The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-13 00:00:00

1:111, S.Ost, LONDON, MONrDAY, JULY 3; 1840.

tion. In no case can these obligation§ be violated
with imptini7. lint there be an casc %;Nbi.Cll
a double portion of blame May be experteal .61!ow
their neglect, it must be Whete the ties of nature have
been strengthened; and the parental duties SoleMnly
engaged to be performed by a deed, Signed, iealeit
and delivered as a last will an" re's anent. The
public do not ovenok. these considerations. The
moral and religious part of
commun:ty
keenly alive to " They are
look at the solemn
decl
"idtions and engagements of the Duke of Sus-
SEX, repeated in so many different forms, and they
ask, " How have these engagements been fulfilled ?"
Do not the relative positions of his Royal High-
ness's second wife, and the children of his first,
give a most significant answer to the question ?
The one is elevated to the highest rank of the
Peerage, the honour descending to her issue, while
the others are condemned to obscutity, and to all
the degradation of illegitimacy. We repeat, that
the public are neither blind nor indifferent to this
ievous injustice, and the sooner that reparation is
made the better it will be for the character of the
Duke of SUSSEX, the honour of the Royal Family,
and the credit of her MAJESTY'S Ministers.

On Friday we made a few observations on the
do a-little-wrong policy of the Tories, and enforced
our view by a quotation from the Morning Post.
Our Contemporary, the facts having wrung the con-
viction from him, stated that " the penal laws had
been far more injurious to the Protestant part of
the community than to the Papists," and we took
advantage of that admission to show that the
Tories were now obliged to admit that the
just Whig policy towards Ireland was better for the
Protestants than the do-a-little-wrong policy of the
Tories. Our Contemporary seemed quite angry
on Saturday that he had been for once betrayed
into stating a useful truth, and he accused us of
gross ignorance, and drew from our statement a
whole host of apothegms descriptive of the charac-
ter of the age. He wasted a great deal of learning,
got up for the occasion, to prove that Irish penal laws
were enacted by the Whigs in the time of WILLIAM
and A NNE,,,vluch we believe no man ever thought of
questioning. We, at least, said nothing 9f. their-
origin ; we only referred to the recent policy of the
Whigs and the Tories, and the change which had
‘. Dow" been effected ),y, the Tories adopting the
Whig principles in 1829. The Post and the Ma-
gazine, which it quoted, bore their testimony to the
improvement in the character of the Protes-
tants consequent on the change, and we were
happy to avail ourselves of their testimony,.
We cannot plead guilty to the ignorance with
which the Post charges us ; but if we did, we must
add, that there is something far worse ',hail igno-
rance—knowledge which wilfully and perverSely mis-
tates or misrepresents facts. The Post knows that
there was no question about the origin of the
penal laws for Ireland, and it might know, and
ought to have stated, that when Mr. BURKE was
likely to lose his election for Britoil; on
account of his advocacy of the Catholic
cause, he was one of the foteniott Whigs.
In fact, in his dole', eVtlt the Whigs had out-
grown the tr 'l'7oo, hut the Tories clung to
them, eOkl
after the Whigs had rejected them, and in.
flicted :we'll misery both on England and Ireland
by pertinaciously resisting the repeal of the Whig
penal lawm,

