The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-05 00:00:00

vading nearly every class of the people, against the
actual Sovereign, against the Bourbon name, and
even against Monarchy in the abstract. The Charter
afforded the means of giving effect to this almost
universal bias, and the nation, though possessing
every conceivable advantage that the most perfect
form of liberty and the best system of Government
could confer, did not scruple to employ those means
to overthrow the existing Constitution, end reek-
lessly hazard a change which could not improve,.
though it might, and we fear will, greatly deteriorate
their moral and political situation. Are we not jus-
tilied, therefore, in deducing that the French
people were unfit for institutions which they
turned to so evil an account ? 111-omened
was the day which granted them the Charter !
The struggle between the Crown and the pee*
was at hand; it could not have been long delayed.
Charles X. in deciding upon the course he adopted
did not create, as it is asserted, the dreadful cams-
trophe—he hastened it only by a few months, we
might perhaps more justly say a few weeks. The
existence of a fixed resolve to circumscribe the pre.
rogatives of the King, and finally to abolish his
authority, cannot be doubted by any candid and
attentive observer of events as they have occurred.
The pertinacity which the Liberals displayed in
opposing that most important and essential branch
of the King's prerogative, the selection of his Mi-
nisters, without the smallest assignable cause, and
before the policy of those Ministers had been in
any way developed, is in itself ample evidence of
the charge we have brought forward. The King
was thus reduced to the necessity either of reso-
lute resistance or calm submission. The single
error he committed was in the selection between
the alternatives, His single error was one of
miscalculation or of rashness in deciding upon
resistance without duly estimating his own power
or the state of opinion and principles of ac-
tion among his people. The sense of the nation,
though wrongfully, being against him, he would
have acted nobly, and with greater wisdom, in re-
' linquishing a Crown which he could no longer wear
with honour; therein adopting the magnificent
example of our George 111, who, under circum-
stances somewhat similar, had resolved to descend
from his throne, and to banish himself ,from his
country, rather than, on the one hand, surrender
those tights which he deemed essential to the wel-
fare of the State, or, on the other, expose his king-
dom to the horrors of civil war. Charles X. unfor-
tunately attempted remedial measures without as-
certaining his means of enforcing them. Of these
he was most strangely and fatally ignorant, while
atnoag his enemies the result of the trial was at
once clearly and precisely foreseen; the Liberals
appear, from the first, to have had no misgivings
whatever; their course was at once taken, and the
event has wonderfully confirmed the accuracy of
their views. That they may use well the su-
premacy they have acquired is our ardent hope,
though we regret that it cannot be our expectation.
Von* PM.

Though we are far from wishing to encourage a
spirit of nationality, it is impossible not to be
struck with the number of our northern countrymen
who are finding their way into the new Parliament,
and that for the most popular places in England.
Middlesex, Nottingham, and Norwich, have each
displaced Englishmen, to be replaced by Scotch Re-
presentatives. What do the beads of our English
Universities and public schools, and all the other
pioneers in march of intellect, say to this ? Are the
higher ranks in 'England only dootned to pay a high
price for education, and become none the wiser,
while the cheap and more solid acquirements of the
Scotch allow them to carry off the prizes which
present themselves in the lottery of life ?—.2lforn-
ing Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGUNCE.