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TIDE SUN, LONDON,SATITRDAY, JULY 22, 1837

and religious liberty ; that she was early taught to--
respect the dictates of a people, not a _faction ; and
that she throws herself " unreservedly"—to use the
emphatic language of Lord Duals Ast:---into the arms
of Reform. Under cireumskances so auspicious as
these, shall we falter, or turn back ? No, we will on.
with the great, steady movement that is at work
throughout Europe ; anl shun. that we arc capable of
appreciating the sentiments of the hest of the Btuns-
wick family that ever sat on-a British throne.
Had the people no stronger inducement to exert
themselves, an abundantly sufficient one would be
found in the present flagrant conduct of the Tories.
They are lying in all quarters, and at every hour
of the day. Ordinary calumny no longer suffices
them ; they must have recourse to falsehoods such as
even MUNCHALSEN—the..type of the party—never
dreamed of. Look at their recent lies against
EVANS, DUNCOMBE, GROTE, BYNG, and Husts.
—net one of which but has been a dozen tiins. re-
futed—and then ask yourselves this question, Country=
men, w.''..7:/.!!r. in who can be guilty of conduct like
this, merely to promote an electioneering purpose, can
be safely entrusted with the administration of a great
country, where all depends on the good faith of its
rulers ? Ashamed of the present behaviour of the
King of IT ANovEn, the Tories are now preparing
to disclaim connexion with him. They evince symp-.
toms of an inclination to "cut the painter." But
this subterfuge will not avail them. It stares through
the varnish. Up to the last moment of his quitting
England, the Duke of CUMDERLAND was the
avowed leader of the Tory faction. He spoke
for them—he voted with them—he intrigued for
them—he was their associate in private life ;
and, to sum up all his tolerant qualities in
one emphatic term, he was the recognized head of the
Orange firm in Ireland I Wherever Tory mischief was
brewing, there was lie in the thick of it. When LYND-
IIUItST charged the whole Catholic population of the
sister-country with being " aliens," who so vociferous
in his applause as the Duke of CUMBERLAND ?
Yet now, forsooth, he has dissolved all connexion with
the Tories, and is merely to be regarded in the light of
a foreign Prince—nothing more I Again we say, this.
subterfuge will never answer. The King of HitovErt
is still heir-presumptive to the British Throne, and so
long as this is the case, his connexion with the faction
can never be dissolved.
Turning from this subject, we may congratulate the
people on the satisfactory progress that Reform is
everywhere making. Our accounts from all quarters
are more cheering than any we have had since the
memorable struggle during the Reform Bill. " The
heather is on fire" throughout Scotland ; and in Eng-
land and Ireland not a day passes that does not bring
tidings of the resignation of Tory candidates. Un-
equalled SIBTHORPE! Lincoln is lost to him ;
DAWSON will have nothing to do with Devonport ;
PERCEVAL medidates a retreat from Finsbury ; and
Ti IGNMOUTH " refuseth to be comforted," because
he hath no hope of Marylebone. As regards that
Saint of Saints,: Sir ANDREW, he has already bolted
from Wigtonshire, and the poor may henceforth in-
hale a mouthful of fresh air on the Sabbath.
These are cheering symptoms, but they should in-
duce us to persevere, not relax, in our exertions. We
should deem nothing gained, till all is gained ; and re-
gard the Tories, as a party who still have it in their
power to anuoy us. Above all, we should bear con-
stantly in mind, that -they are, what they ever have
been, the sworn foes to freedom ; and that their creed
is unchangeable as the laws of the Medes and Per-
sians.

