The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-27 00:00:00

DIE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

To-morrow the new regulations at the Genera.
Post-office come into actual operation. So that the
Sabbatarians must, perforce, swallow the pill, bitter
only to their own palates of wormwood. After all
their noisy remonstrances, they must content them-
selves, like AUSTIN CAXTON, with ejaculating a
querulous Papa ! or, like TOBIAS SHANDY, with
whistling the " refrain" of Lillibullero ! We heartily
congratulate the authorities upon the resolution
evinced under their late trying circumstances. And
our especial thanks are due to the principal members
of the Government, to the Noble Premier, and to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the deter-
mined manner in which they have supported the
conduct of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE and that
distinguished public benefactor, Mr. Itowreeeen ITILL,
a man who has done more perhaps than any other
individual in the United Kingdom to diffuse a great
blessing throughout the community, and practically
to advance the interests of civilization. At the same
time we cannot possibly refrain from expressing the
profound indignation with which we have listened to
the cant of those political Tartuffes who appear to
arrogate to themselves a sanctity of a supreme and
exclusive character. Nothing to us is so utterly
contemptible, abominable, and unendurable as
that "pride which apes humility," that miserable
affectation of morality which is as pitiable
is spurious. Of all the different phases
assumed by that Protean bugbear of the community
Vice, the phase of hypocrisy is indisputably the most
distressing to witness, and the last to which any
rational man would become subservient.
We, by no means, wish to intimate that all the
parties who have recently been vociferous in opposing
the new changes at St.Martin's-le-Grand are actuated
only by base motives, or that they possess none but
shallow pretensions to our respect. On the
contrary, we are free to acknowledge that
several of the most earnest antagonists of
the measure are persons acting truthfully and
conscientiously. With the very highest regard,
nevertheless, for the purity of their intentions, we are
satisfied that even in their instance religion has been
allowed to degenerate into fan:l6,Am. We would re-
mind them that there is nothing more monstrous than
an assumption of what we may term a monopoly of
excellence. We would hint to them, that among
their antagonists there may be men quite as
solicitous to witness the rational observance of
what they absurdly designate the Sabbath men
qaite as devoted in their reverence for ab-
stract merit—men as obedient to the commandments
of GOD, to the dictates of conscience, mil to the
ordonnations of Christianity, as themselves. To
maintain that on the side of the Post-office authorities
are leagued together the powers of darkness, and
on the side of their sworn enemies, the so called
Sabbatarians, all the light and the might of Godli-
ness, is as absurd, as indecent, we Ind almost said as
impious as any assertion ever uttered by the lips of
the hypocritical or the contumelious. Pamphlets
and prize essays of divers descriptions have
been transmitted to us since the appear-
ance of our more recent arguments upon this
aexata questio, doubtless in the laudable hope of effect-
ing an editorial conversion, such as should act as a
guiding light to other journalists. While expressing
our cordial acknowledgments to those who so far
evince their solicitude in our spiritual welfare, we
would, nevertheless, very respectfully assure them
that we need none of the ingenuities of logic or of the
adjurations of rhetoric, to impress our minds with an
admiration for that noble and beneficent institution—
not of the Sabbath but of the Sunday, not of the
seventh but of the first day of the week, the day of
rest, of solace, and of adoration. It is precisely
because we do most earnestly venerate this
divinely social and religious institution, that we recoil
from anything which would tend to render it irksome
instead of consoling, repulsive instead of worthy of
all love, distasteful instead of agreeable, and austerely
sanctimonious instead of fascinating from the unos-
tentatious sanctity of its solemnization. It is exactly
because we feel that the Sunday, or as it was formerly,
the Sabbath, has been ordained as a day of repose for
the Creature, to enable him periodically to adore the
ALMIGHTY CREATOR with a self-abstraction that would
b. nearly impossible if attempted in the midst of the
ordinary avocations of life—it is precisely because we
look upon the Sunday as the day of the poor, as the
the Holiday of the poor, as the Holy-day of the poor,
that we are anxious to see the Sunday rendered a
day of solemn and pleasant recurrence, not one of
spurious sanctity or of merely puritanical ceremonials.
Is there any inconsistency in our avowal that we
would witness the diminution of all unnecessary
1 labour on Sunday, and our ardent support of the new
Post-office regulations ? Wo protest there is not ;
and we base our protestation upon the, fact, that
those new regulations, while adding twenty-five
clerks to those at present employed in the metropolis,
will release from Sunday occupation no less than
two thousand clerks hitherto engaged in the provincial
offices! So much for our consistency, and for the
inconsistency of our antagonists, the Sabbatarians !
Thanks to the determination evinced by the Post-
office authorities, and to the resolute demeanour of
the Government, these new regulations will come into
operation no later than to-morrow. Thanks, more-
over, to the common sense of the English people,
a rational reactionary movement is now taking
place throughout the country, to counteract the idle
fanfaronades of those noisy fanatics who have recently
been stunning the ear of the public with their verbose
and bellicose orthodoxy. Meetings very numerously
attended are protesting against these very modest pre-
tenders to a monopoly of morality. Happily the
days of their domination have passed away, and we
have now no more chance of beholding naughty little
boys pilloried at Charing-cross for playing marbles
on the Sunday, than we have of witnessing noyades
on the Thames, or auto,da-fes in Smithfield.

