The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Nothing can equal the delight of the ultra-Radicals at
the prospect or: a Tors AdMinistration- But does this
inculcate no lesson of distrust on the minds of the Tories
themselves? Do they not see the meaning of it? Ask a
Tory partisan or leader (they are all alike) what be pre-
sumes to he the object of the Radical party, He will tell
you, of course, that they anal at " nothing short of revo-
lution." How comes it then, we reply, that this confess-
eciiy revolutionary " rejoice so loudly at the chance
of the Tories returning to office ?" Manifestly, *Anse a
Tory Government would be a eel), atid a stile one, foe
wards the radigal autemum revolntieft. Does
this, we repeat, suggest to sober-minded Tories, if the race
be not extinct, no misgivings as to the issue of their in-
tended enterprise ? If, by the expulsion of Lord Grey's
Government, end their sliairly shece:esiob, it 9hottld turn
rat'l.liat the Tories were but playing the game of the
revolutionists, might it not have been discreet in the Wel-
lington party to pause a little before they had compro-
mised
their own and the public safety—" to look,"
at least, " before they leaped ?" Unhappily, for in-
deed it has ere now been a grave misfortune, there is
scarcely a knot of persons in the kingdom so utterly unac-
quainted with the prevailing spirit of the population as
the Wellington coterie and its distinguished leader: They
know literally nothing of their counttymeo, --they seek
not, and have never sought, information respecting what
was said or felt throughout the tomrinunity, even on
questions affecting their own political interests, and their
favourite measures, but such as could be collected from
their official or family dependents, a dais of men who
always accommodate their language to the ears whic'a
listen to it. Could the btike hiniself have ever fallen is.to
that miraculous blunder eoneertting a reform in P-,rlia-
went, had he not been under some fatal liowninzestreet
hallucination, of which there are, or rather used to be,
many? It is with precisely as much useful kr rwledge of
the sentiments and fbelings of the people of England
that the Tories now meditate a return •aa power, and
have pre-arranged minutely the mode i'et which it shall be
exercised, as their chief possessed when he rnhde that
immortal speech against reform, which may be justl~ said
to have accelerated the extinction of the whole contents
of schedule A. If the Tories will govern, they must
govern on Tory principles with consent of the present
House of Commons, which, from the whole of its re-
corded votes, they may perceive to be quite impracticable,
or they must adopt at least an equally high tone and
complexion of liberality with those of the nreapeeeeare
whom chey are about to dismiss, or, finally, they must
appeal to the country, dissolve the present Parliament,
and assemble a new one. The first of these attempts and
the last would indicate nearly a like degree of Quixotism,
while the second would argue such a barefaced (though
not unprecedented) abandonment of all political principle
as could only be expected from him who offered to carry
that very reform which he bad so recently and so empha-
tically deprecated. The fact is, that it would be wholly
impossible for the Tory faction to rule this country during,
we had almost said, the present generation of Englishmen.
They are so bound up and identified with principles of
policy, foreign and domestic, which have for years
been repudiated by all men of independent feeling—
they have proved so eager to incorporate themselves
with the came of despotism abroad, as in the case of
Miguel—with that of abuse and oppression at home, as
in that of the rotten boroughs, the rotten corporations,
and the Irish church, that England would behold with
even more lively satisfaction a regiment of Cossacks
coming from Constantinople to be the official advisers of
his Majesty, as they have been and are of his Imperial
Majesty the Grand Turk, than a "shoal" of Conserva-
tives (to adopt the happy expression of Lord Brot4hain)
forming the Cabinet Council of King William. We find
that there are blockheads who charge us with being iii
the hire of the Whig Ministers. When has the Times,
which fails not to give its unbought approbation to any
Minister, Whig or Tory, when his measures deserve it,—
when we say, has the Times shrunk from the duty of ar-
raigning and exposing Ministerial error or incapacity? Wee
it last year, when Lord Grey, we thought, proved slick '
or timorous in his dealings with this refractory Peerage
Was it when the military apparatus of the Irish Coercion
Bill was daily assaulted by this " hired servant " of the
Ministers ? Was it on the factory commission that we
failed to take the poor children's part against the Minister,
or on the non-repeal of the assessed taxes,—or the Cold
bath-fields dispersion of that which was no riot, and
which needed not to have been a rnob,—or on the silly
bargain with the Bank of England,—or on the slow
progress of their Irish Church Reform Bills, compare rf
with the Bill of Coercion ;—or, again, on their abandon.
went of the whole mass of military patronage to Tories,
—or their general want of courage and vigour in pushing
any policy of the value of which they were convince ?
On these, and many other topics and occasions, it is
in the memory of all our readers that we flinched me
from the duty, however irksome and painful, of severest

