The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-29 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1837.

We have this day to add the large and influential ,
towns of Leeds and Sheffield—not to mention others
of less note—to the list of those constituencies in
which the principles of Reform have gained a signal
triumph. In the former of these boroughs, Sir WIL-
LIAM MOLESWORTH, one of the sturdiest Reformers
r the kingdom, has ousted Sir JOHN BECKETT, a
hack-bone Tory ; and in the latter, Mr. WARD, ano-
thPr uncompromising Reformer, has defeated Mr.
„r
pr"uNLEy, the pious gentleman who prefers the
IYer•book to the Bible, and who was put forward by
-de CI
‘-uurch-and-State people on this religious prin-
c'Ple• This happy result has been brought about, in
a good measure, by the Wesleyan Methodists having
givoU their support to Mr. WARD on constititutional
grounds, rather than to a Tory, though a member of
their own body. Such conduct is highly honourable
to the Wcsleyans.
At Manchester, too, the Tories have, we are
'happy to state, been visited with exemplary discom-
fiture, for their impudence in bringing forward a GL A 13-.
STONE. That gentleman, at the close of the poll,
was nearly 1,900 behind Mr. POULETT HOMSON,
and 1,500 behind Mr. PHILIPPS This is the pro-
per reward of such presumption.
In Scotland, it will be seen, the elections have
hitherto, without exception, been in favour of Reform,
notwithstanding the vapouringe of the Tories about
reaction, and about the irresistible strength of the oppo-
sition which had been organised against the QUEEN'S
Government, and notwithstanding also a most dis-
creditable interference on the part of some of the
fanatical clergy. We sincerely hope that the other
Scotch boroughs will follow the admirable example set
by Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leith, Stirling, Haddington,
Linlithgow, Kirkaldy, and Elgin ; and that the
counties will not be behind-hand in giving their
most energetic support to the great cause which is
now at issue—the cause of freedom and constitu-
tional Reform. Scotland has made a noble com-
mencement—let her follow it up with her charac-
teristic resolution. With respect to the boroughs,
we are sorry to say that we have received complaints
froth several quarters of want of energy on the part of
the Liberals and that this—whether arising from inso-
lence or apathy is a matter of little importance—has
lost some elections which might have been carried had
a little more zeal been manifested. This conduct is much
to be lamented, and will, we hope and trust, act as a
warning to those who are about to exercise the elective
franchise in the counties. The Reform interest has,
rn spite of the most unnreeedented obstacles opposed
to it, gained considerably in the towns ; but it is in the
counties that the greatest struggle is to be expected.
It is there that the power of the Tory Aristocracy is
most
felt—it is there that intimidation appears in its
must' fr;glaful form • and it thcre;uce
that the Reformer's must be prepared to call into
action every faculty they can command, to resist

and repel the power that will he exerted to put them
down. The elections for Middlesex and East Surrey
come on early in the next week. Let the electors of
these counties set such an example as may be held up
to the imitation of the rest of England. In Middle-
sex this is particularly desirable, for the Tories are
making it a matter of life or death to exclude Mr.
HuME.

We have received accounts from all parts of the
country, describing the infamous acts of bribery and
intimidation to which the Tories, in the extremity of
their desperation, have lately had recourse. At Staf-
ford—at Hull—at Christchurch—and a hundred other
places that we could mention—they have been tam-
pering with the freedom of election in the most
barefaced manner. At the last town, in particu-
lar, they have been putting in force the system
of exclusive dealing, encouraged thereto by a cer-
tain officious member of the Church of England,
who—as our correspondent assures us—not content
with " writing scurrilous bills," actually drove over to
Southampton " on Sunday, to engage a stage-coach
for voters!" We have our eye on this man; we know his
name; and shall take care not to lose sight of him. What
right has a Christian Minister to be scouring the country
for political purposes on the Sabbath, when he should be
expounding religious truths from the pulpit ? To be
stirring up strife and discord among his flock, when he
should be exhorting them to peace and good fellow-
ship ? Let the man look to it, for he may rely on it
his disgraceful conduct shall be thoroughly sifted and
exposed. However" out of evil springeth good," and the
recent conduct of the Tories and their clerical partizans
willgive an impetus to the question of theßallot, greater
than any it has yet had. They are furnishing us with
arguments in its favour by wholesale. They arc making
converts in its favour by wholesale ; and when it is
carried—as carried it will be ere long—they will have
the satisfaction that they have been its most unan-
swerable advocates.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Thursday have
come to hand. The Government had received the fol-
lowing important telegraphic dispatches from Spain :
" Narbonne, July 26, Half-past Four o'clock, p.m.
" Oraa, on the 15th, published a bulletin of his victory at
Bunol. The band of Frayle was defeated on the 16th near
Gatara, and lost some booty. Scrrador has raised the siege
of Castillo. On the 18th there were 165 Carlist prisoners
and 600 wounded Christino3 at Valencia. Money was scarce
in that city. It is believed at Barcelona that the Pretender
is marching upon Madrid."

