The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-26 00:00:00

appear in the German Journals, do no: come from
St. Petersburgh, but from Warsaw ; and, for the ,
most part, embody the personal feelings and designs
of the EMPEROR, rather than the measures sane-
tioned by the Imperial Cabinet. In -a word, the
Imperial Foreign Office has rarely anything to do
with them ; it is the CZAR, speaking by the mouth
of a Polish Secretary. Such of our readers as have
read the summary which we puldished of the con-
tents of the Papers relating to the intrigues of
Russia in the East, presented in the early part of
last week to Parliament, will hardly be able to re-
press a smile at the impudent and lying allusion to
the discovery of the weakness of England by
the Affghans. Why the fact is directly and
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notoriously the reverse. It is Russia that has
been covered with shame and disgrace not only in
Affghan, but in Persia I The triumph of British
diplomacy and British moral power has been most
complete, not only in Lahore, but in Cabool, in
Herat, and finally in Teheran, the hot-bed of
Russian intrigue. With respect to the question
of Turkey and Egypt, we shall waive all reference
to it for the present, being persuaded that its
settlement will not be left to Russia alone. We
know the double game which the CZAR is playing
in Cairo and Constantinople quite as well as he
does himself:—
The last accounts from the interior of Russia state,

that the Emperor will make a journey next month to
the provinces of the Black Sea, to inspect in person the
army of the south. We are assured that detachments of
troops, dispersed during the winter, have been ordered
to concentrate in the neighbourhood of the ports. to be
ready for any event. The complications have been in-
deed singularly modified in the course of the winter, and the
friendly external relations between England•and Russia will
probably not be interrupted. The Emperor Nicholas does
not feel obliged, for the moment, to direct his military
farces towards Southern Asia, the English having by their
own hands given themselves a wound which may prove
mortal. Thus the collision of the two rival powers is for
the moment adjourned. The English have doubtless ac-
quired the certainty that the brave and warlike Affghans
are not to be so easily conquered as the people of Hin-
dostan, whose effeminacy is proverbial. Truly, a kaleide-
scope is always presented to us from the banks of the
Thames, but notwithstanding that we know how to appre-
ciate the state of things. It is a pity for the pride of the
English that the warlike Maharajah of the Sikhs should
have discovered their weak side. England has incontest-
ably placed herself in a very bad position by her last enter-
prise in the favour of the weak Shah Soojah; she has thus
worked for the advantage of Russia, who succeeds now by
her diplomatic agents better than by her arms. By the
conquest of Aden, the English have, it is true, gained an
important point; but the skilful Mehemet Ali will do all
in his power to deprive them, as much as possible, of the
advantages arising from the possession of this Gibraltar
of the Persian Gulf, and he will succeed in spite of all
obstacles.

The complications in Asiatic Turkey, which, in appear.
ante, are near a solution by the sword, have for us more
immediate interest. That is the reason why the Russian
army of the South will take the field on the first signal,
the war with the Circassians can only be carried on
slowly as it has begun, the nature of the country preventing
a rapid conquest. It is only by increasing gradually the
Russian possessions, and by the construction of a chain of
forts, that these tribes can be subjugated. The Shah of
Persia has again thrown himself into the arms of Russia,
and the Sultan will do the same. He resembles a political
weathercock, for any other policy than this would place his
existence in danger. In that case Russia would not fail to
give to the Sultan her energetic support, and Mehemet
Ali will, in spite of his alliance with the maritime powers,
be obliged to retire within the limits of his vassalage. If,
on the other hand, the Porte should adopt the suggestions
of Lord Ponsonby, and eschew Russian influence, the
policy of the Emperor Nicholas would probibly not allow
him actually to ally himself with the Pacha of Egypt; but
he would not hinder the latter from leaguing himself with

the Shah of Persia against Turkey, to whom the immediate
eons, (pence would be the loss of her Asiatic provinces.
N\ e may therefore expect, in the beginning of the spring,
important events in the East, for it is scarcely credible
that the diplomatists who wish to ward off hostilities will
be able to succeed, considering the characterestic incon-
stancy of the Eastern Cabinet.

