The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-12 00:00:00

she wished to procure the nominal Regency:for her
husband, knowing that upon her would really devolve
its honours and its duties ; but we could never dis-
cover in her conduct any reasonable grounds for such
a suspicion. If, therefore, the Government send the
Infant Don FRANCISCO to Paris, it must entrust the
Princess with its mission, if it hope to have it properly
executed. Perhaps it is found that her presence in the
Spanish capital threatens the adjustment of the Con-
stitutional Reforms which the Cortes have in contem-
plation, whereas at Paris her influence would be next
to nothing. But upon this question we only hazard
conjectures. The rumour upon which they rest may
eventually prove unfounded. Ministers will take no
important step without consulting the Cortes ; and we
have unbounded reliance in the wisdom and patriotism
of that body.

The whole of the Paris journals of Thursday have
been received. The Princess MARY of Orleans
failed in making an impression upon the Royal heart of
her Cousin the King of NAPLES, as the papers be-
fore us state his MAJESTY has formally sought and
obtained the hand of the Archduchess THERESA,
niece of the Emperor of AUSTRIA, and daughter of
the Archduke CHARLES. The betrothal will take
place in January, when his Neapolitan MAJESTY
will be represented by his man-of-all-work, the Duke
of SALERNO.

As was stated yesterday, Prince Louis NAPO-
LEON Will be shipped off to the United States without
trial. His mother, the Duchess of ST. LEu, has
obtained permission to remain in Paris.

The Swiss question is regarded as settled by the
French journals.

Our Correspondent at Portsmouth has forwarded to
us advices from San Sebastian up to the afternoon of
Tuesday, the Bth instant. From the heavy connonade
then heard in the direction of Bilboa, it was concluded
by the passengers on board the Swallow schooner—
which left San Sebastian on that day—that the
Carlists had re-commenced the siege of that city ;
but such intelligence is little to be relied upon,
although not unlikely inasmuch as Don
CARLOS declared that the siege would be re-
newed as soon as VILLAREAL could get rid of Es-
PARTERO. ThP blockade of the river is somewhat
improbable, especially as Lord JOIIN HAY had orders
to keep the communication by the river open, cost
what it would. We regret to learn that no successful
effort has vet been made to provide permanently for
the wants of the British Legion. San Sebastian is one of
the four keys of the Spanish kingdom, and yet the brave
foreigners who have so nobly kept it for the QUEEN,
arc suffered to want the commonest necessaries of
human subsistence. The other keys of the kingdom
are Pollyanna, Barcelona, and Figueras—cvery one
of which would have been in possession of Don
CARLOS, but fur the valour of the British auxiliaries
by sea and land. The Spanish Government appears
not sufficiently sensible of the importance of the ser7
ices rendered it by the Legion, or it dangerously mis-
calculates the extent of its endurance of neglect.

In a lung-winded article, de omnibus rebus el quibus-
clam aliis, which a Morning Cotemporary puts forth, we
have been amused with a more than ordinary defiance
of truth, and dereliction of principle. It appears, too,
as if the '' tremendous monosyllable" had lost its little
remains of temper and prudence, and had given itself
up entirely to the natural waywardness and malignity
of its disposition. Whether the unexpected result of
the Municipal elections, so often the subject of its pro-
phetic lucubrations, and the consequent disappoint-
ment to its hopes of ever again being on good terms
with the occupants of the Treasury Bench, unless by a
" turn about, wheel about" process, similar to its last
escapade, have rendered it utterly reckless and des-
perate, we leave to others to determine. But reck-
less and desperate it has become, frothing away
with a rage truly ludicrous at everything which it
lately hugged to its bosom, and hugging all that
formerly called forth either its bitterest hatred or
its loathing. The Whigs, because they have stuck
to the principles which it has deserted, are abused
and vilified with that peculiar inveteracy which an
apostate proverbially entertains towards his former as-
sociates ; while the Tories, who, a little while ago,
were the " scotched and writhing dragons of the oli-
garchy," are now angels in human form.
There is, however, we are bound to say, in the ar-
ticle before us, one exception from the general rule of
inconsistency and tergiversation, followed by the Print
to which we allude. On the subject of the new Poor
Law, it has been consistent. It conceived a mortal
antipathy to the measure, because it was proposed by
Lord BROUGHAM, and was likely to prove beneficial
to the country ; and its hostility has increased, exactly
in proportion as the proofs of this benefit have been
multiplied. Some half-dozen select vestrymen—would-
be-great men in their own parish—topping fellows in
their own conceit—find the new law reduces them to
their native insignificance. Their vanity is mortified,
and they get up a petition, setting forth numberless
imaginary hardships inflicted on the poor ; which peti-
tion, after the spelling has been corrected, is published
in the Times, and it is immediately announced that
" not a parish can meet without denouncing the atro-
cities" of the Poor Law. Letters from the same dis-
appointed individuals, or others of a similar stamp, are
sent to Printing House-square, and " not a pos
arrives that does not cover our table with the most
affecting illustrations of its barbarity." If a single
beggar shows his face in the Metropolis, " not a
street can we walk in without beholding the proofs
of its demoralizing provisions ;" and to sum up all,
it has in its possession illustrations of these and
a multitude of other atrocious effects produced by this
law, which would occupy its " entire columns for nearly
a month to come !"—thirty octavo volumes (according
to its own calculation) of Poor Law grievances !
Fortunately, however, the public do not form their
opinions on this subject from anything that our Con-
temporary says about it. The malevolence of feeling,
and the mad party spirit which it has mixed up with a
question, which every one must allow had no natural
tendency to excite such feelings, and which ought to
have been discussed, if any ought, with calmness and
impartiality, have deprived the statements of the Times
of all claim to belief.

Every new Union that is formed bears testimony to
the excellent working of the improved system. Not
only arc the poor better clothed and fed than they were
under the former plan—not only are their physical
wants better supplied—but what even the most sanguine
advocates of the Poor Law Amendment Act could not
have anticipated at so early a period of its operation
a. sensible improvement in the morals of the poor has
already taken place in those districts where it has
been introduced. A very striking illustration of
this important and highly gratifying result will be
found in our paper of this day, in a report from the
Epping Union to the Secretary of State for the Home
Department. Let those whose feelings have been led
astray by false representations about imprisonment,
short allowance, cruelty to the aged and infirm, sepa-
ration of man and wife, and the like topics of decla-
mation, read this report, and they will be convinced
of the salutary working of the New Poor Law.

Mr. ENEAS MACDONNELL, as we perceive by
the Times of this morning, has thought fit to renew
his attacks on Mr. O'CONNELL. We cannot com-
pliment the the Pius jEneas on his feeling or delicacy
in selecting such a moment for the discharge of his
personal spleen. We should have thought that the