The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-30 00:00:00

lIEINE BROTHERS in HAMEURGII

,tors were only waiting to ascertain the wishes of the
public, by unequivocal signs, before they proceeded
to legislate upon the subject. Let not the Dis-
senters, however, relax in their present exertions on
this account. They must, if possible, redouble
them. They must bear in mind that when they ob-
tained the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts,
there was a petition from almost every Dissenting
Congregation in the kingdom. Let them exhibit the
same zeal now as then, and success will be equally
certain. Let them rever forget—none have greater
reason to remember—the maxim, aide toi, et le Ciel
t'aidera.

On Monday last we remarked i❑ The Sun that the,
Dissenters will prove at the next General Election, rAot
only their posser as a body, but their sincerity and zeal
in the cause of religious freedom, by turning out; those
who have betrayed them, or been found 01,-,-,,,,05ed to
their just and conscientious demands; arA on Wed-
nesday we intimated that a resolution would be passed
the same evening at Boston to that effr:,tt.
We have now an opportunity to state that the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted, wlaich may serve as a
good warning to wavering Metn7ors of Parliament at
the commencement of the Sesriiirin
This Meeting, therefore, dee•a3ing it essential to the peace
and welfare of the empire that the question should be at once
satisfactorily settled,—Resolve, most decidedly to withhold
their confidence and support from any Member now in Par-
liament, who shall in any wax thwart or oppose the entire ex-
tinction of Church rates, rs, regards the payment thereof in
any shape by Protestant D,Lssenters ; or to any candidate for a
seat in Parliament_who -will not pledge himself to a similar
line of conduct."

This is bold, manly, and sensible conduct ; it will
be followed in every part of the country ; and it shows
the time is fr,st approaching when that which Lord
RUSSELL, at the Middlesex Reform Dinner. ex-
pressed Vanself anxious to see—the self-government of
the people. We warn the Dissenters to bestir them-
selves.

The staunch Reformers .of Worcester are actively
lit work in assisting their fellow-countrymen to obtain
for the electors of the United Kingdom the protection
of the Vote by Ballot. On Friday last an immense
public meeting was held at the Common Hall—the
Mayor presiding—for the purpose of considering the
propriety of petitioning Parliament upon . this im-
portant subject. The meeting was most respectably
as well as numerously attended ; but, owing to the
crowded state of our columns, we are compelled to
delay the publication of a very condensed report of
the proceedings till to-morrow. In the Worcester
Herald of Saturday the speeches of the se-
.veral gentlemen who addressed their fellow-citizens
on this occasion arc given at great length, and it is
but common justice to the Reformers of 'Worcester to
state that they have taken a very comprehensive and
enlightened view of the mischief's arising from the
present system of voting at Parliamentary Elections
The speeches of the Mayor, Mr. ELGIE, Mr. ACTON,
Mr. A RROWSMITH, and Mr. HANDFORD do great
credit to the research, the political sagacity, and the
good sense of these gentlemen. Mr. ELCIE'S re-
futation of the stale arguments of Lord STANLEY,
with respect to the operation of the vote by
ballot in the United States of America, will
silence the Tories wherever it may be repeated. They
have no argument equal to that of the surplus revenue.
The following is a copy of the petition adopted by
the meeting
To the floncurahle the Commons of Great Britain and Ire-
land in. Parliament assembled,—The Petition of the Inha-
bitants of the City of Worcester and Neigbbouihood,
HUMBLY SIIFIVETII,

will do without any further remakor description. We further request
to observe, that a letter with, one inclosure doubles the - Postage
only, but several inolisnret 'would by far increase the same. Thus
10/.. 20/ , or 201., fir ii,Jance, if rentltted in One Bank of Eng-
land Note would only cause double Postage, but 10/. remitted in
iwo note., would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there-
fore most advist-Ale, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham-
-I,l,rg'i, to for war I the amount in One Note, or one Bank Post
Bill or Chenille ; or having to receive Money t: cam I ramtnigh, to
receive the; same in the same way, wherever possibit.. As to re-
mittance'i -from liamburgh to England for large Sums, amounting
to inan•,- THOUSANDS, of coarse they may rather be remitted in
hills tif Exchange. All those giving orders for any Branch of our
mult'farious Business, that must be executed before FEBRUARY,
arc Advised to lose no time in forwarding the same.

