The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-16 00:00:00

the solidity of the existing constitutions, the welfare of
-nations, and all- the blessings of society. Respecting the
riseans by which they hope to accomplish this salutary ob-
ject, they will certainly ask advice of correspondents of
newspapers. So much, however, is certain, that if the
Spanish Government, as cannot be doubted, follows the
Nysteui of those Powers to which the intention of " order-
ing movements respecting the internal affairs of France"
is foolishly imputed, its policy could be no other than care
for the preservation of peace.
FUNDS.—Five per Cents. Metalliques, 924-.—Four per
Cents., 97.—Bank Shares, 1,033.

A Cabinet Council was held this morning at
the Foreign Office.

There have been no arrivals at any of the
Public Offices this day.

We are gratified in being able to assure our
readers that the much-desired opening from
Waterloo-terrace into St. James's-park will be
very shortly commenced. We hope it will be
executed in a manner, and with a spirit, worthy
the architectural magnificence of the ❑eighbour-

hood. A mere flight of steps will be but a sorry
boon to the public ; there should be an expansive
opening for carriages as well as pedestrians.

In another column will be found Mr. O'CoN-
NELL'S latest diatribe on the subject of the
Repeal of the Union. The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman, we perceive, still clings tenaciously
to his political bantling—the more cherished,
perhaps, in consequence of its weakness—
and rejects with scorn the idea of hav-
ing entered into any sort of compromise
with the Government. He compromise ! GOD
forbid : he is now on his road to England, for
the avowed purpose of bearding Ministers to
their faces in the House of Commons Such
is the language that Mr. O'CONNELL holds
out to his deluded countrymen,whom he further
exhorts to persevere in agitation,well knowing that
among all classes in every quarter of the globe
where any great national question is at issue,
the line of demarcation between agitation and
convulsion is very slight indeed—so slight as to
be scarcely distinguishable. If Mr. O'CONNELL
wished to confer a real, not a pretended boon,
on his country, he would at once merge the ques-
tion of Repeal in that of Reform, aware, as he must
be, that the success of the one will do away with the
necessity of the other. A real Reform once
obtained in England would immediately extend
its healing influence to Ireland, which we should
consequently soon see a happy—a prosperous—
a contented country. But then this hapless
country would not be indebted for its prosperity
to Mr. O'CONNELL, and this we suspect the
Honourable and Learned Gentleman cannot
reconcile to himself. It mortifies his va-
nity ; it clips the wings of his towering am-
bition. Hard case, but it is fit and necessary
that such pride should have a fall. By the bye,
we perceive that Mr. O'CONNELL scouts the
idea of having pleaded guilty. We will not
dispute his assertion, though for the life
of us we cannot understand the difference
between pleading guilty and withdrawing the
plea of " Not Guilty," which the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman had previously put upon
the record, and on the withdrawal of which the
proceedings against him were actually stayed,
the ATTORNEY-GENERAL declaring that he
would be satisfied with judgment on the first
fourteen counts of the indictment.

EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, AND LEITH RAIL•

WAY.

We beg to call the attention of our readers
to a set of resolutions which will be found in
another column, adopted by the Committee of
the Town Council, Edinburgh, in reference to
this great national undertaking, whereby they
will perceive that the Committee have agreed,
under certain restrictions, to give their cordial
support to the plan of a railway, by the line
surveyed by Messrs. GRAINGER and MILLER.
It is not, perhaps, publicly known, that the
Company have fixed the maximum rate of
charge betwixt Glasgow and Leith nearly 40
per cent. below the present existing rates, and
promised to the Chamber of Commerce, at
Belfast, to insert a clause to this effect in the
Bill.