The Neapolitan question is virtually settled—the
partisans of the rebel CARLOS are powerless in
Spain—DONNA MARIA reigns tranquilly in Por •
tugal.----- LtoPoLD occupies in Belgium a throne
whose independence is recognised by all Europe—
according to the latest advices from Constan-
tinople and Alexandria, the Turco-Egyptian Ines-
tion is fairly ©n the eve of an amicable adjustment ;
and thus the whole of the great Whig outline of
foreign policy, sketched upon the accession of the
first Reformed Cabinet, and virulently traduced and
denounced by the Tory faction day after day for
the last ten years, wants but very little of being
completely filled up in the pacific order originally
proposed. Failure has • attended no cause with
which the British Government has in word or deed
openly allied itself ; and the persevering energy and
resolute determinatiok with. which the Government
clung, thrOugh good and evil report, to the Liberal
causes which it was the first among nations
to espouse, has already exalted its character
in the eyes of every independent state. This fact
could never be inferred from the articles which
daily disgrace the editorial columns of the Tory
journals. Trusting to the ignorance which too
generally prevails among the mass of English
tier spaper readers of the actual state of our foreign
relations, it is upon the alleged misconduct of
Lord PALMERSTON, and the habitual inattention
of the Foreign-office to British interests, that the
Times, the Post, and the Herald, are daily harp-
ing ; and yet, of all the Ministers who have sat at
the council-board since the accession of Lord
GREY to the Premiership on the 7th of December
1830, Lord
PALMERSTON is the only one who
has least disappointed the hopes of the Liberal party,
With the exception of the single affair of the Vixen,
no person having the slightest regard to truth, and
conversant with our foreign policy for the last ten
years, can tax his Lordship with a compromise
of the national dignity. During his Lordship's
administration of the foreign policy of this coun-
try, Great Britain, without plunging into wars,
has invariably supported the cause of popular
liberty every where, and, we are happy to add,
materially contributed to its triumph. In every
struggle •on the Continent, the sympathy of our
Government has been found ranged on the right
side. In France, with the Revolutionists of July,
against the tyrant CHARLES X.—in Portugal,
with Queen DONNA MARIA and the Charter;
against the usurper MIGUEL and despotism—in
Spain, for Queen ISABELLA 11. and the Consti-
tution, against the rebel CARLOS and absolutism
—and, in the Netherlands, . for King LEOPOLD
and civil and religious liberty, against King
WILLIAM and the attempt of Holland to make
another Ireland of Belgium. Nor has the
Asiatic policy of Lord PALMERSTON been
less successful, nor less deserving of the
approbation of his Liberal fellow-countrymen. Our
influence at the Court of Lahore has be-en preserved,
in despite of the chances which have taken place
since the death of the Old Lion of the Punjaub ;
English arms have placed a sovereign upon the
throne of Cabul ; Herat has been encouraged to re•
sist successfully the hostile attacks of Persia ; and
if we have failed to preserve the ftiendship of the
SHAH, whom we were mainly instrumental in
placing on the musnud, the possession of Karrack
is an excellent bond of security for the good beha,
viour of the " Royal Centre of the World's Appro-
bation." We are, it is tree, at war with China,
but the contest has not been of our seeking. It is
among the heir looms of strife bequeathed to us by
the East India Company, who were the real found-
ers of the opium ttaffic. A more experienced Chief
Superintendent than Captain ELLIOT might.have
succeeded in averting for r. time the calamity of
war, but no degree of prudence or wisdom in an
agent so circuit stanced could have altogether pre-
vented an earlier or later recurrence to hostilities.
And, moreover, it ought also to be remembered that,
with respect to China, Lord PALMERSTON only
followed out the plan of the Duke of WELLINGTON,
whose defence of the war is the strongest and the
most emphatic yet delivered in Parliament.
We are the more willing to accord a full meed of
justice to Lord PALMERSTON'S policy, as it is
well known to the readers of this Journal that we
frequently disapproved of the tardy course by which
his Lordship effected its accomplishment. Thus,
with regard to Spain, we from the first recommended
to the Governments of France and England a more
active co-operation in favour of the QUEEN and
Constitution ; and, in writing upon the Oriental
question, we invariably insisted upon the presence
of an English and French squadron in the Bos-
photus as a necessary preliminary to any proposal
of terms to MEHEMET ALI.
In attacking, then, the foreign policy of the Go-
vernment, the Tories are only striving to throw
dust in the eyes of the people. They take for
granted that nothing is easier than to misrepresent
what is but little understood, and that by the
shallow pretenders to knowledge which they lack
the sober industry to acquire, assertion will be
readily received for fact, and declamation for argu-
ment. In the domestic policy of the Government
there is surely enough to condemn ; but it would
not suit the Tory scribes to find fault with proceed-
ings which, so far as they are deservedly unpopular,
but manifest their identity with Tory measures.
While, therefore, they are content to sneer at Mi-
nisters for failing to overcome the Obstructives in
the House of Lords, they pour out torrents of
abuse u?on. what • the Tories in .Parliament have

given up finding fault withthe fort+=n not 't
of Lord PAO!' 4.li4tOke Dut tat urli
entry recess will afford us space to place thiS
great question upon a proper footing before
the Fotpitrf, Abel to exposethe baseness df
the 6gans of a faction whose idols are responsible,
as we shall have occasion to show, for what must
ever remain a stain upon the character of England
and France—the having witnessed with an uncon-
cern amounting to apathy, the destruction of the
nationality of Poland. For this we have to thank
not a PALMERSTON but a CASTLEREAGII—not
the Cabinets of Revolution in France and the Re-
form Bill in England, but the Ministry of the
Bourbon restoration, and the chosen servants of a
Tory Royal bigamist and renegade.

