The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-31 00:00:00

T.HRSITN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 11-,36.

too highly coloured. The PRETENDER is by no I
means so well provided with the means of defending
himself as our correspondent supposes. The struggle,
as far as concerns Don CARLOS, will soon terminate.
We have other advices from St. Sebastian, which state
that General JAUREGUI, at the head of 7,000
Spaniards, had put himself under the command of
General EVANS, whose entire force now exceeds
14,000 men, all in high spirits, and ready for action at
a moment's notice.

The Paris Papers of Sunday, received this morning,
are filled with repetitions of the intelligence from the
Spanish capital, which we communicated to our readers
in yesterday's Sun. The recent movement of COR-

DOVA is said to be the result of an urgent request on

the part of IsTuniz, in which, the President of the
Council took leave to inform the Commander-in-Chief,
that without the speedy success of the QUEEN'S arms
in the North, he would be compelled to quit the
Cabinet. One of the Paris Journals is of opinion that the
new Minister will lose, rather than gain supporters, by
the dissolution of the Chambers; and that after the elec-

tion he may find himself without a seat in the Cortes.
We are of a different opinion ; inasmuch as we are
persuaded that ISTURIZ cannot remain in office till
after the next election. In what way is it conceivable
that he could ?. He has no money, no credit, and no
moral influence. In Saragossa, in Valencia, in Seville,
in Cadiz, in Murcia, and in all the principal citiq
throughout Spain, Juntas are forming to thwart and
impede his Government.' Petitions have already been
addressedto the REGENT, praying her Majesty to dismiss
him, and to free herself _ from the baneful councils of
the Camarilla. If these demands be not complied
with, together with the removal of those Generals ob-
jected to by MENDIZABAL, the National Guards of
Sarragossa, Catalonia, and Valencia have declared
themselves in readiness to march on Madrid, with the
full determination of enforcing those measures which
they regard as necessary for the general welfare of the
nation.

The accounts from Bayonne are to the 26th instan
General EVANS has received the reinforcements des
tined for him, so that he is now at the head of 14,000
men. He was impatient of the delay of CORDOVA,
and, it is said, begins at last to suspect that he has not
been fairly dealt with. On the 15th Mr. VILLIERS
addressed a letter to him from Madrid, detailing the
particulars of the intrigue by which the French party
had obtained so signal a triumph over himself and
MENDIZABAL. This was the first clear glimpse
General EVANS obtained of the real posture of affairs,
and it certainly is not likely to provoke another out-
burst in exculpation of the conduct of the Commander.
in-Chief. But be CORDOVA'S feelings and sentiments
what they may, there is every reason to believe that he
will now do his utmost to put down the Carlist rebel-
lion. Without victory, he cannot make head against
his numerous enemies. Besides, the QUEEN and Is-
TURIZ are obliged to look to him for deliverance from
the difficulties into which his Councils have driven
them. - By victory only can he manage to keep ISTU-
RIZ in office for a single month ; and he is well aware
that the fall of that Minister will involve him in utter
ruin. He has also given pledges to France, which he
must redeem at the peril of his official existence. If,
therefore, he fail now in striking a decisive blow, we
may safely attribute his failure to incapacity, cowardice,
or misfortune. The worst consequence of his past
treachery has been that he can no longer depend upon
his own soldiery.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday a petition
was presented on the subject of the claims of France
on the Haytian Republic. M. THIERS lamented
that the creditors of the Republic had suffered so
much ; but said that there was no use in interfering so
long as the Government of Hayti was notoriously un-
able to liquidate its debts. After a long, discussion
the petition was got rid of by moving the Order of the
Day, which was carried without a division.
The annexed. extracts, from the Journals, contain
some statements relative to MENDIZABAL'S retire-
ment, which we regard as altogether unfounded., The
French Press has repeatedly stated that MENDIZABAL
told the QUEEN REGENT, during an interview on the
14th, that he would not accept office a second time
were she to ask him to do so on her knees 1! The
statement is utterly untrue.
PARIS, MAY 28.—A letter from Africa affirms that Abdel
Kader wrote on the 29th April to General d'Arlanges offering
tc fight another battle with him ; the General did not give
any answer. The following are the terms of the letter—
" Abdel Kader is nearer to you than you think ; he expects
you with his army.
(Signed) " ABDEL KADER."
It is said that on the Ist of May he wrote a second letter
conceived in the following terms :—" Letters have been
written to the General and to Sidi Mustapha ; they have not
thought fit to fight ; however no matter, for their will they
ought to correspond, by which some advantages would result
on both sides."
The correspondent adds that it is evident to every body that
in the action on the Tafna three-fourths of the auxiliaries of
Abdel Kader were Moroguese.
We have a letter from our correspondent at Madrid of the
19th, but this letter contains only facts already known to the
public. We find in it however the following' anecdotes on the
late events
When M. Mendizabal presented to the Queen the list of
the persons whom he desired to remove from their high offices,
her Majesty answered, I know where this note comes from ;
it was manufactured at Don Firmin Caballero's, who delivered
it to Don Garcia Carrasco, from whose hands it has come into
yours.' And it seems that this was the fact. When some of
Mendizabal's friends urged him to renounce his project of dis-
missing Qucsada and some other Generals, the Minister said
to them, I would not change my resolution though the
Queen were to fall on her knees to entreat me.' Who can
account for so much pride and so much infatuation?
" It is also said that when he tendered his resignation to the
Queen, he accompanied it with the following words It
was circumstances precisely similar which brought on
Charles X. the loss of his crown and exile.' No, no,' re-
plied Christina quickly ; ' the true cause of the misfortune of
Charles X. was no other than the rashness with which be
signed decrees like those which you lay before me every day.'
" The funds continue to fall, and the evil consequences begin
to appear. The bankruptcy of the rich house of Simon
Ibarra is already public, and various suspensions of payment
are spoken of. All these things considered, a' dreadful crisis
is at hand, and nothing but foreign co-operation, or rather in-
tervention, can give us back peace, tranquillity, and happiness.
The Ministry that shall obtain it will merit the gratitude of
all parties, and will have the approbation of all who desire to
preserve their lives and property, that is to say of all Spain
Messager, May 29.
ng

