The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

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brought the wietched example of workhouse libe-
rality before the court in the morning.
On being interrogated, the poor creature stated
that she had received an allowance of 2s. 6d. per week
from the prish, which was not sufficient to supply
the wants of her family, and that she had been wan-
dering about night after night for the last fortnight,
sleeping under trees or any casual shelter she could
obtain. The master of the workhouse was then sent
for, and the usual class of answers was returned.
The woman was a bad character—a drunkard and
dissipated all her means (23. 6d. per week, for
food and lodging, to say nothing of clothing or
nate
thes bidesm ohr
morning
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washing I! I) in that
she r hwaede
kapplied
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wast he r
due,e li evi gI-to
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of the relieving-officer, and she might have applied to
him on
unquestionably,
but what would have been the result ?
We might

" Call spirits from the vasty deep, but will they come?"
and we fancy that the call would be nearly as fruit-
less
in one case as in the other. What, ask the re-
lieving-officer to advance the money two days before
it was due ! We can easily imagine the nature of the
response that would be returned. Not Orxvnu TWIST's
request for more would occasion greater horror
and astonishment than the application for money
before it was due ! and then as to the allowance being
due that morning, what would be the use of tbat if
she had perished with her children during the pre-
ceding night, as she might have done but for the
humanity of Inspector Simons!
The " worthy" magistrate, and in this instance we
use the well-merited term with sincere pleasure, ad-
ministered a strong rebuke to the officials. He said," that
admitting the master's statement of drunkenness to
be correct, poor-law relief, in cases of urgent dis-,
tress, was not to be withheld on questions of charac-
ter. This poor woman was found destitute and ex-
hausted, without a place to lay her bead.
her the requisite great neglect on the part of somebody. Suppose
she had died from exhaustion and neglect, those who
had refused to pay nide' was
attention would
have got, and most deservedly too,
into most
serious trouble." He then directed that the inspector,
to whom he paid a well-merited compliment for his
conduct in the transaction, should attend before the
board of guardians with the woman, and see whether
the board did not think it their duty to inquire
whether some person bad not disobeyed their
orders, and ought therefore to be
punished. We
shall await the result of this inquiry with
considerable curiosity, but in the mean time we
would commend the conduct of Mr. ARNOLD to the
notices of his brother justices, as a model worthy of
imitation in such cases. And we trust that his
wholesome caution may be borne in mind by re-
lieving officers and other officials, that in cases
of death from exhaustion and neglect, " those who
had refused to pay the requisite attention would get,
and most deservedly too, into most serious trouble!
A due consideration thereof may possibly instil into
their hearts a little something which, if not "hu-
manity," is at least the best substitute we can hope
for under the circumstances of the case.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
'A
dispatch from Strasburg, dated half-past twelve
o'clock yesterday, announced that in the morning the
PRINCE PRESIDENT had crossed the Rhine by the
bridge constructed by the Engineers, and gone to
Kehl, where he reviewed the Baden troops amidst the
loudest acclamation. He re-entered Strasburg es-
corts d by the envoys of the foreign powers.
The Debats of yesterday contains a long reply by
M. EMILB CHEVALIER to the last article of the Con-
stitutionnel in favour of the Protectionist principle.
The concluding portion of this article, which we sub,-
join, is written with great force :
" We abk all mon of good faith whether it is not no-
torious that France has at present a body of very clever
manufacturers, and that in most branches of manufac-
tures we are not inferior to any one, bat, on the con-
trary, above almost every one? Is it not notorious that
such branches as sell their goods dear to the public, that
state of things results from the fact of foreign competition
not having sufficiently stimulated them, or of their.pos-
g
i
Can
t
have been suitable thirty or forty years back, have at
contestedsesn a monopoly
paoly multitudewhichn oot fh rnegg uj ut
ofine es? whichakye
present, by the progress of time, become hurtful? Have
not all the ministers of commerce who have succeeded
each other, from the commencement of the peace, from
M. de St. Cricq to M. Cunin-Gridaine, repeatedly from
the tribune warned the manufacturers who were pro-
tected in an exorbitant manner that it was only fur a
time? Did not the manufacturers accept that declara-
tion? Is not the sum of one milliard 200 millions paid
by the French public to the iron trade from 1814 to
1848, over and above what the same products would have
cost in the general market, a sufficient sacrifiQe? and
ignggl eprohibitiver s
receive,
ought not steps to be now taken to put a stop to such a
state of things? Would it not be wise to turn into the
Treasury the premiums which the
replacing
which would be an easy matter by re
duties by moderate ones? Is not all that we are here re-
commending quite in conformity with the letter and
spirit of the principles of 1789? Is not the masts of pro-
hibitive duties which constitute the present tariff dia-
metrically opposed to such principles? These are the
points which the Constitutionnel must make up its mind
to discuss, in place of launching out into vague declama-
tions against free trade, and against unlimited liberty of
commerce, which it knows perfectly well no one recom-
mends. It is by discussing the real and practical side of
the questions now on the order of the day that the.press
can still worthily fulfil its mission, and relieie itself
from the reproach which has been so often brought
against it of being only an instrument of sterile
ideology.
We gave last week from the Union the protest of
DON MIGUEL of Portugal. The Union makes this
protest the text of an attack upon England, which it
accuses of fomenting in all countries a spirit of rave-,
lution. This is an old charge of the Legitimist
organs, but it is regularly re-produced whenever the •
slightest opportunity presents itself of returning to
the subject.

