The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-01 00:00:00

call, are still Scotchmen, d must have some satis-
faction upon the question o ain or loss. If we are to

gain nothing by keeping law Whigs, can you show
tis that we, lose anything, letting in the T,ries?
To be sure," says 'SlrEllice, jun. "Do you
think your meetings about:orn-laws, liaiversal Suf-
frage, and other popular tics, would be tolerated ?
Even the salutary moral 'Renee of the masses over
elections would be effectuallyrushed; for would there
not be a troop of re-est&shed yeomanry at every
poqing-place to keep dowiwhat the Tories call the
rabble ? I do not mean say that such a state of
things would be long endures but it would only be by
sonic popular convulsion, %rich would endanger the
well-being of society, that itvould be got rid of." ',So
Bien this gentleman wishes tip poor people at (lunar to
iPlieve that Sir Robert Peck Governmenytiould tole-
rae no more meetings upon ,opular topics, and would
lttempt to crush the opinion of the, country by an
overawing force of cavalry a the .elections! Dae3
M-. Ellice, jun., believe this hitrsell? If ha does
beteve it, what shall we thinl o his understanding ?
ff t,e :hors not believe it, and y t says it, the alterna-
tive is one which we will not' complete. But Mr.
Ellice, in avowing his opinion chat the merit of keep-
ing out the Tories would of Aself be a sufficient one,
takes credit, however, to hi: friends the Whigs, for
" the support in some instaners, the countenance in all,
which Government have giver to the Ballot, the alters

tion of tl,e Corn-laws, the 'stablishment of a popular
system cf education, and otter measures of a similar
tendency.' Of their educatan system, the country
may say W3at the patient did t the interrogation of the
apothecary, whose physic he hat left unswallowed :
" Tile draught did good ?
" It dd no harm ; fur pacr it hath stood."

But upon '.he other two su3jeco, Ballot and Corn-
laws, was ever assumption s,) ludicrously unlucky ?
Why, if there were two subjects in the world which
it was most desirable for th.t Whigs to huddle out
of sight—two subjects exposi4 above all others, their
characteristic shabbiness, those two subjects arc their
two " apen questions" of 13 dlot, and Corn-laws. They
dare not promote either of ASse changes as a Govern-
ment, because a defeat uon a vital question world be
the loss of office ; they dare not, as a Government,
oppose either, because divers of their Radical allies
wootd, in teat ease, be ejected from Parliament at thp
nest election ; they pu•sue therefore the course most
sale for themselves, but most dangerous to the country,
by leaving those two important matters wholly and
perniciously unsettled ; old this shirking on one side,
and shrinking on the other, is extolled by their Dlices
as an evidence cf public tirtuc, and received by the
Uoporites as an instalment of reform

