The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The military reputatt:;ll and political career of
Marshal Soult are too well known to require any
further elucidation from us at the present mo-

His aptitude for the post of Prime Mi-
nister we never should have suspected, unless
Louis Philippe had thought it necessary to pro-
duce a tranquillizing effect on that portion of his
subjects (we beg pardon, not his subjects, but
fellow-citizens) who show a taste now and then
for tumults or conspiracies, or are disposed to
overawe his authority. A successful soldier
who has risen almost from the ranks—a man of
the first revolution, who had acquired immense
wealth and fame during the Empire, but was
neglected at the Restoration—a Marshal of
France, in whose talents, activity, and expe-
rience, the army has the greatest confidence—
null always be an important personage in a
community like that of the French nation at
the present moment, when half the people think
that they are threatened with external invasion,
and the other half pretend to be frightened at
the prospect of internal disorder—when the
mouvement party are calling out for protec-
tion against foreign despots, and quiet citi-
zens fcr protection against domestic agita-
tions. Such a man must inspire fear i! he
does not create confidence ; and unless he
commit great blunders, o- provoke great resent-
ments, may be reckoned a support to the new
throne which he covers with his broad shield
from the too eager scrutiny of the multitu&. His
great defect, in a representative Government like
that of France, is hs want of oratorical talent,
and his consequent inability to defend his mea-
sores with spirit and effect in the legislative
Chambers. That defect will, however, be in
some degree compensated by the speaking powers
of his new colleagues the Duke de Broglie, M.
Ullmann, and M. Thiers. With the Duke de
DrogPe he may likewise expect the assistance of
the Duke's friend M. Guizot, who, though not
admitted into the Cabinet, will. no doubt sup-
port its measures. Another great advantage
which France and Europe may expect to derive
from the presence of those gentlemen in the Mi-
nistry, is the pledge of peace which they afford, to
counteract the suspected warlike propensities of
the Premier. Yet, notwithstanding these fortu-
nate- circumstances,—notwithstanding the deci-
sive character of the Marshal,—notwithstanding
the oratorical powers, the administrative know-
ledge, and the moderate peaceful views of his
tae: colleagues,----the Cabinet is said by our City
correspondent to inspire no confidence, either in
its popularity or durwion,—arising, no doubt, as
it is properly stated, from a distrust in the hete-
rogeneous materials of which it is composed.
The Stock-Exchange at Paris seemed to have
entertained the same opinion, and the funds con-
sequently rather declined than rose at the news
of the ministerial change.— Times.

ment.

Lore! Durham left Berlin to return to London
on the 28th September ; so that the expectation
that he might repeat at the Court of Vienna the
representations which he has made at the Courts
of St. Petersburgh aid Berlin, respecting the
views of Government on the present state of
European politics, will be disappointed. If we
may judge from the satisfaction expressed by the
French diplomatists of the amended disposition
of the Russian Court since Lord Durham's visit,
and which they ascribe wholly to his interven-
tion, we hope we are not sanguine in anticipa-
ting that beneficial results have been obtained
through this mission for the cause of independ-
ence and liberty throughout Europe. But the
erect which may have been produced by Lord
Durham's embassy must be followed up by the
appointment of permanent representatives at the
great European Courts, in whose principles the
English public and the friends of civilization
and freedom on the continent can equally repose
confidence. Of what avail will the expense
which has been incurred in this mission be to
the public if Lord Heytesburv, or some fellow-
labourer in the Castlereagh School, is sent to
remove the wholesome impression which may
have been enforced by a good Reformer and a
devoted adherent to the liberal cause ?
Lord Durham's appointment to St. Petersburgh
and Lord Minto's at Berlin, were so far satis-
factory, as evidence of a better disposition en-
forced upon Lord Palmerston by our former ob-
servations on this subject, and which were
fAuwed up with so much vigour and success by
our contemporarie,. But they were not succeed-
ed by the removal of other functionaries, still
left to misrepresent the feelings and opinions of
Government, and of the great majority of the
British people at other courts ; and we do not
think the present an inopportune moment to
recal the attention of our readers to the subject.
We pray them to watch the new appointments.
Sir Stratford Canning retires from Constanti-
nople. The Russian mission is vacant, and we
believe a vacancy has also occurred at Dresden,
which there may be little necessity to fill up.
The Secretary, or any of the attaches, can do
all the business there. As Lord Palmerston
has on former occasions benefited by our counsel,
we humbly tender. him our advice to transfer the
services of Sir Frederick Lamb from Vienna to
Constantinople. His opinions are said to be
better suited to the meridian of the Porte. He
is a decided Anti-reformer ; did his best to talk
down the Government, of which his brother
was a member, in the fashionable coteries of
this metropolis, and we never can believe is a
fit and willing instrument of a reforming
Administration, or a decided supporter of
the independence of the smaller Germa►► LegiS-
lettuces and the German Press, against the unjust
and overbearing tyranny of Prince Metternich.
We respect, and are willing to do ample jus-
tice to the claims of Lord Melbourn as a sin-
cere and able supporter of popular opinions ; but
we must doubt whether his brother, who is
known to entertain opposite sentiments, is pro-
perly employed at this critical conjuncture at the
head-quarters of every thing that is odious and
detestable in European politics. Send him,
therefore, pray, Lord Palmerston, to Constanti-
nople. Replace him by some successor of
known principles and of greater energy. It is
said such employes are not easily found. This
is sheer nonsense. We ask again, whether the
Americans are ever at a loss to find able Minis-
ters to represent and eysorce their interests ?
Lord Palmerston may be assured that what is
called our Diplomatic Corps will not survive the
next two Sessions of Parliament—we hope not
one. Much may depend upon the announce-
ment of the next appointments. If we are still
to have A'Courts, Dundas's, Forster's, Bloom-
field's, or Seymour's forcei upon us, it will be-
come quite evident that a "root and branch"
reform is the only remedy left. We wait with
patience till Lord Palmerston has announced his
new Ambassadors; and we have, in the mean
time, a catalogue raisonnie of the whole esta-

