The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-29 00:00:00

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Monday. The celebration of the " three glorious
days," and the late change in the Lisbon Cabinet are
the only subjects discussed at considerable length in
these journals. The Constitutionnel credits the re-
port of the part taken by Lord HOWARD DE WAL-
' DEN, to effect a change in the Portuguese Administra-
tion, and dwells upon it as a proof of the superior
, diplomatic sagacity of Great Britain over . that of
France. Our Parisian contemporary says :
"It has always been known by the merest tyro in
diplomatic matters, that Portugal was under English
influence, but never at any period was that influ-
ence shown in so open and official a manner. To pro-
mote the downfal of the Portuguese Ministry, Lord
HOWARD DE WALDEN had only to abstain from kis-
sing the QUEEN'S hand. We may now say that the Eng-
lish regime is established to its fullest extent. United
to the Cabinet of London by the Treaty of Quadruple
Alliance, France need not be uneasy at an influence
which will serve the common cause, but we may remark
the pains taken by England to turn every political si-
tuation to its own account. When that Cabinet gives
support to a cause it aggrandises its commerce. We
see how ardently the recruiting is going on for the Con-
stitutional cause of Spain : all is done as it were by
enchantment, not merely on account of sympathy for
principles, but England knows that, when she has ten
thousand or twelve thousand men in the fortresses of
the Spanish coast, her commerce and her political in-
fluence will profit by that circumstance. France acts
more timidly, and almost always injudiciously ; she
lends her money, furnishes men from sentimental policy,
without taking the least pains to secure her commercial
interests, which ought ever to fall in with the politics
of the country. France has done much for Greece,
without obtaining a treaty of commerce. Belgium
passes over to the Prussian system of customs, and
Spain may, in like manner, escape from France, and
pass under the commercial sway of Great Britain."
We stated yesterday, in announcing a change in the
Lisbon Cabinet, that the English Ambassador at that
Court exceeded his instructions, if he intrigued with the
enemies of the Government to prevent her Most Faith-
ful MAJESTY from exercising her Royal prerogative.
We have since learned that we were not only correct
as far as regarded the policy of the Noble Lord at the
head of the Foreign Department of Great Britain,
but that the part which Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN
is reported to have taken in bringing about a change
in the Portuguese Cabinet was one entirely removed
from party or political feeling. The late Portuguese
Cabinet entered upon its functions as a Govern-
ment by attempting to set aside the quadruple alli-
ance, and by being guilty of a breach of good
faith towards the British holders of Portuguese
Stock. To sacrifice Spain and to rob the Foreign
creditor were the first acts seriously contemplated by
M. C A mPos and his colleagues. Now it was the
duty of Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN to prevent such
outrages upon national credit and good faith ; and we
respect him for the firmness with which he resisted the
machinations of those by whom the QUEEN was duped
into a temporary support of such a dishonest faction.
The eulogy lavished on our superior diplomatic saga-
city we regard in the light of a satire upon our foreign
policy. The writer in the Constitutionnel cannot be
entirely ignorant of the prices at which England is in
the habit of purchasing any shadow of influence which
she may be supposed to exercise in the councils of
Foreign States. We readily admit the truth of all that
is urged against the foreign policy of France since the
Restoration ; but the bitterest irony could only suggest
England as a pattern of diplomatic sagacity.
While we are upon the subject it may be proper to
observe that the conduct of Lord HOWARD DE
WALDEN offers a guarantee to the commercial inte-
rests of this country, of the care with which their con-
cerns are watched over by the present Government.
Had the late Portuguese Cabinet continued in office
for three weeks longer, it was proposed to enact a law
for restricting the importation of British manufactures
to any part of Portugal, by imposing a fresh duty
upon it, varying from fifteen to twenty per cent. This
would have been tantamount to a prohibition. The
next measure was to have been levelled against
the payment of the dividends, unless there
was a surplus over and above whatever might
be deemed necessary to discharge the domestic
debt. The third was characteristic of the other two—
to shift upon the shoulders of England the expense
and trouble of putting down the insurrection in the north
of Spain. Such was the Government which is patheti-
cally wept over by the French press as the unhappy
victim of English diplomatic intrigue and sagacity.
The National contradicts in the most positive terms
the statement of the Journal des Debats, to the effect
that the PORTE had refused a firman to Admiral
ROUSSIN for permitting the French brig-of-war Mes-
sange to navigate the Black Sea. On the contrary,
the National asserts that the PORTE granted the firman
the instant it was applied for ; and that it was actually
in the hands of the Admiral when M. TEXIER thought
proper to change his destination, but with the determi-
nation of visiting the Black Sea before his return to
France.

The Paris Evening Papers of Monday publish ra-