The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-18 00:00:00

FOIZEIGAT,

Lord Morpeth was magnificently entertained by the
citizens or Boston, United States, on the 30th ult. The
guests numbered 140, including some of the most influ-
ential men in that part of the United States. The whole
tenour of the proceedings evinced a cordial wish to
tnaintain the most kindly relations between England and
the United States. Lord Morpeth divides with the Prince
de Joinvi,lle the, general admiration of the ,Yankees.
Yucatan has declared itself an independent republic,
on the model of that of Texas. English is, the lan-
guage of the new State, and the Anglo-Saxon race is
invited to settle there, to assist in repelling the invasions
of Mexico. We look forward to a time when the Eng-
lish language will be the language of every Government
in the New World. She is doomed, at no distant day, to
become a Texan province.
The Gazette of the Rhine and Moselle of the 10th inst.
says :—" There is still a rumour that Austria will join
the German Union. This accession alone would enable
Germany to compete with foreign commerce, and
more effectually if Lombardy and Venice come into
the combination. It would be a mortal blow to the
French silk trade. The accession of Hungary would
enable the German Union to contend with its rivals
in American tobaccos, French wines, dyes, skins, and
other articles. It is Hungary, and particularly her
aristocracy, who raise obstacles by refusing to pay duties,
and at the same time imposing charges on exports. If
Galicia could be connected with the Baltic, all would as-
sume new life and vigour. In a word, the Danube, the
Rhine, and the Oder would afford an immense extension
to commerce. The Free Towns would not then hesitate

to enter the Union, and Denmark, Holland, Belgium,
and Switzerland would find it to their advantage to be
incorporated in it."—This extension of the German
Custom's Union which threatens to exclude England
from all Continental markets is all the result of the
pernicious operation of our Corn-laws.
A letter from Constantinople of the 24th ult. states,
that the Porte has received a most penitential note from
the Greek Government. King Otho took fright when
he learned that 45,000 Turks were about to pay him a
visit, and at once made the apology dictated to him.
This is so far well.

In the same letter from Constantinople we find the
following :--" The Divan is stated to have held a Council
in which it was resolved to send a commission to the
Lebanon, and to try the effect of mildness and concilia-
tion there with the revolted subjects of the Porte, but in
the event of failure in these means to resort to vigor-
ous measures of repression. It is added that the
Turkish Government has received a report from the Go-
vernor of Damascus, which has created great anxiety.
According to this report the Mussulman population of
Damascus are in a state of great excitement against the
Christians, and have demanded their expulsion, as also
that of the European Consuls by whom they are pro-
tected."

The C•arrier Francais of Wednesday denounces as
impolitic the reduction of the French Army. The
Courrier, however, abstains from suggesting in what wuy
the Government could find money to support an army
exceeding 344,000 men.
By a Royal Ordonnance just issued, the annual en-
dowment of the sinking Fund will, from January 1, be
increased by 1,910,220 f., to be specially applied in re-
purchasing the 5,730,6591. Three per Cent. Rentes, ad-
judged on October 18, for the realisation of a loan of
150,000,000 f. This sum of • 1,910,220 francs is to be
paid to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund by suc-
cessive ordonnances of the Minister of Finance, accord-
ing to the mode used with the other parts of the same
Fund, for which purpose a credit to the amount is opened
to the Minister of Finance out of the grant for the Sink-
ing Fund for 1842.
A letter from Prague, in the Nuremberg Correspon—
dent, states that it has been resolved t make a railroad.
between Vienna and Dresden, passing through 'the valley-
of the Elbe.
The musical soiree given by the Duke. and Duchess of
Orleans on Tuesday evening was very brilliant—about ;
150 persons were present. Their Majesties and the
Princesses, except Madame Adelaide, who is indis-
posed, arrived at a quarter-past nine, and the con-
cert commenced soon atte;. The King retired after
the first part, but the Queen and the PriNcessas remaaled
till the end, and retired at eleven) iA duo; from Doni-
zetti's Bourguemestre de Saardam,by,Matlaine de Mon-
tenegro and Lablache ; 'a solo from the ldomenee of
Mozart, by Madlle.- Nau ; a romance from Bellini's,
Beatrice di Tenda, by Baroilhet; and a tarantella, with
some Neapolitan songs, by Lablache, excited warm ap-.
probation.