Advices from Lisbon to the 24th instant, have been
received. The QUEEN is reported to be enceinte.
The PRINCE is exceedingly popular. He has appointed
the Duke of TERCEIRA, head of His Royal High-
ness's Staff, as Commander-in-Chief. The Duke
has, therefore, retired from the Cabinet, and PAL-
MELLA has again resumed the port ffeuille of Foreign
Affairs.

A new Company, for the improvement of roads
and bridges, and the navigation of rivers and canals,
has been started 1411 Portugal. The capital of the
Company, is estimated at 100,0001., divided into 251.
shares. It has already received flattering assurances
of support from the QUEEN, the El-EMPRESS, the
PRINCE, and the whole of the Lisbon Cabinet. Its
success is considered quite certain.

HOUSE OF

LORDS-(

THIS DAY.)

The arguments of Mr. Sergeant WILDE, op behalf of the
appellant in Small v. Attwood, occupied their Lordships the
whole day.
The Lords present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Devon, and Lord Lyndhurst.

VIOE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GEORGE TIIE THIRD-WILLIAMS

AND OTHERS V. CAMPBELL AND OTHERS,
Mr. KNIGHT applied in this case exparte for a speeial in-
junction to restrain the defendants, their servants and workmen,
from erecting an equestrian statue of George 111. on a site in
Pall-mall East. The Learned Counsel said that two of the
defendants whom he wished to restrain were General Officers,
of the same name, one being his Majesty's Attorney-
General, and the other Lieut.-General Sir John Campbell,
and the grounds upon which he sought to restrain them were
the following :—The plaintiffs were the lessees under the
Crown of two houses in Pall-mall East, which adjoined the
Haymarket, where there was a large opening crossed by a foot-
path. At the time when the leases under the Crown were
taken by the plaintiffs, they contracted with the Crown for
them upon plans exhibited by the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, to leave the space before the two houses
open, as it had been up till within a few days since.
That was a great inducement, with the plaintiffs, to
take the lease, and to do as they had done, lay out
large sums of money. The space which had been left
open for the public use, belonged to the Crown, and was un-
der the power of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests.
Sorrie time since several respectable and patriotic indivi-
duals most laudably subscribed for the purpose of erecting
an equestrian statue of George the Third. Some question
arose as to where the pedestal ought to be placed.
At last the Commissioners of Pavement in the parish of St.
Martin-in-the Fields, whose powers extend only to putting a
veto on the removing of the ordered pavement, had ordered it
to be removed for the purpose of erecting the pedestal, and
by the direction of Sir John Campbell, together with the
other Commissioners of Woods and Forests, a hoard for that
purpose had been erected.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR observed that he saw it the other
day, but he thought a lamp only was about to be erected.
Mr. KNIGHT said that the affidavits of the plaintiffs stated
that if the erection were allowed to go on it would cause con-
siderable injury to them and great obstruCtion to the road.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR—The same sort of case arose with
respect to the United Service Club : I think upon the facts
, stated it is a case for an injunction.--anjunction granted.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

