The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-24 00:00:00

" PARIS.

" In all that is now doing, there is but one thing that
is really serious—the preparations making with so much
activity, ardour, and skill, by Marshal Soult. The last
three mouths have been occupied by the rest of the Mi-
nistry in discussing, with more or less anger, questions
which war alone could solve. Of all who have stood up
to France, that they had the most positive assurances of
the continuance of peace, not one of them believed a single
word of what they themselves said, while a Ministry, in
which there were men of undoubted talent was completely
paralysed by its forebodings of war, which it could not
avow. This is no time to faire des affaires, or to be de-
ciding questions of Government. That is the reason why
every attempt to administer or frame laws hitherto has
been pitiful and finally failed. Skilful men were the first
to laugh at what they were doing ;:and the ambitious have
excited the ridicule of others. The preparations for war
are, therefore, the only serious and positive object. This
is so true that the labours of Marshal Soult have
escaped every party discussion, being considered as a
thing of incontestable importance, and the only object
tending to a useful and certain result. At no time
has it been in the power of any Government to stop
the progress of events. The necessary work will al-
ways be done by some one and in spite of every intrigue
Thus have our foreign relations been carried on in direct
opposition with events, and France is indignant at
it ; but the real direction was followed by the Minister of
War, who has taken the only clear, easy, and patriotic
course.. It would have been desirable that the general con-
duct of Government, instead of being a sort of protest
against the warlike tendency of events, should have been
with more reference to that great necessity. Many dif-
ferences of opinion that now exist, and are unruly and in-
convenient, would not have burst forth, and those who cry
War to the counter-revolution ! War to the stifling prin-
ciples of 1814 would have united against the foreign
and internal enemies the men who brought about the re-
volution of July."
Pmt.'s, Jase. 22._Tke King presided yesterday at a
Council of Ministers, which at from half-past eleven
o'clock in the forenoon until half-past two in the afternoon.
His Majesty subsequently had a private audience with MM.
Rene de &mine and M. de Cello, the Belgian Envoy.
Yesterday, whilst the Duke of Orleans was dining at
the restaurateur Grignon's,:with the Colonel and Officers of

' regimeni, an individUal was arrested in the act of effacing
the Pleura de ?'s from the arms painted on his carriage.
(From the rational of Saturday.)
WARSAW, JAN. 10.-Lieut.-Colonel Wylezinski, who
had been sent to St. Petersburgh to announce that General
Chlopieki had been confirmed in the Dictatorship, returned
to Warsaw on the 7th of January. The Diet was accord-
ingly convoked for the 17th, in order to devise the means
necessary to he taken to complete the system of na-
tional defence. M. NYylzinski was the bearer of the Em-
peror's manifesto. He states that the Emperor received
hi i the plistri of enfals Dicitsch ahenen.
dorm ff;n and that his Majestny'se tone wash not so severe ask that
of his manifesto. Nicholas did hot deny that his brother
had acted wrong, atol Was the principal cause of the in-
surrection ; and added, he loved the Pales; that he looked
upon them as misletl children ; and that he would acquaint
them with his determination through Count Fezierski, one
of the Deputies, who is about to return to Warsaw. M.
Wylezinski, having been recognised merely as the bearer
of a flag of truce, was not allowed to see the Polish De-
puties, although told that they were in St. Petersburgh.
EttnisTaor, JAN. 14.—The night before last her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Letichtenber; received it
courier from Brussels, and immediately sent off an
estafette with despatches far her son, the Duke Auguste,
who was then at Anspach. He arrived himself the next
day, at three o'clock, and it was generally reported through
the town that he had been proclaimed King of the Ne-
therlands. The information obtained to-day from the
Palace states that the courier merely came to know would
the Duke accept the Crown if it were offered to him by
the malirity of the Congress ? The young Prince is said
to have replied that he was much affected by a proposition
so honourable for him ; that he had neither sought nor
expected it ; but that if the Belgians were unanimous in
tendering him the Crown, he would accept it with the
consent of his mother. The Belgian courier was sent
back the same evening. The Duke of Leuchtenbcrg is
to retool n on Sunday to join his regiment at Anspach.
The son of Prince Lieven arrived yesterday from Lon-
don, with despatches for Count Pozze di Borgo.
A letter frona Nantes announces that 2,000 English
muskets have been seized by the National Guard of the
vicinity, in the chateaux of several Vendean Chiefs.
(From the Currier Francais of Saturday.)
WARSAW.

Since the Dictator returned from Modlin, he published
an order of the (lay, in which he speaks in the highest
terms of the officers Who conduct the works of that place,
and which he found in a more advanced state than could
be expected. By another order of the day, the former
Commander of the Cadets at Kali.ch, the General of Bri-
gade, Ignace Mycielski, is appointed Commandant of the
fortress of Modlin, and the Lieutenant-Colonel Casimir
Malachowski, second in command.
It is reported that General Kniesicwi, z will have the
command in chief of the National Guards of the kingdom.