.--iiiimentary upon faults, whether of commission or omits•
ion, in the very Ministers of whom we are charged with
,sing slaves. We are slaves, indeed, but it is to conscience
and to truth. If we have served Ministers, as it is to be
'taped we often have done, we were no otherwise en-
bled to do so than through the general persuasion that,
if se minded, we were at full liberty to oppose them.
r.et Lord Grey's Government flag once more in its
mblic duties, and the Times will be the earliest amongst
is castigators, and not the gentlest. That, and that
t'one, gives worth and influence to our applause.
The public will see from our report of yesterday's
Parliamentary proceedings with what patriotic zeal and
liligenee the Tory Peers flocked to their places en the corn-
nittal of the Chancellor's Bill for establishing local courts
throughout the kingdom, and bringing justice within the
reach of the injured poor. Their Lordships came doubt.
less in such numbers to give their strictest and most earnest
attention to the examination of this important Bill. Well !
Lord Brougham made a speech in introducing the subject ;
Lord Lyndhurst spoke in opposition to it—an enterprise
which, by this time, we apprehend, his Lordship regrets
having undertaken, fur the Lord Chancellor replied—and
-uch a reply ! such a mawling / But no matter ; the
whole thing is now in print, and the country will agree
upon the same judgment with regard to it as was, we take
for granted, formed by the Lords themselves. Happy are
we to record such an instance of a legislative assembly
calmly hearing, and justly deciding, according to their
conviction. Lou] Lyndhurst, who no doubt partook
of the same conviction, abandoned his opposition, and
declined his intended division. This is candour worthy
the Noble and Learned Lord! How delightful to see this
triumph of reason over party How pleased, and with
how much reason, must the Peers be of their last night's
proceeding ! Times.
The Lords appeared disposed last night to profit by our
advice. A whip bad been continued up to the hoar of the
House meeting, but either the admonition of the Lord
Chancellor, who opened his speeds introducing the Loa/
Courts' Bill with an exordium which must have produced
a wholesome effect, or his unanswerable and cutting reply
to Lord Lyndhurst, or. as we have before said, the humble
advice which we have ventured to offer to their Lordship,
deterred them from going to a division, and repeating their
blunder on the Portuguese question. To whatever cause
their more considerate course is to be ascribed, eve hail it
as the possible precursor of more rational conduct. We
hear also, that many of the old and obtuse Tories carPnoe
be persuaded that any advantage can arise to their orrfee
from bringing about a collision, which the desperate and
factious intriguers of the Carlton Club are driving at to
repair their fortunes. They have inquired, it is said, of
Sir Robert Peel, what his ideas and prospects are of the
formation and success of an Administration to conduct the'
Government on Tory principles. His answers are reported
as evasive and ambiguous. The consequence has been
division in the Carlton camp, which may not be easily
healed, or in time to secure a united opposition to the Trills
Church Bill. Still, these are rather symptoms of the
temporary abatement of the disease, than of its cure ; ar
the nation has no security that the Government may r
be destroyed by some fit of faction or caprice breakit
out when least expected. We regret to hear that
Majesty dines with the Duke of Wellington to-day. •
an ordinary occasion, none of his subjects could objec
his celebrating with his successful General the anniver
of Waterloo. But why is this particular moment, and
year, contrary to his Majesty's practice on former one
lected for this compliment to the leader of the Oppos •
If it is done under the advice of his Ministers—and.
er less, these marked movements of the Court she
advised by his Ministers—they are either the en ,
veiling of all imbeciles, or traitors to the House -
mons and the public. We have never doubted
not doubt—the strict honour and honesty of tl
We have the worst opinion of the society whi,
his Court. The people exclaim in all quart,'

. .
can Lord Grey expect from submitting to the
ception of his most inveterate opponents, In thr
of his best friends? During the Ascot week—

on the very night of the division on the Dul,
—several of his Majesty's guests came up, c
proxies, for the express purpose of overturn
vernment, and returned to a most gracious r
the Gistle. All this is sad trifling. Will tho,

access to his Majesty report faithfully to him
produced in the City, within the last three

threatened difference between the Houses of •

The Stocks have fallen, with every appear

tinuance of the present alarm leading to a

are satisfied that if the Lords had, in the

power and discretion, thrown out the Ch•
night, a greater impression would have
the funds. And what particular me

this movement? When the West

East India Question, and the Bank
of settlement ; and when the prey .
the manufacturing districts is fa

activity in trade, and occupatio
lation! And are all tinge gre

pardy, or to be sacrificed, fr
ings of disappointment au.'
tocraey ? That they nr
forgive its authors, we kt,
them to reflect on the nece.

PARIS, JUNE 15.

(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)

