The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-24 00:00:00

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then as now to Os own and 1 its co'
but that his chief, Lord Melb our° e, compelled hint
to offer Baron de Nourquene y tt
lese explanations ?
ef
Or is the Premier t snded 'sat' antry's honour,
. that distrust, the
creation of his own pt. Tiny, ,rich has shown itself
in the refusal of the En.'Pelxv to draw the chesnuts
out of the Dano-Germa:l, fl re for England ? And
would he take the small satisfaction of a feeble
mind by telling the Empe: •or that, as he does not
choose to help the Engl.? .sh Ministry out of the
scrape into which t beir, folly, impertinence, and
cowardice have got the 4m, his would-be assassins and
the patrons of those a sew sins shall be taken under
the protection of the E ish Ministry ? Whatever
the motives which have at 'tinted the Premier in re-
fusing Mr. Stansfeld's re 3ignation, and accepting►
for the whole Governme: it, , the responsibility of hts
relations with Mazzini a' ad. Mazzini's band of assas-
sins, the consequences c: Lomat fail to be most injuri-
ous to that alliance for which Mr. Gladstone and
Mr. Bright profess to be so anxious. The Emperor
is the siccerest and best friend of the English
alliance in Fiance; h a know s its immense value;
he appreciates its undoubted power to preserve the
peace of Eu.aope and to secure the development of
material proaaress. To maintain it he has made
many sacrifice's. Ofte. a since he has been upon the
throne he rest rained the national hatred of Eng-
land, and it is cae the greatest importance that he
should continue to d o so until a party is formed in
France which, forge, t..ng old rancours, will recog-
nise as well as the Emperor the value of the
alliance. If, howevc a-, the English Governmt nt
will take every opportunity of Vc antonly insulting
the Emperor; if the Premier, instead of allowing
a member of his 1N finistry, whose indiscretion
had mixed him up i n a plot against the life of
the Emperor, to r esign, keeps him in office,
assumes the whole responsibility of his acts,
• jauntily declaring, is fact, to France and Europe
that it is compatible • with the honour of an Eng-
lish Minister to be th e friend and protector of
men whose lives are spent in organising attempts
for the murder of the Emperor, it will be in•
possible for the Empei •or to retain his friends
ship for England—impos Bible to restrain the natu-
ral indignation of his p eople. Already seriously
shaken, the Anglo-French alliance will soon, if
Lords Palmerston and :autumn remain in power, be
at an enc::—at an end n of because the interests of the
two countries ran COW iter, not because France in-
sisted upon pursuing a policy which threatened
English interests or os:fended English feeling, but at
an end because the English Ministers were discour-
teous, insulting, and iniai diously hostile. Of what
value the cordial co-opera,'ion of France and Eng-
land is we see now, when the want of it has per-
mitted the Schleswig -Hots tein controversy to break
out into a war, which three tens to become general.
The Ministry profess to feel. the value of what they
have done so much to destroy ; but despairing of
succeeaing in repairing their fault, they, with the
' assistance and approbation of Mr. Bright, display
their spite and annoyance by a policy which cannot
fail, .
pursued a little longer, to substitute open
hostilities for the alliance.

COUNTRY TiIk\REETS.

LYNN-TUESDAY.

At to-day's market there was a fair attendance, with an
average show of wheat, and the prices of last week declined
is to 2s per qr. Other articles un altered.

White wheat 40a to 44s 1 Barley .. 34s to 36s
RA.. ..40s to 41s I Grinding ..39s to 321
Beans .32s to 318 I Oats:..
Small 34s to 36s I Peas to