The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TFIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
We trust our sincere desire for " peace and good-
will with France has not been left doubtful. Our
readers will do us the justice to remember that the Globe
was the first public organ which laid down what we
deemed the limits beyond which we ought not to go in
seeking to protect Turkey by forcible measures.
The late French Ministers gave reason to conclude
that it was only beyond those limits they should fix
the casus belli. The present Ministry are not less
peaceful, of course, than their predecessors. The
casus belli between France and England would, there-
fore, appear impossible ; and so it would be, were there
no risk that the war-at• any-price party should
come uppermost. We have invariably expressed the
same anxiety which we still feel, that every concession,
which in honour can be made, should be made, to tran-
quillise public feeling in France, and to render it pos-
sible for her statesmen to guide her councils by other
rules than compliance with the cry of the multitude.
This is, however, very different from exclaiming,
with some ultra-politicians, that—happen what will—
the French alliance must be the sole object of English
policy. This is not the way to have or keep alliances,
worth having or keeping. We trust we set a due value
on peace and alliance with France. United in just ob-
jects, France and England might lead the world. But
to such an union there must be two parties who have
the same objects really in view. We shall not secure
the French alliance by declaring we will have no
other. On the contrary, such a declaration (which
some of our wise men are for making) while it renders
it very certain that we shall never have any but French
alliance, renders it equally certain that neither shall
we have French alliance to any purpose. Is it sup-
posed, that of two nations, who stand on a footing of
power so nearly equal as France and England, the
one can throw itself unconditionally into the arms of
the other, and, while abjuring all separate objects, trust
that all such objects are abjured on the other side? It
would be most happy indeed for Europe, if such were
the case. We believe there is nothing in the nature of
things—in the real, substantial interests of either State
(the one insular and naval, the other continental and
military)—we believe, we say, there is nothing in the
nature of things to prevent its being so. But is there
nothing in the nature of man? Is it possible to look
back to the phases of " French alliance" for the last
ten years, without finding traces—not, we trust, of last-
ng or enmity—but of a sort of suppressed ri-
valry and impulse to counteraction ?
(From the Standard.)
The tabular view of the results of the late registra-

tion in various parts of England, which we transcribed
on Saturday from Fraser's Magazine, will be found to
present a cheering account of Conservative gains and
Radical losses in the various Courts of the Rivising
Barristers. From these data it is clear that, as com-
pared with the results of former registrations, Conserva-
tive gains continue steadily to advance, and that it rests
with Conservatives themselves if there be any con-
stituencies, beyond a few such boroughs as Fins-
bury, Sheffield, and the Tower Hamlets, in which
they will not zre long take the lead. If the Registra-
tion Courts may be regarded as the arena in which
the battle of the constitution is to be fought, no
exertions therein calculated to secure triumph to
the good cause ought to be omitted. Looking at the
results generally, they appear to us to present a
greater chance of success to the Conservative party
than even those of last year, inasmuch as they afford
reasonable ground of expectation that many
seats will be wrested from the Whig-Radicals with
scarcely any counterbalancing losses. The towns
and boroughs enumerated in the list in question
form, it is true, only a small portion of the electoral
bodies, but they include those which are of the most im•
portance. In more than half the constituencies of
England, the superiority of one party or the other is so
fully established, as to render any attempt to subvert it,
for the present at least, impossible. Two-thirds of the
counties of England are now entirely surrendered to
the Conservative party. " About 100 English and
Welch seats," says the compiler of the list to which we
refer, " still remain in doubt, and must be strenuously
contested until the struggle is over, and the final
triumph of Conservative principles achieved."
(From the Courier.)
Assuredly there is no public man in France who in so
large a degree enjoys, and not less deserves, the confi-
dence and esteem of all good men and patriotic citizens,
whether at home or abroad, than M. Guizot. As a
public man he is not less distinguished for integrity of
principle, energy of purpose, and unquestionable ability
than in his private capacity for purity of life and con-
versation, amenity of disposition, depth of learning
and brilliancy of talent. Political foes and admiring
friends are all of one harmonious accord on each and all
of these his surpassing qualifications and accomplish-
ments ; and yet it may be, as it is, not the less doubted,
however much desired, whether he will be equal to
contend with the difficulties of the times and con-
trol the petils of the crisis. The very philosophical
structure of his mind may even disqualify him the
more for the fierce contentions incident to an emi-
nent political position, in which the high-miaded and
intrepid championship of reason and principle may
be found embarked in a contest so unequal with
popular passions exalted to frenzy, with blind preju-
dices and ancient antipathies resuscitated, and too
deeply rooted, it seems, for the soothing and eradi-
cating influences of t wenty- five years of continuous peace.
We desire not to be understood as inclined to discou-
rage the hopes which, among the friends of peace, the
elevation of M. Guizot is so justly calculated to excite,
and peace, we firmly believe, we shall continue to have,
so far as it may depend upon the will and exertions of
that enlightened Minister ; but it is impossible to shut
our eyes to the fact of the extraordinary embarassraents
with which the question of peace has been complicated
through the conjoint imprudences of a flighty statesman
like M. Thiers, and a hasty and unsystematic diplo-
matist like Lord Palmerston. The calm and passive atti-
tude of the war and popular faction in Paris during the
progress of the recent derangements and reconstitution
of the Cabinet has been strongly relied upon by some of
our unreasoning and indifferently informed Contempo-
raries in proof of a change in the public mind of France,
of the growing ascendency of more moderate senti-
ments, and the prevailing strength of a body of which
the existence has been inconsiderately assumed rather
than proved, designated as the moderate party, the ele-
ments of which are placed, as where only they could in
such a case be found, in the property or intelligence of
the country. We, unfortunately, can participate in
no such illusions, nor discover, with all the industry
and means applied, any solid groundwork for such con-
victions.

LAW INTELLIGENCE•

ROLLS COURT, N•v. 2.
BEASLEY V. BEASLEY•

Mr. PEMBERTON moved for an injunction to restrain
the defendant Beasley and his wife from entering up
judgment upon a verdict obtained by them against Co-
lonel Boates, one of the trustees of their marriage set-
dement.
After a lengthened argument, the Court ordered the
sum of 3,000/. to he paid into Court without prejudice
to elle rights of the parties.