The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-28 00:00:00

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BATTY'S GRAND NATIONAL Hippo
DROME

Opposite the Broad Walk, teensinp,"ton-garderts,
g the Season of this most popular place of amusement is about
drawing to the Close, Mr. Batty intends bringing forward every
novelty in store in rapid succession—Grand Change of Performance
Nightly of the most extraordinary and exciting Entertainments ever
witnessed in England.

Dcors open at Five, the Entertainments commencing at Half-past
Five o'clock precisely.
A splendid Brass Band will be in attendance.
Admission—Reserved Seats, 3s. ; First Class, 25.; Second ditto,
Is.; Third ditto, W.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
Last Night of the Subscription.
LUCREZIA. BORGIA— ERNANI.
THIS EVENING,
Will b's presented the first act of E onizettrs Opera,
LUCREZIA BORGIA.
Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Grist ; Maßo Oreini, Madlle. Seguin ;
Don Alfonso, Signor Marini ; Don Apostolo Ga7ella, Signor Itommi ;
Rnstighello, Signor Soldi; Gubetta, Signor Tagliaflco ; Aston, Sig.
Polonint; Oloferno Vitellozza, Signor Luigi Mei ; Gennaro, Signor
Mario.

To conclude with (first time these four years) Verdi's Opera
ERNANI.
Elvira, Madlle. Bosio ; Giovanni, Madile. Cotti ; Don Silva,
Signor 3farini ; Don Carlos, Signor Bartolini ; Don Riccardo, Signor
Siodl ; Jago, Siu-nor Polonini ; Ernani, Signor Negrini (bis second
appearance in England.)
Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa.
Commence at Eight o'clock.
Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit may be had (for the
Night or Season), at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open
trom Eleven till live o'clock ; and of the principal librarians and
musicsellers.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B, Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed a new Drama, entitled THE WRITING ON
THE WALL. Augustus Trotter, Esq, Mr. Wright ; Tobias, Mr. 0.
Smith; Richard Oliver, Mr. Emery ; Bob Smithers, Mr. P. Bedford;
Lady Elton, Mrs. L. Murray; Margrette, Miss E. Chaplin ; Carlotta
Smithimi, Miss Woolgar.
After which GOOD NIGHT ! SIGNOR PA TALON.
To conclude with the Farce of THE MOTHER AND CHILD
ARE DOING WELL. Lieutenant O'Scupper, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Maxwell, Mr. Worrell ; Emily, Miss
Emma Harding.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The most successful and popular Theatre in London.
THIS EVENING,
Will be produced, a grand Spectacle, written expressly for thet Am-
phitheatre, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled PETER TPIR M EA T
in which Mr. Ryder, from the Princess's, will appear.
In consequence of the immense applause nightly bestowed upon
the performances of the Brothers Siegrist, on La Perch,Ty will
Mr.
Batty
They has re-engaged them for a limited number of nights. astonish all
e
ap-
pear every evening in their most daring feats,
who see them. They are the greatest wonders of which
the world.
After which a group of Elephants in the Circlhee,irtttinathedetof
agility
niliatys
Horses, their Eastern trainers will go through t .
acts of Eques-
on the bare backs of the animals, and various rag-swing
if the day, both
trian exercise will be represented by thea first ar
Foreign and English.
To conclude with a Laughable Farce.
with his talented troupe of
the i having recovered
.7117
whenv ered
Mr. Batty has engaged Mr. Stokes,
American Equestrians,
to have made their debut th;s I
Evening, but, in consequwenhcoe
fro m the effects of the sea voyage,
wereo
f tiieti rishpoorsstepso nneodt hav
to
they will positively appear.
_ _office from Eleven till Four daily.
Tickets to ue had at the "x
wanager, Mr. Leclercq.
Stage

