The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-17 00:00:00

Ministers will most assuredly be in the next Parliament, 1
by a large augmentation of their strength in the Com-
mons, and having the cordial support of the Crown as
a main pillar of reliance, what will they have to fear ?
What is there to diminish the natural capaciousness of
their reforming plans ? Nothing, we say, but the
sacred limits of the Constitution—of that Constitution
which, to the great sorrow of their and its enemies, it
has been their constant endeavour to strengthen and
preserve, by removing the abuses which endanger
its safety.
As to the amount of business done during the pre-
sent Session, it is not necessary to enter into detail.
We believe that the House of Commons have laboured
as hard and got through as much work as in former
Sessions. The great obstruction has been in the
House of Lords, where, except slaughtering such
Bills as had passed the Commons with the greatest
unanimity, literally nothing has been the result. The
Lords have been either totally idle, or in their
few intervals of employment, engaged only in
mischief. And yet, while they have had the
Irish Corporation Bill on their table for a period
of nearly three months, without once bringing
that the most important measure of the Session into dis-
cussion, but studiously giving it the go-by, they have
the impudence to put forward their actor of all work,
the " alien-in-blood" Baron, to libel the Commons in
their name, as delaying the work of legislation unne-
cessarily.

There is a series of measures which we cannot
avoid mentioning before we conclude our remarks—we
mean those for reforming the criminal law. These are
most important improvements in the most important
branch of our legal system. The laws for the punishment
of crime have been humanized—purified from a great
deal of revolting cruelty and demoralizing influence,
and at the same time rendered more effictual for the
prevention of crime. These, had no other measures
been passed, would have been sufficient to redeem a
whole session of inefficiency.

It is impossible to over-rate the importance to this
country of the first public act of the King of HA NO-
VER, the Heir Presumptive to the British throne. The
time chosen for the act—the eve of a general election—
and the atrocity of the deed itself, by which a Con-
stitution, established for nearly twenty years, has
been abolished, by order of the SOVEREIGN, point out
alike the madness and the reckless daring of the man.
In modern history they have been only equalled by the
conduct of that despicable tyrant who lost three king-
doms for a mass, and who paved the ray for the ac-
cession of the house of Hanover. All the wicked
attempts to set aside the line of succession, imputed to
certain parties, we could readily believe ; but we could
not credit, except for the document itself, that the Chief
of a considerable faction in this country would have
been so insane as to publish it at the moment when it
can be most injurious to his friends. Severely as the
Tories have been afflicted within the last few weeks,
this infliction is the heaviest of all. In England and
Scotland this State-paper will be held up at the elec-
tions as a proof of the spirit that guides the Tories,
and will influence many a Tote. In Ireland its effect
will be tenfold greater. It will decide every friend of
Catholic Emancipation, of the Reform Act, and of
Irish 'Municipal Reform, to exert every energy to keep
out that party who have so long been the bane of the
country. and who, if they had the power, would, like ER-
N EST A uGusTus, destroy by one blow every improve-
ment made in the Constitution within the last ten years.
The Heir Presumptive to the throne has left no doubt
of his will, nor, what is more, of the course he would
pursue. The attempt he would as certainly make here
as he has made it in Hanover, and the success of it
would depend much on the strength of the Tory party,
not in Parliament only, but throughout the kingdom.
Every year, month, and day that a Liberal Govern-
ment remains in office, Tory influence becomes less and
less, and every friend of liberty, every friend of peace
in these realms who does come forward heart and hand
at the elections to aid in the just cause, basely betrays
his trust, by strengthening a faction that would reduce
the brave and free people of this country to the present
degraded condition of the unfortunate Hanoverians.
nit the people, we know, require no excitement. The
tyrannical edict will in another clay be known to the
Electors throughout the three kingdoms, and will excite,
but for very different reasons, the burning indignation
of Whigs, Radicals, and Tories.

As we stated on Friday, our readers will be gratified
to learn that the Liberal and independent Dectors of
\Vigtonshire arc making preparations to rid themselves
of their present Tory representative, Sir ANDREW
AGNEW. This personage, who has made himself so
notorious, has been returned repeatedly by that county
as a Reformer ; yet for the last two years he has falsified
every pledge, by supporting the party who opposed the
Reform Bill from the commencement, who would
plunge Ireland into a civil war by refusing her that
Reform which has been granted to Great Britain, and
who are ready and anxious to acknowledge as Sove-
reigns the author of the bloody DuRANGO decree and
his compeer in cruelty Don MIGUEL. Putting these
however aside, the electors have other ample and suffiew
cient reasons for expelling him from the county, namely,
the disgrace which he has brought upon themselves and
the injury which he causes to true religion. The people
of England, and not without reason, look upon the
electors of Wigtonshire as the most extraordinary
people on the face of the earth, by identifying them-
selves with a man who has been surpassed in folly
only by Simon Stvlites. They in fact regard them
as a race of beings different from all the rest of man-
kind, and have about as confused a notion of their
habits and character as the public long had of the
Patagonians, or as they now have of those beings
whom Sir JOHN HERSCHELL is said to have dis-
covered in the moon. Though there is no county in
Scotland so little imbued with Agnewism as Wigton-
shire, the electors may rest assured, that so long as
they return that extraordinary character, the English
people will look upon them in that light, and impute
to them all those peculiar qualities which their repre-
sentative possesses in such an eminent degree. They
have now an opportunity of doing justice to their own
character, of abating a nuisance in the House of Com-
mons, and of removing a stumbling-block in the path
of religion. We confidently trust that the rival candi-
date, Mr. MURRAY, will be supported, not only by
all good Reformers, but by all those who hate any-
thing in the shape of cant, hypocrisy, or bigotry.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and
Saturday have been received. The Charte of Satur-
day night contains the following official news from
Spain :
" NARBONNE, JULY 14.—The head-quarters of Don Carlos
were on the 9th at Almenara, four leagues from Valencia, and
on the 10th his advanced party were at the Hostals de Puzol,
two-and-a-half leagues from that city (Valencia).
" The suburbs of Castellan de la Plana bad been carried by
the insurgents besieging that place with four battalions. The
last accounts of Oraa, who had 8,000 men, were from Teruel ;
his advanced guard was to arrive on the 9th at Sarrion, and
Valencia depended upon him for its defence.uriedri
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Contemporary, in a letter of the 11th inst.' (-rives the
following summary of the movments and strength of
the Christino force at present acting, or feigning to act,
against Don CARLOS:—

" On the 7th inst. Espartero, with his two divisions, that
of the Guards and of Ribero, was preparing to march from
Logrouo to Soria, a town situated about one-third of tin way