The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-20 00:00:00

GREECE,

Athens journals to the 7th have arrived. They
announce the retirement of M. MELETOPOULOS,
Minister of the Interior, M. DAMIANoS, Minister of
Justice ; and M. BARB3GLIS, Minister of Public
Worship and Justice ; and state that they are re-
laced by M. DAsopouLos, Deputy of Argns, in the
Interior, M. PROVILEGIOS, Deputy of Milos, of
Justice, and M. STRAVOS VLACROS, Deputy. in
Athens, in Public. Worship and Instruction. The
Courrier d' Athaes says :
" Letters from Patras state that the growers of cur-
rants, and landowners in general, are in the greatest dis-
tress. Money is rare, commerce suffering, and the mer-
chants who ordinarily made them advances for the cul-
tivation of their vines reuse this )ear to lend them the
smallest sum of money. Tnis mate ?t things, jonard to
the sensible fall in the price of Corinth currants, has
caused the landowners residing nt
P atras to address to
the Ministry a petition, calling on it in pressing terms to
demand from the British Government a diminution of
the entrance duties. It is much to be wished that the
English Cabinet, in its kindness to Greece, and with the
view of giving greater extension to the relations of com-
merce between the two Stites. shall ad. pt this mea-
sure, which can alone preserve the most important class
of our producers from inevitable ruin."

