The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-24 00:00:00

brave men of July, whom he perfidiously robbed of
those rights which he swore to maintain intact and in-
violable. The consequence has been that Don CAR-
LOS has latterly obtained some paltry advantages,
which his partizans regard as the prelude to the
utter destruction of the QUEEN'S cause. Now, we
are firmly persuaded that the cause of the Pretender
is as hopeless now as it was three years ago. We are
quite confident that he will never ascend the Spanish
Throne during the life-time of Donna ISABELLA 11.
But assuming for an instant that he were to triumph,
what would the result be to France ? We will
answer this question openly, and without having re-
come to a figurative mode of expression. The im-
mediate result would be the downfall of the Orleans
dynasty. The Royalists are already preparing for
such an event. If Don CARLOS triumph, Louts
PHILIPPE goes into exile. These events stand to
each other in the relation of cause and effect. Here
then is a bright prospect for the Citizen King.
His sons, now failing to obtain the hand of Princesses,
may then look forward to an alliance with Illyrian
shepherdesses, if such nymphs are to be found in the
neighbourhood of Goritz.
The triumph of Don CARLOS, assuming it pos-
sible, would not be less fatal to the cause of freedom in
Portugal than to the Orleans dynasty in France. The
Holy Alliance would find in that Prince a proper in-
strument to prepare the way for the re-appearance of
Don MIGUEL, who would then find little difficulty in
paralyzing the efforts of a Government carried on by
intrigue, and ignorant of the operation of the principles
which alone can procure for it the support of the

people.
England too would suffer in her honour by such a
catastrophe. The triumph of Don CARLOS would be
regarded by Spain as a victory over Great Britain. It is
the excess of folly to doubt this. But the partizans of
the PRETENDER here have never paid any regard to
the national honour. They delight in the humiliation
of their country ; and they have ever done so, except
on those occasions when England leagued herself
against the rights of mankind.
What we then would recommend to our Govern-
ment is a more active co-operation in favour of the
QUEEN. We cannot conceal from ourselves that we
are actually engaged in this struggle, and we certainly
would fail to make the PRETENDER believe that the
part which we have already taken has not ex-
ceeded that of a strict neutrality. From the waters
of Spain our ships have fired upon his troops,
and our armoury has been thrown open to supply his
enemies with the instruments of his destruction. It is
therefore our interest to unite with Spain in crushing
him, and thus compel LOUIS PHILIPPE to adopt a
more liberal policy, without exposing his Majesty to
the certain deposition which his own blindness would
bring upon him. The QUEEN'S cause must even-
tually triumph, and therefore in accelerating it we only
deliver France from the Royalist conspiracies which
are now rife in every pact of that kingdom. LOUIS
PHILIPPE has no real supporters in France. The
Republicans are his deadly enemies—and their enmity
is just. The KING basely and infamously betrayed
them. The Royalists are equally inveterate against
him. They behold in him only an usurper—the son
of a man v,liose wickedness drenched France in the
best blood of her children. To whom then must he
look for support ? The Doctrinaires '—the party
which boasts that it professes no principle but ex-
pediency, and tests all political duty by interest alone.
Why the very bond of this party is selfishness, and
it glories in parading it. Is it then to be expected
that the Doctrinaires—that men who, with the
instiuctiveness of rats, are ever foremost in quitting
the sinking side—would for once forego their main
rule of action in favour of a Prince in whose gratitude
they could not trust, and in whose promises they could
place no confidence ? Impossible.
We are fairly compromised in the Spanish question.
This cannot be disputed. We have declared in fa-
vour of the QUEEN. This is equally incontestable.
We therefore beseech our Government to take more
active and efficient means to put down the insurgents.
Why passively suffer England to bear the disgrace of
even partial reverses in Spain ? We have the means
of putting down Don CARLOS at our disposal—we
have pledged the national faith that he shall not reign
in Spain ; wherefore, then, look on unmoved, while
blood is flowing in every direction ? Every day that
the war continues, diminishes the moral influence of
England on the Continent.

An Operative Conservative Association dinner,
which was prefaced by a procession consisting of a few
score half-starved mechanics, bearing flags made out of
the superannuated flaps of calico shirts ; and a dozen
or two greasy musicians, with jaws as lank and hollow
as the sides of their own fiddles, and of a most vulture-
like, carnivorous expros3ion of. eye, took place on
Monday last in the manufacturing town of Choricv.
The dinner was announced for an early hour, hut did
not take place till five o'clock, in consequence of the
majority of the procession halting to sniff up the sa-
voury fumes of every cook-shop they passed, greatly
to the annoyance of their more dignified leaders, whose
stomachs rumbled their dissatisfaction at such de-
lay in very audible terms. We do not learn
that the shops were shut, which is surprising,
considering the valuable nature of the stock con-
tained in many of them ; but we do happen to
know that not a nose was seen in the streets through
which the fragrant procession wound its way, but what
was tightly grasped between its proprietor's thumb and '
fore-finger. By singular good luck, however, a brisk
wind sprung up, shortly after the ragamuffins had
reached their place of destination, which prevented
the necessity of the inhabitants fumigating the town,
as was originally intended.
The speeches delivered at the dinner were worthy
of those who made them, and of the audience to which
they were addressed. A few of the more elaborate
passages betokened a distant acquaintance with gram-
mar ; but by far the major portion of them belaboured
poor PRISCIAN'S head so cruelly, that the sage could
not have been worse treated had he fallen in with a
party of rollicking " boys" at Donnybrook fair. The
chief orator was a Mr. THOMAS BRIGHT CROSS,
who threw off a frantic harangue, filled with abuse of
Lord MELBOURNE, for having " by the most factious
and unprincipled conspiracy that ever disgraced the
conduct of public men, forced himself into his SO-
VEREIGN'S Councils, with an overwhelming majority
of one House against him." This splendid burst of
sarcasm clearly shows that Mr. CROSS IS as bright
in intellect, as he is by name. We would advise him,
however, in future, to rely less on invention and more
on truth in his statements ; for the satire that is bot-
tomed on falsehood, however pungent and Juisuus-
like it, may be, is very apt to cover the satirist with
ridicule, rather than the object satirized.
Mr. BRIGHT CROSS—and a brighter cross never
glittered in the heavens before the eyes of a Ca-
emptied the vials of his wrath
" %Vhig and something
tholic Saint—having
E, next went on to praise
on Lord MELBOURNE,
themore" Ex-Chancellor,
as being the noblest specimen of political huma-
nity now extant. On this the operative Conser-
vatives cheered with all their might—and no
wonder ; for if they have an atom of reflection left
them, they cannot but see that it is to his Lordship
and those who act with him, that twhelymarearethe poor
indebted for
or
all the blessings they enjoy.
man's friends, if not the Tory party ? Have they
not given him a Church for his own express
benefit ? Have they not ever been foremost