The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-21 00:00:00

Europe, and a signal indecency on the part of the
French Government in respect of Morocco, as a
Power with which we have diplomatic relations, and
extensive trading intercourse, to commit to a Prince
of the blood—a very young one, too—the conduct of
an armament with such a destination, and under such
circumstances, as this expedition against Morocco.
Nor is it possible to run away from the suspicion that
such a charge would never have been confided to such
hands by a man of Louis PHILIPPE'S extraor-
dinary sagacity and cir:umspection, if he had not
reasoned in his own mind, after this project, as an ex-
cellent means of propitiating the extreme movement-
party among his subjects, with whom he is so un-
popular, without at once breaking through all " his
pledges and responsibilities to the Government and
people of England." "If" (he must have argued)
" these hostile demonstrations produce the effects we
desire and anticipate, they will not only establish my
popularity with my people, but will secure to my
children and successors the permanency of the throne
I shall leave to them. If, on the other hand, these
demonstrations fail, the British people and all Europe
will readily accept my plea of having been committed
by the rashness and presumption of a giddy boy."
Heartily do we trust, that if this notion be a well-
founded one, such tortuous policy on this, as on all
other occasions, may be destined to signal and
disgraceful failure. That it will ,be, we little
doubt, for another reason. The French cannot
conduct successful colonisation anywhere; and
whilst there is this national disability about them, so
long will they furnish a long and melancholy fulfil-
ment of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S prophecy. Al-
geria will be a grave—a charnel-house, which they
will yet be too happy to abandon ; hut which they
will not have left until some of the bravest blood of
France has moistened its arid plains, and the most
honoured bones of its commanders and its soldiery be
bleaching among its rocks and mountains, on its
sands, and among its creeks and bays. The Marshal
BUGEAUD himself, instead of infusing into the bar-
barised minds of the Moorish and Arab population a
respect for the rights of humanity, and the civilising
influences of modern European government, disgrace,
his profession and dishonours his country by the reck-
less adoption of all the exterminating processes
of Arab warfare. He borrows from their
ignorance and ferocity the dreadful scourge of
his rehzias, his expeditions of pillage and murder with
fire and sword. He adds the curse of famine to the
sterility of a burning climate, and enhances by the
wanton sacrifice of all husbandry and tillage, their
labour, and their products, new desolation to the
deserts ! Here is the key to the elevated, national,
and high principled career he is pursuing:—"Ali
that we know," says the Correspondent of the Times
(from Oran, under date of the Bth instant), "of
Marshal BUGEAUD is, that he has advanced beyond
Ouchda a considerable distance. On a former occa-
sion he had advanced, and burnt and destroyed every-
thing before and around him within a circle of some
forty square leagues (!) The Marshal will certainly
advance upon Fez, and then proceed with all haste to
Mequinez, where it is pretended that the negro
guards protect a treasure of some 11,000,000 of
dollars.

Madrid journals of the 13th have been received,
and contain the long-talked of decree for suspending
the sale of church lands. It is given in the Gazette
in these words :

" Art. 1. The sale of the property of the secular
clergy and of religious communities shall be suspended
until the Government, in accordance with the Cortes.
shall determine on the most suitable course to be pur-
sued.

" Art. 2. The revenues of the said lands are to be
appropriated to the support of the secular clergy and of
religious communities.
" Art 3. The Minister of Finance is charged with the
execution of the above decree."

This decree has caused great dissatisfaction among
all classes. Original purchasers begin to fear fo]
their property, and even the clergy receive the boon
with a bad grace, as it deprives them of the admi-
nistration of the property. True it must be sanc-
tioned by the Cortes ; but that is a matter of no diffi-
culty. The elections are going on in favour of the
Government, few Opposition candidates dare show
their faces, and, in all probability, the next Cortes
will be the most obsequious assembly ever sum-
moned.

Madrid Bourse on the 13th.—Three per Cents.
for 60 days, 27k ; Five per Cents. for 60 days, 20 k ;
Floating Debt of Treasury, 56k at 60 days.

