to enter
into a detail of the merits or demerits of his Lordship's
IPeeeh. We must, however, observe,that the Noble Marquis,
with his usual felicity on such occasions, contradicted nearly
every statement which he advanced against the Spanish po-
licY of her MAJESTY'S Ministers; and therefore Lord MEL-
-13411NE, Lord LYNDHURST, Lord CARNAItVON, the Mar-
quis of LANSDOWNE, the Duke of WELLINGTON, and
Earl MINTO, might have spared themselves the trouble
'lf converting a motion, to which no serious objection was
Intended to be offered, into a tedious, and to all practical in-
tents and purposes, very useless debate. The Marquis of
irlinoNnEaav and his Tory compeers, undertook to prove
that the British Auxiliary Legion had been more ser-
;leeable to the Carlist than the Constitutional cause in
13aio• If their Lordships be sincere, this will account
for the surprisingly warm interest which they appear to
takeer in the question of the speedy adjustment of their
ims ; albeit not the most forcible that could be em-
"Yed in a negociation with the Madrid Cabinet. But
/till' thou complain so angrily of the base and perfidious
conduct of the Spanish Government ? There is surely
nothing so very strange in the fact of an Adminis-
aAt•
to 1'31.0 pressed for money giving the precedence
tue claims of such of its creditors as were
really
serviceable to it, over others having only dis-
e"vices to plead. In the next place the " Isle of Dogs'
Expedition" was ridiculed by their Lordships as one which
excited the risibility not only of England but of Europe
as an expedition universally known to be opposed to the
ashes of England ; and yet, in the very same breath, they
;11TI°red the disgrace which its results had brought upon
a: arms of England Ought they not rather to rejoice
that their idol, Don CARLOS, has triumphed, supported,
lizis they represent him to have been, by the moral ()pi-
!" of the majority of the British people. Were the Le-
such as they have described it, how was it possible
14 it to bring:disgrace upon the arms of any country ? But
the whole of the statements made by the Tory Peers last
,b,ight, are so many idle assumptions. The British Auxi-
liary Legion, notwithstanding the Spanish Government's
shameful neglect of its just claims, rendered most invalu-
-Ile service to the cause of the QUEEN and Constitu-
‘°llikl. On its first landing at San Sebastian, it gallantly
e
'eeked the victorious career of Don CARLOS in the
ba'"e3 ; and never since that time has the Pretendere
able to recover the influence which he then lost. It is
here Moonshine to talk of the Pretender as being more for-
dable now than he was in 1835. On the contrary he does
notH Possess half the real power which he did at that period.
is the mere puppet of factions among his own; followers
's: he cannot take a single town from the Christinos—and
II 1314-iilitary expeditions have dwindled down from the in-
cision of provinces, to the robbery of diligences and the
Gorging of hamlets.
thtut while we denounce, as inconsistent and unprincipled,
Iler conduct of the Tory Peers respecting the Spanish
leY of her MAJESTY'S Ministers, we must not be sup-
vos
thed to defend that policy. We have always contended
at •
, was the interest, as well as the duty of Ministers
I,p havere
interfered boldly, actively, and on their own
°risibility, in the settlement of the great question now
1/4tissu •
tl3, e the Peninsula. If the Quadruple Treaty have
the meaning at all, it embodies a solemm stipulation on
Part of England to assist the Queen of SPAIN
~sf"the full extent of her Catholic Majesty's necessities
theraL. as regards the recognition of her Royal authority in
Peninsula. Any interference was preferable to none ;
the had Ministers consulted the true dignity of the country,
1,)? Would have sent such a force into the Basques as
1,0
)?would
11)14 have put an end to the war in a few months. This
e.a4l easily have been accomplished in 1835, without the
qah,
Lest danger of disturbing the peace of Europe.