.I'rom the Norning Post.)
The authority
Of M. Tocqueville having been
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frequently quoted of late by some Journals called
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Tocqueville describes the circumstances which actually
exist under the most poten!, democracy in the world, he
depicts a state of frightful and disgusting tyranny. A
confident and very shallow writer in a Ministerial print
of yesterday says :--
`' And
solar
rsien
instances
essoocf o..hhtei emu yhiqccusoot et.
democracy
ocTocquevilleraeyini
might
iit
some respect fur lee
lean. general conclusion, that the
tviidenc.,B of society are ti,,,,rds democracy."
We hAvt not observes./ any want of respect for the
conclusion above state(}, But that which honest sub-
jects of the British monarchy can have no respect for is
the theory that because the present tendencies of society
are towards democracy tht:y
should go with the tide, and
become democrats. 'rbis the fatal and (as we regard
it) the cowardly
We do not dispute that tn
witch so many people make.'
tendencies of society
are towards democracy ; but the more palpable this
tendency becomes the more inceenbent is it upon duti-
ful subjects of monarchical Governments to resist that
tendency, and to be upon their guard lest they
should
be in .any degree carried away by the stream of tendency
from that point where it is their duty to stash} fist.
The tendency of society is towards democracy ; but
who can read the deliberate and careful statements of
M. de Tocqueville concerning the state of society in
America without perceiving that this tendency of so-
ciety is a tendency towards an extremely had thing ?
Oar business is to resist this progress towards evil as
much as we can. We may be but partially success..
• ful—we may utterly fail ; but at all events, while we
are resisting as much as we can we shall be doing our
duty. The tendency of the nature of man ever since
the fall of Adam has undoubtedly been to sinfulness.
Will any man pretend that it is, therefore, right to
promote sin and to further depravity ? No ; but the
very contrary. Because the tendency of our nature is
what it is, the more are we bound always to be watch-
ful in resistance, and to counteract the tendency which
we continually acknowledge and lament.
( From the Morning Herald.)
The impression becomes stronger, from day to (lay,
in this country, that the -Miniete, of M. Guizot cannot
stand. The war party, it is believed, will ere long prove
too powerful for bins. The objects of the war party are
not. at first sight, very obvious ; yet to those who arc
familiar with the structure of French society, there can
exist little difficulty in discerning the causes which pro-
mise to overwhelm the Administration of M. Guizot.
The war party in France coeiprehends many who
have no particular desire that France should embroil
herself in quarrels with other nations ; but who look
upon war as the direct road to revolution, and who,
therefore, oppose themselves ini at strenuously to the
continuance in office of Ministers whose policy is
pacific. The war party, strictly so called, numbers
in its ranks the few surviving Bonapartists, and a
considerable number of the less violent republicans.
These men dream of foreign conquest—and pant for
vengeance on those " natural enemies," who checked
the growth of the French republic, and who, subse-
quently, blighted the glories of the French imperial
dynasty. But the greatest number of the anti-peace
kl:ninistralion party is made up of men imbued with
the doctrines of Robespierrianism—under the more
modern titles of Socialism, or St. Simonianism. The
St. Si:mini:lns constitute a far more extensive portion
of the French people than is generally supposed. Not
that all the tenets of the sect are embraced by many
persons—still less that those tenets are avowed, by all
who really, although it may be only part'ialiy, hold
them ; but however it may be lost sient of, no fact
can be less disputable, than that anti property doctrines
lend their colouring to the convictions of scores of
thousands of active-minded Frenetimen. These ate the
men who constitute the rnosVformidable portion of
what is denominated the French war party. These
men care little for foreign CO°quest. Their aim is, a
vast social revolution. Wimp the revolution. of 1789
broke out in Park, the doctrines promulgated by the
leaders of the popular movements were subversive of
the rights and privileges of She monarchy, the nobilby,
and the Church. At that point, however, the original
directors of the revolution stopped. A smell section of
_" Reformers" soon outto.shera in the competitioe per-
popularity. Robespierre and his supporters lauelsa. to
scorn the notion, that niece quality of political rigles
could ever confer perinaneo benefits on manisint.
Such a result, they maintained, could be secured only
by "social equality'—by the ituPatting to all inee, in
equal shares, all the advantages which society can call
into existence. But of all the institutions of society,
property is the most remarkablee-eind in the benefits
of that ineeitution, Itobespierre.and his followers eon.
tended that all men are equal!! entitled to participate.
Community of property was, io fact, the great doge"
of the faith „loci) Robespierre laboured to promulgate.
To root out from die minds of `men the ideas which
.ire represented by the words nu}tint And born was the
object at which he professed to aim. lie protested
cJlu _5.,,,r of kisasetecend nobles, and prissts ;
hut he maintained that so long as the tyranny of the
ourso should be tol-nrated/ oankind would wily
by each staccessive revolution, exchange one
il.!3potisai for another still more grinding. Ro-
bespii rre, together with the bloody despotism
which he, in his tutnesontrived to establish, have passed
away ; hut the notions to which he gave currency'
have not disappeared from the minds of a large sec-
tion of the French peope front the minds of that section,
more especially. which streets to represent the thinking
principle among our neighbours. The middle closes
succeeded, fifty year.: aeo, in overt Wowing the monarchi-
cal and aristocratical systems of 'Prance. The privi-
leges of the middle classes themselves are note ex.
posed to dangers, seardY less imminent than those
which threatened the piseiple of monarchy in the per-
son of Louis the Sixteentl All Dower in France radi-
ates now from the Bours, and from behind the counters
of Paris ; and the People who rose in re-
hellion against the precriptivc privileges of a ling,
and a territorial aristeracy, are little likely to
submit patiently to the tspotisin of usurers and loan-
jobbers. England is hatJ by the Anti-property party in
France ; because Englrid is the Centre whence is de-
rived the whole strenga of the system of stock.job-
hinge and of commereil gambling n all its varieties.
It
t mightwins uubbsresygi
aest
h,r‘.liveititripindlso-s,
England is hated by th republic arse: Bonapartist fac-
tions, because, asntilliellveesdiadvroawi,irernarenet,teriyiceiapaainlytdeo Npa%pjr aou tsneeerd.-
dis• ant as the cvel.ti represented
may be from each other Yi point 3f time,—the feelings
tvhiali these words exe'e, can rover die in the bosoms
of a large class of Fr th'hilocns
rence nest be reel to dream of ee-
war party in
counteriwg Eu.ope ems,
if the war party
tion egainst France on part of 1:1; other great Euro-
pean powers ; hut tie French are, otny'icvhat sceptical
to the cordiality r: that aniline( at this mo-
wsto the interests of ireat Britain o,ll'
; aro laoce between
these countries on, in the nature kthilvogs, be of long
tries erenstt
sa popfearst Russiao
nuet,,t (iin Ea
;ni
inndg
Meditee.
duration. Rus'ea is much more eg ' in the long
ngland. Eng-
landr dislike,
is to both an object of de.
,11 and of
run, to unite smith France, than ga
stronger envy, than each is to the "er..
,sosriaelongs
a.rdst. our Indian
to possess European Turkey. Fee Lgypt•
ri,toaisssebsssicoansst.s an eye
great obeli to the triumph
ranee]. England is the
of Russian, as well as of Frenellatition• The war
to ;lips Russia among
party in France does not
ee
covets eatffacseut ip°rll6; h.