The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-30 00:00:00

tion :

The Government continues to show much activity and
determination in the various decrees issued by them, as well
as by their other measures.
On last Sunday a man was taken up for attempting, by
scattering money among some of the troops on their
passing out of the gate of Alcala, to induce them to re-
turn to Madrid. He had undergone several examina-
tions in order to find out his accomplices. It is ex-
pected that he and the men who te❑ days ago shouted
for the republic will be soon executed as examples. The
constitutional corporation of Madrid has presented an ad-
dress to the Queen-Regent, praying that no society such as
those that in 1821 and 1822 did so much injury to the cause
of freedom should be permitted in this country. Several of
the most decided patriots have withdrawn their names from
the lists of those who wished to form the new Patriotic
Association. Within the last few days upwards of 60 Car-
lists and foreigners, who wished to cause confusion by pro-
claiming the republic, have been removed from Madrid by
the police. This is a severe blow to the projects of the
Carlists.

The elections for the new Cortes are going on favourably
to the friends of freedom.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.---AD extraordinary Gazette has
been published, which I enclose ; it contains the news of
the defeat of Gomez, although not officially.
Gomez, as it was officially known, was unable to pene-
trate into the small town of Requena, where he and the
Valentia bands were repulsed solely by the National Mi-
litia. I enclose the official account of his repulse. _

The news from the Army of the- North is, that the
rebels are not only dispirited, but divided among them-
selves. Villareal is, as it seems, anxious to pass the Ebro.
So little are the Queen's troops said to fear him, that
6,000 have been offered from Oraa's army, and 3,000
from Evans's force, in order to proceed to Valencia, in case
of necessity.
The Government has made a requisition for horses, in
order to equip cavalry, which may be useful in the plains
of Castile.

There is, as I have already stated, the greatest wish to
have the news of Gomez's defeat confirmed officially.
The courier starts immediately, although no further in-
telligence has reached this city.

The Paris papers of Wednesday, received this
morning, contain no news of any importance. They
reiterate the report of the attempted assassination of
the Emperor of RUSSIA ; and express a belief
in the existence of a dangerous and widely-extending
conspiracy among the Russian troops. For extracts
we refer our readers to another part of The Sun.

The Tory hacks or hounds—they may take their
choice of the terms—are quite rabid at the masterly
.speech of the Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, and
are scattering not a little of their venom on the Liberal
Press for giving it circulation. We can easily account
for, and as easily forgive, these insane exhibitions. It
does not suit the policy of the faction, who are strain-
ing every nerve to stave off Peerage Reform, to have
it known that that all-important question ismaking any
progress, except among what they call the rabble, mean-
ing by this opprobrious phrase the great body of the in-
dustrious classes throughout the country. They therefore
cannot conceal their rage and disappointment when

AY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1836.

they see such meetings as those at Waterford, Wick-
low, and many other places, where men of rank and
fortune come forward in numbers, and advocate an or-
ganic change in the constitution of the House of
Peers. The higher the station and the greater the
influence of those who thus give the true tone to
public feeling, and encourage others to follow their
example, the more, of course, do the scamps of
the Tory Press bespatter them with their filthy abuse.
Mr. VILLIERS STUART, as was to be expected,
has came in for his share of such treatment ; but
the scavenger who plies his trade with so much
earnestness, may be assured that he is losing his
labour. He may, perhaps, be earning better wages
from his unprincipled employers, but he is advancing
the cause which he wishes to retard. Peerage Re-
form is gaining ground, and will gain ground, in spite
of all the puny efforts of such slander-mongers as
he is.

