The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, PRIMA , AUGUST 2n, _NA

Mpain than he is at this Moment. An afhied
On the part of France and England would be
the immediate and the necessary consequetic
less than six months Don CAiiLd3 rvould be exile,
WC thcr'r"7: repeat that we do not
dire :15ont the open treachery of EsPA RTERO
ol'rtiiens a
lhl:s:trwparocrastinating habits, his mischievous influ-
ence over the ltoyftl mind, his misapplication of the
reSOkiretB of the Government, his intrigues, and his
hostility to the Constitution, that we dread. The
following extract from the Messager of Wednesday
nights will convey a tolerable idea of the means by
'which the new Spanish Premier is most likely to re-
I tard the triumph of Constitutional freedom t

" We have a letter from Madrid of the Nth, lthich
gives some details respecting the manoeuvres resorted to by
Espartero, to obtain, at least at Madrid, an appearance of
popularity. When be made his entry into that capi-
tal he took care to have himself escorted only by picked
battalions, and to leave in the neighbouring villages the re-
mainder of his troops, whose destitution and misery rdght
have excited against him popular indignation. Moreovur,
the day on which the troops marched off before the Queen
he attempted to procure himself by dint of money a triumph
which deceived nobody, and the ridiculous vivals uttered
by some vagabonds were received with hisses by a large
part of the spectators."

Of ESPARTERO'S colleagues in the Ministry we
have not space to-clay to express a lengthened opinion.
PIZARRO and SAN MIGUEL are the only members
who are presumed to have any influence in Spain, and
the very little they have is greater than any to which
their respective merits entitle them.

The whole of the French Papers of Wednesday hare
been received. They contain no domestic news of any
moment. From Spain they bring important advices,
the substance of which we have embodied in an article
on the subject of affairs in the Peninsula. Annexed
are extracts from them :

A letter from Toulon of the 18th says :—" Orders have
just been given to the Trident (of the line), and to the
Styx and Vantour steam-boats, to proceed in all haste to
Bona, to take on board the sick, and convey them to the
hospitals in France. The Fortune, Duraine, and Maine
transports, now in Africa, are to be employed in the same
service. It is said that there are 2,000 sick at Bona. The
vessels sent to convey them to France will have to make
several voyages. The steam-boats will take some medical
men, whom they will leave at Bona.
" The accumulation of so many troops on one spot, and
in the most unseasonable season of the year, has generated
fevers which are said to be of the nature of typhus. If
the expedition to Constantine had been undertaken in the
spring, we should not have to deplore this calamity.
" The Jupiter (Rear-Admiral Gallois), and the Sante
Poise, sailed yesterday for the Levant, and will complete
the squadron in these seas.
" A dreadful catastrophe yesterday threatened Vincennes,
the adjacent country, andleven part of the capital itself.
" About three o'clock in the afternoon the atelier of the
fire-works, which was outside of the turret (donjon) blew
up ; burning brands were thrown to a distance, and one of
them fell on the wooden framework of the window of one
of the apartments of the turret in which are deposited im-
mense quantities of ammunition ready for use.
" The window frame had already caught fire, when it was
fortunately perceived. A little later, and more than 20,000
persons, and millions of property would have been destroyed,
for the explosion of the turret would necessarily have caused
that of the great powder magazine, in which there are
above 200,000 lbs. of powder inclosed in walls eight or ten
feet thick. One is seized with horror at the idea of such
a frightful catastrophe, and cannot conceive how the nume-
rous remonstrances of the neighbourhood, and of Paris it-
self, should have been hitherto disregarded."—Le Comte-
tutionnel.

FRENCH FUNDS—Putts, AUGUST 23.
Five per Cents., 110 f. 65c. 70c. 8”c. 75c.
Four and a Half ner Cents. 103 f. 50c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 80c.
Three per Cents., 79f. 25c. 30c, 40c.
Bank Actions, 2,425 f. 2,420£
Rente de Naples, 91f. SUc. 45c. 70c. 15c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%X%,
Spanish Actives, 20,,,a%%.
Spanish Passives, 5.
Brussels Society, 1,692 f. 50c.
Belgian Bank, 1,43.5 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 2i►%.

[Xt.:MANOR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 40c. ; money, 25r. 40t:
Three months, paper, Zf. 25c. ; money, Vat.Mio
—Coors Authentieue.

LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 110 f. 75c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 55c.
Bank Actions, 2,420 f.
Roman Five per Cents., 100%.
Belgian Bank, 1,435 f.
Belgian Society, 1,08:1f. 50c.
Portuguese Three per Cents , 25%,
Spanish Actives, 2:56.
Spanish Passives 5.