ROYAL SugREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Open for the Season,
Monday. Tues
day, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Third Week of the Vocal Entertainnients.
e or has the gratification to announce that the Madri-
gal and
The Fr rit
party were received with immense applause, and will
Glee
VOCAL A 3 Dtil lifurther notice.
.TAL CONCERT.
continue their performance pperformanceGßA_N
psINCIPAL VOCALISTS—Miss Messent, Miss Clara Henderson, Mr.
Young, Mr. Manvers, and Mr. Leffler. Conducted by Mr. J. L.
Flattop, who will preside at the Pianoforte.
rgINCIPAL INSTRIMIENTAL SOLOISTS—MCSSM. J. Richardson
lute), Wuille (Clarionet), Lazarus (Clationet), Viotti Collins
Ciotti (Trombone), Collinet (Flageolet), Sidney Pratten
(Flute), and Conductor of the Orchestra, Mr. C. Godfrey.
Exhibition of Danson's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT
ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid
and interesting 3lenagerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's on-
-ivailed Military Band—Various Amusing Novelties—Concluding at
Dusk with a Grand Pyrotechnic Exhibition by Messrs. Southby,
representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the
Ancients), with the Caverns and Forges of Wean and is Cyclops,
the whole terminating with the Eruption of Mount Etna and a
Grand Tableau on the Lake of Thetis, and the Nerelada receiving the
Armour of Achilles.
The menagerie now consists of several hundred specimens, so
the finest of their species in England, including three tine elephants.two giraffes, four ostriches, two camels, lions, leopards, &c., and
the colossal tortoise (the largest ever exhibited), upwards of 200
years old.
Doors open from Nine a.m. Feeding the Animals at Five. Con-
cert at a Quarter-past Six.
ADMISSION,
at Half-past Nine.
ONEr SHILLING.

conqueror of continental Europe is acknow-
ledged as both " EMPEROR, and KING" by
the Governments of all the countries of

Christendom. Let not the oiium of these paltry ani-
mosities infect oar contamporalles, in these letter

days, in reference to the descendant of the Empror
and King NAPOLEON. France b-i surely es much
right to create for herself a President, as Prussia
a King, as Turkey a Sult9n, es AnStiia an Ea l.•
peror, as Persia a Schab, as Tartary a Khac, or as
Montenegro a Vladika.

