The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-30 00:00:00

were asked of him, but he prudently preserved
silencd; At'Ostetid he learnt_ that Ghent had risen
in open insurrection on Saturday morning.,s-71arci.
Last night we receiVed the Paris Papeis of Friday.
We have extracted froth litem several ordinances
issued by the 'Xing, and some other articles of in-
terest'. The law project fora grant of five millions
to be expended on public woiks pusied the Cham-
ber. of Deputies on Thursday almost unanimously,
there being Only two black balls against it. This
measure appears to have given general satisfaction I
but some of the Papers speak in strong terms of
disapprobation of ai deeision tpnie lb on the preced-
ing dab when the laW for forming jury lists was
disitusited.. lire Committee on the project had pro-
posed Ittat the age which rendered 'qualified persons
'competent to become rors should be for that duty,
as for electors, 2.5-. This proposition, though sup-
ported by the Minister of the Interior, was warmly
npoiseti, and after a debate, the age for_ the jurors
Was raised to 30. It is observed, by the Journal
entitled the Figaro) in allusion to this and some
other legislative prociedings, that they show that
all the Chamber wishes to do is, " to mend the
rags of legitimacy with tricoloured thread." Why
the question of the age of jurymen should be con-
sidered of so much importance is not explained.—
Times.

The Globe, alluding to some obserVations in the
-
Chronide of Friday; on the supposed inconsistency
of those. t,ho speak of the Duke of Wellington, with
reference to the accusation of his participation in the
Polignac conspiraey, observes
" The imputation on the Duke of Wellington may be
softened down till it amounts to nothing; but the accusers
to whom we allude can scarcely relieve themselves from
the charge of inconsistency, except by showing that their
accusation is nugatory.
" If it he merely meant that the Duke of Wellineton
wished well to the Polignac Administration, the charge may
be very true ; it may be true especially that he wish, d it a
greit blessing, which itdid not possess, ashareof good sense.
It is not unlikely that, as a Minister who cannot desire
to he exposed to the inconveniences and risk of any
change, and as a man who contributed to the settlement,
such as it was, of the affairs of Europe in 1815, he aid not
wish to see a new Revolution; but there is nothing mil-
p ible that we can discover in this, and, thus limited, the
accusation amounts to nothing. If, on the other hand, he
encouraged the Polignac Ministry of illegal measures—to
Overthrow, in fact, the established liberties of France by
fore...;—then we say he is a man with whom no friend of
liberty or order in England ought in any way to ally
himself.

"The Chronicle's accusation swings to this : the English
Oligarchy bated the Fiend, Constitution ; the Duke of
Wellington is a member of the English Oligarchy—there.
Fore he hated the French CAmstitutisn, and, hating it, he
must have prayed for the success of the King. The con-
clusion by the way is not quite inevitable ; but if the Ile-
cuooion is thus pared down to these limits, and acknow-
ledged to rest only on n probability, it seems scarcely ne-
reisary to utter it—for it is en personal charge against a
Minker that he is one of the order hum which Ministers
are always selected.
"..11ut we may observe that the sense in which the Chro-
nicle understands the accusation against the Duke of NM-
lington is essentially different from that in which it is
understood by the ultra-Tory party. The Chronicle
understands it as equivalent to the assertion that he is
well-affected to the Constitution of England ; the, ultra-
Tory patty consider it as equivalent to an assertion that
be intends to overthrow this Constitution.

