The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1847.

The Commons met yesterday at Twelve o'Clock.
Mr. STrarzr moved that the Committee on every rail.
way should fix the rate of tolls, &c.
Agreed to.
After the transaction of private business,
Mr. FIELDEN moved the Committee on the Ten Hours'
Bill.

Mr. ESCOTT moved as an amendment that the Hume
resolve itself into Committee on the Bill that day six
months. A debate ensued, in the course of which the
House was addressed by Sir J. GRAHAM, Lord Mori
PLTII, Mr. M. GIBSON, and Sir R. PEEL ; and, on a d
vision the numbers were—
For the Amendment .

100

Fur the original motion l9O
Majority —9o

The house then aijourned at a few minutes after Six

Yesterday we expressed it as our decided opinion
at the annexation of Cracow to the Austrian do-
ninions was an .evil supervening upon the dishonest
policy of the French Government. Upon the atrocity
of that monstrous annexation we have already and
repeatedly commented. The indignation which it
has excited among all civilised nations is at once an
evidence that the deed is a direct violation of the
natural rights and constitutional privileges of the
people, and an indication that the time has elapsed
in which such crimes could be perpetrated with im-
punity. So earnest and resolute is this feeling of
wrath in Western Europe, that her Most Gracious
Majesty the QUEEN protested against the act of the
Northern spoliators in her MAJESTY'S royal address
to the British Parliament. In the language then
uttered by their SOVEREIGN the people have con-
tinued to feel a deep though silent sympathy. Only
through the medium of the Press bad the
popular sentiment hitherto been able to find
a medium for its enunciation until the large
and interesting meeting, the proceedings of which were
fully reported in the columns of The Sun, was con-
vened in the Freemasons' Tavern. A more impor-
tant assemblage of a strictly public character has not
taken place for many years in the metropolis; and a
more competent chairman could scarcely have been
selected than the Noble Lord the President of the
Royal Scciety. The unanimity and enthusiasm
which were evinced by the audience, and the accla-
mations which greeted the speeches of Earl FITZ-
WILLIAM, Lord WHARNCLIFTE, Sir EDWARD COD-
RINGTON, Lord BEAUMONT, and Sir CHARLES NA-
rIER, sufficiently attested the cordiality with which
the citizens of Great Britain engaged in the discussion
of the predatory conduct pursued by the imperial rob-
bers of St. Petersburg!' and Vienna towards the last
remnant of heroic but unfortunate Poland. Pos-
sessing the privilege of holding public meetings of a
political kind at pleasure, and possessing this extra-
ordinary privilege almost exclusively in Europe, it is
always a subject of gratulation when the English
people avail themselves of it, but especially when
the object of their convocation is one of such a noble
and sublime description. Since the first villanous
partition of Poland the sympathies of Englishmen have
never been so emphatically enunciated as they were
on Tuesday evening in the large hall in Great Queen-
street. Every scornful allusion to the division of the
spoil of the Polish territories was " epplauded to the
echo;" every resolution of an earnest and positive
character was passed with acclamation ; every expres-
sion of sorrow for the evil destinies of the Poles, and of
indignation at the barbarian villanies of their insi-
dious neighbours, was responded to with a propor-
tionate enthusiasm ; and of these allusions, of these
resolutions, of these sorrowful and indignant ex-
pressions, there were abundance ! We presume that
as this is the first meeting which has yet been held
in reference to the seizure of Cracow, it cannot be the
last; as the invasion of that neutral republic is un-
paralleled in the records of political atrocity, so
should the utterance of the latent wrath of such a
community as that of Great Britain be unparalleled
in the history of constitutional states. The com-
mencement has been adventured upon, let the good
labour for the promotion of civilisation and the
universal spread of liberty be consummated !
Lord BEAUMONT spoke with so much eloquence on
proposing the third resolution, that we should
scarcely be fulfilling the duties of a discerning
journalist were we to make no direct reference to his
observations. There was no glowing over the hard
truths which are alone deducible from this profligate
spoliation, there was no connivance at the petty pre-
judices of an oligarchical character, there was
nothing feeble or indefinite in the harangue uttered
by that Noble Lord. Scanning not merely the vast-
ness of Continental Europe, but the extension of
Time, Lord BEAUMONT estimates the consequences
of this deed both upon the lesser principalities
of the globe, and upon future generations. Rising in
indignation as the full atrocity of the transaction
unfolded itself before his imagination, the Noble
Lord supposes that the principle proclaimed by the
Northern Powers was carried into operation with im-
partiality, namely, thatthe nations of Europe generally
regarded the violated treaty of Vienna as a dead
letter, and acted accordingly. We might,
then, he proceeds, slay the aggressors with
their own weapons of destruction ; we might
become the rigid scrutineers of the map as it
is now delineated; we might interrogate Austria
what she did south of the Carpathian Alps ? why
she mingled her guttural accents with the soft tones

of sunny Italy ?' we might, demand of Russia, why
she has reached the limits of 'Moldavia? why, from
the steppes and glaciers of Siberia she has pene-

trated to the shores of the Mediterranean,
" blowing with her cold breath on the western
coast ?" We might finally conquer them by
the emphasis of their own logic, and the keenness

of their own swords. We are rejoiced that Lord
BEAUMONT spoke thus explicitly, and that the meet-
ing which he addressed evinced such a ready co-oper-

ation in a cause so intimately blended IvA the pro.

