The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22, 184 i.

Yesterday evening a variety of dark and ominous
rumours in reference to the expatriated family of
Louis PHILIPPE received from the lips of her MA-
STY'S Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs a most
positive and satisfactory contradiction. Lord
PALiiiiitsToN, in a single breath, vindicated the
diplomatic character of Lord NOIMANDY, insisted

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upon the maintenance of our national renown for
hospitality, and dissipated, to a considerable extent,
the aspirations of those who are still solicitous to
witness the restoration of the Orleans dynasty, and
the re-establishment of French sovereignty. With
as much distinctness as was expressible by articulate
language the Noble Viscount declared that, so far
from any apology whatever having been con-
veyed to the Provisional Minister, M. DE LAMAR-
TINE, by the British Ambassador resident in
Paris, that distinguished Nobleman (the Mar
quis of NORMANBY) had intimated to the
Republican Government at the Hotel de Ville, the
determination of the English nation to display its
Proverbial hospitality towards the ex-Royal Family
of France—coupling that intimation, however, with
the assurance that in all our dealings with the French
Government " the English Government would act
fairly, honourably, and openly, and that under no
circumstances would there be the slightest ground for
imputing our engaging in any intrigues hostile to the
present Provisional Government." Of the sincerity
of this solemn and explicit declaration, on the part of
the official representive of her Britannic MAJESTY, we
are satisfied there could be no doubt whatever, even
in the minds of the most suspicious members
of the Republican Administration. Throughout
the whole of the recent proceedings beyond the
Channel, before, indeed, the Reform banquet was pro-
jected in the Champs Elysees, the posture assumed
by the Cabinet of St. James's has been altogether
inimical to the once powerful intriguers of the Tuile-
ries. If any country could rejoice more than another
in the humiliation of that Sovereign who had belied
his oath upon the Charter of 1830, who had disarmed
patriotism by duplicity, and democracy by corrup-
tion, who had forgotten the interests of his people
in the furtherance of his dynastic ambition, and had
bartered the hand, the heart, and the body of ISA...
BELLA out of the greed excited by a prospective diadem
—if any country, we say, could regard the abdication
and banishment of this perfidious potentate with su pe•
rior gratification, that country would unquestionably
be England. Everybody recognised this. The Pro-
visional Government, headed by ALPHONSE DE LA,
MARTINE saw it. A chasm had been yawning wider
and wider—for years—between the Orleans dynasty
and England : and now that that dynasty was
reduced by the great Revolution of February to
insignificance and impotence, it was manifest that
physically and morally that gulf of separation was
impassable. Whatever munificence therefore might
be evinced in England towards the fallen foes of the
United Kingdom, could only redound to the greater
glory of these islands as the abode of a magnani-
mous and relenting race—it could never by any
chance , the most unparalleled, lead to the
reconciliation of the policies of the Count DE
EVILLY and Viscount PALMERSTON.

Intrigues hostile to the republican supremacy in
France could consequently originate alone in the
bosoms of the Orleans refugees. Such intrigues
were already suspected; and although her MAJESTY'S
Secretary for Foreign Affairs asserted last night (in
answer to a question from Lord DUDLEY STUART)
that neither himself nor his colleagues were ac•
quainted, through any official source, with circum-
stances implicating the Duke and Duchess DE MONT-
PENSIER, with transactions of a reprehensible cha-
racter, it is impossible to discard from the mind all
idea of plans opposed to the interests of the rrovi-
alone' Government being organized in the seclu-
sion of Claremont. LOUIS PHILIPPE has lived
for seventeen years in an atmosphere of
intrigue—plotting has become the very aim of his
existence—guile has become his element—scheming
is his profession—ingratitude is his most notorious
weakness —craft and adroitness are his most habitual
resources. Is it likely, therefore, that in an instant
he can, like one of the sparrows of OVID, undergo a
total metamorphosis ? Has he cast away his predi-
lections for conspiracy as entirely as he flung off his
wig when escaping ? Has he severed from his dis-
position his predominant tendency to delusion as
effectually as he shaved off his whiskers under a like
emergency ? On his reaching Newhaven the
ex-Monarch was clothed in honest duck and
dreadnought has he clad his intellect in like
manner with the simple and unaccustomed garment
of truth ? Is it probable ? Is it possible ? We
hear, in the first Great Revolution, of the hair of
MARIE ANTOINETTE being silvered in a single night
—in that awful night when she was detained in the
grocer's shop at Varennes. Was the conscience of
LOUIS PHILIPPE with equal rapidity bleached to a
virgin whiteness by the agonies of his expulsion ?
O miracle of purgation—it it wore so ! But that
such was the magical consequence of the catastrophe
we are more than doubtful.

