The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-30 00:00:00

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The Manifesto of the New Greek Ministry is
chiefly remarkable for the earnestness with which
Prince Mavrocordato recommends the impartial admi-
nistration of justice. From this we may infer that im-
partial justice, is still a very rare commodity in Greece.
The conduct of Mavrocordato in insisting upon the
dismissal of the Bavarian adventurers, who swarmed
about the Palace, has made him exceedingly popular
with all ranks of King Otho's Hellenic subjects.
For the first time since the accession of King Otho
Greece is governed by a Ministry entirely native. In the
list of the new Cabinet the name of a single foreigner is
not to be found. We congratulate the liberators of
Greece upon this last triumph of the principle of Grecian
independence, and we trust the Greek statesmen now at
the head of affairs, will prove to the world that they are '
more capable of directing the administration of the king-
dom than any of the foreign adventurers who preceded
them in office.

The Moniteur of Tuesday defends M.Humann's finan-
cial policy against some attacks made upon him by the
Courrier Francais. Nevertheless the impression in Paris
is that M. Humann is in bad odour at Court. The King
attributes to his blundering about the house and window
taxes the disturbances at Toulouse.

The triumph of the Tories at the late election sup-
plies the Presse with an argument against the extension
of the suffrage. "In England," says the Presse,
" the suffrage is all but universal. The people
have truly the nomination of their representa-
tives. Two parties appeal to this people ; one
offers to give them cheap bread, to lower the duties upon
imports, and, consequently, to procure for them the
means of more comfortable existence ; the other refuses
to lower the price of corn, rejects the proposal for di-
minishing the customs' duties, and condemns the people
to nmain in the sad condition in which they have so
long been. Every body knows to which policy the
people have given the preference. They have voted for
the maintenance of the policy which degrades and op-
presses them, and against that which would have raised
and succoured them. Who will say after this that uni-
versal suffrage is the surest means of arriving at
perfection in the government of a country ?" The
Presse is all at sea as often as it attempts to write
about British domestic policy. Neither universal suf-
frage, nor real popular representation, under any
other name or form, exists in England, and therefore
no inference to their detriment can be drawn
from Peel's majority in the new Parliament.
But for the imperfections of our representative system,
which is framed so as to shut out the intelligence of the
country, while it secures an undue influence to property,
every person in England knows that the Tories could
never have come into office. And more than that, the
country even now will insist upon the Tories giving all
that the Whigs promised to give, and unless they do so
theirs indeed will be a short tenure of office.

The Constitutionnel, in condemning Queen Chris-
tina's protest, observes, that it will afford a handle to the
English to press still more heavily upon the Government
of Spain. The pressure here alluded to has reference to
some smuggling transactions on the coast. Why does not
the Constitutionnel boldly insist upon the right of England
to enforce the customs laws of Spain ? While the civil war
lasted, we assisted the young Queen by enforcing a blockade
of the Biscayan coast. Why not discover in this a pre-
cedent for our maintaining a coast guard for the appre-
hension of English smugglers ? We cannot help fre-
quently smiling at the notions which French writers en-
tertain of the duties of Governments. While the breach
of Spanish custom-house laws is more profitable than
their observance there will be smuggling, and wherever
there is smuggling the hardiest and most enterprising
traders will be most deeply engaged in it.