The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-09 00:00:00

sputrr OP THE 1113131,1 C JOURNAI,g.

Tho lust accounts ft con Fratica chew that the
moderation and prudence which have hitherto
narked the proceedings of the popular leaders, eft's-
tinned to be displayed. A repnaean party certainly
exists; but it is evidently kept in check by the ma-
jority of the friends of a limited mon:itchy. We
have before stated, that whether the Duke of Or-
leans or the Duke of Bordeaux be King, is a tpte;s-
tion which France alone has the tight of dreiding :
still we may be allowed to hint, that the decision
which soonest puts an end to the hopes or wishes
of the more violent class of republicans, will be
Most likely to secure the tratiqnillity of rrance end
the peace of Europe. In England, however, we
have not the meats of ascertaining the grounds on
which such a decision should be formed : the evil
of a long minority is deemed, we observe, by the
ablest of the Royalist hands, to be greeter than
any which would arise from the immediate appoint.
anent to the kingly office of a Ptince of menus;
years, sound judgment, prudent character, and pa-
eific dispositions. if the ;peat majority of the legit-
!alive body adopt this view, there will be little
ground to fear any contest on account of the stricter
title of the infant Duke: if, oe the other hand, but
which does not seem likely, the friends of the two
opinions are equally balanced, there will, doubtless,
be long end angry discussions, which would not, we
think, break out into open strife bete een the par-
ties, but which would encourage the old republicar
rsction to make head and, possibly, to triumph over
both. We hope, therefore, to see the settlement
of the monarchy speedily decided, and by a corisi-
dersble majority. We augur favourably from the
admirable sense shown by the more eminent leaders;
and if we may judge from the state of public
credit, the confidence of Frenchmen in the wisdom
of their legislature is strong and steady.— Time:.
We see by the result of the Dublin Lniversity
Election, that the danger which we foretold, that
hirk North's obstinacy in dividing the sere. .n.
West would effect the sticcess of Mr. Lefroy, has
been realised. The Bronswicker has been returned
by alt apparent majority of three. Mr. North
justified his conduct by stating that be had pledged
himself to stand, nod that one of his friends
latteted the redemption of the pledge; and therefore
that he Mr. North, exacted from all his friends the
execution of their promises. We have heard of an
obstinate juror starving out his weaker associates,
but we never heard before or, number of gentlemen
of education, good sen,,e, and high principles, being
forced not Merely into acquiescence, but Into active
steps, by one whose conduct they, one and all, are
the first and loudest in blaming us wholly un-
reasonable and erroneous. We suepect that the
logic taught in the Dublin University must be
strictly .Irish; in no other system of reasoning could
such a conclusion have been founded on such pro-
mires. There was, however, one satiefactory
rir-
r.urnstance in the election, and it Was well end

forcibly dwelt upon by Mr. Croker. So nirofgly,
It appears, does public opinion run in favour of the
Catholic Relief Bill, that Mr. Lefroy " the- child

Anti champion of Oratigeisin," not only did not
dare to avow the principles of his pity, but was
even driven to pores, a ,somewhat opposite semi-
ment I but the Orange mob which Idled the Hall
afforded a pretty sure pledge to the friends of tint
" good old cause of bigotry," that the moderation
Of the leader has not yet reached his followers,
The catete of religions freedom, however, has
nothing to fear' from. such leaders and such fol-
lowers.—Tints.

The Courier of Saturday evenio4, in an article
evidently intended to repress the benevolent exer-
tions now making in this country for the relief of
the sufferers by the late emdlicite in Paris, risks,
Whether there are not in the hands of the French
Government pecuniary means (or the relief of the
Sufferers by the revolution, without the necessity of
our aid—and whether the seers subscribed for that
purpose here might not be' better applied to the re-
lief of the poor of our own country`?" We will
deal with the latter pert of this emphatic interro-
gstory first. We ask the journalist, Who has penned
this article, how it happens that now, for the first
time, he discovers the existence of .distress in this
country—this happy, this prosper us cotirery, in
*bleb he hurl hitherto seen nothing but comfOrt,
plenty, and content Surely he and his brother
journalists, who last winter said so many pretty
things about the Elysian prospect which was to
open on the view •of the people of It:righted with
the first appearance of the crminse and the pritnrose,
do not mean seriously to admit- that, evil& at his
14119011 when the sickle is pot into en abundant
harvest, there is distress in this " proaperons
country"—end distress, too, which renders th,ise
who are effected by it as destitute nod betides-
objects of sympathy as the widows and' or-
philter of those brave man tviao were mower'
down in hundreds by the Wires of the gear
tram's, and the murdereus artillery of tin
French tyrant I When the COurier asks if the
French Glovernment have not peetiniary meows
at their command for the relief of the oufferers, wp
are inclined to answer thet they have; -and we wilt
go further, and point out what those means are.
The estates of Polignac, Veyroenet, arid the other
guilty advisers of the King of France—the melon,
of the carnage which hat polluted rho lest days of
the reign of Charles X , ought, in our opinion, by
en act of retributive justice, to be seized by the
State, and mold for the benefit of the wounded
time of Paris, and for the support and maintentrice
of those whom their inhuman policy hisseedueed to
a state widoWhood end orphanage. If Mar-
mont—the sanguinary instrument of a despot's ~iil,
who, in the coat of a 'Field-Marshal; did the work of
a public exceutioner—if this Mamma had any
property, its conversion into a charitable fund, in
aid of the subscriptions for the victims,, or the fs•
miller of the victims of his treasonable violence
against the people, would be peculiarly appropriate
—but he is bankrupt in property as well as in che-
wier—and, indeed, except Peyronnet, we under-
stand the chief contrivers of this tragedy had not
much property but what they could carry away,
when they acted upon the cowardly instinct that
generelly charm:terms men of .cruel disposition, and
left their king to the mercy of the exasperated
people, whose vengeance they had induced him to
provoke Isis.Mornieg herald,
•
That there is a prodigious qUentity of quackery
and missitleetion introduced into the public Arne
of all nations,,vo couwnon 'Olverver ism doubt, not
can there, we should imagine, be any more doubt
among rational people, but that the affairs of States
are capable of being curried on with as much sin,
plicity and clearness as flume of individuals, were
the actors in the scene inclined to have taken a
straight instead of a tortuous path. It has been
said of Prince Metternich, the moat celebrated of
the race of modern state mystilyers, that " it is
impossible for that man to go straight.torward;
whatever he to do he will try and accom-
plish, by a circuitous path, even .when it is his ob-
vious interest to pursue a straight one." But though
Metternich, a. the most prominent of the class, must
be content to be put forward to bear the brunt of
the odium, it is quite, clear that he only takes the
"din *career in which he hasabendence of willing
follevrers. There are but two motives to which we
tat n ascribe this miserable system ; the One, a It ish
conceal (coal uninkled in general a too ready per.
()option of the tiomotti..).o truth of " wI •to 1
what
iststiorn the world governed I"' or the mote
flagitious one of hrin
„sots too„,,
_ii,!l.!eise!it by fraud and trickery
16771,e: igettlii:riotLetserdness would :not
the rise, progrvm, erns atim,ite'dtiPtlme "ye, bets:
the late designs of the hteisj,kl,47l.7:";" oa
slave the people or that ()cowry. ~.'Wee7-7--ee 'n en
with the tortuous nature of ilerlnoc, j.,,`;tll}t"itle4
feedings, Bilignat is said to Live P")-
is deceived if every one- its:! ,What siploot titarie: ,hull
a satire upon this miserable system of crooked Govero.
meat, does this memorable expression disclose I
deceived, whet has been
And, oven were every one