The Constitutionnel has a long article on the in-
fluence which the gold discoveries in California and
Australia may have on the currency. It shows that
the alarm which was manifested lest these discoveries
should have an almost immediate and sensible effect
was unfounded, and expresses its approbation of the
refusal of the French Government to comply with
the recommendations that were made to it to take
precautions, which the Constitutionnel contends were
not called for by circumstances. It adds :
" Does it follow that we wish to deny the importance
of the discovery of new gold mines? That would be to
go beyond our ideas. It is not only California, it is
Australia, which has just added to the production of
gold. It the workings are kept up on a large scale, they
evidently must, after a certain period of time, change
the relations existing between the value of the two pre-
cious metals. This is, we admit, a serious question,
which the Government must not lose sight of. A kind
of monetary congress of the different powers has been
talked of, but we know not whether there is any truth
in the report. It would. perhaps, be the best means of
avoiding the crisis which may ultimately result from the
adoption of isolated measures."
The Union says that Bou-111AzI has announced his
intention of abjuring the Mahometan religion, and
becoming a Roman Catholic.
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 103 f. 35c.,
and closed at 103 f. 20c. for the end of the month; the
Three per Cents. closed at 72f. 40e.; Orleans Railway
Shares, 1,395 f.; Rouen, 920 f.; Havre, 345 f.; Great
Northern, 642 f. 50c.; Avignon, 462 f. 50c.; Basle, 292 f.
50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 6151.; Paris and Lyons, 698 f.
75c.; the New Austrian Loan, 95k.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 19.
Dutch Rhenish, 64—East Indian, 271A—Great Indian
;tieridornt;e:rni a 0 t C.: ex div.—Great Western of Canada Bonds,
I,"—Laxembourg, 61/2—Namur and Liege, 7—Northern of
-Bro' 4,,,_nee, 25%—Ditto, 201. 3 per Cent. Bonds (formerly
it,`""Kn% and Amiens shares), 13% es d.—Orleans and
t5,24y18-saYmarbirse
and
dd
uLeynaone,s,7_l7lle-stPi
jar,
since 10% Flanders,
daenrda , Stras.3_

The Madrid SPAIN.
tical news of importance.
The Gazette publishes a Royal decree declaring
viz.:—Santa-Cruz of
the following ports in
journals of the 13th are without poll-
the Canary Islands to be free,
Real, Santa-Cruz de Palma, Arrecife de Lanzarote ;
Puerto de Cabral, and Saint Sebastian.
Captain-General A letter from the
-aPtaiu-General of Cuba, dated
the 44th ult., states that the island
Teneriffe, Orataoa, Ciudad-
was perfectly
tranquil, and that nothing
new had transpired with
rc sped to the reported project of invasion.
The Three per Cents. Were done at .15i; the New
Three per Cents., at 21 15 16; the Debt of the First
ciass, at 1li; and that of the Second, at 5 9-16.

