The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-24 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY

Indian Government. Why should not the Sirdars, if
well qualified by education'and character, be allowed to
rise in the civil and in the military service of their
native land ? If fit for high office, why exclud e
them ?

We might go much farther into the subject, but
we have said enough to show that, at the lea,t, the
natives of India have a right to be heard, and beyond
this there will be found an excellent and comprehen-
sive article upon the same topic transcribed from the
columns of a Morning Contemporary. The par-
ties who oppose this may be assured that Truth will
find a voice, and we tell them frankly, that it is better
this voice shculd be allowed a free and friendly ex-
pression than a hostile one.

Really Mr. WEBSTER appears to be rather anxious
just now to seiza all kinds of commodities in all kinds
of localities, for the especial pleasure and particular
emolument of the citizens of the United States. He
insists, first of all, upon the right of the American
fishmongers to be supplied with an unlimited quantity
of large and small fry from the Bay of Fundy and other
parts of the British fisheries. Immediately after main-
taining this in terms of the most desperate descrip-
tion, Mr. WEBSTER takes a violent fancy to the
guano found on the Lobos Islands—insisting
that those islands and their produce appertain
in no manner exclusively to the Peruvian Govern-
ment—and being perfectly well aware that the said
guano must necessarily be of the utmost importance
to the honest American agriculturists. Never was
there such wholesale and miscellaneous grasping ob-
servable on the part of the United States' Adminis-
trators 1 Fish is to be purloined from the Bay of
Fundy in any numbers, although the Bay of
Fundy belongs solely to the British Government.
Guano, again, is to be gathered together from
the Lobos Islands, although the Lobos Islands
belong solely to the Peruvian Government. DANIEL
WEBSTER, by the way, is always the claimant in these
cases on behalf of the interest of the United States.
DANIEL WEBSTER insists that the Bay of Fundy may
be entered ad libitum by the American fishermen.
The treaty of 1818 says—No. DANIEL WEBSTER
insists that guano can be taken from the Lobos Islands
whenever such may be satisfactory to the
American agriculturists. The Earl of DERBY
virtually declares that it cannot, insist-
ing
as the PRIME MINISTER does, that the
Lobos Islands appertain by right to the Peruvian
authorities. Where will this appetite for the goods
and chattels of his neighbours terminate on the part
of the Secretary of State at Washington? His
friends
bad better look to Mr. WEBSTER betimes, or de-
cidedly his freaks may become dangerous in the results
drawn down upon the United States' Government.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
A decree in the .illoniteur fixes the 20th of Septem-
ber as the day on which the Councils of Arrondisse-
aniioe•
Tnn,ht
ewa
prheiacyhtso
issamyneseoLftoto:r
etxhoee
esecondo
dpaayr
st of their ses-
signed yesterday the cTohnecesisiionnistoerf otfooPßubolridceNaVuoxrktos
Cette Railway with two branch lines, one to Bayonne,
and the other to Perpignan, to a company formed of
the companies PEREIRE-ESPELETA,DAVID SALOMONS,
GRIMALDI, and others. The duration of the conces-
sion is to be ninety-nine years, and the State guaran-
tees a minimum of interest of four per cent. The
branch line to Bayonne was added to the original
project at the pressing solicitations of the Spanish Go-
vernment, which has undertaken to have a railway
executed from Madrid to the French frontier as far as
Iran. The branch line to Perpignan is to join the
Barcelona railway at a point on the frontier of the
Pyren6es-Orientales.
A decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic con-
vokes the electoral colleges of the 31 and 4th circum-
scriptions of the department of the Seine for the 26th
September, in order to elect two deputies in the room
of General CAVAIGNAC and M. CARNOT.
The Bulletin des Lois contains a decree from the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, by which several retir-
ing pensions are accorded to 75 persons belonging to
the army. At the head of the table which accompa-
nies this decree are the names of Generals BEDEAU
and CHANQARNIER, but not those of Generals DE
LAMORICIERE and LEFLO. The pension assigned to
the two former is 6,000 f. each. In the column of the
table relating to " the present position of the persons
named," is set down en disponibiliti ; and in another
c)luron, marking their residence, is set down Paris.
These pensions run from June 5, 1852.
Yesterday was a great day at Versailles. The
PRINCE was there for the purpose of distributing se-
veral Crosses of Honour, and availed himself of the
occasion to pass the garrison in review. It consisted
of six regiments—two of carabiniers, two of cuiras-
siers, one of dragoons, and one of the line. In passing
the PRINCE, which the cavalry did in open column
of squadrons, and at a walk, the acclamations of
" Vive Empereur !" burst forth with an enthusiasm
and an unenimity which have probably never been
efegrue anlol eed, do,
fce
opinion;a nlyn on to e
oxtche
el ire d.
cry There.
ee
wspasecntaotodrifs,
who were exceedingly numerous, were necessarily at
too great a distance to tahokafe mitiehdeuhrceh part
imviewwi
review,
ntthehyei ssoaalincocseel acclaim,
at
rbouotndatthtehep
nt rNe ac inn, a tai
no
dn
im-
perial title. The weather was beautiful, the grandes
ceaiti
etxmpelantyoe, and, altogether,
fdthesceneweret the beauty etaoubtyo
laorad ng th e ex
remem-
bered.

