The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-07 00:00:00

independehe are shaken aN impaired. It is now six
years since the progressive increase of deficits put in
danger the fortune of the State : and at the same time
that we behold the patties hostile to our present
institutions maintaining themselves, and becoming
even more formidable, we see public spirit broken
down to such a degree, that attempts at military re-
volution arc received, by the confession of the
Government itself, with complete indifference, even
in the towns in which they have taken place.
The rebels failed in Strasburg and Vendome, and the
Government infers therefrom that the army is devoted
to it." Henceforth we presume the French Govern-
ment will be very happy if it can only obtain from the
people the expression of a negative loyalty. A po-
sitive fidelity has been so constantly refused, and
the clap• traps to obtain it have so signally
failed, that for the time to come not to have fired at
the KING, or joined in a conspiracy to dethrone him,
will doubtless be regarded as evidences of denoted
ORLEANS partisanship. The new rule of Ministers
—a rule demanded by the „necessities of the times—is
to laud the French people for the crimes which they
have not committed.

There is no intelligence of any moment from Swit-
zerland. None of the three Reports drawn up by the
Committee of the Diet has been received. M.
MoNNARD was requested to draw up another Report,
which, of course, cannot be adopted for some time
longer. The task is a very delicate and complex one,
but no person doubts M. MONNARD's patriotism, abi-
lity, and diplomatic tact.

Advices from Madrid to the 29th ult., one day
later than those published on Saturday, have been re-
ceived. On the 24th, Captain-General ALVAREZ
came up with the Carlists under SANz, near Salas,
and after an obstinate engagement the rebels were
completely routed. Considerable attention was excited
in the capital by the publication of the War Minister's
exposition of the strength of the QUEEN'S army. The
summary of the report runs thus :

Regular Infantry
Cavalry 12,800
Moveable National Guards .
14,000

Total
With an army so powerful the people naturally ask
why is not the civil war already terminated ? Why
are the rebels permitted to march in bands of from
three to eight thousand troops, almost from one ex-
tremity of the kingdom to the other, pillaging the
towns and villages in their route ? Between Oviedo,
where SANZ first appeared, and Salas, where he was
beaten by ALVAREZ, the distance in the nearest di-
rection exceeds one hundred miles ; so that he had all
but entered Galicia before he was intercepted by the
QUEEN'S Generals.

The Devonport Telegraph contains a long report
of a Conservative Association dinner, which took
place on Friday last in that town ; from which report—
lightly and delicately as the ungracious fact is alluded
to—it is manifest that the majority of the company
were, for the best part of the evening, in that peculiar
state of excitement which, for politeness sake, we shall
call hallucination. That our readers may not imagine
we are hazarding an unfounded charge, we shall quote
the passages which have brought conviction to our
minds :—" Bumpers to the brim, with three times
three, for the President, Vice-Presidents, and Mem-
bers of the Devonport Association. The President
and Mr. BEER,"—small-beer, of course !--" here rose
to return thanks ; but the latter gave way, and
the President's speech was inaudible from the excited
state of the meeting." "In the exuberance of their
joy the company shouted loudly for Mr. DAWSON,
Lord VALLETORT, and the remaining toasts were got
through hastily." It is evident, we repeat, from these
passages, that the Dcvonport Conservatives were, to
a man, sophisticated—we might say, drunk ; but we
respect the gentilities, and forbear. Did we need fur-
ther proofs that such was the fact, we should most as-
suredly find them in the speeches, all of which smell,
not of the lamp, but of the grape. The President,
for instance, observed that " the Association had been
for.ned for defensive purposes, for that the Reformers
ha I thrown down the.gauntlet," forgetting, in the hila-
rity' of the moment, that it was the Conservatives, as
Lo:d STANLEY himself declared, who first set the fashion
of confederating, and that the Reformers only followed
their example. Again, this obfuscated gentleman said,
" it was by the exertions of their fathers, under the
banner of 'WILLIAM the Third, that the country was
preserved from the dark horrors of Paganism." Now,
can any thing be more decisive of vinous obnubilation
than this substitution of " Paganism" for Popery ?
Cassio's exclamation of " this is my right hand, and
this is my left," was not more conclusive. Lord ELIOT,
we regret to say, manifested similar tokens of that pe-
culiar inspiration which is so apt to result from " bum-
pers to the brim." He, too, was sophisticated, and
considering the profundity of his sophistication,. we are
surprised that his Speech was delivered in a perpendi-
cular, rather than in a horizontal, attitude. Of one thing
we are positive, namely, that he must have taken a
pretty considerable lurch to leeward when he gave ut-
terance to sentiments like these No parties were
more liberal or more. tolerant than the Conservatives ;
it was an essential distinction of the Church they sup-
ported, that it was the poor man's Chu,-ch ; without
the Church, the poor would be left without the con-
selations of religion." Dr. JACOB, in replying to this
portion of Lord ELroT's speech, proved that parsons,
can drink " bumpers to the brim" as well as Peen
and are by no means exempt from those delicate ' c
•
mities to which the rest of the sons of rig.-- are liable.
Thus' spake the Doctor, his ehe '
b ,unes, no doubt,
crowing all the while, like ch- -
contended for the volur
-cm ocleer:—" oome persons
e
arsery principle, but our ancestors
knew better, and Ne."'oild not leave so valuable an institu-
tion to be sues,,orted by means so precarious ; they made
establiel• ments rich, that the poor might have religion.
If the Established Church were not endowed, its
Ministers would be exposed to contempt." It would
appear from this that Churchmen are only rich, in
poor people may have their souls well taken
order that.
care of. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, for
instance, has not fifteen thousand per annum for his
own personal advantage ; no, it is solely for the ad-
vantage of the poor community. DIVES is not wealthy
for the sake of DIVES, but for the sake of LA-
ZARUS. It is the latter that is benefited by
the well-endowed pockets of the former. We now
see the reason why Doctor PIIILLPOTTS kept such
a tenacious gripe on the living of Stanhope, and sur-
rendered it with such intense reluctance. It was not for
himself he wanted it, but for the souls of his poor pari-
shioners. He feared, too—as Doctor JACOB justly in-
sinuates—that if he " were not endowed, he might
be exposed to contempt ;" an hypothesis in which
we are strongly disposed to agree with the Devonport
Doctor. The rest of the speeches hiccuped at this
Conservative guzzle were on a par with those of which
we have just made honourable mention ; and showed that
one and all of the orators were perfect Methodists in
their worship of Bacchus. We take for granted that the
landlord will have a heavy bill for damaged glass
against them ; and from the circumstance of " the re-
maining toasts having. been got through hastily," we
are positive that he must have sent in the waiter to in-
form the company that he " would have no such
goings-on in his house." We shall look anxiously
for the next Devonport Police Reports, in the firm
conviction that one-half of the Conservative Asso-
ciation must have meandered their, way to the watch-
house.