The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-25 00:00:00

The Quotidientw says that the Spanish Alitiistry has been
completely defeated in the Barcelona, Saragossa, and Pam-
plona elections.

The same print is positively certain that the battalion of
the Foreign Legion, quartered at Pan, 700 strong, is about
to receive orders to enter Spain. The battalion is probably
but the vanguard of a more considerable force about to be
supplied to the Queen by the French Government.
The Phare of Bayonne states, that the Carlist bands,
though beaten in Catalonia, show themselves at almost
every point.
The following letter has been received from an officer in
Espartero's army :

" Otiddo, July 9;
" We have not interrupted °tit thatch since tve left Vie..
toria. We have had a had time ;ind have not taken
off our clothes lot roUricieti d#B. We hope, however, to
be able to (10 -$0 :this night. Now that I hai,e a few in-
stunts, I sit down to give you an account of what hag oc-
curred to us.
" It is known that a column of five battalions and 200
cavalry belonging to the faction, marched for the Asturias.
General Espartero proceeded in pursuit of it:with his divi-
sion. It was thought that General Tello, being with Ilia
troops in the proximity of the road by which the rebels h:„(1
to pass, would be able to detain them until our arrival,
.which unfortunately did not take place, for the enemy
forced the passage with.. the losS to us of 800 prisoners,
whilst the factions were emboldened by their success, and
obtained an advance upon us of three days' march. Well
aware of the importance of accelerating their march,
they made no delay, and did not wait for us, as we ex-
pected they would, at the pass of the bridge at Tarna,
either because they were not aware of our approach,
or because they would not make any unnecessary halt.
I am, however, inclined for the first reason. We
had been led to believe, that at this same pass there
were troops ready to oppose our passage, but it was not so.
As soap a* they had entered the Asturias they marched on
this city. without delay. The troops of the Queen bad left
it, as they considered they were not in force to defend it,
and had retired with the authorities to Gijon. It is pro-
bable that they would have made a defence had they known
that General Espartero, with his division, was in pursuit of
the enemy. The smallest garrison was sufficient to hold
out a couple of days, and give us time to come up. They
entered Oviedo without meeting with any opposition, and
were well received by the deluded, but were still ignorant
of the.approach of Espartero, who had arrived the sanae
day at Infiesto, seven leagues from this. The Cieneral
sent from thence an order to the authorities of the place
for 2,000 rations, with the double obic!",:i that the enemy
might be aware of our proximity, and that it might be as-
certained if he were incli
T i 7.e;.1. to wait for us.
" ht. fact °as- ...eneved the demand of rations to be a
fabrication.fabric. , 4..'tn. they supposed that Espartero had not passed
Villarcaro ; but when they learnt yesterday, at half-
past twelve, that we were at Pola de Siero, two leagues from
this, they marched out at two o'clock, by the road of Graces,
with considerable precipitation, and proceeded that night
seven leagues. Up to this moment everything has been fa-
vourable to them ; they have forced the pass of a bridge
defended by a chosen body of men, principally National
Guards, and they made 200 prisoners. They had ex-
pectations of being joined by a great number in a short
and certainly their expectations were not unfounded, since
it is asserted that yesterday, by two o'clock, 6,000 men
were to have been assembled at Pola de Siero, and in
four days the number was to be augmented to 12,000. -
" This morning we entered at six o'clock, and at seven
General Manso, Captain General of Old Castile, came in,
with a small force. A considerable number of the ex-
Royalist Volunteers have marched with the rebels. It ap-
pears that they had retained their arms and their uniforms,
notwithstanding the perquisitions of the police. The divi-
sion of Espartero is composed of three brigades, the first
commanded by Colonel Cordova, is composed of three bat.
