The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-31 00:00:00

population of the Rhine. The Alsacien, has for.
some time past been publishing a series of articles
on what it calls " Les Gros Peches Politiques do
l'Angleterre," and in which it reveals, for the
edification of the double nationality of its readers,
the enormities of British statesmen and of the
British people. In its number of the 2G th of
September last I find, among others, the follow-
ing passages :

" Let it, then, be well understood, and the English
journals cannot complain of this explanation, that their
humourist escapades are merely the result of at-
mospheric variations. It may be established as a
principle that in certain respects their aggressive po-
lemics are but a question of the barometer ; their mani-
festations descend the scale of good manners to the
forgetfulness of all conventional rulei., and even down
to brutality," &c. "We do not mean to say that side
by side with these excesses, which in our eyes are insig-
nificent peccadilloes, we have not to reproach England
in general, as well as its statesmen and its press in par-
ticular, with other grievances still more serious, founded
on their selfish and aggressive policy. We find in them
certain penchants which have become chronic, and which,
inspired by the spirit of mercantilism and domination,
are manifested by acts in which deceit and violence are
too often employed instead of frankness:and generosity."

Again, on the 12th of the present month, th•

Alsacien says :
The descendants of the proud and rude preux who
shared in the labours of William (the Conqueror) and
his successors have remained the aristocratic portion of
English society, and they continue to possess the soil
conquered by their ancestors. They would think it a
disgrace to apply to manufacturing industry, or to traffic.
pro-

?roperly so called. But they have become, apparently
without degradation, agriculturists, breeders of cattle,
and coal merchants. After such a social transformation

