The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALC;.

A morning contemporary on Saturday, in alludire:
to an article of ours on the French electoral system,
' infers that we ought to be advocates for voting by
ballot in this country, because we stated the opinion
of the great Majority of the'French politicians, that
without Ballot in France the elections could not ht.
eonductedwith,the requisite independence. "1/4.4 OM
~.., I,iTaemporary very candidly quoted the passage to
'if which he refers, and as in that passage a svecific
;eler m is given for the predilection of the kreeel
-'.' for their own system, which does not npply to
i, England, where the Government and the electoral
4)edy stand in a relation to each other entirely dif-
ferule, it would be superfluous to enter into arty
, . 1
l'io nee'exotanetil on on the subject, were we not
A afraid to tin eonclude,il thetfriends of getteral ballott-
ing even by illogical-inference. The Peered) elee.
'• total system nntrb..qs ate snore remarkable for their
1
i. irlail:.ltt:ie..°llll"l";itaTrs!t; 'than their
tahreeirt:tor"ml76Beliotafl'-'l.:o7i't,':
T.'.,. with literal privilege ,---no inagi4triteies elected by the
i ' t l, i of il ', C
peepieltn,epto i IJ, l4, rown,---no shield inter-
t pesod biiiwren the most obscure eleeter in the most
il remote bawler in the, kingdoM and the power tithe
I,' getteral Goveromeot. The prefer, sub-prefer, mayor,
`', mid other keel officers iweach tlepartmet4 derive
L their authority front the. Crown, and being realm'.
!,141 able at ita pleasure, act us one body on the interests
"of the single unprotected voteN Nor are they likely
1
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otetiihli,i s:ehretetil,::yr:st
(t)fhttihnem(dhiesotolmexs,ertehiesienogutelhetoriri:ou-t
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the
tit,t,yil
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rijceufceiltgeot
e'ritf.
miLstr:lntiihsiqttritilitalite:erceiltr:ciatitrthidkorslsi it.,:-.1.
*,,,, :I'46' olbordlinite agents. ',The clerks in the, Potl-
t, the direct tuxes in the provinees, the officers'or 'the
tribunals of jnitiee, even the officers of the , army,
their cominissionsi and consequently their means of
existence, depended upon the nature of their votes.
',; Were 1114 votes of these persons to be given openly,
it is inferred, and perhaps justly, by our neighbours,
that n. 0..(, one of theie,bulletins would tell fora liberal
eatelidae.. But aro, the freeholders, citizens, and
. ho,rges4s,of.England in this situation when exer7
~''rising their electoral franchisee? Some of the classes
'above-inentioned (sUch us revenue-officers) are for-
,i'' hiddltti to approach the poll-book in England from
j:os
t ' a belief that they could' nor, •%sith our open eye-
f tern, give en independent vote. But the ditr,,-
A:' relic° between the situation of the voters hi the two
countries consists, not se much in the institutions
,-. which shelter the electors from direct power in
the one more than the other, as in the very
;., constitution and number; of the electoral assent-
blies themselves. . The whole constituent body in
Prance, created by uniform laws, consists of only
rabout 80,000 persons, 'who 'must be the greatest
',,,,,k proprietors in the kingdom, as their qualification is
1 based on . property alone. The electoral colleges
,4..
thus often consist of clubs of electors, where, cc-
Ii cording to the opinion of our neighbours, a minis-
-0 (Hint candidate could not with safety be black-
balledl without secret ballotting. Accordingly, in
~o all the, directions given to the electora by the con.
.N sitirutional party, the voter is directed to conceal his
1 bulletin from the President and Secretaries of the
t://7 Assembly. In. many cases the Lilierula bring a
t:: huge piece of pasteboard or a ?creel) to conceal the
, baud of the elector from 'the Piesident while writ,
ee.
o'. ~ing the name of - his favourite candidate, and mote
'tlirtii one petition will be presented to the Chamber,
, .
at its :text meeting, to annul returns on tne.ground
L. that the officers of the colleges inspected the opera-
floes: of the voter, so as to know the contents' of the
.' sealed paper which he, threw ..into : the urn. We
need scarcely 6itow how different the electoral
body. of England 'is in this respect. There are
its many persons entitled to the elective trait-
, chiso in Westminster alorie as re! ern the 172
iii membere for the greater colleges over the 86 de-
r,, of Femme! The arguments against the
7q
use, of ballot in the electoral system of this country
(into which we cannot now enter) have always ap-
peared to its irresistible; but our neighbours know
' bet their own situation, and when they assure us
that without ballot the great body of .Freneli voters
... could not exercise freely anti independently their
.. titost'sucred franchisits, we are not such coxcombs
us to pronounce them in the wrong. 'Ballot with
them extends to the 'Legislative Chamber as well 'as
, 1)1. Electoral College; and, whatever may be thought
tle the honour of French Deputies, we have been
lt,i essured. that'the result of it deliberation, as indicated

