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wick, and he should move as an amendment that the writ issue
at once.

Mr. BERNAL, however, in the absence of Sir Robert Fer-
guson, preferred-postponing his motion till tomorrow (this day.)
Sir S. WHALLEY said, that in the course of last session
an inquiry into the conduct of Lord Warwick, with reference
to the election of this borough, had been mooted, but Ministers
had obtained a postponement of the subject till this session,
promising in the meantime a thorough investigation into the
matter on the return of his Lordship from abroad. His Lord.
ship had returned some time since, and the session was begun.
He (Sir S. W.) therefore begged leave to ask Ministers what
had been the result oftheir inquiries, and whether they were
prepared to move for an address to his Majesty, praying him to
remove his Lordship from the high office which he had so dis-
gracefully and unconstitutionally abused ?
Mr. S. RICE replied, that he was not prepared to answer
the question at that particular moment; but the Hon. Member
on looking at the list would find that the subject was to be
brought before the House.
Mr. HALCOMB entreated every Member, as a matter of
justice to the Noble Lord, carefully to go over the evidence
given before the Committee who sat on this subject, which he
maintained by no means bore out the report.
Mr. BERNAL obtained leave to bring in a Bill for altering
the franchise in the borough of Hertford election, on the
grounds of bribery and corruption. The same Hon. Member
also obtained a suspension of the issue of a new writ for that
borough till Wednesday week.
An HoN. MEMBER gave notice of a motion for the 20th
March, for an address praying his Majesty to hold his Court
and Parliament occasionally in Ireland.
Mr. SPRING RICE suggested the propriety of passing
the orders to which objections were not likely to be made.
Mr. BRISCOE gave notice of a motion for a return of the
number of inquests held within the King's Bench during a cer.
tain period.
Mr. HUME asked why did not the notice extend to the en.
tire county ?
Mr. STANLEY, Who had been in communication with Lord
Althorp, here entered the House, and, addressing the Speaker,
said, he would not, in the information he had to communicate,
make any observations upon what had previously taken place,
nor renew the discussion on the merits of a question which had
for so long a time occupied the consideration of the House on
that evening. He was happy to say that he was the bearer of a
communication which he felt perfectly confident it would give
as high satisfaction to the House to hear, as it did to him to
communicate.—(Hear.) His Noble Friend the-Chancellor of
the Exchequer, having consulted with his-friends 04 course he
ought to pursue, felt, on reviewing the proceedings of the even.
ing, that it was due to his own character, as well as to the
wisdom and authority of the House, to bow to a decision—a
decision which would in itself be a sufficient authority to pre-
serve all personal dignity. In coming to this conclusion, at the
instance of friends, whom no earthly consideration could induce
to hint to him, ever so remotely, any line of conduct which
would in the slightest degree derogate from his personal
character, he was actuated by the respect which he entertained
for that House—by a desire to uphold its authority, and a wish
to further the business of the House, which a contrary conduct
would tend to impede. His Noble Friend was now ready to
give full assurance that he would take no further steps in this
business, nor resort to any hostile measures, in consequence of
anything which had occurred in the previous proceedings.
Having made this statement, which he hoped would prove satis-
factory to the House, he (Mr. Stanley) would now move that
Lord Althorp be released from arrest.--(Cheers.)

Mr. HUME seconded the motion ; and added that, under
the circumstances, the Speaker had no other alternative than
that to which he had resorted—an alternative in which he (Mr.
Hume) concurred, as the only means calculated to sustain the
dignity and authority of the House. _ .

The SPEAKER, before putting the question, said, that
though he had so often addressed them during the discussion
which led to it, he would still, in a very few words, express
his great satisfaction at this result. After the observations
made by the Right Hon. Secretary, there could not be two
opinions upon the subject. No one could doubt that, in the
course be adopted, the Noble Lord had greatly added to his
private and to his public character.
The motion was then carried, when _ _

Mr. RUTHVEN (as well as we could catch his observa-
tions) urged even justice and equal treatment of both parties.
Mr. SHAW urged the propriety of the Member for Hull
making a declaration similar to that of Lord Althorp.
Mr. HILL (as well as we could hear, amidst the cheers for
Lord Althorp, who just then entered) said, that he would of
course, if called on, bow to the decision of the Chairman.

