The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-31 00:00:00

be remembered, they wrought hard to accomplish, they
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would lay b n tempted to repeat the game they
played so un c sfully on a former occasion. Hap-
pily for the country—for the Charities—and for the
fools themselves, too, the Commons saw their object
and defeated it.

We direct our readers' attention to the following ex-
' tracts, from a memorial lately addressed by the German
Refugees from Switzerland, to the Secretary for the
Home Department:---" That some of them, but not
all, had made part of an association called Young
Germany, which had been chiefly propagated by Baron
Von EIB, who, to their knoWledge, has spent for that
purpose at least 5,000 Swiss francs, and who has, be-
fore the authorities of Zurich, avowed his being a spy
in the pay of the German Governments. That this
Society had no other end but the propagation of free
opinions by means of the Press, which end was to be
attained by the establishing of a paper, called Young
Germany, of which the first number had appeared,
when they were thrown into prison. That Baron Von
EIB, the spy, has made a proposal of an armed inter-
tion into Germany, which proposal was rejected
by the rest ; and that no such armed interven-
tion was ever, for one moment, contemplated by
the members of the Association. That they were
not only hurried away from Switzerland, but even
prevented from taking their effects, and collecting
money due to them, an assurance being given that
they would be set at liberty as soon as they touched
the soil of France. That in France they were seized
by the gensdarmerie, and posted off to Dover. That
35 individuals have been thus, brought to England,
none, of whom know a word of English. That 24 of
them occupy, mostly since the 3d of August, two
room, at 92, Chambers-street, Goodman 's-fields, for
which they pay Bs. a week ; that these 24 individuals
sleep upon the hard floor without any covering ; that
two of them lie sick in the same house, and several of
the others feel seriously indisposed ; that almost all of
them have no change of linen or clothes ; and that the
money they have left is only sufficient for two or three
days longer." Except in the instance of the poor Poles,
who have been expatriated and slaughtered by thousands
by that arch-fiend NICHOLAS, we do not know a case
of greater hardship and oppression than is contained in
the above touching extract. We here find not less
than 35 Germans, made the victims of a spy of the
despotic Courts of Germany ; hurried away at a mo-
ment's warning from their own country ; treated as
criminals of the blackest political dye ; and cast on
the shores of England, with scarcely the means of
subsistence from one day to another ; for no other rea-
son, than that they have attempted to enforce the
principles of justice and common sense among their
countrymen, through the legitimate medium of the
Press. If this be not tyranny in its most aggravated
and inquisitorial form, we should be glad to know
what is. And yet the very men who have been guilty
of it, are the very same who were the first to cry out
against the despotism of Napoleon, and under the
pretence of advancing the cause of freedom, to league
together in a fraternity, under the specious name of
the " Holy Alliance !" Holy indeed ! And
so too was the Inquisition, which, neverthe-
less despite its sanctity, hurried millions of
wretches, by an apt process of torture and fire, to
the grave. As if these narrow-minded, Continental
despots had not sufficiently outraged all propriety, by
their conduct to the German Refugees, they must needs
make it still more insulting, by transporting them to
England just as though that kingdom were a sort of
Siberia or Botany Bay, fit only for the reception of
the most abandoned criminals ! We do not, however,
wonder at the abhorrence entertained by the foreign
Courts towards Great Britain. They cannot but see
that we are setting all the free spirits of Europe in
motion against them ; that Reform is shaking the old
continental monarchies to their centre ; paralyzing
the energies of Russia, and whispering words of
encouragement into the ear even of prostrated Po-
land. Knowing these things, the foreign Courts—,
more especially the German ones—hate us, as the
Devil is said to hate holy water ; but let them
not flatter themselves, as they would fain do, that they
despise us also. No, no, their detestation of us is too
active, too intense for contempt : it is the result of ap-
prehension—of that feverish apprehension which a
convicted criminal feels, when he sees his Judge putting
the black emblem of death upon his head. To return

however, to the German Refugees. We trust that our

countrymen, ever prompt, ever zealous to succour the
distressed, will not forget that these poor persecuted
men are martyrs in the same cause for which so many
of our own ancestors unhesitatingly braved death in
the field and on the scaffold. They have been convicted
without a hearing, expatriated without a crime, and are,
consequently, worthy of our utmost sympathies.

The French Papers of Monday represent the for-
mation of the new Cabinet as a very difficult under-
taking. No definite resolution appears to have yet
been come to on the subject. Count MOLE has had
two interviews with the KING, during the last of
which the Messager states him to have informed the
SOVEREIGN, that the mission with which he was
entrusted appeared all but hopeless ; nevertheless, he
would use his utmost exertions to come to some definite
understanding with M. GUIZOT. On Sunday M. Gur-
zoT arrived in Paris, and had a long private interview
with the KING. It is said that he objects to take
office under M. MOLE, and that without him or M.
THIERS he despairs of forming a strong Government.
Baron PASQUIER, President of the Chamber of
Peers, has been frequently consulted by the KING re-
specting the formation of an efficient Cabinet. Ge-
neral SEBASTIANI has also been solicited to assist
his MAJESTY with his counsels, but whether the
KING offered to appoint him President of the Council,
as is rumoured, we cannot tell. However, the KING
is greatly annoyed that so many difficulties oppose him
in a course which he imagined quite clear. He knows
that M. TRIERS will thwart him at every step;
but he is anxious to have it believed that the services
of the Ex-President are by no means indispensable to
him. THIERS himself is not in the most amiable of
moods. The little Minister is fond of occasionally
indulging in coquetish airs, and by degrees came to be
of opinion that he might act as he pleased, as in point
of fact the KING could not remove him, there being
no one to take his place. This annoyed the KING
a good deal latterly. The flippant answer of THIERS
galled the " Great Napoleon of Peace," who happens
to have as large a share of vanity as falls to the lot
of most Frenchmen and ex-pedagogues. Accordingly
matters were ripe for an outburst even before the
question of Spanish intervention was formally dis-
cussed in Council. It is whispered that TI-TIERS is
now sensible of his error, and if the KING afford him
an opportunity, he will make as many apologies for
his past personally offensive conduct as his MAJESTY
may desire. We believe this to be the fact, provided
he sees any prospect of the Cabinet being formed
without him. THIER:.; is essentially a little man ;
with a great deal of shrewdness, and a great love
for hustle, cost, and profusion. His wife has as
strong a relish for show and expense as her hus-
band.

Both mistake an insolent demeanour to-

wards the humbler classes, and their immediate depen-
dents, for aristocratic dignity ; and a tinselled exterior
for georgeous magnificence. Madame THEIRS is no-
body—or if anything, only an expensive doll, privi-