The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-31 00:00:00

" great a fact" as the former, they would see fair play
Imeted out to both. Surely there is nothing here to
which a dispassionate, thoughtful mind, need object!
The views are neither those of Revolutionists nor of
bigots, but simply those of men of reflection and
principle, whose feelings have been quickened, and
whose convictions have been strengthened, by the
humiliating acts of tergiversation which they have
lately witnessed among public men, and which,
instead of calling forth the unanimous disgust
of the people, have been regarded by a
large portion of them with absolute indif-
ference, if not approval, as the results of inex•
orable necessity. Now the "Young England" party,
if we understand them rightly, hold as the funda-
mental article of their creed, that what is morally
wrong cannot be politically right ; and that no ne-
cessity, though it may partially excuse, can wholly
justify, a glaring dereliction of principle on the part
of public men. So far we are fully prepared to agree
with them, for the proceedings of parties on one or
two memorable occasions during the past session, have
quite sickened us of the very mention of the term
Expediency.

Intelligence from Madrid, to the 23d inst., has been
received. A change of Ministry was still talked of,
and it was said Queen CHRISTINA had written to
MARTINEZ DE LA RosA, the Spanish Ambassador
at Paris, requesting him to accept the office of Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs, and it was generally be-
lieved he would yield to the desires of the QUEEN.
The military authorities waited on NARYAEZ to con-
gratulate him on his return to the capital, when the
General addressed them in a long speech, and called
on them to promote as much as possible the security
of the throne with the liberty of the country. Mr.
BULWER had arrived at Gibraltar.

Madrid Bourse on the 23d—Three per Cents. 27
for account; Five per Cents. 20i for cash.

When the Paris papers went to press on Thursday,
neither the dispatches from the Prince DE JOINVILLE
nor those from Marshal BUGEAUD had been published,
so that we have no means of ascertaining how they
were received. Little doubt, however, exists that they
would afford the highest satisfaction both to the
Royal Family and the country. The journals are
chiefly occuped with the question of war or peace.
Those of the Opposition still madly urging on the
Government to extremities, while the others are
calmly endeavouring to bring these fire-eaters to

reason.
"We have highly blamed," says the Journal des
De-bats, " the insulting and provoking language of
certain English newspapers, and we must equally
condemn such of our own journals as seem to take
pleasure in crying out for war. The Government
has declared in the most solemn manner that, in re-
pelling an unjust aggression, France did not intend
to make a conquest of Morocco, and form permanent
establishments in the country. This declaration has
all Europe for its witness, and our national good faith
for its guarantee. 'We add, that the Opposition itself
has become a party to it. It may then he said to be
a settled point, a word of honour, by which we are
bound. War, no doubt, may compel us to
occupy for the moment a port or town belonging to
an enemy, or even a point of his territory.
We, on this occasion, do occupy the island of Moga-
dore, and the Prince DE JOINVILLE has landed some
troops ; we will go up as far as Fez, if we should find
it necessary; we will, in fine, use every means which
war affords us ; but they will be employed only for
imposing secure terms of peace, and not for conquest ;
to obtain the reparation and guarantees to which we
are entitled, and not to aggrandise our possessions in
Africa. In saying this we say nothing but what has
been formally declared from the tribunes of the two
Chambers, and repeated by the press. Is it the Na-
tional alone that has not heard these declarations ?
How can it talk of confidential promises made to
England ? England has much better than confi-
dential promises, it has the public pledge of France !
Confidential promises might vanish with the Minis-
try that had the imprudence to make them—an
engagement entered into in the face of the Cham-
bers, and ratified by them and by public opinion, be-
comes a national obligation. It is not a concession
yielded to foreign influence, it is a resolution demanded
in our own interest. To accomplish the pacification of
Algeria, and to colonise it, is the great object of our
present efforts; and the burden of this alone is suffi-
ciently heavy for our budgets. 'We have nearly
100,000 men in Africa, and to conquer and preserve
Morocco, we must have another 100,000 men ; and
while all the blood and treasure of France will be
absorbed by a land which cannot render any return
for a long time, what would become of our position
in Europe ?—where would be our political freedom ?
It requires no magic to answer this question. There
is no need to recur to secret and shameful compro-
ntises, for explaining the resolution taken by the
French Government not to conquer and keep Mo-
rocco ; it is not her interest to conquer and keep it.
She desires peace, and she will gain it by making a
barb arous people feel the superiority of her power in
arms. She will dictate her own terms of peace at
the point of the sword. Morocco has attacked us,
and the lesson to be given to her must be severe
enough to make her lose for ever all temptation to
disturb our possessions. This is the only object of
the war which we have undertaken and carried on
with so much vigour."
In reference to the affair of Otaheite the same
journal has the following remarks:—
" The Bourse was again much agitated on Wednes-
day; some alarming reports were circulated, and a re-
markable fall took place. We are aware of the gravity
of the question pending between France and England—
we consider the excitement prevailing in the two coun-
tries perfectly natural. Nothing demonstrates the ne-
cessity for a good understanding better than this agita-
tion and this general uneasiness ! Whilst we reckon
upon the wisdom of the two Cabinets, we are ignorant of
the manner in which the differences will terminate, and,
for ,no consideration would we lull to sleep public opi-
nion in presence of so serious a danger. We must, how-
ever, add, that the greater number of the reports in cir-
culation are inexact, or at least premature. It is not
true that the Government has received the ultimatum of
England. Up to the present moment there is nothing
new and nothing changed in the relations of the two Go-
vernments. As for us, our hope is ever that a pacific so-
lution will restore tranquillity to the public mind, and
that two nations, whose concord is necessary to the
world, will not rush into a fatal war from inability to
disco ver a means of reconciliation consistent with their
reciprocal dignity."
The other Ministerial paper, the Globe, is equally
pacific. " The situation of things," it states, "may
be delicate, but nothing ought to be added to it by
exaggerations without any serious motive. The men
wit() in France and England are charged with the
task: of deciding the question raised between the two
countries have confidence in each other's honourable