The 15th chapter of the budget of war called for R
vote of 2,000,000 of francs, to be applied to the works u'i
fortification which it had been proposed to raise round
Paris. This project of fortifying Paris has been, as yen
are aware, viewed with an extremely jealous eye by a very
large portion of its inhabitants, and the increasing unpopu-
larity of the project had begun to influence a good number
of the deputies themselves, in spite of which the Minister
of War is supposed so far to persist in its execution that
be will borrow funds from the Department of Public
Works, should the Chamber refuse any for that especial
purpose. The Chamber has, in fact, refused the funds,
at the suggestion of the committee appointed to examine
the budget, which was that none for the works of fortifi-
cation should be granted until a law defining the mode of
their construction be passed. The vote on this point, as
exhibited in yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Devil.
ties, would have been regarded in England as a signal
defeat of Ministers, for an immense majority of the mem-
bers present ruse in favour of the proposition based on ti ,e
committee's suggestion, while all the Alinisters, with
about a dozen members holding office under them, rose
against it. Here, however, this result is not deemed of
touch importance, and not only is there no rumour pre-
valent to-day of any intended change in the Ministry, but
that possible consequence of yesterday's vote is not even
noticed, except as establishing no positive impediment to
the ultimate execution of the ußpopular plan.
In reference to this and otkier points connected with the
budget of the Department of 'War, a violent personal
attack was made on Tb ursday, by Colonel Bricquevillc,
against Marshal Soult, whom he accused, among other
things, of having been, through ignorance and incapacity,
the cause of the loss of the battle of Waterloo, and the turn
that things took against Napoleon during the " hundred
days." The Marshal listened to the tirade against him
apparently wit'a much composure, and did not think pro-
per to make any reply in his own vindication. It seemed
to him, perhaps, that the feeling of disapprobation with
which it was evidently received by the Chamber did suffi-
cient justice to its impropriety. -Not so his non, the Mar-
quis of Dalmatia, who required reparation of the Colonel,
in consequence of which a meeting between the two par-
ties took place yesterday in the Bois de Boulogne, where
they'Cought with swords. You will find in most of the
:papers of this day an account of the rencontre, drawn
'up and signed by the seconds, from which it appears
;tisk, although the combat was a spirited one, it has
out ee,l to any effusion of blood. The Colonel is
blamed by many persons for having acknowledged the
' sea's right to demand reparation for an attack ei'de
' an the father in the tribune, where the latter and
• LiS friends ware at liberty to make a suitable reply;
-thitt in this country the laws of honour continue to be so
absurdly imperative, that much time will have to elapse
before the facility and frequency of duelling undergo any
abatement. If people did not think of vindicating their
public or private characters but when attacks so serious
and violent as the one of Colonel de Bricqueville on Marshal
Soult was made, duels would probably he more rarely
beard of than they are in this country, but no man entitled
:o what you call in England the rank of a gentleman would
ajink of treating an insult amounting to less than that
I'.tt,'Ck otherwise than by a challenge ; and nothing is
I ore aorennaon than a duel, arising from a mere equivocal
pression, or the must trifling and unmeaning incident.
,e practice in which a certain class of persons in your
stocratic frame of society so commonly indulge, of sud-
ly- dropping a man's acquaintance and "cutting" him
hout any apparent cause, has proved fatal to more than
of your countrymen in France, for there is no offence
, which a Frenchmen feels more prone to revenge thee to
voided or not noticed by any one with whom he has
on terms of intimate acquaintanceship.
e frequency of duels, however, and the impossibility
lining a challenge without being universally branded
nean coward, and avoided as one who is unfit to be
ated with, is perhaps the only reason why the po-
i and refinement of the manners of Frenchmen have
so superior to those of all other nations. Not-
tnding the personal courage they most undoubtedly
few men like to he every now and then exposing
es on account of any breach of good breeding, and
' • they acquire a habit of avoiding any such breach,
intinues justly to distinguish Frenchmen a, the
to set of people in the world;
vsburg Gazette, since it has ceased to be the
of the Court of Russia, favours the world
from Turkey of a rather different bearing
'd some few months back. That paper now
nt.
ae stay of the Russians in Constantinople as
nee which ought to he viewed with great
.Those who know how much the Augsburg
der the influence of the Austrian Govern.
Prince Metternich begins to be alarmed
t the new alliance between the Au-
tan seems to be taking. By a letter
le of the 22d ultimo, published
azette of the 11th instant, it would
Oelof has insisted that the Sultan
to the commanders of the forts of
• ships of war of any foreign
its, which orders, it would
ige •.vae refused to the En-
eadrons which were off
of war, on attempting to
•as fired upon by the
• the schooner was

Mem ,
glish ,and trench corAined 'q
7 'ent'dot, and a Fra.ch schooner
througil in Bpi* of that ,efuea
to: Vie The letter does not say whe
Aselb:Fd or 'topped by the firing.
Ik I,‘ ported here among the friends
tZ.,:at he is coming back to France. t
who i 6 Oporto about a fortnight ago, is
tening the departure of the corps of 4,000
•einforce the army of Don Pedro. Tbere z
P.,les in this corps, wno, it is under.cood, are
man,:.td by General Romarino.
The s,i.‘ssion of the Chambers is expected to ch,
week. A gnat number of Deputies of the depart
have alrerdy taken their places in the different
codiligede 'i
fer next Saturday. Ido nut suppose that any nsi
Lion could induce them to stop in Paris longer.
Some fluctuations have occurred to-day in
the funds,
Awing to local causes of no great importance. The Three
per Cents. opened for the account at 77f. 95c., went up to
! 15c., receded to 78f., and were last done at 78f.: )C•3
the Fivt tier Cents. have been done at 1041. 35c. for
Z the
account.

general Solignac
nerd Froment,
.ow here, has-
•l who are to
About 450
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