The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-15 00:00:00

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usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

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of the lowliest peasant ;—we pass by these incidents
in his chequered career, replete though they
are with the wildest romance; but had any
one told him, at that disastrous period of
his life when he was sitting by the humble hearth
of his Norwegian friend, M. BURY, that he would
one day, not only regain all his lost wealth and titles,
but ascend the throne of France through the instru-
mentality of that very class of society which had been
so ready to banish and persecute him, assuredly the
" traveller MULLER" would have regarded such a man
as a lunatic, and treated his predictions with infinite
contempt ; for everything at that period tended to
show the utter absurdity of such a vaticination ;
and for years afterwards it seemed daily more
unlikely that it could ever be realised.
First, there was the French Republic op-
posed as a barrier to its fulfilment; and when this
was removed, then came the Empire, with NAPO-
LEON'S dazzling series of triumphs, which placed all
Europe at his mercy ; when this, too—rather by the
interposition of the elements than by the force of
man—was swept away, then there was the Restora-
tion of the elder branch of the BOURBONS, which
left " the traveller MULLER'S" chance more remote
than ever. Events, however, soon conspired to favour
him. That which had so long appeared impossible,
began gradually to assume an aspect of proba-
bility ; and at length, by the incredible fatuity
of his Royal kinsman, ho was raised to the
French throne with the unanimous approbation of
those very classes of society—the middle and lower
orders—whose fathers, forty-nine yearsibefore, had been
foremost to consent to his banishment To complete
this extraordinary "romance of real life," Louis
PHILLIPE—Iong after the majority of his manhood's
friends have passed into the grave—finds his old Nor-
wegian host still living at the patriarchal age of eighty-
two, and repays as KING of the FRENCH the hospitality
he received from him as the " traveller MULLET 1 "
There is nothing in the wildest fictions of the nove-
lists more startling than the leading incidents in the
career of Louis PIIILLIPPE ; who, it would almost
seem, had been purposely chastened by Providence
in his youth, in order that France and Europe
might receive, in his old age, the benefits of that
tempered and enlarged sagacity which, in strong
minds, is the inevitable result of early trials and
vicissitudes.

Madrid journals of the 7th instant have been re-
ceived, but they bring no intelligence of the slightest
interest.

The Three per Cents. were done at 27i for cash,
and 27i at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 203
for the 23d of August.

The French Government on Tuesday received the
following unexpected communication from Egypt :
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
ALEXANDRIA, JULY 27.

"His Highness the Vicuitox has just abruptly left
Alexandria, declaring that he renounces for ever
Egypt and public affairs, and that he means to retire
to Mecca.

" IBRAHIM PACHA ig at Alexandria—the city is
quiet." _ _ _

No reason is assigned for this sudden resolve, and
few imagined that the veteran warrior, so fond of
power sad so anxious to raise Egyptto a distinguished
rank, would have resigned all into the hands of his
son. He is now in the 75th year of his age, however,
and possibly weary of the turmoils of Governmen',
and desirous to see how his system will work under
his successor, he proposes to survey the scene in the
quiet retreats of the Holy City.
The Otaheite affair still furnishes topics for leading
articles, but they are now confined to the Opposition
journals. The Gonstitutionnel, M. TIIIERS' paper,
persists in stating that Mr. PRITCHARD was one of
the instigators of the revolt, but as far as evidence
has yet been produced without any foundation for the
assertion. In commenting on the letters from Ota-.
heite published by the London Missionary Society, it
says—" This correspondence proves that the reverend
brethren of M. PRITCHARD were not strangers to his
intrigues ; in fact, it may be seen by these letters that
the assembly presided over by the missionaries
at Hidiaa was suddenly transformed into a meeting
of armed men, engaged in conflict with our
troops ; that the Rev. Mr. JOHNSTON, a Missionary at
Teirabou, the smallest, but also the most factious of
the two nPnintliinu
pected of having excited his hearers to rejoin their
brethren at Hidiaa, that the Governor considered it
his duty to interdict his return to Teirabou, after he
had once come to the great peninsula. We may be-
sides remark in his first letter the naive phrase :
Until a final answer comes from England.' He be-
trayed all the hopes that
,Mr. PRITCHARD had not
feared to encourage, and in consequence of which the
unfortunate inhabitants of Otaheite were excited to
revolt. ' The consequences of this affair will be
awful,' adds the second correspondent. Awful for
our soldiers it perhaps may be, for it was at the
moment when they were in danger that the strength
and confidence of their enemies was to be raised by
the recal of Admiral DI:PETIT THOUARS. For the
proper understanding of this correspondence it must
be borne in mind that Otaheite is divided into two
peninsulas, separated by a narrow isthmus called
Taravao. The battery established on the isthmus
cuts the communication between the two peninsulas,
and prevents the insurgents of Teirabou from joining
those of Hidiaa."