The
11, Bill for the conveyance of the Mails by Railways
44 to have been read a second time in the Commons on
1.4°44.'43' night. It would be seen, however, that the second
Ing was put off at the request of Sir JAMES GRA-
forlt) who thought that more time should be given
th considering- the measure. The Vice-President of
130ard of Trade, who has charge of the Bill,
th4acitiY assented to the Hon. Baronet's request, but stated
t it was absolutely necessary that the measure should pass
13
re Session We have inserted an abstract of it else-
the,

e quite agree with the Honourable Gentleman in
ti-nking that the present Session cf Parliament should
" allowed Nreto elapse. without the passing of this mea-
L'4 • ' The interests of the public arc too deeply involved..
it to admit of any farther delay ; at the same time it is
gut fair that those whose private interests are likely to be
the4ed by the Bill should have an opportunity of stating
4.lir objections, and proposing such alterations as
ay obviate them. As to the attempt that has
',ten made to raise a cry of " robbery" and
ti 3POliatiOn " against the Bill, it is an act of
N411211e absurdity, hardly deserving a serious thought.
11:d man pretending to any ordinary measure of
fp, -erstanding can fail to see that railroads are different
41)041 what is called priyate property, and that they may,
lile2lust, be differently dealt with in a legislative point of
tiol". They are, in fact, created by an invasion of private
tts,, sanctioned, it is true, by the Legislature, but so
sktie
I°ned solely and entirely for the great benefits which
vieY are supposed to produce to the public. It is with this
t.1,1,' "d this alone, that Rail wayCompanics are invested with
ve;'" Peculiar and exclusive privileges. Is it not, then, the
ti3;first and most obvious dictate of reason, that 13 -
or' the original granter of these privileges, not only has a
11,4 E: but is solemnly bound, to interpose its authority
t,ee `lever it sees fit, in order to modify, to regulate, and if
bei be altogether to withdraw them ? The public benefit
the sole condition on which Railway Companies
the eu 4 legislative existence, and the sole tenure by which
to Y ,hold and exercise the extraordinary powers delegated
has tueln, can it be questioned, that the Legislature
tlitio right to enforce the fulfilment of that con-
creatti, ? Can it be supposed for a moment that it has a
ief"% but not a superintending power? Yet such are the
whorenceswhich naturally flow from the assertions of those
ways Prattle about the interference of Parliament with Rail-
rlcit. unnecessary interference with private property. It
the interference with private property at all, and in
ptibiPireesent instance it is absolutely necessary, because the
plt_, service demands it. Is not the Post-office coin-
ks:LY at the mercy of the Railway Companies ? Sup-
vey he
or all of these Companies were to refuse to con-
ofe cl tue Mails, where is the remedy ?—where is the means
eoh_lT'Pelling them ? There is absolutely and confessedly
ar(r• The whole correpondence, commercial,political, civil,
3°64 of this greats country might, if such should be the

pleasure of the Railway Directors, be left to crawl forward
at the rate of 7 or 8 miles an hour—if so much—while on
the Railways it might travel at 40 or 50. Is such a state
of things to be tolerated ? It may be said that this is not
likely to take place, as Railway Companies will be satisfied
with a moderate compensation for the transmission of the
mails. That may or may not be so ; but a matter of such
national importance should not be left to chance, or to the
arbitrary decision of a few private individuals, however
respectable. To make the Post-office Establishment
effective, it is necessary that its arrangements should
not be subject to any extraneous influences. It must
have the power of carrying its plans into effect, in-
dependently of all such influences, otherwise they
would be liable to perpetual derangement, and instead
of that regularity and order in the transmission of letters,
which are the very essence of the benefit to be derived
from such an establishment, there would be nothing but
confusion and disappointment.
With respect to the provisions of the Bill, we see nothing
that can reasonably be found fault with. It is quite clear
that the Railway Companies can sustain no loss by
the proposed plan, as full compensation is to be given for
tear and wear, and for any services that may be required by
the Post-office, should it employ its own engines and
carriages. Perhaps it might be as well in such cases to
allow something for the use of the Railway, but this we do
not regard as a matter of right, but rather as an inducement
to the Companies to co-operate cordially with the Post-office.

The Earl of MuLuaAvis to be made Marquis of
NORMANBY ; and well does the Noble Earl, for his wise
government of Ireland, and for his humane administration of
Jamaica, deserve that and all the other honours which
his SOVEREIGN can bestow. Of course the Noble Earl
is not the only person who is to be promoted on the oc-
casion of our SOVEREIGN'S Coronation ; and we hope
speedily to be able to announce the names of those whose
merits, like those of the Noble Earl, are to be deservedly
rewarded.

The Canterbury tragedy gave rise to a brief discussion
in the House of Lords last night, in consequence of a pe
tition presented by Earl STA stiorE, signed by the Chair-
man and Secretary of the Democratic Association of
London. Their Lordships refused to receive the petition,
though from the report of their proceedings, we do not
exactly understand why. It was humbly worded according
to form. It was tendered only as the petition of those who
signed it, and it prayed their Lordships to suspend or
alter the law which their Lordships, in concurrence
with the other States of the realm, perform daily. The
only reason assigned for rejecting it was, it prayed for that
which the Lords could not do. Why, there is scarcely a
petition presented to them which may not be rejected on
the same ground ! The Lords cannot of themselves, for-
tunately for us, alter any law ; and every petition which
asks them to do that, asks an impossibility, as much as the
petition of thz,, Democratic Association. They can, how-
ever, in concurrence with the other House, and with the
Crown, alter or suspend any law they please. The Legislature
could, for example, pass an Act--and such Acts have been
passed, to put off the summer Assizes at Maidstone, for three or
six months. We do notrecommendsuch a proceeding,but it
is within the compass of the power of Parliament. The
petition then did not ask the Peers to do an impossibility
any more than any other petition which asks them to alter a
law, without adding, " in concurrence with the other estates
of the realm," and to reject it on this ground was most fal-
lacious.

The true reason for rejecting it appears to us to be, if we may
pry into the motives of their Lordships, was because it
blamed the Magistracy, and the Peers would gladly burke
the whole subject. The men committed to prison are to be
immediately tried, while the sentiment of horror at the
murder committed by their mad leader is warm in the
public mind, by a tribunal which will take no cognizance
of the conduct of the Magistrates ; and any extenuating
circumstance arising from their gross negligence, and
still grosser ignorance of what was going on in their neigh-
bourhood, will be carefully, except as the Press may bring
it to light, kept out of view. We can see no reason
why the conduct of the Magistrates should not be imme-
diately investigated as well as the men tried, so that all
the extenuating circumstances of the men's conduct may
at once be established, and justice done to both parties at
the same time. Instead of rejecting the petition, it would,
in our opiniOn, have been more in accordance with the
character erewhile boastingly assumed by the peers of
" Tribunes of the people," had they immediately granted
that part of it which prayed for a Committee to investigate
all the circumstances of the case.

In truth we have no recollection of any matter which
mere imperiously calls on the Legislature for prompt and
searching investigation. For years, aye, forages, has the Esta-
blished Church been maintained in opulence and power, to
the suppression of agricultural improvement and the ruin of
the agriculturists—to the grievous vexation of large classes
of dissenters, to the curtailment of the public liberties, and
to the great political damage of the whole empire—on the
ground that it promoted the sound religious knowledge and
morality of the people. The Peers, both lay and spiritual,
have over and over again asserted thus much, and have
conjured the nation to be patient under numerous privations,
while they have strenuously resisted all attempts at im-
provingthe Church, because it was so super-eminently, beau-
tiful, and beneficial. They, too,have most strenuously upheld
the system of parson magistrates and unpaid justices who
both preserve game and administer the law, because that
system is all that is wise, virtuous, and free. But here arises
a series of events which, in conjunction with many other simi-
lar series, but more striking and more convincing, not to say
appalling, because the country is perfectly tranquil, because
they happen in a most beautiful and highly-cultivated district,
one of the earliest civilized in the land, the seat of the
Primate, and the very heart of the Established Church,
abounding in churches, parsons, and squires, and baring an
agricultural population—or abounding in all the requisites
to give perfection to the system upheld by the Peers ;
here, we say, arises a series of events which demonstrate
at once, and by a shorthand mode, the fallacy of that vexa-
tious system which the Peers have told the nation to be
patient under, and these legislators not only refuse to in-
quire into those facts, but kick out the petition which
humbly implores them to inquire. That there is in the
vague and untangible doctrines of the Church, together
with the care taken by the clergy to check the progress of
tangible knowledge, something which encourages fanati-
cism, and which therefore demands the solemn investiga-
tion of the Legislature, which upholds that Church to the
oppression of all the Dissenters, both of England and Ireland,
receives confirmation from the following curious fact, men-
tioned in a Liverpool paper, Liverpool being, as is well
known also, a place where the Established Church has
great influence :

