The Sun.
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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1831.

We mentioned some weeks since that many of
the best friends "to Reform were to be found in the
ranks of the Anti-Reformers themselves. Subse-
quent experience has proved the correctness of this
remark. The recent arbitrary conduct of the Duke
of NEWCASTLE, the Marquis of EXETER, and of
Lord HUNTINGTOWER, toward those tenants whose
•nly fault was their high sense of justice and inde-
pendence, has furnished the Reformers—who have
accordingly availed themselves of it at every public
meeting in which they have borne a part—with pre-
cisely that sort of argument which was most wanted
to prove the justice of their case. The expression
in particular of his Grace of NEWCASTLE, " May I
net do what I will with my own," has passed into a
proverb illustrative of the character of the borough-
mongers, and the necessity of their immediate extinc-

" May I not do what I will with my own ?"
What a world of meaning is here ! What a Crcesus-
like wealth of argument ! It is the Iliad in a nut-
shell ; the whole history and mystery of the borough-
mongering system comprised in one little sentence!
As the affwring of an Anti-Reformer's intellect, it
is the most suicidal sample of logic we ever read.
Talk of HUNT and COBBETT ! Not all the argu-
ments of the two combined, aided by the more ex-
tensive influence of BURDETT, Humr, HOBIIOUSE,
and the others of that patriotic school, ever yet pro-
duced half the effect of this one memorable apothegm.
It has convinced the people that Reform can no
longer be delayed with safety to themselves or the
Constitution. In a word, it has become the Re-
former's Manual; the Vade Mecum to which HUNT
loves to refer, and from which COBBETT draws his
best materials.

Equally advantageous to the interests of the great
question has been the division on Friday night. Its
motives have deceived no one. Its factious intem-
perance has disgusted every one. 'We are far,
therefore, from partaking in the regret which some
few milk-sops (who style themselves Reformers)
profess to feel at what they call, the victory of the
Opposition over the Ministers; on the contrary,
we almost rejoice at it, in the firm conviction
that it was the one remaining proof requisite to con-
vince the country of the necessity of at once cutting up,
root and branch, the monstrous, unconstitutional in-
fluence of the boroughmongers. We will even go
further, and state boldly and unequivocally, that
these last deserve the thanks of all true Reformers,
for the great assistance they have rendered to the
good cause. Their factious blundering has ruined
themselves, and insured success to their enemies.
It would be ungenerous, therefore,to forget, when once
Reform is carried, that the boroughmongers them-
, selves have mainly contributed to the victory. For
ourselves we will cheet fully second any proposal for
a public dinner, in grateful commemoration of their
services.

By far the worst enemies to Reform are the men
who style themselves moderate Reformers. These
are the true wolves in sheep's clothing, who steal as
spies into the enemy's camp, and profess to admire
his tactics solely for the purpose of frustrating
them. Moderate Reform ! A plausible word, but
meaning nothing. Had the grievances of the people
been moderate—had they never for ages been op-
pressed, trampled on, trodden under foot, and
laughed at by the boroughmongers—had they never
been hoaxed and swindled out of their rights—had
they never been tax-ridden, church-ridden, or
law-ridden:—then, indeed, they might have needed
only a moderate Reform to set them right ;
but now when they are united to a man by
the strong, binding sense of common danger;
now, when the flames of sixteen counties
are but just quenched; now, when one class is dis-
contented, another impoverished, a third absolutely
beggared—are the people now to be told, that a
moderate Reform will satisfy all their claims—that
they are fortunate if they can gain so much, and un-
reasonable if they exact more ? Out upon such
sickening cant ! Let the Reform be proportioned
to the grievance; let the country be recompensed to
the extent that it has been injured ; in a word, let
justice be done to the boroughmongers ; and Great
Britain to a man will be satisfied. Till then,
Never.

Gelman and Italian Papers have been received.
The following are extracts :
TuniN, 111.kacn 10. The Gazette Piedmontese
gives under the head of Milan, Bth March, the account
of the passage of the Po on the sth by the Modenese and
Austrian troops, under Baron Giepert, of the defeat of
the insurgents, and their flight to Nori, which was taken
by the Imperial troops. Then comes the account of the
passing of the Po on the night of the sth by the troops
under Prince Bensheina, and of their entrance into
Ferrara without resistance, in consequence of which the
chiefs of the Revolutionary Government had fled, and a
new Provisional Government, consisting of the Chevalier
Baratelli, and Counts Trotti and Crespi, to act in the
name of his lloliness, till the arrival at Ferrara of the
Governor Asquini, whom his Holiness has appointed
Pro-legate.
The Gazette gives also, under the head of Frontiers of
Lombardy, 3d March, the proclamation of Baron Frimont
to the Modenese, dated the 21st February.
Tuanc, Mauch 10.—By an express from Milan, We
learn that Modena sent a deputation on the Bth to his
Royal Highness the Duke, and that the city was to be oc-
cupied by the Austrians on the 9th.

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It is said also that the temporary Government at Bo-
logna has sent a deputation to General Bentheim, Go-
vernor of the Fortress of Ferrara.

