The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.-BIUTISEI REFORM.

To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE.
PARIS, APRIL 23, IS3I.

Sta.—British and French interests were never at any
time so identifi- das a; the present moment ! Those who
neglect the one are indifferent to the real rrospeiity and
greatness of the other. It is, therefore, that althou,h we
are overchareed with the weight and magnitude of our
Own ceneerre,—altlintigh our own foreign and domestic
policy demands our daily, nay, our hourly vigilance and
care—and although the pes'tion of nance tu-day is most
difficult, m Ist tlyin7, most extranrdirary—yet we not
merely find time to consider, discus., and take an interest
in British questions of. British polities, but we are cern so
impressed with their vastness and extreme importance -to
all tile civilized world, that we even for ;he moment give
the pr,ference to the great British questi.in of R. form ;
and all our hearts and soul. are absorbed in that one in-
quiry, " Wi!l the Bill paws?"

To-day we are in a ;tate of unceitainty. We have re-
ceived the majority and minority On the proposition of
Geu. Gascoyne ; we have read the account of the inter-
view of the Ministers with ti:e King : we have read the
declaration of Mr. Hume in the House of COllllllolls that
he would vote for the Estimates, to ensure the dissolutions
We have read the assurance, of The Chronicle, The
Courier, anti The Sue. We h rye I ruched heartily at
The Post, anti have wished The Globe had been more
explicit ! We see that a dissolution is possible, nay, we
hope probable;, but yet I confess to you we are in a state
of great unrertainty, and nothing but The London
Gazette, with the dissolution of the P.rliament gazetted,
will relieve our anxiety, and remove our apprehensions.
The susses of the Reform Bill we consider as essential
to the peace of Europe . If the Bill shall wit pass the
Minister i. pledged to retire! That it will ptssin the pre-
ott Parliament we know, or are convinced to he impos-
sible! Then the Minister must retie, or the Parliament
must be dissolved. If the Parliament shall be dissolved
the. Gait Ministry will remain in oilier, and the peace of
Europe will not be disturbed! If the Parliament shall not
be dissolved the Grey Ministry will go out ; and we set it
down as certain that a Peel Ministry will be formed. An
out-and out Tory Ministry we are all unanimous in be-
lieving to he quite impossible—and therefore a Peel Mi-
nistry we conclude must succeed the Grey Ministry, should
the dissolution not take pl tee. There are some of us who
anticipate with a 1), el Ministry the return of hi. Grace
the Duke of Wellitigton to offiee. There time others of its
who seed thy Duke, of Welington to the Horse Guard%
and make Mr. Peel the Premier of his new Cabinet, with
the Goulburns and other " int fficieota" of your Extreme
Droit Then we tell you th it either of there eoinbi-
nations will crc de onivera d alarm, and will lead to a cone
tinentil war. The Duke of Wellinuton and Mr. Peel
have characterised the revoliir;on of July :r a del lurab'e
event—have Itch) tilt the revo'uti"n of I3elginm to olr_
position and scorn—bast. said, Look to France, and hc-
in fine, rendered tl,eruaelvt s ol►nox;ous to all liberal Eurol.r,
and especially to reeenerated Fiance. The Coot of
Vienna wool I view their return to effiee with de:ight ;
the Court of Madrid would certainly decree a 7'e Deuce
laudani us—and the Miguel Man of Porto al would of
course ask fire the fulfilment of the promise made to hita
in the opening sp ech of the present Par.iament,
said that the moment had then arrived when, it would be
desirable to send an Ambissador to Lisbon. The appoint-
ment of a Peel or a Wellington Ministry at the present
moment would compromise the cause of the Belgians, ruin
the cause of Poland, and render it imparative on the part
of France to march her armies to the Scheldt, the Rhine,
the Alps, and the Pgenees. You will perhaps tell me,
that after all, these ate reasons, whirls interest
France more than they interest Great Britain ! I answer
No—the greatness of the two countries is identified, and
the liberty and dignity of France are from henceforth as
necessary to the peace and greatness of England, a- the
prosperity of British trade and commerce is necessary to
French manefactures and to French wine-groweis. Po-
litically and commereialy, ;deli and French interests
are daily hecomine more iderolfied--and perish tlit hand
of that man, or that Minis•er, who would attempt to
the order of the universe by making France and Britain
act, ns if they were intenOed fits the destrufelen of e.ett
other, instead of having been placed end created for the
purposes of friendly intercourse and mutual benevolence.
Once more. 'flue nomination of aPe 1 or Wellington
Ministry at, the present moment would be a serious injury
to the cause of civil and religious liberty. In Germany
it would diecom age the Ilanuveri ;us, the Hessian*, the
Bavarians, the Brueswickers, the Prussians, and the
Radians. Instead of peaceable amelioration., conceded by
Kines and accepted by the people, we thou') have refusal!
' on the one side, and resistance on the other ; and, QS usual
for the time, we should have bloodshed, anarchy, anti
confusion. In Austrian Italy the tif et would be ex •
tremely sad. Instead of the rethement of A list, ian troops
and the amelioration of the. Constitutions am! Gnvern-
merits of the Italian States, until the moment shotdd arrive
for another national an I simultaneous movement, we should
have Modena persecution,. and Parma executions, and the
constant occupdion of Romania by Geppert ; and France
must fight, as well diplomatically- as military, the battlee
of Europe! If the independence of Poland should Ire
preserved, it would he at the risk of a Continental
war, and thousands and tens of thousands of In eve Poles
must yet dye with their blood their patrimonial estat. s.—
And, finally, the rejection of the Reform Bill, and the
nomination of a Peel or of a Wellington Ministry would
be of immense injury to Gee a Britain ! Her trade, com-
merce, manufactures, and shipping would al suffer, War
would bring along wi!li it new taxes—new loans—
' new burthens, and increased reason for dissatisfac-
tion. The policy of Englaud would continue to be sus-
pected. Instead of a frank, open, beartft4t, sincere alliance
l'etween that clattery and Fiance, we should h tie these
petty jealousies, those miserable intrigues, and that des-
picable system of diplomxy re-established from which
neither nation Lax ever derived any•good, and which
involved them both in unjust sod unnecessary ware: In
England education would snake no pregtea.a, the Arta
and Si-it-I.es would not flouri.b, and impror einem, and
inventions of peace would cease to occupy the attention of
the philosopher, and the industry of the seient•tie anti
mechanize; and, inatead of the progress of civilizat,ou,
and the advancement of human happiness and human Cu..
joyment, you would have all your time and thoughts,
nay all your hopes and souls, engaged in the success of
British arms, and the triumph of Piritish Diplomacy.
The adoption of the Reform Rill will get rid of a host
of actual evils. It will avert millions cf disasters which,
t few weeks hence, it would lie impossitile to prevent. It
will preserve peace. It will render revolutions unreves-
aary. It will assi-t the cause of civil and religious liberty.
'lt will place out of danger the principle of " Constitu-
tional and Littera! Mooarehies." It sill disturb more
but the perjured, the bribed, or the briber, anti will en-
sure to a certainty to one of the greatest, if not the grvaiest
country in the world, a national representation. It will
make France and England good neighbours. It will
accelerate the arrangement of tic Belgian que.tion ; anti
it will finally assist in the greatest possible, degree the im-
provement of the national morels, character, honour, and
happiness of Great Britain.

