The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-29 00:00:00

Error may be respectable, for it may be bon( st
and conscientious; but tergiversation and trick
are always hateful when they prosper, and desp -
cable when they fail.—Morning Herald.
A Morning Ministerial Paper has at length
discovered what we have over and over again,
during the course of the last twelvemonths, re-
being blinded by the glare of popularity which
sounded in vain in the ears of the Govern-
ment and the nation, that Lord Palmerston
is not fit to be trusted with the manage-
ment of our policy. Far from the Re-
form Bill obtained for Ministers, we have
all along, while giving that Bill our best sup-
port, kept a watchful eye upon the conduct of the
Cabinet in other questions; and more especially
have we looked to their suspicious intercourse
with the Holy Alliance—an intercourse so con-
ducted as to strengthen the influence of the three
great despotic States, and exalt Russia in parti-
cular to an unexampled pitch of power, pride,
and insolence. From the beginning we warned
Ministers auainst the consequences of that con-
nexion, the fruits of which have been the ridi-
culous volumes of protocols that have brought
the affairs of Belgium and Holland to a " set-
tlement" of inextricable confusion, apparently
only to be cut by the sword. The desolation of
Greece by civil commotion—the humiliation of
England, by paying vast sums of tribute-money
to Russia to keep her good humour—and last,
and not least, the destruction of the nationality
of Poland, by that barbarian Power, and the con-
temptuous cancelling of the Treaty of Vienna, to
which we were a party, and which Nicholas de-
stroyed with as much ease, and with as perfect an
indifference to what England thought ofthe matter,
as Ferdinand of Spain displayed when he had a
British subject butchered in cold blood—almost
in the presence of the British Consul, and with-
out trial Truly the renewal of our connexion
with the Holy Alliance, which Mr. Canning
broke off; has greatly exalted throughout Eu-
rope the fame and dignity of England. The
Morning Paper in question says—" Is it not
notorious in the society of every capital of Eu-
rope, that our negotiations are imprudent, but
never promoted by our own agents ; that con-
stant communications are maintained either di-
rectly or indirectly between them and the Anti-
Reformers in England ; that there is the most
perfect sympathy in spirit and feeling between
these parties and the Metternich and Lieven
school—the zeal of all being equally directed to
uphold the principles of the Holy Alliance—to
render unavailing any effort on the part of its
victims, whether Pole, German, Italian, or Por-
tuguese to break their chains—to the suppression
of all liberal institutions, and to the firmer es-
tablishment of the rule of aggression of tyranny ?
We might be disposed to wait for a Reform Par-
liament for a radical cure for this grievance, were
we not daily becoming more and more the
laughing-stock of all Europe, as the dupes (four
own agents in this miserable system. Lord Pal-
merston must be either an imbecile or something
worse." Now we, who had by advice and re-
monstrance endeavoured to prevail upon Minis-
ters, from the very outset of their "miserable
system" of policy on the Continent, to withdraw

From a course which would redound either to

their credit, nor to the honour of the country,
never passed such a sentence of incapacity
upon their Administration as is here pronounced
by a Journal that gave itself up to unqualified
praise of those Ministers while those calamitous
events were in progress which it now laments,
and which we fear are now irretrievable. It is
poor consolation to enslaved Poles, Italians,
Germans, and Portuguese, to be told that their
chains would not have been so firmly riveted as
they now appear to be if a " liberal" Adminis-

tration in England had not been the "dupes of
its own agents," and gone on, with the assist-
ance of Casimir Perier (the extraordinary thick-
ness of whose skull has been just now disco•
vered), doing the work of the tyrants until " we
have become the laughing-stock of all Europe."
Lord Palmerston, as a politician, may be an
"imbecile," but what are we to think of Lord
Grey as a statesman, who selected such a Foreign
Secretary, and keeps him in the Cabinet, to pro-
mote by his folly the views of the Holy Alliance
abroad, and assist the operations of the Anti-
Reformers at home,?—Morning Herald.

