The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-12 00:00:00

nals evidently exaggerate the complication which, I
in their opinion, it is calculated to produce. They
triumph too much and too loudly, and upon what
forsooth ? Why upon the embarrassment of France.
Truly this is very honourable for their patriotism.
. . . One tells us that this document re-
veals to us the reactionary intentions of
the Roman expedition ; another tells us that
this new act changes the policy of France; that it
substitutes a liberal policy for that reactionary policy
which until now has been followed in regard to the
affairs of Italy—two statements, which are glaringly
contradictory, and of which the one is not more true
than the other. What, then, is this reactionary
thought which has at last been allowed inadvertently
to escape, after having remained so long concealed ?
It is that the expedition to Rome had for an object
the re-establishment of the Pops. What ! it
is that of which you were ignorant? Se-
riously, is there a man of any intelli-
gence who has doubted it for one instant ? The
explanations given from the tribune have not; it is
true, been sufficiently clear, sufficiently categorical
upon this point. But the fact has been nevertheless
sufficiently understood and recognised by the whole
world—because it was the only and the inevitable
solution M ODILON BARROT succinctly
declared from the tribune that what we went to seek
in Italy were the guarantees of our influence, the
guarantees of true liberty. Of liberty, honest and
moderate I' ironically exclaimed a Member of
the Mountain. Precisely ! of honest and
moderate liberty—a liberty which should exclude a
Mazzinian republic a liberty which should also
exclude clerical tyranny—at the same time admitting
the restoration of the greatest reformer of all the
Holy Pontiffs." After a further examination and
explication of the subject, the writer concludes thus :
No! the policy of France in this matter is not changed.
The only difference is that that is now said aloud which
has hitherto been uttered rather in a subdued voice.
This publicity, to which you yourselves have con-
strained the Government by your attacks, is perhaps
a new difficulty ? Exult, therefore, in the obstacles
which you have opposed to the liberal influence of
your country ! There is one lesson which the Oppo
sition should draw from recent events, if they pos-
sessed a particle of patriotism ; it is that unceasingly
to calumniate a Government which negotiates is often
nothing less than forcing it to justify itself, and by so
doing to add another difficulty to the success
which might prove honourable to the country and
serviceable to the cause of liberty."
This is altogether the most remarkable vindication
of the letter, and indeed of the entire policy of the
PRESIDENT and of his Government, that has yet ap-
peared. In it M. TRIERS has done yeoman's service
to Louis NAPOLEON.

The National of Monday contains a violent attack
upon M. DE LAMARTINE, an attack at once bitter and
sarcastic. It terminates in this mournful and re-
proachful language :—" 0 Counsellor of the People,
what would we not give that you might
have remained itslfriend ! 0 you! great orator
of the just passions and of the noble aspirations of
democracy, what have you done with that heart
which once throbbed in unison with our own ?"

M. Bum, whose wound, received in the affair of
June, 1848, has recently re-opened, has just left
Paris for the baths of the Pyrenees.
A funeral service will be performed on Wednes-
day in the Church St. Louis, for the repose of th•
soul of the late King CHARLES ALBERT.
The Five per Cents. closed yesterday on the Paris
Bourse at liBf. 25c.; the Three per Cents. at 55f. 60c.;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 770 f.; Rouen, 535 f.; Avignon,
223 f. 75c. ; Basle, 105 f. ; Vierson, 316 f.; Bordeaux,
406 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 440 f.; Strasburg, 357 f. 50c.;
Tours and Nantes, 303 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. SEPT. 11.
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Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian), % Bou-
logne and Amiens, 6 4—Great Indian Peninsula, 614—Namur
and Liege, 5 1/e —Norther nof France, 2% dis.— Orleans and
Bourdeaux, 3%—Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasslett, 12.