The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-29 00:00:00

change his opinion respecting the apathy of this
country towards Ireland, which he made the sub-
ject of such bitter complaint a year or two back.
He now says, " sympathy towards Ireland is far more
widely diffused through England than I was heretofore
led to believe." This recantation of a prejudice hastily
and unwisely adopted, is creditable to the lion. and
Learned Mernbei's candour and sense of justice. Our
readers will find an abridged report of Mr. O'CoN-
NELL'S speech in another part of The Sun.

The Anti-Church-rate meeting held at Stockport
last week, a report of which will be found in another
part of our paper, is among the first of a series of
popular manifestations which Cheshire is about to
afford, in order to test the truth of the assertion made
on episcopal authority, that the people of that county
were against the abolition of Church-rates. To the
Right Reverend Prelate who ventured upon that
dangerous ground we would recommend a careful
perusal of the report above-mentioned, which, if we
are not much mistaken, will furnish a somewhat
bitter cud of reflection to be chewed by him,
and the rest of the fraternity to which he belongs,
during what remains of the recess. The Apostolic
fathers will see the folly and danger of harbouring so
visionary a thought as that of falling back upon the
County of Chester from the just resentment of an in-
dignant nation. The men of Cheshire have taken the
true way to dispel the hallucination from the minds of
the Bishops; and it is honourable to the inhabitants of
the populous and flourishing town of Stockport that they
have set the example of enlightening the Episcopal
understanding on this important point. The moment
the intelligence reached Stockport that a Bishop had
uttered, in the House of Lords, the calumny to which
we have alluded, a requisition was prepared, nume-
rously signed, and presented to the Mayor, who
summoned a meeting to be held on Wednesday last.
This meeting accordingly took place in the Court-
house, the Mayor presiding, and was attended by the
leading gentlemen—Churchmen as well as Dissenters
—of the borough. The speeches delivered were dis-
tinguished by talent of a very superior order, and by a
tone of calm but resolute determination which cannot
be very pleasing to the upholders of the Church-rate
abomination. We shall soon have more intelligence
of the same complexion to communicate from Cheshire. '

We insert elsewhere a communication headed
" Bungay Church-rate Meeting," which will be found
not without interest at the preknt moment. The
Church authorities of that parish, distinguished above
all other parishes in the kingdom, are not, happily,
among those who are capable of learning wisdom from
experience. As long as Church-rates exist, they will
always continue to furnish good reasons for their aboli-
tion. We think that as soon as the abolition does take
place, a public monument should be erected to comme-
morate the service done to the cause of civil and reli-
gious liberty by the Churchwardens of Bungay.

At the late election in the county of Carlow, the
Rev. Mr. THOMAS, a Protestant Clergyman, who

had heretofore voted for the Conservative candidate,
voted for Mr. ITIGoRs. It appears that his Rector
was very wroth at this, and some of his flock threatened
to walk out of the church when he performed any of
the service—such is the spirit of toleration in that

part of Ireland. We know that a more excellent Di-
vine does not exist than Mr. THOMAS—more devoted
to the duties of his sacred ministry—or a more genuine
Protestant ; but he is not to be permitted to judge for
himself as to the proper perAon to represent the c.Ainty
in Parliament, without being injured in his profession
as Curate of a parish, for which we are informed he
receives 501. per annum!

The Morning Post of to-day contains a second
article on the secession of the Standard from the
cause of Don CARLOS. Our Contemporary com-
mences his appeal to the Tory sympathies of his old
ally by " a brief statement of facts"—viz., by a stale
recital of a stale budget of legal fictions, falsehoods,
and scandalous imputations affecting the honour of
the Queen of SPAIN, the will of FERDINAND the
VII., and the pretended hereditary rights of Don
CARLOS, respectively. Why the Post is so eager to
seize upon all occasions to repeat this " statement" is
more than we can divine. Were it even true, we
cannot discover in what way it would affect the ques-
tion at issue. Admitting that the Salic Law of suc-
cession prevailed in Spain—which it really never did
either before or after the birth of Don CARLOS—the
Post will not pretend to say that it was among the
fundamental ordinances of the Kingdom. PHILIP
V. was the first Spanish Sovereign who at-
tempted to establish something like the Salic Law
in Spain. Before his accession the Cortes dis-
posed of the Crown, and males and females were equally
elfgible. Instead of convening the Cortes to deliberate
upon the change which he proposed in the law of suc-
cession, PHILIP addressed circular letters to the Mem-
bers, and sought to collect their suffrages, .not as legis-

lators, but as Councillors of State. He kneW that the
Cortes, constitutionally summoned, would not agree
to the measure which he suggested. When he had re.
ccived the answers of the Cortes individually, he re-
ported that the majority were in favour of a law, limit-
ing the succession to the heirs male while any of the
male line lived ; but that on the extinction of the male
branches, the females should be eligible to ascend the
Throne as legitimate and rightful Sovereigns of Spain.
After the death of PHILIP, the archives of the na-
tion were searched in vain for copies of the letters
upon which he claimed the right of promulgating such
a law, when it was discovered that the KING had de-
stroyed them, to prevent it being known that the ma-
jority of the Cortes were opposed to such an inno-
vation. In 1789, the Cortes were summoned by
CHARLES IV. to repeal the law of PHILIP, and
they twice solemnly repealed it during the reign,
and ' with the approbation of FERDINAND VII.
The Post cannot dispute the power of the Cortes
to change a law of PHILIP V. ; and our Contem-
poraryneeds not be told that that august assembly

