The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-10 00:00:00

fessors, who think it is very grand, to disregard the cour-
tesies due from Government to -Government, seven when
thereis no attachment existing hetwen them. It
:be a sad. thing, however, to see France involved in a quar-
rel with Russia, merely because M. Guizot had not tact
enough to appear to place faith in the motives assigned
for the departure of M. de Pahlen. In the old monarchy,
diplomacy was placed in the hands of men tutored, as it
were, to elegance, propriety, and dignity. In the present
day, the absence of these qualities is a recommendation,
and, therefore, M. Guizot is a Minister.
The Gazette de France regards the conduct of
Russia as hostile to the KING personally, but
expresses no displeasure thereat. It briefly re-
marks :
What is the use of such suppositions as to the causes
of the quasi-rupture between the Emperor Nicholas and
the Government of Louis Philippe ? It would seem to
us that for the last ten years the Emperor Nicholas has
been sufficiently candid for no person to mistake his
meaning. He has explained himself often enough, and
in plain terms, as to the nature of his antipathies. Every
body knows that these antipathies rest upon considera-
tions which are purely moral and personal.
The France, alluding to the article in the De-
buts, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday re-
commending the recal of the French legation
from St. Petersburgh, observes:—
The differencb between the two Cabinets is a puerile
one in appearance, but it is only the pretext of a long-
conceived resolution. Russia is of too much weight in
the balance of Europe for this war of reprisals not to
be followed by the recal of all that remains of the em-
bassy in Paris. This word, imprudently pronounced, may
produce consequences which it is easy to foresee.
And again the Quotidie.zne of Saturday, com-
menting on the same article in the Debats, has
the following :
The Emperor of Russia has his warning. He has
only to recal his envoys. This would not be war, says
the Debate, but merely rupture. We are beginning to
grow proud.
This is surely making the most of the personal.
dislikes of two Monarchs. But then the Debats
contends that Louts PHILIPPE is France—that in
fact the KING and country are one and indivisible.
This is rather questionable doctrine to preach
one week after all the public functionaries in
France had congratulated his MAJEsTY gin his
escape for another year from the regicidal
bullets of his beloved subjects. In writing.
about the identification of Louts- PHILIPPE
and France, the Court organs ought to
carefully abstain from making people laugh.
The National has a long article on the treaty of
the great Powers for the suppression of the slave
trade, and the right of maritime search set up as
the most effectual means of putting an end to
this traffic. The National, like some other Paris
Journals, declares that, as far as England is con-
cerned, this display of humanity in favour of
the blacks is mere affectation, and that the real
motive of her conduct is the desire to keep up
and even increase her maritime superiority. The
National reminds its readers that. in the last cen-
tury England entered into a treaty with Spain?
in which she stipulated for the monopoly of the
sale of all the negroes in the Spanish colonies,
and reserved to herself the right of introducing
4,800 slaves at a fixed price per head annually.
"This," says the National, "is what England did
a hundred years ago;" and then it goes on to state
that her policy and her principles are unchanged,
The
National omits all
and, therefore, that her philanthropy, at this
moment,an
ambitious
isofil3rputon to cover designs of
nature.
notice of the change which has come over the
people of England, on the subject of the slave-
trade, not merely within the last hundred, but
within the last thirty years, and that what thirty
years ago would have been either legal, or was
permitted by custom, is now offensive to the
laws, and highly so to the feelings of the nation.
The National, overlooking this tact and the ar-
guments of the English slave abolitionists, that
the English Government is necessarily the organ,
on this question; of the feeling of the people of
England, says, "The English Government, in plac-
ing itself at the head of a crusade against the slave-
trade, has two objects in view, both in reference
to its interest. One is to destroy, for a long
period at least, the cultivation of the productions
of the slave colonies, in order to compel con-
sumers to receive them exclusively from India,
the other to usurp the sovereignty of the seas
by means of the right of 'maritime search."
