The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vublgt Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
M. Guizot's speech at Liseux is severely attacked by
;he French Journals which supported the hair-brained
policy of M. Thiers. The Constitutionnel says :—" M.
Guizot attacked with extreme violence the policy of the
Cabinet of the Ist of March, in the acts of which he had
corcurrcd. To exalt himself as Minister, he lowers
himself as Ambassador. To obtain favour as a courtier
Minister he abjures all the principles upon which his
opposition to the Mole Ministry was based."
The Commerce remarks :—" The manner of M. Gui-
zot is well known. Cold and calculating, bold in asser-
tion, and hypocritical in language, full of paradox, and
haughtily dogmatic ; such are the qualities by which
this scourge of our country is remarkable. M. Guizot
pretends by his speech to bring about the restoration of
monarchical power. He knows what he says. Words with
him have their full meaning. He knows that monarchy
and constitutional power are incompatible. He knows
that by monarchy is meant the power of one person, and
that a representative Government admits the Crown as
only one of its elements. He knows full well, therefore,
that when he talks of monarchy he sets up the standard
of a counter-revolution. We shall see where that will
lead him."
The Courier Francais observes :—" It does not re-
quire a long examination to judge of this speech, which
is more hollow, more unmeaning, than any we have
heard fall from the same orator during the last session.
Guizot tries to snake us believe that we are living in
the best of worlds, - that the machinery of our institu-
tions works admirably, and that we are in the enjoyment
of an excess of liberty. In talking of the census M.
Guizot evidently knows nothing of the subject, and what
he says is perfect nonsense. He glorifies the state of
peace in which Eurore is now, and by a tour de force,
of which he alone is capable, he proclaims the sincere
pleasure he experiences. at having signed the treaty of
the 13th of July."
The Quotidienne is more laboured in its cen-
sures, and even aspires to be classical. " Rome," says
the Legitimist organ, " was lost from the moment when
she allowed her safety to depend on a single man.
Thus, when Pompey was overthrown, the republic in
this man lost its only support. The present system has
also its Pompey. I.; is M. Guizo.,. Like the ancient
Roman, M. Guizot is at the head of the Conservative
party. In presence of this Pompey we find likewise—
so nearly do the most distant ages approximate—a
Cmsar. This is M. Thiers. Like Cmsar he is the great
warrior of his age, and like Cmsar also aspires to the dic-
tatorship. At the commencement of his career he was hand
in hand with Pompey-Guizot, but after bepraising each
other from the tribune and in public they quarrelled and
eparated. Their ambitious desires clashed, and they
became enemies. Each is desirous of reigningalone. At
this moment M. Guizot is in the ascendant, and M.
Thiers is far from France, visiting fields of battle, in
()Her to mask his designs and his passions, as the true
Caesar, engaged on the real fields of battle, menaced his
rival Pompey. Let us wait for the end of the struggle.
M. Thiers will know how to discover some filthy stream
for his Rubicon, and M. Guizot is perhaps destined soon
to seek a refuge in the plains of some new Pharsalia."
The Temps and the National follow in the wake of the
Quotidienne, as regards smartness, but rather in advance
of that journal in acrimony. But, for the hard words of
the organs of a disappointed faction, M. Guizot and his
friends must. of course by this time be well prepared.
Enough for the inward consolation of such a man, that
lie saved his country from imminent peril ; enough for
us who admire him, that he was mainly instrumental in
preserving the peace of Europe. The calumnies of the
belligerent press, we accept as the strongest attestations
of how much the world is indebted to his peace-pre-
serving policy.