The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-18 00:00:00

THE INTERIOR

" Our military operations are at length brought to a ter-
mination. La Croix Rousse was occupied yesterday with-
out firing a musket. Our troops are masters of the whole
town and the fauxbourgs."
" THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE SEVENTH MILITARY

DIVISION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.
" La Croix Rousse is restored to tranquillity. The
troops are parading the quarter at every point. Business
has resumed its course."
The following is an explanation of the contradiction be-
tween the telegraphic despatch of thelOth, from Lyons, and
that of the 12th : —On the 10th the insurgents were in fact
confined within one quarter in the centre of the town, and
were completely surrounded by the troops ; but in the
morning of the 11th the Fauxbourg de Vaize and another
broke out in the rear of General Aimard, and attacked his
positions at several points at once. The General is said to
have found himself at one time in a situation so critical
that he was fearful of being obliged to abandon the town,
and demanded by telegraphic instructions for his future
movements in case retreat should become inevitable. But
in a last effort, directed by himself with great energy, the
troops forced the bridge of La Guillotiere, entered the
fauxbourgs, and cleared them.
Extract of a letter from St. Etienne, dated the 12th
inst., six o'clock in the evening :—" Though from the be-
ginning of the riots at Lyons some apprehensions were en-
tertained as to the intentions of our riband-weavers, we
had reason up to the 10th to place some reliance upon a
continuance of the good disposition and discretion they
showed on a recent occasion. On the 10th, however, they
endeavoured to prevent the men employed in the several
factories in the neighbourhood from continuing to work.
Threats with some, and money or promises with others,
succeeded in obtaining the object they sought ; and yester-
day morning St. Etienne began to be disturbed by some
isolated attempts. By the evening of the 10th the authori-
ties had prepared every necessary measure of defence and
repression. Encouraged by having been suffered to utter
some insolent cries with impunity, bands of insurgents
proceeded to the powder-mills and the manufactory of
arms. Two companies of infantry, from being repeatedly
assailed with stones, were at length obliged to fire, and
upon this the insurgents took to flight. They afterwards
attempted to form barricades, and force the magazines of
arms in several distant quarters of the town furthest from
the Hotel de Ville, where all the forces were concentrated.
All their endeavours, however, were easily and completely
defeated. The foremen and syndics, finding themselves
involved with the lowest rabble, who had followed them,
became anxious to retire, and some of them succeeded,
though not without great difficulty. The workmen also
have withdrawn, and up to the present moment no violent
breach of order has .taken place. There are many more
persons in the streets attracted by curiosity than there are
workmen, who seem to be divided, and by no means nu-
merous. It is said a large portion of them are enraged
against their syndics, whom they call false brethren. Still
it is feared that the present tranquillity is only a feint,
and that the night will bring disturbances. The whole
force, however, is on foot. Our garrison is composed of
2,000 infantry, 150 gendarmes, horse and foot, and four
pieces of cannon, manned by the National Guard."
We are assured that an extraordinary courier from Ma-
drid arrived at Paris yesterday with despatches, dated the
Bth inst., for the Minister for Foreign Affairs, announcing
a partial change in the Spanish Cabinet. The Count Tor-
reno and General Llauder are said to have superseded M.
Burgos, Minister of the Interior, and Zarco del Valle,
Minister of War.
We learn that in consequence of a letter received by the
MinisiZT of War from General Aimard, the march of the
trecps directed to proceed to Lyons has been countermanded.
The Afercure Seguisien of the 13th instant confirms the
account a the disturbance at St. Etienne, and gives the
following further particulars :—" At six o'clock on the
oitorning of the 11th, about 3,000 workmen, many of them
well-disposed persons, who had fallen into the snares of the
agitators, paraded before the Hotel de Ville, five-and-five,
crying Vive la Ligne a bas la Police'.' In the evening
party of them made an attack on the royal manufac-
tory ,of arms, guarded by troo_ps of the ,line ; additional
roops with a Commissary of Police repaired instantly to
the spot ; the usual summonses were read ; the troops
were attacis.o by a volley of stones ; shots were fired ; the
ihifantry then retorted by platoon firing ; the assem-
blage was dispersed ; a workman was killed, and
several others were wounded. The rebels than raised
a barricade in the Rue du Bois, which a company
of the 16th Light Horse tood . possession of at the
point of the bayonet ; a barricade in the Rue Badonilliere
seas taken by another company. The troops, exasperated
against the workmen, who had kept them on the qui rive
for two days, fought with an impetuosity which their of
were forced to restrain. At first they used modera-
tion, because women were mingled with the groups. M.
'Martinier de la Grange de I'Ouvre has been arrested ; 25
guns, some double-barrelled, as also cartridges, were found
at his house. Muskets were also discovered at a house in
the Rue St. Louis. At night two sentinels were wounded,
it is feared mortally. To-day the leaders of the rebellion
are flying in all directions ; some have been arrested. Ar-
rests continue to take place ; they amount already to 85.
The mayor has ordered that the city be illuminated until
order is re-established. All doors are to be closed at dusk.
A detachment of the National Guard of Montbrison, and
of St. Galmier, arrived here yesterday. They were warmly
received."