The bombardment of Tangiers has caused a great
ferment in Paris. The war party believe they have
now all but gained their point—a rupture between
England and France, for Morocco and Otaheite are
utterly lost in the stirring scene. The recollection
of the Republic and the Empire alone pervade the
spirit of " Young France," and " Down with the
English" is the: watchword of the enemies of peace.
Louis PuiLirrt has raised a storm which it will be
difficult to allay, and which may excite anxiety in
the stoutest breasts. The Government writers begin
to see the danger of playing fast and loose, of exciting
the passions of the !people at one time to war, and at
another of telling them it is all a false alarm. The
leading articles in the Globe and the Journal des
Debats of Monday, are sufficiently pacific. If we
are to believe them, Lord ABERDEEN and M. GuizoT
regard the commotion in both countries with the
utmost composure, and have no doubt that'good faith
and justice will re-adjust all differences. we will hope
for the best, but certainly during the last thirty
years political affairs have not assumed anything at
all like such an alarming attitude. It is needless
to quote from the Opposition journals, for they con-
tain only a repetition of false statements, calumnies
against England and her agents, and the usual ap-
peals to the youth of France to prepare themselves
for the contest. It will ,be sufficient, therefore, to
quote from the Ministerial journals, to show the pa-
cific tendency of the Government. The Journal des
Debats thus adverts to the wicked schemes and base,
lying rumours put forth by the Opposition papers :
" We cannot too earnestly warn the public against
being misled by the exaggerations which are resorted
to in order to excite it. It is everywhere repeated
that affairs are daily, and in all parts, assuming an
alarming aspect, and this alarm has reached the Exchange
and depressed the funds. If the cause be sought for,
it is only necessary to read the Opposition journals,
and it will be at once seen that the public mind cannot
help being alarmed on daily finding in them rumours
of the most apochryphal nature, all indeed equally de-
void of foundation. Some find the cause of this fall in
the still problematical abdication of the Pacha of
Egypt. We cannot speak seriously of those who
issue their prophecies in Latin verse, or of those
who announce that Count Nesselrode is gone
to England, to offer Queen Victoria 800,000 men in the
name of the Emperor Nicholas. We are curious to know
where his Imperial Majesty of All the Missies is to find
his million of men ; and we confess that we are no more
disturbed by this perspective than by the famous Irish
brigade which Mr. O'Connell placed at the disposal of
the Duke de Bordeaux. Neither oan we find any terri-
fying symptom in the Marsellaise played and sung by
the boys of Paris colleges at the distribution of prizes.
All this may alarm the old women who read the Gazette
de France. They do not fail to spread other reports even
more grave, but which are equally untrue. They state
that the news of the attack upon Tangiers was carried
to. London by pigeons, and that, on its arrival, the Eng-
lish funds fell 2 per cent. Now, the accounts received
yeterday from London show that the news from Mo-
racco had scarcely any influence whatever on the funds,
and, therefore, that all which had been said on the
subject was misrepresentation. It has also been an-
nounced that the Chambers were about to be con-
voked, that the absent Ministers had been recalled, and
that the Cabinet was come to an extreme crisis. We are
not surprised that these reports should create some
uneasiness; but we are astonished that they should have
found any belief. There is nothing absolutely within
our knowledge which can afford the slightest justifica-
tion for the alarms which have been spread abroad. The
events which have passed within these last few days
have nothing in them that has not been foreseen. That
there are important questions remaining to be solved
nobody can deny. But matters of equal consequence
have heretofore been brought to a happy conclusion. It is a
great point, a point of the most vital importance,
that the
two Governments which have to discuss these subjects of
high interest are both animated with the most concilia-
tory dispositions, the most amicable intentions. When
on each side there is a sincere desire to attain a solution
equally pacific and honourable, it is impossible that it
should not be attained. We repeat, therefore, that no
faith should be given to any one of the reports put forth
only for the purpose of exciting alarm. It is useless to
seek for unknown causes to account for the uneasiness
which has been manifested. The Government conceals
nothing. All facts are made known, and in them we
can find nothing of a nature to justify the fears ;which
have been expressed on the state of public affairs. '
The Globe, in the same manner, attempts to prove
that the danger is past :
" 'lt cannot be denied that the situation of affairs be-
tween France and England has been singularly s.ggra-
vated during the last few days.' Such is the beginning
of an alarmist article published by the Presse, whereas
precisely the contrary is the real state of the case. Onr
assertion will not sarprise any persons,
but those who