The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-20 00:00:00

out soliciting that our co-operation should be allowed to
degenerate into an intervention. The Spaniel: army had
scarcely obtained its object when it abandoned the field of
battle, and withdrew to its frontiers, leaving the Portuguese
at liberty to govern themselves as they might think proper. If
the French Government ever desired, or does now desire, to
fulfil the Quadruple Treaty, it seems that the best it can do
is to imitate our conduct in Portugal ; for, we repeat it, the
Spaniards do not abhor, but, on the contrary, wish for and
will receive co-operation, and will be more grateful in pro-
portion to the energy and activity with which it may be car-
ried on. What thy do not desire, and what they ought not
to desire, is that any foreign Power should interfere in their
interior affairs."
This is an enlarged and a just statement of the
whole question. The allies of any nation become
her enemies when they attempt to coerce her internal
policy. France has unquestionably no right whatever
to dictate any form of Government to Spain ; neither
has she any right to declare the Quadruple Treaty
void so long as the Spanish people yield allegiance to
her Majesty Queen ISABELLA 11. But the most
significant portion of the article in the Madrid Ga-

zette is the following :
" The Journal des Debats asks, what would the French
have to defend in Spain ? Why, the cause of an allied nation
free as the French—the cause of a Throne as constitutional as
that of the French—the cause of the liberty of the nineteenth
century against the absolutism of the sixteenth and the fanati-
cism of the twelfth. This is what they would have to defend;
and we doubt whether there be a cause more noble, more
useful, or more glorious for the French nation and the French
Government : certainly that of Greece or Belgium was not
more so. We only recommend that in coming to co-operate
in the great work of the age they do not interfere in our in-
ternal affairs, for this does not appertain to alliance, nor ought
it to be done by a friendly Government. But if the declama-
tion of the Journal des Debats exercises over the French Mi-
nisters an influence sufficient to induce them to give up all co-
operation, the Spanish nation, whose constancy and intrepidity
are well known, will not allow itself to be alarmed on that
account. We shall know how to find means and resources to
enable us to triumph, and, perhaps, the French may one day
repent having lost an occasion which offers itself for deserving
well of a people united to them by the bonds of the constitu-
tional principles of liberty, and to obliterate from our minds
the recollection of an expedition of the Duke of Angouleme in
1823, and the succour which the south of France has continually
afforded the usurper."
We shall offer no comment upon the above. In
Lours PHILIPPE'S " Reflections for every day in the

week," we request for it insertion, as including the
subject of a Sabbath's serious meditation. If the
people of France can read it with indifference, and ru-
minate upon it without feeling themselves humbled
and disgraced by the conduct of their Government, we
shall confess ourselves utter strangers to their character.

We have received the whole of the Paris journals of
Sunday. Their contents are unimportant. Nothing
definite is yet known respecting the completion of the
new Cabinet ; but its policy is fully ascertained.
There is no longer a doubt of the secession of France
from the Quadruple Treaty. The new Ministers,
acting under the direction of the KING, will not only
not perform the stipulations of the Treaty, but they will ,
secretly render Don CARLOS all the assistance in
their poweL The Queen-Regent of SPAIN knows
this, and is prepared to meet the worst. In the mean-
time the revolutionary flame begins to scatter its em-
bers through France. The Republicans can no longer
conceal from themselves that they are now involved in
a struggle for life. They must triumph or perish. The
King of the FRENCH is their deadliest foe—and they
know it. His MAJESTY is certainly in imminent
peril. That he may escape assassination is the first
wish of our heart ; but that he will die SOVEREIGN of
France, unless he die a violent death, is what we never
for an instant believed since the commencement of
IS3I. The coercive system has completely failed, and
we greatly fear that it is' now too late to adopt
any other. From everything that we can learn the
hatred of the King of the FRENCH is too deep-
rooted in the hearts of thousands of his countrymen
ever to be eradicated by any legal process ; and were
we to credit one-fiftieth part of the reports daily con-
veyed to us, it would be our duty to implore his MA-
JESTY to leave France as quickly as possible, rather
than provoke her people to the commission of a dread-
ful crime, already familiar to the minds of thousands
of her people.

Mr. O'CONNELL has addressed a letter to the
Editor of the Carlisle Journal, expressive of his gra-

tification at the result of the late East Cumberland
election, which he says, " is the first cheering symp-
tom for Ireland that has appeared in England for some
time." It is really a thousand pities that the Ho-
nourable and Learned Gentleman will insist so perti-
naciously on our indifference towards the interests of
his country. Again and again we tell him that Eng-
land is anything but apathetic on the subject ; and
that so far from the election of Mr. JAMES being " the
first cheering symptom for Ireland" that has appeared
here " for some time," scarcely a week has passed
since the conclusion of the Session, that has not
been marked by some signal proof of English sympa-
thy for the sister-country. Is Mr. O'CONNELL in
the habit of reading our provincial journals ? If so,
he cannot have failed to remark the significant
language held at the various Reform Meetings,
respecting " justice to Ireland ;" and more espe-
cially, the tindignant reprobation which Lord
LYNDHURST'S sneering phrase " aliens" as applied
to the Irish Catholics, has everywhere called forth.
Certainly there has, as yet, been no great public
meeting on Newhall Hill; no musterings of thou-
sands in the North ; no associations for the ex-
press purpose of bringing the House of Lords to a
sense of its duty to Ireland ; but why is this ? Not
because England is indifferent to the welfare of the
sister-country, but because she entertains a rational,
well-founded confidence in the disposition and ability
of Ministers to carry all their liberal measures, without
her being compelled to have recourse to such extreme
agitation. Let Englishmen be once fairly convinced
that nothing but their rising in overwhelming masses can
procure redress for their Irish fellow-countrymen, and
they will not be slow to exhibit a unity and determina-
tion of purpose that shall far exceed Mr. O'CONNELL'S
most sanguine anticipations. The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman observes, " the Ministry cannot attempt to
coerce the higher order of Toryism until the popular
voice shall make itself unequivocally heard, and, if I
may use the word, felt." This is true; but is not that
voice making itself felt ? Are we not daily witnessing
its effects in the speeches of the panic-stricken Tories ;
in their attempts to form party Associations, and rouse
the country in their behalf ; and in the notorious
failure of all these convulsive efforts ? Mr. O'CON-
NELL may rely on it, that as the hour of action ap-
proaches, and it becomes necessary for the people to
make the Lords acquainted with their exact position, the
popular voice will make itself heard, and felt too, in a
manner that shall bear down all opposition. Though
Comparatively lethargic, JOHN BULL was never more
on the alert than he is at the present moment, but
I(nowing that opportunity is in itself half a triumph, he
is content to husband his resources, and bide his time.

There is nOone subject which has called forth from
one or two of the Tory Journals more of the worst
exhibitions of party spirit than the New Poor Law
has done. There Cannot be a shadow of doubt in the
mind of any reasonable man that the Law in question
most beneficial effects, not
has already produced the
only in the great diminution of the vast expenditure oc-
casioned by the old system, but in laying the founda-
tion of better moral habits among
the poor. The re-
ports from all parts of the country Concur in bearing
testimony rto these important ameliorations, although
the new system is but in its infancy. Yet the Times
and the Herald, with a perversity which has become
actually ludicrous, persist, day by day, in their at-