The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-16 00:00:00

r.have triumphed. The declaration of his Ma-
jesty, annulling publicly this deed, speaks of the
advantage taken of the King's " anguish," and
we have no doubt, though it is not mentioned
in the document, that religion was brought to
aid the plot of the conspirators, and that the
flames of Purgatory were reflected on the bed-
curtains of the dying Monarch from the phan-
tasmagoria of the confessor, to wring from his
superstitious fears, or to steal from his weak-
ened intellect, a renunciation of his natural af-
fections and of his solemn decrees in favour of
his own child. The " gulf, therefore, fixed "
between the parties cannot be passed, and what-
ever may be the Queen's inclinations, she must
of necessity break from the Absolutist or " Con-
servative " faction, and rely upon the more li-
beral or moderate portion of the nobility, the
landed proprietors, the merchants, the univer-
sities, the army, and the different classes of the
citizens. Her Government has hitherto shown
great oscillation and uncertainty, occasioned by
the state of the King's health, and doubts about
the King's firmness. She was desirous of
keeping some terms with the Carlists, in
case of ultimate defeat, and she could not
rely upon the Constitutionalists whose party
was weak ; she therefore stood between
them like an isthmus, beaten upon by
both. At one time the Cortes were to be
convoked,—at another she declared against all
great changes in Church and State ; at one time
favour was to be shown to Don Pedro in Por-
tugal, his ships were ordered to be received in
Spanish harbours, and his troops to be supplied
with Spanish provisions,—at another instruc-
tions were sent to exclude his ships, and to re-
fuse him aid ; at one time the line of troops on
the Portuguese frontiers were to be broken up,
at another they were to be reinforced. In short,
neither on questions of internal policy nor ex-
ternal relations could the Government of the
Queen take any decided attitude. Two im-
portant measures, however, had received her
sanction, which could not be annulled or re-
called—the amnesty had been passed, and the
central as well as provincial administration had
been partially purified, or supplied with men of
moderate principles and good character. This
last act of courage, to which we have alluded in
the formal publication of the infamy of the
Carlist faction, has given us additional security
in her separation from them, and additional
hopes that she will be induced to court the support
of liberal men at home and liberal allies abroad.
Want of room prevents us from adding some
observations which we intended on the new re-
lations which may be established with Portugal
in consequence of the recent changes in Spain.
We may recur to the subject.—Times.
Notwithstanding the authoritative statement of
the Courier of last night, we cannot persuade
ourselves that Ministers will be guilty of the
lacheee of proposing an inveterate Tory, in the
person of Mr. Sutton, for the chair of the first

Reformed House of Commons, more especially
after his having taken leave of the House in a
formal speech recorded on the Journals, and se-
cured his retired allowance upon the old extra-
vagant scale from an Unreformed Parliament.
The transaction has very much the air of an in-
trigue, displaying, in its success, no little
cunning on the part of the Tories ; and casting
upon the Whigs the imputation of great gulli-
bility and imbecility—they sacrificing two old
and faithful associates, Mr. Abercromby and
Mr. Littleton, to whom they were bound by
every tie of party honour, and the elevation of
either of whom must have been agreeable to a
majority of the new House. Mr. Manners
Sutton himself labours under no such misap-
prehension of the probable dispositions towards
a person like him of a body of representatives,
chosen, as the Members of the new Parliament
have been, by the free suffrages of the people ;
for if we are not much misinformed, he has not
hesitated to assign his mistrust of a Reformed
Parliament, as the reason why he sought to have
the matter of his pension arranged by an unre-
formed one ; the avowal being, by-the-by, an
extraordinary slip of discretion in one of his
generation. And he was quite right ; for would
any Assembly, actuated by a true economical
spirit, award to the possessor of those Lord
of the Bed-chamber qualities, which constitute

`the utmost amount of his merits, so exorbitant
a recompence as 4,0001. a year for two lives ?
Assuredly the men who Row hold the purse-strings
of the nation,will form a very different estimate of
public servants, and their proper remuneration.
Some advantage may be taken by surprise, upon
the new House of Commons commencing its func-
tions ; but Ministers would do well to pause,
ere they commit themselves, by proposing to the
acceptance of such an Assembly such a Presi-
dent. It may be that he will be indignantly
rejected by the sober, practical, earnest-minded
men, who will justly require in the individual to
whom they shall commit the guidance of their
deliberations, and control of their proceetlingp,
a love of country, a wisdom, a dignity, a libera-
lity and elevation of mind not to be found in a
retainer of an old boroughmongering connexion.
If it be that the injudicious praises lavished upon
Mr. Sutton by Lord Althorp plaCe the Govern-
ment under any difficulty in resisting his preten-
sions, it would be our counsel that the matter
should be left to the discretion of the House ;
nor do we think that so to act would be in any
degree to cede the proper functions of an Ad-
ministration, for we apprehend that in this, and
in many other particulars, the old plan of ma-
naging the House is at an end. We expect to
see it frequently controlling the measures of Mi-
nisters, spurning altogether that species of dicta-
tion to which it has been hitherto subjected, and
assuming a great visitorial jurisdiction over all
the operations of the executive. It has been
one of the great misfortunes of our past frame
of Government, that the House of Commons
was obliged to take measures and Ministers in
the lump ; implicitly acquiescing in every act of
the men in office for the time being, or discard-
ing them altogether, and taking to its confidence
a set of people diametrically opposite. This is
now over. We shall have no more threats of
resignation on the least check or resistance on
the part of the House ; and that false party
pride which prompted the resignation of a Mi-
nister under such circumstances, will no longer
deprive the country of the services of men in
the main useful and well meaning, although
standing in need, as all human agents must,
of occasioal control and correction.—Morning
Chronicle.

In France there is now complete freedom of
worship, with this distinction, that the clergy of
some Sects are paid by the State, while theclergy
ofother Sects are paid by their adherents. A dis-
pute has lately taken place in the parish of
Clichy, which will probably lead to some regu-
lation to meet the contingency of a change in the
belief of a parish. It is understood that the
churches belong to the commune, that the pro-
fessors of a particular religion are but usufirue-