The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-24 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1356.

As yet no trustworthy intelligence has been
received respecting the progress of the vile con-
spiracy concocted at the Palace of Queen ISA.BELL&
against the constitutional liberties of Spain. We
tan detect the infamous treachery displayed
against the honest and high-minded, but, unfor-
tunately, the unsuspecting ESPARTERO, by the
SOVEREIGN who owes her throne to his exertions,
and the colleague who is indebted to him for the
power of inflicting so severe a blow to his supe-
rior. We can perceive the diabolical ingenuity
with which the project was carried into execution
—the concentration of troops sufficient to crush
the unorganised resistance, which the manifest
determination to establish an irresponsible despo-
tism on the ruins of the Constitution was sure to
provoke, and the sanguinary resolution to cement
the foundations of absolutism with the blood of
the best and bravest of the people. But ore do
not, and cannot, know what has been the
result in the provinces, owing to the break in
the telegraphic communication at Saragossa.
As we have already stated, we have nothing but
ex park statements and one-sided versions of the
proceedings, and it is scarcely necessary to say
that these are coloured, if not prepared, to suit the
exigencies of the reactionary party from whence
they emanate.

That there has been a temporary success
at Madrid seems but too certain. Those
who rose on the spur of the moment were left
without leaders round whom they could rally,
and the cmnon, the fusillade, and the sabre, soon
performed their deadly work on the indignant
but unprepared Constitutionalists. But it is not
so easy to trample on the liberties of a people
firmly resolved to be free. There may 1,3 a brief
triumph, but the parties can never be secure.

" For freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though baled oft, is ever won."

Spain may for the moment be trampled on, bu,
she is by no means subdued ; and if the Spaniards
be worthy of the constitutional freedom to which
they aspire they will eventually obtain it, despite
every obstacle which the diabolical cunning and
sanguinary atrocities of the Reactionaires may
place in their way.
We regret to say that there are sinister ru-
mours in circulation respecting the participation
of the French Court, and more especially of the
French Minister at Madrid, in these very un-
toward events—rumours which recsive at least a
partial corroboration from the movement of
French troops to the frontier. It would almost
seem as if the precious Peac3 by which the
Western Powers sacrificed the advantages they had
obtained, at the expense of so much blood and
treasure, was patched up for the purpose
of enabling the conspiracy against Spanish
Liberty to be carried into practical execu-
tkn- All those, who were not in, the secret, felt
Surprised as well as grieved at the disgraceful ter-
mination to a war commenced and carried on
'rider very different auspices. But it now seems
as if NAPOLEOX were too strongly actuated by the
spirit of Imperta. link), to inflict any injury on the
Atrrocitar—that he would rather direct his power
against the constitutional liberties of neighbouring
States, so as to have no example that could in-
fluence his people in their opinions.
It is only the EMPEROR himself that can ter-
minate these serious doubts and fears, and prove
to the world that he is not actuated by the insi-
dious policy so generally imputed to him. We
should greatly regret to find that the personage
once so popular in England had forfeited the respect
and approbation then freely accorded. We should
have hoped that Lours NAPOLEON would have been
fax too prudent to engage in affairs which have

been so frequently proved fatal to his predeces-
sors, and led to repeated changes of dynasties in
France. It would scarcely be necessary to trace
hack beyond his immediate predecessor, whose
dethronement and exile were mainly occasioned
by the intrigues relating to the Spanish marriages.
To these intrigues, and the disgust thereby created
both in France and England, NAPOLEON owes his
throne, and he should beware lest he may, in
turn, become the victim of a similar mistake.
LOUIS PHILIPPE himself had ample warning.
He must have seen the effect produced by the
ill-omened intervention of the elder branch of the
BOURBONS, which led to the judicial murder cf
the patriot RAPHAEL DE RlEGO—and CHARLES
X. had witnessed the fatal results to the Great
NAPOLEON, of playing the Spanish King and the
heir apparent against each other, for the purpose
of transferring the Crown to one of his own
family. Why, then, will he not profit by the
salutary lessons ? Why will he endanger the
dynasty he has taken so much pains to establish,
and which the birth of the Imperial Prince afforded
a chance of perpetuating, by intermeddling in the
perilous cause. Should the struggle between
the principles of absolutism and constitutional
freedom once commence, and nothing is more cal-
culated to render it inevitable than the untoward
state of affairs in Spain and Italy, it will be im-
possible to say when or where the contest may
terminate, or what changes may occur during its
progress. He himself may be one of the chief
sufferers. It is unnecessary to say that whatever
he may do he cannot gain the confidence or good-
will of the banded despots. They will readily use
him as a tool to advance their own purposes, but
they will still regard him as an usurper, and
yearn for the opportunity of restoring what
they consider the legitimate line to the
throne of France. His Sovereignty is based on
the popular will, and the indisputable right of a na-
tion to select the form of Government which its
People may consider best suited to the national
welfare and prosperity. Every blow inflicted on
constitutional liberty and representative Govern-
ment must weaken his own title ; and the pre-
cedent which he may assist in establishing would
necessarily operate powerfully against himself and
his successors. As we have already stated, it is
not for England to interfere. The battle must
be decided in Spain, and by Spaniards only. We
shall not only observe a strict neutrality our-
selves--but, to the best and utmost of our ability,
endeavour to enforce it on all others.

