The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1840.

We know no other conclusion to which the
flippancy of the Globe, in speaking of Sir Wir.-
LIA NE Mo LESWORTICS well-meant efforts at
Leeds, and the almost gloating ferocity of the
Chronicle in speaking of the affairs of the East
and of France, can lead, but that those journals
wish for war, and wish the one to exasperate the
French, and the other to check all the kindly feel-
ings of the E;:glish. We cannot believe that these
journals speak the sentiments and wishes of the
Ministers, because, as Louis PHILIPPE is the
Monarch, so the Whigs are the Ministers, of peace,
and their interest and power as politicians are
bound up with its preservation.
By whom are the present Ministers supported in
the community ? Not by the Army; but the Army,
and those connected with the Army, have no objection
to war. Not by the Navy, for, if we arc not mis-
informed—though they have many friends in that
more enlightened of the two military professions—
the majority of the Navy arc neither Whigs nor
Liberak.. The Navy, howGvcr, would have no ob-

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•eetion to war. It is the trade of the Navy. MI
by the State priesthood, who have looked cooilY,
and perhaps even approvingly, on the prospect o
a contest with the semi. Catholics and semi-
Atheists of revolutionary France, a contest which
would enhance their share of the value of land. The
Tory Standard has become the ally of the Minis,.
ters on such grounds ; and the Tory Post chimes
in with taunts against the unstable and immora
French. The State priesthood do not sup-
port the Whig Ministers, and have taken no active
part in discountenancing war. The Ministers are
not supported by the landed gentlemen and agri-
culturists, who have been taught to look on them
with suspicion—who remember the high prices of
last war with delight, and expect another war will
limit us still more strictly to the produce of our own
soil, and will raise still higher the present famine price
of wheat. Neither do the great capitalists of the
City—the loan-jobbers and loan-mongers--With
rare exceptions, the men who command the money
market of the world—particularly
favour war
Whigs, though they might urge them on to war.
The persons who now support the IVlinisterse—who
e
and
in a great measure put them into office, coil
tinue them there—are the Dissenting clergymen o
the empire, who are almost all, both as Christians
g
and politicians, averse from war with Fravce.
dr'
O'CONNELL, too, with the Catholics of Irelan
and all their friends and connections, on whom the
pith France.
The Quakers—more influential from
Ministers lean, are averse from war
their Pell"
verance and their enthusiasm than for their ntinv
not inec6"
hers arid their wealth, though these are
siderable—are generally the friends of the Whi
and the most decided enemies of war. The ea
lecturers, whose prosperity depends in grestf_l4o
atercee..a'
sure on the sea being open—the
whose trade would be hampered or 'st.°Pll!
by war—the tradesmen in all out, t°lllos.
not mere naval ports, like Sheerness or ruylir;
gs,
mouth=are, generally speaking, averse frein
_of
and, constituting the bulk of the electore
towns, return to Parliament that majoritY i;
their own interest and their own
keeps the Ministers in office. Out a rega they
cannot desire war, and cannot, therefore, in
site
opinion, either sanction or approve of the an the
flippancy of the Globe or the savageness ofsoy
Chronicle. At least The Sun, though on
the iniste"P
points it gives a warm support to its
is steadily opposed to war, and would do all in 1 j
h
power to calm the irritation of the Frenc
character,
00r
kindle in the English the warmest feelings of r
spect and friendship for their neighbours.
bjectf
The Times of yesterday had, on this su •
the following paragraph :
If ever unanimity prevailed in this country
great political question, it is on the expedieneY 11.° d. to
duty of taking such measures o may be require • to
protect Europe from the horrors of war, and of retile_s
ing our policy, ere it be too late, from the dsogeoria
which attend a breach with France. To this tins
miter we know of no exception, save in the columnskre
Morning Contemporary, which fans and teed' the
by the vehemence and the authority of its officlai for
clamation. But whilst we have been labouring t°ich
ter the wise and dignified spirit of peace, from "
the good sense of the English people has not Yet of
lowed them to depart, earetully avoiding all P°',l4„as J,