" Whether the Duke of Wellington shares the feelings
of tie English Aristocracy we do not know, or what he
end they pray for in their hearts ; but it is nut fair,
by reason of these supposed prayers and feelings, to slink
the credit of his sets. We know that under his admini•
In./satin the principle* of relif/iuu►s liberty and the concord
of the people of the United Kingdom have been established
—to the great advancement, as the result has proved, of
the principles of civil liberty.--a benefit which we are con.
fident will be day by day more clearly perceived. He has
enforced economy—to a greater extent, at any rate, than
his predecessors—and he has maintair.ed peace. In mea..
we* of minor importance—his steeliness in passing
through the Beer Bill—he doer not seem to us to have
unduly consulted the interests of the body Whose feelings
he is supposed to share.
" It is unwise and unjust to visit on sorts a Minister all
the sins of the English Constitution which existed bef►re he
was born, and which will probably exist after be is laid in,
the grave. It is more unjust to countenance accusations
whir h, as every one must readily perceive, proceed gene-
rally from persons whose hatred has nut arisen certainly
front any hatred which the Minister has at any time shown
to free Constitutions, but from the good he has been the
instrunient to perform to the caused liberty end peace."
We urge no occusalion against the Duke of Wel-
lington; but we have, at the same time, stated rather
more with regard to him than our contemporary here
attributes to us. The Duke of Wellington may not
have promised aid to the lute Government of France,
and he may not have advised that Government to
adopt the measures which caused its overthrow;
but it would be' difficult to believe that his Grace,
as well as the Ministers of the other great Powers,
were not eon,ulted on the subject of the measures,
and also that they did not approve of them. tithe
Duke of Wellington had expressed Isis disapproba-
tion of the projects of the French Ministers►, is it to
be supposed that they would have persisted in them ?
The miscalculations of the 11Fnisterit of their means
for effecting their purpose have had the effect oftnis-
leading the Duke; bu► this has nothing to do with
the principle involved in the approbation. It is not
quite fair to charge us with deriving an accusation
against hie Grace merely from his belonging to an order
which must hate theßenchConstitto ion, We assumed

(and no very violent assumption either) the hatred of
the order to which his Grace belongs, of the French
Constitution, for the same reasons which attach
them to the English Constitution as defaced by
borOughmongerieg, and 'argued, not that because
the order hated the French Constitution, this proved
shut his Grace wished success to the Ek.King; but
that Isis wishing success to the French King was by
no means a proof that he could not be a fair English
Minister. We believe his Grace shares the feelings
of his older, and that the order generally hate liberal
Constitutions; but how sire we to have a Minister
who does not share the feelings of the order? In
this country it is not—Whom does the nation choose
or repudiate? but who can command Parliamentary
majorities. We are toady to admit the services
which his Grace has rendered to the country in the
ratublishmeet of the principles of religious liberty,
. L
and we are equally ready to admit tout he owes to
his Services in the cause of religious liberty a portion
of the opposition with which he has now to con-
tend. But we also remember that it was under his
Administration that au attempt was made to renew
the system of State prosecutions for libel, which had
been ebandoned for ten years. As to the eco-
nomy to which our contemporary alludes, we re-
member that it wits not be who consented
to the Finance Committee, but he who re-
fused to re-appoint it : and, that his eco-
nomy has beets far below the just expectations of the
nation. But if we were to allow him to have done
mote in the way of economy, as well as the esta-
blishmetit of religious liberty, then tiny of his pre-
deceisors, this only proves that his connivance
with Messrs. "Vilma° coil Co. does not unfit him
for any English Minister; because it is almost im-
possible to have an English !Olinger so long as
Parliament is constituted as it is, who would not
approve of the destruction of such a Constitution as

that of France, whereas it is very possible to have
a Minister more hostile to religious liberty, and
more disposed to profusion: The conduct which
we have attributed to the Duke of We;lington, if
considered in a moral point of vieW, is fur from
being pared down to nothinp,. It is, in fact, the
height of immorality to wish to subvert a Consti-
tution because it is favourable to the people, and
riot to a separate order. But, then, all those who
wish to promote the interests of the few at the ex.
pence of the many, espouse principles which are
utterly irrecoricileable with morality, because they
are founded on manifest injustice, and the Duke is
only culpable of what almost all the higher ranks of
this country would have been equally culpable Under
favoUrable opportunities.---Morning Chronicle.

A YAN.K V,'i '!'OAST.—" General JACKBON
4, live to eat the beef that fattens upon the grata that
wv‘if upon the growl of hit anemias."