VIENNA, MARCH S.-Our accounts of the military
events in Poland are still unconnected. The great drams
seems to be near to its denouement. It cannot be doubted
that Count Diebitsch has gained a decisive victory, which,
in a more favourable season, he would have quickly turned
to advantage ; but, as things stand, it will probably be
some time before be will be able to effect the passage of

the Vistula with his army. From the Polish army having
taken a position on the mad to Kalisch, by which it
seems it will, if needful, make its retreat, some per-
sons conjecture that General Skrzynecki intends, if driven
to extremities, to fight his way through Lower Silesia and
Saxony, to the French frontiers. (A letter from
Berlin, dated March 8, in the Allgemeine Zeitung,
mentions the same notion.) Several Members of
the Diet are said to have applied to the Aus-
trian Conhul for passports, which of course will be
given them. Everybody admires the heroic exertions of
the Poles, though they may not approve of the occasion.
The military armametus are proceeding here with great
activity, 12,800 hotief3 are said to have been ptirckased
last week, and young physicians and surgeons are engaged
by the Government for camp service; hoWever, the pa-
cific assurances of the French Government, and the general
**A prevailing in Europe for the preservation of peace,
di not countenance the probability of a breach of the exist-
ing family relations between the Cabinets; and all the re-
ports of war circulated on 'Change meet with little credit.
the rise of the Funds, which fell considerably on account
of the war in Poland, is a proof of the general confidence
aid continuance of peace. The views of the French Mi-
nistry with respect to the affairs of Italy and Belgium,
are said to be wholly conformable to the wishes of the
other Cabinets, and in favour of legitimate order.
VIENNA, 4 per-Cent. Metalliques.l Bank Shares.
March 7 (DX, 943
10 I • 69% 945

The second reading of the Reform Bill comes on
this evening in the House of Commons.

French Papers contain accounts of the disturbed
state of Spain, that insurrection is apreading,and FER-.
DINAND in a state of special uneasiness—as yet, how-
ever, nothing positive is known. The private cor-
respondence of the Constitutionnel state•, in an
article dated Milan, on the 18th, that the invasion
of the Duchy of Modena by the Austrians, had
caused, in that city, the most painful uneasiness.
The Brussels Papers say—
," We have received the news that General
DWERNICKI has passed the Vistula, and had a ren-
coritre on the 3d, at Kurow, beyond Pulawy, with
the Russians, whom it is said he obliged to retreat
with the loss of four cannon, which he captured :
it is added that he then advanced towards Lub-
lin, and that on the 4th, a brisk cannonade was
heard in the direction of Markutzow."

Accounts from the Polish frontiers, of the 9th
mention a report that a considerable Russian corps
has entered Plock, but has not been able to pass the
Vistula on account of the weakness of the ice.

We have received the following letter from Dover
this morning :

" DOVER, MARCH 19.

" The Count d'Aerschot,who is understood to have been
sent by the Regent of Belgium as Minister Plenipotentiary
to Great Britain, landed here to-day, from Calais. As
the usual salute has not been given to hire, and the privi-
lege ordinarily conceded at the Custom-house to diplomatic
characters has not been extended to the Count, his arrival
was probably unexpected, or his reception in London may
be doubtful.

" The passengers from Paris state that regiments were
moving in different diresations towards that city, to coun-
teract a movement that has been threatened for to-morrow
by the Republican party. It is the anniversary of the re-
turn of Buonaparte from Elba, and it is proposed by the
party to have a parade, and to place the statue of Buona-
parte in the Place Vendome. An arrangement, which it
is said the Government are determined to prevent."

We are happy to find that there is not the slightest
truth in the report of Earl SPENCER'S death. The
Noble Earl has been, we understand, for some days
slightly indisposed, but was well enough to attend on
Saturday evening at the LORD CHANCELLOR'S Levee.

BUILDING NEW CHURCHES BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sra,--In reference to the Bishop of London's Bill for
building additional churches by the laity, which has passed
the Upper House of Parliament, allow me to remark, that
if exception ought to be made against it on no other
grounds, it ought to be strenuously excepted against on the
score of the exorbitant and unlimited authority with which
it intends to invest his Majesty's Commissioners. That
body (I speak not disrespectfully) was universally under-
stood to have been appointed for a specific purpose--to
superintend the expenditure of the Parliamentary grants
for building and enlarging churches—a purpose which is,
or ought to have been already accomplished. With the
accomplishments cf that object it was naturally expected
the Board itself would be dissolved. But the Bishop of
London's Bill seems designed to translate the Commission
from a passing to a permanent existence—to raise it into a
kind of perpetual ecclesiastical dictatorship, a power as
unwarranted as it is unprecedented in the Church. It
cannot, therefore, be impertinent to ask, are the Commis-
sioners to continue in power whilst the Act remains in
force? If this duration is to be commensurate, when is
it to terminate? Would not the dissolution of the Board
be tantamount to a repeal of the Act ? How are the
places of those stembers of the Commission who are not
members no account of office, to be supplied when the
present individuals are withdrawn by death ? And how,
too, are the necessary and not very trifling expenses con-
nected with the existence of the Board to be defrayed ?
Is there not something unseemly and unbefitting in the
interference with episcopal jurisdiction, which the Act in
question contemplates? Are not the Bishops best quali-
fied to judge of the spiritual exigencies, as well as the di-
versified localities of their respective dioceses? If they
are incompetent, either in judgment or principle, to decide
in the cases contemplated by the Bill, how much more in-
competent must they be for the far higher responsibilities
which they sustain.
These, Sir, are plain, but important inquiries--points
on which the public wish to be satisfied, and respecting
which they have a right to expect satisfaction. Most
earnestly, therefore, would I conjure our Members of Par-
liament not to treat with disgraceful indifference a measure
in which the interests, not to say the stability, or the very
existence of the Church of England, are profoundly in-
volved. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A TRUE FRIEND TO THE CHURCH.

SMITHFIELD MARKET.

This day's supply of Beasts and Sheep was good, of fat Calves
and Porkers rather limited. Veal met with a brisk, Pork a slug.
Kish, sale, at Friday's quotations. With Beef and Mutton the
trade was very dull, with the former at a depression of 2d., the
latter full 2d. per stone.