The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

It appears certain that the Bill on public instruc-
tion has been withdrawn. The withdrawal is owing
to the strenuous opposition of M. de Montalembert
and his colleagues of the Commission, who rejected
the idea of again subjecting public education to the
State or making it what it was in the time of the
Emperor—a State monopoly. The measure of 1850
freed it from all real restrictions, and the pro-
position, supported so strongly by M. Fortoul—
who is said to have declared that, with the
system of government now prevailing, education
could not, and ought not to be free—was to place it
once more under State authority. The law of 1850
allows any one that thinks proper, not excepting, of
course, the clergy, to open schools under certain con-
ditions, but frees them from the action of the State.
The Bill which has just been withdrawn would re-
store that action ; and in order to gain the support of
the clergy an exception was made in their favour.
The project, however, was sure to be defeated, and
has been withdrawn, at nil events, for a year. Yet it
is not improbable that it will again be brought on.
The opinion seems to be in favour of the reduction
of the army ; that is, that the Government will be
• obliged to yield on that point in consequence of pub-
lic opinion being so strongly in favour of economy
generally, but particularly with reference to the
army. The reduction of the army would no doubt
be taken as a stronger proof of pacific and moderate
intentions than all cieclaratione, official or otherwise.
There are eight seats vacant at this moment at
the Council General of the Morbihan. Five members,
viz,, MM. Beslay, de Gouvello, Guyot, Lemintier de
Lehelec, and Telmer:lt have resigned rather than
take the oath required by the Constitution. Two
members, MM. Beauvais and Croiser, have been ex-
pelled from the five departments of Brittany. One
member, M. Beard du Duzeert, is dead.
A case was decided last week before the Civil
Tribunal of the Seine, in which the well-known Mine.
w•
Saqui, the rope-dancer, wag the plaintiff. It ap
peered that in 1838 Mine. Segal, in order to satisfy
her creditors, was obliged to sell the theatre which she
directed on the Boulevard, and to obtain a better price,
she employed a M. and Male. Begis to fled out a
person to bid at the sale. This toey undertook
to do, and, according to Mine. &gars declara-
tions, they at last purchased the property them •
selees, engaging ,to pay her en annuity of
3,000 f. for life. Mme. Saqui, on her return lately
from Italy, made a final effort to obtain from them
'the arrears of the annuite't and a guarantee of its
regular payment for the future. Not succeeding in
that attempt she brought the matter before the Court.
for the defence, it Was declared that M. and Mme.
Begs had never entered into any positive engage-
ment rchttre to Mine. Saqui, though it was admitted
that they had offered, her 500 f. a year. The Court
condemned the derendeets to pay Mote. Segni 2,400 f.
a year for life, payable per month, and in advance;
and in uddition, to give her the arrears from the pe-
riod alien the present suit was comentaced, that is,
about two paenths back. Mine. Saqui, who was pre-
sent when the judgment in her favour was given, was
in such agitation as to render it necessary to remove
her into th•e open air.

Tne Debats has a long notice on the different ;to.
counts that hava been received from Australia, •and
concludes us fellows :- •
" The colony of .4titrala is ruina, or on the point
of being so, -In California the gold doranged nothing;
tht're was not there, as in Austru!is, agricultural pur-
suits to injure, and a social state of. things to orcrtarn; •
there w:o not the eccuaaulated fruit of a labour of fifty
years. This tiench opveted gold is fallen like a scourge
in the midst 'of this growing civilization; the colorist
sorrowfully eontemplates his vast ine.,;:lows, where he no
longer secs the face-of man, and his Socks abandoned
to wild dogs and to - fie loudly cries for la-

boaters. Isle sends money to the mailer country, in
order to receive men in exchange. " Agitation is caused
by his appeal, and emigration to Australia becomes the
order of tee day. England is alarmed, not only on ac-
count of her colony, but on her own account, for she
finds one of her principal branches of industry in danger.
The flacks of Australia furnish wool to the manufac-
turers of England. Formerly, the English received their
supply of wool either from Spain or from Germany; for
the last 20 or 25 years they have been supplied from
their own colony. La 1523, Australia only sent to Eng-
land 120,0001ba. of wool; last year the quantity was
13,000,0001b3. All the manufactories of kloglaed are
therefore supplied from thence. therefore, the fbcks
are neglected; if there are no hands to shear the wool;
i nee staple raw materiel is wentiaie, what will become
of the maaufaetnree of England? What will becofile of
Leeds, one of the capitals of the north, and Halifax and
yeeedhieei, Rochdale and Huddersfield, and their
flourishing villages? The workmen in the woollen
menufactories were the most prosperous in that
close, aqd the most attached to order and
trenquillity; what will *Ole of them if they are sad-
deely deprived of employment? Ail these questions now
occupy the attention of the Er.iglisti, end with their accus-
tomed energy they are actively encouraging emigration.
They meat be rapid in their movements, fur they have
little more than two months in which to send a supply
of hands to Australia. It is not only th© present loss of
capital in the ruin of the tlock3 and the pasturage that
i 4 to be taken into account, it is the time and trouble
which will be required to bring them back to what they
were before. It bas required fifty years of industry and
labour to make the colony what it now is; those are
things which 'are not dome in a day. Admitting that
England sends some thousands of ;nen to her colony,
who can answer that trio moment they 'eta(' they will :
not be attacked with the gold•sfeekilig fever? The English
Government is about to send out troops, but will they be
'able themselves'to resist temptation and prevent deser-
tion? (Luis custodiet ipsos.custodes?"