The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-03 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Capt. Coffin, R.N., C. 8., Director of Stores, War
Department, visited the Tower of London and the
Gun Wharf, Chatham, and powder magazines of
Upnor during the last week, and inspected the
military store establishments at these stations.

The 92d (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment, Col,
Lockhart, C. 8.. recently arrived home from India,
and temporarily stationed at Gosport, will remove
from their present quarters to Edinburgh some time
in July next. They are a remarkably fine body of
men, and are in a most unexceptionable state of
discipline.

The 26th (Cameronians), recently arrived in gar-
rison at Portsmouth, have been quartered in one of
the new advanced forts west of Gosport. The fort
contains roomy quarters for officers and men, but
has no hospital accommodation, and the sick from
this, as indeed from the other adjacent forts, have
to be conveyed at considerable inconvenience to the
Military Hospital at Portsmouth. It would be a
judicious step on the part of the authorities at the
Horse Gaards to establish, if not a hospital, sick
quarters in each of the forts.
It is expected that the vacant barracks at Chiches-
ter will shortly be occupied by a dismounted regi.
meat of cavalry, as a preliminary step to their
embarcation at Portsmouth for India.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—If Paris held only the position of our
own metropolis in the political scale, and if an elec-
tion there were as unimportant and unnoticed an
affair as the election of Mr. Goschen to the vacant
seat for the " City," then we might congratulate
M. de Persigny on the result of his strenuous at-
tempts to dictate the representation of France. A
long Order of the Day enumerates the men assumed
to be dangerous, who have been beaten in the De-
partments, while it is only at Paris that the Oppo-
sition have gained a local victory. Such a sneer
would be appreciated on this side the Channel, if we
knew nothing more than what we see around us at
home; but, unfortunately, it is one of the most
familiar truths in the whole circle of our knowledge
that Paris is the political centre, the focus, and the
very key of France. That peculiarity never showed
itself more strongly than in the fact of acrisis hardly
felt in the departments ending in the return of most
of the Opposition candidates at Paris by very large
majorities. How are we to regard so portentous an
event as the popular triumph of names regarded by
the Government with execration and horror ? The
bare announcement of their standing as candidates
has driven the Cabinet absolutely beside itself ; for
nothing but the supposition of an absolute frenzy,
approaching to despair, will excuse the extravagant
lengths of the Ministerial interference with the free-
dom of election. Here we are wholly unable to
understand such a course. Whatever the less open
means by which a certain portion of every British
constituency may be undermined, there is nothing
so much to be deprecated here as dictation from
without, particularly from above. Were a Minister
once to let it be known that he attached immense
importance to the return of a candidate, he would
not only entail defeat and make a hero of some
inconsiderable person, but he would also inform
the whole nation that his Government had lost
its centre of gravity, and was tottering to its fall.
As it is impossible to say what accident may affect
this or that election, and only certain that free citi-
zens do not like to be told whom to trust and whom
to avoid, our Governments generally let popular
constituencies take their own course, and if the re-
sult should chance to be adverse make light of the
affair. Lord Palmerston's Government has had to
suffer many disappointments, and that on ground
where it might be supposed to be firm ; but it has
survived them all, and occasionally gained a sup-
porter when it had lost a constituency. In France
all is different, as we see to-day. We are driven to
the alternatives of believing that the present Govern-
ment of France is in jeopardy, or of concluding that
the Minister of the Interior is gratuitously doing it
the greatest possible mischief. Was it necessary
that be should denounce the men to whom his mas-
ter had recently offered the right hand, that he
should proclaim them the insidious enemies of the
constitution and dynasty, and that he should put it
to the loyalty of France to exclude them from the
Chamber ? Was it necessary that he should post
them on the walls and warn the inhabitants by,
house-row of the political burglars who were break-
ing into their social edifices ? Was it necessary that
the Constituticrnnel should be converted into a Hue
and Cry for the detection and proscription of a
small handful of dangerous men ? If it were neces-
sary, then what are we to think of the enormous
fabric which, after the labours of ten years and
a vast cost of treasure and blood, is ready to
crumble to dust, and fall like a card-castle at the
summons of a dozen good talkers and writers ? If
it were not necessary, then the Emperor has com-
mitted a grave error in allowing so much to be
staked on so small a game, and in provoking a contest
where even victory would have been discreditable,
much more defeat. Paris has now resumed its all
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longer the case; that immense material improve-
ments, a profuse expenditure,
and a firm military
grasp had reduced this volcano to a dormant con-
dition, and covered its hot lava with verdure. But
thanks to M. de Persigny, we see the hollowness of
this hope. Paris is the Paris it ever was, and
,ever
will be. It feels a violent reaction from something
to something—perhaps it does not quite know its
own feelings, but it expresses them in the return of
the men who it has just been told are most hateful
to the Emperor's servants and advisers. It was a
very natural ambition that the Emperor should
wish to rule a free people, and to found a constitu-
tional monarchy. Not only is it the best chance
for the stability of a throne, but such a rule is a
moral dignity, and not a mere caprice of fortune or
predominance of power. Napoleon 111. wished to
lay the early foundation of a free choice and a
heartfelt loyalty. The first step was to open the
representation and emancipate the Chamber. It
was also whispered, somewhat diffidently, to the
press, that it might try a little freedom of style.
New-fledged liberty was to rise from the ground,
and prove that it could fly—not too far or too high.
In a gradual and measured concession of liberty it
is important to observe who is the first to interrupt
the experiment, and declare it a failure. In this
case the Emperor has promised freedom, and his
Ministers have undertaken to interpret the conces-
sion, and say precisely how freedom is to be used.
The penitent and converted adherents of a ruined
cause were to offer themselves to a perfectly free
constituency, and be freely but summarily re-
jected. This would indeed be to govern a free
people, and the representatives of the old dynasty
would have been once more visited with a political
ostracism. Such an experiment we. ably designed,
and only needed to be faithfully executed. Paris
