The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-13 00:00:00

LONDON,

MON DAY

office—when we are enduring the sway of a Tory and
Protectionist, and perhaps more in will than in power,
a reactionary Administration—I feel convinced in my
own mind that the old Whig principle is still full of
youthful sap and
.vigour, and that, like the oak on
Mount Algidos, it will continue to gather resources
and vigour from each descending stroke. The party
may be out of place—their chieftains may be out of
P
ein
power—they
menmachoose to think it so—but Ido feel
in may
no longer be on the sunny side of
mind assured that their opinions and
principles
will pervade the conduct of public
a
marshalling the march of Imperial Govern-
f theaw myierrs street,—,tohv
Govern-
ment." Precisely so; no Ministry can rule this
country without carrying into full operation the
principles of progress. Neglecting this, the
late Administration fell to the ground. The rupture
with Lord PALMERSTON accelerated this, no doubt,
but the fatuity of the then Premier overthrew it.
The Whigs, as a political party, have been greatly
weakened by the inefficiency of the late Ministry, but
Whiggism, as a creed, remains as it was.
The difference is between the popular and the
RUSSELL-GREY-ELLIOTT view of Whigism. The
people, who are far from ungrateful, recollect that,
since the death of Lord LIVERPOOL, many and im-
portant public measures have been conceded, chiefly
owing to the exertions of the Whigs, whether out of
office or in it. To this we chiefly owe the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Acts, Roman Catholic Eman-
cipation, Parliamentary Reform, the abolition of Colo-
nial Slavery, the gradual amelioration of the Criminal
Code, the improvement of the Civil Law, the reduction
of the Tariff, the repeal of the Corn-laws, and other
progressive reforms. Some of these, it is true, ema-
nated from Tory Administrations, but it was the
Whig " screw" which caused them to come to any-
thing. And it is this same motive power, as " her
MAJESTY'S Opposition," which may be expected to
keep the present Ministry " up to the mar k," while
they continue in power. It is curious, indeed, that
the Whigs, in oppositon, have been the parents of
more numerous and efficient reforms than they could
p ass when in office.

They will return to Downing-street, of course.
It is simply a question of time—unless the Derbyites
bid for continuance in power by surrendering the
leading principles on which they have hitherto acted.
Sooner or later, we shall again have the Whigs
governing the country, and no man among the leaders
will be more heartily welcomed back again than the
Earl of CARLISLE. But, if the Whigs, untaught by
the lessons and experience of the past (like the
BouarsoNs, on the downfall of NAPOLEON), attempt
to frame an Administration on the old "family-
party" principle, they cannot have, and they will not
deserve, any thing like permanence in office. In
1846, Lord. JOHN RUSSELL committed the great error
of loading his Cabinet with three of the GREY family.
Of these, Sir GEORGE GREY, as Home Secretary,
was the only efficient man. The financial blunders
of Sir CHARLES WOOD will long be remembered, and
the Kafir ',war (to say nothing of other just and
general causes of discontent at misgovernment)
marks the Colonial Administration of Earl GREY as
inefficient, mischievous, and disgraceful. Lord
DERBY, at all events, has determined that family
connexion should not be the rock on which bis
Ministry should split. What " the great Whig
party" reproached him with (that eighteen new men
were sworn in as Privy Councillors on one day),
is
precisely the thing which ought to tell most in his
favour. His connexions are sufficiently numerous
and extended to have afforded him, if he pleased,
mainly to construct his Cabinet out of his own
family—as his predecessor did,—but he eschewed
that example, and followed that of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, who (to his praise be it said) very remarkably
avoided nepotism. The tradition that the members
of two or three noble families are alone and
best qualified to govern this country, has
received " a heavy blow and great discouragement"
in the formation of the present Ministry, and Lord
CARLISLE knows, quite as well as we do, that no
Whig Administration has the slightest chance of
existence while that tradition remains. It is by
Ability, and not Blood, that this country should be
governed. Power is not the hereditary property of a
few noble and wealthy families. No " tenth trans-
mitter of a foolish face" should necessarily be a
Statesman. A. better principle ought to prevail—a
principle which will give a chance of fair play to
genius and to talent, and it u 414 prevail, to the dis-
comfiture of hereditary Cabinet Ministers,
" When these Lords of a day are
Forgotten eis fools, or remembered as worse."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
The Moniteur contains a long leading article on
the subject of the addresses sent in by the Councils-
General. It declares that the gratitude and confi-
dence generally expressed by them, and the desire
manifested that Louis NAPOLEON'S Government
should last, are only what ought to be expected
from the eminent benefits which he has conferred on
the country.
A Toulouse journal mentions the death of Mme.
LAFFARGE, whose trial, for poisoning her husband,
created so great a sensation about a dozen years back.
She died on the 7th instant, at the baths of Ussat, in
the south of France.

