The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-28 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

F. B.—The Commissioners of Police might probably be
justified in interfering where the proposed experi-
ment were one of a decidedly dangerous nature; but
in ordinary cases we conceive they have no such right.

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LONDON, SATURDAY,AUGUST 2i, 1852.

There are certain common decencies f
bigelatly vio-
beor expression
‘,vhich, we conceive, ought never to
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lated by the journalist. It -- would
courteous, for example, in a newspaper of
peak of the Emperor of all the RussLis as—Mr,
to
..4.ICHOLAS, any more than it would be civil in r.:
newspaper of Paris to mention our Most Gracious
SOVEREIGN as—Mrs• VICTORIA. Yet the commonest
regulations of etiquette are being now-a-days perpe.
tually violated amongst ourselves—flagrantly, and
deliberately, and without the slightest vestige of pro-
vocation—in regard to the brave French people,
through the person of the accepted leader of their Go-
vernment. In the Parisian press we never find the
Queen of the UNITED KINGDOM scurrilouslY alluded
to, again and again, as Mrs. VICTORIA. Yet in the
London Press on the other hand—or rather we
should say with a somewhat more definite particu-
arity--an one section of the London Press it is re-
-I:,eatedly observed that the PRESIDENT of the French
public is spoken of, over and over again, as Men-
...)ur BONAPARTE. Supposing for an instant that there
were
anything at all pretending to wit in the expres-
sion, it
to might of course just once in a way be barely
tau'er4tefdi3'
arßnut instead of wit the phrase breathes
to the dietatiegate. It betrays an utter obtuseness
apart from the most ordinary delicacy. It is
all of
whatever, of
eiatiirgnroent. It partakes in no degree,
subtle attributes of the
most obvious or the most
It
is the humorous. It is simply an
impertinence.
as a coalheaver mialimpertinence, moreover, such
luring a moment ef guotco indulge in once in a way
certainly
passion, but which
the coalheaver would
utterance to, as Mrs. pipEuTlY refrain from giving
visalest,
happiest joke ever made mute' rePeatually.” The
.enntl
continual repetition. The pooreceste"rilY pall upon a
baldest joke must, still more flattest,
actually intolerable when reiterated Y, become
that in its best light was never at a phrase
at all, but merely a gratuitous 4ntoYke n
joke
flagrant disrespect and uncalled-for discout of
becomes at last as odious as in the first instant it
:7'
unendurable. Our neighbours across the Channel
are in this manner insulted time after time usque
ad
1:486.27n. The man they have selected by nearly
thel4T MILLIONS or VOTES—is thus designated in
ilgar slang of the gallimaufry. The man who
is the elected of universal suffrage—the man whose
na) am has been twice accepted under the shadow of
the ballot—is thus
sneered at by
to means of an epithet
a.s shallow as it
is intended- be contumelious.
Monsieur BONA2ARTI
We might as reasonably
Dor of Mrs. ISABELLA. More
talk of Mr. LEOPOL E
reasonably, perhaps,
as things go--for we don't pre-
cisely remember where it i
`e king of the BELqw: placed upon record that
's Or that the Queen of

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