The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-16 00:00:00

interest in putting down the independence, not
only of France, but also of Great Britain.
Against Russia then are the just, although tardy
precautions of our Government adopted. We
hail the manifestation with joy, because we
know, that if the axiom of living in peace, as
if you were hourly expecting a war, be ever a
true one, it must be so between nations and sove-
reigns who have no: ties Qfsympathybetween them.
In proportion as Great Britain and France dis-
play their means of resistance, will the tone of
Russia be humbled. All the arrogance of the
Russian. Government is to be attributed to our
forbearance. It is the character of the bully
to raise his voice in proportion as those to
whom he dictates increase in forbearance and
moderation. Meet him with an erect front and
a resolute voice and his bullyism sinks into a
whine. He is only great when those around
hint appear diminutive. The Emperor of Rus-
SIA is, indeed, more prepared for war than he
would have been if we had spoken out earlier ;
but he will never be in a condition to dictate to
Europe if an end be put to the ridiculous cour-
tesies which Lord PALMERSTON and the Duke
de BROGLIE have hitherto slum him.

The cotton manufacturers of Ghent have
petitioned the Belgian KING and the Chamber
to grant them a monopoly of the Belgian market,
and to favour the disposal of their surplus by a
bounty on exportation. The account which
they give of the distress in which they have been
plunged by the loss of the Dutch market is
afflicting, but there is very little reason to sup-
pose that the prayer of their petition can be
complied with, however disposed the KING
may be to relieve the manufacturers. Were
the Belgian legislature even to adopt a re-
quest so much at variance with the principles
of free trade which are making way in France
as well as in this country, the remedy would
he by no means equal to the expectation
of the Ghent workmen. Unless they could
supply manufactures as good and as cheap as
they can be had from abroad, a supply would be
obtained by clandestine means, as it would be
impossible to compel the Belgians generally to
wear articles of home manufacture, whilst
the English or the French market remained open
to them. Restrictive measures of this nature
do injury to a nation as well as embarrass a go-
vernment. The only remedy in such case is to
improve the means of manufacture so as to
produce goods at as cheap a rate as one's neigh-
bours ; or, if that cannot be done, to turn at-
tention to other and more profitable means of
production. We have felt the evils of a restric-
tive
system too strongly in England not to dis-
courage an attempt to increase it in another
country.

On the 28th of August, the day before Par-
liament was prorogued, the House of Commons
ordered to be printed a return, previously moved
by Mr. HUME, of " a list of the names of all
persons having pensions on the civil lists of
England, Scotland, and Ireland on the 30th of
November, 1830, stating the date of the grant,
and the amount of each pension, distinguishing
those that have been continued on the civil list,
and those that have been paid from the con-
solidated fund, agreeably to the 2d and 3d Wm.
IV., c. 116, and also distinguishing those who
have ceased to receive their pensions from the
Consolidated Fund, and the dates when the
payments were discontinued, stating whether by
death or otherwise." This return has just been
forwarded to us, and a more sickening docu-
ment has seldom fallen under our observation.

Alarm and grief have been our predominant
feelings, when calculating the cost and demo-
ralization consequent upon the abuses of the
poor laws ; but indignation and disgust take the
place of those feelings, when we have forced

upon our consideration the cost of the state
paupers who figure in the nineteen pages of
names now before us. In the list of diplomatic
pensions, to which we some months back called
the attention of our readers, a statement was made

in the margin, of the services rendered by each
pensioner. Some of these were paltry enough,
compared with the amount of the reward received
for them ; but still there was a show, if not the
reality, of respect for public decency. The
services, might, in nine cases out of ten, be
make-believe—mere blinds for the most corrupt
jobbing ; but the use of the blind was a proof
of a remnant of modesty,—just as hypocrisy is
the homage which vice pays to virtue. In the

list before us, although there are no doubt pen-
sions, particularly among the smaller ones, which
may admit of some justification or another, the
great mass of them are received by unblushing
beggars, only not brought up to the police
offices because they wear silk and velvet instead
of cottons. A correspondent, whose letter,we give
in another column, suggests that the State
paupers should wear certain badges to indicate
the amount they receive from the State. Per-
haps an additional improvement would be to
make portions of them—Mrs. ARBUTHNOT, for
instance—wear scarlet. Who knows whether

the cheek of the wearer might not take the hint
and be the means of saving the country 9361. per
annum ?

There are a few who appear since 1830 to
have resigned their pensions. As we are willing
to give them credit for a desire to clear their
characters from the stain of receiving the public
money without having given valuable service for
it, we will give their names, with the amount
resigned :—The Duchess 'of NEWCASTLE,
7801.25.; ERIC MACKAY, Baron KEAY, 1841.;
JANE GEORGIANA SHERIDAN (now SEY-
NIOLIR) 571. Is. 6d.; CAROLINE VERNON
(now SMITH) 881. ls. A poor account, but
the example may be valuable.

It may not be unamusing to our readers to
learn, that so certain had the success of the Carlists been
deemed by the Pontifical Government, that the editors of
the ahrianacks published in the Roman states, who had
inserted the name of Isabella the Second as sovereign of
Spain, had been compelled (at the suggestion of the
Austrian minister it was said,) to substitute that of Don
Carlos (Ch ,