The Debats says,--" We are informed that M.
DEOUYN DE LHUYS yesterday signed with the Bel-
gian Plenipotentiaries a convention for the protec-
tion of literary property. This is a measure the im-
portance of which we need not enlarge upon. It is
said that another convention granting certain com-
mercial advantages to Belgium was signed at the
same time."

Four of the political prisoners at Belle-Isle, viz.,
DURAND, who had been condemned to death, but had
his sentence commuted to transportation; LAIN]; who
had still 18 months of imprisonment to undergo;
FREVOT, who had five months and a half to remain ;
and MOUSIN, who had ten, are set at liberty. Two
others have had their sentences commuted—Vials,
who was condemned to transportation, is to be im-
prisoned for ten years ; and a man named Itr-
el:lmm, who was sentenced to ten years' imprison-
ment, of which he haft seven to remain in prison, is
to be set at liberty in four years.

The Presse, in its commercial review for the past
week, states there have been large purchases of raw
materials by the manufacturers generally, and that
many of the manufacturers of what are called Paris
articles, have received more orders than they can
execute. The retail trade of Paris bar, it says, been
materially benefited by the influx of strangers for the
fete of the 15th. It estimates the number of visitors
on that occasion at 500,000, which is probably a
great exaggeration. Fears are still expressed, says
this journal, for the corn and wine harvest, but it
is of opinion that the rise in the prices is more the
effect of speculation than of the real state of the
markets. As regards wines, it shows that if there
were no reason to fear that the grape disease may
exist in 1853, as well as in 1852, there would be
nothing to maintain the rise in the prices, as the
stock on hand is considerable.

ThelPartvcE PRESIDENT of the Republic, accom-
panied by the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of
the Staff of the National Guards of the Seine, pro-
ceeded on Sunday from St. Cloud at twelve o'clock
to Versailles, where he passed in review the body of
cavalry quartered in that town. A considerable
crowd of persona were present, and received the
PRINCE with the greatest respect. After the review
a reception took place of the authorities of the town
and of the department. The grand waterworks
played, and added to the animation of the scene. A
dfc.ioearepdl3asyl33(,):a fireworks was given at dusk, and the Pam-
-BIDENT returned to St. Cloud at nine o'clock.
We read in the Prase :—"The Government is at
ptreerseinttogfetting drawn up the draft of a decree rela-
tivei__ to the construction of a crystal palace in the
.14tirgesetsioqnuairsetoofit3eheChsmps Elysees. The building in
for interes4rst,)
is to be deduct
rieahrante conceded to MM. ARDOIN and Co.
the state guaranteeing a minimum in-
terest cent. on a capital which is not to ex-
ult-is of francs. Before any sum is set aside
works inlv eedamount required for the sinking-fund
month's after the datlie oos
fum of 10,000 f. is to be de-
positedaree
to
htheeoportoopneierooeexdecuwtiiothninof
two
manufactures
nh
euthe
national concession
ex hih i
tandioa termi-
nated
the
fixedctureics. are to be held in
fine arts and that of
the edifice at the periodsthe Government.
At all other times the State reserves
military or other fetes, the free useerveosf ttoheithselfl,d.for
.triy, two days in the week which it may useleincf.
,:Shheou twoldthe
day
aof t
heGovernmentweek thet pany t buildinghemay
profit
by
it, on asking leave of the Minister of the Interior.
During the other five days of the week, the company
having the building may employ it for private fetes
or exhibitions. During the national exhibitions the
company may demand, on the days fixed by the Go-
one day in the week being fixed at 50c. The Go-
period after thed.fi!st ten years
Go-
vernment an entrance fee, which is not to exceed 3f.,
takeve r
any
ehebucailludipnagoyontehoen
aivtieornagoef poafyitih)ge
as al inmienud te
possession
maym nit yaotftoat
lust five years' receipts, multiplied by the number of
sears remaining to run to the end of the concession.'