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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1835

but the supporting proofs are exceedingly narrow.
Indeed whenever they have indulged in argument, it
has generally turned Out to be counter to their inten-
tions. It is only necessary that one assertion shall be
tested by another to establish the negation.
The Reformers, for opposing Sir C. SUTTON, are
vilified as a faction inimical to the best interests of the
country ; now how has this been proved by Tory ar-
ument ? A high Conservative writer, accepting the
proposition of the Liberals, that the political principles
of a Speaker should be in conforanty with the majority
of the Commons, follows up a long train of argument
by stating that, as the Whig Reformers are equi-
valent to a certain number—so with the . Ultras,
and so with the Tories—there ought in fact to be
three Speakers ; but as this cannot be, and as the
Tories are greater in numerical strength than either
Whigs or Ultras, that therefore the one SPEAKER
should have bee taken from the Tory phalanx, as re-
presenting the majority of Members united in a parti-
cular creed. This is ingenious reasoning so far as it
goes, but it appears to be fatally destructive to all their
assertions of a Whig and Radical combination for the
furtherance of ultra views generally and necessarily.
After having been told, till iteration can no further
go, that the MELBOURNES and RUSSELLS have in-
dissolubly united themselves with the Ultras, the Con-
servative reasoner at once upsets the validity of all his
former declarations, by the statement that two
Speakers would have been required to represent two
Political parties of distinctly diverse opinions upon al-
most all important questions.
There are a few points upon which all the House—
Tories, Whigs, and -Radicals—might probably be
unanimous ; for instance, the declaration of war
to resist some flagitious aggression on the part
of a Foreign Power; but would that one act of unani-
mity imply a necessary coalition of sentiment 'upon
every 'other subject of consideration ? Surely, no'
Neither does the unity of the Whigs and Radicals
upon one point, important to both, suppose a common
design in every other.
• The singular infelicity with which most, if not all,
of the Conservative arguments have been conducted,
is remarkably instanced in the one we have just allu-
ded to ; for nothing could more plainly demonstrate a
factious intention than the perverse, though unsuccess-
ful attempt, to foist a Tory Speaker upon a House,
the majority of which, in principle, is opposed to such
an appointment. The undisguised admission that the
Tory members constitute the minority, does indeed es-
tablish the existence of a faction ; and it shows more-
over, that it can be no other than a Tory faction hos-
tilely opposed to the great major:fy of the people.

We adverted on Tuesday last to the affair of the
Plymouth Magistrates, and to the apparently contu-
macious refusal of two of that body to co-pperate with
Captain FOOTE, after the charges made against him
had been negatived by evidence sufficiently strong to
satisfy any impartial mind of his innocence. One of
the bench, it will be remembered was a clergyman, and
we revive the subject, not so much to recal public
attention to it, as to allude to the impolicy of distracting
Reverend Gentlemen from their especial duties as
divines, to perform services which laymen ought to
undertake.

Whatever plan of Church Reform may be brought
before the deliberation of Parliament, we sincerely trust
that the clergy may be exempted from all functions of
a secular character. From the hig-hest to the lowest,
from the Bishop to the Curate, the offices of all Chris-
tian ministers should be strictly confined to things
spiritual rather than things temporal—to the cure of
souls rather than to penal inflictions on the body. They
ought neither to be law makers nor law dispensers.
Their time and their talents can be, far more profitably
employed in the fulfilment of
.those high duties which
devolve upon them in virtue of their calling, and their
engagements ought not to be disturbed by matters that
essentially belong to the laity.

The sooner that clergymen are—expelled is a hard
word—removed from the Commission of the peace, the
better for all parties. Their appoiunment to judicial
seats must be interdicted, and we hope some influential
Member will suggest this necessity when the question
of Church Reform shall be üb:llitted for discussion.

The Paris papers of Tuesday and Wednesday have
been received, together with Brussels and Frankfort
journals of the same date. The French Journals
of Tuesday ought to have reached ,us yesterday, but
were delayed in consequence of the unfavourable state
of the weather. Their contents are net important.
The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the to-
bacco monopoly has excited but little interest, not-
withstanding the congratulations of the Opposition
Journals on the triumph obtained by the appointment
of a committee to inquire into its actual operation.
The debate, which continued during the whole of the
sitting on Monday, appeared not to disturb the tran-
quil indifference of Ministers. With one exception—
that of M. DUCHATEL—they neither spoke nor voted.
M. DUCHATEL contented himself with expressing him-
self satisfied of the abstract right of enquiry.whenever the
Chamber thought proper ; but on the present occa-
sion he thought it a waste of time to enter upon it.
He did not vote. The motion for the Committee was
carried by a majority of two hundred and forty one
votes against one hundred and forty—a majority so
great that Ministers have every reason to congratulate
themselves on their discretion in standing aloof from
the discussion of a question upon which their opinions
were known to be the same as those of the minority.
The accounts -from Madrid and the Basque Pro-
vinces contained in the Parisian Journals are favour-
able. In the North the civil war is partially suspended
for the present, owing to the inclemency of the
season, and the precarious state of MINA'S health.
The Moniteur of Tuesday contains the following offi-
cial announcement :

