The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-26 00:00:00

THE SUN,

FRANCE.

The Journal des Debats quizzes the proceedings of
the Peace Congress after the following amusing
fashion :

"We see, by the English journals, that the Con-
gress of Peace has opened its sittings at Exeter Hall,
in London. We dare not promise it a very great
success in presence of the other Congress of Peace,
much more positive and much more practical, called
the Exhibition. We have not yet seen our old
acquaintance, Red-skin, the Indian of good com-
plexion, who took last year to Frankfort his calumet of
peace. If he had been present, he would, perhaps, have
prevented the massacre of the innocents, of which we
have to complain. We saw in the Exhibition, in the
French part, a collection of little soldiers, in colour,
sent by Silberman, of Strasburg. There are cavalry, in-
fantry, artillery, and chasseurs of Vincennes, in all the
eclat of their uniforms: you can buy 400 men, infantry or
cavalry, for 20f.; it is a permanent army at a cheap rate.
The English, who have not, fortunately for themselves
many soldiers, were not aware how many had entered
their territory under the cover of free-trade; they did
not suspect that horse of Troy, introduced within their
walls, machina ingens,faeta armis. The Congress of Peace
has directed a murderous artillery on this army of painted
pasteboard. We cannot say how many have been left
on the field; since the famous battle of petits pates on the
banks of the Euphrates, under the direction of Fourier,
we have not heard of such carnage. The Congress of
Peace has then voted unanimously as all those of a Con-
gress of Peace ought to be against pasteboard soldiers
and wooden swords. M. Delbruek was the first to call for
the censure of the Congress on play things. which familia-
rise children with ideas of war and battle, Mr. Cobden, a
serious man, took up this luminous idea, and made a pa-
thetic address to mothers of families; Mr. Cobden,
Member of Parliament, solemnly ranged in battle the
red coats and blue coats; he described in picturesque
language the blue coats rushing on the red coma,
and made his auditory shudder at the sight of so
much blood in effigy. It was specially to French
mothers that the eloquent speech was ad-
dressed; for it is particularly in France that the de-
plorable mania of playing at soldiers prevails. And the
Congress, as we said, unanimously voted a motion invit-
ing mothers of families not to give any more pasteboard
soldiers to their children. Henceforth they must choose
for presents little instruments of labour and manufac-
tures, gingerbread ploughs, chocolate locomotives, illu-
minated tables of Pythagoras, and there will then be
nations of little sheep, grazing peacefully, protected by
tho crook of their shepherd, to the music of the pipe.
There are, however, very serious, very honourable, mad
very respectable men in the Congress, from whom we
demand pardon for specking so lightly of their childish-
ness. But, seriously, which are the greatest children—
those who make playthings of such speeches, or those
who make playthings of painted soldiers?"

SWEDEN.
We read in the Independance of Brussels :
" The Swedish Diet is on the pint of closing its
session. We have i
already stated that out of the
four orders of which it s composed, two, the nobles
and the clergy, had adopted the application made
for credits to the amount of 322,000 t. to defray the
establishing the Prince-floyel, who was
expense of
married some time
back ; whereas the other two
orders, the burgesses and pcas'intt, refused to vote
it. By the terms of the Constitution, the question must
be now submitted to a c zhLnittN3 composol of tan
equal number of members from each order. The
nobles and the clergy have already each named the
thirty members who are to represent them in
this committee, and as was to be expected, the. whole of
the sixty members are in favour cf granting the sip-
, Plication made. On the other hand, the burgesses
and the peassnts are to nominate their members i
but it s scarcely possible that out of the sixty mem-
bers to be named one or two should, not be in favour of
the demand, the point will be decided probably by a
majority of one
or two, that number being sufficient.
The question excites much attention at Stockholm, sod
the general opinion is that it would be better for the
Government to withdraw its applioation, as a