But if their (Courtenay's victims) ignorance and want of education
alone are to be blamed for their credulity, how is it to be accounted for
that there are men on the flags of the Liverpool Exchange, men of
property and fortune, men who, as far as money could buy education,
have had it freely bestowed upon them, men keen in matters of busi-
ness and shrewd in buying and selling and in the management of all
worldly affairs, but who yet are as decidedly lost in the maze of fanati-
cism as the most untutored peasants in the land ? It is well known,
we are assured, that there are such men, more than two or three, indeed
several, who call themselves by the mysterious appellation of " the Can-
dlesticks of the Church," and who, not satisfied with waiting for others
to perform miracles before them, have themselves attempted to work
them, and, as their friends assure us, with complete. success.
The Peers may hoodwink themselves,—others they will
not be able to hoodwink, who will only see the clearer how
the Peers flounder on in wilful blindness.
Of the other prayer of the petition we must express our
decided disapprobation. To delay the trial would be only
to detain the deluded men in prison. Those who compas-
sionate their unhappy situation, and are aware of the im-
practicability. of getting justice unless by means of
money, (justice being, in truth, owing to the neces-
sity to pay fees to attorneys, counsel, and courts, as
much sold in this free land of ours, as* if the
judge openly received a sum of money for his decision)—
those who are aware of the poverty of the unhappy victims
of that fanaticism which our richly-endowed Church does
more to encourage than repress, should probably subscribe
amongst them, to procure the men committed to Maid-'
stone gaol the means of buying justice. To enable them
to hire the sharpest practitioner that can be found amongst
the attornies, and the most acute, industrious, and boldest
counsel who plead in the criminal courts, is at present the
practical way in which they can be best served ; and it is
neither desirable for them individually, nor on acccount of
the precedent, that the trial should be postponed by as Act
of the Legislature.

We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of
Monday, but their contents are of no political interest. An-
nexed are a few extracts :
Letters from Constantinople of the 26th May, say that at that date
the Turkish fleet was still at anchor in the Bosphorus.

The influence of Admiral Roussin is very great at Constantinople. It

is to that the maintenance of the statu quo with respect to Egypt may be
ascribed ; and the Belgian Legation which has just arrived, with M.
O'Sullivan at its head, cannot fail to profit by the favourable position of
the French Ambassador.

TOULON, JUNE I3.—The Volligeur, a first-rate brig, commanded by
Captain Berard, has received to-day instructions from Paris. This
vessel is going to the Gulf of Mexico; she put to sea at two o'clock.

The Vantonr which will leave to-day with the envoys of Abd.el-Kader
has likewise very urgent dispatches for the Marshal, and the news of the
votes of credit which have just passed the Chamber, which the tele.
graph announced at Toulon two days ago. The Indienne cor-
vette, and the Meliagre brig, were put into the road this
morning. The Indienne is to sail in two days for Mexico. The
repairs of the Montebello are proceeding rapidly. Great exertions are
making that this ship may be ready for sea very shortly. It is believed
that it joins Admiral Lalandes' squadron at Tunis. The Islcdca fri.
gate, which lately arrived from Lisbon to take on board its new Cap.
tain, M. Leray, will sail in a few days, and will carry anchors and various
articles of tackle to the Suffren at Cadiz. It is thought that the
Suffren will come to Toulon to complete its repairs, and will make part
of the African squadron.—Lc Commerce.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JUNE 18.
Five per Cents.. 110 f. 00c. 85c. SOc.
Four and a Half Per Cents. 106 f.
Four per Cents., 102 f. 50e.
Three per Cents., 80f. 30c. 25c. 20c.
Bank Actions, 2,770 f.
Rente de Naples, 28f. 70c. 85e. 90c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%.
Spanish Actives, 221,1%?.4.
Spanish Passives, 43,i.
Belgian Loan, 103'x6.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 24.14.
Belgian Bank, 1,41 Cf.
Haytian Loan. 260 f. 565 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 42t c.; money, 251.40 e.
Three months, paper, —f. —e. ; money, 231. 32%c.
LATEST PRICES.

