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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1835

possess this power, they will exercise it ; but
the knowledge that the power exists, and may be
exercised, will operate as a salutary check upon the
proceedings of the Council. It will serve as a
memento to keep the ruling body constantly in mind of
that responsibility which men in power are, one and
all, but too apt to forget. To what are we to attribute
the corruption, the malversation, the abuses of every
kind, which have rendered the Corporations such nui-
sances ? Solely to the want of this responsibility. The
framers of the Corporation Reform Bill have therefore
wisely and honestly made responsibility the corner-stone
of their measure. If the Tories succeed in pulling, it
out, or even loosening it, the solidity and beauty of the
building are gone, and few will care how soon it tumbles
to the ground.

The Mary-le-bore Conservatives held, what they
call, " a Loyal and Constitutional Association" yes-
terday, at the Riding Academy in the Regent's Pavk.
The greatest exertions were used to bring together a
numerous assembly on this occasion ; but the thing
was'an utteffailure ; very few thinking it worth while to
give their attendance, and those who did, looking as
dismal as mutes at a funeral. We wonder the Con-
servatives are so fond of parading their own weakness.
They never meet, but to show how utterly deficient
they are in numerical strength—never speak, but to
show how deeply the iron of despair has entered into
their souls. Had they consulted the dictates of com-
mon sense, they would have courted the strictest pri-
vacy, at least until the Sayings and Doings of the
wich section of the fraternity were forgotten ; but there
is no advising with desperation ; and so the faction will
continue floundering on from absurdity to absurdity,
rallying, just at the wrong moment, harranguing just
in the most unpopular and inapposite spirit, until at
length it sinks oppressed with the mosupportable weight
of its own blunders. GOD speed the hour !
The Report which was read yesterday at the Meet-
ing—and which the Conservative Journals have been
so ill-advised as to publish—is a very melancholy af•
fair indeed. We say nothing about the prattle of the
Association having for its object " the security of pro-
perty, the interests of religion, and the real liberties of
the people"—for every one knows that, in the Constr..-
vative sense of the terms, " the security of property"
means the security of pensions and sinecures ; " the
interests of religion" the interests of pluralities and
High Church intolerance ; and the " real liberties of
the people," the power of the faction to tax and ride
rough-shod over them ;—but what is to be said of the
following desponding appeal to the charity of the com-
munity :—" As the approaching registration will cause
considerable extra.expenses, the Committee beg to re-
commend that a voluntary subscription be set on foot,
in order to meet them ?" If this be not a direct ac-
knowledgment that the funds of the Association are
at the lowest ebb, at least it looks very like it ; and
what makes the thing more remarkable is, that in the
vet y next passage, the Committee, as if apprehensive
they have been too candid in their confession, expressly
state that " the number of the members of the Associa-
tion is rapidly increasing." Why, then, are they in
such want of additional contributions ? It is not an
increasing, but a decreasing Association, that requ:i.,26
the aid of the charitable. It is not the rich man, but
the beggar, that asks alms. Were the cause of the
Conservatives popular, or ever likely to become so, it,
would not be in the condition in which it evidently
now is. Funds would pour in from all quarters, just
as they did in the palmy days of the Birmingham
Union. But the truth is, Conservatism is everywhere
at a discount. It can get up speeches, for they cost
nothing to the orator— whatever they may do to the
reader—but V.-hen it comes to money matters, the case
is wholly different. Few, even amongst the most infa-
tuated, like to risk money on a declining cause. Hence
the shyness of the Conservative speculators.
Are the Reform Associations in this deplorable
plight ? Far otherwise. The Birmingham Union,
indeed, confesses to scantiness of means ; but why is
this ? Simply because it has achieved its victory—
gained the great end for which it was confederated.
As for the other Associations formed for the purpose
of registering Reformers throughout the kingdom, they
are, we have every reason to believe, in the most
flourishing state, both as respects funds and numbers.
The next election, however, will place this beyond a
doubt, by reducing to one half, the 300 Conservatives
whom the Carlton Club—now, alas, rich in nothing
but professions I—have been the means of thrusting
into Parliament.
The speakers at the Marylebone Association
(strange to ray) all took different views of the present
state of public affairs. Mr. MACKINNON discovered
that the country was " no longer in a state of political
excitement ;" Sir H. MARTIN, that it " was now
placed in that critical situation which preceded the
overthrow of other States." Mr. ORMSBY GORE
asserted that the " glorious, happily balanced Consti-
tution "—notwithstanding it has been unbalanced,
-burked, and buried a dozen times within our recollec-
tion—was just as hearty and vigorous as ever ; while,
on the contrary, Mr. Sergeant ADAMS averred " that
such were the dangers which threatened both Church
and State, that he considered it a disgrace in any man
not to come forward." It is plain, from these contra-
dictory opinions, that the Conservatives are sadly
puzzled to make out a good grievance for them-
selves. They would fain, but cannot, give reasons
for the faith that is in them. In one thing
only they agree, namely, that " voluntary subcrip-
tions" are much wanted to set them fairly afloat.
Granted. But they will be disappointed if they think
to obtain them. The " Voluntary Principle" never
answers in matters of this sort.
But by far the most extraordinary speech of the
day, was that delivered by Colonel BROUGHTON,
who proved in every second sentence, that he was no
incendiary, to set the Thames on fire. " The race of
rank Tories," said the Gallant Colonel," existed no
longer in this country, or if a few of that class still
remained, they might be considered as curious speci-
mens, with tails at their backs, and powder on their
heads, just to show us that such a race of be-
ings once existed." What folly is this I Are not the
Duke of CUMBERLAND, Sir E. KNATCHBULL,
Lords RODEN, WINCHILSEA, and MANSFIELD,
Messrs. GOULBURN, HERRIES, and SHAW, rank
Tories ? Yet these were all supporters of the late
Ministry, and lent it their aid, on the express prin-
ciple that it should advocate those doctrines which,
the Gallant Colonel would have us believe, exist no
where except attong men who have " tails on their
backs, and powder on their heads I" But it is idle to
pursue this subject further. Suffice to say, that the
Marylebone Association—if we may judge by its de-
sponding Report—is just now in that state of fatal
decay, when, according to the Catholic creed, extreme
unction becomes imperatively necessary ; and it is far
from improbable that, in the course of a few months,
perhaps weeks, we may be called upon to pen a fune-
ral oration for the departed.

