The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-18 00:00:00

tion of three Gentlemen out of the 15 present.
We hope that this Act may not, like the Marriage
Act, want a comparatively total repeal the nextSes-
slim, 15 Members only, out of six hundred and fifty
eight, are too few to be present at the second
reading of a Bin, which, in our opinion, is in
opposition to the interests of all the Manufac-
turing Establishments of the United Kingdom,
except the Linen Manufactures—and the Linen
Manufacture would have been included, had it
not been for the opposition expected on the part
of the Linen Board, and par consequence, the
opposition on the part of the Irish -Members.
We begin to think that a Reform is wanted, and
that if the House of Commons is to consist of six
hundred and fifty-eight members, or, in propor-
tion to the population of England, of a greater
number, that it should be one of the rules of
the Ilouse, that a much greater proportion than
15 out of 658, should be present to vote at any
stage of a Bill.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
If the intelligence from Portugal, given in the
COttriCr of last night, be true, the insurrection
under Amarante in that country wears an alarm-
ing aspect,' and will cost a greater struggle than
we hoped would be necessary to suppress it.—
We have no fears of Its being ultimately extin-
guished, but it is melancholy to see domestic
faction consuming in Spain and Portugal the re-
sources of both countries, at a period when they
need all theirenergy and strength to repel the for•
midable attack about to be made upon them from
without. The fact is, bigotry was too strongly
rooted, both in Spain and Portugal, to be grubbed
up out of its soil and cleared away at once. An
ignorant peasantry are always superstitious;' it is
the study of the Monks and Clergy to keep
them so, to preserve their own influence. The
suppression of 250 monasteries in Spain, by one
sweeping decree of the Cortes, threw numbers of
these interested recluses among the people, with
all their prejudices and feelings inflamed against
the new order of things, and hence (with the in-
trigues and gold of France) the bands of factions
that distract and desolate that country. In Portugal
the changes have been slower and more deliberate;
the wealth and power of the numerous clergy have
been scarcely entrenched on at all, but freedom
and free thinking are at war with their influence :
both cannot exist together, and they therefore
oppose the Constitution of that country also. The
French papers of Saturday state that+the Duke
of Angoulethe quitted Paris at nine o'clock on
that morning for the army, and that the Duchess
departed at ten for Villeneuve l'Etang. It is
again asserted that the inflatecrChateitibriand's in-
fluence has finally triumphed,and that he becomes
President of the Council of Ministers in the
place of Villole, who retires. The Courier Francais
announces that a subscription was raising at
Lyons to purchase some testimonial of respect
and admiration for M. Manuel. An account also
states that Mequinenza, the only fortress in the
possession of the Spanish Royalist Insurgents,
had offered 'to capitulate on terms. O'Donnell,
Abrea, and Quesada, particularly the latter, are
busily employed in arraying the collection of vaga-
bonds assembled on the frontiers, called the Army
of the Faith. O'Donnell and Abrea, it appenrs,are
jealous of Quesada. Some good may arise to Spain
from the private piques. -and.. quarrels of these
traitors. A report • made by General Guille-
Minot on the disaffected spirit of the French
troops, is said to. have the strongest foundation,
and to be Much talked of at Paris. The war is
every where most unpopular throughout France.
Seventeen thousand Austrian troops have, it ap-
pears, for the present, evacuated Naples, having
probably exhausted that country with, contri-
butions.. . • • • '

[NEW TIMEs.J
There appeared in yesterday's Morning Chro-
nicle an article, which, we will frankly confess,
completely puzzled us. It was headed "'Policy
'of England;" but whethe it was as a hoax on
the Public, or was written by some candidate for
apartments in. New Bedlam, or was a serious
political speculation of the Editor's own, we are
even yet at a loss to discover. The writer
states, that a complete Revolution will 'Certainly
take place in France within a few months from
the present time. The great majority of French-
men, he says, are fully agreed upon this.—
A Revolution they will have at all events ; but
whether they will choose little master Buona-
parte for their liege Lord ; or will establish anew
44 the Republic One and Indivisible," with all its
pleasing accompaniments of Bonnets Bauges,
Mitrailludes, Noyades, &c. &c.; or
Whether, finally, they will offer the Constitutional
Crown to the race of the late virtuous and lamented
Philip Egaliai—thes:e are' trilling points, upon
which the said French People have not yet
made up their sovereign minds.—Such being the
present state of politics in France. The British
Government is manifestly called upon to deter-
mine, without delay, what sort of Revolution it
would be convenient and proper for theli'rench
to be indulged with. If Mr. Canning and his
associates do not immediately attend to this great
branch of their public duties, one of two la-
mentable evils must necessarily ensue. Either
the Emperor of Russia will prohibit Re-
volution altogether in France, which would
be as bat! as banishing shillelahi from
an Irish Wake ; or else the three amiable
classes of Revolutionists will cut each, others'
throats till they come to a stand-still: and so we
shall have the Restoration of 1814 over again!
These consequences the paragraph writer points
out, with equal naivete and clearness ; and hav-
ing thus incontestably proved the British right
of interference in the internal concerns of
Fiance, he proceeds most luminously to shew
how that right ought to be exercised.--
" There are four'great parties in France," says
he. As to the first which is that of the lawful
Government, since we are in alliance 'with that
Government, we must of course declare our-
selves its deadly' enemies. The second is the
party of the Napoleonists ;. but their opinions,
it seems, have become, rather unfishionablq
since " the. Child and Champion of Jacobinism"
departed this_ life. The third party is that of
the Jacobins themselyesoixtremely clever fellows;
and most consistent in their attachment to the