The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-15 00:00:00

opinion, the very presence of the British fleet in the
Mediterranean is calculated to prevent any such con-
tingency from taking place, at least for the present.
In fact, the most effectual mode of guarding against
a war with Russia, is to show that we are not
unprepared for it. If she defy us to the field, there
we are, with the glove ready to be thrown down,
and the sword glistening from its scabbard,
to abide the issue of the conflict. As a matter of
common sense, it must be obvious, even to Count
Nesselrode, that a few ships of war save our foreign
department from endless angry notes and argumenta-
tive protests, which really between friends do not ap-
pear at all times quite decorous. Besides, a fleet is
the old English fashion of diplomacy. To say the
truth we were never any great hand at fine phrase-
ology. We have no thoughts to hide. We are a free
spoken people. It may be a barbarous mode of pro-
ceeding ; at the same it is certainly with us a very na-
tional one, rather to put an end to a dispute by a
broadside or two, than to go on for ever, as Jack
would say, palavering about it. There is another
consideration attached to this subject, which ought
not to be altogether passed over. The world say—
with what truth let Prince Metternich judge—that
Turkey has been for some time little better than the
vassal of Russia ; and it has been whispered that this
new relation between two empires, which have for
many years been rivals, was, in a great measure, to
be attributed to our having abandoned our ancient ally,
and left her open to all sorts of assault both from fo-
reign and domestic enemies. It is due to old recol-
lections that we should prove this charge of desertion
on our part to be false, and to show the Sultan that if
he have any disposition to be firm in maintaining the
integrity of his dominions, he will find Old England at
his back any day, no matter whether the helm of the
State be held by Whig, Radical, or Tory. Lord
Palmerston may be assured that the country will be
entirely with him in the determined line of policy of
which the Mediterranean fleet affords evidence.—
Morning Chronicle.
We should rejoice to see the Conservative States-
men holding office with advantage to their country :
if this may not be, we are well contented to see them
refusing office with credit to themselves. It will be
generally known that overtures were made in the
course of the late negotiations to some of the most dis-
tinguished Conservatives, and that those overtures
were promptly and decidedly rejected. It is right,
therefore, that it should also be understood that in this
policy the individuals to whom we allude were guided
not by apprehensions of danger, but by attachment to
principle,—not by a reluctance to encounter difficulties,
but by a determination to maintain consistency. No
offer was made to them which they could have accepted
without disgrace. It is not for the men on whom the
last hope of constitutional government rests to ally
themselves to colleagues whom they cannot trust, or to
sanction measures of which they cannot approve.--
Morning Post.

Don Carlos de Bourbon, late an exile among us,
entered Spain on the 9th, where he was received and
welcomed by great numbers of his trusty adherents.
By the 11th he would be at the head of his faithful
army, contending for - hiS rights against the foulest
usurpation that ever disgraced the annals of an y country.
This fact alone shows that most people were mistaken
as to the real character of the illustrious personage,
who has ere this been proclaimed King of Spain, by
the title of Charles V. He was always anxious to
avoid the shedding of blood, and, whilst in Portugal,
would, with this view, have made every sacrifice but
that of his honour ; but wherever he turned, he found
the bayonets of his ruthless enemies uplifted against
him. The merciless hirelings of the usurper had
everywhere been stationed upon the frontiers of
his kingdom, to intercept and butcher him. Still
would he gladly have risked his own person, for the
peace and welfare of his subjects ; but he found it
impossible to tear himself from the arms of an affec-
tionate consort and the embraces of his three sons,
enjoying only a precarious asylum in a country deso-
lated by civil war, and on the eve of a dreadful catas-
trophe. Don Carlos is, however, now in Spain, and
this says more for his rights, as well as for his heroism,
than anything that we could add. His enemies in this
country may be ashamed to acknowledge their own
blindness, although perhaps trembling at the extent of
the responsibility resting upon their shoulders, as it
must be evident that all the work in the Peninsula
must be done over again. Christina and her issue, we
repeat, cannot rule in Spain, no more than Don Pedro
and his daughter, in her own right at least, in Portu-
gal. Who, then, shall be answerable for the blood and
desolation into which those two countries have already
been plunged, and for the still deeper calamities which
still probably await them ?—Morning Post.