We rejoice to find that the claims of the officers
and men
,of the British Auxiliary Legion have at
last been finally adjusted, and that, although the
plat of pa}meat h
instalments has been resorted
to, there is now a certainty that the money will be
forthcoming. 50,000/. has been transmitted to Gen.
ALAVA, the Spanish Minister here, for immediate
distribution, and the same sum is to be transmitted
every six months until the whole debt is cancelled,
which will be in about two years and a half. For
further particulars we refer our readers to the letter
of General Sir DE LACY EVANS to Mr. SER-
VICE, late Assistant Commissary-General to the
Legion, which will be found in another (part
of Sur paper. To the indefatigable exertions
of the Gallant General, assisted by the British
Minister at Madrid,this much desired consummation
is mainly to be ascribed. We trust that the intel-
ligence will speedily reach the ears of the unfortu-
nate men whn have endured so much privation by
the delay which has taken place in paying their
arrears, so that they may be prevented from selling
their certificates for a trifling consideration to the
unprincipled jobbers who are always on the watch
to entrap the needy and the unwary, and who win-
now be mere than ever anxious to fly their sordid
touch.

We inadvertently omitted this morning to call public
attention to the luminous exposure of the abuses in the
Scotch Law Courts, contained in Mr. Wallace's ex.
cellent speech in the House of Commons upon the sub-
ject, a lull report of which k given in another part of
The Sun. We recommend all who take an interest in
the reform of our Law Courts to peruse with attention
this, admirable expose of the abuses of the Scotch
Courts,

Lisbon Journals of the 6th inst., by the Royal Tar
steam!r, hbieh arrived at Falmouth on Saturday from
the Mediterraotifiii; have feAshed The Rapt Tar
Sailed from Gibraltar on the '2l, Irpm Cadiz on the 3d,
from Lisbon on the evening of the 6th, from Oporto
on the 7th, and from Vigo on the 8,11 inst. The news
from the Poritigitiese 6Apital Is faCiroll'ial)le so far at re
fates to the general tranquillity of the Government.
Except the ex-friar I\llGtiEL ALoN2o, all. the guerilla
chid's in the Aita:-vie had either been taken, or sur-
rendered on a protiaic of receiving tie QUEEN'S par-
don, SO that the natisb of
,Iklibtit. maahly depended
upoh the valour of a single highwayman, hotly pursued
bye whole detachment of the QUEEN'S troops.

la the Chambers the main question of discussion was
the enswer tb the !peed) froth the .t hrone.
changes in the Cabinet were spoken of, and lists of the
Members expected to go ont,and come in are before
us t but it will be tithe enouga to publish theta after
they shall have taken place—if indeed they ever do take
place at all. With respect to the Chartists the power
of the kingdom is now fairly in their hands. The Con-
stitutionalists; though in office; are powerleSt in
the Chambers, and they have long lost the
confidence of the Con' t, in whose ears the very
sound of the word constitution is hateful. We trust
htmever, that the Chartist leaders have brought home
with them .frem,exile wisdom enough to preterit them
from pushing their success too far. The Charter cab
never be restored without a civil war in Portugal, and
the first attempt to revive it would only bring the Sep-
tembrists into the field, before whose violence the Royal
throne would be the first institution to disappear:
the Minitter of Finance hed appointed the 14th ihft.
for receiving proposals for the residue of the Vote of
Confidence granted to the late Ministry in July 1839,
by the Cortes. The bonds to be issued amount to
90,000/. sterling. The 600,000 francs claimed by
Pettuguen subjects from France since the Peninsula
war had been paid by the French UoVertittient bite the
Bank of Lisbon, and a notice issued for the immediate
substantiation of all individual claims, that they might
be immediately liquidated.
The Ktti4 and Qukkf‘ were in good heal& Het'
MA3EsTY having advanced to the sixth month of her
pregnancy, prayers for her safe deliverance were ordered
to be offered up in all the Churches.

The Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday have all
been duly received. In the Chamber of Peers M.
Tin ERS stated, on Friday, that the mediation of France
between England and Naples had been successful, arid
that on the previous day the differences were finally
concluded, and the arrangement received the signa-
tures of the English and Neapolitan Ambassadori
By this arrangement, which is in the form of anew
trekty, the sulphur trade is declared free, but a 7rea-".
sonahle indemnity has been granted to 7...i5e
the" Company retiously in the enjoyment of the mono-
Po
]3 • With•this treaty France was weft satisfied; and
she looked upon the ready acceptance of her Mediation
by. Great Britain as a homage to French goad faith and
justice.
This statement of the Minister is reported in nearly
the same words by the Constitutionnel, which adds that
a Courier with the news of the final arrangement, set
out instantly for Naples. In the same Journal, we find
the following important paragraph on the subject of the '
new Commercial Treaty between France and England:—
" The treaty of commerce between England and France
is virtually concluded. Two clauses, modifying a part of
the tar'ff, had created some hesitation on the part of the
English Commissioners, but these modifications, which were
not comprehended in the instructions of the British Cabinet,
are now agreed to. Mr. Porter has gone to London to
procure the ratification of his Government to the convention.
" This treaty assures to France real advantages. A
considerable 'eduction on the duties on wine gives the
proprietors of the Gironde a new outlet for their produce.
Our Champagne wines are equally favoured ; and if our
growers are careful in their vintage, and honest in their
commercial relations, their wines will compete on favour-
able terms with the wines of Spain and Portugal in all
English markets.
" Our brandies will also enter, by virtue of the new
treaty, on more favourable conditions, but they will meet
a str,,ng opposition in the apilits distilled from grain.
This fact will probably induce our dealers not to send to
England any but superior quality, suited to the palate of
the rich, and the consumption of which will not be inter.
fered with by cheap corn spirit."
The persecution of the Jews at Damascus. and the
occupation of Cracow by the troops of the Protecting
Powers in violation of the treaty of Vienna, were
generously denounced in the Chamber of Peers on
Friday. On this occasion the President of the Council
was more reserved than we think was at all necessary.
As the two questions were mixed up together by the
several speakers, we shall quote for the satisfaction of
our readers the following outline of the debate :
M. Da TAKIIER observed that a great sensation had
been produced in Europe by what had taken place at
Damascus. Tho republic of Cracow was at this moment
the victim of an attempt against individual rights, but not
a voice was raised in its favour. The treaty of 1815
guaranteed its independence, but that independence had
never yet existed. The dignity of France required that
she should interfere.
M. THIERS-For these two years past the question un-
der discussion has occupied the attention of the British
and French Cabinets. For any own part, I shall never
hesitate to appeal to the energy of the country when its in-
tervention may appear to me to be necessar, but as regards
the present question there are powerful motives, which it
ii not permittel to explain, for considering it necessary to
persevere in the course which has hitherto been adopted.
M. MOUNIER said he respected the reserve of the Pre-
sident
hers of the legislature. It was certain that the indepen-
dence of the republic of Cracow had been solemnly recog •
reservet the Council
wasn cil
a n
not
an
imposed affai of this importance, but
the same ofr
upon
the
simple
mew.
nised bv the Congress of Vienna, and it was also certain
that this independence no longer existed, for the town was
and to protest with energy against
which had been manifested. M.
occupied by an Austrian garrison, and the residence of the
representatives of the three protecting powers was a mere
delusion. It was not necessary for France to interfere in
such a way as to rovoke a war ; but it was necessaiy to
preventproscription,
contempt
o
Mounier concluded by alluding to the events at Damascus,
and to the report that the infliction of torture upon the
Jews, who were suspected bo ft asurd er of the priest, had
been sanctioned by the French
.Consul.
M. THIERS replie
• d that nothing had hitherto transpired
Consul had
to show that the French exceeded the strict
line of his duty, and, in the absence of proof to the con-
trary,could not abandon the defence of
the Government
ftraties
its agent; if it should be proved, however, that he had
been guilty of the conduct which was attributed to him,
the Government could no longer support him.
M. VILLEMAIN said the intervention which was asked
for might be beneficially exercised, and it was the more to
be desired, as France had a right to demand the full and
entire maintenance of a treaty from the Powers which had
profited by it, whilst France had derived no advantage
from it.
that if he had shown R greater de-
gree of reserve than was satisfactory to the last speaker, it
was imposed upon him by the high post which he held in
the Government, and which did not leave him the same
liberty of speech as was enjoyed by a Peer or a Deputy.
" We have protested in the;,name of the independence of
Cracow. We can no no more. To speak without acting
is not worthy of a great nation. A strong Government,
when it has protested, feels that it is more dignified to be
silent and to wait."
This is saying something, and indicating more. But
though a Minister, M. 'pliers might have expressed
himself more strongly, both upon the question of the

