The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-24 00:00:00

Ireland. He will find that anti-tithe agitation was
never at such a height as it is at present throughout that
country, and that this very day the county of Meath is
meeting on a requisition to the High Sheriff, signed by
the Marquis of El EA DFORT, Lord Lieutenant of
Cavan, and other Noblemen and Gentlemen, to petition
Parliament " either for the total extinction of Tithes, in
substance as well as in name, or their appropriation to
national purposes." Let the opponents of the Ap-
propriation Clause now congratulate themselves on the
upshot of their pious labours.

The Paris Journals of Monday have all been
ceived. The Commerce, in a very clever article on

the present state and prospects of Spain, attacks the
Government for the shuffling contemptible policy which
it has pursued, ever since the breaking out of the civil
war in that country, so well exemplified in the security
with which the agents and friends of Don CARLOS
cross and re-cross the French frontier. Had the police
but exercised the slightest vigilance—and they are
rarely blind to what is passing, unless directed by the
Minister to seem so—they could easily have prevented
the Princess of BEIRA, her nephew, and retinue from
entering Spain ; and to this piece of Ministerial
treachery the Commerce attaches the highest import-
ance. Without adopting the fears of the Commerce,
we shall quote the writer's grounds for entertaining
th(m.—

" Each of those personages brings to Don Carlos a moral
force of the last importance. The Princess de Beira is the
head and soul of the confidential thoughts of the Prince
she is about to espouse. Her character has courige and
decision, and, in one word, she brings to • the Prince the
qualities in which he was known so be most deficient. The
young Prince whom she brings with her is 'twenty-one
years of age. He is of full age, and Don Carlos has the

means of now showing to his army and to his partisans that
the Crown be aspires to has a ripe and a legal successor,
and that he has near him one who can be placed at the

head of affairs if any misfortune should reach himself.
From henceforth the defenders of his cause are assured of
protection from any of those accidents to which the mino-

rity of the young Isabel exposes the Christino succession.
There is the dynasty of Don Carlos established, with all
the provision for the future, which the dynasty recog-
nised by France and England does not possess. Now Don
Carlos has an army, places of considerable strength, official
alliances, and an heir at his side.."

Every question may be viewed in a two-fold light,
and here we are presented with but a passing glimpse
of one. The heir of Don CARLOS is now exposed
to the same dangers as his father, nor will his youth

allow him to take equal precautions to avoid them
without incurring the imputation of rank cowardice.
Henceforth it is possible to involve the entire hopes of
the Carlists in a common ruin ; for, in a period of

war, it would be folly to lay any stress upon surmises
based upon the ordinary course of filial succession.
War but too frequently changes the natural order of
decay, making parents to stand in the relation of pos-
terity to their children. With respect to the dreaded
influence of the councils of the Princess of BEIRA,
it is perhaps sufficient to observe that the pro-
spects of Don CA arms were never brighter than
when she was at a distance from him ; and, what
is more to the purpose, were never murkier than

when he was presumed to act only in accordance
with her promptings. The Pretender's bravest
officers arc sprung from the dregs of the . people,
and the presence, before head-quarters, of anything
like a Court, has disgusted them. They are ignorant
of, and have an utter contempt for, the aristocratic
fooleries dignified with the name of etiquette ; and
therefore, the very necessity which the presence of the
Princess will create for the establishment of some such
Court code, based on the principles of rank and' privi-
lege, will prove highly injurious to the Carlist cause.
The conclusion of the article in the Commerce is,
however, of more importance :
" The presence of those distinguished persons in the
Basque provinces is menacing for Spain in the first instance,
and must be dangerous to France in the end, What is our
Government doing, or what does it mean to do? Did it
for one instant follow the traces of those persons of whose
movements it must have been aware ? They arrived in a
travelling carriage at Bayonne—a town low which no one
can penetrate without passing the police, who watch or
sleep at its gates. They remained there several days, and
having allowed time to the Sous-Prefect to become ac-
quainted with all they were doing, they set off again
without noise, without doubt publicly, and drawn by
the horses of the Government, for which the people of
France pay.
" Is it thus the surveillance against the Carlists is to
be understood ? Don Carlos was allowed to pass—the
nephew and the son and the wife of Don Carlos are allowed
to pass ; we will go farther—the police had under its
hand three times the Count d'Espagne, and three times the
Count d'Espagne passed into Spain to join the standard of
Don Carlos. The police laid hold of the Archbishop of
Cuba, but the Pere Gyrille slipped through its hands as
easily as the Count d'Espagne.
" What must we think of these numerous instances ?

Is our police altogether useless? Does it require three
millions of francs to help it in thus doing nothing? M.
Mole will have some difficulty to answer this argument
when the Secret Fund - question comes under discussion.
It. arises, perhaps, from his feelings on the subject—if not
from feeling, from incapacity—if not from incapacity from
• We will stop there. The Cabinet has taught us
that it is an outrage on it to put its true name at the foot
of its acts."

No blame is attributable to the police for suffering
,he Carlists in any numbers, or at any time, to cross
he frontier. Their apparent rcmi%sness is always
the con sequence of instructions from Paris. A

Minister who can advise Russia of every rebel hiding-
hole in Poland, cannot be presumed ignorant of the
movements of the Princess of BEIRA, without a libel
upon his acknowledged übiquity and personal omni-
science. But then recurs the old question—What
object can France have in thus continuing to trample
upon obligations voluntarily contracted and ratified in
the face of Europe ? In what way does it comport
with the dignity of a Sovereign of France to have re-
course to intrigues which would disgrace a tenth-rate
Power ? Deplorable as are the crimes of Princes,
they never excite in us the disgust which we feel at
contemplating their volutary acts of mean dissimu-
lation and hypocrisy.
Letters from Tampico of the 4th of August com-
plain of the inadequacy of the French blockading
squadron, which is proved by the fact that thirteen
merchant vessels had then broken the blockade at dif-
ferent points, and all landed their cargoes with impunity.
The following extracts from the French Journals
of Monday are not without interest, particularly those
which relate to the military preparations of Russia.
They include all paragraphs in the way of news in
the Paris Papers :
The letters from Algiers say that the erection of a
Bishopric has produced a good effect in the country. M.
Dupuch is impatiently expected : he has made an appeal to
the l'riests who may be inclined to accompany him, and
will arrive in Africa with a complete establishment.
The Sphynx steam-boat, which is gone to Stora, has
taken a telegraphic despatch from the Government for
Marshal Vallee, and provisions and effects for the troops.
It is decided that the packets which ply between Algiers
and Bona shall touch at Stora, and deliver the despatches
for Constantine. The courier will travel between these
places in 15 or 16 hours. Thus, when haste is required, a
despatch from the Governor of Constantine may be received
at Paris in 65 hours.
If it is desired to establish a real domination over the
Kabyles of this part of the Regency, it will be necessary
in the sequel to have ports at Collo and Djigelli. These
ports may be easily occupied, and will afford good retreat
for our vessels. From them we shall command the rich
valleys of Oued-el-Kiber.—Constitutionne/.
BESSARABIA, OCT I.—The Russian troops are every
day approaching nearer to the Southern frontiers. A con-
siderable number of Cossacks have been placed on the
war footing, and from their being ordered to rendezvous
in our district, it is inferred that a campaign is about to
take place. On the 20th of September a squadron, com-
posed of three ships of the line, three frigates, and seven
smaller vessels, sailed from the harbour of Sebastopol,
~,,me say for the coast of Circassia, and others for Tre-
hizond,
whence the English forward ammunition to the
insurgents."
JAW, OCT. 3.--A squadron of seventeen sail, mm-