The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-08 00:00:00

" The Opposition have set those banquets going for
the pleasure of playing a trick on the Minixtry. The
party hostile to our institutions laid hold of the move-
ment, as might have been expected. Such conduct
has already taken place whenever, in place of address-
ing public opinion in a regular form, the Opposition
have endeavoured to agitate the masses by irregular
means. It is thus that they have rendered them-
selves accomplices, without wishing to be so, of all
the disturbances, of all the insurrections, and of all
the calamities which have afflicted France during 17
years."

This last sentence is a revival of the monstrous
doctrine of moral complicity first propounded by M.
HEBERT for the purpose of destroying the unfortu-
nate DUPOTET. It is, however, a dangerous doctrine
for the Debats to broach. The colleagues of M.
TESTE and the associates of the Duke DE PRASLIN
must be more bold than prudent if they give in their
adhesion to this doctrine of moral complicity. The
concluding passage, which is as follows, betrays at
once the fear and the weakness of the Ministry :
" You may agitate yourselves, but not the country.
You may deliver speeches more or less violent, more
or less ridiculous—you may sing the ' Marseillaise,'
but you will remain what you are, united or divided
—a minority. And should a reform become useful
or necessary, it is not you who shall accomplish it."
This reads like a translation from a rabid Orange
paper, published in the early days of the Catholic
Association. The concluding passage, however
affords hope that the agitation will succeed in its
object. M. GUIZOT'S
na
Ministry,
willit yield rah
is evident,
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The Union Monarchique, in the following article,
gives an accurate appreciation of the situation of the
Ministry in the presence of this vast yet peaceful
and legal movement :

" The Ministry continues to be rather embarrassed
as to the attitude which it ought to assume relative to
the Reform dinners of the Left. At one time it
fears, and at others pities, them. When it hears them
appeal to the principles which it had itself formerly
proclaimed, and exalt the reminiscences which it de-
sired in other times to keep up, it shows alarm, and
treats them as Republicans. On the contrary, when
it beholds the agitation which had arisen about them
subsiding, when it sees the speakers and guests return
peaceably to their homes to attend with the most per-
fect calm to their daily labours, it takes on itself to
treat them as very amusing persons, and rails and
laughs at them. Fear is a good deal, pity is too much.
Fear is evidence...of a guilty conscience; pity of a
vicious mode of thinking. Both prove that the Mi-
nistry no longer possesses sufficient liberty to render
to itself an exact account of the situation—to com-
prehend its embarrassments and perils. At present,
in particular, it is with pity that the Ministry is
seized, and the dinner which now excites that feeling
is precisely the same as three days back caused it the
greatest alarm, namely, that of Orleans. The Mi-
nistry has discovered on reflection that there were at
table only 500 guests, whereas the population of the
town amounts to 45,000 souls It might be retorted
that amongst 35,000,000 Frenchmen the law admits
scarcely more than 200,000 electors.
The statistics of the commerce between France and
Naples, contained in the following reply of the Presse
to an article in the Moniteur, will be found interest-
ing. The Presse says—

" Before the treaty, under the empire of the sys-
tem so badly combired of our differential duties, the
Neapolitan flag carried on a rude competition with
ours. In 1846, for example, the maritime commerce
between France and the two Sicilies was carried on
by 742 vessels, and supplied an official freight of
127,000 tons. The part of the Neapolitan flag was
516 ships and 98,000 tons. The part of the French
flag was 226 ships and 29,000 tons. That is to say
that we had 28 per cent. against 72 per cent., if we
compare the number of ships, and 22 per cent. against
78 per cent., if we compare the tonnage! But these
figures, striking though they may be, do not even
give an idea of the inferiority of our part. If 226
French ships succeeded in the year 1846 in obtaining
the conveyance of 29,000 tons of merchandise, that does
not say that they traversed the distance which separates
our ports from the kingdom of Naples and from the
Two Sicilies. No—the greatest part of them did not
go farther than Nice or Genoa. Sicilian ships not
being able, on account of the surtax of navigation, to
come to our cosst, brought to Nice or Genoa, the
products of their country; there these products were
transferred to French ships, which brought them to
us. It was at bottom a navigation much smaller
than it appeared. For the future, under the new
system which dispenses Neapolitan ships from the
necessity of resorting to these transfers of their
freight, by which nrir navy prnfitod, and which to a
certain point created an illusion as to its part in those
latitudes, these ships will cone direct into our ports.
They will without intermediaries bring not only to
Marseilles, but to Cette, to Nantes, to Bordeaux, to
Rouen, the oils, sulphurs, grain, fruit, hemp—in a
word, all that we draw from Naples and Sicily. The
new treaty will therefore deprive French navigation
of the little it had preserved. That is a result so
inevitable, that we do not fear to appeal in advance
and publicly, fora proof of it, to the next publications
of the Board of Customs. Is this then a case for
self-glorification and applause ? For the Moniteur
perhaps it is ; but not fur us,"
The same journal says, " It appears that there will
be a modification of the Cabinet before the opening o
the session. It is said that two Ministers are to re-
tire ; but neither of them will be M. JAVA, M.
TREZEL, nor M. DE MONTEBELLO." The two Mi-
nisters alluded to as about to retire are M. DX SAL-
VANDY and M. CUNIN•GRIDAINX.

