The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-07 00:00:00

sideration of the matter in debate, has been naturally
led to acknowledge that the French authorities had a
right to send away a turbulent man, who was compro-
mising his own country by mixing himself up with
I projects of insurrection against France. Its right then
became limited to a sincere disavowal of all the gratui-
tous wrongs, useless acts of rigour, and exorbitant pro-
ceedings, of which a French officer rendered himself cul-
pable, and for which his own superior officer sponta-
neously reproved him. The French Cabinet, on its side,
has made it a point of honour to be completely candid
and loyal, it has not hesitated to admit the real wrong
committed by one of its naval officers, and there must
have been on its part a total absence of good faith, and a
perfect want of equity to refuse a full satisfaction for
this act. The question once placed in this light, the
dignity of the two countries remained intact, and a solu-
tion became easy. To have acted otherwise, had France
adopted the act of Captain d'Aubigny, and England
that of Mr. Pritchard, it would have been to lower two
great nations to the level of two prejudiced and pas-
sionate men. A man must be insensate to expect that
Governments should hold themselves bound by the acts
of agents who have gone beyond their instructions.
Upon such an hypothesis countries could not be governed
by Cabinets, but by the subalterns whom they send out
to different parts of the world. There is no country
that can subject itself to such chances of collision and
confusion. To disavow an agent who had acted accord-
ing to his instructions would be a culpable weakness ;
but to disavow an agent who, unauthorised, takes upon
himself serious measures constituting a political act, is
a right so clear, so self-evident, that there cannot be any-
man of good understanding or right feeling who will not
at once acknowledge it to be just. It is to be hoped
that the application of these truly constitutional prin-
ciples, which the Government has been twice under the
painful necessity of making., may be a lesson for all who
are or shall become hereafter depositaries of its autho-
rity, to observe all necessary forbearance and moderation
towards both nations and individuals, and constantly re-
mind them that they are not the Government."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers :

" The Prince de Joinville was at Cadiz on the 23d
ult. He was to embark in the Pluton steamer to pro-
ceed to Oran, where Marshal Bugeaud is to wait for him.
He was to go from that place to Bona, to visit the Duke
d'Aumale, and thence to return to France by Toulon. A
letter from this town of the Ist states that all the officers
of the navy were ordered to be ready to receive the
Prince, who was expected from one moment to another.
The Sub-Prefect had convoked the Municipal Council
extraordinarily to deliberate on the measures to be taken
to give his Royal Highness a fitting reception."
The Constitutionnel says:—" The promotions pre-
pared by the Minister of Marine are to be dated from the
day of the inauguration of the statue of Admiral Du-
quesne, at Dieppe. The fete is to last three days, but
the day of inauguration is not yet named. It is to be
regulated by the King's journey to Eu."

The Frankfurter Journal gives the following from
\Vilna, 27th ult.:—
" Notwithstanding all that has been done in favour
of the Jews, on the frontiers of Russia and Poland,
their translation is decided upon as the only means of
maintaining the system of exclusion and the law which
protects it. There are comprised in this measure
100,000 Israelites. It is true that the richer Jews have
received permission to sell their landed property, and
fix their residences where they wish. This is deemed
a favour, but it is in truth an illusion ; for the sale of
their estates being a forced one, they will have great
difficulty in finding purchasers at their just value, and
they at the same time must limit their new abodes within
one or other of the Governments which formed part of
the kingdom of Poland before the first partition."
" A letter from Graetz, in Styria, quoted by the Augs-
burg Gazette, states, that on the 26th ult., at the moment
the troops were filing off before the Emperor and Em-
preis of Austria, four piers that supported an iron rail-
way near her Majesty fell down, and killed two men and
injured several others, amongst whom were two captains,
very severely.
" A letter from Copenhagen states that the Russian
fleet took its departure from Elsinore on the 26th ult.,
passed Copenhagen in the afternoon, and entered the
Baltic.

The National asserts, that in the Morocco affair,
France has manifestly been the dupe of Abderraliman
and England, and that, thanks to the concessions of N.
Guizot, she is henceforth engaged in an interminable war,
because it seems to admit of no satisfactory and final con-
clusion.