this is our view of the subject ! We pray then the
British Monarch to dissolve the Ihu►se of Co►nwons ; and
we promise'hi►n in return the sincere alliance of thirty-
two millions of freemen. 0. P. Q.

Struve qui pea seems to be the order oldie
lay among the Tories ; they are absolutely pmic-stricken.
Sc Lively has the Royal proclamation reached the ex!retnity
rf the empire, and yet, even now, we find the Anti -Ite •
it laying down their arms, and surrendering at di,L-
cretion. Mr. DICKINSON has evacuated Sotnersetsk,T ;
Lord WM. Powt.yrr, Durham (county); Sir Trram.‘s
DYKE ACLANO, Devon; Admir..l SOTHCRON, Not
(county) ; Mr. Turvaa, Carmar•hvashire; tic.
WILBRAHAM EGERTON, Cheshire ; Mr.- R. A. DurroAs,_
Ipswich; and 11. t, though not least, Sir Ronnwr V ii.s•LN,
!he homugh of Southwark. Tie enemy IL L., in
.th"e
nstane.s, evinced the greatest pusillanimity, LoLonth.
retreat even helare the appearance in the &oh! of
,Lroc2;
f0t0... It will go hard, indeed, with Loy. "
statutions," if they are to be thus übatii one
I in lair ut-
tno,t need.