The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND3N. THURSDAY, APRIL 29. Hm

neral was s olemnised at Washington, on Wednes-
day, the 17th, v.rith great pomp and ceremony.
These Payers bring no account of the President

steamer.

The Ho use of Peers stood adjourned. over yes-
terday.

The House of Commons was crowded at an
early hotar to hear the. expected explanationS
of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and continued crowded
through -the whole evening. The Noble Lord
stated,- on. moving the Order of the Day fir the
Commit%t!e on the . Parliamentary Voters' Bill,
that he (Id not consider the vote of the House on
Monday .night conclusive on such a subject. He
now and erstood the amendmentof Lord Howick
as an a d.dition to the franchise, and accepted
it, in thee hope that the House would adopt a fran-
chise of t lie nature the Ministers had proposed.
They m.3ant, therefore, to proceed with the Bill.
Lord LOWICK then made an extraordinary
speech, a very short summary of which is, that
the que;•,,ion was surrounded with great difficul-
ties; that he meant to withdraw his amendments;
that he vas surprised Ministers called on the
House to discuss their Bill, for they must
know it 'would never pass ; and recommended
them to postpone the whole subject till
another Session. We presume the Noble
Lord has found out,•after having damage 6. the
Bill by ais success, that his own amenaments
would be .quite inoperative, and thei &fore, how-
ever good; may be his intentions, iIC cannot carry
them out, In Let, as Mr SH Lett observed in the
course off-lhe evening, it weiuld completely dis-
franchise the whole constituency.
Sir ROC3ERT PEEL 'referred at considerable
length to :the former proceedings, expressed his
astouishn temt at the different interpretations put
Ott Lord 3 ()WIK'S amendment, and gave it as
his opini NI that the franchise could only be
settled b• r the Government.-
Lord i 011PETII also made a series of observa-
tions on ord Howick's amendment, tending to
show its d isfranchising nature.
After A nue discursive remarks from Mr. Ser-
geant J e CKSON and Mr. H. GRAITAN, the
House vk -.ent into Committee. On clause 9, Mr.
x owed to sutstitute the tenure of one
year for t he tenure . of fourteen years, which was
proposec'l by the Bill, as the basis of the fran-
chise.

A con 3i • derable debate ensued, Lord J. RUSSELL
opposed t he amendment, and explained the objects
the Mir. s lets :contemplated by the clause. There
was mu c reference to former opinions and
former (c nduct of Hon. Members touching the
suppreS: ion of the 40s. freeholders and Catholic
Emanci7 Won. It was shown tla.t the amend-
ment we um make the tenants sidves or martyrs.
Mr.• Sir. .1:711. made a speech that was longer and
less bpi El iant, though good, than his speeches
usually are. Mr. o'CONNELL also spoke, and
rather Ar limed than threatened the Parliament.
He said ,•ne should oppose Mr. Hmun's amend-
ment arl support the Government Bill, though
it did .no: content him. The Tories by the mouth
.of Sir. !I . PEEL, declared they would follow the
same cut rse. On a division, Mr. llumr.'s amend-
ment wa lost by 513 to 47.
Subset uently the Hon. Member Moved that
51. be su:nstituted for Si. as the sum to which the
leasehoiti .ors. should be rated, and the Tories
again voq.ing, with the Ilinisters, while the Irish
and oth:?:: :‘,lenibers voted for Mr. HOME, the
number; were 431 and 126.

On ir rtting the question that the clause stand
part of i 3 le bill, Mr. BROTHERTON called for an
adjourn; nent. Mr. O'CONVELL supported it.
The Tor called to go on. Lord J. RUSSELL rose
and exp.;ressed a wish to that effect. The Com-
mittee, lowever, divided, and the adjournment
was negatived by 429 to 98.
. It was. then moved that the House resume.
The nio don gave rise to a short and smart de-
bate, in -which Mr. WAKLEY attacked the Mi-
nisters. In the end it was settled that the House
should lvsurne without coming to a division on
the ciau Si 2, for tVhic!.i. the Tories were anxious.
Lord Jo I:N RUSSELL stated that were the clause
lost he ;should give up the Bill. The trial of
strength, then, is to take place this evening at
an early :hour.