by the black and white balls thrown into the urns
on the President's' desk after the appeal liinninal, is
often very dial:rent from thut indicated by : the
number of" ayes and noes," which he bud counted
before the scrutiny by the open trial of, tilling Laid
standing, or what in England would be called l' the
show of hands. "—Thies.
It has become a question—highly interesting, no
doubt, but not yet ripe fur satisfactory settlement—
to what extent, if at all, Ids Majesty's Ministers
aie likelY to be atrtingthened in the Parliament now
foithcommg. Certainty there is rio Administration
within our memory which held office and curried on
the affairs of State with 'such small majorities in both
Flotilla as that of the 'Duke of Wellington since the
opening of the session now, as we may say, expired.
Wo have often, however, stated it as our sincere opi-
Moo, that provided a Government could keep /Ile
ioliols of Slate in molion, the &liter it was in Pen-
lierrientery numbers, the more desirable would it be
that welt an Administration should cootinuc. A con-
' lition Artioistry, %Odell combines the bulk of two great
parties within it, is generally vicious from a double
cause. Its members, for the moat part, differ on poli-
tietd measures, and conciliate each other by a mu.
Wei complaisance ;in what concerns privete jobs.
Such a Ministry may be weak from inward dissen-
slots; bot it is bold and strong against both King
ailti country. The advantage of a " broad,bot-
torrield" Govermuent ;like that above-mentioned,
and the solo advantage, is the facility with which,
whine a useful measure has been resolved on, and
;tilt) be carried, it can put down opposition within
idoors: as the only disadvantage of a Cabinet, Hu-
nterically feeble in either house, is the extreme de-
lay and hesitation with which, under its guidance,
;,the public business advances us the session proceedS,
'The Pox tool North Administration was formitlehlc
from its factious .umbitiool the Whig and Oran.
villa wits paralyzed by its own distractions. J.
Wellington Ministry bait too much perhaps disre-
garded an array of strength in ordinary coedit:Ls;
and the consequence has been some delay in the
national affairs. Still great and ttseful mea,nreis
have been firmly conducted to their cleae. On the
eve of an election, the question which °more to
over), honest voter is, what candidates he might now'
to s,:nport ? Our own feelings are for the Ministry
Of tho Doke of Weiliogton, and
.we have more than
• once ovowkAthem, because it does not, appear til
us that the state of parties, and the store Of public
men at present in this kingdom, would furnish 0
hatter nucleus fOr the fJoverntunnt than the Cabinet
'of the Noble Duke. Those who used to be called
ilta.Whig party could not form nit 4 dminitaration
- likely to lust a month; nor the Toriesr—see mewl
titti Eldon and Neweastio Tories,.....one that pooh!
.1: by Pociiibility endure so long us the Gazelle ae--
, count of their ntnuals. anti offices was printing.
' Nor et•tuitl the hotly of extreme Whigs and of ultra
Tede-3 ,'-041 esc e' but through sacrifices of all We.
~. I.tittco to principle, the consciousness of which has
tdreg,ly deterred their chiefs from aiming at the
estahlislimeot evert of a relNiut opposition. How
1 notch mote hopelesit would be tin/ effort to manufae-
oire a .Govvraakeat out of such matt 1 I The
natural '"ution Uttita 4!risis seems to'teldths; ineor-
...t potation of moderate Tortes rho h '' • .
4 : f
the e%iot:ing (Ittitittet, with 0'134 hullivaidliTirlicifti
. the initlway 1)0W/11v:ft Tories nod Wiii holding
t. men con he found, 05 with 16 leaq Ari,!‘i! tirn biliell '
tatter class of statesr.iee, With t ,y►. 1 . 31. j *l4
A tiftitt Co ttio tvileii
ry of esndidates avows ti upon the bustiN, Iv, 1,„-v,,,
said lwfore, dint one: test with us. woithi be the 4ii .
position of t lieparty towardsn repeal of I he Coro I.l''
v,,,
_
1 ',..'i4 law forciA mu Ministers by the bigotry of th
--.h laii4vl.l iiltic v hr., ;iw.l pressing on all otlu r interems-
-4 nay, on that itself., -idle; a nightmare. A second
o`..%sitgliSM-o'-::

