The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-19 00:00:00

Bill is to be turther considered in Committee on
Wednesday next. We trust that all those who enter-
tain
reasonable doubts as to the possibility of totally
consuming smoke may, in the interval, avail them-
selves of the opportunity thus afforded of satisfying
their scruples. As we have already ►stated, the
measure may be so modified as to exempt from penal-
ties all persuns who may be enabled to show that they
have, to the utmost of their power, endeavoured to
prevent any infraction of the law by "adopting, and
carefully using, some well• approved method for the
consumption of the smoke issuing from their fur•

nacea."

Our readers can scarcely have overlooked the ex-
traordinary conclusion arrived at by the Committee
appointed to inquire into the advisibility or non-
advisibility of some alteration being made in the
rules of the House of Commons, relating
to the presence of strangers in the gallery.
That decision denied the necessity for any modifica-
tion of the existing power accorded to any Member
to clear the House at a moment's notice of reporters
—and by their exclusion for any length of time to
revive the obsolete, and, we might say, the unconsti•
tutional system of secret legislation. The reason
advanced for the expression of this monstrous and
egregious opinion is—actually--because the present
rule has been an ancient and almost immemorial usage
with the lower branch of the Legislature ! Why this is,
plainly speaking, nothing more nor less than the old
rampant spirit of ultra-Conservatism--the conserva-
tion of all the blundering old absurdities of our
ancestors simply because they are the products of
ancestral wiseacres ! According to the same prin-
ciple the laissez faire system should ride triumphantly
over all the sanitary projects emanating from
the office of Woods and Forests, or from the benevo-
lent conclave of philanthropists at Gwydyr House !
And the Registrar-General would find his returns
multiplied by every venerable cesspool and putri-
fying graveyard re-opened to exhale their pestilential
miasma, and to warm the cockles of the hearts of such
very redoubtable sticklers for things of antiquity as
the members of this incorrigible Committee !
Now as to the character of this same Committee.
On looking over the names of its members we
find no mention of Colonel PEYRONNET THOMPSON
(the originator of the motion), and in the
room of the Hon. and Gallant Representative for
Bradford we absolutely find the name—of—Mr.
Jour; O'CosisEnn! Is this, we ask, fair ? Is it rea-
sonable ? Is it decent ? Why, of course, Mr. Joust
O'CONNELL sticks with the tenacity of a limpit to a
system which enables him to gratify every fretful
prompting of his egotism, every splenetic freak of his
rather frivolous disposition, every cantankerous ebul-
lition of his wounded vanity and microscopic abilities.
What is Colonel PEYRONNET THOMPSON about ?
Surely he will not consent that a proposal
dictated by so much sober reason shall
be ridden over roughshod by the sympathisers with
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for
Limerick ? Is there no means of forcing the matter
irresistibly on the attention of the Commons ? What
if the Representative of Bradford were to rise imme-
diately before every discussion upon a Government
measure, and call the attention of Mr. SreasLuit to
the presence of strangers in the reporters' gallery ?
The effect would be complete; and the suggestion is
not one to be overlooked. We call upon Colonel
PEYRONNET THOMPSON to act thus in justice to
himself, in justice to the public, to the press, and
to the Parliament.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Legislative Assembly postponed the considera-
tion of the demand for authorization to prosecute M.
CANTAGREL, in order to afford that gentleman an
opportunity of addressing the Assembly, he having
signified a desire so to do. With respect to the de-
mand for authorization to prosecute MM. COMMIS..
SAIRE and KcRNIG, the Assembly proceeded at once
to the vote; the Members of the Mountain, however,
abstained from voting, and in consequence the first
scrutiny was void, there not being a sufficient num-
ber of Members present. The Assembly then pro-
ceeded to a second scrutiny, and the President
declared that the names of those who abstained
fr.., voting should bo pilhlishpil in the Moniteur ;
notwithstanding this threat, however, the Montag-
nards again abstained from voting, and again the
scrutiny was made, much to the annoyance of that
most sweet-tempered of created beings, M. DUPIN.
The Journal des Debats publishes the following
dispatch, addressed to the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, by M. DE CORCELLES

