The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-09 00:00:00

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could Lueto a great extent, to repeat the fatal error
00829."
:fire :,-tandard copies the article. Its sentiments
coincide with what Mr. STOWELL and Mr.
AI`NEILE preach, and what well dressed ladies
tad gentlemen cheer. The ultra bigots, headed by
L'Ord STANLEY, urged forward by an ultra press, are
Ilact endeavouring to re-enact restrictions on the
Catholics, because they are Catholics. A new
cligions war is begun. The penal laws, if Lord
STANLEY succeed, must all be re-enacted; the fatal
concession" of 1829 must he taken back, and the
community must be again divided into two religious
sects contending for political power The people
will be inclined to say, " A plague on both your
sects, we will not submit to be longer kept in tur-
'coil by the rabid rancour of either."
Lord STANLEY'S Bill, looked at in this
comes very appropriately before Sir ROBERT
"GLls's motion, to convince the public of the
mischievous character of that priesthood on whom
he proposes, by his Church Extension vote, to con-
fer more power and more wealth. I; is in consequence
of the envenomed hatred of the Catholics which they
teach, it is for their behoof, that Lord STANLEY iS
killing. in these times of domestic peril, to stir up
contention and invite revolution. Let the reader
bark well the character of this bigoted and arro-
gant party. They are for passing laws to enslave
the Catholics ; they uphold with all their might the
laws which " cut do non the population" by linger-
ing disease and famine, and they are to propose
that more wealth and more power shall be given to
the priests of their own sect for teaching obedience
to their wicked laws. A more mischievous and
79otic, not to say cruel and diabolical, set of poli-
ticians, never cursed a community nor Convulsed an
empire.
We are glad, however, to believe that their
Power is on the wane. The Duke of WEL-
LINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL cannot
go with them. The latter is at present one
of the special objects of their abuse, and
11 the former gives them any support it is from for-
getfulness. Sir ROBERT PEEL does, indeed, go
hWith his party in voting for Loid STANLEY'S Biil ;
far foolish]) forgets his own principles, and
PiaYa the second part to his more bigoted and
more energetic rival, but he will not lend his aid in
re-enacting the penal laws. The ultra-doctrines of
tcab party 'frighten moderate men. Even the Times,
seeing it3elf completely outdone in the bullyiog line
by the stern and relentless bigots of the Protestant
hpatty, gives them no other countenance than Sup-
porting Lord STANLEY. It cannot compete with
the virulence of the sincere men ; and it appears to
have resigned the task of defending them to the
Morning Herald. The split is decided. The
lump has separated itself from the head, and
tas chosen its own leaders, and has its own press.
It cannot, however, in this age, make up by reli-
gious rancour what it wants in power, and will be
signally defeated.

On the 30th ult., the date of the latest Matir4l
Papers, Count ToRENO was on his defence berme
tne Cortes. The Government had refused to allow
General SEOANE to prove his accusation of the
Count at the Bar of the Senate, but in other re-
spects the Ministry took no steps to screen the
Count from the attacks of his enemies. On the
contrary, the Ministers of War and Justice openly
sYmpathized with his accusers, and lost no oppor-
tunity of manifesting a conviction that, although
Committee of the Chamber had reported that
there was not sufficient ground for charging the ex-
Minister with malversation, there was enough for
believing that he did not appear with clean hands.
That such was the impression of the Chamber was
obvious, from the fact that a motion to postpone the
discussion of the report was rejected, and that
Bevvral Members enrolled their names to speak
against him. ToRENO was himself allowed to open
the debate on the 30th, which he did in a long
speech, which sounded like the echo of the report,
and which produced a far from favourable impres-
sion. When the Count sat down Senor I,Auortim
followed, and spoke against the report. His
speech was not concluded when the mails left for
London. This gentleman was to be followed on
the same side by General San MIGUEL and Senor
OLOEAGA, so that TOR ENO will not escape with-
°ta a proper grilling. He, however, commanded
the respect of the galleries by his calm self-
°Bs4sion. He must, indeed, be a bold
rman voluntarily to meet such a charge in
such an
Assembly; but we suspect that at the
untset he had not the remotest suspicion of being
deserted by the . Government. Still the Ministers
preventingto the appearance of General SEOA NE at
the bar as tlie Count's accuser, have saved him the
probable chance of another compulsory expatriation.
On the 30th EsPARTERO was still at Monroyo.
Every day brings some account of Carlist losses
and desertions, but they are on too small a scale to
Occu the attention of an English reader. The
following extracts are from the frontier Journals:—
The EN de Aragon of the 2d contains the following
bulletin, descriptive of the entrance of the Christinos into
Mora del Ebro :
" Our troops entered yLsierday, at noon, Mora del Ebro,
NTE'ich was abandoned by the enemy, who took his artillery
„and passage boats to Mirabet. Five large boats which we
bad at Tibisa were immediately carried to Mora.
" The towns of Hix and Ribarroya have been deserted
by the inhabitants, who passed to the left of the Ebro."
The Perpignan Journal of the ill instant says The
Only fact of interett we hare t.) relate respecting the war
to Catalonia is the revictualling of Solsona. The convoy
left Cervera and reached the place entire, after two days'
fighting with the Carlists, who attempted to stop it, (-Teo-
PYing Advantsgcons and ,trongly fortified poitions armed
1,41!h krtillery. The enemy, however, was driven front the
41efights he occupied, and completely routed, with the loss
0
:1141"Y killed and wounded. Cannon, muskets, anthill-
hi ilon, and baggage, feel into the hands of the Queen's
troops.
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t' Among the woo nied are the Commander-in-
Chief, Goner_ Segarra, and El Bep del Olit, whose
ntrids are said to be murtal. It is reported that the
Chief Buijo and his son are killed."