' greys of nations and the development of knowledge.
If a similar spirit continue to be displayed it is im-
possible to conjecture but that inestimable good may
result from apparent evil, and that from the final
spolitition of Poland may arise the permwent advan-
tage of humanity, as there is a virtue hu the oozings
of a wounded gum-tree.

We some time since asserted that landed property
in Ireland still constituted as good a security for the
several charges and incumbrances by which it is
affected as it has ever been ; that, although the pro-
prietors may have been subjected to temporary incon-
venience and embarrassment, there was no real
cause why they should fear any undue depreciation
in the value of their estates ; that creditors
allould not by any harsh or oppressive -proceedings,

. e have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Presse, which on Sunday had vapouxed away
about the impossibility of any reconciliation
taking place between the Marquis of NOR-
MANDY and M. GUIZOT, and which had even gone
so far as to threaten the Minister with its
opposition, should he dare to think of again meeting the
Ambassador oa friendly terms, is reluctantly forced to
admit that such reconciliation did take place on Saturday
through the intervention of the Count D'APPONY; but
it comforts itself with the idea that the
first advances came from the Marquis of NORMANDY.
This fact, if fact it be, is highly creditable to the Mar-
quis of NORMANBY, and proves that he himself feels that
his conduct has been right throughout this affair. In
all personal differences, the party who feels that he is
wrong is afraid to make any advances towards a recon-
ciliation, lest by so doing he should, if they were re-
jected, damage his position. It is the party who is in
the right, and that party alone, that can afford to make
such advances.
The following is the account given of this transaction
by the Journal des Debats :
"Circumstances which are sufficiently known for it not to
be necessary for us to recall them to mind, and irespecting
which we have imposed upon ourselves a reserve which we
are far from regretting, had caused a momentary inter-
ruption in the relations of the English Ambassador with
the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France. It was earnestly
to be desired, for the good relations of the two Govern-
ments and the dignity of their representatives, that an end
should be put to this state of things. We think
we can announce with certainty that it has received a
solution alike honourable to both parties. If we
aro well informed, the English Ambassador, on. Friday,
requested the Ambassador of Austria to act as a mediator, in
order to bring about an accommodation between him and M.
Guizot, and to assume the initiative of a step entirely conci-
liatory, and of a aature to terminate their difference. The
Minister of Foreign Affairs is said to have replied to this
initiative by authorising Count d'Appony to declare, as he
had constantly said, eines the sitting of the Chamber of De-
puties of the sth of February, and even in the speech deli-
vered by him in that sitting, that he had never intended to
question the good faith or sincerity of the English Ambssa-
dor. M. Guizot, it is added, on this occasion recalled to
mind the following passage of that speech, which we
think it right to reproduce :--‘ After the question of neces-
sity comes that of loyaute. I bring this forward, gen-
tlemen, with regret. I have never, on my own account, in-
culcated the intentions or the good faith of any person.
When I discuss with adversaries, foreign or native, I see only
in what I discuss errors, and a good or a bad policy ; but
I never impute to any person either bad faith or qe/oyauti.
This course is commanded by the freedom and dignity of
diplomatic relations, as well as those of Parliamentary dis-
cussion ; and however different the conduct observed to-
wards me may be, and whoever may be the persons who
practise it, I shall neither change my maxim nor my prac-
tice on this subject.' The English Ambassador, on his
side, is said to have previously declared to Count d'Appony
that he never had, on the occasion of the soiree given by
him on the 19th of February, the intention to do anything
which could be improper or .offensive towards the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and lie disavowed all the reports which had
been circulated on this subject. Things having been thus
explained, as became the mutual dignity of the two parties,
M. Guizot and Lord Normanby met, on Saturday evening, at
live o'c:oek, at the Austrian Ambassador's, and resumed,
without further explanations, their mutual relations. It is
only with the intention of being useful to the re-establish-
ment of good harmony and to prevent erroneous comments,
that we have thought it necessary to state these facts thus
briefly ; and we hope that there wi:l remain no trace of
an incident which had already occupied the public mind too
long."

This is of course to be regarded as M. GUIZOT'S offi-
cial account. The following, which appears in Galig-
nani's Messenger, is more likely to be a correct version
of the circumstances:—

" We are happy to state that the difference which existed
between M. Guizot and Lord Normanby has been arranged.
This fact will give pleasure, not merely to the true friends of
the parties in question, but also to the public at large, as it
removes a sources of considerable anxiety, and puts an end to
the difficulties which had arisen in the official intercourse of