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
When an Englishman judges of France, what it
desires, what it requires, it is necessary for him to
put aside entirely all his preconceived ideas of
" liberty, equality, and fraternity," derived from a
study of, or an experience of the constitution of his
own country. France has no antecedents, as Eng-
land has—no history of an infant Constitution
ripening into settled institutions—it has one antece-
dent alone, and that is the day of the Empire and
of Napoleon all other souvenirs are those of
change, of sudden and violent renversements. A
Frenchman has no constitution to worship or to
study, but he has a country and a capital ; and in the
two phrases "11 n'y qu'une France," " it n'y a qu'un
Paris," (there is only one France, there is only one
Paris), are summed up his patriotism and his politics.
The Government, or the Governor, which gives
glory to the one and splendour to the other, is
his beau ideal of an Executive ; and his ex-
perience tells him that it is by a man and not a
" mixed form of government"—the Englishman's idol
—that the greatest éclat has been given to both. He
gladly, therefore, exchanged the mixed form, pre-
sented by an Assembly and an Executive always
at variance (a form nearly as grievous to him as the
plague of mixed monsters was to Egypt) for the
prospect of the revival of the Consulship, if not of
the Empire. This has been bought at the expense
of some bloodshed, and of m.iny arrests and exile-
mews, but he finds himself still as much at liberty
as ever—the drives in the Champs Elysees are not
curtailed, the walks in the gardens of the Tuileries
and the Luxembourg are as free., the restlurants are
as good, the b iul-vards as crowded, the theatres are
open, the chateaux des flsurs are lighted up—and
what does a Frenchman require more ? He requires
the prancing of the Lancers, the glancing of the
Cuirassiers, the stirring sounds of the inertial bands,
reviews on the Champ de Mars, and receptions in the
Tuileries. He has them all, and what cares he for
Constitutions !
Now it is much to be lamented that England and
its Press have not quietly, at the least, acquiesced in
all this, for it is a state of things which not only
flatters the failings and minirers to the prejudices
and tastes of a Frenchman, hut it is in fact founded
on the only element of union left by the preceding
revolutions. There were elements enough of dis-
union ere Louis Napoleon took the reins so firmly
in his hand, materials enough for many potent
facions, bat not one party which could successfully-
have made an " Appel au peuplr." Anarchy
and strife would assuredly have made sad havoc if the
nephew of Napoleon had not made his appeal—an-
archy and exile will assuredly come again if he be
compelled to relax his gnat.). Who will be to blame
if his hand be parali sed? England, from the protec-
tion it affords to the disaffected, from the currency it
gives to every report, however idle, calculated to de-
preciate his government and malign his motives, from
its forgetfulness of the personal respect due to a
Prince who has always spoken of it with respect, and
treated irs countrymen with kindness and di,tinction.
But England is jealous of his large standing army,
and sees no employ went for it but in fulfilling his
uncle's dreams of hey ision. If the nephew, or the
army, or the people think of anything so visionary,
so opposed to their own interests, pray who has
suggested the thought ? Has the English Press
forgotten the stale but of en too true tale, of the
groom and the priest—the groom who thought
not of greasing the mouths of the horses until
the priest asked if be were guilty ofthe sin.
The English an D piers indeed are circulated to a very
limited extent'
France, and only amongst the
English ; but every Frenchman reads in his own
Fairies and Sieci replies
i to English accusations,
mocker
of
English
first ar the idea,gi ti fears—he laughs at
and but
the the thought is sown
in his mind,
flourh and the fruit
will appear in due seam, The prohibition of all
English papers is seriously Contemplated. plated. Behold
the English ,
Press will say, soother i
ti,, ? Who provoked the exercise
nsotafnicte?of
Idses
Poi-t
_.
not sufficiently clear that it is
totally •
with the nature of the power
whole French people into the hands of Louis 3
Na-
poleon, committed by
it is totally opposed to the, due exerci!e"
paleon, that
of that power, to permit (tally suaeltions
of
olio
of principles, and of motives which have
no
ul.:
dation but in the fancies of newspaper editors tuxes.
"Tainted partizans and refugee-?
Tl'e
PP"i't` at
said to the Marquis of Hertford, at the
late banquet
given to the English residents, and the prime
Minister Cassabianca, said something to the same
effect to Lord Jerningham—" Attacks on myself per-
sonelle, I disregard, but c)ntictued misrepresentations
of acts done in the name of a great nation will compel
the Government to teke steps
which personally I
would be most anxious to avoid."
That there are el...relents of war in Europe at this
moment, and materiel for war existing to a vast ex
tent iu France no one eau escape the cognizance of ;
but we venture to guess that break out when it may it
will not commence with an invasion of the English
shores. The elements of that war lie in the Protes
tantism of the north, the Catholicism of the south of
Europe—elements the deepest and most deadly
when once the sword is unsheathed, Which have ever
conducted hostile troops to the battle- field. Can
England remain neutral in such a case ? We suspect
her Protestant feeling is too strong to be, under such
circumstances, a passive one.
With such a prospect, or even the possibility of
such a warfare, what ought England to du? Clearly,
whate she is doing—increase her means of defence,
her r armaments, both on sea and land. But surely'
she can do this quietly, without, at the same
moment, trying to pick a quarrel with a neighbour
who has hitherto sliown no disposition to be on bad
terms- with her. That neighbour is certainly en.
titled to regulate oil own household as he deems
bbeehstaveaiolucru.latepf
hteohamaintain dome-aic order and good
sentries at every door of every
room, no one butthose ind the rooms has any title to
find fault; and if theyhasothnot complain of the sur- TURNIP! Elm
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whole neighbourhood with her heavy storm of rain towhen
outcries ? g• t into conversation withthe
take shelter in a farm house, he
In fact, had England been She ob,erved, " liowever farmer's wife about her dairy.
quiet at present there would have contentb to remain have never turnipy butter.„mtny turnips our COWS get, we
e
w..,e,i1, that is a secret worth
polite sides of the Channel,tw been on the op- ; knowing. How do you
manage e " I mix half a pint of
most interesting ; scalding hot water
problems working out for an obsero„. with each gallon of milk when I style
in—a wondering ; (?tra.in)i it' before
ci setting it away in the bowls, anu this
world. On the one side Free Inaitutions, Free ; simple plan an en Fe y
.removes all the taste of the turnips.'
Tiede, and a Free Press. On the very easily tried, and those f
tioni Exclusion submission. t zu9ther side Protec- troubled with buttof thi kin o
ter 4 kind may umk
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We bear no particular ill-will to Lord John Rus-
sell. We believe, indeed, that he is not over friendly
to the liberty of the Press, and perhapsiie has no
very great reason to be so ; but we can assure him
we are not his chief enemies. If he wishes to
become a popular Minister, we recommend him, in
the first place, to suppress " Dod's Parliamentary
Companion " and the " British Peerage." The
author of those far-famed compilations does in-
finitely more harm to a nepotist " Liberal" Pre-
mier than all the newsmen put together; and.
until Lord John puts down that " wretched scrib-
bler," or sends him to Norfolk Island—the British
Cayenne—the public will never be persuaded that
he holds office solely for the good of his country,
and not for the sake of the numerous and fortunate
progeny of his wonderful great-grandmother. By
adopting these coercive measures—and, perhaps, by
making one-half of his Cabinet wear wigs and the rest
whiskers—he may poFsibly succeed in persuading
the nation that it is nut geeernei by cousins. In the
meantime, we may just venture to suggest to him,
iti the most friendly spirit possible, that there exists
everywhere a vulgar prejudice against a public
man who is suspected, however unjustly, of making
big family the first object of his anxiety, and his
c.onntry the second. Lord John Russell aspires
tto. be the leader of a. large popular party out of
rus:,
ah.duithis. Cabinet is only open to those who can
indweid, iillete a
not gi,e nel,'"on as " Founder's Kin." Brutus did
did Itisiis:•"ein cedileship to his maternal uncle, nor
have, tribune of his little boy. We
" that disreputable
modern days, i:ertcl of such things being done in
then
.th.e offenders were always
tribe of kites arufvult4sure4ation," " that carnivorous
~:e :—fthe Tory party. An aris-
tocratic o'ique, at the
I .a democratic faction, is
Po; :icitr9
l soon have expected to
I indeed a novelty.
see 'Cat na!t, we, should as
loured coronation steeds prancir, lijesty s cream-co-
cart, as to behold our six or geSivihey hefore a dray
n Greys" dragging the whole
toot Manchester thoroughbred
b
their heels. In these der., to
bear the name
1
Grey, Elliott, or Russell, is itself a fortune and
to marry a conn,..xion of a Cabinet Minister' is
ft
fair opening to one, or all,
of the.
Seer ' -
etaryships
of State. We have no wish to interfere with the
Premier's benevolent intentions. towards the
issue,
of his great grandmother; but it will not be eaB.y ..
to
convince us that we can only he legislated; for by
then who beilr a certain name, and that the fa
Peret of
governing England—;ike the ort of making E:u de
(.3 ologne—i4 exel osivt ly in the hands of a single
family,—Chronicle.