The Conservatives are again congratulating them-
selves on the extraordinary popularity of their politics.
At a late dinner at Stroud, a gentleman, named
HALE, said, " if they read the daily Papers, they
would find whole columns of them filled with accounts
of Conservative meetings that had taken place in vari-
ous parts of the country. These constitutional prin-
ciples were not confined to the higher classes, but
were gaining ground among the more humble, but
equally independent, classes who supported themselves
by their labour." The absurdity of these observations
bears unequivocal evidence of their having been put forth
after dinner. Mr. HALE, we are sure, would never
have hazarded them in a cooler and more unclouded hour
of judgment, for he cannot hut be aware that the recent
attempt to get up Conservative Associations among
the operatives in the North has signally failed—as
much so, indeed, as Lord RODEN'S endeavours, a few
years since, to convert the Irish Catholics to the Pro-
testant faith. A few well-intentioned, but misguided
operatives, were, it is true, inveigled, by those specious
promises which the Conservatives are always so ready
to make, and so much more ready to forget, into join-
ing their associations ; but what was the consequence ?
Why, that counter-associations were instantly set on
foot among the great manufacturing towns in the
North, which completely eclipsed their rivals in
wealth, numbers, intelligence, and all that con-
stitutes influence and respectability. If we ex-
cept a puny Conservative confederacy, consisting of
some few dozen dependent operatives, that holds its
sulky: meetings occasionally in Newton and its neigh-
bourhood, not one association, worthy to be called
such, have the Tories, with all their zeal, been able
to get up in the North. In the South they have been
equally unlucky; and we can regard Mr. HALE'S
boast, therefore, in no other light than as a good-
humoured sample of post-prandial waggery. The
same lively spirit characterizes the remarks made, at the
same feed, by Mr. HALLIWELL. This airy and
sportive Tory, after talking of " the steady and
gradual increase of Conservative feeling"—gradual
enough, God knows !—" throughout the kingdom, an
increase that had taken place among the rural as well
as the town population," proceeded to comment on the
secession of the Derby Dilly from the Cabinet, and
added that the " Administration, after having thereby
had its brains knocked out, could not last long." Mr.
H A LLEWELL evidently means by this that Govern-
ments devoid of brains must of necessity be short-
lived, forgetting that the Liverpool Administration,
which no one ever accused of possessing more brains
than an Essex calf, lasted for the best part of twenty
years ! Having concluded his " Lecture on Heads,"
this sprightly gentleman commenced another on "Tails,"
asking, " What was the majority in the House of
Commons ? It was not respectable in point of num-
bers, and composed, as it was, of O'CONNELL and
his Tail, it was not respectable in point of character.
It sanctioned the introduction of injurious mea-
sures in order to propitiate DANIEL and his
Tail." Well, and is there no Tail in the House
of Lords, as well as in the Commons ? What are
the Tory Peers, but so many rattling joints of the
LYNDHURST Tail ? Do these men, like the Re-
formers in the Lower House, presume to have an opi-
nion of their own ? Nothing of the sort. They
blindly follow in the wake of the " Whig-and-some-
thing-more" Ex-Chancellor. We have paid more at-
tention to the Stroud dinner than it deserves, for it was
a miserable affair ; but our object was to expose the
fallacy of the assertion that the Conservative Associa-
tions are increasing in influence throughout the king-
dom. Our Wigan correspondent clearly showed, the
other day, that in the North, at least, they are decreas-
ing in precisely the same proportion that the Reform
Associations are increasing.

It is but a few months since a Monthly Journal was
set on foot at Wick, in the county of Caithness, and
was hailed as a sign of the times, John-o'-Groat's
being looked upon by many as the ne plus ultra of
civilization. The periodical Press has, however, con-
tinued its progress northward, and now sheds its in-
fluence over " Thule's utmost isle." We congratulate
the inhabitants of this distant quarter on the establish-
ment of the Shetland Journal, which, as an instrument
of improvement, where (if we may judge from the tenor
of some of the articles in the Number before us), improve-
ment is much wanted, seems well calculated to answer the
ends proposed by its conductors. The Paper is got up
in a business-like manner. An article from it, which
we have inserted elsewhere, will give our readers a
good idea of the spirit with which this hyperborean
periodical has been commenced.
There still exist, we believe, among the Shetlanders
many of the peculiar customs, habits, and supersti-
tions of their Norwegian ancestors. Occasional
sketches of these could not fail, we think, to be inte-
resting to the readers—the Southern readers at least—
of the Shetland Journal. Perhaps this hint may be
worth the consideration of the conductors.

A paragraph recently appeared, stating the death
of Mrs. Anthoine, at Jersey, occasioned by drinking perry im-
pregnated with arsenic. The poison, it appears, was intro-
duced into the bottle in its manufacture; it was a stone bottle,
and this sort of bottle is glazed within with a camposition in
which is arsenic, and through carelessnes, the fatal drug was
badly mixed up in the glazing matter, and the effervescing of
the perry dislodged it and caused the deadly mixture.

The weather during the past week has been more
favourable for harvest work than many of the preceding ones,
having been comparatively mild and dry. We hope the pre-
sent fair weather will continue, and thereby enable the farmer
to house his grain, which we fear is much injured by the late
heavy rains. —.Kelso Chronicle.
Lord William Bentinck is expected to be in Glas-
gow before Parliament meets. It is said his friends are to
give a dinner to the Liberal Members of the West of Scotland,
to which his Lordship is to be invited.—Glasgow Chronicle.
CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday morning the police-
man on duty picked up the body of an infant child, and con-
veyed it to the station-house, Marlborough-street. The child
was apparently several days old, and, from the decomposition
which had taken place it was difficult to determine whether
violence had been used or not.
WALSALL.—We are authorized to state that Mr.
Stubbs Wightvvick, the late candidate for this borough, has
expressed his determination to offer himself again for the suf-
frages of the electors, whenever an opportunity shall occur,—
Wolverhampton Chronicle.
RAMSGATE, THURSDAY.—It iS now arranged,
that their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the
Princess Victoria shall arrive here to-morrow afternoon. In
consequence, however, of their intention to perform the whole
journey in one day, they will not pass through this place, but
proceed immediately to their residence, near Pegwell Bay.
Every preparation is making to give them a hearty reception.
Six brothers, named Edmondson, lately dined to-
gether at Barnoldswick, in Craven. The youngest is 55
years of age, and the oldest 75 ; their united ages amount to
389 years.