test would be a pled:4e to cut down the Civil List,
'Lod to support, systetnatically and invariably, tc,-
nernieal reform in every department of the state'
A third pledge, which we should feel disposed to
exact from candidates at this moment, would be
one for tmabliihing the right of representation in
favour of peat and populous towns, which doubt-
less are not adequately protected by their theoreti-
cd claims upon Parliament us a body ; and fin
which we should be anxious to gain something, be-
eause they combine the three main titles to consti-
tutional attention--property, intelligence, and num-
bers. There is no reason to apprehend that an at-
tachment to the series of public objects which -we
have- enumerated, would be incompatible with a
general support of the policy of the present On-
vernment.— Times.

regret to leer!) that the dissensions in the

London University to which we had hoped an ei.d
would have been put by the proceedings at the late
meeting, assume a worse aspect than ever. It was
admitted by, several members of the Council at that
meeting, that all parties, Council, Warden, and
Professors, had been in the wrong, and, tinder site);
circumstances, it would have been us well for all to
bury the past in oblivion, and to avoid as much as
possible in future the line of conduct which bad led
to the dissensions. Most people thought, after read-
lug the statements of the Professors, that if the
Warden had failed in respect towards the Professors,
there was, on The other band, in their catalogue of
his oftences,.not a few which might have been u‘
Well omitted. This observation, however, does not
apply to the complaints of all the Professors; for
two et them appear to have substantial 'grieV-
ances to urge. Orui of the two is the ,Professor of,
Anatomy. After what fell from Dr. Birltbecic at
,
the meeting, and which was mot contradicted, re-
specting the treatment of Mr. Pattison, we natu-
rally expected that that gentleman would be the
last individual with whom either Council or

