The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATIIRDAY, AUGUST 8, 1835.

cester ; it has crossed the Tweed, and spoken out at Glasgow ;
the Channel, and made itself heard and felt at Dublin. But
this is not all. A more significant sign of the times still re-
mains to be mentioned. At Newport—at Liverpool—and
at Manchester—a strong disinclination was expressed to
petition the House of Lords. It was felt to be superfluous
to use the language of supplication to an Assembly who
place more faith in the opinions of Town Clerks, than in
those of the people. Nor is this spirit confined to these
three towns. It is running, like wild-fire, through the
country. Men are everywhere asking each other such
startling questions, as " What is the use of a House of
Lords ? Why should it exist, if it exists only to our de-
triment ? Cannot we do without it ? Is there anything
in hereditary wisdom that should entitle it to our special
veneration ? Is it fit that our privileges should be
disposed of by men with whom we have no sympa-
thies or interests in common ? That Aristocratic
Legislators should have the power of sending up, from
Melton Mowbray, or Newmarket, the vote that is
to deprive us of the first-fruits of Reform ?" These, it
must be confessed, are startling questions, easier asked than
answered. Nevertheless, they are such as, when once
asked, will not be long left without a reply. The Reform
Bill has given us the power, and increased intelligence has
pointed out to us the way, to right ourselves. We have
only to insist, to be obeyed. Every year that passes, adds
as much to our strength, as it takes from the House of
Lords. While they are fast falling into decrepitude, we
are shooting up into vigorous manhood. Is it for us then
to succumb ? Is it for us tamely to permit ourselves to
be strangled, when with one strenuous effort we could
palsy the arm that is clutching at our throat ? Not so.
It is for their Lordships to submit—not the people ; and
submit they must, notwithstanding their present show of
resistance ; otherwise down, at one crash, goes the entire
fabric of their authority, nevOr to be rebuilt !
If, then,theyhave the slighteit glimmering of reflection left
—if theybe not deafer than the deaf adder, and blinder than
the blind mole, their Lordships will take heed to the signs of
the times ; be warned by the stormy state of the atmosphere ;
retrace their steps ; and not continue their road along the
sands, when night is falling, and an equinoctial tide is setting
in. That these men are not without their apprehensions,
and that these apprehensions have well nigh turned
their brains, is evident from the convulsive way in which
they cling, day by day, to the impotent evidence
against the Corporation Bill. Drowning men catch at
straws, and for a similar reason their Lordships catch at
Town Clerks. They look forward to such remittances by
every mail, and when, as last night, none are forthcoming,
they cry out in despair, " Why tarry-the wheels of their
chariots ?" Now is this the behaviour of rational beings ?
Is it not rather the conduct of men made frantic by rage
and fear ? But enough of their Lordships. Let us rather
address ourselves to the people. We have little hope from
the one, but we are all confidence in the other ; for their's
is the power to right themselves ; and their's the sagacity to do
it in a constitutional spirit. To the people then we say—
and our appeal, though trite, cannot be too often repeated—
be firm—be unanimous—above all, be prompt. If you
meet, meet at once. If you remonstrate, use language
worthy of yourselves and of the emergency. No great
public good is to be gained without an effort. If Corpo-
ration Reform is worth having, it is worth stoutly battling
for. Besides, bear this in mind, that the defeat of this
Bill will infallibly lead to the defeat of the Irish Tithe Bill.
Their Lordships having carried one point, will not
halt, but be encouraged to press on to the next.
Now then is the time for us to make a decided stand.
" Down with the Tories, and all who wear their colours, and
fight under their banners," must be our rallying cry. We
must allow of no compromise—no mediation—no juste
milieu measures ; but trusting to our own energies and the
justice of our cause, stand firm and unmoved on the field
of battle, till the last gun has been fired on the last squadron
of the flying enemy.

The Report of the Irish Church Reform Bill was brought
up last might in the House of Commons, and the Bill
recommitted. The clauses on which amendments had
been made were agreed to. When the Committee came to
the appropriation clause, Mr.
.HUME, the ever watchful
guardian of the public purse, moved a clause to the effect
that 21 per cent. on all arrears of tithe composition due for
1832, 1833, and 1834, should be chargeable upon the land
from which the tithe was payable, and that the arrears
when collected should be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
The question, however, having been already decided, he did
not press his motion to a division.
Mr. FRENCH proposed as an amendment on clause 89,
that tenants of ecclesiastical lands should have the power of
purchasing the said lands without putting themselves to the
trouble of finding the purchase money, a deed fixing a rent
charge of 31 per cent. on the land being substituted for the
ready cash. This amendment was negatived by 141
votes to 17.

