The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 144

designs has taken place, and that we are prepared to re-
commend the artists whose names are contained in sub-
joined Reports, as worthy to be employed on such works
in the Palace at Westminster, and for such remunera-
tion as may hereafter be determined ; but we again wish
it to be understood that such selection does not imply
the exclusion of other artists, whether they may or may
not as yet have submitted to us specimens of their
ability.
" We have further humbly to state to your Majesty,
that having in former Reports announced our intention
of considering the claims of candidates for employment
in oil-painting, we now propose that artists should be
invited to enter into competition in that branch of art,
and we have prepared the draft of an anouncement on
this subject, offering premiums of public money, to which
we request the sanction of your Majesty."
These extracts may suffice to give a general idea
of the topics to which the interesting papers in the
Appendix are addressed. We conclude our present
notice with an enumeration of these papers, printed
so as to follow the QUEEN'S Commission, the warrant
appointing additional Commissioners, and the "Re-
port" of the Commission. These papers are—

r' 1. Notice of the appointment of artists to execute
frescos intended for the decoration of the House

of Lords.
2. Notice on the subject of the intended exhibition of
oil-paintings in Westminster Flall.
3. Declaration of the Commissioners respecting the
models for sculpture exhibited in Westminster

Hall.
4. Letter from the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
respecting public monuments to men distinguished
for civil services.
5. Mr. Barry's Report respecting the localities in the
new Houses of Parliament which may be adapted
for the reception of works of sculpture.
6. Extract from the Report of the Committee ap-
pointed to examine the localities in the New Houses
of Parliament, which may be adapted for the re-
ception of works in painting and sculpture.
7. Reports of the Committee appointed to inspect the
works 'of decorative art exhibited in King-street,
St. James's, in the months of April and May, 1844.
8. Observations on the principles which may regulate
the selection of subjects for painting in the Palace
of Westminster, by Mr. Hallam.
9. Resolutions, relating to the same subject, proposed
by Mr. Gaily Knight.
10. Letter on the same subject, from the Right Hon.
Viscount Mahon to the Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel, Bart.
11. Letter en the same subject, from Mr. Hallam.
12. The same subject considered with reference to the
nature and various styles of the formative Arts ;

by the Secretary.
13. Dimensions of frescos in the Sistine Chapel and in

the Vatican.
14. Methods of painting adapted to mural decoration.
15. Description of the Patent Kalsomine Tempera.
16. Letter from the Right Hon. the Secretary of State
fur the Home Department."

Madrid journals of the 14th instant announce the
arrival from Paris of a naval officer, Lieutenant DE
PLAS, who had travelled with great dispatch, and
brought dispatches for the Duke DE GLUCKSDERG and
the Prince DE JOINVILLE. The Duke was to start
without delay for Cadiz and embark for Morocco, as
Charge d'Affaires at the Court of the EMPEROR. It
was said that he had full powers to conclude a treaty
of peace. This looks well, and is probably the result
of the advice given by the most able general in the
French army, Marshal SOULT, who knows well the
uncertainty and horrors of war. The papers contain
no other authentic intelligence, for the reports they
furnish about the bombardment of Tangiers cannot
be depended on.

Madrid Bourse, on the 14th.—Three per Cents.,
26k, at 60 days; Five per Cents., no quotations.

The Paris papers are destitute of news. No fur
ther intelligence had been received from the squadron
under the Prince de JOINVILLE, if we except some
highly coloured and contradictory statements ex-
tracted from the Cadiz papers, of which we give the
following as a specimen. In a letter from Cadiz of
the 9th, it is said that " the Commanders of the se-
veral European squadrons stationed in the Tangiers
waters went and congratulated the Prince de JOlN-
vuxx after the bombardment. Among them was
the Infanta of Spain, Don HENRIQUE. It is also said
that the Commander of the English ship-of-war sent
the officer second in command, and that the Prince
de JOINVILLE refused to receive him. It appears.
that the squadron is proceeding to Mogadore, and
that the PRINCE intends to destroy all the forts on
the coast." The next paragraph has more the sem-
blance of truth :—" The Suffren," says the writer,
" has remained in the Cadiz waters, and the other ships
of the French squadron have proceeded towards Mo-
gadore. But that port presents little safety, and it
also appears that the Moors have at that place consi-
derable fortifications. The Prince de JoiNvri.x.E,
therefore, wishes to take possession of a little island
near Mogadore, in order to command the town and
bombard it with a chance of success. With this view
he awaits reinforcements."