Warden would wish to interfere for • some time
to .come. "It did appear astonishing to hingsaid
Dr. • Birkbeck);
.recollecting the splendid; and
ahnost unequalled testimonials by the influince of
which the Professor of Anatomy was ducted, that
the Council could listen for a moment to the unsup-
ported insinuatioes of an ignorant student." Ad-
mitting:that Mr. Efes►lell, the student alluded to,
may not merit the character of ignorant student (and
in an Snonymonsdetter received by us, conveying
accusations against Mr. Palliser) which we cannot
publish en anonymous authority, it is said that Dr.
Grant stated publicly that Mr. Eiesdell distinguished
himself over Mr. Phillips and _Mr. Bleckmore,_ their
two boil anatomists, chiefly by his accurate views
regarding the anatomy of the development of organs)
----admitting Mr. Liesdell to be even a distinguished
student —ndmitting.elso that the► Professor •of Ana-
tomy may have erred in u parlicular point, and tlnit
the student may have been in the right (for who is
!hero who can pretend to infallibility in any sci-
ence ?)—it does seem a strawge proceeding to place
the Professor 'on his trial for insufficiency at the in-
stanee•of one of his pupils. When was it ever before
heard of that a Professor, eminent in his profession,
and elected on account of the weight of respectable
testimony to his success as u teacher in more than
one University, was placed on his trial for incapacity,
at the instance of his own scholars Most people
will, be inclined to think that Mr. Denman acted
wisely wl►en he moved a resolution discouraging a
systc►n of interference between Professors and pupils,
which would soon • have the -effect of rendering the
Professors objects ofeonternpt to their pupils. And,
yet, we understand, that u majority of the Council
have been •so ill-advised as to persist in this foolish
system. They have summoned Mr. Pattison and
body of his pupils to appear before them, and carry
on a disputation, in their presence, in order that
through this disputation they may be able to decide
between the prole's., We need hardly say, that if
the Professor were to
„be fool enough to submit to
this mortification, -he would be deservedly an: object
of ridicule all his • life. •We • were, not-before awuro

that the Members of the Council were, virtuk
masters of all the sciences taught in the
University; and the claim to hear and determine
between a Professor and his pupils certainly argues
on their part no lack of self sufficiency. We should
hope that the Council will be better advised than
to persist in the ridiculous design of placing tnen
of eminence in their respective sciences on their
trial, not on account of any impropriety of conduct;
not on account of any neglect of duty, bat on ac-
count of the supposed discovery by some of their
pupils, that they (the pupils) are wiser and more
accomplished than their teachers. Take any two
writers on any one science, and they will be found
to disagree- on more points than one ; nay, what
man is there who applies himself to any science
who does not see constant occasion to alter his
opinions It does not follow that because a Pro-
fes.3or may be in error on a particular point, and a
pupil in the right, that. the Professor is therefore
inadequate, or that he ought to be called to account
the beads of the University. We would fain
st►ll indulge the hopa that an end will be put to this
foolish business, and that the expectations the pub-
lic were had to entertain of the benefit to be de.

tired from the London University will yet be
realized,--21forati, Mronicle.

It is affirmed that, there are foyer symptoms of
contest at the ensuing election than have been tutted
on former occasions—that few courttica either in
England or Ireland, and few of the populous
horonghs, will he disputed. WC are willing to,in-
terpret favottrUbly these signs of the times. With
respect to the counties, no one can wonder that the
honour of sitting fur one of them slmuld be, getle-
rallY'deeMed a poor compeusation for the expellee
of a contest. In times of keen party dissension' we
can easily eederstand bow it may become an object
with a patty •to return both the candidates, or to
endeavour to return one, when both have been mo-
nopolised by the other party. But in times like the
present, when every man views the question more
with reference to himself individually than with refer-
ence to a puny, the seat which is obtained at the least
expense will usually be deemed the best seat. We
do not hear brat the price of boroughs hus fallen
gin► the contrary, wo b,elieve them to lie higher than
ever; but candidates, We suppose, tuke the price of l'
close places us u ground for determining what open
places it may he advisable in theta to stand for. We
are utmost certain, that if those who conduct the Go-
vernment of this country net with tolerable judgment,
such ~a thing as patty, in the usual eceeptetion of
that term, will be no loeger possible. If a Minister
lets it be seen that he is really desirous of reducing
the expenditure of the country, he will have little
to fear from etthels. It is to be borne in mind that
the heavy charge for the interest of the National
Debt has a 'strong tendency to deaden party violenee.
The fund for distribution among the friends of the
successful patty bears but a small proportion to the
whole, wet-1444re, while, on the other hand, a
large proportion of the interest of the National
Debt is payable to a wealthy moneyed chute thifOugh-
Out the eemnry, who have less chance of obtaining
Government money than the Aristocracy, properly
so palled, and who therefore have an interest in fa-
vouring, in the jgapes Where- they possess influence,-
the return of Membera dispoeed to support econo-
mieal Measures. Great cliangee bevp token place
in the distribution of property in this country Withie
the last thirty years; the number of men in intle•
pendent pireumstauces is infinitely greater ; and with
the spread of intefligenee, we may reasonably hope
that this independence will be pi rye and more use-
folly directed. We are therefore inclined to think
that every fresh election will strengthen the ability
of the Goster,-A-4.,;4 to resist interested cab.tis
and of this we are certain, that
.PQ Government of
this country need any longer to be in apprehen-
sion of opy hind of great families, such as those
411"4"1- (0 in a PanlPhiPt to which we lately alluded.
We'do not think that MtiticiMit Ouwatice 6 in ge-
neral Made for the increased independence through-
out tho country, from the greater diffusion of pro-
petty. When cire:,ory King drew up his accoutit
of Englund landeeptoperty vas all in all. Tin:

