The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-17 00:00:00

Si;hIIVIARY OF NEWS

D
Vubltr Ovation.

" Who runs may read."

rortzsaN.
There is but little political news in the French papers.
The France asserts the truth of the following curious
statement :—" M. Olozaga having demanded from M.
Guizot the expulsion from France of Maria Christina,
the Minister asked if he made the demand in the name of
Queen Isabella. The Spanish Ambassador replied in the
affimative, and M. Guizot then observed, that in order
for such a demand to be regular, it was necessary for
him to produce a note as the Minister Plenipotentiary of
Isabella. M. de Olozaga, who is usually so accute, fell into
the snare, and sent the note in the sense required, and it
was communicated to some members of the diplomatic body.
The Neapolitan Ambassador protested against such a
demand, observing that hospitality could not with de-
cency be refused to a female who was daughter of a
King, widow of a King, sister of a King, and mother of
a Queen, and that her expulsion from France would be a
monstrous and even an immoral act. The Austrian
Charge d'Affaires was of the same opinion. The other
Ambassadors of the Sovereigns who have pot recognised
Isabella, said they could not offer an opinion NCI' thout re-
ceiving instructions from their Courts on the subjes;;• As
the hosts of the Tuileries are politically very mora:,
Maria Christina of Bourbon will, if it suits her, be her
own mistress to pass the winter at her villa of the Rue de
Courcelles."—So because Mad. Munoz happens to be the
daughter, widow, and mother of a sovereign, she is to ob-
tain an immunity for crimes for which her accomplices have
already forfeited their lives ! Kings' widows, like kings
themselves, can do no wrong. M. Guizot has certainly
precedent on his side, for when in the reign of Louis
XIV., the ex-Queen of Sweden, Christina, murdered her
chamberlain, the Court of France held her excused be-
cause she had been a crowned head ! Such is the mora-
lity of Governments, especially that of France. Need
we wonder to hear of the existence of communist revolu-
tionary fraternities after this ?
The Presse contends that France has no ambitious de-
signs upon Spain. Why, then, assemble an army of
25,000 men at Perpignan, and 25,000 men at Bayonne ?
Does Spain threaten to invade France ? Or with the
proceedings now going forward in the Chamber of
Peers, will the French Cabinet have the assurance to
affirm that the Government of Espartero in Spain is not
more popular than that of Louis Philippe in France? Louis
Philippe may withdraw his armies from the frontier, for
he can neither overthrow the Constitution, nor dispose of
the hand of Queen Isabella. Spain will not permit it, and
were she wanting in the elements of successful resistance,
England would be bound to assist her. Louis Philippe
need not flatter himself that he will be permitted to play
over again the game of that old fungus of corruption
Louis XVIII.
The Moniteur announces the arrival at Brest on the
12th inst. of the squadron under the orders of Rear-
Admiral easy, consisting of the ships of the line, Le
Suffren, Le Jupiter, Le Scipion, Le Triton, and Le
Jena, from Toulon.
M. Guizot is now in his 55th year, having been born
at Nismes on the 4th of October, 1787.
" The baton of Marshal of France," observes the Na-
tional, "is no longer borne except by septuagenarians
and octogenarians. Marshal Moncey is in his 89th year;
Marshal Soult is in his 73d; the Duke de la Tarente in
his 75th ; the Duke de Reggio in his 75th; Count Mo-
litor in his 71st; Marshal Clausel in his 70th; Marshal
Grouchy in his 76th; Marshal Sebastiani in his 70th.
The two youngest are Marshal Gerard and Marshal
Valee, who, however, are both in their 69th years. The
joint age of all the Marshals is 737 years—the average
age 73 7-10."
The Pope has announced that a perfect reconciliation
has taken place between the Courts of Rome and Portugal.
Mr. Lyell, the eminent English geologist, is lecturing
before crowded audiences in Boston, in an establishment
called the " Lowell Institute," founded by a wealthy
man of that name, who bequeathed to it 200,000 dol-
lars, the interest of which is to be devoted to the disse-
mination of useful knowledge among the people, free of
charge. The trustees have adopted the plan of engaging
the services of eminent lecturers, to deliver courses be-
fore the people, on their respective branches. Hence
Professor Lyell was engaged to come over, and receives
100 dollars for each lecture he delivers.
Puniac oPnwriorr. .
The Morning Post observes, in a leading article on the
subject of the education of the Roman Catholic clergy :
—" The present Government is fortunately in a position
of strength, based upon the solid foundation of public
confidence, which warrants and commands it to confront
the difficulties which surround the subject of the educa-
tion and social state of the Roman Catholic clergy of
Ireland, the most difficult and intractable subject with
which any body of patriotic statesmen has ever been
summoned to contend—a position of strength which not
only warrants and commands them to confront these
difficulties, but affords them a reasonable ground of
hope that they may, by subduing them, achieve the great-
est and most valuable triumph that patriotic statesmen
ever won since the progress of human civilization first
began to combine the ideas of government with those of
philanthropy in its highest sphere of influence—of phi-
losophy in its noblest field of investigation ; of energy,
and moral courage on the loftiest stage for their display."
—These allusions to the strength of the Ministers,
founded on the public confidence in their integrity and
patriotism, are so absurd as to wear the appearance of
irony. There may
.be partial, but there can be no lasting
public, confidence in a Government of which such a
shameless apostate as Sir James Graham forms one of
the most influential members; which is compelled to pay
