The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-28 00:00:00

her energies are not mustered, and it may be wise to dis-
dain her threats and to curb down her spirit.

Have we not said again and again that howev€r
the Tories may disguise it, they are mad for war.
Can a more convincing proof of this be given than
the detestable paragraph which we have just
quoted, and which forms the staple of the first
leading article in the Times of this morning ?
The affectation of a zeal for peace is easily seen
through, and we trust will be properly appreciated
by the country.
The Correspondent of the Herald talks more
rationally, albeit he has nothing but surmises to
communicate. His exact words are not given, but
the Herald, in a leading article, thus sums up their
import :

Our Correspondent says that is very possible the
Speech to be drawn up by Marshat Soult will be less
pa&fic than that presented by M. Thiers to the King.
M. Thiers, who meant war, or something approaching
to it, was willing to use language which would win the
Kit.g's favour, and not alarm the country too much ;
while Marshal Soult and M. Guizot, who mean peace,
and peace only, may safely indulge in a few bombastic
expressions to satisfy public opinion, and place the
King fairly before the Chambers. M. Thiers and his
party will be the sufferers by this manoeuvre. For
how can he stand up in the House as an ad-
vocate for war, when his rivals can show him his own
moderate paragraph, and thus condemn him out of his
own lips. Had M. Thiers resolutely stood out for his
first paragraph, demanding an additional Icvy of
150,000 men, his position before the country would be
much better than it now is. But he withdrew that
passage to please Louis Philippe, and insisted only on a
half bred paragraph, which was neither peace nor war,
and which contained nothing but words.
Therefore, our Correspondent argues that M. Thiers
has been taken by surprise, as he can scarcely claim the
sympathies of the violent part of the community, when
his successors show that all he demanded was such a
phrase as this:—" In guarding against the eventualities
which might arise from the treaty of the 15th of July,
we have taken such measures as the interests and ho-
nour of a great nation demanded."

For ourselves, we have no new opinion to offei
upon the French Ministerial crisis as it is called,
neither have we any peculiar sources of information
open to us whereby we might learn not the words
but the thoughts of public men in France. We
persist in regarding the prorogation of the Cham-
bers till the sth of November as most important in
the way of quieting the public mind in France.
The Post thinks that " it was only a necessary
consequence of the non-arrival of M. GUIZOT in
Paris on Sunday." But why was not M. GUIZOT
in Paris on Sunday ? There was time enough for
him to he there on that day, after receiving the
Royal summons. But the KING wanted a pretext
for proroguing the Chambers, and M. GUIZOT
was courtier enough to supply it. He did wisely
in so doing. The friends of peace owe him their
gratitude for travelling so slowly.

The miscellaneous news in the French Journals
of Monday, and the Royal ordinance convoking
the Chambers, will be found in another part of The
Sun. The impression in the best-informed circles
in Paris on Monday afternoon was, that SOULT
would find no difficulty in forming a Cabinet, to sup-
port the pacific policy of the Court.