The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-08 00:00:00

THV SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SIMPT_EMIIiM 8, 1835

who, so to speak, are constrained to aranziir without
discussion, to criticize an:Moat Nienditig! ". The
cool effrontery of this passage cannot be surpassed.
Applied to an assembly of mere drivellers—more than
half of them State paupers, living on pensions ob-
tained for services which no honest man ever tendered
his King or country—many of them in a state of
dotage—and all dependent for their honours on their
compliance with the pleasure of the Court—it is really
one of the best satires upon the Peerage that has ap-
peared in France since the first revolution. We should
have doubted the excessive malignity of the Deputies
Bill against the Press—despite of the conviction de-
rived from a careful examination of its enactments—
had not the Peers approved of it in the shape in which
it was sent up to them. We are now convinced that
it cannot be made worse than it is—that, in fact, it
embodies all that can be devised for destroying the
only lever with which a people can morally check
the movements of a despotic Government. The
triumph of Ministers must, however, be short-lived.
The people, finding that they are betrayed by all in
whom they trusted, will at last be driven to consult
how they may best preserve their liberties—the first
step to a third great revolution in France. The Paris
correspondent of a Morning Contemporary, well ac-
quainted with the state of public feeling in France, and
who has on more than one occasion taken notice of the
apathy of England, with regard to the sufferings of a
brave people, struggling for their independence, has
the following excellent passage on this subject in his
letter of Sunday :
" I know it is the fashion in England to ask and exclaim—
' What do the French want ? They are always discentented.
They are ever turbulent. What do they want ?'
" They want evidence that they have an honest Government.
They hear of colossal fortunes made by individuals in power in
spaces of time so brief that one would suppose hardly sufficed
to enable those men to become acquainted with the doors and
cupboards of the bureaux. Hence they suspect and accuse
them of dishonesty—of selling the intelligence arrived to them
ex officio—of dealing in the Funds—nay, of direct robbery, by
dividing with contractors the filthy lucre gained by the accept-
ance of tenders for the supplies of stores, &c, for the public ser-
vice, at enormous prices. The French want those constitu-
tional institutions and safeguards they conquered and believed
were secured to them in July 1830. They want a Chamber of
Deputies that actually represents the people of France—a
Chamber of Deputies above the suspicion of being bribed—a
Chamber of Deputies of which 226 Members would not vote
such an atrocious law as that about to be forced on the coun-
try, and of which 226, more than 100 are placemen, and the
rest absolutely under Government influence. They want pro-
tection from the spy—the bludgeoneer—the policeman, with
his arbitrary niandat d'arret—from the sabre, the bayonet; and
the howitzer. Enraged at the use of these persuasions, they
complain, they assemble, show fight, and arc cut down. They
want, in a word, that which they have shed their blood, during
five and forty years, to obtain—that which they have, never-
theless, never yet tasted—that for which they sigh, although there
really understand it not—they want real constitutional liberty.
And this constitutional liberty they will have before
the expiration of three years. We defy Lours PHIL-
LIPPE to keep it from them—we might even go so
far as to defy him to retard the establishment of a free
Constitution in France. The conduct of his Govern-
ment will only serve to stimulate the friends of freedom
in their last grand struggle against regal tyranny.
The advises from Spain contained in these journals
are not important. The following, which appeared in
the Journal de Paris of Saturday night, has been
copied into all the Sunday journals :

Letters from Bayonne, dated Ist instant, contain the fo:
1o;•ino• intelligence

" The Preten•de: is still at Estella.

" The day before yesterday General Evans, at the head of
2,000 English and 1,600 Spaniards, left St. Sebastian to make
a reconnaissance in the direction of Ernani. After carrying
the Venta de Oriomendi, which was fortified and well defended
by the Carlists, he marched towards that of Santa Barbara.
Two companies of Chapel-gorris having reached the summit
of the hill, and the object of the reconnaissance being thus
accomplished, the General fell back on Oriomendi. In the
meanwhile the Carlists were reinforced by the arrival of two
new battalions, and an engagement of no importance and with-
out result took place at Oriomendi. In the evening General
Evans returned to St. Sebastian, having lost during the day
21 men killed and about GO wounded, whom he brought off
with him."

Letters from Catalonia contain the following particulars re-
specting the expedition lately undertaken by the Carlists :
On the 16th August about 5,000 Carlist infantry, and
400 horse entered Huesca. On the 17th they reached Bar-
bzstro, where they killed two gendarmes in the streets of
Cease, and remained until the evening of the 21st. The ap-
proach of the Captain-General of Arragon, at the head of 400
horse and 6,000 infantry, and the arrival of Colonel Ourrea
from Navarre, compelled them to take to flight. They are
said to have marched in the direction of Benavarre and Bron-
taigne. The Captain-General of Aragon has ordered that
every able-bodied Spaniard, from 18 to 50 years of age, shall
be held to take arms in defence of the Queen, under penalty
of death. It is supposed that the ardour with which the
Christinos are pursuing the Carlists, will soon oblige the latter
to throw themselves into France."

The same Journal next publishes a telegraphic despatch,
dated September 2, announcing "that the Urbans had marched
out of Saragossa to attack Quilez, who had come to I)aroca,
and that the Junta of Saragossa had fraternized with that of
Barcelona. Troops were still shipping for Portugalette to de-
fend Biiboa in case of a new attack."

