The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-16 00:00:00

12th of the same month, have been received. The
New York Journals talk of the war with France as
inevitable, and if we may credit all they say as fairly
representing public opinion, the inhabitants of the
States—more especially the manufacturing and commer-
cial portion of them—are rather rejoiced than grieved
at the probability of such an event. In the sitting of
the Senate on the 23d ult., Mr. CLAY moved for
copies of all correspondence between the Governments
of France and the United States from the 4th of July,

1831, to the promulgation of the PRESIDENT'S Mes-
sage, as far as such correspondence to the Treaty
then signed between these Powers. A similar motion
had been carried previously in the Chamber of Repre-
sentatives.

The Quebec jour pals state that a -rumour prevailed
that the Provincial Legislative Assembly had post-
poned its sitting, in expectation of instructions
from the Colonial Office. The navigation of
the river was still open, notwithstanding a
heavy fall of snow, which had occurred on the Sth.
Still it was the prevailing opinion that Tall communi-
cation between Quebec and Montreal had terminated
for the season.

We beg the attention of our readers to a letter from
Birmingham in this day's Sun. Bribery and delusion
—though the universal—are not the only weapons of
Tory warfare. Coercion, military coercion, is, it
seems, to be resorted to, where these are likely to fail.
It appears that the great popularity of the Reform
Candidates for East Worcestershire, had excited the
alarm of the Tory party. Something must be done to
counteract its effects. What expedient so ready and
so sure a 3 a riot ? The most obnoxious of the party
are put forward to insult the Reformers ; a few stones
are thrown at these individuals after great provocation,
when, on the instant they shout " A riot I a riot ! send for
the military I" and accordingly the military are called in.
The freemen of England are to be deterred from ex-
pressing their political sentiments in the polling booths
by troops of Lancers ! This is no bad specimen of
what we are to expect under the WELLINGTON Dic-
tatorship, should that form of government continue
much longer in this country.

The Citizen KING has at length discovered, that as

the Sovereign of Frenchmen he is bound in honour to
evince a becoming courage, when arraigned before
the tribunal of nations as a monarch devoid of inte-

grity, and a gentleman addicted to practices to which
mercantile men, in their uncourtly phraseology, give
the name of " swindling." In the Moniteur of

Wednesday, which we have received with all the
Paris papers of the same date, we find it announced,
five days after the receipt of the PRESIDENT'S Mes-
sage, that the KING has given orders for the
recal of M. SERRURIER, his Minister at Washing-

on ; and that Admiral DE RIGNY, the Minister for

Foreign Affairs, communicated to Mr. LIVINGSTONE,

he American Ambassador, that his passports were

ready whenever it suited him to quit Paris. This was
rather sudden ; and if it formed a part of the KING'S

policy to astonish the Parisians by such a display of
energy, after having previously appeared to submit
with complacency to the insult offered him by the Ame-
rican PRESIDENT, he has succeeded to the fullest ex-
tent of his wishes. The people of France were not
prepared for such measures, and their surprise corres-
ponds with the unexpectedness of the event. But
what renders this'matter most puzzling is, that, follow-
ing the above announcement in the Moniteur, appears
an official statement that on the day following (yester-

day) the French Ministry would introduce a Bill in
Chamber of Deputies for recognizing and providing
means of discharging the claims of America ; to which
Bill a clause would be subjoined, asserting that France
acted not under the influence of intimidation. This is
an unsheathing of the sword, and a holding forth of
the olive in rather an unprecedented style of amicability
and defiance. There appears to us no necessity for
asserting the courage of France, when the whole cause
of difference can be removed by paying a sum of money
which France acknowledges to be justly owing to Ame-
rica. Brother JONATHAN only seeks the settlement of
his just claims, and if not paid by others threatens to
pay himself. More he does not say on the subject in
an angry spirit. Nay, he even goes so far as to advise
his debtor not to take it amiss that he resorts to so
uncourteous a mode of doing justice to himself—that
all he wants is his money, and, having gotten that, he
will conduct himself with his wonted regard to good
neighbourhood. Now the very step which the
KING proposes to the Chamber, is a full admission of
the justice of JONATHAN'S claims ; and the celerity with
which his MAJESTY would now have that step taken,
an admission equally full, that the language of JONA-
THAN had become too serious to be any longer mis-
taken for an unmeaning, impotent threat. The best
thing the KING could have done, after his past
tergiversations, would have been to pay the money and
take some other time to settle his personal quarrels with
the PRESIDENT. It will be well if his blundering
bravado of recalling his Minister does not cause the
very rupture which he would be the first to deprecate.
All now depends upon the Congress. IP that body
adopt the views of the PRESIDENT, and revenge the
abrupt recall of the French Minister, by voting the
termination of a further intercourse with France, a war
is inevitable. Now it is conjectured by those best ac-
quainted with the present state of American feeling,
that such an event is not at all improbable. The party
in opposition to General JACKSON is very strong in
Congress ; but it ought to be known that most of the
constituent parts of that body are merchants who op-
pose the PRESIDENT, because they disapprove of his
commercial policy as too liberal—meaning of course
too favourable to foreigners. Now to these persons a
war with France would be hailed as the high-road to
fortune. To them it would secure the full possession
of their dearly-prized monopolies—and beyond that
merchants are very rarely accustomed to look. Again,
the Americans arc all jealous of their Republican re-
putation, and, though opposed to the PRESIDENT on
many important questions, they respect his courage,
and would sacrifice all they are worth to support him
in a war undertaken in a cause which reflects honour
upon the stern justice of the States.
Such is the present; state of the misunderstanding
between France and the United States. To barb the
shaft which the CITIZEN KING let fly at the PRESI-
DENT, in his unceremoni•uS communication to Mr.
LIVINGSTONE!, the Chamber of Deputies rose on
Thursday, without the introduction of the pro-
mised Bill for, the indemnification of Ame-
rica. This is offering the bane, but withholding
the antidote—presenting the sword, but treading upon
the olive. Perhaps the non-introduction of the Bill
on the day officially announced, arose from some un-
avoidable cause of delay. If so, the evil may still be