The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

the raising of the siege of Bilboa. ITURALDE has
been condemned, by sentence of a court-martial, to
quit Navarre on pain of death. ESPARTERO was at
Orduna on the 29th. The force under him was not
sufficiently strong to warrant an attack upon the Car-
, list lines.

There is no logic like the logic of facts. When
;hese stubborn things—these " chiels that winna ding
and dinna be disputed," as BURNS, with his strong

sense described them—come in contact with the best

constructed syllogism of the dialectician, what sad havoc
they make of it ! An incalculable quantity of breath,

hardly a less quantity of ink, and an exceedingly minute
portion of brain, have been of late spent by the Tories
in weaving a fine-spun theory of reaction. This
theory has been demonstrated, according to the most

approved principles of Anti-Reform argumentation, to
be the only possible correct one. No reasoning, as far
as words go, could be more conclusive ; all that• it
wanted was probability and the corroboration of facts.
Unfortunately for the theory it has been put to this
test, and the consequence is that it has been entirely
demolished. The Municipal elections have scattered

it to the four winds of heaven, and have left its crest-
fallen supporters to wonder at their own folly, and di-
gest their disappointment in the best way they are able

All the reports from the country concur in repre-
senting the efforts of the Tories in these elections as
desperate in the extreme. They seem to have felt that
their very existence was at stake, and to have acted
with corresponding energy. And what has been the result?
In an inconsiderable number of inconsiderable boroughs,
where the electors were few, and where the consequence
of giving an independent vote would have been almost
certain ruin to the voter, they have succeeded in foisting
in a councillor or two of thcir own kidney ; but taking

the whole range of the elections, the cause of reform
has gained an important triumph. And it is worthy
of observation that the triumph has been the greatest
in some of those large towns which the Tories have
hitherto regarded as their strong holds, and held out to
the public as proofs that the civic population were de-
voted to Toryism. Now if these principles have been
gaining ground since last year, as the Tories assert
they have, how comes it to pass that in Bristol,
Exeter, and some other large towns in which the Tories
had a majority in the elections last year, they have not
been able to retain their advantage ? They cannot say
that Toryism has not had fair play in these towns, for
they took care to split the borough constituencies into
small insulated portions, under the fallacious title of
separate wards, for the very purpose of bringing their
baneful influence to bear with accumulated force against
the independence of the electors, following in this, as
in other respects, the example of tyrants, whose motto
is, in all times and places—Divide et iinpera.
But it is not merely the general result of the muni-

cipal elections, which proves the steady progress of
Reform principles in the public mind, and puts to
shame—were they capable of shame—those who have
attempted to propagate the calumnious charge against
the people, that they have changed their opinions on
this subject. We find in particular instances also, a
direct, practical, and overwhelming contradiction given to
this charge. Who can have forgotten the hurrahs which
resounded from one end of the Tory camp to the
other, when a Tory was lately elected to represent the
town of Newcastle in Parliament ? Here was an in-
fallible proof of re-action. It was in vain to show that
the Tory owed his success entirely to a misunderstand-
ing among the Liberal electors. No—nothing would
do—nothing but re-action could be allowed to account
for the event. Now, mark what a striking illustration
of the new theory the present Municipal election at
Newcastle affords. There were 24 Members of Council
elected, and of these how many do our readers suppose
are Tories ?-the great majority, of course. In a town
which had given such a splendid example of reaction,
a less proportion than three-fourths was not to be
expected. The Torics were actually unable to return
more than four out of the two dozen I I I—and but for
the warding system, would not have returned a single
individual of their own hue. In every ward in which
they were opposed, they were beaten. Rare reaction
this—is it not ?

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THE I UNDS.-(THIS DAIL .)

CITE 7'lV EL Yil O' CL 0 CK.

