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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1836.

consistent with the pledges given to the Hon. Mem-
ber for Greenock, or with the recommendations con-
tained in the Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry.
It is extraordinary that the packets should still be
permitted to continue with the Post-office. Six months
have now elapsed since the publication of the Sixth
Report of the Commissioners, and Mr. WALLACE
has since that time received repeated assurances that
they were to be removed immediately to the Board of
Admiralty. This requires explanation. If the re-
commendations of the Commissioners are to be disre-
garded, the representatives in Parliament must take
the subject into their own hands ; but we cannot anti-
cipate that the Executive Government will hesitate to
carry into effect changes recommended by a Commis-
sion composed of three members of the Administration,
with a Cabinet Minister as their Chief. Let the Com-
missioners, therefore, pursue their searching inquiries
in the same uncompromising manner which they have
hitherto done, and they will meet with the cordial sup-
port and approbation of Mr. WALL &CE, and every
other independent Member of Parliament. Some of
the questions in the investigation of which they are
now engaged are of the utmost importance to the mer-
cantile interests of the country, and we have every rea-
son to believe that much public benefit will result from
their labours.

The Post of this morning states, with singular
effrontery, that there is little hope of any other Re-
forms taking place in Church or State, than those
which are projected and patronized by the Conserva-
tives. The reasons our Contemporary assigns for this
preposterous hypothesis are, first, that the country
holds in disgust " all Whig-Radical measures," which
disgust arises " from a knowledge of the hostile temper
in which they arc framed ;" and, secondly, that " the
Conservatives alone can undertake reforms without
suspicion of their sincerity—consequently without stre-
nuous- opposition from those whose co-operation is
necessary to sound and useful Reform." These rea-
sons arc remarkable, not so much for their ingenuity,
as for the desperate and unblushing falsehoods which
they involve. They are only two in number, yet both

We are happy to say that the aspect of the Money
Market is much more cheering than it has been for
some time past. The feeling of alarm which was
spreading through Ireland has almost entirely subsided.
The provincial branches of the Agricultural Bank '
have been enabled to continue business, and there is
now little doubt that the parent establishment will at
no distant period resume its operations. Its liabilities, it
is officially stated, do not amount to 400,0001.,
while its assets amount to 960;e00/. When, in
addition to this, it is considered that the partners
of this Bank, who exceed 5,000 in number, are res-
ponsible to its creditors to the whole extent of
their means, it is not easy to believe that the public
should feel any imitcurity as to the ultimate issue of
the late crisis. Such indeed is the confidence reposed
by the trading part of the community in Dublin in the
ample resources of the Agricultural Bank, that its
notes now pass from hand to hand without abatement
in the usual course of trade. On the National Bank
there now can scarcely be said to be any run. Its
promptitude to meet, in hard cash, every demand that
could be made upon it either by the timid, whose fears
were worked upon by the malevolent, or by the agents
of that unprincipled faction who would not scruple to
plunge Ireland into general bankruptcy, provided they
could gratify their vindictiveness towards Mr. O'CoN-
NELL, has put its enemies to shame, and called forth the
congratulations of its friends. Among the causes which
have mainly contributed to restore the Money Market
of Ireland to its former tone, the issue of the Treasury
Minute, which we published last week, enjoining the
collectors of the revenue to receive payments in Bank
of England notes, which has not hitherto been the
practice in that part of the kingdom, may be mentioned
as an instance of prompt and judicious interposition on
the part of the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER.
We are also happy to state, that the Right Hon.
Gentleman has at last seen the necessity of raising the
rate of interest on Exchequer Bills. This important
fact was announced on Saturday, in the following
communication to the Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land :

" Treasury Chambers, Nor. 19, 1836.
" Gentlemen—The Lards Commissioners of his Majes-
ty's Treasury having determined that all Exchequer bills
outstanding shall, on and after Monday next, the 21st in-
stant, bear an interest of 2id. per 100/. per day,
" I am commanded by their Lordships to request that
you will make their determination known to the Stock Ex-
change, and my Lords will forthwith take the necessary
steps for carrying it into effect.—l am, Gentlemen,