The latest accounts from Hanover represent the
public mind as in a state of great excitement. The
proclamation of King ERNEST AUGUSTUs has
proved too much for the natural and habitual phlegm
of the most muzzy-headed of the German population.
From one extremity of Hanover to the other the in-
habitant's look as if they were a colony of Frenchmen,
so mercurial have they become since the promulgation
of the first Royal Act of the Tory KING and Grand
Master• of the Orangemen of Great Britain and Ire-
land. The joy which the people of England evinced
on the departure of his Highness of CUMBERLAND
from this country—the absence of everything like a
leave-taking, in the shape of public addresses op the
accession of his Highness to the Electoral Throne of
his ancestors—and the realization of the dark forebod-
ings of the Reformers in his first act as a SOVE-
REIGN, have increased in a tenfold degree the appre-
hensions of all the honest and liberty-loving Hanove-
rians. In defiance, therefore, of the proclamation
they have entered upon the exercise of one of
the rights confirmed to them by the Constitution—that
of petitioning the SoVEREIGN individually and collec-
tively to make no change in the existing liberal insti-
tutions of the country. These petitions are daily
pouring into the capital, those from the prineipal
towns being signed by all the local authorities, and the
majority of the Ex-Deputies. Had the Constitution
of Hanover been in any respect as liberal as the Con-
stitution of England since the passing of the Reform
Bill, its modification by a Tory KING would not have
surprised the people of Germany. But when it is re-
membered that the Constitution of WILLIAM IV. is
essentially Conservative in its character—that it merely
guaranteed the people a surety against the absolute
despotism which prevailed under the Electorate, an
attempt to abolish it is tantamount to a declaration of
war against liberty. The Hanoverian Estates, coosti;
tutionally summoned, consist of one hundred and one
Deputies, of whom forty are Nobles, ten are Bishops,
and forty-nine representatives of towns. The Nobles
must have a clear yearly income of six thousand dol-
lars ; the Knights six hundred, and the • Bur-
gesses three hundred. As the entire population of
Hanover falls short of two millions, and the bulk of the
people, miners, peasants, and labourers without pro-
perty, the suffrage is extremely limited. This indirectly
places the entire controul of the elections within the
influence of the Crown. Add to these Conservative
restrictions that the powers of the Chambers are far
from extensive; that without the consent of the Crown
they cannot interfere with any of the chartered mono•
lies enjoyed by the inhabitants of the petty sub-
divisions of Hanover at the expense of their fellow-
subjects, and the despotical designs of the tyrant that
could violate such a Constitution will appear in the
hateful hue in which we seek to represent them. De-
fective as is the Constitution it secures some degree of
personal freedom to the subject—it accords rights as
well as duties to the people—and it limits the exac-
tions, and regulates the executive powers of the Cro
n.
These are invaluable concessions to a people subject to
the political bondage under whch the Hanoverians
groaned, previous to the commencement of the 19th cen-
tury. They were then not a jot freer than the Russian
serfs, with the exception of those who enjoyed the pur-
chaseable privileges accorded by the Electoral Charters.
Every chartered Corporation had its own privileges and
immunities, for which it paid dearly ; and, as a matter
of course, its own peculiar form of communicating
with the Sovereign. In this way the SOVEREIGN
ruled as despotically as he pleased ; for as the inte-
rests of districts were contrived to clash perpetually,
the municipality incurring the Prince's displeasure was
almost on every occasion denounced by all the munici-
pal bodies whose trade it restricted. This is the semi-
barbarous system that the English Tories wish to see
re-establiihed in Hanover, with a view to its ultimate
importation to Great Britain. But the experiment
will not succeed, even among the miners of the Hartz
mountains. In the mean time the Southern German
States have taken the alarm at such a barefaced
violation of the Constitutional rights of one ,of
the Confederacy ; and—if we arc not greatly
misinformed—EßNEST AUGUSTUS will be summoned
before the Diet, as soon as the subject can be formally
brought before it. What course his MAJESTY will
take, in the event of such a proceeding, will depend
entirely on the instructions which he shall receive
from LYNDIIUit4T, FEEL, and the leaders of the

Tory party in England.
Whatever be the upshot of this affair, vitt congra-
tulate our fellow-countrymen on the merciful interposir
tion of Providence, hy whiPh Great Britain has
o;paped having her sceptre sullied by the grasp of the
hoary despot thy now oppresses Hanover. We fur-
ther congratt4atc on the exposure which has
been made 9f the designs pf the lofies, had Cum-
DEBLAP/ thr9ll4 the
.o.o°T°Ys VenPi of his

Orange satellites, succeeded in changing the order
of succession to the Crown of the United King-
dom. We are sorry for the misfortunes of Hano-
verbut our afflictions would be greater, did they
fall on England. We like Hanover much, but
Etfgland still more. This, therefore, must be
an (Acme for expressing gratitude to Heaven, •
which, in severing Hanover from England, has mer-
cifully removed every cause of British regret at the se-
paration by ridding us of CUMBERLAND. Rathcr
than not get rid of the Duke illustrious " by cour-
tesy," we verily believe we would consent to let the
Canadas adrift after Hanover. But we now begin to
suspect his MAJESTY had an ulterior view in taking
the oath of allegiance to Queen VICTORIA. He
must have meditated a retreat, should Hanover prove
too hot for him.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Thursday have
been received. In the course of Thursday afternoon
the following; telegraphic despatches were communi-
cated to the French Government

‘" TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.
" ' BORDEAUX, JULY 18.
" ' Intelligence from Valencia, dated the 10th inst., at night,
had reached Saragossa. It mentions the approach of Don
Carlos to that city. The Governor of Novella wrote on the
12th that the Carlists had raised the siege of Castellan de la
Plana alid were retiring on Alcora. The courier with the
Madrid mail of the 13t1;-had not reached Saragossa on the 15th.

BORDEAUX, JULY 19, lI_ALF•PAST 7 r.st.L.The Pretender
appears inclined to direct his ma-ch on the kingdom of Mur-
cia. He left Torres on the 11th, taking the road to Liria,
leaving Valencia on the left. Oraa was on the same day at
Jeriea. Buerens had arrived at Teruel, and left immediately
to join Oraa at Moya. Espartero wrote on the 12th, that
he was marching by the coast of Dera and Calua (?) to ef-
fect a junction with Bucrens. The bands of Langostera and
others, which bad been in the environs of Saragossa, had re-
tired on Belehite. The roads were open, and the couriers
with the overdue mails from Madrid had arrived."

This news is exceedinly favourable to the Consti-
tutional cause. But we will not, after the experience
we have had, attempt to draw conclusions from it.
On Wednesday the police searched the houses of
Viscount WALSH, editor of La Mode ; M. GENOUDE,
editor of the Gazelle de France; and M. BER RYER,
the Deputy, in the absence of these gentlemen, and
seized all their papers. Viscount WALSH had been
previously seized at Strasburg, and several letters, ad-
dressed to the members of the exiled Royal Family,
found on his person.
• The following extracts include what other news we
find in these Journals :