The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN,

And we are sanguine that the Government itself
W;11 at fl'iS timP brl"ntlr t NX,", me-,*
jects of her Britannic MAJESTY—the one a voluntary,
and the other an official promoter of our national
glory—one in the Indian Peninsula, the other in
the Indian Archipelago—the one in the heart of. Sinde,
the other on the confines of Borneo—the Victor of
Meanee and the Raja of Sarawak. It were injus-
tice in the people of these realms not to recognise the
important services of these memorable labcurers in
the cause of England and humanity; and it would
be especial injustice in a British journalist not to
invoke honour upon the heads of such men as Mr.
BROOKE and Sir CHARLES NAPIER.

Another grand political demonstration took place
at Bologna on the 10th, on the inauguration of the
bust of the PorE, which had been sent by the Ro-
mans in exchange for the Bolognese flag. The
Government and municipal authorities, the National
Guard, and all the population, took part in the fete.
The Marquis POTENZIANA, who was at the head of
the deputation, which was charged by the POPE
himself to present the bust to the municipality, de-
livered a speech before Cardinal AMAT and all the
civil and military authorities, in which, after recom-
mending union, energy, and prudence, he said that
the POPE had addressed the deputation and himself
as follows :

" lam penetrated with the wise conduct of my
very dear city of Bologna. Assure the Bolognese of
my peculiar affection, and tell them that, among
the consolations which Providence has showered on
me, that of the union of my well-beloved subjects is
not the least."

Some other speeches were delivered, and among
them one by M. GALLETTI, in the name of the Na-
tional Guard, in the course of which he said, that
though Pius IX., as the Vicar of Gon, was obliged
to preach peace, he was nevertheless an Italian, and
protector of the national dignity ; and that if words
of peace did not suffice, he would remember that the
armour of JULES 11. had been suspended for three
centuries on the walls of the Vatican, that before it
many of the enemies of Italy had fled, and that the
old Pontiff had written on it in his anger, " Expul-
sion of the foreigners !" This speech excited great
enthusiasm.

Letters from Berne of the 16th announce the arrival
in that city of several persons who had been detained
at Friburg, as political prisoners, and who had suc-
ceeded in making their escape.
The Vorort having received news that the Lucerne
troops had occupied the little town of Willisau,
situated at about two leagues from the frontier which
separates the canton of Lucerne from that of Berne,
immediately sent an order for three battalions of in-
fantry and two companies of carabineers to march to
the frontier of Lucerne.

At a council of war held on the 15th, the vacant
places in the Fedtral staff were filled up. It is said the
emissaries from the Jesuits of Lucerne have been
discovered distributing proclamations, inciting the
Catholic population of the liberal cantons to revolt.

We have received the Athens journals up to the
10th instant.

A Bill had been presented to the Chamber of De-
puties, enacting that the sum of 500,000 francs, paid
by M. EYNAJRD to the English Government,- should
be corsidered a part of the public debt; that the
shares in the National Bank, mortgaged as security,
should remain in mortgage until the repayment of the
debt; that the Government should be authorised to
negotiate with M. ETNARD with respect to the periods
of the repayment, and providing that the interest on
the debt should not exceed 6 per cent.
The insurrection is by no means put down, the
insurgents occupy several strong positions in the in-
terior, and the troops sent against them have been
unable to make the smallest impression.
It was hoped that the differences between the Porte
and Greece would be settled by the intervention of the
Emperor of 'tussle.

Madrid Papers of the 15th have arrived.
On the arrival of CHRISTINA she was received by
the KING and the QUEEN ; they were soon after
joined by NARVAEZ and the Minister of Justice, and
the whole party remained closeted together for some
hours.

According to the Espanol, Queen ISABELtut em-
braced the Duke DE RIANZARES with great apparent
affection, to which the Duke, who had remaineil at a
respectful distance during the first meeting of the
royal mother and daughter, replied by kissing the
QUEEN'S hand with great respect. On the evening
of the 14th Queen CHRISTINA dined with the KING
and the QUEEN.