The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies,
on the Ministerial crisis, was brought to a close on
Tuesday evening, and to the deep mortification of
the Court, terminated in the implied censure, by
all parties, of the conduct of Marshal SOMA'.
TH I ERS' triumph is now complete. MM. GUIZOT,
PA SSY, D UFA UR Ep and CUNIN GUIDA I NE, the
latter one of the firmest supporters of the MOLE
Administration, avowed their readiness to accept
the programme drawn up by M. THIERS, and re-
pudiated the idea of throwing any obstacle in the
way of a Cabinet of which he was to have been
chief. The explanations on all sides were made
with a degree of frankness and sincerity highly cre-
ditable to the patriotism of the -Chamber ; and
it was observed that the leaders of patties looked
agreeably surprised to find that the artifices of the
Court had alone prevented the healing of their
mutual divisions. The Marquis of DALMATIA,

son of Marshal SOULT, declared in the Chamber

on Monday that his father assumed the responsibi-
lity of those acts which the Opposition laid at the
KING'S door, more especially the rejection of the
claims of M. Tiffmts to be appointed to the Fo-
reign department. The Chamber has gratified the
illustrious Marshal to his heart's content. It could
not pronounce a stronger condemnation of his con-
duct without proceeding to impeach him. He
may now add to his other claims upon the
gratitude of France his self-immolation to
cover with irresponsibility the Throne of
LOUIS PHILIPPE. That the Marshal is personally
blameless is known to every person, except so far
as he has been weak enough to allow himself to be
made the tool of the KING. But the result of this
debate must satisfy 'inn that the Chamber will not
suffer the interests of France to be sacrificed to the
chivalrous notions of the most illustrious of her
military defenders ; and the KING must at last be
sensible that where such explanations are demanded
as a right no. Minister, however ardent his devo-
tedness, can adequately screen the unconstitutional
acts of the Chief Magistrate. We shall see in a
day or two to what extent the Court will profit by
the painful lesson which has just been taught it.
When the debate on the Ministerial crisis was
!Nought to a close, M. MAUGuIN brought forward
his motion relative to the insult offered to the
British Flag in the Gulf of Mexico. The Duke of
MONTEBELLO, the ad interim War Minister, re-
peated in substance the explanations addressed by
Count MOLE to Lard PALMERSTON. The Cham-
ber took but little interest in the question, which
was soon got rid of.
The Chamber of Deputies did not sit on Wed-
nesday, and there is very little news in the Jour-
nals of that day. Lists of a new Ministry were
handed about, but under existing circumstances it
would be a waste of trouble to give inser-
tion to them. The last revolution of the wheel
placed TUIERS at the top, and SouLT and the
KING at the bottom, but how long it will remain
stationary is quite uncertain. However, some-
thing must be determined upon, as the affairs of
France cannot continue to be conducted according
to the present system.
The following are extracts from Wednesday's
Journals:—
A private letter from Turin of the 20th, contains the
following particulars on the subject of the treaty of com-
merce between Sardinia and the United States :—" You
will observe in the Piedmontese Gazette a copy of a treaty
of commerce concluded and signed in Genoa, in November
last, between the Count Color de la Marguerite, his Sar.
dinian Majesty's plenipotentiary, and Mr. Niles, as the
plenipotentiary of the United States. Several of' the
provisions are peculiar and highly important—the 14th
article stipulates for the free transit of not only all the
products of the United States, with the exception of
salt, gunpowder, and manufactured tobacco, but for
the products of all other countries imported from the
United States, either in American or Sardinian vessels,
to the countries bordering on the territory of his
Sardinian Majesty. This provision displays the success
ful exertions of the United States' Government to open the
most direct and cheapest vent for the its great staples,
cotton and tobacco, to the inland, countries of central
Europe. It conveys also the most unequivocal evidence
of the disposition on the part of his Sardinian Majesty to
afford every possible facility for his neighbours to receive
their supplies of transatlantic products through the port of
Genoa, as well as an unembarrassed outlet for their manu-
factures. Indeed nothing can surpass the liberality of
the general and special provisions of this treaty, while
the American Government can claim the credit of
having overcome the difficulties which have hitherto
prevented Sardinia from opening her ports to a re-
ciprocally free trade with other commercial coun-
tries. His Sardinian Majesty may • justly claim the
high honour of having adopted, in regard to internal com-
merce through his States, freer and more enlarged views
than those hitherto avowed or acted on by any other Eu-
ropean Government. Genoa will now have every reason
to bless that good fortune which has united her with Sar-
dinia, and which secures to her the advantage of carrying
on the transatlantic commerce of countries beyond the con-
fines of Sardinia herself. It is a little remarkable that the
first treaty of commerce ever entered into by Sardinia, in
eluding Genoa, should have been concluded with America,
discovered by a Genoese. It is now anticipated that a
railroad will in the course of a few years be established
between Genoa and the foot of the Alps."
The measure by which the Archbishop of Cuba recals
the Christinus who have emigrated and restores to them
their property, which has been confiscated, is extolled by
the Journals of the frontier of Spain as a great step towards
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