The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-23 00:00:00

war upon Europe in his cause. But if' both these have
been baseless dreams, the fruit of the most inflated
ignorance, then France has surrendered nothing by
adapting her policy to the true state of things. It is the
policy of journalists to prompt newspaper outcries, and
then obey them. It is the policy of mere demagogues, or
public incendiaries, to excite the popular passions upon
false pretences, and reply with defiance, and warlike
demonstrations, to the alarms of Europe. We think it
very remarkable that some of those peace-at-any-price
journalists here, who have so vehemently denounced
our Government:for incurring the risk of war in Eu-
rope, are now saying M. Thiers' retreat was a fatal
day for French honour. These worthies has e double
weights and measures for national honour ; or rather
they have sympathies with humbug " all over the
world." To be otherwise than in the closest intimacy
with the popular dealers in that commodity, no matter
what their bluster or duplicity might be, was an unpar-
donable sin on the part of the rulers of this country.
To be able to dispense with their services is an irre-
trievable loss to the French nation. Ah bah'.
(From the Courier.)
That the genus of waiting maids is incorrigible, and
has been from all time, is a truism too stale now to
be questioned, and the fussy freaks with which affronts
and scolding, submissively received in the drawing-
room above, are retaliated " below stairs" to hearers
all on one side, are not the less diverting because of
their smartness and impertinence. Our good-humoured
friend of the Post would seem ambitious of high stand-
ing among the fair tribe, if its pretensions may be mea-
sured by an article this morning. For example, in refe-
rence to Lord Palmerston's "note" of November 2, pro-
fessing to be a reply to the memorandum of M. Thicrs,
of October 8, which memorandum, according to the
Chronicle, speaking, as the Post says, advisedly for the
Secretary, "it became necessary at once to meet," we
objected that no such urgency was apparent, or could
be understood, so far as dates, that is time, were taken
as a guide. For this pressing note of his Lordship
made its appearance only twenty. three days after re-
ceipt of the document to which professing to be an
urgent rejoinder ; that is, some half month after the
memorandum itself was forgotten or remembered only
as a page of past history. The Post, with the
airs of second-hand gentility, wonders at the vul-
garity which can descend to " dates," as if a " political
document" were an " order for Manchester goods, or an
enclosure of bills as per margin," to be acknowledged
by " return of post, or at all events within two or three
days." We are far from wondering equally at the tone
and temper of such
.a conception, for we never heard
that " dates" were ever regarded as a necessity in the
" note" writing instruction of waiting gentlea omen, or
that " bills" for " Manchester goods" were ever voted
by them to be anything but excessively vulgar, even if
presented twelve months after " date." From many
fair symptoms for some years past we had imagined that
our kind Contemporary had cast off its slough, and there-
fore it is always with regret we see the old leaven at
work in its columns, and hands put in requisition to do
foreign or other politics, who might otherwise perform
more fitting and appropriate service in servants' halls or
butlers' pantries, from whence perhaps they take their
origin, or date their connexion with the press, as once
approved retailers of routs and frivolity under the grace-
WI heading of the " Fashionable World."
(From the Standard.)
The Spectator of yesterday alludes to a report of
certain written approvals of the enforcement of the
Treaty of July said to have been given by the Duke of
Wedington, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Aberdeen, and
the Examiner speaks of consultations between the three
Conservative statesmen named and the Foreign Secre-
tary. We do not pretend to have authority for con-
tradicting this strange surmise, but we think that we
safely may contradict it without waiting for authority.
The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert. Peel, and
Lord Aberdeen, are not ignorant of the duties of
statesmen, and nobody will charge them with indiscre-
tion ; but surely it is a well understood duty of public
men, a duty to themselves as well as to the Constitu-
tion, not to tender any private advice in the Govern-
ment of the country, because for such private advice
they cannot be responsible. We can easily suppose
the answer which Lord Palmerston would receive to
an application for advice from the illustrious Duke, the
Right Hon. Baronet, or Lord Aberdeen, " My . Lord,
you are her Majesty's Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, not I ; and if you cannot rely upon
your own judgment, your colleagues in the
Cabirisl, not unofficial and irresponsible Members
of Parliament, are your proper advisers." But
why should Lord Palmerston ask advice in the
matter ? The Treaty of July was known during the
sitting of Parliament, and received, at least, the tacit
approbation of the Conservative leaders ; but nobody
could be so weak as to suppose that an engagement
upon a question of such moment—an engagement, too,
preceded by negotiations of such duration and earnest-
ness, was to remain a dead letter. As to the
view which the French Government would take
of the affair, that was necessarily foreseen. The
Government of France disapproved of the terms
of the Treaty, or it would have yielded to some
one of the many invitations to become a
party to it. Having thought the step taken by the
Allies in July a wrong one, the French Government
must regard the effectual following up of that step,
two months later, a maurais procede, no matter what
shape the operation might take. So far, then, Lord
Palmerston was assured of the support of men who
never yet allowed party' considerations to interfere with
their care for the honour and interests of the coun-
try ; and why then should he take the irregular
and unconstitutioual course ascribed to him ?

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY,.NOVEMBER 23, 1810.

of, in all probability, an antediluvian forest. On Thurs-
day they were visited by Professor Agassiz, whose re-
searches and discoveries in fossil and recent ichthyology,
and in various departments of geological and other E cie ace,
bad given him a name celebrated throughout the civil ized
world. Our ingenious and skilful townsman, Mr. Bally,
is now engaged in taking casts of these trees in plaster of
Paris, preparatory to making exact models of them in t' aat
material for the Manchester Geological Society.—M, tn-
hester Guardian.