The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1849.

Writing, as we necessarily do, before the Speech
from the Throne has been articulated by the silvery
voice of our young and beloved SOVEREIGN, we are,
of course, compelled to allude only in the language
of anticipation to the remarks contained in that Mi-
nisterial document.

Cautious as these Royal orations are upon all oc-
casions, it can be no matter of astonishment, nor do
we think that it can, among reasonable men, be any
matter of regret that that rhetorical caution is ob-
served in the present instance with more than usual
scrupulosity. The extraordinary situation of affairs
upon the Continent, and the dubious posture of affairs
at home—we refer in the latter instance to the
changes inevitable upon the final expiration of the
principles of commercial monopoly upon this first day
of February—render it in a manner incumbent upon
her MAJESTY to speak only in phrases of careful and
premeditated obscurity.
There will doubtless be an express recommenda-
tion of those subordinate reductions in our expendi-
ture, with which the Cabinet vainly expects to " sop"
the Cerberus of financial agitation. And coupled
with the hinted diminution of our disbursements in
regard to the operative departments of the dockyards,
there may also be the indication of a hope that such
modifications may be made in the existings law re-
lating to navigation as might secure the extension of
commerce and the facilitation of traffic, without in any
manner jeopardising the mercantile enterprise of
Great Britain.

Of all the paragraphs composing the Speech from
the Throne, those which will be examined with the
largest amount of curiosity will unquestionably: be
the ones referring to the state of our foreign relations.
In lieu of the ordinary and almost stereotyped decla-
rations that her MAJESTY continues to receive from all
foreign states the assurance of their unbroken friend-
ship, it will, without doubt, be intimated that the
maintenance of such feelings of amity is amongst the
most earnest of all the aspirations of the British
monarchy. No allusion (or, if any, the faintest)
will, as a matter of policy, not to say of common
reason and delicacy, be made to the spread of
revolution throughout the European races ; and if any
solicitude whatever is expressed as to the successful
issue, or the auspicious progress, of English interven-
tion bet*een the belligerent powers of the continent,
that solicitude will have a secret bearing upon the
Sicilian and Schleswig-Holstein questions, as well as
upon the fortunate prevention of bloodshed by the inter-
position of the squadrons in the Mediterranean. It
may likewise be-safely averred as a fact deserving of
felicitation, that the most cordial understanding con-
tinues to be maintained between the Governments of
Great Britain and the French Republic.
Ireland will, according to what has latterly become
an invariable usage, constitute a prominent subject for
observation ; and wishes will doubtless be avowed
for the contrivance by the Legislature of such altera-
tions in the Poor-laws now established over that
island as may tend best to forward the interests of
humanity among the impoverished population. No
notice of any very expicit character is anticipated in
reference to the mitigation of the punishment of the
Irish rebels, headed by the late representative of
Limerick.
The allusion to the necessity for economy, of which
we have already
spoken, will, as might be reasonably
expected, come as a sort of supplemental recom-
mendation
Councils Commons
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blessings
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Of DIVINE PROVIDENCE the N will not
eornlybe
thleAj NEsaTtiTons
giving words to the hopes entertained EE
by
Ad-
ministrators, but articulating her own royal and
patriotic aspirations.
Such is, in perspective, the nature of that Speech
from the Throne which will be published simultane-
ously with our anticipative observations. It will be
the inaugu ration of a session of no trivial importance,
and will be redeemed in a great measure from the cus-
mary chars ,e of inanity and indistinctness in consi-
deration of the wonderful character of the events with
which its d elivery is contemporaneous.

The open. ing of Parliament is always art important
event, bvt t, Tzis opening of Parliament is more than
ordinarily au, 3picious. To-day the Members of the
Legisla cure a ssemble at Westminster, and to-day
Free T rade be comes veritably the law of the land.
With t' tie last ci ay of clanliATY Ole last hours of -Mono.

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