The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-19 00:00:00

Bishops—and few of thein—could write, and when
the bulk of th'a people were the personal property or
ch‘Att.els of the nobility, may not in every respect
suitable to another agb, When almost all men are
educated, tint! when simply stepping upon the British
tibli confers freedom on the slave,

e have just cast a hasty glance over an article on
the present state of parties, which appears in a Number
of the London and Westminster Review, now on the
eve of publication. This article shows a vigour and
animation worthy of the Edinburgh in its best days.
There is nothing crotchetty, nothing exclusively Ra-
dical, in its character, as if it were the work of the
leading man of a small political clique; but, on the
contrary, much sound sense and liberality of sen-
timent. The writer, on the whole, expresses himself
favourably towards Ministers ; but neither flatters
them, nor blinks their faults. He tells the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth. On one
point he is explicit to a degree. Government, he
says, must grant the Ballot. They may flinch from
other questions ; doubt on this, and hang back from
that ; but on the Ballot they must be decided. "We
had faith," observes the Reviewer, "in the Ballot,
even without the Reform. Bill. We had no faith
in the Reform Bill without the Ballot. The founda-
tion of our hope in the Reform Bill was, that
it would bring the Ballot. We never believed
that it would do so until the last moment had arrived.
That moment has arrived." True, that last mo-
ment has arrived, and Ministers must be prepared
to meet it. The country is now become all
but unanimous in favour of the Ballot, and
will hear of no more doubts or equivocations on
the subject. The result of the last elections, when
Tory after Tory was returned; for no other reason than
that he could exercise, through the medium of his
subordinate agents, 'corrupt influence, has convinced
every dispassionate, enlightened man in the commu-
nity, that till the Ballot be granted, Reform will
never get beyond a snail's pace. If we desire to
obtain " equal justice" for Ireland, and so bind the
two countries together in the lasting bonds of good
fellowship, we must insist on the Ballot. If we de-
sire to see the Church thoroughly reformed; the House
of Lords brought to its senses ; law rendered cheap
and expeditious ; and the spirit of improvement
set actively to work throughout the country, we
must insist on the Ballot. Above all, if we de-
sire to keep the Tories out of office, we must insist
on the Ballot. There is no question of the day
that requires so carly__a settlement as this. There
needs no further discussion upon it, for the theme is
an exhausted one ; it is necessary only that the expe-
riment be tried without delay. On this point we cor-
dially agree with the London and Westminster Review

The States-Gencral of Holland opened on Monday
last. The Speech from the Throne is interesting,
and will be found in another column. The Belgian
question rernans still undetermined ; and most pro-
bably will during the life-time of King WILLIAM,
if his Majesty be allowed to act according to his indi-
vidual convictions upon the subject.

Madrid papers of the 19th inst. have been received.
On the Bth Don ANTONIO MARIA SEIJOS, Mem-
ber of the Junta of Customs, was gazetted Minister of
Finance. SEIJOS is only known as a feeble old man
somewhere about eighty years of age, who, during the
Finance Administration of BALLASTEROS was sus-
pected of defrauding the Customs at Seville, where he
officiated ai Intendant difring the last days of FEft
DINAND. The appo4Ament has therefore given but
little satisfaction to the Cortes, and still less to the ca-
pitalists.

The Gazette contains a despatch from ESPA RTERO
to the Minister of War, and a " General Order"
issued by. his Excellency immediately after the " glo-
rious" battle of Retuerta, of which we gare the de-
tails in The Sun of yesterday. In compliment to so
much valour we give insertion to ESPARTERO'S " Ge.
neral Order," which is only inferior in brilliancy o
conception to the renowned CORDOVA'S Arlaba
proclamation :

GENERAL ORDER.
" RETUELLTA, OCT. s.—Soldiers:--The glorious triumph
which you have just obtained over the hordes of the Pre-
t,n,jter raises you still more in my esteem, and renders you
still more entit!cd to the gratitude of your country. The
enemy, selecting those formidable positions which you have
to-day overcome, imagined that through these positions
they might be enabled to gain a victory which would relieve
them from that disgraceful condition to which the continued
triumphs you have gained over them in the field have re-
duced them. But they have received a severe lesson ;
neither the steepness of the rocks, nor the inequalities of
the ground, nor the rugged nature of the underwoods could
impede your enthusiasm and heroic valour. From every
point, even the most inaccessible, you have dislodged them
with a degree of bravery of which I feel proud.
toil and glory !—I give you thanks
foryoCtoimrpano valorousins of m
cornyluct ; in the account which I this
day transmit to her Majesty's Government of this bril-
liant action, I demand for the brave those recompenses to
which their services have entitled them.

" Soldiers!—The glorious feat of arms achieved by you
this day is of the utmost importance to the cause of liberty
and the consolidation of the throne of Isabel the Second.
The flight of the rebels, in the most complete disorder,
has considerably diminished their forces, and renders it
probable that they will abandon the project of maintaining
themselves in the mountainous district which they choose
to protect themselves. But if they should not do so, I
reckon upon your constancy to support the privations you
may be exposed to. With that perseverance, and your
acknowledged valour, we shall bury in the Sierra the ene-
mies of public repose, and acquire fresh laurels, for the
gathering of which no means shall be neglected by your
General,

" ES.
After the defeat of the PRETENDER'S fo ARTEROrce „at
Retuerta, he fled to Euciso on the borders of Arragon,
which he reached on the 7th, lie was escorted by

We arc well awiart the 'Nies will not acknowledge
that they' hold or act upon the principles Which wz
lrave been attributing to them. but their denial will
weigh but little with tbe nation. They have of late
years, since they saw that
.the people scouted their
political creed, endeavoured to chime in with the
popular cry for Reform ; but, with all their hypo-
crisy, they have not gained, and they never will
gain, the confidence of the people, Among the.
other artifices to which they have had recourse
to shroud their real designs, one of the most cunning
was the dropping of their old name while they clung
to their old principlesrand taking the title of " Con-
servatives"—a title to which they have no other claim
than that which they derive from a desire to preserve
as they find it, every abuse in every institution in the
land, which corruption, or the lapse of time, may have
introduced, and which they have found exceedingly
profitable. They pretend, too, to be " Reformers,"
Heaven save the mark ! They are most anxious—.
that they arc—to reform every " proved" abuse.
" Show us," say . they, " only show us a proved
abuse, and you shall see how summarily
we will deal with it." When, however, the
quantity of proof requisite for the acknowledg-
ment of an abuse comes to be considered, it is
found that nothing which a Tory wishes to main-
tain can be got inserted in the list of " proved"
abuses. He has always a reservation in the happy
vagueness of his qualifying epithet. With all
his professions, therefore, and all his insidious
attempts to impose himself upon the public, as
a Conservative and a Reformer, your modern Tory
holds in his heart exactly the same principles as the
Tory of former times, and exemplifies in his conduct
much less honesty and manliness. He is a pirate who
hoists false colours, for the purposes of deceiving
and plundering those who come within his reach.
W