The Eco del Conzercio, in the course of an article
on the reconciliation between the KING and QUEEN,
after expressing sincere wishes for the happiness of
the royal couple, warns them that the intrigues which
caused their previous unhappiness are still in opera-
tion, and that the hand which disunited them before
may disunite them again.
Collisions between the QUEEN'S troops and the
Carlist bands are of daily occurrence in Catalonia..

MADRID BoLai., OCT. 15.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 27k, at 50 days ; the Five per Gents.
at 17 for paper ; and the Debt without Interest;,, at
5i for cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday-
There is much justice in the following observations
ef,,the National on the retrograde tendencies of the
French Government, and on the ardent desire m ani-
fested by the French revolutionary dynasty to rc pu-
diate its origin, and to sacrlfice the rights and Itber-
ties it was instituted to defend, pros ided only the
absolute Governments will deign to honour it with a
condescending smile. It is strange that M. Gu IZOT
will not be warned by the past. When has. Prance
formed an alliance with Austria which has not proved
fatal to those who entered into it ? The Nation. al thus
descants on the farce which has been now actir )g in
France for 17 years :
" Scarcely had the Government of the Bar ric ades
been settled on the throne, when it devoted all its
attention to make the Northern Powers for et the
original stain with which it considered itself sm Ilied.
Long were its efforts of no avail; in vain di.d it in
the days which followed 1830 desert the cause ,of the
people in Poland and Italy. This base abando ment
of the interests which it had the mission to protect
and defend, did not suffice to overcome the d intrust
of the old monarchies. Not being able to site teed
with Austria and Russia, it flung itself into the arms
of England ; but a day arrived when that al lit mce,
which by an apparent contradiction, was born e with
so much the greater servility that it was volu nt: arils
chosen, broke to pieces before the dynastic in to rest;
what had been refused for the honour of Fr m ce in
1840, in the first instance, and aftesry lards
at Otaheite, was not a moment hesitated about
when the Spanish marriages were the point
aimed at. Thus freed from Great Britain., the
French Government turned again towards the
Northern Powers. To become the ally of A-ustria
and Russia, h in fact the wish which it has cl- tel ished
for the last 17 years, and to realise it it will no t recoil
from any concession. It not long since let and be
massacred, and at present it would allow Italy r to be
annihilated. That perhaps is not enough; :tor we
see it quite ready to give fresh pledges of its nduct.
What is demanded from it ? To intervene i n Swit-
zerland, and openly assume the defence of the 4 :to; inter-
revolution ? Already it has furnished arms to the
Sonderbund, and two days ago its journals tin itened
Switzerland with an entry of troops. At such: a price
will not the misfortune of its origin be at lens gti par-
doned ? If the following paragraph from the Jc 'urnal
de Francfort is to be believed, the reconciliaticen is not
to be long waited for. But what do we KIT? —the
matter is already concluded. We learn from isa ource
worthy of credit, that the three Northern Ills wers,
in accord with France, will assume in the afEit irs of
Switzerland an attitude indicating that in eg fie of
need, they will intervene. In such case the! i nter-
vention, it is said, will be confided to Auetviii , and
France, and the other two powers are to app ve of
it and give it support. This extreme case cart only
be an appeal to the powers to act, from the sirs tes of
the Sonderbund. The powers think that"such ■ n in-
vitation wculd not only be justified by the Col egress
of Vienna, but that it would be their duty to accede
to it.' Thus we have here the Holy Alliance : recon-
stituted, with England left out. Once more t kings
league together against the populations. It is ii i vain
charters, and that lsth
thetaothe people, in confiding the exercise of sow la :ignty
We
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king whom it chooses, stipulates condit io: as and
;therefeelingrs something stroll/ le
demands guarantees
can they be called on t
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The
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France through the dirt at the bidding of t' tte Ab
lutist Powers is exciting the most intense ire lignatso.
ion
in the mind of every Frenchman who has th o honour