Advices from Portugal to the evening of the 13th
inst., received by the Camden packet, which arrived
at Falmouth on Wednesday last, from the Tagus,
confirm the news which we published yesterday
respecting the aspect of affairs at Oporto. From the
annexed Correspondence, which we copy from Second
Editions of two of our Tory Morning Contemporaries,
it might be inferred that the Constitutionalists have
every thing to fear from the partiality of the populace
for the Charter of 1826. This, in reality, is
not the case. The enemies of the Constitu-
tion are to be found in the Palace. The
QUEEN is known to sympathize with them ; and in
the diplomatic circles of the Portuguese capital there
are few facts better known, than that the Prince Royal
is only prevented from heading them by the advanced
state of the QUEEN'S pregnancy. The Con-
stitutionalists are beset with intrigues ; the Cortes
have been tampered with ; and, in fact, every
engine that an unscrupulous Court and a dis-
contented nobility could put in motion, have been
employed to effect the restoration of a Charter
which guarantees the existence of a House of Peers.
The French Ambassador has not been idle ; though,
with his wonted ill-luck, Lord HOWARD DE WAL-
DEN is accused by the Portuguese with having perpe-
trated every mischief sanctioned by ST. PRIEST. Tile
first extract is from the Post :

LISBON, AUG. 12.—The Ministerial arrangement has
been completed ; Viscount Sada Bandeira has been named
President of the Council and Minister of Marine. Julio
Gormes de Silen Saucher for the Department of Justice,
J. A. de Campos, President of the Cortes for the Home
Office ; Messrs. Castro Terceira, J. Oliveira, and Viscount
Boveda, the honest but stupid Perane, continuing in office.
I need hardly add that this Administration cannot last any
more than the former did. It does not possess the con-
fidence of the public. Marshal Sandanha has entered Coim-
bra, proceeding from thence to Oporto, where it is expected
that he tvill enter, notwithstanding the hurried shipment of
two hundred men from hence this day for that city, per
the Oporto steamer. The inhabitants are quite ready
for a change, and he will be most welcome there.
Colonel Soares Luna, the Deputy, has been sent to
relieve Viscount Sada Bandeira before Valance, and it is
surmised that his Excellency's troops have a secret under-
standing with the Charter party to go over on a given day.
The town of Almeida is said to have proclaimed the Char-
ter, and a very wavering sort of feeling is to be met with
here among the troops, National Guards as well as the
inhabitants, well shown) that no stand will be made at the
pus's in favour of the Septemberb Revolution. As an in-
stance of the want of popularity attending the present Mi-
nisters, I can assure you that, notwithstanding the address
made to the Municipal Guards, asking them to volunteer
to go to Oporto, only 32 did so. Exchequer Bills are at
33 to 37i per cent. discount, and likely to go much lower,
independent of which the Treasury is actually without five-
pence towards making any payment.
The following is from the correspondence of the
Times:—

" By the latest accounts received this day, it appears
that Marshal Saldanha, with 400 cavalry and 300 infantry,
succeeded in arriving at Coimbra, on Thursday evening last,
with General the Baron de Setubal, whose united forces
have considerably augmented. The Baron de Bonifim, who
is at Castello Branco, notwithstanding his superior force,
had an opportunity of intercepting Saldanha on his rout to
Coimbra ; but whether this apparent want of generalship
arose from any previous understanding between the two
chiefs, or want of zeal on the part of the latter, is yet
to be known ; it. is stated this evening, and generally
believed, that. Saldanha left Coimbra yesterday morning,
and is moving by forced marches on Oporto, in con-
sequence of which the Porto steam vessel started this
morning, with '230 men of the Lisbon Municipal Guard, and
80 Sappers and Miners, for that-city, under the command of
Colonel Luna, of the Artillery, and a deputy of the Cortes.
It is supposed that this .movement has for its object the
again putting in a state of defence the lines of Oporto. The
Viscount de Sada Bandeira has quitted the besieging army
before Valence, leaving it under the command of the Ba-
ron de Almargen, and returned to Oporto, where his pre-
sence was deemed more necessary, it is said, to organize a
corps of artizans, An almost constant fire has been kept

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tempt had been made to disarm them, but whether this '
attempt was carried into effect or not we have yet to learn.
Nutherotis arrests tipati bal-e t",ken place in that
city, amongst their number, Colonel ilaricig, Lletittrant,
Colonel Mendez, and Captain Peixato, who were forthwith
embarked on bold the Andorinka war cutter for this city,
*hem they arrived this ttiofoing, Various are the opinions
of the partisans of either side as to th final success, while
, the Mlgnelites look on with silent delight,"

We are glad to learn that it is proposed to erect by
public subscription tt memorial of the military achieve-
ments of the Duke of WELLINGTON, in an appro-
priate situation at the West-end of London. We say
we are glad, because, sinking all political considera-
tions, and regarding his Grace in the character of a
great military chief, we feel that he is entitled to all
the marks of respect and veneration that a grateful
country can pay him. It is impossible indeed to over-
estimate his services in this 'respect. One by
one, in
the course of a long and harassing war, he defeated the
bravest and most experienced Marshals of France ; and
completed his career of glory, by putting an end for
ever to the iron despotism of the greatest soldier of this,
or perhaps, of any age. WELLINGTON was the con-
queror of NAPOLEON ! WELLINGTON gave peace
to Europe ! How much is comprised in these
few words. What a world of panegyric do they not
convey ! The glories of MARLBOROUGH are
eclipsed by those of WELLINGTON, for never was
there so proud a victory as that achieved at Waterloo,
when the noblest army, though not perhaps the largest,
that France ever marched to battle, officered by her
ablest marshals, and headed by NAPOLEON in person
-=that hero of a hundred fights, and victor of all En-
rope—confessed the supremacy of the British Legions.
GOD forbid we should ever allow political considera-
tions to interfere with our admiration of achievements
like these ! As a warrior, the Duke of WELLINGTON
belongs to no faction. His glory is national. It is
not the property of party, but of the British empire.
Whether Whig, Tory; or Radical, we all take an equal
pride in it. Regarding the matter in this light, we
feel that we cannot too warmly express our approba-
tion of the proposal to erect a statue in honour of the
great Captain. Still more are we delighted with the
generous spirit in which that proposal has been taken
up by men of all parties in politics ; for among
the subscribers we find the names of many of

