The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1835,

that the funds have riser this morning, as will be seen
by a reference to our city article. But, why we ask, did
not Mr. R ICA RDo take an earlier opportunity of waiting
on Lord YALMERSTON ? Why did he wait till, as
we are informed, certain individuals were literally
robbed to the amount of sums, varying from twenty to
fifty thousand pounds, by the unprincipled conduct of
a set of well-known stock-jobbers, who are a disgrace
to the body to which they belong ? The time to pro-
pose questions to the Foreign • Secretary was the mo-
ment the reports were attempted to be circulated, which
caused the late panic in the Foreign Market ; not
after every individual in London had had opportunities
of knowing that the whole affair was an infamous
fraud. But perhaps we are too severe upon Mr.
ic A TID 9, !r•.,.--.• :col cause for acting as he
has done. Had he applied earlier to the Government,
the panic would have been prevented ; and thus the
sacrifice of considerable individual property would
have been avoided.

German Papers have been received, which bring
some important advices from Persia. They contain
no local news of any public interest.

We have received New York Papers, but their con
tents are of no political importance. Mr. LIVING
STONE Sailed for Washington.

The Paris journals of Sunday, the whole of which
we have just received, are filled with severe animad-
versions on the conduct of the Chamber of Deputies
on the subject of the Peers' Message, and the order
for the expulsion of the reporters from the public
gallery on Friday last. In our opinion, the uncor-
teous expulsion of the reporters is the least part of
the insult offered to the public press of France. M.
DIJP!N, the President, is not less remarkable for his
extreme irritability and eccentricity, than for his great
talents and dry sarcastic humour. Vexed and an-
noyed by the interruption of M. JAUBERT, at a time
when he felt himself overpowered in an attempt to
defend the conduct of the Chamber of Peers, against
his own secret convictions, he gave an order, which
had hardly passed his lips before he sincerely repented
the rashness of which he had been guilty. Not to
betray his own weakness, and expose himself to the
contempt of the Chamber, he sat silently observing the
departure of the reporters ; but the instant the doors
were closed, he ordered them to be again thrown open,
and the ejected journalists to be re-admitted. So far
we are inclined to regard the act of expulsion as
the individual transgression of the President, of
which he himself was the first to perceive the
enormity, and for which, no doubt, he felt heartily
repentant. But it was the speeches made in
the Chamber on Saturday, when the Journalists
handed in their protest, that discovered the real senti-
ments of the Deputies, with respect to that press
through whose patriotic exertions was achieved the re-
volution of 1830. It was the attention with which
the Chamber listened to the coarse, foul, and calumni-
ous ribaldries of M. BUGEAUD, M. MoLIN D'AM-
BERT, and M. JOLIVET, that, in our judgment,
constituted the indignity offered by the Chamber of
Deputies to the liberal press of France. The violence with
which the Chamber assailed the very men to whom
it owes a constitutional existence, only establishes the
fact of its being harnessed to the triumphal car of
LOUIS-PHILIPPE ; for' the principles maintained by
the press now, are those which it supported at the
Revolution. The principal cause of the extreme aver-
sion with which the press of Paris is regarded by the
Court and the Chambers, is the intimacy which
formerly existed between the more respectable leading
journalists, and the persons now at the head of the
Government. The part taken by the press to
bring about the Revolution of 1830 is well
known--the integrity of M. ARMAND CARREL,
and those who labour with him, is proof against
the attractive influence of office and Royal favour—
and the penetration of such men cannot be obvi-
ated, knowing as they do the early habits and opi-
nions of the puppets moved by the volition of the So-
vereign. This arms them with a scourge with which
they can, and sometimes do, lacerate Ministers and
their tools in both Chambers. They know where to
strike, and are too honest to allow private or personal
considerations to prevent them from discharging their
duty to their country. The only chance the Ministers
have of escaping is to crush these men by the most infa-
mous prosecutions ; or if that be found impossible, without
hazarding another revolution, to endeavour to raise up
a public opinion in their own favour, by sneering at
the unprincipled conduct of the Press, and by enlisting
their dirty tools of all work in both Chambers, to rail
against hireling Journalists. This affected contempt
for the opinions of the press is not confined to the
Government of France. Instances of sneers as malig-
nant, and quite as unmerited, might be extracted from
the speeches of certain obscure orators who occa-
6cthally interrupt the business of the Parliament of
treat Britain. But there is no mistaking the
real character of those individuals, whether they figure
London or Paris. The press has never been
sneered at but by three descriptions of persons—ty-
rants, apostates, and fools. That it occasionally abuses

its power, we readily admit ; but at the same time it is
the most perfect of all institutions, because it alone
corrects itself. All others must be acted upon by
powers from without—it derives its correcting influ-
ence from within, and except where its liberties are un-
justly curtailed by the malign interposition of the civil
authorities, it never fails to neutralize the evils which
it sometimes occasions by its advocacy of a bad Go-
vernment.

The most rancorous enemies of the press
n France are the men whom it raised to

distinction and offices in the State. They both
hate and fear it, knowing well that the instant
they begin to employ their power to undermine the
liberties of Prance, it will rise up, and, if possible,
hurl them with infamy from the pinnacle on which

they now stand. They know it never sleeps—that its
conductors cannot be bribed to betray the objects of
their watchful solicitude—and therefore, in very des-
peration, they become its assailants. We here refer
to the tyrants and apostates—the fools who shake their
cap and bells at the honesty of public journalists are
unworthy of even passing regard.
It is possible that the KING Will be the first to re-
strain headiong pr,:c:p::alicy of :)Dl'.l C!llmirrs, as
well as the first to soothe the irritation of the public
Journalists. No man more heartily detests the press
than LOUIS PIIILIPPE ; but he knows its influence,
and how short must be his reign, if it rose up in un-
compromising hostility against him. He would, and
will annihilate it, if he can ; but he is too good a
' tactitian to attack it openly, and all at once. Journal
after Journal will be prosecuted—Editor after Editor
will be incarcerated—fine after fine will be levied ; but
this will be done cautiously, in order that the public
may not be• alarmed before his MAJESTY has fixed
his throne on a firmer basis than the loyalty of the
National Guards, and the honesty of spies, informers,
and confreres in political apostacy.
The accounts from the North of Spain contained
in the Messager received this morning are not impor-
tant. At Cadiz the Carlists have caused some dis-
turbance, with which the name of the Bishop is
mixed up ; the affair is, however, of little conse-
quence. The Election says " The garrison of Puen-
tila-Reyna has been reinforced by 200 catabiliel by

order of General VA LDEZ. The garrison of Lumbier,
which consisted of 600 men and 50 horses, left that
place oh the 14th, and is gone to reinforce the gar-
rison of Sos. The frontiers occupied by the main
body of the Carlists on the 15th and 16th, are the
environs of Vittoria. The Christinos occupied Lorin,
Ledosa, Mendabra, and Logrono."

We have received Madrid Papers to the 19th inst.
In the Abeja of the 18th, we find the following
. _

" To-day the Council of Regency and the Members of the
Cabinet assembled for the purpose, it is presumed, of deciding
whether it would be expedient to open negotiations with the
Powers who signed the treaty of the quadruple alliance, and
ask of them that a corps of foreign troops be marched in to
garrison the towns of the insurgent provinces, while the na-
tional forces would engage in an active campaign, and annihi-
late the factions by one blow."

The above is confirmed by private letters which
state, that the REGENT has signed dispatches ad-
dressed to the French Government, that the interven-
tion of France is indispensable to put down the Re-
bellion in the Basque Provinces. The state of the
country is really frightful. The people are hedged
in between two scourges—Famine and the Sword.