The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-28 00:00:00

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SPIRIT a the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TUB EVENING PAPERS OF Tills DAY.
GLOBE.—Lord Aberdeen's difficulties grow fast
upon him. The bombardment of Mogadore has fol-
lowed quickly on the heels of the bombardment of
Tangiers. The Prince de Joinville bombarded Tan-
giers, and, having done a small modicum of mischief
to its outworks, carried off his squadron to Gibraltar.
But with Mogadore there has been bombardment
and something more. The Prince has taken
possession of the island which forms the port of
Mogadore. He is establishing a garrison in the
island. He has declared the port in a state of blockade.
Sir Robert Peel solemnly pledged himself that he
will not allow France to acquire territory in Morocco.
We take for granted that immediate and full explana-
tion will be required froM the French Government
as to the nature and object of the French Prince's
possession of the island of Mogadore. 'We take for
granted also that explanation has been already
required as to the French Prince's bombardment
tof Tangiers before the return of Mr. Hay from his
!mission of mediation to the Emperor of Morocco.
Lord Aberdeen stated, in the House of Lords, on
-the 13th of June, in answer to Lord Clarendon,
that the mediation of Great Britain had been
:accepted by France and Spain,—by Spain on the
earnest interposition of France. Mr. Hay is on his
sway back from Morocco; having obtained, it is said,
the concession of every material point insisted on by
:France and Spain; and, as he nears Tangiers, hears
the Prince de Joinville's cannon. If the 'Prince
had waited only four hours, Mr. Hay would have
been in Tangiers before a shot was fired. The suc-
cess of Mr. Hay's mission is immaterial. Even if he
had failed in every point, as he is said to have suc-
ceeded in every material point, a commencement of
hostilities by the French Admiral before the result of
a mission of mediation, to. which France had consented,
was known, is surely a matter demanding explana-
tion. We say, then, we take for granted that Sir
R. Peel has made Lord Aberdeen require explanation
from the French Government as to the 'bombardment
of Tangiers before Mr. Hay's return. And now be-
fore the French Government can 'nave received the
demand for this explanation---:sefore the French
Government can have notified/to its royal Admiral
its view of the terms °lst:allied by Mr. Hay from
the Emperor of Moroccs:K,Tilogadore is bombarded
—is in ruins ; the -island which commands the
town and port is held and garrisoned by the
French ; and a French blockade of the port is
declared. All this makeS vigilance, firmness, an
honourably %Ad front, on England's part, more and
more
:I.e°,4seary. That it will wake Lord Aberdeen
from esa slumbers, or that any additional amount of
(litseialty could give courage to the craven spirit of
'erte Foreign-office, we do not profess to believe. But
hir Robert Peel has now more time to give to foreign
":affairs than while Parliament is sitting. And the
Otaheite question is still to settle. The tone of the
French Globe (Guizet's organ), commenting on
a rumour of French proposals on this sub-
ject, published by the Revue de Paris, is
the 'reverse of yielding. However, Sir Robert
re-el is pledged that there shall be ample repa-
e- ration for the outrage on Mr. Pritchard. Whether
the recal of M. D'Aub'gny alone w ill be ample re-
Loeration, or whether M. Bruat ought to be recalled
also, the Government, who at present know more of
tbe circumstances than w e can profess to do, are at
-present better able to judge than see are. But the
question settled, everything that the Government now
know the public will know. The public will then be
able to judge how Sir Robert Peel's pledge has been
kept ; and if it should then appear that M. Bruat, as
'soon as he knew of M. D'Aubigny's proceedings, re-
pudiated then., and punished his subordinate, the
British public will be eager to second the British Go
vernment in doing justice to M. Brunt.
STA NDARD.—The eagerness with which more
than one of our daily Contemporaries fasten upon
•any paragraph of the news from Morocco, which may
appear to favour their lugubrious predictions, can
nly be accounted for by the fact that " the wish is
father to the thought." The account of the bom-
bardment of Mogadore (which can take no one by
surprise), conveyed in the telegraphic dispatch
of the Prince de Joinville, has afforded another
oprortunity for the exercise of this very patriotic
vigilance. The Prince has, it is said, taker possession
of the island which faces Ilogadore, in order to con-
vert it and its neighbourhood into a French depen-
dency. Nothing of the sort. He has directed it to
he occupied because the water is so shallow between
it and the town which it commands, that only ships
of small tonnage can enter ; and because, in fact,
is temporary occupation was, under the peculiar
circumstances of the case, an absolute necessity, in
any ulterior operation, such as sending a military
force from Moged ire into the interior, should have
'n contemplated. We cannot, therefore, see in
this step even a prima facie violation of the implied
compact of the French Government with the other
Eureican powers. One of our Contemporaries,
indeed, appears to have created the giant for
the express purpose of demolishing it. "If this
occupation continue after its necessity has ceased
—if other places are occupied in the same way
without excuse, or retained after the causes
which may be supposed to jnstify their occupa-
tion have ceased—then a breach of trust has been
committed— a grois wrotlidone, for which this coun-
try is bound to demand reparation and redress." If
is a great peace-etsksr, and is wisely emplo3 ed in
this instance to let down gently the writer's indigna-
tion. Without considering the contingency thus
contemplated ss a probable one, we may remark that
there is at present no pretext for these apprehen-
sions • still less for increasing the irritation which
already prevails in France, by loud and idle boasts
of what England would do under circumstances
which have yet to happen—the more especially as our
Contemporary hardly disguises his belief that they
are never likely to happen. Another of our neigh
bours, keener sighted and even more sensitively alive
to the best interests of England than the journalist we
have just quoted, has discovered in the occupation of
a small island, little more than a mile in circumfer-
ence, by the Prince de Joinville, for the purpose, it
is probable, of covering the supplies which may have
hereafter to be conveyed through the port of Mogalore,
which it helps to form, for the service of the French
troops in the interior, a positive casus belli ; with a dis-
tinct understanding, however, that ie e are to take the de-
finition of the phrase from the columns of the hypotheti-
cal advocate for war to whom we have already refurred.
Both definiti ins, positive and hypothetic, are, we are
persuaded, alike unfounded, and as ill-timed as the
merriment indulged in by the Morning Chronicle
over the recent dispatch of General Bugeaud for
which the account of the capture of the personal
baggage of the Emperor's son (" a portmanteau, we
suppose, full of shirts and babouches") affords the
excuse. These are not times in which scoffs and
jeers as pitiable as those of which the above is a
sample, or hypothetical imputations of perfidy and
bad faith, should be lightly indulged in.

IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

DUBLIN, Auc. 26.—The usual weekly meeting of the
Association was held this day in the Conciliation Hall.
On the motion of H. D. BROWNE, M.P., the chair was
taken by Sir Valentine Blake,
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks for the honour con •
ferred upon him, and then proceeded to address the
meeting at some length. On concluding he was loudly
ikeered.
Mr. J. KELLY, M.P., commenced the business of the
day by handing in several remittance=. He said he had
the honour to act for Mr. Smith O'Brien during his ab-
sence.

Mr. O'CoNNELL handed in several sums of money,
and then stated that the monster address to the Queen
had been forwarded last week to Sir James Graham for
presentation. HQ then read the folios ing letter acknow-
ledging its receipt :

" Whitehall, August 23, 1844.
"Sir,—l am directed-by Secretary Sir James Graham
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th
instant, and to inform you that Sir James Graham has
laid before her Majesty the address, signed by a large
number of natives and inhabitants of Ireland, ',illicit was
transmitted by you to Sir James Graham far that pur-
pose. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

"11. MANNERS SUTTON."
" Mr. Martin Crean, Corn Exchange rooms, Dub.in."
General
CLOONEY addressed the meeting.
Mr. R. D. Ea-
which the repeal NE'
Ml.'"
described the position in
by which that position
stood, and eulogised the means
of
moral
hlad been attained. It was to the
new philosophy
to be attributed. Tl'ea: agitation that their success was
respect for the social relations
of life, and strict observanceA of the laws, had drawn
upon them the eyes of nodfmrantfc Europe—had procured
for them the sympathy
inexhaustible aid of America. France, the generous and
gave them the highest
were aris-
ing every day which
hopes.—
(Cheers.) No moment could be more opportuneuntr for the
o y
people to struggle for the amelioration of
thtin the pre..;ent. Whether he looked to the eastc or to
the west, lie found embarrassments cross (In
• Is upon Eng-
land—from the Society Islands to the territory of Ore-
gon, from Hinclostan to Algiers. In every quarter of
the world were visible the giant shadows of the coria!ng
revolution.—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. KELLY, M.P., handed in 11., the monthly sub-
scription of Mr. Smith O'Brien, during the captivity;
and then read a letter from that gentleman, in which he
stated his intention of being in Dublin on the 3d of Sep-
ti roger. The following are extracts from the letter:—
" I avail myself of this opportunity to remove a mis-
conception which may arise from a statement made by
Mr. D. O'Connell, jun., at the last meeting of the Asso-
ciation. I have not recommended the adoption of any
resolution against the use of tobacco or other taxable
commodities. Though the conduct of the English Go-
vernment towards the Irish people has been such as fully
to justify this resolution, I am not prepared to ask the
repealers of Ireland to deprive themselves of any
healthful enjoyment, unless some great national object
can be promoted by such a sacrifice. It is right, how-