The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-12 00:00:00

SPITAIT OF THE PUBLIC JOIJRN

In framing, the proposed Address; of the French.
Chamber of 'Deputies, M. SanT..et, its avowed author,
appears to have laboured very
al.esit. :successfully in extricat
lag that sort of co e
tyon from its ordinary joiigrili2-
fiCallOe by the elegance of his style., As A litetuy
Tvailktution, it is entitled to praise—as 4 political ex-
peetesion of the sentiments of the Chamber, it is re-
iainrkable for the dexterity with which it steers through
a variety of debateable topics. It was to be expected
that the Chamber ,P.ll jell passed the Fieschi laws would
like to hear that the effect produced by them was con-
ducive to the welfare of the country. At the same
time, sotr.e equivocal phaseology is added, at the end
of the Address, as if it were an after-thought, appa-
rentky recommending a revision of those laws, as soon
as the tranquillity of the kingdom, and the character
of its institutions shall have been secured from
all danger of disturbance. The paternal feelitveo
of the King, on beholding the " eldest e,,his
race" already sharing in the military 'glories of
France, are cordially and properly responded to :
but the phrase of his " race" is not adopted.
The Duke of. Orleans is designated only as the
e‘ eldest of the princes ;" the King is to be reminded
that those princes had been brought up not in a pa-
lace, and that although the new dynasty is acknow-
ledged it is one that has been elected to the throne.
This colouring is given to the passage with a view to
soothe the angry feelings which it is well known tlee
phrase in the Royal Speech—somewhat too tr,uch in
the style of the Restoration—had excited throughout
the country. The reference to the all;:ence happily
seebsisting between France and Great Britain is couched
in significant terms. That allia:tee, says the Address,
" is an additional guarantee for the duration of peace ;
it ensures the duration and the maintenance of the
rights consecrated by treaties, the execution of which
is of importance to the balance of power in Europe."
It is understood, according to the interpretation
of the French journals, that the treaties here „re-
ferred to are those especially which stipulated for
Poland a separate national existence, and a repre-
sentative form of Government. Whether this be
the real intention of the paragraph or not, it is
clear, at all events, that if it he adopted by Minis-
ters, they may make use of it to show that they did
not suffer the cause of unhappy Poland to be passed
over altogether in silence. The paragraph will, be-
sides, enable the eloquent and enthusiastic friends of
that country in the Chaenber to unburthen tbeemselves
of the indignation which they feel against the Autocrat,
on account of hies recent violent con luct - towards the
Polish exiles rend people. Nor ).•:.:t it be said that such
expressions of opinion will be *barren of any advantage
to that people. Every -word uttered in France and
England upon this subjeet is echoed throughout Ger-
many, penetrates even to the Imperial Cabinet, and
appals the Autocrat in the midst of his parasites.
Every speech on Poland—every article descriptive of
her wron.:4s—troubles his repose and disarranges his
plans, and he will be compelled by this moral war even-
tually to do her justice, or to yield the throne to some one
who will. We have no commentary to make upon that
part of the Ade:tress which alludes to the Quad-
ruple Treaty. The passage itself, as well as the
explanations of the Ministers -with respect to Spain,
are entirely in unison with the spirit of that compact.
The 'programme of the future deliberations of the
Chamber, contained in the Address, is almost exclu-
sively confined to domestic affairs—the organization of
the municipalities—Ministerial responsibility—educa-
tion—administrative and judicial reforms—internal
communications—and, the most important of all, the
commercial relations of France with other countries.
Protection is also promised to the agricultural interests
—a promise more easy to be given than redeemed.
Upon the whole, this Address presages a tranquil
Parliamentary session, intended to be dedicated to in-
ternal improvements, of which France stands much in
need, in several departments of her administrative sys-
tem, and especially in all that relates to her foreign
trade.—Morning Chronicle.
