The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-24 00:00:00

44V FINING _QT) UTION

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3tanCes, the voice of truth, the demands of the
People, " the progress of public opinion," and, em-
Ploy all the power which they possess from
station, talents, rank, and office, in preventing,
the ir.stitutions of the country from being adap-
ted to the age. But while the Times thus convicts
its friends of being the impediments to social pro-
gress, which they nevertheless cannot stay, it
claims office for them, and labours most dili-
gentiY, most energetically, we admit, to enable the
Tories to do mischief. Some men do wrong from
ignorance—the writers in the Times do it from de-
liberate design.

The following is an extract from a leading article
in
the Chronicle of this morning :
THIERS' plan of defiance did not bring
(4.'e good result. It excited sedition at home, dis-
trust abroad ; nay, the hatred of even democratic
Parties in foreign countries. •It was time to change
this policy fot another. It was what M. GUIZOT
e4btne to do. He courageously announced it.
But he had no more courage than M
TRIERS had when he announced that France
4ght. to abandon the idea of rivalling England on.
!eat and content herself with Continental su-
Pretnacy.”
We wonder what has happened on the
Nock
Exchange since yesterday to make the
Chronicle so suspicious of M. GurzoT's
111441 courage. Why, it was only yesterday
. that the Chronicle sounded his praises as the most
morally courageous statesman in Europe.
)11‘ clle, come," said we, when we had read
• e Chronicle's rhapsody of yesterday, " this fine
4411• Shiny halcyon calm portends a storm some-
!here. Before it is ended the Pigeons on 'Change
411 have lost some plumage." We may have been
tr4,4titken but the altered lone of the Chronicle of
• iris morning is very suspicious. We should pass
th'er these freaks of the Chronicle, however unjus-
t%
it,nLl might e be the private object of them, did
t
hey not tend to impede the wise and truly patriotic
' tthey of the peace party in France. If they
..?e Continued, we must turn up our file of •the
-iPhronic/e, and print its contradictory lucubrations,
tt. alternate columns. A Journal pursuing the
'e4lrtse which it has recently done upon the Eastern
l(lestion, injures the Government, and discredits
Principles which it pretends to support.

The Paris journals of Sunday, and several pri-
ate letters of the same date from the French ca-
Petal, broad!y intimate that revelations have been
l'latie respecting the conduct of M. THIERS in
t
°f the
which do not at all redound to the credit
h the ex-President of the Council. lit the first
ri4ee• it appears that when M. GUIZOT assumed
ii
13 Ministerial functions at the Foreign Office he
4
Iscorered a great number of important official
t4Perg were missing. During eight months of the
litisiest time of diplomatists on the Eastern ques-
.or) GUIZOT could discover no other proofs
M. TRIERS' industry than three unimportant
.44Patches. Of the missions of MM. PERIER
WALEWSKI to Alexandria and Constanti
.no trace was to be found in the Cabinet
to 'hives, although they were known to the Powers
In have been the bearers of instructions of the ut-
.4t moment to all Europe. .To its unspeakable
IrPrise and astonishment, the new Cabinet found
elf in office, without so much as a rushlight to
it to a knowledge of the acts of its predeces-
. 41' This was vexatious. But events have since
11.1_44 place,' which; throw a curious light upon
e Concealed police of M. THIERS. Before the
flews of his resignation reached Alexandria, M.
I;4l.Ewskr had forwarded despatches to him as
Oreign Minister, which were communicated, of
Nrse, to his successor. In these, rumour asserts
.1114 M. WALEWSKI, among other things, has ,
`.44144 7---" The PACHA begins to be afraid. I have
hilleo/ I could to urge him to cross the Taurus, but
kaileilo without success." The same authority inti-
,ll es that M. THIERS had encouraged IBRAHIM
1g
e 14%. to make a dash upon Constantinople, and
11 Provoking the appearance of Russia on the
Ph°rus to kindle the flames of a general war
foretialtAmm was disabled by the Allies, and be-
• TRIERS could move a finger in defence
.1014 the VICEROY he found it imperative upon him
abandon the ship of state to the fury of
gllidste°4ll which he could no longer either
Or control. His last struggle was to con-
_ns
411
the log-book, that no proofs of his presumptu-
tve incapacity aright be found after him ; bu
'eirll in this he has been foiled, and in the politica
pia hes of Paris it is believed that M. GUIZOT has in
tje ands the means of impeaching his official pre-
AV
ere it not that the premature convocation of the
else of Commons would create alarm in the
not ~c mind, we should regret that Parliament is
11(
be-iing to afford Government an opportunity of
414 ing by a more than corresponding frtendli-
.
the s' words and of deeds the amicable policy of
e
~g~S"LT-GutzoT Cabinet. That her MA-
Ift, 'l's Ministers desire nothing more sincerely
41)4
dellk astiog, honourable peace with France we
n°w ; and that M. GUIZOT is no stranger to
°Pini nq
°--- Of Lords D ALMERSTON and MEL-
z upon that head is equally indubitable ;
tt would greatly strengthen the hands of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs if the send-
petiva of their Lordships were endorsed by the ap-
-411°g cheers of both Houses of Parliament—as
4redly they would be were Parliament now sitting,
ti4...ki.trizor is the Minister of peace. His posi-
ir__ Is the proudest ever occupied by a French
e
man. When summoned to power the waves
Popular fury had risen so high as to dash their
40,..r!y over the Throne itself
' , the foundations of
arch seemed loosened by the
constant beating of a
14rge which hoarsely and inarticulately murmured
14tus,r:' His very appearance assuaged the fury of
,F,! tempest, terrible to France and to Europe.
lit_ne waves ebbed, and the dry soil of France again
-militnried a Throne, whose existence is the monu-
i2t of the omnipotence of a people engaged in a
i't.Rruggle against tyranny. M. GUIZOT is a
kniiiatian philosopher, and from a region of thought
-reflecion too exalted for the respiration of the
&ler
114 feet,
li Passions, casts his eyes upon the world beneath
iat and marks with due horror the devastat-
Progress
of wars among mankind. Not in vain
t % L conned with aching brow and searching
oauts the wide age of war-recording history
144 hurl th p
e past is as familiar as the present. He
earned that sad lesson, that a nation's progress,
tritnkit_iwounded thief's flight, has hitherto been
h it:, with blood ; the difference having been
the flying thief guided his pursuers by
eareown
blood, the nation more guilty, indi
trite itts course by the blood of some weaker
hag' wuom it chose to call an enemy. H(
frightruil'efully noted, and deeply deplored, the
Consequences of those passions which
tt,etni:ferted
the children of ADAM into hordes of
t
Pro* es_ 3 fratricides glorying in the murderous
of their hands, as if blood innocently
ha
thglY not a voice which ceaselessly and accus-
Nd Zeended even to the ear of the MOST HIGH.
BoPh~r• GUIZOT been a mere speculative philo-
Plilioa' °l' had he been a professing- Christian
114,1- pile'', in the sense that kings and priests
144 fiuft9ideretoed and professed Christianity for the
44 en hundred years, he would have joined
ar.
Conks! Party in France, and compounded with hip
lkhOti flce by recording his pacific theories in a
the benefit of future generations. But