The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

monehry code, to bring on at any moment a com-
mercial crisis, to ( xpose the entire mercantile
community to the most severe and ruinous losses.
We have witnessed the melancholy results of a
withdrawal of five or six millions of specie from
our shores, and we explained the dangers of
enabling our most formidable rival to call for
4,600,0001. in gold at a moment's notice, and called for
a total alteration of the system that subjected the nation
to such hazardous and disgraceful contingencies.
Vain were our warnings. The Whigs in office
were resolved to sustain the currency theories of their
predecessor. Sir CHARLES WOOD was strongly
imbued with all the fallacies of the JONES LOYD,
PEEL school, and nothing could be hoped for at his
hands. The Bank Charter Act, which was virtually
suspended by the well• known letter of the 25th of
October, 1847, was restored in all its stringency;

he public mind was amused by a mock investiga-
:ion before a packed Committee, who reported directly

in opposition to the evidence produced before them.
No change has been made in the Acts of 1819 or 1844,
and the trade and commerce of Great Britain are still

liable to be injured at the mere caprice of the Rus-
sian despot. The AUTOCRAT is fully aware of the
vast increase of strength which he has thus obtained;
he believes that the arm of England is paralysed, be-
cause he has become her creditor for nearly five mil-
lions sterling, and, consequently, treats her represen-
tations with contempt and disregard. Hence his
unauthorised and unjustifiable invasion of Hungary
—hence the overwhelming forces brought to crush the
liberties of that heroic nation—hence his insolent and

overbearing demand for the extradition of the gallant
fugitives, who—victims to the bullion mania, to the
" Auri sacra fames" of England sought
refuge and protection from Moslem hospitality. The
AUTOCRAT may, however, for once be mistaken.
There is a limit to English forbearance. The debtor
will not always crouch at the feet of the tyrannical

creditor. England, who never deserted the forlorn
and distressed —who never rejected the prayer of the
suppliant —will not see a friendly power bullied or
cajoled into acting differently from what she would do
herself, or suffer the betrayed champions of freedom
to be surrendered to the vindictive and sangutlary
monsters who thirst for the blood of patriots, and
who would butcher upon scaffolds those whose only
crime was too deep a love of their native land—too
bold and unshrinking an assertion of their rights and
privileges as free born citizens of a free nation.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
MM. FRENEY and BOULATIQUIER have been dis-
patched on a special mission to Rome. The choice
of these gentlemen for envoys would seem to indi•
cate a determination on the part of the PRESIMENT of
the Republic to carry out the prinniples laid down in
his celebrated !etter to Colonel EDGAR NET. Both
these gentlemen have long been known for tlle'r attach-
ment to the doctrine of the supremacy of the State
in all things, and for their opposition to the various
propositions which have been from time to time
brought forward for the purpose of increasing the
temporal power of the priests. It is also of good
omen that the Univers, the organ of the Jesuits, is
indignant at the appointment of these gentlemen.
The proposition of M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
for an amnesty to the Bourbons is rejected with
scorn by the worshippers of the " Right divine of
kings to govern wrong."
The Union says :

" This is a singular conjunction ! The Bourbon
family placed ou the same line with the insurgents of
June, and returning to France in virtue of the same act,
and almost the same title; that is, by an appeal to gene-
rosity. The proposition of M. Napoleon Bonaparte is in
every respect objectionable; it dissimulates ill an ambi-
tious calculation and a pretension. There are names and
principles which will never be lowered under the insult
of an amnesty. Had M. Napoleon Bonaparte then need
of an insult to the Bourbons in order to mark his sym-
pathy for the insurgents of June ?"
The Opinione Pullique, though less insulting.,
is not one whit less opposed to the proposition. It
says—