" Bourdeaux, July 26.
" After the affair of the 15th the Pretender made a precipi.
ate retreat by Chelva, Abiguela, and Mangancro, to Sarrion,
where he arrived on the 19th. On the 20th he set out again
for the Sierra of Linares, in the direction of Mesqueruela.
Oraa was in pursuit of the enemy. On the 16th he was at
Chalilla. He announces that in the affair of the 15th the loss
of Don Carlos was much more important than was at first
supposed. The Minister Erro is among the number of the
wounded.
" It is probable that the Carlist expediticin will direct all
their efforts to repass the Ebro,in which they will be protected
by the bands that have remained in Lower Arragon."
The Carlist expedition has failed most completely.
Not a city, town, village, or hamlet has declared for
Don CA ItLOS since lie crossed the Ebro, and should
he fail escaping back to the Thsques his cause will he
utterly ruined. General ORAA has published a second
bulletin of his victory of the 15th, in which he states
that in his account of the preceding day he greatly
underrated the loss sustained by the Carlists. He
affirms that the moral force of the Carlists is com-

pletely destroyed, whole columns of the enemy having
passed over to theQuEEN's ranks. Forty-five waggons
of provisions and military stores fell into the hands of
the QUEEN'S troops.
There is no domestic news of any moment in the
Paris Papers of Thursday. The fetes had commenced,
but the chief amusements were reserved for Friday
and Saturday. The following are extracts from the
Journals :

Two letters which we have received to day from Bayonne
and Pampeluna (rive us some information respecting the bands
which has craned the Ebro, near Miranda, under the com-
mand of Zariateguy. This chief, to raise the spirits of his
men, and to induce them to follow him, has thought proper to
anncunco to them that he was leading them to Madrid, to he
present at the trim-ill-Thal entry of Don Carlos into that capital.
The fact is, that the band of Zariateguy, though consistina of
6,000 or 7,000 men, is only fit to appear at a di:tance in a
procession. Without artillery or ammunition, or any kind of or-
ganization, it is incapable cf attempting any thing serious ;
it has not even the resources which would be necessary
to enable it to join the Pretender on the road to Madrid, if
indeed the latter should be suffered to continue his march in
that direction. It is thought Zariateguy only wanted to divert
the attention of the Queen's Generals, and oblige them to in.
terrupt their proceedings against Estella, to go in pursuit of
him ; and that when he had succeeded in this, he could return
into the Biscayan provinces, which ho has left destitute of
Carlist troops. But that plan will not succeed ; for the Vice-
roy of Navarre, without troubling himself about these de-
monstrations beyond the Ebro, has left to Escalera, and
the Portuguese General Das Antes, the care of pursuing
the new expedition, which must evidently terminate, like
that of Uranga, towards the Asturias, and is not calcu-
lated to effect the slightest deviation in the line of march
of Espartero ; so that the uneasiness expressed its some
journals, has no foundation whatever. Our two corre-
spondents do not agree respecting the place where the
Pretender is. He at Bayonne says that Don Carlos was on
the 19th at Camporrobos, some 'leagues from Cuenca, into
which the rearg,nard of Espartero had already entered. Our
correspondent at Pampeluna says that he had received from
Saragossa news that the Pretender was marching, to-
wards Solimente, on learning that Cuenca was occupied by
the Queen's troops : so that, if this be true, he will be now
proceeding towards the kingdom of Murcia. What is certain
is, that the rout of the Carlists at Chive was complete, and
that the country of Ilene has since been bringing in prisoners
every day.— Constitutionnel.
The accounts from Arenenberg represent the ex-Queen of
Holland as still struggling against the complaint which is un-
dermining her constitution. She has frequent conferences
with her chaplain, and shows a reliance in the relic she received
from Napoleon, and which is known as the talisman of Char-
lemagne, of which the following is a brief history :—When
the tomb of this great Emperor. at Aix la-Chapelle, was
opened, his bones were found enveloped in Roman vestments ;
his double crown of France and Germany was on his fleshless
brow ; and his pilgrim's wallet was by his side, as well as his
good sword, Joyeusc, with which, according to the Monk of St.
Denis, lie clove in two a knight clothed in complete armour.
His feet rested on a buckler of solid gold, given to him by
Popo Leo, and round his neck was suspended the talisman,
which rendered him victorious, and which was formed of a
piece of the true cross, sent to him by the Empress Irene. It
.vas enclosed in en emerald attached to a large chain of golden
links. The burghers of Aix-la-Chapelle presented it to Na-
poleon in 1811, when he entered that town. One day in
playful mood he threw it over the neck of Queen Hortense,
declaring that he wore it on his breast at the battles of Auster-
litz and Wagram, as Charlemagne had worn it fur nine years.
From that day the precious relic has never been separated from
the Duchess de St. Leu.--Monde.
FRENCH FU NITS —Pa Kw. JULY t.'7.
Five per Cent,. I Ifif 5c t 10f. UK sc.
Four and a Half per Cents. 102 f. s'2c.
Four per Cents., 101 f.
three per Cents., 70f. 79f. Ire.
Bank Actions, 2,390 f. 2,395 f
itente de Naples, 96f. 25e. Ire. 35e. 50c. 6Cc. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10l 6.
Spanish Actives, 223., 23%1A•
Spanish Passives. 5%14.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents. 10231,.
Belgian Bank, 1,410 f. 1,417 f. arc.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, tSS, 26,4%.
EXCHANGE. ON I.osrion.
One month, paper, 25c. 40c. • money, —l. —c
Three months, paper, 25f. 22 4c. ; money, 25f. 22%c
—fours Autkentiaue.
LAST PRICES.
Eve per Cents., 110 f. 20c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 25c.
Bank Actions, 2,395 f.
Roman Five per Cents., 1011¢.
Belgian Loan, 10214.
Belgian Bank, 1,417 f. 50c.
Portuguese Three per Cents., '2611.
Spanish Actives, 231,4.
Spanish Passives ski.
Spanish Differes, 71,4.