dealing ; they have kept up, for four years, friendly
relations founded on a pacific and civilising policy ; a
fact unexpected, personal, foreign to the general
system of their policy, has occurred not to trouble
this harmony, but to occasion an incident. It cannot
be (Doubted that this grain of sand will soon disappear
from amongst the wheels where chance has intro-

duce,cl it; the dispositions on both sides are friendly,
The, same desire of peace exists, and a suitable solu.

tion. must be expected to a difficulty evidently in a
course of being settled."

In another place, the same journal, in alluding to
the banquet given by the National Guard, says :
" There are people who imagine that they exhibit
bold:less when they bawl out, and who confound energy
with brutality. In general, the democratic party falls
into this double error, and it fancies that it has not

given.. a proof of firmness until after having made itself
hoar se with singing the Marseilluise. A banquet was
given. ,on Tuesday at the Opera, by a part of the National
Guai.d to the officers of the garrison, who had directed
the sc.:hool of instruction of the legions of Paris. There
is no grand dinner without a toast, and some of the Na-
.

tionalGuards, more patriotic than prudent, had thought
it righ t to prepare speeches in reply to the sully insults
addr ef•sed by the Times to the French navy. The Na-
ti:ma t pretends that a roll of the drums prevented the
toasts from being proposed. If the fact be exact, we
cann at but approve of it. Serious men cannot be af-
fecte dby all kinds of insults • no one thinks of replying
to thve invectives of a drunken man. The abuse of the
Times could not excite amongst us more than a shrug of
the sb.oulders ; and the English journals generally prove
that public opinion in London is impressed by the
heigb t of dignity and disdain which had greeted in
France the correspondence of the Times. It would,
therefo,:e, have been a great piece of childishness to ex-
cha uge in a banquet of the National Guards ridiculous
thre s with the taverns of London. The speeches that
mighrz have been pronounced could never have been as
eloqute nt as silent contempt."

The Revue de Paris gives the following as a reason
for the Government not publishing the whole of the

(lisp atches transmitted by the Prince DE JOINVILLE.
We ,►ive it to show the spirit of the writer, but really

it is entitled to no credit :

`,'Great astonishment is expressed at tho Ministry