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

self in favour of the claims of the petticoat ; but Mr.
TooKE opposed them, on the plea that " the plan
would altogether ehdanger that grave and sober tem-
per in which Hon. Members ought to discharge their
duties," by which he means, we suppose, that the pre-
sence of ladies in the gallery will induce Hon. Gentle-
men to get drunk—a reason which is at least frank and
intelligible, if it have no other recommendation. But Sir
JOHN HonfrousE's reason for his opposition to the
vote was still more eccentric. He was quite hysterical
on the subject, and predicted all sorts of national and
domestic disasters, from the presence of the petticoat
in Parliament. He stated that the bare idea of such
an enormity made him " shudder"—a likely thing, in-
deed, in one who has braved unflinchingly the Covent
Garden cabbage-stumps !—for it was " indecent," to
say the least of it, and highly detrimental to the morals
of y"
high-bred and virtuous-minded women." This is
awful, it must be confessed ; but we entertain no such
apprehensions as the Right Hon. Baronet, for surely
the morals that are uninjured by the display of the
female dancers' legs at the Opera, are scarcely likely to
be endamaged by the display of oratory at St. Stephens !
The bray of an ass, or the crowing of a cock, never
yet endangered the purity of a " virtuous and high-
minded woman," however it may have offended her
auriculars ; and this is the utmost amount of injury
that the ladies would have had to sustain from listen-
ing to the Parliamentary debates. Such being our
view of the case, we cannot hut think that they have
been harshly treated by their opponents last night,
and we therefore recommend to Mr. GRANTLEY
BERKELEY'S consideration, as the sworn champion
of their Order, the expediency of calling out every
man who opposed their admission into the gal-
lery, and firing three shots at each. On a more
mature consideration of the question, we have, we
think, discovered a clue to Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE's
strenuous opposition (which otherwise were inexpli-
cable) to the claims of the Ladies. His vote was evi-
dently levelled against our fair Contemporary, the
Morning Herald, who has long been opposed to him
in politics, with a view to exclude the superannuated
Tory vixen from the gallery. Ah, if poor SIMPSON
were now alive, how he would have resented this spe-
cial affront to his betrothed I

A short discussion took place last night in the
House of Commons on the subject of Parliamentary
Reports. Dr. BOWRING observed, that he " hoped
the question would be formally brought forward by his
Honourable Friend the Member for Middlesex, with
a view to secure All reports of their proceedings."
Now, surely the Honourable Member must know
that this is impracticable. What Journal could
contain verbatim reports of the speeches in Par-
liament ?—and if it could, what reader would be
courageous enough to peruse them ? Imagine Ho-
RACE Twiss at full length, and GOULBURN figuring
in print, with all the pleohasms and trite truisms that
abound in - his unaccountable oratory ! Judicious
abridgment is the very essence of Parliamentary re-
porting, and this is as well done now, as it ever can be.
The reporters give impartially the pith and substance
of every Member's speech, and what more can be ex-
pected from them ? Indeed, if they have a fault, it is
that they give the debates too fully—a fault of which
the public is apt at times to be impatient,

On the motion last night for granting the sum of
78,0001. to indemnify the British claimants for losses
sustained by the seizure of their goods on shore in
Denmark, 1807, some discussion arose on the injus-
tice of refusing compensation to the parties whose
ships and cargoes had been seized, at the same period,
in the ports and close seas of that country. We can
only repeat our former opinion, that the denial of re-
lief to the shipping class, who suffered more severe and
aggravated losses than the other classes, under such
extraordinary circumstances, on the sole pretext that
the opinion of the law officers of the Crown, on a
mere abstract point, is unfavourable to their case, is
unworthy of the present otherwise liberal Government.
In order to show the fallacy of the arguments brought
against them, we insert in another part of The Sun,
the substance of a Memorial addressed by the parties
to the Treasury on the 2d inst., which we believe,
from the answer received, which does not at all refer to
the arguments used, has never been read by their
Lordships, but left to an assistant official to be Burked.
We hope, however, that a Reformed Parliament will
never allow the precedent to be perpetuated, of a Go-
vernment making a profit by the disgraceful means
which occasioned the plunder of their own Merchants.
We wish we could prevail on Honourable Members
to take the trouble of thoroughly investigating the
merits of this case, as we are certain that they could
not fail in being satisfied of the justice of their cause ;
but we trust, at all events, that the parties will perse-
vere, as advised by an Honourable Member, in sup-
porting Mr. CLAT's motion, until the cry of justice
to injured Englishmen shall resound from one end of
the coulitry to the other.

