The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

. .
Our City intelligence infornis the-,pUblicilhat
" there is scarcely any speculaqoris orthe-rise or
fall of the funds." So much'the-better,ve say.
It would be more reputable to the" chsracter of
the Stock Exchange if there. were never . any
This is mere gambling, and the pet7S(MS engaged
in the practice gamblers. By honest speculations
the country benefits : its stores are multiplied,fts
industry excited, and consequently its condition
upheld or improved ; but in time-bargains the
money is productive of nothing—it is capable
of no increase—it merely passes from the hands
of one knave to those of another.— Times.

The Constitutionnel contains a long article on
the subject of the affairs of the East which is
deserving of some remark. A natural sympathy
with the weak, observes our Parisian Contem-
porary, would lead us to desire the triumph of
the Turks, were not other interests bound up
with the question. The writer alludes particu-
larly to the increase of the influence of the Ca-
binet of Vienna and of that of St. James, " an
influence fatal to the liberties of every people,
and more particularly to our liberties, of which
the guarantees are still imperfect." Moreover,
"we are told with affectation that the Russian
armies entered France. That is true ; but where
were the English and Austrian Armies ? Let
them name him who, in spite of capitulations,
stript our Museum of its chefs d'ceuvre ac-
quired by treaties, and allowed to be shed on
the scaffold the blood of an illustrious warrior,
whose talents and heroic valour gave him um-
brage ! Is it the policy of such a man that we
should seek to popularise ? Ought his alli-
ances, his friendships, to be ours ? Impossible.
France, free and independent, occupies us above
all things ; her liberty and her independence
can only be menaced by the coalition of
England and Austria. The coalition exists ;
it forms the whole actual diplomacy of the
two Governments. This diplomacy is odious
to us. What are the Russians to us ?
It is not as Russians that this question interests
us ; it is because they derange the combinations
of the sworn enemies of the liberty of nations ; it
is because they cause a diversion to the plan, re-
gularly followed up, of absolution, which the
former wish to make dominant in Europe, by
falsehood, fraud, corruption, and, if necessary, by
violence Were the East tran-
quillized to-morrow, next day Greece would be
as independent as Wallachia ; immediately Car-
bonarism would be brought into play, and ima-
ginary conspiracies would be fabricated. Do we
not hear already of the conspiracies of the Direc-
tory Committee? Do we not see attempts made
to besiege the Throne with vain terrors ;to re-
present France as about to be plunged in anar-
chy ? The word of command is given to the
faction ; but whence comes this word ? Evi-
dently from London and Vienna. The enemies
of our liberties within and without are closely
united ; they rest on each other while marching
to the same object. The factious Press in
France is but the echo of the noble and sacerdo-
tal Aristocracy of Europe." We have no objec-
tion to the Constitutionnel wishing success to
the Russians, because we believe the balance
of good inclines that way. The entrance of
the Russians into the Mediterranean will,
w
upon the whole, be a benefit to mankind ; and
e fear there is no hope of introducing into
Turkey such improvements as might enable
the Government to prevent, sooner or later,
the realization of the Russian plans. The di-
vision too of the great Powers, who hover on the
skirts of civilization, and who possess but too
much power to interfere with the amelioration of
their more advanced neighbours, may be excused
in a liberal Journalist. But what good purpose
can be served by now reproducing the affair of
the Museum, and the death of Marshal Ney ?
If the Museum was cleared, the French
cleared the Museums of other countries;
if the French soil was invaded, other coun-
tries had been invaded by France. No
country can expect to be overrun by armies
with impunity. The French suffered much less
from the invaders, than other nations suffered
from them. But it is time that those things
should be forgotten. The French owed, of
course, the mild treatment they experienced to
their power, and not to any generosity on the
part of the invaders, and it ought to be a conso-
lation to them to reflect that the dread of rousing
a Great Nation obtained for them this advantage.
The Prussians and other Germans, as enlightened
and as brave as the French, and better organized,
as far as the physique is concerned (for the French,
in appearance have nothing to boast of), have
forgot the affronts they received during the ';Far
and it would be as well if the BonPpartists
is. 'it assumed
thatfollo followed
Etheirng English
ha mGp loev.
wish to disturb
ernßmuetnwt, why
the French institutions, ;.'ad to plunge France
into anarchy ? Why is it assumed that the
Noble and Ecclesiastical Aristocracies of Europe
receive from London instructions to disturb the
French Liberals ? The Duke of Wellington
has had too much Sacerdotism at home to be so
peculiarly enamoured of it abroad. The Eng-
lish Government has its own difficulties, and we
should imagine that it has no appetite for adding
to them by any European convulsion. As far
as sympathy is in question, we are not prepared, to
deny that that of the Aristocracy of England is by
no means with tbo cause of improvemel-it in any
country. But their partiality for "Misgovern-
ment abroad is at most confined tc., expressions.
been more correct than the Government of The Government, however, has, we believe,
any
ItclaiohanesrTtliiiiseuat
htioyan.vnewas that
of the Portuguese Constitutionalists,
country in Europe With respect to reference to
other countries, The only
in favour
bincoapuase.,.:s7fmoyr
by Mr.. Canning, which still bad its justification.
eralf ishme aulsctpohigr spirit of
ref bad.tdbaedangerous
Therarticle Frenchin the
tAharinsttohceraeDylkneamaelyl,Vteilileinirgto7vnor the English
busingss, as exemplified in the late Ses;ion, If
they deceive the expectations of the
•
nation, they
must lay their account with defe Ct ion.—Mor7l.•
ins CAranide.

Mr. Justice Park,
Grand Jury, observed, " there were two other
cases willhis address to the Essex
were calculated to excite horror—
ihT:d of Ling and Potto, both of whom stood
charged. with arson, or burning stacks and build-
ing to a considerable extent. It was a crime
lamentably common in the county, or he should
not have noticed the subject." At a meeting of
Radical Reformers, at the Mechanics Institute,
on Monday night, Mr. Henry Hunt, alluding to
his late journey to the West, observed—.
" After passing a few days at Devizes, and after
hearing what had occurred about the balloon which
was destroyed (the people, having paid for seeing it
ascend, did not like to be disappointed), I travelled
seven miles to Melksham, at which there was a fair
held. I there saw several of the farmers, who,
when yeomen, kept guard over me for hours toge-
ther. I recollected some of their faces well, They