The articles in the French papers are rather of a
pacific character, if we except the Republican Na-
tional, which evidently hates Louis PHILIPPE more
than the English. As our readers will regard with
satisfaction every sympton in these articles of a re-
turn to common sense and justice, we make no apology
for giving copious extracts. The following calm re-
marks appear in M. TMIERS' journal, the Consti
tutionnel

" We wish neither to exaggerate the gravity of the
present situation, nor to dissemble its eventual results.
If it be true that certain journals have made the mistake
nien'sminds, the organ of the Go-
reproaches them with doing so, has
ov Go-
vernment, rtnomo
emnut,c hwahliacrhm ing
perhaps fallen into the error of endeavouring to inspire
too much security. The situation is such that, if there is
no necessity to fear, there is to guard against possible
events. We put aside all that has been mysteriously
said about Mehemet Ali and the East. There are at
the present moment but two questions we grant ; but
it must be declared that from them may spring very grave
complications. The country is aware of this, and holds
itself prepared for all consequences. It would feel
alarm even from a single circumstance—that the Go-
vernment should appear too certain of the pacific
issue of these questions ; for such a certitude could
only be the result of an anticipated resignation to
solutions the most regrettable for our honour. In fact,
when the incredible expressions by which the English
Ministers have qualified the indispensable measure taken
by our officers at Otaheite, against a Consul conspiring
against us, the strange doctrines sustained by the whole
English:press with regard to the public right of nations,
and the persistence that. is shown in demanding a repa-
ration which is not due, are taken into consideration, the
idea naturally arises, to borrow an expression of M.
Guizot's, that from all this there will spring either a
great folly or a great weakness; that is, that England is
decided to perpetrate the first, if M. Guizot does not
consent to perform the second. As to the question of
Morocco, in spite of all efforts to the contrary, the po-
licy of our Government engaged in the path of action is
this. If the limit at which the French cannon are to
stop has been fixed diplomatically; no person can be cer
tain that this limit will not be overpassed. In such cases
it is most difficult to assign the exact share which the fire
is to have. The irresistible force of events is often less
pacific than the intentions of men. In our opinion,
therefore, there ought nut to be too great a tendency
either towards war or peace. By an excessive confi-
dence, and by exaggerated alarms, the press can deceive
both men's minds and men's interests. It is events that
must speak. Our duty, as an Opposition journal, is to
wen acquainted Iran u.O .ews mat are
given, to carefully examine them, to hazard nothing, to
give under the form of a doubt such intelligence as ap-
pears suspicious, and to hold the public on its guard
against speculators in false reports, who endeavour in
such cases to tarn to account the fears or the confidence
which they propagate."

The next article is more peaceable, and carries more
weight, as it appears in a paper which is supposed to
represent the sentiments of M. Guazor—the Paris
Globe. That journal thus advocate's peace :
"If the men on Change really know the cause of the
fall of the price of Stocks, they have well kept the
secret ; for all the persons whose position enables them
to know at least as much as the brokers of the real state
of political affairs, are perfectly assured of a favourable
solution of all the pending difficulties. Men may be agi-
tated, but things most certainly tend towards a settle-
ment in peace. People are astonished at the vivacity
with which the English press has taken up the affair of
Otaheite ; but, in truth, there is nothing astonishing
therein but this astonishment itself. Above a year has
passed since the Paris journals have been constantly
talking of Otaheite, Queen Pomare, and the English mis-
sionaries, and exciting public opinion even into delirium.
They have gathered in a pack around them from 30,000
to 35,000 milliners and chambermaids, cooks and travel-
ling clerks, students and gossips of all such classes, who
have each contributed 50 centimes of their money,
and 100,000 francs worth of their passions. All
the portresses of France have an entire knowledge
of the affair of Otaheite, and an intimate acquaintance
with Admiral Dupetit Thonars. In a word, the public
mind has been heated to a white heat by this matter, and
now folks seem to be surprised that the English news-
papers should become the same. But by dint of de-
claiming against the English Government of reiterated
provocations and insults, a reaction has necessarily been
created in England, and the English are driven into a
passion,
and compelled to be violently angry in their
turn, merely to keep themselves in countenance. After
all, this can merely be considered but as the froth which
is raised to the surface by dint of beating, while the
substance at bottom remains calm and solid. Without
the factitious irritation creates by the Oppositions, in a
miserable spirit of intrigue against the Ministries, the
two Governments of France and England would have
settled between them the affair of Otaheite in one quarter
of an hour, for there was in reality nothing in it to arrest
the attention, for any length of time, of right-thinking
and loyal-minded men. Was there or was there not