The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-28 00:00:00

secret societies to which they give rise. It is
this shallow infatuation which proclaims a Church,
the payment of which is one of the chief causes
of the disease of Ireland, and has generated suc-
cessions of secret societies, as the sheet anchor of
our salvation. They will not take warning till
I it is too late.

[MORNING POST.)
Paris Journals to the 2.6 th instant arrived yes-
terday by express. They are still most contra-
dictory. The only fact of importance is the rise
which took place in the French funds on Ftutur-
day last, when they closed at 79f. 30c., having
been down as low as 77f. 50c. on Friday. This
rise, however, will not astonish those who read
the article published by the Journal des Dads,
tind copied by the Monileur. This article reproves
the Ultra journals for having represented as settled
measures which were still under consideration, and
as " accomplished," events which were still " iu
abeyance," and in which a thousand circum-
stances might occur to make important modifica-
tions. Ir also announces that the Austrian Am.
bassador had left behind him at Madrid a Secre-
tary of Legation in quality of Charge d'Affaires
from the Hanseatic Towns, and explains that
previously to the sending of the Ambassador now
recalled, Austria carried on her diplomatic rela-
tions with the Spanish Court through the medium
of such a Secretary. It is evident that this
article, so -copied into the Monitcur, has been
considered as an official contradiction to the
alleged imminency and certainty of war, and
has not only checked the rapid decline of the
French Funds, but has produced that improve-
ment which shows the real sense of the Public
on the (Treat question of hostilities with Spain.
The Chambers are to open this day, when the
King's Speech will put an end to all uncertainty,
and will remove or confirm the apprehensions of
the friends of peace and national independence
in Europe..

[MORNING} HERV.DI
So near the denouement of the Cabinet politics
of France—(the King's Speech,- and the Answer,
on the opening, the Session this day)—and whilst
so many interests and anxieties hang h a state
of painful suspense, we shall barely, and but
barely, notice the Paris news of yesterday.—
The rumoured movements of Princes, Generals,
and regiments, continue—but still unauthenti-
cated—and there is in the Journal des, Nbats,
the supposed official vehicle of the Villele
policy, an article tending to discredit
these rumours, and to fix them upon specu-
lators interested in the fall of Stocks. We do
not say that this should inspire confidence; at the
same time it should not wholly be passed over,
at a motnent when the King's Speech from the
Throne must already have been under delibera-
tion. In brief, it may be said, that the current,
to all appearance, runs on the side of war—but
that war was not declared, and neither the
French nor Spanish Ambassadors, notwithstand-
ing many assertions to the contrary, had yet been
recalled by their respective Courts.—Supposing
for an instant that war is on the eve of breaking
out, the first idea that presents itself, in calcu-
lating the fortunes of Spain, is to look back at
what the Spaniards have done and suffered from
the moment when they were left without a Govern-
ment' or a King, almost in the clutches of Buona-
parte—to begin the war of independence—and
from the return of Ferdinand to the re-establish-
ment of the Cortes, by the revolution of the Isla.
The former period will exhibit what the Spaniards
are capable of doing, without any human resource.
but the impulse of patriotism and independence.
The latter will show that the counter-revolution
• with which they are menaced presents to them a
, vision of oppression, suffering, and national de-
▪ gradation, which they must fight against with the
courage of despair.

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f any man acquainted with history and SW
reign courts, and well informed as to the actual
state of Europe, should have it submitted to him
that tho,Holy Alliance meant to have recourse to
every threat and insult towards the Spanish Re-
volution, but religiously to abstain from open,
war ; and If he had been asked what course he,
thought the proceedings of the several nations of
Europe would in consequence assume, we are of
opinion that he would have predicted the precise
course which is now followed. Spain repels the
insults offered to her with heroic dignity and
heroic magnanimity. The serviles call this " pe-
tulance and, rudeness"----" revolutionary coarse-
ness"--" the phraseology of Hunt, carlile, ,and
Gale Jones." Such language suits the passionate
organ,. of feebleness and folly. A notorious
scold, eloquent in the phraseology of Billingsgate,
assailed a respectable lady in terms of extreme
vielence. The lady calmly listened, and occa-
sionally uttered the calm expressions of truth and
propriety. The scold, utterly overwhelmed with
rage, at length exclaimed, " You insufferable,
woman, if you answer me not I shall die of rage."
This is the state of the Holy Alliance. They
have threatened and insulted with all the
fury of impassioned imbecility. In the reply
of Spain, the world admires the composure and
dignity which belong to conscious rectitude and
the proudest patriotism. The French King will
again scold revolution in his speech to the Cham-
ber : but war—why that is another
is what France dare not, and what the I hree
Sovereigns cannot venture upon. England is
slow, indeed, both for the cause of freedom and
for her own character. Would that Ministers
declared at once and unequivocally their deter-
mination to make common cause with Spain
against, an interference more unprincipled and
more ruinous than Napoleon's invasion.

About six o'clock yesterday evening, a young
woman, with her child in her arms, was run over
by a van in Piccadilly, whilst crossing the road in
a dense fog ; one or the wheels passed over her
loins ; she was conveyed into a shop, where
medical Aid wns procured. The child was taken
from the half-melted snow unhurt, but the cabs
of the mother was reporstd to be dangerous.,
The horses had run awry with the van from a
public house door, through some mischievous bOys
Itiug snow-balls.