The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-02 00:00:00

Carlists have planted their besieging artillery on their posi-
tion is front of Espartero. Alaix has arrived at Ona with
4,000 or 5,000 men. The division of Gomez has remained
at Orduna in observation."
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The following extract from a letter, dated Bayonne,
Dec. 24, includes the whole of the intelligence received
from Bilboa :-
" News has been received direct from the bead-quarters of
Espartero, who, since the 21st has been on the right bank of
the Nervion, with between 8,000 and 9,000 men and a nu-
merous train of artillery, while an equal number of men ma-
noeuvre on the left bank. If we may believe report, the sol-
diers are well disposed, and Bilboa will be delivered. The
Carlists have withdrawn their artillery, which was directed
against the place with a view to oppose that of Espartero.
An action is inevitable, and it is supposed will take place to-
day. Gomez is at Sodupe, four leagues from Durango.
Alaix was a few days since at Ona, three leagues from Bal-
maceda, with 5,000 men. That General had followed up the
Carlists, in order to operate a powerful diversion, and to efface
by a signal victory the stigma which he has cast on his cha-
racter by his late acts of insubordination."
There is less reason to hope that ALAIX will fight
the Carlists than there is cause to fear that he will
take advantage of his favourable position to go over
with his whole force to the PRETENDER. He is
now within ; few leagues of DON CARLOS'S head-
ruArters, atu= it is not unlikely that he may prefer de-
'ser'tion t;itrie qhances of an acquittal from the charges
preferrea\vainst him tu the Cortes. The latest ad-
vices from Madrid are of the 21st ult. They are mere
";-rqsetititins of by-gone rumours and anticipations.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Pais, DEC. 30.
Five per Cents., 107 f. 70c. 75c. SOc. 90c.
Four per Cent., 9SE 95c.
Three per Cents. 78f. 70c. 8.5 c
Bank Actions. 2,310 E
Rente de Naples, 97f. 96f. 97f. 15c. •
Roman Five per Cents., 100%.
Spanish 'Actives, 21% %%.
Spanish Passives, 5%.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 27%.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 35c. • money, 251.32%c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 11%e. ; money, 25f. 12%c.
-tours Authentiaue.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 107 f. 95c.
Three per Cent. Rentes, 79f.
Bank Actions, 2,310 f.
Rente de Naples, 97f. 45c.
Roman Five per Cents., 100%.
Brussels Bank, 31%.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 29.
Spanish Actives, 20%.
Spanish Passives, 5%.
New Differes, 8.