are bouncers. We will c' anatomize" them, as Lear pro-
posed to do to Rczan. The country "holds in disgust all
the Whig-Ra':itcal measures," &c. Indeed I How came
itithen that the Poor Law, and Municipal Corporation,
Bills were passed with such general acclamation ; and
thP:c the measure for the settlement of the English tithe
system received the support of some even of the most
straight-laced Conservatives ? Above all, how comes
it that the Ministers are still in office ? Surely if the
country, as our Contemporary broadly affirms, holds
them in disgust, they would have procured their -dis-
missal long ere this Nothing could be more easy. They
have no hold on the Court; the }louse of Lords is against
them ; a compact and vigorous, and by no means incon-
siderable, minority in the Commons is against them ; the
people, therefore, would experience not the slightest dif-
ficulty in ejecting them from Downing-street. But
no ; it is that very people whom the Morning Post
describes as their enemies, that are the chief, indeed
the only, supporters of Ministers. It is that disgusted
people that " marshals them the way that they should
go ; " that rallies them when their spirit is drooping ;
cheers them under all their difficulties ; and acts to-
wards them as " guide, philosopher, and friend." Our
Contemporary's second hypothesis is still more absurd
than his first. He says that " the Conservatives alone
can undertake reforms without suspicion of their since-
rity." Now we had always understood that the Con-
servatives were turned out of office expressly because
the country refused to place faith in them as' Refor-
mers ; because it entertained not " suspicion " merely
" of their sincerity," but an absolute conviction that
they were consummate hypocrites in all their proposi-
tions of improvement. But our Contemporary has en-
lightened us. We now see that we were mistaken in sup-
posing that the Conservatives were ever suspected, and
consequently ejected, by the country. The country had
nothing to do with the matter. It was a base faction
which the country holds in unqualified abhorrence,
and which the Court and the Aristocracy equally exe-
crate, that did it all. Were the country's wishes con-
sulted, the Conservatives would still be in office ; be-
cause, though these last opposed the Reform Bill,
opposed the Municipal Corporation measure, opposed
" equal justice" for Ireland, opposed, in short, every
thing calculated to benefit the country, still that same
aggrieved and insulted country entertains not the
slightest " suspicion of their sincerity" as Reformers I
Nay, so far is she from entertaining a " suspicion,"
that she actually hugs them to her heart, as the
sincerest friends she ever had. She is as madly
enamoured of them, as Titania was of Bottom
and his ass's ears, and possibly for the same rea-
son—the surprising length of their auriculars.
She recognizes in, them the very party best calcu-
lated to work out Reform, precisely because they
were once so rancorously opposed to it. She is all
confidence in their zeal to purify the Church; because
they it is who have most benefited by Church abuses.
She entertains not a shadow of " suspicion of their
sincerity " in the cause of retrenchment, because they
themselves have been, and still are, the chief gainers
by extravagance of every sort. She thinks that none
are so likely to curtail the Pension List as
that party for whose benefit it has been swollen
to its present enormous amount ; and that the
most determined opponents of purity of election
will be sure to be the sincerest advocates of the ballot.
For all these reasons—for, sure we are, he can allege
no others—our Contemporary is firmly of opinion that
the country entertains no " suspicion of the sincerity"
of the Conservatives as Reformers, and that conse-
quently they are the only party who can carry forward
Reform without receiving " strenuous opposition !"
Such is Conservative logic ; such the sophistry which
the journalists of that faction daily put forth to blind
the judgment, and cheer the spirits of its predestined
adherents

" Your most obedient humble servant,
( Signed) " A. Y. SPEARNIAN.
" To the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank
of England."

The effect of this will of course be to create a greater
demand for these securities, all of which now, without
reference to date, yield an interest of 3/. 16s. per
cent. per annum, which is in fact a higher interest
than can be obtained in the Public Funds. Con-
sols have, in consequence, receded in a trifling degree.
This is a prudent measure, and cannot fail to be at-
tended with beneficial effects. It is also due to the
Directors of the Bank of England to express our
approbation of their conduct, in issuing their notice
respecting discounts on Saturday. Thy have, with
a laudable desire to quiet any anxiety there might be
in the commercial world upon this subject, made the
announcement a fortnight sooner than usual.

The whole of the Paris journals of Friday and Sa-
turday have been received. Their contents are poli-
tically unimportant. In the Moniteur of Saturday,
we find the following telegraphic dispatch, copied
verbatim from the Charte of the preceding night :
" RAYON/,E, Nov. 16, 4 O'CLOCK P. m.—The measures
proposed to the Cortes by the Special Committee of War,
have been modified in a sense of moderation by a majority
of 72 against 37. There is nothing new from Roth!. Ac-
cording to the last reports, Gomez was at Berlanga, on the
boundaries of Estremadura, apparently marching upon
Seville."