A snow-ball increases as it rolls along, and so does
our Indian Empire. During the last century our
territory there has been gradually in course of aug-
mentation. Lord CLIVE, in self-defence, was com-
pelled to commence the system of annexation. The
native Princes were angry, and not without cause, at
the encroachments of the British, and had recourse to
arms to resist them. Vain efforts of native
nationality, and numbers over European civili-
zation and discipline. Kingdom after kingdom suc-
cumbed, and became a British province. Where we
did not conquer by actual force of arms, we pre-
vailed by policy. Some Asiatic rulers, seeing how
resistless was the might of British arms and wisdom,
sought safety by placing themselves and their terri-
tories under British protection. They speedily lost
even the shado w of independence. Gradually they
became insignificant—having the trappings without
the actual power of Royalty. Their Ministers
rarely proved faithful. heir subjects soon
saw that the name of dominion was all
that remained with them. The once. dreaded
Satraps dwindled down into British pen-
sionaries. At lest, descending lower in the scale,
they lost even their nominal dignities—sometimes
selling them for an annual income, sometimes corn.
piled to abandon them, to secure personal safety.
Whoever the Viceroy—whether CLIVE, or WARREN
HASTINGS, or CORNWALLIS, or WELLESLEY, or
AMFIERST, or ELLENBOROUGH, Or HARDINGE, or
DAanousie—it appears CS if it were inevitable that
the British empire in India must be increased. Per-
petual attacks against it have led to constant aug-
mentation of our possesions. The most pacific Go-
vernor-General was compelled to take the field when
attacked, and victory rendered it necessary to confis-
cate the possessions of the insurgent enemy. In India,
if we would, we could not remain 'without constantly
becoming more and more powerful,
The Burmese war will eventuate, sooner or later,
in the annexation of another kingdom to an already
extraordinary empire in India. This may take place
almost immediately, cr it may be retarded for some
years. But, sooner or later, the Burman Empire will
become a portion of British India. The war which is
now raging is wholly defensive on our part—we did
not provoke it ; but, being wronged, we were coin-
There are certain common decencies of expression pelled to have resort to arms. We cannot anticipate
w:th them. Now, t )
any other result than the subjugation of the
which, we conceive, ought never to be lightly vii-
It would be scarcely We beat them once before,. some four-and-twenty
dated by the journalist,
per. of Lisbon to
for example, in a newspa courteous, years ago, and dealt leniently
speak of the Emperor of all the Russies as—mr. secure ourselves, we must reduce the Burman Empire
NICHOLAS, any more then it would be civil in a to a mere province. If we do not, we shall have an-
newspaper of Paris to mention our Most Gracious other war, in all likelihood, in another ten or twenty
SOVEREIGN as--Mrs. Yet the c
Mrs. VICTORIA. Onarnonest years, and shall have to beat them again.
regulations of etiquette are being now-a-days
perpe. With all this increase of territory, the fi oences of
tually violated amongstourselves—flagrantly, and British India are in a state of confusion and difficulty,
ableo
deliberately, and without the slightest vestige of pro_ while the condition of the natives is anything but
people, Prosperous. They are poor, over-taxed, miser-
vocation—in regard to the brave French
people, and the British power bas
through the person of the accepted leader of their Go-
vernment. In the Parisian press we never find the rt t
~
er brought happiness to them. On the
Queen of the UNITED KINGDOM scurrilously eluded 'th
exhibits band, the income of British India
to, again and again, as Mrs. VICTOBrA. Yet in the ling.
Tan e annual deficit of about 1,500,0001. ster-
London Press on the other hand—or rather we
market pric,proplieton of East India Stock (the
should say with a somewhat more definite particu-
paid up), ma f which is about `2731, for every 100/.
y mile at any idof
Idea distress, while
rarity—in one section of the London Press it is re- they receive a rate of -
peatedly observed that the PRESIDENT of the French
they can gain from, the
interest more than double what
Mon- Funds bat •
Republic is spoken of, over and over again, as that an annual deficit of awe assure them
aieur BONAPARTE. Supposing for an instant that there
with an annual increase inth million and a half sterling,
were anything at all pretending to wit in the expres-
serious moment. Nor is th,, e. Debt, is a thing of very
Sian, it might of course just once in a way be barely d the Debt diminished, by likely to be in-
tolerated.crease , nor by an
But instead of wit the phrase breathes
tension of our Indian empire. New .Ir further ex-
Billingsgate. of Bill' extanaes
ingsgate. It betrays an utter obtuseness
inevitable result of such extension, for
what
has
the
°to the diet
as been
apart
fromateellof the most ordinary delicacy. It is
won by the sword must be maintained by the whatever of e.a,hrgument. It partakes in no degree,
To have the "meteor-flag of England),
waving
winord.
subtle attributes,ofer the most obvious or the most
capitals of Ava or Burniah may sound well in _ the
a theto.
impertinence. It i the
humorous. It is simply an
ricpal s eech, or read well in a flashy pamphlet, but this
as a coalheaver rsaianbiimpertinence, moreover, such
Pwill gain little save unsubstantial glory from
during a moment of eig 4 indulge in once in a way countryh
There is such a thing as an empire's be. sue . a result. The
the coalheaver w incontrollable passion, but which
d breaking up from its own
oul certaial coming unwieldy, an
utterance to, as Mrs. pry_ 8 y refrain from giving .
red that our Indian terris
htand it is to be le', weig ,
happieet j oke ever inade:usa•Ys, " repeatually." The
to this catastrophe before
tory
may be subjected .
continual repetition. The ' necessarily pall upon ae larger and
Poorest, long. It cannot remain as it is, growing
baldest joke must, still more , stalest, flattest,
system of Govern-
ei identlmore unmanageable, unless its
actually intolerable when reiterated.
—y, become ' roved.
that be greatly changed and improve .
that in its best light wag never But a phrase
To make British India a help to, instead of a dead
at all, but merely a gratuitous any joke
at
0 weight upon, this country—to improve the condition
flagrant disrespect and uncalled-for d. f
isenuttes of the natives—to extend its trade, commerce, and
becomes at last as odious as in the first ieetsnt . Y,
4it se manufactures—to put the expenditure on a level with
unendurable. Oer
neighboursi across the Channel its
free it income—to
are in this manner insulted tune after time ee7ue
au consolidate it properly, the anomaly of its Govern-
IIaUSCV7I2. The man they hive selected by nearly went should be reformed. At present that Govern-
EIGHT MILLIONS Of VOT2i—i3 thus designated in went is compound—the East India Directors share it
the vulgar slang of the gallimaufry. The man who with the Executive of
is the elected of universal suffrage—the man whose wholly transferred
the for to the latter, or confided wholly to
name has been twice accepted under the shadow of Brit mer. Another half-center the ballot—is thus sneered at by means of an epithet British India broken .❑
y, we fear, will find
Indian sovereignties.
up into half-aozen A cri
as shallow as it is intended to be contumelious. ne o-
as Vicero • ignties. We should not object to seeing,
talk BONAPARTE! We might as reasonably
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India, a member of the g,
FroPeny trained
talk of Mr. LEOPOLD or of Mrs. ISABELLA. More and educate responsible digt,-, d for such a grave and
reasonably, perhaps, as thin d 't •
gs go—for we on pre- Live population 1,,y. It
much ..
would gratify the NI
cisely remember where it ' l ' wilts are
la p aced upon record that
of and splendour. Hithertoreatly attracted by pomp
the King of the BELGIANS whenever any eminent
or that the Queen nobleraa " has rah
out at the elbows," be is

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
True DAY —Morning 59 rain. after 12 I Evening 25 min. after 1
To4foasow—Morning 46 min. after 1 1 Evening 13 min, alter 2

THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, AUGUST 23,

THER.IIO3IET'ER, IN THE SHADE.
73—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
73 —this day, at noon.

