The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-14 00:00:00

FRASER.

Under the head of "Republican Literature" we
find in the Fraser of this month a masterly
analysis of the correspondence of Louis Philippe
and M. Guizot on the affair of the Spanish
marriages, and, as might have been expected,
complete proofs of the guilt of Louis Philippe and
of M. Guizot in counselling and advising, and of
Christina and of Bresson, in employing violence to
force the unfortunate young Queen Isabella to a
marriage that was hateful to her, with a man of
whom M. 13resson himself says, in his correspond-
ence with M. Guizot, " qu'il etait douteux si le jeunc
mari fat hontine." The reports of the scenes of
violence which took place in the Palace of Madrid to
coerce the Queen, reports at the time indignantly
contradicted by M. Guizot's scribes in the Journal des
Debats, and by M. Guizot himself in the tribune, were
perfectly true. We have here the proofs under M.
Bresson's own hand. He says, speaking of the young
Queen, "it would not do to tighten the cord any
longer, and run the risk of pushing her entirely into
the arms of our adversaries, and my sulkiness, my
rudeness, and my threats, had produced their proper
iffect, and I now returned to my natural character ;"
and M. Guizot, with that coolness which nothing but
long practice in the utterance of falsehood could give,
actually in the tribune before the Peers and
the Deputies of France, ventured to state that
those reports about the rudeness and threats
of M. Bresson were entirely without foundation,
he having in his possession this very letter from
which we have quoted, and this is the man with
whom the gentlemen of England think it no shame
to associate, and whom the magnates of one of our
universities would have appointed to indoctrinate
the minds of the ingenuous youth of England with
his own peculiar views of truth and falsehood as a
Professor of History. The writer thus sums up the
crimes of Louis Philippe and his Minister :
" The lists of the persons on whom the secret-service
was bestowed comprise names which it would be in-
vidious to quote, but the consequence of all this gas-
pillage was the total sacrifice of the morale of the nation
—the country lost all confidence in its public men; they
possessed the notion that their own great interests was
sacrificed to petty personal motives, to vain ambitions.
and the most selfish egotism. How has this opinion been
justified ?

" It has been justified by the whole history of France
since 1830 ; from that day when Louis Philippe, with
one hand laid upon the Charter and the other upon his
heart, swore to maintain those liberties which he was
the first to violate ; from that day when he read the
abdication of Charles X., but suppressed the paragraph
by which he declared that he abdicated in favour of his
grandson. It has been justified by the votes of those
Chambers wherein two-thirds w era placemen ; by the
mockery of a constitution which bestowed the elective
franchise on 500,000 electors, while the patronage of the
Crown numbered upwards of 700,000 places ; by the
entire rupture of all union between the Church and the
State, when the first act of the new Chamber in 1830
was to declare all religions to be equally good, and all
equally worthy of State support. It has been justified
by the records of dark and tearful crimes, committed in
high places and associated with families of the proudest
illustration, justified by the names of Teste, Beauvallon,
Praslin, and even of Lestard ; by the evidences of hor-
rible iniquities, which would make the basest turn pale;
and if it be true—as indeed it must be—that the con-
sequences of our actions never die, what effect must this
calendar of national guilt have had upon the masses of
the people ? And, lastly, this want of confidence has
been justified by the total abandonment of all those
principles of public morality and political faith which
brought men into power, and now justified more than
ever by the conduct of the magnates, the great princes,
the great nobles of this nation, who having accepted
their master's bounty and broken bread at his table,
were the first to desert him in the hour of tribulation
and swear a fresh allegiance, imitating the degraded
senate of Rome on the advent of Tiberius. 'At 20M113
ruero in ten-ilium, Consules, nitres, Eques. Quanta
quis inlustrior, tanto maxis falsi ac festinantes.' (TAc.
Asia. i. 7.)"
The amusing "Autobiographyof the Young,French
Widow" is concluded, as are the amusing and instruc-
tive papers of the " Naturalist in Norway." " Leaves
from the Life of a Princess" is an Eastern tale of love,
jealousy, and vengeance ; we recommend it to the
perusal of all those who like tales of horror.
Lancelot Smith continues his " Yeast," and we have
the usual chapters of contemporary history, besides
reviews of Weld's "History of the Royal Society,"
aad of
and Evangelical.abatchofre
ligions novels, Romanist,
Puseyite,

GAVAR.N.T IN LONDON.
" Marriage in High Life," " The Lounger in
Regent.street," and " Greenwich Fair," are the sub-
jects of Part V. of Gavarni in London. They are
all admirable, but of the three the last is the best.
Albert Smith's pcn•and-ink description of the fair is
excellent.

THE IRON TRADE.—DUDLEY, FRIDAY.--It
will
bo recollected that in consequence of the reduction of
the price of iron proposed at the preliminary meeting
held at Stewponey, a reduction of the wages of the
men to the amount of twenty per cent. was deemed ne-
cessary, In many instances this reduction was acceded
to, in others it was opposed; but we are happy to state
that a mutual consideration for each other's interests ap-
pears now to be the governing motive by which a great
portion of both matters and men are influenced. In
the district south of this town it is agreed, that in
consequence of the improved state of the iron trade,
the reduction of wages shall be only eight instead of
twenty per cent.
Yesterday bet Majesty Queen Adelaide completed
her 56th year, when the bells of the parish church of St.
Martin's-in the-Fields, and St. Margaret's 'Westminster,
ushered in the morning with merry peals, and displayed
the royal standard from their steeples in honour of the
event. In commemoration, her Majesty's tradespeople
dine together this day, and this evening there_ will be an
illumination.
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