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LONDON.
FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 18, 1837

A t a Reform Dinner given the other day by Capt.
TOWNSEND to the Liberal electors of Tamworth,
some sensible remarks were made by a gentleman
named KNIGHT on the subject of the cry of the
" Church in Danger," which the Tory parsons have
been so diligently getting up during the elections.
" For his part," observed the speaker, "he was
ashamed of hearing the everlasting complaint that the
Church was in danger. What was the meaning of this
cry ? Was it meant that the doctrines of Christianity
were in clanger ? No ; all that was meant was, the
money was in danger." This is strictly the fact.
The Tory parsons have little concern for the
doctrines : it is for the breeches-pockets of the
Establishment that they arc chiefly apprehensive.
When, therefore, they tell the people that the
Church is in danger, they mean that the Arch-
' bishop- of CANTERBURY-S fincen thousand per-an—
num is in danger ; that the exorbitant revenues of
the unworking Deans and Chapters are in danger ;
that the system of pluralities and non-residence is in
danger ; in a word, that Reform threatens to hear hard
upon their darling temporalities. They hare no other
meaning than this, though they would fain persuade
the people that their solicitude arose only from spi-
ritual considerations. But JOHN BULL will not be
much longer gulled by these artful devices. The
Tory parsons have cried " Wolf !" so often that the
cry has lost half its effect, and in a short time will be
totally unheeded. Captain TOWNSEND, who followed
Mr. KNIGHT, bore similar testimony to the strict con-
scientiousness of priestcraft. Speaking of a certain Tam-
worth clergyman, the Rev. Mr. BLit K, he said, " About
forty-three years ago he was promoted to a handsome
living by his (Captain TowssEND's) grandfather.
In consequence of the kindness shown by his family
to this gentleman during that long course of years, he
had received a very large sum of motley, so that it
might have been supposed that some small remnant,
some solitary emotion of grateful feeling might have
actuated his conduct towards the descendant of his
benefactor. But this Clergyman was not content with
mere neutrality, or conducting his opposition in an
honourable manner; but he sent for men who had pro-
mised to vote for him (Captain TOWNSEND), and by
every means endeavoured to persuade them to break
their word—to commit a breach of common truth and
honesty by violating their promises." This is a rich trait
of character in a Tory parson. But it is not characteristic
of one member only, but of the entire Tory parsonie frater-
nity. During the elections, BLICKS abounded in every
county and city in the kingdom, exerting their malign,
unconstitutional influence, without the slightest regard
to propriety. But the best portion of Captain
TOWNSEND'S speech was reserved for Sir ROBERT
PEEL, whom he lashed without mercy, and with a
point and spirit that must sting that Right Hon. Ba-
ronet to the quick. It was but the other day that Sir
ROBERT—who, by the bye, is greatly addicted to
the bepraising of himself by inuendo—spoke in
high terms of the candid way—are we never to
have done with this Tory-Jesuit's professions of
candour ?—in which he had acted towards the Tam-
worth electors. He would not coerce one for the
world ! Not he ! GOD forbid he should ever
even dream of tampering with the freedom of election !
He left all Tamworth to vote just as it pleased, for he
was above trickery—above having recourse to uncon-
stitutional influences. On the honour of a gentleman
he could say that his hands were clean. There was
no damning spot on them. Such is Sir ROBERT'S
account of himself. Let us hear now what Captain
TOWNSEND says. "He stood free from the charges of
duplicity—from those violations of honour, of principle,
and of truth, which, so long as the eternal distinctions
between right and wrong remained unconfounded,
would affix a stigma upon Sir ROBERT PEEL which
could never be wiped off. The means which Sir RO-
BERT PEEL and his party had adopted to prevent his
his (CAPTAIN TOWSEND'S) return were in the
highest degree disgraceful. He asserted this to Sir
ROBERT'S face on the hustings, and he would re-as-
sert it to the world—it should go forth that where-
ever the name of Sir ROBERT PEEL had reached,
the disgrace which he had incurred should accompany it,
and, if possible, meet him in every direction, and
touch him at every point, and look him in the face on
every occasion. The proofs were as clear as daylight,
that Sir ROBERT PEEL, under the mask of secrecy,
had exerted his utmost powers to effect the return of
Captain A'Coußr, and to prevent his ; and he had
done this in utter contempt of reiterated declarations
and promises, solemnly and publicly made." We are
not in the slightest degree surprised at this Jesuitical
conduct on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet. On
the contrary, we fully anticipated it, for he is the
most consummate master of political legerdemain now

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1837.

in existence. No one can be so candid in speech, so
tricky in act. His powers of plausibility are really
miraculous, for how else could he have duped the
Tam worth electors into a belief that he had no wish
to interfere with them, when all the time he was se-
cretly—at least so says Captain TOWNSEND, and we
place the most implicit reliance on every syllable
of his statement—tampering with their consciences ?
Sir ROBERT PEEL, you are, it must be confessed, a
great man, but dare to be open and manly in your po-
litical character, and, rely on it, you will become a
much greater one. Try for once in your life to be
straight-forward—if only by way of novelty. You have
really no idea what a sensation such a change of cha-
racter would excite ! People would stare at you, thus
metamorphosed, as a wonder ; and no longer give the
Liberal party credit for possessing every political
recommendation for which you have, for so many
years of your life, been deficient.

