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 bth office, why exclude
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 should be allowed a free and friendly ex-
pression tban a host:de one.

ie,foßeally Mr. WEBSTER appears to be rather anxious
just
o caaol to
s seizer
t ahlel kinds
aolf commoditiesdi np
aarl alil
cui kinds
emolument of the citizens of the United Stats. He
insists, first of all, upon the right of the American
fiThmongers to be supplied with en 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! 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 Lbbos 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 es 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
had 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 Moniteur fixes the 20th of Septem-
ber as the day on which the Councils of Arrondisse-
ment
ewaprheiacyhtsoissmayneseo:tt_fto;
etxbceeesdecofinvde
dpaayrst. of their ses-
sion,
yesterday the concession The
oi. ottePßubolridcelrk
Bordeaux
xtes
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
Pyrenees-Orientates.
A decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic con-
vokes the electoral colleges of the 3d 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 CUANGARNIER, but not those of Generals DE
LAMORICIERE and LEFLO. The pension assigned to
the two former is 6,0001. each. In the column of the
table relating to " the present position of the pen,ons
named," is set down en disponibilite; and in another
column, 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 oven column
of squadrons, and at a walk, the acclamations of
" Vice l'Empereur !" burst forth with an enthusiasm
end an unenimity which have probably never been
efoeq.
hrue:nl:l eed,
were
ef ceoexprcit
exceedingly
einl i
do
ni y
n;gl notyno
numerous,
o excelled.the r
c.
were ie was
Tle
hre
necessarilyspectator, n
at
too great a distance to take much pert in this acclaim,
roundbu
tatthtehepntetrNmciEn,atainodn
hofaitled the
him with
the they
sameclos edin
im-
perial title. The weather was beautiful, the grander
e aux
eplayed,nto the
and,
scenealto
,tehreer
things, t he beauty etaou
tty 3
longand the ex-
cite
m
remem-
bered.

The Debats says,—"W e are informed that M.
DROITYN DE Lnuis yesterday signed with the Bel-
gian Plenipotentiaries a convention for the protec-
tion of literary property. This is a measure the im-
pc7tance 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; LAINE, who
had still 18 months of imprisonment to undergo;
PREVOT, who had five months and a half to remain ;
and MouNIN, who had ten, are set at liberty. Two
others have had their sentences commuted—VEJus,
who was condemned to transportation, is to be im-
prisoned fur ten years ; and a man named RI-
CHARD, who was sentenced to ten years' imprison-
ment, of which he had seven to remain in prison, is
to be set at liberty in four years.
The Pr esse, 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 has, it says, been
materially benefited by the influx of strangers fOr the
fae 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 journe 1, 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 band is considerable.

TheYRINCE 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 persons were respect. apJ
vvital greitiest respect. After the review
a reception took place of the authorities of the town
end of the department. The grand waterworks
played, and added to the animation of the scene. A
display of fireworks was given at dusk, and the PRE..
BIDE= returned to St. Cloud at nine o'clock.

We read in the Pre sse :—"The Government is at
3s tsi o
years, present getting drawn up the draft of a decree rela-
tive to the construction of a crystal palace in the
large square of the Champs Elysees. The building in
question e
terest of is to be conceded to MM. ARDOIN and Co.
fo
petrheeenstta.toengun capital a
which is not to ex-
ranteeing a minimum in-
4ceed 13 millions of francs. Before any sum is set aside
for interest, the amount required for the sinking• fund
is to be deducted. A sum of 50,000 f. is to be de-
posited in guarantee of the proper execution of the
works, which are to be commenced within two
months after the date of the concession and termi-
nated in two years. The national exhibition of the
Line arts and that of manufactures are to be held in
the edifice at the periods fixed by the Government.
At all other times the State reserves to itself, for
require the
it mbnayildisneglecetn.
military or other faes, the free use of the building
of the Minister of the Interior.
it, on asking leave
five days of the week, the company
the two days of the week, the company may profit by
a6govicnrnmtheentwneeetk
other
S2anYoutlwdothde
employ it for private fetes
During the national exhibitions the
or exhibitions.
the days fixed by the Go-
demand, on
company may
fee, which is not to exceed 3f,
vernment, an entrancebeing
hpauvirninggththeebuildiDngurmagy
fixed at 50c. The Go-
vernmentone day in the week
period after the first ten years
may at any
building
lest five years' receipts,
as an indemnity to the company
take possession of the
of
fy
the
ee
concession,number f
pears remaining to run to
o n
the condition daivt ieorna
average
ef paying
et.the
multipliedthe
on d