The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-14 00:00:00

there is every probabiii%, if a total stop being
put to legislation. Perhaps the sooner• such a crisis
arrives the better, and then the question will come,
which party, the Lords or the Commons, the Repre-
sentatives of the Aristocracy, or the Representatives of
the great body of thepeople, are to give way. There
can be no _doubt about the party that began the con-
test ; and seeing the opposition raised to every popular
and liberal measure in a certain quarter, the Com-
mons, actuated by the common feelings of human

nature, are not to blame for resenting the man-
ner in which they have been treated. There
can be as little doubt about which party at last must
yield. It has been already tried—the Reform Bill
decided whether the Tory aristocracy or the people
were the most powerful on that point—if a second
trial takes place, a third will never be necessary, and a

Reform of the House of Lords will as certainly follow
as a Reform of the House of Commons. It might there-
fore be prudent to consider whether it would be advan-
tageous to act more in unison with public opinion, and
admit reform to go on, though at a slower rate than some
require, or by rejecting every measure sent up by a Re-
formed House of Commons, drive the people to the
alternative of demanding a creation of Peers, or of fol-
lowing the example of France, and demanding a remo-
delling of the entire constitution of the House. Such
a change would not be greater than the change which
the Reforni Bill has produced in the Lower House. In or-
der to show how the voice of the 'representatives of the
people has been disregarded, it is only necessary to refer
to a,few of the Bills passed this session by great majori-
ties, and sent up for the approbation of the other House.
The Warwick Borough Bill—the Jews' Admission

Bill—the admission of Dissenters to the Universities
Bill—the Bribery at Elections Bill—the Cinque Ports
Bill—the County Coroners' Bill—the Justice of
Peace Bill—and the Irish Tithe Bill—have
all been passed by great majorities, and all been uni-
formly rejected. Independently of these, there are a
number of others which are no less important, and
about which there is no less difference of opinion in

the two Houses--such as the Local Courts Bill, the
abolition of Pluralities and Non-residence, the appro-
priation of the surplus of Irish Church Property, the
abolition of Imprisonment for Debt, and the repeal of

the law allowing Peers to vote by proxy. Most of these
are measures to which the public attach the greatest
importance, and the Lords, by refusing to accede to
them, or even show a disposition to meet the other
House half way, are accumulating on themselves a
load of public odium, and preparing a spirit of resist-
ance in the Commons of which they seem not at all
aware, and of which no man can see the result.

We have received by express from Paris a draught
of the address prepared by the Committee of the
Chamber of Deputies, in answer to the KING'S speech,
as read to the Chamber at the sitting on the 12th inst.
The only feature in which it materially differs from
that presented to the KING by the Chamber of Peers,
is the regard for economy -which it manifests, and the
declared determination of the Chamber to watch
over the financial expenditure of France. We have
given it, with the omission of two paragraphs, in which
the National Guard and the army are thanked for set-
ting an example of obedience to the laws, and the
KING is praised for his encouragement of trade by his
patronage of manufacturing industry. Perhaps it may
be as well here to observe, that in the speech from the
Throne, the address of the Chamber of Peers, and
the projected address of the Chamber of Deputies,
upon which we are now c Dmmenting, there is one pre-
vailing opinion as to the greatest distresses in France
originating from, and being created by, political agitation.
Internal repose is the universally admitted remedy for
the afflictions of France. That country has had sufficient
experience of the philanthropy of demagogues—
enough of the commiseration of incendiaries, who
bask round the fires which consume the peace, pros-
sperity, hopes, happiness, and morality of their vic-
tims. Let us be wise by the example of France.
Experience, dearly purchased, offers us her lessons
of wisdom, without any of the usual amount of suf-
fering at which they are learned, and we must be fools,
indeed, if we do not receive them.
We regret that the reference to Spain was not ac-
companied by the suggestion of a more marked policy
with regard to the insurrection in that country. More
than mere sympathy with the QUEEN'S Government is
called for at the present moment. The Editor of the
Augsburg Gazette, and his masters of the Holy
Alliance, may inveigh as bitterly as they please against
the interference of France and England in the domestic
insurrection in Spain, and endeavour to alarm the
Spanish nobility by raking up, and moving by wires,
the bones of NAPOLEON ; but nothing could equal
the folly of suffering Spain to be drenched in her own
blood on account of these raving.

The arrivals from Spain contain no intelligence
more than what is given in the extracts from the
French Papers. The condition of Don CARLOS is
daily growing worse and worse. He is nox all but
a deserted fugitive ; flying from mountain to
mountain, a drag-chain on the energies of his own
troops, and every hour under apprehension o! falling
into the hands of RODIL. His officers are .;hot the
moment they are taken by command of the Covern-
urent, by whom orders have been issued to the provin-
cial subordinates, to treat the insurgents with the
utmost severity in case of their beim. taken in arms
against the QUEEN. A telegraphic despatch, dated
the 10th inst., from St. Jean de Luz, was received in
Paris, announcing the position of the respective forces
under Rolm, and ZUMALACARRECUY near Lecum-
berg on the 9th, and the unexpected appearance of
Don CARLOS at Leiza on the 19th, whither he had
hurried ESCURA, escorted by a handful of desperate
followers.

We have learned, with some surprise, that the un-
happy disputes between the operatives of London and
their employers, which we had hoped were 'all but
entirely forgotten, are about to be renewed, by the
masters in several influential trades having fixed upon
Saturday next, for the men in their employ to sign a
Protest against Trades' Unions, or otherwise be dis-
charged. We were certainly not prepared for this. We
did not expect that men, achieving a great moral
victory with credit to themselves, and benefit
to the country, would be so mad as to peril all they
have gained, by an act of cool, deliberate severity,
which looks very like revenge. We have been further
informed, though we can hardly credit our informant on
this point, that many masters have resolved, as soon
as the men sign the protest, to reduce their wages ; as
it will then be out of their power to obtain employ-
inent elsewhere without, the masters' attestation of
their moral fitness for associat ion with other
workmen ; and that this course has been re-