talions, the second under the command of Colonel de
Almansa, is also composed of three battalions ; and the
third brigade, which has remained at.Soncello, in the neigh-
bourhood of Villarcayo, is also composed of three battalions,
and is commanded by the Brigadier General Solcedo. Two
squadrons of IluSiars fOrm part of Espartero's marching
division ; but he has not taken from Oviedo more than four
battalions, or five at the utmost.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

When we first heard that Ecclesiastical Reform was
to be entrusted to the Bishops, we anticipated all that
has taken place. We suspected that the heads of the
Church would deal as tenderly % 411 themselves als
Sancho Patna did with his }:kin in the matter of %el,
lation. • The Report& of the Cemmist,imr6, and tho
Bills founded on them, are precisely what a know:ctige
of the parties ttitlit Us to eXpetts The greatest Want
of the people tif England iit the eyes of these rderinerP,
the ihoftieitnty of the number of bishops, The
people themselves generally cone*Cd that the first
thing in the Church which rVoll'ired attention, was the
iti;idequate Provision f9r a large proportion a the
dergy• 'Thy'firq 11';:og that the bishop; recommended
was a Intinifiv.7-ot Bettlement for themselves. When
all the - f~liiscopal tables are well ptovided for, a
few crumbs may be thrown to the poor labourers
iit the vineyard. But there is no haste respecting
them. That the people are dissatisfied with the
episcopal scheme of reform, and consider it little
better than a mockery, can surprise no one. In truth,
a very different measure of reform must be proposed
to satisfy the nation ; and no person in his senses cars
suppose that the scheme recommended by the Coins
missioners will be suffered to he final. Our disappoint-
ment, however, ought not to blind us to an advantage
which must result from the measure—the admission of
the Heads of the Church that 'Parliament Is justified -
in interfering with the distribution of its revenues. At
one time the language used to be that she estates of
private individuals were not more their own than the
property of the Church was its own, and that the rule
of non-interference was equally applicable to both.
No reflecting politician, it is true, ever doubted the
right of the State to consider the property of the
(church in any other light than other public property ;
but we are now speaking of the doctrines advanced by
the Church party.- Our readers must have seen from
our account of what took place on Friday at the Fo-
reign-office, that Ministers do not consider themselves
at liberty to abandon one at least of. the Bills now
before Parliament—the 'Established Church Bill.
Our own (pinion of that and the other Bills has been
expressed with sufficient clearness. We share the
general disappointment. But still we are not prepared
to say that the Reformers should incur the responsi-
bility of pushing their opposition to an extremity
which might break up the Government. A division
in the ranks of the Reformers at this time, with the
Tories united and ready to turn that division to account,
would unquestionably be a great evil. Agreeing with
Mr. Hume in his objections to the meatures of eccle-
siastical reform, which are by no means what the
..people were' justified in expecting, we would yet intreat
him to refrain from taking any step which might
weaken the Liberal party. By dividing against
the Established Church Bill he will bplace a
number of -Liberal Members in the difficult po-
sition of either injuring a Government which
they wish to support, or voting in favour of a
measure which is known to be unpalatable to
many of their constituents. On the whole, it will,
we think, be advisable that Members should bear with
their disappointment for the present, trusting that the
tims may soon be more favourable for a reform of the
Church really deserving of the name. Whether any
additional bishops were required is at least very doubt-
ful ; but however that may be, we certainly could
have wished that they should have been really bishops,
and not spiritual barons. Who has not heard of the
entreaty of that truly primitive Bishop (Wilson) of
Sodor and Man, to be freed from the yoke of secu-
larity imposed on bishops, by uniting with their spiri-
tual duties those of Peers of Parliament. Had the
Bislthps of Manchester and Ripon been freed from the
burden of attendance in Parliament, the country would
have been much gratified. If we cannot get rid of our
present spiritual barons, we ought at all events to have
no addition to them. We are here but echoing the
sentiments of many of the most venerated names in
the Church of England.—Morning Chronicle.
