The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-15 00:00:00

S UMMARY OF ME;ViS

AND
Vubitt Opttiton.

" Who runs may read."

ronzlxam.

The death of Mr. Forsyth, late Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, is the most painfully important announcement
in the Ncw York Papers. Mr. Forsyth was born at
Fredericksburg, in the State of Virginia, in 1781, and
at his death had reached his 61st year. In 1802 he was
called to the Bar, and in a short time was appointed
Attorney-GenPral for the State of Georgia.. In 1812
he was elected a Member of Congress, and from 1814 to
1818 he was Chairman of the Committee of Foreign
Relations, during which he was distinguished for his
hostility to this country. In 1818 he was elected a
Member of the Senate, and in the year following he was
appointed Ambassador to the Court of Spain, where he
remained fcr nearly five years. In 1827 he was elected
Governor of Georgia, which office be filled for two
years. President Jackson in 1835 appointed him Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he held up to the
close of 14,sident Van Buren's Administration, when he
was succeeded by that ablest of American statesmen, Mr.
Daniel Webster. Mr. Forsyth was a clever, expert man
of business, and exceedingly well acquainted with all the
leading questions of Foreign policy. We, however, have
no reason to deplore his loss. We believe that but for
his excessive- jealousy of this country, the perplexed
North-east Boundary Question would have been long
since settled.

Murder and robbery are by no means such henious
crimes in the eyes of the Francis Government, as an
attack by a Journalist upon the unconstitutional acts
of the Cabinet. Madame Lafarge, convicted by a Jury
©f these crimes, on being removed to the central house
of correction at Montpellier was conveyed in a travelling
chariot, accompanied by her maid servant ; whereas the
editors of the Toulouse Journals, convicted of no crimes,
were dragged to prison on foot, with iron rings about
their necks, and there left to sleep at night on
some rotten straw. The Frenchmen who perpetrate,
and the Frenchmen who suffer these acts of injnstice,
are unworthy of the name. Well may the National ex-
press indignation at the spectacle thus presented to civi-
lized Europe.
On Thursday M. Deffaudis, the representative of the
French, and Count Le lion, of the Belgian Government,
met at the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
in his presence entered upon the preliminaries of the
projected treaty of commerce between the two nations.
The conference lasted a considerable time.

A letter from Wiemar in the France, states that a
marriage between the'riereclitary Grand Duke of Saxe
Wiemar and the Grand Duchess of Olga Russia may
be considered as decided.

From Lisbon the news is of the Sth inst. Lord Aber-
deen had agreed to sign a commercial treaty with Por-
tugal,l which the English residents were of opinion
would prove highly injurious to British shipping.
As we have not seen the proposed treaty we can say
no more about it than that the British residents in Lisbon
are loud in asserting that a treaty so prejudicial to Bri-
tiAt interests would not have been proposed by Lord
Palmerston. _

Madrid was tranquil on the sth inst., and it was re-
ported that no more executions would take place till after
the return of the Regent to that city.
PITSLXC OPINION,
The Morning Post endeavours to back out of its re-
cent declaration that the Glebe and the other Liberal
journals had been inciting the people to illegal vio-
lence, observing :—" The Glebe accuses the Post of
flinching from meeting its challenge to adduce even a
single instance of incitements to illegal methods of resist-
ing the Corn-laws. Instead of attempting to repel this,
which our Contemporary means for an accusation, we
accept it as an encomium which we hope is not unme-
rited. We do flinch from adducing instances of incite-
ment to illegal courses of any kind, and would rather
leave our assertion, that such incitements have been and
are habitually used by the opponents of the Corn-laws,
and the Ghbe's contradiction of that assertion, to the
judgment of those who pay attention to what is going on
in the world, or even to the comparative reputation of
the two journals for veracity, than incur the risk of add-
ing to the effect of such incitements by republishing
them. Incitements to resist the law are things
to be reprobated, and not to be adduced, just as
the scoffs of the infidel and the ohscenities of the ri-
bald are things to be reprobated, and not to be adduced."--
This is poor sophistry—a virtual begging of the question.
The Post finds that it has made a charge which it cannot
substantiate, so tries to escape from the dilemma on the
shallow pretence that if it were to adduce proofs of the
truths of its charges, it would be only adding to the
public excitement. In justification of such unworthy
conduct, it pleads its love of social order. It is mean
and evasive out of the excess of its pasriotism What an
indirect compliment is this to the Liberal Journals,
whose influence is so overwhelming on public opinion,
that were the Post to republish any of their more un-
compromising articles, it would run the risk of endanger-
ing the public peace.
We quote the following from the Chronicle :—" Con-
' servative operative associations were a startling experi-
ment ; but it was impossible the experiment should suc-
ceed, because the operative and Conservative could never
be cordially united. We were, therefore, more asto
nished that the idea of Conservative operative associa-
tions should ever have been entertained, than that they
should have, in most instances, dwindled to next to no-
thing. The Tory does not make the welfare of the
many the object of government ; his object is to benefit
the few at the expense of the many. A Liberal opera-
tive association is something intelligible ; and we are not
therefore surprised, that while the °Conservative Opera-
tive Association at Derby did not muster above 25 strong
at their last dinner, the first anniversary of the Derby
Liberal Operative Association Dinner was attended by
500 individuals."—The general decline of Conservative-
Operative Associations is a proof of the returning good
sense of the people. They see at length that Toryism
can have nothing in common with them ; that on the
contrary, it is their worst enemy ; and, consequently,
that to, enter into any sort of alliance with it, is virtually
to commit suicide on their own prospects.
Alluding to the present aspect of affairs in France,
the Times ebserves:—" The real questions between par-
ties in France and Europe, are not materially affected
by the results of a Parliamentary conflict or an adverse
division. The real duty and object of the Government
is not to possess itself of the necessary control over the
machinery of the Constitution, but to prepare and
strengthen the existing authorities of the country against
those portentous manifestations of the ill• regulated en-
tlus
them
frightful iasin anditful paroxysm popularpffozm of a
fierce, follow, like fever-fits,
afterl
great revolution. M.
Guizot may or re ay not be the statesman best fitted to.
adopt a particular line of policy in the Cabinet, or to de,
fend it in debate, for he shares these qualites with seve-
ral of his colleagues, and some of his opponents ; but in
the greater and more formidable task of guiding and re-
straining the ardent and irregular genius of the French
people, by the force of integrity and resolution, M.
Guint stands alone."

The Herald enters its strenuous protest against the
logical system pursued at Oxford, as fraught with all
sorts of evil conzequences to the Established Church,
and adds :—" A large portion of the students, we fear,
are.fast verging towards Popery. The sophisms of No.
90, and the position of Mr. Newman, have done more
to undermine' the principles of our Church than any-
thing which has taken place since the days of Harry
the Eighth. The elevation of such men as Whateley
and some others has given new x‘ings to Liberalism and.
latitudinarianism. It remains only for this unprincipled
logic to proCeed in undermining the attachment of the
rising clergy to the sober doctrines of the Reformation,
and atl will be lost. In the meantime this University is
allowing itself to be bestrode by the joint influence of
Liberalism, sophistry, and superstition, by Messrs.
Whateley, Newman, and Pusey, who are laughing in
their sleeves at the triumph they have achieved, and
who may be supposed to constitute a perfect syllogism.".
—ln the Liberalism which the Herald here sneers at,
of Archbishop Whateley, may be found the great safe-
guard of the Protestant Church, against the overt as-
saults
of the Puseyites, who are wolves in sheep's-
clothing--.-hypocrites, who enforce Cfitholie doctrines
while they pocket Protestant tithes.