franchise was then as much that of the landlord as
if he had' voted himself in right of his tenants. So
We as 1781, when the first edition of Sir John
Culluns's valuable " History and Antiquities of
Hawster was published, the connection between
landlord and tenant was almost as dose as that be.
tweet' a Polish Lard and his slave. Sir john, living
in one of the most improved counties of the king-
dom, Seffolk, says, " till now there used to be a
close connection between. the landlord and the
tenant; the latter looking up to the former as his
patron, and desirous of showing him every mark of
attachment maid respect ; but in the contested elec-
tion for the county in April, 1784, when several
gentlemen canvassed their tenaets, they found they
had already engaged their first votes, and were,
even denied their second.". Sir John was drereb
fully alarmed at this new " feature in the chit..
raeter,' of the, age.. Horace 'Walpole, giving
an account of, his last election for Lynn, ,spemik4
af the. people as having been little better than
savages when he was before among them. After
dwelling on the fatigues, he observes, ":Yet to in
the folks justice, they ore sensible, and reasonable,
and civilized; dmeir very laeguage is polished since
I lived among them. I attribute this to their more
frequent intercourse With the world and the capita,
by the help of good roads and post-chaises, which,
if they have abridged the King's dominions, tweet
least tamed his subjects." It is not long since even
Westminster was little better than a borough be-
longing to two or three Noble families, The in-
creasing respectability of the people will alone pro-
duce a considerable revolution in the mode of exer-
cising the franchise. In many places the respectable
inhabitants have had their eye on Westminster, And
,:endeavoured, by combination, to thwart mmo4/4 to
ignorance and poverty. Though, therefore., k would
he in vain that men should expose themselves and
their families to destruction by an independent exer-
cise of the suffrage, yet the number of those who
can afford to be independent is constantly increas-
ing; and the time may not be far distant when the
number. of independent places may be so great as to
outweigh the close places so much as to render pro-
perty in boroughs of little value. It is only the power
of reaching the public purse, which gives stable to
rotten boroughs.—Mirreing Chronicle.
We direct the attention of our readers to adetter
in another part of our columns fromn a correspondent,
explaining, in an accurate and forcible manner, the
nature and effects of the Chancellor of the Excite
quern's lute plasm for a modification of the sugar duties.
We might perhaps on this subject have adhered to
the maxim de mortnis nil nisi bonum, were it not
evident that something like a revival of the defunct
offspring of financial " ingenuity" was contemplated
at a future time, and that feelers were put forth for
that purpose in certain quarters. It has been stated
that " the West India planters are already regretting
the loss of the former Sugar Bill, and that it WAS
the greatest boon ever offered." We suspect that
the regret of the West India planters for the loss of
this " great boon" will not make them mourn as
men without hope, for assuredly they must feel that
the same ingenious talents for finance, to which they
were near being indebted fur, so great an oblige-.
tion, can, at any time they choose to solicit the
favour, find out some method of conferring on them
a boon as valuable and acceptable its that which
they have lost. It is impossible that the !libe-
rality or the invention of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer can have been exhausted by this' one
effort of financial generosity. 13ut, in reality,
if there were any boon, who was it to :be con-
ferred on ? Was :it the West India .plaritere ?
No, they are not quite so ignorant of their own in-
terests as to reject with disdain the " greatest boon
that was ever offered for their benefit. On whom
then was the advantage to be. conferred ? The effect
of the proposed alteration would be to give a bounty
to Matiritius sugar at time expense of the old colonies.
It was generally considered that Mauritius sugar
was already sufficiently favoured, and certainly the
rapid increase in its cultivation appears to bear out
that fact. it is worthy of. the consideration of
financiers, who are at all capable of taking a corns
prehensive view of great interests, whether there its
any prospect of the Mauritius being ever likely to
afford a " vent" for the produce of the manu-
facturers of these countries to any considerable ex-
tent. If not, sound policy should induce the Legis-
lature to pause before it ever adopts a system like
that proposed by the Bill in question ; which, in its
practical results, cannot but prove pernicious. But
even a fixed rate of duty ut a trifling reduction can
produce but little benefit to the planters or the
public, whilst it must cause a certain loss to the
revenue ; whereas a considerable reduction in duty
would occasion such .an increased consumption
as would materially benefit the planters and
the public, without the revenue receiving any de-
triment. When it is considered that sugar bears
now but one-half the price it did during the war,
mmn that the war duty has been contimed during, the
time of peace, the tax upon the article may be cum
sidered as doubled, and in this point of view the
claims of the planters to effectual relief become irre-
sistible to every reasonable mind. As to the .Cisn-
cellor of time Exchequer's measure, it violated the
first principle of a good law—uniformity of opera-
tion. This defect would have been productive of
great mischief, by rendering all time markets in the
kingdom infinitely mere unsteady and uncertain than
they could possibly be from any circumstances arising
out of the ordinary course of trade. To illustrate
the working of the proposed measure our corres-
pondent makes time following maculation. He sup-
poses the Gazette average of sugar to be 255., and
then proceeds to say—
Sugar Buhl at 265. would be subject to 275. duty.
Ditto 265. Ditto 255. 6d.
Ditto 234 Ditto 245.
Ditto 21s. Ditto 225. 6d.
Ditto 20s. D:tto 20s.