recrimination on the subject both at home and air—ert,
we can no longer conceal our indignation at thelfiir
ness and indiffirence of the Government, which bl be-
to throw away the last chances of reconciliation, .
10,
tray the confidence of the public, which has ,0,
cautiously indulgent to their foreign policy, and to
51130.
the close of their administrative career by then 01°,t
estrous catastrophe which could afflict the wrld? h
been 6.7
It would, in our estimation, have been more
coming in the Globe had it pointed out the nrsi
part of this paragraph as a proof of the genera
'
and disposition
the therefore
rwehic likely
which exists ts
contribute
o avoi
to so air
d
awar
with F
result, and if it had given—as
it surely ought t°
have given—a contradiction to the latter part of it t
instead of flippantly quizzing l
Times. The
latter journal knows well the drift of
esaTce'
le s
public
•
opinion. It is also probably acquainted with
the course of policy which the Ministers have
adopted ; and it has been for some days pis'
cunningly recommending, as suggestions of its own)
e•
what it is well assured they have already dnfli
The moderation which it praises they have evineeu;
the readiness to meet the new French Ministriin a
spirit of amity which it recommends, they hal:
already adopted ; and by and bye, when the preset
vation of peace is amply assured, it will claim Ih";
credit of having contributed, by its moderate emii;
cils, to that noble end. Its present langusgelist
fact, is a warm approbation, by anticipation, inis-
policyicy which, in the end, it will be seen the
ters have already acted on. While it both recc7f.
mends what is of itself good, and what the IVl,hoinirity
ters have already done and are doing, its 8,11-0...
ought to be used to promote the good, all igBi
torted approbation seized on as a just ig'iljag
the Ministers.
time to injure them'
It endeavours at the same
It complains of their "inertness and indifference;
fortni
gh
whoie t
it especially complains " that a to ?foist
elapsed after the return of M. GulZol.
before the Cabinet condescended to
.Irl
the
" Could nothing," it says, he done In
zo.T
interval ?" We answer, nothirig. M. (3111 /1e
and LOUIS PHILLIPE are fully aware of
views of our Ministers, and no events n
transpired to make any alteration in thero,4:
authorise any fresh communication to France.
si6
to
when M. GUIZOT returned to France, it_
form a Ministry. Till the present moment re
Ministry can hardly be said to be secti.re
office. At any rate, it has had no opporturnli.r
take up the broken threads of the negotiatione_
gun by its predecessor.
One event indeed has • happened since
out,
GUIZOT returned to Paris, a most importaot.ee
C nte.
for words are in some men's mouths greath e!'an' tiers
The King of th the e FRENCH has opened the .
• A de-
by a pacific speech. That event require. - 30,
liberation of our Cabinets. England has "0:; te
of quarrel with France, but the language 01 t"eTilt
French Minister and his warlike preparation's. h
some satisfactory assurance from the new Frencl
Ministry could be obtained, our Ministers, as 5
appears to us, could make no offers, no alrerati°llA ;
:
and could do nothing whatever. Now, the Fre"
KING'S speech, giving those assurances, wits '3!
livered on the sth of November, and the "inert a";
indifferent Ministers " held a Cabinet Coon'
into
cii, no doubt, to take that speech 1
consideration on the 7th of November, ~j°t
forty-eight hours after it had been deli
eere" at
Paris. The accusations of the Times about
01
and indifference are palpably false, thrown otit
,1)
the old principle recommended by the Pevi!
throw dirt enough, some of it will stick," order,
to impose on the ignorant, unthinking persons'!"
look to see their betters abused in the rinieS.7
There is not the smallest foundation for its absurd
charge, and the Globe would have better served the
cause both of the Ministers and the country 11
showing its falsehood than by ridiculing the. Ti-'_
for correctly expressing the opinion of the friends off
the Ministers, and for warmly praising that rationa
and wise policy of preserving peace with Frane!
which we believe the Ministers have embraced!
The Globe, in taunting the Times, has
tinform:7,
ees.,
nately, too, so far forgotten itself as to boast of
e,
military preparations making against France. The
all the dread of Frenchmen—mid rho
very source of f the
shall say, remembering the combined atterept.9
Allies to put down the first Revolution, that..it
unfounded ?--the single source of their_ warlike, fere,
n letiding.
your, is the report that England is a gai