CHAMBER OF PEERS.-SITTINC. OF APRIL 15.
At half-past two o'clock tke adjourned debate on the
project of law relative to the etat of the officers of the army
and navy was resumed.
Art. 5. After the rejection of some amendments, was
agreed to.
Art. 6. Agreed to.
The Keeper of the Seals at this moment entered the
Chamber, and handed to the President a written paper.
The President—I am obliged to interrupt the debate, to
communicate to the Chamber an ordinance of the King,
which the Keeper of the Seals has handed to me. (Sen-
sation. )
The purport of the ordinance, which the President read,
was to call upon the Chamber of Peers to assemble as a
court of justice, and, as authorized by the law, to proceed
without delay to the trial of crimes of high treason and at-
tempts against the safety of the state, committedin various
parts of the kingdom, and principally at Lyons, on the 9th
and 10th of April, and following days, at St. Etienne on

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1834.

The bill introduced last night by Lord AL-
THo RP for amending the poor laws, is founded
on the report of the poor law commissioners, a
summary of which we gave on a former occa-
Some of the plans recommended by the
commissioners have been omitted, but those
which the noble lord has adopted do not ma-
terially differ from those suggested in the re-
port. The principal features of the bill are
these—to abolish, by the summer of 1835,
the system of allowances to labourers out of the
poor rates—to take from magistrates the
power of ordering out-door relief, alter the con-
stitution of parish vestries, by giving the owners
of land, as well as the occupiers, a right of
voting; establish a Board of Commissioners who
shall have the power to make general rules
(subject to the revision of the Home Secretary)
for the management of the poor all over the
kingdom ; form unions of parishes and classify
the poor in the workhouses. The measure
proposes, also, great alteration on two important

sion.

points—settlement and bastardy. In place of
the present law of settlement, which gives
rise to such litigation and expense, is to be sub-
stituted another, by which settlement can be
acquired solely by birth and marriage. But of
all the changes, that relative to the affiliation
and support of illegitimate children, is the
greatest, and we are inclined to think the most
objectionable. The present law is to be abo-
lished, and the mother alone made liable for the
support of her child. The existing law is not
only the most absurd, but the most mischievous
—the most injurious to morality, and the most
unjust that can well be conceived. One clause
of it alone stamps its character—that which
gives a worthless woman the power of affiliating
her illegitimate offspring on any man, however
innocent, and compelling him to maintain the
child or go to prison. To abolish this law,
therefore, is one step to improvement ; but to
make such a vast alteration—to step as it
were from the one extremity to the other
—to relieve the father of all responsibi-
lity, and throw the support of the child
on the mother alone, contains in it something
so unjust, as well as so conducive to immora-
lity, that we are quite convinced some amend-
ment of this part of the bill will be necessary.
On the one hand, it will hold out to young
men a sort of premium for seduction, and to
their helpless victims it will form an induce-
ment to commit child-murder. It is quite
clear that the mother cannot in one case
out of ten support the child, and she
must, therefore, be reduced to a state of
starvation, or supported at the expense of the
palish. The more prudent of the sex may be de-
terred by such an alternative, but, unfortunately
for the plan, there are few prudent women that
commit such faults, and any check that this
may impose on the one party, will be more
than counterbalanced by the removal of all
responsibility from the other. In all cases
where there can be no reasonable doubt as to the
father, he, and not the parish, should be liable
for the expense. The question altogether is
one of such important difficulty, that in all pro-
bability the bill will be allowed to stand over
till next session, or carried into effect only in
certain districts, so that sufficient time will be
given for mature deliberation. It will be seen
that all the speakers were favourable to the
general principle of the measure.

