The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 7.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes a letter
addressed by the Emperor to the Duke de Malakoff,
Governor of Algeria, in which the Emperor says
that in order to terminate the anxiety caused by the
discussion in the French Chambers, upon the
landed property held by the Arabians, it is in-

dispensable for the rerose and prosperity 01
Algeria that this landed property should be eon.

solidated in the hands cf those who retain it,
and continues—" Algeria is not a colony properly
so called, but an Arab kingdom. The natives
have an equal right to my protection with the
colonists, and I am as much Emperor of the
Arabs as of the French. The Minister of War is
preparing a Senatus Consultum, which will render
tribes, or fractions of a tribe, indefeasible pro-
prietors of the territory they occupy, and which
they have had in traditional possession."
The Opinion Nationale comments on the debate
on the question of Poland, and refers to the remarks
of M. Billault, the representative of the Govern-
ment, on the occasion. He said that France had
lost none of her old sympathies for Poland, but she
thought, and the Government thought with her,
that that nation would have more to expect from
the generous and liberal sentiments of the Emperor
of Russia than from the insurrection, which conld
only end in bringing down more evils on
that unhappy country. To this the ()pinion
Nattonale subjoins that the prudence of the
Government is extreme, but the French nation
will consider that in repressing the sentiments of
generous sympathy with which it is animated, it
makes an exaggerated sacrifice to Russia." The
Siecle remarks upon the language of the Govern- i
ment representative on the subject of elections. The
Siecle goes on to say that it is certain that the Go-
vernment reserves to itself more than ever the right of
presenting official candidates, and that it continues
to rank among its duties and its most sacred rights
the mission of directing universal suffrage. It ob-
serves that the liberty of the public meetings is not
the same as that of elections and the power of the
press, the former cannot be stimulated or repressed
at pleasure. The President of the Council of State
averred that what happened in England would not
do for France. " The liberty of the press in Eng-
land is the liberty of being judged by exceptional
tribunals, it is the liberty of being under the risk
of fearful penalties. But, truly argues the Sieele,
in France is not Government an exceptional tribu-
nal always in existence, which can subject a jour-
nal to the most terrible penalty, that of suppres-
sion.
The Constitutionne/ animadverts on the speech
of M. Plinhon, who remarked that there were two
opinions in the Government of the Emperor. We
I will remind this gentleman, says the Constitutionnol,

that he speaks in the reign of a sovereign, whose
Ministers are chosen by himself, and have only to
carry out his views and obey his suggestions. The
experience of ten years proves to us that this task
has engaged their noblest efforts, and to fulfil it is
their privilege and honour.
The Pays considers that the Duke of Saxe Coburg
has acted most wisely in refusing the crown of
Greece, although it ignores the motives that in-
duced him to do so. It observes that the embarrass-
ment of the Greeks increases as the interregnum is
prolonged, and the several candidates decline the
honour proposed to them.

M. Emile 011ivier's speech in the Legislative
Corps on Wednesday has been greatly remarked.
He met M. Persigny's favourite theme about the
Hanoverian dynasty by showing that even in the
commencement of that dynasty the press was in
reality free, and he quoted some passages from

" Junius's Letters." The following, from the cele-
brated letter to the Duke of Grafton, he read with
emphasis, and amid the smiles of his hearers:-
4( The profound respect I bear to the gracious Prince who
governs this country with no less honour to himself than
satisfactory to his subjects, and who restore you to your
rank under his standard, will save you from a multitude of
reproaches. The attention I should have paid to your fail-
ings is involuntarily attracted to the hand that rewards
them ; and, though i am not so partial to the Royal judg-
ment as to affirm that the favour of a King can remove
mountains of infamy, it serves to lessen, at least, for, un-
doubtedly, it divides the burded. While I remember how
much is due to his sacred charalter, I cannot, with any de-
cent appearance of property, call you the meanest and the
basest fellow in the kingdom."

Murmurs rather loud followed this quotation,
and the Deputies appeared to think that Duke de
Morny was going to call M. 011ivier to order. They
were equally moved by the following from the ad-
dress to the King :
" The people of England are loyal to the House of Hano-
ver, not from a vain preference of one family to another,
but from a conviction that the establishment of that family

was necessary to the support of their civil and religious
liberty. This, Sir, is a principle of allegiance equally solid
and raiional, fit for Englishmen to adopt, and well
worthy of your Majesty's encouragement. V e cannot long
be deluded by nominal distinctions. The name of Stuart, of
itself, is
authority, their principles are formidable. The prince who
only contemptible ; armed with the sovereign
imitates their conduct should be warned by example, and,
while he plumes himself upon the security of his title to
the crown, should remember that, as it was acquired by
one revolution, it may be lost by another."
Notwithstanding these quotations, which were
heard with seeming astonishment, M. Emile 011 -
Tier was allowed to continue his speech to the