The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY

'similar enterprises. We have a full confidence that,
! under the wise and just government of the pre-
sent King, no such attempts would now be made ;
but we arc speaking of the effect of the former
French policy upon the minds of others, and the
events to which we have referred are too recent for
the impression produced by them to be yet efface d.
Certain it is that the hopes of Jacobin revolutionists
and of despotic counter-revolutionists everywhere
point to France, withont any fault either. of the
British or the French Government; and that as
either revolutionist or counter-revolutionist party
predominates, the French influence will be in the
ascendant. This is the penalty we must expect to pay
for our fidelity to the principle of non-intervention
—as we have seen we have to pay another penalty of
the same kind for our prosperity. There is
another consideration connected with our respect
for the independence of all nations, tending in
the same direction, for which we have as little
cause to blush, though unfortunately it does
not reflect much honour upon human nature. Spain
and Greece, two of the States in which our influence
is said to have declined, have both had proof that Eng-
land (it may be for her own sake) will not allow them
to be finally oppressed by any ally or any enemy;
they deal with us, therefore, upon the ungenerous
principle that they will make the most of
the time, while they rely upon our ultimate
protection. These are principles of action,
we repeat it, not to be controlled by any
art of diplomacy, for what have they in common with
diplomacy ? It is not by intriguing with this indi‘
vidual, or that party, that the mind of a nation is to
be changed, or the moral sense of a whole people is to
be elevated. Officious meddling would have a di-
rectly opposite effect, while it would infinitely de-
tract from the high character of this great and
universally honoured, though universally envied
country. As to the caprices of the Porte, or of the
Pacha of Egypt, who can account for the caprices of
tyrants, or who can correct them ? We must always
calculate upon such caprices, and must anticipate that
they will be generally unfavourable in proportion to
our success, for constant success implies superior
wisdom, and superior wisdom is to the ignorant and
ill-disposed always a reason for dislike and fear.
We have thus briefly considered the subject
upon the hypothesis supplied by our Whig-Radical
and Young England Contemporaries, and, as we
think, satisfactorily shown, that unless England de-
scends from her present high station, or abandons the
ingenuous and honourable policy that has raised her to
that position, she must, in a period of peace, expect that
her seeming influence will be less than that of France.
Not that France seeks such preponderance by any
unworthy means. The employment of such means
is, we know, impossible to the present Government
of France; and the employment of such means,
to a serious extent, by any government of France,
would probably defeat its own object by exciting
jealousy; but it is expecting too much to expect that
France or any other country will reject an ad-
vantage freely offered to her, and offered as it were
in obedience to a law of nature. What we have to do
is,to remain indifferent, until some of our material in-
terests are attacked, or, at least, endangered ; and if
Lord Palmerston, or some one like him, does not ob-
tain admittance into the Foreign-office, this state of
comfortable indifference will continue long enough.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic-
• toria, cap. 31, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
23d day of November,lB44.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

X. 1 X.
Notes issued ... 27,528,8751Governmentdebt11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and
bullion
Silver bullion

£27,528,8751
M. MAI
Dated the 28th day of Nov

£27,528,875
iSTIALL, Chief Cashier.
'ember, 1844.

BANKING D
£.

PARTNENT.

Proprietors' capi-
tal 14,553,00(
Rest 3,139,027
Public . deposits
(including Ex-
chequer,savings'
banks, Commis-
sioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
dividend ac-
counts) 4,812,191
Other deposits
Seven day and
other bills 965,990

,overnment secu-
rities (includ-
.

ingllead Weight
Annuity) 13,539,775
Other securities 9,547,462
Notes
Gold and silier

coin

£31,334,352

M. MAI
Dated the 28th day of No,

I • £31,334,352
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
,vember, 1844.

ME LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)