The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-16 00:00:00

from his Grace, I do not find that they allow their
consciences to interfere with their interests. Their
consciences have the power of expansion when

their own interests are concerned ; but when I
solicit a favour of them, their consciences have the
power of contraction." This is hard hitting, but the
Tory parsons deserve it, and much more ; for, not-
withstanding their incessant professions of meekness,
piety, and forbearance, they have been everywhere fore-
most, during the present e!ections, in stirring up the
smouldering embers of intolerance, and inflaming the
worst passions of the community. To accomplish
their aims they have not hesitated to give circulation
to the most unfounded calumnies, taking for granted,
with the Jesuits of old, that the end sanctifies the
means. If the Church be in danger, it is these Tory
parsons that endanger it, who, not content with stirring
up strife in their respective districts, for six days in the
week, must needs devote the Sabbath also to this truly
Christian occupation. Mr. CA VENDISH'S colleague
(Mr. EVANs) emphatically alluded to this circumstance
in his speech from the hustings, and "deprecated in
strong terms such a profanation of the Sabbath." And
yet the men who thus desecrate that day which they,
of all others, are bound to keep holy, are the same
who are constantly complaining of the irreligion and
immorality of the poor, and regard Sir ANDREW AG-
NEW's Sunday Starvation Bill as a measure of the
most imperious necessity ! For this state of things
there- is no remedy that we know of but the Ballot.
Give us but the sure protection of the Ballot ; and
the Tory parsons, having no longer a motive for
intermeddling with matters that do not concern them,
will be compelled to be quiet, in spite of themselves.
To the Ballot, sooner or later, we must come—that
is to say, if Reform is to be a substance, not a sha-
dow—and the sooner, therefore, we obtain it the
better. " I think, Gentlemen," observed Mr. CA..
VENDISII, " you will agree with me in my opinion
of the miserable expedients to which the Tories have
had recourse ; and I will ask you what you think of
the man who was base and unprincipled enough to
come forward three several times to personate an in-
dividual named WALLACE of Belper ? But BO it
was, Gentlemen. A man actually came forward three
several times, and voted in the name of that person !"
If damning facts like these, which might be multiplied
ad infinitum, do not convince Ministers that the time
for the concession of the Ballot—or at any rate for mak-
ing it an open question—has arrived, the people's opi-
nion of their sagacity will be greatly changed from
what it has hitherto been.

The news from the Peninsula received this morning
is highly interesting. After all the vapouring of Es-
PA RTERO and DE MEER, Segovia was taken by the
Carlists on the 4th, and New Castile is now proclaimed

in a state of siege ! The following telegraphic de-
spatches were received on Monday by the French

Government :

44 MADRID, B—BAYONNE, 12.—8 y a royal decree of the
Gth, Madrid is declared in a state of siege, on account of
the proximity of the enemy, who, after the capture of Se-
govia and its castle, have not carried further their demon-
strations against the capital, where there remains perfect
tranquillity, which it is hoped will not be disturbed.
" The Ministry was severely attacked in the Cortes on
the 7th. A motion against it was rejected by 76 against
53 votes ; but a partial modification of the Cabinet is con-
sidered imminent."
" BORDEAUX, AuG. 12.—The Carlist expedition, which
had passed the Duero the Ist, entered Segovia the even-
ing of the 4th, the castle capitulating during the night.
Captain• General Vigo, not haying arrived in time to save
Segovia, was on the evening of the sth at Santa Maria de
Vieva. New Castile was declared to be in a state of siege.
News from Madrid of the 7th mentions that the enemy
had quitted Segovia, though there were no fears for the
capital.
" Llangostera had attacked Mora de Ebro, but retreated
from its on the night of the sth. a division having arrived
from Catalonia on the left bank."
" On the 4th the Pretender was at Mirambel, Oraa
and Espartero following his movements. The former was,
on the 4th, at Morella, and the second at Torre de los
N egros.
" BAYONNE, Auo. 12.—Three o'clock, p.m.—The insur-
gents commanded by Elio [Zariategui ?], and consisting of
5,000 infantry and 220 cavalry, entered Segovia on the 3d,
and took the direction of St. Ildefonso and the Escurial.
General Vigo was at the distance of eight leagues from
Segovia. The Pretender is still in the environs of Can-
tavieja. Espartero entered Daroca on the 6th with his

