The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-19 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1837.

The election canvassings throughout the country
are proceeding—we are delighted to state—in a most
satisfactory and energetic spirit. Reform, despite the
Tories, will triumph—and triumph most triumphantly.
Poor Sir JAMES GRAHAM I Notwithstanding the
desponding tone in which a Liberal Morning Contem-
porary speaks about him this day, anticipating the
worst, and tremblingly hoping the best, we would not
give a brass farthing for his chance. The shrewd
Cumberland yeomanry will
oust him with contempt,
even though ~Lowther Castle abuts on the eastern
division of the county." Elsewhere
equally flattering—thanks to the hie, u prospects are
Orinded conduct
of our noble QUEEN, and the recenbtht
freaks
of her uncle, the spotless— and " nical
Illustrious
by cour-
tesy"—Duke of CUMBERLAND
is Majesty of
HA NOVER has indeed worked • l mirac es in favour of
Rcform. He has most disinterestedly, and at the
most seasonable period, stripped the mask off' his
party—for it should never be forgotten
that he is
the head of the Conservatives—and shown us what
they are capable of perpetrating, were they to
be again allowed the opportunity of doing mis-
chief. Lord '6 alien" LYNDHURST was the very last
public man whom his Hanoverian MAJESTY visited
before he quitted a country, which is well quit of him;
and we have little doubt that the object of that visit
related to the proposed overthrow of the Constitution
of his new dominions. So much for the principles of
a party, which up to the moment of his quitting Eng-

land, gloried in the Duke of CUMBERLAND as its
had

Electors of the United Kingdom, will you support
a faction headed by such men as LYNDHURST and
CUMBERLAND ? If you do—if you•even dream of
such a thing for an instant—you will deserve all the
calamities which your supineness will be sure to entail
upon you. Think of what the invariable conduct of
the Tories—now sheltering themselves under the plau-
sible alias of Conservatives—has been for years past.
England, think of the long, ruinous crusade directed
against liberty in America; of the barracks and gaols
built in almost every town and city in the kingdom ; of
the weight of taxation laid on, that might break the back
of Atlas, for no nobler purpose than to subsidize foreign
countries ;of the infamous Pension-list ;of the Press
fettered by a whole host of tyrannical restrictions ; of the
monopoly of the Corn-laws ; of CASTLEREAGH
the Commons, and SIDMOUTH in the Lords ; and,
lastly—the crowning glory of all—of the wholesale
massacre at Peterloo, to the bloody perpetrators of
which Ministers publicly accorded a vote of thanks
Scotland, think of your Reform martyrs ; of those
who bled on the scaffold, or died broken-hearted in
exile, for no greater crime than refusing to apostatize
as PITT did ; of NIEL vILLE patronage ; aristocratic
monopoly ; and the long, hopeless corruption of your
different burghs !

Ireland, think of your atrocious tithe-system ; of
the flames of civil war lit up in your fairest provinces,
in 1798 ; of the triangle, the riding-house, the pitch-
cap, and HEMPENSTALL'S walking gallows; of
judges, magistrates, and all their subordinates, wear-
ing the rank livery of Orangemen ; of Catholics put
without the pale of the Constitution, and treated as
mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, in the
country of their fore-fathers

Electors of the United Kingdom, think of all this
long series of calamities entailed on you by the Tories ;
and remember, that it is the very same party that now
calls on you for your suffrages ! Think you this
party is changed ? Not so. It now merely suly.ti-
tutes craft for open violence ; and this it will cease to
do, the instant it is restored to power. In deeds,
whatever it may be in words, it is just as much opposed
to Constitutional freedom as ever. It hates Spain—
it hates France—it hates Portugal—it hates Belgium
—and pins its faith only on Russia, Austria, and
Prussia. Times and circumstances may modify some
few minor points, but will never change the main articles
of the Tory creed, the substance of which may be found
embodied in Lord STORMONT'S late famous declara-
tion—" I hate the very mention of the word, Reform !"
Hii Lordship is right. He does hate it, and so does
every genuine Tory that ever wheiped a speech in
Parliament. Down with the whole sTtad of them, then,
we sac. Trampl. them under foot, countrymen, as
you would trample on some noxious reptile in your
path ; and above all, hear in mind, that this is the very
last opportunity you may ever have, of extinguishing
them as a powerful faction.