"The sentiment which has suggested it does honour
to M. Napoleon Bonaparte; but, with a little reflection,
he would have compreheded that amongst the exiled
Bourbons there is one who is not a man, but a principle;
so that one could not be recalled without the other being
established. To effect what M. Napoleon Bonaparte de-
mands, according to the Etenement, it would be necessary
that the Republic had proved, in loading France with
grandeur, liberty, glory and prosperity, that the Count
de Chambord has but one service to render to his coun-
try—to return there in saying that there is only a Re-
publican the more. We are not precisely there. We
must reserve to the will of France all the chances, and
not deprive the fortune of the country of any of the
eventualities of the future. M. Napoleon Bonaparte con-
sequently has deposited on the table only a generous il-
lusion drawn up as a proposition."
The proposition is said to have been drawn up by
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN. We are not, therefore,
surprised at finding the following in the Presse
What an admirable initiative the President of the
Republic has allowed to be taken from him ! It is not,
however, time which failed him, for be has had from
December 20, 1848, to October 1, 1849. The adoption
of the proposition signed, Napoleon Bonaparte, cannot
be doubtful, with the present majority of the Legislative
Assembly. To have this proposition rejected, it would
be necessary that MM. Berryer, Nettement, Laroche-
jaquelin, and their friends, should vote against the Duke
de Bordeaux; that MM. Thiers, de Broglie, Mold, and
their friends vote against the family of Louis Philippe,
against the pious Queen Arce:ie, who prays every day to
God to be allowed to die in France, against the Count
de Paris, who has nothing to gain by his eduction taking
place in a foreign country. This proposition is the event
of the day—a happy inspiration. By this act, the exile
of 1814 has added a new eclat to the glory of the name of
Napoleon Bonaparte."
It is believed that the PRESIDENT and his Ministers,
in common with the great majority of the French
people, are indignant at the conduct of the Emperors
of RUSSIA and of AUSTRIA, and are determined to
support the SULTAN at 'all cost. The parti pretre,
the " children of the Church," as they are called by
the Univers, are the only persons who venture to
support the Emperor of RUSSIA, and to hint, for
they dare not speak out, the impolicy of France
joining England in defending the Porte against its
iniquitous oppressors. Fortunately, however, the
" children of the Church" form a miserable minority
in France. The National expresses, we believe, the
sentiments of the great majority of the French people,
when it says—

"In our opinion war is inevitable, and without de-
siring it we are prepared for it. But if it is desired to
avoid it let it not be at the price of our honour, or of
our interests. These are sacrifices which cannot be re-
paired, and God knows what price we may yet have to
pay for }laving suffered the Monarchs to compress the
movement of Democratic expansion, to which the revo-
lution of February gave birth. An opportunity is now
offered to us of reconquering a portion of our lost in-
fluence. May we know how to profit by it."
The Dix Decembre, a Bonapartist journal, whose
connexion with the Elysee is more than suspected,
has the following :
"It is positively stated that the French Government
is decided on not allowing its old ally the Porte to be
oppressed, and that the President of the Republic, faith-
ful to the sentiment of patriotism of which his name is
the glorious standard, is resolved to enter frankly into
the paths of national dignity and energy, which preced-
ing Governments have too often forgotten for the last
thirty-five years."
It is satisfactory to find that the treatment of
General LAMORICIERE by the AUTOCRAT has opened
the eyes of the PRESIDENT and his Ministers to
the value of Russian professions, and has shown them
that their interest, as well as their duty, requires
them to check the progress of Russian ambition. The
only party in France that has aught to gain by
Cossack supremacy is the parti-pretre, whose pros-
perity has ever been synonimous with the degrada-
tion of France.

The representation of the melodrama entitled
Rome, at the theatre of the Porte St. Martin, has
been forbidden by the authorities.
The Five per Cents. opened on the Paris Bourse yes-
terday at 88f. 20c., and closed at 88'.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TdE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Ocr. 3.
Boulogne aid Amiens. s%—Dutch Rhenish. IN—Northh
ern of France, 3% dia.—Paris and Rouen, 193/4—Paris and
Strasbourg, 43/4 Rouen and Havre, 9% Tours and
Nantes, 2%.