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SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 21st have arrived.
The NARVAEZ Ministry were reinstated on the
20th, in consequence of the intervention of Queen
CHRISTINA. NARVAEZ at first refused to return to
office, but at length gave way to the representations
of CHRISTINA. His first act was to arrest General
BALBOA, Father FULGENCIO (the KING'S Confessor),
M. DE GIIIROGA, M. DE BUENA, N. BODON, and
other influential members of the Camarilla of Don
FRANCISCO D'ASSIS.
The miserable priest-ridden poltroon Don nm-
clsco, the QUEEN'S husband, made a clean breast of
it to NARVAEZ when he saw him again in power, and
denounced all his co-conspirators.
The Bourse was closed on the 21st.

PORTUGAL.
Intelligence has been received from Lisbon of the
20th October.
It was thought that the demand of the United
States for compensation for the destruction of the
Globe privateer, in 1812, would be withdrawn. The
American Minister has acknowledged the force of the
plea urged by Portugal, that the attacking force was
too great to allow the Governor of Fayal to afford
her protection. It is said that the American Minister
in London has ascertained that Lord PALmEasTori
will not allow Portugal to be annoyed on this matter.
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TilE ABERDEEN RAILWAY.--The extension of this
twelve of Aberdeen,
great trunk line to within
will be opened for
weeks more,
line
on Tuesday next,
the 30th instant. The directors received the certificate
of the railway commissioner* a few (11.4.1
will be opened to Portlethen in about threaegow.
bringing it to within four miles of Aberdeen, to wmhoicreh
place it will be open in December, thus affording
an
uninterrupted line of communication from London to
Aberdeen—a distance of 500 miles.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
After the motion of M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE for
the amnesty of the insurgents of June had been re-
jected, the Assembly proceeded on Thursday to dis-
cuss the Navy estimates.
In consequence of a dementi given by M. NAPO-
LEON BONAPARTE in the course of the discussion on
the amnesty to an assertion made by M. DAHIREL to
the effect that he (M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE) had
voted for the decree banishing the insurgents, it was
supposed that a duel would have taken place. The
affair has, however, been arranged by the retracta-
tion of M. DAHIREL. The Moniteur announces that
M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE having, in the presence
of MM. DE PLANCY, EMANUEL ARAGO, DE ST.
GEORGES, and General LE Feo, the four seconds
chosen on both sides, formally declared that he did
not vote for the decree banishing the insurgents, as
asserted by M. DAHIREL, the latter acknowledged
that in the uncertainty of a vote par assis et lev6 he
might have considered as intended for a vote a move-
ment which had not that meaning. This declaration
being considered satisfactory by the seconds, the
affair is considered at an end.
The Assemblee Nationale, the organ of the parti-
pretre, is pursuing the murderous tactics by which
that BONS. d itself during the reign of t e
BOURBONS. It has the following paragraph addressed
o M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE:—
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and
case of refusal. We tell the Moutagnard Prince that
we do not accept a dementi from any person, or in any
shape or form, and we are ready to incur the conse-
quences of this refusal."
The custom in the days of the BOURBONS was for
the parti-pretre journals to insert paragraphs such as
the above, attacking their political opponents, and
then to put forward an accomplished swordsman
as the author. Every parti-pretre journal in those
days kept its bravo.
The same journal propounds a plan for destroying
Protestantism in England and Ireland. This, the
organ of M. DE FALLOUX and the priests, says :
" The POPE has only to send a bull and a legate
lattre into Ireland to prepare a popular, terrible
insurrection against English despotism." And
again it says :—" The English agents labour
in vain at Rome, and in the Pontifical states, to pro-
duce a re-action : they will deceive nobody. The
Sacred College will answer them by a little bull,
addressed to the bishops of Ireland, bidding them not
