The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, !345.

M. GUIZOT, that Minister who is said to compromise
the honour of France by his concessions. Count
MOLE is a grave man ; his words, he well knows,
have weight and importance. Under actual circum-
stances in particular, they will be received and noted
with care in England, and indeed in all Europe, more
perhaps than in France. It has not been without
design that so many anathemas have been pronounced
upon Otaheite, and that such strong expressions have
been used against the hope of obtaining a revision
of the treaties of 1831 and 1833, respecting the right
of search."

The Globe, another Ministerial paper, adverts to
the leading points in MOLE'S speech, and accuses him
of inconsistency in asserting that he is as great a
friend to the alliance with England as GUIZOT, and
yet attempts to get into office by uniting himself
with a party that detests the English alliance. Unlike
some of the Opposition journals, which assert in the
most positive manner that the unexpected attack
upon M. GUIZOT by M. MOLE produced a powerful
sensation upon the Chamber, the Globe declares that
it did not produce the slightest sensation, and this we
believe is the real matter of fact. The opinions of
the other journals, which may be interesting to some
readers, is thus given in Galignanis Messenger :
" The effect that M. Mole's speech will produce upon
the Frew, which is regarded as the organ of the party
of which the ex-Minister is the chief, is anticipated by
the Globe. It infers, and nut unreasonably, that the
Presse cannot have been delighted at hearing M. Mo 4
profess the doctrine of a close and intimate alliance
with England, which has been attacked by the Presse
with so much bitterness ; neither can it have been
pleased with his declarations on other points of the
policy of the present Cabinet. The Presse realizes
the anticipations of the Globe, for although in its
remarks on the debate of yesterday it renews its
attacks on the Ministry, and eulogises M. Mo 4 for
having had the frankness to avow his opposition to
the Cabinet, there is none of that warmth displayed
in support of the ex-Minister which men are accus-
tomed to receive from their accredited organs. M
Molio has evidently not come up to the point aimed at by
the Presse, and it is obliged, instead of analysing his
speech, and setting forth what his admirers will regard
as its beauties, to content itself with a long dissertation
on the documents respecting Otaheite and Morocco, and
thus giving vent to its anger against the Ministry. The
article of the Constitutionnel is so written as to make it
impossible for us to give any extract that would fully
describe its character, for it is a running commentary
spun the two great speeches of the debate, and to detach
a portion would be to do an injustice to the writer.
We can only say that, without admiring M. Molts,
the Constitutionnel comes to a conclusion that
he has made a very successful attack upon 3i. Guizot,
and that the war which has been declared so openly
against the Minister regnant by the Minister aspirant
must give a serious shock to the Cabinet. The Consti-
tutionnel is clearly of opinion that M. Mold, although
apparently fighting for himself and his own party, is in
reality fighting the battle of the Anti-Conservative Op-
position. This journal turns into ridicule many of the
passages of M. Guizot's speech, and declares that his
announcement of the intended appointment of a mixed
commission to inquire into the means of arriving at a
revision of the right of search treaties was listened to
with great coldness."