The kwuse adjourned at Two o'Clock.

We invve heard from different quarters that
the Bud g et, which is to be brought forward on
Friday, will take the public by surprise, and that
some vigc rous plans will be proposed for meeting
the exig codes of the Government. We- profess
no knowledge on the subject, but this is the ge-
neral beli.ef; and on an occasion of so much im-
portance to the country at large, we shall, as
usual, give the. fullest report of the speech of the
GuANcn-Lon .of the EXCHEQUER in a Second
Edition.

The I\l4adrid Journal; received are of the 19th
instant. I f the Puseyites in England are actively
co-opera brlg. with the Romish clergy in extend-

ing the .Papal power in these kingdoms, the
ConstitulionaliZs i►i Portugal and Spain are not

less acti,,ne in diminishing the influence of the
Holy See throughout the Peninsula. The Ma-
drid Gazette of the _l9th publishes two decrees-
of the Regency, having for their object the sub-
jection of the spiritual to the temporal power in
Spain. En the preamble to the first it is stated
that the :attempts of the Roman Catholic clergy
to usurp temporal power, and exercise a lu-
crative ir.fluence over the civil and political
affairs of Spain, have been frequent at dif-
ferent periods; and have always been maintained
with arci our, tenacity, and even with danger to
the public tranquillity. The national records of
Spain testify to the constant struggles of the
Spanish Government to repress the insolent pre-
tensions of proud and ambitious ecclesiastics.
CHARLES 111. ordained that no papal bulls, re-
scripts, warrants, or other Pontifical documents,
should be published in Spain without the Royal
exequatur first had and obtained, and all priests
violating this ordinance were severely punished
by•the civil authorities. The Regency goes on
to state that the intrigues of the priests will no.
longer suffer the Government to remain silent,
as they aim at nothing' less than the overC.arow
of the-Constitution by the publication of a Papal
allocution, in which the Regency is denounced
as guilty of sacrilege, and the acts of the Spanish
Legislature for the last seven years, touching the
church and conventual property, declared by the
Bishop of ROME to be of none effect. The Re-
gency, therefore; decrees as follows :

" 1. In conformity with the tenor of the laws, and espe-
cially with paragraph 14, chap. 3, book '2, of the Novissima
Recopiiacian, the Judge of First Instance, and the Alcaldes,
are not to allow any use to be made of bulls, warrants, re-
scripts, monitories, or other documents whatever from Rome,
'ehich have, not been laid before the Government, and ob-
tained its authority. Otherwise, these documents are to be
seized, and sent without delay to the Minister of Grace and
Justice.

" 2. The tribunals and Political Chiefs will give the neces-
sary orders, and will watch over the execution of this measure
with zeal and assiduity—by repairing the errors and omissions
which might have been committed by the Judges of the First
Instance, and the Akaides.

" The archbishop, bishops, diocesan governors, provisors,
vicars, and other ecclesiastical authorities are to obey punztu-
ally and to conform to thesllaws, and not to allow any use to
be made of bulls, warrants, and other documents from Rome
befcre they are communicated, to the Ministry, in order that it
may grant or refuse authority to publish them, ucder the pe-
nalty of incurring the responsibility established by the said
laws against., those who infringe the same.
By order of the Regency,
" Madrid, April 19." " AL VARO GOMEZ."