to allow the philanthropic English to leave two
millions of men to die of starvation."
The streets of London have of late swarmed with
ill-looking foreigners dressed in soutanes, and osten-
tatiously parading themselves upon the public no-
tice as priests. It would be as well that the English
Government should ascertain whether these
gentry are the forerunners of the " little
bull" and if it should prove so we hope
the Government will not hesitate to put the Alien
Act in force, and deport these friends of the apolo-
gists of the massacre of St. Barthulemew.
In the meantime the parti pretre are exploiting the
crass ignorance of the peasantry of the priest ridden
provinces of France in the most disgusting and bare-
faced mermen.
We learn from the Glaneur of the department of
the Eure and Loire, that for the last few days
hawkers have been carrying all over the Communes of
Nogent le Roron " a prayer to our Lord for the pre-
servation of cattle." This prayer is said to have been
blessed by the Archbishop of PARIS on the day but the
Assumption of the present year, for distriion
throughout France. It is to be sold for two sous,
and it is announced to the faithful, whether
sailors or fishermen, and to all who shall
devoutly carry a copy of the words about
them, that they shall infallibly be preserved from
storm and wreck, on any sea, or in any vessel.
The same hawkers likewise have for sale another
paper entitled Avertissement salutaire. This is said
to have been found on the day of the Assumption by
a boy of twelve years old, who was serving mass in the
church of Notre Dame at Arras. This avcrtissement pur-
ports to be a letter from the ALMIGHTY written in letters
of blood. The blasphemous document calls on the
faithful to be converted, and denounces the Divine
vengeance if they do not turn from their wickedness.
All persons, however, who carry about with them a
copy of this avertissement, which may be purchased
for two sous, shall have pardon of their sins—aye,
even though such sins were as innumerable as the stars
of the firmament (" Ceux qui la porter ant auraient
commis autant de peches quit-y a detoiles dans le
firmament qu'ils leur seront pardonnes"); and shall,
moreover, be preserved themselves, and their house-
hold, their man servant and maid servant, their horse
and their ass, from all sickness, and all maladies, at
the small cost of two sous.
M. DE FALLoux has definitively retired from the
Cabinet, and a Council was held yesterday to consider
who should be appointed as his successor. It is said
that M. LACROSSE and General IIULBIaRE will also
retire, as Louis NAPOLEON has at length had his eyes
opened to the intrigues of the parti-pretre, every
member of which he is now desirous of ejecting from
his Cabinet.
General D'HAUTPOUL will discharge at Rome the
functions now discharged by General ROSTOLAN and
M. DE CORCELLES.
M. DUPIN, the President of the Assembly, has
been confined to his apartment for the last five
days with bronchitis, attended with a severe cough.
M. MANIN, the late Dictator of Venice, waited on
M. VICTOR lino° on Thursday to thank him for the
support he has afforded to the cause of Italian
liberty.
A letter from Avignon states that GARIBALDI 15 at
present in that town, together with several Members
of the Roman Constituent Assembly.
PARIS BOURSE.—FRIDAY, OCT. 25.
There has been but very little business done to- day,
and at the close prices were quoted a shade lower;
Threes for the Account at 55f. 70c., and Fives at 88f.
The market closed as follows:—Threes, for cash, 55f.
70c.; for account, 55f. 70c. ; Fives, for cash, 88f, ;
fur account, 87f. 90c.; Bank of France Shares, 2,330 f.;
Neapolitan 88f.; Spanish Threes, 34f. 25c.; ditto Fives
not quoted.
RAILIVAYS.—The Share Market has been equally in-
animate, prices remaining about the same as yesterday.
Orleans closed at 722 f. 75c.; Rouen, 522 f. 50c ; Havre,
235 f. ; Avignon, 218 f. 75c. ; Strasburg and Bale, 102 f.
50c. ; Boulogne, 130 f. ; Bordeaux, 400 f. ; Northern,
426,. 25e.; Paris and Strasburg, 300 f. ; Nantes, 281 f.
23c.; Dieppe, 175:
BUSINES DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Oar. 26.
Central of Franca (Orleans and Vierzon), 11%—Luxem-
bour4., li—Ditto, l'%—Northern of France, 3 dis.—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 2% —Paris and Rouen, 20%—Paris and
Strasbourg, 4%.