blishtnent in operation, for his instruction and
that of the reformed House of Commons.—
.Morning Chronicle.

If the Whigs---or rather, perhaps, we should
say, the Whig Ministers—are doomed to suffer
defeat at any of the ensuing elections, it will
have been mainly owing to their having been
more true to themselves than to their principles.
It has been the infatuated policy of that party
uniformly to discard, when in office, the prin-
ciples which they have espoused and the pro-
arises which they have made when in opposition.
With this dereliction they have been constantly
upbraided ; but these upbraidings they have as
constantly disregarded.- Their bringing forward,
and carrying, through such a tide of difficulty
and opposition, the splendid measure of Parlia-
mentary Reform, is, it must be admitted, a
-triking exception to this general rule, and is of
itself sufficient to ensure to them the gratitude
an,l respect of that. large portion of the commu-
nity to whom that measure must prove an un-
alloyed blessing. Upon this foundation alone
the Whigs might have established a long tenure
of office ; and so they might still ; but to do so
they have much to disavow and retrace. The
.
people at large gladly accepted the great mea-
sure of Reform, not only as most valuable in
itself, but as a pledge that. the same principle
should pervade all the public actions of its
authors. Their disappointment, on the one
hand, is equal to their gratitude ; and they turn
with natural resentment towards those who
are thus proving so inconsistent with themselves.
The Tories, or " Conservatives," as they now
call themselves, taking advantage of this well-
known failing of their adversaries, are every
where persuading the several constituencies that
they are the real Reformers, and the others only
impostors, while, between the promises. and in-
consistencies of both these parties, the people in
most places are sorely puzzled, as they may well
be, which party to confide in. The Whigs have
the present advantage in one respect, in having
what is called " the nine points of law" in
their favour—viz. possession of office ; and their
conduct will amount to little short of political
insanity, if, after achieving so great a victory,
they have not the skill, or rather, we should say,
the common sense, to keep it. But that, we
can tell them, can only be done by a prompt and
steady adhesion to their former promises and
avowals, as more than ever called into action by
the tiew era which they themselves have created.
We have said that whatever is done must be
done promptly. It has become too much
the custom for the public to learn little
authentically of public affairs but whilst Par-
liament is sitting—for Ministers keep their
intentions (when they have any) a sealed book,
unless when it is found convenient to send forth
feelers to ascertain- the pulse of the public.
Now, unless the Whigs are prepared to increase
the advantages which their adversaries are evi-
dently gaining over them in many of the places
likely to be contested at the ensuing general
election, they must break through this veil of
silence and of mystery. . Let them resolve what
to do, and let those resolves be such as the
people have a right to expect from them. Let
those resolves be made known through the
organs which will be ready enough to pro-
claim them. Let the people be told at once
what it is they propose to do on the great lead-
ing points of general policy—the Bank, the
Currency, the Corn Laws, the Colonies, the
East India Charter ; not forgetting the ,great
features of domestic expenditure. •Let-!:i3S- have
such pledges upon these topies.. as the public
have a right to expect, and the title which is in
many places setting in against Ministers will re-
turn and sweep. away their opponents.—Morn-
zna• Herald.

