The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Union has the following, to show that only
monarchical institutions will suit the great mass of
the French nation :
" There is a policy which is of all timreo and which
has survived alltbe regimes--namely,i
that which is sup-
ported on morality and history, that which remains to
us; and it is not the least instructive and the least fruit-
-fut in lessons. What astonishing changes since 'B9!
We have more than onera declared that French common
sense had been misled by the illusions of the Republic,
and we can now ask with confidence if our appreciations
were not correct. But what a sad moral is to be drawn
from our sixty yaws of struggles and misfortunes! These
sanguinary cries could then have been avoided, had not
the national instinct been falsified ! Who can doubt it?
For that, what was necessary was to have seized on the
revolution
and governed it ; and, whilst the madmen
desired to make it a destruction, the wise and strong
ought to have made it a reform. The word republic,
flung into this violence of renovation, completed the
‘nradnesa. Are we a nation of repnb!icans ? Vain and
'selfish 33 we are as a nation, are we capable of support-
ing equality ? Equality ! who wishes for it ? Or do we
want liberty ? We oppress each other on every occa-
sion, and we with pride support only servitude. What
could be more silly than for the dreamers of the last sixty
years to wish to place us in a republic ? We, an old peo-
ple, a people moulded to all the habits of subordination ;
a people having a monarchical history, and the passion
of whom is to shine ; a people tormented, besides,
by
the want of enjoyment, fond of luxury, revelling in
the emotions of the theatre or the last novel—can
Fuela a people do without being governed—without an
authority to regulate its doings ? Besides, where was
there ever seen any republic like that proposed in our
days ? In 1804 the Republic gave Em
peror,
and anmperor,
and in 1852 what has become of it ? That Republic,
therefore, is quite a utopian scheme, which can only de-
stroy and is unable to last. But in what does the illu-
sion of the honest abettors of the Republic consist? In
this, that they
suppose that what was sound in the re-
forms of 89 can only be realised by the abolition of
every form of monarchy. These excellent reformers
hove never read the history of France, for if they had
they would have known that in the French monarchy
there has constantly been more of real republicanism
than was ever seen in the nominal Republic instituted
by the demolishers of '9l. They search the chronicles
of the various reigns, and find disorders. misery, and
scandal! Really! that is a great miracle! Is not hu-
manity at all times humanity? And are these austere
republicans themselves saints or heroes? That monar-
chical institutions have had their convulsions,oppressions,
end injustices is not by any means astonishing; but,
notwithstanding all that, the monarchy is not less in
France the work of kings during long ages for the li-
berty of the people. The fatal error, since 'B9, was to
cut short that long labour which, of its own accord, was
arriving at all necessary reforms. In taking away the
monarchy, the instrument of liberty, order, and happiness
was taken away also. And that is the reason why
the instinct of the nation tends incessantly to bring
back the Constitution to its natural principle, even
when falling into an error es to the form to ba given
to it. That is the whole explanation of the success-
sive revolutions which we have seen in this country 1
And what lessons are there not in all these changes ?
The most a:tonfshing, is to see the inutility of so many
efforts, and so much violence and crime, to change the
nature of the laws cuitable to Franco. The truth is,
that it is Providence which appears in these striking
protests against the fictions of the republic ; and it is
Providence, which we ought all to adore, confiding in
its wisdom to evolve from this reaction not only order,
but the liberty and dignity of the country."
It is rumoured that an Imperial Guard of 10,000
men, to be formed from the select battalions of the
army, will be organised soon after the imperial elec-
tion. The title of "Excellence" has, it appears, be-
come already usual in the dispatches transmitted
from one Minister to another.

It is curions that amongst the numerous addresses
from Municipal Councils to the President not the
least warm are those which proceed from localities
known as Legitimist. That from Maur (Deuxe-
Sevres) begins thus :—" We open to you the gates
of the department of the Deux-Sevres, the limit of
that Vendtif., the chiefs of which your ability has
succeeded in attaching to your cause. In other
times also your glorious uncle found amongst their
fathers, alter having vanquished their proved cou-
rage, the auxiliaries of his glory, &c." From
Pringay, too, in the same department, the address
of the Municipal Council concludes thus :—" Con-
solidate your work, Prince ; make yourself Empe-
ror; by doing so we believe you will take from an-
archy every hope of success ; and count, under all cir-
cumstances, on our devotedness. Appeal to the villages,
and the peasants will not betray you. Tire 'Empereur
Viva Napoleon 111. And, finally, not the least
emphatic, is that which proceeds from the very
Place where the Emperor Napoleon, when on his
route from Elba, was wellnigh torn in pieces by the
populace. The muncipality of Orgon (Boucher du
Rhone) " respectfully expresses the wish that, as the
heir of the great Napoleon, you become the chief of a
Government which derives its force from its continu-

ante, and can thus consolidate all that you have un-
dertaken of great and useful in the interest of the
French people, and secure to our country the rank it
has a right to spire to in the family of the nations of
Europe and the Christian world."
A singular fatality occurred a few days since on
board a boat laden with gunpowder, which was pro-
ceeding along the Garonne to Agen. Having reached
Podensac, a gendarme there wished to take the place
of his comrade from Bordeaux, but slipped into the
river as he Wa3 entering the boat, and was drowned.
The following afternoon the boat was moored in front
of Juzie, in the Lot et Garonne. Some flax took
fire on board, and the crew slipped the cable and
jumped ashore. The boat drifted into the middle of
the river, where the gunpowder exploded, and the
captain and two gendarmes perished.