GERMANY

AND
SHE NORTHERN STATES

CENTRAL GERMAN Y .
The Archduke JOHN, having ratified the treaty of
the 30th of September, resigned the dignity of RE-
GENT, and committed to the hands of the Emperor of
AUSTRIA and the King of PRUSSIA the powers and the
duties which the Germanic Diet confided to him in
its sitting of July 12, 1849.
In the sitting of the Council of Administration,
held on the 12th, the Plenipotentiary of Lubeck
declared the accession of the free city of Lubeck to
the treaty concluded on the 29th of May between
Prussia, Saxony, and Hanover.

EGYPT.
The fears of a rupture between Turkey, and
Russia have induced the PACBA to decide on fitting
out a line-of-battle ship, two frigates, two corvettes,
and three steam-frigates, in case the SULTAN should
find a necessity for summoning Egyptian aid. AHMED
PACIIA, late Minister of War, goes to Constantinople
in a few days in the steam-frigate Sharkiah, on some
special mission—the object of which has not as yet
been permitted to transpire.

ITALY.

The banker ToBLoNIA has refused to serve in the
Finance Comniission of Rome.
The Risorgimento of Turin of the 22d inst. states
that Chevalier MATUIEU, having arrived at Turin,
had declined to accept the portfolio of Public Works,
which had been offered to him. Several generals had
left Turin for Alessandria to form a council of war to
try General FANTI and Colonel SANFRONT.
The cholera has broken out at Bologna.
The Osservatore Romano of the 15th states that
early in the morning of the preceding day a large
notice was found posted on the walls of the Palazzo
Chigi, with the motto " God and the People,"
under it the words, " News of France ! " with
a cross, a sword, and a Napoleon's hat, and
the announcement that a revolution had broken
out at Paris, and that the Mountain had triumphed.
A crowd having assembled before the placard, a
French officer of the 13th of the Line stepped up,
and, on learning the cause, told the crowd there was
not a shadow of truth in the announcement; he then
tore down the bill and the crowd dispersed.
We have received the following from a correspondent
at Rome, dated the 16th :—" Since the departure of
the Deputies of the Roman National Assembly, the
police is less rigorous towards the compromised than it
was before, and many have been allowed to return to
Rome, amongst them Dr. Patnaleoni, the intimate
friend of Count Matniani. Those persons who have thus
returned are certainly indebted to the influence, if not
the actual protection, of General Rostolan and M. de
Corcelles ! Arrangements are making for the return
of Pius IX. at the Vatican Palace, and it is generally
believed that his Holiness will return before the end
of October. The French officers and troops act in a
most exemplary manner, but have no intimacy with
the Romans."
The Opinione of Turin of the '2lst complains of the
nomination of M. Mathieu as Minister of Agricuure,
Commerce, and Public Works, Minn
the ground of his
belonging to the Extreme Right.
In its sitting of the 20th the Senate of Turin re-
jected, by forty-eight votes to ten, the Bill voted by
the Chamber of Deputies on the 22d ult., by which
all Italian refugees residing in the Piedmontese ter-
ritory were entitled to civil and political rights in
he country.