We have had frequently occasion to notice the
illegal and unconstitutional powers which it has been
the practice of the Post-Master-General, or his subor-
dinates, to exercise with respect to Foreign Newspapers
and Mercantile Journals arriving in this country, and
we believe that Mr. WALL ACE has already brought
the question under the consideration of the Commis-
missioners of Post-office Inquiry.
Although we are always desirous to expose, with a
view to remedy, any abuses which prevail in the Post-
office, or any other Department, yet we cannot concur
with some of our Correspondents who have brought the
question of the arbitrary charges made by the Post-
office on Foreign Newspapers before us, in the strong
censure pronounced upon Colonel MABERLY, the
new Secretary. It is impossible that he can as yet
have made himself acquainted with the details of all the
complicated machinery of the department ; and even if
be had done so he cannot be expected, as a Ministerial
Officer, to make any great change in the system of
management. In the recent arrangements of the
Office, there certainly have been symptoms shewn of a
desire to return to the old system ; and some of the
proceedings which have been adopted are scarcely

The Journal des Debats has the following observa-
tions upon this dispatch :
" Berlanga, a village, situated three leagues to the east
of Llerena, the last town of Estremadura, at the foot of
the Sierra Morena, is twenty-five leagues from Seville, and
nearly the same distance from Cordova.
" Rodil follows Gomez within three days' march ; Alaix
is two days behind Rodil, and Narvaez remains on the Ta-
gus behind Alaix. Gomez was some time ago said to be
blockaded in the gorges of the Sierra Morena ; more re-
cently he was closely hemmed in near the Tagus ; and to-
day that partisan draws after him, one after the other, those
three Generals, with their 15,000 men, having over them an
advance which will enable him to execute his new plans
with that boldness and activity of which he has already
given so many proofs.
" TSpain is menaced at
once owith thet
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tdr
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po s unhappy Spain
taking
of Bilboa by Don
Carlos, and the sacking by Gomez of Seville, the great and
opulent capital of rich Andalusia. And if those two events
be realized, what imprecations will be uttered in Madrid !
—what cries of rage be vented !—what excesses may be
committed!

" We cannot, consequently, too much deplore the fatal
circumspection, the inertness, and incapacity of the Queen's
generals, and it is a duty to point out to the Cortes, and to
the Spanish Government and nation, faults which may be
attended with such sad consequences. But 30,000 Tevol-

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1536.

tors would be unable to keep in awe 12,000,000 of Spani-
ards, if the war was once conducted with energy and reso-
lution. Spain has shown a want of both, and yet the whole
of Europe has its eyes fixed on the Peninsula."
These remarks are as just as they arc temperate.
Spain has, indeed, shown a want of energy and resolu-
:ion unequalled in the annals of so powerful a nation.
If the position of the QUEEN'S Generals, RODIL,
ALAIX, and NAR vAEz, be correctly stated in the
Debats—and our advices from Madrid say nothing to
the contrary—what must Europe think of the wisdom
of
.a Government which entrusts the command of its
army to such a trio of incapables ? Admitting, for
argument sake, that Rolm, is not a traitor, the only
inference to be drawn from his recent conduct is, that
there is not a private in the ranks who could supersede
him in the Commandership-in-Chief with disadvan-
tage to the Constitutional cause. The friends of
RODIL may defend him as long as they please—they
may boast as loudly as does himself of his " European
reputation" as a soldier ; but let him sheathe his sword
now, and posterity will be only puzzled to decide whe-
ther, during his last campaign, he maintained best the
character of a traitor, a coward, or an imbecile.
There is no other news of importance in the French
Papers. A rumour was in circulation on Saturday of
the seizure of Don MIGUEL by the French authori-
ties on the frontier. The particulars are given else-
where.

'CHANCERY COURT.-(TRIS DAY

The LORD CHANCELLOR was occupied the whole morn-
Log with hearing appeals of no general public interest.

VICE-CHANCERY.--(TIIIS DAY.)

