The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-12 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

Banta of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning•—The stations
art arranged in order of latitude.

PLrnotrru—Wind S.E., strong breeze—overcast.
S.E., strong-breeze—overcast.
Sourx.a.zr.rora—Wind S., stor n—heavy rain.
For.KFAToffE—Wind S., fresh breeze—overcast.
Timaa.cDG-e—Wind E., hard wind—rain.
GRE E,N W ICH—Wind S.E., strong breeze—heavy rain.
.STROOD—Wind S., strong breeze—rair.
Swispoll—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain.
CmcfrEsTna—Wind S.W., hard wind—rain.
(;AMBRIDGE—Wind S.E, gentle breeze—rain.
Ysamouru—Wind S., strong breeze—heavy rain.
DautigtoTox—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine
o'clock

Lutx.„wind S.. gentle breeze--beavy rain.
fle.r.Low—Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—cloudy.
Pituramlosat—',‘in,, S., calm—partially cloudy.
pi,„ourra_winu W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
PJota.—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
L iNcesritn—Wind W., calm—rain.
SqAP-- Ind S. S.E., gentle breeze—cloudy.
01.4T-rocm—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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LONDON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 12, 1852

Per angusta ad angusta was the phrase of the first I
SKEFFINGTON. Through grandeur to difficulties—
seems, on the contrary, to be the phrase, in one par.
ticular at least, of LOUIS .NAPOLL'ON. The course pur •
sued by the PRINCE PRESIDENT of the French Re-
public in reference to the unfortunate, but glorious,
prisoner of the Chateau d'.Amboise would appal', at
any rote, to admit of that construction. It will be re-
membered with what honourable earnestness the
cause of ABD•EL-KAUER was pleaded some months
since by the Marquis of LONDUNDERRY. Reference
was repeatedly made to the circumstance in these co-
lumns by ourselves, and with very peculiar satisfac-
tion we observed the development of a correspondence
which we believed at the time to be inevitably condu-
cive to the EMIR'S liberation. Insomuch was this ap-
parently the necessary deduction from the communi-
cations exchanged between the English nobleman and
the French p
e RtEISIDENT, that the freedom of ABD-EL-
KADER
camst
to be regarded by ourselves, and
we feel penuad:d by
very many other dispassionate
spectators likewise,
as a question only of time, or, in
other words, as
firm,
assured?, and beyond the possibility
of evasion
The memorable letter of
the P Nrince Loris
ltletrilLeox, dated from the
Elysee on the
.now nearly a twelvemonth (!f. lest September,
to zco—secmed,
in the .most express terms indeed,
a!-. thi; conclusion.
proroisuenth9natt thehi illustrious
In that document
us in arriving
Highness
eed to give a formal
types.
berele
thisased amnesty o t
.gaPPiittedehb:ernaLord
LeBop:stlDVof""ipsEhoußltlYd
to grant
Arabt
he
Chieftein and his companions in
misfortune,
PRINCE replied that when he did not perform the
the
good he desired, it
vv23 simply because he found it to
be impossible. His words were—,, 0 /
• rsque ;e _ _ e
' t •
fait pas tout le Bien (me je desire, c es que de ne 14.-1 a
- peat
Pas-'' His intentions, he added, were in no
way
changed towards the EMIR. "I have found the
Ottoman Porte," said he, " very well disposed to
afford him a reception, but I have also encountered
for the moment two very consilerable obstacles—the
one ia in the discovery of a vast conspiracy in Algeria,
having its centre at Mecca, and the other is in the
absolute resistance of the Council of Ministers, who
dread lest the lib,rati. •
on A of ...LID-EL-KADER may
cause a rising in Algeria."
Nevertheless, said the
Prince, when 1852 should have elapsed, that libera-
tion might be more readily effected. "Neannwins"—
these were his words—,, Ne
aninoins lorsque 1852
sera passe le chose sera phis facil ~
e. Encouraged
by this assurance the Marn •
iuis of
A,T
appears to have waited in implicit co ONDONDERRT
confidence. Like
young Lona, in the ballad, however he looked

