The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-28 00:00:00

EVENING, JUNE 9B, 1852.

ciple, or any commercial system, to secure in all depart-
ments a uniform prosperity, for laws will not make a
continual abundance; they cannot control the winds or
regulate the seasons; they cannot even moderate poli-
tical passions, or so much as govern the fluctuations of
fashion. There must ever be exceptions in a sta'ernent
such as that before us. The best thing we can hope for
is a steady and general improvement, spread over a
considerable period of time; and that we have now, on
the evidence of the tables before us; for, though there is
a trifling decrease in the aggregete of exports this year
as compared with the last, it may be accounted for by
inevitable and happily passing circumstances.
HERALD.—It is with mach satisfaction (we write
without the authorised version of the last two drys'
bebates) we observe that the acts of the Prince President
of the French Republic tend, by their enlightened
equity, to falsify the interpretations which the pretended
spokesmen of his sentiments would, in their affectation of
a confidence never accorded, attempt to put upon them.
A Monsieur Delaanarre, banker, member of the Corps
Legislatif, and editor of the Pubic, would seem to be
vice Cessagnac dismissed, only to run the same career
of impudent assumption, encountered by contradic-
tion and rebuke. A few days ego this gentleman,
in one of his ambitious of taking the place of organ
of the Elysee, disparaging attacks on the Legis-
leave Body, of which he happens to be a men ;leer,
so contrived to explain away the privileges conferred
by the constitution, as to leave it nothing beyond it
sort of permission to offer shadowy sugges-
tions of little weight end no real power to the Council of
State, which, should the litter warrant, might be dis-
cussed, but which, should it reject, could only bo main-
tained by incurring the crime of treason. Hardly had this
great constitutional authority issued his commen-
taries on the fundamental law, when Louis Napoleon
offered a striking homage to tho independent rights of
the Legislative Body by withdrawing, through his Mi-
nister of State, the bills which had been presented for
creating now taxes, on the implicit ground of assent to
the reasonable objections that had reached his ears of
the insufficiency of time for their proper discussion. In
a similar spirit of respect for the constituted authorities
the Prince President has, according ,to consistent ru-
mours, which wore hailed with as much satisfaction in
Paris as they would be here or amongst any community
of justice-loving people, yielded to the objections raised
in the Council of State to the decrees affecting the Or-
leans property, objections only rendered the more palpa-
ble by the late decision, secured by one casting vote. We
find ourselves thus confirmed in the assured belief we
have never ceased to entertain, that, however restricted
might be :the character of the institutions created by
virtue of the authority lodged in the hands of Louis Na-
poleon by the country at large, he would give them full
and fair play. It would have been something worse
than error to have presumed the contrary. The oath of
obedience to such institutions required of all persons is
official connexion with the State implies of itself respect
by their framer, who himself imposes the obligation. It
is only the shallow and unprincipled parasite who, in
the obtuseness of his conscience and glimmering cunning
of a clouded intellect, would offer the stupid insult of
interpreting conduct in the sense of a desire to nullify
or vitiate a constitution not yet three months in practi-
cal operation. The two great touchstones of the strength
and independence of both the main powers of the State
have turned out to be the question of general expendi-
ture and that of the Orleans property decrees. And it
speaks well for the spirit and wisdom of the Legislative
Body and the Council of State, that neither have failed
in a conscientious 'understanding of their duties. That
which might have been expected, and which ought to
have been desired to take place, is exactly just what
has happened. No one could have believed it to be good
that collision between ono part and another of the
State machine, or the formation of an opposition, should
have arisen before time had been afforded for a general
understanding of the working of institutions offered as
the beat tbat could be bestowed on a country, rescued,
almost by miracle, from a fearful anarchy. To prevent
something like jealous repugnance between the Legisla-
tive Body and the Council of State required at the very
outset all the tact and firmness of the President himself.
Even now the latter body would fain absorb, in its own
bands, the rights which give to the legislative its dis-
tinctive character and name. It is probably owing
to the determination felt by the Legislative Body to
maintain the rights which properly belong to the repre-
sentatives of the people, that the rumours of a rising op-
position to the Government of the Prince President, of
which we have heard so much of late, have gained cir-
culation. The President has, therefore, acted wisely in
the distinct recognition of the rights of the Legislature,
which he has just conveyed through the letter of bis
Minister of State, adjourning the consideration of the
lately-proposed taxes to next year. In the meantime
we find the Government bent upon stimulation those
great railway undertakings which in Franca amount to
sheer and positive necessity. So large a number of con-
cessions had been made during the time the Prince had
exercised unlimited authority, that in obedience to ex-
pressions of apprehension beat the market should be
overloaded with a particular kind of stock, two impor-
tant works, the Paris and Cherbourg and Bordeaux to
Cotta lines, were postponed. The immense abundance
of capital which at this moment is seeking
profitable employment, would seem to have
proved too alluring a temptation for the Govern-
ment to resist, and as the revenue returns maintain
considerable comparative advantages over the last and
precsding years, the Government has felt itself justified
in making another year's experiment. Should the re-
venue coatinua to be improved through the comfort and
diffusion of means produced by widely developed em-
ployment, and should the no less important consequences
of consolidated government and deepening contentment
enable reductions to be made in the military expendi-
ture, that permanent drain of the reeouroes of the
country, it may be that so far from fresh taxes having
to be proposed we may have to see reductions made in
those which exist. The rigid principles asserted by
Louis Napoleon on the score of authority, and his adop-
tion of the system of public companies as applied to rail-
way undertakings, are commented upon by the Paris
Siecle as involving inconsistency and contradiction. The
journal in question, true to the doctrines of the Repub-
lican school, of which it is, we believe, the sole remain-
ing organ, is an advocate for monopoly, by the State, of
all railway lines. How a man, who would give such
preponderance to government authority, could yet sur-
render the great highways of communication to capi-
talists, confounds the comprehension of the Republican
paper. -But how it is that Republicans, such sticklers
for the free action of men in all their relations of life,
whether political, moral or commercial, should yet be the
enemies of social combination for carrying out grand
industrial undertakings, involves a more puzzling incon-
sistency. Our Paris contemporary is so great a friend
to State monopoly, that even his opinion, that the exer-
cise of commercial rights by men who meet to debate
about their materiel interests must cut into political re-
strictions, which cannot live in the neighbourhood of
actively-exorcised citizenship, does not atone for the
sacrifice he deplores. Perhaps, after all, Louis Napo-
leon would not be sorry to see the bulwarks of authority
carried by the legitimate influence of citizens educated
to ability to share in the making of laws, through prac-
tical acquaintance with the necessities of business. Past
dangers have had their origin chiefly in an indulgence
of wild and impracticable 'Secedes, the folly of which
had not been proved through collision with the solid
facts of well-consolidated business systems: Our sur-
mise is strengthened by the preamble •of the Constitu-
tion itself which, in adopting the maxim that constitu-
tions are not made but grow, does treat the institutions
bestowed as an elastic frarnowork for adaptation to future
times and better circumstances.

