The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-04 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Eastern question supplies our neighbours rith
an inexhaustible fund of discussion. It may be said te
engage their undivided attention. The same journal
which has in a long article apparently exhausted the
el26.kets after a brief interval enters on a fresh discus-
sion Mich as much ardour as if the question presented
itself for the first time. Whatever may he thought of
the principles laid down in these speculations of our
French neighbours, it is impossible not to be gratified
with the change which has taken place in the tone
of them. Discussion has succeeded appeals to the
passions—argument has taken the place of invec-
tive. The Revue des Deux Mondes has favoured
its readers with another long article, in which the
writer labours, with greater industry than success, to
prove that France has adopted the wisest of all pos-
sible courses, and predicts that the P awers which
signed the treaty of the 15th July have placed them-
selves in a position in which they cannot act with effect,
without involving themselves in the utmost danger. To
begin with the beginning : no good reason has yet been
:assigned for the conduct of France in separating her.
self from the other powers. We put out of euusidera-
lion the policy avowed by the P,resse dm- France ought
to have bribed Russia by conceding to berth Protectorate
of Conaerntinople,in seder to obtain in return the Protec-
torate of Egypt and Syria. We assume that France
was sincere in pledging herself with the irther Powers to
maintain the integrity of the Turkish empire; and
assuming this, we must repel the idea of France enter-
taining any project of dismemberment iu order to
share the spoil. Why has France, then, separated
herself from the Four Powers? The Revue des Deux
Alcudes does not answer this question sritisfacto-
Tily. It labours to make a very plain matter corn-
iplicated by evasion of the real points of discussion.
(From the Morning Post.)
The civil war in Spain, as Lord Palmerston has
managed matters, has la.en productive of no inconsi-
derable expebse to Great Britain. There has been,
astir readers are aware, great expenditure of British tree-
-stare, of British biracial, and, what is more valuable than
either, of British character. The objects of our efforts
:and our ontlay have been the termination of file civil
.war, and the establishment of what it has been the
fashioa to call a constitutional throne ; in other words.
of a throne the most alien that it is possible to
imagine to the pre-existing and ancient constitution of
:Spen. And it has for some months past been the
aindy task of our Ministerial journals to panegyrise
-the S'kin and extol the success with which the Foreign
of Engiand has ..prosecuted these objects.
Al at once, however, the tone of the official.
rs of our Foreign Department is found to be sud-
The spirit of their dream has undergone
a rrutark3bie and melancholy change. Laudatory of
Lori Paltnerston and of his policy they continue to be,
In purst:ance of their proper lunctioa and regular office.
Rat ea' the success of that policy we hear no more.
qaa N:yhic Lord is of course the same perfect States-
:NM, t! always was, and always will be, so long
.as h its Miaister, and our Contemporaries are Minis-
:ter;al ja:.rnalists but his skill and power, which but
lc:stew:ly were of the class that commands success, arc
!.(3-,la; brought down to the class which only deserves
Itys now discovered, notwastanding the ability
• is,lom of Lord Palmerston, that Spain is not
• d--;1;at the civil war is tint at an end—and that
mstitutiran:l Throne of Donna Isabella is not
-r established.

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the Morning Yerald.)
itin4s are calculated to impress an Englisilman
,wei- estimate of the intellect of Roman Catho-
.i Lh:la the influence exercised by such. a person
Daniel O'Connell. The man has little to re-
d him, excepting the possession of a large
en.rgy. His eloquence (Heaven save
ui time most bald and vulgar description.
his Whales, his stirring appeals—or what
Cs suAl—arc all stereotyped. They occur in
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ra,gtie which he delivers. His life is
:spent i-i grinding the same notes in the same man-
ner en his little rhetorical hurdy-gurdy. His one
tune is moreover a bad one and badly played.
This wretched impostor has been for the last six
la,.hbling about a repeal of the Union ; and the
aber..e would seem to possess deep attractions for his
humanist tiuditories. Daniel has, it is true, played
tact. ;:rid loose with this subject often before ; but
tfrqr‘: is in the bare mention of it, even by faithless
bps, tarnething infinitely seductive to the hereditary
tencmics of England. Yet, by a repeal of the Union
—if eotliin; more than Daniel anti his partisans
.av:arv, wcra intendecl7--Ireland would, assuredly, prove
.a !cs...:r to a fearful extent. If the Union were re-
feilletl—if the nobility and gentry ot Ireland were
again collected in Dubiia—Daniel and men of
his .:tutels would (en the assumption that property
wr.ts to be allowed to exercise its legitimate info-
.etick,) be utter .y extinguished. Nearly all the landed
7prpper:y_ ot It-eland is in the hands of Protestants;
.anti slw .:eight of that superincumbent mass of wealth
wou'.6.spcedily—if the repeal party entertained honest
design's—extinguish the flames of any agitation which
Zir. O'Connell might then raise. But the repeal
Tarty cities not entertain honest designs. That party
miglit now, in the event of repeal being carried, hope
to ion:mai:ld an almost exclusively Romanist House of
Cornincris in Dublin, together with corporations coo-
n-rt.:al into strong-bolds of offence against Protes-
14ntisai. The-first movement of the repealers would
le, to confiscate the property of the Established Church
in Ireland.; and, then, to bring into operation a sweep-
ing system of plunder and assassination—a system, of
which Protestant landholders should be the victims.