So that a certain quality of sugar, which, in one
market, might sell for 205., and be subject to 20..
duty,

If sold for 20s. Id. in 225. ad. duty
If sold for 21s. Id. **otter market 240.
If saki for 28s. Id. would ha hunject to 265. 6d.
From the above statement it is clear that, with re-
spect to direct importations, the importers •in one
market would frequently be called upon to pay fi OM
12f to 27! per emit. more duty for the some deserip-
aoh of sugar than the importers in another. But u
frequently happens, in the course of a season, that
there is a redundancy of sugars in one market, and
a scarcity in another; and it is of the very first itn-
portanee in such eases that markets should have
every facility mutually to relieve themselves—ibe
one from a depression of price consequent upon an
over-supply, and the ether from the dearness and
inconvenience arising from alearcity. 'lt is quite
evident to every person of common sense that the
Legislature should not impede the tendency which
markets have to equali-ze themselves by apportioning
the supply to the demand; and it is just as clear that
a fluctuating duty would throw great impediments in
the way. It should also be taken into account that,
the tendency of the measure was to discourage the
industry, and improved machinery employed in
the cultivation of the €tap,le commodity of the Bri-
tish West India colonies ; for, in the prepisu pro-
portion that the' planter is enabled thereby to
purchase a superior article, the proposed law would
operate to give a bounty to inferior sugar. A &-
proportionate demand for the inferior article would
censequently arise, *tip° would follow a cor-
responding depreSsion as to the better torte ;
neglect in the culture of superior sugar would ensue,
and in a few years all sugars produced would be
nearly equally indifferent, and, consequently, of
about the same value and thenl after the infliction
of a serious--perhaps an irreparable,—injury on thel
manufacturer, the scale of duties would become., in
a rent measure, if net wholly, -inotierative and ti
fixed doty, Ilihrtly a fixed duty, would prevail. It
has been indeed asserted that, because an urj yahoo)
ditties attaches to tea and cotton, it isnpplieehle to
sugar also; but the caws are totally dissimilor
Utolcr eirennisonees so unlike there can be un
parity of reasoning. The sales at the East India
1 House ectermine the diity on tea for the puked