Consols opened this morning at 88a for the Account
and for Money, with little doing as yet ; Excheqw2r Bilk
3 to 1 ; India Bonds 1 dis., I, par; Bank Stock 205:II G ;
India Stock '2.55i256.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active 20i- ?.; ; Passive
; Deferred 841 ; Portuguese 55 4 ; Three per
Cents. 351- 36 ; Colombian 221 ; Mexican 221 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 531 1.
.11AILIF-PA,l7'

His Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus has arrived from
San Sebastian, which place she left on the 2d inst., with
dispatches for the Foreign Office. General Le Merchant
has conic home in her, it is understood, on business cen-
❑ected with the financial embarrassment of the Legion.
The raising the seine of Bilboa was known at San Sebas-
tian on the 2d. Espartero was in the former place.
The letters by the Lisbon Mail state that 12 or 14 ships
of war, English and French, were in the Tagus in a threat-
ening position. The Queen made an excursion down the
river almost under the guns of the two squadrons, which
saluted her, and the bands of music struck up Don Pedro's
favourite air instead of that of the Constitution.

The heavy Stocks are very dull to-day, and have re-
ceded owing to considerable sales in the Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. Money is more easy this morning.
Consols also heavy, at 8n for Account and Money.
Exchequer Bills, lid., 7 5 disct. ; 2d., 2 disct. ; India
Bonds, par ; India Stock, 235.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 20i ; Deben-
tures, 36 ; Passive, .5i ; Portuguese, 551 ; Three per
Cents., 36 ; Colombian, 22 ; Mexican, 22 ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 53f.
Consols for the Account, ma.

THREI O'CLOCK

ROYAL ACADEMY.—At a meeting of the Royal
Academy last evening, Mr. Robert Graves, the engraver of
the portraits of Lord Byron, after Phillips, was elected an
associate engraver of the Royal Academy, and T. P. Knight,
Esq., an associate painter.

THE MAILS.—This morning, on account of the
frost, the roads were so extremely slippery that the mail
and other coaches could with difficulty proceed to Lon-
don ; several valuable horses fell, some of them fracturing
their legs and thighs ; the Devonport, and several of the
western and northern mails, did not reach the Post-office
for nearly an hour later than the usual time.
FORTY-SECOND HIGHLANDERS.—The know-
ledge that this far-famed national corps was to be reviewed
on Burntsfield Links, near Edinburgh, brought forth a
greater number of spectators of all ranks than we remember
to have seen congregated to witness any former military
spectacle. The immense park was, in fact, darkened by a
dense crowd, except such parts of it as were kept clear for
the manoeuvres of the gallant Highlanders. The regiment,
which was commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Middleton, was
reviewed by the Commander of the Forces, Major-General
the Hon. Patrick Stuart, who, with his staff, appeared on
the ground shortly after ten o'clock. Between that hour
and one o'clock the corps were put through a great variety
of evolutions by their Commanding Officer, all of which they
executed with a soldier-like accuracy and precision worthy
of the high name which they have so long borne.
The Leipsic Gazette has the following singular
anecdote :—" When Theodore Hildebrand painted his pic-
ture The Sons of Edward,' which is at this moment the
ornament of the Berlin exhibition, he deemed it necessary,
in order to be correct in the details of his work, to cover
his model with the silk tissue which the eldest Prince wears
in the picture. Hildebrand selected and ordered that tis•
sue in a shop of Dusseldorf known by the name of Tyrrell.
The vendor was surprised, and inquired why the painter was
so particular about the article. When the explanation he
demanded was afforded him, and he was told of the histo-
rical subject which Hildebrand had chosen he seemed
much presence of the buyer, and declared that
it
waspemrpx
most extraordinary in
traordinary that he, Tyrrell, should be se-
lected to supply the tissue. The motive of his astonish-
ment was soon accounted for ; the murderer, who, by
command of Richard the Third, put the Princes to death
in the Tower of London, was compelled to leave England,
and settle on the Continent. The present proprietor of
the commercial house of Dusseldorf, so far as genealogy
can be credited, descends in a direct line from the noctur-
nal assassin of Edward's sons ! "