The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-31 00:00:00

RNING, JANUARY 31/ 1845.

test with Ow Baron DE BODE to prevent ids taking;
any benefit even' under this limited findinv by a
court of lf,w in his bivour, does not s•iv,,ur move or ;)

feeling of petsonal anitno-ity and official pi,rserution,
than of a conscientious eonNiction_ ~n their owil parn.
that his chtims re unfo',ind= it, and a digi,ifieti expre,-
sion of that corivietihn ? The man ha, been cru
ill used: he has rallied, bravely, atter every def. :it,
and sternly renewed his applications, unmodified, un-
disguised. The Parliamentary friends who have
gone into his case and disinterestedly supported it are
confirmed in their good opinion of it, surely, to the
extent of the issue which has been found for. It is
to be lamented that Secretaries of the Treasury and
Chancellors of the Exchequer are apt to be governed
by one maxim only—when there is money to repay,
the inconvenience and burden to be imposed on the
public by each repayment. This inconvenience and
burden are never once thought of by them when the
question is—to take money into the Government
coffers from the public. We remember that Mr.
Srnitso RICE was quite pathetic in denouncing the
"mischief" of entertaining these claims. He en-
tered no protest against the enormity of denying
them, if they were just. Mr. Gotu.nnast, with
equal levity, appears to assume that they have no
foundation, because predecessors of Mr. Sramo RICE,
who were members of a, Tory or Conservative Go-
vernment, had not confirmed them. He conveniently
forgets that -they had already misapplied the funds ;
so that, justly or unjustly, the Baron's demands must
have bean "dishonoured," on account of "no effects"
in the French Claims Commission. Upon these facts,
which we have rapidly sketched from memory, but
apprehend to be stated with substantial correctness,
we do trust that the Government may speedily be
brought to look upon the Baron's case more in the
feeling of investigators and referees—less in that of
interested opponents. It is a sorry contrast which
the tricky, " sharp practice" defence that successive
E-glish Governments have made to these claims,
offers to the- liberality and gocd faith of a former
French Government in paying over the moneys out
of which they should have been defrayed, if they
come (as we presume they do, and as our own Minis-
ters do not seem to dispute) within the spirit and
meaning of the terms of the Commission, even
though, in a technical point of view, they should
happen to be just short of the threshold of its letter
and its legal scope.

Madrid journals of the 22d have been received.
The Gazette contains a dispatch from the Captain-
General of Burgos, announcing the capture and exe-
cution of ZURBANO. VILLALONGA, with a savage bar-
barity, rejoices that, having had the good fortune to
dispatch some fifteen " astute Carlists" in a similar
way, it should have fallen to his lot to be the means
of inflicting the last punishment on ZURBANO, and
recommends for promotion those who traced to his
den the wretched old man, half dead with disease and
mental sorrow. ORME, it was said, would be tried
in a few days, for not showing like barbarity and dis-
patch towards his two sons.
. The Three per Cents. closed at 311 for cash, and
324 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 24 at 60
days; and the Debt without Interest at 7 1-16 at
60 days.

All the Paris journals put forth articles on the
Ministerial crisis, the importance of which not one
denies—not even the only two that support the
GUIZOT Cabinet. The Journal des Debats admits
that the Ministry have received a check which is by
no means decisive, or shakes their moral force. It
cannot be denied that the tone of this jour-

nal is anything but satisfactory. It tries, how-
ever, to put the best face on the untoward result.
" The Cabinet," it says, " has had only eight votes
majority—what ought it to do ? Ought it to retire ?
It must be allowed that nothing obliges it to such a
step. To retire is a constitutional necessity only
when one has lost the majority. Eight votes are a
very small majority, it is true; but they are a
majority ! With a majority of eight votes, the Whig
Cabinet lasted three years in England. Let us add
that the intrigue employed all its means in this last
affair—intimidation, threats, seduction—and that
the Ministry, on its side, obtained from the Chamber
the most explicit and most complete approbation that
perhaps a majority ever consented to give in France !
We know, in fine, the force of all the political consi-
derations which have been advanced to engage the
Ministry to keep its post. Its resolution is taken.
State reasons have appeared to it to demand that it