The Presse has a long dissertation on the primary
cause of dispute between the French and the Ota-
heitans, and attributes it entirely to the expulsion
of two French missionaries at the suggestion of Mr.
PRITCHARD. But the public begin to be weary of
these vain discussions, which only tend to perplex the
question. We find something of a more amusing
character in one of the war journals, the National,
and we therefore give it at length. Alas ! for old
England. If Louis PUILIPPE, instead of igno•
miniously bending to the British Government, and
visiting in peace the cliffs of " perfidious Albion," would
only muster a little courage and present himself on
board a hostile fleet either at Portsmouth or the Nore,
he would "cut England to the heart, and reduce her
to the rank of a third maritime power." These aro
the warlike strains of this silly and contemptible
boaster:—

" England has 90 ships of war ready to put to sea
after some preparation more or less considerable, but it
must be remembered that half of these are old 74 and 60-
gun ships, which, although well preserved, are not so
strong nor such good sailers as modern ships, which
are at the same time more powerful in their artillery in
every respect. We, it is true, possess only 24, but all
of them are able to contend with the best of the
British navy. We are, therefore, obliged to confess,
done
as the English assert, that we are no longer able to
send 40 ships into the Channel, but we could send 24,
twoloi ccho wouldcould
be be
w e
within
former
l iwthohrlyhtwfoornityonotfhs,andbefore dbaeysr.e
Eng-
land could assemble an equal number, because the se-
curity inspired by her numbers of seamen and habits of
routine make her forget to keep these sailors in a state
of organisation, and as she herself acknowledges, the
system of pressing men for her fleets is a most detest-
able mode of recruitment. Thanks to our admirable
system of classes of recruitment, which she envies us,
and has long wished to copy, all our mariners being
wholly at the disposal of Government, crews are obtained
in France without any difficulty, and in the shortest pos-
sible space of time. It has been, and still is seen, that
ships in England are several months in completing their
complements, not for war, but fir mere parade. Now, it
appears to us that the twenty-four ships which we could
promptly assemble in the Channel might easily intercept
its navigation, prevent for some time the junction of the
scattered ships of England, burn some of her dock-yards,
destroy some of her arsenals, and effect even some sud-
den landings, which, from not having been long meditated
and noisily announced, would be the more likely to be
successful. The gunners who served these ships in 1840
have not yet forgotten their business. These are the
results which we might expect from a war undertaken
immediately, conducted with prudence and skill, and
carried on with vigour. This would at once be some-
thing. But putting aside the possible landing, which
alone would be a final stroke, and which, cutting Eng-
land to the heart, would reduce her to the rank of a
third maritime Power, would a first victory, dearly
bought, exhaust our struggle, and leave us without de-
fence, as the Prince de Joinville has assumed ? We
have upon the stocks 23 magnificent ships, all well ad-
vanced, and some nearly finished. With a patriotic
effort, which it would certainly cost us little to
make, since its object would be to inflict upon the
odious aristocracy of Britain the chastisement it de-
serves--with a patriotic effort, in sending to our
ports thousands of workmen out of employ, all
these ships might Us ready for sea in six
months. For such a national war money would be no
more wanting than hands. Our magazines would be-
come filled with materials ; not even masts would be
wanting, because topmasts may now be made of several
pieces, and be rendered quite as good as the others. To
this let us add another important remark. The value
of Tn. sailors in combats hand to hand is well known ;
their superiority in the use of the cutlass is such that any
English ship they may succeed in boarding must at once
give herself up as lost. The difficulties which formerly
attended our ships in boarding no longer exist. Moat of

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