sa.y,-." The cwtotrig'
GERMANY,
The Cologne Gazette of the
question
as solved. The
17th, under date daast ereo!
twoparties
do
idthe rest; latni edin g shall have been come
however, 'will not be
13gillisa'Austria znay be considered
of journals of the. bave
athneu ceased their
removedpolemic. untilA l i
to with the states of the coalition of Darmstadt. On
the llth, 12th, and 13th there were conferences
at Kiisioten at which M. PFORDEN, Prince DE
pTTGENSTEIN, Baron DALIVIGE, Baron DE
~e,REENK, and other diplomatists were present. The
meliberati-0 were not so much on the subject of
,h... _ as
‘"
110Wer to be given to the Prussian declaration of

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the Ist inst., as on the bases to be adopted for coming
to an understanding with Prussia on tbe propositions
made by her. The states of the coalition have en-
gaged to make common cause in this negotiation with
Prus.ie, consequently the reply to the declaration of
the Ist July has lost all real importance."
The Emperor of AUSTRIA gave several audiences
at Pests on the 13th, and in the evening attended
the Hungarian theatre. The inhabitants had a pro-
menade with torches in honour of bis MAJESTY. The
EMPEROR. was the next morning to leave for Semlin
by steamer.'
The Austrian journal, the Wanderer, says—" Se-
veral European powershave already accepted the pro-
position of the British Government to convoke a
congress at London, for the purpose of coming to
some understanding about the regulation of the gold
owrtiullga l,
currency. It is said that France, Denmark, Sweden,
have agreed to the proposal.
not commence its sittings before
November next, but a statistical office is to, be esta-
blished for the preparatory labours."
We learn from Frankfort that the annual demo-
cratic fete has gone off very quietly. The number
'Srphaein and
Congress P
of democrats who attended was considerably less than
last year. The meeting was held in the forest, near
the town.

The National Gazette of Berlin states that the ne-
gotiations between the Prussian and French Govern-
ments for the protection of literary property have been
resumed.

We read in the Prussian Gazette of the 17th :
" Several journals have stated that the Prussian Go-
vernment had abandoned the policy that it had pro-
claimed on the customs question. All that has been
said on this subject is unfounded."

ITALY.
In the sitting of the Piedmontese Senate, of the
14th, the Minister of Grace and Justice read a Royal
decree proroguing the present session of Parliament to
the 18th of November. The same decree was read
to the Chamber of Deputies by the Minister of the
Interior.

The Gazette de Bale states that the French Em-
bassy in Berne applied to the Federal Council to pre-
vent the expulsion of M. Litmus, and that the Coun-
cil answered that, it entertained no intention of
executing any such design.
The Piedmontese Gazette, of the 16th, announces
the complete recovery of the Queen of SARDINIA from
the effects of the late miscarriage.
The Official Journal of the Two Sicilies, of the 7th,
contains a royal decree entrusting the Lyceum of
Salerno to the Jesuits.
The Risorgimento of Turin (a Ministerial organ),
of the 16th, states that the address of the Arch-
bishops and Bags of the kingdom to the Piedmon-
tese Senate against the Civil Marriage Bill cannot
be taken into consideration by the Senate, not having
been written in the form of a petition. The first
signature to the iocument is that of Monsignor
FRANZONI, the exiled Archbishop of Turin.

GREECE.
We have received intelligence from Athens to the
7th inst. The Monk CHRISTOPHOROS still evaded
the search made after him. The agitation which had
prevailed was gradtally subsiding. The Courrier
dthenes of the 7th says—
" M. Persiani, charg4 d'affaires of Russia, has ad.
dressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs a note in
which he asks for oplanations relative to a domiciliary
visit which had bein made in the house of Father
Mconomos, a; Russin subject. It is said that the
note expresses surprise at such a step being take.n
with respect to a person enjoying public conside-
ration, and aeks to be informed of the result of the
proposition. The answer of the Government is
said to have been that the visit in question was made in
virtue of, a regular warrant from the examining magis-
trate of Patras; that. according to the Greek law, such
measures were adoited alike against foreigners and
natives, whenever the proper authorities considered such
a course necessary .n order to discover an offending
party; that, accordin; to that law also, the conduct of
such a matter was essentially secret, from which it fol-
lowed that nothing :lould be communicated until the
affair, after the preliminary investigation was over, had
been sent before the Chamber of the Council, and that,
consequently, the Gwernment could not at that moment
c2satoisofny the application
omos,itissaid,
ioef the
teeplicehaaterdgéind'atffhaeires. affair Foafthrthee
Monk Christophoros.''