The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, 'MARCH 2, 1838.

bers of the house of Commons to scat their friends in de- ;
fiance of reason, justice, and a solemn oath. This is not a
singular instance. At the general election the Tory candidates
for Longford, and no doubt for many other places, having
the SPOTTISWOODE Fund in prospect, entered into the con-
test without the least chance of success, and solely for the
sake of presenting a petition, to which they were pledged
before going to the poll. It is not mere'y, therefore, that
the wrong man is frequently seated by an Election Commit-
tee in place of the right one, and in defiance of justice ; but
the well-known fact that Election Committees will decide
according to the party views of the majority causes a
great number of election contests, with all the ex-
pence, ill-will, and blood-shed which may arise from
them, and which the Tories so feelingly deprecate
whenever there is a question of extending popu-
lar rights by having more frequent elections. The
whole matter is a disgrace to the Legislature. As the
vote of the majority, in relation to Mr. O'CoNNELL, can-
not possibly alter the nature of this proceeding, apd can-
not turn error into truth, or give dignity to party spite, the
sooner the House of Commons sets about altering the law,
instead of punishing those who correctly describe it, the
less it will deserve contempt and reprobation. In the
meantime, Mr. SHIEL, till he shall be unseated by a Tory
Committee, is returned for Tipperary, to the honour of the
electors and to the great advantage of the public.

The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all been re-
ceived. The Moniteur of that day contains the following
telegraphic despatch from the Spanish frontier :
" BAYONNE, FEB. 26.—0 n the 19th General Flinter en-
tirely defeated the Carlist troops under Jara, at Yebenes, took
1,600, and killed 200."
With the Paris journals of Wednesday we have received
the Madrid Gazette of the 20th ult., in which we find the
subjoined account of FLINTEIt'S victory. The discrepancy
between the two statements is very great, extending even
to the date of the alleged engagement ; nor do we place
implicit reliance upon the truth of either one or the other.
" Although no official advice of the defeat of the factions of
Jara and Pallilos at Yebenes has reached the War-office, a re-
port of this event prevails through the capital, in consequence
of which we lay L.forc our readers two communications ad-
dressed by the political chief of Tolcda to the Minister of the
Interior.
" < Most Excellent Sir,—lt is now four o'clock, r. m. , and
Don Lorenzo Jimenez, whom the Carlists entrapped yester-
day, has just returned from Yebenes, in company of Francisco
Finer°, and both say that this morning, at seven o'clock, the
entire force of Jara, which occupied that town, was vigorously
attacked and completely routed by the brave Minter ; that
the action continued at ten o'clock, that the ground was
strewed with dead bodies, and that a number had been made
prisoners, and were placed for security in the schools and
churches.

-'MARTIN DE FORONDA,

(Signed)
" Toledo, Feb. 18.' "
" I have just now (ten o'clock, P. M. ), received the follow.
ing report from the constitutional alcalde of Mora, which con•
firms the glorious victory of the valiant Commandant-Genera
of this province, Brigadier Flinter, an account of which I for-
warded by express at four o'clock.
" The National Militia, horse and foot, have just sallied
out in pursuit of the remnants of Jara's force. This faction
was defeated at Yebenes by our worthy Commandant-
General, and, according to the last accounts, 2,600 Carlists
had been made prisoners.
( Signed)
" Mora, Feb. 18.' "
" I hasten to give your Excellency this information, and
am happy to be the medium of this satisfactory news, and also
of announcing the immediate aad complete pacification of this
province, if the victory prove to be such as stated in the fore
going despatch.
(Signed)
" Toledo, Feb. 18.' "

TILE ALCALDE SALAMANCA,

as .MARTIN DE FORONDA.

The proceedings in the French Chambers, snce the
beginning- of the present week, hav,z been confined to sub-

jests of local interest. It is supposed that the Secret
Service Fund will be voted without any reduction, as
Ministers pretend that any diminution of the grant in a
scascn of tranquillity would give encouragement to con-
spirators to hatch new plots against the Soverc:gn.
Advises from Constantinople, of the 31st of January,
state that the Porte has appointed as Ambassadors to
England and France, RESCHIDBEY, Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and FETTEE AHMED PASHA.
FRENCH FUNDS —PARIS, FRB. V.
five per Cents.. loaf. 73;.7. fide. 7Cc.
Four per Cents., DM 1..7.
"Ihr, per Cents. 79f. 8'
Bank Actions, 2,Gs'f. 50c, 2,65.51.
tt2nte de Naples, 5191,. 10e. ."
Roman Five per Cents., 1.01%.
Spanish Actives,
Spanish Passives, 4IA A.
Belgian Bank, 1,5-Nif. 1,5171. I.oc.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 54N.
Hlytian 390 f.
EICDANG:: ON LONDON.
tNe month, paper, f. —c : money, 251. 51c
Tkrec months, paper, '23i.. :35•_:.; mousy, 251.. 33-.
LAS!' PRICES.
Five per Cents. iota. ';ne.
Three per Cents., 70c.
lank Actions, •:.(335f.
Romans, 1017;,.
Belgian Bark, 1,517 f. .rPc.
I',.rtugucse Three per Cents., ESL
llayilin Loan, 3001
Spanish Actives, 111!.i.
Spanish Passives, 4.

Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have
reached us this morning. The following are extracts from
them :
Niemen, FEB. 24.—We have just received the news that
Dr. fiurgen, in Cologne, has resumed the functions of Vicar-
General of the diocese.
BERLIN, FEB. 18.—Preparatioro are already making at
Court to receive guests of distinction from differents pal at
the end of the winter. The Grand Duke and Duchess of
Saxe Weimar were expected last week, but the
sudden ill-
ness of the Grand Duke has, fur the present deferred the arrival
of these august relatives of the Royal family ; it is, however,
affirmed that they may be expected, unless new obstacles
arise, by the beginninn. of April at the latest, at which time it
row affirmed the Emperor of Russia will come, to be pre-
sent at the Spring Reviews. The Imperial Prince will
accompany his father, and then visit several friendly Courts.
The Empress still perhaps not` come before the beginning of
the summer. osed
Mr. Ven Alteastein, whose mind, as may well be supp
has been much agitated by the Cologne business, is se. iously
ill. Piivy Councillor Nicolovins, in consequence, signs for
the first two sections, of which IL?. is the Director. The re-
ports of the retirement of the Primo Minister are again revived,
but appear to be wholly unfounded.
rose n t
at
the by t
coronationl'c E
VIENNA' FEB. 19.—Prince Adolphus Schwartzenburg is
appointed
Emperor Ambassador AQmoeheanssvadioctrorßiax.
VIENNA, FEB. 20traordinary, to be
p.
—Five per Cents. 1067 ; Four, per
Cents. 100'41; Three per Cents. 80i ; Bank Shares 1,436.
Allgenteine Zeitung, Feb. 25.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsTennim, FEB.
Actual Debt, •2!.,, per Cent.
Do do. 5 per Cent.
Amort Syndic 4,,; per Ccnt~
Do. do. 554 ptr Cent.
Commercial Company per Cent 1891,4
Y. New ditto ... 99%
BELO lAN k U NDS—BittniisELS, PEW :8.
Actual Debt, 2.j per Cent.
Potlischild's Loan, 5 per Cent.
Loan of Thirty Millions... ..............
Loan of City, 1332,4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent .......... 149 ,
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, Fab. 25.

ST. DAVID'S DAY IN THE METROPOPIS.—
The most Honourable and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons
celebrated their 124th anniversary
yesterday with great at-
traction. The Society and children of the Welsh Charity
School attended Divine Worship at St. James's Church,
Rteervp.rDearc.heGdripheth
sermon.their C hTa phleaiin, t
raonnds thetßheishchoapriteyf
when the prayers were read in the ancient British language,
the Freemasons' Tavern, the Hon. 11. R. Clive,
bdßyi
on
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ats
M. P., in the Chair.
IPSWICH ELECTION.—IVIr. \Vason has presented
a petition to the House of Commons on the decision of the
Committee on the Ipswich Election, in which he states some
curious facts. The vote of Thomas Johnson was declared
valid, though he, with cloven others, was proved to have been
kept for several days previously in a state of intoxication in a
public house at the expense of the partizans of the Tories.
The votes of S. Ackland and E. Lawrence, solicitors, were
disallowed, because they were deputy returning-officers, ap-
pointed and paid under the provisions of an Act of Parlia-
ment,of Messrs. Gibson and
Belly, parish
of tndhs e t
as a town
theys n at T
the y the Mayor to keep the
peace
the sum being 201. 10s. which each received. The
were
reexppari called
express
ssOUs.t desirebach
the public money,
their a
votes were dissallowed. This decision is directly con-
trary to the decision of a former Ipswich Committee, and well
"sew r
deserves that Mr. Aglionby should bring it under the notice
of the House, to prevent its becoming a precedent.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—It appears by our in-
vestigations in the first paper of the present Number, that if
100 persons start by a first-class train about 50 of them, in
round numbers, would go out 100 miles. In the next 100
miles half the remainder would be left; and so on for every
subsequent 100 miles. So that
50 of them would reach Birmingham, 25 Liverpool, and six or
seven Edinburgh, was the line so far extended. This is pro-
bably a very good approximation, but can hardly be expected
to be accurate, even on a large scale.—Railway Magazine.
On digging the foundation of a cart shed at the
Five Bells, Wickham, on Monday and Tuesday last, six
human skeletons were found at about two feet depth from the
surface. From the manner in which they were placed no
doubt exists but that they are the fruits of some desperate
murders, and that they have been buried at different times.
Several old people recollect the spot to have been a dung-
heap attached to the House of a notorious highwayman named
Fulbrcok. The whole of the skeletons were those of young
persons. Wickham-heath was, half a century ago, the no-
torious resort of highwaymen, and this place adjoins the heath.
! —Reading Mercury,