INDISPOSITION OF THE QUEEN.—
POSTPONEMENT OF THE ROYAL
VISIT TO THE CITY.
We regret to find that her Majesty has been
slightly indisposed for the last two or three days at
Windsor Castle, and that on Thursday symptoms ap-
peared which leave scarcely any doubt that her Ma-
jsty's indisposition has resolved itself into an attack
' of chicken pox. Under these untoward circumstances
it is not at all likely that her Majesty will be able to
carry out her Royal intention of paying a state visit
to the City on Tuesday next, and consequently the
interesting ceremony of opening the Coal Exchange
will be postponed for a fortnight at least. We are
quite sure that sentiments of loyal sympathy fur our
beloved Queen will predominate over any feelings of
disappointment.

Rest

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
COVZNT.G.A.RDEN.
Our market to-day was well supplied with both fruit
and vegetables, the demand for which was in a sluggish
state, at last week's quotations—Peaches, 15s to 20s per
dozen ; New Oranges, 15s to 16s per 100; Cucumbers,
2d to 6d per brace ; French Beans, Is 6d to 2s;
Plums, 4s to 6s; Damsons, 5s to 63; Apples, Is 3d to 3s
6d; Pears, is 6d to ss; Onions for pickling, is 6d to 3s,
and Tomatoes, is 6d to 2s 6d per half sieve; Red Cab-
bages, Is 6d to 35., and White ditto, erd to I per dozen;
Cauliflowers, 2s to 3s; Celery, 9d to Is 34,s and Horse-
radish is 6d to 2s 6d per bundle; Turnips, is 6d to
25 per bundle; Carrots, 4s 6d to 5s Gd; Onions, is 6d
to 2s Gd; Grapes, is 9d to 2s per dozen bunches ;
Hot-house ditto, 2s 6d to 4s 6d ; out-door ditto, 4d to
8d; Foreign ditto, 6d to 2s 6d; Pine-apples, 5s to 7s;
and Filberts, 9d to is per lb ; Lemons, 5s to as ;
and Walnuts, 8,1 to is per 100; Elderberries, 4s 6d to
fis 6d per bushel basket; Melons, is to 4s each; Brocoli,
td to is 6d per bundle.
NIIEIVJGATTI AND IMAD3ENICALL.
Geese, 53 6,1 to 73; Fowls, 2s to 33; Capons, 3s 6d to
53 6d ; Chickens, Is 9d to 2s 3d; Ducks, 2s 3d to 2s 9d;
Rabbits, ad to is 4J; Hares, 3s to 4s; Grouse, 2s 6d to
3s 6d; Partridges, is 6d to is 8d; Pheasants, 3s 6d to
4s; and Pigeons, 61 to 8d each; fresh Butter, 9s to 103
per dozen lbs.

NEWPORT.
Beef, from 2s 8d to 33 6d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10d;
Veal, 3s to 3s 6d; and Pork, 33 4d to 4s 2d per Sibs.
WHITECIMPEL.
Beef from 2s 6d to 33 4d; Mutton, 23 6d to 3s 8d;
Veal, 33 to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s to 45 per Sibs.
nILLINGSGATE.
Salmon, 9d to lld per lb ; Turbots, '3s to 10s ;
Brills, is 63 to 6s; Cod Fish, 3s to 75; Whitings, 23 to
8c1; Lobsters,,
to 2s 6d; Crabs, 4d to 2s each; Soles,
9d to 2s 63 per pair; Eels, 8d to is ld per lb.; Large
Haddocks, 9d to Is ; small ditto, 5d to 7d each ;
Shrimps, is 3d to 2s 6d per gallon ; Prawns, 25 to
2s 9d per lb; Bloaters, is to is 6d per doz; fresh Herrings'
10d to is 6d per dozen; Smelts, 10d to Is 6d per dozen;
Common Oysters, 8s to 13s; Scotch Pearls, 16s to 203 ;
and Best Natives, 451 to 64s per bushel; Pike, is 3d
to 3s 63 each; Flounders, is to 2s per dozen; Mussels,
4d to 63 per peck.

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