The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-15 00:00:00

" The people are getting knowledge cheap, and the booksel-
lers have attacked Lord Althorp and me, and, by making
books cheap, we have brought all the booksellers on our backs.
They abuse us as much as they can for making books cheap—
they say we should make them dear and choice. They
quarrel with us—we don't quarrel with them. There is
a storm brewing, AN hiCh, I foresee, will end in a serene sky—
time will show. Let them go on in their way, and we will go
on in ours. We shall not prevent them by pevsonal abuse,
but there is a little bird whispers in my ear, that a day is com-
ing when the newspapers will not make men's opinions for
them. Some people say that my opinions on this subject are
visionary and speculative, but there is nothing speculative and
visionary in the d4Terence between 7ld and 3d—The same little
bird whispers that a few months perliaps will show if there be."
It is gratifying to note the signs of the times as
evinced in the reception that Lords BROUGHAM and
GREY are now everywhere meeting with in their pro-
gress through Scotland. The one is hastening
down to Edinburgh, from the North—the other
is advancing towards it from the South—and
both are received with the same heart-felt, enthu-
siastic welcome. At every stage of their journey, the
whole intelligence, wealth, and respectability of the
district turn out to " pay them honours due." Yet
these are the men who have been represented as so
unpopular

We have given in another part of The Sun the
debate in the Chamber of the Spanish Procuradores
or Deputies, which took place on the discussion of

the second article of the Bill of Rights during the
sittings of the 4th and sth inst. The express arrived
on Saturday, as we were going to press, so that we
had only time to learn the announcement of the defeat
of Ministers on the proposition establishing the free-
dom of the Press without previous censorship, and the
spirit in which they received such a manifestation of
public opinion. The debate is replete with much
information, and taken altogether displays intelligence
of a kind for which Spaniards have hitherto obtained
little credit. We refer to it with pride, and feel confi-
dent it will be read with pleasure. The speech of
M. M. DE LA ROSA was the echo of tyranny in
every age and country, « Is there not liberty
enough ?" And it must be a source of exulta-
tion to the Reformers of England, that in
Spain, such a question was replied to by a negative
which shook the Cabinet to its centre. The ge-
neral opinion, however, which prevailed in Madrid
was, that Ministers would not resign in conse-
quence of their defeat, but would adopt the
recommendation of the Chamber in the new law for
regulating the freedom of the press, which is now
being drawn up. It is. even said that some members
of the Cabinet, including TORENO, were happy
at the defeat they experienced, as they were pri-
vately opposed to the censorship, though they wanted
the courage to avow opinions which would have
procured their dismissal from office. At all events the
Ministers appeared unruffled, when the announce-
ment of the triumph of the liberal opposition was
made known, and it is more than probable that after
being thrice defeated, they will learn to square their
future conduct more in conformity with the spirit of
the Chambers.

We have received by express the Paris papers of
Saturday, with intelligence from Bayonne of the 10th
instant. The Moniteur states that there has been a
full confirmation of the truth of the rumours respecting
the defeat of the rebels near Bergara, and that RODIL
left Tolosa on the 10th, to form a junction with Es-
PARTERO, to intercept the insurgents in the vicinity
of Ascaitia. The war is still carried on on the part
of Don CARLOS, in such a manner as to protract its
continuance for the longest possible period. General
RODIL has had 350,000 francs sent to him from
Bayonne for the payment of the soldiery.
The King of the FRENCH is at present with his
family sojourning at Compeigne.

We have much pleasure in directing general atten-
tion to an advertisement in another column, embody-
ing the resolutions passed at a public meeting of the
inhabitants of Bath, on the subject of the projected
Basing, Bath, and Bristol railroad ; and also to a
paragraph from a French journal respecting the
measures adopted by the Chamber of Commerce for
carrying on a similar line of cotnmunication from
Boulogne to Amiens, parrallel with the coast from
Abbeville. We do not refer to the projection of these
works as local benefits to certain districts, neighbour-
hoods, and cities, so much as we do to them as signs
of a growing disposition on the part of the people to
promote whatever has a tendency to increase the
general welfare—to multiply the facilities of commerce
—to lighten the burthens of the oppressed portion of
the community—and to add length as well as comforts
to human life. This is the point from which we view
them, and the prospect is as cheering—as full of the
seeds of myriads of untold blessings—as rich in the pro-

lieved he would tumble. He has not done so,
consequently their rage and disappointment are un-
bounded.
Lord BROUGHAM speaks in just, manly, but by
no means exaggerated, terms of the two Houses of
Parliament, explaining away all that might have ap-
peared inconsistent in his remarks an these points at
the close of the session ; and adding, " My opinions
agree more with the opinions prevalent in the House
of Commons, than with the opinions of the House to
which I, unfortunately for myself, belong." Surely
this is anything but the language of a " luke-warm
Reformer !" Nothing here evinces a tendency to Con-
servatism, which is one of the most prom ninent among
the charges lately brought against his Lo rdship. The
language is that of a bold, uncompromising Reformer ;
yet bold and uncompromising within the pale of the con-
stitution. In the same downright, candid spirit, Lord
BROUGHANI disposes of another accusation preferred
against him—namely, of having intrigued to overthrow
Lord GREY. So far was he from having, done any-
thing of the sort,—so far from having even dreamed of
any such meanness—that Lord ALTHORP and him-
self were actually the two who most desired and in-
sisted on, the continuance of Earl GREY in office :

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" With respect to the attacks which have been made on
Lord Althorp and myself with regard to Lord Grey's retire-
ment from office, I shall not say one word at present, but the
day of retribution is approaching. I have let them go on—
they have gone on---the net is closing around thera, and soon
will they be held up to ridicule—(Cheers)—and. to punish-
ment._-( Renewed cheering.) It might have happened other-
wise. I might have considered it my duty to .tv.sh for Earl
Grey's retirement ; but had I done so, I am not the man to
shrink from the avowal.__( Cheers.) I would have told him-
self so in the first place, and I would have told the King in
the second place, and I would have told Parlianaent and my
country in the third place. But there was no such motive, to
such wish, and no such occasion. Lord Althorp and I were
the two who wished most of all to avert the calamity of Lord
Grey's resignation.—(Cheers.)
Speaking incidentally of his efforts to obtain the
blessings of cheap knowledge for the people, Lord
BROUGIIAM takes the opportunity of throwing out a
hint which a certain Morning contemporary will be at
no loss to misunderstand. It seems we are to have
cheap " thunder" in future—an innovation on its long-
established monopoly of that article, which will occa-
sion Printing-House Square a world of perplexity
and tribulation :