The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-25 00:00:00

THE REIGN OF QUEENS.

(From the Lisbon Mail, of July 8.)
On contemplating the late accession of Queen Victoria to
the throne of England, the mind is naturally filled with feel-
ings of emotion at the thoughts of the important parts this
youthful Princess is called upon to play, and it is impossible
for it not to dwell upon the extraordinary coincidence of three
female Sovereigns filling the three Constitutional thrones,
whose interests closely linked, are henceforth likely to form
the prominent feature in the new political era now commenc-
ing only, but whose principal acts will, in all probability, be
unravelled under their auspices, and influenced chiefly by the
nations over which they preside.
The opposition of the powers of the North to the growing
liberties of the Western Peninsula, is too manifest, and their
fears lest the age of absolutism should be drawing to a close,
are all too evident and too full of proof to admit of any doubt
as to the course they are likely to pursue in the hopes of crush-
ing their mortal enemy—Liberal Institutions. It is useless
then to mince the matter, or pretend that, as long as this de-
termination exists on their part to nip Constitutional princi-
ples in their bud, Constitutional countries will find mercy at
their hands, or may expect peace, until by stifling their party
discords and throwing aside their petty jealousies, they unite
their mutual efforts in the more noble cause of Constitutional
Freedom, and the consolidation of Representative Governments
over that fair portion of Europe upon which the spirit of Li-
berty has descended.

Let not the partizans of peace, under any circumstances,
imagine that we wish to preach a crusade of the Western Con-
stitutional Powers against the Northern Despotic ones : that will
be unnecessary. All we ask is for those countries which enjoy
the blessings of a Representative Government to join hand in
hand, and by their united evidence prove to those who deny
the moral strength of Liberal Institutions, that, if there but
exists union in the state, and power in the Crown, the efforts
of the adverse nations will prove unavailing, and tolerate they
must, until it is their turn to undergo, what every page of
history, read with an unprejudiced eye, ought to teach them is
the natural course of events, and the principal feature of the
age we live in; while the only danger that can arise to the
Constitutional cause is from the fear of Club despotism creat-
ing a reaction among the lovers of order, who may throw them-
selves into the arms of absolutism to save themselves from
anarchy. This thought alone ought to check the Patriots of
Portugal, had they really in view their country's good, and
prevent them from becoming the tools of these Powers, whose
only chance of destroying Representative Governments is in
fomenting discord among the Liberals, and preaching through
their secret agents the most exalted and ultra views in the
hopes of creating confusion.
The three centuries which have elapsed since the system of
the balance of power began to dawn in Europe may naturally
be divided into three periods, the characters of which, accord..
ing to the learned German (Lleeren), may be denominated—.
Ist. the political-religious ; 2d. the mercantile-military ; and
3d. the political revolutionary and constitutional. The first
was the period of the Ri►e, the second that of the Establish-
ment, and the last that of the Dissolution of the Balance of
Power.

It is this last epoch, which it will be the lot of the present
generation to work out and complete, until forming a fourth
period whose character will be Representative, we prepare the
soil for future generations, whose distinctive political form is
still in " the womb of time," and which though we cannot yet
either foresee or venture to designate precisely, we may logi-
cally conclude can never return to any one of the past forms,
but must flow on with the tide of civilization, and if the hour
of ebb should come, mankind once free, can rest assured that
the receding waves may carry them to some new order of
things, but never again to Despotism and Slavery.
Having, we think, justly designated the character of the age
Representative, we naturally return to the Sovereigns who
preside over the nations, which are seemingly called upon to
take the lead in the elaboration of the Representative system,
and we do riot hesitate in stating that we consider the parties
of the Quadruple Alliance as the future actors in this great
political Drama in this quarter of the globe. One party it is
true already seems to hesitate and recedes from the force of
events, which no human hand can guide, we fear not for the
future ; so enlightened a Nation must return to its true in-
terests, and as it gave the example, will help to continue the
woi k of its own creation.

In the meantime remain the three Queens and their respec-
tive Nations to represent the cause of the age, and although the
hard hand of misfortune weighs heavily upon two of them, yet
the principle is too great, too noble, for it to be smothered by
the selfish strivings of party, and if these two countries are but
true - to themselves, what wonders may they not yet achieve,
what blessings confer on those European States, over %Illicit
still hang the clouds of despotism ?
Let then all true lovers of moderation, peace, and progress,
gather around the three Constitutional Queens, and inscribing•
on their banners the three talismanic names of
Victoria,— Isabella,—G loria,
march on with confidence in the cause of civilization, which it
is the happiness of the present generation to bc called u )on
defend.