forward, only to watch the dawn of disappointment.
A week and a month—and nearly a year passed away
—to borrow the phraseology of the song, and still no
sign of the liberation. Disheartened by this lapse of
time the Noble Marquis seems at last, from the cor-
respondence published elsewhere in our impres-
sion of this evening, to have given utterance to
his anxiety in a letter addressed to the PRINCE
PRESIDENT on the 3d of May—a letter of solemn and
fervent reminder. In it, he exclaimed to Louis
NAPoLEoN—" Away with all chimeras of difficulties,
delicacies, and consequences—your decrees are final.
Announce " Le PRESIDENT le vent," and ABD-EL-
KADER'S prison doors fly open !" He called to the
recollection of the PRINCE the manner in which be
had avowed his wish sooner or later to place the EMIR
in freedom, because he believed that the honour of
France was involved in the question of his liberation
—when the PRESIDENT had written—"Je wiz) tot
ou tard, mettre l'Emir en liberti parceque je crois que
l'honneur de la France y est engagee."
Lord Lon-
M
DONDERRY closed his appeal of the 3i of May, as if
in corroboration of the justice of the sentiment, by
observing that ABD--EL-KiDElt once released from
incarceration " the unsullied honour of France, and
the desire of its powerful ruler (the chosen of eight
millions) will be accomplished." Upwards of three
months elapse after the transmission of this letter to
Paris, without one line, however brief, of acknow-
ledgment ! Under these circumstances it is, that the
last communication in the correspondence, under date
the 9th of this present August, is forwarded to the
Elysee by the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. It is
natural, of course, that the Noble Lord should have
penned this letter under feelings of more than
ordinary irritation. Whether that irritation was
justified
or not the public can decide at
a glance.
Something better than this profound and
inflexible silence must have been expected last year
by Lord LONDONDERRY—and assuredly the mere
chagrin of recognising the blunder of such pleasant
anticipations is calculated to engender a sense of in-
dignation.

Reviewing the whole of this ABD-EL..KADER cor-
respondence, it is impossible not to appreciate the
generosity of the motive actuating the Mar-
quis of LONDONDERRY in his spontaneous
interposition in favour of the forlorn and
otherwise almost forgotten prisoner of the
Chateau D'Amboise. Equally manifest, at the
same time, we conceive it; to be that the position of
the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON has up to this moment
been one of enormous anxiety and of equally enormous
responsibility. Perhaps he may be able to say now,
as he did in the September of 1851, "Lorsgue
je ne fait pas tout Zs bien que je desire, c'est
que JE NE LE PEITT PAS"—and be able to
say this, too, with truth in the August of 1852.
But at least he need not have left it to mere conjec-
ture. Beyond this he might have insisted that as yet
his promise in the letter of September 13, 1851, has
not been actually broken—because his words were,
as already quoted, " Neanmoins lorsque 1852 SERA
PASSE la chose sera plus facile." At any rate some-
thing more than silence, we conceive, was due to the
generosity and humanity of the Marquis of Lori-
DONDERRY.

The lawyers are likely to have a golden harvest
out of the new Parliament. It is alleged that bribery
has never before been carried to such an extent•
Each party accuses its opponent of " bribery and cor-
ruption." Eminent counsel are reported to be at a
premium, on account of the demand for their services
before Election Committees and Parliamentary Com-
missions. Solicitors entering into the long vacation
do not wholly abandon " business"—no, they carry a
bribery case with them, by way of nest egg, out of
which some legal lusus nature is to emanate, in the
fulness of time, it 3 genus distinguishable by the length
of its bill ! In short, Members of Parliament may
expect to have long sittings in election inquiries,
while a splendid vista of briefs, retainers, fees, and
refreshers, opens to gleiden the eyes and fill the bags
and purses of gentlemen learned in the law.
Corrupt practices at elections have long been com-
plained of. The Legislature have been continually
trying to prevent and punish them by Acts of Parlia-
ment. The more certain and rec.'ly mode of preven-
tion—namely, Tote by Ballot—hes not been counte-
nanced by Parliament. Every remedy, except the
right one, has been tried, and the result has been
precisely what might have been anticipated—the
continuance, if not the actual increase, of that "bri-
bery and corruption," which is a disgrace to the
country and the age.
The Act (15 and 16 Viet., cap. 57), which W2S
passed during the last session, " to provide for more
effectual inquiry into the existence of corrupt prac-
tices at elections for Membeis to serve in Parliament,"
provides the machinery for ascertaining where, by
whom, and under what circumstances, bribery and
corruption may have been committed at any election.
On a joint Address from both Houses of Parliament,
the Crown may appoint Commissioners of inquiry,
who shall investigate the matter in the most searching
manner, and report thereon to the QUEEN for Parlia-
ment. The costs of such inquiry (that is, the ex-
penses of the Commissioners, witnesses, Esc.) are to
be paid by the Treasury. The witnesses are to give
their testimony on oath, and—to insure full disclo
sure from the participators in the alleged offence or
offences—persons implicated in corrupt practices,
who may be examined and make a full disclosure, are
to be indemnified by a
certificate from the Commis-
sioners.

