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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1836.

The zeal with which the organs of Toryism are
labouring to create a division between the Whigs and
the Radicals, ought to satisfy the leaders of both of
the absolute necessity of their closer union. The To-
ries are cunning fellows ; and having failed in making
head against both parties, they have recourse to the
old maxim which makes conquest a necessary conse-
quence of division. lo attain this main object of their
insiduous policy, they are neither scrupulous nor con-
sistent in their employment of what they regard as
`likely to prove a means. While one journal denounces
the Whigs as the servile tools at a base contemptible
faction, composed for the most pot of men whom
Lord LYNDHURST has denounced as " aliens by
blood and in religion ;" another gravely charges the
professors of Radicalism with having forsworn their
hustings' pledges, and violated their principles to keep
a faction less potent and more reprehensible than
themselves in power. One day they ascribe to the in-
fluence of DANIEL O'CONNELL the entire policy of
the Cabinet—they affect to weep over the national de--
gradation in being subjected to the sway of a Govern-
ment depending upon the beck of a Popish demagogue
for existence—and they challenge LORD MEL-
BOURNE and his Excellency the LORD-LIEUTENANT
of Ireland to afford the world the shadow of an
evidence that they are more than the slaves of the
Agitator. The next day they arraign Mr. O'CoN-
NELL as the slave and the culprit. He, not Lord
MELBOURNE, or any other Lord or Minister, is
held up to public reprobation as the betrayer of
Ireland, and the apostate from the straight-forward prin-
ciples of Radicalism. The Radical leaders are then
the knaves, and their followers the dupes, of Whig
ambition. Thus the dolts continue, from day to day,
to repeat charges against Whigs and Radicals, which
mutually destroy each other. It is quite clear that
Lord MELBOURNE cannot be the slave of Mr. O'CoN-
NELL, and Mr. O'CONNELL the submissive tool of
Lord MELBOURNE, at one and the same time ;
neither can the parties of which the Noble Lord and the
Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny are presumed
to be the leaders, have mutually become the purchasers
of the suffrages of each other. We arc, therefore,
bound to regard such malignant insinuations as a ruse,
the object of which is to cause a split between the
more intemperate Whig and Radical leaders—which,
of course, would terminate in the return of the Tories
to power.

The design of the Tory writers has not escaped the
penetrating scrutiny of the most influential and able
leaders of the Whig and Radical parties. A kw Ra-
dicals have fallen into the Tory trap; w
but
-
e are happy
to say that their influence cannot extend to the perma-
nent injury of the cause of good government. Mr.
O'CoNNELL was the first to denounce division between
the Whigs and Radicals, as fraught with the most im-
minent peril to the principles of both ; and the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman has been ably seconded by
IVIr. HENRY LYTTON BULWER in a letter addressed
to one of his constituents, and just published under
the title of " The Lords, the Government, and the
Country." In this letter Mr. Bur,wEß passes over in
Teview the acts of the last Session of Parliament ; exa-
mines the relative position of all parties at the open-
ing, and again, at the close of the Session ; contrasts
the growing influence of the Radicals with the waning
power of the Tories ; proves from the state of public
:feeling, and the necessary operation of existing laws,
that the principles of Radicalism must eventually
triumph in the absorption of Whiggery ; and con-
by calling upon
eludes all honest Reformers to merge
petty differences in a combined unanimons effort to
keop out the Tories. Without giving our implicit
assont to every proposition contained in Mr. HENRY
BULWER'S pamphlet, we can, nevertheless,
reconunend it as an excellent text-book for all true
Ile, 'Conners at the present important juncture. It may
he u Ted by some that Mr. BULWER is too moderate in
his v and over sanguine in his expectations, re-
apecti rig a reform of the Upper House, by means
known the Constitution. We will venture to say
that tilt Is who so think are very far behind the Hon.

Gentleman in a close examination of the real question
at issue. Mr. BULWER boldly declares that " the
feudal necessities for a House of Lords are gone by,"
—and that as " the Lords fill no longer the same
space in the community which they did formerly, they
can no longer exercise the same power ;" and hence
lie infers that nothing can save the Peers from the in-
fluence of the spirit of change, but intemperate haste
on the part of certain well-meaning but short-
sighted radicals. We agree with the Hon. Gen-
tleman in regarding Peerage Reform as inevitable ;
nor do we see the slightest cause to differ with him, as
to the prudence of seeking to efli!et it by the most
peaceable means. But no degree of prudence precludes
the free exercise of the right of petitioning the SOVE-
REIGN and the Legislature on the part of the people—
prevents, or ought to prevent, the calling of public
meetings in every town and village throughout the
kingdom—the organization of clubs and societies—the
diffusion of tracts and pamphlets—all praying for, re-
solving, and enforcing a speedy Reform of the House
of Lords. The great object of Mr. HENRY LYTTON
BULIVER'S letter, is to impress upon Whigs and Radi-
cals the importance and the necessity of the closest
union in ol'de'r to defeat-the machinations of the common
enemy—the Tories ; but as several other great ques-
tions are glanced at in it—particularly the Irish Corpo-
ration and Church Reform Bills—we shall take the
earliest opportunity of again reverting to its pages.

