The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-04 00:00:00

the KING's answers to them, will be found in
another part of The Sun. We find much to ad-
mire in the KING'S answers to the Addresses of
the Chambers and the Diplomatic body. They
confirm all that we before heard of his MAJESTY'S
unalterable desire to maintain the peace of Europe.

" The real good of France," said the KING, ad-
dressing the Deputies, " does not consist in con-
quests, or in glory too dearly purchased at the price
of our blood and our treasure. War should not be
undertaken except when the public interest renders
it a rigorous duty. At present we have the hope
that the long career of peace, which we have gone
through so honourably, will not be interrupted ;
but, on the contrary, will be continued, without the
country having anything to regret, either for its
honour or dignity. It will always have reason to
he proud of having preserved mankind from the
dangers and evils of a general war. We have
given to history sufficient monuments of our glory
to have a right to add to our trophies that which
is not less glorious—that of being the guarantees of
the peace of the world and the repose of mankind."
These noble sentiments, so worthy of the KING
and of France, were delivered in a firm voice, and
were responded to with loud cheers and cries of
Vive le Roi 1" by the assembled Deputies. To
the Diplomatic body the KING addressed himself
in the same pacific spirit. " You know the value,"
observed his MAJESTY, addressing the Ambassa-
dors, " which I have never ceased to attach to the
duration of the political repose enjoyed by Europe,
and to the maintenance of the general peace. Con-
vinced as I am that this state of things is alike the
interest of France and of all other States, nothing
shall relax my efforts to co-operate with all the
Sovereigns for the preservation of this great bless-
ing to our nation ; and I hope with you that in the
year which has just opened to us, the wisdom of
the Cabinets will effect its consolidation." May
these wise and patriotic sentiments find an echo in
the heart of enlightened France I
The French journals, after the fashion of the
English, indulge in retrospective views of the pro-
gress of France during the last year. These, of
course, take the hue of the medium through which
they are viewed. But for her policy on the Eastern
question, the past year would have acquired a dis-
tinguished place in the annals of France. Even
yet it is in the power of France, by resuming
amicable relations with the Great Powers, to re-

trieve many of the errors consequent upon an ad•
herence to the mistaken policy of isolation vvhicl
M. TIIIERS forced upon her.
There is no political news of the slightest in,

terest in these journals. The Courrier Francais
persists in maintaining that Count MOLE is on the
eve of resuming office as chief of the Cabinet.
The following summary of Oriental news is from
the Austrian Observer of the 26th ult., copied
into the Paris papers of Saturday :

On the 2d ult. the Ottoman Porte notified to the corps
diplomatique the raising of the blockade of the Syrian
harbour, occupied by the troops of the Sultan. On the
21st of November, after Ibrahim bad evacuated his camp
of Zahle, the Emir Bcchir immediately occupied the posi-
tions abandoned by the Egyptians, and received the sub-
mission of the chicks of Celesyria. The united Egyptian
garrisons of Northern Syria, under Aehmet Pacha, forming
together a corps of 20,000 men, well provided with artil-
lery, had marched from Aleppo to Damascus, in ardor
to join Ibrahim. On the 26th, the Turkish Com-
mander-in-Chief, on hearing that the latter was
preparing to effect his retreat across the desert, detached
several corps to observe his movements and at the same
time to protect the inhabitants of the southern pachalics,
who had made their submission to the Sultan. A brigade

of the Imperial Guard was sent to Jaffa for the purpose,
and other troops had been stationed at Jerusalem and
Gaza. The Egytian garrison evacuated Aleppo on the
20th, and the whole army was to have commenced its retro-
grade movement from Damaseus on the 30th of Novem-
b, r. Ibrahim had still 130 pieces of artillery. He ex-
pected to reach El Arish on the 18th of December.
"M. Cailler, Aide-de• Camp of the Minister of Wirt,
left Paris yesterday," says the Moniteur Parisien, " for
Toulon, on his way to Africa on an important mission."
A dinner was given on Wednesday at the Pavillon
Henri IV., St. Germain- en-Laye, by the officers of the
Belle Poule and Favorite, to their Commander, the Prince
de Joinville. Toasts were drunk to the health of the
King, the Royal Family, the Prince, the Navy, &c. His
Royal Highness, on taking leave of his comrades, who
were to pursue their way next morning to Havre, promised
to join them on board ere long.
M. de Bruhl, Extraordinary Envoy of Prussia to the
Holy See, arrived at Rome on the 19th ult. He was said
to be charged with an important mission, and to have re-
ceived a carte blanche to settle amicably the affair of the
Archbishop of Cologne.
A letter from Leghorn of the 21st announces the arri-
val in that harbour, on the preceding day, of the ex- Re-
gent of Spain, Maria Christina. The Duke of Lucca
immediately waited on her Majesty, and the Grand Duke
of Tuscany was expected from Florence.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 25th
ult. 011 the previous day a grand funeral service
was performed in the Church of St. Isidore, for
the repose of the souls of the soldiers of the
Constitutional Army, killed in the battle of Lu-
chana in 1836. In a letter from Corunna, of the
19th ult., it was stated, that an English steamer
had on that morning entered the harbour, on fire,
and that the Captain refused any assistance to ex-
tinguish it. The English Consul at once ordered
him to be arrested, which was done. The vessel
was still burning when the letter was written,
Five per Cents. Active, were 2Si for cash on the
previous day.