WHALE FISHING in the HIGHLANDS.

(Faom the Glasgow Constitutional.)
About nine o'clock on the morninr, of Friday last, the 14th
current, the good people of the parish 6 of Kilbrandon, in the
shire of Argyle, observed a portion of the waters of the
adjacent ocean tumbling and boiling in a State of preter-
natural fermentation, while all around was calm and unmoved.
On closer examination, they found that this was caused by a
shoal of whales, evidently off their course, and in great alarm.
They were not far from " the rude Corryvrechan's roar ;" and
the probability is, that, frightened by the unwonted noise of
that celebrated whirlpool, the incautious monsters had, like
the unlucky mariners of Heathen mythology, fallen into Scylla,
when endeavouring to avoid the perils of Charybdis.
But, without stopping to speculate touching the cause of
this extraordinary and most unlooked for visitation, the active
and courageous Highlanders hastily betook themselves to their
boats, armed, some with slashing knives, and others with the
heavy claymores of their forefathers, which had not been
drawn with deadly purpose since the days of the young Che-
valier. They assaulted the whales in good earnest, and, after
an onslaught which lasted from nine o'clock in the morning
till ten at night (longer than the fight of Waterloo) I they
succeeded in killing and securing the scarcely credible num-
ber of 192 whales, about 100 of which are from 30 to 50 feet
in length, the remainder being young ones. The contest was
not unattended with danger to the assailants, neither did they
come out of it altogether unscathed. One of the animals,
4, with a flourish of its tail, brave boys" (as the stirring ditty,
so redolent of the North seas, hath it), pressed the sides of a
boat together, as one would an old hat, whereby the crew
were tossed into the water, and one of them unfortunately had
his legs broken. The worthy minister of the parish, too, catch-
ing a portion of the enthusiasm of his people, joined in the
fray, and suffered somewhat in a tussle with one of the enemy ;
but we are happy to learn he is now recovered. The prowess
of one of the mountaineers—Sinclair by name—must not be
allowed to pass unchronicled. A whale, about 50 feet long,
struggling hard to retreat, this individual, with a degree of
gallantry worthy of his distinguished clan, leaped upon its
.back, and with a hatchet belaboured and hewed the animal,
till exhausted by the loss of blood, it was compelled to sur-
render at discretion.
A very copious supply of oil is expected from this unlooked-
for source. According to one authority, the proceeds will he
divided among the captors ; according to another, they are to
be applied for the benefit of the parish of Kilbrandon.

Dr. Johnson, when in Scotland, complained sturdily
of the paucity of trees ; but should his spirit ever revisit the
glimpses of the moon, it can no longer say, that from Ber-
wick to the Orcades all is barren, if we except the Hebrides,
and a few other clustered or lonely isles. When an English
nobleman, who had visited Wigtownshire, inquired of a former
Earl of Galloway, in London, whether he had still his seven
trees, the bold Baron replied, " I have now seven millions ;"
and this is merely a sample of the umbrageous change that has
taken place over the whole country.
A telegraph has been lately established between
Hamburg and Cuxhaven. The arrival of a vessel at the
mouth of the Elbe is hereby announced to the owner at Ham-
burg in less than half an hour after she reaches Cuxhaven,
and the London and Havre steamers are announced as being
in the river six or seven hours before they come up to the city-
A singular proof of the tenacity with which the good burghers
of Hamburg cling to their old customs, and shrink from any-
thing like innovation, may be derived from the fact, that it is
now 43 years since the establishment of this telegraph was first
projected, and that it is only within the last six months that it
has been definitively established.

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. COX SAVORY,
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London.

A,
of At Witham,
m, Essex B I TII S.
Es , on the 20th inst., the lady of J. H. Pattison,
q. a
On the 22d inst., in Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, Mrs. Thos.
Lloyd, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 4th of April, Major William John Butterworth, Assis-
tant Quartermaster-General of the Madras Armv, to Charlotte
Penelope, second daughter of John Bird, Eeq., of 11. e Madras Civil
Service.