The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-08 00:00:00

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sion causcd by this announccment was, that the

ters would not call the Chambers together until thel
had made up their minds as to the necessity fur war.
If nothing had occurred to change their position, the
convocation of the Chambers wcu!d be a simple demand
for the ratification of their own views, which the peers
and deputies would give or withhold ; but if the Cham-
bers be convoked, and it be true, as asserted by the
Conslitutionnel and other journals, that there is a very
serious difference in the Cabinet, the representatives of
the country will be called upon to decide upon an open
question, and either by declaring that the cry about
insulted honour was not based on real result, and con-
sequently that the country is not bound by consistency
to relieve the peace party of the odium threatened by
the war journals ; or, on the other hand, rendering a
war national by declaring it to be necessary through the
legal organs, instead of a portion of the public press.
The Presse, which two days ago bad appeared to show
some inconsistency by recommending that France should
plunge immediately into a war which it called insensate,
rather than longer endure what it styled a humiliating
peace, forgetting that it had for two months been en-
deavouring to show that France had not. been insulted,
and, therefore, could not be humiliated by accepting the
position created by the treaty of July 15, feels it neces-
sary to follow up the explanation which it gave yester-
day of its views.
" We are asked," says the Presse, " whether we are
for peace or war. This is our reply—We are for war,
hce,vever desperate it :nay be, if a vote of the two
Chambers should not compel the present Cabinet to re-
tire, for every Cabinet personifies France, and that of
the Ist March must cot be allowed to have menaced
the other Powers of Europe in vain, and permit the
violent execution of a treaty which it has formally and
repeatedly declared it would not tolerate. We are for
peace, if public discussion, the production of all the do-
cuments connected with the affair in the two Chambers,
and the evidence of M. Guizot, should prove positively
and incontestably that the isolation of France was the
fault of her Ministers, and not the result of a combined
system of England, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to
wound us in our honour and interests. We are for
peace, if, in order to maintain it with honour, it will
suffice to overthrow, by a vote of the Chand.2rs, the
Cabinet which placed it in jeopardy ; but we repeat

that, rather than consent to a humiliating, ruinous, and
precarious peace, we would prefer an implacable war
against the whole of Europe."
The National has an article which is a strong and
painful illustration of the truth of the remarks of the
Debals, and a proof that in times of excitement the
• barrier between liberty and licentiousness is. easily over-
leaped. We give it as it is, for reproduction in cur co-
lumns is not a dissemination of pnison, but an exposition
of the state of parties, which may a dile the right-
minded to form a correct estimate of the different
organs of the Press :
Old men and babblers are the great scourges Of a
Government. Old men wish everything to be station-
ary ; babblers prevent everything from moving on. This
double scourge has particularly afflicted France. Every
body knows what the old age of Louis XIV. inflicted
upon our ancestors. After him came another oli man,
the Cardinal de Fleury, who inaugurated the ignoble
reign of Louis XV. This Royal dcbauc/se, whcri he
became old, hail no other thought than that of making
his monarchy last as long es himself. After no e' s Lid
he, 'let Berry do what he can.' After him, his sueces-
ser had for Minister M. de Maurepas and M. de Males-
herbes. The former was 80 years of a e ; the latter
was capable of speaking for three hours at a time.
It was the fault of M. de Maurepas that the French Go-
vernment did not preserve neutrality in the American in-
surrection ; and in 1788, when the Duke of Bruns-
wick invaded Holland, M. do Maieshcrbcs succeeded
in neutralising the, ardour of those who were desirous
of intervention ruzaiost the Prussians in favour of
the States-General. What a situation arc we in when
power is placed between two infirmities—old age and
bavardage ? Deetive Governrneuts are net subject to
these grave et ifs. When a man has serve,: out his
time, or age has frozen or impaired his faculties, he is
left in repose, which is for him at ()zee a necessity and
a duty."
This is speaking out ; but the National, as if afraid
that its allusion, plain as it is, should be misunderstood,
takes care, in another column, and so contrived as to
be in direct juxta-position with this article, to say,
" King Louis Philippe this day entered his 69th year."
The Temps still opposes the cry for war of the other
Aini
6t' but recommends that the Ministry
shlu little more energy, such, for instance,
clsdtedriisapl yloay ur
a nalli
as taking possession of Candia, as a sort of security for
the good conduct of the Mies- " This," says the
Tedrps, " would not be a conquest ; France would de-
clare so openly, and her word would certainly inspire
as much confidence as that of the Four Powers."
" We have reason to know," say s the Presse, " that
the Cabinet is divided, and that. four of its members
adverse to the pelicy of the President of the Ceun-
Pl. it is worthy of rozarii.that th 444 arc poop' ely