The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2& 1838.

The Church of Scotland, to which the Doctor be-
-1 ongs, and of which he must approve, receives about
270,0001. per annum, and teaches nearly two million
of people. Now there is not, and cannot be a doubt,
that the Scotch Church is more efficacious than the
English Church, though the English Church costs
proportionately more than seven times as much as the
Scotch Kirk. We claim, therefore, on Dr. CHAL-
MERS'S own principle, that our over-taxed and over.
burdened, and starving people, should not pay their
priests more than the people of Scotland pay for a
more useful establishment of priests.

We have much pleasure in contradicting a malicious
paragraph which has gone the round of the papers,
stating that three of the Dorchester labourers had gone
to the opera the day after the procession. Even
supposing they had gone there, we do not see " offence
in the matter." While on this subject we take the op-
portunity of thanking the Dorchester Committee for
their honest opinion of our impartiality. In fact we
never allow our own or any other political feeling to
influence the reports of public meetings or proceedings
that appear in The Sun. Our motto is " fair play
for all."

At a General Meeting of the Central Dorchester Corn.
mittee, held at the Turk's Head, King-street, Holborn, on
Wednesday, April 23, it was unanimously resolved, " That
the thanks of the Dorchester Committee are due, and hereby
given, to the Editor of The Sun, for the full and impartial
account of the Public Dinner to the Dorchester Labourers on
Easter Monday, given by him in that journal; as also for his
defence of the Trades' Procession."
By order of the Committee,
R. HARTWEL L, Hon. Sec.

Madrid Journals of the 17th instant hare been re-
ceived. They state that the Govermnent was about
to send Commissioners to Paris to negociate a loan on
any terms, as nothing could be done owing to the
want of money. We cannot undertake to affirm that
the following extract from the Madrid Journals is cor-
rect ; but we should not be surprised were we to learn

that the British Cabinet had come to the determina•

tion therein stated. The Spanish Government has
shown such a want of good faith in its pecuniary
transactions with this country, that our Ministers have
good reason to decline the further sanction of a sys-
tem of borrowing of which any plan of repayment
appears to form no part.
" Count d'Ofalia, it is affirmed, had, on the adoption of the
law for the levy of 40,000 men, applied to the British Go-
♦ernment for 40,000 more muskets, which had been nearly
premised him through the medium of Sir George 'Villiers.
On the President of the Council, however, recently demand-
ing of his Excellency the delivery of those arms, the latter
alleged some difficulties which had arisen in the negociations,
and Ccunt d'Ofalia soon learnt that Lord Palmerston, who
had at first evinced a readinsas to supply the muskets, had
changed his mind. His Lordship now refuses them in posi-
tive terms, alleging that the Spanish Government does not
fulfil all its engagements with good faith, that the interest
upon the debt is not paid in London, that the arreared pay of
the Legionites is withheld, and lastly, that the Spanish Go-
vernment has refused to sign a commercial treaty with
England. According to the version afloat the English Cabi-
net has eome to the determination of making no further sacri-
fices."

Of the warlike achievements in the Provinces we have
no accounts of a later date than those received on Tues-
day. We are not much inclined to place implicit confi-
dence in accounts received from Spain of victories
gained by either party. On common occasions there
.is so much mystification, gasconade, and lying in the
dispatches of the respective Generals, that it is no
easy task to ascertain even half the truth ; but, on an
occasion like the present, when the needy officials at
Madrid, and the half-starved officers of the army, are
concocting a loan, the task becomes doubly difficult.
If we believe accounts sent from Madrid, or dispat-
ches published in Extraordinary Gazettes, the QUEEN'S

cause goes on well. The three expeditions that issued
"rom the Basque Provinces have been totally inopera-
tive, and the flying divisions, under BAsiLio and
PALLILOS, have been all but annihilated. Much as
we wish success to the QUEENT.s party, we ate com-
pelled to withhold assent to these statements till they
are confirmed by some better authority, or by subse-
quent events. The very last dispatch from PA 'MI-
NAS is full of suspicion. He states that, after pur-
suing BASILIO for days and nights, without either
bread or wine for his men, he was unable to come up
with him; but he adds--" His artillery and all his
military stores have fallen into our power, besides a

Considerable number of men and horses. BASILIO

himself wanders in the mountains with only twenty
men, the remainder of his forces being scattered in
different directions." As for the military stores, we
believe they may be compared to the military stores
of the Scotch, when they invaded England in the
reign of one of the EDWARDS. Each man, according
to HUME, carried a bag of oatmeal, and an utensil to
dress it ; and probably BAsnAo's men were equally
amply supplied with the staple commodity of the country.
A single gun saved the whole Carlist army. A maraud-
ing Chief, whose only object was plunder, who had to
make his way over mountains and along by-paths,
where a gun never had been seen, was not likely to
encumber himself with such implements of warfare ;
And as to his troops being scattered, we may believe
.he statement in part ; but we also believe that, like
the troops of GomEz, they will re-assemble in another
quarter, and the first news we shall hear of them will

probably contain an account of the sacking of some

efenceless town.
We will therefore wait the resul

ind we trust the money-lenders vin V this country will
also wait some time longer, before they furnish five
millions sterling, which would be dispersed, no one
knows how, like all the vast sums hitherto lent to that
impoverished country.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday, received this
morning, contain no news of any interest. In the
official columns of the Moniteur we find the following
telegraphic communication :
" BAYONNE, APRIL 23, 8 O'CLOCK, A.M.
" A party opposed to Don Carlos has appeared in the Basque
provinces, whose banners bear this device—' Peace and pri—
vileges.' .Murragardy is at its head in the environs of Tolosa.
Some Carlist troops from Andoain had attacked it without
success."

It is rumoured that the Cabinet will take advantage
of the prevailing good humour of the Chamber of
Deputies to propose an extraordinary grant of
500,000 francs, to defray the expenses of the re.
presentatives of France at the coronation of
their MAJESTIES of Great Britain and Austria.
The Duke of NEMOURS is to visit London, in
company with Marshal SOULT, but the KING
himself has proposed to defray the expenses of
his Royal Highness, rather than sanction any further
demand upon the liberality of his faithful subjects.
Annexed are the only paragraphs of any interest in
these Journals :
The National of Monday was seized at the Post-office and
at the bureau of the paper, for, it was supposed, an article
on the army which it contained.
The Commerce states that the affair of Hubert, who, with
his co-accusers, is to be tried on the 7th proximo, for a con-
spiracy to destroy the King of the French by an infernal ma-
chine, is expected to occupy the Court eight or ten days.
The Courrier affirms that Count Toreno is daily expected
in Paris, in order to endeaysouparntis9h stimulate
persevere in his intentions respecting the loan of 3,000,000
lately offered to him by the Government, With re-
spect to this matter we have only, to copy the following para-
graph from tho Commerce
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the loan decreed by the Cortes, on the 9th of this month, ap-
pearing to be certain, the Committee of Spanish Active bond-
holders think it best that the meeting announced for Thursday
next, shall be postponed.' "
The Itioniteur of the 24th of April has no official article.
A Journal of the frontier says—
" The new Carlist expedition is preparing with activity.
Don Carlos is to put himself at the head of it. His Court
will accompany him. The Ayuntameir.tos of Navarre
have represented to Don Carlos that it is impossible for
them to pay the last contribution that has been imposed on
them.— Constitutionnel.
We have just received the Barcelona Journals to the 13th, i
and those of Gerona to the 14th. They publish the official