The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-21 00:00:00

at a distance. They satirize and banter such men as 1
are really prudent and knowing in affairs ; or such as
bear noble minds and are capable of advising. In short,
they sap all the foundations of political government at
once ; a thing which deserves the greater attention, as
it is not effected by open attack, but by secret under-
mining ; nor is it by any means so much suspected
among mankind as it deserves." M. GIIIZOT is no
stranger to the 'arks of BACON, and we cannot
doubt that had the above passage met his eye before
ascending the tribune to speak on M. Ducos' motion,
he would have expressed himself very differently of a
question capable of enlisting the sympathies of such
men as M. DE LAMARTINE. His forty-one of a majority,
and the vituperative buffooneries of the Court Journals,
will in the end prove but a weak defence against the
energy of men stung to madness by his taunts, his con-
tumely, and his unmitigated scorn and contempt. The
great body of the Opposition was before comparatively
passive ; the Minister has now infused into it the fierce,
perturbed vitality of revenge.
But the charge of employing scorn and contempt to put
down an oppo.ition d.)es not apply exclusively to the
French Cabinet. It applies with equal force to the Tory
Cabinet and Tory Press of England. The demands of
our own people for an extended suffrage, a free trade, an
equalization of taxation, and the protection of the ballot
are all treated by the Tories with the most marked and'
insulting scorn. The chair of the scorner is now placed
at the right hand of the President of the Council. The
right to occupy it on all great public occasions is a pre-
rogative which custom has assigned to a seat in the Ca-
binet. The people, seeing their misery made the subject
of the mockery of men in power, have gradually grown
to distrust their rulers, and to have no confidence save in
themselves.

As the French are more prone to be affected by ridi-
cule than the English, the contemptuous bearing of a
Minister is more likely to produce a speedy explosion in
France than in England. There to taunt a faction with
its impotence is the surest way to rouse all its latent
energies, which are sure to be directed, not against a
Ministry, as in England, but against the constitutional
throne, and the entire framework of society.

Some of the French Deputies are by no means pleased
at the length at which the Parisian Journals report
their speeches. Instead, however, of removing the
stamp-duty, which prevents newspaper proprietors
from increasing the size of their sheets, M. GOL-
BERY brought forward a motion on Thursday last
for printing the reports in full at the public expense
and allowing all the electors to have free copies. A
motion so ridiculous ought to have been
scouted at once, instead of which the Chamber pro-
ceeded with as much gravity to discuss it, as
if the object of it was to extend the
electoral franchise. The French Deputies are paid for
their services by the country, and it is rather too much
to tax the nation to gratify the vanity of a few long-
winded orators among them. If they want to read full
reports of their own speeches, they have only
to establish a Journal like the English Mir-
ror of Parliament, at their own expense ; and if
they would have the country participate in the
pleasures derivable from the perusal of their
eloquence, let them only abolish the stamp
duty, and give freedom to the press. The self-
interest of newspaper proprietors will do all that M.
GOLBERY proposes to do, without imposing a sous of
additional taxation upon France.

The Bureaux will meet to-day, to examine the project of
law, relative to iron railways, and to deliberate on the motion,
of which notice has been given by M. Chapins de Mont-
laville, relative to printers.
The editor if the Gazette de France appealed yesterday to
the Court of Cessation, against the sentence passed by the
Court of Assize on the 14th of February.
The affair of the Haro, a journal of Caen, came on before
the Court of Assize of Calvados, on the 15th inst. M. Mascot,
the Advocate-General, having read the article inculpated, called
on the Court for a verdict of guilty on M. Barthelemey Pons,
the editor of the Haro, according to the law of 1819 and 1822.
M. Barthelemy having suffered judgment to go by default,
the Court, at the instance of the public prosecutor, delivered a
sentence which condemns the editor of the Haro to a fine of
10,000 francs, the costs, and 15 months' imprisonment.
L' Univers says—" One of our correspondents in India writes
to us from Bangalore, on the 24th December, 1841, as follows :
War is said to be now inevitable between the English and
Tharawaddee, King of Ava, who, besides other acts of aggres-
sion, is said to have seized the Proserpine steamer, with de-
spatches for the government of India."— Constitutionet._