Horribly vulgar though the Court may deem
our dear old friend Punch to be this week—the
mere " people" the of. iroAXot in the streets will
stand opposite the shop windows and grin at it in
very despite, nevertheless. That glorious, highly-
strappcd-up, highly-strapped-down, military game
of Leap-Frog ! His Royal Highness—Lieutenant-
General that was, Full General that is, and Field-
Marshal that is to be—the Duke of CAM-
BRIDGE, K.G., K.P., G.C.8., Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour, Grand Star of the Mcd-
jidie, (almost "My Lord High Everything"
like HARLEY in the Extravaganza), AND now
"last but not least," Commander-in-chief 1 There
he is—high in mid-air—with a hopr skip, and a
jump—flying gaily over the head of his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort : Saying, with a
chuckle, as he soars in one hilarious ricochet over
the princely shoulders—" Now then, ALBERT,
Tuck in your Tuppenny !" Horribly vulgar, to
the Court. Eminently ludicrous, appropriate,
and laughter-moving to the mere, common, herd
of the population. The old dowagers (of both
sexes) who doat upon Princes will shudder, of
course, over the profanity of the Fleet-street
Droll. Bat the " people," the mere " people,"
as we have said, will grin at that profanity, never-
theless. As our good friends across the water
were wont in the days of the Citizen King
(when the crown was a "shocking bad hat,"
and the sceptre a gingham, and very Gampy,
umbrella) precisely, wp say, as our good
friends across the Channel used in those very
pleasant times to grin over the famous
pear-head pencilled week after week by the ini•
mitable PHILLIPON, with the most preposterously
whimsical expressions ever conjured up by the
imagination of a caricaturist ! Horribly vulgar
—Yes ! no doubt of it. But, ludicrous—very !
Laughter, more or less, Punch contrives always to
elicit—as poor Tom HOOD had it so comically—
" Laughter from Year to Year !" Sometimes with
a sudden outburst in its way quite inextinguish-
able. As when there appeared upon a memo-
rable Wednesday forenoon that celebrated cartoon
in which Lord JOHN was seen in the form of a small
Loudon boy chalking up No Popery on Cardinal
WISEMAN'S Door, and then—running away ! Or,
again, as in that other renowned tableau where
DAN, in the shape of a squalling Irish Brat, seated
on the
,knees of Britannia, was blubbering for the
Moon labelled "Repale !" Or as now again in the
"royal game," not of Goose, but of Leap-Frog.
When the Consort gives the new Commander-in-
Chief a back, to the tune of " Now then, ALBERT,
Tuck iu your Tuppenny !" What is it Sir
FWEDEWICK BLOUNT says in BULWER'S comedy
of Money—" That fellow COWPER says vewy
odd things !" And so is it, doubtless, with the
Sir FWEDEWICK BLOUNTS of the Court in regard
to " that fellow Punch," who, also, now and then
(a little more frequently perhaps than the demi-
semi-religious-mad Poet, with the tame hares
and that everlasting nightcap !) contrives in his
turn to say such " vewy odd things ! " Here is
one of them—very much to the point—but, of
course, horribly vulgar ! What you call rude !
Positively shocking ! To think of the dear Prince
"giving a back" to anyone, even to his Royal High-
ness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE And above all, to think
of his being addressed by the new Commander-in-
Chief (even hypothetically) with —"Now then, AL-
BERT, Tuck in your Tuppenny !" We can fancy
the courtly Mr. CHESTERS of Society dusting the
mere sense of Punch away from them with a
whiff of embroidered cambric, calling faintly the
while to their favourite groom-of-the-chambers
for the counter-flavour of the scent-bottle, a deli-
cate, disinfecting sprinkle of the genuine parfum
de la cour.

