The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

rality, but from a principle of strong common
sense ; simply and solely because they see and feel
that their own interests are inseparably blended with
those of the sister island ; and that one country can
never hope tomake a rapid advance in Reform, so long,
as the other is lagging at a distance in the rear. In-
deed, so far are the masses of the English people
from being lukewarm in the cause of Ireland, that
we agree with Mrs. HALL—who has lately had
many opportunities of forming a sound judgment
on this subject—that for the last three or four
years nothing has been more remarkable than the
rapid growth of kindly feelings between the two
countries. The mutual prejudices so long fostered
for their own selfish party purposes by the Tories,
have, one by one, given way ; ar.d we no loupe?
hold the scandalous doctrine, that Ireland is ate
weakness of England ; but nobly and justly regard
her as our strength—our pride—one of our main
pillars of Reform. Mr. O'CONNELL ►s right when
he asserts that the '' English masses" are compa-
ratively weak ! but does lie suppose that they are
weak only as regards Ireland, and quite strott!
enough to protect their own immediate interes's
Not a bit of it. They are weak alike for the it)
terests of both countries, and can scarcer•, there-
fore, be blamed for not doing that for Ireland, i,vlielt
they are tillable to do for England.
To the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's two,

remaining Repeal auguments, that little is to he
expected from the Commons, and absolutely no-
thing from the Lords, our answer is Insist
on justice to Ireland in the only way, and by
the only means that justice can be obtained for
her ;—that is to say, by recommending diligen!
attention to the registrations ; by explaining anti
popularizing—if we may venture to use such a
term--..the true principles of good Government ; and
exerting whatever influence you may possess to crush
Tory ism under whatever mask this political Proteus
may choose to exhibit itself. In a word, devote to ra-
tional, substantial, practical Reform, the energies you
are frittering away on that vague chimaera, Repeal;
and we will answer for it that the majority of Ire-
land's well wishers in the Commons will gradually
but surely increase ; and, as a necessary consequence,
her enemies in the Lords diminish, both in point
of number and virulence." Such is our reply to
Mr. O'CoNNELL's two chief arguments ; but if
instead of acting in this spirit, he still continues to
agitate Repeal, he will be so far from strengthen-
ing the cause of Ireland, that he will be inflict-
ing on her injury in exact proportion to the
converts he makes ; for that which is now a mere
phantom, will then become a substance, too feeble,
it is true, to occasion any very profound appre.
hension, but quite strong enough to scare away
from her side those who at present have every dis-
position to insist on an ample measure of justice
being meted out to the sister country.

Madrid journals, to the 526th ult., have arrived.
The English Ambassador had prevailed upon Es-
PARTERO to give up all thoughts of invading Por-
tugal. Spain was tranquil.

The French Journals of Sunday have all reached
us. The Moniteur of that date publishes several
New Year's Day Addresses to the KING, for
which space was wanting in its official columns of
the previous day. They are, however, from learned
societies, judicial bodies, and local corporations, and
therefore of no European interest, inasmuch as they
touch neither upon foreign nor domestic politics.
The Journals under the influence of M. THIERS
and his supporters, are indignant at the pacific
language in which the KING responded to the Ad-
dresses of the Chambers and the diplomatic body.
What is to every friend of humanity in Europe a
source of the highest pleasure, is to them gall ar.d
wormwood. They estimate the greatness and glory

among the human race, but by what misery she
can inflict upon them. Their trophies, like those
which formerly embellished the capital of Persia,
must he made of the skulls of those whom the)
choose to regard as their enemies. Higher and
holier is the mission of a great civilised nation like
France. In the eyes of wise men the trophies of
war are but so many records of human wretched-
ness and human guilt. It is in the spread of edu-
cation—in the progress of the arts and sciences,
which conduce to the elevation 'of the human
mind and the comfort of hurninjlife—in
the disappearance of poverty and the vices
which it engenders in conjunction with
n orance—i n the cultivation of sentiments
of peace and good-will among men, that we can
only discover the true greatness which covers a
nation with glory. Besides, as was well observed
by the KING in addressing the Deputies, France
has no need to add to her military trophies. She
has had blood enough upon her hands to make her
sufficiently an object of terror to her weaker neigh-
bours. Any supineness which she may now appear
to exhibit, will certainly never be attributed to fear.
Her fame for prowess and for chivalrous courage is
too firmly established ever to he shaken; and we know
no weakness which she exhibits more contemptible
in itself than her constant anxiety to find in every
trifling forgetfulness of claims flattering to her
vanity, a pretext for parading an ability to do mis-
chief which nobody ever thought of disputing.
But we happily find in the patriotic sentiments of
the KING, and in the enthusiasm with which the
deputations of the Chambers heard those senti-
ments, powerful guarantees for the continuance of
European tranquillity.
The Monileur of Sunday publishes the follow-
lig telegraphic despatch from French Africa :
" ALGIERS, Dac. 22.
" The tranquillity of the province of Algiers has not
been disturbed since the last courier.

" The garrisons of Mcdcall,l3l.dah, Nlostaaanc In, have
made predatory excursions against all the tribcs in the
vicinity of those places."

The same official organ announces the appoint-
ment of General BUGEAUD to succeed Marshal
VALLEE as Governor Commander-in-Chief in
French Africa—thus confirming the statement
which appeared in yesterday's Sun. The Coin.
merce accompanies this announcement of an ap-
pointment generally regarded in Paris as disastrous,
with the following extract from a letter just received
from Algiers. "It is curious," says that journal,
"that this information reaches us just at the mo-
ment that we are going to send General BUGEAUD
to Algiers, doubtless to sign the Treaty with /lUD-
EL-KADER, which Marshal VALLEE rejects."
The following is the information to v.hich the
Commerce alludes :

" ALGIERF, DEC. 2l.—As I have told you, it is cer-
tain that the Emir Abd-el-Kader would wish to have a
truce tor two years, in et der to ottain new resources, and
recommence the holy war with some chance of success;
he would be glad of a second edition of the treaty of the
Tafna ; we must hope that he will not obtain it. When
the Emir wrote to M. Dupuch that be wished to send one
of his officers to accompany the sub-iLteodant Massote to
Algiers, it was easy to guess that be had something im-
portant to communicate to the Marshal. We have now
g,.t a now proof of the intentions of the Arab Chief.
B,,me Sheiks of the environs of Milianah having
been authorized to wait on General Changarnier,
Commander-in-Chief at Blidah, after having spoken at
I, rigth on the miseries of war, asked him on what terms he
would treat with Abd.el.Kader. The General replied,
' France receives the submission of the Sheiks who come to
pl,ce themselves under its protection, but it does not treat
with the absent. Ido not know Abd-el-Kader ; let him come
and make his submission, and he will be well received.
If he is hostile to us, we shall make war on him, and
submis..
de-
stroy him." General Changarnier then asked the Sheiksif they were disposed individually to make their
sion. They replied in an evasive manner, and withdrew.
" We know, however, for certain that the star of Abd-
el- Kader is waling pale, and that all the Arabs would
come to us if they were not continually watched by the
'Willis with their regular troops. Whenever the enemy
are not near at hand the Arabs of the Little Atlas and ;
of the East come to the markets with their tents cod their