The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-20 00:00:00

Vtittom

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

TATTERSALL'S.
(THIS EVENING.)
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
30 to 1 agst Pug Arrock (taken).
30 to 1 agst Lampedo.
40 to 1 agst Madeline.
30 to 1 agst Ireland's Eye.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
20 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne.
25 to 1 agst Half-and-Half.
CHESTER CUP.

25 to 1 agst Scarecrow.
20 to 1 agot Lady Evelyn (taken.)
40 to 1 agst Trifle.
50 to 1 agst Fion-ma-Cool.
50 to 1 agst Black Doctor.
50 to 1 agst Indian Warrior (taken).
50 to 1 agst Richard Primmer.
66 to 1 agst Little Jack.
66 to 1 agst Bit of Blue.

DEBBY.

12 to 1 agst West Australian.
16 to 1 agst Umbriel.
20 to 1 agst Sittingbourne
45 to 1 agst Lord Fauconberg.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
ELECTION.

FINAL CLOSE OF TH 11l POLL.
GLADSTONE .
PERCEVAL

..1022
... 898

Majority for GLADSTONE .

The contest is now ended.

FRANCE.

The Siècle has a long article on the recognition
of the Empire, the recent arrangement respecting
generals of the army, and the notice in the Moni-
teur of the hostile language of certain English jour-
nals when alluding to the Emperor. Throughout
the article of the Siècle there is a manifestation of
doubt as to the possibility of maintaining peace,
and an evident inclination to provoke a misunder-
standing which might lead to war. The Siecle
professes to be actuated by patriotic views, and
makes itself the champion of the national dignity,
but it may be suspected of having other motives.
What was done with a view to compromise the
position of Louis Philippe would be done now to
compromise the Emperor, if the opposition had the
same liberty of action. The Siècle says :
"The public press continues to speak of the recogni-
tion of the new Government by the Northern powers.
We have said why, as Frenchmen and friends of our
country, we considered the recogoition natural. What
would have astonished us after two revolutions since
1815, would have been any foreign power meddling with
the internal administration of our country. But the
journals which are opposed to us do not think as we do.
Amongst them, those of which exaggerated imperialism
as the standard, treat as of great importance the de-
cision of the Cabinets of Berlin, Vienna, and St. Peters-
burg. Forgetting the word of the first Bonaparte on
t iefirst Republic, when attacked by the whole of
Europe, that it, caused itself to be recognised like
the sun by its glorious beams, they persist in not per-
ceiving that it is to depreciate France to make her sub-
ordinate to the good pleasure of the three Northern
Cabinets. Other journals, as much opposed to our prin-
ciples as to the Government itself, imagining likewise
that the recognition of the powers is an important mat-
ter, endeavour to lessen its effect. That the Empire,
recognising the consequences of Waterloo and the
two betrayals of Paris, should recognise them
even in the most remote manner, is what no
man in his senses will ever allow. It is in vain
to repeal the word of the Emperor " The Em-
pire is peace." The Empire may be peace, but
not the peace of 1815. Besides, to be convinced of
it, it is only necessary to cast a glance on what is
going on. Two hundred generals have been raised from
half-pay; and each day the Moniteur enregisters new
promotions. At the same time that experienced captains
are again appearing in the saddle, your general of brigade
become generals of division. It will be easy for us when
we please, to show that we have more generals than re-
giments. We do not criticise, we merely point to a fact
which passes for being that u. good system. The Empe-
ror acted on it. According to him there could not be too
many generals, but then the Emperor was always waging
war. The Government only takes precautions against
eventualities, and in that is consistent with the speech at
Bordeaux. Si vis pacem, parabellum. Therefore the pre-
sent system cannot be the peace oflBls. An otherproof that
the Government is very far from subscribing even in the
most remote manner to the treaties oflBls, is the haugh-
tiness of the language of the Moniteur of Monday.
Such is not the attitude of peace at any cost. They
who remember the journals of other days remember that
the Moniteur did not speak otherwise before the rupture
of the treaty of Amiens. It is true that here a rupture
is not to be feared, since the question merely relates
to some English journals, which are not official. On
this point the government will pardon us if we speak.
frankly. In publishing the extracts from the Eng-
lish press, it is said that the best means of treating
these excesses of the foreign press, as they deserve,
was to make them known. We are nearly of that
opnion. The means are excellent, but there is one
still better. Whence do the English journals obtain
their news ? Certainly not in the French journals. They
are forced by the silence of the French press to get their
intelligence where they can, and thence come these arti-
cles of which the Government complains. Let it endea-
vour to modify the law on the press, let it attempt to
proclaim again the liberty of thought and of apprecia-
tion, let there be no warnings, let there be no sup-
pressions suspended over our heads, and it will see
that the correspondents' letters will, as if by enchant-
ment, lose all their credit. The correspondents will
then be obliged to take their intelligence filom open
sources, from the French journals, and their calumnies
will vanish. And is not the Government strong enough
to do this ?Is it not able-to meet the liberty of opinion ?
Is there the slightest cloud in the horizon ? Has not the
constraint, under, which we have been placed by the law
of Feb. 1852, lasted too long already ? Can the Impe-
rial Administration, firmly seated at home, and recog-
nised abroad, fear aig person or anything ? The Legis-
lative body is about to meet, would it not be a veritable
European coup d'etat to cause it to vote the liberty of
the press ? We know from a certain source that the
chief OT the State is personally in favour of a measure of
this kind. The step which we recommend has the sup-
port of the most enlightened men. They know that
in France nothing can be firmly founded when
liberty is not the basis of the edifice. We desire
ardently that these men should have sufficient influ-
ence to induce the head of the State to modify the
present state of things. In doing so, they would be the
benefactors of a country, for which liberty and pub-
licity are elements of which it cannot be long deprived
without experiencing great sufferings and profound die-
quietudes. In fine, in commencing the moral pacifica-
tion of the interior, they would place the new adminis-
tration in a position to defy the possible anger of the
signers of the treaties of 1815."