After a lapse of some minutes,
Mr. HUME entered the House, and said that, after what
bad transpired, he and other friends of the Honourable Mem-
ber for Tipperary had been with him, and he had the satisfac-
tion to state that the Honourable and Learned Gentleman,
being anxious to show his respect to the orders of the
House, and without giving any opinion upon the subject
which had placed him in his present situation, had deter-
mined to submit himself to their wishes.—(Hear, hear.) He,
with other friends, had stated to the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman, that in so doing, he was confident that so far from
derogating from his character as a man of honour, he would
place himself in a higher and more estimable situation. The
only feeling by which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was in-
fluenced was a disposition to conform to thosr salutar, orders
which the House, in its wisdom, had thought proper to enforce.
He therefore moved that Richard I.alor Sheil, Esq., should be
discharged out of the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, offering,
on his part, an assurance that the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man would not prosecute out of that House the subject which
had occupied so much of their time that evening.—(Hear.)
Sir E. KNATCHBULL seconded the motion.

The SPEAKER, in rising to put the question, begged to
express his great gratification at the course taken by'the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman, and he would assure the Hon. ai►d
Learned Member, that not only the House, but the country at
large, would feel that he had best maintained his own honour,
and best consulted his personal dignity, by upholding the dignity
and character of that House.—(Hear, hear.)
The question was then put and carried. _

Shortly after, Mr. Sheil entered the House, accompanied by
Mr. Finn. The Hon. Member was cheered on resuming his
seat. -

Colonel EVANS put a question to Lord Althorp concerning
his financial statement, which the latter said would be brought
on next week or the week after.

Mr. YOUNG gave notice of a motion on an early day, for the
abolition of the Port Duties of London, and the repeal of the
Reciprocity of Duties Act.
The House adjourned at ten o'clock.

SPAIN.

(From a Morning Contemporary.)

