The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-01 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

J. Evans, linen-draper, Marchmont-street, Burton-crescent,
Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. H. Popplewell, coal-merchant, Millbank-street, Westminster,
Oct. 23, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
R. Hayday, silk-warehouseman, Milk-street, City, Oct. 21, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
R. Springett, hop-merchant, Saint Margaret's-hill, Southwark,
Oct. 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. Poynton, victualler' Covent Garden-market, Middlesex,
Oct. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. Matthews, linen-draper, Tooley-street, Oct. 22, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
R. Jones, merchant, Leadenhall-street, Oct. 21, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
S. Holditch, merchant, Totness, Oct 23, at twelve, at the New
London Inn, Exeter.
H. Tristram, merchant, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, Oct. 22,
at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
S. P. Wright, painting-brush-manufacturer, Oct. 22, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. B. Ashley, bookseller, Hanway-street, Oxford-street, Oct.
22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
T. Pound, baker, Bishopstone, Wiltshire, Oct. 22, at eleven, at
the Duke's Arms Inn, Marlborough.
H. Latham and R. Thomas, ironmongers, Chester, Oct. 24, at
eleven, at the White Lion Hotel, Chester.
J. D. Hepworth, surgeon, Leeds, Oct. 27, (instead of Oct. 10,
as before advertised,) at eleven, at Oates's Exchange Hotel, Leeds.
S. Liversidge, ironfounder, Masbrough, Yorkshire, Oct. 28, at
eleven, at the Angel Inn, Rotherham, Yorkshire.

CERTIFICATES—OcT. 21

W. S. Evans, bricklayer, Robert-street, Bedford-row.
D. Hadden, iron-manufacturer, Liverpool.
R. Coati, grocer, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
R. Bennett, draper, Worcester.
S. Parker, draper, Dublin.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
_ _ _

J. and W. Comley, shoe-makers, King-street, Golden-square,
Westminster. _ .

W. Wildblood and W. H. Keay, engravers, Burslem, Stafford-
shire.
E. Roberts and J. Storr, spirit-merchants, Liverpool.
W. Britain, C. Brownell, and J. R. Templeman, St. Helen's-
place, London.
J. Bowen and M. J. Roberts, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire.
T. B. Gumersall and E. Gandell, bill-brokers, Lombard-street,
London.
J. Cowell and J. Rudge.
W. M. Alsept and W. J. Wilson, linen-drapers, Finsbury-square.
J. Harwood and J. P. Hodgkins, coal-merchants, Birmingham.
W. Durham and J. Shorters, saddlers, Walsall, Staffordshire.
L. Woodhead and J. Pickup, rag-dealers, Bacup, Lancashire.
W. Sutcliffe and R. Smith, cotton-manufacturers, Todmorden,
Yorkshire.
W. Boulton and J. Raleigh, fustian manufacturers, Manchester.
D. and W. Brown, grocers, Wigan, Lancashire.
P. Robinson and W. Shuter, plumbers, Wolverhampton, Staf-
forshire.
T. Hargreaves and J. Horsfall, calenderers, Manchester.
J. Porter, H. Taylor, and J. Taylor, wine-merchants, Sheffield.
W. "Yates and J. Smith, engineers, Colchester-street, White-
chapel.
J. W. and S. H. Buckley, dyers, Saddleworth, Yorkshire.
Martha Allen, Mary Allen, and Martha Johnson, Ampthill.
E. and A. Fell, milliners, Holborn.
D. Desbois and J. M. Wheeler, watchmakers, Gray's Inn-passage.
G. Simpson and J. Allinson, painters, Leeds.
R., W., and A. S. Green, brass-casters, Prescott, Lancashire.
T. White and J. Nash, Fore-street, Lambeth.
W. Evershed, C. Evershed, and C. Wake, snap-manufacturers,
Portsmouth.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
THOMAS MILLER, ironmonger, Ayr, Oct. 3 and 17, at
welve, at the Ayr Arms, Ayr.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NE WMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 30.