abolished PHILIP'S law of succession in 1812, and
again in 1832, with the advice and consent of the
reigning Sovereign. For our own part we lay no stress
whatever upon the last testament of FERDINAND.
His will could neither give nor take away a right ;
though among a superstitious people it might have
the effect of strengthening a claim otherwise not fully
recognized. To the Cortes belonged the right of con-
ceding to the National Sovereignty, and that body
gave validity to the Royal Testament conferring the
Crown upon ISABELLA 11. These are the facts of the
case, and against these the Post urges such vague de-
clamation as the following :
" He (Don Carlos) is no adventurer, as the Standard says,
like Charles Edward seeking to regain a throne, many
years after the event had taken place and the Govern-
ment established, which his father, by disloyalty to the
people, had vacated. He claims an entrance at the fron-
tier the moment his right begins ; and escapes from the
custody of a stranger the instant he is at liberty to do so,
and throws hi►nself,among the people in that part of the
kingdom where they have proclaimed his name concurrently
with the proclamation of the Queen's name at Madrid. He
is King of the upper provinces—she Sovereign of the
low country. He has birthright, the ancient law of suc-
cession, and the devotion of the people at his side
—she the corruption of the London Stock Ex-
change, the conspiracy of three foreign Governments, and
the presence of 20,000 foreign bayonets at hers. With
whom, We ask the Standard, is the prima facie right ?
Who, according to the practice of history, is the King and
who is the Pretender ? Is the obedience of Don Carlos as
a subject to bar his rights as a King? Is the arrest of a
foreign Government to dispossess him of his hereditary
claims? Is he an adventurer because in his absence a wiuiton,

whose daughter is probably the child of shame, has laid
hold of the reins of power, and because the Movement
party in England and in France, have thought proper to
set a price on his head ?"-

Our Contemporary appears to entertain very pecu-
liar notions respecting the rights of Kings. Any de-
lay in the prosecution of them destroys their validity.
They evaporate by unresisted exposure to the action
of the popular will, as does the spirit of fermented
liquors by exposure to the free action of the air. This
is the theory of the Post—and most certainly there is
more of the Whig than of the Tory in it. Don
CARLOS (says the Post) is not an adventurer, like
CHARLES EDWARD, for he lost no time in asserting
his claim to the Spanish Throne. What time did the
House of Stuart. lose ? When was the unfortunate
JAMES and his family indifferent to a restoration to
the Throne of these realms ? What is the Conser-
vative period within which the heirs to Crowns must
claim them at their peril ? Of a piece with this flimsy
reasoning is the assertion that " Don CARLOS is
King of the Upper Provinces." Now there is
hardly a child in the country who does not
know that the Navarese Provinces can have no
KING so long as they retain their dzteros. The Bis-
caya►i provinces have never recognised the regal cha-
racter of the Sovereigns of Spain. Don CARLOS,
according to the established laws of the country, could
only be Lord of Biscay, and in assuming the title of.
King, he violates the fiteros, which the Post says he
has sworn to respect. With regard to tl►e legitimacy
of the younL! QUEEN, we would recommend our fa-
shionable Contemporary to overlook the probabilities
in such a case, otherwise offence may be given
where it is not intended. There were QUEENS
in Spain before CHRISTINA, and from one of them,
not celebrated for the purity of her morals, Don
CARLOs happens to be descended in the nearest de-
gree of consanguinity. But this is a delicate subject,
anti we have no wish to trouble ourselves with the
possible contingencies to which Kings in common
with their subjects expose themselves by matrimonial
alliances.

As we before observed, the vexation of our Con-
temporary originates in the little hope there is that its
Spanish policy will prove a stumbling block to the
Whig Cabinet. Were the Tories bUt restored to
office, the Post would soon leave the Pretender to
make the most he could of his own quarrel, and we
should hear no more of the crownless, kingdomless,
and cityless " King of the Upper Provinces." This
fact is a second time admitted by our Contemporary.
We quote from his columns of to-day, in which the
admission is as d;stinetly made as it was in the article
commented upon in The Sun of yesterday :
We have no doubt the Standa.-d writes what it con-
scientiously believes, but it is to be deplored that a respec-
table Journal should take so unusual and so perverted ,a
view of a simple subject. We regret that it should "fur-
nish such unlooked for aid to the Whig Administration. It
is unhappy for the cause of good Government that after
three years' war of principle aga'.nst revolution, the talent of
our Contemporary should be ranged at the side of a profli-
gate woman, a baby Qucsn, and a stock-jobbing Govern-
ment. It is in vain to separate its denunciations of Don
Carlos from an approbation of the measures of Lord Pal-
merston. If that Prince be a murderer, a monster, an
outlaw from civilization, the Whig Administration, instead
of going too far, as the Standa,d arraigns it with doing,
should have gone much further."

