The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-05 00:00:00

' and from the necessity of tranquillity to her fi•
nanue:3, which have :icier been in the most flourish-
ing state. There is another power in Europe, of
whose desire of aggrandisement we used to hear a
great deal, thottO the circumstance steins to have
eseaped the recollection or the Constitutionnet,
HAI:101y, Russia ; anti we would ask, if it is not
possible that Austria may have been anxious to
obtain the conetirrence of Franeb • and Etigland •
with her eitiVs, 'rather from a dread of the ag-
grandisement of her powerful neighbour Russia,
than either the wish to cripple France or aggran,
disci herself. We believe the thargt against
Anstrie, ahtl I,ngland, especially the latter, of
a wish to disturb France, to be utterly ground-
less. On the contrary, these two Powers have an
object fir mnre at heart; ilistiittly at Variance with
any project, the effecting a reconciliation be-
tween Turkey and Russia, and without the con-
currence of France this would be iMpossible.
The three Po eta fire; We believe, at present in
the 'vory hest understanding respecting this ob-
ject ; anti such has been the effect of their con-
" curreeee; coupled with the very unprofitable na-
ture of the last Russian campaign, that we learn
from an authority on which we are disposed to
rely
.that Russia. has actually agreed to make over-
tures to the Porte for the opening of negociatiohs
for peace, it being pretty certain that the Porte,
froth its known obstinacy, would take no such
step. We arc much mistaken if it be not found
that the intelligence conveyed by the Gazelle de
France, to be found in our extracts from Paris
Paper.,-.—" Paris, Feb. 1 A Russian Diplo-
matic Envoy arrived at Paris the day befOre yes-
terday, and delivered to. the Ambassador of his
Sovereign despatches, which are said to be im-
portant—have not reference to what we have

said as to the compliance of Russia with the
views of the three Powers. Nothing less, how-
ever, than the best understanding between
France, Austria, and England, could have
effected this inclination to peace on the part of
Russia. The English Government is blamed
by some at home for its indifference to what.
passes on the Continent, and its meglect of
its own reputation, in not interfering in the
internal afrvirs of more than one country ; mud
even the French Journals, not many weeks ago,
lvere pleased to dwell with complacency on the
loss of English influence. For our parts, this is
precisely the part of the conduct of the Duke of
Wellington's Government with .which we are
best pleased. \\le only hope that, in his endea-

yours to save Turkey, he may not embroil this
country with It ussia. We jiistified, at. the time,
the Duke, on the ground that it did not become
a great country like England to. he perpetually
on the look-out to discover affronts. We should
find it much more difficult to justify our French
contemporary, whose object, if at all intelligible
to us, seems to be pointed to the. interruption of
the present harmony among the. great Powers, by
which alone Russia may he -awed into a disposi-
tion to peace. We may observe here that a cu-
rious case is copied by the Constitutionne/ from
the Gazette de Tribunaux, of a marriage baring
been declared null which was contracted at New
York, in Pennsylvannia(?) on the 9th May, 1827,
between the son of M. de Castlebajac and
Mademoiselle Vautrez, on the ground that, by
the law of France, the consent of parents is
necessary to a marriage till the children are 25

that M. de Castlebajae, jun. had not yet attained
his 25th year—and that a marriage contracted
abroad cannot be valid in France, if it has not
been preceded by the publications required by
Law. An insinuation is conveyed in the Report
that the Court had lent itself to the wish of
parties, to manage this-matter improperly. How-
ever this be, it behoves the natives of other colt n-

tries, and especially the people of England,
to attend to the state of the French Law
of Marriage, which is so different front their
min, and «hick does not, indeed, seem
easily reconcileable with any principle that
would be approved of here. In England, and
most other countries, all contracts, and mar-
riage among the rest, arc interpreted according to

the. force they have in the place where, they-arc
entered into, with some exceptions as to the

Royal Family. Thus a Gretna Green marriage
of a boy of 14 and a girl of 12 is recogiised on
the return of the parties to England, however ab-
horrent such marriages arc to English notions.
But by this anti-social legislation of France, no
female of any country can be safe in marrying a
Frenchman out of his own country: at least so
long as he has a hair on his poll, or till his beard
is grizzled. Englishwomen who arc solicited in
marriage in this country by Frenchmen ought
to bear in mind, that if the latter are not tolerably
advanced in. age, they may escape from the tic
whenever it is inconvenient, and bastardise the
children. All Frenchmen should be considered
as animals not confinable within the matrimonial
inelosure.—Morning Chronicle.
Looking upon the parish of Niarylebone, from

s population, wealth, and locality, as inferior

to very few of the largest towns and cities in the
empire, we hare all along considered the struggle
which exists relative to its government, and,
above all, its taxation, as a subject of infinite
concern to the whole community ; for if, in.a
place of such importance as this, the principle
of non-elective taxation be ultimately submitted
to, such a precedent, will go far to fix similar
fetters upon.other parishes, and Parliament itself
may become in tire a self-elected Select, raising
and. disposing of its Ways and Means at .its
own good will and pleasure. In this view of,
the matter, it is with no satisfaction, but, on the
contrary, with much regret, that we observe
what is passing in that parish upon this. sub 7
ject at present. We have no doubt but that

the " persons to whom the parishioners coi►-
tided their interests, at their last General
INViting are " all honourable men," and have
executed the trust confided .to them to the
best of their skill and judgment, ; and we feel as
little doubt that they have 'been outwitted in
the transaction, and that, , if the parishioners

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at large do not, speedily bestir themselves, the great
principle for which they hare been contending will
have been . not only Icsi, but actually conceded.
That principle, we need 'scarcely say, is the one
upon which all constitutional representation is
founded—viz.; that the tax-payers shall choose the
tax-makers. To talk of merging this principle in a
Board of Auditors is a farce, of which the Paro-
chial Committee, we regret to say, appear to have
been in some degree the'duilm . This is not a per.
sonal inatter,-ilor does it depend in the smallest
degree upon personal character for integrity, or the
reverse. Tboiigh it be'true that much of the strong
'Ming which has arisen throughout the. country
against the Select Vestry system has been brought
about by the knowledge of its glaring abuses—were
it otherwise, the strong and unanswerable objections
to the principle of self-election would remain the
same; and it is that principle which must be re-
sisted.. Any thing, therefore, which attempts to
mollify and palliate such a principle,only renders it,
in fact, the more objectionable. Poison may
be .the sweeter, - bet - not the less 'fatal;
for the liquid in which it is conveyed ; and
if the great body of the rate-payers of Marylebone
consent to swallow the pill, merely because their