From the article headed " Stepney Church-rate,"
which will be found elsewhere in The ,‘;!tn, au:
reader:; will, we arc sure, be happy to t;rserve, that,
amidst al the bustle and distraction incident to the
present exciting position of political afitir3, the great
question of the Abolition of Church-rate; is not for
a moment lost sight of by the friends of civil and re-
ligious liberty. This is the true policy for the Dis-
senters to pursue ; the only policy, in fact, which will
ever stand them in stead in a time of need. The agi-
tation must not be allowed to subside for a single
moment ; the Dissenters must not " give sleep to their
eves, nor slumber to their eyelids," in the discharge of
the arduous duty in which they arc now engaged, if
they wish their efforts to be crowned with success.
Were they to flatter themselves that the work is
already done—that the great exertions which they
have made will be sufficient to ensure the triumph
of the cause, and that they may now " take their
ease," or even relax their endeavours in any degree,
we should not hesitate to tell them at once that their
cause was desperate. They know with %vhoin they
have to deal. Dear-bought experience has taught them
this lesson, and they would be utterly without excuse
if they did not deduce from it the practical conclusion
to which it so pointedly directs them. That conclusion
is agitation, agitation, agitation. Their grievances
must be incessantly kept before the public eye, and
dinned in the public ear. There must be no remission
of labour, no shrinking from consequences, no faint-
heartedness in a cause which, founded as it is in the
everlasting principles of rectitude, requires only energy
and perseverance on the part of its advocates to render
it speedily and gloriously triumphant.
The supporters of a State Religion, who cannot
conceive such a thing as a conscientious objection to a
system of faith and worship established by Act of Par-
liament, are loud in their outcry against what they call
the " political spirit" of the Dissenters, thereby im-
plying that a political spirit is inconsistent with a re-
ligious one. Now, to say nothing of such a charge
coming from those whose religion is altogether the
creature of State policy, and which, by the confession
of its votaries, is endangered if not destroyed the
moment that its " political" relations are disturbed—
to say nothing of the amiable blindness—the ingenuous
Incapacity of " seeing ourselves as others see us" indi-
cated in the charge—we look upon it as in the highest
degree complimentary to the Dissenters. What,
we would ask, but a deep sense of religion could
induce the Dissenters to undergo the labour, and
turmoil, and neglect of worldly concerns, which their
present struggle necessarily brings with it ? What
but a desire to see religion shine forth in its native
lustre, separated from those debasing impurities which
have been mixed up with it, in order to render it sub-
servient to the maxims of a worldly policy which it
abhors, could afford an adequate motive for the course
of action upon which the Dissenters have entered ?
Nothing. On no other principle is it possible to
account satisfactorily for the appearance which the
Dissenting portion of the nation presents at this
moment.

We say, then, let bigotted Churchmen exclaim as
loudly and as ferociously as they please against the po-
litical conduct of the Dissenters, it is the business and
the duty of the latter to proceed without flinching—
nay, with increasing ardour and energy, in the " politi-
cal" course which lies before them. Let them not
imagine that if they swerve from this course, or even
if they slacken their pace, deliverance will arise from
some other quarter. The whole of their experience
since the memorable ejection of the 2,000 Ministers
in 1G62, when a systematic persecution of their
persons and principles commenced, proves that the
Church will never yield one jot or tittle of her
usurpations over conscience, to any other power than
that of compulsion. Here there is no scope for justice
and right to assert their influence. Every such con-
cession is regarded as so much clear loss to the
Establishment, and the Churchman who should re-
commend ieas a fool or something worse. Whatever the
Dissenters have gained, has been wrested from the
Church by force--%ot physical force; but that far more
powerful instrument of control]] which presents an
array first of minds and hearts well instructed in the
principles, and ardent in the cause, of liberty ;
and next, as a natural consequence of the other, an
array of voters at the poll determined at all hazards to
act in conformity with their convictions and profession.
These are the weapons with %%hid] the Dissenters
1 •ch they owe all
have hitherto combated, and to w

that they possess of religious liberty. The moment
has now arrived when they must wield them with all
their skill and all their strength. If ever there was
an occasion when they were called upon, by every
thing they hold dear, to " quit themselveS like men,"
that occasion is the election of Members for the new
Parliament.

