The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

head to renew the English alliance. The following
is the article to which we refer :

" We have not for several days entered into the dis-
cussion on the new position in which France is placed.
Her situation indeed is a very lamentable,one. It pre-
sents to our contemplation none but disastrous conse-
quences. To add to the too real evil, it remains for the
press only to make bitter reflections, and for these we
have little taste. We shall find time to pass judgment
upon what has been accomplished. We have, besides,
considered that before ent:_ring upon a too easy polemic,
a duty was imposed upon us, and that duty we have ful-
filled. When at the moment of the annexation of Cracow,
made in odious abuse of power, and threatening the
independence of Europe, we found that England
and France was divided, we performed our part of
good citizens by recalling to the two countries the high
and permanent reasons they had for renewing their
concord. We persist in thinking that, in the present
state of the world, an accordance between France and
England is the most powerful guarantee for peace and
liberty. We believe that in England, as in France, the
great majority of the men who turn their minds to poli-
tics are, in the bottom of their hearts, of our opinion on
this point. We judge so even by the manifesta-
tions of the English press, although in its
vivacity and vehemence it does not always, as it
seems to us, represent exactly the opinion of the
country. It is against our Government that exclaim
all the most resolute adversaries of all common protest
and of all immediate re-establishment of the good under-
standing, but all at the same time express an appa-
rently honest and sincere sympathy towards the French
nation. There are in the general policy of Europe
but two great questions only to which all others are
subordinate—the progress of moderate liberty, and the
uncertain existence of the Ottoman Empire. Which
will gain the day—absolutism or liberal rule ? TO
which shall belong the empire of Constantinople if it
should fall ? All the affairs of Europe are resolved into
these two problems, as debated between ideas and am-
bitions. Will Switzerland, will Italy enfranchise them-
selves ? Will Prussia at last keep the promise which
she has so long ago gave, and enter gradually within
the pale of constitutional governments ? Who will be
master of the mouths of the Danube and the Straits of
the Dardanelles ? These are the essential points to be
settled—sooner or later—between the nations of Europe;
and in all these points the interests of France and Eng-
land are confounded. All England comprehends this."
That a revival, or rather a continuation, of the al-
liance between the two nations (for as far as the na-
tions are concerned the alliance has never been inter-
rupted), is ardently cissired by the great majority of
both is not to to be doubted ; but most assuredly it is

not to be desired that such an entente cordiale as that
with the phantom of which M. GUIZOT bamboozled
poor Lord ABERDEEN should be again renewed.
Over and over again we have had loud assurances
from Lord ABERDEEN that France, in attacking Mo-
rocco, in extending her conquests in Algiers, in inter-
fering in Spain, sought not the exclusive aggrandise-
ment of her own interests ; over and over again has
Lord • ABERDEEN expressed his faith in the
disinterestedness of the love of peace pro-
fessed by Louis PkimprE and his Minister,
and in the honour and trustworthiness of both M.
GUIZOT and his master; and Lord ABERDEEN be-
lieved the professions of M. GulzoT and Louis Pus-
LIPPE ; and on the authority of Lord ABERDEEN, the
people of England believed them too, and stigmatised
those who ventured to hint a doubt as to the sincerity
of the man of Ghent as " firebrands"—" stirrers up of
strife"—" the war party ;" yet these " firebrands ''
were right; LOUIS PHILIPPE and M. GulzoT were
during the whole of this time deceiving Lord ABER-
DEEN by a wholesale system of " enormous lying "
unparalleled in the history of diplomatic mendacity.
They now avow that during the whole period of the en-
tente cordiale they nel er allowed their own free right of
action to be restrained by this alliance; that during
the whole time M. GUIZOT has been in power he has
been working to obtain for France an ascendancy in
the Mediterranean, to the exclusion, if possible, of
England, and that the Spanish marriage is the
crowning act of this great system. Such are the
statements made by the Journal des Debuts, in reply
to the accusations of the Opposition papers, that he
has sacrificed the English alliance to an interest
merely personal and dynastic.
The Siecle has the following, which may be con-
sidered as the programme of the accusations which
M. GUIZOT will have to answer when he meets the
Chambers :

