The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-10 00:00:00

object which he most deprecates." With submission
to such reasoners, we are inclined to believe that Immiz3
Philippe has a far more intimate arkinaiaance with
the real state of the Spanish question in all its bearings
than has been furnished to the Foreign--oftce, either
by the vigilance of our Ambassador YtNM.l'l'itt, Or by
the experience of the British GeWeill at St. Sebastian.
But, be this as it Tro.,, 'the proper time for urging
such an arguntertrivith any effect would have been
before the tp
oclamation of Sergeant Garcia's consti-
tution, Will any man believe that, if another year
'were wasted in working out Lord Palmerston's petty
projects, as provided for by the quadruple treaty,
Spain would have advanced one step towards the
attainment of that object for which the said treaty
was entered into—namely, the establishment of a
constitutional monarchy in Spain ? Then what
is meant by an adherence to the stipulations of the
quadruple treaty ? It is inet‘Mbent on the Minis-
terial journals to amiwtr this question before they
blame the King of the French for refusing a blind
adherence to Lord Palmerston's hitherto frustrated
policy. For ourselves, we confess that we see but one
outlet from the perplexities by which the Spanish
question is beset, and that is the withdrawal or dismis-
sal, we care not which, of the present Administration.
We are convinced that, were the foreign affairs of this
country again entrusted to the statesman who, by uni-
versal admission, understands them best, that confi-
dence which is so essential to the settlement of national
concerns would be restored, and we should again see
England the honoured arbiter in this protracted strug-
gle, instead of, as at present, an intermeddler, and
that in the meanest attitude, in matters interesting to
no class in these kingdoms save the Whig-Radical
faction, who have fomented the strife for the miserable
purposes of their own disreputable party. We repeat,
that it is difficult to imagine how the Government can
meet Parliament under such responsibility as this.
Still they would rather bear the ills they have than
have recourse to a dissolution ; for they well know
that the feeling of Parliament would be found to per-
vade the country, and then, to use the words of one of
their own body, being once turned out, out the Whigs
must remain for the next half century.—Tinzes.