The post of Governor of the Invalides, which has
been declined both by Marshal SOULT and Marshal
will, it is said, be given to General
PETIT.
TIANI,

The Duc D'AUMALE Was to embark for Algiers on
the 3d.

The King and Queen of the BELGIANS, accom-
panied by the Princes and Princesses, their children,
arrived in Paris at half-past five o'clock on Tuesday,
by the Northern Railway.
The Toulonnais publishes the following letter,
giving an account of the movements of the French
squadron on the coasts of Italy. The letter is dated
Bay of Naples, Sept. 28.
" I hasten to inform you that the squadron (that is
the five ships of the line and the steam-frigate
Asmodee) will leave Naples to-morrow morning, the
29th. The squadron will visit the entire coast of
g, and we are ordered
20th of October. We
tiotarlyet„u irnnotroderir,otuolneoxhiobnit otuher fla
calculate on arriving in that harbour, or at the islands
of Hyeres, at the latest, on the 25th. The Descartes
steamer sailed on the 27th for the Adriatic (Ancona
and Venice). The Magellan proceeded on the same
day to Leghorn and Genoa. Those two steamers are
again to join the squadron towards the close of the
month. The Panama is still on the coast of Barbary.
She was expected yesterday, but had no doubt some
good reason to remain at her post. I dare not
venture a word respecting the affairs of :Naples,
which are enveloped in mystery. Nothing posi-
tive is known, the Government maintaining the
most profound silence on the subject. Nevertheless,
we have been assured that the insurgents had de-
feated the royal troops. At Naples, patrols traverse
the streets, night and day, anti we can perceive no
reason to justify that measure,_ the city appearing
very calm. The Government has thought proper to
arrest several individuals, and a number of others,
suspected of disaffection, have absconded."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Wednesday at 75f. 15c.; the Five per Cents.,
114 f. 40c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,148 f. 75c. ;
Rouen, 895 f. ; Havre, 521 f. 25c.; Great Northern,
510 f.; Avignon, 515 f.; Vierzon, 532 f. 50c.; Bor-
deaux, 447 f. 50e.; Basle, 152 f. 50c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 387 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 360 f.;
Paris and Lyons, 376 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon,
460 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 28.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocroaxa 7.
Dutch Rhenish, 214—Northern of France, lOLA—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 3%--Paris nd Lyons, 4 "%a

THE FIRST LORD or THE ADMIRALTY IN LITER-
POOL.-LIVERPOOL, THURsDAT.—Last evening, at halt-
past eight, the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the
Admiralty, arrived in Liverpool from the Isle of Man,
by the mail steamer. He immediately proceeded to the
Adelphi Hotel, where he remained for the night. This
afternoon, about half- past two o'clock, he embarked on
board the Government tender Redwing, to inspect the
mail steamers from this port. At about two o'clock the
Redwing, having on board the officers and crews of the
Government steamers in port, in full naval uniforms,
came alongside St. George's Pier-head to wait his Lord-
ship's arrival. On his arrival at the pier the flags were
hoisted, and the usual marks of respect observed. The
Noble Earl was received by the principal officers, and
immediately after embarking, proceeded down the river
to the Sloyne, where the Medusa was lying at anchor.
On his Lordship proceeding on board to inspect the
vessel, the yards were manned. His Lordship, who was
on board for some time, still remained there on his
inspecting mission when our correspondent sent off this
account.

FALL IN VIE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday
general reduction in the price of the 41b. loaf of wheaten
bread took place in all parts of the metropolis, the charge
now being sid. and 6d. the quartern loaf. In some of
the poorer districts a description of rye bread is retailed
at 4a d.