The science of public puffing had reached perfec-
tion, we thought, as nearly as miglee:be. Of course
our position gives us peculiar fe:cilities for knowing a
good
deal about its curious phenomena, and its impor-
tant practical results ; nor are we likely to be very ig-
norant of the shifts and_ expedients, many of them inno-
cent and pardonable, resorted to for puffing a pill or a
publication ; ne;eleer are we disposed to be very cen-
sorious upon those regular professors of the science,
whose little artifices are often not only rendered harm-
less by their transparency, but in some measure
redeemed by their ingenuity and wit. Well, presuming
neon this knowledge of ours, the conclusion we had
come to certainly was that puffing, like pleasuring,
admitted of no further extens.ion ; that its nomen-
clature and range of action were at once defined and
complete, and to discover a new puff were just as im-
practicable as the find:mg of a new pleasure for the
ancient voluptuary to revel in, or a new world for
the warlike Macedonian to conquer. But really
human ingenuity is inexhaustible. What we had
conceived to be absolutely unattainable seems only
to have stimulated so successfully the patient and
persevering researches of fresh adventurers, that we
now begin to doubt very seriously whether the science
of puffing be not yet in a state of infancy. It is, we
admit, a heavy demand upon the credulity of our
readers, but announce it we dutifully must—yes, a
new pie' has actually been discovered—a capital one
too, and is at this moment being carried into practice
in the city. An ingenious writer has intimated, by
innumerable handbills stuck up for a week past in
every part of the metropolis, that he is about to publish'
in a few days a Periodical Work, entitled " Church
and State." Now handbills, whatever other met its
they possess as a device, are certainly not very re-
markable for their novelty. Nay, in exact proportion.
to their commonness and their liability to be defaced
by others, is their well-known and acknowledged in-
efficiency. The ingenious writer, therefore, to whom
we hare alluded, has felt the necessity of coupling
his handbills with something else. He has found
it expedient to advertise his work by a plan hitherto
unheard of, which shall have the effect of puffing
it into circulation, by its striking novelty and
by its anticipated success. And what does this
new and original puff consist in ? Not in parad-
ing the name of his publication through the streets,
painted on a caravan like Hunt's Blacking—that is
old. Nor in chalking its title upon all the walls in the
suburbs of London, like Dr. Eady's address—that
everybody knows of. No, indeed, he has hit. upon
the ingenious contrivance of endeavouring to get up a
public meeting about his favourite subject of " Church
and State" —w hich meeting, being meant to bring
his pamphlet into notice, has been extensively adver-
tised in every corner and crevice of the city ; and it is
to be held this very evening, prnvided the bait takes.
Credit is undoubtedly due to this person for his wag-
gery, if he be not hr,axing people altogether. The
fly, we admit, is pti.'„ upon the hook with great skill,
SO as to cover "Its barb, but we greatly fear that the
city gudgeon are much too knowing to bite. One
thing we recommend to this practitioner the next
time he attempts to advertise his work by gulling the
town with a public meeting about " Church and State,"
and that is—he should by all means contrive to get
at least two or three respectable names to give some
sort of countenance to the crafty joke—otherwise he
may find it ii, failure.—'limes.
Havie.etz_te taken rather a prominent part in exposing
the e`:11 effects of the absurd and mischievous Whig-
li.f.olical Chancery Commission-job, it is with some
satisfaction that we, at length, hear of the probability
of 11 speedy termination of the existence of that Coin-
In'sion, under which the arrears of business in equity
have increased, are increasing, and ought to be di-
eninished." Wei
blame not, and never have blamed
the Lords Commissioners themselves for the injurious
effects which the Commission-job has had on the pub-
lic interests. The very nature of the Commission
made the evils which have flowed from it inevitable.
No Ministers who had the least regard for the public
interests, or who were not very sad bunglers, would
have been bold enough or weak enough to have adopted
an arrangement for facilitating the business of one of
the three Courts of Equity which must of necessity re-
tard the business and grievously harass and impoverish
t joitors of the other two. Had such an arrangement
---- en inailifin,lreland, it would have been attributed to
4- Autidlial-.40 ride for blundering. Only think of
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