The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-03 00:00:00

next week with a renewed debate of at least two
nights on Bishops' leases. Nothing can prove more
clearly the object of the Opposition than the course
they have pursued with regard to this measure. When
the question was brought forward by the Government,
the Tories indignantly asked what right Ministers
had to suppose, before a thorough investigation had
taken place, that a surplus could be created ? They
resisted the measure night after night chiefly on that
account, and now that Lord (Tom; RUSSELL pro-
poses to take them at their word, and make au in-
quiry, they are to stop public business for a great
portion of next week in opposing it. The people
naturally complain that so little is done by Parlia-
ment ; but Lord LYNDHURST and his party are
greatly mistaken in supposing that they are to be re-
called to office, or that they can acquire the confidence
of the public, by acting the part of Obstructives. We
naturally distrust an individual who opposes a bene-
ficial measure because lie is not made a party to it,
and, so far from yielding, are inclined only to make the
more determined resistance to his pretensions.

We are not in the least surprised to see Sir GEORGE
SINCLAIR take a leaf out of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S
book. There is a natural sympathy between the
Caithness and the Cumberland Baronet. They are
both renegades from those political principles to which
they owe their seats in Parliament, and both are
distinguished by a sanctimonious profession of reli-
gious zeal—of righteousness " above what is written."
These two " unto gude" personages—like all other
apostates—endeavour to recommend themselves to
their new associates by displaying, whenever an oppor-
tunity offers, the most inveterate hatred towards their
old ones. The closer the alliance of former days, the
more bitter the present enmity. That is the rule in
such cases made and provided, and it seems to arise
naturally enough from the necessity of removing, by
the outward show of sincerity, the instinctive suspi-
cion which is awakened in the mind of man towards
those who desert their principles and their friends.
The Caithness Saint—we are sorry he bears the
name of the Patron Saint of England—last night
showed the world how far a deep sense of religion will
allow a Christian to carry his political animosities.
He attempted, and indeed did what in him lay, to
give a fresh impulse to the anxiety which the unfortu-
nate state of our commercial affairs has so generally
excited,
.by exaggerating prevent evils, and predicting
still greater and even overwhelming ones for the future.
And what was the gist of all this ? Why, to em-
barrass Ministers, as the Hon. Baronet imagined. His
object was to show that Ministers ought to be made
responsible for all the distress that had occurred, and
might occur in the mercantile world ! ! Now this displays
ignorance so gross, and malice so bitter, that we have
not words to express our sense of it. If this man had
meant to aggravate the calamity which he pretended
to lament, he could not have adopted a surer method
of attaining his end. To excite alarm, and sow distrust,
when it is the duty of every one to inspire confidence,
is the province of a fiend, not of,a patriot—still less of
a Christian.