After a quotation from the National, hostile, of
course, to the Minister, and making no allusion
whatever to the Conservative leader of the coalition,
the journal from which we quote thus continues :
" The Courrier Francais is very complimentary to
Count Mole in its review of his speech, and declares that
it produced a profound impression. M. Guizot's speech,
according to this journal, was a failure. Ile was
pale,' says the Courrier, his voice was forced and
hesitating, and his language was haughty and embar-
rassed.' The Courrier, which praises so highly the
written speech of Count Mole, which bad all the advan-
tage of preparation, makes no allowance for the emotion
of M. Guizot, in his extempore reply. At first, says this
journal, M. Guizot displayed some energy, but he bad
soon exhausted it, and could find only weak, dull, and
blundering answers to the speech of M. Mo 3. If we
were to give credit to the Courrier, we should regard
M. Guizot's speech as a miserable failure, and we are
assured also by this journal that the rejoinder of M.
Muli was at the same time spiritual, polite, dry, and
firm. Like the Constitutionnel and the National, the
Courrier regards the announcement of M. Guizot about
the appointment of a mixed commission on the right of
search treaties as a concession on the part of England
hardly worth talking of. The Commerce. although quite
as dissatisfied with the Ministry as the other Opposition
journals, does not accept M. Moli as the champion of
that party. It says—
" Whatever talent Count Mold may have shown in this
first struggle, we cannot say that he spoke in a manner to
satisfy the Opposition. What he blamed in the affair
of Oceania is not the shameful fashion in which it
was terminated, by the indemnity to Pritchard, for
he does not even allude to it; it is the manner
in which it was commenced, by seizing on Otaheite.
On the right of search, he appeared to think, on the one
hand, that this plan was necessary to abolish the slave trade,
and, on the other, that it was impossible to substitute any-
thing for it. Now we do not hesitate to declare that, if the
reaction which is announced against the obsequious policy of
M. Guizot is to lead us to abandon the islands in Oceania, and
consolidate the treaties on the right of search, such a result
would not appear to us of a nature to satisfy any serious man.
But what constitutes the event of the day is less th speech
itself than the act which this speech announces. For four
years, during which period the former head of the Conserva-
tive party kept apart, if he offered any opposition, it was on
some particular fact, or special Bill At present it is the en-
tire policy which he attacks ; it is the very existence of the
Cabinet that he strikes ; it is a declaration of war that he has
publicly made against the Ministry. Such a line of conduct
on the part of a man of such consideration and discernment
as Count Mole, gives a new appearance to political matters.
It divides the Conservative party into two camps, and places
it under two leaders; it gives an illustrious chief to the dis-
sentient party, furnishes them with a support, and assures
them a retreat. In this point of view, M. Mole's proceeding
inflicts a severer and more dangerous blow on the Cabinet
than his words could have done."
The Siecle takes care, in its notice of the debate, not
to commit itself and its party by any admiration of Count
Mole; but, on the other hand, its strictures on M. Guizot,
although anything but friendly, are not remarkable :or
any increase of. acerbity. What is most curious in the
article of the Siecle is its account of the mode and man-
ner in which the Minister replied to the attacks of
Count Mole. The Courrier says, "He was pale (whe-
ther with emotion, anger, or fear, it does not say), his
voice was forced and hesitating, and his language was
haughty and embarrassed ; and again he could find only
weak, dull, and blundering answers." The Siecle, on the
contrary, begins by observing that, " Nature, and espe-
cially labour, have made M. Guizot an orator ; he has
voice, manner, eloquence., everything to impose upon the
eye and hold the ear captive." All these great qualities.
according to the Steele, were displayed yesterday, and
if M. Guizot was not successful in the opinion of the
Siecle, it was not because he fell so miserably below
himself as the Courrier asserts, but because he is want-
ing in that evidence of self-conviction of right which
communicates itself to an auditory. In another part of
the Siecle, instead of finding any notice of the pale suf-
fering orator, without voice and without energy, we
read, " It was easy to perceive that M. Guizot sought to
supply the place of inspiration by physical animation."
It is not surprising that Journalists should differ so much
as to the impression produced by a speech upon the
hearers, of whose impressions they have really no posi-
tive external indications, when they agree so little as to
the appearance and manner of the speakers, who are
necessarily open to observation. The Quotidienne has
the following:—
" We need not call the attention of our readers to the sit-
ting in the Chamber of Peers. It is a curious one, and above
all novel. The speech of M. Mole is indirect opposition to the
Ministry. Nothing was more astonished, or more embar-
rassed than M. Guizot; nothing less happy than his reply,
by which lie drew on himself a seconu speech still more vi-
gorous. France will certainly go farther than Count Moli,
in the reproaches:which must be addressed to the Ministry
on the subject of the right of search and the affair of Ota-
heite. But, like the noble Peer, we believe the latter ques-
tion still all in a flame, and we cannot see what favourable
issue M. Guizot pretends giving to the first. Since M. MoIS
has not been satisfied, we shall see if the Chambers will be
contented with these vague and mysterious promises. At
all events the country will not be satisfied with them."
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We understand that the amalgamation between the
Birmingham and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucester
Railway Companies has taken place upon something
like the following terms :—The Birmingham and Glou-
cester capital to remain as it is. The Bristol and Glou-
cester to create as many new 501. shares as will ca-
pitalise their loan-notes and debentures, to be paid up
as the loan-notes and debentures become due, and
by equal proportions extending over five years. Ar-
rangements are nearly concluded for laying down the
narrow guage between Bristol and Gloucester. thereby
preventing the ruinous inconvenience and expense now
caused by different guaged rails.
EXPEDITION IN THE SHERIFFS COURT.—Yesterday
morning the names of two juries were called over ; two
juries, sworn 4nd charged on two cases, returned verdicts
and departed, « by leave of the Court," in 15 minutes.
All the other cases were struck out of the list, the parties
not having arrived. On the last court-day a nearly simi-
lar occurrence took place. These cases seldom get into
the list