" A telegrahic dispatch from Bayonne announces that on
the 10th inst. Zumalacarreguy arrived before Ziga with three
battalions. On the 12th, two divisions of the Christinos, one
commanded by Enguy, and the other by Lanz, came to the
same point. At their approach Zumalacarreguy, with all his
forces, fell back upon San Estevan. Zi,ra and Elisondo have
been disengaged without a shot having been fired."

This is but a solitary instance of several battles
fought with equal valour on both s3,,les, and with nearly
the same results.

A letter from Rome, bearing date the 2d inst., has
been received in Paris, which states that Prince LEO-
POLD of Salerno, uncle to the Kim!. of NAPLEs, is
on his way to Paris, to negotiate a matrimonial
ance between one -of his nephei,v3, a brother of the
Neapolitan SOVEREIGN, and 0112 of the daughters of
the CITIZEN-KING. It is further stated, that the
PRICE intelid3 to submit measures to the
King of the FRENCH for the immediate pacification of
Spain. \Ve are not apprized of the precise nature of
the plan which the Prince, at the instance of his Royal
nephew, has to propose for the purpose of bringing

about so desirable a result ; but we know that it em-
braces a proposal for uniting the young Queen of
SPA IN in marriage with the Infante, CHARLES LOUIS,
the son of Don CARLOS. If we are to credit the corre-
spondent of a Morning Contemporary—at present
fighting under the banner of Conservatism, and never
particularly noted for adhesion to principle—this
scheme has. already failed, although recommended by
the influence of the Duke of WELLINGTON and the
Duke of ALAVA. On the correctness of this latter
statement we, however, decline to express any opinion.
Two Morning Journals—one a Liberal, and the other
a Ministerial print—have contradicted it on authority ;
which, we presume, means an intimation from the
Foreign Office. The whole affair, however, except
so far as it involves the question of the tranquilization
of Spain, is of very little importunce.

Letters from Bayonne of the 12th instant, state
that a serious engagement took place between the
troops under the respective commands of MINA and
ZUMALACARREGUY, near Santa Cruz, on the sth
instant, in which upwards of three hundred men were
killed on both sides. Both parties claim a victory.

Madrid journals to the 10th inst. have been re-
ceived. The Procuradores begin to apprehend an
early termination to the session, and think it high
time that the Government should fix upon some mode
of granting a charter in conformity with the petition
of the Chamber, addressed to the QUEEN REGENT,
so early as the month of August last; but which,
up to the Bth in3t., had been either wilfully neglected,
or laid aside in consequence of more pressing busi-
ness calling for the attention of the Government. In
the sitting of the Chamber of the above date, the Pro-
curadores voted an address to the QUEEN, praying
her MAJESTY to take the subject of their former
petition into consideration. The following is a copy
of the Address, which does great credit to the firm-
ness and consistency of the Chamber :
" The Procuradores, SENORA, see that the period is
at hand when their labours will be suspended. So
long as the Deputies are holding, their sittings in the
Cortes, the nation, although deprived of many impor-
tant guarantees, finds an immense one in the publicity
of our deliberations. But what resource will it have,
when, the doors of the legislative sanctuary being
closed, the people will no longer have any means of
causing those complaints to be heard, which the
conduct of their governors may give them reason to
make ?

" In the just desire, SENORA, of avoiding embar-
rassment to your Government, the Pxocuradores have
hitherto abstained from reminding your MAJESTY of
the object of their present and respectful application.
But, now that they are on the eve of returning to their
provinces, they will be called upon to render an ac-
count of the manner in which they have fulfilled the
duties confided to them. In their opinion they could
not give a more conclusive proof of their good con-
duct than that of having ensured the 'welfare and poli-
tical destiny of their constituents, by obtaining the ac-
knowledgment of these fundamental rights upon which
well-regulated liberty, internal peace, and national

prosperity depend."
The Committee to which the project for liquidating
the internal debt of Spain has been entrusted, re-
solved, in its sitting of the 9th inst., on the ground-
work of its report. For discharging this part of the
debt the income of the Commanderies, the Revenue of
the Jesuits, and a fixed amount out of the public re-
venues of the State, are to be henceforth uniformly
devoted. There arc several rumours of expected
changes in the Ministry ; but M. MARTINEZ DE LA
ROSA and Count TORENO are not expected to resign
their present offices, whatever changes may take place.