In another part of The Sun,- our readers will find
some particulars of a Coroner's Inquest, held on the
body of an individual who was drowned the other day
by the swell of the Steamers, which upset a boat in
which he was coming to London. This is not the first
accident of the sort that has occurred this season.
The scandalous velocity of the Steamers is perpetually

causing fatal accidents in the Pool ; and we hope some I
prompt and decisive method will be taken to remedy
the nuisance. Has not the Loan MAYOR power to
interfere ? If he have, we hope he will exert it to the
utmost. The verdict of the Jury was accompanied
with a very strong, and judicious reprobation of the
velocity of Steamers, and expressed a hope that Go-
vernment would take such measures as would abate
the nuisance.

German Papers to the 11 th inst. have been re-
ceived. The Government of Prussia is in raptures
with the conduct of LOUIS PHILIPPE in having the
firmness to refuse the Spanish intervention. It is
quite clear that the King of the FRENCH is fast grow-
ing in the good graces of the Holy Alliance. His
sagacity, his tact, his prosecutions of the press, and
his persecution of the prisoners of April, are
themes of ever-recurring eulogium. The writer
expresses apprehension of the English Whigs,
but takes consolation, from the gratifying as-
surance that they dare not interfere without being
kicked out of office. In this however he will find
himself greatly mistaken by the time the next mails
from London reach Berlin.
VIENNA, JUNE B.—Five per Cents. Metalliques, 1011 ;
Four per Cents., 971 ; Bank Shares, 1,325.—A//gemeine
Zeitung, June 11.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Monday have
been received. The Moniteur contains the following
official intelligence :
" By a decree of the 10th instant, the Queen Regent of
Spain has accepted the resignation of M. Martinez de la Rosa.
Count Toreno has been appointed President of the Council of
Ministers, and Minister for Foreign Affairs."
. ,