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1 es
Surely M. T tExs is not ignorant that fttt*
cl;arges agaloit the Sev:4 are folio, any More than he is
stranger to the fact that the-Protecting Powers have
upon the :treaty of Vienna.
Throotat, Who had embarked on board the
Gloire frigate for La Plata, to coreani:nd the einedition
against Buenos Ayres, has been suddenly recalled, and
Admiral MACKAU appointed to succeed him. It ap-
pears that Admiral BAUDIN claimed discretionary
powers, which the Government thought could not safely
be entrusted to him, in consequence of which ho tendered
his resignation, which was at once accepted by the
Ministry.
The following is the only other intelligence of any
interest in the French papers
The Conrrier de Lyons thus describes the reception
given to Marshal Bourmont at Marseilles:—
" Gene:al BJUi mont," says a Marseilles letter, " corn-
ing from Italy, arrived in our city on Saturday last. The
Carlists wished to make a display, and the persons form-
ing the General's suite appeared with the colours of the
Duchess de Berri. The people rose up in arms, and
groups congregated. The Carlists shouted' Long live
the General I' Then the people replied by singing the
M irseillaise.' The General claimed protecti.rn for his
personal safety. The commandant of the garrison sent
him six companies of infantry and gendarmerie, in order
to facilitate his departure, when on all sides the following
shouts were heard, ' Shame upon Bourmont I" Shame
upon the traitor of Waterloo The General departed in
the midst of a battalion, which escorted him as far as the
vessel which was to convey him to Cette, but this did not
prevent his carriage from being shattered."
lc ass repurteu at Toulon on the 6th, that the Ocean,
Trident, Marengo, and Gcnereux of the line were to sail
on the following day; these shirt, it is said, were to go to
Tunis to demand the return of the 13ey, who had taken the
field at the heed of 13,000 men, and whose proceeding
caused some apprehensions fur the tranquillity of the pre-
vines of Constantinople.
The news of the marriage of the Grand Duchess Olga,
daughter of the Emperor of Russia, to the Duke of Nas-
sau, is tow certain. On the termination of the mourning
for the late King of Prussia official notice will be given
of it.

A letter _from Perpignan of the Bth July affirms that
Cabrera's sisters certainly had 60,000 francs in gold, which
they declitred at the Custom-house. A mule driver was
stopped with a chest containing a magnificent service of
plate (silver gilt), which he was endeavouring to bring
into France, and which he declared be:enged to Cabrera.
It has been sent to Paris.—Le Commerce.
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The Madrid jourtialti of the 4th most: .have come to
hand, with letters from Barcelona of the Sadie date.
The two Queens had met with a magnificent reception.
Splendid fireworks illuminated the city every night, and
the e'ca of the inhabitants were dazzled in the day
with thb brilliancy of thiliterY costumes. It was cal-
culated that fifty thousand Atrth*efi had et-idle to see
their Majesties from the principal towns of Spain and
Italy, and the Balearic Isles: The English Ambas-
sador. Mr. 'ASTON, had received instructions to pro-
ceed front Madtid to. Barcclojia in the !event of such a
course being adopted hi, the renth Minister:
From Madrid the news is not important. A change
of Ministers was spoken of; and the following handed
about as a list' of the new Cabinet :
President of the Council and Mi.
nista- for torcign senor Isturia.
Finance
Interior .
Grace and-Justice