The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

SlR,—The guard recoils!—the Times wavers !—mis
representation avails no longer. The triumphant pro
gross of Prince Louis Napoleon through the provinces,
and his enthusiastic reception in Paris, are facts too
glaring for the Times to deny or to ignore. The French
people have had an opportunity which they have
gladly availed themselves of to express their congra-
tulations to a man who, instead of being as the
Times asserts he is, still reeking with the blood of
his countrymen, which he has shed for purely selfish
ends, by the aid of a corrupt and unscrupulous sol-
diery, he is worthy of the gratitude of his country for
having rid them of a House of pseudo-Representa-
tives, which by its profitless wranglings kept the
country in a ferment, and which, had it continued
much longer, must have produced the most danger-
ous results, for a want of confidence already existed,
which made the ordinary operations of business re-
semble the speculations of a gambler, and caused the
workman to dread that every morrow might find him
without employment. The Times, finding that it can
no longer safely deceive the English people by con-
tinuing to assert that Prince Louis Napoleon has
acted in opposition to the wishes of the nation, and
angry at its want of success, can find no other object
for that abuse which before it levelled at the person of
the President, than the French nation at large, which
it stigmatizes with every kind of invective, because it
is not alive to the advantages of a d?• nothing repre -
sentative system, or rather because it will not admit
the claims of a family whose cause is either as impo-
tent as that of the Count of Chambord, or as rotten,
and out of date, as that of the Orleans. The Times,
in a very awkward manner, is once more about to ad-
mire what it formerly condemned, and has sullenly
determined to be just, but whilst it condemns the act
of Prince Louis Napoleon as usurpation, it lauds him
for tharesult, as a man would condemn a robbery one
moment, and the next cover the thief with praises for
spending the money properly.
Before I conclude this letter, let me congra-
tulate you upon being one of the " base excep-
tions." The spirit that controls your paper is
truly Liberal. You have discernment to see be-
neath the mere surface of things. You understand
that possessing Liberal principles does not require a
slavish adherence to certain theories, to be applied to
all nations irrespective of circumstances, but simply
that there should be a natural development of the in-
stincts and requirements of a people. The Liberal,
as I understand the term, would be an advocate of
constitutional monarchy in England, with a per-
petual Queen Victoria on the throne, monarchy in
France, republicanism in America, and despotism in

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Russia.
The Times has made itself ridiculous by endeavour-
ing to persuade the French people to oppose a Go-
vernment which is just what they want.—Yours,
Sir, &c., C. W. S.
Cambridge•street, Hyde-park.

SPANISH BoND9.—A meeting of the committee of
S,.dnish bondholders «a held yesterday, at which it was
deckled to present a strong memorial to the Spanish Govern-
ment relative to the claims of the holders Of the unfunded
half of the coupons.