The Buckenham Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft., for two-yrs.-old ;
fur colts, Bst. 61b. ; and fillies, Bst. 31b. T. Y. C. Untried mares
and stallions allowed 31b. 7 subs.
Mr. Wreford's Free Will, by Sultan J. Day 1
Lord Lowther's c. by Figaro—Coquette .. 2
Won by two lengths. 5t02 on Free Will
The Hopeful Stakes of 40 sovs. each, h. ft., for two-years-old ;
colts, Bst, 61b. ; and fillies, Bst. 41b. Last half of Ab. M. 19
subs.
Lord Chesterfield's br. f. Eva, by Sultan Boyce 1
Mr. Spalding's b. f. Madame d'Jeck 2
Mr. Wreford's Waresti, by Sultan 3
Mr. Greville's b. f. Medea 0
Lord Lichfield's c. Cajeput
Mr. Grant's b. f. by Filho—Orpheline ... 0
Sir S. Graham's c. Mohair 0
Mr. Yates's Vagary 0
Mr. Mills's br. f. Camlet
Mr. Pettit's Kate Kearney
Mr. Sowerby's Catalina
Mr. Perren na. The Brigand
Wun by a length. Betting 9 to 2 agst. Eva, Bto 2 agst
Madame d'Jeck, 7 to 2 agst Ir. Grant's filly, 7 to 1 agst Va-
gary, 6 to 1 agst Kate Kearney, 12 to 1 agst Mohair.

Newmarket, Tuesday Night.
The following races have been made for to-morrow in addi-
tion to the St. Leger :
Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft. for two-years-old. T. Y. C.
Mr. Pettit's b. f. Kato Kearney, Bst. 71b.
Mr. ---'s Red Leg, Bst. 11b.
Mr. Yates's Adana, Bst.
Mr. Young Mouse f., 7st. 12'ib.
Sir S. Graham's Mohair, 7g. 101 b.
Mr. _--'s Ridotto f., 7st. 91b.
Mr. Heberle, 7st. 61b.
Mr. Spalding's Lady Albert, by Langar
Handicap of 10 sous. each, for three-years-old and upwards. D.M.
Nonsense, 9st. ; Gab, 7st. 121 b. ; Paris, 7st. nb. ; Famine,
7st. 71b. ; Gale Middleton, 6st. 41b.
ST. LEGER STAKES (To-)son.aovv).
Sir M. Wood's Charivari
Duke of Cleveland's Shelalah
Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Olvmpie
Duke of Rutland's b. e. Armadillo
Mr. Yates's ch. c. Bentley

KIRKALDY RACES, SEPT. 25.
A Purse of 15 sovs.
Mr. Bayle's Honest Johnny
Mr. F. Spalding's Linktown Lass 2 2
Mr. Bell's Win if She Can
Mr. Scott's Border Reever 4 dr
A Purse of 5 sovs. Heats.
Mr. Scott's Border Reever 2 1 1
Mr. Kennedy's Mary Ann...
Mr. Banks's Mary 3 dr
Sam 26.—A Purse of 10 soya. Heats.
Mr. Scott's Border Reever
Mr. Spalding's Linktown Lass 1 2 dr
Mr. Mollison's Major 2. dr
A Purse of 5 sovs. Heats.
Mr. Kennedy's Mary Ann
Mr. Mollison's Major
Mr. Greig's Win if She Can

CAPTAIN MEDWIN'S "ANGLER IN WALES."-
Without affecting any undue advantage on our part, we do not
hesitate to say that trout-fishing is the perfection of sublunary
pleasure to those who are in the full sense "brothers of the
angle,"

" Let the huntsman praise his hounds,
Let the farmer praise his grounds,
And the 'squire his sweet-scented lawn ;"
but a mountain-stream running through an inclined valley,
shaded by expanding trees, with a cool wind breathing up
against the current, is more attractive to the lover of angling
than the best pack in the country side, the rich golden-eared
harvest, and the shorn lap of velvet before the manor-house.
Next to the river and the rod and line adjuncts is such a book
as Captain Medwin's amusing " Angler in Wales." It re-
minds the angler of the happiest hours of his life, and urges
him to renew similar pleasures.

DINNER TO MR. TRACY LEIGH.—In our capa-
city as journalists it has never hitherto fallen to our lot to des-
cribe a meeting in this city so numerous or so enthusiastic as
that which took place on Wednesday last, when the electors
of the eastern division of this county assembled to pay a just
tribute of respect to Mr. Tracy Leigh, who fought their battle
in the late contest. In addition to the great room at the King's
Head, it was found necessary to lay dinner tables in six other
of the largest rooms in that establishment, and even these were
insufficient to accommodate the crowds who assembled, many
being obliged to dine at other houses for want of room. The
number which sat down at the King's Head was about 380.
When the cloth was removed, every accommodation that could
possibly be afforded was given, and the great room was com-
pletely filled by those who had been compelled to dine else-
where. Robert Canning, Esq., was in the chair, the duties of
which he discharged in the most admirable manner, introduc-
ing the various toasts in a happy and manly style.— Gloucester
Journal.

