The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-30 00:00:00

simply because her citizens are shrewd enough
to perceive that any public festival in honour of
liberty, with which Louis PHILIPPE chooses to
connect himself, must of necessity be a mere farce,
—an empty, unmeaningpageant. Moreover, Paris
is tranquil because she is surrounded by an army of
70,000 men, and because the whole of the
National Guards are called out, and ready to act,
in case French enthusiasm should make too in-
convenient a display ! What a world of reflec-
tion lies in these two little facts. Seventy
thousand men compelled to assemble in arms
merely to protect the hero of July—we beg his
pardon, of Valmy and Jemappe, as he has
assured his loving subjects a hundred times—
from the possible results of the commemoration
of an event which first placed him on the throne !
Why, even CHARLES the Tenth himself never
took such precautions as this. The Coryphxus
of liberty actually stands in greater fear for his
personal safety than the Coryphxus of des-
potism. Well may all the respectable classes in
Paris keep aloof, when they find that this is the
case, and that their commemoration of the new
birth of freedom and of popular rights is over-
awed by the presence of a standing army ! But
Louis PHILIPPE is not feared or hated ; he is,
we suspect, only despised and laughed at by the
French people. Men may dread the lion, but
they are not apt to be panic-stricken by the tit-
mouse.

FRENCIi Furors, Pmts, Jun* 27.—Five per Cents. 9Sf. 98f.
sc. 10c. 20c. 25c. ; Four per Cents. 81f. Rif. 25c.; Three per
Cents., 67f. 55c. 65c. 70c. 75c. 80c. ; National Loan, 98f. 50c.;
Bank Actions, 1,655 f. ; Rente de Naples, 79f. 60c. 75c.; Roman
Rente, 78; Rente d'Espagne, 11}, ; Royal Spanish Loan, 76% ;
% ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 55Y4 %; Belgic Loan, 76;
Haitian Loan, 205 f. Exchange on London, one month, paper,
25f. 85c. ; money, 25f. SOc. ; three months, paper, 25f. 70c. ;
money, 25f 65c.—Cours Authentique.

The Augsburg Gazette of the 24th men-
tions, on the authority of a private letter from
St. Petersburgh, that a great change is likely to
take place in the political system of the Russian
Cabinet, under the auspices of the notorious
POZZI DI BORGO, who enjoys the unbounded
confidence of NICHOLAS, and considers the
state of France as most dangerous, if not desperate,
and that the new royalty isnot strong enough to re-
sist the continual attacks ofparties." A letter from
Berlin of the 17th instant states, that the new
Sovereign of Greece, Prince 01'110 of Bavaria,
is likely to be married to the eldest daughter of
the Emperor of RUSSIA. Thus NICHOLAS
has an eye to Greece as well as to the rest of
Europe.

The French fleet at present assembling at
Cherbourg is, it is said, eventually destined for
the Scheldt, in conjunction with that of Sir
PULTENEY MALCOLM. We know that pilots
have been engaged for the French vessels for the
North Sea and Scheldt. The reason assigned
for both fleets delaying their departure for the
North, is said to be to watch the progress
of events in Portugal, in case the interfer-
ence of Spain should render it necessary to
make a demonstration on her shores. A few
days more will probably set the affairs of Por-
tugal at rest, by the defeat and expulsion of the
usurper MIGUEL, when both fleets will sail for
their destination.

The Dutch steamer has arrived with the
Journal de la Hague of the 27th inst. ; but we
do not find any news of consequence in it.

It is reported in the city that when the Em-
peror of RUSSIA heard that Lord DURHAM
was proceeding to St. Petersburgh to have an
audience, his IMPERIAL MAJESTY suddenly
set out for Revel.

Despatches were received this morning at the
Colonial Office from the Island of Jamaica.

‘We are glad to learn by the concurrent tes-
timony of the provincial Journals, that the crops
this year are unusually abundant. Everything
promises well for a fine harvest.

The College of Aberdeen, it appears, is about
to give up its right to all new publications for
the annual sum of less than 5001. What is to
be done with the money—whether it is to be
laid out for the benefit of the Students, or to go
into the pockets of the Professors, does not ap-
pear ; but whatever becomes of it, we regret to
find the northern part of the island is to be de-
prived of such a boon, in order to enrich
the British Museum with French works.
Surely the British and French Governments
could have made some arrangements for the
mutual exchange of the publications of the two
countries, without tempting the avarice of the
Senatus Academicus of Aberdeen by the miser-
able grant of 4601. a year. That University
may be said to be the only seat of learning to
the North of the Tay, and consequently is the
alma mater of more than one-half of the country;
it is 100 miles distant from any other College,
it is looked up to by the Highlander, as well as
the inhabitants on the eastern coast, as the capital
of the north ; and, therefore, to deprive it of one
of the greatest advantages belonging to a Uni-
versity—the right to new publications, some so
costly as to put them beyond the reach of private
individuals, is the most likely of all means to
degrade its character and destroy its useful-
ness. Independent of that, it entails a
great hardship on a certain part of the com-
munity,—those who may have occasion to consult
expensive works, and who, if this arrangement
be effected, must travel to St. Andrew's or Edin-
burgh for that purpose. The University of
Aberdeen has long laboured under the disgrace
of selling its honours for money, and the pre-
sent negociation only confirms the imputation
that it would not only sell its honours, but,
EsAu-like, its birth-right, for some paltry
consideration. What au outcry Sir Ito-
BERT INGLIS would have made, had such
a negociation been entered into with either
of the English Universities ! Before the nego-
tiation be closed, at all events time should be
given to the inhabitants to express their opinion
on the subject. These observations are made in
the belief that only one of the Colleges (King's
College) has a right to the new publications. That,
indeed, was the foundation of the argument of
Mr. JOHNSTON in the Commons on Saturday,
and no reply was made to it. If both have the
right, and the two Colleges are to be united, this

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