The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-24 00:00:00

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Mr. JOHNSON asked what interest would be paid
on the call if it were made ?
The CaAramAN really could not answer that
question, but, if they liked, the shareholders should
have the agreement read.
The agreement was accordingly read, from which
it appeared beyond all doubt that the directors had no
power to make the call. It distinctly necifled that
all money required beyond 600,000/. already called
up must be raised on debentures.
A PROPRIETOR wished to know if something could
not be done in the way of reducing ti e managing ex-
penses of the company.
The CHAIRMAN said it was his anxious wish, indeed
it was the object dearest to his heart, to wind up this
cone.rn and hand it over to the South-Eastern Com-
pany in a flourishing condition, and it might hereafter
be proposed, that the direction of this line should be
amalgamated with the direction of the South Eastern
Company.
The resolution was then put and carried unani•
mous.' v.
IVIr.-'llern moved a vote of thanks to the chairman,
which was seconded, and afterwards carried unani-
mously.
The-CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment,
stated that he and his brother directors contemplated
shortly calling the shareholders together to consider
the propriety of
,their clubbing together to lend this
money to the ;:outh-Eastern, at 4 per cent, and thus
get into a position to have their lease signed and sealed.
The meeting then broke up.

IRELAND.
(PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.—The weather to-day
was exceedingly fine ; but the sudden mutation which
took place last night, from extreme cold to almost
summer warmth, has been the subject of much re-
mark. Early this morning the temperature became
colder, and continued so throughout the day, with a
brisk north westerly wind. Having heard that in
many of the threatened localities, the people were leav-
ing their domiciles, I proceeded to• day to Sandy mount,
and the vicinity, and found that, although some timorous
people left, the migration was by no means to the
extent stated. Several families from the neighbour-
hood of Clontarf and Dollymount having taken
lodgings for the formidable ensuing week in Dorset-
street and other high and-dry localities. The groat
majority—and I don't doubt but they are right—are
making fun of the whole matter.
The Protectionist movement still goes on, though
lazily and without much apparent gain. A circular
was issued on Friday, to the landowners and farmers
of the County Cavan, to obtain names to a requisi-
tion, calling on the high sheriff to convene a county
meeting, o tition for protection, and a repeal of the
navigation-laws. This will be an important meeting;
for Willem Sharman Crawford, that admirable
Mat landlord and respected English Member,
is determined to oppose the Farnhams and
the John Youngs on their own ground, and to tell
them the something that is wanted besides protection.
Mr. Crawford has a considerable property in Cavan
and the neighbouring county of Meath.
The Cork Reporter of last night contains a
meeting held in Bandon on Friday. It is not of
much importance, save, from the fact of O'Neill
Daunt, the quondam Member for Mallow, a Re-
pealer, and for a long time private secretary to
O'Connell, taking part in the proceedings.
A long letter will appear in the papers to-morrow,
from the Rev. John Doran, P.P., of Loughbrickland,
Cavan, in which the Rev. Gentleman, who has just
returned from the United States, is far less wholesale
in his advice to emigrate than is the Reverend
Mr. Maier, of Carlow, who has never crossed
the Atlantsc. The Reverend Mr. Doran advises
all people engaged in trade—tradesmen, &c.—who
can obtain ccmf rtable food and raiment, and useful
education for their clli!dren, not to emigrate for any
foreign country ; and to the farming classes he says,
let those stop at home who can subsist there, and who
have not " their own and their children's toil and sweat
uselessly expended in maisitaining the pampered
luxury of their taskmasters." This is wholesome
advice. Hundreds, to my knowledge, who could do
well at home, but who ran away during the emigra-
tion mania, now rue the day they deserted their
island home."

tiON'DOW;

unparalleled danger; and the proceedings being thus
terminated, the records of the transaction were signed
by the following pc rsor.s :—Archduke John, Witt-
genstein, Jochmus, Dttmold, Mer k, Kubeh- Kuban
(Austrian Commissioner), Schonhals (Austrian
Commissioner), Itadowitz (Prussian Commissioner),
Dr. Botticher, (Prussian Commissioner).

PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.
The following is the substance of the Prussian re-
joinder, dated 12th of December, to the Austrian
protest, against the Assembly of the Erfurth Parlia-
ment. Austria had entered her protest :---
" 1. Against the convocation of a Parliament, as
in opposition to the Federal Act of 1815.
_ "2. Against any resolution the Parliament might

in-future pass.
"3. Against the Prussian league, and the attempt
to substitute that league in the place of the Germat
Confederacy without the consent of all the members
of that Confederacy ; and
"4. Against the dangers which might possibly
accrue from the convocation of a Parliament, which
Austria protested she would employ all her available
means to oppose."
The Prussian rejoinder reviews these objections to
the Prussian League with great deliberation. The
legal ground on which Prussia and her allies stand
is brought forward by an examination of the right
which Prussia derives from the old federal law, and
by the practical proof of various alterations which
that federal law has undergone. Prussia is, therefore,
entitled to claim the right to continue on the path of
a necessary historic development, for that path she
Cannot leave without great misfortunes for and
injustice to Germany, especially since the Prussian
policy is at peace with the essentials of the Confede-
ration, and with the rights of the Austrian empire.
The very Federal Diet, by its appeal to the National
Assembly, and by its recognition of the Central
Power, tended to produce a still more sweeping
unity of the German nation. The Prussian dispatch
proceeds to state that the forcible execution of the
Frankfort election of an Emperor might have been
a bribe to any Government but that of Prussia. By
the accession to the league of almost the whole of
her dominions, awl by the common assent of all the
members of that league, Prussia has coma to be the
greatest German power, while Austria, by the declara-
tion of the 27th of November, 1848, and by the Con-
stitution of the 4th of March, 1849, chose to take an
isolated position in which she (Austria) declared it
was her intention to remain until at the side of
renovated Austria Germany, too, had completed her
regeneration. And since the majority of the repre-
sentatives of the German people—since the majority
of the German sovereigns offered Prussia the Imperial
Crown, it was not an ambitious whim. but it was
the duty of Prussia, after refusing the Crown, to
lead the nation to the goal to which their aspira-
tions were directed. The majority of the German
States, placing their confidence in the firmness of
Prussia, joined the League of the 26th of May, and
the Prussian Government was called upon to fulfil, not
vague and indefinite promises, but to redeem a definite
and substantial pledge.
"But if (continues the dispatch) the Austrian
Cabinet has really apprehensions that the convocation
of a Parliament should threaten the public order and
tranquillity within the territories of the old Confe-
deration, and since that Cabinet, anticipating what
we consider an improbable and remote contingency,
declares that it will oppose these dangers with all avail-
able means, we feel called upon to say, that we have
no such fears, and that we consider the convocation of
a Parliament as the surest means to prevent another
revolution, but we also protest that in the case of real
dangers threatening the public order and tranquillity
of Germany, we should think it our duty to give the
Austrian Cabinet our unlimited and hearty Co. opera-
lien for their instant suppression. We are sure that
our allies will gladly join us in so meritorious, an un-
dertaking."
The memorial which accompanies this dispatch, and
which contains an elaborate disquisition on the federal
aw as it was and is, concludes with the following

résumé :--
"The League of the 26th of May, and the Confe-
deration intended by that League, are not in contra-
diction to the law and organization of the German
Confederacy. But even if that law were in all its
parts in its former force, there would be no legal
right to oppose that League and that Confederation.
Ni ow, the old federal law is obsolete in all those parts
which relate to the Confederation as a totality, and to
the relations of the individual members to the politi-
cal body—that law exists now only in its chapters on
international law, in the alliances of the Governments,
in the purposes of these alliances, and in the rights and
duties of the members. A new law is to be created in the
place of the obsolete law. That new law ought to
be formed with consideration to the League of the
26th of May. The united Governments 'nave a right
to demand elbow-room for their League. They would
not on any account force anybody to join them, but
eiey will not allow anybody to prevent them from
forming an alliance for their own benefit and to the
conclusion of which they are fully entitled."

BANK OF FRANCE.
The fo!loing is a return of the situation of the Ban
of France on Dec. 20:—

ASSETS.

Cash and ingots
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due •••
Bills fallitz due in Paris, of which
16,323,046 f. 70c. are from the branch
banks ... ••• .•• ...
?ills in the branch banks ..• •••
Advances on coins and ingots... ...
Ditto by the branch banks ...
Ditto on French public securities ...
Ditto by branch banks... ..• •••
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor...
Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ...
oan of 3,000,000 f. to the city of Mar-
seilles
Advance to the department of the

f▪ .293 375,196 92
. . 129,965 700 0
~. 143,081 89

41,366,736 91
74,263,122 0
4,543,700 0

327,234 0
18,775,514 40
2,010,319 0
50,000,000 0
50,000,000 0

Seine
Rentes of the reserve fund ...
itentes, disposable funds ...
investments of the new branch banksin
the public funds ... ... ...
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ...
Real property of the branch banks ...
Interest in National Discount Bank ...
Ditto branch banks ...
Bills protected at Paris ... ...
Ditto at the branches ...
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Ditto of the branches ... ...
Miscellaneous ...

1,075,000 0

3,000,000 0
10,000,000 0
42,529,988 13

12,826,541 39
4,000,000 0

2,919,586 0
200,000 0
230,000 0
2,345,319 36
1,879,04630
821,327 18

823,932 0
3,797,345 61

E 749,518,690 79