The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-09 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1832.

The insurrection at Paris is by this time
completely at an end. The insurgents have
been routed at all points, not, however, without
great carnage and considerable difficulty, and
LOUIS-PHILIPPE is for the moment triumphant.
The capital, however, notwithstanding his bloody
successes, is formally declared to be in a state of
siege—a phrase of ominous import, and which
would seem to imply that all is not vet settled.
But he this as it may, and be the actors in the
conspiracy whom they may, ohe point is fixed
as fate, clear as the arithmetical calculations of
Mr. CROKER, namely, that the Citizen KING—
so called, we presume, from his close resemblance
in mind and person to a fat London Alderman—has
by his recent show of energy, triumphed less over
his enemies than himself. He can now no longer
beard public opinion with impunity. He has
placed himself in a position from which there is
no retreating, except by a surrender, one by one,
of all his temporising, anti-national opinions.
He must now either fulfil the pledges that he
made when raised to the throne, which should
never have known him as an occupant, or at
once resign his sovereignty, and—the unkindest
cut of all, his enormous civil list. The decision
is, no doubt, a painful one ; but there is no help
for it—it must be made. LOUIS-PHILIPPE
must consent to call the movement party
to his Councils, and under their banners
march with the mind of France, or he must
prepare for a still more disagreeable alternative.
These are no times for Kings to trifle with.
The people are sick to death of the stale old
Royal game of Fast-and-loose. They will have
a man, not a driveller at their head ; one who
knows how to say " Yes" in proper season—
or they will take the matter into their own hands.
For the present, we repeat, the disturbances
at Paris are at an end. Now, therefore,
comes the question, what is to be done
with the prisoners ? This is a ticklish
point, and one which will require all Louis-
PHILIPPE'S sagacity to settle. It is evi-
dent that he cannot, with common decency,
act with rigour towards them, that is to say, he
cannot condemn them to the scaffold, when he
calls to mind the extraordinary pains he took
to spare the far more guilty POLIGNAC and
his abandoned fraternity. If the conspirators of
1832 deserve death, so did those of 1830. If
the former are to be made a terrible example of,
so also, to the very same extent, should be the
latter. Besides, with what justice can Louis-
PIIILLIPE wage a war of extermination
against the Parisian conspirators, whe-
ther Carlist, Republican, or Buonapartist,
when he allows the chief offender to escape ?
There is little doubt, we believe,that the Duchess
de BERRI and her besotted adherents have had
a considerable share in exciting the late explo-
sion in the French capital, and yet, notwithstand-
ing this audacious outrage, she is still left at
large—still traverses the country, stirring up dis-
affection wherever she moves—unharmed, un-
touched, as if she were virtually the Regent
of France ! The provincial, as well as the
metropolitan gen darmeries, are notorious
for their dexterity in running down persons
obnoxious to Government, yet strange to say,
on this occasion, which one would suppose
would call forth all their keenest faculties, they
have confined their ingenuity to imprisoning
minor offenders, while they have allowed the
most public and conspicuous culprit of all to
evade them !

The question, " What is to be done with the
Parisian conspirators ?" will, we clearly foresee,
be the occasion of considerable embarrassment to
Louts-PHIEEIPPE. It would puzzle the saga-
city of even a NAPOLEON ; how, then, must it
discompose the stinted thinking faculties of the
Citizen King ?

A messenger left town this morning, from
Downing-street, for East Sheen, the seat of Earl
GREY, and returned about one o'clock, stating
that the Noble:Premier was still very indisposed.

The Report of the Reform Committee pre-
sented to the Common Council yesterday, will
meet with the approbation of the country. It
recommends the postponement of the great day
of rejoicing till the three Bills become the law
of the land—till the Scotch and Irish, who }lace
so nobly supported the English in the great
contest, can mingle their joyful acclamations with
their brethren of England. The three countries
have fought as one man—let them celebrate the
victory on the same day, and thus bind faster
these bonds of unity which have so often led

our fleets and armies to victory, and which ii
the course of the last month have raised th,
country to a prouder eminence than any
she ever enjoyed. The electors of West
minster have postponed their triumph t 1
the 27th, the proclamation of WILLIAM IV.
We should have preferred the previous day, be
cause it is the anniversary of his accession to th(
throne, because we trust that before that day hi,
MAJESTY will afford his people an opportunity
of testifying how anxious they are to forget the
past, and show that, though obscured by foul
means, their loyalty is still as bright as ever.

