The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-16 00:00:00

THE SUN,

of patriotism redeem the country from the appalling
perils by which it is being rapidly surrounded, the
posterity of 35,000,000 will curse the day when the
light first dawned upon the eyes of a PROUDEION
and a BAc, of a PYAT and a LAGRANGE, of a LE-
ROUX and a BARGES, of a TUBER and a BLANQUI.
But for such men as these, with their foul and dis-
astrous doctrines, with their vicious and contami-
nating audacity, with their extravagant and imprac-
ticable propositions—Republicanism would at this
moment be more, if possible, in the ascendant
than it was in the spring of 1848 ; and the
intriguing enemies of democracy would never have
dared to raise their heads from the lurking holes
and cellars of concealment to which they had escaped
on the first explosion of the Revolution. Now, how-
ever, the demagogues and false prophets of the Moun•
tain have strangled the beneficent power of the true
friends of freedom in France, the Moderate Repub-
licans ; and they have done this by scaring a large
portion of the multitude to the supposed shelter of
reaction, through the dread of their evil supremacy,
and the hideous colour of their aspirations.
That we are more than justified in these lugubrious
opinions may be readily proved by one or two most
significant circumstances.
The disbandment of the Army of the Alps ! indi-
cates sufficiently well that the present Administrators
of France are by no means solicitous to offer any di-
rect obstacle to the advancing strength and increasing
influence of the AUTOCRAT.

The recent dispatch of Gen. DE LAMORICIERE, on a
secret mission as Ambassador Extraordinary to the
Court of St. Petersburgb, is of itself sufficiently sig-
nificant.

The movements latterly observable among the dy•
nastic refugees whether at Ems or Claremont, al
Hastings or Coblentz, are again not unworthy o
observation.

The apparent recognition of the Republic by
NICHOLAS, and a variety of other equally remarkable
occurrences all coincide in affording some colour of
reason to the hints and inuendoes thrown out by the
different journals of Paris. One of these journals
boldly puts forward the alternative of a Return to
Monarchy, or a Retention of Republicanism. Another
insinuates that the time has at length arrived for the
upholders of the former policy to take the intiativr.
Another has gone still further, and has explicitly
declared that the formation of a new Cabinet will
very speedily be announced through the official
medium of the Moniteur—a Cabinet in which the
arch•supporters of the monarchical creed will occupy
the mcst conspicuous positions—where the President-
ship of the Council (without portfolio) will be en-
trusted to M. MoLE ; where M. THIERS will be
Minister of the Interior; M. DE Fannoux, Minister of
Foreign Affairs; M. DE MONTALEMBEUT, Minister of
Instruction ; Ger,. RULHIERES, Minister of War ; and
Admiral CECILE, Minister of Marine. How far the
assertion may be with or without foundation can be
only dimly and indis'inctly imagined. Were
the appointments veritably made and officially pub-
lished, they would only be the mtans to an end,
the beginning of a conclusion, the initial of a daring
movement which could only terminate in the annihi-
lation of the conspirators, or in the proclamation
before the great door of the cathedral church of Notre
Dame by the heralds and trumpeters of " The Most
High, Mighty, and Puissant Prince NAPOLEON 111.,
Emperor of the French." Then the compact with
Russia would have to be completed—and time might
show that the dream of NAPOLEON and ALEXANDER
might be realised by their successors—that the Treaty
of Tilsit, after the lapse of forty years, might be re-
sumed as the basis of a new compact—that conti-
nental Europe might be shared between the two
Emperors at the mutual sacrifice of Austria and
Turkey—the second city of imperial France being
' Rome—the second city of imperial Russia being
Constantinople.
Yet, before all this can be accomplished, thirty
millions of Frenchmen have to be trodden down
into submission. A great nation which has been
once endowed with the perfect freedom afforied by
the ballot and universal suffrage can no longer be
cajoled into obedience to a new despotism. It must
be conquered by the musket and the howitzer, by the
sword and the bayonet.

Let the Legitimists remember this as a political
truth, that—Even the white banner would have to
pass through such oceans of blood before it could tri-
umph, that in the end a Bed Flag would be found
waving over the Tuileries.

In consequence of the sudden demise of JAMES
PATTISON, Ric!, one of the Members for the metro-
polis, another vacancy occurs in the repre-
sentation of the city of London. Although
the intelligence of the vacancy has only
been received within the last few hours, we
understand that a very large and most influential
portion of the electors have already appended their
signatures to the following requisition. Party feel-
ing for once has been entirely overlooked in
consideration of the probity, the ability,
and the many other noble and admirable
qualities which have already secured to the Right
Hon. Sir JAMES DUKE, the first magistrate of the
first city in the world, the esteem and respect of his
fellow-citizens.

The following i 3 the requi!ition :
" London, July 16, 1849.

"Impressed with the opinion that the personal cha-
racter and commercial experience of the Right Hon•
Sir James Duke, the Lord Mayor of the City of London,
combined with his business habits, and his long ac-
quaintance with public affairs as a Member of the House
of Commons, eminently qualify him for the representa-
tion of the various interests of this City in Parliament. ;
We, the undersigned electors, do hereby request hij
Lordship to allow himself to be put in nomination to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the demise of our late worthy
representative, James Pattison, Esq."

Electors, of all classes of society, have already,
(luring the course of the past forenoon, eagerly signed
the foregoing document, as indicative of their regard
for the LORD Maxon, and of their appreciation of his
eminent qualities, as a high civic functionary, as
a brothencitizen, as a man perfectly familiarized with
mercantile affairs, and as one who has acquired con-
siderable experience as a Member of the House of
Commons.
London could not have a better representative.

Among the many measures relating to Ireland
which have been recently brought before Parliament,
there are few calculated to produce more valuable
results than the Judgments. Bill, which was read
a second time, and passed through Committee pro
forma on Friday evening. It is, in fact, a necessary
supplement to the Incumbered Estates Bill. There
would be but little advantage in getting rid of an
embarrassed proprietary, and.infusing new vitality
into the land by the introduction of capital, if the
causes that contributed in a great degree to those
embarrassments were still suffered to exist, and to
produce a new series of incumbrances as injurious
to the national prosperity as those now in operation.
Every possible precaution should be taken to prevent
the recurrence of similar evils, and the first and most
obvious proceeding is to remove the extraordinary
facilities at present.' afforded for charging and incum-
bering lands and premises for small amounts.

The law of judgments in Ireland differs very ma-
terially from that in force in this country. Here, a
judgment is never regarded as a permanent security
on which
be safely invested, and which
may be e
t n al may
asacharge upon real estates during
retained
successive generations. The property of the party
against whom a judgment has been obtained is not in
any degree affected thereby, until ex
of the sheriff,
ecutionhasbeen
actually issued and placed in the hands
or a bill filed in Chancery, to make his real estates
liable to the payment of the debt. Neither can the
judgment be transferred or assigned over ; it can only
be enforced by the party by whom it was originally
obtained. If a capitalist desired to invest money on
the security of land, a mortgage was obtained in which
the nature of the contract and the terms of redemption
were fully set forth, and under which the lands speci-
fied in the mortgage-deed were alone responsible. But
in Ireland a judgment constituted the very best
security that could be obtained. All the real and per-
sonal property of the Conuzor, or person confess-
ing the judgment, not only in pot session, but to which
he might become entitled at any future period, became
subject thereto from the moment of its entry. It could
be readily assigned, and all the rights belonging thereto
transferred to the assignee, at a trifling expense; and
in case of default kreceiver could aT once be obtained
on a petition to A court of equity.: possessed,