THIS DAY.

A Court of Common Council was held this morning, pur-
suant to a requisition, most numerously signed, and addressed
to the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of considering the pro-
priety of petitioning the House of Commons to take the most
efficacious means for securing to the people of Ireland the
advantages of local self-government by the instrumentality of
Municipal Corporatons.
The Lord Mayor took the Chair at one o'clock, when the
minutes of last Court were read and affirmed.
Mr. TAYLOR brought up the Report of the Committee ap-
pointed at the last Court, to draw up a resolution of condo-
lence and regret upon the loss of the oldest member of the
Court, Mr. Samuel Dixon ; thc Committee had agreed upon a
resolution which he hoped would be passed unanimously, as
political feelings could no longer actuate any one. The Re-
port suggested that the Court express its regret at the
loss of Mr. Dixon, who had for fifty years discharged
his duties in that Court in an assiduous, able, and conscientious
manner ; and that the resolution be signed by the Town-clerk,
and be communicated by the Lord Mayor to the family of the
deceased.
Mr. STEVENS felt bound to oppose the Report, and would
move, that it do lie on the table, if he should stand alone.—
( Hear, hear.) How did the Court know as to the motives of
Mr. Dixon ?—the conscientious discharge of his duties was
known only to himself. He (Mr. S.) could not join in the
Report, for the Gentleman so eulogised had been distinguished
in the Court by the worst and most uncompromising old
Tory principles.
Mr. GALLOWAY seconded the motion, that the Report do
lie on the table. • No man had ever turned his public duties
to more advantage than had Mr. Dixon.—(No, no ) fie had
in early times most amply provided for his family, and had only
withdrawn them when he found some Reformers cvne into the
Court. He would have been very glad if the worthy Gentle-
man had been allowed to go to his grave without his being called
upon to make these -animadversions ; but the fault was not
with him, but with those who forced him to do so upon public
grounds. No part of the public life of Mr. Dixon entitled
him to the respect of that Court.
Mr. STEVENS had opposed it before, and bad spoken against
the appointment of the Committee.
Mr. OBBARD thought the opposition came too
_late. It
should have been made before the Committee was appointed.
That Committee had honestly fulfilled its instructions, and if
it aas not now received, it would be casting a slur upon it.
Mr. EIEPPELL thought that the Court might agree in the
report without compromising themselves in any way. He
would vote for the Resolution.
An HoN. MEMBER said the Court had passed a vote of
thanks to the late Alderman Waithman, for the conscientious
discharge of his duties—surely Mr. Dixon had been the same,
fur he had uniformly said " no" to every liberal motion that
had ever been made in the Court.

Mr. WILSON contended that it was perfectly competent to
move an amendment to such a proposition, and instanced the
case of a vote of thanks being recommended by a Committee
to their present Chief Magistra!e when an amendment had
been moved. He could not agree with -the present Motion.
If any particular act of Mr. Dixon's life had been pointed out
as worthy of a public testimonial, ha (Mr. Wilson) would
have been most ready to concur in it ; but looking at as
the vote of a Corporate body, be, for one, could not agree