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kerself to such a combination. If it be considered that
the pacific assurances of Louis PHILIPPE, deli-
vered from his throne, be not a guarantee for the pre-
servation of peace, and that he is less powerful than
the war-seeking faction of his subjects, and that,
therefore, it is necessary to take measures of pre-
caution, it is surely not wise, not prudent, not re-
spectful to him to put the doubts of his friends and
fllies into a tangible shape, and give the war party
1a France a justification of their madness, by boast-
!ng of measures to assemble 500,000 Germans on
the Rhine to resist French aggression. Every body
la aware that the Germans have nothing in com-
mon with the French propagandists—that the So-
vereigns of Germany are almost always ready for
tvar......and that the French, with a distracted Go..
verotaent, could have no hope of making a suc-
.fgeetaful irruption into Germany. To say, there-
re, " that the Government of England and the
powers, who are its Allies in carrying into
trillion the Treaty of July, are taking the most
eeroal means to protect Europe from the horrors
nar) by organizing arrangements for assembling,
thn a very short space of time, should it be
--`teaeary to do so, a force of 500,000 Germans
:1 the Rhine, to resist any aggressions of France,
nti defend the Father-land from violation by
deign invasion," seems to us an uncallei-for and
• hievous boast. England and her Allies, ac-
t:ding to that, are collecting a large army on the
.7!tiers of France, to threaten France. Those
are the same northern nations with which
eland was before allied against France ; and the
17:iast of the Globe, were it correct, would be a jus-
iLt4tion of all the tirades of the National. Does
execution of the Treaty of July authorise Eng
44 and her Allies to assemble 500,000 men on
f• rontiers of France ? We never so read it.
th!4e French war party so read it ; and according to
-e Globe, the French war party are right.
`We give no more credit, however, to the Globe
11.4 his point, than we give to the assertion of the
142eg, that the English Ministers have taken no
24 to prevent a dispute with France by the in-
°lace of Russia. The English Ministers will
islioNtioly not wait for instructions from St. Peters-
-01• 1.• They see that the stability of Louts
:21114PrE's throne and the peace of the world are
rubling in the balance. They must know how
tierel is the desire in England to preserve peace,
they must be well convinced that the present
ration would never forgive them, and posterity
it
941(1 execrate them, were they, even for
it whole Turkish empire, to be instrumental
ti
Thinvolving all Europe in a revolutionary war.
"44- 1:Y have not waited ; they have met and con-
It 1; and whatever may be the aims of Russia,
e 4
feel convinced that the Ministers have not hesi-
t
and could not hesitate, a moment to give
.14e tt PHILIPPE the strongest assurances that
pi? would aid his noble and held endeavours to
Berve) against his own subjects, the peace of
!Pe. They must know that a war between
gland and France would place at the mercy of
t7l3B:ja the very existence of Turkey, to preserve
414°, utegrity of which has beta the policy of Lord
144zusrox. That he and the other Ministers
tho
111(1 madly defer to Russia, and so bring on a
1111e1 with France, no sane man believes ; not even
writer in the Times, though for a party pur-
Zhe asserts it, as he asserts that the Ministers
t been " inert and indifferent."