SPAIN.

CHAMBER OF PROCURADORES.
SPANISH CORTES, SEPT. 20.
DISCUSSION OF THE FINANCE QUESTION.

CONCLUSION OF THE FIFTH DAY.

Senor Martinez de la Rosa rose to answer the ineulpa.

tions which had been brought against the Ministers by the
previous speaker, Don Fermin Caballero, with a degree of
urbanity which demonstrated the delicacy of the mind from
which they proceeded ; but the question here at issue is
surely not one of personal inculpation, but such as requires
the attention of the Estamento to points of paramount im-
portance. He would confine himself, however, to a mere
reply to the arguments advanced by Senor Caballero. He
asserts that the project of the Government involves a real
and substantial bankruptcy. The very word is offensive.
A bankruptcy can only take place under two forms of
Government—the absolute, when it becomes depreciated
in the eyes of the people, and when its honour no longer in-
terests them—=the free, when it falls into a state of anarchy,
as was the case in France after the first revolution. But
the present Government of Spain does not deserve to
be so insulted. The basis adopted is, that all the loans
contracted in the name of the nation should be recognized
by it, and declared to be debts of the state. This is at once
a principle of good faith and one which tends to the pre-
servation of public order. The Government has not proposed
any examination into the loans of the Cortes, nor into those
of more modern date, although a great deal might be said
of all of them, because it would only serve to stir up the
smouldering embers of discord. And if the present Minis-
ters are unwilling to say anything of these last ten years, it
is certainly not because they are afraid of being accused of
having been accomplices to the abuses committed, since they
were not even witnesses of these abuses, and it was under
these circumstances that they resolved to follow the noble
and generous part pointed out to them by the Queen Re-
gent. Let us repeat, then, that every loan contracted in
the name of the nation is a debt of the state—(Murmurs in
the public gallery)—and that the state is bound to pay the
dividends. The Government has made the proposal to the
Estamento, and in this consists its good faith. We have
have not said that we have adopted the views of the com-
mittee, although we rest ourselves on the common basis of
the recognition of the loans. This has been stated by the
Ministry with equal good faith, and when we reach the
point of difference, then the discussion arises. This situa-
tion cannot in any case be called brnkruptcy, since the debt
is admitted by the Government. Here the Minister
enumerated the cases in which the convocation of
the Cortes was declared to be necessary by the funda-
mental laws of Spain ; and with regard to what had
been stated by Senor Caballero, that the French nation had
contented itself with mere remonstrances, it was necessary
to make a distinction between contracts entered into by
a nation with private individuals and by one nation with
another ; since in the one case the private party had no
guarantee but the good faith of the nation with whom it
contracted. Senor Caballero has signalized three principles
as those professed by the Government :-1, that the Mi-
nisters had stated that all that had been conceded was a
mere matter of grace.—(Murmurs.) We now come to the
second principle referred to by Senor Caballero, that we
have here no conquering nor conquered party. There is
not, and yet it is asked who are the victors ? Who has
saved the country ? Who has given us freedom ? To all
this I answer the throne alone, which said, " Let us re-
establish the fund9.mental laws—let us restore the rights of
the nation." Here there has been no struggle, but the
simple exercise of a sovereign authority, which in the intro-
duction of all these reforms has not suffered the public tran-
quillity to be interrupted. The third principle is, that the
present Government is neither an emanation of the absolute
nor the constitutional government. The Ministers are nei-
ther the apologists nor the accusers of other governments.
Their whole object is to seize on what is good in the one
and the other, and avoid the evils of both, in the hope that
they may be enabled to carry the vessel of the state into a
safe and quiet haven.
Senhor Caballero insisted that what had been said by
the Minister proved nothing against what had fallen from
the lips of his colleagues, and in proof of his assertion he
appealed to the testimony of many of the gentlemen present.
The Marquis de Montevirgen said he had not intended
to speak until the end of the discussion, but found himself
compelled to change his purpose, in consequence of his hav-
ing observed that several of the members had adopted an
error of the Minister of Finance, which consisted in a mis•
understanding of the fifth article of the report, where the
question was exclusively between the Estamenta and the
Government, and not at all between the one Government
and the other. The committee may have spoken on this
point too loosely, but if so, it arose from its being considered
a prerogative of the Estamento. The committee was de-
prived of documents, and the privation arose from no fault
of theirs. _ _

The Conde de Toreno declared that if the committee
was not provided with more documents, it was because they
had not been asked for. _ _

The President stated, that his list had rather increased
than diminished, and as the day was now far advanced, he
would now suspend the discussion and adjourn it till to-
morrow.