The National then expresses its admiration of the
resistance to the principle of the Tight of search
which is made by the PRESIDENT of the United
States of America. The National does not,
however, bestow its censure exclusively on Eng-
land. It doubts the sincerity of all the Govern-
ments which are in alliance for the suppression
of the slave trade, and observesthat astonishment
must be excited at this sudden tenderness for the
blacks by States which allow their own white
subjects to pine in poverty and wretchedness,.
and which encourage the traffic in human flesh
at home in the system of raising. substitutes for
persons called upon to serve in the army. In
such a state of things, says the National, it is au-
thorised in regarding the philanthropic declara-
tions of the Governments which are associated
for the suppression of negro slavery as a mere
cloak of hypocrisy.
The Moniteur of Brussels states that an official coin's
m snication has been made to the Belgian Government
by the Belgian Consul at Alexandria, of an arrange-
ment made between Meh4met Ali and the English Com-
pany, called the Oriental and Peninsular Steam Packet
Company, without the intervention of the British Go-
vernment, for the conveyance of goods and passengers to
and from India through Egypt. It is to last for one
year, subject to renewal hy consent of both parties, and
is on the following conditions :—Mehemet Ali engages
to build warehouses for goods and establishments for
passengers, at his expense, on the line from Suez to
Alexandria, for which the Company is to pay a sum to
be fixed at the end of the first year. The Paella gua-
rantees the security of passengers and merchandise. The
free passage by Suez is granted to all other nations, but
without any privilege.
We regret to learn by the Gazette of Posen, the death
at Krzemuniec (Volhynia) of the Countess Kicka, born
Countess Krosnowska.
The Hanover Gozette says:- " Mr. Holmes, the Eng-
lish engineer, who remained in this country till the au-
tumn, taking the levels for the railroad between Kiel and
Glucllstadt, laying down the plans and making the
estimates, will return again in a few months. The
project of this line is highly approved, not only at Gluck-
stadt and Kiel, but at every place by which it is to pass.
We arc assured that the plan is in great favour at Lon-
don, where many commercial houses have signified their
intention of becoming shareholders."
The Scheldt, as the Antwerp papers mention, com-
menced floating down ice on the sth inst.
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the
Address sat yesterday till five o'clock. The Ministers of
War and Finance attended to give explanations. The
Commerce says, It was stated in the Salle des Con-
ferences that the Committee heard with much complai-
sance the explanations of Marshal Soult as to keeping up
a costly and expensive list of commissioned and non-
commissioned officers, and that no member of the Com-
mittee had remarked on a precedi_ What
which is in contra-
diction to his solemn promises. What we have heard,
however, leads us to hope that this expenditure, which
is ruinous to the treasury, and without profit to the
army, will not-be allowed to escape without public
cussion. M. Hamann is said to have spoken for a lone
time on the impossibility of establishing an equilibritita
between the receipts and the expenditure. It is said that
he was warmly questioned by B. M. Pussy, and defended
by M. Lacave-Laplagne. The Committee will this day
hear the Ministers of the Interior and Finance on the
question of the census.

- The Bord2aux Papers state that two public meetings
have been held in that city for the purpose of concerting
measures to make a demonstration of satisfaction to M.
Lacordaire, the Dominican preacher, on account of the
course of sermons he has been preaching in the Cathe-
draL An address is to be presented to him by a numer-
ous deputation of the inhabitants.
" The only talk of Brussels," says the:Courrier Beige,
" is of the recent elopement of a young, beautiful, and
rich heiress, the sister-in-law of one of our Ministers,
with the nephew of the Bishop of Ghent. On the break-
ing up of the first Court ball, four post-carriages with
four horses, each containing a young couple, dressed in
the same manner as the intended bride and bridegroom,
started at the same moment ill different directions, so
that it was impossible for the pursuers to know which
road to take. The real fugitives reached London in
safety, and the banns having been previously published
and every other preparation made, they were married as
soon its they alighted. They are expected immediately
back at Brussels to pay their wedding visits, and set up
an establishment."