The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-07 00:00:00

PROM TIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The great embarrassment experienced by successive
French Cabinets with regard to the Eastern question
has arisen from the unwise dereliction of the principles
of plain and direct dealing committed by them.
Honesty is the best policy ; and without imputing, of
course, any thing personal in the defect of that qua-
lity, we must say that some such defect has appeared
in the successive phases of this question. We are
sorry, for our part, that M. Thiers could not be brought
before the Chambers as a Minister. We should have
wished to see him compelled by consistency, as
responsible Minister, to go on acting upon the principles
he had professed, or else compelled by his party connec-
tions to profess new ones in the face of the Chamber. In
the former case he must have followed a pacific policy,
quite as much as his successors can possibly do. In the
latter case, he must have advanced arguments for a hos-
tile course inconsistent with his own manifestoes, and the
casus belli laid down by himself. In either case the drama
would have been acted out without change of parts, and
the spectators would have been better able to judge of the
whole performance. But M. Thiers was too adroit to
" play out the play" to its proper catastrophe. He has
placed himself at liberty to assume a new irresponsible
part I

Spargere voces
In vulgum ambiguas, et qucxrere conscius arma.
We can only judge at present what that part will be,
by the tone of his late organs; and we do not wish
prematurely to predict its character. Truth mean-
while comes out by degrees as to the real origin
of the interruption of the Anglo-French alliance, as
regards Eastern affairs. That interruption was not
occasioned by England separating herself from France,
but by France separating herself from England, and
playing fast and loose with all Europe. It is not possible
for any Power to combine the advantages of isolated
action, and European alliances. It is not possible for any
Power to contract engagements with opposite parties, and
dissemble the one, in order to retain the other—thus
with both. The Power that acts in this manner
can have no right whatever to complain, if she finds her-
self excluded from councils to which she does not come as
a free agent.
(From the Standard.)
The Royal Speech is of course the one absorbing topic
of speculation in the French capital. It does not, it is
affirmed, define the casts belli, but refers to it in terms
that are expected to satisfy all moderate supporters of the
national dignity of France ; it is said to be pacific. Minis-
ters anticipate a majority of :35. It was rumoured that M.
Thiers had been persuaded to become a candidate for the
Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, but his friends as-
sert that nothing had been or would be decided on that
point till after the contents of the Royal Speech should
be known. The Paris journals of Wednesday arc filled
with abuse of the new Cabinet. The Constitutionnel
confesses " that a formal promise had been made to the
Pacha; it was the word of France given to Mehemet Ali
in exchange for his concession of not passing the Taurus."
Here we have M. Thiers versus M. Thiers, he having re-
peatedly declared as Minister that no such compact
existed; that his sole objection to the requisition made
to the Pacha to surrender Syria was, that it was to
be wrested from him by force, should he be inclined
to resist the demand. We are disposed to pre-
fer the assertion of M. Thiers the newspaper col-
laborateur to that of M. Thiers, the Minister ; we have
long entertained a belief that some secret understand-
ing has existed between the Pacha and France from
the first, and that impression has been fully confirmed
by subsequent circumstances. The Constitutioni;el
further asserts that Louis Philippe sympathised in
the indignation excited throughout France by the
Treaty of July 15, spoke uncourteously, and even me-
nacingly, to the Envoys of the Five Powers, and
lent his Royal word to increase agitation and re-
sentment. We do not believe a word of this state-
ment. It is well known that gross deceptions were prac•
tiled on the King by his Ministers, and that, when
his signature was obtained to certain ordinances, he
was in the dark as to the real circumstances of the case.
The apprehension of an emeute has slightly depressed
the funds, but should any disturbance be attempted
it will be put down wish a high band, as there are enough
of troops in Paris to meet any emergency that may arise,
and they are all said to be actuated by the best possible
feeling. It is rumoured that the Duke de Broglie has
declined either to join the Administration or accept the
Embassy to London.

IMPROVED METROD OF PRINT

ING CALICOES, PAPER, &c.