LONDON,

THEE COI TN TR-, .11 a Ls''-!.:"IrS

DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, FEB. 17. There was a
large and beautiful supply of beasts to-day, a good number
being from Rotherham and the North of England ; tne de-
mand was fiat, and there were several lots remained unsold.
Sheep were about an average, and readily dispo...ed of. Fat
pigs rather more plentiful. The number of fat and store
calves about the same as last week. Prices—Beef, 4d to
bd ; mutton, 5d to 60 ; veal, 5d to 5d per lb ; pigs, 7s 6d
to 7s 9d per score. Rough fat, 3s 6(1 per stone of 141bs.
Hides. lid to lid per lb ; calf skins 2d to 3bd per lb.
UPPINaBsm, FEB. 18.—Wheat 40s to 445; barley 28e V
31s Od ; oats 19s to 245; beans 28s to 365 per qr. Butter 110
per Ila ; eggs 24 for is.
LOUTH, FEB. 18. —Wheat 36s to 42s ; barley 25s to 30s ;
oats 15s to 20s; beans 25s to T's per qr.
NEWARK, FEB. 18.—Wheat, white 46s to 50s, red 40s to
44s ; barley, malting 31s to 335, grinding 24s to 26s ; oats,
245 t., 22s to 245. 225 t., 19s to 21s; beans, old 39s to 40s ;
new, 32s to 355; malt, 563 to 60s; tares, 32s to :34s per qr.
MELTON MOWBRAY, FEB. 17.—Wheat, 38s Od to 42s ;
barley, 26s to 30s; oats, 18s to 245; beans, 27s to 353
per qr. Butter 12d to 13d per lb ; eggs 20 to 22 for ls.
Bostow, FEB. 18.—Wheat, red 34s to 42s Od, white 4-I-
to 465, superfine 48s to 003; barley 2's to 31s ; oats, 16s to
20s ; beans 27s to 31s; peas 23% to 28s per qr.
LYNN, FEB. 17.—Wheat 36. 38s to 40s Od, fine 40s to
445; barley 26s to 235, fine 30s to 325; oats 00s to 00s Od;
beans Os to f;s, fine Os to Os per qr.
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, FEB. 18.—We had again
a large supply of all kinds of grain in the market to-day.
Prices for oats and beans rather dull, and whe,t and barley
brisk, although last week's prices were maintained. The top
of wheat was 2s 6d up, and the average 5d down. Barley
on the top 6d down, and the average 5d up. Oats on the top
the same as last week, and the average the same. Beans on
the top the same as last week, and the average 2d up.
Unsold, 2i9 qrs wheat, 53 qrs barley, 193 qrs oats, and 66
qrs. beans.
Top of Wheat ... ... 63 lb. 48s Od
„ Barley „.. 57 lb. 31s 3d
„ Oats ... ... 44 lb. 25s Od
~ Beans ••• 6711 b Eis Od
EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, FEB. 18.—The number
of cattle was 666, or 133 less than last week. Top price, 6s 9d;
current, 6s ai to Os Od; secondary and inferior, from 55
to 51 6d per Dutch stone. A clearance was not effected
The number of sheep at market this morning was
2,475, being 257 more than last week. Best wedder mutton,
top price, 51d per lb; current, 5d to Od; ewes, 4d to 4id.
A clearance was not effected.