The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-10 00:00:00

recent conduct of the Tories convinces us that they are
perfectly reckless and desperate, and in the signs of the
times, daily becoming more unequivocal, read their own
condemnation. To gain time, therefore, is now their main
—indeed, their only object. All liope, but what they
may derive front delay, is gone, and we need scarcely assure
them that this is but a rotten prop to lean upon. They may
postpone measure after measure—they may ewbarass the plans
of Government, and throw down the gauntlet of defiance
to the Commons—they may uplift the banner of " No
Popery," and rally every bigot under its standard ;—they
may do this, and more ; but all will be of no avail ; events
are working :;eainst them, as certainly as they arc working
in favour of Ministers ; back-stairs influence is on tl:e eve
of utter extinction, and the prospects of Rekrm are hourly
becoming more cheering. We have but to persevere, to
conquer!

We think his MAJEST CS Ministers have great reason
to congratulate themselves on the signal testimony borne
to their merits by the Parliamentary proceedings of last
night. In the House of Commons they had to sustain a
volley of ill-natured abuse from the fugleman of the Ultra-
radical party, because they are afraid to move a step
in the march of Reform , while the Corypliceus of
the Ultra-tory party in the House of Lords was at
the very same moment denouncing them with equal viru-
lence, for the railroad rapidity with which they are
proceeding to sweep an ay all the fundamentals of the Con-
stitution, in their reforming career. Now, tho beauty of
these conflicting charges is this, that they completely neu-
tralize one another, and necessarily impress upon the calm,
sober-minded, and reflecting part of the community, the
conviction that the Government has pursued that wise and
safe course, which is equally distant from both extremes—
has
steered the vessel of the State through a difficult and
dangerous navigation, with such steadiness and skill as to
keep clear of the rocks on either side. This we say, will
be the conclusion forced by the violence of ultra-politicians
upon the minds of those who, like ourselves, keep aloof from
all party courses. As to the two persons who principally
figured in their respective " Houses"—Mr. ROEBUCK and
Lord LYNDHUBST--WC may perhaps be allowed to say
that there is a certain degree of similarity between them. In
point of talent there is certainly none—in that respect a
thousand ROEBUCKS would not make up the measure of
one LYNDHURST ; while on the other hand Mr. ROEBUCK
:reatly the advantage in point of character for political
has.
I virtue which the Learned Baron does not pre-
tend however, they agree—they are
ionesttoy.—
both driven otol:
theadDvoeec' atOy of extreme opinions by the ne-
cessity of their situation, Lord LYNDHURST'S talents
having been divorced front pinciple could find employ-
ment only in the service of that party who set all principle
at defiance, while the great ComMuner would have been an
amazingly insignificant personage, without his ultra-extra-
vagant Radicalism.
The exhibition which Mr. ROEBUCK made last
night has greatly disappointed us. He followed pretty
nearly the course which we anticipated he would
take ; but we must say that WO had rated his
abilities much higher than the specimen 4000 by
the "state of the nation" has justified. We have bit-
terness enough—of that waspishness which is so often and
so easily assumed to make up for the want of tlo
more sterling attributes of a debater, there is no
lack ; but when we come to examine the points
on which the Honourable Member for Bath lays the
most stress, we find that they are either untenable for
their absurdity, or based upon misrepresentation, The
speech of Lord Jot-IN RUSSELL, though not long, is one of
the best that the Noble Lord ever delivered. Dignified
in its tone, and triumphant in its calm refutation of the
flippant attack made upon the Ministry, it will, we are
sure, be read with unqualified gratification by every Re-
former. We cannot avoid quoting the concluding passage
" I do not think that we ought to be blamed, because the
measurea which we have thought right have not imme,
diately become acts of the Legislature. The Hon. Gentle,.
man, who has not long been a Member of the House of Com-
mons, has thought it proper tko taunt us sitting on this bench
with a narrative of the acts which we harp been unable to
carry ; with the failure in point of performance after we had
produced measures of considerable importance. I will take
the liberty of mentioning to him, that during the time which
we have sat in this House, for the greater part of us have sat in
it during the last few years, we have carried the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Acts, which made a degrading separa-
tion between Churchmen and Dissenters.—(Hear.) We have
carried the Reform Act.—(Hear.) We have carried the
Poor Law Act.—( Hear, hear.) We have carried the Act for
the Reform of Municipal Corporations, the Act for the commuta-
tion of Tithes in England, and the Act for the total and entire
Abolition of Slavery.—( Cheers.) With respect to adminis-
tration, I will not go into details with respect to expenditure
and taxation ' • we have kept up to that promise of retrench-
ment which Lord Grey gave when he took office, It is a
glory on which I shall always pride myself, that I have acted
with Lord Gray first, and since with Lord Melbourne in car-
rying these important measures; and if some other measures
hare not the luck to reach their consummation, I do not see
that it justifies the Honourable Gentleman. When only two-
thirds of the session have been gone through, and many of their
measures are yet coming to their completion—l say Ido not
thit2( that it justifies him, who has never done anything for his
country--(Loud cheery)—oho has never carried any Act, or,
as far as I know, proposed any measure by which the liberties
or interests of this country might be promoted—l say Ido not
think that it becomes him to come forward now to arraign us,
he having so little of his own performance to place in the
balance against ours—( Renewed pheers)—to make himself the
accuser, with bitter and ironical sarcasm, and seem to be aid-
ing the cause of liberty, which, in fact, if his reproaches had
any effect, they could have no effect but this—to MU the
calm and steady progress of Reform, and, making many
despair of that calm and steady progress to induce them to go
back, or, at least if not to lead to it retrogression, to lead to
a stoppage—a standing still under the guidance of those who
have always felt that Reform was dangerous, and that we ought
to go no further. "—c Laud cheers.)