During the past week there has been exhibited in
Manchester a new machine constructed to facilitate the
printing of ca!icoes, mousselines de laine, paper hangings.
&c. which has excited considerable interest and atten-
tion among the trade. The inventor is a Mr. Chassuis,
and the patentee who is introducing it to the public is
Mr. Richard Beard, of London. The first that has
been manufactured from the model is by Messrs. Hous-
ton, the machine-makers of Manchester. It will be
fresh in the recollection of those interested in calico-
printing, &c., that some few years ago a new machine
designed to carry into effect certain improvements in the
printing of calicoes, &c., was invented by Monsieur
Perrott, of Rouen, and exhibited at the Exposition, in
Paris, and subsequently the model was removed to
Manchester, from which a number of machines was k
constructed by the Messrs. Lockett, of that town, and
which are now in full work at a print-works near Bury.
This machine of Mr. Beard's, it appears, is a decided
improvement upon the Periotive, the latter being only
capable of workingi-two or three colours, white the Chas-
suis of Mr. Beard is capable of working, in handsome
patterns, in eight different colours ; indeed, it might be
so adapted as to print at one time an almost indefinite
number, Our Manchester correspondent saw it in full
tvcrk last week, in the presence of some of the principal
practical calico printers, all of whom acknowledged its
great utility, both as regarded the economy of its pro-
cess and the saving effected in the prices of printing ; I
and no doubt was entertained that it is a machine of the
highest importance to the country,calculated to advance
the prosperity of the art of printing, and one of the most
happy and ingenious inventions with which our industry
in mechanical art has been blessed. The eight colours
alluded to we worked by means of one copper cylinder
and one surface roller—a kind of work which, accord-
ing to the mode of printing now in use, would have re-
quired four or five copper cylinders, and three or four
separate blockings by hand. The principle of the in-
vention is simple, works with admirable ease, and (what
is most important to the calico printer on the old system)
it can, at a comparatively small cost, be adapted to the
ordinary machines now in use.
It was urged by some of the calico printers who in-
spected it, that the objections against it were, that the
pattern design should be formed for the machine, and
that it would be of by far greater utility to the exten-
sive printer whose business was of that nature as to be
indifferent to his printing 500 pieces of one pattern.
The patentee, however, succeeded in showing that there
was not one out of 50 of the present designs that the
machine would not print, and that it was equally ser-
viceable to the small printer as the one in a large way.
It has not been decided whether this new system will
be immediately adopted by the Manchester printers,
but it is admitted that if the patentee can succeed in
printing at 3s. 6d. per piece less than the present cost
(which he asserts that he can), the printer in his own
defence must use it, for the competition in the Man-
chester trade is at present so keen that the difference of
61. in the cost of a piece of goods is of the utmost hp-
' portance.

It appears from the Report of the " Irish Island
Society," that it now employs 23 Irish and English male
and female teachers among the natives of the islands and
along an extensive line of coast, almost destitute of moral
and religious instruction. The schools contain nearly 700
children, who are receiving a sound Scriptural education.
It enjoys the superintendence and active co-operation of
twelve clergymen of the Established Church, most of
whom could not otherwise have extended their labours to
these destitute regions, although residing in the neigh-
bourhood of the Society's stations. The Society is pre-
paring two Collegiates in the University of Dublin, with
a view to their entering as Ministers of the Established
Church on the long-neglected work of preaching the
Gospel to the Irish in their native language.
DEATH OF GENERAL BLlGll.—Lieutenant-
General the Hon. Edward Bligh died on the 2d instant.
He was born in September, 1769, and was grand-uncle of
the present Earl of Darnley.
a 'The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet Ocean, S. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived at twelve
at noon on Thursday, after a favourable passage.
Lady Holland is now at West-hill, the villa of
the Duke of Sutherland, at Wandsworth, where her Lady-
ship intends to pass six weeks. Holland House is left by
will to Lady Holland for her life, after which it goes to
the present Lord.
POWER OF THE IMAGINATION.—An honest
New England farmer started one very cold day in winter,
with his sled and oxen into the forest, a half mile from
home, for the purpose of chopping a load of wood. Hav-
ing felled a tree he drove the team alongside, and com-
menced chopping it up. By an unlucky hit he brought
the whole bit of the axe across his foot, with a sliding
stroke. The immense gash so alarmed him as nearly to
deprive him of all his strength. He felt the warm blood
filling his shoe. With great difficulty he succeeded in
rolling himself on the sled and started the oxen for home.
As soon as he reached the door, he called eagerly for help.
His terrified wifo and daughter with much effort lifted
him into the house, as he was wholly unable to help him-
self, saying his foot was nearly severed from his leg. He
was laid carefully on the bed, groaning all the while very
bitterly. His wife hastily prepared dressings, and removed
the shoe and took, expecting to see the desperate wound,
when lo 1 the skin was not even broken. Before going
out in the morning he had wrapped his feet in red flannel
to protect them from the cold, the gash laid this open to
view, and he thought it flesh and blood. His reason not
correcting the mistake, all the pain and loss of power
which attends a real wound followed. Man often suffers
more from imaginary evils, than from real ones.—American
Paper.
At Barnwell, a village in Northamptonshire, a
discovery took place on Friday last, under very curious
circumstances. Some labourers were working in a small
quarry, when the stone appeared to them to have been re-
moved and again replaced ; this excited their suspicion,
and having worked with great earnestness for about ten
minutes, they were no less astonished than delighted by
the discovery of a small iron chest, which contained many
interesting and rare coins. Many of them are supposed
by some of the neighbouring antiquarians to ,be the gold
and silver of Charles I. and Cromwell, and to have been
hidden during the wars which took place in the reign of
thattulfortunate monarch,