The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-14 00:00:00

It is as clear as noon-day, however, that there is
some paralyzing influence behind the scenes,
which, if the Government do not destroy, will
crc long destroy the Government.
Meanwhile, it is understood that advances
were made, on the part of the ministry, to the
leading Members or the Ultra Tory party, and
that these gentlemen expressed their readiness
to join the Duke's Administration provided
Peel was sacrificed to their resentment. View-
ing him as an apostate and traitorto their cause,
and ascribing their defeat mainly to his desertion
of them at a critical moment, they declared that
their support was only to be secured by the dis-
missal of this recreant, on whose unhappy head
the vials of their wrath are constantly poured
out witkout measure. To such a stipulation,
however, no honourable mind could for an in-
stant listen ; and it is said that the appointments
of Lord Rosslyn as Privy Seal, and Sir James
Scarlett as Attorney-General, were made after
the breaking off of this negotiation, and in
order to punish the Ultra Tories for their un-
reasonable obstinacy in regard to the Horn
Secretary. A dissolution is also talked of, and
has been strongly recommended by some, as
calculated to strengthen the hands of Ministers,
both directly and indirectly ; directly, by adding
to the numbers of those they can reckon upon
out and out; and indirectly, by disorganising
and breaking up, for a time at least, those little
subordinate parties in the House, who, by trim-
ming their sails dexterously to the wind, and
acting according to circumstances, contrive to
render themselves important and formidable.
But, in the present temper of the country, the
expediency of having recourse to so strong a
remedy is more than doubtful, especially as it
would be tantamount to a public declaration of
the weakness of the Administration ; and hence
we are rather inclined to think that the Duke
will attempt to go on some time longer with the
present House of Commons, anomalous and di-
vided as it is, in the hope the Ultra Tories will
at length come round, and that, as the memory
of Catholic emancipation fades, their remem-
brance of the loaves and fishes will revive, and
bring with it a sweet oblivion of all past offences.
A Tory out of office is like a fish out of water :
he cannot exist long in so rare and exhausting
an atmosphere as that which surrounds the Op-
position Benches. Sooner or later, therefore,
he must yield to the combined force of instinct
and habit, and once more return to the ele-
ment where alone he lives, and moves, and has
his being.
Our wonder is that the Duke of Wellington
would submit for a single day to the vexations
and embarrassments with which he has been so
artfully surrounded. He has acquired glory
enough to satisfy even the most craving ambi-
tion ; and he is far above that vulgar infirmity of
vulgar minds which induces them to cling with a
desperate tenacity to the possession of power.
Pride may, indeed, have some share in deter-
mining his conduct—the pride natural to a man
who was never conquered, and which impels him
never to submit or yield. But the greatest men
that ever lived have been forced to bend to the
force of circumstances ; nor is it possible even
for the force of circumstances to controul the
passions or direct the interested and selfish views
of mankind always into a safe and proper chan-
nel. If his Grace, however, is to continue at
the helm, we trust that he will look a little more
to the course he is to steer, and a little less to

the paltry intrigues and devices of those who
seek to dispossess him from his post. The good
will and favour of the country at large ought to
be the main object and study of his ambition.
With this at his back he may defy the devil and
Cumberland ; without it, with all his laurels and
all his
_glory, he is at the mercy of the first fa-
vourite demirep, who may choose to dislike the
colour of his beard or the curl of his whiskers.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Messager des Chainbres of Saturday.)
PARIS, JULY 10.—Letters from Bucharest, of the
1::th of June, announce that, according to positive
information, the works of the besiegers before Silis.
tria are so far advanced that they approach the ram-
parts of the citadel, and that but little resistance is
expected from the garrison, which consists of 8,000
men. It is asserted that the besieged suffer very
much from want of provisions, the place being so
closely invested since the late successes of the Rus-
sians, that nothing can get into it. The extraordinary
rise of the waters of the Danube is said likewise to
have done great damage to the city.
General Kassinofsky has just sent a summons to
surrender, and it is thought that it cannot hold out
above a fortnight. By the reduction of Silistria
which has hitherto checked the Russian line of ope-
rations both on thellAk and in the rear, the progress
of the Russians against Shumla would be much faci-
litated, and the speedy fall of Ghuergevo would be
inevitable. General Geismar, at the head of 12,000
men, is preparing to make an incursion on the bank
of the Danube.

(From the Co;zstitutionnel of Saturday.)

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-FRIDAV.

The Order of the Day was the continuance of the
discussion relative to the Erentual Credit.

M. BIGNON, after some observations on the affair
of Algiers, voted against the ministerial project ; but
as a great portion of the expenccs were nearly con-
sumed, to which it whs impossible to have recourse,
he should join in the vote of the Commission, in-
cluding, in the Eventualities, the speedy sending cf
political agents to the New States of Spanish Ame-
rica, and the accidental sacrifices which the cause of
humanity might require in Portugal.
M. THOMAS remarked at some length on the
folly of the contest with Algiers, and the immense
expence and commercial distress which were its con-

sequences.
The MINISTER of FOREIGN AFFAIRS defended
the conduct of Government with respect to the war
of Algiers, and represented it as a contest which in-
terested the just pride of France.
M. THOMAS thought that the Chamber ought to
have authentic information, and not be satisfied with
the verbal information given by the Ministry. He
would willingly give his vote in favour of the mea-
sure, if the honour of France were interested ; but
before voting the money of the people, it was ne-
cessary to know for what purpose it was to be
applied.
General LA MARQUE proposed a reduction of
11,301,310 francs, and M. de LEMAILONS of
7,551,310 francs.
Gen. LAMARQUE, in speaking of the naval ex-
penditure, observed, that it was not against Prussia
nor Austria that armaments made by France would
be destined. It was England,--England alone that
every year rendered an expenditure of 50,000,000
or 60,000,000 necessary. The amount since the
restoration was nearly one milliard, and yet recollec-
tions of the past, embittered with resentment the
uncertainty of the present, and anxiety respecting
the future induce you to vote immense sums, which,
applied to roads, canals, manufactures, and agricul-
ture, would give a tenfold increase of wealth and
pro•perity to France. Were war to break out be-
tween England and France,—a fatal event, the sup-
position of which the wishes and the interests of two
great nations doubtless reject,—we shall have only
two ways of reaching
the giant, of the ocean, who
' with his thousand arms surrounds and grasps the
globe. First, to attack at all points the commerce