The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-03 00:00:00

separation of France from the other ere:at Powers c..
Europe, and, in a certain degree, of temporary degra-
dation of the French Government. We say tempte-
r try degradation, for we have no doubt that the hone!.:
and dignified policy of the Soult and Guizat Admires
tration—the only policy which is worthy of France--
will again place the nation in its right position
respect to European influence, but in the incentive
France has been lowered. She has been lowered
that which would lower any nation in the world, hoer
ever mighty its resources and how ever martial its spirit,
namely, mean, deceitful conefuet en the pet of its Go.
~..e.etecte. Conscious of the total failure of his policy of de-
ceptioe, M. Tillers now takes up the tone of the bully,
and would faid persuade those who arc thoughtless
eeoue,l, to believe him that he is an enthusiastically pa-
triotic person, who would plunge into any extreme of
military rashness for the sake of maintaining the honour
of his country. This is ridiculous. The man who wee
s t forgetful of his countr)'s honour as to make cheating
the basis of his diplomacy has no business to indulee in
rhodomontade about avcring fancied insults to that
hangar now when he is found out and exposed.
M. Thiers may vapour as he pleases, and pretend
to be angry, but this is only to turn :may attention
from his own shame and defeat. El.cry one of commoe
sense perc,ives the absurdity of what he says, but
his frantic insolence is not addressed to the common
sense of his country. It is intended for the ignorant
and passionate mind of the revolutionary mob. It bits
now been made evident by actual events that the policy
of M. Thiers—namely, that of waiting until he had an
enormous army ready for the field, at an enormous ex-
pense, and then accompanying ha demands for a modi-
ticati.,n of the Treaty of the 15th July with a menace e
immediate war if the demands were not assented to-
it has, say, been made evident that this policy we;
blunder and a miscalculation. The Allies were far to,
quick for him, and the Treaty was in process of' execu-
tion while he was making preparation for what 'he was te,
do three months hence in order to prevent it from beeir
excented. And yet, in the fac'e of the events whirl
prove ley,v mistaken was M. Thiers in his rash, eve-
gent, !slid wasteful policy, he has the ridiculous audheit,
still to toast of it, and to couple a recital of his frus-
trated' plans with further declarations of unparalleled ins
'eolence ern; folly.

(Fr= the Morning ..4dziertigPr.)'
We promised yesterday to re‘ert to the sakoject of
-the tiropotitiantot-window taxes upon ticerfsaif vlcttiat
!ors, from which all other retail traders tmte exempted ;
but what is there new that we can state respecting
niter e.-1,,,t‘ has already appeared in this journal
last of the question, as st o have every reason t,
believe, tlistioeily iu their L!vour ; but supposing tin
contrary to be the case—that the law, as it static's, i.
;against them, is it not a matter of equity and jostle,
that they should hare the same exemption as is ac-
corded to other retail trade's,. not only of a different,
but purely of their own character? All laws, to be
just, ought to be uniform in their operation ; but in
the action and practice of the present window duty tax.
there is neither uniformity nor justice. Exemption ft
three windows is accorded by Act of Parliameut to
all tradesmen exposing their goods, and receiving their
moneys for them over the counter—the exemption is
held to be good for the grocer, the tea-merchant, the
snuff-seller, and every other description of retail trades-
man—and nit only is this the fact, but a ceriaily class
of this wine and spirit trade arc practically exempted
from the impost, while another is held bound to p,=y
it Is this equity—is this, justice ? , The confectioner,
the greateSt portion of whose wares are consumed upon
his premises„ is exempted from the tax ; but the li-
censed ‘ietualler, although he equally exposes his

goods to public view—although to a great extent they
are paid for upon the counter, and taken away for out-
door consumption—is compelled to pay for the three
windows from which ethtts arc exempted ! The same
observations apply to a variety of other tradesmen to
whom wa might allude ; but we hold it to be sufficient
to give one illustration of the beauty of Cie late, and to
leave it to our readers to flit up the blank. Assuredly
the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to look into this
matter ; for although the particular complaint upon
which we sae now commenting is only tlee complaint of
a class, there are nevertheless so many respecting sur-
charges from ell other quarters, that the sooner they are
stripped of ull appearance of iniquitous foundation the
batter. No Government can have any perManent hold
upon the affection and support of the people which dots
not deal mildly and justly by it. It is a further argument
upon th.. question ofthe exemption of licensed victualler,
that however the town and country trade may have hither.-
to disagreed upon a variety of points, affecting their mu-
tual interests, they are thoroughly agreed with regard to
the extra and unjustifiable charge of window duties. They
arc now united as one man, and they are determined,
it possible, to carry their point.. It is true that the de-
putation which waited upon the Chancellor of the El
chequer, on Monday last, consisted only of the Reprc -
sentatives of the Metropolitan Districts ; but the abi
Representative of the country trade, Mr. Hibbleovouk
also have b:•en present, had he not been neeetAszerily
gaged elsewhere, to attend to the interests orthos!,
ho Lave intrusted him with their case, and Supported
wall Isis usual eloquence and talent the views so
'
argued by Mr. Vousley and several Members of Parlia-
ment, who were present upon the occasion. We sta, e.
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farth they will be found in perfect
with one uneeher.

(From the Morning Herald.)
We understand that Austria, Prussia, and the tiler
Germanic powers, irritated by the military preparations
of France, but unwilling to incur the expense of at -
creasing their troops to a war establishmen.cbavt
tently but cffzetuaily cempleted such a skeleton organ
sation that at any moment a force can be got and
arms superior to that prepared by France. Remo
strances have in the meantime been made to the Go
vetnment of &mice against her continued armaretnt.7
in which England has indirectly concurred but
these remora, trances should not be attended
atinleo6vßeart_
powers will be able to show in the spr.m.g..stt:::
in hoi.l
whchning force that, if necessary,.the
e underste:.
titles can be taken by them.
that the submission of Alehemlettklinhtars beeny made.

Extract of a letter from Odessa :—" This city
has, during the last summer, been visited by immense
swarms of caterpillars, extending to all the environs. The
insects were first observed in June, at a place near ta,..
In compact masses, all moving in the same direction,
tvo'ir; •nik:oth, r equally dense bodies were seen covering the
soil in the country ; and yet they made no attack upon the
orchards The most terrible invasion of these insects
ho,ever, vas during the same month in Lesser Itussi,
such derse shoals of them appeared in a suburb of Rm_
menschuek, having made their way across the bridge over
the Dnieper, that the authorities ordered the bt'idge to be
broken down to stop their course. this did not succeed,
for the caterpillars formed themselves into solid bodies,
descended the bank of the river, and casting themselves
od the water were floated across, and then continued the'r
march in a north-easterly direction. A great singularity
was remarked in those in the streets; they divided
be!veg into two distinct parties, one composed of the largos
and the other of the smaller.sized insects, and w4en•tl.`
progrt:.s v<as interrupted, so that there became q break
the line, those which were foremost stopped till they var.
joined by the rest,