The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-14 00:00:00

office, and at such dinners it has been custo-
mary to drink the SoVEHIGN'S health in a stand-
ing posture. In the present instance, that part
of the ceremony was omitted. We believe the
QUEEN'S health was not openly objected to by any of
the Peers ; but they sat as if they had been glued to
their scats. Is this Aristocratic gallantry ? We fear
we must after this agree with 13 URKE, " the age
of chivalry is gone."

Tuesday the 77,!•rts amused itself with pelting
Mr. O'CoNeTELL and the Catholics of Ireland with
the " dirty rags" and " bits of rotten wood" exhi=
bited by a " silly and superstitious old man ftt the Va-
tican ;" and this morning the fliVaid—having taken
rim to think Seriously of the matter—undertakes, in
a most religious frame of mind, to prove that Ireland
is indebted to her connection with England for the
" curse of Popery !" Ireland, according to silly old
Grandmamma, was Protestant before the invasion of
HENRY IL—an assertion, by the way, which, if cre-
dited, would, in the opinion of the Tories, justify Ire-
land in for ever execrating a connection with this
country. But Grandmamma is mistaken upon this
point—having merely copied one of Parson O'SUL-
LIVAN'S rhetorical flourishes at a spinster assemblage
of the saints in Exeter-hall. The Irish ecclesiastics
who assembled in council at Cashel in 1172, to discuss
the provisions of Pope ADRIAN'S Bull, never once
thought of disputing the supremacy of the Holy See
—and what is more—they did not introduce a single
ordinance or ceremony by way of qualifying themselves
to become members of the Church of Rome. Besides
it is now, we believe, generally admitted, that what
Grandmamma calls " Protestantism, " was not re-
cognized as a rule of faith and observance by any
religions community in the world before 1525—a fact
which refutes all that is stated about the Protestantism
of Ireland before the landing of HENRY 11. and his
Barons on the shores of Waterford. Protestantism in
a modified form, viz., the Protestantism of the Eng-
lish and Scotch Dissenters—the Protestantism which
abjures hierarchies, and anointings, regal and ecclesias-
tical—did exist in the world long before a Church
Reform was heard of in Germany; but such Pro-
testantism never existed in Ireland. Besides, not only
the falsehood, but the absurdity of the assertion of the
Herald is proved by the tenacity with which the Irish
Catholics have adhered to the religion of Rome. Is
it to be supposed for an instant that a nation which,
when invaded by HENRY 11., possessed a knowledge of
the Christian religion, "pure and undefiled," would
plunge at once, and without the semblance of a
struggle, into what the Herald calls the " impiety
of Romanism ;" and yet endure three centuries of op-
pression rather than re-profess those pure and undefiled
dogmas which it before relinquished ? The idea is ri-
diculous, and, therefore, the reasoning of Grandmamma
only deserves to be laughed at. In her dotage, the
Old Dame is always discovering mares'-nests.

c beg the public attention to an article in an-
other part of The Sun, which we have copied from
our excellent Contemporary the Northampton Chro-
nicle, detailing a case of gross ecclesiastical op-
pression.

Madrid Journals to the sth inst. inclusive have
been received this morning. They contain no intel-
ligence of any interest. The Cabinet continued to
hold together, though neither supported by the en-
thusiasm of the army nor the sympathy of the people.
No account had reached the capital of the victories of
ESPARTERO after his junction with ORAA at
Daroca.

The Provincial Junta of Lower Arragon addressed
a formal protest to the QUEEN, dated the 29th ult.,
against the military insurrection at Aravaca, which led
to the dissolution of the late Cabinet. The following
extract from it is levelled against ESPARTERO-who,
by this time is likely to have encountered the Arra-
gonese advisers of her MAJESTY face to face :
" Let the Government of your Majesty show itself firm
and strong ; let it draw closer the bonds of military disci-
pline, which must be rendered the more rigid as the limits of
liberty shall be the more extended—such are the warnings
of history from the times of civilized Rome down to the
virtuous Washington. If, however incredible it may be,
there come forward a monster so unnatural as to presume
to encroach on the prerogatives of the nation and of the
throne, sanctioned by the Constitution of 1837, which your
Majesty and the noble people whose destinies are committed
to you have lately sworn with so much enthusiasm to ob-
serve and uphold, let that monster be outlawed and devoted
to public execration and vengeance. Such are the senti-
ments and wishes of the audience of Saragossa, of all Ar-
ragon, and, we may say, of the entire nation, save a few
corrupt and perfidious individuals, and the undersigned de-
clare to your Majesty that they are determined to use their
utmost exertions, and risk their lives and fortunes, to pro-
mote the ultimate triumph of the liberal cause."
This is fearful language in which to address a So-
vereign I

