The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-04 00:00:00

READING.

As the period of the dissolution of Parliament approaches,
the electioneering manwuvres are becoming more active in
every part of the country . It appears that a canvass in favour
of !Ur. Wakefield, which has for some time past been very
industriously if not very fairly carried on in the borough of
Reading, by the leaders of the high Tory ,party, or, as they
choose to call themselves, " the true blues, ' has excited the
attention of the independent electors, who are determined to
return the present Members to the next Parliament. The
blues having formed committees, and held weekly meetings; at
different public-housee, the votes of the landlords of which
they have endeavoured to secure, the: independent electors re-
solved toCounteract. this influence in an open and direct man-
ner, and have accordingly For some time past assembled publicly
once a week. The last weekly meeting, which took place on
Tuesday at the George Inn was very numerously attended.—
Mr. Henry Marsh was in the chair, and the most respectable
inhabitants of Reading were present. Mr. C. F. Palmer, one
of the representatives of the borough, visited the meeting, and
congratulated the electors on the progrese the independent
'cause had made, of which cause he considered himself merely
an agent in their hands. He assured them that he had never
entertained for a moment the idea of retiring from the contest,
and requested them 'in future to give no credit to any rumour
to that effect. The health of Mr. Marsh, the chairman,
being drank, that gentleman made sortie' curious remarks rela-
tive to the politics of the borough, which we extract from the
Reading Mercury of Monday last. He observed, that the
borough of' Reading seemed to be considered a very marketable
commodity by those who, in his opinion, were not over well ac-
quainted with the nature and value of the goods they were so
well inclined to purchase. It must be in the recollection "f
many present, that, a few years ago, when a very Pale estate was
offered for sale by auction in this neighbourhood, that a moiety
at least of this borough was held out to whoever might become
the purchaser, as an almost certain appendage to the estate—.
a sort of bargain, in which the majority of eleven hundred
electors were not exactly to be valued with the timber, hut to
be given in as a few -saplings not worth the notice of the ven-
dor, hut that might become usefill and ornamental to the nur-
iestttl)go'f
chaser.—( Loud laughter and applause).—lt would seem that
we were a most enticing lot, for having escaped the hammer of
one auctioneer_(hear, hear !)—who, if' he (Mr. Marsh) was riot
wbeesihngoupatronized b
terribly mistaken, would find us as awkward- anti unsaleable
a lot as ever he had to dispose of.(Continued laughter).-1f
things were to go on at this rate, instead of being designated
be dubbed
b y
boroughadslethaeueintitntenpeeent4ebnetrongli ofand ea
Rending,
Dukes and Lords.;. as some boroughs were, we must take our
position under the shadow of some Icifiglt of the hammer.
(" Never," end laughing.) As we had escaped the former at-
tempt, so lie felt convinced we should the present, for though
we might boast- that the charter of our borough was granted
by a virgin Queen, we could not boast of being a virgin bo-
rough, and were certainly too old, too tough, and too cunning
to be under any apprehension of abduetion,--(Continued clap,
ping and laughter.)-.-Mr. Marsh then passed some well-de-
served encomiums on the Parliamentary conduct of our pre-
sent members t -at the same time remarking that the object of
this and similar meetings was not so much to consider the in-
terest of any particular candidate, as to maintain that purity
of principle on which all candidates ought to be returned.—
(Loud cheering.)

According to the reports in private letters from
Madrid, a plot has been discovered, of which
the object was to carry off the KING and his
family. This rumour appears, however, to rest
on very questionable authority. It certainly s.P.
pears from concurrent accounts, that the Spanish
Capital is in a state of great disorder.

The letters received yesterday from Rio Je-
ueiro, are silent on the disturbances reported its
the French Papers, to have taken place there.
So far from the Brazilians being in a state of
despondency, much confidence is expressed as to
the issue of the war with Buenos Ayres. The
Peranga frigate had arrived after a passage °t
43 days from England.

It will be seen by.the subjoined communica-
lion from St. Petenburgh, extracted from a Ger'
man Paper received this morning, that the publicmind there, is "still in a state of ..inqnletude,
altogether inconsistent with the reiterated assur.
antes that have been given, of the utter extinction
of the late conspiracy. The concluding remark
is,mystarions,for frOm this it should seem,that the
plot of the conspirators was to have been carried
into effect "'on the .very day of the interment.'
Which then of the two brothers was the meditated
victim, CONSTANTINE or Nrcgor,As ? or was 1t
against the' whole. Imperial Family that the prod
ject of the conspirators was directed ? The resist'
ante of the troops at St. Petersburg!) was taken
to he an expression of adherence to the Grand
Duke CONSTANTINE, but from the character sub-
•sequently given by the official communications, the
ultimate object of the conspirators must have been
a total . change in the form of Government'.
On this important fact, the Russian Cabinet
has Very naturally taken all possible precou"
tion to keep the European public in profaned
ignorance. Assuming the numbers itnplicated
in the.conipiracy, even to approach the amount at,
which they have been stated, it does seem w2.1-titer
ous, that the secret should love .beeni/D long pre'
served under the penetrating
Russian police.
If, as has been. asserted, the desi f the con'
designs `of

spirators were known to ALEXANDER, 'it is im-
possible to assign the toleration of their machine'tions with impunity,
to any cause but that 0(
apprehension, from the extent to which disaffec—
tion might have been ascertained to exist
amongst the noble families of the Empire. An
alleged insurrection of the Mountain Tribes
of Caucasus, is made the pretext for banishing
the soldiers directly implicated in the lute
revolt at St. Petersburgh, to that 'savage di°.
trict of the Empire, where escape or communi•
cation with their fellow soldiers, will be alike
impracticable. An address to these men woula
indeed flatter them, that this banishment is but
for the gracious purpose of affording an oP'
portunity of" washing out the stain" with which
they are sullied, by signalizing themselves against
the Caucasian Insurgents. When these rebellious
Mountaineers shall be reduced to obedience, they
are to return to St. Petersburgh,—but to what
period the duration of this special service niai
extend, will defy conjecture. To have punished
so numerous a body of revolters might perhaps
be considered hazardous; and the assignment °r
this honourable service in Caucasia can be cps'