The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-14 00:00:00

rily savour of dictation ; inasmuch as the latent
determination to enforce them, is sure to make it-
self unpleasantly felt. Having, therefore, waited
so long before seeking redress, we would recommend
to our merchants to wait a little longer—jnost to
allow M. TIHERS and his friends to take poss,.s-
sion of the seals of office.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday state that a
meeting of the Left Centre and the Left took place
at M. ODILLON BARROT'S residence on Monday
evening, to discuss the constitution of the New
Cabinet. After some deliberation they uu<n
agreed that M. BA RROT should stand
.as
a candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber of
Deputies, and that they would support a Cabinet
formed as follows :

Piesident of the Council and War SOULT ;
Foreign Affairs TIIIERS ;
Interior ......
Instruction GUIZOT ;
Finance DUCIIATEL

It does not seem, however, that much progress
had been made in the formation of a Ministry.
The KING was supposed to have his own reasons
for not being in a hurry.

There is no other news of interest in the Paris
Journals. The arrivals from IVhdrid are of the
4th, but they, too, are unimportant.

We were quite right when we stated nearly a
month ago that the Belgian Deputies purposely
delayed the adoption of the Treaty with Holland
in the expectation of the triumph of the Coalition
in France, and we were equally right in assuming
that the KING of the FRENCH resorted to a dis-
solution of the Chambers to get rid of the Beloian
question, aware that the leaders of the Coali-
tion could not then with any show of con-
sistency, approve of the adoption of the
Treaty by Belgium. It now appears from the
Brussels Journals of Tuesday, just received, that
the Opposition in the Belgian Chamber of De-
puties are doing all in their power to protract the
business of that Assembly, with a view to keep the
question of the Treaty undecided till they can
make another appeal to the revolutionary sym-
pathies of the French Chamber. They ima-
gine, now that the Coalition has triumphed,
that M. THERS will make the rejection of
the Treaty, a sort of Cabinet question. This
conduct is likely to place the new French Mi-
nister in a very ticklish position. M. THIERS
denounced the Treaty when he was out:of :office, as
he would have done any other Ministerial measure
opposed to popular sympathies ; but they sadly mis-
understood him who supposed that, as a Minister,
he would not be the first to ratify it. He voted
against it because he expected to be in a
minority. Politicians are not the most scrupulous
of mankind, and M. THIERS, lively and clever as
he is acknowledged by all, is not even the most
scrupulous of politicians. Still, upon this question,
he overshot the mark. With all his sophistry he
can point to no new phases in European politics to
justify a change of opinion upon the Belgian -ques-
tion ; the bulk of the Coalition regard his former pro-
fessions as convictions ; and what is more embar-
rassing still, he has no reputation to throw away at
the opening of a new Session, and cannot, therefore,
turn round directly and vote for the Treaty. Such
is the dilemma in which THIERS is placed by the
obstinacy of the Belgian Deputies.

But Co accelerate the decision of the Belgian
Chamber of Deputies, a proposal was made by
the Ministers on Monday that the Chamber should
in future sit five hours daily, instead of three,
which was agreed to after a violent opposition by the
opponents of the Treaty. In the course of what might
be more properly called an altercation, than a
debate the object of the procrastinating system was
avowed by the Opposition Deputies. This will
lead to increased exertion on the part of Ministers,
and, according to the opinion of well-informed per-
sons on the spot, the Treaty will be adopted, as far
Its the Chamber is concerned, in the course of a
a few days. Some rioting is anticipated, but no
serious disturbance is apprehended. •
The triumph of the French coalition appears to have
alarmed Holland. The latest advices from Amsterdam
apprise us that the Dutch troops are everywhere in
course of augmentation. This appears to us a very
unnecessary measure, and calculated to produce
more evil than good. Holland cannot arm without
alarming Belgium, nor Belgium move in sell-de-
fence without exciting a commotion by no means
favourable to the Dutch in France. King Wu,
LIAAI'S best policy is to leave the final settlement
of the question to the Five Great Powers acting in
concert.