This despatch confirms the announcement in the
Abeja of the 6th instant, which appeared in this
Journal of yesterday. The retirement of MARTINEZ
DE LA ROSA is ascribed to different motives ; but we
are inclined to think that the delicate state of his
health, and his dislike of the active duties of 'public
life, alone induced him to withdraw from the public
service. M. DE LA ROSA is an accomplished
scholar, extensively read in Spanish literature, and
intimately acquainted with the principles of repre-
sentative Government ; but as his tastes and habits
are entirely literary, he shrunk from even a necessary
communion with his more business-loving colleagues.
M. DE LA ROSA had too few sympathies in common
with TOREN°, except on the great abstract question
of Spanish liberty, ever to render himself the main-spring
of the Ministry. He wanted pliancy, resolution, and
energy. He wanted, moreover, that amalgamating prin-
ciple, by virtue of which public men become, as it
were, the individual representatives of an entire body—
in which they may be said to lose their identity in that
of a class. M. DE LA ROSA stood alone, and laboured
apart from his colleagues. His presence imposed a
restraint upon them ; and as all his views were retro-
spective—for he loved to deduce the prospects of the
future from the departed glories of the past—it was
impossible that he could obtain more than the cold
respect of an ignorant populace. Although To-
' RENO possesses neither the learning, the classi-
cal taste, nor the eloquence of MARTINEZ DE
LA ROSA, yet is he greatly his superior in a know-
leklpte of the means which the Government
to adopt to command the obedience of the people, and
to secure the support of the Cortcs. There is nothing
wavering or undecided in his general conduct ; and
such is his moral firmness, that he has sat unmoved
while the most powerful orators of the Chamber of
Procuradores were pouring forth torrents of abuse
directed against himself and his measures. Ho
is besides capable of enduring great bodily fatigue
in the discharge of the duties of a legislator and a
Member of the Government ; the REGENT is person-
ally well disposed towards him ; and although out of
doors his conduct with respect to the internal debt Bill
is the subject of severe censure, yet the great impres-
sion on the public mind is, that TORENO is the only
man capable of successfully conducting the Govern-
ment, in the present convulsed state of Spain.
We learn from the French Journals that the foreign
legion, which sailed on board the Nestor and the
Triton from Algiers, is not destined to march into
Spain, as was at first currently reported. The French
Government has given orders to have the men con-
veyed to the Balearic Islands, and that an equal num•
ber of troops in garrison in those islands shall embark
in the same vessels for Spain.
A negotiation has been carried on, through the
medium of diplomatic notes, between Lord GRAN-
VILLE and M. DE BROGLIE respecting the question
of Spanish intervention. The subject of the negotiation
included three important questions :—Warlike inter-
vention ; the expenses thereon attendant ; and com-
merce. It appeared to the Representatives of the
Governments of France and England, that Spain is
not in a condition to bear the charge of a levy of
25,000 men in England, France, and Belgium ; and
that therefore the only safe course would be to charge
these States with the immediate outlay, at the same
time guaranteeing to them repayment on the part of
Spain, as soon as she shall be in a condition to pay the
debt. It has therefore been agreed upon (we write on
the authority of the Paris Journals) that each of the
Powers who have permitted levies to be raised for the
support of constitutional liberty in Spain, shall sup-
port the troops leaving their respective territories—viz.,
England is to maintain and pay the troops raised here,
France the Foreign Legion, augmented by the re-
cruits that may be obtained for it ; Portugal the auxi-
liary divisions ; and that the King of the BELGIANS
should be invited to join the common system of ad.
vancing the necessary funds to the Spanish Govern-
ment, under the guarantee of France and England.
As no doubt is entertained of the final success of all
those united forces against Don CARLOS, the sums
so advanced will be repaid by the QUEEN'S Govern-
ment, and the mode of repayment will be by annuities,
to be regulated hereafter.
Thus much for the expense, or .financial question.
With regard to the intervention, it is deemed essential
that the auxiliaries shall be assembled, equipped, and
conveyed to the seat of war with as little delay as pos-
sible. This will raise the hopes of the QUEEN'S
troops, and paralyze the energies of the Carlists.
Lord GRANVILLE, it is said, has promised that all
shall be ready for the conveyance of the first part of
the English corps towards the end of July. He
hinted to M. DE BROGLIE that the French Govern-
ment might find means, long before that time, to con-
vey the Foreign Legion to Spain, to act in another
part of the Peninsula. M. DE BROGLIE has pro-
mised every thing ; but observations have already been
made on the part of the Cabinets of the Holy Alliance,
which may cause delay.
The commercial question touched upon in this ne-
gociation, had reference principally to the duty of the
Consuls, and what it might be expedient to do, in
the event of the Great Northern Powers declaring
themselves in favour of the Carlists. After much deli-
beration, it was agreed that the Consuls should not quit
their stations on any account whatever, and in the event
of the towns falling into the hands of the Carlists, steadily
to oppose the authority of the conquerors. Whatever
may be the crimes of DON CARLOS, the Govern-
ments of France and England are not apprehensive of
such a violation of the laws of all civilized nations, as
an attack upon these sacred functionaries. It has
further been resolved, that a blockade having been
commenced, the principles of contraband warfare