We are still without any authentic intelligence re-
specting the fate"of Bilboa. On the 9th, two Spanish
gun-boats forced their way up the liver in spite of the
Carlists' batteries on the banks, but not without sus-
taining a loss of twenty-three men killed and wounded
—some mortally. On the 10th, a report had reached
San Sebastian of a battle having been fought between
ESPARTERO and VILLAREAL, in which the Carlist
Chief was wounded in the thigh, and was defeated
with the loss of 800 killed and wounded.
We copy from a French journal the following ex-
tract from a letter, dated Bayonne, 13th instant, on
the subject of the siege of Bilboa. Though not so
recent by three days as the accounts published above,
it is sufficiently interesting to warrant its insertion here:
" All the late efforts to succour and release Bilboa have
not produced the desired result. Notwithstanding Espar-
tero has made an approach with 12,000 infantry and 300
cavalry, that reinforcements have been got into the town
under the direction of Araoz, that 700 of the 4th Light
Infantry have arrived, and in spite of the diversions made
by General Lebeau, by moving against Estella, the situa-
tion of the town is still considered critical. Master of the
two points of Las Banderas and the Capuchins, one of which
commands the road from Orduna to Bilboa, and the other
affords the advantage of sending communications by tele-
graph, Yillareal holds a nry formidable position. Already
the Carlists have thrown 3,600 projectiles into the town.
The Salamander left St. Sebastian two days ago, with a
battalion from Saragossa, and six hundred of this corps have
been landed at Castro. St. Sebastian was also to send
seven hundred men to assist in the defence. Espartero's
plan is to defend Bilboa from within its own walls ; and it
is said he has given orders for all the steam-vessels to be
assembled at Castro, to convey his division to Portuga-
lette. A report is also in circulation that a note has been
addressed to the Pretender, or to his Generals, by the
French Consul at Bilboa, remonstrating against the cruelty
with which the war is carried on. The bearer of this de-
spatch was not suffered to advance further than a league
from Bilboa, although the Consul was desirous that he
should go to Durango. It is added that the tone of the
letter, and the nature of the answer, which, however, has
not transpired, will lead the Consul to carry his preten-
sions still higher. The whole of this affair, however, is
still a mystery. General Saarsfield, after an excursion of
three days, has returned to Pampeluna with 3,500 head of
cattle, which be brought from Solana. A letter of the oth
from Santander says—' Sanz and his band left the Asturias
yesterday, to return to Biscay by the road of Reynosa.
He slept at Molledo. He is moving in the direction of the
mountains of Paz. To-day 400 men left this place to
watch his motions.' "

Letters and papers from Madrid to the 11th inst.
inclusive have been received. The proposition recom-
mended by the 'War Commission, of appointing an
extraordinary military tribunal in each province for the
trial and summary punishment of Carlist conspirators,
was negatived by the Cortes, in the sitting of the 10th,
by a majority of twenty-five votes—thirty-seven voting
for the measure, and seventy-two against it. Most
of the Ministers opposed it with great warmth ; and
Senor ARMENDARIZ, one of the Deputies for Na-
varre, cited instances where the population would
never have espoused the Carlist cause, but for the
cruel severity of the QUEEN'S Generals. We
readily believe this. But why were the villagers
of Navarre disgusted with the severity of the
Christinos in command of the army ? Because such
severity was employed against persons convicted of no
crime ; because no form of justice was observed,
and that every tyrant in command was permitted
to violate with impunity the rights of an unof-
fending agrarian population. Personal caprice
lust, cupidity, and licentiousness in every. shape, were
the sole motives which guided the Commanders of the
Army in that oppression of the people which drove them
into rebellion. But the consequences of such brutal out-
rages are not to be received as proofs that a proper degree
of repressive energy, suited to revolutionary times, and
subject to the controul of judges appointed by the
Government, is not necessary to tranquillize Spain.
No person in his senses would take upon him to
state that Spain is not in worse condition now than.
Ireland was when Lord GREY'S Coercion Act was
passed. A justification which was deemed satis-
factory by a British House of Commons, for the
suspension of the functions of the ordinary tri-
bunals here, ought, under more aggravated circum-
stances, to have some effect upon the' Councils of
the Madrid Cabinet. But let it be borne in mind
that we are opposed to the subjecting of any extra-
ordinary Tribunals to the control of a local Junta.
Such Tribunal ought only to be subject to the
Supreme Government, and presided over by Judges
having no connection whatever with the districts
liable to their jurisdiction. The measure is still
unsettled. The Cortes referred the question to
the Legislative Committee with instructions to pre-
pare a new law on the subject.

