The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1830.

A. more comprehensive, a more propitious, or,
altogether, a more satisfactory Speech from the
Throne, has never within our recollection been deli-
vered either by the lips of the SOVERZIGN or by those
of her Commissioners, than the one which yesterday
inaugurated the third session of the present Parlia-
ment. Generally speaking no document elicits more
invariably or more universally the cavils and con-
demnations of the community than that Ministerial
manifesto, which is designated by courtesy the Royal

Speech. Scarcely ever is even one solitary section

of the multitude disposed to regard it with any degree
of complacency. All recognise in it faults of omission ;
' some of commission. All perceive in it the absence
of allusions which they would have fain seen intro-
duced ; some the presence of allusions which they
would have fain seen differently expressed. The
advisers of the Crown may usually with implicit
confidence anticipate the expression of more various
and virulent opposition against this otie effusion of
their statesmanship than against all the rest
of the voluminous harangues which during
the
from
of the session may emanate
from the Government. Whatever sentiments
they may place in the mouth of the Sove-
REIGN, under ordinary circumstances, those senti-
ments they may be sure will be violently assailed by
a crowd resolved to be unsatisfied. In the present
instance, however, it is we are satisfied otherwise.
One class of the population doubtless will articulate
its displeasure in no measured terms—we mean, of
course, the Protectionists. But with the vast ma-
jority of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom the
prevalent feeling on the perusal of the Royal Speech
will be that of peculiar and almost unalloyed satisfac-
tion. Each of us, to be sure, will regret that so and
so was unnoticed, that such and such a matter was
overlooked, that one or other of our individual hob •
bies was paEsed over with indifference—but of this
we are satisfied, that the mass of the population
will exult in the tone of every paragraph comprised
in this important document, and will rejoice
that matters of such moment have been mentioned in
language so singularly felicitous.
After a solemn and feeling allusion to the demise of
ADELAIDE the Queen Dowager,her MAJESTY, through
the mediutri of her Royal Commissioners, felicitates
herself and congratulates the country upon the
uninterrupted and honourable maintenance of the
most amicable relations with the various countries of
the globe, but more especially with the different states
of Christendom. The reference made immediately
afterwards to the happy settlement of the autumn
differences which had arisen between the Austrian
and Russian Governments on the one hand, and the
Government of the Sublime Porte on the other—dif-
ferences which are acknowledged in so many words
to have been "of a serious character"—will
have been observed with profound interest
by all those whose sympathies are with
the expatriated heroes of Hungary. To these
individuals, and they are numerous, the announce-
ment made indirectly from the lips of the SOTE•
REIGN of England, that all such differences have been
amicably arranged through the united mediation of
the Cabinets of the French Republic and of the
English Monarchy, will be a source of inexpressible
gratification, more particularly seeing that that an-
nouncement is accompanied with the assurance that
the advocacy of the cause of the SULTAN, in opposi-
tion to the demands of the Austrian EMPEROR and of
the Russian AUTOCRAT, has been conducted throughout
in a manner " consistent with his dignity and indepen-
dence." Nothing again could be more peculiarly
satisfactory than the declaration which thereupon
follows, seeing that it affords an augury indirectly of
improvement to the commerce of Great Britain,
and directly to the advancement and general eman-
cipation of the commerce of all the countries of
the earth, in both hemispheres. Her MAJESTY
graciously informs her Parliament that not only
have the Governments of Sweden and of the
United States of America responded to the generous
reforms made by the British Legislature in the re-
laxation of the restrictions formerly imposed by the
laws relating to navigation, but that propitious
assurances have been received from the rest of the
foreign states that, ultimately, their own codes of
navigation will be sinalarly modified, thereby con•
ducing in the end to a perfect freedom of marine in-
tercourse.

Not an individual in these islands but will appre-
ciate the beauty of the acknowledgment sub-
sequently made as to the cessation of the
ravages of
tmheortalCithy, And to stay that fearfulolero, ALMIGHTY GOD,
in his mercy, having been pleased "to arrest
the progress of