deference to the opinions of such a determined monopo-
list as the Duke of Buckingham; which is alternately
wheedled and bullied by a Stanley; and which acknow-
ledges as its head a statesman so wholly devoid of vigour,
decision, promptitude, and enlarged sagacity, as Sir Ro-
bert Peel 1
The Chronicle contains an article on the subject of
Sir Robert Peel's industrious habits of business, in the
course of which, after observing that a man may be busy
to very little purpose, our Contemporary goes on to say:
—" If he has a laudable ambition of writing his name
in the book of posterity, he will take care of his pre-
slant opportunity. Now or never will he rise into a
statesnian. Novr or never must he comprehend his
position,
if he wish to retain it. Now or never will he
disprove the current opinion that, clever as he is, he is
lint a superficial politician, a mere master of expediencies.
Let him, then, wisely improve his time—let him be
prepared for the next session of Parliament. His dan-
gar...4 tin one side, arises from the party that has brought
him into pdttef, it were the poorest folly to deny that
they consider him ag their servant, brought into office
for their own purposes. To assert his independence is
to convert them into his antagonists, or, at best, his
•lukewartn supporters. And -yet ;,e he throws himself
entirely upon his party, his downfal is as _certain as that
the sun rises to-morrow, The pVesent system carTot—
be upheld in the face of a decaying empire.
Sir Robert reel tian only rise into a statesman by wholly
changing his habits of thostightby altering, in fact, the
entire structure of his mind,whlch is searcelyto be expected
from a man considerably advanced on the shady side of
fifty. He may still continue, by means of his well-
known tart and plausibility, to keep himself afloat as a
party politician; but ho will never exhibit to advantage
as a legislator of an enlarged and philosophical turn of
mind. He has been brought up in a bad school. His
intellect cannot take in a whole. It has a limited and
partial range; and takes microscopic views of things.
The purblind party that made him, will unmake him ere
long; They have got him so fast in their clutches, that
he must, peilufee, sink or swim with them; and it needs
no great foresight to predict that, however it may
triumph for it season, Toryism—in its present form—
must eventually slid*, and be heard of no more.
The Times remarks on stfte teeent Tory public
dinners in Shropshire and elsewhere--" keiv things
have Cofittibuted more to consolidate and strengthen
the Conservative party than those loyal constitutional
festivals, which, in later years, have become so frequent
in every part of the kingdom: By means of such as-
semblages, in which comivialgiatification has ever been
subsidiary to a much higher object, the erttinder ele-
ments of political society have been brought into Ward
and systematic co-operation ; gentlemen whose talents
and activity qualify them for rendering essential ser-
vice to the good.cause, have been drawn from a leisurely
retirement ihtb a itell-defined field of exertion ; an en-
lightened zeal fur the preservation and improvement
of public institutions has been more widely diffused ;
Conservative registration societies have sprung into
vigorous existence ; the insolence of democratic aggres-
sion has been extensively checked ; and the current
topics usually discussed on such occasions have given
a beneficial impulse to the national mind in canvassing
and modifying the general policy of the country."—
God help the persons who expect to derive—what the
Times so magniloquently calls—the sound elements of
political iiistrom; from the speeches made at Tory public
dinners ! Infinite will he their disappointment if they
hope to glean from such speechOS tin 4 idea beyond abso-
lute common-place. Allusions to our gicitiOnt Consti-
tution in Church and State ; trite panegyrics on Cliff not,
tiotilti tifitiet, which render us the envy and the admi-
-1 ration of all surrounding nations ; discourses on the
1 patriotic propensities of the House of Lords, mixed up
with special eulogiums on Toryism in general, and on
the present Ministers in particular—these form the staple
of Tory after-dinner oratory ; and he who can glean
any of the sounder elements of political wisdom from
such hackniecl &1-)„.--leton-placey, must be a man far indeed
se noint of intellect. lt
below the aiii7,-' of humanity-.
6‘. • "Titi Of political
is not from the lips of Toryism ::',`,lt max__ -. (rood
wisdom can ever be expected to.fall. " Van anJ
' come out of Nazareth ?" '
The Herald thus speaks bit Lord Alvaiilet 's recent
Pamphlet :—" Lord Alvenley In pfolibtiqg thai it PM-
testant State shouldtake ' '
into its pity a Bornisii clergy,
resembles the Indian who fells the pay
that ht; inaY
gather tliv fro it iti
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.
wounded the pilgrims visiting the shrine of St. Peter ;
his Lordship overlooks the future in the present, and
would relinquish for the possible momentary enjoyment
of tranquillity the long and secure possession of the most
important blessings. Lord Alvanley, or the subtler
spirit who is allowed to use his Lordship's name, would
purchase peace at the expense of principle—for expe-
diency he would resign conscience, and sacrifice to an
ideal object advantages which can, if lost, never be re-
gained. Lord Alvanley is a man of the world, or at
least of that portion ot the world which is to be found
in political clubs, and fashionable society—yet
some one for him, has put forth a proposition wholly in-
iconsistent with worldly knowledge," he, or
, . The Dublin Pilot says---" Peel, in the tottering condi-
tion of his Government and,of the country,,hason every
instance, resorted to postponemeni instead of measures
and intrigues instead- of force. On no question has in-
trigue been so busy as in relation to Repeal. From

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