The dissolution of Parliament has been talked of—
its prorogation has been threatened—.vet, after all, it
appears that the dissolution of the ill-assorted Go-
vernment, and the prorogation of their preposterous
policy, is all which is really to be apprehended. To
us, who have all along considered the existing coali-
tion between the Whigs and Radicals as the most dis-
graceful that ever aegiaded the annals of political war-
fare in Englarsi, • it must be satisfactory to know that
our anticksations have been entirely fulfilled. Yet it
mnst-te conceded that this satisfaction is tempered by
Os sense that we, and those who think with us, have
to lament the departure from those constitutional
principles which have so long preserved the govern-
ment of these kingdoms, and which have been fear-
fully violated by an Administration anxious only to
preserve the power and emoluments of place. The
indisputable political fact of the past week, and
that which must influence the Parliamentary proceed-
ings of the ensuing week, is, that the Radical sup-
porters in the English Parliament of the Irish Ministry
have rebelled against that exclusion from the profits or
place, after. which they have been so long hungering
and thirsting. This point, so essentially important,
we are anxious to impress upon the attention of our
readers, for, in fact, it involves the whole principle of
that political conflict which now agitates the public
The case clearly and indisputably stands thus:
--LTwo parties naturally opposed to each other—the
one consisting of the haughtiest portion of our neediest
Aristocracy—the other composed of the most ravenous
Members of the Radical Representatives—have com-
bined for the sordid purpose of advancing merely per-
sonal interests, at the expense of all national considera-
tions. They have quarrelled ; and how should it be
otherwise ? Never yet, in the history of political
or of -private life, has an association based on
perfidy been productive of general or of individual
good. That bad men may combine for flagitious
purposes is true ; but that even this degrading com-
bination should be neutralized by mutual distrust, was
reserved for the unholy alliance of the Whigs anti
Radicals, when forming an anti-English faction. Tine
very proverb of " Honour among thieves," has }seen
violated by this voracious party. And let not the
public believe that the hollow peace which, is repre-
sented to have been made between the quailing aristo-
crats, and the discontented leaders of the democratic
power, can be of any long continuance. It is pc,.
fectly clear that this house divided against itself must
fall, whether the preponderance olf po‘ergn,t is
biaeonit ie one
side or the other. To the people of Evn
un-
doubtedly a question of vast importance, which of the
two sections of this preposterous combination is likely
to be in the ascendant. But, on whishever side this
power falls, it must be for the national interests. We
unhesitatingly declare that the more innninent danger
would be in the ascendancy of that factious body headed
by O'Connell, and supported by the Radicals of Eng-
land. Yet must we distinctly state, that the insidious
policy of a degraded, a selfish, and we are sorry to
say, a sordid aristocracy, would, though not so imme-
diately appalling, be eventually far more fatal to the
destinies of a constitutional monarchy like our own. It
then remains for us to consider how the diSunion be-
tween these two dangerous parties can Its rendered most
available for the interests of the empire at large. And
here the Conservatives have trot only a great oppor-
tunity, but we must mus.,l impress upon them that
they have an imperat;.ve duty, to which their patriotic
attention should
that we feel Compelled
instantly devoted. It is with pain
tompelled to remind that large and power-
ful body-
, b
of English gentlemen forming the Opposition
to ts,," present disjointed Government, of the absolute
necessity of energetic co-operation at a moment so
pregnant with results as the present. At all times we
should be slow to offer any
.observation which might
appear to carry censure against those to whose sup.
port the Conservative portion of the community must
of necessity be indebted for active exertion. Yet we
may be pardoned when reminding Hon. Members
that at this period of the Parliamentary session, and
under the peculiar circumstances now influencing the
political world, we state with no more of decision than
is imperatively forced upon us by the exigencies of the
moment, that the forbearance, we had almost said the
-firta/ forbearance, which has enabled the present
stern to maintain their position can no longer be justified
Surely it is not to be endured that the last reproach of
the Whigs and Radicals should be borne out by the
conduct of the Conservatives—namely, that the very
advantages falling in their way should be sacrificeck by