SMITIIFIEL
This day's supply was rather
dull, at the following

PRICES PER STONE OF BLS
s d. to s. d.
inferior Beasts 'l 0 2 2
Second quality ditto._ 2 4 2 S
Primo large t'xeu 3 ti 3 8
Prime Scots, &c ...... 3 10, 4 0
Lar;.,,e coarse Calves 3 0 410
Prime small ditto ... 5 0 5 4
Suckling Calves each I2 4
SUPPLY, AS PER CL:
Sheep
2,tifid

Beasts
420

DENHALL MARKETS.
ly the Carcust

NEWOATE AND LEA
At per stone, L.
s d to s cl s (I. los d
!e,..f, inf rior 2 0 . 2 Mutton, inferior . *2 2 '2 4
-- middling - middling
-- prime large 2lO 3 0 -- prime '3 4 3 9
-- prime small 1 4 3 8 Pork, large. 2 4 3 0
Veal 3 0 4 8 -mail . 3 4 4 0

The enormous wealth of the late celebrated French
surgeon, M. Dupuytreu, astonishes every one. Even in this
country, where professional fees quadruple those in France, no
such accumulation was ever heard of. .

On Thursday, as the workmen at the foundry of
M. Pickering, at Saint Sever, in Normandy, were removing
an immense smelting-pot of metal from the furnace, for the
purpose of its being cast into the moulds, it slipped and over-
turned. The liquid metal immediately spread like a torrent
of burning lava, scalding all with whom it came in contact.
The brother of M. Pickering was among the sufferers, as well
as a young child, who fell in the torrent, and whose life was
saved with great difficulty. Twelve of the men have been
carried to the hospital.
AN AMERICAN AERONAUT.—An American,
named Porter, has proposed to the President of the United
States not only to construct a balloon, as we use them our-
. selves, but a real steam balloon. It will be, it is said, of an
oval-pointed form, like that of two cones united at the base,
similar to that of M. Lennox, which was exhibited unsuc-
cessfully in the Champ de Mars, in Paris. Mr. Porter's
balloon will be about 500 feet long, by 50 wide; and instead
of the usual cords there will be fixed under the widest part of
the alloon a pont volant of 50 feet long by 20 feet wide. On
the floating half of this bridge a house is to be built, which will
not only contain travellers, but also a steam-engine of ten-
horse power to turn a wheel of great power. This wheel will
be placed at the opposite. extremity of the pont volant, and will
act against the currents of air by means of a rudder like the
tail of a fish, to be worked from the inside by means of ropes.
A curious hoax has been lately exciting no little
scandal at an hotel of one of the great post towns in Germany.
In the Livre des Voyageurs, where travellers are requested to
sign their names and express their opinion of the accommo-
dations of the house, the lady of . an English Baronet, travel-
ling with a learned lord, recently inscribed herself as—
" Lady-----, very well satisfied."
Next folloived—
,, Lord—, extremely satisfied."
After which, some wicked wag has thought proper to enre-
gister himself as the husband, who was quietly remaining at
lorae in England—
" Sir —, by no means satisfied."
Which entry afforded daily amusement to the travelling
English.
CHARACTER OF LORD BuRLEIGH.—By a re-
volting union of capacities in his person, he advised as a
Minister, demanded as a public accuser, and voted as a Judge,
the death ofjhe Queen of Scots ; not because he hated her,
or sought to indulge the hatred of Elizabeth, but to remove an
unit of human life which threatened problematical danger to
Elizabeth and the established religion. He counselled the
tampering of Elizabeth with the gaolers of the Queen of
Scots, not from being by choice a poisoner of the Borgia
school, but to save his mistress and his country from the odium
of a public atrocity, where the death of the victim was decided,
and poison was less cruel than a public trial and the scaffold.
He countenanced persecution both of Papists and Puritans,
but within the range of vindication by a sophism. The
offenders, he said, were punished, not for their religious
opinions, but for offences against the state. The state sophist
had previously made theological tenets state crimes. lie put
state culprits to the rack, and vindicated himself to the world
by proclaiming that they were tortured mildly.—Cabinet
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