An interesting discussion then arose on some clauses
proposed by Mr. BINGHAM BARING, which had for their
object to vest in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners the whole
revenues of the sequestered benefices, and also to give the
Commissioners the power of altering the limits of existing
benefices, and of endowing new ones. The importance of
these clauses cannot be denied, and their principle seemed
to be generally approved of ; but it was deemed inexpedient
to adopt them at the present adyanced period of the Bill
and of the Session. Lord JOHN RUSSELL expressed his
great satisfaction that they had been brought forward, but
thought there might be a better way of attaining the object
aimed at. The clauses were put and negatived without a
division. The Committee is to sit again on Monday.

Towards the conclusion of the discussion, Sir ROBERT
PEEL exhibited considerable alarm lest the Irish Cor-
poration Reform Bill should be pressed forward this
Session. " Could the Noble Lord," said he, with well-
feigned astonishment, " possibly mean to proceed with that
Bill ?" Yes, we hope and trust the Noble Lord does mean
to proceed with the Bill, and that, too, in as uncompromising
and fearless a spirit as that which he has displayed in carrying
through the great measure on which the hereditary incura-
bles are now venting their insane and impotent rage. The
measure of their iniquity is filling, but it will not be full—
they will not have sufficiently earned the recompense that
awaits them—until they.have had an opportunity of mangling
another Bill, on the passing of. which the popular mind is
bent. Let them not escape froth this dilemma. Let the
odium of rejecting the English Corporation Bill be crowned
by the rejection of the Irish one, and then England and Ire-
land will be prepared for the summary abatement of a nui-
sance, the existence of which is incompatible with their
well-being, and which has been suffered too long to poison
the sources of the national happiness.

On the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire
into the conduct of General DARLING last night, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL moved, according to notice, that it be an
instruction to the Committee that they do not include in
their inquiry the proceedings of the Court-Martial held on
Capt. Rom soN, at Sydney. After some discussion, for which
we must refer our readers to the debate, the motion, we
regret to say, was carried by a majority of 43—the numbers
being 89 to 46.

The only argument in favour of restricting the inquiry
was the danger of turning the House of Commons into a
Court of Appeal. There might be some weight in the
argument, had the proceedings of a Court-Martial never
been brought wider the review of the House. But this, it
is acknowledged, has been often done ; and we would ask,
when is such a review called for, if not in such a case as
this ? We should have thought, too, that the friends of
Governor DARLING would have been as anxious for a full
investigation as those of Captain ROBISON, for the Go-
vernor professes to be exceedingly desirous that his conduct
should be probed to the bottom !

The Paris Papers of Thursday received this morning
are filled with details of the funeral solemnities of the vic-
tims of the 28th of July. Of these, the most accurate re-
port published, will be found in another part of The Sun.
The opposition Press, in deploring the melancholy conse-
quences of FIESCHI'S treason, dwells with much earnestness
on the results which may yet arise from it to the people of
France. It laments that the KING should take advantage
of the feelings of commiseration and sympathy which fill
the minds of the French people, to invade their chartered
rights. Should the Bill introduced into the Chamber of
Deputies pass into law, it affirms that France will have
lost ber Muter, and Frenchmen, iu

remain in as abject subjugation to Louis:PHILIPPE, as thei
forefathers were to the Bourbon dynasty before the first
revolution.

As we stated yesterday, we shall consider the people of
France unfitted for the enjoyment of civil rights, if they
permit the liberty of the Press to be invaded. Some
months ago, the Chambers passed a law for rendering
Ministers responsible. Why are they not now arraigned
under it, for proposing a violation of the Constitutional
Charter ? The Chamber of Deputies may yet boast of a
few honest and liberal Members. Why do they not make
such a motion for the purpose of rousing the country, and
at once •pening the eyes of France to the imminent peril
in which the KING has placed the liberties of her people ?
We know that such a motion would be rejected with scorn
by a majority of the Chambers, but we only look to the
effect which it would have upon the National Guard, and
the whole body of the people. There is no longer any
use in mere remonstrances. France, to be free, must
coerce, or depose her KING. Nothing short of this
will avail. Louis PHILIPPE has now convinced
all reasonable Frenchmen, that his MAJESTY be-
longs to that class of theologians who regard " oaths as
words, and words as wind," of no more import than the
inflation of a pair of bellows.
The intelligence from the Spanish frontier is not impor-
tant. On the 3d instant another detachment of British
volunteers landed at St. Sebastian. Don CARLOS was
then at Estella ; but although the two armies were within
sight of each other, they took especial care to abstain from
fighting. In fact, the war in the North of Spain has been
carried on, for the last month, with the most punctilious
regard to decorum. The Carlists and the QUEEN'S troops
have repeatedly been within musket shot of each other;
and after firing a few rounds, apparently meant as an
attack upon the spirits of the air, the clouds, or the
Man-in-the- Moon, both parties mutually retired, to
enjoy the praises officially showered upon them for
their amazing prowess. It is no unusual thing for the
Spaniards to commence a fire of musketry at the distance
of three miles from the enemy, so that when the armies
really meet, there is not a handful of ammunition remain-
ing on either side, and the men, after looking at each other,
mutually retire triumphant, of course, to their respective
quarters. General EVANS and his auxiliaries, will soon put
an end to this system of warfare.

