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London, England, 1836-09-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON_DON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER: 13, 1‘.,3+

order and to keep down the rabid ferocity of the .
" ascendancy" men have been so successful in the
county of Cavan. Not only is this worthy Magis-
trate branded" as a tyrant and a persecutor, and what
not, but the Government is accused of a direct par-
ticipation in this tyranny and persecution. It would
be in vain to ask a writer of such a stamp why,
allowing for argument's sake that a Magistrate had
exceeded his authority, the Government should be held
responsible for his conduct ? The question never sug-
gested itself to a mind wholly occupied by party feel-
ings, and labouring to impart its own colour to every
subject presented to its consideration.
The Government is popular in Ireland. That of
itself is a sufficient reason for the outpouring of Tory
wrath against it and its officers. The stain of Irish
popularity certainly never .attached itself to a Tory
Administration. The party cannot therefore. have
that charge retorted upon them. Whatever other
sins they may be guilty of, they are as innocent
on that score as Adam before the fall. But they
more resemble another personage in the malignity
with which they regard the peace of Ireland, and
all who contribute towards its permanent establish-
ment. Hence the fierceness of their attacks upon
Lord MULGRAVE, the most popular Lord Lieutenant
that Ireland ever saw. Hence the double distilled bit-
terness of their rancour towards Mr. O'CONNELL,
the most popular leader that ever perhaps appeared in
any country,—whose power over his countrymen is
such that he can controul a nation by a wave of his
hand—and hence the present storm in a teapot about
the persecution of one DELANY, a vagabondizing
fan atirtirnMed by the Orange worthies to go about
abusing the Catholic religion, under the pretence of
converting the Catholics to protestantism, and by thus
exciting the passions of the multitude and provoking
them to acts of violence, to get up scenes for some
future pantomime at Exeter-hall. Captain DUFF
thought it his duty to interfere ; and to prevent
a breach of the peace, which was the natural conse-
quence of such proceedings, arrested this DELANY on
one of his ill-omened expeditions. It would appear that
in so doing be exceeded the authority vested in him by
law. But so far from any intentional transgression of his
duty being imputable to Captain DUFF, his most strenu-
ous opponents acquit him of this—and the beauty of it is
that this acquittal appears in the correspondence which
is paraded in the Morning Post of this day I What
would these people say if they had any tangible
charge against the Government, when they can make
such mountains of mole-hills ?

Letters from Berlin to the 7th inst., state that
Prussia would gladly recognise Donna IsABELLA 11.,
Queen of SPAIN, provided the Spanish nation could
be persuaded to re-abolish the Constitution of Cadiz.
" Don CARLOS," writes the Prussian Correspondent,
of a Morning Contemporary, under date of the 6th
inst., "is now entirely removed to the background in
the scene which Spain presents to the view of our
Absolutists. Before the Constitution he appeared to
them the saviour of Legitimacy ; at present they:would
fain. see the QUEEN confirmed on the Throne, and give
you legitimacy into the bargain, provided you could
scare away that hideous hermaphroditical thing, be-
tween a constitution, a republic, and anarchy, which
they call the Constitution of 1812." The substance
of these very words appeared in this journal before
MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA had retired from the
Premiership of his native country. We stated that
the effect of the policy pursued by the Northern
Powers would be, not the simple adoption of the
Conservative Estatuto Real, but the inevitable
re-establishment of the Constitution of Cadiz,
We predicted the near approach of a period when
Austria, Prussia, and Russia would regret the
obstinacy with which they opposed the Quadruple
Treaty ; and lo ! it has already arrived. Was
there anything remarkable in this ? Not at all.
It required but a moment's consideration on the part
of any person acquainted with the history and the ge-
neral disposition of the Spanish nation, to enable him
to arrive at the very same conclusion. The cause was
obvious to all who then sought for it ; and the effect is
as natural as the emission of smoke by fire. The
then unbroken slumber of the Spanish patriots was
mistaken by the diplomatists of the Northern Powers
for a state of general apathy ; hence they never sup-
posed that the struggle could engage more than the
supporters of the Estatuto Real, and the followers of
Don CARLOS. The Constitutionalists had not then
bestirred themselves ; though it could not escape at-
tentive observers, that, if roused, they would soon
bear down all opposition. But the regrets of the Northern
Powers are now entirely useless. They can come to
no accommodation with Spain, on terms involving the
loss of the Constitution of 1812 ; and we know that
at present they are as averse as ever they were to the
recognition of Don CARLOS—inasmuch as such a
step might lead to hostilities, which nothing could
justify them in provoking. They might hope to gain
over Louis PIIILLIPPE, but no terms could be kept
with England, who, as a matter of right, would un-
sheath the sword to uphold the faith of treaties. The
French Chambers would not stoop to the meanness of
ratifying the conduct of the KING, and so fixing a stain
upon the national honour—so that the affair would end
in the downfal of Don CA uLos, and very possibly,
in the banishment of the Orleans dynasty from the soil
of France.

