The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-30 00:00:00

PARIS, Aua. 28.

PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
The Paris papers continue to allude to the
state of Italy, and to predict a speedy attempt
at revolution. I find, however, that they have
no other ground than the reported arrival of
deputies from Italy, who have been instructed
to ascertain the degree of support which the
Italians might expect from France in the event of
their making a simultaneous effort to throw off
the Austrian yoke. That such deputies have
arrived is, I believe, a fact, and some inquiries
which they have made as to the practicability of
obtaining a supply of arms, to be kept in depot
at some place near the intended scene of action,
have caused the report that matters are so far
advanced in Italy as to have led to the purchase
of 50,000 muskets for the patriots. Some
persons suppose that the whole affair is a
contrivance of the Austrian Government, to
warrant another application for the immediate
relinquishment by the French Government of
their footing in part of Italy. The affair of
Ancona, now ithstanding the attempt of Sebas-
tiani to convince the Emperor that it was in-

tended to prevent rather than cause a rupture
with him, has created a sore feeling, and little
doubt can be entertained that, ere long, it will be
made the subject of new and irritating diplo-
matic notes. When the occupation of Ancona
was first announced to Talleyrand, he flew into
a great rage, anti observed that he thought the
French Government meant to show their teeth
where they neither could nor would attempt to
bite. At fir.
the Government played a double
game. The Austrian ambassador was told that
tha whole affair was a mistake—that it had been
undertaken during the illness of Sebastiani, at
the suggestion of a M— De—s, a sort of
chef de bureau, who possessed influence in a
certain qurter--but that when Sebastiani should
be able to resume the direction of foreign af-
fairs, he would set things right. At the same
time, the Liberals were told that the Govern-
ment were merely humbugging the Austrian
ambassador, and that La .leune France would
soon have an opportunity of displaying its en-
thusiastic love of liberty on a classic soil.
By and bye no more was said about mistake,
but means were found to pacify the Aus-
trian Cabinet for a time, and the French
Liberals were gulled into a belief that an
early opportunity would be laid hold of
to realize the promises which the Government
had held out. That opportunity will never ar-
rive. The juste milieu Ministry merely affect
the display of intervention, but they will never
wield it as a weapon, if A ustria, Prussia, and
Russia make a determined stand. As to Italy,
the possession of Ancona by the French, far
from acting as a rallying point to the Italians,
has served to cement their bondage more closely.
Rely on it, the Italians have had too severe a
lesson in the base indifference of the French
Government to the fate of their most virtuous
patriots, to trust themselves in the hands of
France, under the present system. There will
be no revolution in Italy, for some time at least,
because the Italians know that none but a re-
volution, having for its object the establishment
of a federal republic, could succeed. All the
reminiscences of Italy are republican. What
have the Venetians, the Genoese, or even the

Romans, in their histories, to the credit and
renown of kings? Will Venice throw off the
yoke of Austria, to gratify the ambition of some
petty Italian prince, who on the slightest reverse
would, to save his own miserable life, betray
them again to the power from whose fetters they
had escaped ? Will Genoa send forth her citi-
zens to fight for a Venetian, a Roman, or a
Piedmontese sprig of royalty ? No ! when
Italy revolts, it will be for a federal republic ;
and will the Doctrinnaire Ministry of Louis
Philip support such a revolt ? No ! they would
join hand and heart with Austria to suppress it,
for they know that if a republic was to be set
tip in Italy, the French monarchy could not
stand ? Are the Italians able to throw off the
yoke of Austria, without the aid of France ?
No ! Whilst the Government of Louis Philip,
or rather the system of which he is now the
head, exists, the Italians will not revolt.
The French Ministerial journals contain very
satisfactory accounts of the reception which the
King has met with in the commencement of his
tour. But what are Ministerial accounts ? Be-
sides, are public demonstrations in France just
indications of public feeling ? If so, France
was devoted to Charles the Tenth, for I saw the
old dotard pass under triumphal arches, and
heard loud shouts of" Vive le Rol." Pay no at-
tention to the surface. The evils of which the
French (as a nation) complain are at the heart's
rore, and although public functionaries may
make a public display of their loyalty and timid
tentiers cry " Vive le Roi" to a King, in whose
reign they think they see a prospect of peace,
and, above all, of the peaceful enjoyment of the
interest which they derive from the public funds
you may be assured that in proportion as educa-
tion extends, and it is extending itself rapidly,
in France, the French will discover the means of
obtaining liberty without anarchy, and the ad-
vantages of Republican institutions without re-
sorting to the turbulent and bloody measures by
which changes have been hitherto brought about.
The security of Louis Philip for the present is
in the dread of a sanguinary revolution, and the
consequent destruction of property and trade.
'rime will show that a revolution may be effected
without blood, and the enjoyment of liberty be
rendered compatible with the sacred possession
of their just rights.
There are sad complaints here among well-in-
formed Frenchmen of the decay of literature,
and particularly of the decadence of the drama.
The first is attributed to the number of cheap
publications, by which men of real talent have
been driven out of the field—the booksellers
having no encouragement to purchase copyrights,
the co,t of which could onl
yecovered by a fair
price being put upon the books,bOf the cheap
publications, however, it is but justinf to. say, that
iinpottleel
they are, for the greater part,
creditable to the French nation than
irl:7s arem otroe
us. They have their Magazine
(a French Penny Magazine), and their
the chief
~lii Panorama, in which pictures are
attraction, it is true ; but, on the other hand,
they have between forty and fifty penny publica-
tions, in which the Arts and Sciences, and do-
mestic and political economy, are well treated of ;
and these are gradually finding their way all over
France, so that in a few years the French pea-
santry will be as well-informed as they are now
ianorant, and as liberal in feeling as,
nd from their
past° ignorance. they have been prejudiced, . a
but tow frequently base. The Minister of In-
struction has, it is said, taken alarm at the an-
nureement of a new society for tire greater dif-
i'. Itivon of e cation among the lower orders;
ir-,adin order :0 takei the instruction of the mass
,:iiile of the hands opuch men as Odillon Barrot
‘lic.
. and Lafayette, he -laits signified his intention of
establishing 3 more general system of education.