The Sun. — 1846-04-23 (London, England)

ABERDEEN. The foreign loan is not even alluded to in it, and care is taken, in exhibiting the income and expenditure, to show that payment at present is utterly hopeless, as the revenue falls short of the amount absolutely necessary to carry on the affairs of Government. What step, then, will Lord ABERDEEN adopt to enforce payment ? Will he seize upon some of the more thriving seaports and collect the customs' duty, or lay an embargo on the shipping, or threaten to put: an execution into the royal exchequer at Athens ? We fear he would be opposed, in ever efficient attempt to enforce British rights, by the French Minister, backed by the Chamber, for Greece, ins dvent and ungrateful Greece, is a great fesourit, there at present. COLETTI is devoted to French inte rests, and he will make his devotion more conspicuou> by insulting both England and Russia under the wing 0, France. It iv, however, at best a contemptible quarrel and the interests at least of two of the powers require that it should be settled without delay. Greece is not worth contending for ; she could render no assistanet whatever to either of the two countries, shell!, they unfortunately be brought into collision. Sht is bankrupt, her KING remains what he was whet be was first placed on the threme, there is no Minister that really takes an interest in the welfare of the state ; COLETTI, and MAVROCORDATO, and METAX" are en gaged respectively, when, out of office, in devising schemes for supplanting a rival, and Greece, whose emancipation from Turkish dominion was so ardent!) desired by the enthusiastic admirers of her former clJeds, and, which has now existed as an independent kingdom, for eighteen years, is, perhaps, next to Spain, the worst governed country in the world. Does it become the dignit) of England and France to embroil themselves with her affairs, and to rouse old national antipathies in their respective Houses of Parliament for a people so lost to all sense of gratitude and honour ? Looking at the cast impartially, a e can make excuse for Lord ABERDEEN'S irritation. Greece owes her independence to England. Englishmen left their country and devoted themselves and their property to her service. Loans were raised and battles fought to release her from the yoke of Turkey ; and all these services are repaid by refusing to acknowledge her just claims, and by treating England with contempt. These are just causes of annoyance to the British Minister, but they furnish no sufficient reason for quarrelling with France, or adopting any strong measures that might call forth a national display. Two men so little pugnacious as ABERDEEN and GUIZOT, and generally so much guided by sound discretion, might settle the differences by official negotiations without at all involving the susceptibilities of two rival nations.  We have read in one of the essayists of the last century, that where two politicians of opposite views have been fur some time discussir.g the character and stability of a Government, if the disputant, nho is unfavourable to its continuance, should feel that his different views and arguments have been well challenged and refuted, his dernier resort is, not unfrequently, to take a familiar hold of one of the buttons of his adversary's coat, and sinking his voice into a confidential whisper, to assure him that he has good information of the Premier's health being in a most unsatisfactory state. It such a conversation should happen whilst Parliament is not sitting, a tew days suffice to set aside the gratuitous assumption ; if it should occur during the session, a few hours establish the same thing. In the mean while the discontented politician has beaten his retreat, rejoicing that whilst his own mind i 3 rank ling with his failure in not having cAnbined another's with his own prejudices, he has, at least, started a presumption, calculated to disturb for the moment the triumphant composure of his antagonist. Much in the same way has a morning Contemporary been driven to a miserable expedient. After beating the air for several maurpomneot hvuesrr armoury fpt with ancienteei ev se every conceivable andinvective, exploded a weapon depahrp; drawnjoranrdthiege sit,s missiles afterf r o mu a it using gne every direction against the overnm t, tot sump it with the degrading marks of incompeteennc an immediate, n u:pu 0: to):aeaurdi: national suicide, it confidently announces tlioambeenatn eallny,caisfensoot dissolution that there is generally what is known to be a "lightening before death"--the surest sign of the patient being near his enhear dis the sudden impression he is under, that his heead alottvhis.: takes se it delusion into his has h fasttake nreotuurrncinogntetmo phoirina;y. TheHe tasa a state physician can be found to uphold a worn-out cor:stitution by the power of the corn-laws ;Wthatthuet House of Lords will. still find means to prolong life by the continuance of the same stimulating regimen in which it has so long indulged, and without which it is fancied existence must immediately close. Such is the tenacity with which he clings to his own opinion, that be astenishea everybody by the strength of his hopes when they can only recognise the elements of devair. The dying monopolist builds his chance of recovery first upon his belief that after I July the Whigs will be strong enough to check the 1 further progress of Sir H. PEEL as Prime Minister, and 1 next upon the assurance he gives us that the Peers will reject the Corn-law Bid. We look in vain for any sufficient grounds for the latter opinion, and, without some specific reasons, we cannot cAtcede the likelihood that the prophecy of a speedy dissolution comes from a quarter better enabled than others to judge of such a contingency. On the contrary, we confess that the vaticinations upon which ho ventured during the past year do not inspire us with sufficient confidence to receive implicitly the augury promulgated for the future. These are not the times when the House of Lords would willingly repudiate any great measure passed by a powerful majority in the Commons. Thaneyt, trainedd s:,:hrealluigred se utnoderrecLoa Lord frni GoßEY';sheGosvheorenkrathat emanated from their inconsiderate policy. Sub sequeatly they refused their consent to several