The French experimental squadron returned on
the 2d instant to the Gulf of Naples, where it is to
wait for further orders.

The Moxiteur contains a decree by which the
railway from Graissessac to Beaiers is conceded to
MM. DELFOSSE, H. GRANIEB, AUGUSTE COUTTEL,
and JOSEPH OISE, for 99 years, they undertaking
without subvention from the state or guarantee of in-
terest to make a line of a single pair of rails. The
object of the concession is to put the coal mines of
Graissessac in communication with the southern
coast and the intended new line of railway from Bor-
deaux to Cette.

The Moniteur has the following :
"By the senates consulte of the Ist of April, the
Prince President has the enjoyment of the gardens and
parks connected with the national palaces. The letting
of the chairs and the ca‘e of the garden is one of the
revenues of the Palace of the Tuileries. The Prince
President has decided that a sum of 20,000 f., which is
about the average product. be applied to the foundation
and support of a Pension Fund and Mutual Aid Society
for the workmen employed in the national factories—
such as the Sevres, the Gobelins, and Beauvais. With
the same object, an annual sum of 15,000 f. is placed at
the disposition of the Mayor cf Versailles."
The commission lately formed to devise the best
means of putting down bandittism in Corsica held its
first sitting on Friday, M. BONJEAN in the chair.
After a statement of M. TONNET, concerning the
present situation of the island, the chairman proposed
to divide the commission into three sections, which
was agreed to. One is to inquire into the improve-
ments to be effected in the organization of the public
force, and in the surveillance to be observed, and, in
fact, into the best means of at once checking the evil ;
the second is to direct its attention to measures, the
effect of which would not be observable so rapidly,
such as opening roads, constructing public works,
the amelioration of seaports, encouragement to be
given to agriculture, &c.; and the third is to.inquire
into the expenses to be incurred for carrying out
such plans, and in what proportions the landowners,
the State, and the communesshould contribute thereto.
A general meeting was fixed for 4th October, at the
hotel of the Minister of Police, to allow the reports
of the sections to be read.

minoritymany o f
tioTulsaefob:;K; ;;HrtiiePresse publish a list of towns
electors voonteldy
in the deptahretsmeents, in which the votes for the elec-
eleTcthoers Mofunthiceipal Councils have formed a very small
placesnum bleitrtleofmroergeisttehraendaetleencttohrso.f
theln
ever, Alat, except ;38and at Pezenas, where there are 2,142
Constitutionnel
majority of gtave their votes. It appears, how-
,of the muncipal councillors elected are par-
tisanstho p
; thato eof
in a few instances, the great
ill
Government.states that General St. Arnaud,
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Minister of War
SIDENT during the
southern departments whacicompany the PRINCB Pits-
his journey to the
of Police, will attend the PRINCE de Maupas, Minister
A.I. de Persigny, Minister ofßtniecx as far as Moulins;
Mou-
lins to Lyons ; M. Ducoe,
Minister
In.aterior, from
Toulon and Rochefort ; and thantitlt r of Marine, at
Mini-
ster of Public Works, will meet the PRINCE Magee,
t An-
gouierne, to inaugurate the railway withhinia.
Fould, Minister of State, is not to leave Paris.
The new Municipal Council of Marseilles has
voted 100,000 f. for the expenses of the reception of
the PRINCE PRESIDENT.
At the close of the diocesan synod at Cambrai
the Archbishop read to his clergy a letter from Car-
dinal WIsEMAN relative to the subscription for Mr.
NEwmAN. His Eminence estimates the costs payable
by Mr. NEWMAN in his defence against Dr. ACHILLI'S
prosecution at 12,0001. The letter states that the
resources of the English Catholics, exhausted in great
part by the wants of their churches now rising up in
all directions, are wholly insufficient to meet this de.
"land ; that, under these circumstances, the Catholics