" That your Petitioners are of opinion that the elective
suffrage for Members to sit in your Honourable House is
a most important public trust, and ought at all times to be
exercised by every elector according to the best of his judgment
unbiassed alike by private interest, undue interference, or unjust
intimidation. But your Petitioners have, for a number of years,
perceived with feelings of deep regret, derived from painful
ex?erience, that a vast proportion of those in %chose hands the
Legislature has placed that power, hare not discharged the
trust in a pure and legitimate manner for the benefit of the
public, but that, while some have degraded themselves by
making a commerce of their birthright, for personal emolument
and gain, others, owing to adverse and disadvantageous cir-
cumstances, have been made the tools of designing men to pro-
mote party purposes, without king allowed to use their own
discretion or to vote for those candidates their own better judg-
ment, uncontrolled, would have directed them to surport.
" That your Petitioners humbly entreat your Ilonsu:able
House, that if the statements made by your Petitioners be
correct—and they believe few will be bold enough to deny
them—then are the means used to return Members to your Ho-
nourable House equally disreputable to the high and important
station of the people's representatives, as they are oppressive
and debasing to those who are nominally their constituents, and
who have prided themselves on being called' Freeborn Britons.'
" That your petitioners do therefore most earnestly implore
your Honourable house to adopt such measures as in your
wisdom may seem fit, to remove these most grievous evils, and
to afford due protection to every elector; and your petitioners
entreat your Honourable House to enact a law whereby the
electors may be enabled, conscientiously, without fear of mo-
lestation, to exercise their suffrage by Ballot—a system which
your pstitioners conceive to be essentially necessary fur purity
of election."

TIEINE BROIIIETIS in HA3IT3UTIG.

Eati.A7l7m.—There was a misprint in a paragraph pullisbed in
cur last number, deprecating the false pretences by which
the clamourers ag.,Taingt the amended Poor Law Bill endeavour
to bolster up their mischievous opponent} to that beneficial
meaiure : insteal of the word " monkish" " mawkish" ought
to have been printed.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1837.

The Session of Parliament, which opens to-morrow,
promises to be more fruitful of events than any that
has passed since the Reform Bill became the law of
the land. That Act was intended to restore to the
people the constitutional right of making, through
their Representatives, the laws by which they are
governed, which right had been usurped by those
whom the Times once happily designated the
.‘ dragons of the oligarchy." The Reform Act
has no doubt brought about a great change in the
relative positions of the two houses of Parliament.
But has it effected all that it was intended to effect ?
Let the ghosts of slaughtered, and the skeletons of
mutilated Bills answer the question. The experiment
which has been going on for the last four years, to test
the potentiality of the Reform Bill, is now, however,
nearly completed. In .a very short time—proba-
bly within three months—it will be proved
beyond a doubt whether it is an instrument of
sufficient power to secure to the people a system of good
government, or whether we shall again revert to the
old plan.
It is clearly impossible that legislation can go on
any longer in the way that it has done for some time
past. That measures of the most vital importance to
the interests of the empire should year after year be
passed by the representatives of the people, and rejected
by a few individuals who represent only themselves, is a
state of things wholly unprecedented in the history of
the world. The time is now at hand that must put an
end to the struggle, and decide finally which party is
to prevail. Both parties seem convinced of this, and
have therefore been arming for the mortal conflict.

The course which it seems natural for the Ministers
to pursue, in this crisis of the country's fate, will be to
introduce again the measures which justice to Ireland
require, and on which the tranquillity if not the in-
tegrity of the empire may be said to depend. In
framing these measures we cannot anticipate any the
most minute concessions to the " Ascendancy" party.
There will be no attempts at conciliation by paring down
and rendering inefficient the remedies proposed for
national grievances. Experience has amply proved that
such concessions fail of their objeet—that they satisfy
neither party—and serve only to throw suspicion on the
motives of those who propose them. This policy,
we have reason to believe, will not be fol-
lowed by Government in the Session about to
commence. And of this the MELBOURNE Ad-
ministration may rest assured, that a fearless and un-
flinching course, is the only one that will draw forth
the sympathy and cement the attachment of the
people.

