The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-17 00:00:00

prominence is given.

We stop not here to reprobate an example which
will find no reputable followers among tht: News-
paper Press of this country. If war be forced
upon Englat.d, in spite of the pacific efforts of the
Government, Ministers will encounter no oppo-
sition on the part of the respectable ultra-Tory and
Radical Press, in carrying it on with the vigour and.
success hitherto characteristic of British hostilities,
Were such an event to take place—which may.
GOD, in his mercy to France no less than to Eng-
land, avert—we should be found seeking our ene-
mies on their coasts, not supinely awaiting their
arrival ,n ours. Should the French steamers be
employed, as the National says they would, in
throwing from 50,000 to 100,000 Frenchmen upon
the Isle of Thanet and the banks of the Thames,
such of them as would re-cross the Channel would
have but a sorry account to give of their freight.
We have an estimate of the invading force given
by the National, but that Journal does not venture
to predict what portion of it would return to Paris
laden with the plunder of London. That. calcula-
tion is left for the Foreign Correspondent of the
Morning Post.
We trust it is not yet too late on the part of the
Press, to express a hope that the good sense of the
two greatest and most civilized nations in the world
will be powerfully exerted, even at the eleventh
hour, to avert the horrors of an European war.
The importance of the question in dispute is not
worthy of such a sacrifice of the great interests of
humanity. War, ever a crime, is now ix:e of fear-
ful magnitude. Instead of tending to spread civili-
zation, as when successfully carried on against bar-
barians, it must. have the effect of retarding its
progress, or of b:utalising the passions of an al-
ready partially educated and refitted people. We
epeak not of the individual misery which it would
ihflict upun iniudretls of thousands,—upon the
evil passtoos which it would engender in the
breasts of all. The anguish of bereaved relatives,
robbed by conscriptions, of sons and brothers.
ripening into manhood, to saturate with their life- ,
blood the battle-fields of nations, has been painted
by more than one French hand, in colours so vivid
that we shrink in despair from an attempt at

BATH. —.OBITUARY Ex TItAORDINARY.—
( From a Corregpotadent.)-0a
,lignitarii s ..1 the Church, Saturday, August 15,
died of a decline, alter a rickety existence of two year,
and ten months, the Bath Post, alias the Somersetshire
Constitutional, alias the Taunton Conservative.Shorth
after its both, it was taken under the auspices of severe)
as its wet mine; assisted in ills lactessant duties by a son
of Mars, %ha. although acting in a subordinate capacity,
who appointed a certain Baronet
was considered ,s the Major nursemaid. The seeds of its
dissolution were sown by its being confined under the pet-
ticoats of Mother Church, which induced a prernature de-
cay arid early des h_.....
STRATHROGIE CASE. _.At At the meeting of the
Corgani,sion on "Fhorsday, the Wl'. Mr. Dunlop reported
the result of the deliberations of the Committee appointed
to frame a libel aga.tist the seven suspended ministers of
Strathbogie, and Requieseat in pace."
proposed that the libel should be adopted
—the relevancy to be considered at the next Commission.
The motion was adopted without a vote, and the Com-
mission adjourned on Friday till November next.
The clergy of the diocese of St. David's have
unanimously expressed their regret that a Bishop should
have 'been appointed to that see who was ignorant of the
Welsh language.
The Archdeacon Davies has been made
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imitation.
While, therefore, we are as little indifferent as
the most warlike of our Gallic Contemporaries to
the possession of that prowess which secures us
against aggression, and while we are prepared not
to shrink from the maintenance of our just rights,
we tegaid with horror what has a tendency to pro-
voke groundless international enmities, and to lead
to the unnecessary shedding of blood. In our eves
there are few rinctacles more de.plorahle than the
glory of the sword triumphant over reason,
so-called
albeit
that
t sword be held by a NELSON or a WEL-
LINGTON. The prostration of arts before arms—
of intellect before brute force, is what no love of
conquest would ever induce us voluntarily to witness.