The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Madrid Journals of the 16th contain a decree de-
priving Rodil of his command. The letters which
accompany these journals state that he has refused to
obey the order first conveyed to him, and that he is de-
termined to retain his command. If this be the case,
he must be got rid of after the Turkish fashion. In
the midst of this the Cortes are as mild as if it were
the golden age. Strange how things go by contraries
in Spain. The Cortes and its opposition elected un-
der the Estatuto was furious and imperative, while
the assembly elected by the democratic system of 1812
is certainly the best conducted and least revolutionary
that Spain has vet seen. It is to be regretted indeed,
that they are so calm. In a moment so critical they
ought not to have shrunk from sending commissioners
to the army. And we fear much that the civil and
administrative authority in Spain must strike a blow

ere military men will exert themselves to do the same.
If Rodil be not punished, his successor cannot respect
the Liberal Government, but must look, as Rodil did,
to Don Carlos. One has but to read the admirable
letter of our Correspondent to perceive how feeble
a foe Gomez must have proved, if seriously attacked,
whilst, from his conversation with Flinter, it ap-

pears how fully the Carlist depredator relies upon the
inactivity of the Christinos. There are no finer troops
than the 20,000 now under Alaix, Narvaez, and Ro-

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did ; yet, through-treason, Gomez with 3,000 soldiers,
and 6 or 7,000 ragamuffins, is able to occupy and be-
fool the overwhelming force of the Queen, leaving the
precious strong holds of liberalism in the north, not as
Bilboa, to the mercy of the enemy. The treason is
rank, and must have the fitting remedy. France may
..ave stained the career of her first revolution with
blood, but it at least was not spilled in vain. She tri-
umphed. It will be a terrible lesson for history if it
should be proved that revolutions cannot succeed with-
out being ruthless. Espinosa, Captain-general, left
Cordova with all the forces which could be disposed
of, to dispute the passage of Sierra Morena against
the Carlists. We know nothing more positive as to
the road taken by Gomez since his arrival at Berlanga
oe the 7th. A bagagero or carrier, who marched dur-
ing eight days with the troops of Gomez, relates that
their equipages were organised in three brigades of
two hundred mules each, carrying the ammunition, the
mountain cannon, the provisions, the booty, the
wounded and the weary. There are a hundred mules
loaded with guns, and ten mules laden with gold
.or silver. The number of men which march with the
division and receive provisions amounts to more than
12,000 men, comprehending the muleteers, &c. ; the
number of horses and beasts of burden pass 2,000.
'When this column is obliged to cross the mountains by
one road, its length is of three or four leagues. One
may see by these details what advantages the generals
of the Queen, if they had more activity, could take of
the Carlists, embarrassed with so great a quantity of
baggage, by attacking the long column of the enemy,
or in surpriing it by a night attack in its disordered
encampments. Bilboa continues to hold out. It is
said that the besieged have made a vigorous sally, in
which they have had the advantage. General Espar-
tero, after a long circuit, has arrived near Portugalet
with 18,000 men. Villareal has retired from Sodupe
to the heights of Alonzo Tegui, near Bilboa ; he ap-
pears to establish himself to cover the scige, and re-
ceive the attack of the constitutional army. If Espar-
tern has not arrived ta disengage the place besieged
before the 19th or 2,oth of November, it would be
forced to capitulate ; all the exterior works are taken,
and the body of the place is composed of fortifications
which have been thrown up during the present war, to
resist a coup de main, and not a formal siege.—illorn-
ing Chronicle.
Some of Mr. Daniel O'Connell's aphorisms upon
Poor Laws are not the least amusing productions of
that learned person's genius. He tells us that there is
no country in which the introduction of a general poor
law " has not led to an increase of pauperism." Does
he know anything about the state of England before
the Poor Law of Elizabeth, as compared with what it
was afterwards, and has been since ? We apprehend
nut. When challenged by an individual with the
instances of England and Holland, Mr. O'Connell
said not one word upon the alleged increase of pau-
perism in the former country ; and respecting the
latter he made the extraordinary bounce, that pauperism
in Holland had been increased by the poor law just
426 per cent. ! or in other words 426 paupers created
for 100 that had existed before ! But next comes
the panacea—the genuine O'Connell poor law—and
what is that ? Why, reader, it is nothing less than
that undefinable something which he calls " justice to
Ireland ;" the meaning of which is, do nothing for the
poor, literally nothing ; but add to their number by
starving the Protestant clergy—make the Popish priests
lords paramount of the municipal corporations—leave
the multitude to the tender mercies of a system of
artificial turbulence—help the agitator to excite an
annual fever, which shall come to its crisis from the
middle of November to Christmas, and be cooled by
copious bleedings under
,the name of an O'Connell
rent. Do all this, and you administer in its happiest
form the nostrum on whose label is written " Justice
to Ireland 1" and 10, pauperism is at once annihilated,
demoralization purified, lawful authority established
and respected, and life and property secured. The
rest of the O'Connell oration was made up of a laudable
attempt to prove that all the secret conspiracies and
consequent crimes of Papist ruffians were the work
of Orange instigators ; and he proceeds to the demand
of short Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and the Bal-
lot, to the merits of which last species of political per-
fectibility he offers this characteristic testimonial—viz.,
that " a man might hurrah for West and Hamilton
outside the Court ; and he might, when he got to the
balloting box, votefor Daniel O'Connell ! ! 1 English-
men, this is no invention of ours ; it is the portrait of
the Ballot, painted by its own advocate—" Hurrah for
one candidate, and vote for his antagonist I" If this
does not make a convert of an honest man like Mr.
Grote, then have we lost all key to human character.—
Times.
The Tory prints have of late been loudly chuckling
over what they are pleased to call their success at the
recent municipal elections for England. The instances
in which they have been numerically successful have,
as was to be expected from a faction so reckless and
loose in their statements of facts, been greatly exag-
gerated.
And in those cases where they really have
had a gain over the Reformers, the circumstance can
easily be accounted for without being driven to the
adoption of the hypothesis that liberal principles are
now less popular than they were at the period of the
previous elections. But our present purpose is not to
go into a detail
i of the circumstances which have con-
spired in some instances to enable the Tories to obtain
an ascendancy in the Town Councils of several bo-
roughs in England. Our object is to ask the Tory or-
gans either in the metropolis or the provinces, how
comes it to pass that when they have of late devoted so
much of their space to a celebration of their triumphs
—fancied and real—in the Town Councils of Eng-
land, they have maintained an unbroken silence
as to the results of the elections in the Town Coun-
cils of Scotland ? As we have but little expec-
tation of receiving an answer to our question from
the Conservative Journals, it may not be amiss
to answer it ourselves. The reason, then, is
just this :—ln Scotland, the elections have, with one
single exception, gone against them. The instance to
which we refer is that of the Town Council of Inver-
ness. In that solitary case the Tories have triumphed.
But how ? Because Liberal principles are being
gradually supplanted in the metropolis of the High-
lands by those of a Conservative complexion ? There
never was a more unfounded supposition. And none
know better than the Tories themselves of that place,
that such a supposition has not even the shadow of a
ground to rest on. The temporary triumph—for it is
only temporary—of the Conservatives in the Town
Council of Inverness, is wholly owing to the jobbing,
bungling mode of doing business, and everlasting
squabbling among themselves of a few persons who
have hitherto assumed the title of Whigs, but who
have proved rank Conservatives in their conduct,
N l'initroti in their hearts. It is to the mismanage-
' -,Qe. treachery of these persons—treachery, we
'gards the principles they professed at
the last municipal election for Inver-
fon the credit of which they received
es of the inhabitants—it is to this