The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
We are happy to find that the friends of the late
Lord Holland have determined on opening a public
subscription, for the purpose of erecting a monument
to his memory. They have token the right course. The
memory of one who for half a century filled a conspicu-
ous station in the political world—of one whose name
is inseparably connected with the progress and triumph
of those great principles of civil and religious liberty, of
which he was from first to last the intrepid and consis-
tent advocate—is, indeed, public property, and cannot
he monopolised by any circle of personal friends, however
numerous and however warmly and sincerely attached.
The appeal thus made will, we have no doubt, be
promptly responded to. As a politician, and as a man,
Lord Holland possessed in an eminent degree the qua:i-
ties which should command from his countrymen a tri-
bute of affliction arid respect. As a man, no one ever
made warmer friends or fewer enemies. As a politician,
he was straight-forward, honest, and sincere ; he never
deserted a friend or sacrificed a principle ; in the worst
of times, as in the best, he stood forward the uncornpio•
mising, yet moderate and enlightened, champion
of the people's cause ;—and in the decline of life lie
advocated the same views and maxims of Liberal policy
which, in the outset of his career, he had learned
in the school of the illustrious relation whose principles
as well as name he inherited. As the last representa-
tive of the old Whigs of the Fox School—of the in-
trepid band who bore the brunt of the battle, an:l
amidst the panic caused by the French Revolution, the
triumph of arbitrary principles, and the defection of ail
that was timid and wavering, never deserted their
colours, and never despaired of tha cause of liberty,
Lord Holland hiss carried with him to the grave the
, regrets of many whose hearts are still warm at the re-
' collection of that period, as well as the grateful vene-
ration of those who knew the days of terwism and
proscription, of penal laws and disabilities, by report only,
and who now enjoy, in peace, the benefit of the religious
toleration and civil privileges, for which he so long and
earnestly contended.
(From the Courier.)
Some of our Parisian Contemporaries arc laboriously
engaged in the Sisyphean task of depreciating the glory
of the invincible victors of Acre, aad crying down the
importance of its capture. Thus the Cowries. Francais
is pleased to express itself in the following mild and
gentlemanly language. " The English Journals now
boast, because they know that France, as long as she is
governed by M. Guizot, will always yield ; but that a day
will arrive when the French nation will become tired of
cowardice at home and of impertinence abroad, and that
then the audacious pirates who give this brutal character
of aggression to the English policy will have to account
to France, which will not be so easy a matter as to enter
into St. Jean d'Acre without danger, after it had been
completely dismantled by an explosion." The con-
temptible coxcomb who penned this terrible trash
should have been careful lest in flinging his dirt so
fluently around him he should unwittingly souse his own
more valiant naval countrymen head over heels in
the boue. The brave Baudin might reasonably
remonstrate with bins that the triumph of the
Trench fleet in the storm of San Juan de Ulloa,
alter a bombardment of nine hours, was successfully
consummated at last only by the accidental explo.
sion of its powder magazine, into which bombs
or rockets chanced to penetrate. As to the
day of " account," whenever that may arrive, and far
distant be the day, we rather think this account itself
may come to be rendered, and the balance struck—in
that case a real fiuiquiio de todos cnentas—in Paris as
heretofore. We would remind these ridiculous gaseo-
natters that Acre was not defended by a timid troop of
Mexican Indians, such as those of San Juan de Ulloa,
of whom the Anglo-Saxon Texans make so small ac-
count as fearlessly to engage and surely to rout, with
odds against them of twenty to one in number, but by
the best and most practised men of Ibrahisn's veteran
army, commanded by a courageous Pole, and the for•
midable artillery of the fortress—once impregnable when
manned by Turks only against Bonaparte—directed by
skilful French engineers.

(From the Siandard.)
Some of the provincial papers emulate the folly of the
Paris press ; ex gr., the Caurrier de to Moselle has
the follow profund observations :
" The Ministry of peace on any terms has just made nu-
merous promotions in the army. It has appointed three
Lieutenant-Generals and twelve Major-Generals. The
army, which is condemned to a shameful state of inactivity,
appears destined,to receive all the advantages of war ex-
cept honour. Rank was formerly obtained at the expense
of the enemy—at present it is at the expense of the tax-
payers. We are much deceived or this anti-military and
anti- French policy will bs badly understood and but little
relished by our regiments, which, notwithstanding the de-
moralising efforts of the friends of the foreign Powers, have
always continued to remain the sanctuary of the national
honour."
Nothing can be more certain than that soldiers are
in time of peace condemned to inactivity, and that if
promoted at such a time they must be promoted other-
wise than at the expense of the enemy. But here comes
the question :—are nations to go to war for no better
object than to direct and to accelerate the current of
military promotion? We fear that too many in France
think so. It is plain that the Courrier de la Moselle
is of this opinion. So much for the speculations of
the French Press, which are valuable by reason of their
very absurdity. When men are clearly in the wrong, it
is the most desirable thing in the world that they be
impelled to speak out fully and freely, and we ought to
forgive even the fury and ill-manners which some-
times afford the stamp of freedom. The Press has been
called by short•sightel persons an incendiary. It is
exactly the opposite ; it is, in a free country, the beet
guarantee of internal peace : between free countries it
is no less a guarantee of friendship. liy the press
pie negotiate with people, in a much purer and more
honourable spirit than negotiations can ever be carried on
by interested individuals ; and the results of the
negotiations of the press are more permanent
than any other, because they are founded oa the con-
victions and feelings of the men who are ultimately to
govern all (if we are not too demecratical in saying so).
The people will not long give confidence to a corrupt:cr
interested press, therefore the press of Paris is as much
despised by Frenchmen as by all others, but the people
will give confidence to a press at once honest and tem-
perate, therefore the people of England are proud of
their press. which undoubtedly stands at this moment
on the highest ground in the opinion of Europe. All
this results from no disparity of talent, but from the