The Cheshire Conservative Association celebrated
its second anniversary on Monday last, by a public
dinner at Chester. Lord COMBERMERE was in the
Chair, and by his speeches, of which he was singularly
lavish, clearly proved how completely a military man
is out of his element when discussing political themes.
" He was not a friend," observed his Lordship, " to
the meeting of the lower orders ; but on occasions such
as that, when everybody was interested—everybody
was concerned—when the question was of such vital
importance, that it was time for all classes and parties,
to unite in defence of the Church, the KING, and the
Constitution." The meaning of all this rigmarole is
obvious. The " lower orders"—as his Lordship
superciliously designates them—have no right to
meet, or entertain an opinion different from that
held by his own party. He will allow them to
meet as Conservatives, but has no notion of their
meeting as Reformers. Their sole duty is to
advocate the principles of Toryism. So long as they
do this, his Lordship would tolerate them : but the
instant they presume to have an opinion of their own,
he would mercilessly cashier the whole fraternity.
How strikingly characteristic are these sentiments of
the " passive obedience" system inculcated among
military men ! We need not state that the Cheshire
Conservative meeting was a failure, seeing that with
all their tact and energy, the faction could not bring
together more than two hundred individuals.

Lisbon mails to the 4th inst. have been received.
Of the forty-one Peers, who compose the Portuguese
House of Lords, twenty-seven have signed a protest,
addressed to the QUEEN, against the proclamation of
the Constitution. In this there is nothing either very
alarming or very extraordinary. It is natural enough
that the Peers should protest against the substitution
of a form of Government, which deprives them of their
privileges, for one which invests them with irrespon-
sible legislative functions. The Peers ought not to be
blamed for opposing a change which threatens to de-
stroy their influence, both direct and indirect. But
Portugal owes too little to her Peerage to be expected
to trouble herself much about the protests of that body.
She has not forgotten that the majority of the Peers
were the first to declare in favour of the usurper
MlGUEL—that of the whole body only six were
found to range themselves under the standard of Don
PEDRO when he first unfurled it at Oporto—and that of
those who have signed the protest, nearly one-third
have been raised to the Peerage as a reward for per-
sonal services. The Peers of Portugal have no inte-
rests in common with the bulk of the people ; they
have not even the benefit of hereditary associations,
and are morally disqualified to exercise a wholesome
irresponsible influence over the legislative councils of
the country. If in a Catholic country a Government
can succeed in abolishing monkery without revolu-
tionary anarchy, there can be but little danger appre-
hended from an attack upon the privileges of an here-
ditary aristocracy. The reason is evident. The peo-
i-le know only the priests, and therefore neither under-
stan.4 nor appreciate the privileges of family distinc-
tion. The refuge of the destitute is the convent re-
fectory—not the castle hall.
But as we have frequently before stated, the settle-
ment of the form of Government suited to the wants
of the Portuguese nation is the proper business of the
Cortes, convoked for that purpose. The meeting of
this body is fixed fBi the Ist of December, until
which time it is the duty of the Qt.)-.EEsr to maintain
the Constitution—now that she has proclaimed it. If
the Cortes, on mature deliberation, regard the Consti-
tution as unsuited to the wants and wishes of the
people, it ought to be instantly replaced by the Char-
ter : but if, on the contrary, that assembly decree the
Constitution preferable to the Charter for all purposes
of good Government, then let it be confirmed without
a moment's regard to Peerage protests.
It is computed that the public property yet unsold
will bring 4,000,0001. sterling into the Treasury.
When the Cortes shall have met, Ministers intend pro-
posing a law to the effect that all property to be then
disposed of, shall be paid for in cash, and not in paper
securities. As such a project will be fraught with great
advantages to the country, there is reason to believe that
it will be readily adopted.
The QUEEN has given directions for the establish-
ment of a National Theatre, which shall substitute
elegant recreations for the demoralizing amusement of
bull-fighting, now entirely abolished in Portugal.
The G uerilla chief, REMEC IIIDO, is still at large
in the Algarvcs. Some troops have been sent against
him, but up to the Ist instant they had only succeeded
in driving him into the mountains. His band amounts
to fire hundred desperadoes who proclaim themselves
the champions of Don MIGUEL.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers
of Sunday and Monday. Their contents are unimpor-
tant in every point of view. As we anticipated, the
mockery of a political amnesty has satisfied no party.
The Royalists are discontented because any
Republi-
cans arc included in it ; and the Republicans are furious
majority because the •ty of those to whom it extends are
notorious for their high Carlist principles.
The Swiss question is still the subject of general
conversation in the political circles. The whole press
of Switzerland is openly opposed to every thing like a
compromise of the Federal dignity ; and the Paris
Ministerial Journals would fain shift, the whole blame
from the shoulders of Count MOLE to those of M.
TII lER S. Nevertheless, the question will be finally
settled, without recourse having been had to measures
involving a further infraction of the peace of the two
countries. We believe that it has already been referred
to British arbitration.