We must have no second " botch"of—New
i Westminster Bridge. Already 42,0001. have
been swallowed up very recently in the muddy
bottom of the river, at the old fatal site where we
have been patching, and cobbling, and propping,
and shoreing up, until the thing has become abso-
luttly ridiculous. Don't let us any longer, in the
iname of Common Sense and in that of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer !—don't let us any longer
be hanging perversely about the locality which
has been the scene of all this fruitless and ruinous
expenditure. Another bridge, it actually appears
now, will have to be commenced from the very
foundations—another bridge, crossing the Thames
at that particular quarter of the town, and so
connecting together Lambeth and West.
minster. Seeing that the enterprise must
he begun afresh let us not allow to
slip from our grasp the narrow chance
of this abrupt and unexpected opportunity.
It is quite obvious, we conceive, by this time that
the old place, and the old plans, and :the old ideas,

about the undertaking, are utterly. out of th,
(113/44ticln and preposterous. A move one way 0,
he other is imperatively requisite. The new
bridge must obviously be planned higher up of
1 .wer down. Higher up would be absurd—lower
down is consequently the one unavoidable alterna
ti ve. It is not merely an unavoidable
alternative, but a thing to be earnestly deside-
rated. Construct it at a point sufficiently re-
moved from the old site in the direction indicated,
and you secure another and .a very considerable
advantage to Sir CHARLES BARRY'S architectural
masterpiece. You give at once greater elevation
and an ampler area to the gorgeous gothic palace of
the Legislature. Doing this, moreover, with other
less picturesque but more obvious and practica!
benefits in the way of metropolitan improve-
ment. Let the new Westminster Bridge cross
the river Thames, let us say, for example, at a
point somewhere between its old cramped-up,
tumble-down site and the corner of Richmond
terrace, and we might at once render feasible the
long-desired project of a convergence of
four grand channels of intercommunication.
Thoroughfares might then extend from
the Surrey end of the New Bridge in one
direction along Bridge-road, Lambeth, branching
off in another to the Waterloo Railway Termi
nus—from the Middlesex end in one direc
bon by George-street, in another sweeping
round at a convenient curve through Scotland-
yard into the grand central place of Trafal
gar-square, where unite together Pall-mall,
Cockspur-street, St. Martin's-lane, Parliament.
street and the Strand. Supposing all which to
be accomplished in the development of the new
enterprise now rendered essential by reason of
the failure of the recent structure (the qlceletqn
bases of the Bridge lately condemned, in the Re-
port of the Messrs. RENDEL and SIMPSON, the
eminent engiueers)—we shall not then be disposed
to begrudge the total loss of 42,0001. upon mere
experiments. A wholesale squandering of the
public moneys otherwise wholly unjustifiable.

GALLIC WAR-SONG.

BY SYDNEY DOBELL.

A gem from " England in Time of War," by the
author of "The Roman." Smith, Elder, and Co.
Bvo. 1850 :
" Oh, a gallant sans peur
Is the merry chasseur,
With his fanfaron horn and his rifle ping-pang !
And his grand havresack
Ojgold on his back,
His pistol cric-crac !
And his sword cling-clang !
"Oh, to see him blytbe and gay
From some hot and bloody day,
Come to dance the night away till the bugleblows 'au rang,'
With a wheel and a whirl
And a wheeling waltzing girl,
And his bow, ' place aux dames r and his oath 'fee et sang'
And his hop and his fling
Till his gold and silver ring
To the clatter and the clash of his sword cling-clang !
" But hark,
Thro' the dark,
Up goes the well-known shout !
Tue drums beat the turn out !
Cut short your courting, Monsieur l'Amant !
Saddle ! mount ! march ! trot !
Down comes the storm of shot,
The foe is at the charge ! Ea avant !
" His jolly havresack
Of gold is on his back,
Hear his pistol cric-crac ! hear his rifle ping-pang !
" Vive l'Empereur !
And where's the Chasseur ?

"He's in
Among the din
Steel to steel cling-clang !"

HAYMARKAT.

Miss Reynolds, who has been labouring under sevete

took her benefit last night, and the theatre•was
crowded by a fishionable .and enthusiastic audience
The fair beneficiaire made her first appearance in a new
three-act cimedy, which was oroduced on the occasion,
and which is entitled Second Lore. The chief conduct.
• of the piece fell upon Miss Reynolds, and admirably
she sustained it. From. first to last her performance
was excellent ; it was thoroughly lady-like, and marked
with very nice feelincl. The piece was admirably acte
• throughout, and being well written, we have no dout.t
that, with a little compression, it will become a perms
nent favourite. The curtain fell amid the most cor-
dial applause ; and, after Miss Reynolds and Mr. Buck-
stone had appeared, there was a cad for the author, Mr.
Buckstone announced that the author was Mr. Pal.
grave Simpson, who was behind the scenes, but was
really too modest to appear. At this the audience
laughed, but was not to be baulked, and Mr. Simpson
was at last compelled to cross the stage and bow his
thanks to his friends.

SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right Hon. the Speaker's
Parliamentary dinner to the clerks and officers of the
House of Commons took pace last nigh+, July 23, and
was attended by Lord Charles Russell, Sir Denis Le
Niarchant. the Hon. George Waldegrave, Mr. Dyson,
Captain Gusset, Mr. F. Gamier, Mr. Rickards, Mr. Le
froy, Mr. May, Mr. H. Ley, Mr. Jones, Mr. Gudgs',
Mr. J. Rose, Mr. Pole, Mr. Frere, Mr. S. Smith, Mr.
Gibbons, Mr. Rowland, Mr. George Gunnell, Mr. Pus-
telthwaite, Mr. GraY, Colonel Forester, and Mr. Var-
den.

THE CASE OF JAMES SADLEIR.—DuBLIN, WednesdaT.
—The Lord Chancellor to-day granted an application
for the appointment of a receiver of the property of
James Sadleir ; and Mr. Macdowell, the official ma-
nager, was then appointed.
THE AMERICAN MAILS.—DEPARTCRR OF THE ATLAN.
TlC.—The United States mail steamship Atlantic, Capt.
Oliver Eldridge, sailed from the Mersey yesterday after-
noon, at 1 p.m., for New York, with the bi-montbly
mails, for the United States and Canada, a full comple-
ment of passengers, and a general cargo of merchandise
on freight.

Small PARTRIDGES., —A correspondent of The Field
describes a small breed of partridge, about midway in
81Z4 between the English partridge and the quail. They
exist in the mountains of Donegal, and they are found
almost entirely on the green sides of hills, just under or
on the heaths—coming, doubtless, to the lowlands at
night to teed.

AN AFFAIR OP HONOUR.—A duel took place on Wed-
nesday,. at• Wimbledon, between a gentleman named
Henry E. Verrall and an ex-military officer. When the
parties met on the ground the seconds endeavoured t
effect a reconciliation but without success. The partie
fired at 12 paces, and one was carried from the ground
" winged "and in a fainting condition. We believe a
lady was the cause of the quarrel.
Advice 3 from Naples state that Sir William Temple
had just communicated to the merchants the receipt of
a note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs assuring
him of " the desire• of %is- Sicilian Majesty to meet
E.igland'e wishes at all times, and that English ,vesseh
shall enjoy the same privileges as Neapolitan, and 'those
or other uaions who have reciprocal treaties ; alvo thai
the 10 per cent, extra duty paid on wheat by English
flag to France shall be returned if paid under protest."
Neapolitan vessels have the same privileges' in thi-
c.inntry a, Ziglish, mot only with regard to indirect
but al-o intercolonial and coasting trade. It is therefore
hoped that a treaty of perfect reciprocity will very soon
be concluded.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday night last Dr. John
C'altherpe Williams, of Nottirieharn, was returning in
his carriage from Wollaton Hall (Notts), the seat of
Lord Micelleton, after dining with his lordship, and
when near the town the horse became restiff. The
coachman cautioned the doctor to remain quiet ; the un-
fortunate gentleman way, however, pitched out of the
carriage, and, falling upon his head, way fearfully bruised.
After the horse had been quieted, Dr. Williams was
cc nveyed to his residence at N ttingliam, and a num•
ber of his professional friends attended him until Mon
day night, when he died. Dr. Williams was a man of
eminency in his profession, and was about GO 'ears of
age.
SIR JOHN DEAN PAUL IN MILLBANK PRISON.--The
last of the privileged men that passed us had so different
a look from that of the ordinary convict that we could
not help noticing him particularly ; then we recognised
the once eminent city merchant who was sentenced to
transportation for fraud some months ago. He saw by
oir look that we detected him even in his convict garb,
and be hurried past us. "Yes, sir," said the warder,
"the life here must be a great change for such as him
especially. Some of the prisoners are better off than
ever they were ; but a person like that one, who thought
nothing of dealing to the extent of a quarter of a mil
l lion a-day, must feel it sorely." This person. we were
told, found special consolation in the study of languages,
and on the table of his cell was a high pyramid of books,
consisting of French and German exercises, with others
of a rel,gious character.
ACCIDENT TO A CUNAMD STEAMEIL—LIVEBPOOL, Wed-
nesday.—tl telegraphic despatch was this morning re-
ceived from Falmouth, stating that the Cunard's steam-
ship Z,bra, Captaie _Betts, from Havre, for Liverpool,
had, during a dense fc run on the Lizard Point, yes-
terday morning. She' was much damaged, having
knocked a hole in her bodtom.' Fortunately, there were
no lives lost, the crew and passengers having been landed
in safety. The cargo an it stores were being saved. The
removal of the steamer from her position was deemed
very problematic. The fogs in the neighbourhood hay.,
been very dense. Tie 3 Minho and Rattler, screw
steamers, at this port leaving encountered very thick
weather, the former had , when about 35 miles S.W., of
Scilly, to keep her engirt es motionless for 12 hours, it
being impossible to see tjarther than the ship's length,