The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-27 00:00:00

E V ENING D ETION

but two or three supporters in the House. However hum-
ble the anticipations of the Honourable Gentleman, after
the speech of Lord Palmerston, who • not only vindicated,
with his usual ability, the broad principles of our Levant
policy, but left even no objection of detail unanswered,
the result would have merely afforded a confirmation of
them. Under such circumstances, to abstain from divid-
ing was only common prudence.
(From the 7'imes)
The Duke of Wellington, after complimenting the
Noble Mover and Seconder cf the Address upon the talent
for debate they had displayoS, expressed his approval of
the course of foreign policy which had been adopted. He
had long viewed with anxiety the dangers that were likely
to result from the state of affairs in the Levant, and he
rejoiced to think that those dangers would now he averted,
and that France would join with the other Powers in carry-
ing out measures to secure the continuance of peace. He
bad heard a great deal of the alliance between England and
France, but he knew of nothing more than a professed un-
deratandiws" when consulting en points of general interest to
Europe. The two countries had frequently acted in con-
cert, but they had also frequently acted otherwise, and with-
out either taking offence at the course the other might
think proper to pursue. As to the late negotiations, he
had attended carefully to the whole course of proceeding,
but he could discover nothing which France could construe
into a cause of offence—he saw nothing upon which a
difference with France could be grounded ; nor could he
discover any fault which had been committed on our part.
He did not think that the charges which a Noble Lord
(Brougham) had brought against Russia were sufficiently
made out; nor could he assent to the motives which
had been ascribed to that Power. With respect to what
had been mid as regarded the excitement which was
stated to prevail in this country for the preservation
of the peace of Europe, he would say, for the satis-
faction of the Noble Lou near him, tiho perhaps
had not the same opportunites of information which he
had, that neither his Ncble and Learned Friend (Lord
Brougham), nor any other man living, had done half so
mull as the individual who addressed them for the main-
tenance of peace, and, above all, for the adjustment of any
question in which the honour of France, and her position
amongst the Powers of Europe, were more immediately
concerned. He had acted with that view under the instruc-
tion of the Government with which he had been connected
since 1814, up to the last moment in which he had
the honour to be employed in the service of his
King. He had done everything in his power not
only #,opreserve the peace of Europe, and cement a good
understanding between this country and France, but also
to place France where she ought to be in the councils of
Europe, for he felt convinced that if France were not so
placed, there could be no well-fcuntled hope for the
peace of Europe, or for a just and sound decision upon
any subject of General European policy. He 'trusted that
France would b 3 reconciled to the arrangements that Lad
been made in the Eastern question, and nothing would
give him greater satisfaction than to see her as a conse-
quence restored to the place she ought to hold among the
nations of Europe.
(Front the _Morning Post.)
The Dake of Wellington's speech was of a nature that
will give it an European interest. The earnest desire ex-
pressed by his Grace that France should still retain her
position in the great family of nations, and his professions
of friendship and good-will towards the French Govern-
ment and people, cannot but have the effect of convincing
both that the moat distinguished man of the age is anxious
that France and England should always remain on those
terms which ho believes essential to the security of the
general tranquillity.

(From the Morning Herald.)
We have only
_time to direct attention, in an especial
manner, to the remarkable speeches delivered last night,
by the Duke of Wellington and Stir Robert Peel.
Every true lover of peace and the best interests of his
native country, whether he be Englishman or Frenchman,
must rejoice to find that the great captain and statesman
of his time not only declared his unabated desire to main-
tain friendly and cordial relations between France and
England, but insisted that it was necessary to the repose
of Europe that France should maintain her just rank in
the scale of European councils, and that every courtesy in
this respect should be paid to her. The Noble Duko took
occasion to affirm, that no man had done as much as
he had to uphold those amicable relations between these
two great Powers. In the House of Commons, Sir Ro-
bert Peel enforced, with remarkable earnestness, his own
feeling that the omission of all mention of France, in the
first paragraph of the Royal Speech, was . injudicious and
discourteous to her. It must be gratifying to our friends
on the other side of the water, to observe the amicable and
disinterested spirit in which the Conservative leaders have
expressed themselves on this occasion. If anything can
remove the senseless prepossession which exists among the
Parisian public, of an intense hostility to France pervading
the English people, this demonstration will scarcely fail to
effect that object.

