The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-04 00:00:00

trahison on the part of their own authorities, of " in
solent coalitions of Kings," and frontiers menaced by
the barbares du nord, to bring together an easily excit-
able audience, vhom they could not have brought toge-
ther by any theme of domestic policy. One element
of this is doubtless the love of adventure, and the
lurking hope of gainful adventure engendered by the
wars of the Revolution. The ill-employed or ill-satis-
fied portion of the French population have never for-
' gotten the times when the sward opened every treasury
in Europe—when Equality equalised nieuer and taunt,
and Liberty made free with all pockets. What is for-
gotten is the ultimate balance against the spoilers ; or
rather, that is only remembered with a fierce impatience
to " redress the balance," and to " tear the treaties
(to borrow their phrase) of 1815." To do battle for
the common good of mankind—not forgetting the ex-
tension of the French frontiers—is the ardent aspira-
tion of these choice spirits.
(From the Standard.)
We regret to have incurred the censure of the Morn-
ing Herald by the opinions which we have avowed on
the Eastern question. We have no right to complain,
and we do not complain, that our respected Contempo-
rary differs from us, but we think that we are a little
hardly dealt with, when, in defiance of our constant
profession that we offer no opinions but our own, we
are called an evening organ of Tory opinions, and
when accused of a predilection for the Russian al-
liance, and described as the panegyrist of that alliance.
With reference to the Russian alliance, we have
merely to remind our readers of the line taken by
this journal since its first establishment. They are well
aware that we have uninterruptedly warned our coun-
trymen against the danger threatened to the civilised
world, and more particularly to this empire, by Russian
ambition ; that we have exposed the intrigues of Rus-
sian diplomacy in quarters where they were least sus-
pected ; that we have in every case exhorted to main-
tain the power of France, Austria, and Prussia, as the
proper balance against the increasing preponderance of
the Czar—in short, that we have been, as we still are,
thoroughly anti-Russian. If the Morning Herald cannot
reconcile this thoroughly anti-Russian feeling with the part
which we are now acting, we shall endeavour to set our-
selves right at least with others ; and we engage in
the attempt the more readily, because we believe that
good must always result from the canvassing of princi-
ples. Europe is already in some measure governed by
popular opinion, and will be governed by the same in-
fluence in a still greater measure as we advance, but
it is by the temperate and candid investigation of prin-
ciples, that a sound popular opinion is best formed.
Tne diplomatists and red-lapists of our age, indeed,
would, in imitation of the theologians of times past,
deter us from the exercise of private judgment, by de-
scribing the duties and obligations of public policy as
,oinetliing too intricate and obscure for the understand-
ings of humble men. The motive for this is as obvious
in the case of the diplomatists and red-tapists, as in the
case of the theologians—the wish to keep mankind in
subjection to their own order. This, however, they
can do no longer.
(From the Cow ier.)

The spiritual independence of the Church, and its
inviolate preservation from all civil interference and con-
tamination, is the object for which Dr. Chalmers, in
his last, tells us that he and his friends are ready to
sacrifice everything they possess. This spiritual inde-
pendence the Church is now putting forth in her pro-
ceedings against a portion of her own clerical body ; and
the Civil Courts of Scotland, as we have seen, are inter-
fering for the protection of the clergymen so dealt with
by the Church. Each of the contending parties will be
looking around them, where they are to find support in
the positions which they have mutually taken up ; and
the Churchmen, as is very natural, are quoting the law
and practice as expounded and followed by the first re-
formers of the Kirk, in defence of what they are now
doing. Did they go a little beyond the period at which
these reformers lived, and did they, moreover, regard a
state of affairs with which these reformers certainly were
not particularly enamoured, they .could be at no loss to
find precedents for the course they are now pursuing ;
and we shall not send them beyond the Council of
Trent, in case they should think we are putting them
to too much trouble. But when they tell us, as we see
the Witness does, that the spiritual independence now
claimed, is " peculiarly the doctrine of Knox," we won-
der if we can have read aright the annals of the Re-
formation in Scotland.