The Extraordinary Express from Paris, received
3esterday in time for our afternoon edition, deprives
the Paris Journals of Thursday of all interest.
4 cnnsiderable quantity of rain had fallen in Paris
?11Wednesday night,to the great delight of the mar-
_"
gardeners in the vicinity of that city. A
serious corn riot took place at Chateaumillant on
v
Ist inst., and a tax riot on the same day at
alloc, in the Cotes-du-Nord, which were not
suppressed without a contest, in which many per-
-20113 were dangerously wounded. In a state of so-
ciety where the law is thus constantly set at defi-
ance by mobs, it is clear that there is someth;ng
radically wrong. Had the masses in France any
share in the elective franchise, they would not thus
seek, to convey to their rulers a sense of the inten-
sity of their sufferings. But the many-headed
monster upon whose brawny shoulders the whole
social system rests—whose blood and sweat is the
aliment, and whose neck is the footstool of Kings,
Peers, Deputies, Prefects, and all who live by the
labour of others—can only give utterance to his
grievances by turning round npon his oppressors,
and at-the musket's muzzle and the cannon's mouth
them a momentary defiance I This is not
tberty, nor the ghost of liberty.
The Sugar Bill was still under discussion, but the
debate continued uninteresting to a foreign reader.
We have pleasure in stating that the Duchess of
ORLEANS is gradually recovering from the measles.
On Thursday her Royal Highness was pronounced
out of danger.
A letter from Toulon has the following sentences:—
" According to letters from the Levant the situation of
the squadron was as follov,s on the 19:h of April :
," Admiral Lalande is still in the vicinity of 'Penedos,
With his sever, ships of the line and one steam-boat ;he
has
lent the Lavoisicr to the Prince of Orange, Ss ho is
gone to Constantinople on board the Rhine frigate, which
i,
"e Commands.
r:,_" The English Admiral Louis is at Smyrna with the
`l4llges Hawg n s and Asia. The Talavcra and the
1,
+lleislr have atri; d at Ourlac; the other ships are at
Malta and Naples.
4` Rtar Admiral Bandiera Is at Smyrna. with the Aus..
.rl,arl squadron, except the Guerricre frigate, en board
Which is the Archduke Frederick, and vrb ieh is said to have
gone to CnnQtantinople."— Le Commerce.
~,,
'OULON, MAY 3. The Duke de Montebello was to
embark on board- the Ocean ; hut on the ariiv;il of a
Ministerial despatch he hastily embarked in the Vautour
Iteamer, which immediately welhed anchor to proceed to
r Naples. The Ebna had .already departed with despatches
the French Charge d'Affaires.
The Duke de Montebello set off so precipitately that he
• eriuld not take his wife or the persons compo..ing his suite.
.„
tte. Duchess and the persons attached to the legation em-
barked this morning en ba,ird the Ocean. If the favour-
able wind which now blows continues this vessel will reach
Its destination abut the 10th. We shall have three ships
of the line at Naple, as the Marengo and the Genereux
arrived there on the 29. h April. (The Coeyte had carried
Orders to the se two ships of the line to return home, but it
seemsj they will remain at Naples, as the Vautour takes
"gaieties for thern.)---Le Constitutionnel.