The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-02 00:00:00

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THE PIIENCH

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Senate held no sitting on Tuesday; and is not to
meet again before Saturday Dolt.
In the Legislative body, M. BILLAULT, the Presi-
dent, took the chair at three o'clock. The report of the
proceedings of the day before was read over and adopted.
The rest of the day was taken up with the verification
of the returns sent in from the late elections, and the
deputies of 28 departments were declared to be duly
nominated members of the Legislative body. Before
the sitting the deputies met in their bureaux, when the
following were named Presidents and Secretaries:-Ist
Bureau—President, M. Sapsy; secretary , M. Severin
Abbatucci. 2d Bureau—General Brunet-Denon, M.
s.grctain. 3d Bureau—M. Lemaine (Oise), M. Mi-
-1.4)n. 4th Bureau—General Bogs, hi. Noubel. sth
Bureau—M. Godart, M. Jules Portalis. 6th Bureau—
Colonel
Normand, Baron do Veauce. 7th Bureau—M.
F. Fuvre, M. Kcenig.warter.
The Moniteur publiblies in extenso the speech of the
PRESIDENT of the Senate on the opening of the As-
Them journals of the departments give the following
Prefects on the 29th ult., by the Minister of the In-
as the words of the telegraphic dispatch sent to the
terior :
" Monsieur le Prefet,—Tho installation of the Great
Bodies of the State took place to-day at the Tuileries. The
speech of the Prince President produced a profound impres-
sion. He declared he would nct ask the people to establish
the Empire unless the hostility of parties forced him to it.
The Senate and the Legislative Body received him with
marks of lively sympathy. The Prince returned at two
o'clock to the Ely 43 in an open carriage, in the midst of
the acclamations of an immense crowd."
There was a manifest improvernew in the price of public
securit
sc.,ies at the
closed Bourse. The Five per Cents. opened at
1001. 3 and at 1011. for the end of the month ;
Half per Cents., 101 f. 25c. Orleans Railrosd Shares, ;
Rouen, 705 f. ; Havre, 290 f.;. Great Northern, 653 f. 75c.;
the Three per Cents. closed at 7IE 70e. •
Avignon, '272f. o0c.; Vierzon, s:of. ; Basle, 232 f. 50c.;
Bordeaux, 575 f ; Paris and Strasburg, 5551.; Tours and
Nantes, $l2l. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 600 f. the Four-and-
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE Arnir. 1.
Dutch Rhenish, 4.14•-•E'st Indian, 21'14, - Luxembourg,
—Paris and Strasbourg, 214---Tours and Nantes, :OA—
West Flanders, 2%—Western of France, 71,4.
2! Orleans and Bordeaux. l 3
414—Namur and Liege,

RMANY.
ult., says :—" The question
of
The Cologne GazetteGE n
J
er
' -11. the date of Cassel. 28th
total Lipsse received its solution yesterday in the Ger-
manic Diet. The Proposition of the Commission wer,
adopted by the mlj.)rit.Y, and a Fe.leral resolution to
et (.44et
nearly the following the Constitution of Elec-
was adopted:—
" The Germanic
Diet gives its a pprobation to the mea-
sures which the Federal Commissioners, named by Prussia
and Austria, have, adopted for the re-establishment of order
and tranquillity in the Electorate of Hesse. It declares the
Constitution of 1834, as well as the modifications afterwards
introduced into it, and the electoral law of 1849, to be abo-
lished, as inc Inpatible with the Federal laws. The Govern-
ment of Electoral Hesse is requested to immediately promul-
gate a new Constitution, as
well as a new electoral law and
regulations.'
It is said that some third rate states only attempted to
oppose this resolution."
A letter from Coblents, of the 23d, states that great
preparations were already being mad© at Ems for the
Empress of RUSSIA; Who was expected there towards
the end of 'May, to drink the waters. It Witti said that
the King of PRUSSIA. was to pass some weeks there.
The Second Chamber of Prussia, in the sitting of the
25th ult., voted the budget for 1832, which estimates the
receipts at 97,000,021 thalers, and the expenses, ordi-
nary
-4 and extraordii
.--arY, at 99 434 734 thalers.
The King of PRUSSIA returned to Berlin on the 27th
ult., from hie visit to the Westphalian provinces.
The Customs Congress at Vienna
was
brought to a
close on the 25th ult. The conditions of the proposed
union between Austria and the Zollverein aro to be sub-
mitted to the respective
Governments.