shall be enforced, without regard to any flag in
Europe.
Thus active intervention may be said to be
now commenced in good earnest, notwithstanding the
extreme tardiness of the Governments of France and
England. , If all this be anything more than a mere
mockery of the Spanish Government, the final destruc-
ion of the Carlist conspiracy will be a matter of his-
.ory before the end of August.
There is no domestic intelligence of any importance
n the Paris Papers of Monday.
FRENCH FUNDS-Peals, JUNE 15.
Five per Cents., 108 f. 25c. 40c, 60c.
Four per Cents., 08f. 40c.
Three per Cents., 78f. 60c. 85c. 90c.
Bank Actions, 1,997 E 50c. 2,000 f.
Rente de Naples, 96f. 55c. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 999/ 100.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 36yv 3'7 37.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 29 289,x.
Royal Spanish Loan. 46 4614:46.
RentePerpet.d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 40% 41 41%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 1014.
Loan,Portuguese Five per Cents., 88 88y, 88.
Haytian Loan, 111 E -C.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
0,,e month, paper, -f. --c. ; money, 25f. 45e.
Three months, paper, -f. -c.; money, 25f. 32%c.
rs,futhentique.
BOURSE, TERSE O'CLOCE.-Another rise has taken place
in the funds. The French Three per Cents. got up, after
having been at 78f. 50c. in the morning, to 78f. 85c. No one
can give any positive reason for this, as there is but very little
improvement in politics. The Spanish funds are also much
better, and some confidence is again given to those securities.
QUARTER TO FOUR.-Fivo per Cents., 108 f. 70c. ; Three
per Cents., 79f. 20c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 41i ; Three
per Cent., Spanish, 28i ; Cortes, 37A-; Coupons, 17i ; Gueb-
hards, 461; Differes, 161; New Loan, 48 ; Definitives, 41:1 ;
Ducats, 96 90; Romans ; Belgian, 1001 ; Pedros, 88;
Miguels, 26 ; Haytian, 400 f. ; Brabant Bank, 15k.

LITERATURE.

THE EXILE OF ERIN:
01 TRH SORROWS OF A HISHFUI. IRISHMAN.
Harper and Brothers, New York. 1835.
This is an American reprint of a novel, publish&
here some two or three months since by Whittaker,
and of which we spoke, on its first appearance, as a
work not unlikely, in time, to become popular. That
we have not been mistaken in our opinion, is evident
from the circumstance of its having already made its
way across the Atlantic, and being in good repute with
the New York critics, as will be seen by the following
notice of it, extracted from the " Knickerbocker, or
New York Monthly Magazine," a periodical which
has just reached us, together with several other Ame-
rican publications, of which we shall take notice the
first fitting opportunity :
" There is a great deal of cleverness in this book
which will be lost to many American readers, because
it is a satire, hitting at individuals and practices of
which they who are untravelled have no knowledge,
save what they may have gleaned from newspapers
and magazines ;—for example, the two elections, one
in Ireland and the other in England, in the account of
which, whimsical as it is, there is much that is quite
new to us on this side of the .Atlantic. But it is chiefly
in relation to the personages introduced, that the en-
joyment of the American reader will be incomplete,
for we are strongly inclined to suspect that they are
all, or nearly all, copied from actual people. There
are several among these caricature pictures which we
can recognize, without any difficulty, and others at
nhich we give a shrewd guess. But the fun would
he greater if we could form a correct estimate of the
likeness in every instance. It is a very amusing book,
however ; rambling and sketchy—without much pre-
tension to plot or story, and utterly disregarding the
unities, at least so far as place is concerned. It is
written in the first person—the gentleman afflicted with
modesty heralding his own calamities. We have no
suspicion as to the author, but he is a fellow of no
small humour, and has a great deal of tact in hitting
off characters with a sort of burlesque gravity."