The whole of the Paris Papois of Thursday have been
received this morning. Their contents aro very unin-
teresting, now that the public is surfeited with the accounts
of the festivities consequent upon the nuptials of the Duke
of ORLEANS. On Wednesday the Chamber of Deputies
was engaged with the budget of supplies for the depart-
ment of Public Instruction. The announcement, on the
Bourse, of the certain failure of an American banker resi-
dent in Paris, unless assisted by the National Bank of
France and his friends to the amount of four millions of
francs (140,0000, created a good deal of alarm, till it
was discovered, on an examination of his books, that the
banker was solvent, though in the greatest distress for
ready money. It was reported at the same time, that the
banking house of M. MULLER, Friburg, Switzerland,
stopped payment for an equal sum. Other failures were
whispered about, but the rumours could not be relied up-
on as correct. _ _

Annexed are extracts from the French papers :
" It appears that it was on the 16th of May that the Spanish
Loan, of which we have spoken to our readers, and which is
presumed to have been succeeded by a Treaty of Commerce
with England, was signed at Madrid.
" We know that the Loan and the Treaty are both desired
at Paris and London ; but our betters speak so positively on
the subject, that we cannot refuse to believe them. The gua-
rantee required of England is said to be limited to a promise
to hinder a Carlist expedition against the island of Cuba, if
ever Don Carlos should have the intention or the power to
undertake anything of the kind. This engagement may
easily be entered into by the Ministry, without having recourse
to Parliament. It seems that the subscribers to the Loan
keep it back till a decisive engagement favourable to the cause
of the Queen, probably intending to find means to defer it in-
definitely, if any event disastrous to the Queen's cause should
render the concession of it impossible or too difficult."—Le
Temps, June 8.
PARIS, JUNE B.—Vice-Admiral Baron Roussin, the term of
whose leave of absence has nearly expired, will return to his
post at Constantinople after the marriage fetes. It is said
that the Count de Saint Priest, our Minister at Lisbon, will
be appointed to the Embassy at Rome, vacant by the death of
M. Latour Maubourg. The Laurier brig, which is going to
be stationed at Newfoundland during the fishery, has taken on
board Boireau, to convey him to the United States. This
vessel sailed from Brest on the 2d. Perhaps it may go to
Havre, to take Meunier, whom the inhabitants of that city
do not know what to do with, since the ships bound to New
Orleans refuse to take him on board. A letter from New
Orleans says, " The, French .ship Le Vaillaht, on arriving
from Havre, has just been seized by order of the magistrates,
for having a negro on board, though this passenger had a re-
gular passport." This example of severity on the part of the
American Government against such violation of the laws of
the state of Lousiana, is not new. Several,French ships in
similar circumstances have experienced the same fate of Le
Valiant.—Le Coninierce.
FRENCH FUNDS—P.4RM JUNE 5.
Five per Cents., It SE 75c. 65c. 60c.
Four and a Half per Cents. 1011 40c.
Four per Cent., 9Jf.
Three per Cents., 7,41 Sc. '7Bl. •
Bank Actions, '2,4301
ftente Ce Naples, 96f. 90c. SOc. 70c. 65c.
Roman Five per Cents., lc]
Spanish Actives, 621i44,1i,ti!e• •
Spanish Passives. 5%1.1
ILylgian Loan, Five per Cents., 101%.
Brussels Society, 1,5551
Belgian Bank, 1,4001 1,395 f. 1,39,1 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 28N .
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 37%e.; money, 25:.
Three months, paper, 251. 17%c. ; money, —c
—Court Authentique.
LAST PRICES
Five per Cents., LIM SOc.
Three per Cents. iSf. 15.
Rank Actions, 2,40 f.
Bente tie Naples, 061. 90c.
Roman Five per Cents., 1011,i.
Brussels Bank, 1,3901.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 23%.
6panish Actives, 254.
Spanish Passives 534.
Nieflish Difibies, 6%.
Belgian Society, 1,555 f.

Madrid Papers to the 31st inst. have been received.
Their contents are interesting. On the 28th the Cortes
voted the suppression of all convents, monasteries, colleges,