t :pts''Within a short period certain clergymen of the
,l :uteh of England have resorted to acts of intoler-
,,
,asind even persecution, which the friends of the
a •-•dletbs&llment boast are alien to her character and
0 she We We are ready to admit that at one time
it loose 8 very tolerant, that she shut her eyes at the
e
Aards s Morals of her clergy, was not over severe to-
candCalvinists Wes!evens, and was well con-
Er lent to enjoy •
'wit the ample funds set apart for her use
C I:stihll:lit annoying her neighbours. But all this was
t
- good old times when the strong arm of the law
o „
' everything for her, when Catholics were shut
,Mt f 0
-tornall I 'es of trust or emolument, when the
'Test
; Slid Corporation Acts were in force, and when
't,,.the etaiumon; joined with the Lords in securing for
.rt-ef •'4
hses'ing Protestants all the seats in Parliament,
AeFj high appointments in the army and navy,
' 44- all the other good things that are now distri-
ted indiscriminately among a variety of
gMs• Affairs ate now. in a very different post-
°4)< and the Church, in order to regain her
!th:.
17' power has recourse to her spiritual autho-
,• • We have complaints from all quarters
„the encroachments made for this purpose, but
rust none are the complaints so loud as against
- 7 assumed right of the Church to refuse the sacred
=-of burial to those who have not been baptised
hi h
'It••!t. faith. The Clergy vainly suppose that they
lIIi Induce Dissenters to join them, that they may
,ve
,v .. Christian burial. They are producing the
el2..eontrary effect. We remember no occasion
tile`',l,itell such a bad feeling was displayed against
''' establishment. Respect for the dead, the de-
-lie 't
19'ill'i)(1 see their remains decently laid in the
ie. ' and the tears of afflicted relatives, contrast
,whl-verfully with that unfeeling and selfish bigotry,
be ich would compel a man to renounce his faith or
..tile;, buried like a dog. But the people have
atilttlis'elyes chiefly to blame for these in-
Nut; and acts of oppression. Their folly has
ef i e gods of these priests, who, taking advantage
Su' gn°Kance, superstition, and that devotion to the
.0 Neale B .
' Invented eing inherent in the human breast, have
-.._
.. _ rites
and ceremonies (not forgetting fees
. lttilla'he 9fr
consecrationrin g 8) nnkonfown to the primitive Christians.
a burial-ground is a relic of
:,0., Pery ; ;
so is the burial service; and, however be-
.li Ping and impressive when properly performed, it
tgther imperative on Christians, nor sanctioned
sie-'l.,,lyine authority. In our colonies the ceremony
olii;_
of , u performed by a layman, or by some friend
, es deceased, who, unlike the hired funtionary,
kites
1,0, with fervid emotion, that beautiful service
11'711 he commits the " body of a dear brother to
ikeregr"nd." Why may not the same be done
r Consecration of ground is a useless cere-
eitttati tenders
The first body committed to our mother
:of enders the spot sacred. Let the Dissenters
~ thisei
Part of the island, therefore, imitate the
itle
the . ofr Set both by Dissenters and Churchmen in
~ Pariah of
Pilreh St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh ; let them
itiiletass in the neighbourhood of towns ground for
et
a° reject and
. reject the consecration of the priest.
1.0 ~- - '"e Intimate friend of the deceased be chosen
•elta
lib " the burial service. It will not be a less
Preee
to,. tve, or less religious ceremony, when per-
nrned ,
Neat . °Y a friend, who mourns indeed, than by a
the 1° his robes, and paid for the service. Let
People. .
with IL ' In fact, show that they can dispense
. "e priest, and they will be no longer insulted
of QBnech illen as the Rector of Dover and the Vicar
dney,
There is ----..00.------
.1418 • nothing in the shape of news in the
in., J°uroals of Sunday. Notwithstandini, the
...rtr,„,
lit -.. ravin „„ l
,-1, of n gs of the National and the fierce hosti-
Vatic • early the whole of the daily press, the peace
44-7°f the sou
%tin LT-GUIZOT Cabinet is rapidly
triau... ,g Popularity among the respectable, indus-
tWe'kei!as. see, The Journal des Debals states that
tlii ' n-ifterial majority in the Chamber of Depu-
-441. c`lMPaet and homogenous, while the Opposi-
-18 °lade -la its, up of the most discordant elements.
otiu9rnnaolfdenies to the late Cabinet the
t'llottiBletejo
going to war about Syria, and
"I"...:tke. that the present Ministry is only carrying
11111 L
..__,!,°.l,i°Y indicated in the diplomatic notes of

