The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-07 00:00:00

House, bowing with a mountebank sort of courtesy
to the Chair, when the SPEAKER happened, just at
the moment he reached the bar, to call out " Stran-
gers will withdraw." There was a general roar of laugh-
ter at the expense of the Hon. Baronet.

A public meeting took place yesterday at the Lon-
don Tavern, of the Reform electors of the City, for
the purpose of considering the steps necessary to be
taken, in consequence of the petition presented by
the Tories against the return of the four sitting Mem-
bers. At this meeting, which was crowded to an
overflow, and at which the greatest ardour and unani-
mity prevailed throughout the proceedings, it was re
solved that a subscription should be entered into, to
defend the return of those liberal and influential
Representatives whom the Tories, by dint of a
long purse, and all sorts of plausible calumnies, are
endeavouring to deprive of their seats in Parliament.
On this point Mr. TRAVERS observed, " I have
read the Tory petition somewhat carefully, and I can
state without hesitation that it is full of allegations, as
false and absurd as they are scandalous. We are
there charged with bribery and intimidation ; with per-
jury and the subornation of perjury ; with false per-
sonation ; and everything that is black in the
catalogue of political crimes—and this to come
from the Tories at any time I But I think I
can solve the riddle for you. These men having
been at the late election somewhat more inti-
mate with such practices than they ought to have been,
are willing to anticipate a difficulty which may fall
back on themselves ; arid therefore they accuse you
first of those things with which they are, I believe,
themselves exclusively chargeable." Mr. TRAVERS
has here hit the right nail on the head. Their own
internal consciousness of the bribery and corruption of
which they have so recently been guilty, to an extent
almost without parallel, compels the Tories to
believe that their opponents have been equally
guilty. " The thief (loth fear each bush an
officer ;" and in the return of every Liberal Mem-
ber this corrupt faction fancies it can recognize a
return brought about by the same unconstitu-
tional influences A 5 enabled Sir FRANCIS BUR-
DETT to defeat Mr. METHUEN in North Wilts.
But the Tories will not profit much by their petition,
as respects the City of London, for the Reformers
have a strong case in their favour, arid, from the
zealous and resolute spirit manifested at yesterday's
meeting, we are quite convinced that the requisite
funds will not be wanting on the day of action.

Montreal Papers to the 14th ult., have been re-
ceived this morning. The Lieutenant-Governor was
adopting precautionary measures against any future at-
tempt to disturb the public peace, but it does not ap-
pear from the papers that the PAPINEAU party in-
tend to push matters to extremities before every other
mode of obtaining a redress of grievances fail them.
The following proclamation was issued by the Mon-
treal Magistracy on the 10th ult., for the purpose of
putting a stop to the drilling of corps of young men
bdonging to the Liberal party, who, for some time
past, were in the habit of meeting to perfect themselves
in military exercises
:
Whereas information under oath has been received, that
bodies of men are in the habit of assembling together for the
ostensible purpose of performing military manoeuvres, and
whereas such meetings are contrary to law, and calculated to
create tumults and disorders, and to lead to other disastrous
consequences, the Magistrates do hereby strictly enjoin and
command all persons to abstain from taking part in such un-
lawful assemblages, and do give notice that they will employ
all lawful means to suppress the same ; and the Magistrates
do hereby prohibit all public meetings and processions which
are of a nature to distuib the public peace, and they do call
upon all loyal and well-disposed citizens to abstain from acts
which arc likely, in the present excited state of public feeling,
to endanger the peace of the city.
" By order of the Magistrates assembled in Special Ses-
sions of the Peace,

" DELISLE AND DELISLE, &c.
" Montreal, Nov. 10, 1537."

It is gratifying to those who wish well to Portugal
to find that the Representatives of the People and
the Government, during the arduous struggles in
which they have been engaged for the last fifteen
months, have continued to conduct themselves with
such firmness and moderation, as to defeat all the pro-
jects and disprove the mal:gnant assertions of their
bitterest enemies. After the change which took place
in September, last year, prophecy followed prophecy
from these interested accusors—there was no hope
of safety from such a Constitution, and such a demo-
cratic Government, and nothing could be ex-
pected by any rational being but anarchy
and plunder, the extinction of monarchy, and
the abrogation of the best institutions of the
country. Within that period, the energy of
the Government, backed by the people, put down
without difficulty two formidable conspiracies—the
Legislative body went on quietly remodelling the
Constitution, and within these few days have brought
their labours to a conclusion—very properly leaving
one point which affects alike the Crown and the
Senate to the deliberation and decision of the next
Legislature. Hardly could triumph be greater or vic-
tory more honourable, when on the one hand we
look at the excited state of the people, caused by
the hostility of the Court, the nobles, and the
priesthood ; and on the other, at the humanity
of the ♦ictors, the total abstinence from sangui-
nary revenge, and the moderation of the Re-
presentatives in limiting the power of those whom
they have still reason to dread. Such has been their
prudence, and so steadily have they steered a course
between absolute Monarchy and Democracy, that
these false prophets now ask what has been gained by
the overthrow of the Charter, without seeing the diffi-
culty in which they are placed, by admitting that the
Government have not been guilty of the changes im-
puted to them, and that the Chartists twice risked a
civil war for no earthly object but to restore themselves
to office. They know well, however, and the people know,
that the labours of the Congress have not been in vain.
They have laid a foundation for measures to curtail
the too extensive prerogatives of the Crown, and the
hitherto almost uncontroulled influence of the Nobility
and Clergy ; and they have established the fact that
the people through their Representatives may be en-
trusted with drawing up a plan for a limited Monarchy,
notwithstanding all the " abominable intrigues of
exiled Republicans and Radical clubs." The result
has shown that these clubs had not the power, if they
had the wish, to commit the excesses charged to their
account. Affairs have-now assumed a more settled
aspect, and what has occurred within the last twelve-
month leads us to hope that the BANDEIRA Ministry
will be able to preserve order, and take the necessary
steps for extricating the country from its financial diffi-
culties.

Letters and Papers from Madrid, to the 28th ult.,
have been received. A Royal Decree appears in the
Gazette of the 27th, accepting the resignation of Don
RAFAEL PEREZ, late Minister of the Interior, on
the plea of bad health, and appointing ULLOA, Mi-
nister of Marine, to discharge ad interim the duties
of Home Minister. A second Decree appoints Don
MIGUEL CABRERA DE NEVARES Political Chief of
the Capital. The Madrid Journals speak confidently
of the appointment of the Marquis DE ESPEJA as
the Representative of Spain at the French Couit ;
and notwithstanding the known incapacity of that
Nobleman, some of them insist that it would be diffi-
cult to select a person better qualified from among those
who enjoy the QUEENS confidence. On the 27th the
Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne was
read in the Chamber of Deputies, and a debate ensued
which was not concluded before the mails left Madrid.
Only two days previously, the diligence which runs
between the capital and La Graiva was robbed by
fifteen mounted Carlists, who carried away the four
passengers prisoners, after politely requesting the driver
' to inform the Government of what had happened I
Outrages of this description are now committed in
neatly all the provinces of Spain with impunity.
" The KING'S name is a tower of strength" to such
" roving commissioners" as prefer plunder extorted
from the defenceless to the produce of honest industry.
We have no news of any political interest from the
North of Spain, save a confirmation of the report that
the PRETENDER had arrested his principal officers on
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