The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-15 00:00:00

room doctrine, which restricted the cons

deration of foreign affairs to a particular class
of statesmen and diplomatists. It is not only, there-
fore, considered allowable, but most advisable and

even most essential, that the people of this free country
should sedulously contemplate, in order that they
may fully comprehend, the position and move-
ments of the Governments of the different nations
on the globe. For in England the conduct of
the State is perpetually regulated according
tq- the impulses afforded by Public Opinion,
and in order that that external authority may in-
fluence in the right direction, it is absolutely neces-
sary that the affairs of the other kingdoms of the
earth should be debated and digested in the popular
mind. Without some such preliminary examination

of the Ministerial doings across the water, the British
Administration would be incessantly plunged into
the most bewildering and perilous dilemmas.
Immediately anterior, therefore, to the dissolution
of our Parliament, before we are involved in the ex-
citement and ardour of a general election, it were a
judicious precaution on the part of the possessors of
the franchise to cast a final and comprehensive
glance over the situation of affairs, not only of
Christendom, but of Heathendom into the bargain.
But, above all, one fact should be remembered, one
paramount circumstance should be continually borne
in recollection, and that is—that the two great forces
are still at war in the cause of civilisation, the im-
pulsive and the repulsive, the progressive and the
retrogressive. And—a remembrance, this, pregnant
with meaning l--that an affection for freedom seems
dying away in the council chambers of the land of
liberty, while that sublime love of the natural rights
of the people is rising into life in the council chambers
of a land which has for centuries been in a particular
manner a land of slavery and degradation.
We have recently. referred to the denationalising
and despotic tendencies of the policy latterly adopted
by the KING of the FRENCH, and we have contrasted
With it the ennobling and liberal policy recently
adventured upon by the Sovereign PONTIFF.
As a fitting corollary to those observations, we
now hear 'rem Pans or the ignominious
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ARM ENTIER, CUI3IERES, TESTS, and PELLAYRA-•
we receive the disgraceful details of their official
peculation—we receive accounts of the ineffectual
attempts made by M. TESTE to pistol himself to the
death ; and from Rome we hear of the refusal of
Pius to proscribe one hundred persons, whose liberal
sentiments render them obnoxious to the Cardinals.
Such are the dishonourable and degraded instruments
of Louts PHILIPPE'S new-fangled scheme of Orleans'
absolutism ! Such is the turpitude of the Ministerial
colleague of GUIZOT ! Such is the assiduous oppo-
sition offered to the reforms commenced by Pope
Pius IX.—an opposition not merely of the Austrian
authority beyond the frontiers of the Papal States,
but of the authority of the Cardinals within the very
precincts of the Vatican !
Leagued in the same malign cause as that which
has engrossed the imagination and obscured the
judgment of the Citizen King, are the Kaiser of
AUSTRIA and the Czar of RUSSIA. Leagued in the
same glorious cause of political and social emancipa-
tion with the reforming PONTIFF, are the King of
PRUSSIA, the King of SARDINIA, the King of the
BELGIANS, and the Grand Duke of TUSCANY. All
the energies of the Cabinet of Berlin are directed to
the liberative movement which has latterly been per-
ceptible in the vicinity of his Italian provinces. "lhe
incorporation of the Cracovian republic has not
been sufficient to appease the anxieties of the im-
perial FRANCIS. With NICHOLAS, on the other hand,
everything is being done for the consolidation of the
vast power already under his yoke for the prosecution
of certain ulterior intentions. Among the most im-
portant means adopted to this end by the Emperor of
all the RUSSIAS is, unquestionably, the projection of
a gigantic line of railway, connecting the capitals of
Moscow, St. Petersburgh, and Warsaw. That rail-
road will be the spine of the Russian empire. While
the United Diet of Prussia is progressing happily in
its novel duties, and FREDERICK WILHELM IV. is
observing with satisfaction the present and
prospective happiness conferred thereby upon
his loving subjects, the Venerable Pius is
embarrassed by the sudden accumulation of
obstacles to his reforms. So, in like manner, is the
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his health, and the momentary antagonism of the Bel-
gians, threatens to abdicate in favour of a stripling
Prince ; and the thrones of Spain and Portugal are
still only doubtfully occupied by ISABELLA and
MARIA DA GLORIA.
Among the lesser points of European interest are
the partial reconciliation of the Greek King Onto
and the Sublime Porte, and the opening of the Diet
of the Swiss Confederation at Berne, amidst urgent
and numerous anxieties. Probable as many of the
consequences are, which may be inferred from the
foregoing circumstances, the most likely amongst them
are, however, as uncertain as the elevation of the
Due D'AUMALE into the Viceroy of Algeria, or of
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If I ABD-EL-KA.DER into the Emperor of Morocco.

The attention of the House of Commons was on
Tuesday evening taken up with another case of great
apparent hardship, and we will add of injustice, to
one of the official servants of the Crown in our colo-
nies, which places in the strongest light the system
tooe frequently adopted in our Colonial-office, to the
de
p and serious injury, not only of the individuals
whose prospects in life
these instances
on some frivolous
and insufficient pretexts, but also of the inhabitants of
the settlements in whichhe of arbitrary
prevail, and
power are suffered to
which interferes
with and impedes the course of justice. The necessity of
establishing the perfect independence of the bench of
justice, of preserving those distinguished andle.afrned
men who may be elevated to the judicial rani
every undue influence, has long been recognised in
this country. It has been felt that without that
independence there could be no safety for
popular rights and liberties, no guarantee for the
honest and efficient discharge of the important duties
of their sta:ion. Ti, suffer them to remain dependent
on the mere %%ill and pleasure of the Executive, who,
in the event of am,' obnoxious (lee sign or refusal on
thEirp,i t. 3 to c 0.., the itif.tru.dit in, of tyranny atid
oppression, could crush and ruin them, was found to
involve a principle of the most dangerous character.