The King's birth-day was yesterday celebrated
in something like the usual manner. The bells
rung here and there a merry peal—the
mail-
coaches, with their handsomely caparisoned
horses, formed the usual procession ; a few
ships showed colours, and in the evening there
were some dinner parties and some illumina-
tions ; but there was no rejoicing at the heart
mingled with these outward signs, and but for
the illuminations in the evening the day would
have passed over without any one dreaming that
it ought, iu any way, to be distinguished from the
other days of the year. We mention this fact
with regret, because it is by no means impossible
that it may be mentioned to his Majesty, as a
proof that he has lost the affections of his people,
and that he could not have been in a worse predi-
cament, had he attempted to brave their voice
by yielding to the Duke of Wellington's desire to
be once more at the head of the Government ;
whereas the fact is, that the political struggle in
which the people have been engaged during the
last eighteen months, has so wholly engrossed
their minds, on the one hand, and alienated
them, on the other, from those matters of mere
show and pastime in which they were wont to
take delight, that the same indifference would
have been exhibited had the day been set apart
for the celebration of any other equally interest-
ing event. It might admit of some dispute
whether this change in the habits of our country-
men be, on the whole, for the better or the
worse ; but it may be justly observed, that it is
not out of season, and that it would have but ill
comported with decency and propriety of feeling
and conduct, had they passed at once from the
lofty and indignant bearing by which they were
lately characterised, to the tumultuous, and, in
some respects, senseless joy,
which they had been
accustomed to manifest on similar occasions.—
Morning Advertiser.

The French people of the Republican, the
Buonapartist, and the juste milieu or egalite fac-
tions, differing widely as they do upon almost
every other subject, are in one particular quite
unanimous, if we may judge by the Journals
~shich are understood to represent their respec-
tive opinions and feelings ; they all hate the
Duke of Wellington with a perfect hatred, and
[hey are all equally enthusiastic in their expres-
sions of esteem and affection towards Earl Grey.
The feelings of the French in both these re-
spects may be considered as not altogether un-
natural, although, when we attempt to trace
them to their source, they can scarcely he thought
.vorthy of a high-minded or generous people.—
If the Duke of Wellington vanquished their
ablest Generals and their finest troops in a hun-
dred hard-fought battles—if by his crowning
victory of Waterloo he finally extinguished the
glory and the po.ver of their military idol and