The Emancipation, a Toulouse journal, has the
foll Owing rcmaiks on the present state of Spain.
Without immediate intervention on the part of Eng-
land and France, we fear the worst anticipations of the
writer will be shortly realized :
" Spain has at present, as France had previous to its re-
volution, its divisions into hostile classes, its Court, its no-
bles, its clergy, its tiers etet. Its situation is similar ; the
circle in which it turns the same. It has its oppressive and
wilfully blinded Aristocracy ; it has its temporising wa-
voters, and its traitors. It has its Dumouriez in Espartero ;
its Girondins, who will ruin it as they would have ruined
France. A Pretender foments anarchy and conceives hopes
of absolutism in the country ; a Vendee is burning in its
very bosom. Coalitions are preparing which must and will
soon explode. There is no other issue from its desperate
condition comprehensible but such as France found. All
enemies of liberty, all base and slavish souls, all publicans
and pharisees, will be driven from the soil. A convention
will be called, and Maria Christina, Isabella, and all the old
family of the Bourbons, as worn out in Spain as it was in
France, will fall from power. Those who have conspired
for the ruin of the country, those who have sold its honour
and security, dilapidated its fortune and counted its blood
as nought, shall meet their punishment. The people, called
to arms, will proclaim liberty and equality, crush the fa-
natical Vandee of Spain, grow young and vigorous by trust-
ing its armies, Ministries, and Legislation, to hands young
and vigorous, and then shout the formidable cry to all Eu-
rope, Spain is free Then, and then alone, will there be
salvation for her."

On the military movements in the Peninsula, the
Journal des Debals has the annexed pertinent obser-

vations :
" The Carlist army has not known how to profit by the
instant of vertigo and revolt, during which the constitu-
tional army seemed little in a state to defeat a vigorous at-
tack. No more have the Carlists profited by the check of
Buereas to attack Oraa before the arrival of Espartero.
If they have not even attempted to seize the advantages
which offered, it is probable that the reason lies in their
not having a sufficient strength. For a month Don Carlos
has been cantoned in the mountains of Teruel, Albar-
rack, and Cantavieja, master of all Lower Arragon from
Belchite to the mouth of the Ebro, and manoeuvring on the
skirts of Old Castile, without passing its limit. Oraa,
Espartero, and Blows,' occupy Calatayud and Daroca, on
the great road from Saragossa to Madrid, to cut off Don
Carlos from the two Castiles. Zariategui maintains him-
self
in the mountains of Quintanar, Ontoria, and San Leo-
nardo, between Burgos and Soria, where he has taken pos-
session of the fort of Salts de los Infantes.

" Mendez Vi o, Captain-General of Old Castile watches
this new focus of insurrection, and assembles his troops to
attack it nearer. Espartero, on his side, watches to inter-
cept the communications between Cantavieja and the
mountains of Soria. Affairs will remain in the same state
until Espartero determines to penetrate with all his forces
into the cantonments of lion Carlos, or until the Carlists
imagine and execute some unexpected advance, like that of
Zariategui upon Segovia. In Catalonia the Carli,ts arc
almost entirely masters of the upper country, with the ex-
ception of San Juan de las Abadessas. Their General,
Urbistondo, displays military qualities and humane sentiments
which do him honour. The Baron de Meer, not having
sufficient force to occupy all the strategic lines of the pro-
vince, contents himself with marching about, rt the head of
1,000 men, to the menaced points, and defeating the projects,
of the enemy. Thus he has twice forced Urbistondo to
raise the siege of San Juan de las. Abadessas. In Na. 1