The conduct of the General Assembly of the
Church of Scotland is such as we expected. It
will be seen that a petition was presented to the
House of Commons last night from that en-
lightened body, approving of the Government
plan of education in Ireland ; but, at the same
time, declaring it to be the right of all Protest-
ants to have access to the whole Scriptures.
The latter clause is in perfect accordance
with the plan, and none but the enemies
of toleration and the political enemies
of the Government thought otherwise.
Indeed we may say, none but the bigot, blinded
by religious antipathy, could suppose for a mo-
ment that Government had any other intentions.
All the rest were stirred up by political hatred.
That assembly, though abounding in Tory mem-
bers, is both liberal and religious, and has too
high a sense of honour and justice to throw
any obstruction in the way of education
from mere party feelings. The Honour-
able Member for the rotten borough
of Dundalk, aays the assembly was deceived.
He would yet prove it. GOD help his ignorant
presumption ! There is no use in reasoning
with certain persons, but we merely ask whether
a body of about 250 well educated persons, who
had discussed the question in their different
Presbyteries, and given their attention to it for
the last two months, are as likely to be deceived
as an individual who had spent his youth on board
a man-of-war, and who has been known since
only for his exhibitions at field-preachings, and
his hatred of religious toleratidh. Well might
the Gallant Officer take refuge in such a place
as Dundalk ; for in his native country he will
find no congenial spirits. The people of Scot-
land hate Popery ; but that hatred is mixed
with a feeling of sympathy for the errors of
others, with an anxious desire for the universal
diffusion of education as the only means of ex-
tinguishing bigotry and superstition.

We have received several communications
from Newspaper Proprietors in Scotland, and,
among others, more especially from the Inver-
ness Journal and the Scots Times, complaining
of gross errors in the Parliamentary paper pub-
lished respecting " Newspaper Stamps, Scot-
land." All we can say is, that the errors
are entirely attributable to the Stamp-office,
Edinburgh, a certified copy of the Parlia-
mentary return published, being signed by
THOMAS PENDER, Comptroller. We have
again carefully compared the Parliamentary re-
turn with the copy in The Sun, and they both
agree. The parties aggrieved had therefore
better apply to the Stamp-office, Edinburgh, to
make a more correct return, which we shall have
great pleasure in publishing.

German Papers contain the following account
of the state of affairs in Egypt. Public feeling
in Germany is daily becoming more ominous to
the despots :

Ar.ExiNnata, Aram 16.—1 have just arrived from
Cairo, and hearing that a ship is to sail to-morrow for
Marseilles, I hasten to send yon a few words on the pre-
sent state of Egyptian polities. I left Cairo in a most
melancholy situation; for some weeks several persons have
been beheaded daily, and this merely on the information
of miserable spies, who make a trade of it. Nobody
ventures to open his shop, because every moment such
people come and demand money, threatening to denounce
them to Chabib Effendi, the Minister of the Interior, who,
without further inquiry, signs the sentence of death. It
is forbidden, under pain of death, to utter the following
words :—Constantinople, Sultan, Syria, Acre, Ibrahim
Pacha, Abdalha Pacha, &c. All who bore any of
these names changed them. A man returning home
one evening, and not being able to open the house door,
said angrily, " I have you secure like the gates of
Acre." Half an hour afterwards he was imprisoned, and
beheaded the following morning. Another cried Syrian
onions, which are of a better quality; he too was exe-
cuted. These cruelties excited indeed a violent fermenta-
tion among the people, but led to no disturbance; and it
is not likely that there will be any explosion of the popular
discontent till a part of the troops become unfaithful to
the Pacha, or the army in Syria is defeated. Acrc is not
taken, and Ibraham has given the idea of taking it by
force, after the failure of several attempts. The place is
invested by sea and land, and Ibraham with part of his
army is gone to the north of Syria, to engage the several
Pachas who have been ordered by the Sultan to unite
against him. A bulletin, stating the defeat of Osman
Pacha, has been communicated to the Consuls. This bulle-
tin has been already published.) The bulletin itself shows
that hitherto there has not been much good news to an-
nounce, and nobody doubts of an unfavourable issue for
our Pacha, when a regul a army with the Sultan in per-
son shall arrive in Syria.

Five per Cents. 87 5-16 ; Four per Cents. 76i; Bank
Shares, 1,139. —Allgemeine Zeitung, June 2.
BERLIN, MAY 26.—A Royal order, recalling the
troops of the 4th corps of the army from the Rhenish pro-
vinces, and a part of the third corps from the province of
Saxony, to their old garrisons, has been revoked for the
present, in consequence of accounts received from Paris.
General Von Pfuel is gone to Cologne.—Frankfort
Papers, June 3