• The Marquis de Torremejia proposed, that as the ques-
tion was one of such vital importance, the practice of the
former Cortes should be adopted, holding extraordinary
sittings for the purpose of bringing it to a close.
The President suggested a difficulty presented by the
reglamento, and said, that if extraordinary sittings were re-
quired, the question must be put to the vote.
The President then caused the names of the deputation
to be read who were to meet the deputation of Proceres, in
order to form a mixed committee to settle the differences
which had arisen between the two Chambers on the subject
of the Vow of Santiago. The names announced were those
of Senors Martel, Acevedo, Ochoa, the Marquis de Torre-
mejia, and the marquis de Gandara.

SEPTEMBER 21.

SIXTH DAY OF THE DEBATE ON THE QUESTION OF FINANCE.

The President took the chair at eleven o'clock, when the
previous minutes were read and approved of. The com-
mittee of powers voted in favour of the return of Don Se-
bastion Cuesta, elected deputy for Pontevedra. A long
discussion then ensued on another report of the same com-
mittee relating to the election of Don Pedro Ontiveros for
the province of Caceres, Don Diego Gonzalez Alonzo, the
person first elected, having also been unable to produce the
necessary documents. In this last case the committee had
also reported for the necessity of a second election, in con-
sequence of the members of the municipality of Caceres
having omitted to renew the oath they had taken at the
time of the election of Don Diego Gonzalez Alonzo. Af-
ter a sharp debate, however, which occupied nearly one
half of the sitting, the report of the committee was rejected
by a majority of 58 to 44.
The Chamber then proceeded to the order of the day,
which was the adjourned debate on the foreign debt, and
the loan of 400,000,000.
The Secretary Belda spoke in support of the views of the
majority of the committee.
Senhor Santafe said he should have no difficulty in adopt-
ing the proposal .of the committee, if they had taken as
their basis the principles proposed by the Minister of Fi-
nance in his project° de ley, dividing the debt into two equal
parts—the one active and the other passive. Hopes might
also be held out of the whole being converted into active
debt as soon as the Americas had been recognized ; and,
on this footing, he believed that the greater part of the
bondholders would be satisfied. He would except, how-
ever, the Guebhard loan, as ho held that what was not due

ought not to be recognized.
Senhor Mantilla was ready to accede to the demand of
the Government for 400,000,000, because be thought it
necessary to place the means at their disposal of bringing
the civil war to a conclusion without delay ; but in general
he was against the borrowing system, which he regarded as
ruinous, and he referred to various periods when other re.
sources had been adopted. He would therefore propose
some supplementary expedients, and among others, he would
require for this year from the clergy their 30,000,000 of
subsidy. He would also put his hand on the funds of the
crusade, and those arising from vacant livings.
Senhor de Morales was very imperfectly heard, but he
was understood to support the recognition of all the loans
except that of Guebhard.
Senhor Alcaraz Zamora delivered a long speech against
the recognition of the loans, and expressed his desire thiit
other means should be resorted to than that of contracting
a new one. He reminded the Estamento that Napoleon,
in the midst of all his difficulties, had never recourse to
loans, because he thought them injurious to France.
Senhor Lopez del Bano made a long speech, in which he
argued for the recognition of all the loans. He said they
can only be regarded as obligations contracted by a consti-
tuted Government ; and in order to determine whether
they ought to be approved of or not, must we descend to
an investigation of the circumstances under which they
were contracted ? Let our government remain no longer
stationary, let it advance with a firm and decided step in
the path of needful reform, and then its own conduct and
decision will be to all its best security.
At the conclusion of the speech of Senhor Lopez, the
President announced the adjournment of the debate till to-
morrow, in consequence of the lateness of the hour, and of
the list of speakers inscribed not being yet exhausted.
The Secretary Trueba then read an official letter from
the President of the Council, announcing that as the In-
fanta Donna Luisa Carlotta had entered on the ninth
month of her embarazo, her Majesty had determined that
the fact should be communicated to the Estamento, in or-
der that a deputation might be named to attend the alum-
branziento, and the President added that the members he

had named for this deputation were General Butron and
Don Jose Rosendo de la Vega y Rio. _

SEVENTH DAY.-SEPT. °O.

