The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-09 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

TURIN, Nov. 25.—Our accounts from Barcelona are to
the 10th. The change in the Spanish Ministry was known
Caere, and great apprehensions were entertained that the
Captain-General Llauder would obey the summons he had
received, and Lo to Madrid, to fill the post of Minister of
War. Several of the principal inhabitants of Barcelona
had, therefore, taken stt,sps to dissuade him from doing so,
in consideration of the dangers to which Catalonia would be
exposed if he quitted his post. It was also intended to
send an address to the Queen, earnestly intreating her to
leave General Llauder at his post, because he possesses the
confidence of the Catalonians, and being himself a Catalo-
nian, is fully acquainted with the state of the province. It
was said that Llauder was much flattered by this proof of
confidence, and was still undecided respecting the acceptance
of the post offered him. The Carlists, however, are said
to be making progress in Catalonia, and Gen. Van Halan,
who was lately ordered to leave Madrid, has received from
Llauder the command of a moveable column, to take the
field against the Carlists. It is said that his operations hi-
therto have not been very fortunate, and that he has sus-
tained some losses. Considerable excitement consequently
prevailed in Barcelona ; and accounts from Navarre were
impatiently expected relative to the efforts produced by the
arrival of Mina in that province, where the fate of Spain
will, in fact, be decided.

The two successive changes of the French Ministry have
given occasion to much observation here. It borders on the
ridiculous to see the ministerial portefeuilles go backwards
and forwards like an exchange of letters. It is not in this
manner that France will acquire abroad the confidence Qf
which it has so much need. If it is not known who rules in
Paris to-day and who to-morrow ; neither can it be known,
what.;Tstem will prevail there. How then shall that sympathy
be excites.'' preserved which is so much valued in these
days ?
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VIENNA, Nov. 28.__Five per Cent. lletalliques, 99i • Four
per Cents., 901 ; Bank Shares, I,277.—Allgemeine ieitung,
Dec. 3.

Mr. W. Tooke, IVI.P. for Truro, attended yester-
day at the Home Office, with an address from his constituents,
for presentation to the King, expressing their distrust of his
Majesty's present advisers, and praying he would take such
others to his councils as would carry out, in all its bearings,
the renovating principlo of Reform.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1534.

ARRIVAL OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.

Sir ROBERT PEEL has at length arrived• He

reached Dover last night, and London this morning,
at eight o'clock. At one o'clock to-day he had an
audience of his MAJESTY, so that we may shortly

expect active operations.
The Duke of WELLINGTON waited upon Sir
ROBERT PEEL soon after his arrival.

A Privy Council will perhaps assemble this after-
noon or to-morrow for certain, at which the fate of the
present House of Commons will be decided—and a
Dissolution may be expected forthwith.

The Reformers of Berwick, like the Reformers in
all other parts of the country, are fully conscious of
the necessity, at the present crisis, of putting forth
their whole, undivided energies. At a public meeting
held in the Assembly-room on Friday last, a spirited,
but respectful Address to his MAJESTY was unani-
mously resolved on, in which (say the petitioners)
" we most earnestly implore your MAJESTY that you
will call to your Counsels, such men only, as will
carry forward a thorough Reform in Church and State ;
men in whom the nation can place confidence ; who
are known as the friends of retrenchment and of
liberal measures ; who will secure to us all the ad-
vantages we justly expected to derive from the Re ,
form Bill, and who will maintain peace abroad." The
Berwick Advertiser, commenting on the spirit that has
dictated this Address, observes very properly, that it is
not a spirit confined to Berwick, but common to the
whole North ; and adds, with equal truth, " Every
day that is now passing, in the present uncertain and;
anxious state of affairs, is weakening Tory power and
withering Tory hopes, and rendering it more and more
impossible for any man, or set of men, to attemp't to
govern this country on Tory principles ; for every day
public excitement gains strength, public determination
becomes more intense ; and still the tide of national
remonstrance flows towards and around the Throne."
The Tories in the North, well aware that this is no
overcharged statement, but strictly—literally true, are
making desperate efforts to counteract its effects,
through their old, favourite medium of hole-and-corner
Meetings ; but the juggle is so palpable—so bare-
faced, it deceives no one—not even themselves ; for
they cannot but perceive that every little factious in-
discretion of this sort they perpetrate, is instantly fol-
lowed by some five or six great Reform Meetings, and
that, therefore, the more they stir, the more they are
;;;;reny,thening the hands of their enemies. As for the
elections; iron; -which, we know, they have vast expec-
tations, the sooner they dismiss all flattering self-
delusion, and look their situation fairly in the
face, the better ; for the country . is fully
prepared to turn the contingency of a disso-
lution to a rational and profitable account, being fore-
warned, and consequently fore-armed, on the subject.