five per Cents. 110 f. 80c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 25c.
Bank Actions, 2,770 f.
Romans, 101.
Belgian Loan, 10266.
Belgian Bank, 1,440 f.
Haytian Loan, 3551.
Spanish Actives, 21►,(.
Spanish Passives. 47i •

TRIESTE, Tuns 6.—Captain Alex. Bradicich, commanding the John
Archduke of Austria steamboat, belonging to our Steam Navigation
Company, writes to us from Syra, that on the 21st of May, at two in the
morning, just as he was ordering the fire on the machines, intending to
quit the harbour of Alexandria at day break, he perceived a great fire
in the Arsenal of the Viceroy, which he soon discovered to be a large
ship-of-the-line in flames, which was preparing to go to sea. At half_
past five, when the steamboat left, the whole ship was nearly consumed.
Ile conjectures that the fire did not spread, as there was but little wind,
and the ship was at a distance from any other ships and buildings.—
Austrian Lloyd':.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JerNE 9.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1463
—AllgemeineZeitung, June 14.

Advices from Madrid to the 12th instant, state that the
Tithe Bill passed the Chamber of Deputies on the I I Lb,
article by article. On the 12th, its entire adoption was to
be moved, when it was not expected to meet with any se-
rious opposition. We have no news of any moment from
the Provinces.

The following important intelligence from Mexico is
copied from the Second Edition of the Times of this morn-
ing:—

CONTINUED BLOCKADE OF THE MEXICAN PORTS.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 18.—The Delight packet, Lieutenant Lory, arrived
this morning from Mexico and the Havannah, having sailed from Tam-
pico on the 3d, Vera Cruz on the Bth, and from the Havannah on the
22d of May. This vessel brings a full confirmation of the active
blockade of the Mexican ports by the French squadron, which cons.
menced on the 16th of April, and was maintained vigorou,ly
up to the Delight's sailing, although not a gun had been
fired by either party. Only one vessel (the Anna Eliza
from New York, with a cargo of cocoa, cinnamon, &c.,) had succeeded in
getting into port, and five others, two of which were Mexican, two
French, and one British, had been stopped in making the attempt, and
sent to Sacriticios, where they were guarded by the Herminie French
frigate. The Government still persisted in refusing to accede to the
terms of the French, and appeared to be well supported by the majority
of the people in that resolution, although it was daily becoming
more and more evident that the principal resources of the Trea-
sury—viz., the receipt of duties from the custom-houses—would
be cut off. The country was kept perfectly tranquil, though seve-
ral propositions had been made in Congress for the expul-
sion from the Republic of the French residents, and for the prohibition
of the produce and manufactures of France under any flag whatever.
By a law recently passed in Congress, the former extra duty of 1 per
cent. on valuation had been revived for the purpose of repairing the
Mole at Vera Cruz and other public works. This duty was formerly
charged 2l per cent. on the amount of duties ; but on the principles of
the new tariff would be equal to 3 1-3 d per cent, on the importation
duties.

The Delight has brought a freight of 315,000 dollars from Mexico,
and the Alert packet, from England, was entering Vera Cruz as she left.
The privileges of the packet service were fully recognized and respected
by the blockading squadron. The merchants on the coast were of
opinion that the French, if they maintained their blockade, would ulti
mately compel the Republic to come to terms from the privations they
would cause, although their demands were universally considered most
unjust. No conducta had recently reached the east from the intertor.