the most eminent and uncompromising Reformers
of the day. It may be urged, perhaps, that as
one statue is already about to be erected to his
Grace in the eastern quarter of the metropolis, there
needs no second testimony of public admiration ; but
it should be borne in mind that the one in the City is
exclusively a compliment to the Duke of WELLING-
TON for his services in " promoting the building of
London•bridge, and making the approaches thereto ;"
whereas, the other is intended to be " a memorial
of his great military achievements." Who the
architect is to be, we know not ; but we should imagine
one of the WYATTS would be selected, for they have
shown themselves to be men of very superior talent in
their profession, and none but first-rate artists should
attempt such a task. When once the statue is re-
solved on, we trust it will be executed upon a grand
scale ; that there will be no jobbing or cheese-paring
spirit at work ; but that it will be rendered worthy of
the nation, and of the illustrious man whose achieve-
ments it is to commemorate, so as to attract the admi-
ration of posterity when WELLINGTON, gathered to
the great of past ages, lives only in the imperishable
records of history.

The result of the elections having disappointed the
hopes and defeated the objects of the Hanoverians,
the organs of that un-English faction are begin-
ning to sing small, and to content themselves with
picking up the few crumbs of comfort which acci-
dent may throw in their way. The Tories had calculated
on wallowing in rich and pleasant pastures in a few
short months—they find themselves (alas T.) con- •
demned to wander for an incalculable period in that
weary wilderness which they have already trodden so
long, and which affords neither sustenance for the-
present, nor promise for the future. This we regard
as a situation by no means enviable, and we are not a
little entertained with the ingenuity which can find
topics of consolation to smooth its asperities, and even
render it upon the whole rather desirable than otherwise.
Some of this wire-drawn species of consolation is
held out to the Tories by the Times of this morning to
its readers. That clever Journal, according to its usual
practice, writes a letter to itself, and then attempts to
answer its own arguments by way of. comment. We
think it has in this case completely overshot its
mark, for the arguments in the letter are almost all of
them perfectly unanswerable, and are but weakly as-
sailed in the commentary. " What can England do ?"

exclaims the Times in its letter, " she has a rope
round her neck of which Scotland holds one end and
Ireland the other." Now we do think that the situation
here described is a particularly critical one, nor can we
at all discover what is to prevent the necessity of a
Coroner's Inquest, and the verdict must unquestionably
be, " died by strangulation." We will not, however,
pursue the metaphor of our Contemporary any furthei,
but congratulate him on the clearer view which he has
obtained of the relative positions of the three divisions
of the empire. He lately represented England as
united to Scotland against Ireland ; he has now come
to his senses, and he finds, not indeed that Ireland
and Scotland are leagued against England—Goy for-
bid—but that the independence of England, borne
down and trampled under foot by an arrogant and tyran-
nical aristocracy, has been rescued from destruction,
and will be sustained by the invincible patriotism of
Ireland and Scotland.

The Scientific Congress of France will meet al
Netz on Septqnber a.

The writer then goes on to deseant in a truly lugu-
brious strain, on the deterioration which the English
character has of late years suffered by the rubbing off of
those national peculiarities which used to distinguish
the natives of this part of the empire from the rest
of the world. In other words, the English are getting
rid of ignorance and prejudice. They are, as he truly
remarks, no longer " exclusively" English ; and we
tell him—though he seems to have a vague apprehen-
sion of it already—that it is to this increase of know-
ledge, arising from a more extended education, that he
may impute the present downfal and future extinction
of Toryism. " The weight of the Monarchy, the
Aristocracy, and the Church, which used to press the
machine to its proper bearings," has indeed pressed
and oppressed the machine till it can be borne no
longer, and the people have made an effort to throw it
off. They have succeeded partially, and as they acquire
more knowledge, and consequently more power, they
will do the business more effectually. Our Contem-
porary has thrown the Monarchy, into one lot with the
Aristocracy and the Church ; but this is all humbug.
The Crown can only oppress the people by being
made the instrument of the Aristocracy and the
Church. Its own weight will never be complained of.
And here we may just remark that the Aristocracy
have always been, and will always be, the greatest
enemy of the Monarchy, because their constant object
is to make it, in serving their own selfish interests,
hateful to the people.
' We had a few more remarks to make on our Con-
temporary's ingenious mystification, but we find we have
not space to-day.