The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

gations imposed by the treaty, "an act of savage ag-
gression"—an act of material violence against the Pacha,
and of moral violence against France. It says again,
that this act is directed "solely against France," and
calls upon M. Thiers to fulfil his engagements to the
country, by taking an " energetic resolution" upon the 1
subject (qu. going to war?), or at once resigning, be-
cause he was not permitted to sustain "the honour of •
the nation:" Now, recollect that the above language is
not merely that of a newspaper—it is, according to the
universal belief of Paris, a Minister speaking through a
newspaper ; it is M. Thiers apestropVzing himself pet:-
zonally, and calling upon himself to take an " energetic
resolution" against England, or to resign instanter.
(From the Morning Post.)
Whatever the aspect of everts may lead us to ex-
pect, our hope still is that there will not be war be-
tween France and England. The ground of our hope
is the fact that France has as yet shown nothing.
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a reasonable cause of war. This may be said to be
a slender ground of hope where France is con-
cerned, but it is still right to hope that such a cation
as France will not plunge into the expense and the ca-
lamities of war upon the impulse of mere blind rage
and mad conceit. The ravings with which the
Parisian Journals of the Thiers and war party are
filled provoke one's pity. For whom can such " wild•
and whirling" words be written ? Certa;nly not for
those who have some information, and some judgment,
and some small power of reasoning. The extravagant
declamation of these Journals is Ike the disjointed
talk of a madman addressing a crowd of other
men who arc also mad. There is no plain state-
ment of fact—no reasoning—nothing like common
sense—nothing, in short, but a wild uproar of fury.
And this madness has not even the merit of being
sincere. It is all affectation. The crowd are
perhaps sincere in calling for war, because they burn
for military glory and fur revenge upon England, and
they bare neither knowledge, nor judgment, nor tem-
per, to enable them to sit down and calculate conse-
quences. The thousands who have education without
religion or morality, who cannot bear the drudgery of
lie, and have no means of living without drudgery,
they sincerely desire a war, for it affords the prospect
of employment, and rank, and plunder. At all events
it will affard some variety, and enable those who become
soldiers to see the world. The men already belonging
to the army or navy sincerely desire war, because it
affoids an opportunity of distinguishing themselves in
their profession—it gives better chance of promotion—
it enakea them people of more importance. These
classes are sincere : but the Tillers Journalists, who
write to inflame the foolish into a war-desiring paroxysm
are not sincere. They know well enough how
hazardous it would be, and, even if it were successful,
what injury it must inflict upon the best interests of
France—what calamities upon whatever region of Eu-
rope or of the world might become the seat of war.
Why, then, do they inflame men to a state of despera-
tion, which may, perhaps, cost the blood of millions,
besides incalculable misery to those who will receive
wounds worse than those which kill ? They have a po-
litical end to serve. They have to relieve a Minister,
from embarraFsment, and they are content to
do it at the expense of plunging the nation into worse
than embarrassment. The Minister has committed a
political error, which he would fain hide by the perpe-
tration of a national crime. To excite the people into a
state ready for this crime is the cool calculation of the
Ministerial partisans. They are backed by the equally
cool and calculating partisans of revolution, who, amid
the carnage of Europe expect to celebrate the triumphs
of repubicanism and infidelity.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The self-styled " pacificators" of the East seem re-
solved to earn for themselves the title of disturbers of
Europe. The bombardment of Beyrout was just such
an act as Russia would have suggested with the view of
making the breach between France and England irre-
perab;e. Whatever other results may follow from the
Anglo-Russian league advantageous to our Muscovite
Allis, the northern Autocrat will not be slow to seize
upon ; but if no other object of Russian diplomacy
should be realised by it, than a war between France and
England, the Court of St. Petersburgh will consider
that ail the anxious intrigue and elaborate deception
which it practised to bring about the Brunow treaty were
not thrown away. Even if no immediate hostilities be-
tween the two Great Powers of the west of Europe
should be the result ofthe success of Brunow's mission, fol-
lowed by the barbaric outrages now in the act of per-
petration by the civilised "pacificators" of the East,
still the ill-blood created between France and England
by the infatuated subserviency of our Whig Ministers
to Russian counsels, must, sooner or later, lead to a war,
which will draw all Europe into its destructive vortex,
and of which the calamitous consequences will extend to
remote generations. Ever since Diebitsch's campaigns
of the Balkan, and from an earlier period, we have
been endeavouring to empress upon the public mind
the necessity of taking effective measures to protect the
interests of Great Britain against the insidious policy of
Russia, and the indefatigable spirit of encroachment by
which she is gradually advncing to a height of power
and extent of dominion dangerous to other European
nations, but more especially to England. On this
question we have had for many years past to combat
both Whig and Tory Journals. But if arguments fail
to convince we appeal to facts. We point to the fate
of Poland, whose independence England: and France
had by solemn treaty guaranteed, reduced to the
condition of a Muscovite province. We remind the
public of the cruel oppression of the republic of Cracow
—of the virtual annexation of Moldavia and Wallachia
to the Russian empire—of the prostration of the GC-
vernment of Greece at the footstool of Russian ascend-
ancy—of the humiliation of the Ottoman empire result-
ing in the treaties of Mrianople and of Unkiar Skelessi
—of the attempted conquest of Circassia, as yet only
prevented by the heroic sacrifices of a brave people,
whom England has abandoned to their fate because the
Czar, in the case of the Vixen, gave England such insult
and provocation as she never received from Mehemet
Ali. England, that abandoned the Cireassians to their
fate, pretends to sympathize with the Syrian population
under the Government of the Viceroy of Egypt. What
have the Syrians suffered, let us ask the S:andard and
the Glebe, under any imaginable misrule of Mehemet
Ali, which the Circassians have not suffered under the
tni;itary t)ranny of the Emperor -Nicholas, wherever
it has been able to gain a footing in their devoted
country