THE MODERN ICARUS.—A man, carrying a
large bundle, applied some days since to the keeper of
the column in the Place Vendome, for permission to go
up to the top of the column. He was requested to leave
his bundle with the keeper, but this request so disconcerted
him that he retired in disgust to the Pantheon, where the
same request was preferred, and the same conditions met
with the same ebullition of anger. Upon this the
man returned home, took out his large great coat,
under which he contrived to conceal his bundle, and de-
manded admission to the towers of Notre Dame. The
keeper accordingly accompanied him to the top of the
cathedral towers, and as soon as he arrived there be asked
M which direction lay Montmartre. The keeper painted it
out to him, and the man, suddenly pulling aside the lappets
of his coat, revealed the bundle;and tapping it mysteriously
he said, " Should you be surprised if I were to alight on
the top heights of Montmartre within ten minutes ?" The
keeper replied in the affirmative. " Say not'a word," cell-
tinued the intrepid aeronaut, " and I will take you with
me." The keeper, however, respectfully, but firmly, de-
clined the invitation, and exhausted all his persuasive
powers ia attempting to induce the maniac to abandon his
ne;iai expedition, but all to no purpose. At length the
keeper exclaimed, " Well, then, since you will go, take
me with you." The maniac immediately took out of his
bundle some large straps and feathers, and commenced
with great gravity to strap them on his shoulders like a
pair of wings. He then seized the keeper round the
waist but the keeper returned the compliment, and suc-
ceeded in bringing down his bird, and detaining him unti.
assistance was procured. The man proved to be a carpen-
ter who had frequently given indications of mental aber-
ration, but, being gentle and harmless, had been allowet
to remain at large.
An accident occurred to the Inverness mail
corning south on the morning of Thursday last, between
3 and 4 o'clock, about 19 miles on this side of Inverness.
In turning a sharp corner of the road one of the leaders
shied at some women who were sitting round a fire smok-
ing, i‘nd immediately knocked the other leader off the
road, by which means the coach gave a swing to one
side, and pitched two outside passengers, the guard, and
coachman, in all directions, who, strange to say, escaped
unhurt, with the exception of the guard, who was much
bruised. Upon being freed of the top weight, the coach
immediately righted, and the horses set off at a fearful
rate with the coach towards the Bridge of Carr. There
were two inside passengers—a gentleman to Edinburgh,
and s young boy, who being well aware of the locality,
and the imminent danger to which they were every moment
hurrying, from the vicinity of the dangerous turn at the
bridge, resolved upon leaping out. The gentleman,
however, fell on his back, and was much bruised, and
had his aLeic seveaely sprained. The boy was picked up
iosensible, but afterwards recovered, and both, we under-
stand, are now in a fair way. The coach and horses, after
running about two miles, were stopped within a short dis-
tance of the bridge of Carr by the presence of mind of an
inhabitant of th 3 place, who, seeing the terrific approach
of the coach, drew a loaded cart of wood aeross the road,
which brought the horses up, only injuring the leaders.—
Caledonian Mercury.
Colonel Wyndham, during his recent visit to hit
estates in the counties of Clare and Limerick, has giver.
upwards of 5001. to different charities for promoting tht
welfare of the poorer classes. It is not generally known.
that the Gallant Colonel had given, in the two previou
years, nearly 1,5001. to the local charitable institutions
and clergymen.
FOREIGN RAILROADS.—The Grand Duke of
Saxe. Weimar, the Duke of Saxe-Meningen, and the
Duke of Saxe-Gotha have entered into a treaty for the
mutual facilitating of the construction of railroads in their
territories.

INCUBATION EXTRAORDINARY. —ln the
parish of Stair, some time ago, a cock pigeon was observed
to sit on a nest, though without a single egg, as earnestly
as if an entire brood depended on his exertions. In this
manner the hatching humour continued with nim the
whole summer, when at length two hen eggs were placed
under his charge, and both produced birds, which were
duly taken care of by the inmates of the farm. The
clocking. mania still prevailing with the pigeon, a par-
tridge's nest, the owner of which had been decapitated by
the scythe, was next placed under his charge, and so at-
tentively did he persevere in the maternal office, that in
due time the whole " clecking " were emancipated from
the shell. Owing to the unskilful treatment, however, of
Master Pigeon, who appeared to be totally ignorant of the
manner of supplying food to his adopted progeny, the
birds died one after the other for lack of food. What is
rather singular, after such protracted sitting, the pigeon
is still as much attached to the nest as ever, and no exer-
tion can drive him from ti.—Aur Observer.

his
nd extensive altera-
tions to the breeding of horses,
iammediate vicinity of
Prince Albert is about immediately to turn
are now proceeding in the
Cuml)criand-lodge. under the superintendence of his Royal
Highness, where large paddocks are be'ng formed, with
kose horse-boxes for the Prince's brood
stalling is to be enlarged, and that portion
which fronts
the apartments occupied by the Lord Chamberlain is now
ment. T
undergoing considerable embellish mares. The
The old win-
dows have been taken out, and new ones introduced,
painted to imitate wainscoat oak—thus giving a more
"genteel " and less rtib!e-like aearance to the edifice,
in sccordarce with the wishes of
tpphe Earl of Uxbridge.
Several of the o.d servants will be drafted to the Royal
Alms at 'Windsor, to make room for the new hands who
have been engaged to attend to his Royal Highness's
brood mares at the lodge. The Prince has secured seve-
ral exci:llent hunters for the ensuing season, which are
now at the stables at the lodge ; amongst which is the
celebrated horse purchased by his Royal Highness at Tat-
tersall's, a short time since, fur GOO guineas.—Morring
parer.

1 THE IRISH AND SCOTCH.—" 1 canna say
-*d the4,‘ Doctor ; "in the
that I dirtna like Avhiskv toddy ,"said
mild vs inter night it's no sae l;adsd"l
us poor
hate
1 that's it," said
Power ; “ there's the pull you bad."
212 degrees
1 Paticmic.rs : cool, calculating, long,-heaadreeduieolnl
o f el;
alwaysae ha 3r
e wn
e-
only come up to the mark after 15 tumblers; whereas
you
hot-brained devils, with a blood at
heft, an'i a high pressure engine of good spirits
ready for an explosion—we go clean mad when tipsy; not
but 1 am fully convinced that a mad Irishman is worth two
san, veople of any other country undcr heaven."—.Charles
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