Stu,—As one of --
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
your numerous staunch advocates,
please to allow me, an old officer, to make my appear-
ance on your quarter-deck, to summons the whole crew
of her Majesty's Royal
for our naval First Lord and for the comprised honour of
Navy to give three hearty cheers
Old F.agland inchthe 13ritich navy, since whaiever other
consequence* may result from the late political gale--and
I fear that with respect to questions of the first import-
stree:7" shell mill be left &win the rear of the rsquirements
of the age, —nevertheless we may hail with rejoicing the
change in the atmosphere of the Admiralty, a most re-
quired yet almost hopeless event. And truly what an
arbitrary and gross insult to the navy has been the playing
of a landsman in first authority at the Admiralty;
what a batletaced monopoly of all the patronage, for the
purporn of making it subservient to party interests—the
First Lord and the patronage changing with every
change of Ministry; the patronage of the navy system
itselt made a scramble for party strife. Also, this
placing of a civilian in supreme authority at the Ad-
miralty is little better than placing a mere landsman at
the helm of a ship, rettuiring a pilot to he standing at
his eloow to diret every movement, now to this side, now
to the other. What a ridiculous farce! For myself and
for the navy, I deeply resent this forced lowering of our
topsails to an empty stranger, and therefore gladly hail
the Derby deed; and it is with excited feelings of regret
that I find some naval officers advocates of the existing
system, alleging the objection that an admiral has so
many followers; but surely not a tithe part so many as
the never-ending obligations of au individual, placed in
power purposely to serve an overruling state party, for
should the claimant not happen to be on the right side,
what chance has he? Witness the many deserving
officers whose heads have been stepped over by junior.
of half their standing. Moreover patronage, great in
consequence as I view it, is yet by no means the main
point; country stands prominently first, absolutely re•
quiring a long experienced and distinguished profes-
eional character, competent to a right direction of our
important naval power in all its bearings. To imagine
a gag officer to be lees scrupulous than a civilian to the
general and right direction of the natal patronage, is to
suppose there are admirals in the service who have no
a man
argue
to
ue be
fur found?placing To ro
them-
selves
proper regard for the honour sod consequence of the
apprehension
nav).undßuetr a lat
wherer is such
those
officers w
dsman are those who do not show a
proper regard for the honour and welfare of their pro-
fession, and I would suggest precaution lest they un-
wittingly strand their own cable. The patent abuse to
which I point, may be considered as being
marked by the appointment of an army officer to pre-
side at the Admiralty, a distinct service. But mortify-
ing as this may have been felt, it is quite obvious that
one of our brethren in arms is meet,
--se more competent to
the situation than a mere landsman, noble though he
may be, but who probably singularly
may never have been christ-
ened with the spray of salt water, and never saw a
cannon fi
i red
bra edin in anger, and who very possibly may not
have marne g enough to steer a boat across the
river Thames, without such incessant and unscientific
tos and Pros of the rudder, as would figure out such a
presumptuous Wight
the laughing stock of the multitudes assembled on each
vermicular wake as would make theg
bank to witness the amusing
ca'aY• Fancy, too, a mere
landsman perambulating our dockyards to survey the
building of our ships, and to inspect the quality and
- --Y, were it not that he
moves screened by an assemblage of naval insignia
quantity of our naval stores; vih
the dockyard mates would absolutely laugh him to scorn.
To such indignity as I have been, Considering the army
1 "wculd not eubmit,fer a day; honour
would immediately
cull up an angry rising throughout the entire camp, and
I do greatly admire this esprit du corps,
though It con-
stitutes a contrast very disedvantegsous to the existing
crushed spirit of the navy %.aill our condition too much
resembles that of the victim under the law, who by long
endured and hopeless misery becomes at length but little
sensible of the weight and disgrace of his chains. It would
be highly diverting to see how our bray© and justly
honoured Duke mould eye a civilian strutting about and
assuming all authority at the Ilorse Guards; I opine he
would be forthwith marched
, out at double quit time,
the movement, too, probably
r- acceleratedono
directed stimulus,
"Just in the place when© h
As wise philosophers have judg'd?'
I feel assured there is not an admiral in the service. who
eu r,siodbg y, well
s: .
would consent to place himself
in u situation at once so
invidious and insulting as that which I have remarked
upon. I imagine a naval flag waving in authority at the
Horse Guards; surely the weather-beaten veteran per-
ambulating the forts and inspecting the military Stores
would never venture to look behind him, aware of the
derision and contempt which would be standing in alto
relieve upon his gallant retinue, faces too flushed and
crimsoned to the colour
of their martial garbs. No, the
veteran tar would indeed be
a* a fish out of water,
gasping and convulsed by
the effect of the unnatural
element in which he was placed. For the navy lot the
offensive conception be annihilated. Now, concerning
this Admiralty affair,
' and including the reasons fur it,
there is a vast deal m if not cur-
pas•ing the high reach of have eneee-
Toured to bring down within the reach of common sense,
but having already spun oeft?ntbeellescatid,
out so long a yarn, I must reel
up and present my article.
In offering this marine essay, I have sought to vindi-
cate and uphold the honour of the British navy, and for
my encouragement I hear in advocacy the voice of our
whichriv rivalling l 111 n g
idolized national guardian; Britannia calls talon I for
justice and honour due, for Britannia rules the waves,
the glory
of
il
- -er
Sceptre; and regarding the state stigma
fixed upon her favourite sons of the ocean, she stands
indignant, and in proud resentment turns tho wilful and
disgracing aberration over, as a choice article for our
witty and sprightly Plincli. Wo have had a long range
of illustrious statesmen moving be'ore the public, as
monster children in leading-strings. We have had
cyphers placed upon a summit, and contemplating the
philosophical elevation, I bid my adieu, not however so
deeply submerged in wondering reverie, as to sink the
hope that the trident of our national Sovereignty may be
no more placed in the hands of a presumptuous, ignorant,
hhaoseless lsndaraan......j am, Sir, yours, &n..
A FLAG-OFFICER,

ACCIDENT
To THE DOVER EXPRESS TRAIN.—An
accident of a rather alarming character, but happily unat-
tended by the slightest personal injury to the passengers,
occurred yesterday morning to the express train, which
leaves Dover at eight n.st. While passing the Edenbridge
station the carriages ran oil the rails, but the driver was
fortunately able to
sto the train almost instantly, and the
passengers all dcacendp ed unhurt. By means of the electric
telegraph assistance was immediately obtained, and precau-
tionary measures taken to prevent accident to approaching
trains. At ter' a abort time the passengers were enabled to
proceed to their destinations, the only inconvenience experi-
enced having been delay and consequent anxiety to friends.
The carriages were replaced on the rails, and the ordinary
traffic of the lino eras resumed within two hours after the