A Meeting of Members of Parliament, amongst whom
were the following—Col. THOMPSON, Mr.WILL I AM S,
Mr. POTTER, Mr. DENNISTOUN, Mr. TULK, Dr.
BOWRING, Mr, HECTOR, and Mr. SHARMAN
CRAWFORD, was held this morning at the Reform
Club, Pall-mall, when it was determined to call a pub-
lic Meeting at the Crown and Anchor, on Monday
next, at one o'clock, for the purpose of expressing the
opinion of the British public on the re-establishment
of the popular Constitution of 1812 in Cadiz, and other
parts of Spain, and a Sub-Committee was appointed
to prepare resolutions.

The social fabric of Spain is fearfully disorganized.
England can no longer hesitate as to the line of con-
duct which it becomes her duty to pursue. 'We learn
from letters received this morning from the frontier,
that the Constitution of 1812 has been successively
proclaimed in Malaga, Cadiz, Saragossa, Granada,
and Barcelona. In Saragossa the revolutionary- move-
ment is headed by the Captain-General of the Pro-
vince, General EVARISTO SAN MIGUEL, who has
been appointed President of the Provisional Junta.
The Constitution was proclaimed in that city on the
Ist of August in the following ominous words :
" Inhabitants of Saragossa,—ln order to calm the inquie-
tude which the extraordinary meeting of the Provincial De-
putation, the military and civil authorities, and several of the
most influential people of the capital has doubtless caused
among".,l you, your deputation hastens to announce to you that
it has been resolved on by this Junta, that this province be in-
stantly declared independent of the Government, and hence-
forth be governed by the Constitution of 1812, and the autho-
rities actually in function, until the nation, represented in a
Cortes Constituyente, shall fix its future position in a manner
solid and unvariable.'

" People of Saragossa ! Peace and order ! Commit no
disorder on a day which will be recorded in the annals of the
nation, as one of happiness and liberty."

Then follow the names of the seven persons com-
posing the provisional junta of the province. On the
same an address was drawn up to the QUEEN, and
a deputation named to present it to her MAJESTY in
the name of the Provisional Government. It sets out
with telling her MAJESTY that there are for nations
unfortunate epochs in which the people lose all confi-
dence in 'those who govern them—epochs when the
timid waver, the most courageous are staggered, and
when all true patriots, lovers of the country, look with
dismay to the prospect of a gloomy and inauspicious
futurity. Such it describes the state of Spain to have
continued to be from the month of May last to the
date of the address. points to the means by which
the present Ministers obtained power as not better
l.i►owu than detested by the people. It refers to the
address of the popular Estamento, and the supplica-
tions of the nation laid at the feet of her MAJESTY, for
confirmation of this fact. It asserts that what was im-
puted by sycophants to the firmness and energy ofMinis-
ters was but the effect of a passion and a love of yen-
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yernmcnt, all the reverses suffered by the QUEEN'S
arms in Spain ; it dwells upon the bitterness
of the situation of the Spanish people ; and
it protests that the inhabitants of Saraaossa will
no longer suffer their destinies to IR,
swayed by
the worst enemies of freedom. It then goes
on to inform her MAJESTY that the Province of
Saragossa has placed itself under the banner of the.
Constitution of 1812, till the Cortes of the nation will
have voted the fundamental law. It adds that the
leaders of the movement have compromised themselves
too far to recede, and that even if they would the peo,