The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-20 00:00:00

by the Ballot Box, a check is at once imposed on sell-
interested votes, by taking away the inducement
to support those, who never can be aware with cer-
tainty who their supporters are. A customer of a
small tradesman, is nominated for the office of Town
Councillor. The tradesman thinks another person
better fitted for the office, but dares not have it pro-
claimed that he votes against his customer. The re-
medy is obvious ;—establish the Ballot, and the trades-
man may vote according to his conscientious judgment
for those whom he considers best qualified, without
divulging his votes to any man living. It may be said,
that such conduct would not satisfy the customer ; but
the answer is obvious. To punish a voter, not for
voting against a candidate, but for not divulging his
vote, would be a degree of oppression shocking to any
man of common morality, and would be an act of
tyranny amounting to an attack upon the ordinary
courtesies of civilised life. Such a kind of oppression
would be so scandalous, that it would be speedily put
down by public indignation.
Ministers resisted Mr. GROTE'S motion principally
on the ground that it was brought forward at an un-
unseasonable time. But, here, the question is, not
whether the ancient mode of voting shall be changed,
but, when we are establishing a new right of voting,
whether that right shall be exercised in the manner
most conducive to its purity and freedom. We are be-
stowing new municipal constitutions ;—is it fit at such
an mra that we should be wholly guided by precedents
which are themselves condemned by the wisest men of
the day ? Surely, it would be more worthy of so
noble an undertaking, to found it upon that firm basis
f reason and philosophy, which alone can render it a
durable and solid structure of public good.

The Paris papers of Thursday contain some im-
portant statements on the subject of Spanish interven-
tion. It will be remembered by the readers of this
Journal, that on Thursday we gave an account of a
raciotri reception given by the King of HOLLAND to
a,..:eredited agent of Don CARLOS at Loo. Thu
ol)ject of this • agent was to obtain supplies of either
men or money, to aid the Usurper in overthrowing
the Spanish Government. The Temps, received this
morning, confirms the report already before the public,
and adds, that WILLIAM of Nassau has granted a
loan of seven millions of francs to Don CARLOS, to
enable him to carry on the war with vigour. Now it
is well known that the King of HOLLAND'S coffers are
not over-supplied with ready money, and as the pre-
sent is the second loan which his MAJESTY has
granted, the Temps shrewdly suspects that in
these instances he is acting at the instance,
and as the agent, of the Holy Alliance. The
Orange Journals of Antwerp also state, that
" a corps of Volunteers is forming at Amsterdam for
the service of Don CARLOS." From all this it is
sufficiently evident, that while Russia and Prussia
have been fulminating the thunders of their wrath
against Spanish intervention, they themselves were li-
berally supplying Don CARLOS with the means of de-
throning the lawful Sovereign of SPAIN. The arms,
ammunition, and military stores of the Carlists were
obtained from Holland, the Austrian States of Italy,
Istria and Dalmatia. Even the vessels which con-
veyed them bore the flags of the Northern Powers ;
but as a blockade had not been regularly proclaimed,
their seizure would have been a violation of the law of

nations.

We attach no blame to WILLIAM of NASSAU for
supporting the cause of Don CARLOS. His conduct
is perfectly consistent, for both the Sovereign of
HOLLAND and the brother of FERDINAND VII., are
the avowed champions of Despotism. The King
of HOLLAND, though personally one of the most
upright of men, is from principle opposed to
all extensions of the liberties of the people in
every country. This is the effect of early habit
and an innate hatred of opposition, rather than from
dazzling recollections of the glory of absolute Mo-
narchy. The dreams of chivalry, and the fictions of
oriental romance, lend no lustre to the absolutism of
the King of HOLLAND. The mind of WILLIAM is
of the common-place utilitarian order. Neither his
tastes nor feelings are literary. An epic poem pos-
sesses no more value in his eyes than the amount of
money required to purchase it ; and his regard for the
finest painting in the world is just in proportion to what
it would bring as an article of traffic. He encourages
trade because he considers it necessary to the welfare
of his subjects ; and he never opposes education,
Thch Os without i'-, commerce would he carried oi! at
a loss for which no industry could compensate. He
believes, that as a King, the people are bound by
all laws, human and divine, to yield implicit
obedience to his commands ; and his punishment of
resistance of any kind, is with him as much a vindi-
cation of the honour of Heaven, as the majesty of
Earth. These are the real principles of the King of
HOLLAND, and he has never concealed them, or
never refrained from actinc, upon them, when the
power was afforded him. By the indulgence of these
principles, despite of the earnest entreaties of the
'Prince of ORANGE, he lost Belgium ; and rather than
relinquish them, he would take up his residence with
the Ex-King of France.
In the conduct, therefore, of the King of HOLLAND,
there is nothing to call for our censure. But what
shall we say of the past conduct of the Governments
of France and England, taken in conjunction with
this avowed interference on the part of England ?
Can it be possible that they remain ignorant, up to
this hour, as to the real sources whence Don CAR-
LOS derived the sinews of the war in the Basque
provinces ? Is it to be credited that they knew
nothing of the machinations of Prussia, Russia,
and "Austria, in favour -of Don CARLOS, at the
time when the official Representatives of these Powers
affected to storm and threaten hostilities, in the event
of English and French intervention, to save the Con-
stitutional Government of Spain ? If they really
knew not whence Don CARLOS obtained supplieS of
money, arms and military stores, it speaks but
indifferently for their vigilance ; if they did know,
it was their duty to have returned such answers
to the remonstrances of the northern diplomatists
as would have covered the Courts, whose hypocrisy
they represented, with lasting confusion. Why should
England, of all powers in.the world, degrade herself by
affecting a belief in what she knew to be a falsehood ?
The nation abhors a crooked and insidious diplomacy,
which in the Noith of Europe is regarded as the per-
fection of statesmanship. England glories in her honest
bluntness ; and, acting upon the principle of truth
and sincerity, she may defy the world to over-reach her.
No power will dare to do so, if the consequences be
made known. This is much easier than to train up a
host of diplomatists, powerful in perverting facts, skil•
ful in over-reaching the unwary, and dexterous in con-
founding the principles of right and wrong. When it
is once known that a State cannot be injured with im-
punity, diplomatists will be cautious in what way they
employ their arts to her prejudice.
The domestic intelligence contained in the French
papers is not important. The Constitutionnd says
that M. DE RIGNY is gone to Toulon, whence he
will embark for Algiers, to direct the movements of
the French legion destined to aid the Constitutional
Government of Spain. The landing of the legion is
cxpe•:.ted to take place it; Barcelona.
Colon,:i YO N. who was appoint:3d

~,oaths since, by the French Government, to act as
a Commissioner in Spain relative to the state of the
war, has made aßeport, in which he opposes all inter-
vention on the part of France as useless. He asserts
that to restore tranquillity in Spain, a French army of
at least 120,000 men would be requisite, and that
their presence in the country for a period of four years
would-be further indispensable. He adds, moreover, that