The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

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W NDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3. 1847.

Whilst the country i 3 involvtd in all the entargle-
Thents of the Parliamentary election', we cl.nnot, even
from our sympa:hv in it, patriotic excitement, remain
indifferent to Cie intelligence simultaneously receivud
1 various foreign occurrences. Our ar,xieti, s are
ilot the less in unison with those of the Lineral elec-
tors throughout the kingdotii because we are inte-
rested in the information recentky conveyed to the
eastern hemisphere from the coasts of Yucatan, that
?resident SANTA ANNA has been invested with the
-irresponsible dictatorship of Mexico, and that under
the guidance of that maligned, but dauntless soldier,
-the American invaders are threatened with a terrible
wed ignominious expulsion. Our attention, however,
is not exclusively directed to the occurrences which
are transpiring in the younger continents, they are
4irected to the Orient by the remarkable circum-
stances which are transpiring in such rapid succes-
six). Scarcely has the echo of the Afarseillaise
ceased reverberating among the acclivities which
overjooli the boulevards of Paris, when the same
fau,ion sounds ominously to the faithless
aril tocrats of the Tuileries through the din of a great
storm at Macon.
A,* (mites c doyens t former vos iataillons
411 an- hons gu' en sang lover aireuve nos sillovu
Scarcely have the eloquent accents of LAYMITINE
faded upon recollection when the horror of a
xut.l.less cons}:iraey fascinates our imagination further
'southwards anii further eastwards to the galleries ct
the Vatican. Eves' the daring and magnanimous
civism of Cieeroaeldo, the consolatory proclama-
tion Of Cardinal FERETTT, the resolute hearing of
Pius IX., and the dastardly machinations of Austria
are forgotten as the mind strays onwards to the re-
moter terricorias of A:sia and Ilindostin.

It will be a fitting termination to the Governorship
of Lord thanusca if the solicitude of DOSI MA-
'lomat; tot stablish a cordial alliance between himself
slid the Covernment of British India can without any
ompromise Lf our dignity be satisfied. Now that
bis firebrand the i'.famous AKBAII. KHAN, ha,
perished either by the diseases resulting from his in-
temperance or the r isoied goblet of the a '
there it, a for such etter opportunitya recoil( ilia.
con. Yet, under the most favourable circumstances,
there can be but little reliance upon • the
f an insidious and a constitution-
pledges
conscientiously unfaithful race.
Supposing even those proffr:sstiEou should be listened tons of friendship which
are uttered by Do.TM u 1•
by the English Ad:ninistration—supposing even that
a treaty of alliance shtalfd be signed by the contract-
ing parties, ,Ae can only
•
anticipate the maintenance
of its different clauses so long as the •e of British
authority shill remain distinct and paramount.
1-T3fur...nate!v, the retirement of Lord lIARDINGE
and Lord “ouoir.promises to be simultaneous with
the very come of the disturbances which have
long desbristed the dominions- of the NIZAM. Lord
DALesouste:,. therefore, as Governor-General, and Sir
Evrt' PorriNGßa, as the head of the Government
sof Madras, will enter upon no sinecure. The difficul-
ties they will have to vanquish will certainly be
?tither of a diplomatic tliirt of A:military character;
hat from. ;hat very_ reason they wilt ,be, if
inure intricate sad eatharrasatpg,,, 'The state of
ji)derabo, ivdeed, at the period our
.disintows e*t

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Bombay, was most alarming and disastrous. Besides
the confusion resulting from the struggles of RAM
811101/1 and SuRAJ-00L• MOOLK. to be nominated the
Supreme Vizier of tie NIZAM, th:-re are numerous
causes of atiai:•ty for that unfortunate and in-
oompetent successor of the terrib:e ruler of the
Deccan. Instead of tending to a pacific settle-
ment of the rivalry of these ambitious states- I
men, the British intervention has only added em-
barrassrnents to those which had preciously existed.
SURA.I-00L•MO0LY has gained authority through
our interference, but RAM 8008 has carried with
hiaa, in his discomfiture, the sympathies and con-
fidence of the NIZAM. Beyond this principal reason
for the miserable involvements of Hyderabad, it must
be remembered that the treasures of the national
coffer amount to nothing—that the loyalty of the
unemployed soldiers, numbering some thirty
thousand fighting men, is most questionable—
that two years' arrears of pay are owing to that army
—that the ruler of the Deccan and the chief miiister
of the Deccan are estranged from each other both in
sentiment and principle, and that our local repre-
sentatives are utterly powerless in the presence of the
overwhehnning force cf a Sovereign who al pears to
have lattt-rly im'oilled towards our Eastern Gove•rti-
went a spirit of itnitno.iity as sincere as his partiality
for ItAm liuKsti has been disappointed. Such are
the dilemmas which are already prepared for the ad-
ministration of the Earl of DALUOUSIE.

