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

SFIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From the Morning Chronicle.)
The speech of the King of the French, at the open-
ing of the Chambers, which we received yesterday by
extraordinary express from Paris, and published in a
second edition, must give great satisfaction throughout
this country, and we are inclined to thick can hardly
fail to have -ft beneficial influence on the deliberations of
the French Legislature. It is a document worthy of
the enlightened Sovereign who adopted it, and highly
honourable to his Ministers. France assumes the
station which befits her, and she assumes it without
any idle boasts of her resources, or menaces calcu-
lated to excite heartburuings and jealousies in neigh-
bouring States, but with the calm dignity worthy
of a great and powerful country. Nothing can be
more becoming and in better taste than hits refer-
ence to the Treaty of London, and the duties which
it has imposed on France. " The measures which
the Emperor of Austria, the Queen of ,Great Bri-
tain, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia,
have taken in concert to regulate the relations between
the Sultan and the Pacha of Egypt, have imposed se-
rious duties upon me. I have the dignity of our coun-
try at heart, as well as its safety and repose. In per-
severing in the moderate and conciliatory policy of
which for ten years v‘e have reaped the fruits, 1 have
put France in a condition of facing any chances which
the course of events in the East might bring about."
After alluding to the extraordinary credits which have
been opened, he next proceeds to observe : " I continue
to hope that the peace of Europe will not be troubled.
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It is necessary to the common interests of Europe, to
she occupies among the nations nshcoeuld com-
mand us to make new efforts." The hope here tehxe
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pressed will not be disappointed.
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Government
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notch b ewitl\lVe the must French Journals. From
not confound the
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motives which we will not characterise, efforts were
long, and but too
successfully, made through the
Journals to create an impression
on the minds of the
French nation that France to the
was not only no party
Treaty of London, but had been kept in ignorance of
the intention of the Four Powers to conclude any such
treaty, and the matter was incessantly presented to them
as an attempt to deprive France of the influence to
which, from her power and her resources, she was justly
entitled. 'Fbey were, as it were, inveigled into a belief
that a treaty to which France was not a party only, be-
cause she refused to be a
party to it, however inconsis-
tent such refusal might be with the recorded declara-
tions of her Government, was intended as an insult to
them, and hence the strange interest so generally taken
by our neighbours in the cause of Mehemet Ali, a ty-
rant and oppressor of the very worst description. For
some time
our neighboursi. have been returning to
of things. The
sounder notions of the real state ) be gin
conduct of the English Government
and discover that the conn
and its Allies has been consistent and straightforward
throug ;
bout and the success of the operations of a
handful of troops, aided by British ships, in putting an
end to the usurped rule of Mehemet Ali in Syria, suf-
ficiently proves how mistaken was the estimate formed
by French statesmen of his power to hold Syria. The
god of their idolatry proved to be an article of
clay. The boasted armies of the Pull' led
Ibrahim Pacha and Soliman, and officered by
cercd by
experienced Frenchmen, have been
everywhere
defeated. The oppressed nat. • t‘es of Syria, of every
creed and race, required only
to have the various
mountain passes opened, and, once in possession of