The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-23 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIA MEN T.

riousE OF LORIM, APntt,
ROYAL ASSENT.
At five o'clock the SPEAKER, attended by several MeinherS
of the House of Common., attended at the Bar 4.;-, ►year the
Royal Assent given to the following Billl ;--A Bill for pu-
'dishing Mutiny and Desertion; a Bill for regulating his Ma-
jesty's Royal Marine Force; o. sill f)r the Improvement of
the Town of Manchester; the Macclesfield Small Debts' Bill ;
the Birmingham, and Gloucester Railway Bill; the Bristol
Gas Bill; and the York Turnpike Road Bill.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.
Petitions praying for the better observance of the Sabbath
-were presented by the Bishop of Hereford, from Kingston ;
by the Marquis of Bristol, from Bewelley ; by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, from Bath ; by the Bishop of London, from the
Wesleyan Methodists of Childrey, Montgomery, Maiden-
lead, Stratford, and St. Andrew ; and by Lord Bexley front
the Wesleyan Methodists of Liverpool.
FACTORIES.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a petition
from a place in Yorkshire, in favour of the Factories Act
Amendment Bill.
CITY OF LONDONDERRY RAILWAY.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a petition
in favour of the City of Londonderry Railway.
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Duke of BUCCLEUGH presented
.a petition from
Robert M‘William against the Grand Junction Railway.
OBSERVANCE OP THE SABBATH.
Petitions were presented for the better observance of the
Sabbath by Lord DUNCANNON, the Earl of CLARE, and Lord
RoDEN.

HULL AND SELI3V RAILWAY.
On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Hull and
Selby Bill was read a P:econd time, and ordered to be committed
on Monday ge'nnigtc.

BlliMlNC:ifiiM AND DERBY RAILWAY.
On the nies..zon of Lord HATHERTON, this Bill was read
a third timr: and passed.
AFFAIRS OF SPAIN.—GENERAL EVANS.
Thq Marquis of LONDONDERRY trusted that the
would bear with him for a few minutes while he made
a few observations relative to a letter which had ap-
peared generally in the public journals, and which was
stated to have been written by Lieutenant-General Evans.
In that letter, as there was a particular allusion to himself, he
felt called upon to bring it before the House. He should not
have thought it worth noticing, but for the flat contradiction
which it contained of a statement made by him in that House.
The statement that he alluded to was anonymous--aspersions
deserving little notice—not so, distinct allegations made in the
Senate ; for instance the Marquis of Londonderry stated that
the British Legion went to Vittoria in a state of intoxication.
Now in that statement there was not one word of truth.
On the 12th of February he came down to the House, when
a letter was put into his hands from an individual who gene-
rally was extremely well versed in all the accounts
from Spain. He had no hesitation in saying that indi-
vidual had repeatedly given him perfectly accurate infor-
mation ; and most willing would he be to produce the
letter that had been given to him, and laying it on their Lord-
ships' table. He hoped he had sufficiently justified himself
in the course he had taken—first, in showing the grounds
for the statements he had made ; secondly, that all the Jour-
nals of the day had detailed the same facts; and thirdly, that
he had private communications to the same effect. He was
glad to perceive, from a letter which he had seen from General
Evans to General Cordova, that the war would in all pro-
bability for the future be carried on in a manner more worthy
of the character of a British soldier.

sorry that he was not p sent to hear th at .ttttltht 01 those
lion. Gentlemen who el r.,d tt'ie dill in that House. He
should confine lo a short statement of the object of the
niif. it Was proposed by this Bill to form a canal from the
Thames to Dartford and Crayford, and thereby tr,
der constant and certain a corrimuniclin 6T-+#
and the outposts by water. vriAIA, c'rOrrn the 'OtallOwliesS and
sinuosity of the rreelk Wa'% no* onlyse'c'ea'slonal, a'rld tlt
be totally intaftlelent tOr mailu-
facturiag, otherr gotrer:).lllVArk,',`.;Li of the towns and neigh-
boarhood. 'the lily Would• also give a greater „space fer
wharfage, there being at preSent but four Wharfs?Vdell
were In the hands of three ipdivid6Vl, affording
the means of a monopoly u; judicial to the public.
Hear, hear,) teasure had been undertaken pur-
suant to rerdWi3ll3 adopted with scarcely a dissentient
fsAio
at t,NII pahlle meetings at Dartford nui-yeroot,airld
attended, and the line of cttnat halk 114..":: laid down by en-,
gineers solicited by theYrit At: 'the present time vessels could
only enter the Fitii a few hours before and after high tide,
mitt
,thil Consequence was that vessels ' were frequently
&tamed for whole days. The connquenee of this tin
certainty was, that the farmers and mill °wars com-
plained very much, and were all fintioes rot a remedy. An-
other great inconVeniente Watt' that from the shallowness of
the water, vessels which had not entered the canal were obliged
to go out of the treek, and this would in a very con-
siderable degree be remedied by the measure which he
then proposed to be read a B.2cntid time. He believed also
that it was proved before the Committee, that a consi-
derable saving of tkpense would be effected by this Bill.
The Hon. llatenet proceeded to state the circumstances con-
nected with the introduction of the measure, but in so low a
tone as to be altogether inaudible in the gallery. 'He was
.1-nterrupted by a
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

The Usher of the Black Rod appeared to summon the at-
tendance of the Commons in the House of Lords, to hear the
Royal Assent given to several Bills.
The SPEAKER returned in a few minutes, and announced
that the Royal Assent had been given by Commission to seve-
ral Bills—(for which see Lords' Report).