" Let us," says that paper, " enumerate M. Guizot's
diplomatic conquests ; let us see how we stand with
Europe, beginning with our allies. A few days since it
was said, • Spain is for us,' but for whom will she be to-
morrow? On all sides we have rumours of a civil war.
The British Government must revenge itself, and pro-
bably it will as soon prefer taking its revenge in Spain
as anywhere else. How do we stand with England her-
self? So far from being willing to protest jointly with us
against the incorporation of Cracow with the Austrian
monarchy, the Whig Cabinet has accused us of having
secretly acquiesced in the measure. The Journal des
Debots admits that the accusation has been made against
us, and the Presse does not hesitate to say that Lord Pal-
merston is the author of the charge. His Lordship finds
it quite natural, that having been iniquitous ourselves
in Spain, we should elsewhere be the accomplices of the
iniquity of others.' To this point has come the entente
cordiale which M. Guizot congratulated himself on hav-
ing restored at the price of such painful sacrifices. The
ends he sought for in Switzerland are well known ; and
assuredly it is no fault of his if that country is not
now. wholly in the hands of the Jesuits and Austria.
In Germany, the last act of the Northern Powers
shows us clearly what sense was to be attached to
M. Guizot's return into the European concert. He
has now AO other option than that of choosing to be
reproached with being their dupe or with being their
accomplice. This is a sad alternative ; but he
must submit to it. We need not say that he has lost all
influence in Italy, where (as in Switzerland) he has been
wholly devoted to Austria, who has not left him long
without proof of her gratitude. At home a partial
scarcity of grain, which might have been foreseen, pro-
duces disturbances that might have been prevented.
Our expenses increase without end, without reason, and
without bounds ; our resources are mortgaged for the
next ten years ; the Legitimatist party again rears its
head ' • the Radical party says to the ultra-democrats,
' Theday is near at hand, be up and stirring!' Thus
the Minister of the reign, it is evident, has not given the
lie to his appellation of Conservative."
The Journal des Debats has a long article in favour
of free trade. It says—
" Liberty of commerce must take its place by the side
of the other liberties, from which the men of the power-
ful and glorious generation, to which we owe everything,
never separated, and, like all public liberties, it will be
imperishable. For our parts we shall always support it
heartily, because it is for the Journal des Debats a pro-
found conviction, already a thousand times expressed—
in a word, one of the most precious traditions be-
queathed to us by the two eminent men who founded
this journal half a century ago. But we shall never for-
get that this cause requires to be served with the mo-
deration always necessary in the affairs of great states,
and with that spirit of conciliation which we always
endeavour to adhere to."

The Funds opened on the Paris Bourse on Wed-
nesday with much firmness. The interviews of the
Count DE MONTEMOLIN with Lord PALMEESTON,
having occasioned observation, and large sales of
stock and shares having been made, a very consider-
able reaction took place. The Three per Cents. fell
30c from the highest point. Northern shares, which
had reached 640, fell to 632.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on '
Wednes-
day at 81f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 65c. ; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,230 f. ; Rouen, 865 f. ; Havre, 633 f. 75c. ;
Great Northern, 632 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 867 f. 50c. ; Vierzon,
575 f. • Bordeaux, 547 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 432 f. 50c. ; Bese,
218 f. 75c. ; Dieppe, 352 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 478 f.
75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 487 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 500 f. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 48if. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 475 f. ;
Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i; Spanish Three
per Cents., 37i ; Ditto Domestic Debt, 33.
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stituted, 41A-Sambre and Meuse, 414.

Lord John Russell is expected to arrive in town this
afternoon from Arundel Castle, where the Noble Lord
has been staying with the distinguished circle invited to
meet her Majesty.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING.—There have
been no fresh arrivals at Frogmore to-day ; anti Connt
Augustus Mansdorff, who arrived with the Duchess of
Kent, from Cashiobury, on Tuesday afternoon, leaves
Frogmore to-morrow. The Duchess of Kent has not
left the grounds of Frogmore to-day. Her Royal High-
ness has a small dinner party this evening.
THE CAPE OF GOOD HoPE.—The new Governor
of the Cape of Good Hope, Sir H. Pottinger, will sail
for the seat of his government to-morrow afternoon,
from Southampton, in the Oriental and Peninsular steam-
ship Haddington.
LEITH...—. EXTENSIVE IMPORTATIONS. -- Foreign
produce continues to flow into our port ; timber, tallow,
and grain in great abundance, During the last four days
upwards of 10.000 quarters of grain have been entered
for landing. A vessel from Dantzic has, among other
commodities, no fewer than 1,700 kegs of black beer.
The advanced period of the season shuts out the hops of
many more cargoes arriving from ports influenced by the
frost. As we formerly stated, however, no year has been
marked by such an influx of foreign stores as the present.
Bonded vaults, warehouses, and timber-yards, are full to
overflow.—Scotsman.
LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STONE 01' A NEW
CHURCH IN MANCHESTER.—On Wednesday morning the
foundation-stone of a fifth church, to be erected in the
Manchester. Ten Churches' Association, was laid by the
Venerable the Archdeacon. The site of the new church
is in the midst of a large and poor population, in Butler-
street, Bradford-road. The church is to be a large one,
and is to be called St. Philip's.