of his country at heart. Not only do the Reform I
tl 1 1
.Aieuit)ers of the Utialn tier 0 nave lattlei to been jai 0:
supporters of the dynasty, but men who until recently
have been the personal friends and colleagues of M.
GUIZOT, have become so disgusted with his betrayal
of the principles of constitutional liberty that they
too come forward to denounce him. At Melun, on
Sunday last, a grand dinner was given to M. DROUYN
DE LHUYS, a Member of the Chamber of Deputies,
who was last year deprived of a place which he held
in the Foreign-office because he did not approve of
the whole of M. GuizoT's policy. The dinner was
attended by above six hundred electors, several depu-
ties, upwards of thirty mayors of towns and villages,
and several members of the councils -general. The
speech of M. DROUYN DE LHUYS upon the occasion
was very eloquent, and produced a great effect upon
the auditors. M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT and M.
GEORGE LAFAYETTE (son of the celebrated General
LAFAYETTE), both Members of the Chamber of De-
puties, also addressed the company.
At the Reform dinner at La Charlie on Monday,
over which M. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE presided,
and at which 300 people were present, several of
the National Guards of Nevers appeared in uniform,
and the band of the regiment attended. Lille,
Amiens, and Valenciennes are also to have their
Reform banquets.
In the meantime the Journal des Debats is endea-
vouring to justify the intervention of the French
Government in favour of the Sonderbund, by adopt-
ing the Jesuitical interpretation of the federal pact,
and contending fur the right of a minority to resist
by force the will of the majority. This is certainly
a strange doctrine for M. GUIZOT, the champion of
" Government by Parliamentary majorities," to
adopt, and we accordingly find in the Constitutionnel
the following crushing rejoinder to his tricky plea:—
" Is it M. Guizot who is charged to interpret the
Swiss constitution ? Does he no longer admit the
principle that the only legitimate interpreters of the
constitution of a people are the powers legally insti-
tuted by that people itself, that is to say, by the ma-
' jorities ? Does it depend on our Minister to declare
federal or not federal, according to his good pleasure,
such or such an affair concerning Switzerland, and in
which it will suit him to take part ? What ! the ma-
jority of the Swiss cantons is not the legitimate in-
terpreter of the Swiss constitution ? Who is then,
if you please? The minority perhaps ? Take care!
Minorities are not wanting in France to declare
that the French constitution is violated by yourselves.
We do not think that they are always right; but
perhaps also they are not always so much in the
wrong as you pretend. But, in fine, what is it that
you oppose to those minorities ? Who, according to
yourselves, is invested with the right to declare
that the Charter has been or has not been violated ?
The constituted powers, the parliamentary majori-
ties. And yet you proclaim for Switzerland
that the proper judges in such a matter are the
seven states of the minority. But it is the principle
'of rioters that you thus lay down ! You are your-
selves factious at the very outset. What, according
to you, when a minority judges that the constitution
is violated, it has a right to take up arms, to purcha::e
muskets and cannon from foreign powers; and if the
powers outside have sympathies fur it, and adopt its
judgment, they can send it cannon and grape to wage
war, and can intervene in its favour ! You speak of
Charles X., but just think a moment. Charles X.
was precisely in the case of the Sonderbund. He
made himself the chief of a minority in revolt against
the parliamentary majority. The constituted powers
had interpreted the Charter against him, and against
the Jesuit party, which was his. It was to escape
from that intepretation, to struggle against the law of
the majorities, that he appealed to arms, and would,
if he had time, have called in assistance from abroad.
This comparison crushes you to the earth, and
shows that you place the most wretched sophism
at the service of the mo;t detestable of causes;
you borrow your doctrines from insurrections,
and you endeavour with them to serve the coun-
ter-revolution. We know of nothing more immoral
and more disgusting than the spectacle of a Go-
vernment preaching up anarchical maxims, encourag-
ing disorders, selling arms for civil war, and exciting
insurrection, in order to better fight against liberty,
and to insure the triumph of the Jesuits, those
European representatives of oppression in despotic
states, and of counter-revoltition in free ones. To re-
capitulate—we defy the Ministerial journals to give,
in this point of view, a reasonable reply to these
simple questions :—ln federal states, is not the majo-
rity alone competent to decide such questions as in•
terest the ensemble of these states ? Is it not alone
competent to interpret the federal constitution in
doubtful cases? Who, according to the Swiss con-
stitution, has a right to decide whether the Jesuit
question is or is not within the federal jurisdiction ?
Is it the majority or the minority ? When our Minis-
terial journals shall have demonstrated to us that all
these rights appertain in Switzerland to the minority,
or, in other words, when they shall have shown that
carbine and cannon law is the true and sound con-
stitutional law of that country, we shall accord to
them that our Ministry, in introducing arms and
ammunition into Switzerland, to supply the minority
against the majority, has not committed, for the benefit
of the counter-revolution, an odious and intolerable
violation of the right cf nations."