Another measure of absolute necessity is the Aboli-
tion of Church-rates. This is no longer a sectarian
question. It has now become a national one, and Mi-
nisters are prepared to treat it as such. A Bill, en-
tirely relieving the community from this obnoxious
impost, will, we believe, be introduced by Lord JOHN
R USSELL at a very early period of the Session. This
will show the Dissenting part of the nation that

" And your petitioners, &c."

This petition was adopted:by the meeting, without a
single dissentient voice being raised against it, al-
though the Tories were expressly invited to attend and
oppose it, if they disapproved of a syllable it contained.
A strongerargument in favour of the ballot could not be
advanced. The country at large is now for it, as the
only means that can be devised to secure to the electors
of Great Britain and Ireland the right of exercising,
without any apprehension of evil, the political advan-
tages ceded to them by the Reform Bill. Rights are
nothing to the people without facilities of exercising
them in the promotion of their own social improvement.

The Paris papers of Friday and Saturday, just re-
ceived, are filled with accounts of the arbitrary and
unjust proceedings of the infamous agents of the
French Government. Nothing is heard of but arrests
and incarcerations, founded on false suspicions and re-
gicidal plots. As an instance of the despotical manner
in which these prosecutions are conducted, the Na-
tional publishes the following letter, dated " Jan. 25,"
and signed by seven individuals at present confined in
the Prison de la Force :

" It is with great regret that we are compelled to lay before
the public some of the numerous abuses of which we are the
victims. After having long suffered in silence, we consider it
our duty to break it when, under the most trifling pretext,
men arc dragged away from their occupations, their affairs,
their families, and their friends. Many of us were called
upon to appear as witnesses, and when we arrived at the Palais
de Justice were placed in a state of arrest and taken to prison.
For more than three months it has been impossible for us to
learn anything as to our arrest.
" It will scarcely be believed that we have not as yet under
gone a single examination, although, it appears, the law di
rects that an examination shall take' place within three days
from the time of the arrest, as we have not seen any warrant,
and are even still ignorant of what we are accused. If we pro-
test against this treatment we are not listened to, for they have
other things to do, probably, than to attend to a few workmen
and fathers of families. Were it a Prince, no bars would be
placed to oppose his exit.

This document is sufficient to satisfy every English-
man that justice is trampled under foot by the Go-
vernment of France. Louis PHILIPPE aims at
nothing less than absolute power. France cannot re-
main ignorant of this fact.
Marshal CLAUSEL is daily expected in Paris. The
journals publish an extract from a letter addressed to
him by the KING, containing assurances of his MA-
JESTY'S unchaginng affection and esteem.

On Saturday a petition was presented to the Cham-
ber of Deputies, in the name of the Polish refugees,
complaining of the reduction recently made in the
pittance granted by the Deputies for their support. It
gave rise to an interesting debate, which will be found
in another part of The Sun.

Madrid Journals to the 22d inst. have been re-
ceived. The news contained in them is, for the most
part, favourable to the QUEEN'S cause. The follow-
ing letter has been addressed by the President of the
Cortes to Commodore Lord JoHN HAY, as a testi-
mony of Spain's lively appreciation of his Lordship's

TILE SUN, L(t)Nl)O_N, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1837.