MADRID, JAN. 25.—The retirement of M. Zea, accompanied
by Gonzales, the Minister of Grace and Justice, produced, as
might have been expected, a tender on the part of his only re-
maining colleagues, Don Xavier de Burgos and Don Zarco del
Valle, of the seals of the Home-office and the War Department.
The intimate connexion which has long subsisted between
Zarco del Valle and the virtual head of the Administration, the
Marquis de las Amarillas, left no doubt on the public mind that
his resignation would not be willingly accepted. With regard
to Burgos, the case was not supposed to be the same. It now
appears, however, that Martinez de la Rosa makes the continu-
ance of Burgos at the Home Department a condition sine qua
non of his own retention of the seals of the Department of
State. The deference thus shown to the talents and services
of Burgos will have the best effect in consolidating the new
Administration, although the conciliatory spirit evinced towards
an acknowledged afrancesado will scarcely be forgiven by
many of the men by whom Martinez de la Rosa is now sur-
rounded. If the afrancesados could all be excluded from office
indiscriminately, the chance would be improved for those purer
patriots who never served under Joseph, and who now crowd
the ante-chambers of Martinez de la Rosa. Of 75 in waiting
the other morning for an audience, it was ascertained that this
object of 73 was to ask for some modest place under Govern-
ment.
But although Burgos is to remain as well as Zarco del Valle,
it is already felt that the new Ministry has not in every point
been satisfactorily constituted. In selecting a Minister of
Finance the chief consideration seems to have applied to the
new candidate's integrity. On this ground there could of
course be no objection to Don Josef Aranalde. In every other
respect, however, he is now spoken of as inferior to his prede.
cessor, Martinez, so that his resignation is already confidently
predicted. Almost the only public act of his administration
since his accession to office—the nomination of a commission
to inquire into the origin, amount, and present condition of the
public debt of Spain, contracted since the year 1823—has been
criticized with unsparing severity. The name of Don Rufino
Garcia Carrasco in particular is strongly objected to. It is not
denied that this person, who is a native of Estremadura, has
been able very recently to render important services to the
Government. From the nature of the trade which he has long
been carrying on near the frontier, and from his numerous con-
nexions within the Portuguese territory, he was able to furnish
the best possible information to the Captain-General Rodil as
to the daily movements of Don Carlos. These were services,
however, which ought, it is said, to have been paid with the
coin of the realm, and not by means of an appointment to an
office of trust and confidence. From all this you will see,
whatever the sticklers for abstract principles may say to the
contrary, that a Minister's patronage cannot now be exercised
in this country without a large share of moral responsibility.
Since the date of my last communication, a royal decree
has been issued, countersigned by Don Zarco del Valle, de-
nouncing severer measures than any hitherto pursued against
such of the insurgents as shall henceforth be made prisoners.
The decree sets out with declaring that the Queen Regent, in
her maternal solicitude, has omitted no opportunity for un-
deceiving the blinded enemies of her daughter's throne and of
the national prosperity, but that not having succeeded in
preventing them at certain points of the kingdom, as in Bis-
cay and Navarre, from recommencing their criminal proceed-
ings, the painful necessity has arisen of adopting such measures
of severity as may be best suited to put an end to the evils with
which these unfortunate districts are afflicted. To this end it
is decreed that every individual engaged in insurrec ion (with
the exception of the chiefs and such as have usurped the title
of officers, who are to suffer the extreme penalty of the law) as
soon as apprehended by the troops of the line, the civil power,
or the peasantry, is to be draughted into regular regiments,
where he is to serve for six years, those enjoying the rank of
sergeant or corporal being destined for Ceuta, the Havannah,
and the companies on duty in the African presidencies, and
the others for the interior of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the
Philippines. It was doubtless time for the adoption of some
such wholesome measures of severity, as the readiness with

which the insurgents were heretofore suffered to return to
their homes, perhaps loaded with spoil, after a foraging ex-
cursion in some loyal and peaceable neighbourhood, had
not only a tendency to excite discontent among these
who listened to their boasting, and saw the substantial
fruits of their success, but induced the depredators themselves
to regard these excursions as they would a party of pleasure, not
wholly free from danger indeed, but the danger amply compen-
sated by the concomitant excitement, the hope of plunder, and
the numerous chances of pardon or impunity.
The activity displayed by Geronimo Valdez in following up
the victory of Nagar and Azarta has hitherto prevented the in-
surgents from re-assembling the whole of their dislocated force,
and realizing their threat of again offering battle to the troops
of the Queen. Dispersed as they are, however, over the king-
dom of Navarre and the three provinces of Biscay, it is not to be
wondered at if the high-road to Bayonne be found insecure for
travellers, and if the whole of the surrounding district remain
in a ferment of agitation. An English gentleman, who left
Madrid a few days ago, was advised by the authorities at To-
losa either not to prosecute his intention of proceeding to
Bayonne, or at least to provide himself with a strong military
escort. Having chosen the latter alternative, he was furnished
with 20 picked men, five of whom were sent to reconnoitre the
ground in advance, while the rest remained about the carriage
for the protection of the traveller's person. About a league
from Tolosa, in passing through a village which skirts the road,
the advanced party were attacked by a body of insurgents much
more numerous than themselves, and on the carriage coming
up a general engagement took place, in the course of which the
poor traveller's situation must have been anything but en-
viable. At length, however, the insurgents gave way, but not
until after one of the soldiers of the escort had been killed, and
his death had been amply revenged by his comrades, who suc-
ceeded in securing several prisoners, who will doubtless be
dealt with at Tolosa according to their deserts. The gentle-
man, who was intrusted with despatches from the English
embassy, has written from Bayonne that he met with no further
interruption.