Accounts just received from Madrid state that the
mission of General ZAREO DEL VALLES to Berlin has
reference to an Orleans project of restoration, al-
though the departure of that officer is ostensibly for
the purpose of inspecting the fortifications of Prussia
and witnessing military manoeuvres. It is asserted in-
deed that ZAREO DEL VALLES has received authority
from the Christina Cabinet to propose to the Northern
Powers, through the medium of the Prussian Govern-
ment, an active co-operation with Spain in an en-
deavour to revive monarchy in France, and to re-
elevate to the throne of that country the dynasty of
the Count DE NEUILLT. In consideration of this
assistance the envoy of the Duchess DE RIANZARES
was said to be empowered to require simply the re-
cognition of the sovereignty of Queen ISABELLA by
the Courts of Northern Absolutism. Poor
ZAIRE° DEL VALLES ! how he must have
opened his eyes when he reached Berlin ! And
if he went onwards to Vienna, how he must have
stared at the effigy of Prince METTERNICU swinging
before the porch of his residence ! How he must
have rubbed his eyes, and, like the royal lover under
the influence of TIMOTIIEUS,
" Sigh'd and look'd,
And sigh'd and look'd,
And sigh'd and look'd,
And sigh'd again."
Onwards, still onwards, good, stupid ZAREO DEL
VALLES, to the only resource of the Orleanists,—to
St. Petersburgh Boa voyage 1

In the intense interest and excitement occasioned in
this country by the startling events daily transpiring
in foreign nations, it is almost to be feared that we
shall forget our own necessities. It is almost to be
apprehended that public attention, being wholly ab •
sorbed by the great movements now agitating not
France only, but the whole of continental Europe; we
may become negligent of humbler, but scarcely less
important matters nearer home. It is natural indeed
that we should sympathise, and that too with no com-
mon sentiments, in the events just now agitating the
heart of Christendom, because our sympathy is elicited
not by external changes, not by temporary revolu-
tions in this or that kingdom, but by the animus
by which those movements were inspired. Our
warmest sympathies and our liveliest anxieties are
excited by the simultaneous demonstration of the
spirit of nationality in kingdoms where we had hi-
therto deemed it hopelessly inert. Nevertheless—
however great may be our sympathy for such
manifestations, however great may be our anxiety
fur their ultimate success, we must not, in the
meantime, in our interest for the regeneration of other
kingdoms, forget the necessities of our own country•
men. We must not neglect our duties as citizens while
of
indulging our sympathies as freemen. In the univer-
sality the interests of the philanthropist we must
not forget the more immediate duties of the patriot.
We have not, it is true, in this country any domestic
tyranny to overthrow, or even any monster griev-
ance to redress—the resolution of our ancestors, and
our own continued exertions, hare happily prevented
or obviated any such necessity. But we have a
whole host of minor abuses which require reforma-
tion, and an infinite multitude of salutary
measures which it is most important and
most exigent should be immediately enforced.
The very multitude of these requests, however, in-
creases the difficulty of the legislator while it tethe
same time increases the necessity for, immediate
interference on the part of the Legislature. It is
unnecessary just now to particularise all those
abuses which require immediate reform, and those
propositions for the amelioration of the community
which require instantaneous attention ; one, however,
and a not unimportant one, is more particularly
suggested to us by the publication of a recent report
of the Health of Towns Association. Of all those
domestic reforms, in the promotion of which we are
solicitous that the public should not be remiss, there

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