the late President of the Council. The [llonileur
Parisien, which warmly supports the Government,
says, the speech from the Throne must be judged
by the whole of France, and not by the Metropoli-
tan press only. " That press," says the Monileur,
" taxes the Speech with being pacific. Un-
doubtedly it is so. It is so obviously so, that no
sagacity was required to make the discovery. The
Cabinet does not conceal that it wishes for peace.
The Ministry wishes for peace ; it says so, and
it undertakes to maintain it, because it intends to
do so honourably." We are glad to find the or-
gans of the Ministry thus frank and straightfor-
ward in proclaiming its pacific intentions. The
lovers of peace will thus have an opportunity of
rallying round it.
But it would be strange, indeed, if a return to
good sense or the part of the French people did
not call forth some offensive braggadocio on the
part of our blundering Contemporary the Morning
Chronicle. After reading the excellent article in
the illoniteur Parisien, we instinctively turned to
the Chronicle for a bit of bullying bluster, the
never-failing accompaniment of any conciliatory
language on the part of France. Nor were we dis-
appointed, as will be seen from the following extract
from its leading columns this morning :
Whilst the French are in this pacific and submissive
temper, they are roused once more to thoughts of war and
resistance by reports of meetings held in England in favour
of theoretic peace, of peace at any price. The instant re-
flection of the French is, how came we to yield to the
rights or pretensions of a people who thus profess the prin-
ciples and spirit of a flock of sheep ? The consequence of
one people determining to enact the part of a flock of
sheep would be to suggest to others the assumption of the
part of wolves. The French would gladly take the latter
character, provided, according to the un- English recom-
mendation of some of our Manchester folks, the British
were to aim at no higher rank or condition than that of
being fat mutton. But it requires only a small port•on of
common sense to feel that the fat would soon leave us, and
the wool be torn from our backs, unless we had teeth to
show, and allowed it to be understood that we could use them.

This is very graceful and pretty, is it not ? The
illustration of our national courage and willingness
to fight is peculiarly happy, is it not ? A sheep
showing his teeth in a passion is a most formidable
animal, especially to a wolf. Well, after all, the
Chronicle is a most sagacious journal. We shall
never think of it without reviving the memory of
this sheepish illustration of genuine John Bullisin.
The correspondence between Captain FISHER,
the officer immediately in command of the blockading
squadron off Alexandria, and the European Con-
suls-General, of which we stated the substance in
The Sun of Saturday last, is published at le►igth
in the French journals of Sunday, with some
unimportant letters from Alexandria, of the 16th
ult. The impression that Syria was lost to ME-
HEMET ALI was general in Paris on Sunday.

The inundations of the Rhone and the Saone
are frightful. Lyons, Avignon, Arles, Valence,
Zain, Macon, Verden, and several other towns are
all flooded. This will occasion dreadful distress
among the working classes of the south and north
of France.
The packet with the mail from Africa has not yet ar-
rived at Toulon ; it has been due six days, and some un-
easiness begins to be felt. Some news has been received
by the Brasier steam-boat.
A letter from Algiers, of the 25th says:—By an order
of the day of Marshal Valee, General Schramm is ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chief in the province of Algiers
during the absence of the expeditionary corps. .
Another letter, of the 26th, announces that the Marshal
had set out on that day to join at Blidah the corps em-
ployed in the expedition, which consists of 600 cavalry.
It is said that the Marshal will confine himself to the rc-
victualling of Mcdeah and Aliliana.
We have had a tertible hurricane at Algiers, whieh
destroyed several Moorish houses and greatly damaged
some buildings.
BONA, OCT. 24.—A fatal event has just occurred at
Bona. Captain Saget of the Staff, having ventured into
the mountains for the purpose of making a topographical
survey, has been assassinated, as well as his servant and
Caid Aly, who accompanied him. Nine spahis who
escorted them escaped with their lives, but were com-
pletely stripped. It is said that the assassin was formerly
one of the spahis at Bona, who has put himself at the
head of some banditti. The bodies of Captain Saget and
of the Caid, have been brought to Bona, where the last
honours have been paid to them —La Gazette de France.

Our readers will find, in another column, a
diplomatic note from Lord PALMERSTON to
Earl GRANVILLE, our Ambassador in Paris,
dated the 2d instant, in answer to M. THIERS'
note of the Bth of October, which has already ap-
peared in The Sun. We have not space to-day
for any remarks on this official document, which is
at once moderate and conciliatory in its tone, and
pacific in its purport. As its appearance at the
present moment will strengthen the hands of the
peace party in France, we shall to-morrow examine
it at some length. In the mean time we recom-
mend it to general attention.

