The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-30 00:00:00

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The eliehin of the lerinporary and special session of 18-12
form's the leading feature in the original columns of the Paris
journals. The Debats says—" The King opened the session
yesterday for 1842.. He came with tears in his eyes, his voice
interrupted with sobs, and asked the Chamber for their pa-
triotic assistance under the melancholy circumstances in which
the death of the Prince Royal has placed France. The
Chambers replied by loud acclamations, devotedness, sympathy,
and enthusiasm. Such was the Royal sitting of yesterday All
was simple and true, noble and touching, worthy of France
and worthy of the King. The King was not afraid to show his
tears; he publicly lamented him whom everybody laments.'
The Presse alludes as follows to the Speech from the
Throne —.6 In the speech delivered by the King, we praise,
above all, its deeply religious character. For the first time,
perhaps, in solemnities of this nature, we heard God and his
holy name publicly invoked. This is a good example, coining
from the exalted amongst us. Accustom the people to carry
their thoughts towards Heaven, and in this habit they will
find that resignation which political passions render daily more
difficult of attainment; and when they see these who are con-
sidered to be the great and happy of the earth bow with reve-
rence of the most severe strokes of Providence, they will learn
to support with better feelings their own sufferings."
The National says—" Ministers who, in arranging the
ceremonial of this sitting, decided that the King should preside
over it, committed, both as men and citizens a bad action.
After the blow that had fallen upon Louis Philippe, scarcely
ten days after the sad death of his eldest son, it was a duty of
humanity in Ministers to have spared the King a ceremony in
which his presence was not indispensable, and which was of a
nature to revive painful recollections. But Ministers, it ap-
pears, carevery little about the paternal sorrows of the King.
TI ey imagined that the sobs of an old man would have a favour-
able effect on the maintenance of their power, and that they
would meet but with little resistance from the Chamber, when
it should have seen the Chief of the Government. weeping be-
fore it.' We knew very well that t hey would make a political
use of the death of the Duke of Orleans."
The Courriv• Francais observes—" The Ministers ought
to have spared Louis Philippe this struggle between the grief
of the father and the majesty of the monarch, for it passed be-
fore the eyes of the diplomatic body, and we ought not' to let
strangers into the secret of cur afflictions. Antiquity has a
sublime image to express•the grief that is suitable to Prinoes—
it merely threw a veil over the features of Agamemnon. In
other respects the speech which Ministers have placed in the
mouth of Louis Philippe is becoming and dignified. It says
what it has to say with a sober' simplicity of expression, with-
out exagierating,cr underrating the exact position of things."
The Lonstitutionnel has thc following :•—,‘ The grief of
France has responded to that of the King. Never was there so
full an attendance of the two Chambers ; never was the King
received with such warm acclamations. The Legitimists alone
were almost all absent from the Royal sitting. The Royal
Speech alludes only to the approaching presentatio's of a Bill
for a Regency. There is not a word on the Ministerial policy,
which has nothing to do with the measures, the prompt adop-
tion of which is commanded by the interest of France and of
the dynasty. The impression left upon our mind by the sit-
ting is, that the monarchical principle is deep-rooted in France,
and that the dynasty which we elected in 1830, still is, and
ever will be, the best safeguard of order and public liberty.
No person attempts to deny the dangerous eventualities which
may arise from the death of the Duke of Orleans,; but every-
body has faith in the good sense of the country, in its energy,
and in the force of our institutions."

" If (says the Constitutionnel) the Opposition should engage
in the conflict with the Ministry before the vote on the Regency
Bill, it would give to M. Guizot the only advantage he could
possibly possess—it would authorise him to confound the inte-
rest of the Ministry with that of the dynasty. All conscientious,
but timid and uncertain men, would ask themselves if the Op-
position was really constitutional, and the whole of the discus-
sion would be influenced by this deplorable doubt. A majority
opposed to the will of the electors, and favourable to M. Guiaut,
might result front the confusion into which such ambiguous
conduct on the part of the Opposition might throw the
Chamber.'

The Quotidienne confines itself to a short criticism on the
speech. In noticing the announcement that the business of the
present session will be limited exclusively to the Recency, it
says—" It is not easy to understand why the passing of a
Regency 81l is thus hurried, whilst, on the other hand, all de-
liberation on the affairs of the State is postponed. We must
suppose that M. Guizot was in haste to turn to profit the emo-
tion of the;, assemblies., which he has called to dispose summa-
rily of one of the most delicate and grave questions of public
right, in presence of the still open tomb of Louis Philippe's
eldestson."

We find the following short notice in the Legitimist journal,
the France :—" The Speech of Louis Philippe is all that it
ought to be under the grave cit cums:ances in which the death
of his eldest son has plunged his house. Politics are alien to
it. It speaks alone of grief. The Ministry has kept aloof,
feeling that it could not come forward without being accused
of attempting to cloak its acts under the general mourning."