-The Osservatore Triestino states, from Serajevo,
30th ult., that large bodies of troops are constantly
passing through that town- on their way to Mon-
tenegro. The banner of the prophet is displayed
on two of the squares, calling the faithful to arms.
An army of 12,000 Turks and 8,000 Arnauts is to
attack Montenegro on the F ide of Herzgovrine,
While forces of about the same number will operate
on the side of Scutari.

COLLISIONS ON THE LANCASHIRE AND
YORKSHIRE RAILTY Y.

On Tuesday, two collisiL took place on the Bolton
and Prestpoannlyi:lebuotf theo Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way Com
of human life. In fthrteunately did not result in any loss
morning, as a goods train was
standing at the Chorley
station, on the down line from
Manchester, a coal tranbehind, and ran into
it with such force as to makeconsiderableup havoc with
the superintendent at
both trains. Mr. Blackrnore
Manchester, was sent for, an'd was present during a
considerable portion of the day, for
cleared, to ose of taking
the most prompt steps to get the railsl3l?
vent interruption to the regular traffic. appears that
pre-
the collision resulted entirely from the neglect of persons
per charge. D
of the Chorley station not turning on—ornos.
per signal. the p
Mr. Blackmore was standing on the platform at the
Chorley station in the evening, ready to return to Man-
chester, when information reached him that, torte
quarters of a mile short of Chorley, the express train
from Preston to Manchester had run into a cattle
,
train coming in the same direction. The latter cor. .
sisted of nineteen waggons filled with cattle, and the
express train, which left Preston at five o'clock, con-
sisted of five first and second-class carriages. It appears
that the cattle train was ascending one of the steepest
gradients on the line, at the time, and had been impeded
by the slipperiness of the rails. The express train came
upon it in a very sharp curve of the line, and, conse-
quently, its conductors could not see any great distance
itn advance, but the driver succeeded in arresting the
Rirneese as to prevent the collision being a severe one.
were ko,lite cattle trucks were smashed, and six sheep
some
e',
the in the express train the passengers were,
ladies iljan4scarcaly conscious of the shock. Some
A gentleman, -class carriage said they did not feel it all.
was travelling bone
Dalrymple, from Manchester, who
the left cheek bonea second-class carriage, got a blow on
in a delicate state of healiix and
• wilich blackened his eye ; and being
he perhaps felt the shock under medical treatment,
wise would have done. I/Tore severely than he other-
assistance of a surgeon from rdhotilackl"re procured the
Y, and Mr. D l le,
about an hoaur Ls
after the train had been detain 4
appeared to be
able to go on to Manchester bit-it, and appeared
expressao4r etn
pt lty., .
e. i
eltirzynie!
doing well. None of the carriages
were thrown off the line, nor were they
way injured. A strict invcstigatioa
stances by the directors was expected to t k he
e rcuit"
terday,