The reasoning of the Post may be syllogistically
summed up in this way :—" It is the proper business
of all Conservative Journals to denounce the policy of
Lord PALMERSTON and the Whigs ; this can only
he done, as regards Spain, by defending the claims
and_ eulogizing the conduct of Don CA ItLOS ; and,

therefore, to denounce Don CARLOS is to support the
Whigs, and to desert the ranks of Toryism. For the
Spanish question, in itself, and for itself, we care

not a rush. The real matter for consideration is
shall the Whigs remain in office ? If you answer in the
negative, as we expect you will, then bellox lustily for
Don CA Rims, traduce the character of the REGENT,
and libel the Cortes. It is the end, not the means
you arc to look to. Drive out the Whigs.at any rate
—every means to attain such an cad is justifiable."
We submit the deductions thus drawn from the sam-
ple we have quoted of the Pact's reasoning and mo-
rality to the correction of our Contemporary. As
the extract stands, it is disgraceful to any JOurnal
claiming a character for impartiality.

The few Paris Papers published on Easter Monday
have been received. They contain no political news
of much interest. The reported Ministerial changes
have not taken place, and there is reason to
believe that they will be delayed for some time.
The Queen and Princesses left Paris on Sunday
for Belgium, on a visit of congratulation to the
Queen of the BELGIANS. Advices from Madrid in
these journals announce that on the 18th inst. the
Cortes agreed to the Report of the Committee on the
Constitution by a majority of 124 votes against 35.
There are reports in town of the defeat of ESPA R-
TERO by Don SEBASTIAN On the 21st, and we have
received letters in confirmation of them. They may
possibly be nothing more than mere rumours.
Letters from Bayonne of the 23d, state positively
that General EVANS was about to take the field
against
the Carlists without waiting for any reinforce-
ments.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Paeis, Mama 27
Five per Cents., 106 f 35c. 50c. 55c. tiOc.
Four and a Half per Cents. 100 f. 5Uc.
Four per Cent., 99f. 99f. 10e.
three per Cents., 78f. 35c. 50c. 55c.
Itente de Naples, I/Sf. 20c. 25c. 30c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101,4
Spanish Actives, 2314 22% 23.
Spanish Mares, 9 S.
Spanish Passives. ti 61,4.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 103 103%.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 39;4;514.

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 4.5 c.; money, 251. 42!,jc.
Three mouths, paper, 251. 25c. ; money, 25f. 22)uc.
—Cours Authenhaue.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents.. 1060 55c.
Three per Cents. 78f. 6"c.
Rente de Naples' 98f. 40c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102.
Belgian Loan, 11X,3%.
Brussels Bank, 1,340 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 301 A.
Spanish Actives, 23.
Spanish Passives, 6%.
Spanish Differes,
New Differes,
Miguelites, 12%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TIII5 DAY.)

DEAL, MARCH 28..—Wind W. S. W., fresh breezes.—Ar_
rived the Walmer Castle, from Bombay ; Richard Mount,
Wayth, from Odessa ; Vivid, and Podi, from Trieste;
Williams, Croft, from Cork ; Norval, Mitchell, Teneriffe.
STANGATE CREEK, MARCH 28.—Arrived the Calypso,
Carana, from Constantinople.
MARGATE, MARCH 28.—Arrived off, James Hoddart, from
Sierra Leone; Edward, from Hamburg.
DOVER, MARCH 28.—Arrived off, the Lievia, from Surinam.
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Arrived Hop, Tape, Messina.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Wind W.—Arrived off, the
Palos, Rayne, from Virginia.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Wind W.—Arrived the Ocean
steamer, from London.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the
Alexander, Self, from Sierra Leone ; Albion, Burrell, from
Leghorn.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 28.—Arrive3 the Hull from Newcastle,
bound to Oporto, with loss of bowsprit and bulwarks damaged,
having been in contact with the Hamilton, Ross.
YARMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Tile Pomona has put into this.
harbour with her bows stove, having been iun foul of.

The Fonchon, arrived off Eastbourne from Batavia, exp.:-
rienced a severe hurricane from E. to S. W., on the 16th Ns-
vember, in lat. 9. S. long. 103. E., which continued twelve
hours, when it shifted from S. E. to S.W., and threw her on
her beam• ends for about four hours, during which she lost
sails, bulwarks, and boat, and sprung her foremast.
The Amelia, from Konigsberg, bound to New York, w
carried into Bermuda, after being on the rocks, abandoned by
the crew; cargo discharging.
The Ann, Whitehead, of Newcastle, was run d wn off
Hasburg 27th inst., by the Mentor, S.nith, of Sunder land—
crew saved.
The Mary and Harriet, from New Orleans, which was
stranded near Holyhead, was got off 25th inst., and taken to
Carnarvon.

The Prince de Surrili►ers (Joseph Bonaparte) e►►-
tertained the Prinec Canino, and several foreigners of distinc
tion, at dinner, yesterday.