Mr. O'CONNELL has already proved that the majo-
rity of the Irish elections will turn out favourably to
reform ; in the Scotch burghs the same enlightened
spirit is in the ascendant ; and in some few of the
English counties and small boroughs only will the
Tories be successful. But because they are thus
strong, the people must not repose in blind confidence
on their strength. By no means. It is shallow policy
to overrate one's self, and underrate the power of one's
enemy. They must act in union, with spirit, and
determination, not as if all were gained, but as if all
were yet to be gained.

When men with their eyes open will not see, they
deserve to incur the evil consequences of their heed-
lessness ; yet it is hard that the innocent should be
obliged to suffer for the follies of their fathers. The
artisan who from self-negligence loses his arm, not
only suffers in his own person, by being deprived of
those comforts which the industrious employment of
the destroyed member would have produced, but im-
poverishes as well the children whom he hoped to leave
enriched behind him.

In times of political struggle, a nation ought to be
actuated by a more ennobling impulse than that of
merely personal alarm—the apprehension of curtailed
freedom to our own generation—the fear for ourselves
alone. We should call to mind that a .generation is
to follow, springing from that which now is. Shall
we be so weak or so wicked as to leave to our succes-
sors an impoverished inheritance, when by a small
effort in one of the holiest duties imposed on civilised
existence—the securing and perpetuating of liberty—
we could bestow upon them a patrimony beyond all
price ?

Each individual, in a crisis like the present, ought
to consider himself under the imposition of a moral
obligation to aid the general effort by his own indivi-
dual influence. It is the last grain that turns the
scale—how overwhelming were the power of a multi-
tude of grains I

There needs no violence, no intemperance, moral
or physical ; none but fools or knaves think or hint
of brute force, or armed resistance. The tongue and
the pen, backed by numerical assent, are, to an intelli-
gent people, of more worth than all the deadly weapons
that were ever fabricated. Let but the people be true
to themselves and to common sense—let them but give
their votes at the ensuing elections to proper per-
sons—trusting rather to proved honesty than to well-
intentioned apostacy, and the victory will be achieved
without any turbulent agitation. The people need not
be alarmed at this Duke, or that party—it is of their
own mental weakness they should be apprehensive.
If the people want reform, let them elect reformers—
not haters of reform. Who would choose a suspected
man to guard his property from pillage, when a known
honest one is at his elbow courting the employment ?

The great contest now in agitation at Birmingham—
whether any class of Dissenters shall. be taxed to pro-
vide rates for the miscellaneous expenditure of ten
churches in that borough—or, as the Political Church-
men are pleased to raise the question, " Established
Church or no Establshed Church"—is virtually con-
cluded, although the poll will not close till Thurs-
day. We yesterday stated the first day's poll
(Saturday), which left a majority against the rate
of 875 to 241. Yesterday the principles of Liberalism
triumphed. The promoters of the unrighteous impo-
sition recorded still fewer votes on the day's poll, while
the opposers of the rate nearly doubled their numbers
of Saturday ; 1,445 persons having polled yesterday
against, and 230 for the rate ! The total majority
last night against the rate was one thousand eight
hundred and forty nine rate payers. Have the
bigots had " enough ;" and will they succeed in their
boast of returning two Tory Members for Birmingham?

The news of the marriage of Donna MARIA of
Portugal to the Duke of LEUCHTENBERG on the Ist
instant, which we published yesterday from the Chro-
nicle express, is confirmed this morning by the arrival
of the Lisbon mails. The marriage was celebrated
by proxy, the Duke not having then arrived at Lisbon.

Arrivals from Madrid, dated the 30th ult., have
been received by express. The final transfer of the
new stock, created by the loans, has not yet taken
place ; the Government still hoping to procure better
terms than those tendered by M. ARDOUIN.
The success of the Queen's troops in Navarre, is
not so great as to encourage a hope that the civil war
is on the eve of termination. The system of warfare
pursued by both parties is horrible in the extreme.
Murders in cool blood are become so common
that no notice is taken of them ; and the
Commanders are equally indifferent as to the guilt
or innocence of their victims. In Navarre, the flame
of rebellion rages with greater fury now than it did
three months ago.

The QUEEN-REGENT has been for some time
seriously indisposed, but is now recovered. She is
said to owe her recovery to a copious bleeding at the