The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-17 00:00:00

vidual," and a " Popish demagogue," thought fit to
fall foul of the whole existing House of Commons.
" The present House," said his Grace, " is not an
English House of Commons, but a low Irish House
of Commons." Indeed I How comes it, then,

hat thea Conservatives are so anxious to wriggle them-

selves into such a low Irish assembly ? Above all,

how happens it, that his Grace himself is among the
most solicitous to introduce his friend Lord TEIGN-

MOUTH into it. Surely, there must be some glaring
inconsistency here ! In defining his political creed,

the Duke went on to observe that " he was not a
Reformer ; he was not a Whig ; lie was not a Tory ;
but he .was a Conservative." The plain English of
this is, that he is neither " fish, flesh, nor good red-
herring," but a man " made after supper of a cheese
paring." It is consoling however to find that he is at
least awakened to the shame of being a Tory, and the
necessity of sporting an alias. But though unwilling
to be called a Tory, and desirous to adopt the new
name of Conservative, his Grace, at heart, is still as
much a Tory as ever. It is the name, not the thing,
that he repudiates. This is sad trifling, but what else
but solemn frivolity is to be expected from a NEW-
CASTLE ? Having exhausted his stock of abuse, the
Duke then essayed the Bombastes vein ; and in a
paroxysm of patriotic enthusiasm exclaimed, " under
the Constitution he had lived, and under it he hoped
to die." Mark the quality of this reasoning. His
Grace here expressly states his conviction that a Con-
stitution is still left us, yet, notwithstanding this, he
proceeds immediately afterwards to demolish the
grounds of his conviction, by declaring that "encroach-
ments have been made on the Constitution, step by
step, ever since the first link of the chain was broken
ten years ago. In a few years after that—in 1829
Protestantism was destroyed. Three or four years
after, the Reform Bill was carried, 'which commenced
And yet though Protestantism, which is
ie very essence of the Constitution, is destroyed, and
a new era—of course to the destruction of the old—is
commenced, still, observes his Grace, the Constitu-
tion is as lively and energetic as ever—so much so,
that it is the first and dearest wish of his heart to be
enabled to. die under it ! The Duke having " said his
say," Lord STORNiONT rose to say his, and after prais-
ing his own " natural diffidence"—a quality for which,
to the best of our knowledge, his Lordship is by no
means conspicuous—remarked that the Conservative
party were never so sanguine, never so full of hope, as
at the present moment. We suppose by this that the
forty. five Tories who were supposed to be buried
under the snow last month, have been unexpectedly
dug out, and are now on their way to town to reinforce
the Conservative party. If his Lordship's remarks do
not imply this, we know not what else they can imply,
for it is notorious that the Conservative Members are
diminishing day by day, and that nothing but some
such miraculous reinforcement can possibly enable
them to hold out a month longer. Either the forty-
five must be dug out, and duly thawed, so as to
enable them to act with their party, or the whole squad
must be annihilated. The Conservatives can have no
other hope but in this, and accordingly it is this to
which his Lordship must evidently allude.

a new era.'

Madrid papers to the Bth inst. have been received.
The Gazette of the 7th contains the following Royal
decree for the appropriation of the quit-rents and taxes

due to each of the Monastic Institutions, to the li-
quidation of the public debt:—
" Wishing to apply to the liquidation of the public debt all
the sums proceeding from the suppression of monasteries and
convents, and of the adjudication to the state of all properties
and sights belonging to it, and wishing to reconcile all the
means of favouring the consolidation of the non-consolidated
deb', conformably with my Council of Ministers, and with the
spirit of the law of the 16th of January of the present year, in
the name of my beloved daughter, Isabella IL, I decree the