The Spani•h Government has forwarded a sum of
200,0001. 0,0000 to Bordeaux, to defray the expen,,es
of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula during his resi-
dence in that city.

runlac OPINION.
The Times gives the following sy hit at the rapacity
of some of the hungry Tory jackals :—" One of the
culties that most embarrass political leaders, whether in
larger or in smaller spheres, is that of satisfying their
friends in the seasowofsuccess. It is not so hard a task,
by Many degreesi.ti), keep the party together while aim-
ing at power,tttlw:maintain its union when power has
been achieved.ras.hetore the issue each man's hope is
elastic, so, after the victory, his diSappointment and con-
sequent displeasure are apt to be inordinate. It always

turns out that the conqueror has not lands enough to
reward his knights in any sort of proportion to their
real merits, much less in proportion to each man's own
opinion of them ; and thereupon arises a cry for extensive
confiscations to augment thedistribut.able bounty. This has
been remarkably the case in some of the provincial town-
councils since the reaction in favour of those now in power."
—Tory ravenousness must indeed be great, when the Times
—the favourite journal of the faction—feels it its duty
to reprobate it. How significant the remark that the
conqueror (Sir R. Peel of course) has not lands enough
to reward his knights, in proportion to each man's opi-
nion of his own merits ! Nothwithstanding the huge
amount of loaves and fishes these hungry Tory subal-
terns have already received at his hands, they are still
clamouring for more. They have a wolf in their belly,
and to satisfy them—as the Times candidly states—is a
sheer impossibility.
The Post, speaking of the approaching struggle for
the Poetry Professorship of Oxford, says—" We are, on
every ground, heart and mind, with Mr. Williams. Not
that we have anything to say against his opponent, but
we have a great deal to say for him which cannot be said
for his opponent. And though we have nothing to say
against his opponent, we have a great deal to say against
the party which supports his opponent. It is a coarse,
presumptuous, self-idolising party, with all the old de-
testable leaven of Puritanism in its composition. It com-
bines mock humility with real arrogance ; it questions
authority, and adores itself; it grossly misrepresents the
opinions of others, while in the very act of asserting the
superior holiness of its own. It is very unfortunate for
Mr. Garbett that he should be supported by so odious a
party—a party which carries the heart of the proud Pha-
risee, while it assumes the language of the humble and
devout Publican."—Mr. Williams is the Puseyite candi-
date, with which party the Post, it seems, is hence-
forth determined to identify itself. If it brings
no more knowledge or spirit to its advocacy
of Puseyism, than it has already brought to its at-
tasks on the principles of Free Trade, it will be no
very formidable enemy to the antagonist party in the
Church. As regards Mr. Williams, he, we suppose, is
to be considered the Poet Laureate of Puseyisrn, as Mr.
Newman is its Doctor Sacchavarel„ They are a con-
genial couple, and worthy, the one to sing, and the other
to preach, his associate's praises, :;:lout notwithstanding
the poetic warblings of Mr. Williams, and the prose
Tracts of Mr. Newman, neither will- be able to make a
deep or lasting impression. on the public mind, for the
days of imposing ceremonial pomp and high church
bigotry are already with the years beyond the flood.
The following is from the Herald :—" When the
happy event occurred which gratified the nation by the
birth of an heir male to the British throne, we took an
early opportunity of adverting to it, as offering an occa
don for the concession of a boon which had long been
ear neatly desired by a large, and certainly not an unim-
portant class of her Majesty's subjects. We allude to
the creation of. an order of knighthood, the object of
which should .be to reward the services of civilians as
well as military men; on the principle of desert, as it
exists in other countries, and,as it did exist in this prior
to the necessary transfer of the Guelphic order to the
kingdom of Hanover. The wish which we then ex-
pressed found a ready echo in various parts of the coun-
try, and many were the communications which we re-
ceived on the subject. Since that period the question
has, we perceive, been agitated in Liverpool, where a nu-
merous meeting was held last week of the Welsh inha-
bitants of that great and important commercial town, for
the purpose of drawing up a petition -to her Majesty,
praying for the establishment of the desiderated order
of knighthood, and the establishment of two Welsh
professorships al the English Universities."—The
best petition, or address, that could be presented to
the Queen on such an auspicious occasion as the birth of
a Prince of Wales, would be, not a petition for the crea-
tion of an Order of Knighthood, which of course would
be confined to the Tories, but for the removal of the pre-
sent party in power, as being either insolently indiffer-