A Morning Paper gives a long report of a guzzle
in the Tory interest, which was held at Wigan on
Wednesday last. The ostensible object of this very
raffish affair was to pay a mark of respect to the
Tory Member for the borough, Mr. J. H. KEARSLEY ;
land, in doing this, to give colour to the hallucination
about reaction, by getting together as many of the
lowest classes in the town as could be bribed by a gra-
tuitous dinner, and then dubbing these hungry wretches
" Conservative Operatives." A promiscuous rabble
assembled, as might have been anticipated, and fright-
ened away every decent person who might have been
disposed from party motives to have countenanced a
Tory manifestation. 'We are given to understand in-
deed that Lord WHARNCLIFFE, Lord SANDON, Lord
SKELMERSDALE, and the Lord knows how many
more of the same kidney, " would have attended, but"
—your but is a great peace-maker---" but each of
these gentlemen sent letters to the secretary of the As-
sociation, regretting their unavoidable absence." No
doubt they did, and thereby shou ed that, though rank
Tories, they have not yet lost all self-respect.
Those who did attend the feed made miserable work of
the intellectual part of the treat, if we may be pardoned
for degrading that word by applying it to the non-
sensical rubbish uttered after dinner by some of the
party—that is to say, by all of them who essayed the
delivery of a speech. The Chairman—the late Tory
Mayor—had the good sense not to commit himself by
word of mouth, for though placed in the situation
which often tempts a silly man to make a fool of him-
self, Mr. LORD resigned the speaking department to
others fonder of displaying their oratorical powers, who
kindly relieved him from the task of announcing the
toasts, not one of which was given from the Chair,
except the health of that renowned personage, Mr.
HULTON of Hulton. A so-called operative made the
first speech ; and meaning to uphold the unnatural
connection between religion and politics, stumbled
upon the happy expression, that " Church and State
had become almost a byeword throughout the country."
The worthy speaker then boasted, that " what he'
said, he said in charity and brotherly love ;" and by'
way of clenching this assertion, added, that " he never
knew a Radical that was willing to work forhis living."
What say the Radicals of Wigan to this honourable
testimony borne to their character by the " charitable''
Tory operative, Mr. J. HAMWELL ?
Him followed another operative, who kindly in-
formed his friends that a poet of old (alias Alexander
Pope, Esq.,) had Mr. KEARSLEY in his mind's eye
when he said that " An honest man's the noblest
work of GOD." Whether Mr. KEARSLEY was'
exactly the person shadowed forth by the
" poet of old " in that line, we will not take upon us to
determine. All that we can say is that Mr. K.'s
speech in reply—he being the lion of the evening—
was the shortest, and at the same time the dullest—
always excepting that of sleep-begetting WILKINS—
that was delivered during the evening.
One GUNNING, a parson, also drivelled out a
quantity of trash, the main drift of which was that
parsons are well employed when they mingle in poli-
tics. We trust the benefit of this doctrine will be ex-
tended to the Catholic clergy in Ireland, who have
sustained such a storm of pious wrath for doing that
which is so meritorious in the Protestant clergy—and
doing it too much better and more effectually.
This scion of the English Church was appropriately
supported by a Rev. Scotchman—a Mr. M'KENZIE—
one of those double-faced animals, who come to Eng-
land, and are kept from starvation by the vo-
luntary contributions of the people, and yet
have the indecency to rail against the vo-
luntary system. This consistent person, in
the course of one of the most bombastic effu-
sions we have ever read, took occasion to designate
the English Church " the Apostolic Established
Church," and to appeal to the authority of JOHN
KNOX at the same time ! Only fancy the feelings of
KNox,could he have heard the absurd rhodomontade
of this empty-pated blockhead.

All the Mails have arrived to-day but the Edin
burgh, and the Halifax.

Viscount Morpeth is expected in town from Dublin
this day, January 2, accompanied by his private secretary.
On Saturday the ice on the Serpentine would have
borne at the western end, and many would have made the
attempt had they not been prevented by the prompt move
mcnts of the men belonging to the Humane Society, o-
whom no less than sixteen were on the spot during the dayf
At Rosamond Pond, in the Green Park, there were both
skaiters and sliders. The great reservoir, opposite Camtlen
House, did not bear. On the canal in St. James's Park
there were a few skaiters on Saturday.

THE AUTHOR OF " VIVIAN GREY.",---What-
ever faults may be ascribed to this writer, it is certain that
want of originality is not one of them. Mr. D'lsraeli is
entirely original. We are never reminded of any one else
—on the contrary, we are startled and surprised. In any
other age than the present, or even now, had he lived less
in society, Mr. D'lsraeli would have been a poet. He has
essentially the poetic temperament—the intense self-con-
sciousness, the impetuosity and the eye for the beautiful.
The first reading of " Vivian Grey" was an epoch in youth's
memory. It was one of those books over which we read
ourselves out of breath. What was not, therefore, to be
expected from " Henrietta Temple"—a Love Story, from
the same pen—from him who imagined the soft yet sunny
being- of Violet Fane, or the more passionate mystery of
Alceste ? much, certainly—but notwithstanding these high
expectations, few, we imagine, will rise from the perusal of
this new production without a considerable increase of ad-
miration for the genius and talents of the highly-gifted

Henry Fitzmaurice will come of age on Fri-
,e Zth January ; but owing to the late bereavement
family of the Noble Marquis, the Lord President of
',punch, the event will not be celebrated ; nor will
,nry th.s the title of Earl o f Kerry or Sher'
the accouchement of thc.! Countess of