By the Braganza steamer, which arrived at Fal-
mouth on Thursday, we have received adviccs from
Lisbon to the 24th instant. Tranquillity was not
then restored, though the Ministers were doing all in
their power to put down the insurgents. At their
earnest entreaty the QUEEN had published the an-
nexed proclamation, which is so cautiously Worded
that we cannot tell what to make of it :
" PROCLAMATION.
" Portuguese I It is with grief that I see disturbed the re-
pose and happiness of my beloved people : the scourge of civil
war again threatens the country. Superior to the hatred and
passion's of parties,
who improperly make use of my name
against the national cause, I perceive in concord and reconci-
liation alone the means of preserving the country from the pre-
cipice which is opening before us. Portuguese l I call you to
concord end reconciliation, in order not to be obliged to pr 0..,•.
..,•. :••
order and tranquillity, without which no people will i!. happy.
" THE QUEEN.
" Palace of Necessidades, July 21) 1837."

GLASGOW ELECTION.

(BY EXPRESS.)

The citizens of Glasgow have on e more nlbly done their
duty. The cause of pci'ce, truth, and liberality have
triu riphed in the return of the Right Hon. Lord Wm.
Bentincl: and John Dennistoun, Esq. At the close of
the Poll on Thursday afternoon at four o'clock the num-
bers were for—
Lord William Bentinck
John Dennistoun
Robert Monteith 2,062
James Campbell
As usual, the Tories, under the hypocritical mask of
religion, have used every endeavour, foul or fair, with
slandering and coaxing, lying and wheedling, whiskey
and gold, but all to no avail ; their disgusting cant and
beastly practices never has had, and never will have, any
effect upon the intelligent and truly patriotic electors of Glas-
gow. Had the Reformers of Glasgow chosen to disgrace their
good andholy cause by using the filthy weapons of their Bible-
burning. degraded opponents—had they done so, they
could -have made them tell with powerful effect on some
of these zealous and holy saints. There are some reminis-
cences connected with the history and melancholy fate of a girl
of the name of Hodge, which might very properly have been
brought to the memory of an Elder of the Kirk, who has
taken a weighty interest in the last, as well as the present
election, for the Cumberland party ; but, thanks to the
goodness of their cause, the Reformers require no such aids ;
they prefer holding on, in the even tenor of their way, and
victory, triumphant victory, is ever their reward. What
will our State Church gentry—what will the Agnews
—the Colquhouns, and the whole batch of saints say of
the conduct of Mr. James Canipbell (of the firm of
Church-building notoriety) when we publish the fact
that he addressed an imploring letter to a gentleman
of the Catholic persuasion, begging him to use his in-
fluence to procure hint the votes of the Catholic elec-
tors. We have often admired the cool impudence of
these " No Popery" fools ; but we could never have
thought the force of impudence could go so far ; the
Catholic electors properly rejected his suit ; and we have only
now to say to Mr Campbell—" No sutor ultra crepidam."
(mom ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
Having repeatedly seen examples of your exertions to
have early information, I have annexed the state of the
Glasgow Election..

Three o'Clock. Four o'Cclock.
Dennistoun
Bentinck
Campbell (T.) 2,090
Monteith (T)
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
CLOSE OF THE POLL AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bentinek
Dennistoun
Monteith
Campbell .•. 2,090