The Tory freaks of the Conservative idol, ERNEST
AUGUSTUS in Hanover, will cost his descendants
their claim to the Throne of these realms. This is a
fact with which it is as well to make the Tories
timely acquainted. Parliament possesses the power of
altering the succession to the Crown of England, and
the King of HANOVER will live to witness the
punishment of his tyranny, and the utter defeat of his
faction, in its exercise. To the people of England
this is joyful tidings ; they having long despaired
of any good coming out of Cumberland. Of the
Members of the late Parliament, who supported the
Succession Bill, many are very sorry for what they
have done,• and were a new Parliament called to-
morrow, and the same Gentlemen returned to it, most
willingly would they vote for the exclusion of
his Hanoverian MAJESTY and his descendants
from the dignity of Sovereign of these realms. In
these feelings of regret several Members of the
Upper House participate, as do nine-tenths of
the honest electors of the United Kingdom.
With the King of HANOVER, therefore, England has
prospectively as little to do as she had with the Royal
Exile of 1689. The parting counsels of LYNDHURST
have exemplified the old adage of bad seed sown in a
bad soil.

The Paris papers of Monday have no authentic in-
telligence from Spain, though abounding in hearsay
rumours. Upon the faithfulness of such statements
it would be idle to place any reliance ; but as we
cannot pronounce them untrue, it is our duty, as
public journalists, to submit them to our readers.
The following letter from Barcelona, of the 10th inst.,
from a correspondent of the Courier Francais; con-
tains the latest news from Valencia. The excitement
under which this letter is written, ought not to be
forgotten, as it will serve to correct its exaggera-
tions :

BARCELONA, JULY 10.—The most lively uneasiness prevail
among the inhabitants of our city. The coffee-houses and the
Rambla are crowded with people. A steamer has just arrived
from Valencia, the passengers by which have not yet landed,
but the Captain conveyed to the Director of the Police of the
harbour the most sinister intelligence. Don Carlos was yes-
terday before Valencia, that is to say, at El Villar and Liria.
Several of his battalions were stationed near Murviedro, and
menaced that fort. Nules and Castellon de la Plana have
been laid waste. It was feared the same fate awaited Va-
lencia ; its only defenders are the friends of our patty, who
to be sure, will offer a.t obstinate resistance. It appears that
they have alre:;dy answered in a noble manner the appeal ad-
chessed them on the Bth by the political chief, and of which
the following is a copy :

_
Valencians !—An unworthy descendant of the Kings of
Spain has come to spread desolation over our country, and to
wrest from us our liberties and our fortunes. That malefac-
tor, followed by numerous phalanxes, formed of the refuse of
society, has sworn our ruin and that of our country. Will
you remain peaceful spectators of so nefarious an attempt ?
you
you allow, after 3 years' sacrifices and anxiety, the despo-
tism of the monks and the Idquisition to be the only fruit you
will derive therefrom for yourselves and your children? I
hare too good an opinion of your patriotism not to suppose
that you will orefer a glorious death to the prospect of shame
and bondage 'which is held out to you.
."ro arms, Valencians ! Your country, the cause of liberty,
and in line, the preservation of your property and Ca istence
impose upon you the sacred duty of showing to the perfidious
chief of those hordes of felons that Valencia is determined to
fight for her honour, and that she requires no other force but
her citizr,ns to punish tlw audacity of an enemy, emboldened
perhaps by some slight successes, for which he is indebted to
the cowardice of certain men.

" Valencians, you were likewise left to yourselves in 1823,
when 14,000 men of the self-styled Army of the Faith ap-
peared before your walls. Well ? what were they able to
achieve ? Nothing I They tied, covered with shame ; they
left the fields adjoining the city covered with dead bodies, and
retired to the forest to conceal their confusion. The very same
men at-e ❑ow returning to insult you. To-day, as in 1823,
they will fail in their enterprise. Victory will remain faithful
to our cause.

