The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-11 00:00:00

ing bread for his starving countrymen, the Irish poor
were thrown overboard; yet their miserieshavebeen ren
dered available to the .I:ntposes ;of Whig pittiOn4,-e; arld
matey "t'AcinSands sterling lie've been lavished tipon the
Irish Poor Law Comniissich, appointed to inqiiire
into-that 'which the cries of famishing multitudes from
year to year have rung into the ears. of England; lib .e
'
charity has often been eXteLle.4l.6 ts;idin
their own id perish. There is a topic
'Whiq We nave been accustomed to meet with in Royal
speeches for some Years past, which has been omitted
from the present one. We mean the assurance of a
" speed; settlement of the dispute., between
and I3elgium." Hat ttdi- Secretary for Foreign Aftairs
et IsJ.;lVailit.ci of the subject at last ? Has the author
if the immortal protocols become surfeited with the
fame which they have procured him ? Does he mo-
destly leave Belgium to enjoy the blrsina,s of its
visional st,lte, and eoittelit himself with the laurels
which, a.r A lighting mediator, he reaped from the
Ali lo- Gallic convention ? Alas ! while his diplo-
matic genius was pursuing a will-o'-the-wisp in the
swamps of the Netherlands, Russia was AtttlM:.
plishing the subjugation of our hlicithit
key ; and this brings tts thg p'aft of the Speech
which refers to alt. foreign policy. His Majesty
states, 4 tburse, that lie receives• from all foreign
Powers satisfactory assurances of their desire to
maintain With this country the most friendly tlitatt.:•
standing. There can be no reasciatb% bound of doubt
on this subject; anti as long as foreign Powers can
gain from us, by diplomatic circumvention and political
intrigue, advantages which it might be doubtful' that a
war would give them, we shall continue to have satis-
factory assurances of peace. We have often had be;
casion to observe upon the alarming and dangerotis
crease of the power of Russia sint'O• the Whid
ters came into office. As long as the same course of
truckling polity is pursued by our foreign Minister,
which has been so instrumental in placing Poland and
Turkey under Russian dominion, we shall 'ctuitilitte to
denounce and expose it. What a has come
to with England, when . her Ambassador going to
Odessa in a British vessel of war, dare not enter the
Black Sea, unless smuggled into it in a merchant ship;
to prevent the wrath of the ruler of batlll•Mti4 being
excited against the " ruler of tlid WaVes.' Anti this
humiliation to me flag in the reign of a " sailor King."
We have already mentioned the case of the application
for a firman to allow our frigate, the ;Parr) to gt~ Id
some port in the Black Sea, and whith Ways refiised by
the Porte, because the littssiaat Minister ordered the
unpalatablethe
malice,
stingless truths s we e nst
Porte not to grant it. We knots 'that Ili 'Ailing those
c;atkatc upon provoking
Treasury dependants thoughthat flutter
it be, of the swarm of
of Downing-street - flutter between the purlieus
. d tic 1 the Press. The sycophants of
Lord P-Lnerstoul
.• and the " servants of all work" to
,ne Ministry, can no more escape from their task of
servile drudgery than we can abandon the course of
independence which it is both our pleasure and
our pride to pursue. By whatever politician or party
we iee the interests of the country calumniated or
betrayed, we are free to speak our opinion of him
or them, and to put the country on its guard. The
proofs that the foreign affairs of this country-are in
incompetent and feeble hands have been furnished to
the public by our correspondent from time to time, and
we shall never be ashamed or afraid to vindicate, to
the best of our power, the honour and the interests of
England against foreign encroachment and foreign
aggression. The quadruple alliance has been the
principal means of throwing Spain into anarchy—.
Belgium has been virtually reduced by the Anglo•
Gallic convention to the state of a province of France--
Poland has been obliterated from the map of Europe—
Turkey has been subjugated by the Autocrat of the
North, and the Black Sea converted into a Russian
lake, while Russia can command for her fleet, when-
ever. she pleases, the passage to the Mediterranean.
We say nothing at present of the Indian conquests
which she has more than once meditated, and for
which, by her overthrow of Persian independence, she
has greater facilities now than at any former time.
Englishmen are now butchering each other in Spain,
in a quarrel with which we ought to have no concern,
and that they have been encouraged'so to do by enter-
ing foreign service is made a subject of Ministerial
boast in the Speech from the-Throne. If these things
ire the proofs of the wisdom and .ability with which
our foreign policy is conducted, be it so. The Talley-
rands, the Lievens, and the Orloffs, will have no ob-
jection to see such proofs of the patriotic sagacity of
our statesmen exceedingly multiplied.—Morn. Herald.
A coup dceil over the European Continent will suf-
fice to convince the most sceptical that the cause of
general regeneration and liberty is progressing in b 0
de-
spite of the utmost efforts of despotism. It is impos-
sible that France can long remain passive under the
intolerable tyranny of Louis Phillippe. The Jury
and Press Codes attempted to be inflicted on the
French people, may be considered as mere pre-
ludes to another revolution. As in this country, the
atrocious aggressions of the liberticide faction against
popular rights in France will serve only to lead to a
re-action, which will crush it to utter annihilation.
The blasphemous and inane assertion of the Duke de
Coigny, " that restrictions on public discussion are
necessary to correct the state of morals in France I" is
alone sufficient to exasperate the indignant spirit of her
people to a simultaneous action in refutation of the base
and infamous calumny. No state of morals can be so de-
based as that which could induce a nation to admit that
its opinions are too impure and heinous to meet the light.
Above all, France will not disgrace herself by so vile an
admission. The mere expression of such a monstrous.
principle has already been sufficient to fill many Mem-
bers of the Chamber of Deputies with the deepest re-
morse, that their votes should have been construed into