The following telegraphic despatch from Spain was
received by the French Government on Monday from
Perpignan, under the date of the 7th inst. :—" In the
night of the sth, General MAROTA, Intendant LA-
BANERO, two colonels, three lieutenant-colonels, a

HONDURAS.

captain, and nine other Spaniards, were arrested fit
revenue officer, aha . .
b I __[letachment of the 21st Light. They were conduct (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
lAUG. 13, 1836.—We have just had a captured slaver,
,s.
Eysse by the nendarmerie, the
.. 1
with her cargo of human beings, brought into our settle-
Accordingall°nt i 1 is'
a n
tot delivered
from
the up
to the
Commandantcivil
nipoll; ment here. She had been captured within a few leagues of
:\k
reportl
of the sth, Brigadier AYEar,E completely' defeated, on
au
titt horit :
the Havannah, by one of his Majesty's cruizers, and at the
the 4th,- the insurgents commanded by n
RIAFFA: very moment when the crew had made re • parati
p ons for
landing
her cargo. She contained about three hundred
who, with Iris son, and snore than .100 Carlists, was soulS huddled together in a small vessel of • probably sixty
killed." . or seventy tons, and in a state of complete nudity. The
poor creatures have been sent down here by order of Go-
vernment, and are to be indentured for thr,•.e years, after
which period they will be free. Some of them could even
speak English, and they had conic, I have heard, from the
neighboorhood of Sierra Leone ; a great many were chil-
dren. They are now well clothed, well fed, moving about
the place, and appear to undertake any light work, to which
they are put with pleasure. They appear to be completely
happy, and the change from their own country, and still
more their escape from the tender mercies of the Spa-
niards, to the kind treatment and gentle usage
which they will here receive, is to myself a subject of
great pleasure. Of all the West India colonies, from what
I have been given to understand, the negroes are best
treated here ; they may be described as a happy popula-
tion ; they are fast purchasing the remaining years of their
servitude ; and within these few days back, no fewer than
four have bought their time, as they call it, under my di-
rection. Such a state of things is pleasant to contemplate.

Upon this dispatch a French paper observes :
" The place at which the Carlist General MAROTA
was arrested is 6. small village in. France, named Err,
not Eysse (as stated in the despatch), at the foot of
the Col de Fenestrellcs, in the Pyrenees Orientales.
MAROTA had been sent a few days before into Cata-
lonia, by Don CARLOS, to take the command of all
the insurgent bands ; but having failed in all his opera-
tions, he was obliged to seek refuge in France.

Madrid Journals to the 4th instant—one day later
than those received yesterday—have reached us. Their
contents are unimportant. The QUEEN REGENT
daily appears in public, amid the enthusiastic cheers of
the people. Ministers are doing all in their power to
restore public credit and confidence ; and to provide
for the speedy termination of the civil war.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

BO IV-STREET.

Thatcher, better known by the name of " The Sleeper,"
was charged before Mr. Mrssnum,, upon suspicion of being
concerned in a rather extensive robbery, which was committed
in the house of Mr. Brown, the White Horse, in Drury-lane,
about three weeks ago. _ _

Mr. Brown said —the prisoner was in the house on the
evening in question, and helped to put out two persons who
were quarrelling in the tap-room. His wife was confined,
and he had no one to mind the bar. In an inner bar, upon
a table was placed a desk, containing a 101. note, 69 sove-
reigns, the magistrate's certificate, a lease of some property,
and many other valuable articles, which was never seen after,
nor had the prisoner ever been in the house since. There
were other circumstances which implicated him, but he was
not then prepared with evidence.
The prisoner was remanded till Saturday.