_
BAr.oatzTEß, 30.13.
WIND Westerly—fine sunshiny weather.

DAILY WEATHEI TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nina o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
HAsrTness—Wind E., fresh breeze—partially cloudy.
bouTuAlaa-rox—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
GREENWICH—Wind :5.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SmooD—Wind S.E., calm—overcast.
Corximsrßa—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Canceux.)GE—Calm—partially cloudy.
Yaitmoirm—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Thursday morning at nine
o'clock :

MULLETGAI— Wind S., calm—partially cloudy.
Paorx— Wind N.W., calm—cloudless.
LEcrawrox—Wind 8.E., calm—overcast.
LA..NessTEß—Wind N.W., calm—principally clear.
WEl:may—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
DART,ry.GTcry—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
StiA.P—Wind S.E, calm—principally clear.
BEArrOCK—Wind N.W., gentle br€,eze—partially cloudy.

sent to India, to save money out of his salary and
appointments. We have lately had a few brilliant
exceptions, but the general practice, from WED-
LESLEY to ELLENDOROUGII, has been as we state.
Even as we w Ate our attention has been drawn to
a letter from SADUT KHAN, the chief of the Momund
chiefs (on the north-west frontier) to the Commis-
sioners at Peshawer, which energetically embodies
the causes of complaint by the natives against the
British rulers of India. It says—" You have de-
prived us of those lands in the Dueo be which we
looked upon as our life—the sinews by which we are
enabled to exist; these you have wantonly taken from
us, neither can you plead aught in justification of
your conduct. You know that we have held these
grants rent fres from time immemorial, and that in
gratitude for the privileges we enjoyed,
we lived in
perfect amity with our more potent neighbours, the
former rulers of this caun'ry. You were the first to
burden U 3 with heavy fixes, and when we found our-
selves unable to pay these, you attacked and expelled
us from our very birthright ! Was this consistent
with the justice end liberality of that glorious Go-
vernment of which you boast being a member ? Was
it in keepfng with the honour and dignity of so great
and powerful a neion es you are ? You are a great
and mighty people—we a bond of poor hill people.
By placing yourselves on a level with us, you lose
much of that lustre which adorns your name. As
for ourselves, since you are determined to force us to
die of starvation, we have adopted the more
manly method of dying with our swords
in our hands." There is true eloquence
as well as deep pathos in this, and the aggravation is
that it is true. It is such a declaration as an antique
Roman might have made in like circumstances—
bold yet sad, complaining 'yet dignified, resigned
yet heroic. 'Whatever changes may be made on the
renewal of the Charter, or in the Government of
India, nobody can doubt the propriety--the necessity
of admitting well-qualified natives into the public
offices there. If well qualified, by education, there
is no reeson why a well-educated native, with good
character, should not be admitted into situations, in
India, now filled by British subjects. There is no
reason why such a mark of inferiority, as exclusion
from employment, should b 3 branded upon the na-
tives. They ere not inferior in capacity, fidelity,
and conduct to the most trusted and trustwor-
thy Briton. Too long has India been exclusively
governed by the Saxons. There are persons in that
country even better qualified than Englishmen for
situations and appointments now exclusively:bestowed
by Leadenhall-street patronage upon young
English-
men. The natives of India, however, do not want
spirit, and are not crushed by neglect. They are
determined to have their claims, their wants, their
deprivations fairly and fully brought before the Bri-
tish people and the British Legislature; and they
can make out a very strong case, indeed, against the
present system of mai-government in Hindustan

