The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-24 00:00:00

i;VENINGr- EDITION.

itIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY 'PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The speech of Me. Guizor, which our readers will
fad elsewhere, seta forth with the clearness and pre-
cision which characterise that statesman, the leading
facts. of the recent course of affairs, and the leading
"onsiderations which they are calculated to suggest to
the minds of his countrymen. He first showed, with
unanswerable plainness and perspicuity, that no insult
er injury had been offered to France. He then showed
.hat no French interest or influence recommended
resort to arms on the pretext of insult or injury.
The latter point was what required to be laboured
with she real war party—if indeed labour were not
thrown away upon them. It was nothing avowed, but
soinething unavowed, that urged them to warlike de-
monetrations. It was not that they thought France
had been insulted or injured, but that they thought
France had missed an advantage—had thrown away an
" influence" and " ascendancy." Certainly, if persist-
ing in the attempt to intimidate Europe could have ob-
tained for France the recognition of her right to dic-
:ate all its transactions, that ascendancy is surrendered
by teking a pacific tone. Again, if ascendancy in the
East could have been assured by alliance with Mehe-
met Ali, that ascendancy has been lost by not making
war upon Europe in his cause. But if both these have
been baseless dreams, the fruit of the most inflated
ignorance, then France has surrendered nothing by
adapting her policy to the true state of things. It is the
polies of journalists to prompt newspaper outcries, and
then obey them. It is the policy of mere demagogues, or
public incendiaries, to excite the popular passions upon
false pretences, and reply with defiance, and warlike
demonstrations, to the alarms of Europe. We think it
very remarkable that some of those peace-at-any-price
jourrieliste here, who have so vehemently denounced
our Government for incurring the risk of war in Eu-
rope, are now saying M. Thiers' retreat was a fatal
ttay for French honour. These worthies have double
weights and measures for national honour ; or rather
they have sympathies with humbug " all over the
world." To be otherwise than in the closest intimacy
with the popular dealers in that commodity, no matter
what their bluster or duplicity might be, was an unpar-
donable sin on the part of the rulers of this country.
To be able to dispense with their services is an irre-
'es:es/able loss to the French nation. Ah bah!
(From the Courier.)
That the genus of waiting maids is incorrigible, and
has been from all time, is a truism too stale now to
be questioned, and the fussy freaks with which affronts
and scolding, submissively received in the drawing-
room above, are retaliated " below stairs" to hearers
al! on one side, are not the less diverting because of
their smartness and impertinence. Our good-humoured
friend of the Post would seem ambitious of high stand-
ing among the fair tribe, if its pretensions may be mea-
sured by an article this morning. For example, in refe-
rence to Lord Palmerston's "note" of November 2, pro-
fessing to be a reply to the memorandum of M. Thiers,
of October 8, which memorandum, according to the
Chronicle, speaking, as the Post says, advisedly for the
Secretary, "it became necessary at once to meet," we
objected that no such urgency was apparent, or could
be understood, so far as dates, that is time, were taken
as a guide. For this pressing note of his Lordship
made its appearance only Twenty-three days after re-
aeipt of the document to which professing to be an
argent rejoinder ; that is, some half month after the
memorandum itself was forgotten or remembered only
IS a page of past history. The Post, with the
airs of second-hand gentility, wonders at the vul-
garity which can descend to " dates," as if a " political
loeument" were an " order for Manchester goods, or an
enclosure of bills as per margin," to be acknowledged
by " return of post, or at all events within two or three
days." We are far from wondering equally at the tone
and temper of such :a conception, for we never heard
that " dates" were ever regarded as a necessity in the
" note" writing instruction of waiting gentlewomen, or
that " bills" for " Manchester goods" were ever voted
by them to be anything but excessively vulgar, even if
presented twelve months after " date." From many
fair symptoms for some years past we had imagined that
onr kind Contemporary had cast off its slough, and there-
fore it is always with regret we see the old leaven at
work in its columns, and hands put in requisition to do
foreign or other politics, who might otherwise perform
more fitting and appropriate service in servants' halls or
butlers' pantries, from whence perhaps they take their
origin, or date their connexion with the press, as once
approved retailers of routs and frivolity under the grace-
ful heading of the " Fashionable World."
(From the Standard.)
The Spectator of yesterday alludes to a report of
.:ertait2 written approvals of the enforcement of the
Treaty of July said to have been given by the Duke of
-Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Aberdeen, and
the Examiner speaks of consultations between the three
Conservative statesmen named and the Foreign Secre-
tary. We do not pretend to have authority for con-
tradicting this strange surmise, but we think that we
safely may contradict it without waiting for authority.
The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and
Lord Aberdeen, are not ignorant of the duties of
statesmen, and nobody will charge them with indiscre-
tion ; but surely it is a well understood duty of public
awn, a duty to themselves as well as to the Constitu-
tion, not to tender any private advice in the Govern-
ment of the country, because for such private advice
they cannot be responsible. We can easily suppose
the answer which Lord Palmerston would receive to
as application for advice from the illustrious Duke, the
Right Hon. Baronet, or Lord Aberdeen, " My Lord,
you are her Majesty's Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, not I ; and if you cannot rely upon
your own judgment, your colleagues in the
Cabinet, not unofficial and irresponsible Members
of Parliament, are your proper advisers." But
why should Lord Palmerston ask advice in the
matter ? The Treaty of July was known during the
sitting of Parliament, and received, at least, the tacit
approbation of the Conservative leaders ; but nobody
could be so weak as to suppose that an engagement
upon a question of such moment—an engagement, ton,
Preceded by negotiations of such duration and earnest-
ness, was to remain a dead letter. As to the
view which the French Government would take
of the affair, that was necessarily foreseen. The
Government of France disapproved of the terms
of the Treaty, or it would have yielded to some
one of the many invitations to become a
party to it. Having thought the step taken by the
Allies in July a wrong one, the French Government
rnuet regard the effectual following up of that step,
two months later, a wauvais precede, no matter what
shape the operation might take. So far, then, Lord
Palmerston was assured of the support of men who
never yet allowed party considerations to interfere with
their care for the honour and interests of the coun-
try ; and why then should he take the irregular
and unconstitutional course ascribed to him ?