troops.
" NARBONNE, AUG. 14.---PERPIGNAN, AUG. 13.—Let-
ters from Barcelona of the 11th state that the Baron de
Meer, after having occupied his ancient position on the
line of Molina del Rey a Igualada, left Martorel on the
9th for San Sadurni. Thu mobilization of the national
guards from eighteen to forty :years of age, decreed by
the now junta, meets with opposition. The provincial
juntas of Lerida, Gerona, and Tarragona refuse to recog-
nize the authority of the central junta."

Every movement of the Spanish belligerents ex-
poses more and more the contemptible charlatanism
of the QUEEN'S Generals. ESPARTERO and ORA A,
with an overwhelming numerical force, have been for
weeks together almost within sight of the Pretender,
and yet they have not prevented the pillage of a
single village, much less compelled him to come to a
general engagement. They have amused their troops
with reviews, and long-winded MUNCH AUSEN speeches
of battles never to be fought, and victories never to
be won, and ended with the dispatching of couriers
to report rigmarole accounts of their marches and
counter-marches to the Government. It is enough
to make one's blood boil with indignation to peruse
the letters which we daily receive recounting the mis-
doings of the military scoundrels upon whom the
Government is hourly showering bribes and distinc-
tions to induce them to do their duty—for it is a
farce to call such gratuities rewards, unless, indeed,
we call them rewards for the non-performance of mi-
litary exploits. When Bilboa was first besieged by the
Carlists we took occasion to censure the culpable apathy
of the QUEEN'S Generals; and we remember particularly
singling out ESPARTERO as an officer whose conduct
merited indignant reprobation. When by the gallantry
of the British Marines, ESPARTERO was in some sort
compelled to save Bilboa, and the Carlists, in the me-
morable and expressive language of the Tory corres-
pondent of a Tory journal, were forced " to cut their
stick," our liberal contemporary the Chronicle took
prodigious pains to whitewash the military reputation
of the newly-created Count De LUCHANA. We were
blamed for suspecting the fidelity and ability of a
General who, after hunting RANELAGH and HUM-
PHRIES from before Bilboa, had the exceeding mo-
desty to acknowledge the British soldiery as among the
finest in the world. Well it is now some eight months
since the relief of Bilboa ; EsPA RTERO has been since
that time placed at the head of the army, with the
whole executive power of the war department at his
disposal ; and now let us ask what does the Chronicle
think of his fidelity, and his generalship ? Has our
contemporary the same confidence in the valour, tem-
pered by discretion, of the Bilboa hero ? To these
questions the Chronicle of this morning supplies an ex-
plicit answer. 'We quote from its leading columns :
" Commands and ministries have been given to Espar-
tero ; everything that could bribe a General to activity in
the Constitutional cause ; and yet, though immediately
upon Don Carlos, and with 15,000 men in the immediate
vicinity of his stronghold of Cantavieja, Espartero marches
away in pursuit of Quilez and some 2,000 vagabonds.
Nothing is more evident than that Espartero is incapable
and unwilling to terminate the war, and that the Ministry
in its weakness has been flattering him, as it did Rodil, to
the same end, that of merely prolonging the war. The
Carlist party has evidently lived and grown by the imbe-
cility, or worse, of the Generals opposed to them. And
until a Liberal Government can applysome remedy to this,
they must expect to continue the ,1' -stock of Europe
and Don Carlos, and subject, as thdu)°L.us'egrve,.to,,the impa-
tience and insurrection of the peoplee
of Madrid.
The Spanish Government is not ignorant of the
hollowness of ESPA RTERO'S professions ; but those