A Morning Miaisterial Journal has been in-
dulging its readers with some " balderdash,"
upon the authority of letters from Paris by a
known correspondent," relative to the wonder-
ful success of Lord Durham's mission. Upon
this authority the " most thinking" people of
England are given to understand that his Lord-
ship has actually induced the Calmuc Dictator of
Europe to believe that the. English Ministers are
not the hypocritical pretenders which he sus-
pected them to be to liberal opinions, and
that :even if they were, whatever might be
their duplicity, they must be kept in the
path of liberal politics by the new force
,riven to popular control." More than this
—we are told that the Court of Berlin, struck
with this new view of things—a view of less
hypocrisy friar' it st►spected on the Part of the
British Government—is said to have expressed
regret at the publication of tile late ordinances
(of the Frankfort Diet), and a wish for their
recall. Thus his Lordship has "killed two birds
with one stone"—he has fairly put two of the
despotic triumvirate hors du combat. Nay,
more—" Our letters," says the Journal in clues--
Goo, " add a declaration of his Lordship, that
he has made a Liberal of tile Czar.'" We
shall, no doubt, after this hear of the sa-
vage destroyer of Poland—the confiscator
of children—tbe leading conspirator against
the liberties of Germany and of all Eu-
rope—becoming as penitent as that old
fox which was suddenly taken with qualms of
conscience, touching his manifold depredations,
and most earnestly declaimed before the brood
-of young Reynards against the sinfulness of
robbing hen-roosts, when the approach of a
clocking hen put all his moral sentiment to flight
—at least until after supper. As to proof of
such extraordinary conversion there is nothing
like an overt act ;and with that we are furnished,
for the same credible authority relates, " What
would appear almost incredible, were there not
some ground for believing in this conversion, his
Imperial Majesty has despatched Pozzo di Borgo
both to Berlin and Vienna, to enforce the new
views both on Ancellin and Mettemich." Un-
fortunately, however, for this statement, the
Berlin papers, some time ago, " let the cat out
of the bag" relative to this mission of Pozzo di
Borgo, which is to concert measures for the
" more effective putting down of the revolu-
tionary spirit in Europe," than any that have
yet been contrived. Now we venture to say,
that Lord Durham's mission has been a failure,
and its results will not repay the expense which
it cost. The state of Belgium proves it ; the
state of Poland proves it ; and the continued
enforcement of the decrees of the Frankfort Diet
places it beyond all doubt.—Morning Herald.

WILD HORSES.-The herds of wild horses
present a beautiful spectacle when they are alarmed in
their native wilds by the intrusion of an army. Instead
of flying, as the deer and other titnid animals, they gallop
round in compact masses of many thousands, apparently
for the purpose of reconnoitering the strangers; and fre.
quently advance boldly to within a few yards of the line
of march, where they halt to gazl at the troops, snorting,
and shewing every sign of astonishment and displeasure,
tspecially at the sight of cavalry. These droves are al-
ways beaded by some fine looking old bashaws, whose
flowing manes and tails plainly shew that they have never
been subject to man's controul: the mares and colts follow
in the rear.—Campaigns in Venezuela.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO TV- S TREE T.

Yesterday, the young man named Wood, who
stands charged with being concerned in a burglary
which took place at the house of Mr. George Clarke,
a hay-salesman, residing at Paddington, when pro-
perty to the amount of 5001 was stolen, was again
brought forward, in order to be re-examined.
It will be recollected, that the prisoner was ap-
prehended at the New-inn, Old Bailey, where he
was in attendance to prove an alibi on behalf of a
Fran named Jephson, who was tried at the last Old
Bailey cessions, and convicted of another burglary.
The officer who apprehended Jephson found in his
possession bank-notes to the amount of 801., and
one of these for 501. was subsequently sworn to by
Mr. Clarke, the prosecutor in the present case, as
part of the money of which he had been robbed.
Police inspector Adamson immediately suspected
that both Jephson and the prisoner Wood were two
of the three men who were observed in a passage
leading to Mr. Clarke's house on the day of the
robbery, and the identity of both was subsequently
proved by a milkman, named Edward Mack, who
observed the three men m the situation described.
This witness, however, on the last examination of the
prisoner, declared that Jephson was not one of the
men whom he had so observed, and thus the case
stood until yesterday's examination.
The evidence of Mr. Clarke, the prosecutor, hav-
ing been read over,
Mr. MINsHULL asked him if he had succeeded in
tracing any more of his property.
Mr. Clarke saw two 101. bank-notes at the Bata:
of England. They bore his signature, and he re-
ceived them at the bank of Messrs. Drummond.
He would not swear, however, that they formed
part of the notes which the thieves had carried off.
The witness, Edward Mack, in answer to ques-
tions put so him by the Magis-rate, said he- had
been to Newgate, in company with -Mrs. Clarke,
sister-in-la.W of the prosecutor, and that he there
,aw Jephson, and indentified him as one of the men
whom he saw in company with the.prisoner close to
the prosecutor's house on the day it was broken
into and robbed.