Mr. Flume will have plenty of work in the coming
session of Parliament. The snake of Orangeism is
only scotched, not killed. The many-headed monster
still exists, under various names, in different parts of
the country. We are indebted to an article which
some time since appeared in The Sun, for the disco-
very that it exists, under the name of Operative Con-
servative Associations, in Lancashire. Our Contem-
porary having expressed its surprise and regret that
the working classes of Wigan could be so blind to
their own interests as to league together to resist Re-
form, and abet the views of the Tories, the Secretary
of the Operative Reform Association in that place has
written a letter explanatory of what all must, like The
Sun, have considered a singular anomaly. From this
letter, the production of an intelligent artizan, it ap-
pears that the Operative Conservative Association in
Wigan, and those in other parts of Lancashire, are
nothing else than bodies of Orangemen, andthat though
prevented by the law from assuming that name, they
openly boast of being actuated by the Orange spirit.
This is a very important disclosure. It not only
shews the animus which still pervades the breasts
of the quondam Orangemen, but renders perfectly
intelligible what, until now, was altogether inex-
plicable to us, namely, the fact that there could be
found a body of Operatives in this country who oppose
themselves to Reform, and take part with their own
implacable enemies. Now that we know these Ope-
ratives are Orangemen our surprise and perplexity
cease, for we know that Orangemen are capable of any
thing. Those who have once fallen down before its
altar can be led by the leaders of the party where-
ever, and to whatever, those leaders choose. They
are the most obsequious slaves of their chiefs that ever
breathed. They dare not think, far less act for
themselves. What wonder then that the serfs of the
Orange leaders in Lancashire should form themselves
into Operative Conservative Associations. They are
objects of pity rather than of blame,—deprived of all
free agency, they are no better than so many moral
machines. Let their chiefs command them to march
themselves up to the neck in the nearest horsepond,
and they will not murmur a word in the shape of re-
fusal--they will obey the orders forthwith. The fact
of these Operative Conservative Associations, as they
call themselves, having been organised in Lancashire,
has not been without its advantages. It has had the
effect of drawing the Operative Reformers into a bond
of closer union together. This is just what was to be
desired. In the union of all classes of Reformers will
lie their strength in the approaching conflict between
the friends and foes of despotism. It is high time
that measures were taken to organise the Reformers
into one great body, from one extremity of the empire
to the other. We began by saying that Mr. Hume
may expect ample employment next Session, in again
exposing and denouncing the Orange combinations.
We trust that those to whom guilt may be brought
home in future, will not be suffered to escape so easily
as the Cumberlands and Kenyons were on a late occa-
sion.—Morning Advertiser.
There is no part of Europe, not even the domi-
nions of our most faithful ally the Citizen King, in
which British travellers are exposed to more inhospi-
table and vexatious treatment than in Belgium. It
would seem as if the subordinate agents of police
thought they could not render a more acceptable ser-
vice to their superiors than by wantonly harassing and
annoying the English visiters to the dominions of
King Leopold, who ought never to forget, although
he is now the son-in-law of the French King, and
like him represents a monarchy of the barricades, that
to England he is indebted for the prosperity of his
fortunes—England, that raised him from a state of
comparative obscurity, and, with the " fair-haired
daughter of the isles," bestowed upon him a princely
fortune. If his heart be at all susceptible of grati-
tude, it is unfortunate that, in his present situation
and the new relations which it has created, he should
incur the suspicion of viewing either with approbation
or indifference the ill-treatment which his former be-
nefactors, the English, meet with in the country of
which he is now the Sovereign. Insolent and an-
noying as are the douaniers and police agents of the
Citizen King to those British travellers who make ex-
cursions of " pleasurable" penance to Boulogne, Calais,
&c., they are surpassed in the art of ingeniously tor-
menting our unhappy fellow-countrymen, who have a
most unpatriotic mania for spending their money among
foreigners, by the agents of police of Brussels and
other towns in Belgium. If such conduct on the part
of foreign Governments had the effect of inducing our
gaping, sight-loving, and money-spending countrymen
to stay at home, and dedicate their season of leisure to
becoming better acquainted with the natural and arti-
ficial attractions of their native land, we should be glad
of it, although the good thereby produced would not
afford excuse or palliation for the repulsive and inhos-
pitable policy of the French and Belgian Governments,
under whose auspices, thanks to the want of spirit anti
capacity at the head of our own foreign departn2znt,
English visitors arc treated with as much harshness,
and subjected to as many as they could be
exposed to within the incl':ment regions which are
ruled by the hatight-i
to Louis Pho.,one it
seems
Autocrat of all the Itussias. As
en:jy as if lie could only live
and life within an atmosphere redolent of the
_,nokeof f plots, conspiracies, and political explosions.
Snell stimulants appear to have become by habit a ne-
cessityhis existence ; and where a King takes a
morbid pleasure in such extraordinary modes of ex-
citement, the materiel will never be wanting. Now
we do in all friendliness entreat Leopold not to copy
the absurd example
°;
ilisfath
particularly
er-inla'v'iyevaeffry affecting
to believe that ever
En-
glishman, who sets his foot stranger,within his dominions for a
little dearly-purchased recreation, has a design upon his
Crown or life. If lie has
discovered any virtues in
Louis Philippe's character, let him imitate them, and
leave him a monopoly of police plots and their enjoy-
ments.—MornJng Herald.

We have great satisfaction in laying before our
readers a very full report of the proceedings at the
anniversary festival of the South Lancashire Conser-
vative Association, which was held at Newton, on
Thursday. The numbers who flocked to this meeting,
and the spirit of manly loyalty and patriotism which
pervaded it, are gratifying symptoms of the progress