The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-24 00:00:00

LONDON,

Indian Government. Why should not the Sirdars, if
well qualified by education and character, be allowed to
rise in the civil and in the military service of their
native land ? If fit for high office, why exclude
them ?

We might go much farther into the subject, but
we have said enough to show that, at the least, the
natives of India have a right to be heard, and beyond
this there will be found an excellent and comprehen-
sive article upon the same topic transcribed from the
columns of a morning Contemporary. The par-
ties who oppose this may be assured that Truth will
fipd a voice, and we tell them frankly, that it is better
this voice should be allowed a free and friendly ex-
pression than a hostl'e one.

Really Mr. WEBSTER appears to be rather anxious
just now to seize all kinds of commodities in all kinds
of localities, for the especial pleasure and particular
emolument of the citizens of the United States. He
insists, first of all, upon the right of the American
fishmongers to be supplied with an unlimited quantity
of large and small fry from the Bay of Fundy and other
parts of the British fisheries. Immediately after main-
taining this in terms of the most desperate descrip-
tion, Mr. WEBSTER takes a violent fancy to the
guano found on the Lobos Islands—insisting
that those islands and their produce appertain
in no manner exclusively to the Peruvian Govern-
ment—and being perfectly well aware that the said
guano must necessarily be of the utmost importance
to the honest American agriculturists. Never was
there such wholesale and miscellaneous grasping ob-
servable on the part of the United States' Adminis-
trators I Fish is to be purloined from the Bay of
Fundy in any numbers, although the Bay of
Fundy belongs solely to the British Government.
Guano, again, is to be gathered together from
the Lobos Islands, although the Lobos Islands
belong solely to the Peruvian Government. DANIEL
WEBSTER, by the way, is always the claimant in these
cases on behalf of the interest of the United States.
DANIEL WEBSTER insists that the Bay of Fundy may
be entered ad libitum by the American fishermen.
The treaty of 1818 says—No. DANIEL 'WEBSTER
insists that guano can be taken from the Lobos Islands
whenever such may be satisfactory to the
American agriculturists. The Earl of DERBY
virtually declares that it cannot, insist-
ing as the PRIME MINISTER does, that the
Lobos Islands appertain by right to the Peruvian
authorities. Where will this appetite for the goods
and chattels of his neighbours terminate on the part
of the Secretary of State at Washington? His friends
had better look to Mr. WEBSTER betimes, or de-
cidedly his freaks may become dangerous in the results
drawn down upon the United States' Government.

rEHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
A decree in the Maniteur fixes the 20th of Septem-
ber as the day on which the Councils
of Arrondisse-
ment are to meet for the second part of their ks-
sion, which. is not to exceed five days.
The Pays says :—" The Minister of Public Works
signed yesterday the concession
of the Bordeaux to
Cette Railway with two branch lines, one to Bayonne,
and the other to Perpignan, to a company formed of
the companies PEREIRE-ESEELETA,DAVID SALOMONS,
GRIMALDI, and others. The duration of the conces-
sion is to be ninety-nine
years, and the State guaran-
tees a .minimum of interest of four per cent. .The
branch line to Bayonne was added to the original
project at the pressing solicitations of the Spanish Go-
vernment, which has undertaken to have a railway
executed from Madrid to the French frontier as far as
Irun. The branch line to Perpignan is to join the
Barcelona railway at a point on the frontier of the
Pyrenees-Orientales.
• A decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic con-
vokes the electoral colleges of the 31 and 4th circum-
scriptions of the department of the Seine for the 26th
September, in order to elect two deputies in the room
of General CAVAIGNAC and M. CARROT.
The Bulletin des Lois contains a decree from the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, by which several retir-
ing pensions are accorded to 75 persons belonging to
the army. At the head of the table which accompa-
nies this decree are the mimes of Generals BEDEAU
and CHANGARNIER, but not those of Generals DE
LAMORICIERE and LEFLO. The pension assigned to
the two former is 6,000 f. each. In the column of the
table relating to " the present position of the persons
named," is set down en disponibilite; and in another
column, marking their residence, is set down Paris.
These pensions run from June 5, 1852.
Yesterday was a great day at Versailles. The
PRINCE was there for the purpose of distributing se-
veral Crosses of Honour, and availed himself of the
occasion to pass the garrison in review. It consisted
of six regiments—two of carabiniers, two of cuiras-
siere, one of dragoons, and one of the line. In passing
the PRINCE, which the cavalry did in open column
of squadrons, and at a walk, the acclamations of
" Vive 'Empereur I" burst forth with an enthusiasm
and an unanimity which have probably never been
equalled, certainly not excelled. There was no dif-
ference of opinion ; no other cry. The spectators,
who were exceedingly numerous, were necessarily at
too great a distance to take much part in this acclaim,
but at the termination of the review, they closed in
round the PRINCE, and hailed him with the same im-
perial title. The weather was beautiful, the grandes
eaux played, and, altogether, the beauty and the ex-
citement of the scene were things to be long remem-
bered.
The Debats says,—" dye are informed that M.
DRouYN DE LIIIITS yesterday signed with the Bel-
gian Plenipotentiaries a convention for the protec-
tion of literary property. This is a measure the im-
portance of which we need not enlarge upon. It is
said that another convention granting certain com-
mercial advantages to Belgium was signed at the
name time."
Four of the political prisoners at Belle-Isle, viz.,
DURAND, who had been condemned to death, but had
his sentence commuted to transportation; LAINE, who
had still 18 months of imprisonment to undergo;
PREvoT, who had five months and a half to remain ;
and MOUNIN, who had ten, are set at liberty. Two
others' have had their sentences commuted—VE.les,
who we condemned to transportation, is to be im-
prisoned for ten years ; and a man named Re-
CRARD, who wea sentenced to ten years' imprison-
ment, of which ho had seven to remain in prison, is
to be set at liberty in four years.
The Presse, in its commercial review for the past
week, states there have been large purchases of raw
materials by the manufacturers generally, and that
many of the manufacturers of what are called Paris
articles, have received more orders than they can
execute. The retail trade of Paris has, it says, been
materially benefited by the influx of strangers for the
fele of the 15th. It estimates the number of visitors
on that occasion at 500,000, which is probably a
great exaggeration. Fears are still expressed, says
this journal, for the corn and wine harvest, but it
is of opinion that the rise in the prices is more the
effect of speculation than of the real state of the,
markets. As regards wines, it shows that if there
were noireason to fear that the grape disease may
exist in 1853, as well es in 1852, there would be
nothing to maintain the rise in the prices, as the:
stock on hand is considerable.
ThelPanecE PRESIDENT of the Republic, accom-
panied by the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of
the Staff of the National Guards of the Seine, pro-
ceeded on Sunday from St. Cloud at twelve o'clock
to Versailles, where he passed in review the body of
cavalry quartered in that town. A. considerable
crowd of persons were present, and received the
PRINCE with the greatest respect. After the review
a reception took place of the authorities of the town
and of the department. The grand waterworld
played, and added to the animation of the scene. A.
display of fireworks was given at dusk, and the PRE-
SIDENT returned to St. Cloud at nice o'clock.
We read in the Presse :—"The Government is at
present getting drawn up the draft of a decree rela-
tiveyears, to the construction of a crystal palace in the
ex-
ceed 13 mil tong large square of the Champs Elysees. The building in
question is to be conceded to MM. ARDOIN and Co.
the state guaranteeing a minimum in-
terest of cent. on a capital which is not to ex-
posited in guarantee of itohns of francs. Before any sum is set aside
for interest,eamount required for the sinking-fund
is to be deducted.
osfumt he opfr ospoe2rooof.s execution to bef de-
posited in
which are
months' after the date
etof be commenced within two
Theo the concession
.and termi-
nated in two years.nationalee exhibition of the.
fine arts and that of rounufact are to be held in
the edifice at the periods fixed
by the Government.
At all other times the State reserves to itself, for
military or other fetes, the free use of the building
any two days is the week which it may select.
Should the Government not require the building on
the two days of the week, the company may profit by
it, OR asking leave of the Minister of the Interior.
During the other five days of the week, the company
having the building may employ it for private fetes
or exhibitions. During the national exhibitions the
company may
'
demand, on the days fixed by the Go-
vernment,fee,which is not to exceed 3f.,
an entrance
one day in the week being fixed at 50c. The Go.
vernment. may at any period after the first ten years
take possession of the building on condition of paying
as an indemnity .to the company the average of the
list Eve ye,,a,' receipts, multiplied by the number of
the end of the concession,
.Yeas remaining to run to