The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1850.

Prudence has at length induced the assailants of
Lord PALMERSTON to postpone all further accusations
against himself Individually until after the official
correspondence,relating to, the negotiations between
the French and English Governments has been
formally laid before Parliament by the Foreign
Secretary. This is expected to take place as early as
Thursday, the day appointed for the resumption of the
duties of the Legislature. A variety of apparently
trivial coincidences have favoured the views of Lord
PALMERSTON and his Ministerial colleagues, in regard
to these irritating occurrences, affording them leisure
to reflect calmly over the whole question prior to the
anticipated explanations. The absence, obviously
intentional, and withal most politic, of the
Foreign Secretary from the House of Come
mons, at the moment when the occupants
of the Treasury benches were catechised as to the
cause of the departure of M. DROUTN DE L'HUTS,
the French Ambassador, has enabled Viscount PAL-
MERSTON to find leisure for the arrangement of his
notes and papers during the momentary lull of the
Whitsuntide holidays. Equally opportune, politi-
cally speaking, has been that accident to which we
referred yesterday, in consequence of which the
Marquis orNonstAenr has been enabled to withdraw
for a time from the French capital into a wonderfully
convenient retirement at Versailles. Everything, in
this manner and in this matter, we repeat, has fa-
voured the views of the British Government. For,
while the rulers of France have acted
most precipitately in obedience to the first
impulses of their petulance, thereby placing them-
selves in a position of enormous disadvantage, our
rulers have been empowered to assume a sedate and
collected attitude, and have consequently, on the con-
trary, obtained a position of decided superiority. In any
quarrel or misunderstanding whatever the one who
keeps temper necessarily has, to a very considerable
extent, the best of the argument : more especially is
this the case in a clash between Governments. And
never, we may safely say, has any legislative as-
sembly more visibly lost temper than the Legisla-
tive Assembly 'of France—the royalist and reaction-
ary members of which gave such boisterous express
sion to their antipathies when General Li
HITTE first announced the recall of their
Ambassador from London. That disgraceful
scene, unparalleled in the way of flagitious indecency,
has formally committed the reactionary party at
Paris to an antagonism with the Liberal G overnment
of Great Britain. Inasmuch as it has been produc-
tive of this, it has at any rate not remained altogether
without some good result. Henceforth there can be
no further misapprehension as to the possibility of any
amicable alliance between ourselves, and that so called
party of Order, which is in reality the Faction in-
cessantly promoting the cause of Disorder and of
Anarchy. The Royalist reactionists of France, in
their heart of hearts, hate the Government,
and the People, and the institutions of
England most thoroughly. It is nothing
to them that they happen to be bound
to all three by the bonds of gratitude, seeing that, for
the sake of their detestable interests, we shed our
blood and taxed the whole of our political strength to
the very uttermost, and enhanced the gross amount of
our national debt by six or seven hundreds of mil-
lions. The labours of this country during the cala-
mitous wars which led to the forcible restoration of
the Bourbon dynasty, and the temporary downfall of
the Revolution represented by the gloriaus sove-
reignty of the Emperor NAPOLEON, that mighty in-
carnation of a crowned democracy,—all these gigantic
labours, all these prodigal and ill-advised
squanderings of energy, of blood, and of money, are
eclipsed in the estimation of the Royalist reactionaries
by their irrepressible hatred for England, because it
was the free constitution enjoyed by England which
first gave rise to the hopes of the French revolutionists.
Added to this primitive cause for their animosity to
the English Government, the reactionists have a sub-
sequent reason for abhorring the power which com-
placently watched over the rise and development of
the republican institutions of February. Hence
their twofold loathing for England. Hence, in
an unguarded moment, the violent demonstration
of their antipathies. That demonstration, however,
lamentable and discreditable tho ugh it be, has fortu-
nately uncloaked the reactionary party betimes, and
has revea led to the ruling statesmen of Great Britain
the folly of any further complicity with an un-
grateful and retrogressive faction, an unfriendly and
recalcitrating body of intriguers.
Although constrained to wait until the renewal of
the sittings of Parliament for the explanations of Lord
PALMERSTON, and for the production of the documents
constituting the English portion of the late corre-
spondence, we are enabled in the meantime to obtain
some inkling of the position of affairs in the recent
negotiations through the medium of the papers sub-
mitted to the French Legislative Assembly by the
French Minister for the Foreign Department. From
those papers, voluminous in themselves, it is not diffi-
cult to perceive that, while much misunderstanding
may have arisen between the French and English
diplomatists upon a matter somewhat. intricate in
its nature, and rendered yet more
lettersm betweentricatebythe
crossing and re-crossing of
the distant capitals—Paris, Athens, and London—
no systematic duplicity (as was intimated) has been
attempted either by General LAHITTS or Viscount
PALMERSTON. One admission in this portion of the
correspondence is worthy of attentive notice and of
vivid remembrance. In a letter dated February 16th,
General LARITTB, addressing M. DROUTIS DE L'HUTS,
and referring to the possible resumption by England
of
rigorous measures against Greece, expressly
acknowledges
obliged to do We always understood—we felt
so that the Cabinet of
London reserved to itself the appreciation of the
circumstances which might render necessary th
course to such an extremity." That extraordinarye arde--
mission acquits Lord PALMERSTON altogether of
acting with any degree of duplicity to the French
Government, and let it not be forgotten that it is an
admission made as far back as last February, in a
letter written to M. Duouver DR L'HUTS him-
a personage than General
self, by no less
LA HITTE, the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs. Every additional reflection, every additional
inquiry only tends, in short, to convince us more and
more that the English organs of French Reaction
have counted altogether without their host, and that
Lord PALMERSTON'S policy throughout the whole of
this Greek correspondence will bear the closest
scrutiny and the most detailed examination.

Strange as it may appear, the chief opposition to
the County Courts Extension Act is about to be
offered by societies established for the protection of
trade, and the amendment of the law of debtor and
creditor. We should have thought that there could
be no mode of " protecting trade" more efficacious
than the affording cheap and expeditions remedies for
the recovery of debts—that the vexatious delays and
ruinous expenses incidental to proceedings in the su-

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