The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-28 00:00:00

manner he should be disposed of. These papers
inform us that Prince Metternich was not only
in perfect health,,bot more actively ,engagetl, than
rn
ever; in,diploatic,lahours..
fact; IfAtilmost
openly avowed that his late illness was a poli-
tical fabrication:- This had been suspected
before, but .the
.canse of hiskeeningut oof the
way was 'riot 'knOwn. It now turns. out ,that
some serious .differences' had: arisen between
Prussia, and. Austria, with respectta the affairs of
the .Qertnanic Con federsttinnt and,that the:assent-
blip°. of the Diet Of, Frankfort tias,ben. pot!
ponebd. in' consetitienie.-- 'lt hi eiserted at present
that the .. principal. di fficultiee had ,beets- removed',
that little thp:,retnrtt.,uf !Priuce .I.l4cl;feld
trotu Berlin the great work Of ..conciliation ad..
'veined. rapidly` that it is at the stone
time, that the_Sittingof the Diet 'would- not take
place .for_ a .montb,,_ ands, though. the. delay .is
ascribed to the necessity °flwing frequent corn-
innhications Wit)i,llerlin, and to the distonie frem
:that city; it is more likely --that the differences
_between the two courts,, whatever be their nature,
May not have made so muck. ,pregress to Ards a
settlement. a' it is represented, notwithstanding
the. kind interferenceof the Russian Anibassitder.
t is, a new .lhing„for Europe to hear of ,the 'affairs
of its interior being ,submitted ',to the arbitration
of the Czar Muscoryl But such is the tre-
mendous advince'effected,by that once,Asiatic
Tower, since_the desperate attempt by Napoleon
to„hurl it .back was defeated, that nothing, icnow
transactedon Continent without its partioi-
patiou, and it may be one flay without its consent.
[mortNtrto,..OßALD.] .
Paris Papers, and piirate...lettere up. to Wed-
nesday's date 'reached: taw,n yesterday. Their
contents are not of 'material thereat. The in
from Madrid is datekthe 19th. King
Ferdinaturs answer to., the ipeeeit:of IVi.. Pozzo
di I)orgo, the
,Russian, Minister,
official forM, ft, hOwever, adds .nothing to
.0111
means ofjudging 141 designs already coMmuni
-'
cated.;4or, in truth, his Catholic Majesty
nothing beyond the .cotilmcm-p4O . ,1141,
mere compliment on those aciesioni.'Llt is cer-
tainly somewhat curious -that Kiri:Ferdinand
should be 'so' laconic and reserved. It would
naturally be expected that his speieh wouldhave
noticed seriatim the topics contained in that of
the Russian minister. This, however, he has
not done. The, next announcement of any in-
interest is, that the Confessor Sao is ~inofirtned'
in his seat actlini4ter.of. Foreign. Alittirs.., How
will Mr. Canning
,carry''Mt, his relationa, with.
this personage after the cold and supercilious—
not to say contemptuous style in which he
replied to the Confessor's proposal .to recog-
nize the Regency. of • IVladrid,. whilst Ferdinand
was still at Cadiz ?; The . affairs „-of
~ Spain,
and the events :in Spain, haye far some time,
so entirely oecopied.. public attention that
little thought has been bestowed on, the do-
(nestle' pnlitiis .of France. aq4 the strife. of
parties in P,aris.. At:present there is much of.
eager and rather Interatiting tlisYcusstoa ht. the
French capital!, Alt Aire ~occupied with Atte,
one question—the' dissolution .of the French
Chamber of Deputies, which is regarded as
already determined on. A. few, words will put
the English reader in full possession, of the
controversy. The French. Chamber, of Deno-,
ties is renewed not by general elections—but,
by partial renewals, a fifth 'of the Chamber,
vacating their seats, and undergoing the electoral
ordeal, each year. At the end of five years,;
there is, of course, a cotnpleteor integral renew-.
al. The Ministers have resolved that in the
course of the next month the Chamber
.shall bet
dissolved in tato, and that upon the opening of:
the new Parliament or Deputation, the first mea-
sure propOsed to it shall be, to make Its duration,
septennial, instead. of quinquennial—and to lie re.'
newer!, not annually--hut at the end of this pc-.
riod, or at the pleasure or demise of the. Crown
—in fact, to place the French Chamber on
the same footing yas . the , F,nglish House ,of
Commons. The measure hus been, and is still
violently oppaied by two extreme parties—the
Liberals, on the one side, and the more intempo.
rate, tir uncompromising Ultra Royalists an the
other. Hitherto other. important subjects—sucl
us the glories Of the Duke of Angouleme— tin
arrival of Rossini at Paris—the trial' of a phy.
sician for poisoning his patient, have divided the
attention of the Parisians, with the fate of the
Deputies. The former, however, gave
,way ;
all
the tongues, and pens of Paris were exercised
upon the dissolution, and the question of renewals,
partial or integral—quinquennial or septennittL
We presume that the fortune of the day was',
going against the Ministers from this rather un-
usual circumstance. .

[MORNING- CHRONICLI.]
in adverting yesterday 'to the opinions pro•
nounced' by the fudges of the Court of King's,
Bench, on the'autiject of' prejodicing parsons'
about to be tried, by the publication of ex-parte
evidence, we shoved that no evil could possibly
result from publishing befora.band the pre.
liminary evidence, or evidence taken for what the
French term the instruction of a Cure ‘Ve shali
now endeavour to spew, that great good results to
t co:Humility froni the practice of which tpe CuQ rX
disapproves. Whatever tends to facilitat,O.hede..
tection and punishment of crime,iS on quesiionabir
a !mat gOnd. If trout were in all ctises io lactto.
low'ed by detecition and punishMeot, the instances
of it would necessarily be rare.,. Crimes ukturally
increase with the. chances of escape, from the
difficulty of discovery,
,the :difficulty of obtain,.
ing proof, or the facility of evading punishment.
A defective pollee, which render_ the discovery.
ot crime titificitit:,' laws, which excinde
.evideocet
or' throw obstructions in the way, ;of,
tug it'; sauctusries„iti which the_
escape punishment,--an tenet to ettl:!yrt4r
end cnusequeutly are oppo,ed, to
,that whip!)
ought t6,he'the ohj.,ct of all law, the secutity of
the corinnunity.----The establishment Of an active
and vigiiatit Police is tint alette suiticient to.et,
sure the discovery and the cOnvictiop, of the per,
petration of crime, The Polict . a'rs the inston,
nients' to work w4ll, hut their operations ought
to bv. aided by' ell the light ve hich it, is pos.
table, to obtaip fr,Pl:4 the coanmonity. , The