The Sun. — 1836-02-06 (London, England)

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1836.  We hardly recollect the opening of a Session of Parliament on the first and second sittings of which so many important notices of motions were given as on the first sitting of the present. In The Sun of yesterday may be found a column of notices respecting Bills and Resolutions of the House on the subjects of Tithe Composition—lrish Municipal Reform—County Rates—Orange Lodges—Poor Laws for Ireland—Polish Nationality—Church Reform—Removal of the Bishops from the House of Lords—Pensions—Agricultural Distress—Revision of Taxation—and many other most important questions. Among these we are glad to find a notice of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, setting forth that on the Bth of March, he purposes bringing in a Bill to amend and consolidate the laws relative to the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. We have only to express our regret that a measure so imperatively called for by the country should be so long delayed. The Stamp duty certainly is not among those questions which have not been duly considered. No plea can now be put forth as to its novelty and unexpectedness ; and if there be any whose interests will suffer from its operation, they undoubtedly have :had sufficient warning to make preparations against the worst. But though the delay in bringing forward this question is greater than we were prepared to expect, the measure of amelioration may be so framed as fully to satisfy us and the country, for a partial disappointment. The Government will now have it in its power to prove the sincerity of its dependence upon the honesty of an unfettered Press. This is the measure that must seal the doom of the Tories.  The zeal manifested by Don CARL Os for the salvation of the English Protestant prisoners, whom he scrupled to murder previous to their being baptized in the Catholic faith, appears to have doubly endeared him to his pious Tory partizans in the House of Commons. No doubt they are delighted with the prospect of raising a Prince to the Spanish throne, who regards the consequences of dying in the faith of the Church of England as a punishment too great, even for the crime of rebellion against his sacred person and authority. But their exhibition in the House of Commons last night was nevertheless most unfortunate for the cause which they volunteered to advocate. Their wailings over the atrocities perpetrated by command of the QUEEN'S Generals, gave  rise to disclosures, on the part of Lord P- ALMERSTON, for which the faction was by no means prepared. Mr. GROVE PRICE was the principal Tory performer on this occasion—and seldom has it been our lot to witness a part so lugubriously acted. The Honourable Gentleman was overpowered by the depth of his emotions when he came to discuss, the impious project for devoting the conventual property to the uses of the State. There was not a spot in Spain pressed by the sandalled foot, or shadowed by the greasy garment of a mendicant monk, which did not appear as sacred in the eyes of the Honorable Gentleman, as the ground encompassing the burning Bush in the vicinity of Horeb. In fact, we expected, when the Hon. Gentleman had got this far in his speech, that he was about to give notice of a motion for restoring to the Church of Rome the conventual property—especially the Abbey lands— confiscated during the reigns of