The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1847.

By royal proclamation, Parliament is declared
to be definitively prorogued until the 18th of
November, on which day the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, the
commissioners for shires and burghs of the House
of Commons are commanded to give their attendance
at Westminster, for the dispatch of divers urgent
and important affairs." The imminency of the com-
mercial crisis will naturally demand the instant
interposition of the Legislature, and the modification,
if not the entire re-organization, of the present system
of currency. Our advance towards the winter
solstice will, in a particular manner, require the
adoption of ameliorative and protective pleasures for
the unfortunate and still perilously- situated popula-
tion of Ireland. The extraordinary mission of Lord
Morro to the Quirinal ; the decease of COLETTI, and
the consequent extension of the embarrassments
of the Grecian Government ; the coup (fetal,
or rather the coup d'orgent, which has placed
the Duchess DE lnalczAßEs and the Due DE
VALENCIA again in the ascendant at the Spanish
Court; the continued embarrassments of the Portu-
guese under MARIA DA GLORIA ; the concentration
of animosities between the champions of the Sondcr-
bund and the inhabitants of the free cantons of
Switzerland; the rather dubious relations established
between the liberated sovereignties of Italy and the
Administration of 'METTERNICH the jealousies
which have dissipated the loyalty, but evoked
the patriotism of the Neapolitans; the dis-
continuance of the blockade upon the Rio de la
Plata ; the nomination of the Raja of SARAWAK
to the dignity of representing her MAJESTY
at Borneo ; the dubious position of our
colonists in the vicinity of Kafirland—all these things
must perforce direct an especial anl scrutinizing at-
tention to the state of foreign affairs such as they have
become since the dissolution of the last Parliament.
Lord PALMERSTON is possibly conning his catechism
already. The awful vigilance of the public eye al-
ready glimmers before him in perspective : and just
as he may happen to answer his examiners satisfacto-
ruy or otherwise, that vigilance will betray itself
either in the birch of popular indignation or the
prize of popular applause. If the Noble Viscount, the
orel n
Secretary for 'FAffairs, has any of that
sensibility which is
his iago
ears
tirncompatible with the saga-
city of a diplomatist,3a
of re at this moment ting-
ling with the anticipation
approval, or his] con-
science is even now smarting under the expected
sarcasms of the Opposition.
inion
Cordially as we coincide in the op
serve the nation efficiently, the Administrative
be as independent to act as the Legislative
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liberate, we cannot but think, with Sir R. P, hat
the people of England should be particularly obser-
vant of everything that transpires beyond the coasts
of the British islands. Reason, religion, and self-
interest tell us that such is incumbent upon every
civilised race ; for upon the relationship ex-
isting between the different nations of the
globe, depends their common prosperity, or their
mutual misfortune. That such a complication of de-
pendence may be discerned, is illustrated in a remark-
able manner by the principles of free trade—princi-
ples which have latterly been transferred from the
theoretic pages of ADAM SMITH to the commercial
codes of Tuscany and England. ADAM SMITH, the
founder of the science of political economy, recog-
nized with a kind of philosophic instinct the existence
of this beautiful dependence of different coun-
t ries upon each other. lIVSSISSON demon-
strated by his arguments the truth of
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