Algiers journals of the 15th have arrived. On the
3d about 1,200 Kabyles, led on by a Marabout,
attacked the outposts of Gigelly, but were repulsed
with considerable loss.

ABD.EL-KADER, according to the Ilioniteur Algeri,n,
ma
Emperor maintains
siA
in
thel Riff his menacing attitude against
the ULEY AUDERMIAMAN, and turns to
account the success which he had gained over the
people of Quelaia and Kebdana, and plunders their
silos for the use of the deira, which is still near
Kasbat Zelouan.

Several Arab prisoners were set at liberty by the
French authorities in honour of the appointment of
the Duke D'Aux&LE as Governor-General.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
at
r7lts3sllCa.i;lroad Shares, 1,155 f. ;
the Five per Cents.,
on Wednesday Vseoden. e; sday
the
Orleans
Rouen, 897 f. 50c. ; Havre, 510 f. ; Great Northern,
5251. ; Avignon, 522 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 532 f. 50c. ;
Bordeaux, 4521. 50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 240 f. ;
Dieppe, 245 f. ; Basle, 150 f. ; Paris and Strasburg,
388 f. 75c.; Nantes, 3701.; Paris and Lyons, 382 f.
50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 4721.50 c.; Spanish Three
per Cents. 27k.
LYONS, OCT. 18.—Paris and Rouen, 9031. 75c. ;
Avignon and Marseilles, 5211. 25e.; Northern, 5251.;
Paris and Lyons, 3801.; Orleans, 1,1531. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXoilaisTiiT,—OcrotsEa. 21.
13LAi—Central of France (Orleans
andß
Bordeaux, 4—Paris and Rouen, 34—Paris and Strasbourg,
31A—Rouen and Havre, 191 h ex dis.—West Flanders, 1,4.
Boulogne
Vierzon),a and Amiens,
141,x—Northern of France, lei—Orleans and

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
CRAWFORD v. SNOOK.

This was an action to recover the sum of 121. 135.,
the balance of an account for goods sold. The de-
fendant pleaded that he was not indebted, but did
not appear to support his plea.
The plaintiff is a woollen manufacturer, and de-
fendant formerly carried on business at Portsmouth.
A difficulty arose in the case, for although defendant
had remitted some money on account, he never ad-
mitted the amount of the balance.
The Learned SECONDARY said that in such a case
a notice should be given to produce the account deli-
vered, by which the amount might be ascertained,
and in the event of the account not being produced
secondary
evidence might be given. The jury had
now to draw their inferences from very loose evi-
dence.

The jury gave a verdict for the amount.
There was only one other case not of the slightest
interest.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
George Lee, who carries on business as a painter,
at Turk's Head-court, Chelsea, was charged with
fraudulently obtaining goods under false pretences
from Mr. Augustus Radcliffe, wholesale window-
glass and colour manufacturer, of Chichester-place,
Gray's Inn-road.
The prisoner called upon the prosecutor in the
month of August last, and introduced himself by
saying he had been foreman to Mr. O'Donnell, one
of the prosecutor's customers, and that he (prisoner)
had got several houses to paint upon his own account.
He showed him a bill of exchange for 231., upon a
Mr. Day, who kept a banking account at Messrs.
Heri les' and requested Mr. Radcliffe to let him have
goods for it, which he did, after making inquiries.
When the bill became due it
ofwm.vasinddilsehrosnowllhroed,waenrde
tlleprowseacsuotonre of a
was inducedgang to believe that the pri-
sonervictimising the public, and one of v% hom was at pre-
sent under remand at Lambeth Police Court.

Two or three witnesses proved that the prisoner
had sold the goods almo3t immediately after he had
received them from Mr. Radcliffe.
He was comn itted for trial, but ordered to be
brought up again on Monday, for the completion of
the evidence.

THE IRISH NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.--A
rumour is very generally current that a division has oc-
curred among the Commissioners, and that Archbishop
Murray has resigned.--Dublin .Evening Mail.