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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1834.

We hear with pleasure that Admiral Don
CAYETANO VALDEZ, formerly President of
the Cortes, who lately returned from this coun-
try where he resided for many years in exile, has
been appointed Governor of Cadiz. It is with
satisfaction also we learn that the writ of sum-
mons to the Cortes is to be issued on the 30th
inst. We hope, for the sake of the young
QUEEN, and the peace of the country, that
there will be no further delay of this important
and necessary measure. There have been so
many promises and postponements, that many
persons in this country had begun to fear that
it was never intended to convoke them.

General MINA is, we regret to find, dan-
gerously ill. The utmost attention has been
shown to him by the new Spanish Minister.
We wish most sincerely that he may recover,
and be recalled to the country he has been so
desirous, and so able, to serve.

It is clear, from the deposition of more than
one Spanish prisoner at Lisbon, that the In-
fante Don C A RLOS, assuming the title of King
of SPAIN, has collected a small Spanish force
in Portugal, with which he makes war on
the legitimate Sovereign of Portugal, and also
threatens war against his own Sovereign. Is
not this occupation of Portugal by a foreign
army, commanded by a soi-disant foreign
Prince, a case where England is bound by
treaty to give assistance—prompt and effectual
assistance—to the Portuguese Government ?
The Infante Don CARLOS is still at Visea.—
He had better take care of himself. If the
Spaniards take him he will have a hard fate.

Accounts have been received in town that
Don MIGuEL has refused all negotiations with
Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN, and that the
latter has repeated the offers made by Lord W.
RUSSELL and Colonel HARE, to guarantee
him his estates, and a sufficient annual income,
provided he would quit Portugal.
It has been also stated in the city that Bernar-
do da Sa has been obliged to leave Beja and
return to Spain.

The disturbances at Paris, of which we gave
the earliest accounts yesterday, were certainly
at one time of an alarming character. The
troops, as well as the National Guards, how-
ever, were firm, and what can a thousand or
two mischievous persons effect when opposed
by forty thousand soldiers, in addition to a
strong police-? " Two hours ago," says the
correspondent of a morning paper, " I returned
from a tour in the disturbed districts, taking
the way of the Boulevards to them and back.

The Boulevards were crowded from one end to
the other with persons of both sexes, who ,had
been attracted by curiosity and the beauty of
the weather to the scene of action. Hardly any
traces of the disorders were visible." The Mi-
nister of Public Instruction referring, in his place
in the Chamber of Deputies, to what
had taken place, said, "We expected
to find at Paris, as at Lyons, an attempt at in-
surrection—a commencement of civil war ; but
we have witnessed only the murderous efforts of
a band of assassins.--It is the last degree of
degradation of a political party."
We hope, therefore, that tranquillity is per-
fectly restored, and that the occurrences at
Brussels, Lyons, and Paris will lead to a con-
viction in the minds of the factious, that it is
not by such methods as those they have
adopted they can promote their true in-
terests. The Unionists in this country,
too, must perceive that the real effect of such
associations, and disturbances to sustain them,
is to strengthen the hands of Government, and
to furnish means to those who would abridge
popular rights, to secure the increased support
of the really powerful classes of the commu-
nity. Unaided by these classes the multitude
cannot effect any important change of a bene-
ficial character, and all others are as injurious
to themselves as they can be to the objects of
their envy or resentment.

Lord ALTHORP last night brought forward
his long-promised motion on the subject of
tithes, and entered into the question at some
length ; but; partly owing to the indistinct
manner in which the noble lord occasionally
speaks, and the variety of details involved in
his plan, we are afraid we cannot give that clear
outline of it which the importance of the
measure, or the interest which it excites
among all classes of the community, ur-
gently demands. Till the bill is brought
in, printed, and placed before us in some
more distinct and tangible shape, it would
be premature therefore to make many remarks
on its merits or demerits. The general plan of
the noble lord appears to be nearly of the fol-
lowing description. Tithe, that is, all payment
in kind, is to be abolished. Commissioners are
to be appointed to value all the tithes of Eng-
land and Wales in each county separately, for the
purpose of ascertaining not only their gross value
but also the proportions to be paid by arable
and pasture land. The value is to be fixed,
not according to what has been called the legal
right, but according to the customary payment
or ordinary value, the whole being calculated
on the average of the country at large, and not
confined to particular parishes. This obviates
the inconvenience, or rather injustice, which a
a lenient tithe-owner suffers, as compared
with one that levies tithe with the
utmost severity. The tithe so valued
is to be paid by the landlord, and not by the
tenant. The lay impropriations are to be dis-
tinguished from the tithes payable to the
clergy ; and the various payments, as ascer-
tained by the commissioners or valuators, are
to be laid before the magistrates at quarter ses-
sions, for the purpose of fixing the proportion
between the rent and the tithe, and the
amount to be paid by arable and by pasture
land. All land not broken up for the last
five years, to be classed as pasture land.
The actual rent in most instances will be consi-
dered as a correct guide for ascertaining the value
of the tithe, and specific valuations be necessary
only in cases, as we presume, of long leases, or
leases granted under peculiar circumstances.
There is not to be a fixed annual payment, as
that, in some years, might absorb the whole
rent, but the tithe and the rent are always to
bear a certain unvarying proportion, and to rise
and fall together. The tithe of land here-
after improved to be valued in the same
way as that of land now under culti-
vation, but in order that this might not be a
drawback on improvement, the owner is to
have the option of purchasing the tithe as
valued by the Commissioners, and fixed by the
Court of Quarter Sessions, previous to the new
land being broken up. The owner to have the
right of redeeming the tithe in all cases,
vvhether paid to clergy or lay impropriators,
and the price to be fixed at twenty-five
years' purchase. The sums thus raised
to be paid over to a clerical commission, ap-
pointed by the bishop of the diocese, and to
be invested by the commissioners—the bishop
chairman—in land or other securities, for, the
benefit of the incumbents of those livings from
which the money was raised. These appear
to be the most important features of the noble
lord's measure. The principle on which it is found-
ed is excellent—its object being to put an end
to disputes between the clergymen and their flocks,
and at the same time fix a rate, and as nearly as
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defects certainly it has. It is deficient in
simplicity, and no little expense will be incurred
by these annual valuations. It appears to us'
that a much more straightforward and easy
mode of fixing the value of the tithe would
have been, to make the landlord liable to
the payment of a certain proportion of grain,
to be fixed by one valuation, and the amount of
money paid annually to be settled by the ave-
rage prices. We will not, however, enter fur-
ther, into such a complicated question till we see
the details at greater length, but simply congra-
tulate the country on the certain attainment
now of one great object—the utter abolition of
tithes, and the certainty that these tithes shall
not go into the pockets of the landlord, but be
reserved for the maintenance of the church.
The latter point was emphatically stated by
Lord ALTHORP, and however some interested
landlords might be disinclined to it, not one
ventured to raise a single objection.

The Hereford Journal contains the charge
of Mr. POWELL, the Chairman of the Here-
ford Quarter Sessions, to the Grand Jury, the
substance of which relates to the contemplated