The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-27 00:00:00

Metropolitan constituencies to represent them, because
they happen to be liberal in politics. From the sample
it affords to-dro,', it bids fair soon to surpass its great

:Y PC.

The Marquis of BLANDFORD has addrased a
letter to a Morning- Contemporary—which will be
found in The Sun of this day—;herein he attempts
to justify the publication of the late " Blaodford Cor-
respondence," on the plea that he had been exposed
to several very unjust strictures in " a Ministerial
Print." Granting that.this be the case, still it will not
justify the publication of confidential letters ; and we
should have supposed that the very last person in the
world to act in such a manner, would have been the
heir of the illustrious house of MA RLBortouGH

Since the great struggle for the Reform Bill the Li-
beral Constituency of this country has not had such
momentous objects to contend for, or such an oppor-
tunity of attaining them, as at the present moment. In
o-12.ny respects there is a resemblance between the two
period:;. We have reaped but half the fruits of that
great measure, a;;(1 if the Tories succeed in returning
anything like the nutnberi they had last Parliament,
they will exert their utmost power in obstructing im-
provements we have yet to attain, and render the Act
little better than a dead letter. It is, in fact, a second
struggle for Refoim. The Court is now with the
Reformers, as it was in 1832, and the people may trust
to its faithful support, unalloyed by back stair influence
or the harrassiug importunities of near relatives.
In that respect the advantage is on the side of
the people. They have still another and a greater
advantage. They have got rid of that arch-enemy of
Reform, who endeavoured to poison the Councils of
his Royal Brother, and deter him from listening to
the almost unanimous voice of his people ; and who,
in addition to the benefit conferred by his removal from
the country, has by one mad act placed the politics of
his party in their true light at the very moment when it
could most injure his friends and confer benefit on the
friends of the people. It may be said, with truth,
Out of evil cometh good." Let not the people,
however, trust to all these favourable circumstances.
Though a vast majority are opposed to the Tories,
and the strength of that party is much crippled, their
influence is still vast throughout the country—they
are rich and not scrupulous in their means—they
hare at their command all the bribeable portion
of the electors, of whom many of the old boroughs
still claim large numbers; and what with money, threats,
promises, or coercion, they have still a force which
can be met and conquered only by the union, activity,
and patriotism of Reformers. On the character of the
ensuing Parliament it depends whether Ireland shall
be treated as a portion of the British Empire, or be
ruled with a rod of iron—whether England shall re-
main as she is, the natural ally of free nations, or join
with the enemies of freedom, the despots of Spain,
Portugal, and Russia; and whether we, shall enjoy
the blessings of the Reform Bill, or be brought again
under the power of a faction, who never acted or legis-
lated for the people till they were driven to it by the
fear of some dire convulsion.

The Journal de Paris of Tuesday states that the
King of HANOVER—frightened at the reception his
Majesty's despotic Proclamation met with—has given
up the idea of abolishing the Constitution ; and that
he now only proposes to make such alterations in it as
a Council of State, composed of Count WEBEL,
Councillor JACOBI, Ex-Councillor DE BATHMER,
and the Chancellor of OSNA.B RUCK, shall recommend
to him. This is a great point gained, though the views
of the four Members composing the Commission should
be in perfect unison with his own. But will
Hanover submit even to this? Will the Deputies
of the kingdom recognise in these four persons nomi-
nated by the KING four supreme, unbiassed, and per-
fect judges of the rights of the people of Hanover?
Will they not protest against such an usurpation of
the prerogatives of the assembled States ? We anti-
cipate some spirited proceeding of this kind ; and
King ERNEST AUGUSTUS, finding that his Toryism
will not go down with the Hanoverians, will most
probably issue a second proclamation in the style of
the celebrated parody on James ll.'s proclamation from
St. Omer's, which, if we remember rightly, ran thus
Whereas, by misrepresentation,
(Of which ourself was the occasion)
We lost our royal reputation ;
And much against our inclination
Laid the most tragical foundation
Of vacant throne and abdication,—
After mature deliberation,
We now resolve to sham the nation
With hopes of freedom from taxation,
And equal rights to sect and station ;
Promising, in our wonted fashion,
(Without the least equivocation)
To make our people reparation.—
Holding ourselves from nought exempted,
By force or fraud, or both attempted,
Whereby our subjects, well beguiled,
May to our yoke be reconciled."

In this style, or something very like it, will the King
of HANovER next addreis his loving subjects. Force
it would be madness to resort to, after witnessing the
contempt with which the people have regarded his
threats ; and we know that his friends here will dis-
suade him from pursuing a course so fatal to the exist-
ence of the Tory faction in England. But what force
dare not attempt, fraud will labour assiduously to ac-
complish. The founts of learning will be poisoned, and
corruption will flow in torrents through the land.