ent, or directly inimical, to the best interests of the
country. This is a petition which, whether granted us
or not, would still be of public utility, and no doubt
meet with the most respectful consideration of her Ma-
jesty ; whereas a petition for a new Order of Knight-
hood would be a boon confined merely to the few, and
consequently of no earthly value to the community at
large. We want no more aristocratic or semi-aristocratic
creations ; God knows we have quite enough of them
already.
In reference to the late Leeds Meeting the Advertiser
says:--" The advice which we have so often given to the
marble-hearted monopolists, to take care lest they carry
their experiment on the powers of human endurance too
far, was repeated at the great Leeds meeting with pecu-
liar eafnestness and force. They may still persist in dis-
regarding this solemn warning. They will not always
do so; they will not do it long. If not before, they will
learn to heed it when what we have predicted as the ne-
cessary consequence of their scornful disregard of the
claims of justice and the cries of the perishing popu-
lace has actually taken place. Lord Bacon said, and
all history verifies the justice of the remark, that of all
rebellions the rebellion of the belly is most to be dreaded.
We tremble to think of the probable results of any
outbreak on the part of the masses in the manufactur-
ing districts in the existingcireumstances of the country."
—We greatly fear that the Tories will only be brought to
their senses by some such awful outbreak as the Adver-
tiser here alludes to. They are deaf to supplication—
deaf to remonstrance—callous to a sense of justice—and
dead to all the more generous feelings of nature.
Nothing can rouse them but an appeal to their appre-
hension--an attack on their self-interests. When they
find the storm blackening above their heads. and the
hand-writing coming forth on the wall against them,
then possibly they may concede to fear what they never
would hake conceded to justice.
The Chronicle says, in reference to the vacillating
character of the Tory Ministry, and their constant at-
tacks on their Whig predecessors -----" We do nut mean
to say that the consistency of the late Ministers is a point
of no interest, to thetnselves or others. Am. honourable
character is dear to them, and they have a right to it.
But the fact of their inconsistency, were it proved, would
not feed the famishing, nor avert the decline of com-
merce, nor find work for the unemployed, nor close the
disruptions of the social fabric. It would not make Peel
an honest man, nor the Duke of Buckingham a wise Mi-
nister, nor moderate the heat of a Stanley, nor restore
the maturity of a Wellington. Whig inconsistency,
were it ever so lucidly demonstrated, would not be a
Tory principle or a Tory policy, or a Tory system of go-
vernment. The Tories have not been exalted i;o power and
office merely to lecture the public on Whig inconsistency."
—And yet theTeries seem to imagine that they have been
exalted to power, for no other purpose than to deliver
public lectures on Whig delinquency. While they are
as blind as moles to their own defects, they are as sharp
as lynxes in detecting the defects of their predecessors.
Not a word do we hear from them of Reform, or of
schemes for ameliorating the present distresses of the
people ; but they are wonderfully loquacious on the sub-
' ject of Whig inconsisteney, just as if they themselves had
no glaring sins of this sort to answer for.
In an article suggested by the present state of the
country, the Plymouth Journal, makes the following re-
marks:—" Sir R. Peel cannot be blind to the existence
of deAp manufacturing distress, when he may himself
witness heartrending exhibitions of it within a short ride
from the scat of his own representation, nor can he be
deaf to the cry of the poor, when uttered by thousands of
the destitute. He knows, and he feels too, politically at
least, that something must be done ; the Government
must act. But he is a Conservative, and as such he is
pledged to a protective policy, and is sure not to adopt
any enlarged measures of Commercial Reform."
Alluding to the late great Wiltshire Meeting, the
Wilts independent remarks as follows :—We have
alluded to " bullies attached to the Tory party" hating
been present. This is a fact. It is also a fact that these
bullies received money afterwards from leaders of the
Tory party. What their presence was desired for, whe-
ther on the pretence of " keeping the peace" they were
sent there to exhibit their " yelling" powers, or whether
it was expected their services would be required in a
different line, we cannot tell. To the eternal disgrace of
the party who sent them they were there.
The Dublin Pilot observes, in reference to the con-
duet of the Irish Tories :—" The Irish Tories are still
that obstacle to Peel which he anticipated. It is said
there •is a stagger in • the insolent career of dismissals
from office, and that even the attempt upon public liberty,
in the person of Mr. Conner, has not found favour at the
other side. Peel is wise in attending to the suggestions
of the Liberal rather than the Tory press."