The Duke de Rivas has already resigned his office of sub.
delegate de fomento for the new province of Cordova, and Don
Juan Antonia Delgado, from Huesca, has been appointed in his
room. The vacancy at Huesca has been supplied by the nomi-
nation of Don Francisco de Romo y Gamboa. Don Jose Berriz
y Guzman has been appointed sub-delegate at the Canaries.
The funds have been gradually rising since the late change
of ministry until today, when a considerable fall took place,
partly owing to the effect of a reaction from Paris, and partly
to large sales of a domestic origin.
JAN. %.—The most distant of the provinces of Peninsular
Spain have now answered to the appeal which was made to them
on the occasion of the change of Ministry, and in every direction
the voice of the capital has been faithfully re-echoed, to the per.
fect satisfaction of the Government. The accounts from Santander
and Cadiz, Malaga and Granada,Valencia and Barcelona, are all
marked by the same characteristics, although proceeding from
parties who could have had no communication with each other.
The report I was enabled to transmit to you at the close of
my last letter, of a communication having been made by this
Government to Don Miguel, on the subject of the continued
presence of the Spanish Pretender, Don Carlos, on the Por-
tuguese territory, has since acquired more consistency. It
appears that the Conde de Toreno has actually set out for
Santarem with a commission from the Queen Regent, autho-
rizing him to intimate to Don Miguel that the presence of
Don Carlos on any part of the Portuguese territory under the
control of Don Miguel, will be regarded and resented as an
act of open hostility against Spain. It is even stated in let-
ters from Salamanca, that the troops of Don Miguel and those
of Queen Isabella have already come to blows on the frontier.
As in that district of Old Castile, and along the whole line
of Spanish Estremadura, public opinion is more decided than
perhaps in any other district of Spain against Don Carlos, and
his supposed abettor, Don Miguel, it is not impossible that
the repeated inroads of Rodil and Morillo in quest of the
Pretender may have led to some act of retaliation, which would
not be easily tolerated on this side of the frontier. As
yet, however, there is no official authority for the
fact, and it is not unlikely to prove a mere anticipation.
Zabala and his confederates of the North, in proportion as their
fortunes become desperate, seem to be acquiring that sort of
courage which corresponds with their situation. The city of
Vittoria, although in some sort the centre of operations of the
forces under the command of Geronimo Valdez, is constantly
exposed to the most daring intrusions. The sentinels are
killed at their posts in the interior of the town by solitary as-
sassins, and the suburbs of Arechabaleta and Gardelegui have
suffered from more open acts of violence. The corregidor of
the one has been wounded, and the parish priest of the other
has been tied neck and heels by flying parties of insurgents,
whose chief object seems to have been to recruit their strength
among the young men of these suburban villages in despite of
the civil authorities, and almost within range of their enemy's
guns. The town of Onate, within a short distance of Salva-
tierra, to which Geronirno Valdez had moved his head-quarters
a fortnight ago, has been for the last eight days in the posses_
sion of a corps of 2,000 insurgents, under the command of a
resident in the town, who, it seems, has established his quarters
very comfortably in his own house. From thence he sends out
foraging parties, who ravage the whole neighbourhood, up to
the very suburbs of Pampeluna and Vittoria. When other
means fail, they seize on the principal inhabitants of the towns
and villages, and compel them to save their lives by sending for
the means of ransom. It is expected, that the known activity
of General Jauregui, who has already crossed over from Na-
varre into Guipuscoa, in pursuance of the orders of the com-
mander-in-chief, will speedily produce the dispersion of the
bands assembled in Onate. The separation of the three insur_
gent chiefs, Alza, Iturriaga, and Villa Real, is already spoken of
as the signal of their preparing for flight. The destination of
the first is said to be Elorrio or Marquiva, that of the second
Ascoitia or the mountains of Aranzazu, and that of the third
the town of Elguea, in the province of Alava.
After the breaking up and dispersion of the insurgent forces
in the north, by the rapid movements of Jauregui, we may ex.
pect to hear of inroads and disturbances in the neighbouring
provinces. Thus the town of Sanguesa, on the confines of
the kingdom of Arragon, has already been alarmed by parties
of fugitives from Navarre, and there are letters in town this
morning from Saragossa, which say that a great deal of heavy
firing had been heard in the direction of the town of Lumbier,
which is also near the frontiers of Navarre. In Catalonia,
also, the known adherents of Don Carlos have taken the alarm.
The two brothers Targarona, the one a colonel and the
other a captain of cavalry, accompanied by other chiefs, are
known to have taken refuge in France, where they were imme-
diately placed under the care of an escort, and conducted to
some depot in the interior.
You are aware that nearly 100 members of the corps of
Royalist Volunteers of the capital, who made an attempt to re-
sist the order which was issued in October last for their laying
down their arms, have ever since been in confinement, prepa-
ratory to their trial before the permanent military tri.
bunal of the province of New Castile. The trial has
just been begun, no less than ninety-nine individuals hav-
ing been called on to answer the same accusation. The
first two days have been occupied with :the reading of the
act of accusation and the written answers of the prisoners to the
interrogatories which have been put to them preparatory to their
trial. In the sitting of yesterday the public prosecutor, called
the fiscal, declared that it was his purpose to call on the tribu-
nal to pronounce the last penalty of the law on 73 of the pri-
soners, restricting the punishment with regard to twenty of the
remainder to eight years of garrison duty, to half that period of
duty with regard to four of the other prisoners, and for the re.
maining two, the drum-major and one of the regimental band,
six months' imprisonment. In the course of the next sitting
the prisoners will open their defence, but it is generally believed,
from the evidence on record, that the judgment of the Court will
prove an echo of the requisition of the fiscal. The clemency of
the Queen Regent will doubtless then interfere to save the
great majority of the prisoners from the fate which would other-
wise await them.