Letters from Madrid of the 17th, from Barcelonia
of the 18th, and from Bayonne of the 21st inst. have
been received. In the sitting of the Cortes on the
16th, MENDIZABAL introduced a project of law for
levying a new war tax, which was referred to the Fi-
nance Committee. Five clauses of the Monastic Sup-
pression Bill were adopted, and a project for reviving
the political Societies and Juntas was unanimously re-
jected. The capital was tranquil, as was likewise
Barcelona, though the exiles to whom the Royal am-
nesty extended had all returned. The accounts from
Bayonne are very unfavourable to Don Carlos. All
attempts to prevail on the Basques and Navarrese to
follow his standard had failed ; and several companies
of these mountaineers had regained their homes in a
most miserable plight.

The Monileur and Charle of Tuesday, which we
have received along with the other Paris Journals of
the same date, bring a mass of intelligence from Spain,
the burden of which is favourable to the Constitutional
cause. No decisive blow has yet been struck, and so
far the accounts are unsatisfactory ; but wherever the
Christinos and Carlists have come to blows the rebels
have had the worst of it. The following are the tele,
graphic despatches communicated to the French Go
vermin:Li t

" NAIII3ONNE, JULY 25.

" PERPIGNAN, JULY 24.—Letters from Barcelona of
the 21st state that the Baron de Meer, after having gone to
Prats de Lusannes with a convoy, reached Manresa in de-
spite of redoubled attacks from numbers twice as great as
his own. Ripoll is attacked by Urbisando. A sharp firing
was heard on the 23d before that town."
" BORDEAUX, JULY 24, 5 O'CLOCK, P. M.
" THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 11TH MILITARY DI-

VISION TO '''HE MINISTER. OF WAR.
" A report of Oraa, dated the 16th in the morning,
states the ioi; .9f the enemy in the affair of the 15th to have
exceeded 1,500 met:, 400 of whom were made prisoners,
besides a number of others who deserted to the Christinot,
The latter captured 54 waggons with a large quantity of
arms, and :warlike stores and effects, Nothing positive
was known respecting the direction taken by th!3 Pre-
tender."

" MARSEILLES, July 21,—The consul of Valencia

writes, under the date of the mornio-
of the 16th :
'lle action was warmly
; the details have not
vet an official character•
• ,_,ut the news is favourable.'
getters announce a loss of from :2,000
to
tt proclamation of the authorities of Valencia an-
nounces that two companies of the battalions of Alava have
Fssed over to the constitutionalists."

" BoßDEaux, July 2il, m.—On the
15th, in the environs of Chiva, Oran attacked and di-fated
the Pretender, who appears to be still following the direc-
tion of Cuenca. Oa that day his head quarters were at
Banol. The Carlists lost about 2,000 men : some deserters
and prisoners an ived on the IGth at Valencia. The Baron
de Meer has also obtained an advantage at Prats.de-Lu-
sannes ; the enemy was put to the route, and the cannon
lost at Bergs retaken,"

" BAYONNE, July 23. According to an official report
published on the 20th at Saragossa,. Oraa attacked the
Ca►lists on the 17th at Ampias, and has retaken Chiva.
The governor of Teruel announces the arrival of 300
wounded, and nays that the battle lasted until night; and
continued on the 18th. On the same day Jaureguy at-
tacked a Carlist battalion near Humain, and killed 100
men. The Carlists of Navarre have retired into the valley
of Ulzama.

" BAYONNE, JULY 2.4.—0 n the 20th nine Carlist battzt

lions and five squadrons, under the orders of Z:►riateguy
and Elio, passed the Ebro between Haro and Miranda.
A proclamation, published the I9th, announces that this
movement has for its object to second the march of Don
Carlos upon Madrid."

