The Sun. — 1847-08-23 (London, England)

LON )ON, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1847.  Public attention is at this moment directed to the political and social relations of Parisian society by the revelation of three crimes, evincing in their per petrators the most heinous depravity or the most dia• bolical guilt. From the recurrence of these crimes certain factious individuals are endeavouring to cast  odium upon a great nation—to involve an entire city in a certain degree of complicity—to attach to the most venerable institutions of France an aspect of such  atrocity as could only be imparted to them by direct participation in the evil deeds of the rogue and the assassin. Without pretending to become the panegyrists of our neighbours across the Channel, without, indeed, any inclination whatever to become their apologists or vindicators, we do most solemnly pro test against this species of wholesale impeachment, we do most explicitly deny the logic of these inferences by which calumnies are distorted into evidences of crime, and insinuations are magnified into testimonies of conviction.  Because M. TESTE ;s proved to have disgraced his official authority by the most flagrant acts of peculation—are his Ministerial colleagues to be regarded  as, ipso facto, lovers 4nd promoters of corruption ? Because M. DE BEAUVALLON is proved to have  pistolled M. DUJARRIER to the death, with malice  prepense—are the journalists of Paris in a body to be scouted as cut-throats and desperadoes ? Because the unfortunate Duchess DE CHOISEUL PRASLIN is  butchered under the most suspicious, as well as the most diabolical, circumstances—are we to abhor the  august nobility of France as a race inured to infamy and capable of acts of the most hideous and tremendous character ? Were such a system of reasoning admitted as just and sequential, who could escape from a similar degree of complicity ? Could any class, could any city, could any profession, could any handicraft, could any nation ? Good GOD ! the whole globe would be darkened by supposititious as well as by actual criminality,—it would be peopled with imaginary monsters as well as with those demons of humanity by which the land is polluted, by which OMNIPYTENCE is derided, by which the face of His divine creation is profaned. The population of the four continents would be one enormous congregation of men habituated to licentiousness and bloodshed. Not one creature would be free from the general leprosy of suspicion, not one but would be morally in the eyes of his neighbour an outcast and a ruffian. And yet it is by this ruthless principle of insinuation that the factious logicians we have alluded to are actuated ; it is this horrible principle which is avowed by some of our European Contemporaries ; it is with these insinuations that their columns are disgraced. It is impossible to deny that the present Administration of France is composed of statesmen odious to many millions, that the literary world of the French metropolis has been rendered to a considerable extent notorious from the shameful lives and vicious propensities of its most conspicuous ornaments, that the Peers of France have not been very materially elevated i i public estimation by many recent disclosures. Yet, acknowledging all this, it would be a grievous misprision of justice, it would be totally opposed to the dictates of common sense, to deduce from three isolated occurrences the infamy of the French Ministry, of the French Press, and of the French Peerage, in the aggregate. As well might we say that all Italian princes must be ruthless and tyrannical, because C,Esett BORGIA desolated that peninsula by his arms and his diplomacy. As well might we loathe the noble name of SHIRLEY, because LAWRENCE, Earl of FERRERS, was hung on the gallows at Tyburn, as the murderer of his steward. As well might we despise every coachman in the United Kingdom, because DANIEL GOOD had driven a carriage; every schoolmaster, because EUGENE ARAM had fingered the grammar ; or every member of the constabulary, because JONATHAN WILD had practised as a thieftaker. While, however, we express our indignation at the manner in which the conduct of M. TaSTE and of M. DE BEAUVALLON is made to reflect injuriously upon all contemporary politicians and journalists in the French dominions, we would especially protest against the line of argument which has been adopted since the dreadful assassination of the Duchess DE