The chair having been taken at 11 o'clock, the previous
minutes were read, and after some verbal amendments,
poposed by Senor Medrano, were approved of.
Don Sebastian Cueita, the deputy elect for the province
of Pontevedra, having presented himself for the purpose of
being sworn, proposed before taking the oath to make some
observations, on which the President interposed, and de-
clared that anything he had to say before taking the oath
must be said in writing. He then walked up to the table,
and took the oath in the usual form, kneeling on the
cushion, kissing the book, and pronouncing the words si
juro, after the form of the oath had been read to him by
the President. He then stated that it was not his fault if

he had riot sooner presented himself, and referred for the
causes of the delay to the official documents transmitted to
the Committee of Powers. A similar incident took place
when —the oath was afterwards taken by Don Saturnino
CalderOrif the .tleputi elect for the province of Orense,
after which the Chamber passed to the order of the day,
whielrwasithe'ailipwa debate on the foreign debt, and
the loan of 400,000,000.

Senhor Ochoa observed, that the Ministry.had asked for
a loan to be applied to the necessities of the state, and he
perceived that the whole of the Estamento was of opinion
that the demand should be acceded to, and he had also
given his consent, although opposed to loans in general, be-
cause, in coincidence with the views expressed yesterday by
Senhor Lopez, he was desirous that the civil war should be
brought to a conclusion, so much so, that if the resources
which the Government could bring to bear in a year could
be applied in a month, he would freely give his consent to
it, in order to put an end to a contest with our brethren,
in which victory was only less disastrous than defeat. He
was ready, therefore, to give not only 200,000,000, but
300,000,000 or 400,000,000, or more if they were neces-
sary, in order to bring the war to a conclusion.

euhor Butron observed that there were two essential
pts to be considered in the question now at issue—the
justice of the case and the national honour. Strict justice
requires that what is due should be religiously paid, and the
national honour demands that no pretext should be raised
for avoiding the performance of a contract which had been
legally entered into.
Senhor Crespo de Tejada, one of the members of the
minority of the finance committee, delivered a long and
diffuse oration, which could scarcely be heard, dgtailing
the manner in which the committee had acted in the course
of their investigation.
The Marquis de Montevirgen, as one of the reporters of
the committee, summed up and replied to the opinions of
those who had impugned the report.
On the Marquis de Montevirgen leaving the tribune, the
Conde de Toreno claimed the right of reply, on which
the Conde de las Navas required that the 76th article of
the reglamento should be read. This produced an inci-
dental discussion on the question whether any deputy was
entitled to speak after the summing up of the reporter pro-
vided for in the reglamento had taken place. A subordi-
nate question was also introduced, as to whether the dis-
cussion ought to be considered as closed without its having
been expressly asked for, inferring its being closed from
the. simple fact, that no _other deputy had inscribed his
name to speak on the list of the President, on which it was
decided that the discussion should not be considered as
closed so long as any deputy thought fit to exercise his
right of addressing the Chamber. The Conde de Toreno
cut the question short, saying that lie had wished to
speak for the purpose of rectifying certain errors com-
mitted by the Marquis de Montevirgen, but that he
willingly waved his right and abandoned his intention. The
debate on this incidental point was nevertheless continued
some time after the Minister's renunciation without leading
to any result, until the President inquired if it was the
pleasure of the Estamento that the discussion should be
considered as closed, when it was resolved that that ques-
tion ought not to be put. It was understood, however,
that the general discussion was closed. The Secretary
Trueba, by the direction of the President, then read the
92d article of the reglamento, which provides that after the
closing of the general discussion on a project() de ley, the
Estamento shall decide whether there is room for taking it
into consideration, article by article. The Secretary Ca-
ballero then announced that a nominal vote was about to
be taken on the question, whether there was room to enter
on the discussion of the particular provisions of the Minis-
terial project, when the President begged that the members
would reflect on the import of the 92d article of the regla-
mento which had just been read, seeing that it was the only
one on which any vote could be taken. On this a very
tedious and complicated discussion arose as to the form of
the question which ought to be put to the vote. A num-
ber of the articles of the reglamento were required to be
read in support of the opposite views of different members.
It was inquired whether, during the seven sittings which
the discussion had. lasted, the subject-matter of it had been
the projecto de ley or the report of the committee, or both
conjointly, as on the result of that inquiry would depend the
immediate point to which the vote ought to apply. It was
repeatedly decided that these preliminary questions had been
sufficiently discussed, without, however, preventing the de-
bate from being revived. The minutes of several previous
Sittings were read, for the purpose of ascertaining what had
been the practice of the Chamber on the occasion of the
small number of precedents which had already been esta-
blished, from which it was said to have appeared that here-
tofore the votes had generally been taken, not on the pro-
jector de ky, but on the reports of the committees. In
support of that view of the matter also, the Secretary Ca-
ballero read the list of the names of those who had spoken
" pro y contra," making it appear that the Marquis de
Montevirgen and others who had supported the report of
the majority, and opposed the project() de ley, had been in-
scribed " pro," and that, on the other hand, the Conde de
Toreno and others, who had spoken in the opposite sense,
had been inscribed " contra." Senor Medrano having
moved that the Estamento should enforce the 92d article
of the reglamento, the question was put, whether this mo-
tion should be taken into consideration, when it was re-
solved in the affirmative. It being now five o'clock, how-
ever, which is two hours later than the usual period for
closing the sittings of the Chamber, the question was put
to the vote on the motion of the Secretary Belda, whether
the discussion on the previous motion should be adjourned
till to-morrow, when it was resolved that the debate should
now be suspended, and that the adjournment should take
place. This having been announced from the chair, the
Sitting broke up soon after five o'clock.