We have received Lisbon Papers to the 26th of July.
In the official part of the Diario do Govern() we find a long
Decree, addressed to the authorities in every part of the
Kingdom, for carrying into operation Articles 5 and 6 of
the law of April, 1835, for the division of the country into
districts, as a means of more effectually carrying on the ad-
ministration of justice. By it the kingdom of Portugal and
the Algarves, and the adjacent Islands, are divided into dis-
tricts (distrittos administrinos), the districts into communes,
(Coneelhos) ; each of which communes is composed of one
or more parishes, (Fregudzinos.) In every district there
is to be a magistrate called the Civil Governor ; in every
commune an Administrador de Concelhos ; in every parish
a Parochial Commissary—(Comnzissario de Parochia.)
Each of these magistrates to have a body •f citizens elected
by the inhabitants.

1. A General District Junta.
2. A Municipal Council.

3. A Parochial Junta.

Besides the Magistrates and Administrative bodies above-
mentioned, there shall be in the capital of each district, a
permanent Council, called District Council.
The decree then goes into details of the mode of election
of those bodies, and their attributes, and then of the several
magistrates, &c. The division of the Kingdom into pro-
vinces, districts, and communes, is added in detail. The
general statement is as follows ;
Provinces. Dist. Communes. Houses (Fogos.)
Alinho
Tras os Muntes ... 2
Beira Alta
Beira Baica 1
Estremadura
Alemtejo
Algarve

17 799 791,757
The Adjacent Archipelagoes.
__

'lsla—nds. . Houses.
The Azores (East District) 2 ... 20,000
( West District)
District of Madeira and Porto Santo 2
District of Cape Verd

Total... ...... ... 23

The Diario gives a catalogue of Houses, &c., sold as
national property on the 21st and 22d of this month. The
whole were valued at 39,362,800 Reis, and sold for
58,481,500.

The Portuguese Government has published a suspension
of the commercial treaty entered into between Great
Britain and Portugal in 1810. The expiration of this
treaty would have taken place on the Ist of January, 1836.
We are assured that no intimation of the intentions of the
Lisbon Cabinet to suspend the treaty was previously com-
municated to the English Government.

Hamburg and German Papers have been received. The
former bring intelligence of a violent assault committed by
wretches:calling themselves Christians, upon the Jewish popu-
lation of that city. This is the more monstrous, as it is noto-
rious that no body of people on earth are more averse to riot-
ing and breaches of the public peace than the Jews. We
regret to learn that the outrage was rather encouraged than
attempted to be suppressed by the more respectable
Christian inhabitants.

The Hanoverian Gazette expresses some apprehension
of the intentions of the Emperor of RUSSIA, in collecting
such a large body of troops at Kalisch.

HAMBURG BORSEN LIAL.LE. Aoo. 4.
FOREIGN FUNDS. Bills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 percent.
Ditto Bank Shares 1323 1320
Anglo-Russian Loan 105%
Ditto, 5 per cent lOO 99%
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent
Rusalan inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th

Series
L • .
S 9814 98g,
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 871,4
Ditto, 3 per cent. 5B V 4
Dutch 2ye per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents —
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 74.5E
Norwegian Loan of 1534, 4 ptr cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents.... ....
Ditto 4 per Cent. _
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 46%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, AUG. 4.-13 11 ; two months, 13 9;t.
ST. Pureksetratar, Jun' 24.—Three months, li, 33-64.
STOCKHOLM, JULY 23.—Two months!, 124.
BREMEN, AUG. L—Tao months, 627.
LEIPSIC, JULY 31.—Two months, 6 17.
—Hamburg Papers, Aug. 4.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, AUG. 1.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4i per cent.... 101% 10134
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 99 98%
Exchange en London, Two months —....6 27
Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 2.

New York Papers to the 12th ult. have been received•
They bring intelligence to the same date in the preceding
month from Mexico, stating that the South American
States hove entered into a Federal Union on nearly the
same principle as the United States of North America ;
and that Santa Anna, with whom the scheme originated,
has been appointed Supreme President of the United Re-
public.