The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur publishes a decree promulgating
the treaty concluded on the 14th March last be-
tween France and Denmark relative to the redemp-
tion of the dues hitherto paid by vessels passing the
Sound and the Belts.
The Nord announces, on the faith of a Paris let-
ter, that the second plenipotentiaries if the treaty
of Paris will hold a congress in the French capital
in November, to settle the question of the Princi-
palities.
" The series of personal interviews of sovereigns,"
says the Nord, " which for the last month has kept
Europe in suspense, is now over. The interviews
of the Emperor Napoleon with Queen Victoria at
Osborne ; of the former with the Emperor Alex-
ander and the King of Wurtemberg at Stuttgardt ;
of the Emperor of Russia with the Emperor of
Austria at Weimar ; of the Emperor Alexander
with the King of Saxony and several German sove-
reigns at Dresden ; and lastly, of the same Em-
peror with the King of Prussia at
.Berlin, con-
stitutes the series. These are certainly events
which will [render the last few weeks one of the
most memorable epochs of contemporaneous his-
tory. The succession and the multiplied rela-
tions of these personal meetings of the Emperor
Alexander 11., WhoSe pacific and liberal tenthncies
are welt known, with all these sovereigns, will suf-
fice to do away- with the gratuitous suppositions
L which the fear of isolated alliances had provoked on
the part of certain journals, and may sanction the
I most sanguine hopes of a general good understand-
ing and of the consolidation of peace and good re-
lations between the governments and nations of
Europe."
If we (Galignani) are to put faith in the pro-
phetic powers of the Univers, the evils which have
hitherto resulted from the Indian revolt are com-
paratively light when contrasted with those which
remain in store. That journal parades before the
eyes of its readers a formidable list of calamities
which menace England. ; this list comprises the ex-
haustion of the East India Company, the decline
of the aristocracy, the triumph of principles of
equality, the increase of crown influence, the de-
velopment of electoral corruption, and the advent
of a government "such as was seen in France un- '
der Louis Philip ?e." We reproduce the views of
our contemporary, which ought to content the
most intolerant foe of England :
"During the pacification of India, tho commerce
of the land will be almost entirely interrupted, and
the revenue of the company greatly reduced. This
state of things cannot fail to produce great changes.
Should the existence of the company be prolonged, go-
vernment will be compelled to render it assistance, and
thereby increase taxation. The customs returns will ho
ci. in'shed, an income-tax will infallibly be established.
The members of the aristocracy, whose incomes have
already been reduced by recent legislative laws, would
witness an additional decrease in their resources. They
would be compelled to reduce their expenditure, and
thereby forfeit a considerable portion of their influence.
A great mistake would be made in supposing that the
fatal principles of equality, from which we ham so long
suffered, have not penetrated into England. A great
number of persons of the middle class invade the minis-
tries, and request employment in the public service;
while wealthy young men belonging to the upper classes
avoid military service. They dislike residing for any
time out of England, and this repugnance will be
heightened now that nearly the entire British army is
employed in India and the colonies. In definitive, the
events of India rau,t tend to increase the influence of
the crown by the vast number of civil and military ap-
pointments which are now atits disposal. This circumstance
will enable ministers to surround themselves with de-
voted clients, and will thereby contribute to. develop
electoral corruption. The influence of the ad:doer/11y
will be effaced, and the midule classes may perhaps
endow Great' Britain with a Government similar to that
which existed in France under Louis Phillippe. This
would be the ruin of England's greatness."
The Spectateur states in an article headed "The
Interviews" that it has sough in vain for an Euro-
pean question of sufficient importance to have
warranted any serious determination on the part
of the sovereigns
,who met in Stuttgardt ; and it
maintains that the latter meeting was despoiled of
its significancy by the subsequent interview at
Weimar :

" What importance," exclaims the Specktteur, "would
have been attached, fifty years ago, to the meeting at
Tilsit, bad the Emperor Alexander I, before returning
• to his dominions, pa d a visit t King George 111 !"
Our contemporary admits that a pacific spirit pre-
sided at these interviews ; but it insinuates that
three natural causes tend even more surely than
these courteous meetings to preserve the peace of
' Europe ; those causes are :
"In the first place, the events of India. The
journals which dwell with the greatest complacency
on the power of England admit that, in order
to re-establish her rule on the Ganges, she must
devote her entire resources to that war, and avoid any
complication that might require her intervention on the
Europeao continent. We may, therefore, be assured
that England will excite no fresh difficulties, not even
under the administration of Lord Palmerston. Russia,
on her side, requires several years of. complete peace to
remove the traces of the wounds inflicted on her by the
last war. Peace is necessary to her, in order to construct
her railroad, to place her ports beyond the reach of the
means of destruction recently invented by science, to re-
orgaoiqe her navy and army. Let us glance at the
financial state of the continent, and we shall discover a
third reason to confide in the continuance of peace. An
ex ',ruination of the money-markets of Paris and Vienna
shows that war is impossible. We are afraid to borrow
a few hundred millions in order to consolidate our float-
ing daht ; could we borrow thousands of millions fur a
war ? When our most prosp,rous railroads are c
polled to adjoern their works, who would dream of a; •
plying to credit for the purchase of powder and bob ?
Peace is therefore for the moment a nec:ssity for Europe,
This peace wilt doubtless not be that of the Abbe of St.
Pi rre, and a day will come when war will once
more be waged, either out of jealousy, or dislike,
or to divert public opinion from home politics ;
then will blood once more be shed, and fortunes be
destroyed ; but this moment is distant, and we are, for
the time being, in the raid-t of a general armistice."
The Constitution eel comments in the followiwi
terms on the circular note addressed by the Porte to
the Cabinets of Europe on the Principalities ques-
tion :
" We cannot consider this document in any other light