(From the Times.)
It cannot surprise our readers that we should regard
'with alarm and jealousy every attempt which is made
to extend the authority of the Poor-law Commissioners
to matters which do not Hill within their legitimate pro-
%ince. Doubtless, it may seem an expedient policy
in those wile admire the centralizing principle of
Government, when they have once insinuated a ma-
chincry like that of the Poor-law Commission into the
institutions of the country, to draw everything which
they possibly can within its sphere of operation. One
palpable end which it serves is to supply a
multiplicity of plausible arguments for perpetuat-
ing such a machinery, for the sake of the ingrafted,
if not- of the original purposes. For ourselves,
we have an invincible objection to the constitution and
.character of ail such bodies as this Commission ; they
:are essentially repugnant to the spirit of liberty, and, so
far from thinking it fit or safe to intrust them with ad-
ditions: functions, we are wholly bent upon divesting
them el' those for which they were first created. An
Act. Keg passed last Session, in the quiet and tinobtru-
/Live v ay in which Acts of real importance to the public
gene. any are, for the purpose of " extending the prae-
lice o veeeiranation " The purpose is undeniab.y ex-
cellent ; and the leading principle of the Act, which is
to pruvide the means of vaccination gratuitously, not
mcro. to the poor, but to all woo may choose
to dated themselves of it in every parish through-
out England and Ireland, is equally admirable ;
,and, to tar, the measure is conceived in a spirit of
legislation worthy of a wise and a paternal Govern-
ment. We wish we could speak with equal satisfaction
of the manner in which it is proposed to carry out the
principle. In the first place, it enables the guardians
of Peor-ti;w unions, and the overseers of parishes not
ceiniorised within any un on, to enter into contracts
swith medical practitioners for the vaccination of all
person
‘-• reiden, within their respective unions or pa-
; and it directs that, in making ail such arrange-
ments es may be required for carrying the Act into
effect, the guardians and overseers shall "conform to the
regulations which may from time to time he issued by the
Poor-law Commissioners in that behalf;" and no con-
tract is to le: valid nail submitted to the Poor-law
Conernis.sioners for their approbation. In the next
Place, it provides that th,p amount of remuneration to
the medical contractors shall depend on the number of
persons successfully vaccinated.
(From the Illorninq Advertiser.)
If ten ri:un.euber rightly, the result to which the phi-
losophieal Friinebrnar, 111. Beaumont, came in his
analy.s.ia of the state of Ireland, social and spiritual, it
was, ti,nat there is no salvation possible for that country
except Ly the confiscation of the property of the aris-
aoeraey and. el,rgy—in other words, a revolution, not
merely 'Oct social. This was the calm, dis
sionato eetielusion of a stranger, Mfluenced byPas.
motive than the lure of truth and the indisno other
logic of'things. 11, then, after an exact expositiopnenofthe
problem of Ireland's condition, no other wayf ex
patinf; iler evils save that of abolishing the Prootestant
Church, and treating her absentee landlords like so many
can be given as a solution, we should like to
know if! :shatm ai an er t is to be furthered by a repal
of the Union ? Arm Irish Parliament, if assemblede in
Coll-i eeereen, might vote the Protestant Irish Esta•
ee
blishinent at an end—might vote all manner
tainnnerevoerf anduumlid-
nistratve and cetnmercial reforms ; but
tquch thr., rijt,; of private property any more than the
u sited l'ariinment ; and unless the present distribution
of jirop.rdy It ere totally changed,nopermanent relief
(aceordre. toi I. Beaumont) could be afforded to the
Irish 1-,;:;p1: by its acts. M. Beaumont, let it be re-

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u!ar iu ►:is opinions. They are

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rcater number of observers who have

paid il:l..:ttentit--n to the evils of Ireland, who, without
florin.; to raise their thoughts to the remedy, have all,
with one %oice, weriroed to the land and the landlords
the origin of her crimes and miseries.

FROM THR DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

(From the Globe.)
The illtnifestation Rtibrmisle, as die National calls
it, in anr;_Lirbanquet near Paris, though no doubt
exaggel-ated in regard to numbers, as all these " mani-
festotiono" Are by their friendly reporters, contains some
curious matter in the several speeches, illustrative Of
the very (lff.rcrit point of view from which politics are
regarded by 1)011 and his nearest neighbours.ngiiyh
agiators never can do much by topics of
foreign I),,ficy—witness Messrs. Urquhart,
c,,. French French agitators can do nothing by
• and haze ofily to trump up a tale