The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-22 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY,

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in answer to Lord BaouDitAm's
inquiries, said that the imprisonment for debt bill had hi com-
mittee received important alterations and improvements.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY gave notice, that on Thurs-
day next he should move for papers regarding the policy of the
government respecting the war in Spain.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a great number of petitions for
the immediate abolition of the negro-apprenticeship system;
also petitions against any additional endowments to the church
of Scotland.

The bills on the table having been forwarded a stage, their
lordships adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

-Lord j. RUSSIs'LL said, in answer to Mr. WARBURTON'S in-
quiry, that .he intended the Whitsuntide recess to extend only
over Whit-Monday and the following Tuesday.
Mr. H (Jim having instituted inquiries regarding the Canadas.
Lord J. 1.-CussuLL said that various new laws had been passed
to meet the altered state of circumstances; that they had heard
of capital convictions, but had uo intelligence of capital ex-
ecutions.

Mr. LAtioticanns said, in answer to Col. SIBTHOKP'S in-
quiry, that there was no deficient supply of fourpeuny pieces,
if bankers and others wiShed for them.

• Lord J. ItusSELL, iu answer to Sir F. Burden's and Sir R.
Peel's inquiries,stated that he now intended to proceed with the
municipal corpOratiotis (Ireland) bill next week, and previ-
ously to moving further un the tithes (Ireland) resolutions;
and then, when he proceeded with the question, he should limit
his proposition to the'first resolution—namely, the propriety of
converting tithe-into a rent-charge.
The CH ANcELLott of the Exerts:4(3E* then brOught for Ward
his " financial statement."

The discussion on it occupied the evening.
The CHANCLLLOU of the EXCHEQUER, in reply, said that he
could not listen to any proposition to alter ttie rate of interest
fur deposits iu savings banks.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SPAIN.

(Private correspondence of the Morning Herald.)
LKSACA, MAY 13.
The official communication which I have received this evening
is highly interesting, and merits serious attention. It will be seen
that, notwithstanding the hostile attitude of some Navarrese bat-
talions against the junta, the troops readily obey the order of
Don Carlos, and show the greatest attachment and love towards
Christinos endeavour to turn this insubordination to their
account.

But I now state, and that without the least hesitation, and
time will prove I am correct, that at no one period of the civil
war has the enthusiasm of the Carlist troops been greater than
at the present moment; and never had the Christinos a less pros-
pect of obtaining a footing in the provinces. The,troops complain
of the junta, a body elected by toe people. Don Carlos will, in
all probability, dissolve the junta, and call upon the people to
elect a fresh one. This done, all complaint will cease, and order
aud tranquility be restored.
Within the last eight days Guergue aud his division have
shown great energy ; on the 7th the general took Las
Banderas, a fort lying between Bilboa and the sea ; the Bth
he was at Amurrio ; the 10th he got possession of Nauclares de
Oca, near to Vittoria; and on the 11th he entered Estella. If
you refer to the map you will find this to be a most surprising
march.

A letter from Paris, dated Thursday last, says, "An attaché
of the minister for foreign affairs left this city yesterday for Bor-
deaux ; he will go to Bayonne and the Basque provinces; his
mission is, they say, of the highest importance, nothing less than
putting an end to the civil war which desolates Spain. The minis-
ter is said to have asserted yesterdaay that the affairs of Spain'
would be terminated by the 25th of August."
A letter front Estella, of the 12th, contains the following:—
"On that morning Don Carlos, accompanied by his staff, and
the Infante Don Sebastian, repaired tin horseback to Dicastilio,
where the Navarfese battalions were assembled, and harangued
them on the subject of their duties and future prospects. The
Prince's address was loudly cheered, anti the men are stated to
have shown great enthusiasm for his person and cause. The
troops were then passed in review, and on the Prince's retain
to the town he was met at the gates by the chief men in Estella,
who, together with a number of the people, escorted him to his
residence."

The Times has the following :—"Adviccs from Bayonne of the
14th inst., state that Don Carlos, who had resolved ou retiring
to Guipuscoa, had consented, at the request of the junta of
Navarre, to rvnain i❑ this last province, where his presence, it
•was hopea, wouiu array unanna .the
Navarrese troops. Villareal, suspected of being the instigator•
of those movements, had been ordered off to Biscay. He,
however, declined obeying, and even defied the minister Of
Don Carlos to arrest him. General Diego Leon, with his.divi-
sitm, was within two leagues of Estella, watching the progress
of those events."

Letters from Madrid of the 9th instant, together with the
journals of the same date, coincide in statinc, that it was Iriarte
and not Espartero, who encountered Count Negri lately, and put
him to the rout. We find that the unfortunate and dispersed
Carlists, after all their defeats and drubbings, are left in force to
the extent of 2000 men. In the Cortes, on the-Bth, a debate took
place, in which these trifling discrepancies made their appear-
ance; for General Cordova, who is one of Espartero's bitterest
foes, put forward a proposition signed by himself, the Count de
las Navas, and one or two other leading men, demanding that
thanks should be rendered to Gen. Iriarte, for his brilliant con-
duct in having pursued, encountered, and wholly destroyed the
Negri faction, and in having reduced its numbers from 7000 to
2000.