The conduct of the Government in voting against
an inquiry into the truth of the ,charges of military
tyranny preferred against Colonel ARTHUR, late Go-
vernor of Van Diemen's Land, by Lieutenant-Colonel
BRADLEY, will appear to all who take but an isolated
view of the question, wholly inexplicable. In the printed
correspondence laid before the House of Commons, we
find Colonel ARTHUR praying for the most public in-
vestigation—challenging inquiry—and boasting of his
ability to rebut every accusation that can be brought
against him. This looks like the conduct of an ho-
nourable man, _smarting under a sense of unmerited
obloquy. On the other hand, Lieutenant-Colonel
BRADLEY must consider himself deeply aggrieved by
the course adopted by Ministers with respect to his
petition. Had he been allowed to substantiate the
charges which he preferred against Colonel ARTHUR,
he would have acquired a right to demand being restored
to his rank in the army, instead of continuing for life the
victim of military tyranny. It is also of the utmost im-
portance that a charge of flogging soldiers by tap of drum
—for the purpose of drowning their cries—preferred
against any officer in the British army, should be fully
investigated, in order that the system of military
punishment practised in the British army should be'
fully understood. But Lord Howicx, in a letter to
Lord HILL, and in his speech in the House of Com-
mons, resisted inquiry, on the ground of establishing
a dangerous precedent—as the alleged offence was
committed in 1820. This is a mere evasion. The
witnesses are all alive ; and no precedent of a dangerous
nature could be established, as it can be proved
by Mr. HurlE that the charge now brought
against Colonel ARTHUR was preferred against him
at the Horse Guards, only two years after the
flogging of the man INGRAM, and that an in-
quiry into the truth of it was then refused,
by the General Commanding-in-Chief. In fact, under
any,eircumstances, there could be no danger whatever
in Parliament investigating—at the earnest entreaty
,of
all parties concerned—the truth of allegations seri-
ously affecting the well-being of the British army,
by the implication of the moral character of the officers
in the chief command of it in foreign stations. -But
it is idle to go beating about the bush. The truth is
that the Government resisted an inquiry into the alleged
misconduct of Colonel ARTII [JR in Honduras, fear-
ing that it would only pave the way for similar de-
mands on the part of the oppressed colonists of New
South Wales. Colonel ARTHUR is either the most
calumniated gentleman in the British dominions, or
his public. career for the last sixteen years has been
such as to merit universal execration. In 1824 lie was
appointed Governor of Van Dienien's Land, from
winch he was removed in 1836. We have before Us
a file of Hobart Town Journals, announcing his de-
parture on board the Elphinstone, on the 29th of Oc-
tober, amid the execrations of thousands of the colo-
nists. To mark the general joy for such a deliverance
the town was partially. illuminated. This accounts for
for the conduct of the Government, which, to say the
least of it, reflects no credit on a Whia Ministry.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Thursday. The Moniteur contains the following of-
ficial despatch, preceded by two others, which ap-
peared in the The Sun of yesterday :
" BAYONNE, May 31, 7in the evning.
" ' Espartero left Hernani on the 29th, in the direcilon of
Pampeluna, and leaving the Guipuscoans on the right The
Carlists in vain attempted to stop him at Andoain. He had
about 100 men disabled, but General Gurrea was killed.

" ' In the morning of the 30th he continued his march with.
put resiiitance. The departure of the Carlists from Huesca is
certain.

" The affair of the .24th was serious. General Irribarren
is dead, and Colonel Conrad wounded. The foreign legion
had the most Glorious share of the battle.

The.death of IRRIBARREN, who was one of the
bravest and ablest of the QUEEN'S Generals, will he
severely felt. by the Christinos. Possibly, however,
it may have the effect of rousing ESPARTERO, whose
tardy movernenis fill the QUEEN'S friends' with the
most serious apprehensions. According to the Journal
des Debats, the Pretender has not only quitted Huesca,
but he has crossed the river Cinca at Barbastro ;
passed the Ribagazana, which divives the provinces
of Aragon and Catalonia, at the Montagnana ; and
thence marched to Taralu and Trenip. If this intel-
ligence be correct Don CARLos, instead of attempting
the passage of the Ebro in the neighbourhood of
Saragossa, has wheeled suddenly to the left, and
is marching as fast as he can for the Eastern Py-
renees, in order to keep up a communication with his
agents in France. lie will probably make a dash on
Urgel, as Salsona, Manresa, and Vique are all too
central—too remote from the French frontier. Flom
Urgel the passage of the mountains to Figueras is in-
defensible ; and were the latter town to fall into the
hands of the Carlists, the Pretender could then
easily draw any quantity of supplies from France.
Figueras is the San Sebastian of the southern frontier.
Thux the theatre of the war is as distant from Madrid
now as it svaz at the comtnencemeut hf the compaign,
and it is very likely that the struggle will terminate in
Catalonia. The political opintott a four-fifths of
the Catalans are ultra-republiean, SO that 1,011 CAR-
-3r,0 will find few firm supporters among them, except
such as
may be influenced by a love of plunder. All
that is wanted to put an e€}4 tO this. fratricidal war is a
little more energy and expedition oq tlet; part of the
Q,UggN/4 Generals. Don CARLOS cannot approach