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

SwaiTh inn, Norfolk, to
kobert &well, 2crivcner,
surrender, Feb. 13, at twe, and March 19, at one, at the
art of Bmkruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Treherri and White, Bucklersbury,
Thomas Arnold, timber dealer, Elmore, Gloucester..
shire, Feb. 16, at twelve, and March 1.5, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee,
Bristol; L3vegrove, Gloucester.
Joseph Hal!, farmer, Hopend, Herefordshire, Feb. 17
end March 6, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham 'Dis-
trict Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham;
Smith, Birmingham.
Thomas Harris, grocer, Camborne, Cornwall, Feb. 11
and March 10, at clever, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Bullmore, Falmouth;
Stogdon, Exeter.
John Padgett, cloth manufacturer, Idle, Yorkshire,
Feb. 19 and Mach 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District
..c„.O
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Bond and Bar-
wick, Leedr.
Thomas Byrom, grocer, Wigan, Lancashire, Feb. 20
and March 12, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester; Barratt,
Manchester.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—The explanations of the resignation of the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, accord exactly with the
first intimations of the public press.
In Nov. 1851 the Prime Minister, in the exercise of
the superintendence acknowledged to be his duty, gave
a general warning to all departments of the diplomatic
service, to be careful to do nothing which could be con-
strued into interference with the internal affairs of
France; the object at that time specially in his eye, being
the likelihood of disturbances connected with the elec-
tion of President in 1852.
The conspiracy in France took effect on the 2nd of
December; and in two or three days thereafter, the
Foreign Minister, or the English Ambassador, or both
together, or one by direction of the other, contrived to
let the French Ambassador announce the assurance of
the " complete approbation" of the English Government
to what had been done by the President.
Read the accounts of the proceedings one by one, be-
ginning with the kidnappings of the night, and going
on to the massacres of the day, and at every step reflect
on the portentous mistake, by which to this the " com-
plete approbation" of the English Government was
expressed. It had been so with ue, had there been an
" antagonism" between the House of Commons and the
Executive on a Reform Bill. Michael Cassio may hive
been misled; but " never more be officer of mine."
The Prime Minister's case would have been trium-
phant, if he had not let it down by dilating on his be-
lief that the French President meant it all tor the best.
So did the man that died on Wednesday. It might be
right to preserve a negative; but there was no need to
split hairs to set up a hypothetical defence for the greatest
criminal in ancient or modern history. The argument
also that no interruption of amicable relations with
France need be feared, because England and France are
both of them wise nations, was singularly ineffective
when all the wisdom in France has just been swept into
the kennel, to make way for the fancies of a Grand
.Regulateur, , whom no man ever suspected of being wise.
The inference from the whole is, that the people must
take care of themselves. Between those who" completely
approve," and those who confide in good intentions,
there appears to be no other resource. If the Govern-
ment and the House of Commons think to escape by
eating humble pie and denying the danger, it will fail as
it always does.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.

Blackheath, 4 Feb. 1852.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 3.
NEW WRITS.

The SPEAKER acquainted the House that he had
issued his warrants to the Clerk of the Crown to make
out new writs for the election of Members to serve in
this present Parliament for the East Riding of the
county of York, in the room of Mr. Henry Broadley,
deceased; for the borough of Bradford, in the room of
Mr. W. Busfeild, deceased; and for the borough of Lis-
burn, in the room of Sir H. B. Seymour, deceased.