The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-02 00:00:00

or more than one and a half the National Debt.

Pretty pickings these ! Why, from the time of
CHARLES 11. until to .day, every drop of beer which
has been brewed has paid its proportion of taxation
to the income of the Ducal house of GRAFTON!
Were the excise duties to be abolished to-morrow (as
they soon must be), we should have the Duke of
,GRAFTON coming forward and claiming compensation
for the perpetual charge, which King CHARLES made
on the public in favour of his family.
This is only a solitary instance. Unfortunately,
further examples might readily be given. We shall
return to the subject; meanwhile, we are confident
that Lord DERBY'S own sense of propriety will in-
duce him to take the Wardenship of the Cinque
Ports under such restrictions as will render its emo-
luments within suitable limits—as will render it ra-
ther an honorary than a merely lucrative post. It
has been the custom for the Prime Minister to take
the situation when vacant, and there appears no rea-
son why, if the office is to be continued (and certain
duties are attached to it), the Earl of DERBY should
be led, by any false delicacy, from following the
practice of his predecessors, and himself becoming
Warden, particularly when he can, at the same time,
reduce the income to suitable limits.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The telegraphic intelligence announces the arrival of
the PRINCE PRESIDENT at Aix on the 29th. His pre-
sence at the ball given by the town was hailei with
enthusiasm, and with cries of " Vive l'Empereur !"
On the 30th he arrived at Nismes at two o'clock,
amid universal cries of " Vivo l'Empereur l" and
" Vive Napoleon III."
The PRINCE PRESIDENT, on hearing of the disasters
caused by the overflowing of the Rhine, sent 10,000 f.
to the Minister of the Interior, to be divided among
the sufferers by the inundation.
Addresses of congratulation to Prince Louis NA-
POLEON, on the late d!3covery of the Marseilles plot,
have been voted by a great numb9r of towns through-
out the country. Amongst them are Toulon, Tou-
louse, Marseilles, Limoges, Grasse, &c.
The PRINCE PRESIDENT, before leaving Avignon,
presented Mine. RAMOLINO, Mine. RABIEL, and Mme.
COSTA DE BASTEL/CA, sisters and sister-in-law of the
Prefect of the Vauclause, with different costly ar-
ticles of jewellery.
The Courrier de Marseille has the following:—
" We must here point out an incident which shows
the deep respect of Lours NAPOLEON for religion.
The first stone hiving been laid in the cathedral here,
he felt some scruple, at the moment he was about to
speak to raise his voice in a temple devoted to prayer,
where the ministers at the altar have alone the right
to publicly address the people. Our worthy prelate
soon removed this excessive delicacy, and the PRINCE
then uttered tha speech which has been published.
This fact does too much honour to the religious
feelings of the PRESIDENT for us to pass it over in
silence."

While he was at Marseilles the PRINCE admitted
to an audiences deputation of the Dames de la Halle.
One of them, in delivering her compliment in the
language in use among her class, expressed a desire
to soon see Low NAPOLEON "Emperor and King of
France and Nalarre."
On the occasion of the 6th regiment of Light In-
fantry removing from the quarters they have recently
occupied in Pais, to go into the forts of Rosny and
Nogent, the afters of the 43d regiment invited their
comrades of that regiment and of the others of the Ist
brigade of the 3d division of the army of Paris to
meet them, and drink some bowls of punch. The
bust of the Panics PRESIDENT, surrounded with
flowers, was pieced in the room in which they assem-
bled. General LEVASSEUR, commanding the division,
was present, anc gave the health of the PRINCE, which
was drunk will enthusiasm, amidst loud cries of
" Vive Napoleon " Vive l'Empereur l" Other
toasts were aftewards given, and the evening prised
off in the great Est conviviality.
M. MOREL FATIO, the marine-paintar, who arrived
at Toulon in the Rine Hortense at the same time as
the PRESIDENT, has been ordered to paint a picture
representing tie arrival of the Prince in the Napo-
leon, convoyed ly the whole fleet.
M. Joußpays, one of the Editors of the Siecle, and
M. SOUGERR, responsible editor of that journal, were'
on Thursday seterally sentenced by the Tribunal of
Correctional Police to a year's imprisonment, snd
I,ooofr. fine, for baring written and published on the
11th August las', en article, entitled " Two sorts of
Debtors," whict contained the offences of exciting to
hatred and contempt of the Government of the Re-
public, and of the publication of false news calculated
to disturb public peace.
In the night of the 20th ult., M. CHARCONNAC, a
pupil at the Olitierb'citory at Aim:eines, discovered a
new planet in the constellation of Pisces ; at mid-
*night its right ascension wra 2 deg. 48 min., and its
northern declination 1 deg. 46 Fin. On the 21st, at
10 hours 40 minutes, its right ascension was 2 deg.
36 min , and its declination 1 deg. 42 min. It ap-
F eared like a Etar of the ninth magnitude. The
director of the Observatory has proposed to call it
Messina, and to designate it by the symbol (20),
characteristic of the renk of his aiscovery.
This being settling day at the Biurse, there was not
much business trmsact-d except in the arrangement of
account,.. The Four-and.a-Half per Cents. opened at
104 f. 63e., and closed at 104 f. 50c., for the end of the
month; the Three pr Cents. closed at 78f. 70c.;
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,490 f.; Rouen, 902 f. 50c.;
Havre, 421 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 727 f. 50c.; Basle,
330 f.; Paris and Straaburg, 765 t.; Paris and Lyons,
843 f. 75c.; Lyons and Avignon, 638 f. 75c.; Western
of France, 675 t.; S'. Dizier to Gray, 545 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TB h
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Oar. 1.
Charleroi and Erquelines, 161/—Dijon and Besancon, 3%
—Grand Junction of France, 5 a—Luxembourg, B—Namur
and Liege (with interest), B%—.Northern of France, 28%
—Paris and Strasbourg, 30—Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg, 6%
—Sambre and Meuse, 10%—Western of France, 12%.