civil tyrant, Napoleon-4f his splendid triumph,
in the
.field twice opened the wav to the occupa
Lion of their capital ; it would still have bees
magnanimous in them to recollect that in beat-
ing them he only performed his duty to his owi
country, that he beat them in all fairness and
honour, and that, conqueror as he was, he ha,
ever been the foremost to acknowledge their
claims to the name of a powerful, warlike, en-
lightened, and glorious people. For the honour
of the French nation we had rather that it had
not exhibited so inveterate a recollection of the
defeats it has sustained at the hands of our Noble
Duke. But yet when we look back to the cir-
cumstances, and the reiteration, and the com-
pleteness of these disasters to its arms, we cannot
be greatly surprised that we should still witness,
as occasion arises, some effusion of spleen on the
part of a people so deeply wounded in the
acutest of their feelings, the love of military
glory. We doubt whether the partiality which
the people of France bear or affect towards Earl
Grey, although it manifestly springs from the
same source as their hatred to the Duke of
Wellington, will equally admit even of the
same imperfect apology. If Earl Grey,
throughout the whole of the glorious period
during which Wellington was beating the
invincibles of France, at the rate of a good
drubbing a month, laboured in his place in Par-
liament to damp the spirit of the British
people, to paralyse the energies and impair the
resources of the State, to embarrass and ob-
struct the Government, to render British
victory and French defeat, so far as he
could, impossible, still it is by no means
clear that the French on this account owe
any gratitude to the Noble Earl, since there can •
not be the least doubt that had any other nation
instead of France been the enemy of Great Bri-
tain, at that particular moment and in the actual
position of political parties, Earl Grey would
have done as he did ; that is, would have aided
as much as he could the enemy of his country.
The services rendered by the Noble Earl were
not rendered to France, as such, but to France as
the enemy, for the time being, of England. They
were not only ineffectual and dishonourable, but
they were purely accidental services. It is rather
odd, therefore, that a nation so acute as the
French should regard them as constituting a claim
upon its lasting gratitude. The same observa-
, Lions will apply pretty closely to the partiality
evinced by the Noble Earl, since he came into
power, towards the Government of the barri-
cades. It is a great favourite with Earl Grey,
a sort of pet indeed, not because it is French,
but because it is revolutionary. It is a ma-
nifestation of little besides vanity and self-
love. The Government of the barricades is
dear to the British Premier simply because it is
an incarnation of the principles which he has
throughout his life professed and patronized—of
the principles which he proclaimed when he
showed himself the only man in the British
House of Commons who had the austere virtue
not to mourn the death of Louis XVI. The
Government of Belgium is equally cherished,
and for the same reason. The Black Govern-
ment of Jamaica, had the recent movement in
that island been successful, would equally have
been the object of his affection and regard. The
Milesian Government of Ireland, whenever that
may happen to be installed, and probably it is
not long to wait, will alike be found to have an
irresistible claim to the systematic attachment of
the Nuble Earl. Then why should the French
be so redundant in their expressions of gratitude
and affection towards the Noble Earl ? In as-
sisting Napoleon, as in worshipping the power
of the barricades, he has but obeyed the irre-
sistible instinct of his nature, or the unalterable
bias of his education.—Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A young man, named Murphy, was brought be-
fore the LORD MAYOR, charged with having com-
mitted an extensive robbery, at the apartments of
the Commissioners of Excise in Broad-street. A
person in the employment of the Excise stated, that
he had the care of the dressing-room of the com-
missioners, and that on the morning of Monday
week he found the window leading from one of the
passages to the dressing-room open. Upon going
in, he saw that the cupboards had been forced open
with instruments, and p'undered of silver spoons,
clothes, shoes, 46 towels, and a percussion gun, be-
longing to Lord George Seymour, one of the com-
missioners, and other valuable property. He also
found that the doors of the board-room and of the
secretary's-room, had been forced open. A great
deal of violence must have been used, as appeared
from the marks of the various fastenings. Witness
believed he had seen the prisoner before, but he
knew nothing about him.
Golding Bird, a person also employed in the Ex-
cise-office, under the Excise Board, stated, that he
had made inquiries, by order of the Excise-office,
into the nature of the transaction, and he had reason
to suspect, from the account given by the father and
mother of the prisoner, that the prisoner was cer-
tainly a party to the robbery. The prisoner was a
son of one of the door-keepers belonging to the
office, who resides in apartments attached to the so-
licitor's office. A person could have access from the
door-keeper's room to the Excise-office, and the pri-
soner had been at his father's house between Satur-
day and Monday, in which interval the robbery had
taken place.

A police officer searched the prisoner upon ap-
prehending him yesterday morning, but found no
property which would connect him with the robbery.
The prisoner was determined to give no account of
himself, and said that he lived no where, that he
would not answer at all, as he might have to answer
somewhere else. No money whatever was found
in his pockets.
The LORD MAY OR asked the prisoner whether
he had any objection to say now where he resided ?
The prisoner occasionally lived at his father's apart-
ments, and he had certainly been there on the Sun-
day referred to, but was not aware of any depreda-
don, and if he had been guilty of robbing the Ex-
cise Board, he certainly would not have made his
appearance at his father's apartments under such
circumstances. He had slept for the last few nights
at 63, Devonshire-street, Lisson-grove, where the
solicitor for the Board of Excise might hear of him.
Mr. Mayow, solicitor, said it might be necessary
to produce the prisoner's father, who was a very
honest and industrious man.

The LORD MAYOR felt considerable reluctance at
the idea of making a father evidence against his son,
but he remanded the prisoner until Saturday, in
order to see if further evidence could not be
produced.
MAR YLEB ONE.
Yesterday a most extraordinary examination was
witnessed before Mr. RAWLINSON, whose attention
was engaged for a considerable time by investigat-
ing the charge preferred by a policeman, of E divi-
sion (David Laing, 50), against a clergyman, for
inebriation and unseemliness, on Sunday even-
ing, when numbers of respectable families were pro
ceeding to a place of worship.
It appeared from the statement of the policeman,
whose deposition was confirmed by a gentleman of
high character, and who happened to be passing at
:he identical time, that the prisoner had been stand-
ing at the houses in Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square,
at about six o'clock on the evening of Sunday las-,
beckoning to the ladies at their windows, and kiss-
ing his hand: over the railings to them. Several