with it.
Mr. Winn was of opinion that the present motion might be
agreed to by the Court without any compromise to its cha-
ract,.r. It was impossible, looking at the acts and notices of
Mr. Dixon, to deny that he was influenced by a conscientious
feeling that he was discharging his duty to that Court. All
political animosities should be buried in the grave, and they
ought to forget the frailties, and remember only the good in-
tentions of the dead. —( Hear.) He should, therefore, support
the motion.
Mr.
,PRITCHARD would give every credit to the feelings by
which the Hon. Member who had spoken last was influenced,
but he could not agree with him that a public testimonial of
their approval was called for in the present case. Mr. Prit-
chard here remarked upon the testimonial which had been
toted to Alderman Waithman, and compared the public ser-
vices of the two individuals, which were as different in their
degree as they had been in their results. He should feel
his duty to oppose the motion.
Mr. TAYLOR was very much concerned to hear such se'

merits expressed by those Gentlemen, with whom he thought
upon political subjects. It grieved him very much to find that
those who were superior in the view they took of political
subjects should be inferior in liberality to their opponents.
He remembered that the Tory members of that Court
joined in the testimonial to Alderman \Yaithman, and had the
good sense to see that they did not thereby compromise their
political sentiments. He honoured a concientious Tory, and felt
a peculiar pleasure in the friendship of those who differed
from him in opinion, provided that difference was conscientious.
He denied that Mr. Dixon had been opposed to all reform ;
he went a considerable way in favour of reform. He ad-
mitted that Mr. Dixon had certain opinions which might be
called prejudices; he looked at Reformers with jealousy and
suspicion as going to extremes. It was entirely on the grounds
of Mr. Dixon's merits as a citizen and member of that Court,
that he came forward to propose this resolution. Mr. Dixon
had been a valued and useful Member of this Court for 50
years.
The resolution was then put and carried by a very large
majority.
Mr. STEVENS then gave notice, that on the next Court day
he would move that on the death of the senior member of the
Court, it be referred to a Committee to consider and take the
necessary steps to pay such mark of respect as he may have
deserved.—( Hear, hear.)
IRISH CORPORATIONS.
Mr. • lIEPPELL rose, and said that he was about to bring for-
ward a subject of the greatest public importance to all
the Corporations in the kingdom.— (Hear, hear, hear.)
( We will give the Conclusion in a Second Edition.)

The House of Lords was last night unusually
crowded, it having been rumoured that Earl Grcy was to ca-
techise the Ministers I ! Earl Grey was certainly there, and
looked uncommonly well, and full of spirit—gaily conversing
with all, and being well received by the several Lords, spiri-
tual as well as temporal—but beyond presenting a petition on
the subject of &railway the Noble Earl took no part in the bu-
siness. However the rumour lasted its hour—or rather its
half hour—the Lords gaped, as well as the strangers ; and
when Earl Grey went, all departed I! Well, Invention must
to work again.—Morning Advertiser.
ROYAL WESTERN YACHT CLUB.—The Ply-
mouth Regatta will take place on Wednesday, the 20th,
and
on Thursday, the 21st, of July next.—Regatta Register for
June.
The Army Medical Board is removing to Somerset-
house, and a small saving will be thereby made.
A society is about to be established by influential
persons in the city, to encourage emigration to Jamaica, where
labour is much in demand.
The Court of Assizes at Amsterdam has again
condemned a criminal to capital punishment, viz., Jan Kads
Kinlor, who murdered an old woman at Euktrinzen, and after-
wards broke into her house and robbed it.
For years there has not been such a number of mem-
bers of foreign Royal families in London as at present : we
have the Prince of Orange and two of his sons; the Prince
and Princess of Capua ; the Duke (William) of Brunswick ;
and of other reigning families, we find the Duke of Saxe
Coburg Gotha, the Hereditary Prince, and Prince Albert
ditto, the Prince of Leiningen, and rince Ernest of Hesse.
THE GIRAFFES.—More than 2,000 Persons visited
the Zoological Gardens on Thursday, and a nearly equal num-
ber on the two following days, excited by this great curiosity.
They possess a remarkable penchant for sweet substances,
and on their progress to the gardens, were preceded by M.
Thibaut, with a bag containing loaf sugar, with which he en-
ticed them on, when they were intimidated. Their mode of
defence when attacked or irritated, is by kicking with the hind
legs in the manner of a horse, planting their blows with great
force.