BOY BURNED TO DEATH BY PUTTING
I'IIORUS 11 ins PocKET.—An inquest was held before
Mr. Chapman, the Borough Coroner, on Monday last, on
the body of a boy, ten years of age, named Joseph Shaw
Ives, son of John Ives, of Thurlstone, Yorkshire, who was
burned to death under the following singular circurn-
ltances :---Sarah Whitehead, of Berry-street, stated that
on the 23,1 October last she saw the deceased running
clown the street, smoking as if cu fire. She put him into
a t'9l3 of water, and, knowing him, took him home. On
the wAy he said he had picked up, in St. George's-road,
piece of something of which Congreve matches were
macro, and when he felt he was burning he put it in his
pocket, :Lod it had disappeared. Mary Shaw, wife of
Thomas Shaw, of Chapel-street, stated that the deceased
lived with them. Ile died from the burns about half-past
two o'clock the preceding morning. Her husband had
since called at Mr. .11‘ William's, druggist, in St. George's-
road, where he had ascertained that the shop had taken
fire from the bursting of a phosphorus bottle, and that the
remains of the bottle had been thrown into the street. The
deceased said he had got a piece the size of his hand op-
posite the shop, and put it in his pocket. lie was attended
by Mr. Braid, surgeon. The Jury returned a verdict
"That the deceased was accidentally burned by phospho-
rus.'s—Manehester Guardian.

ONIE, OCT. 31.—Yesterday evening the young
and ,accomplished Princess Borghese, whose premature
death all Rome laments, was buried in the family vault in
the church of Santa Maria Mnjorc. The funeral was on a
ulagniticent scale. The hearse was drawn by a large num-
ber of young men, and an immense crowd accompanied
the mortal remains of the Princess to their last abode.
There is a great mortality here in all classes, indepen_
faiently of the numerous deaths of the smallpox. The
Duchess de Riguano, daughter of the Prince de Piombion,
is also dying.
I'liE FOSSIL, TREES ON THE BOLTON RAIL-
of thirty
this town
wAy.,--On Wednesday last a party,aielwonas;srtriontug
t 1 the Bolton r
Ou Thurs-
day
whose re-
tPoe 1-4°l
Dixonp Fold--
to examine these very
. extraordinary relies
An antediluvian forgeassts.iz,
of, in all probability,
: •,.d by Professor A
day they were visited iand recent ' la
'es in fogs] le hynogy,
searches and discoveries
departments of geological arid other Ecience,
and in various
celebrated throughout the civilized
bad given him a name
and skilful townsman, Mr. Bally,
world. Our ingenious
asts of tbesc trees in plaster of
is now engaged in taking. c
models of.them in that
to making exact 0 le v. —Man.
Paris, preparatory
Geological S e
material for the Manchester
cheater Guardian.
—A Bill
—l-rotBoRN.
CITY IMPROVENIENTS.
Parliament to construct a
is prepared for the sanction of Pa
svgate.street
new street or way from the west end of Ne
lane, whereby
and the Old Bailey to the end of Fetter-
Holborn
by
the dangerous declivities of the present lines
zad Snow-hills are avoided. The street, "by Royal•
com-
mand," is to be called Victoria-street, and will, at the be-
ginning, intersect Green-arbour-court. Braziers'-build
ogs, and Castle-street, on the eastern side of Farringdon-
ztreet, which will be connected to the western side by a
bold and splendid viaduct of one arch of considerable
architectural beauty. The line will then continue west-
...fard, crossing Shoe-lane, Thavies-inn, and •Bartlett's-
imildings, where it wtll make a curve to the (northward,
1-....nd occasion the removal of some houses at the end of
'eter-tane, to bring it upon a level with the top of Hol-
I.hill. 13y this plan many unhealthy and densely.
iated courts and alleys on both sides of Farringdon-
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w '.- sill disappear.