SEABOKSE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-Mee
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]

When made up uu f From whet
PLACES. General Post-office port dii,_ When
London: patched. due.
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America (by Brit. pkt.)N .. ..;Liverpool .• ,Arrived
America (by U.S. pkt.) N,June 29 .. ..;Liverpool /July 8
America (by U.S. pkt.) II 'July 7 .. .. Southampt. June 30
Australia (via South-
ampton) • • .. .. M .. .. .. Southampt.
Ditto (via Marseilles) N .. .. .. .. :Dover ~
Ditto, via C. of G. Hope N2d of August ..,Plymouth..
Africa (West coast).. .N 1 lath of the month, Plymouth June 29
Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of me. Dover .. June 28
Belgium .. .. .. N Daily .. . ;Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. .• .. 31 9th of the month iSouthampt. June 16
Buenos Ayres .. .. 31 9th of the month ISouthampt. June 16
California(viaChaves) MI id & 17th of month Southampt. July 5
Cape of Good Hope N.. .. .. Plymouth.. June 29
Cape do Verdi .. .. N,2d of the month ;Plymouth.. June 29
Constantinople* .... N' 7th 17th 27th ot mo Dover .. June 30
Central America .. 111 2d & 17th of mon. ,Southampt. July 5
Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Fri.;Sonthampt. Tn. Th. Sat
Chili .. .. .. . M 17th of the month jSoutfiampt. July 5
France .. .. 31 t N!Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedaily
Greece* .. ~ ~ 3717th 17th 27th of mo Dover • . June 30
Hamburgh .. .. N; Tuesday & Fridry , London .. Tees. Sat.
Holland .. '.. MI Wednes. & Satan London .. Mea.Thur
Honduras .. .. . N,l7th of the month Southampt. July 20
Ireland .. .. M& N Twice daily .. Holyhead.. Twicedally
India (via Sonthamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. June 28
India (via Marseilles) N;Sth&24th efmontb Dover .. July 17
India, via C. of G. Hope N,lsth of month Plymouth.. ;Juno 29
Mauritius .. .. .. N 15th of month Plymouth.. !June 29
Mediterranean (via
Southairpton) .• 11120th of the month Southampt. June 28
Mediterranean (via MI
Marseilles) .. .. N Bth&24th of month Dover .. July 17
Mexico .. .. .. Mld of the month.. Southampt. ('July 5
Madeira • • .. .. M 9th of the month Sonthampt. [June 16
Malta* .. .. r 7th,17th,19th,27th 1 Dover June 23
it & 30th of month
Naples* . .. •• • N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover ~ July 2
Papal States.* .. .. N 511115th 25th ofmo Dover .. July 2
reninsular.. .. .. M 7th 17th 27tlief mo Southampt. July 6
Peru .. .. .. .. 31 17th of the month Southampt. July 5
Tuscany* .. .. .. N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. July 2
..West Indies .. M 17th of the month Southampt. July 5
I

Naples* .. .. • • N
Papal States* N
reninsular.. M
Peru .• •• M
Tuscany* .. • • N
West Indies .. '• • M
West Indies (except
Ilavanna & Nassau) MI
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French packet via M

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Russborough 5 9 9
Newminster
Teddington
Mountain Deer
Nancy, _ 4 8 131
Lady Evelyn
Ariosto
Hernandez
Waterfall
Constellation
Joe Miller 3 7 9
Now-or-ncver ... 6 7 8
Mary Knoll
Auctioneer
Frantic .......
Poodle
Redmd. O'Llanlon 3 7 4