Kingdom ; and, as to cottoni the duty on the ar.;
ride is trifling; whereas that on sugar is about 100
per cent. on the value. On these grounds we con-
sider the Chancellor of the Exchequer's measure so
objectionable, that it is no better than an insult to
common sense to tell us that the resistance and ridi-
cule which it met with in Parliament have not prc-
' vented the West India planters from mingling their
sorrows with those of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer for its untimely extinction Z--Morning
The result of the French expedition against
Algiers, although gratifying to the national vanity
of France, and in some measure creditable to the
present Administration, has had no effect upon the
ekctions, and is not likely to produce any
change in the sentiMents of the majority of the
Members of the- Chamber of Deputies towards
the Polignac Cabinet. Out of the 290 mein-
bete already elected, 181 are opposed to the
Government, and only- 109 in favour of it—a
sufficient number to watch the proceedings of
the Libeills, were they in office; but not sufficient
to enable any Minister, considering the spirit by
which the Liberals, and full threefourths of the
people of Fratice, are animated, to carry on the
Government. It may, therefore, be considered as a
point settled beyond all dispute, that the Polignac
Cabinet must resign its seals of office and that the
only chance of the Bourbons retaining in their hands
any efficient iufluence over the proceedings of the
Executive, is by throwing themselves into the arms
of the more moderate of the party opposed to the
existing Cabinet, and, by thus dividing ittestrength,
rendering the Opposition comparatively powerless.
But, although the capture of Algiers can have ne
effect upon the continuance in office of the exist=
ing Cabinet, it will unquestionably give rise to the
agitation of questions of great importance, not only to
this country, but, in all probability, to the peace of
Europe. We cannot for a moment suppose the
Government of this country to have been so unwise
as to have permitted the French expedition to leave
the coasts of France, without having obtained some
pledge that the conquest of Algiers should not lead
to its permanent occupation; but will the French
Government keep its word, or will it not rather be
inclined to 'assert, eking with the majority of the
people of France, that the right of conquest gives
also the right of occupation? It must be owned
that the French people, as well as the French Go-
vernment, have received from us abundance of les-
suits to the above effect in all quarters of the world;
and the advantages which might be derived by France
from the occupation of the Algerine territory are so.
numerous, especially in the event of a war with
England, that it ought not much to be wondered At
should they determine on practising them. Pretexts
in abundance, every one knows, are always easily"
found, when there is a reason for finding them ;
and although the French Government may have
pledged itself to withdraw its troops on ob-
taining satisfaction from the Dey, there can be little
doubt that it might assign many substantial reasons
for not fulfilling its engagements. But even sup-
posing the existing Cabinet to be inclined to with-
draw the French army from Algiers, what ground
is there to believe that its successor would be of the
same mind ? The French people, as we have just
observed, are in favour of a permanent occupa-
tion; and the Liberals are equally inclined to ex-
tend • the territorial dominion of France. Besides,
however shameful the act might be, no new Mi-
nistry could signalize its accession to power by a
more popular act than that of refusing to comply
with the pledges given by the Polignac Cabinet,
one of whose alleged crimes is tharof favouring the
views of England, to the prejudice of those of
:France, and, asserting boldly its right to the con-
quest which has . been made. We do not say that
such will be the case, but simply that there are suf-
ficient grounds for apprehending it; and assuredly
our fetus are by no means abated by the description
of the fertility and natural wealth of the Algerine
territory, from the pen of De Hemso, which a cor-
respondent of the Athenceton of Saturday last has
communicated to that paper, and which will be
found in another column.--Morning Advertiser.