Mr. C atkson said that the witness swore posi-
tively on the last examination that Jephson was not
one of the men whom he had so seen in the priso-
ner's company. He put it to the Magistrate whether
the witness, under such circumstances, was entitled
to the slightest credit.
The witness was so confused on the last exami-
nation, that he did not clearly understand the pur-
port of the questions which were put to him.
Mr. Clarkson said that the witness deliberately
swore, not only that he could not speak to the
identity of Jephson, but that he should not be ena-
bled to swear to the persons of either of the men
whom he had seen in the prisoner's company on the
day referred to. He (Mr. Clarkson) had taken a
note of what bad occurred on that occasion, and he
was sure that the answer of the prisoner must be in
the recollection of the Magistrate, and of those per-
sons who happened to be present.
Mr. MINSHULL said that the witness certainly did
sate, on the last examination, that Jephson was nor
one of the men whom he had seen with the pi-
soi;er. The witness, however, had a right to amend
his evidence.

Mr. Clarkson hoped, if the Magistrate should so
decide, that the evidence given by the witness on
the last examination would be returned to the Court,
in order that the Juiy might consider what degree
of credit was due to such a witness.
Mr. MINSHULL directed the clerk to take down
the evidence of the witness as he was now prepared
to give it. The Magistrate then cautioned him to
speak the truth, and told him to state exactly what
occurred when he went to Newgate for the purpose
of identifying Jephson.—The witness then stated,
that he went to Newgate, accompanied by inspector
Adamson, and Mrs. Clarke, the prosecutor's sister-
in-law. They looked through a window into the
yard, where there were 14, or 15 risoners. Mrs.
Clarke pointed out Jephson, who, seeing that he
was noticed, pulled his hat over his brow, and told
the prisoner to stand before him. Witness then
identified Jephson, and knew him to be one of the
men whom he had seen in the passage leading to
the back part of the prosecutor's house, in company
with the prisoner, on the day the robbery took place.
Mr. MINSHULL—Are you now quite sure that
Jephson was one of them? Witness-1 am. I un-
derstood the question asked me on the last examina-
tion was, whether I had seen Jephson prior to my
having seen him on the day of the robbery.
Mr. Clarkson—Did you not hear inspector Adam-
son say, whon he you last gave evidence here, deny-
ing that Jephson was one of the men, " He swore
directly the reverse the last examination ?"—The
witness answered that he did not remember hearing
the inspector say so.
Mr. Clarkson—Will you swear he did not use
those very words in your bearing ? Recollect what
you are about, as there is such a thing as an indict-
ment for perjury.

The witness would not swear that he did not
hear the observation.

Mr. Clarkson was proceeding to cross-examine
the witness on other points of his former evidence,
as compared with the statement which he now
made, when

Mr. MlNsrwr.r. interposed, and observed that
it was not usual for counsel to cross-examine wit-
nesses in the course of a preliminary proceeding.
Mr. Claikson could avail himself of that advantage
on the trial of the prisoner.
Mrs. Ann Claike, sister-in-law of the prosecutor,
lived opposite to the house of the prosecutor, and
on Sunday, the .2941 of July, the prisoner
Jephson, whom she had since identified at Newgate,
asked her, as she was looking out of the window, if
Mr. Clarke (the prosecutor) was not gone to Har-
row. She replied she did not know, and referred
him to her husband. The prisoner then went away.
Mr. Clarkson—Was any other person in his com-
pany at the time?
Mrs. Clarke—l saw no person with him.
Mr. Claikson submitted, that whatever this wit-
ness might say could only affect Jephson, and could
not in uny way bear upon the prisoner.
The MAGISTRATE expressed his determination to
send the prisoner for trial.
In,pector Adamson should have further evidence
to produce, and the prisoner was ordered to be rc-
mantled for a week.