The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-27 00:00:00

cede from its pretensions, and if the result of a
new election should be the return of another Cham-
ber equally intractable and encroaching, these
circumstances, alarming and afflicting as they will
be to all who are anxious for the peace and welfare
of France' • will prove, not that the King or his
Ministers have been in the wrong, but that the
machinery established by the Charter has failed to
accomplish the objects intended by the Charter,
one of the most important of which unquestionably
was the security and independence of the Bourbon
throne ; and it will thus lead to the inevitable prac-
tical conclusion, that the letter of the Charter must
be so far modified as to be no longer contradictory
to its spirit. That the present posture of affairs in
France evidently tends to this practical issue it is
impossible to deny, and would be weakness and folly
to conceal. The issue is awful to contemplate. It
would be no less than a struggle among the French
people upon the elementary principles of Civil Go-
vernment—a struggle which can no where take
place without convulsing society in every grade and
department, and which in France, as at present go-
verned, would be a calamity not more grievous on
account of the evil it would produce, than of the
existing and progressive good which it would de-
stroy or prevent. In this last consideration there is,
however, much to console and re-assure us. The
gloom which seemed to hang over the destiny of
France is in a great degree dispelled, when we re-
collect that her people now enjoy all the solid
advantages of good Government—that they possess
the unspeakable blessings of equal law, and of full
security to person and property under its just and

pure administration—thatwhatevea is essential to
individual happiness and national prosperity is
conferred upon them by their existing insti-
tutions. We do not believe that any nation
would, upon light grounds, expose to hazard ad-
vantages of which the value is inestimable, and of
which, if once lost, the recovery might be difficult;
and still less can we believe this in the case of
France, where the election of the national represen-
tatives, being placed as it is by the Charter chiefly
in the hands of the middle classes of society, these
classes, less exposed than any other to the allurements
of ambition or the stimulants of faction, have alone
the constitutional right to speak or act in the name
and on the behalf of the whole people. The elec-
toral body in France must be sensible, however, that
all the advantages the Constitution confers upon the
nation would be endangered, if, when the Sovereign
appeals to them for the vindication and support of
his constitutional prerogatives, they were to disre-
gard the appeal. The consequences of such a re-
fusal are, we think, much too obvious and much too
terrible to admit of the supposition that the great
body of any happy and prosperous nation, and more
especially that the middle and upper ranks of such a
nation, will willingly and needlessly encounter them.
It follows from this that on an appeal to the electors
of France against the attempted encroachment of
the Chamber of Deputies upon the constitutional
rights of the Sovereign, the cause of the Throne,
which is the cause of national tranquillity, order, and
happiness, will be sure to prevail. If on such an
appeal the cause of the Throne should not prevail,
however, the conclusion, disheartening and mor-
tifying as it might be, would be inevitable, that
there is some peculiarity in the character of the
French people which renders them unfit for the Go-
vernment of a constitutional and limited Monarch,
and reduces them to the alternative of subjection to
a fierce democracy or to an absolute Prince.—Morn.
ing Post.

In the discussion on the Navy Estimates last
night, Sir R. Heron introduced the Resolution, of
which he had given notice, for omitting the Pensions
to the Hon. R. Dundas, and the Hon. W. Bathnrst,
who, after four years of service, had obtained Super-
annuation allowances (amounting together to 9004)
in consequence of the reductions effected in their re-
spective offices, the Navy and Victualling Boards.
After some debate the House divided, when there
appeared in favour of the Resolution 139, against it
121, being a majority of 18 against continuing the
pensions, a result as honourable to the Douse of
Commons as it must prove gratifying to the poli-

tical friends of the Government, since it is a direct
condemnation of those factious declaimers who pre-
tend to ascribe the signal defeats which their party
is almost daily doomgd to sustain to an undue in•
fluence exercised by Ministers; a calumny equally
flagrant as affecting the integrity of the Government
or the dignity of Parliament. Without looking to
the nature of the subject under debate, which is
immaterial, it was one in which Ministers took a de-
cided part, and the issue is sufficient to spew that
they desire only to have a question argued on its
own merits, and settled according to the indepen-
dent sense of the House. It is therefore no slavish
subservience to Ministers which has so repeatedly
and triumphantly pronounced in favour of their
policy ; their majorities have not been composed of
mere servile adherents, but of those whose judg-
ments, independently exercised, have come to the
opinion that they are worthy of public confidence
and of the support of Parliament.—. Morn. Post.