The unworthy suspicions of some Dissenters
with regard to the will and the power of their
old friends in the Government to afford them
effectual relief, are now proved to be utterly
groundless. There is only one thing they have
asked which the Government does not intend
to grant, and that is a matter of very question-
able importance to the Dissenters. They will
find it far more to their interest to attach burying
grounds to their own places of worship than to use
a common churchyard. There are legal dif-
ficulties with regard to the latter which render
it necessary that what is done should be the
result of an amicable arrangement with the
clergy ; but we repeat, let every community of
Dissenters purchase a piece of ground, add it to
their chapels, and erect upon a part of it a
house for their minister ; a small spot may be
devoted to the burial of their dead, and thus all
chance of altercation will be removed. The church
rates will be abolished, and thus one grand
source of contention will be dried up.
The debate last night shows, first, what the
Dissenters have to expect from the Tories ;
secondly, what their strength is in Parliament ;
and, thirdly, the zeal, prudence, and firmness
of those whose pride it has always been to serve
the cause of religious as well as civil liberty.
The able and eloquent speeches of Dr. LUSH-
INGTON and Lord JOHN RUSSELL will be
read with the greatest pleasure by all the Dis-
senters, but especially by those whose confi-
dence in his Majesty's Government was never
for a moment impaired.
Mr. W. BROUGHAM'S Bill of Registra-
tion was to have been introduced on the
22d ; but as that day is fixed for a
discussion on the Repeal of the Union,
which is expected to last at least two nights, it
will be postponed, but we presume only till the
first open day, unless, indeed, as we had anti-
cipated, it should be grafted on the Poor Law
Bill.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Marriage Bill will
be withdrawn, but we believe the noble lord
will introduce a new measure as soon as a Re-
gistration Bill has been secured. We have no
room for further comment on the discussion of
last night, but we shall resume the subject.

We stated yesterday some changes which had
taken place in the Spanish government, and
that others were looked for. It appears that
General LLAUDER has suceeeded ZARCO DEL
VALLE in the war department, and M. RE-
MISSA, M. IMAZ as Minister of Finance.
We are particularly pleased at the removal of M.
BURGOS, the colleague of ZEA BERMUDEZ,
whose influence was always and very naturally
favourable to Russia, and of course unfavour-
able to liberal institutions. M. ZEA was
under such extraordinary personal obligations
to the Autocrat, that no one could expect that
he would ever lose an opportunity of promoting
the designs of his benefactor.

Paris is quiet, and we hope that no advan-
tage will be taken of what has occurred to in-
fringe on the public liberty. The desire of
prance to strengthen the hands of the Govern-
ment, and the zeal and firmness of the soldiers
have been sufficiently obvious, and after this re-
newed proof of the strength of the con-
stituted authorities, and their power to put
down the disaffected, it can hardly be
necessary to call for new powers.

The prisoners are to be tried for high treason
by the Chamber of Peers. We hope that
France will now renew her proposal to the
other powers for a general disarming. The
German papers express strong desires for con-
tinued peace, and the repose of France. The

best means for their employers to prove their
sincerity would be to agree to disarm.