services. The letter was enclosed in a large silver
box, of rare workmanship
,c-CONSTITCENT COrATES OF Tar SPANISII NATION.
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" Mr Luau,.—The general Cortes of the Spanish nation
have seen with singular satisfaction the noble conduct of your
Excellency in the important services which the vessels of the
Royal Eengllsh navy, and other forces under your orders, have
afforded to the national cause, whenever an occasion has offered.
Your Eaer.:llency has done more : you have sought occasions to
render these services, and your z4-;al and valour have taught you
where. 'to meet with them, of w'oich there is a signal proof in
the '.e.emorable siege of Bilboa. All Spain is grateful for it,
and .'regarding it as a duty to make known publicly their senti-
nu- nts, the Cortes have issued., under this date, the decree of
w hich the following is a copy. Your Excellency will receive it
AP, a testimonial of gratitude and esteem entertained towards
'your Excellency personally, and towards all the individuals
who were under your orders in that signal victory, which has
excited at the same time the admiration and the gratitude of
the national congress. IR fulfilling the flattering and gratify-
ing task imposed upon me by the Cortes, I pray of your Ex-
cellency to accept the assurance of the distinguished consi-
deration and respect with which I have the honour to subscribe
myself your Excellency's most obedient humble servant,
" JOAQUIN MARIA DE PERRER, President.
" Palace of the Cortes, January 14, 1837.
" To the most Honourable Lord John Hay."
What will M. GUIZOT say to this? In the debate
upon the address, the philosophical Minister of Public
Instruction denounced the Spanish nation as ungrate-
ful for services rendered it. M. GUIZOT forgot on that
occasion to distinguish between acts which a nation re-
gards as wrongs, and those universally admitted to be
real benefits. When France by force of arms deprived
Spain of her Constitution, and saturated her fields
with the blood of her best and bravest sons, France
merited what she obtained—the execrations of the
Spanish people, not their gratitude. But because a
nation is not grateful for injuries, M. GUIZOT would
have the world believe that it must necessarily remain
indifferent to the most important and well-timed public
services. Verily the reasoning is worthy of the chief
of the Doctrinaire tribe of legislators.
The best public feeling towards England is daily
manifested at Madrid. Men of all classes consider us
as the most faithful allies the Spanish nation has ever
had. Ministers contribute all in their power to render
permanent the feelings with which the popular mind

is now imbued.
We have copied in another column, from the Espa-
nol of the 17th, an account of the arrest of a Carlist
agent at Valencia on the 12th, upon whose person
four very important documents were found. It appears
from them that a solemn alliance has been entered into
by Don CARLOS of Spain, Don MIGUEL of Portu-
gal, and HENRY the Fifth of France, whereby they
stand pledged to assist each other to the utmost
of their power. This is fresh encouragement for
Louts PHILIPPE to persevere in his under-hand sup-
port of Don CARLOS. It must be gratifying to him
to reflect upon the fact that, were the Spanish Pre-
tender to succeed, his MAJESTY, with his illustrious
allies, ISABELLA 11. and Donna MARIA, might
take up their abode in some fashionable square in
London, free from all fears of regicidal conspiracies.
The following, from the North of Spain, is from the
French Papers :
PARIS, JAN. 27.—A letter fr)in Toulon of the 24th gives
various details of the preparations for the expedition :
" The movement of the troops is ready to begin, the marine
is not behind hand—the ships are rapidly assembling. We
have now in the road a sufficient number of men-of-war, &e.
to convey 6,500 men. There are besides seven or eight steam-
boats, which would be ready in twenty-four hours, and could
convey with greater rapidity at least 1,800 men. There arc
four steam-boats belonging to the Finance Department, which
will not be employed in the service of that department till the
Ist of April, and in the interval they might be very advanta-
geously used to convey the troops. Two more ships of the
line, the Scorpion and the Couronne, are to be fitted out to
convey troops.
" Nierchantmen are now getting ready to convey the stores;
draught horses, and mules, which are shortly to arrive at
Toulon ; a hundred vessels will be required fur this purpose.
-Many persons have already written, from different places, to
bespeak places, and to be present at the sailing of this expe-
dition, which must be a very interesting sight. No general
officer is yet named to direct the preparations."
A letter from St. Sebastian says that six steam boats are
gone to Santander to take on board the troops of Gen. Riveiro.
Other vessels have brought a tnilivu of rations to St. Se-
bastian.
Letters from Bilboa say that the troops of Gcn. EFpartero
have received the uniform great coats and shoes which they
were in need of; on the 17th, 12,000 qui,ita!s of dour had ar-
rived in that city, as well as provisions of all kinds. Accor-
ding to the reports that had transpired, the Queen's troops
will act between Durango and Tolosa. Desertion continues
daily in the Carlist Army ; a band of 16 deserters has come
to Sare, another of 10 passed through the village of Espeletta
on Saturday; 20 Carlist deserters arrived here at Bayonne on
the 24d.
PARTS, JAN. 27.—The capture of the Vixen is now officially
confirmed. The Russian Cabinet has made it the subject of
a special communication ; and it is beyond all doubt that the
affair will lead to a discussion in the British Parliament, be-
cause this vessel was sent only by way of experiment. We
subjoin the article published in the Journals of St. Petersburg
of 12th January.—Journal du Commerce. Jan. 28.