The public organs of that patriotic party who prefer
Hanoverian to English policy and the interests of King
ERNEST to those of Queen VICTORIA, are now be-
ginning to discover that their patrons, after an election-
eering career in which they have gone beyond anything,
and everything hitherto acomplishhed by the most un-
principled profligacy, are as far from their darling ob-
ject as they were when they entered upon that des-
perate course. They now find that the intimidation
and coercion which they have exercised over their mise-
rable serfs in the agricultural districts of England,
the bribery which they have practised to so unex-
ampled an extent in the boroughs, and the awful de-
moralization which, by these and other means, they
have let loose among the people, have, instead of pro-
moting their main purpose, tended greatly to defeat it.
Not only has the notoriety which accompanies the
undisguised and universal prostration of every moral
principle before the unhallowed idol of political ascer-
dancy deprived their few successes of all that could
give them any value in public estimation ; but these
very successes thus gained in England, in violation
of everything sacred, have had the effect of
rousing the patriotism of the people of Ireland ard
Scotland to an unprecedented degree. The exertions
which the Reformers have made in those divisions 3f
the empire are above all praise, and will in their result,
numerically counter-balance, while in all other respects
they infinitely outweigh the vaunted gains, of the de-
pendants of a Foreign despot. Scotland has sent, cr
will ultimately send, to Parliament, nearly three-fourths
of her representatives to advocate the cause of the
QUEEN and Reform, while Ireland will furnish al
almost equal proportion of her Members to the Liberal
phalanx.
This result is as gratifying to the friends as it is
galling to the enemies of improvement. To find se
great a sacrifice of principle made in vain—to have
lost so much character, without anything like an adc-
quate return in power or pelf, or even in the most dis-
tant prospect of the advent of these adorable Divini-
ties, is, it must be confessed, calculated to try the
temper and to mortify the spirit of a Tory. We are
afraid we can hold out no topic of consolation to the
party—we sec nothing in their present state, and not
even a speck in the horizon—on which they can found
a hope, or even the shadow of a hope, if we may be
allowed so to express ourselves. But assuredly they
derive no benefit from attempting, as some of their
scribbling gentry are doing, to depreciate the value of
the additions made to the Liberal cause, because they
are Irish or Scotch. The time is pne by, when the
British public could have any sympathy with these ille-
beral, exclusive, and, we will add, anti-national senti-
ments. It may suit the views of a party, one main object
of whose policy has always been to oppress and grind,
and degrade the people of Ireland, as if they were
"aliens" not only from the English, but from mankind—
it may suit this base faction to cast a stigma upon the
repre:.:entatives of the Sister Island ; but they will find
no response in the hearts of Englishmen. The only
abettors of such opinions, the only encouragers of such
feelings, are to be found among the English subjects of
the King of HANOVER—the despicable outcasts from
their country's society, and depreciators of their country's
honour.

We copy from the Morning Chronicle of to-day an
admirable refutation of the foul calumnies of the Tories
respecting the representation of Ireland, to which we
have pleasure in calling public attention. According
to the apostate Times, and the apostolical, unblushing
Standard, and the fashionable crim.-con.-narrating
Post, the strait-laced Protestantisin of the House of
Commons is swamped by a flood of Popery from the
bogs of the Sister Kingdom. But this assertion,
like all others made by the unprincipled organs
of the Tory faction, is proved by the Chronicle
to be wholly and absolutely false—that Ireland,
instead of increasing the number of her Cabolic re-
presentatives, is sessionally diminishing them—and that
while Reform has obtained ten additional champions
by the late election in Ireland, the Catholics have al-
lowed seven Representatives of their own religious
communion to be replaced by Members of the Esta-
blished Church. This is a conclusive proof that Ire-
land seeks good government, and not the triumph of a
creed—that while in reality Protestant England dis-
plays bigotry in its most hateful form, Catholic Ireland
manifests a toleration and a patriotism which would
reflect credit on the most civilised nation in the world.

We have news from Madrid to the evening of the
11th inst., though we have only received journals to
the 9th. The report of the evacuation of Segovia by
the Carlists on the morning of the sth, proves to he
unfounded. The rebels were in possession of the
town on the Bth, and had received orders from Don
CARLOS to hold it at all hazards till reinforcements
would arrive, as he proposed making it the seat, pro
tempore, of his Court and Government. It was fur-
ther rumoured that QUILEZ, at the head of a division
of 6,000 Carlists, had left the Ebro by forced marches
for Segovia. On the 11th a band of rebels appeared
within three leagues of the capital ; but on some
companies of National Guards marching out to
attack them, they fled to the mountains. Es-
PARTERO has been ordered by the Government to
repair in all haste for the protection of Madrid. He
arrived at Guadalaxara on the 12th, at the head of
nineteen battalions, leaving ORAA in the neighbour-
hood of Chive, where he was engaged in plans for the
prevention of a junction of the reinforcements of the
Carlist chiefs, SANZ and TOLLADA, with the main
division of the enemy under Don CARLOS. Nor
have the successes in New Castile been the only ad-
vantages recently gained by the Pretender. They have
taken the fortress of Lacava, on the right bank of the
Ebro ; they are besieging Mora ; and they have cut off
all communication between Tortosa and the Mediter-
ranean. These successes have all been gained, almost
within sight of Baron DE MEER, who, with AYERBE,
is astonishingly busy doing nothing, or worse than
nothing on the left bank of the river I

On no rational grounds, short of imputing treason
as well as incapacity to the QUIEN'S Generals, can
we account for so many reverses at a moment when
Europe anticipated the glorious triumph of the Con-
stitutional standard in the Peninsula. Madrid boasts
of from ten to fifteen thousand National Guards, all
to a man prepared to spill their blood for the QUEEN
and Constitution ; General IVIENDEZ VIGO and Bri-
gadier A SPI ROS have between them near ten thousand
troops of the line ; and yet the whole Carlist force
opposed to this numerically formidable array of heroism
and patriotism, consists of only five thousand infantry