should attempt new struggles; we shall not abandon
it; we shall support it to the end in its noble and
glorious career. The majority is small, but it exists ;
it is resolute and firm ; nothing ought to be despaired
of." The other Ministerial journal encourages the
Cabinet to remain firm, and tells the
Opposition that though they can raise
an outcry against the present policy, and
by intrigue among the Government of the KING,
they have no chance for place, because they are com-
posed of such heterogeneous materials that they
cannot work together." " The Ministry will re-
main," are the words of the Globe. "We do
not say this to the Conservatives, with whom it
is not and cannot be a question for a moment ; but we
tell it to to the ambitious Members of the Opposition,
in order that they may provide themselves with a
stock of patience, because the places they besiege will
not be surrendered to them. The Cabinet will remain,
because it has the majority ; it is its duty to do so, be
cause it represents a party and not a heterogeneous
mass. Pardieu! it would in truth be too accommo-
dating to surrender the power when it is well es-
tablished—when it has overcome all difficulties—
when it has created prosperity at home and
peace abroad! Opposition would become at once
a most delightful trade. At once it would drive
out a Ministry by its injurious attacks, and gain, at
its expense, popularity among the lovers of disorder
And,after having thus done it wrong, its place would be-
taken ; its successors would glorify themselves with
its works, and thus, at its expense, gain popularity
among men of good sense. Being only stupid and
pilfering drones, they would make themselves pass
for industrious and skilful bees. We are very sorry,
gentlemen, but this will not be. When you want a
majority, you will make it for yourselves; when you
wish to have the confidence of the Chamber, you
must endeavour to deserve it ; when you wish to
hold places, you must take them as you can get
them ; but nothing will be given up to you. You

must not expect to receive alms at the expense of the

Charter and the rules of the Constitution." Against
these two journals are arrayed all the other journals
of the metropolis ; but the GUIZOT Ministry is not
singular in that respect. It has more support
from the press than even the PEEL Cabinet,
with a hundred backers in the C Anmons.

The Paris Opposition press, as compared with
the Ministerial, is about as ten to two, while Sir
ROBERT PEEL here has only one daily paper to sup-
port him. We subjoin, for the amusement of our
readers, brief extracts from the motley press opposed
to the Guizor Cabinet, and begin with the journal
patronised by the candidate for GUIZOT'S place. "Thu
Ministry," says the Constitutionnel, " cannot, without
dishonour, remain in office, after the declarations
made from the tribune by MM. Guizor, DUCHATEL,
and DUMON, that they would resign if the Chamber
did not afford them a clear, firm, and complvte co-
operation." "Let us now," says the Constitutionnel,
"scrutinise the majority obtained to-day by the Cabinet.

It consists of four votes, and there are six Ministers.
In England, as well as in France, a majority so feeble is,
for every Cabinet wl dch respects itself, a signal of retreat.
Some years ago Count MOLE gave in his resignation,
and only withdrew it afterwards to dissolve the
Chamber, because he had obtained but 221 votes
against 213—difference, 8 votes ; majority, 4 ; pre-
cisely the same number. On the day following the
vote MM. GUIZOT and DUCKATEL declared that
Count MoLE should either retire or dissolve the
Chambers, or otherwise be wanting in all the condi-
tions of Parliamentary government and political ho-
nour. Nevertheless, the majority of M. MOLE was
more clear than that of the present Ministry to-day,
for nobody then abstained from voting. To-day nine
Deputies present took no part in the proceeding. In
these cases, to abstain was to blame. To the 205 op-
ponents must consequently be added nine votes to
enable us to learn what the Chamber thinks of the
Ministry. The indemnity was condemned by 214
votes against 213. The Ministry was consequently
left in a minority. This vote is not accidental. On
' Saturday the opposing majority was certain. The
day before another amendment had been rejected after