The Journal de Frankfort—a Paper conducted
under the auspices of Russia, and whose articles on
foreign affairs arc regularly_transmitted to it from the
Bureau of Count ICES SEL RODE, contains the follow-

iii article :
" FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, JAN. 11.—Several foreign jour-
nals have latterly taken much pains for the purpose of repre-
senting in a false light the results of the .armed expedition of
the Russians against the barbarous hordes of the Caucasus.
They have even considered the war which Russia is obliged
to urge with them, to quell their revolts, as a war undertaken
with views of conquest and unjust aggrandisement. Though
no doubt can be entertained of the final success of Russia in
the war in that country, though not without requiring scme
sacrifices of men and money, yet the point of view in which it
is attempted to represent the expedition is completti;
false. The Caucasian, or rather Trancaucasian tribes
in question, have become the lawful subjects of
White Russia by virtue of the Treaties of peace
made with Persia and the Ottoman Porte ; therefore, then
they attempt' to throw off the obligations which result
from this quality, these tribes must be looked upon as rebels
whom Russia may compel to obedience by virtue of the general
law of nations. We therefore cannot regard, as a project of
aggrandisement, the efforts which Russia makes to effect the
submission of these tribes conformably with the treaties ; we
ought rather to consider it as a means of civilization which
was continually checked by the invasions of these barbarians,
so long as they were under the feeble sceptre of Persia or the
Porte. Thus, a power which supplies these rebels with the
means of resistance, by sending them ammunition as all the
world knows, evidently acts in contradiction with its own mea-
sures, when it nevertheless boasts of being the nation which
contributes the most to the civilization of the world. And as
to the right which Russia has to declare in a state of blockade
the sea ports which belong to us, and by which such supplies
are made, nobody certainly can costest in the present state of
things."

So the murder is " out" at last. Russia then is
actually, by her own confession, at war with Circas-
sia. Wherefore was this not admitted before ? How
happened it that up to the present time, Russia denied
that she was engaged in hostilities with the Cauca-
sian tribes ? She now admits the existence of the war,
and even dares to claim the territory as a justification
of her seizure of the Vixen. This is a monstrous
aggravation of her guilt. Circassia never belonged to
her—never could belong to her—inasmuch as the peo-
ple of that country were independent, recognising
neither the dominion of the SULTAN, the SCIIAII,
or the CZAR. But as this question will so soon oc-
cupy the attention of the House of Commons, we de-
cline to enter into details which mu*be shortly placed
in a strong light before the country.

DIED.—On Saturday, the 28th of January, in
Lower Grosvenor-place, Dame Mary Turton, wife of Sir
Thomas Turton, of Felcourt, in the County of Surrey,
Baronet, in the 72d year of her age.
In " Bentley's Miscellany," No. 11., for the ensuing
February, we are glad to see that the Editor (" Boz") leads
the '.ay in an article of his own, called " Oliver Twist."
The hero of this tale is a pauper-boy, born and bred (if
semi-starvation can be called breeding) in the parish work-
house. This sketch is the finest, perhaps, that ever ema-
nated from the inimitable pen of the author. It is written
with a mingled spirit of humour, pathos, philosophy, and
satire, and will do more than a hundred Parliamentary
speeches to demonstrate the cruel and unchristian spirit of
the existing Poor Laws. As the " Miscellany" in which
this most interesting story appears, is very extensively cir-
culated and perused, the attention even of persons hitherto
lukewarm as to the question of parochial relief to the des-
titute, must be aroused to it, and it may be predicted that
the suffering of the friendless child, " Oliver Twist," wilt
act as a lever to upset the hard-hearted system of which he
and others are the victims.—Morning Poat.