it would be vain to expect from them disinterestedness
or magnanimity in their political acts, or in their inter-
national relations. Every thing is based on calculation ;
and selfishness and thirst of gain universally prevails.
In the history of England there is not a single war re-
corded which was not undertaken with a view, more or
less patent, to commercial interests. Not a single
durable ;peace has been made by them without the
arriby pewee of resuming hostilities as soon as possible
if their mercantile speculations were not amply satisfied.
" Let us now see how England applies these disposi-
tions in her international relations. We only find con-
tradictions, bad dealing, and insolent pretensions. In
her foreign relations England has declared herself alter-
nately, and sometimes at the same moment, according
to place and circumstances, the champion of pure mon-
archy or of absolutism. Since 1815 the wind keeps
pretty constant in the Liberal quarter. Let us not be
deceived, however ; these ideas she only professes for
nations independent of her domination. For those that
are under her yoke there is another regime, and the
flagrant contradictions between her external acts and
her pretensions give her no anxiety whatever."
"To illustrate this passage Ireland is brought
forward. Speaking of India the Alsacien says :
The populations are oppressed in the most revolting
manner, and recent disclosures show how liberal England
obtains the payments of her imposts. The stick and the
torture are the means of persuasion used towards the re-
fractory taxpayers. Portugal has become the tributary
and satellite of England since the Treaty of Methuen.
From that period English manufactories supplied the wants
of the Portuguese, and the English merchants have almost
exclusively to their profit all the principal branches of
commerce. Portugal is in the eyes of England the
model country ; and the fate of Portugal is that which
she reserves for all other States if she could realise her
cupidity. Naturally, such conduct is not of a nature to
invite confidence on the part of other nations. It is
with the utmost reserve and with the greatest precau-
tions that the Sovereigns of weak States accept the alli-
ance3of England. Such mistrust is not to the advan-
tage of England, and she seeks a remedy for it by put-
ting herself forth as the champion of liberalism.'
"Again, on the 19th of the present month, it
describes you thus :
Everything is calculation in England. The English
nation is merely an agglomeration of traders and specu-
lators. The habits of the counting-house have for ages
invaded the regioas of Government. Statesmen are forced
to regulate their policy according to the interests of com-
merce. All their relations with foreign nations are
made subordinate to the balanee of profit and loss. Lift
up the veil of 'disinterestedness and magnanimity with
which her diplomatists cover her most memorable acts,
and you shall find nothing but speculation inspired by
mercantilism. Scrape a Chatham, and you will find
a commercial agent. Everything in England is made
subordinate to commercial and trading prosperity ; for in
her social organisation that prosperity is the only true
basis of her power and grandeur. Since 1815 there has
not been a single revolutionary movement which did not
find more or leas sympathy in England, when it had not
been provoked by her, and everywhere she places alt the
obstacles in her power to the re-establishment of order
France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary,
&c., have had to undergo successively that sinister in-
fluence. That very policy is still nothing but calcula-
tion. We have seen how she treats the nations that are
subjected to her domination. She cares very little about
liberal principles. English liberalism abroad is merely
a speculation, a means of securing markets for her trade
and her manufactured products.
' When, at a later period, England declined associating
herself with the Holy Alliance, her doing su must not
be attributed to any sincere regard for liberty. A period
of calm was to follow the long wars which had ex-
hausted Europe. The Holy Alliance was intended by
its promoters as an additional guarantee for the Treaties
of the Congress of Vienna. It was, therefore, contrary
to the speculation of English vies-cant lisra, which fore-
saw the approach of continental industry, and the suc-
cessive creation of Cu-toms' leagues. It was a merely
personal interest whichiprevented her from joining the
Holy Alliance. She preferred being isolated, because
that position gave her greater liberty of aotion to carry
on her policy according to the wants and exigencies of
her traffic. But in spite of the skill she displayed in
her foreign relations, the whole of the great continental
States have very little taste for the new English system
of free trade,and have closed their ports to her products.
It was for this that she called to her aid the panacea of
the principles of liberalism.'
" The character given of us by the semi-official
Alsacien is not, as you see, very flattering. We
are treated by it as unprincipled politicians, ruth-
less tyrants, spoilers, hypocrites, and false to all
obligations ; and even the very few fair qualities
we may exhibit are assumed merely to cover the
baseness of our real character, and to dupe, cheat,
oppress, and plunder friends and foes alike.
" Now the Alsacien has a perfect right to judge
us as it pleases, and that judgment will not
provoke the English Government to retaliate
in the London Gazette, if the Gazette be not a
myth. Yet if the inspirers of the Moniteur are
so sensitive as to apprebpd that the Anglo-
French alliance may be imperilled by the language
of a part of the English press, they surely ought
to begin by reprimanding one of their own proteges
for the character it gives of us to the French and
German people, particularly when that paper
depends for its prosperity, and perhaps its exist-
ence, on the will of the Prefect, and when the
Prefect in turn depends on the Government.
At all events, they should look at home before
giving lessons on truth and -politeness to other
people."

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY

The steam corvette Du Chayla left Toulon on
the 23th on a special mission. It is probable that
her destination is Civita Vecchia, to convey Baron
Brenier to France.
BOURSE, Oct. 30.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 66 55 66 45
.......... 66 25
NOW Loan ..
Bank Shares 3,875 Boman
Credit Mobilier ...... 1,360 Austrian
Belgian Fives .. 99i— Spanish Threes......
Piedmontese (5) ...... 89 Home Debt ......... 38
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
fr. c. fr. c
Orleans ...............1,245 Western
Northern ............... 941 25 Strasburg
Lyons ..................1,262 50 Now Ditto
Mediterranean 1,650 Grand Central
602 50
Lyons Geneva 702 50 Tests
Cette .................. 680 Austrian Com. ..
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RUSSIA.
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 21st says
:
"During his stay at Moscow, the envoy of the
Sultan, on being asked as to whether the pro-
longed occupation by the Austrian troops of
the Principalities was contrary to the views
and wishes of the Turkish Government, is said
to have replied that, as far as he had been in-
formed, his government expected that the evacua-
tion would take place as soon as the affairs of -Mol-
davia and Wallachia should be settled. Russia, in
consequence of this information, did not think it
necessary to demand through France that Austria
should evacuate the Principalities. All the Aus-
trian journals evidently endeavour to excite mis-
understanding between France and Russia, and it
is high time that M. de Kisseleff should explain
himself frankly at Paris in order to prevent the in-
trigues which are set to work to arrive at that
result."