The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-28 00:00:00

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

From an unusual press of matter we are compelled to
restrict ourselves to a brief summary of the contents of the
leading articles of the Morning Papers this day. Ther
Morning Post, in discussing the speeches of Marshal Soua
and M. Thiers in the Chamber of Deputies. on Wednes-
day last, i
says—" The speech of the ex-Minister s !or-
flexed, obsure, almost contradictory. and
fulf of peevish,
personal bitterness." The Times, speaking of she Eastern
Question, says—" We have frequently declargd our own
wish to be that Mehemet Ali should be peaceably and
securely settled in the Government of Egypt. V.Ve desire
it on grounds wholly unconnected with the causs.s, pro-
gress, or military results of the quarrel now all but termi-
nated." The Morning Herald thus expresses itself .on the
subject of manning the navy—. Why should impress merit
he ever necessary? England abounds with sailoes—the
best sailors in the world—,all of them,too, eager to p vocure
employment? Why, then, should these men be compelled
to serve on board Queen's ships ? For no other re. AB "1
than that Government will not pay them a fair cquivafent
for their labour." The Morning Cho (midi, in a leading ar,i.
vie on M.Thicrespeech, expresses a hope that it " folly de -
monstrates the wisdom and necessity of England's interfer-
ing to restore to the Sultan those shoreb and that influence
which the French Minister owns he endeavoured to keep
for the Paella, solely for the benefit of Fiance." Th..
Morning Advertiser says, with respect to M. 'Thiers'
speech, " the whole exordium implied as high a tribute to
the policy of Lord Palmerston as that nobleman's mess
enthusiastic eulogist could have pronounced upon it."
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Highlands would show more of the real lift of the people
the thetrawdriittitoenns
than the most correct chronicle of their political changes. For this
purpose they should perhaps be recorded'es nearly as possible in
the language of their depositories. Sir Thomas Lauder, however,
preferred giving us his Legends, dressed up with the skill of a prat..
tised writer, and flavoured with only just such a tincture of Scott i-
cism as the most fastidious purist might relish. As he performs
for the public the part of an ancient Seanachaidl), he has thought
himself entitled to the privileges of that venerated character, in
giving increased poetical effect to his materials. His Legends are fell
of stirring interest, and contain passages of description which makes
us almost feel the keen air of the mountains, and the elastic tends
of the heather.—Morning Chronicle.
ARMY AND NAVY.--The December Number
of " The United Service Journal ; and Naval and Military Naga_
sine," contains, among other important Papers: _A petition
the Queen from the Undecorated Officers of the late War —The
Nezib, by T. M. Russell, late of the Kurdistan —
Battle of Expedi.
tion, with a Plan—Letter of Captain Reynolds, with
marks—Strength of our Fleets in the Chinese and
1 Seas—England's Wooden Walls. No. XIII. s Mediteraneart
scences of a Light Dragoon—A Cruise to the I e Ybille—lleminl-
mei* of 1839, by Major A. Napier—The British C. vant in the Sum-
as Military Posts, by Lieut.. Colonel 'Wilkie—p ()tonics considered
of a Sailor. No. Vll.—Confessions of a ' passages in the Life
Officer of the Navy—Memoirs of Ma'ol. -• Spy,
collected by sit
An-
burey, K.C.B.—Manning the Nary, by 1 t*eneral Sir Thomas
Vivian in reply to some Observations of an
Old Officer—Sir Hussey
Examinations at the Royal Military. of Colonel Hughes—Public
Military Survey of part of the Chain College, with Notes on the
Bath to Cheltenham—Stations of the of
Camps extending from
t British Army, and of the
Royal Navy in Commission on the let
Naval and Military kittuistmeof
the
December, 1640—With all
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