ADMIRAL MORESBY'S VISIT TO PIT-
CAIRNS _ISLAND.

Tho folicwing account of the visit of Rear-Admiral
Fairfax Moresby, C. 8., commander-in-chief in the Pa-
?ale, to Pi cairn's Island, will bo perused with much
Itlterebt

Bin Majesty's ship Portland, at Sea, Aug. 12,
Lat. 25 25 S. long. 15 6 29 W.
SlR,—Continuing the report of my proceedings from
the 27th ult., as detailed in my letter No. 71, I request
U will inform the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty that, after patslag over the position assigned to
Inczenttion Island without seeing it, we made Piteairn's
Island on the morning of the 7th inst.

Early on Sunday, the Bth, I landed. From this time
to the period of our departure on the 11th, I remained
on shore, and a constant intercourse was kept up with
the Portland.
It is impossible to do justice to the spirit of order and
decency that animated the whole community, whose
number amounts to 170, strictly brought up in the Pro-
testant faith, according to the Established Church of
England, by Mr. Nubby, their pastor and surgeon, who
has for twenty-four years zealously and successfully by
precept and example raised them to a state of the
highest moral conduct and feeling.
Of fruits and edible roots they have at present an
abundance, which they exchange with the whalers for
clothing, oil, and other necessaries; but the erops on the
tillage ground begin to deteriorate; land-slips occur with
each When succeeding
cceeding
storm, and the decdvities of the hills,
denuded, are laid bare by the periodical rains.
Their diet consists of
yams, sweet
t potatoes, and bread-
fruit. A small quantity of fish isoccasionally
Their pigs supply annually upon caught.
an average, about 501 b.
of meat to each individual, and they have
oahefew goats
and fowls. Their want of clothing
necessaries is very pressing, and I un and r absolute
satisfied that the
time has arrived when preparation at least must be made
for the future, seven or eight years being the utmost
that can be looked forward to for a continuance of their
present means of support. The summary of the year
1851 gives births 12, deaths 2, marriages, 3. On their
return from Tahiti they numbered about 60, of whom
there wrro married 13 couple, the rest from the age of
16 to infancy.
Mr. Nobfss was anxious to avail himself of my offer
to convey him to Valparaiso,and from thence enable him
to proceed to England for the purpose of obtaining or-
dination. At a general meeting of the inhabitants their
Consent was given, provided I would leave the chaplain
of the Portland until Mr Nobbs returned. The advan-
tage is BO obvious that I feel confident their lordships
wilttist,tpprove of my consenting.
07athe anxiety whica has been expressed by high
14
tes of the Church for Mr. Nobbs's ordination,
anticipatethat it will be effected with so little delay
that he will
middle of j,.ls_e enabled to return to Valparaiso by the
the Rev. hart ,ItrY• I enclose a memorandum given to
a.elasan.
I was unable to comply
enti-
ces which their strictly with the list of arti-
t.slandeTs. eachnr,:laahiPs authorised me to give the
Nvorn greatly wanted, list of what we supplied ; they
trcirt of the Portland alsoand r gratefully received. The
portion of their allowanceequested permission to give
and that they may bo
F boat, with other stores from
swed to send them a whale;
N;alparasie. Captain Chads
and the officers were most
npnerous. I was fortunate in
younLa bull and heifer, also a ratrocuring at Borubora
kaecteic?fesneteadhs ad
forwardedbefallen
0e ones previously seat.
Thep% c'
zn their lordships letter No. 132, of Der. 4, 1851, was
caly delivered.
bhould any unfortunate circumstance prevent the pe-
riodical visits of the whale ships, they would be- left
entirely to the charitable consideration of the govern-
LtiOnt.
The crews of the whale ships have invariably Can_
•ducted themselves with marked propriety ; they take
their turn of leave on shore, and their sick are received
and nursed with the greatest care. The Adeline Gibbs,
Ainerie,„ whah,r, Mt. weeks, master, was there during
cur visia Mr. aul Mrs. Weeks were living on shore ;
it would be a happy circumstance if a person like her
could be found to reside amongst them.
I Forward a continuation of their jstirnal since that
publastied by Mr. Brodie, a very correct statement,
which makes uoneceasary any further remarks.
I have, &C.
(Signed) FAIRFAX MORESBY,
Roar Admiral and Commarder in Chief.

SCARCITY or SILVRIL—That there is a scarcity of
silver in the country ca❑ no longer be doubted, the stcok
in the bank having dwindled down from 1,000,0001. in
1847, to 19,0001. in 1852.