Taken altogether this news is decidedly favourable

to the QUEEN. ZARIATEGUY'S Carlist re-inforce-
ment, mentioned in the last of the above dispatches,
consists of some loose bands of ruffians, intent only on
plunder, magnified by ELI() into nine battalions and
five squadrons, merely to distract the attention of
ESPARTERO. These fellows cross and re-cross the
Ebro at different points, in order to afford the Car-
lists opportunities of proclaiming fresh accessions of
strength from the Basques. The device is a shallow
one, but hitherto it has succeeded in perplexing both
the QUEEN'S Generals and the Government. A band
of Carlists pass the river at any given point. Imme-
diately couriers are dispatched with the news to the
army and the Government. The said bands of rebels
pillage a few villages, and before a force can be brought
against them, repass the river, only to appear at some
other point as a fresh Carlist division. This explains
the mystery of the many Carlist re-inforcements we
hear of, without the Pretender's division being a
single man the stronger, from the extreme facility
with which they cross the Ebro.
On the 19th, ESPARTERO, at the head of the
cavalry, entered Cuenca. This again is very favour-
able news. The QUEEN'S Generals begin to see the
necessity of directing their united efforts against the
Pretender ; instead of foolishly following in the track
of his subordinates.
The Vapor, of Barcelona, of the 18th, contains
the following details of the engagement between the
division under ORAA and the Carlists near Valencia,
on the 15th, of which the result is given in one of the
above telegraphic dispatches :
" VALENCIA, JULY 15.—At one o'clock in the morning,
the fine division of Oraa marched out of Cuarte, with the
intention of attacking and pursuing the enemy, who, from
the accounts he had received, was proceeding towards
Chive by Las Cabrillas. This morning, about eight o'clock,
we heard in that direction a very brisk fusilade. The en-
gagement was just commencing. General Oraa attacked
the Carlists on the bank of the Ampuas, and, after an ob-
stinate resistance, dislodged them from that position. At
eleven o'clock, the firing redoubled, and several wounded
soldiers were brought into Cuarte."
" FIVE O'CLOCK.—The firing continues, but is heard at
a distance ; the enemy is retreating ; that is all we know
up to this hour. Beaten out of this first position, the rebels
intrenched themselves at Chive. Our troops attacked them
twice-, and were twice repulsed ; after the third assault the
Carlists gave way, and commenced their retreat towards the
formidable positions of Las Cabrillas. Two companies of
Alavese came over to us. The field of battle is covered
with dead. We had a considerable number of officers
wounded, among whom is the brave Captain Durand, the
second in command of the brigade of Borso. It is re-
ported that our troops have taken 400 prisoners, and that a
Navarrese battalion has been entirely destroyed. The-
firing still continues, and it is now seven o'clock. All the
reports, though not official, are favourable.
" JULY 16.—Yesterday General Oraa and our brave
troops completely routed the bands of the Pretender at
Chive. The affair lasted the entire day. Chive was taken
and retaken several times. The Navarrese, charging in
close columns, had succeeded in recovering the position, but
our soldiers, returning to the charge, and rushing on the
most compact of their battalions, broke through its ranks,
took a number of prisoners, and remained masters of the
field. The number of prisoners is estimated at between
500 and 600. Three companies of the enemy have joined
our ranks. The Pretender is said to have fled in the direc-
tion of San Mateo."
Another Spanish Journal of the same date con-
tains the following announcement of the intention of
the British Marines to take part in the engagement,
had their services been wanted to turn the scale of
victory in favour of the QUEEN :
" VALLNeIA, JULY 15 AND 16.
" The cavalry of Borso_arrived in very good time. The
English war-vessel had gone for it to Vinaroz, and landed
it near the field of battle. A column of 1,000 men is
leaving Valencia to pick up the fugitives, and carry in
wounded. All the vehicles in the city have been put into
requisition for that object. It is said that 400 men of
Cabrera's bands have ceased to exist. Had the rebels
been victorious, the English vessels would have landed
several hundred Marines and some cannoneers. 400
Navarrese prisoners are now conducting to Valencia.
The affair was Attended with considerable loss on both
sides. If, as we presume, Buerens covered all the points
in the rear of the enemy, the result of the action may be
most important. One is inclined to suppose that the
plan of the expedition has been suggested to Don Carlos
by his enemies. On all sides the population flies at his
approach, and few are those who join his standard."
The domestic news in the Paris papers of Tuesday
is not interesting. MM. WALstr, GENOUDE, and
BERRYER were tried on Monday, for carrying on a
treasonable correspondence with the Duchess of
BERRY, and acquitted. General DONADIEU and his
printer and publisher were tried at the same time, for
the publication of a book to which we alluded at some
length when the prosecution of its author was before
announced in The Sun. The General was sentenced
to two years' imprisonment, and the payment of two
hundred pounds fine. The severity of this sentence
may be judged by the fact, that had the Court con-
demned the General to imprisonment till some peison
would voluntarily read his book, he would die in con-
finement.
We have pleasure in stating that the report of the
death of the Queen of NAPLES is entirely unfounded.
The cholera, however, rages with unabated violence
in the cities of Naples, Palermo, and Syracuse. The
deaths in Palermo average five hundred daily.
The following paragraph is copied from the Moai-
teur of Tuesday :
" The report of the murder of Abd-el-Kader, which
several journals have copied from the Toulon papers, with-
out vouching in the least for its accuracy, has not until
now been confirmed. The Government has received on
the subject no kind of information whatever."
This is followed by some observations on the benefit
to France of the treaty with the Ernir. But they are
of no consequence to English readers.
The Garde National of Marseilles of the 21st says—
" A battery of the 9th regiment of artillery, commanded
by Captain Teletrace, and destined for Constantine, arrived
at Marseilles yesterday."
The Tuulonnais of the 21st says—" We have seen only
two letters from Algiers that mention the death of Abd-el-
Kader as a very probable event. We have, however, so
much confidence in our correspondent, who announced to
us the assassination of that chief, that we are nearly con-
vinced that the next post will confirm this news."
Major-General Cardoman arrived at Toulon on the 18th,
going on an important mission to Africa.—Constitutiennel.
A letter from Oran of 9th July says, Abd-el Kotler seems
much inclined to amicable relations. General Bugeaud let
him know a few days ago that he wished to pass through
the territory reserved to the Arabs, to exchange the garri-
sons of Mostaganem and Arzow, he immediately gaveor-
ders to the tribes through which the French troop are to
pass, and we shall have henceforth a military r94d, which
was not reserved to us by the treaty."
In this letter, published by the Journal der Dobah, from
16.904 ath,eritty, we should owe to the generosity of Aba-el