The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-27 00:00:00

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portion as the conduct of the majority in the Legisla.

lure is ceol and reasonable.

We concur in the opinion

of those who regard all;this fury as mere affectation and
craft. Never was a whole nation more impudently
tricked and imposed upon by persons holding high office
in the Government than the French nation has been for

some months past. A dishonest press was the instru-
ment of this imposition, this political fraud, for it deserves
no lighter appellation. M. Thiers seems to have
thought that he could float himself any where upon the
rivers of deceit which the journals at his command
poured forth. He persuaded the French nation they
were insulted, when in very truth that which he repre-
sented as an insult to France was simply the conviction of
himself as a political cheat. Four leading Powers of
Europe, after having in vain called upon France to join
in a treaty with them, make a treaty without France,
and this is proclaimed to the inflammable mind of
France by the journals of M. Thiers as a national in-
sult ! But what is to be said of the insult given by the
Minister of France to those four Powers in trying for
mouths to trick and cajole them? What is to be said
of the insult of pretending to negotiate with the Four
Powers for the settlement of the Turco-Egyptian ques-

tion, when, by the recent admission of—t 6 F►ench
Minister (happily a Minister no longer), his real
object was to gain time, and really to do no-
thing ? Is that a decent manner in which to
deal with the leading Governments of Europe ? Ia
that consistent with the honour and dignity and

sincerity of a first-rate Government, or is it not
rather such paltry and despicable tracasserie as
the meanest of all Powers might resort to for the pur-
pose of keeping up a feigned importance ? Whether
was it more insulting to make a Treaty without the par-
ticipation of France, or to endeavour to cheat the Four
Powers into such delay as would have prevented any
Treaty from beinz made? So far we go upon the ad-
misssion of P.I. Thiers, but, besides this, Europe has
yet to learn what that very honest and respectable per-
son was doing at Alexandria and Constantinople while
he was trying to cajole the Ministers of the Four
Power in London into procrastination and inattention.
All these things have yet to be brought before the
French public, and no wonder the French jour-
nals which were the instruments of the delusion of

that public should resort to all their cunning to turn
away public attention from the coming exposure.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
St. Jean d'Acre has fallen into the bands of the
English and her allies, that fortress which cur gallant
countryman Sir Sydney Smith defended against all
the power and military skill of Napoleon—thus
proving it to be invulnerable in the bands of Eng-
lishmen, and yet the subject of their successful assault
—nay, of the successful assault of another people when
led on by the sons of Britain ; and thus have our
Ministers, by their wise measures—by their well-judged
so!ection of skilful commanders—by their vigilance—by
their promptitude, put an end to all just cause fur war
with France (with whom may we ever continue at
peace!) and upheld ti,e honour of the British Isles.
We would even now, notwithstanding our success,

wish to see an end put to hostilities, and provided
Mehemet Ali would return to Turkey her Let, and
give a guarantee that he will not molest Syria and the
other parts of the Turkish empire, we should he happy
to find NLnistgrs recommending to the Sultan to con-
tinue Mehemet Ali in the Pachalic of Egypt. At the
sane time we uphold, as we have done upon more than
one occasion, that, since his rebellion, be has no more
right to the possess.on of Egypt than any Governor of
a British island to a claim upon its sovereignty. De
facto, et de jure, he is justly removed from the com-
mand entrusted to him ; and if he prove so contuma-
cious as not at once to restore the Turkish Let, of
which he got possession by the grossest bribery and
the most infamous treachery, as well as accept the
kind and conciliatory terms offered by Lord Palmer-
,ton, we trust that there will be no mealy-inouthedeess:
respecting his dethrone-Tient. Every indulgence has
been shown to him—every resistance to the honest pur-
poses of the Treaty of the 15th of July has been cffered
by him ; and he is now in a position which calls upon
him to heg for mercy, instead of that of attempting to
assert rights, The news from France is pacific, so far
as the reasoning classes are concerned. We cannot con-
ceive 'low it couid be otherwise if the Government of
th at country be composed of sensible raen ; and we are dis•
posed to believe that it now is. It would be the height of
folly for two nations, in whose hands the liberties of
Europe may be said to be placed, to w,nir out their
resources in a war with each other. It is now ad-
ulated by her most enlightened statesmen that France
has nothing to complain of Great Britain in entering
into the Quadruple Alliance. It was the fault
or the will of France that she was not a party to
the Treaty. It was not England or the other parties
to the Treaty that isolated France ; but France iso-
I hated herself through the agency of her late Cabinet.
One good, however, has resulted from the hostile pre-
paratians of the late French Ministry ; it has put the
revilers of our navy and naval resources to shame ;
they hide their diminished heads. They are now com-
pelled to allow that our navy, in the size of the ships,
in their armaments, in all their mateliel of war—in
skilful and brave commanders—in every requ:site sup-
I ply is unsurpassed by the navy of bygone tines—that it
I is a navy manned by sailors, not by landsman, or even
men accustomed to river craft or to canal boats—but by
1 To/officer sailors, entering of their own free will, neither
coerced by impressment, nor inveigled by kidnapping.
(From the Morning Herald.)
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The Standard has, in our opinion, acted an honour-
able part—a part which is certainly not calculated
to lower the character of the periodical press in the
opinion of society, in having declined, even at the re-
quest or demand of the Duke of Wellington himself, to
give up the names of the correspondents, or the name
of any one of them, from whom it received informa-
tion of his Grace having admitted that he had been
deceived touching the Irish Municipal Corporations
Bill. The Morning Post takes a different view of
the subject, and lectures the Standard upon the du-
ties of a public Journalist in such a matter. All
who wish to see the press respectable rather than
degraded—independent rather than servile—power-
ful rather than weak—will prefer the practice of the
Standard on this point to the opinion of the Post.
A consciousness of having been imposed upon by
wilful deception would indeed justify the Standard
in complying with the request of tile Duke of Welling-
ton ; but the editor of that journal disclaims the notion
of any wi/fiddeception having been practised upon him ;
he, therefore, properly adheres to his rule " not to
compromise any friend who has misinformed him, be-
\cause he knows that the misinformation must be the re-
sult of error." But there are those who move in a high
rank in society who ought, perhaps, to feel themselves
' hwohuinehd in honour
Standard to give the Duke the information
feels itself bound in honour to
We withhold. quote from our evening Contemporary
the following observations,ar
,v
\ in the propriety of which
we fully concur :
,
a do not wish to conceal our
opinions," says the
Standard,
"that sonic of the
1 noblemen who reported,
tly with little reserve,
and always with a friendlavpp-
en
the profession (of having- been
towards his Grace,
Duke, ought to give an n deceived) applied to the
they reported ; but this, hmubly submit, is explanationa of that which
for their discretion, not for
ours. There has,
1 questionless, been some misunderstanding
in the case,
which can be cleared up satisfactorily only by
with all the particulars. those ac-
quainted Tuo Duke has, by
his demand, as it must be understood, distinctly eor:tra
dicted what the Noblemen in question have reported of
him. They owe it to their character for veracity to
explain the grounds of their misapprehension." We
have marked the last sentence in italics to distinguish it
emphatically as containing the pith of this temperate and