The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1&33.

Thuraiay's sitting in the French Senate closed,
as must have been remarked already, upon the
brief intimation of the Telegram, with the passing
of the seventh paragraph of the Address. Passed,
eventually, nem. con., that is to say, fully and un-
conditionally, the seventh paragraph was—though it
vas only accepted, however, after a very lively and
entertaining discussion. Opened, as the sitting was,
by a Speech from the Tribune, delivered by Baron
Duro., the half-dozen preliminary paragraphs of
the Address were agreed to rapidly—the
first five in a batch, the sixth after the Marquis DE
Boisst had been allowed to make as ridiculous a
display of his absurdities as ever yet—(thanks to
that French SIETHORP and O'DoNoGituE rolled into
one !)—moved the Senate to laughter. The perora-
tion of this preposterous speech—coming so

opportunely as it does immediately after the
magnanimous trioute paid by the EMPEROR
to the Freedom of our political insitutions !
the utterly ludicrons close of this perfectly nonsen-
sical address is of its kind so eminently eAtravagant
in its impotent spitefulness, that it is really worth
for one moment glancing at. "I detest Revolu-
tion," exclaimed the Marquis DE BUFFOON, we beg
pardon, DE BOUSY—" but I love it, I desire it, in
England." Whereat the Senate—and no wonder—
laughed, as Lord FOPPINGTON would say, " con-
Slimedly." Undaunted by which derisive
plaudits the Marquis DE Bu— DE BOISSY
adds, "If Eneand encourages the revolution
on all hands, elsewhere, it is that she may
not experience it haselt. But"—[Dr. CUMMING
had better look to the stability of his tripod as
a Prophet, for M. DE BOLSSY a la parole)—
"thanks to the Volunteers, Nhe (that is England)
'will have it (the revolution) presently : and that,"
cries out the orator, in a kind of anticipative
ecstasy, " that, verily, will be to me a day of in-
expressible happiness !" (Murmurs and laughter)
is the note appended to this by tho French
reporter. Such is the response of the Imperial
Senate to the appeal thus made to their passions
by this THERKMEB of the Gallic aristocracy.
The seventh paragraph—after the quiet pass-
ing of the half-dczen preceding it—then came,
as already intimated, somewhat more formally
under discussion in the Senate. M. THouvENEL
opening the debate, M. BILLAULT closed it, and
closed it most effectivoiy. Between the ex-Minister
(for Foreign Affairs) aivi the actual Minister (with-
out portfolio) there were but two Senators, it is true,
Who took part in the discussion in any way of the
terms of this paragraph. Genera) GEMEAU being
one—the other being the Marqu.is DB LA ROCHJA-
QUELEIN. But among the four orators We have men-
tioned as much was said as was in cry respect
worth being said or listened to under the circum-
stances.

As in last session, here in England, it was an I
1 the line or frigate without having first tested the
understood thing that the year was to be allowed
to pass by, merits of those already and so recently built ? Why
cal with common consent amoeg the politi- : y
par ti
cal ti _es in the Lords and Commons, without any I encumber the dockyards or
harbours with new yes-
serious contest sels, and still persist in building more of the very
whatever—so precisely is it, that the
presentjuaeture seems to be recognised as a do-noth- same class, only to be set aside when finish
do not cora-
ed, thus
ing period in reference to what is only too familiarly adding to accummulated expense. They
known all over Europe as the Roman Question. mit such ruinous folly in the merchant service,
France, Italy, the Papacy, all seem to recognise simply because they could not afford it. No, nor
almost with a sense of relief—after so long and would the county afford it either if proper inquiry
keenly sustained, and hitherto so utterly fruitless, a were regularly made into the " system"—enother
discussion—that the present epoch is one to be tided term used to cover a multitude of vague generali-
question, in silence, ties, for which no one is ever to blame, because no
through, in regard to that
almost with seeming forgetfulness and indite one is made responsib:e. If fault be found, or any
ference. Yet Italy longs so for Rome as her particular mistake be discovered, it is not corn-
political metropolis ! Whi:o the Papacy is so re- mitted in this department, nor in that, nor
solutely determined never voluntarily to even in the other, so that inquiry may go
resign its possession of the Er:r 13.1 City as the see on from the lower deck to the masthead
of PETER, as the capital of its spiritual dominion, of official responsibility ; and who dare question the
mor of the First Lord P—an officer as irresponsible as President
and,e than the t, as the chief city
dwindled State of the Papa-Re! France neap- LINCOLN, thongh4erhaps, not quite so ready to
, take the whole Staff under the protection of his
while standing—armed to the teeth
—dumb and in-
scrutable in her policy (in spite of all M. BILLAULT's office, being rather fearful lest ugly questions be
enigmatical explanations)--between these two 0011.• asked by the "other side."
frontiin g 3nd antagonistic forces ! This being the But a change of party will not mend the matter
situation—as it has been any time these four or five
--'at least experience has not yet proved that a
years. past—France, Italy, the Papacy, readily agree change has produced any alteration in the " Sys-
for a. -while to drop the discussion of the matter for tern." New brooms cannot sweep clean in the
au initerval. "Let me," says M. BILLAULT, the . Dockyards, because the dust blinds the patronage,