Though the Governments of Russia, Prussia, and
Austria regard the struggle now going forward in
Spain as involving the triumph of one or other of the
principles of regal despotism or popular representa-
tion, we are of opinion that they will await the issue
before declaring themselves openly for either side.
This caution is not unnecessary, and in their case is
particularly prudent, if not praiseworthy.

His Imperial Majesty the EMPEROR of all the
Russias has issued a proclamation dated the 24th of
August, ordering a general levy of recruits throughout
his dominions, in the proportion of five to every thou-
sand males. Two districts of the empire are only ex-
cepted from the operation of the Imperial proclamation.
This levy will produce an army so numerically great,
as to justify some alarm on the part of the Western
Governments of Europe. Nevertheless, we have only
to keep our attention steadily directed to the state of
affairs in the East, to render such immense levies of
raw recruits a source of greater weakness to Russia
than of danger to the liberties of mankind. A Rus-
sian army is seldom formidable in proportion to its
numbers, because the theatre upon which only it is
called upon to act is not adapted to the efficient move-
ment of immense masses of regularly disciplined
troops. Besides, there is no army in the world so ill-
used and so badly paid as that of Russia. The pay o'
the officers is insufficient to provide them with regimen-
tals ; and in order to support themselves, the men are
compelled to adopt a system of wholesale plunder where-
ever they are quartered. They know nothing of moral
courage ; they are not impelled by love of country ;
nor are they acquainted with a higher motive for de-
fending or extending the empire than that such is the su-
preme will of the CZAR. They have animal courage
it is tru2 ; but it is the courage of the brute, not the
heroism inspired by the love of liberty. Fear in a
Russian soldier is made to supply the place of patrio-
tism in an Englishman, and the love of fame in the
chivalrous soldiery of France.
But it is not on the weakness of the Russian army—from

whatever cause arising—but to the strength of her navy,
and her good understanding with France, that Eng-
land must look for a guarantee for the continuance of
the general peace. With a powerful fleet we need
not care a rush for the schemes of Russia, be they
never so hostile. We arc already aware of her designs
upon Turkey, and our knowledge of these de-
signs will go a considerable length towards rendering
them abortive. She is not likely to gain much
by her present war against the Caucasian tribes, who,
properly speaking, are as independent of the SULTAN
as they are of the CZAR. By her conquest of these
tribes, she will pull down, we grant, a living wall between
her and Constantinople ; but by so doing, she will
only raise up another still more formidable, in the Go-
vernments of England and France. Happily this is
a question upon which we have no reason to fear a
change of opinion on the part of the apostate Go-
vernment of LOUIS PIIILLIPE. 'Whether the KING
of the FRENCH adopt a more Conservative, or a more
Liberal system—whether he declare himself an ad-
mirer of Russia or of Great Britain—whether he be
for war or peace—we may defy him to remain King of
France, and consent to the occupation of Constanti-
nople by the armies of the CZAR.
The following is a copy of the Imperial Proclama-
tion :