The next decree refers to • a Society fbr the
Propagation of the Faith, having its head
quarters at Lyons, which has enlisted among its
emissaries a Spanish Bishop, and a number of
enthusiastic priests. As all members of such.
societies, whether in communion with the Ho-
. mish or the Anglican church, are expected to
subscribe more or less cash to promote the object
of the institution, they become conduit pipes for
dissipating the pecuniary resources of their weak
but well-meaning members. It is by fostering
i such societies, -T
under the denominations of Scu-
I larians,
2ranc
iscans, Augustinians, Sodalities of
the
Sacred Heart, Ste., that the Church of Rome
so praYerfully
1 .
maintains its influence over the
poor, and that the regukr clergy
_in the church
Every mendicant order has
somebadge
supported.
in the shape of a bit of cloth, a heart,
a ring, or a cord, with Which to invest lay orders,
ande epn titheseo in return contribute periodically, in
to their means,
in support of the dif-
orders. The only check to the rapacity
of the mendicants, or friars as they are usually
w called,h e are deissfeolunmd ifnrienitle.dpyartoocltiis iilalor secular clergy,
system
(14.1)0Ach-
in upon their manors. And but for the co-
s
o•
operation of this useful, respectable, and • geiLerany
well educated body of men, few Governmentsin
Catholic countries would ever be able to make
head against
_the influence of
the Holy See.
Hence it is that we find the POPE always so te...
nacious of the rights of convents, and hence
Church Reformers in every country began with

recommending .the abolition of monastic esta-
blishments. JOHN
,KNOX maintained that the
surest Way to scatter the crows was to pull down
the rookeries—nor was he mistaken. But though
the convents are abolished in S?ain, the Govern-
ment deems it necessary to guard against the
machinations of the Society at Lyons. Accord-
ingly, it has issued the followin.; decree :
'• 1. The Society for the propagation is not to be tolerated
in Spain.
"1-2. The p;,-;)

• The civil and ecclesiastical authorities are to proven
the members from meeting together.
"3. The circulation of its pamphlets is to be put a sto?
"4. The Judges and Alcaldes are to seize the funds belong.
ing to the Society, wherever they may be found.
" Herein fail not.—God preserve you,
" Madrid, April 19, 1841." " ALVARO GOMEZ."

These decrees will widen the breach between
the Spanish Government and the Holy See.
This is. all th.l better. In the course of the con-
test we may expect that some rays of light NI ill
breAk in upon the priest-ridden population of
`.hilt fine country. The Scriptures will be appealed
to, and the more inquisitive minds will set them-
selves to inquire into the or gin of that papal
ascendancy, which the greatest nations in Europe
have ceased to recognise. Suclj inquiries cminot
he pushed half way, and must produce import-
ant resu!ts. GOD grant that in the issue the in-

t'ilcctual, moral, a;dphysical happinessof SIT
may be promoted

The Regency question is likely to occasion the
Cortes some trouble. The Senate is for a single
and the Deputies for a triple Regency. It waf.-,
expected that the debate would be very animate (1.
At the Madrid Exchange on the 19th, forty bargains were
effected in the Five per Gents. for 25 md!ions of teals. four of
which were ler :ash at 26 per cent., and the remainder for the
Account at 27k, with premium—the last at ..j6% at sixty
days date. Iu tne Five per Cents. arising from the conversion
of the debt abroad, there were two operatoris for a million of
rents at 25i per cent. at sixty days date, with vremium.
Exchange on London at ninety days 36 11-16.

VICE-CILANCIIIOt.-(THIS DAY.)

•
RANGER r. RANGER.
reit% was an application by Mrs. Ranger, the plaintiff,
Ugainst her husband, the defendant, from whom she vvas se-
parated,-by a deed bearing date 28th Sept. 1825, to ro,train
him from receiving any share of the personal estate of John
Sydney devised to the plaintiff for her separate use, and from
prosecuting further proceedings .on a suit commenced in the
Court of Chancery relating thereto, and from further using the
ilaintiff's name in the same• suit or in any other.
Mr. K. Bruce, Mr. Wakefield, and Mr. Bealos for the p'ain-
tiff, and Mr. Richards and Mr. More for the defendant.
The• VICE-CHANCELLOR said he thought there was no
ground for the motion. It was not made out that the de-
fendant had exhibited any intention of interfering with the
personal estate, nor that he (the Vice-Chancellor) was at
liberty to prevent him from proceeding with the suit. It sp..
reared to him the application was made as a defence to the
petition, and that there was so little ground for it that it must
te dismissed with costs.

QUEEN'SBEN-i;11.-1( TIIIS DAY.)
At an early hour this morning the Court was crowded in
every part, it being understood that the Earl of Waldegrave
would be brought up for judgment.