" Valencians !—You know my patriotism, you know what
sufferings I have endured for Liberty : I am ready again to
sacrifice my life for its defence. Come, then, and rally round
me, and let this day of common danger be for us all a day of
glory and tritolph. With your aid 1 ant sure of victory.
Liberty for ever

" ANDRES VISEDO."

The next accounts from Valencia will remove all
doubts as to the success of the Carlist arms in that
quarter. We cannot believe that the city itself will
admit the PRETENDER within its gates without trying
the issue of a general engagement. The advices re-
ceived yesterday announced the arrival of 270 British
Marines, charged to co-operate with the QUEEN'S
troops in defending the town, and the British blue-
jackets are not the boys to surrender at a first summons.
The Senlinelle des Pyrenees of the 13th instant
publishes the following letter of the Bth inst. from
Pamplona. The subject of it is one upon which our
opinions are well known :
" General Espartero has received on the Upper Ebro a
Government courier, announcing to him his appointment to
the rank of General-in-Chief of all the forces destined to
operate against Don Carlos in Catalonia, Arragon, Valencia,
and Castille. He retains at the same time the command of
the army of the north. Espartero will now have under his
command 29,000 men, including 10,000 under Buerens,
10,000 under Oraa, and 5,000 under Nogueras. This total
does not include the troops which are in the kingdom of Va-
lencia, amounting to about 10,000 men, and those at Guadala-
jara to nearly 5,000. General Escalara remains in the com-
mand of the army of the north, and has returned to Logrono.
The nomination of General Espartero to this command has
caused great astonishment. We approve of this command
being placed in the hands of one man, but that it should be
given to Espartero evinces a blindness which nothing can jus-
tify. We now see a man, whose inactivity at Bilboa, Her-
mini, Pamplona, and Logrono, has already been so fatal to the
military operations in Spain, become the sole and sovereign
arbiter of the war. We say with regret that we expect no-
thing from him. Trial has already been made of his skill and
activity, and woe to the cause of the Queen if she has no other
men to oppose the progress of the Pretender. We cannot
conceive how the Council of Ministers can have designated
this appointment as an energetic measure, and, above all, how
they can have the weakness to expect any good result from it."
A letter from Barcelona, of the 11th inst., states
that the division under General BUERENS' had re-
volted, and after killing a colonel and several officers,
forced BUERENS himself to save his life by flight.
This act of insubordination was provoked by the das-
tardly cruelty of an officer, who ran a common soldier
through the body with his sword, because unable, in
consequence of over-fatigue, to keep up with his com-
rades. The associates of the unfortunate man re-
venged his death on the spot by killing the ruffian who
murdered their comrade. Other officers interfered,
and the consequence was the death of several and the
flight of the General.
The Constitulionnel has the following relative to
the forniation of a new Polish Auxiliary Legion to
serve in the Peninsula :
" The negociations have been resumed for the formation of
four squadrons of Polish Lancers in Belgium for the service of
the Queen of Spain. A Polish officer in the Belgian service
is to command this Legion. Volunteers from amongst the
emigrants of different nations are to be found in abundance in
Belgium as well as in France ; a definitive reply is only waited
for from Madrid to commence the enrolment. It is stated that
M. Calatrava is favourable to the measure, being deeply sen-
sible of the important services rendered to the Spanish cause
by the French Legion. M. T., a Polish officer, has just left
for the Peninsula with passports from the Spanish embassy.
This officer is charged to purchase horses for the regiment of
Polish Lancers in the service of Queen Isabella. The neces-
sary funds will he furnished him at the frontier, where lie will
pay the Limousin dealers, who are to bring their horses to
Bayonne."

Of domestic news there is none in the Papers of
Monday worthy of attention. The Liberal Journals
are loud and vehement in their denunciations of the
Conservative tricks of the King of HANovEn.
Ti►e following, from Africa, confirms the reports in
circulation of the pacific intentions of General Bu-
GEALTD:—

" ALGIERS, HEAD QUARTERS AT ORAN, JUNE 26.—Soldiers
of the Oran division, I should feel much regret in announcing
to you tidings of peace, were I not aware that in your bosoms
the love of country predominates over the love of glory, cud
that with you the interests of the nation constitute the supreme
law.

" Never have the moral requisites of victory been possessed
in a higher• degree than by you, and no soldiers were ever