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London, England, 1835-06-23 00:00:00

teed. The numbers on the division- were 279 to 192
in favour of the original clause.
Another division took place on the sixth clause,
which fixes the right of voting for Corporate Officers in
resident householders of three years standing, who have
pnid poor rates during that period. Mr. DIVETT moved,
as an amendment, that the period should be limited to
oi.e year. The amendment was negatived by a majority
of 224, the Tories coalescing with the Whigs against it.

Messrs. SILEIL and O'CONNELL triumphantly de-
fended themselves last ni9,ht in the House of Com-
►nons, from the charge brought against them by Sir
ROBERT INGLIS, that by insisting on useful reforms
in the Protestant Church of Ireland, they were violating
the oath which they had taken on becoming Members
of Parliament. 'We are surprised that a gentleman
of the Hon. BARONET'S good sense—for he is by no
means deficient in sagacity, though he is apt at times
to be led astray by his prejudices—can think of insti-
tuting
charges so destitute of all foundation.
The oath in question has no reference to the
Reform of the Church ; it regards only its over-
throw ; and, to our thinking, Hon. Members are far
more likely to perjure themselves by opposing Reform,
than by supporting it, for Reform is the safety-valve
of the Establishment, the denial of which can have
but one sequel, its inevitable destruction.

The French Journals of Sunday, received to-day,
only repeat what has been stated four days since, rela-
tive to the war in Spain. The advises from Madrid,
given in these journals, are not of so late a date as
those which appeared yesterday in the London papers ;
and no despatches from Bilboa have leached Paris
since Friday evening. The Indicateur Bordeaux of
the 18th says, that VALDEZ having, by forced marches
approached within sight of Bilboa, the insurgents took
to their heels, and that the city is now the head-quar-
ters of the QUEEN'S army in the North. This is con-
tradicted by the Carlist journals, which maintain that
Don CARLOS was in person before Bilboa, and that
the grand attack upon the garrison was fixed for the
19th. The same contradictory statements are bandied
about, regarding ZUMALACARREGUI'S wound, of
which one party insist that he died on the evening of
the 16th, while the other as resolutely maintain
that he sustained no injury whatever, and that
the battle and the wound are alike a fabrication of the
Christinos. Of the wound said to be received by the
Carlist General, we know no more than the current
rumour ; but the defeat of the Carlists before Vittoria
on the 16th, is a
_fact which has been duly authen-
ticated by the French Government. The Messager
of the 21st, contains the following letter
ST. JEAN DE Luz, JUNE 18.--" To-day the Captain of
the French corvette (the Sappho) stationed in the port of
Passages, received a dispatch from Bilboa. He immediately
ordered the Meteor, French steam-boat, to proceed to St.
Sebastian ; he also sent a little flotilla to the same destination.
These vessels and boats took on board at St. Sebastian, 1,000
troops 91 the line to reinforce the garrison of Bilboa.
" AccouiZts brought by the Courier sloop, from St. Sebas-
tian, state that hostilities had commenced on Sunday morning,
that there was fighting in the environs of Bilboa, and that the
rebels were commanded by Castor. The result was not known
when the Courier left.
" Only some families have arrived h from Portugalette
ere
and St. Sebastian."
On Saturday the DUKE DE FRIAS, Spanish Am-
bassador at the Court of France, had a long interview
with the DUKE DE BROGLIE, the Foreign Minister,
for the purpose of urging upon the French Govern-
ment the necessity of a more active and decided inter-
vention. The French Minister assured him that the
Government could not possibly interfere more directly
without exciting the displeasure of the Northern
Powers, who had already complained of what had
been done in favour of Spain. Now we know right
well that the KING personally is the only obstacle to
an active interference on the part of France ; and that
the remonstrances of the Northern Powers would not
have been made, had not the citizen KING signified
how very acceptable it would be to him to be furnished
with a good pretext for keeping his legions at home
to quell the republicans. The representatives of the
Northern Powers dare not, of themselves, complain of
intervention on the part of England and France, now
that it is notorious that pon CARLOS obtained the
money and military stores which enabled him to com-
mence and carry on the civil war, frorii the accredited
and special agents of the holy Alliance.

We have received .German Papers, bringing advices
from Greece to the 19th of May, and from Geneva to
the 2d inst. Queen HORTENSIA, who has been stay-
ing at the latter place for some time, is the subject of
much idle gossip in the Frankfort Journals. King
OT HO is in good health, and a rumour prevails that a
marriage between his Majesty and a Princess of the
Imperial House of Austria is the subject of delibera-
tion in the Councils of Vienna.

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The following is the circular addressed by the Go-
vernment of Berne, as Directing Canton, to the Courts
of Bavaria, Wirtemberg, and Baden :
" Circular to the Plenipotentiaries of their Majesties the
Kings of Bavaria and Wirtcmburg, and of his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke of Baden, to the Swiss Confederation. The
Burgomaster, Schreltheiss, and Council of Government of the
Republic of Berne, as Directing Canton of the Confederation,
have received the esteemed note which the Plenipotentaries in
Switzerland addressed to them on the 20th of this month, and
being animated by the sincere wish to restore in every parti-
cular the reciprocal good understanding, arc induced to make
the following reply to it. All the Members of the Confedera-
tion will constantly consider it as their most imperative duty
to cultivate, and more and more to consolidate the relations
of friendship between the Swiss Confederation and the neigh-
bouring-States on the basis of the general principles of the law
of nations. These sentiments being equally shared by all the
members of the Confederation, the Directory of the Confede-
ration, in the name of the Canton of Berne, allows itself to
express the most ardent wish that the misunderstandings which
in consequence of a deplorable and disapproved event have
latterly arisen between the Canton of Berne and the German
Governments, may be considered as wholly put an end to, and
the more so as the Government of this Canton readily regards
the general principles of the law of nations. The Burgo-
master and Council of the Republic of Berne embrace this op-
portunity, &c. &c.
" Berne, May 25, 1835."

Herrings continue plentiful at Fraserburgh. They
are this season much earlier than usual, and are of a different
quality or species. In the stomach of the herrings caught in
July and August, nothing but a watery fluid is found, but in
those now in course of being killed, sand eels, to the number
even of a hundred in seine cases, are quite common ; the latter
are also void of any roe or melt. The fishermen usually term
them " daft herrings."—lnverness Courier.
THE LATE MRS. HEMAN'S.—The July Number
of the New Monthly Magazine, besides a variety of interesting
communications from the pens of Theodore Hook, Barry
Cornwall, Mr. Poole, &c. &c., will be enriched, we hear,
with a poem by Miss Landon, on the death of the late lamented
Mrs. Hemans, accompanied by a beautiful bust of that ad-
mired poetess, engraved on steel by Thomson, and forming the
only portrait of her that has ever been published. Orders
are recommended to be forwarded early to the Booksellers,
to prevent disappointment. A few proofs, for framing, we
understand, will be taken on India Paper, price 3s. 6d. each.
MELANCHOLY AND EXTRAORDINARY SUl-
ClDE.—Yesterday, at about twelve o'clock, a young lady,
a Miss St. George, of Baggot-street, of highly respectable
connexions, was found suspended by a rope from the hall lamp.
Although some signs of life remained when the fatal knot was
cut, and medical aid was almost instantaneously procured, she
survived but a few moments. It is said that a breach of faith
on the part of a military Offir,er was the cause of the catas-
trophe.—Stewart's Dublin Dispatch.
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The plague is said to have been introduced into
Greece. Some mercantile houses affirm that they have intel-
ligence to this effect ; but there is no official account of it,
and we may therefore hope that it is not true.—German
Paper.