floss THEIDAILY PAPERS OP YESTIRDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
The Tories, who oontinually taunt the Ministry
with accepting Radical support, are themselves eager
to avail themselves of assistance, come from whatever
quarter it may. The Post has been puffing an obscure
pamphlet, the author of which avows his object to be
a Tory Government as a means of Reform ; and the
Times has drawn forth from the waste-paper basket,
petition from the Glasgow operatives, which would
have produced wonderful effects if it had not been pre-
sented so late in the last Session. This curious docu-
ment, we are told," was consigned to Sir W. Follett,
who being prevented from attending to present it him-
self, transferred it to the no less worthy guardianship
of Sir Frederick Pollock, either of which eminent
men would have done ample justice to its topic's, if an
opportunity could have been found for tilt hearing."
Of this extraordinary petition, intrusted to two such
sound Reformers, one of the allegations cited by the
Times is, ." That her Majesty's Waisters found the co-
lonies of North America in a state of tranquillity; and
that they brought them inte, one of insurrection." It
may be Lard to require From the Glasgow operatives,
or from the Conserrative young gentlemen of its far-
famed University., a knowledge of ancient history ex-
tending so far 'oack as 1830. But the proposition
that Canade was in a more tranquil state Mtn it is
now, weld have been somewhat difficult fur the
two ir.genious lawyers to maintain. There is, how-
eVrr, another complaint—" that the Ministers have
Suffered the decay of the strength of Britain
in her navy—that the shores of England are un-
protected—and that other Powers are now enabled to
insult the country with impunity, and to endanger its
existence !" This part of the petition affords a striking
proof of the power of reiterated falsehoods on that por-
tion of the nation, which possesses no other mans of
information of such matters than is derived from
reading such journals as the Times. The Glanc.v
operatives, of course, knew nothing of the state of the
bevy than what they read in the newspapers. Some of
those, led by the Times, had been writing for three or
four years on the inefficiency of the navy ; and on their
authority the petitioners believed that Brighton would
be bombarded, and a French or Ru,sian fleet would
sweep the Thames, like Van Tromp 1 It is well that
those who had the management of affairs ia France did
not attach the same importance to these statements ;
but it is not surprising that the French papers should
copy, and that the French populace should believe, them.
It was quite natural that the fall of Acre should be ac-
counted for as effected by the influence of English gold,
when the journals of an important party insisted upon
our inability to use any other metal ; and the confi-
dence with which some of the French sailors arc said
to have spoken of just fetching the British fleet into
Toulon, would have been no mere than reasonable, had
there been any foundation for those impudent asser-
tions which the Times calls " melancholy and disho-
nourable truths ;" and from which it says " the peti-
tioners came legitimately to the conclusion, by praying
that your Honourable House will address her Majesty
to dismiss from her councils such dangerous advisers."
(From the Standard.)
If the opinion of the people of Paris be adopted
in regard to the fortification question, it is not unrea-
sonable to expect that their ambition to make w.ir
upon their neighbours will in due time be adopted,
howmer contraW to reason and justice, by Ministers,
as deferential to popular fallacies as Marshal Soult.
The speech of Marshal Soult seems to be considered
in Paris as likely to create another ministerial
crisis, but we have no such apprehension ; since,
although he has attempted to vindicate the coo.
*latency of his military opinions, he has, to all
intents and purposes, supported the delusion of the
hoar. It was in vain that M. de Lamartitee and other
members of the Chamber repreanted that the safe-
guard of a nation consists in the 4ilrit and gallantry of
its population, rather than in stone walls, and that
when the former fail the latter prove of little use. The
project in all its naked absurdity is still likely to be
carried out ; although Marshal Soult astutely recom-
mends that the forts on the heights shall be first com-
pleted!

(From the Courier.)
The Chronicle this morning favours the public with
an early edition of her Majesty's Speech from the
Throne, that. is to be, substantially such we presume as
rehearsed by Lords Melbourne and John Russell be-
fore the select coterie of sub-officia:s congregated at
the two ministerial festive. boards last evening. Of
course, as we are informed, foreign affairs will oc-
cupy the larger shire of the Speech, as they do in
the Chronicle, where they take up three-fourths of
the article. Our Contemporary rings the changes upon
Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Turkey, very much in the
style and with the airs ani_graces of the galanti show-
man, who chants his chikl7n s invite to the wonders of
his painted pasteboard regalityin such euphonious
strains as
" Herd you'll see the King of Prussia
Drinking tea with the Emp, ror hassle."
All the difference between the two showmen consists in
the more melodious versification with which the music
grinder ushers in his news, and which tells so pleasingly
when contrasted with the dull, dry prosaics of the morn-
ing hurdy-gurdy.
Th

severe frosts and heavy falls of snow will
prove most beneficial to the growing crops, should no sud-
den and great change of temperature take place. Through-
out the north of england the young wheats present a very
promising appearance.—Newcastle Journal.
On Sunday last the theatre at Oldham was
opened for a Sunday school by a religious party who had
seceded from the ministration of St. Peter's Chapel.—
Manchester Gbardian.

Colonel Peel, M. P., and Lady Alice Peel have ar-
e►ved at Farrance's Hotel, from Marble Hill, Twickenham.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. `25, 1841.

The Queen was thin day pleased to confer t!le honour of
Knigllthooa upon Georg-e Simpson, Esq., Getterno:. of the
Hudson's Bay Company's Settleinents,

BUCKINGHpI PALACE, JAN. 95.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Robert Hereford, Esq., Solicitor-General of
Antigua.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 2G.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been pleased to ap-
point the following Gentlemen to be Chaplains to his Royal
Highness Rev. the Lord Wriothesley Russell, Canon of
Windsor; the Venerable Samuel Wilberforce, Archdeacon of
Surrey ; the Rev. Joseph Loseombe Richards, Doctor of Di-
vinity, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford ; the Rev. J. Graham,
Doctor of Divinity, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

WHITEHALL, J. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Hobert Bell, Esq.,
Advocate, to be sheriff Depute of the shire or sheriffdom of
Berwick, void by the death of William Boswell, Esq.