following :
" Art. 1. From the present are declared re-purchaseable
all quit-rents and taxes of all kinds belonging to the monastic
communities and others, both of nunneries as well as monk
convents, which have been, or shall be, suppressed, and which
have been adjudicated to the nation, and shall be sold accord-
ing to my decree of the 19th of February last.
" 2. Every, proprietor wishing to re-purchase the quit-rents
and taxes imposed on his property, shall apply for this pur-
pose to the Intendant of the province, who will prepare the
liquidation. •
" 3. The Intendant, after hearing the commissioned admi-
nistrator, shall take the necessary steps for the liquidation de-
trisesded by the purchaser. "
4. The difficulties that may arise in the re-purchase of
quit-rents or taxes shall be settled through the Intendant by
the Director-General of the Sinking Fund. •
" 5. The re-purchase shall be effected in the followinr,
manner :—One-fifth shall be paid ready money before theb
delivery of the title-deed, the other four-fifths shall be paid
successively in the four following years.
" 6. The payments shall be made in the following stocks
of the public debt :—One-third in vales non-consolidated;
one-third in the current debt with paper interest (these two
for the whole nominal value); and the remaining one-third in
stocks of the debt without interest (Passive), but to double
the amount, or otherwise only admitting half of its non.inal
value.

" 7. The quit-rents and taxes shall be imposed on the pro-
perty until payment is fulfilled.
" 8. In case of delay in the payments, proceedings can be
taken against the property ; all expenses to be paid by the
purcb aser.
" 9. The purchaser's heir at law shall be subject to the
same responsibility as the heirs of the purchasers of the estates
mentioned in the 17th article of my decree of Feb. 19.
" 10. As soon as the Administrator of the Sinking Fund
shall have received the fifth part in ready money, and the grant
of the four other payments, he shall do the needful for the
delivery of the title-deed.
11. The title• deed shall be granted in the name of the
nation by the Commissary of the Sinking Funds.
• " 12. The produce of the re-purchase of the quit-rents, and
of the taxes, shall be applied to the liquidation of the debt of

the state.
" 13. A list shall be published monthly of the re-purchases
made, and of their value. The securities given in payment
thereof shall be burnt publicly, and the numbers of the same
published.
" 14. The regulations contained in the Royal order of
Feb. 1, concerning the sale of the properties adjudicated to
the nation, shall be observed for the re-purchase of the quit-
rents and taxes. You will have it understood, and do the
needful for its fulfilment.
(Signed by the Royal Sign Manual.)
" At the Pardo, March 5, 1836.
" To Don Juan Alvarez y Nlendizabal."
The publication of this Decree had no effect upon
the Funds, up to the closing of the Madrid Bourse,
on the evening of the 7th ; nor did it appear to excite
any general interest.
The Cabinet is not yet constructed ; and fears are
entertained lest the vacant appointments should not be
filled up before the.theeting of the Cortes. M. Is-
TURIZ still holds back, although M. MENDIZABAL
has repeatedly offered him the choice of the Porte-
feuilles in his hands, not excepting the Presidency of
the Council. The prevailing impression is, that
MENDIZABAL will find the management of the new
Chambers exceedingly difficult. Most of the Members
are Ultra-Liberal in their opinions, and not a few of
them took an active part in the revolutionary move-
ments of 1812, 1820, and 1823. France participates
in the apprehensions of the more moderate Spaniards;
although we are persuaded that there is no ground
whatever for the report that M. R AYNEVAL has received
instructions from his Government to demand his pass-
ports in the event of the Cortes assuming the character
of a National Convention. M. TIIIERS will reserve
to himself the right of judging, when the Spanish
Chambers shall have overstepped the limits of Con-
stitutional discussion. Besides, were he to give such
instructions to the French Ambassador, his only
motive would be to find a pretext for marching a
French army into Spain—an event exceedingly un-
likely in the present temper of the Citizen KING.
We arc happy to announce the removal of M.
NOGUERAS from the Commandant-Generalship of
Lower Arragon, in consequence of the spirited remon-
strances of our excellent Ambassador, Mr. VILLIERS.
It will be remembered that NOGUERAS issued the
order for the murder of the mother of the Carlist bandit