The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-01 00:00:00

THE

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAT —Morning 55 min. after 5 1 Evening 17 min. after 6
To-Moasow— Morning 39 min. after 6 1 Evening 2 win. after 7

THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, JULY 1.
THERMOMETER, 127 THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
46—lowest this morning and during the night.
68— this day, at noon.
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BAROMETER, 29.92.
WEVD S.W.—fresh breeze and cloudy.

Oblenina gint,
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1850.

By a most extriordinary coincidence the present
Ministries of France and of England have secured
themselves in office by a similar majority. It has
already been observed by ourselves as somewhat re-
markable that the debates, upon the result of which
their very existence was dependent, commenced upon
the same day in the House of Commons and in the
National Assembly. The consequence of the two
discussions has been still more remarkable—forty six
being the majority by which the popular re-
presentatives of France indicated their acceptance
of the Dotation Bill, and forty-six being also
the majority by which the popular representatives
of England proclaimed their approval of the
foreign policy of Viscount PALMERSTON. Of course,
this circumstance is simply entitled to allusion as a
coincidence, and it is simply as a coincidence that we
refer to it ; yet the accidental similarity of the Mi-
nisterial majority gained by the Cabinet, of St.
James's and by the Cabinet of the Elyse* is not
without meaning, if it only serve as an attraction of
the public scrutiny to the position in which the rulers
of these two great countries find themselves.
Contrary to the feelings which actuated them
at the commencement of the present century, the
Legislatures of the French Republic and of the Eng-
lish Monarchy have evinced—the former an inimical,
and the latter a conciliatory disposition. Whereas in
Paris the predilections of the mass of politicians were
formerly in favour of an alliance with England and her
constitutional government, now-a-days the elected
legislators of the French multitude have betrayed a
hostile sentiment towards ourselvei and our adminis-
trators. The fierce acclamations with which the droite
received the petulant announcement of M. LAHITTE,
to the effect that a rupture between the two nations
was becoming imminent, in consequence of the with-
drawal from London of the French Ambassador,
cannot very soon, and should not very soon be fur-
gotten. The sound of those ferocious cheers was of
itself peculiarly significant. It was the yell of hatred
raised against the liberal Cabinet of England by the
conspirators of the counter-revolution. It was the
articulation, of the long - suppressed animo-
sity cherished by the " Legitimatists " for
the Government which sympathised with
the Republican movement, and acknowledged, in
February, 1848, the majestic and humanizing princi-
ples of Democracy. Not all the duties of ordinary
gratitude—devolving upon them from the lavish ex-
penditure of blood and money by this country during
the infamous wars waged against NAPOLEON—couId
assuage those pangs of wrath which have been in-
spired by that nation whence came the tacit approval
of the deserters from CHARLES X., the Dethroned, and
of the contemners of Hem sr V. the Pretender. Nothing
can obliterate from the minds of the monarchical
intriguers in France the sense of the enormous force
imparted to their Republican antagonists by the
virtual complicity of England—not even the remem-
brance of two Restorations—not even the remem-
brance of the hospitality shown to one royal exile
at Hartwell, and to another at Holyrood. While
gratitude weighs heavily upon the consciences
of the Legitimatists, antipathies of all kinds
rise up, in like manner, against the people,
and the Constitution, and the Government of Great
Britain, in consequence of the analogy existing be-
tween those and their own
.Republican people, Re-
publican Constitution, and Republican Government.
Hence the fury of their acclamations when surprised
into a disclosure of their real sentiments the other day
by General LAHITTE. Meanwhile a strange contrast
to this antipathy to England, on the put of the
majority of the National Assembly, has been
afforded by the generous eulogiums upon, and
magnanimous predilections in favour of, the
French nation and the French Government, ob-
servable in the masterly oration of Lord PALMERS-
TON. The panegyrics there passed upon the neigh-
bouring democracy, the sympathies there bstrayed
for their institutions, had a more than usual significance,
coming as they did so immediately after the cries of
execration raised against the Noble Lord in the
French Assembly by the great body of the
Legitimatist conspirators. The cordial goodwill
for France and her enlightened population
expressed by the illustrious statesman, her MAJESTY'S
principal Foreign Secretary was an emphatic and
withering response to the yells of hatred so very re-
cently raised from the benches of the droite. Lord
PALMERSTON could not more decisively have thrown
contempt upon his• assailants in the aggregate, whether
here or on the European continent. He thereby in-
timated his defiance of their machinations, and his con-
viction that they failed to express the real sentiments
of their constituencies.
From what we have already observed it
will be directly tipparent that we regard the accla-
mations raised in the Legislative Assembly as merely
the voice of a conspiracy, and not as the voice of the
multitude. We are as fully satisfied that Lord PAL-
MERSTON was only giving utterance to the feelings of
the English population in his earnest encomiums on
the French population, as we are satisfied that the
amicable sentiments between the two countries are
thoroughly and entirely reciprocal. Of this the visits
of the National Guards to London, and the
visits of our own countrymen to Paris, were ample
testimony. Not all the cheering in the world, either
from gauche or droite, can convince us to the con-
trary. The absurd rivalry once nurtured between na-
tions, only divided from each other by a narrow channel,
has gradually abandoned its warlike character, and
has given place to a peaceful and industrial competi-
tion. The ensuing year will yield noble proof of this in
the form of the approaching Exposition. As a
fitting preliminary to this great assemblage of the'
industrial representatives of the various countries of
the earth, we look upon the speech of Viscount PAL-
MERSTON, in its reference to the champions of Euro-
pean liberty, with unalloyed satisfaction ; and that
satisfaction is only increased and completed by the
fNavoobulerabLleorddeacnisdionhiss,liseinqiusently accorded to the
popular representatives in ttheerialEcooglllLahguHesoubsye the
Parliament.

Ou Thursday the Marquis of LoNnoNDßitaT
brought forward in the House of Lords the
resolu-
tions, of which he had some time previously given
notice, with respect to the intended abolition of the
Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland. As we had already
alluded to the propositions of the Noble Marquis at
considerable length when first placed on the notice
book—as those proposal ,ns were ultimately with-
drawn without a division—but more espe-
cially as the public interest was concen-
trated on the all-important subject under
simultaneous discussi,,n in the popular branch of the
Legislature, and on the brutal and atrocious outrage
perpetrated on her Most Gracious MAJESTY—We
deferred the further consideration of the matter until
the public mind had in some degree resumed its
wonted tranquillity, and could weigh the conflicting
arguments fur and against the questi9n.
The Noble Marquis candidly acknowledged that
he himself was influenced by personal motives in
bringing forward the resolutions. lie believed
that the memory of his brother, through whose in-
trumentality the Union
was chiefly carried, was in-
volved in the issue. The first Lord CASTLEREAGH
had stated, during the anti-Union debates, half a
century since, that " though the Parliament of Ire-
land was to be destroyed, the Court hold at the
Castle of Dublin would remain uninjured." Al-
though we do not participate in the profound admira-
tion with which the Noble Marquis regards the
political conduct and public character of his deceased

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