" It is related, says the Europe Centrale, that M. de
St. Aulaire, ambassador at Vienna, having communicated
to Prince Metternich a note, by which the Duke de
Broglie insinuated the necessity of a general disarmament,
if it were wished not to see the finances of every. Eu-
ropean state utterly exhausted, the answer of the Prince
Chancellor of State was, Before we can decide whether
we can adopt or not the proposal of the Court of the
Tuileries, it must be previously proved to us that the in-
ternal tranquillity of France is definitively consolidated,
and that that country has no more to fear from commotions
which re-act so violently upon the whole of Europe. But
the riots at Marseilles, the disturbances at Lyons, the fer-
mentation which still reigns in the capital of France, prove
too abundantly that the French Republicans are not yet
overthrown, that the Propaganda still exists in all its
strength. So long as the French Government will not be
able radically to destroy effectually even the roots of those
political associations which have established themselves at
Paris, and which extend their plots into all the European
states, it is impossible to hope that Europe will disarm."

The present state of affairs in France shows
that the Government is sufficiently strong; and
the proposition of the Due de BROGLIE will,
we hope, be renewed by his successor.

We have received from our Plymouth cor-
respondent the following communication relative
to the state of affairs in Portugal :

Plymouth, 17th Aplil,_lB34.

The County of Pembroke, Captain Matthews, in
the service of the Queen of Portugal, arrived here late
last night. She sailed from Lisbon on the 10th, Oporto
the 11th, and Vigo the 12th. Senor de Gand came
passenger, and from what can be ascertained, is in-
trusted with despatches for the agents of the Queen's
government. The news by the County of Pembroke
is not of much importance. There had not been any
general engagement at Santarem, but the belligerents
had occasional skirmishing without any advantage being
gained on either side. The most striking information
is that of the actual crossing of the frontiers of Por-
tugal by 2,000 Spaniards to co-operate with the forces
of Donna Maria, and that there had also entered on
the Portuguese territories a body of Carlists to aid the
Miguelites. Forty unfortunate Miguelite prisoners
had been accidentally burnt in the conflagration of a
prison ship on the Tagus. Napier is at Oporto, having
been off Figueiras as before stated, and the information
of the intention of Pedro (and his partial success
therein) to get possession of the interior neighbour-
hood of Oporto, is confirmed. It does not, however,
appear that any active operations have been undertaken
since the dates of the intelligence, by the Lightning.
A gentleman, having the appearance of a military
officer and confessedly a conservative, was passenger by
the County of Pembroke. From certain observations
which escaped him, it may be inferred that the troops
of Miguel and the supplies at Santarem are still of the
best description. From all that can be gleaned no
general engagement, or other important event likely to
lead to an immediate result, is at all anticipated.

We apprehend that MiGuEL's troops are not
so well off as our correspondent - supposes.
However this may be, we doubt whether the
negotiations with the Miguelite party are to be
considered as completely terminated. We be-
lieve that the adherents of Don MIGUEL, con-
vinced of the hapless contest in which they are
engaged, would willingly acknowledge the Queen
provided they had security for their lives and in_
terests, and an adequate provision for the prince
they have hitherto supported. It may be asked
how is it that these terms are not obtained for
them ? We answer they want confidence in
the present advisers of Don PEDRO, and while
England regards the civil war in Portugal as a
domestic quarrel in which she, is not called on to
take a part, she can have no influence but that
of advice on the councils of Don PEDRO, and
can afford no guarantee to those who submit to
his power. Let her give her powerful aid to
the young Queen and exercise the authority that
would then belong to her, and the civil war in
Portugal could not last a month. It is a ques-
tion indeed whether the 'case has not arrived in
which we are bound by treaty to give military
succour to the Portuguese government. Don
CARLOS, styling himself King of Spain, is pro-
menading through the territory of our ally,
raising contributions in forage and provisions,
and attempting to seize the public treasure.
Contemptible as the band that constitute
what he calls an army may be deemed, they are
a foreign—a Spanish army, in hostility to the
government we have recognised, and strength-
ened as they may be by fanatics and desperadoes
from Spain, they may become, if not put down
in time, a formidable enemy to Portugal.
The entrance of Spanish troops into Portu-
gal is approved by the Portuguese Government,
and sanctioned by Great Britain.