Letters from Constantinople of the 18th, Alex-
andria of the 16th, and Athens of the 20th ult.,
have been received this morning, but they merely
detail local versions of the official reports already
published of the success of the Allies on the coast
of Syria.

At a Council held at Windsor to-day the Par•
liament was to be further prorogued, and it is sup-
posed till about the 12th of December.

Lord John Russell's rumoured marriage with one of
the Hon. Misses Elliott is contradicted by the Kelso
Chronicle, and we have good reason to believe that the
contradiction is correct, and that the original rumour
was without any just foundation.
PARIS.—Dr. Turnbull, whose cures of deafness have
attained for him so much celebrity in London, has
been operating here at the Deaf and Dumb Institution
with wonderful success. The medical men of that estab-
lishment acted with great jealousy towards him, and
threw every impediment in his way ; they gave him Also
two of the worst eases there. He applied his liquid to
the ears of two of the pupils, and in less than a quarter
of an hour they could hear the ticking of a watch two
feet off. They could also hear the Doctor pronounce
the words mamma, papa, &e., near them, and actually
repeated them immediately. This has made a great
sensation in Paris.—Literary Gazette.

RAILWAYS.--One of the securities which these a

ford against accidents is, thht nothing travels on them
but the locomotives. The time of starting is known,
and the time of arrival calculated, and nearly certain.
The whereabouts of every train may be known at all
times to the Directors and every servant of the esta-
blishment, so that it may be looked out for, and prepa-
tions made for its arrival. Fogs will not lead to colli-
sions. There ought to be no such thing as one vehicle
running against another, from one goilg on the wrong
side of the road. Horsemen cannot be dismounted, nor
toot-passengers run over; they have nobusiness on railways.
The common road, however, serves for carriages, wag-
gons, and foot passengers, all going different paces, anti
many of them in different directions, and exposed to a
multitude of chances of collision and injury, which never
can happen on railways. The source of safety, how-
ever, requires that the Directors should inclose the
railway, and keep intruders off. Nothing but the loco-
motive engines and the trains they drag, and the men
of the establishment, should be allowed to intrude on a
railway. It will then be much safer than a common road.

A RICA AND CHARITABLE JEWESS.—The
will of Sarah Freidburg, late of Finsbury-place South,
London, spinster, deceased, has just been proved in the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in Doctors'-commons,
b) Solomon Herchell, the Chief Rabbi of the Jews, John
Petty Muspratt, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, and Hyam HyamQ,
Esqrs., the executors. The personsl property of this
lady has been sworn under 100,0001,, and a stamp duty
of 1,3501. has been paid on the probate, independ,nt of
the legacy duty at 3 per cent. on nearly 80,C00/. (be-
queathed to Miss Phillips, a sister of the deceased), which
will amount to nearly 3,000/. more. Amongst the it v-
rious bequests under the will, independent of legacies to
several friends, arc the following charitable ones :—To
the Jews' Synagogue 1001. ; to the Jews' Hospital 1001. ;
to the Jews' Frce School 1001. ; to the Society of Poor
Jews, to distributed in bread, meat, and coals, loot. ;
and to the poor Jews, at the, discretien of her executors,
to be distributed in the three winter months, on the S4b.
bath-day, 1001 ; to the Chief Rabbi 2001., and to each
of her other executors 100/. The deceased was extremely
charitable whilst living, and her loss by the poor will be
deeply flit.
CURIOUS NOTICE.—The following is a lite-
ral copy of a notice issued by the overseers of a parish in
this county:_,. Notes.--I have Recd. Instruking to Pay
Into the Thereshers of the Union the sum of one Hundred
and Forty Pounds For the Rehr() of the Poor of
By Orders of the Boards of Gardiens, the Eighteenth
day of July, One Thousin Eight Hundred and Therty
Nienc. Wich Will Requre A Rate of One Shilling in the
Pound 1"—/1'orthompton Mercury.
The Vanguard arrived at Sidon, after a passage
ne.;. A....