Among the many remarkable addresses to popular
constituencies that have been elicited during the
progress of the several elections, that which has just
been delivered by Lord PALMERSTON to the electors
of Tiverten, is probably the mast important. We
have had the manifesto of Sir ROBERT PEEL, justi-
fying, and that of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, impugn-
ing the free trade-policy of the late Government.
We have hadvindications of the internal administra-
tion of the country by their successors proceeding
from the lips of the Premier, and several of his col-
leagues in office ;. but none equal in comprehensive-
ness of details, in the extraordinary variety of the
subjects introduced and commented upon in the ora-
tion of the Noble L'ord, the Secretary fur Foreign
Affairs; indeed there is scarcely a point of foreign or
domestic poicy that has not been seluded te in clear
and explicit language. Intierination, that could
scarcely be obtained by the closest questioning in the
House of Commons, is unhesitatingly dispensed to
those whose confidence that nobleman desires
to retain. What was denied to Mr. Hume,
and , the most pertinacious Parliamentary in-
terrogators, is freely afforded to the electors of
Tiverton. It is a just homage paid by that ac-
complished statesman to the genius of the reformed
British constitution. It is a full and unconditional
admission of the right of the people to demand the
most ample explanations from the candidates for their
suff des on every circumstance of national interest
in which their representative may have taken a part.
It is a positive reccgoition of the democratic
principle of the absolute authority of the people to
govern themselves by the ministers they have
selrcted and appro.e.i of, and in whom they are will-
ing to place confidence. The mantle of diplomatic
caution, in which he shrouded himself in the Legisla-
ture, is cast aside, and he appear.. before his consti
tuents without disguise or concealment of any
kind. There are two p trtiee to whom be
owes allegiance, by whom he has been
entrusted, his SOVEREIGN and the people, and he is
bound to satisfy either in • every possible manner
when applying for a continuance of the confidence
that had been bestowed upon him. He has not
shrunk from his duty, and on this occasion
of his re-appearance before that portion of
the public who had selected him as their representa -
tire, he entered into the fullest defence of his princi-
ples and actions, and without impairing his u efulness
by any pledges by which his freedom of action would
he controlled and fettered, he gave all that the elec-
tors had a right to demand—the most candid con-
te,sion of his pclitical faith, the clearest expositions
of his former condect ; and, in return, he demanded
the continuance of their confidence, which he had
never forfeited by word or deed.
It is not possible, within the limits we are at
present enshl..4 to devote to the subject, to enter into
all the points touched upon by the Noble Lord
in his masterly statement. A .mere repetition
thereof would nearly exhaust the space we
now have to spare. There is the vindication of his
personal conduct carried hack to a period antecedent
to the passing of the Reform Bill as a Minister, a
Member of the Lewislature, an Irish landlord, and a
private gentleman. Ile explained the grounds of his
secession from the Peel- Wellington Ministry because
they had positively refused to take one single step
in the path of reform by transferring to Manchester
or Birmingham the franchbes so justly forfeited by
East Re tfurd for the wholesale bribery and corruption
or which it had been convicted. lie showed the
entire fulfilment by the Grey and Melbourne Minis-
tries, with which he had been connected, of
the three great pledges given by there
on their acct Wane, of office for Reform
retrenchment, and the maintenance of universal
peace and trill quiliity. Ile entered into the causes of
the financial difficulties that existed during the latter
years of the Melbourne Administration, and of the
deficiencies in the public revenue that inevitably re-
sulted therefrom and from the continuance of bad har-
vests, and showed that the Gavernment of the day were
'desirous of adopting the free-trade policy and improv-
ing the revenue by increasing the comforts of the
people—a policy which, when partially carried into
execution by their successors in office, was crowned
with such signal success. He then passed to the last
! session of Parliament, alluding as well to what
had been done as to those things that were
necessarily left undone; the sad calamity by which
our sister Island has been afflicted, and the legislation
consequent thereon. Ile pointed out (as we have
often done in these columns) the impropriety and
folly of the Government of the country is king upon
itself to form inag-tines, to purchase provisions, and
to distribute them to the people at a cheaper rate, and
thus interfering with, and driving out of, the field
every private speculator, and the calamitous results
that must inevitably have followed so insane a course.
The Government policy, with respect to the Ten
Hours' Bill, the Health of Towns Bill, with the
reasons that compelled the Ministry reluctantly to
consent toits postponement to a future session; the mea-
sure for National Education, the New Poor-law, and
even the continuance of the Wellington statue on its
present pedestal, and then that which comes more im-
mediately within the Noble Lord's immediate depart-
ment—the foreign policy of the country —are all fully
entered into and justified. It is sufficient to say that
the speech comprised our relations and policy with
respect to Belgium, France, Spain, Syria, A ffgha-
nistan, China, Canada, Poland, and Portugal, nut only
with respect to the Miguelite contest, but also as to
the more recent interference between DONNA
M.sitia and her subjects. The case of the
Spanish bondholders, and of the British cre-
ditors of defaulting states, is also noticed.
We strongly recommend our readers attentively to
peruse, and
maturely to consider, this brilliant exposi-
tion of Whig policy, and we doubt not that they will
rece.ve the greatest benefit therefrom. Although
addressed to the electors of Tiverton, it te for ge-
neral perusal and edification, and no person should
decide on the manner in which he may exercise his
nior.t important and valuable privilege, the franchise,
without making himself master of all its varied
details.

A letter from Berne of the 27th ult. says, that or,
the 2Cnh the Soci, ter of Swiss Carbineers, assembled
at Glaris, agreed to an address to the Diet thanking
them tor the decision they had come to on the subject
of the Ca.h die league, and praying them not to suffer
tt.emselves to be intimidated by the threats of foreign
powers. On the 27th there was a great meeting of
the inembtn of the P..pular A,,sociation held at Berne.
le:se c.1;1!ons (,;* Geneva, of Vaud, of Argovia, and of
13:;!e country Each sent repre,ntative* to the meeting,
and it V.'WS resolved to forma Swiss Popular Asso-
ciation, the objects of which should be--Ist, the
e(ier.ex-
pulsion of the Jesuits ; 21, the execution of the
decree of the Diet I the Catholical league ;
d the revision of the Pdct by
legal
and 3 ,
peaceable tnia•ure3.. the, Federal
Popular Asso-
ci and
ationof Berne has appointed a cotnntitee of
charged %id) carrying into es4cution th© been Nip
direction