SPAIN have either of them been elevated to their
august position, firstly, by nearly 6,000,000, and
secondly, by nearly 8,000,000 of free citizens, speaking
by the ballot and universal suffrage—as has been the
case with the French PRESIDENT.
No. If Louis NAPOLEON has committed errors
—reprobate them. If he has been guilty of
faults—denounce them. If he has perpetrated
any heinous crime against the law of nations or
against the liberties of France—proclaim their atro-
city upon every possible occasion, and do so (in
GOD'S name) in language of the most bitter and the
most profound indignation. But don't twaddle
everlastingly about " Monsieur BONAPARTE "
as though the mere name (surely, a glorious
name enough in the world's history !) were a brand
and an accusation !
It is the sad old story over again. It is the same
ignorant spirit of intolerance that set the world in
flames at the beginning of the nineteenth cen-
tury. At that period a prtion of the London
newspapers were raving against the " Corsica'n
Usurper." Another portion is now with the same
dogged pertinacity raving against " Monsieur BONA
PARTE." To talk thus violently and: intern
perately, and yet to babble about the main.
tenance of peace between the two coun.
tries, is the sheerest ferce imaginable. Why,
these opprobrious assailants themselves are the real
engenderers of that very ill-feeling against which they
pretend to declaim with so much solicitude. To
relations
at ios
the with
same time
to be always abusing the PRINCE PRESIDENT by the LouisNdrAeramoLoEfoN,sGovernment, preserving
amicable
and atn
yet
most coarse invectives, and the most scurrilous per-
sonalities, is about as rational as to expect to re-
tain the friendship of a man at the very
moment you are pelting him with mud
and treating him with the most studied indignities.
No. Again we say—Whatever LOUIS NAPOLEON
has done deserving reprobation, reprobate—but do
not disgrace the English Press by
these mean
and paltry gibes against
"Monsieur
BONA.
rAltrE." The " great people of England "—as
Mr. AIACAULAY has termed them more than once
—are surely not such poor little
children as to be
carried away in feeling by these paltry and disgrace-
ful violations of the commonest rules of decorum.
France has of her own free will selected the Prince
Louis NAPOLEON as the chief magistrate of her Re-
publican Institutions. She has done this
through the
Ballot. She has done
this through Universal
Suffrage. She has done this by nearly 6,000,000,
and afterwards by nearly 8,000,000 of the
votes of free citizens. It is absurd therefore,
in an English newspaper, to talk of the Potentate thus
invested with the dignity of the popular franchise—
as absurd as it would be (we repeat) for a
Portuguese newspaper to talk of the Emperor
of RUSSIA as Mr. NICHOLAS ! England pos-
sesses already the disgrace of having insulted the
great NAPOLEON by recognising him rs simply
"General BONAPARTE" during the period of his cap-
tivity in St. Helena. Now-a-days—we believe—the