The following article is extracted from the Revista Es-
panola of the 22d Sept.:—
'° Yesterday morning (Sunday) the Urban Militia of this
capital was assembled by superior orders in the Plaza To-
rada for the purpose of receiving certain modifications and
re-organizations in the personnel of its different companies,
in conformity with the late orders of the Governor. His
Excellency General Quesada, accompanied by his aides-
de-camp, came to the ground for the purpose of putting
those orders into execution, but his appearance excited
murmurs, and a cry of ‘Fuera,'—‘ Off, off.' The General
then addressed the troops with much earnestness. Not
having been ourselves witnesses of the scene, we will not
repeat the different versions which have been published of
his speech. However, the formation of the companies into
corps corresponding to the quarters of the city, as desired
by the Government, was ultimately effected, and an inci-
dent which might have been productive of very serious con-
sequences had no result fortunately. We have often
enough shown, that far from systematically opposing, we
are always ready to lend our feeble aid to all the equitable
and generous measures of the Government. Our con-
duct, then, gives us the right of being listened to. Firm-
ness is good on the part of a Government, but it ought
never to degenerate into an unbending and obstinate tena-
city, as it has in the case of the National Militia. The
Ministers SS. Zarco del Valle, Martinez de la Rosa, and
Toreno, have to no purpose pronounced in their speeches,
in the Chamber of Procuradores, a just and pompous
eulogy on the Militia. We find that in this instance, as in
others, they are very prolific in laudatory expressions and
promises, but in practice they always show themselves very
much disposed to persevere in an exceedingly dangerous
system of restriction. This is the consequence of the timi-
dity and sort of distrust with which the creation of the civic
force was from the beginning conceived by them. All the
public decrees respecting the National Militia have, one
after the other, been tainted by this original sin. The fol-
lowing line, from a tragedy by Lopez de Vega, may very
well be applied to Ministers :
Huid de un consejo fiero.
Un error llama otto error.
Gardaos bien del primero.' "
" (Avoid the dictates of passion : one error begets an
other : be well on your guard against the first.")

NOVEL CIRCUMSTANCE.—The congregation at
the parish church, yesterday morning, were not a little sur-
prised by the sudden interruption of divine service imme-
diately after the jubilate. It appears that a certain gentle-
man's servant had claimed the right of being married imme-
diately after the publication of the banns for the third time,
and of course before twelve o'clock. In the absence of legal
authority to protect the refusal, it was judged best to comply
with this most unreasonable demand, and the parties were
married during the pause in divine service, the Rev. F. Close
performing the ceremony, and the Rev. S. E. Bernard remain-
ing in the desk. We suspect that there is no law by which
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of rare occurrence. Such a question should be set at rest
without any loss of time. If the rig ht exists, it never should
be exercised but in cases of extreme emergency ; if the claim
be not sanctioned by right, then any attempt to enforce it can
be considered only as a wanton and gross violation of all that
should be held most sacred. —Cheltenham Journal.