ought to have been left perfectly free; her Press
ought to have been left unfettered, and both sides
allowed to speak and be heard. But no sooner were
there serioussymptomsof an adverse result than the
experiment was stopped, the Press was placed under
orders, and the people of Paris were told whom they
were to return, unless they were traitors and conspira-
tors. They have been first told they were free to
choose, and then controlled in their choice, like the
toys in which it is attempted to produce spontaneous
and perpetual motion, by first introducing a motive-
power and then forbidding it to work, lest it should
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by returning the men of its choice. If the next
thing be an attempt to prevent that development,
there can be only one result—it will stop the machine
and perhaps throw is altogether out of gear.
HERALD.—There can be no better proof of the
position that the Emperor has made racing a French
institution than the fact that on Sunday last the
Parisions forgot the interest of their general elec-
tions in the greater attractions of the races at the
Bois de Boulogne. Everybody was there, says our
correspondent, and the London newspapers of Mon-
day were so true in mirroring the French feeling,
that while faithfully chronicling the success of the
winning horses, not a word was said by them of how
M. Thiers and his fellow candidates had been faring
at the ballot-box. Even the Journal des. Debats of
yesterday—par excellence the journal of politics—
seems engulfed in the vortex created by the Imperial
hand, and while giving nearly two columns to the
fortunes of the horses can consecrate scarcely more
than half-a-dozen lines to those of the statesmen.
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to, have reached a very salutary conviction on the
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suggested by the letter of M. de Persigny, identified
him with the public debt as the There Consolidees.
Paris has reached the conviction that there are 130
politics outside the Government, and philosophi-
cally resolves on amusing itself. The consolatory
maxim, " Apres nous le deluge," has crept down
from monarchs to the people ; and the best states-
man for France is he who, following the suggestion
given by the acclimatisation of horse racing, wilt
invent for Paris a new pleasure. With every sixth
man a Government agent why need the rest of the
community lash its head about a business already
too bountifully provided for ; and as to employing
a special talent in the service, the saying of the
Roman Epicurean, " Why risk anything to save
what is not worth saving P" is as good for our time
as for the Imperial days when it was uttered. But
though as against politics racing is the greater at-
traction—for the most ennuyie of the Parisian
beauties who watched the course on Sunday would
probably own that, however " triste" the turf, it is
at all events as interesting as the tribune—it has
taken a long time to attract to it the likings of a
French public. To be seen and admired by a bril-
liant entourage is one thing, but to form one of a
brilliant entourage, occupied in admiring running
horses, is another; and the instinct of a French
public is not to interest itself much in performances
in which they do not themselves play a principal
part. Even among ourselves there are not a few'
who might own, to a friendly bosom, that when no
stake depends on the event their pleasure in races
consist in everything but the racing. The void not
filled up by the rivalries of the horses is catered for
by the fair; and the comforting materials that
make the freedom of picnics something more than
privilege, Aunt Sally, the booths, stalls, gambling
tables, fortune telling, and the ten thousand other
humours of the greatest of our national festivals,
comes in to leave us under a happy forgetfulness
that we have been travelling a very long way to see
little boys in parti-coloured clothing trying to out'
ride one another on some very lang-limbed horses.
The races of the Bois de Boulogne, if unenlivened by
most of those accessories, were surrounded this year
by the various attractions of an institution under
prosperous development, and have probably had
nothing to equal them in interest in the annals of
French " sport." An Imperial pavilion received the
Emperor and Empress, accompanied by an ex-King,
two sons of the Kings of Holland and Belgium, and a
suite becoming "le Grand Alonarque." The race-
course is said by our Paris correspondent to have been
not unlike Epsom from the numbers present, and
with the amount of the stake gave almost a na-
tional importance to the coming-off of the event.
All the old rivalries between England and France
renewed themselves in the harmless form of a con-
tention about horses ; and the interest which our
countrymen took in Lord Clifden, Saccharometer,
and some other horses, brought to redeem their
failure at the Derby, was met by a corresponding
zeal for the prow ess of a French mare La Toucques,
which had been rivalling on French downs the per-
formanceof our own Blink Bonny. The passion
for la giozre Francaise found in this far-famed mare
a worthy champion. The Paris Bourse turned, in
the prospect of her success, into a Tattersall's, and
betting operations, as our correspondent tells no,
rivalled those of the Three per Cents. Unhappily,
the expectation which had raised the French horse
to equal odds in the betting was doomed to disap-
pointment by the superior running of the English
horse Ranger, which, our readers will recall as
thrown out of his running for the Derby by the
falling of Saccharometer. The discomfiture can
only find adequate expression in a French journal
in the old phrase of chivalry," Everything is lost
except honour." "As to La Toucques, that in-
comparable mare," continues the writer, "this pearl
of all products, past, present, and future, the bill'
liant star placed by its late performances at Chan'
tilly at the zenith of the French Racing Calendar,
how is all her glory departed, all her brilliant pro"
Cage vanished, and all our enthusiasm fallen." The
French male, however, had the distinction of run'
rang second—and though the success was qualified
by the fact that the three placed with her were
English horses, the fact that a French horse had
been found to beat two of the favourites
for the Derby serves as a placebo to a vanity
which might be expected to yield us, if or
where, a precedence in turf matters. Tile
union of the two countries in a common amnsi.e;
ment is, perhaps, not the least pleasing of ti-`f
proofs how rapidly is going on the ac't
nations. The Englishman found himself as mon.L.rs
home on Longchamps on Sunday last, as he did
month ago at Epsom, and :perhaps lof all the asst
milations we were led to expect from the uprise 01
the railway system and the network of electric
telegraphs, there are few which show how rapidly
the peculiarities which have divided one people.
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COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LEEDS—TUESDAY.
The weather is extremely fine but the show of goonwheat being poor, millers are compelled to pay the full rates
of Friday. Only select runs attracted notice. No other
change.

LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY.
At our market to-day there was a fair attendance of
millers and dealers, but a limited demand was exerioneed
had
for wheat at generally the prices of Friday last. .t
a good inquiry, at Friday's prices. Oats and oatmeal slow
our
of sale. Indian corn was neglected, and 3d per qr cheaper.
Beans declined 3d per qr.

MARKET HARBOROUGII—TUESDAY.
A steady trade to-day, and full prices given for wheat.
—White wheat, 48s to 5.7.8 ; red, 43s to 475 per 36 stone.
Malting barley at 35s to 37s per qr. ; grinding, 30$ to 32t!
per 30 st, Oats, old, 26s to 295; new, 22s to 24s per 24
st. ; beans, 328.te 36s per qr.

BRISTOL—TUESDAY.
The transactions in the corn market to-day were, under
the influence of fine weather, very limited. Wheat. hog"'
ever, firmly held. Spring corn of all descriptions also yell
firm.

SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. &Hi
There has been a steady business done in wheat, at in-, -12
last week's prices. A moderate show. Nothing ",°,4rtop
malting barley; grinding firm. Beans comma's"-
prices.
Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels 15s 0(3
White d to 21S oa
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New red
• • .17s Od to 18s 01
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• 18s Od to 198 Oa
New white
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15s Od to 198 Oa
Beans
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Peas, per qr
.. 28s Od to 30s 01
Grinding barley, per qr
............... 34s Od to 38s oa
Malting ditto,
. 21s Od to 27s Oa
Oats
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Flour ls 7d to 2a
to 16s Od

NEWCASTLE—TUESDAY.
The trade in wheat was quiet, and prices were slightly
in favour of buyers in cases whero ships required clearing'
Flour scarce, at fully last week's rates. Oats firm.
OW white wheat..s7s to 61s Old red wheat, ~.53s to 569
New do. .. 48s to 53s New do. ..42s to 496
Malting barley....37s to 42s Oats 22s to 320
Grinding d0.....29s to 32s I Beans 37s to 465

MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY.
• Wheat came tolerably to hand, and sold at quite as hie'
prices as last week. Barley nominal. Oats a poor shod'
—The following were the currencies :—New white wheat,'
47s Od to 53s Od ; new red, 44s Od to 48s per 36 stale',
beans, 36s to 408 for old; new sorts, 34s to 39s per 38 oti,;
barley, 358 to 398 for malting, and 29s to 31s per qr. v
grinding ; oats, 248 to 30s Od per 24 stone.

THE ENGLISH and SCOTTISH MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY—Limited.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GivE a, That NO FURTHER
APPLICATIONS for SHARES will be RECEIVED from
London AFTER THURSDAY (TO-MORROW). June 1, and
from Scotland and the Provinces AFTER TUESDAY, June 9.
D. MACPHERSON, Sec.
Temporary Offices, 2, Copthall-chambers
Throgmorton-street. ,