The Post of this Morning has a ridiculous article,
based upon the assumed fact that the Queen of SPAIN
is to take shelter in San Sebastian, if compelled to quit
Madrid, and that a project to this effect has received
the sanction of Lord PALMERSTON. This fabrication
is too contemptible for serious notice. We can-
not but express regret that a Journal so respectable—
albeit Tory—as the Post, should suffer its columns to
be degraded with such petty, brainless concoctions as
the one to which we allude. There was a time when
our Contemporary would have rejected with indigna-
tion such a mode of making war upon any Government.

Brussels and German Papers have been received.
The Courrier Beige states that the Belgian Cabinet
has tendered its resignation rather than grant MM.
MEcus and COGLEN a seat at the Council Board.
The result is yet unknown. The Austrian Court will
go into mourning for the death of CHARLES X.

Sir Thomas Hislop now lies at the point of death
at Brussels, his medical 'advisers recommending that he
should not be moved further. _

Sir Charles and Lady Cocker°ll, and Viscount and
Viscountess Deerhurst, are expected at Hyde Park-
corner on Wednesday next, from Sezincote Hall, in Glou-
cestershire.

- - Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, Bart., G.C.8., who
stands at the head of the list of Admirals, has liberally
subscribed 501. in aid of the building fund of the Royal
Naval School. The object of this Institution is to board
and give a sound general education to the sons of Naval
and Marine Officers of not lower than ward-room rank at
the least possible expense consistent with the further ob-
ject of bestowing the same advantages gratuitously, or on
a very small annual payment, to a limited number in ne-
cessitous circumstances, giving a prrference to the orphans
of those officers who have fallen in their country's service.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL having replied,
Lord I)ENMAN said the Court would take time to con-
sider its judgment.

THE KING V. DUGDAI.E.

Mr. JONES, on behalf of the defendant in this case,
stated that he was now in attendance, and tendered an affi-
davit accounting for his absence by the illness of his wife.
The COURT consented to withdraw the order for the
estreat of the defendant's recognizances, and
Mr. JONES then moved for a new trial, first on the
ground that the defendant was not the person by whom the
books were sold—secondly, that from the evidence of one
of the witnesses for the prosecution, it appeared that the
defendant was not the person whom it was intendec to pro-
secute, but his brother, by whom the books had been sold ;
and there was also an objection, on the ground of the te-
nancy of the defendant not having been clearly proved.
He had also an affidavit of the defendant, stating that his
wife was in momentary expectation of being confined of her
ninth child.
Lord DENMAN said, the only affidavits of any conse-
cnence were those of the defendant himself, which could
not weigh with the Court, and that of his brother, who
might have appeared as a witness ; and the Court, looking
at those affidavits, could see no foundation at all for the

mot►on.
An affidavit of the solicitor for the prosecution was then
put in, from which it appeared that, in 1823, the defendant
had been convicted of a similar offence.
Mr. JONES addressed the Court in mitigation of punish-
ment, and Mr. KELLY on the other side.
Mr. Justice PATTESON pronounced the judgment of the
Court ; and after remarking upon the pernicious tendency
of such publications, and the necessity for checking their
circulation, sentenced the defendant to six months' impri-
sonment in the Coldbath-fields House of Correction, and
directed that he do enter into his own recognizances in the
sum of 1001. to be of good conduct for three years.
The defendant was then removed in custody of the
Marshal.

BAIL COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice LITTLIDALE.)
Mr. WHITEHOUSE applied for a rule to show cause why
a writ of mandamus, which had been issued, commanding
the Church-wardens and Overseers of the parish of Edle-
ston, Derbyshire, to make a poor-rate, should not be super-
seded, on the ground that the writ was granted at the in-
stance of Thomas Gadsby, one of the parties against whom
ie was directed, being one of the church-wardens, which
would be granting a writ against a person on his own appli-
cation. That in the affidavits on which the motion for the
writ was founded, it was not stated that any poor-rate was
necessary. In support of the first objection,, he begged to
call the attention of the Court to the fact, that, by the
statute of Anne, if the return to this mandamus was a
good one, the Court would give costs against the relater,
which order in this case could not be enforced ; and as to
the second objection, he contended that it must be proved
that such a rate was necessary.—Rule granted.