such a scandalous libel on the national character.
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Austria affords another instance that liberty is branch-
ing through the Continent. The Emperor absents
himself from Kalisch, not only in accordance with the
feeling pervading the popular mind in Germany, but
also with the feeling of his own awakened apprehen-
sions of Russian encroachment. The impatience of
Italy for the signal of action is no secret. Portugal
is rapidly consolidating her Constitution. The Mi-
guelites themselves feel the inutility of opposition,
and confiding in the stability of the Queen's govern-
ment, have made, and are making, large purchases at
the sales of the national property. In Spain, Carlism
is at its last gasp—all but overthrown ; and the ex-
pression of our Monarch, in proroguing Parliament
yesterday, of his deep Anxiety for the success of the
Constitutional cause, and determination to fulfil his

engagements with the quadruple Alliance, leaves not a
hope for the Pretender. For our part, the elastic
character of our Constitution may admit the influx of
popular opinion without a violent convulsion, but in
other countries such a desirable consummation is
scarcely to be hoped for. Throughout the Continent,
" who would be free, himself must strike the blow ;"
and it is on France the eyes of all are fixed, awaiting
the signal for conflict. if the councils of England be
guided by a liberal spirit, her moral influence must
counteract any machinations of the conspirators at Ka-
lisch ; and England and France in the van is a gua-
rantee to the triumph of European liberty.—Morning
Advertiser.

Salmon fishing in all rivers in Scotland closes on
Monday, the 14th current. • A good many of the fish now
being taken are somewhat discoloured.
EXTRAORDINARY CAS E.—A case has recently
occurred at Kilmainham, in Ireland, which has elicited a great
deal of curiosity as well as indignation among the inhabitants
of that town. It appears that a young girl named Feltis, only
17 years of age, an orphan, who lived with her uncle, John
Love, in Dublin, had obtained permission of him in Novem-
ber last to go to the neighbourhood of Ferns, county of
Wexford, to visit an aunt. Her uncle heard no tidings of
her until March, when he was informed by a woman, who
said she had come from Wexford, that she had died in the
February preceding. On the i.ith of July Mr. Love re-
ceived a letter from the deputy-governor of Kilmainham, stat-
ing that Margaret Feltis, his niece, was a prisoner in Kil-
mainham gaol, under sentence of transportation, having been
convicted in Wexford of vagrancy. Mr. Love immediately
repaired to Kilmainham, and after much difficulty succeeded
in getting his niece liberated. The real cause of the poor
girl's imprisonment is not at present known, although it is
supposed that the fact of her having witnessed a robbery com-
mitted by some men who were related to a female living un-
der the protection of an individual of some influence is the
cause. It is alleged that this female was the contriver of the
plot which put the only witness against her relatives out of
the way, and thus, by depriving a poor and innocent girl of
her liberty, screened them from their well-merited punish-
ment. The case is one which demands a full in7estigaton.