The latitude allowed by the royal decree, or, as it is called by
courtesy, the law of the 4th of January, for the dissemination of
opinions not religious or political by means of the press, without
the intervention of a previous censorship, is already produsing
the good effects expected from it. The present Government of
Spain is perfectly aware that it has nothing to gain by keeping
the mass of the people in a state of intellectual darkness.

SEVILLE, JAN. `22.—The news of a change in the Ministry
has produced here some sensation. On the one hand the army,
the monks, arid the clergy, have all taken the alarm; on the
other the Liberal party, till now so timid and so fearful, have
gathered a little-courage and certain symptoms of energy. Be-
fore the arrival of the post yesterday, which brought us the
official announcement of the renewal of the Administration,
the event was already anticipated, and an impulse had, in con-
sequence, been given to public opinion. But the Captain-
General Tacon, who perfectly understands the Andalusian
character, was convinced, however exalted their language,
their habitual prudence and circumspection, when something
more than words is in question, they would prevent him from
making anything of the Liberal party, unless he could contrive so
to push them on, as to force them to commit themselves irre-
trievably in the cause of the young Queen. What, then, did
he do ? In a former letter I told you that the requisitions ad-
dressed to the people, calling on them to enrol themselves in
the corps of the Urban Militia, had not been attended with
results more satisfactory than at Granada. Eight days ago there
were scarcely fifty names inscribed for the infantry, and but
five for the cavalry. In this state of matters, the Captain-Ge-
neral began to see that unless the affair took another course the
project of raising an Urban Militia in Seville would fall to the
ground. On Sunday last he caused the Junta de Comercio, or
Committee of Commerce, to be convoked, and pointed out to its
members how much it was for their own interest and safety that
an armed force composed of elements best suited for the main-
tenance of public tranquillity and the security of property should
be speedily organized. On being pressed individually, the mem-
bers of the Junta endeavoured to excuse themselves. They
pointed out the danger to which they might be exposed, having
besides no guarantee from the Government, by identifying them-
selves with a body the rolls of which might become, as after
1823, so many lists of proscription ; for although silent and
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