On Wednesday evening, as REEVES, the Bo-
rough Marshal, was passing a house of a certain description,
kept by a wotnan named COLE, in King-street, Borough-
road, she ran out and implored him to enter, one of her
visiters having suddenly dropped down dead. On hia com-
plying with her request, be perceived the lifeless body of a
gentleman far advanced in years, resting on a chair, and
immediately took possession of the property about him,
consisting of a 101. note. two sovereigns, his watch, spec-
tacles, &c. Mr. NicHoLs, surgeon, Borough-road, had
been sent for, but the unhappy man was past human aid.
REEVES afterwards found out the residence of his friends,
in West-square, whither he had the body conveyed. The
deceased was 70 years of age, and respectably connected.
—Morning Paper.
EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

—On Wednesday afternoon, at about half-past four o'clock,a
young lady, most elegantly dressed, while walking with
two gentlemen in.the inclosure in St. James's Park, on
the north side of the Canal, nearly opposite Stafford-
house, engaged in deep conversation, on a sudden rushed
from them, and threw herself into the Canal ; the youngest
of the gentlemen instantly plunged in after her, and with
some difficulty caught part of her dress. damn BAKER,
one of the Park-keepers, who was near the spot, and saw
the occurrence, immediately ran to assist, and, with several
other persons who came up at the time, succeeded in
rescuing both out of the Canal. It was soon discovered
that the gentleman who had plunged into the Canal was
the lady's,lover, and that the other gentlemen was her
father. The cause of her attempting the rash act was not
omkeintgieonnteide,n:,wfraos
from the conversation which ensued, it
was evident that her father had strenuously opposed some
paiticular wish of her heart relative to her union. The
almost frantic with joy, when his
daughter, who did not appear to be more than 18 years of
age, was brought safelon shore, nor did her deliverer ap-
pear less happy. The lady was conveyed tb the coach-
stand, at Buckingham-gate,and they all got into a hackney
coach, giving directions to the coachman to drive to the
to of
DANGEROUS STATE of WESTMINSTER
Bainut.-For iome time past, the Condition Of Westininster
Bridge has been under the consideration of the Commis-
sioners, and various repairs have, within the last two
years, been made ; yet still it remains in a dilapidated and
extremely dangerous state. A few days since part of the
road way was discovered to have sunk upwards of four
inches on the western side of the bridge. On inquiry, it
Was diacOverget -that the piers ci the bri4gg are not built
upon piles, but a sort of platform of planks, which are
laid on the bed of the river. It was also discovered thr.t
the ground under that platform had sunk upwards of
fourteen feet, and the result would have been, if this dis-
covery had not been made, that the whole foundation
would have been carried away, and the bridge destroyed.
The increase of the depth of the river is attributed tq the
innneuae influx of water 'caused by the .11.rge Lr'elles of
Y.ondun Bridge. -011' Monday; the small ardgt which sop-1
ports the road-way on the western side of the bridge, was
Old'ol6 ,'TOisy..ll and the tiinbers noßnected' with it
were found to he in the roost ruinous and dangerous condi,
tion. The large stones with which the arch is constructed,
had left their positions, and large apertures were seen be-
tween them, and the timbers were so rotten, that they
crumbled to pieces when touched. Workmen were imme-
diatOy get to labour, and a new arch will be speedily
erected. 'kite bridge was erected about eighty years ago.
Morninp Chronicle.