The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-09 00:00:00

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Aerialists of the better class, several Orleanists
(this party was not strong in the late Chamber)
may get in, but with these exceptions, the only men
in the Assembly who have had Parliamentary ex-
perience will be the thirty or forty Republicans, at
the head of whom are Favre, Thiers, Picard, Gam-
betta, and a few other well-known names.
This is an important consideration. The Repub-
licans are orators if they are nothing else, and the
fact that they will meet a mere mob of journalists,
lawyers, farmers, and merchants cannot but give
them preponderating influence for a time. Indeed, if
the Republicans gain a majority at the elections, the
course will be clear. By passing a preliminary reso-
lution, declaring the Republic to be the
form of Government established in France,
the German leaders will be compelled to
accept a peace from the Republic, which will thus
be recognised throughout Europe. Even if this
course be not taken, it is obvious that the Republicans
will start with a great advantage in their
favour, especially as the responsibility of a
disastrous peace will be transferred from
their party to the whole Assembly. Pos-
sibly the advantage thus possesses will not be
maintained. The Orleanists may gn strength ; the
Imperialists may have their sins forgiven them; the
Republicans are very likely to suffer from internal
divisions. But notthe less surely is the commencement
in their favour—provided always that the elections
do not result in the return of a large monarchist
majority. The superiority of their position will be
the greater as it seems that the Orleanist princes
will not be allowed to sit in the Assembly. This
part of M. GAMBETTA'S prescription is maintained.
The princes were excluded by a law passed in
1848, which law was never repealed during the
Empire, though an attempt was made not very long
before the declaration of war. It would appear that
the Ministry of Defence does not feel justified
in repealing a law which successive legislatures
have maintained for above twenty years. The
exclusion of the Princes is unfortunate, for they
are in all respects desirable acquisitions to the
Assembly.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

THE AMERICAN GRIEVANCES.

There is reason to believe, the Times
„porrespOndent
in Philadelphia says, that Minister Schenck will be
instructed, among other matters, to open negotia-
tions on the fishery dispute, thus transferring to
England the discussion of an almost essentially
Canadian matter. The difficulty lies in the desire of
the United States to secure for their own fishermen
the same rights as Canadians have in Canadian
waters. The injustice, however, of the de-
mand is much atoned for by the statement,
believed to be true, that the American Go-
vernment is willing to pay a money equivalent
to secure the privilege they seek. There is little
fear in any case that the establishment of a Fisheries
Treaty on a satisfactory basis will cause fresh troubles
between England and America, indeed, the Nezv
York Eveninf Post asserts that negotiations have
already progressed so favourably that the Senate will
be asked to ratify a scheme for the settlement of the
dispute before the close of the present session a
Washington.

THE CENSUS.
The Census which will be taken on the
night of the 2nd of April next will be
the seventh in this country. It will only be the
second occasion on which the whole popula-
tion has been enumerated in one day.
Although it is impossible to predict with
any accuracy the exact numerical strength of the
people, it is believed the forthcoming returns will
spew that the population of our islands is little short
of 31 millions. As the people numbered only a little
over 16 millions and a quarter in 1801, it will be seen
how powerful Great Britain and Ireland have
become in the number of their inhabitants since the
time of the Union. Every arrangement has been
made to have the census taken as accurately as pos-
sible. About 33,000 enumerators will be employed
at home, while English subjects upon
their travels will be made objects of
particular attention by officials who will
co-operate in the work abroad. It has been resolved
that the qualification for a place in the census is to
be alive at midnight on the 2nd of April. Any per-
son dying before midnight, or any infant born after
midnight will therefore not be included in the num-
bering of the present decade.
Mu. JOHN MARTIN, M.P.
Mr. John Martin, the "Repeal" member of Par-

liament, who will probably take his seat
St. Stephen's at once, has thought it de-
sirable to intorm the world why he took
part in the 1848 Rebellion in Ireland•
Mr Martin says that in 1848, notwithstand-
ing his intense repugnance to civil' war- and
revolution, he was so influenced by the circumstances
of the times that he expected au insure ectiou with
resignation and a determination, if it came, to take his
part in it with the people. The famine had been raging
from the middle of 1840. In 1848 two million four
hundred thousand of the Irish population were being
fed as public paupers, and nearly half the number of
Irish landlords were insolvent. All this was going on
ruthlessly, while English rule bad tied the hands of
Ireland and held Ireland's purse, and at a time, too,
when the country produced from her own
soil and her own waters more than enough
food for her population. It was no
wonder that patriots should become disposed to
resort to desperate means to relieve their land from
a desperate condition. It had, however, been the
doctrine of the repealers, that resistance to Govern-
ment authority, should never be resorted to unless the
Government flagrantly violated the Constitution
under which it was pretended that Ireland was ruled.
A violation was made, when John Mitchel,
holding views identical with those of five-sixths of
the population at the time, was tried and sentenced
by a packed jury, and when the Government sus-
pended the Habeas Corpus, and challenged its already
maddened Irish subjects, disarmed, pauperised, and
half-starved, to fight. The successful insurrection by
the people in Paris in 1848 decidel a band of Irishmen
to try another like it. Mr. Martin acknowledges he
was mistaken when he thought the bulk of the nation
would join the cause; but he, nevertbele,s, still
thinks that all the condition 3 required • to justify a
loyal citizen in rebellion were present in Ireland
then.

rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 18'11