A letter from Cadiz, of the 18th of August, says—" To-day
at noon all the convents of Cadiz were shut up, and the
monks were allowed only five hours to remove. This opera-
tion was effected without the slightest disorder. The troops
were all under arms': a company of Urbans was stationed be-
fore each convent to prevent fires. The mob, composed
chiefly of women, entered into two convents only, the Fran-
ciscan and the Capuchin. They carried away chairs, a great
quantity of provisions, Btc.
" EIGHT O'CLOCK, P.m.—There is now not a monk re-
maining in the city. The natives of the country have received
orders to return to their families. The others have received
passports for their respective countries. Some, who did not
know whither to retire, have been conveyed to Fort Santa
Catalina.

" The events in Catalonia have led the Government to take
this measure. The system of Martinez de la Rosa could not
fail to lead the country to revolution. The people, who have
discovered the weakness of the Government, will not be con-
tented by the suppression of the convents : they will demand
the Constitution and the refornz of the secular clergy. Dif-
ferent accounts reach us from all quarters ; it is said that at
Seville, the monks have been massacred."

PATENTS BILL.

LIST OF THE MINORITY

Of 23 (Tellers included), who voted for the rejection of the Lords

Amendments on the Law of Patents.
For the Rojection
Against it

25

Majority -
----2
Aglionby, H. A. Hindley, C. Thorneley, Thomas
Baldwin, Dr. Hughes, H. Wakley, Thom;:s
Blamire, W. Hume, Joseph Wallace,•ll.
Bowring, Dr. Marshall, W. Wilks, J.
Brabazon, Sir W. gi Morrison, J. Williams, W.
Brocklehurst, J. O'Connell, M. J. TELLERS.
Callaghan, D. Scholefield, J. Ewart, W.
Ccdrington, Sir E. Strutt, Edward Warburton, 11,

All the parishes of the county Kildare intend to ad-
dress Lord Mulgrave on Thursday next, at the Curragh. It
was first intended to move by different districts, but it is now
thought better to have all on one day.--Dublin Paper.

MACKINTOSH ON PEEL'S ORATORY,—" Dec.
10, 1817. Came home at three this morning from our defeat
on the Catholic question. Poor Grattan's last exhibition
of his setting genius, and of the gentle goodness which will
glow till the last spark of life be extinguished Peel made a
speech of little merit in point of substance, but so clearly and
elegantly expressed, and so well delivered as to be applauded
to excess. He is a proof of the great value of the mechanic&
parts of speaking, when combined with industry and caution.
He dow fills the too important place of spokesman to the into-
lerunt faction."—L?fe of Mackintosh, Vol 11.

A letter, dated the 29th ult., from the town of Bex,
in Switzerland, gives an account of one of those pheno-
mena to which that mountainous region is liable. On the
6th of August a considerable portion of the principal peak
of the Dent du Midi, one of the great spurs of Mont Blanc,
fell with a tremendous crash into a deep and narrow valley,
situate about a league to the eastward of St. Maurice, on
the road to Martigny, where an accident of a similar nature
occurred in the year 1818, but it ended with much more dis-
astrous results, as then no less than 400 houses were washed
away in a moment. In this recent instance the peak in its
fall carried with it a glacier, which, filling up the valley,
dammed up the stream which ran through it, until it bad ac-
quired sufficient force to drive before it the whole mass of earth
and rocks into the bed of the Rhone, the course of which be-
came so completely barred as to dry up all below ii, and• con-
' vert the upper part of its rugged and rocky course into a sort of
temporary lake. It was on the fourth day after the fall from
the Dent du Midi that the letter before me was written, and up
to that time this extraordinary interruption to the course of the
Rhone still continued, distorbed from time to time by inter-
mittent bursts of the growing flood across the barrier, the re-
currence of which was so uncertain as to deter the approach of
the curious. It was not known that any lives had been
lost, but it may be well to add that the passage across the
Alps by the great Simplon road is for the present cut off.
An attempt had been begun to re-open the communication by
a provisional road, which was to describe a considerable circuit,
but it was not yet known what success was likely to attend it.

DANIEL versus DAN.
I stood in the Corn Exchange* last year
And saw men grinning from car to ear,
At the bitter sneers that Dan let fall

Against Court, and Commons, and Lords, and all ;
His eye flashed fire, like red hot steel,
As he sounded his trumpet-note, Repeal,
And swore, in accents fraught with storm,
He never would compromise Reform ;
No, Whigs might retrograde, but he
Would stick to his colours manfully ;
Dash headlong on in his Radical ire,
Like a steed broke loose, or a house on fire ;
Change the whole State-vessel's steerage,
Burke the Bishops, and swamp the Peerage,
And put things quite on a different plan,
As sure as his Christian name was Dan !!

I stood in the Commons' House last week,
And heard Dan whisper in accents meek,
His hope that the Council.of the nation,
Might take as its motto—Moderation !
Caution, he said, was the soul of sense,
He therefore eschew'd all violence :
Besides, he felt convinced that the Peers,t
Were not yet wrong enough, poor dears !
So begged that the House would lay no stress
On their present slight wrong-lieadedness,
But onward move in improvement's race,
At a bland, decorous, snail-like pace ;
Others might bully and bounce and storm,
But he was for gradual, safe Reform,
Paid us some years to come in pence,
And in silver and gold some centuries hence !!

While thus he spake, some laughed, and some
Were from sheer astonishment struck dumb,
But all agreed that ne'er was case
(S-uggested by a hope of place)
Yet argued with such powers of face,
Since lawyers first to plead began,
As this of Daniel versus Dan.
Black once was black, but Dan to-night
Has proved, they said, that black is white!'.
l• In Dublin.

He (Mr. O'Connell) thought it better to avoid a colli-
sion, until the House of Lords were proved to be sufficiently
in the wrong.— Vide 31r. O'Connell's Speech in the House of
Commons.