The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-13 00:00:00

his parts of speech, at a Conservative dinner which
t3ok place on Wednesday last at Leicester. Now,
why will not this young gentleman take a lesson from
Su AKSPEARZS Master Silence, and hold his tongue
in public ? He never speaks but to utter an absurdity.
He told the Leicester Tories, for instance, that they
had the Press with them, though the fact is notoriously
the other way. Moreover, he told them that " the
splendid subscription for the Irish Clergy" was a proof
of their popularity, forgetting the emphatic, unanswer-
able proofs to the contrary, displayed at Carrickshock,
Inniscara, and Rathcormac. But enough of this
political greenhorn, who will soon find his level—if he
have not already found it—without our assisting to
reduce him to it.

We find the following in the Morning Post of this
clay :—" Grand Dinners were given yesterday (Sun-
day) by the Duke of Leinster on Carlton-terrace ; the
Marquis of Downshire, Hanover-square ; Lord Mon-
tagu, Hamilton-place ; Countess Dowager of Cork,
Burlington-street ; the Marquis of Ely, in Portman-
square ; Lord Lyndhurst, George-street ; Lord John
Russell, Wilton-crescent ; the Earl of Stamford, Hill-
street ; Earl Digby, Brook-street ; the Marquis of
Westmeath, Grosvenor-House ; the Earl of Verulam,
Grosvenor-square ; Sir Edward Kerrison, Stanhope-
street ; Sir Ridley Colborne, Hill-street ; Mrs. Otway
Cave, Berkeley-square ; Mr. Hall, M.P., Hertford-
street." Here is rare news for Sir ANDREW
AGNEW I But will he interfere in the matter ? Not
he. The rich man's cook is sacred in his eves. It
is the poor man's baker that he puts without the pale
of salvation. Privileged folks may feast and make
merry on the Sabbath with impunity ; but woe to the
unprivileged, who should be detected cultivating a
happy face at the tea-gardens ! So runs Sir" AN-
DREW'S creed I

We have been informed that several persons belong-
ing to the British Legion, returned from Spain, make
daily application to the proper quarters for the settle-
ment of what is due to them, without obtaining any
other satisfaction than an answer that the new Ministry
in Spain has stopped all supplies of money to its
Agents here. This is really lamentable, and if our in-
formation be correct—as we have strong reason to
believe—we cannot but consider this instance of bad
faith on the part of the Spanish Government as most
disgraceful.
The British Legion has done its duty nobly, and
deserves better treatment from the Government it has
defended. If the contract under which the officers
and men have been enlisted is not honourably fulfilled,
that Government loses its claim on the services and
allegiance of that body, and the consequences that
might follow arc of a nature too fearful to be calmly
contemplated.

We have letters and papers from Madrid to the
evening of the sth inst. inclusive. General CORDOVA
was then about to set out for the army, having, as was
confidently affirmed by several official characters in
Madrid, entirely failed in an intrigue for procuring
for himself the war department, in conjunction with his
present appointment. He was equally unsuccessful in
his efforts to exchange the command of the army for a
scat in the Cabinet. IsTuniz lauded his military
prowes—ealled him the saviour of his country—ex-
tolled all his movements—and put an end to his. im-
portunities by emphatically assuring him that Spain
could not dispense with his services in the field.

The President of the Council is sore beset with
difficulties and dangers. He now.begins to suspect that
he was guilty of a sad oversight in decreeing the elec-
tion of the Deputies according to the provisions of a
law which had not hcen so much as read in the Up-

per Chamber. In the first place, the Depuies re-
turiveflnre hkelyio be more hostile to his ,GalteXll-
mcnt than those just dissolved ; and again the apos-
tolical faction in the Chamber of Peers have signified
that they will not act in conjunction with Deputies
chosen contrary to the established usages of the king-
dom, and that, therefore, when the Chambers are
opened, they will formally protest against the new
election as illegal, unconstitutional, and invalid. Thus
IsTUItIZ will be placed between two fires. The new
Deputies must see that they arc, in point of fact, a
National Convention—that not having been summoned
according to law, they, in reality, can be made amenable
to no law, or precedent, binding upon the poPular or
elective branch of the Legislature. The new Chamber
may or may not acknowledge the existence of the Upper
Chamber, just as it pleases. On the other hand, if
the Peers refuse to recognize the Constitutional exis-
tence of the Deputies, Ministers must either resign,
or plunge the country into another ocean of revolu-
tionary anarchy !
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PARIS, JUNE 10.—A letter from London, dated the 7th,
gives us the following intelligence
"On Saturday last M. del, in the name of his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands, made a formal application for
the hand of the Princess Victoria for the eldest son of the
Prince of Orange. The King of England, though personally
favourable to this suit, as well as the Queen, consulted his
Council, which, persisting in its opinion to leave the young
Princess full liberty in the choice of a consort, communicated
the application to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
That Princc:s answered that her daughter had already de-
cided in favour of the eldest son of the Duke of Saxe Co-
burg. This young Prince is distinguished, like his brother,
by his understanding and conduct, as well as by the advantage

The accounts from the Provinces are, on the whole,
sufficiently gloomy to make us apprehensive for the
future. The Carlists have not the slightest ultimate
chance of SUCCCSS ; but as the rebellion is not likely to
be put down during the present campaign, the disor-
ders which must flow from a state of insecurity, of un-
repressed outrage, and unpunished crime, threaten the
perpetuation of abuses hardly less fearful than the
ravages of civil war.
.Adviccs from Lower Arragon state that the
QUEEN'S troops, under VALDEZ, were defeated by
CABRERA, and eight hundred and fifty men made
prisoners. Among them were forty-three officers,
whom the monster ordered to be instantly put to
death, in revenge for the murder of his mother. They
were forthwith led out and shot
As a counter-balance, the QUEEN'S arms have
again triumphed at St. Sebastian and in Catalonia.
The news of General EVANS' victory of the 6th inst.
appeared in this journal of Saturday, copied from an
official notice in the Moniteur ; and to-day we pub-
lish the Report addressed by the English General to
the new Minister of War. In Catalonia the Carlist
bands were defeated on the 3d, near Huesca, with the
loss of three hundred men. The value of this victory
was enhanced by the capture of the Carlist chiefs
TORRES, the Canon MONLIOLA, and ARTEN, with
fifty of their chosen followers.
The new Cabinet has dismissed all the authorities
of Malaga—a step which IsTurtiz purposes to follow
up by permitting no man in Spain to retain an office
under the Crown openly or covertly opposed to his
Government.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Friday and Sa-
turday have been received. They are filled with re-
ports of the debate in the Chamber of Deputies, on
the question of the expediency of retaining the French
territory in Africa. The speeches delivered on this
occasion by MM. GUIZOT and TIIIERS, were models
of forensic eloquence.

In the annexed extracts will be found a communica-
tion, which, we dare presume, is not more extraordi-
nary than unfounded. It relates to the marriage of
the illustrious heiress-presumptive to the throne of
these realms :