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TIM PORTUGUESE MINISTRY.—We mentioned,
some days ago, that Viscount .A LMEYDA., the Foreign
Minister in the Portuguese Government—who was
strongly impressed with a regard for England and a
desire to preserve fr,:o and liberal principles in
Portugal—had resigned office. The morn-
ing pipers of to-day make the same an-
nouncement, es from Paris, ~b; electric tele-
graph," adding that Don JEuvis D'ATONQUIA, late
Minister of Marine, succeeds him. It certainly is
very " late news" to tell the public on Saturday
what The Sun had announced on the previous
Thursday.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Nine more votes of the Councils-General appear in
the Aroniteur. They differ in the form of expression,
but the same thought pervades them all, and four are
conceived in the strongest terms. These are the de-
partments of the Aisne, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-
Garonne, and Haute-Vienne.
The superior importance attaching to the Councils-
General has directed attention more especially upon
them ; nevertheless every day brings in its quota of
the votes adopted hp the Councils of Arrondissement
before the close of their short session. The arrondisse-
ment of Blaye, which appears in the Moniteur of yes-
terday morning, says—" Our concurrence and devo-
tion will not fail you, in committing to your hands,
in an irrevocable form, the temporary power which
the nation has confided to you."
Tres Assernblee Nationale has the following on the
resolutions come to by the Councils-General :
" We et present are acqua'nted by the Moniteur with
the result of the u'eliherat;ona of fifty-two councils-
general on what may be called without fear the ques-
tion on the order of the day. The wishes which they
express, if they differ in form, are at bottom the same.
We have no desire to conceal it; and if we have hitherto
confined ourselves to a summary mention of those deli-
berations, it is not that which elite', or astonishes us,
as the election of the Ist and Bth of August had pre-
pared us for them. Thus, come of them, and that th©
greatest number, risk for seability to be given to our in-
stitutions, and the government to be consolidated and
perpetwe2d; others pronounce formally in favour of
the re-establishment of the Empire, and for the defini-
tive consolidation of the power in the hands of the
heir of the Emperor; others, again, without asking di-
rectly for any moditieation in the present regime, ex-
press their gratitude for the past, and their devoted-
ness for the future, in terms which leave no doubt as to
their disposition, Once more, we say that there are but
shades of difference, the groundwork being the same."
The Pays, in its anxiety to eulogize the Govern-
ment for the concession of the Bordeaux to Cette
Railway, has discovered that it will shorten by three
months the journey to India; and the Univers, in an
article on the effect that war would probably produce
on the relations between France and Belgium, has a
still more important announcement—viz., that, by
sounding the bank at the mouth of the Thames,
the longitude may be discovered ! The
writer has only to put in his claim upon the English
Government for the discovery of the longitude to be
well rewarded for the pains that he has taken to arrive
at this knowledge. The Board of Admiralty will
readily forgive the alarm that he must have excited in
it by the picture that he draws of the facilities for
putting an end to the naval supremacy of England,
in its appreciation of the value to the world at large
of the simple means of asoer'saining the longitude, in
drooping a line with a lead attached to it, on the bank
at tee mouth of the Thames.
The following are the remarks of the Moniteur on
the healing article of the Times in its number of
Saturday last :
" We have had several times cccesion to remark the
malevolence towards the French Government of certain
articles in the English journe Is. We remained silent as
long as they only attache I persons, but at present the
ant ;re nation is attacker, end it becomes a duty to reply.
the Times has devoted a long elide in one of its Fist
numbers to acearms'ate insult upon France. It comperes
it to the Bss-Empire, and condemns it to eteinel infamy.
If the Times was the organ of a nation, ours might be
affected by its attache, bat that paper, the passionate
interpreter of hosi Ile parties since the 2d of December,
merely represents an interested opps sition; what credit-
consequently, is to be given to its opinions? What
right is there to endure teem? Who, in fact, could be-
lieve, as the Times dares to pretend, that we 870 disin-
herited of all our rights, and that political life exists no
longer for us? Universal suffrage in France is the melt
unlimited exercise of the power of election for a nation.
We have said that the Times, i-i our eyes, is not
the organ of the nation in the name of which it would
pretend to speak, Far from us, therefore, to re-
criminate against the English institutions; but could
not others, loss well uisposed. do so ? Could
not they ask the Times whether England can oppose
to the tranquillity end good order of our universal
suffrage its limited suffrage and its elections accom-
plished in the midst of all the scandals of disgraceful
jobbery? Could it not be said to the Times that in Eng.
land seats in Parliament belong almost always to the
richest—that in France they are free to all without dis-
tinction ,• that there fortune decides—that here the
People choose; that with us everything is the expression
savours of the i
People choose;
will; that the Chief of the_ State, the
00461- eistator, tho Councils-General of Departments,
striction of ri
electoit of.Arrondissement, Municipal Councils, all are
other'si'dye
otbr
tiliniversality of the ci zens—that on the
cnChannel, on the contrary, everything
first essay ,4,squality of
.fortunes Ea well as the re-
system which conatPipticyeal3
The Tunes tatty, if it please, call this
most unbounded liberty infamy ; but
ef :theh Le.
tehaelter
ma
aelt of.
does it select
oment to draw vanity from a
Mentlar?chleThloef
voting and to the demand etch(' apprehension of
ontqhueestslood
jothe substitution of public
t
voting in place of public elect'
83.Timesj lauded
approved
February. Was
thethe
Republican
l underyova
tovations
whTotine people? No ;
glorifications then were EIS sus
itth
wasatbecause oo fu the
oef
g piciou was shed. Its
sas its resent s-
ppragement is odious. The sarca
siziagainst p
the lathdi of
August was consequently the natural effict of p
arid caleulatior. Vaiuiy were proposit;ons made anti
toath the Chief of the State to celebrate tho anniversaries of the
10th of December, 18-18,the2dtahnd 20th of December,
1851. He would not celebrate. one, because it re-
gardedins triumph! nor t himself alone r he other,
,c 1 with a painful feeling, and be-
because it was connec' ,
wished, above all, tobury in oblivion the
cause be l, The anniversary
last recollection of our eivil dire ere
end it
happened by a fortunate coincident
consecrated, of the 15th of August has been atone
sidenes that the festival of
the Virgin, the patroness of France, is celebrated the
L e
idea, aatne day as that of the Emperor. The notion compre.
,",ended that nobl and associated itself with it
ita rOugllQqt the eenntrirwith euthwiaatn, Tbis is taw

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