Mr. MORGAN, the bribery bricklayer at Derby,
who had been sent thither (he says) by Mr. FRAIL,
the barber of Shrewsbury, and correspondent of
" W. B." of the Carlton Club, had heard
something of this indemnification clause, no
doubt, for on his apprehension he told the
police sergeant that he meant "to tell the truth"—
that is, to save himself by "splitting" on his em-
ployers. So said virtuous MORGAN, chicken-hearted
in the moment of detection ; but that he will be forth-
coming to " make a full disclosure" before the Com-
missioners, or an Election Committee, is what we
certainly do not calculate upon. There is every pro-
spect, to use a familiar phrase, that " he will make
himself scarce," and his bail (the two Shrewsbury
FRAIL) will
beer vendors, one of them, we are told, a relation of
Neither
zances made probably have their forfeited no° •
gni-
. good by the bounty of the Carlton Club.
do vie cherish the shadow of a hope that
any Commissioner
FRAIL himself ,i
France,
Committee.eoshayerasheis ,
Thewill
Carlton appearc lbeforeuh,
like Louis XI.
of
have chosen their friend
a
and councillor from
barber-ohs profession, and the
modern ()Lives LE DzeuLe like his Gallic proto-
type, will submit to anything
even enforced exile
from his
nativeornament country, of which he is 4, the life,
pride, and —provided his employers de-
mand such a sacrifice at his hands
im for it. , and suitably
comPensat-. 13
Under the new system, the delay and expense of a
need not be incurred:—that,
Commission we Bun
d for wholesale cases, such ap3el
will be reserve a.s the St.
• where the borough, on
Albans' affair, conviction, was
set of very searching •
disfranchished. A- questions
has been drawn up, which may be put to petitioners
aud sitting Members by Election Committees of the
House of Commons. Nay,even if there be no peti-
tion by a candidate, if there have Leen no contest (es
slue questions may b 3
-
any voter may petition), the ~
ft!hese questions are
put to the sitting Member. ...
most searching, and may be put upon oath. They
go into the whole matter of direct and indirect agency
—agreements as to expanses—C3 to amounts disbursed,
under the name of expenses—as to further amounts
demanded, and for what—as to the sitting Member's
belief, knowledge, or expectation of further sums to
be demanded or paid—es to the particular of every
separate item of payment—as to promises made by
or for the sitting Member—as to exercise of influence
to obtain any place or favour from the Government for
any elector, or any of his relations—as to applica-
tions to exercise such • fl in uence—es to a promise, by
himself or others, to
pay money on account of the elec-
tion after the
trial
of the petition was over. Here • one of the questions • "DOb •
you believe, suppose, con-
jecture, or suspect •that
coy one, and who,
or promised any money or other valuable thin gave
ta
any person connected with
g
the borough with a view
to secure your election ?" This i 3 close questioning
and the remaining (I.,eri '
es are equally stringent.
The parties who have acted for the sitting Member,
in any way, at an election may be severally exa-
mined in the absence of the sitting Member, who is
then liable to be examined touching their disclosures
before he and they can communicate. Publie.house

and attorneys' bills may likewise be sifted, and the
whole evidence given upon oath.
Yet, inquisitive and searching as the inquiry must
be under this new system, bribery is said to have
been greater at the recent elections than at any for-
mer time. There is an anomaly in this very
curious, but demanding a closer examination than we
can give it now.
Having mentioned Mr. FRAIL in the course of thee,
remarks—when " bribery and corruption" are on
the tapis, one Naturally thinks of the tonsorial cor-
respondent of "W. B."—we may add that the repot:
runs that in the preliminary investigation into the
practices at the Derby election a number of lettels
from "W. B." to FRAIL have turned up, seriously
involving both of the "polite letter writers."
We can scarcely think that the cunning
of the Salopian barber could have per-
mitted such documents to pass out of his bands.
Though he was so silly
134 to permit one letter from
his Carlton Club correspondent to be found in the
pocket of the "safe and good man" MORGAN, the
bricklayer, we must be content, we fear, to await
with due patience the Parliamentary investigation
which must take place, particularly es, to this hour,
"W. B." has not denied that he wrote to FRAIL
touching the Derby election.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

Intelligence by the French mail had not reached
us up to three o'de*, but we learn the following
items by telegraph, dated from Pars yesterday, 5 P.M.
The Moniteur announces that negotiations con-
tinue, and with a pre-p2ct of success, for a treaty of
commerce E3tween Belgium and France.
De :tees in the Moniteur announce severe' promo-
tions in the Legion of Honour, end decorations of the
new militery medal, as also several nominations of
Mayors.
The Sccislist candidate, M. SAIN, has been elected
to the Municipal Council at St. Etienne, and M.
JULES FAYED to Lyons and St. Etienne.
The screw-ship of the line the Austerlitz, 100 guns,
will be hunched at Cherbourg on the 15th instant, es
also the frigate La Resolue.
Government secui:ties were firmer at the Bourse
to-day than yesterday.
Railway shares ere lower. The Four-rnd-a-Half
per Cents. opened at 104 f. 50c., and closed at 104 f.
70c. for the end of the month.
The Three per Cents. cloud at 74f. 85c. ; Orleans
Railway Shares, 1,362 f. 50c. ; the New Austrirn
Loan, 95.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 11.
Grand Junction of France, 45/8—Luxembourg, 41A—
Namur and Liege, 6%—Northern of France, 254—Or1een3
and Bordeaux, 18—Paris and Lyons,lB7/B—Paris and Rouen,
33—Paris and Strasbourg, 2.oB—Sambre and Meuse, 7
Western of France, 9%.