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY)•

OLD COURT.
At the sitting of the Court this morning, Mr. CLARKSON stated that
the afildavits in support of the application for the postponement of the
trial of Robert Myers, who was in custody on a charge of arson, had
been put into his hands, and that on the part of the prosecution, he had
no objection to offer. He wished, however, to call the attention of
the Court to the circumstance- of Ann Wright, one of the witnesses in
the case, who he understood had been in the service of the prisoner up
to the period when the offence was committed, having been kept sepa-
rate from the other witnesses in consequence of somethinrwhich had
passed between her and the prisoner's wife. Now he wished that
Wright should still be prevented from communicating with the other
witnesses, and he called the attention of the Court to the fact, so that
the expense of the proceeding might not fall on the prosecutors.
John Oliver, George Clarkson, James Stevens, John Morgan, Wil.
Liam Taylor, Georgians Stevens, and Frances Taylor, were indicted for
a burglary in the dwelling-house of Rowland Swann on the night of the
28th January last, and stealing therefrom a quantity of bedding and se-
veral articles of wearing apparel.
There were several other indictments against the prisoners for offences
of a similar nature.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who is a police con-
stable, that while he was on duty on the night in question, his room was
broken open and robbed of the different articles specified in the indict-
ment. Having reason to suspect that the prisoners were concerned in
the robbery, he proceeded in company with some other constables to
their lodgings, and there found not only the property which had been
stolen from him, but also property which had been stolen from other
parties, and which formed the ground of the other indictments against
he prisoners.
On the first indictment Mr. Baron PARKE intimated to the Jury that
there was no evidence to implicate Clarkson, Morgan, or either of the
female prisoners, and they accordingly were ordered to stand by.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Oliver and Stevens,
and acquitted Taylor.
The whole of the prisoners were again placed at the bar, and in-
dicted for a burglary in the house of Thomas Eyles.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Oliver and Stevens,
the two prisoners who were convicted on the former indictment, and
acquitted the other prisoners.

NEW COURT.
William Smith, otherwise Wren, and J. Baltcock, otherwise Pike,
were indicted for stealing eight fowls and two ducks, the property of
John Podmore.
Policeman N 54 deposed that he met the prisoner at Hackney-wick
about three o'clock on the morning of the 12th February. Observing
the bulky appearance of their dress he waited until he met No. 185,
when they apprcheuded the prisoners, and found eight fowls and two
ducks in the pockets of their smock frocks.
The prosecutor, who lives at Chiswcll, stated that his poultry-house
had been broken open, and that on the following day he saw the
poultry which had been taken from the prisoners, and identified them
as his.

the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Being old offenders, the Court sentenced them to transportation for
:even years.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Edward R 017771011, a foreigner, was charged by Susan Page, with via-
lently assaulting her and stealing her shawl from her back.
It appeared from the statement of the complainant, that she was in a
public-house last night, in New-street, Covent-garden, in company with
another fLmale, when the prisoner came in and called her out, saying,
that he wished to speak to her. On her getting into the street, he sud-
denly struck her violently without any provocation, and when on the
ground he tore her shawl off her, and was about to go away with it when
he was taken into custody.
Pocock, a sergeant of the F division, proved that he was passing by in
plain clothes, and saw the assault committed ; on going up to protect the
complainant, the prisoner attacked him most violently, and after throw-
ing him on the pavement, was about to repeat the assault when another
constable came up and assisted in conveying him to the station-house.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he had been a considerable
time acquainted with the complainant, and had he known the witness
had been an officer, he would not have committed the assault upon him.
Sir F. Roe ordered him to pay a fine of 20s. for each assault, which
he instantly did, and was set at liberty.