" Rome, July 7.
" I return to the preoccupations of the Government
at the moment when you did me the honour to address
me on the 21 instant. It is important that public
opinion should not be misled as to the circumstances of
our entry into Rome; already more recent and more
exact accounts must have re-assured you ; but
I, notwithstanding, continue to prove to you the mode-
ration of our arms as though we had to defend ourselves
against a charge of barbarism. As to the bombardment, I
affirm that it did not take place, and I shall soon be pre-
pared to send you a proofof what I advance in the shape of
the result of an inquiry which I have caused to be insti-
tuted for that purpose. I have already received the
verbal retractations of several consuls. We form a
committee where they are represented as well as the
artistic body by M. Visconti, the Conservator of Monu-
ments at Rome. Up to this time I can say with car-
minty that 100 or 150 balls or shells at the utmost fell
within the city, which is five leagues in circumference,
and the traces of them are nowhere to be found. The
use of these projectiles has only caused some wounds
and the death of one person, but this fact is even dis-
puted. No old monument, no museum has been damaged.
You will receive a precise report upon this subject. A
certain number of private houses have been destroyed
by the insurgents themselves to facilitate the fire of
their fortifications, particularly in the neighbourhood
of the Castle of St. Angelo. These are the only
ravages of the war in this kind of destruction. As
far as we are concerned we have only thrown down
the outer walls and some redoubts at the en-
trance of the Janiculum. We have always said
that the resistance was neither Roman nor national,
and this is a proof of it ; the enemy made no use
of his barricades, for the construction of which he was
paid ; they cost a sum of from 2,000,000 f. to 3,000,000 t.
The civic guards and the carabineers never willingly
engaged in the combats, and at the last refrained
from doing so. At the last moment they arranged
with the muncipal council to open the gates to us. The
Transteveraus—that is to say, the true people of Rome
—received us well. If the resistance had been national,
the country people would have annoyed us ; whereas a
few companies of French troops were always sufficient
to keep open our communications between Rome and
the coast. The peasants constantly came into our
camp. When we entered Rome about 12,000 Roman
soldiers occupied the Castle of St. Angelo and the dif-
ferent military quarters; at the present time 4,000 of
these men, who were foreigners to the city, have're-
ceived furloughs for their homes ; 4,000 regulars have
joined us, and from 3,000 to 4,000 adventurers have fol-
lowed Garibaldi, and the greater number of them are al-
ready disbanded. In presence of such testimony, who
will now maintain that we have attacked the will and the
rights of a nation?
" The following is the result of the inquiry instituted
as to the damage:—
" At the Vatican, in the hall of the tapestry, executed
after the cartoons of Raphael, and in the picture repre-
senting the Preaching of St. Paul,' the lower extremity
of the drapery of the figure on the left bears the trace
of a ball. The lower trise of the picture also bears a
similar mark, but the damage may be easily repaired.
The fountain of the Aqua Paolina, near the St. Pan-
crasian gate, received one ball, which damaged some
trifling masonry. The quantity of water has not been
sensibly diminished. The church of St. Pietro, in Mon-
tonic), fortified and occupied by Garibaldi, and situated
near the breach, bears the trace of numerous French
balls. The chapel on the left, and the fresco paintings
are intact, but the balustrade has been destroyed by the
soldiers of Garibaldi; and some paintings have disap-
peared. The church was absolutely sacked. The little
temple built on the spot where St. Peter was crucified
has not been injured. To this small damage is, there
fore, reduced the ravages of a siege which has been con-
ducted with the greatest moderation, and the calumnies
heaped on our troops are thus made apparent."
The National, after giving the POPE'S letter to
General OUDINOT (which has already appeared) thus
haveen
se un
ptt
ss oneu r the
ob ue rd precious_ w e
on production :--
culthliiirNo doubt our readers are now completely edified by
campaign.lytaiFerocmounst 01. 00 toour6ooOwnbrsaovie.
diers—froin 1,000 to 1,200 wounded are crowded toge-
ther in the hospitals of Corsica; from 30 to 40 millions,
of which we shall ere long stand sorely in need, wanting'
to the desperate appeal of M. Passy. All very true;
but then have we not in return the benediction of
Pius IX.. bestowed on General Oudinot, and the satis-
faction of knowing that in consequence of those trifling
sacrifices certain honest and Christian persons'—
Cal dinals, violet-robed Eminences, Abbey and Monks,
Friars, Bet edictines, and Jesuits, will enjoy in peace the
property which God has divided among them.' This is
the most evident, aid, we ;ear, will be the only conse-
quence of this victory which the French army has won
4.er the enemies of human society,'—that is to say, of
Ecclesiastical Government as exercised under Gregory
XVI.",

The
l Moniteur publishes an official notice that by
a decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, dated

July 14, Vice-Admiral PANSEVAL-DESCIIESNES is

appointed Commander-in-Chief of the squadron of

the Alediterrauedn, in the ?law of Vice-Admiral
BAUM.