The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-04 00:00:00

[MORNING. POST.]

French Papers to the ed inst. and the Maile
of Thursday, reached us last night by Express.
Their contents are of little in►portance. Charles
.Ir,...,seemtvauterOlined to become one of the most
popular Monarchs Which the House ,of Bourbon
has produced. If he tie not possess the warlike.
abilities.and testes of his ancestor Henri IV.,
like him he knOwS the art of gaining the atiec.
tions of his subjects, or rather be gains them.
without art, by the mere exhibition of the
interest Which lie takeS in their welfare, and
the kind familiarity and perfect security
-and confidence with which he: moves in the
midst of them. In the early part of the
present w.q.k, he visited several public esl4.
blishments antl edif►ces, formed and con.
structed in the Faubourg St, Antoine, once the
.seat of revolutionary fury, and after having ex,
pressed his approbation of the work► terminated,
and those in progress, walked without one single
. guard, but accompanied by his son and an itn-
nlense crowd of people, to the new canal of St.
Martin. There he examined the locks, the
• bridge, recently erected ,at the Core, the subter•
raneous gallerieS, received 'Petitions from the
hands of the Poor. and the Blind, and after
passing nearly •an hour amidst the multitude,

Like a father amongst his childreen, returned

conversing with the Architects and Engl.
(steers,• like .a colleague rather than as a
Sovereign. Amongst the observations which he
" made on the benefits produced by the enterprise
of Joint Stock Companies, he is said to have
pointed out the advantages which England had
derived from them, and to have ‘‘ named several
English individuals personally known to him,
and whom he remembered with sentiments of af-
fection, who had realized fortunes of 80,00 W.
sterling a year out of the profits of those great
undertakings which were always advantageous to.
states." His Majesty, after examining all the
improvements elrected iu that quarter, is 'repre-
sented to have intimated an intention of attempt-
log still greater things, such as " rendering Paris
a sea-port, in order to raise its population and its
commercial wealth to the 'highest degree of
prosperity."

[Burr Sll ritEss.]

The state of Ireland becomes daily mare in-
tensely interesting. The exasperation •of party
.on each side increases, and we begin to fear that
affairs are fast approaching a crisis. If it be pos_
bible, by temperance-on the part of Government,
to avoid extremities, we may rely upon the wis.
OM and firmness of Lord Wellesley's adminis-
tration ; but looking at tl►e religious feelings
that have been already irritated, and the hopes
that are excited, we confess we augur ill for
the tranquillity of the Island. We observe that
06 attacks made upon the Irish Protestants
are reiterated and virulent. Come what tmty,
the Protest►tnt interest in Ireland must be sup.
ported. It is the bond of connection between
the countries ; and therefore not for a moment
can we, on any consideration Whatever, (=seta
to expose the Protestants of Ireland' to any den.
ger or injury from which we earl defend them.-
It is the curse of Ireland that she is torn with
hostile factions now, as she► uas lately with pro-
vincial disturbances : the former must, for her
welfare, be suppressed, as the latter have been,
by the strong arm of the law, in order that the

King's:GoveromenLinay safely and uninterrupt-
edly pursue those measures of ,public benefit
which ure for the present necessarily suspended.

[TILE TIMES.]

A certain portion of the press has long in-
dulged its own malignant dispositions, and the
corrupt taste of readers who felt with or followed
it, by showering torrents of personal abuse upon
the late Lord Mayor of London. The ho-
nourable feelings of better men, and especially
of him who was the object of such undeserved
indignities may now receive a generous grati-
fication from the manner in which he was yes-
terday indemnified for all that he had done as
well as suffered. The Board of "Aldermen had
already thanked Mr. Waithman for his Magis-
terial services by an unanimous vote. The
Common Council yesterday imitated the example
of the Aldermen ; and not merely does the cor-
dial and animated language in which they have
recorded the merits of an honest, able, and con-
sistent fellow citizen, present a strong claim to
public attention, but also the unanimous concur-
rence of an assembly which contained no small
number of Alderman Waithman's political oppo.
netts ; and above alt, the individual testimony of
the most zealous and active•of those opponents, to
the service on which they were called to de..
cide. Mr. Sheriff Browne, Mr. James, and—not
the least worth remarking—Mr. Samuel Dixon,
came forward with their candid and honoura-
ble declarations in favour of the late Lord Mayor.
One passage of the resolutions, put it on re-
cord, that his discharge of the high and arduous
duties of the office had 4C fiever been surpassed ;"
and the whole concluded with a panegyric on the
resolute consistency and manliness of Mr. Wait'-
man's conduct for a " third .part of a century."
it is good that such incitements should be held
out to the active members of a free community.
It is just to administer such rebukes to the base-
ness which has busied itself in slandering and
persecuting' a man whose sole crime is the hold
indepeodence of his character. The worthy
Alderman may now retire with the consciousness,
us the Lord Chief Baron told him, of having left
behind him an example which his children may
be proud to follow.

man ; but these qualities, that ‘voujd grate Awn,)
ordinate id
post, might, if not anted virtues 'of
more vigorous cast, endanger the 'very, existence"
of the vast interests that are nor.entrusted to
his, care.