The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-01 00:00:00

TILE LA-STE.R.N QUESTION.

SPIRIT OF THE PARIS PRESS.
FROM THE PARIS PAPERS OF THURSDAY.
(From the Ccnstitutionnel, organ of M. 'niers.)
There is much comment respecting the measures which
the Government intend to resort to. They are as follow
as to a levy of men The Government is about to call into
vice all the soldiers plitO.ti at its disposal by law. It is
not with men as with money. The Gevernment is autho-
extraordinary credits
nzed to open by R iyal ordonnancre°
for the extraordinary expenses comma: Ad by he interests
of the country, but it has not the power of oiaking soldiers
by nrdonraoce, and can only call out those who are go en to
it by the Chambers. It a ill, consequently, take the rerna:n-
der of the classes of 1836 and 1837, and all the dais of 1839,
which will supply a considerable force, of which the exact
number is not 3et known. If circumstances, which, how-
ever, the Government does not yet anticipate, should
render it necessary to put France upon a full war tooting.
the Chamra•rs will he convoked, and the wants of the
country will be laid before them. What chit fly occupies
the attention of the Government is not having under arms
a greater number of men than that of which it can at pre-
sent dispose. In France soldiers are formed rapidly. We
must provide for the materiel, mount cavalry, and provide
horses for the ar.illery. These important measures have
aircady been ordered. The fleet will be augmented, and
the command given to Admir,.l Duperrc, who will have
under his orders Rear-Admirals Lalande, Ilugon, and La
Sosse. The Government has made every airangement to
hasten the building of the steamers. Our manufactories
will be supplied extensively with large tools, so as to be
able to pro luce engines of the largest size, and, if neces-
sary, the Belgian manufacturers will be applied to. The
French workmen, who merely demanded a share In the
manufacture of engines, will now have only one anxiety--
viz., that of having more to do than they can accomplish.
In a word, the preparations are such that, if it should be-
come necessary, France could in a very short time be placed
upon a perfect war footing.
We cannot understand that the diplomacy of France
can be reproached with having played the part of a dupe,
or with having submitted to humiliation, on account of a
treaty having been concluded by the four Powers without
her consent. In what has she been a dupe, and how ha'
she been humiliated by that fact? France, it is said, knew
nothing about it ; she only had cognizance of the treaty
after it had been signed. What is meant by that? If it
is intended to be conveyed that the treaty was only noti-
tied after its conclusion it must be acknowledged that that
was inevitable, and that it could not be otherwise. The
Cabinets naturally only notify resolutions agreed upon and
acts consummated. But was France ignorant that negotia-
tions were pending ? Was she ignorant of the object of
those negotiations ? 'No, certainly ; and the Morning
Chronicle is right on that point when it formally contradicts
the assertion of the Morning Post relative to the pretended
ignorance of our Ambassador respecting matters which
were transacted out of his province. It is because the
French Government was cognizant of those negotiations
and of their purport that it refused to take a part therein ;
and when, after reiterated intercessions, in order to oh-
rain its assent, it persisted in abstaining, there is nothing
humiliating fur her dignity that negotiations were cfr_Tted
without her.

The simple meaning of that is, that France remained
f.ithful to her policy even when she knew that she stood
alone agaimt four. She must be proud of it, instead of
being humiliated thereby. That policy, said the Morning
Chronicle, only chfLred from that of the other Powers but
upon the means to be resorted to in order to ensure the in.
te:Trity of the Turkish empire. That assertion ;s true,
Hough expressed in vague terms. But when the Morning
Chronicle adds that France looked upon the possession of
Sy 'la by
the Pacha as incompatible with a system of pad.
fication, the Morning Chronicle positively stated the very
opposite to the truth.
France has constantly contended that to impose upon
Mehemet Ali worse conditions than those which had been
agreed to. ,
xi
b3:Nilnagtiin
hmisohudg it.
was to apply fresh feel to the fire
It
is
precisely
on this point
instead of
that the d.ff_rener has taken place between France and the
ot6er Courts of Europe, and we must observe that In this
rffiir each of the Powers, with the excepti n of England,
has taken the cornet view as to it-elf. "1 KT, has arisen in
Egypt a young, vigorous, and civilizing power, full of pro-
mise for the future. The French Government has de.