The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1870.

SHARE LIST.

IZAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Closing Business
Paid. Name. Quotations. done.
St Bristol and Exeter lOO 78 80 80
St Caledonian 100 731 741 74 1
St Cambrian lOO 15 20
20 Cornwall all 21 31
St Dublin and Belfast Junction 100 . . . .
St Dun, Prtb, and Aber. Jnnc 100 70 7.2
20 East London all 4 6
20 Do
20 Do
St Glasgow and S.Western 100 116 117
St Great Eastern lOO 42 421 421 1
St Do East Anglian, No. 2 100 61 71
St Great North of Scotland 100 15 16
St Great Northern„ .lOO 121 122 1214
St Do A 100 126 127 127
St Do B ... 100 126 128
St Gt. So. and West(lreland)...loo 98 100
St Great Western Consolid...loo 71 711 724- 1
St Do South Wales 100 68 70
St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45
St Do do Newport 100 86 38
St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 130 131 1301
St Lond, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 431 454 4
St Lond, Chatham, and DoVer 100 141 154 16
St Do Metrop Extension A...., 100 9 11
St London and North Western 100 1261 1274 1274 4.
St London and South Western 100 881 891
St Manch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 511 521
St Do New. issued at £5O dis 30
St Metropolitan
St Do Preferred... lOO
St Do Deferred 100 ...
10 Do Redeemable
St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 371
St Midland lOO 1241 125 1264 1
St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94 96
St North British. lOO 34 35
St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde 100 13 15
St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1264 1271 1354
St Do Leeds 100 89 90f 89
St Do York
St Do Stockton and Darlingts 100 178 180
St North London lOO 120 122
10 Do New, 1868 64 11 1/
St North Staffordshire 100 59 61
St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105
St Rhymney lOO 52 54
St Shropshire Union 100 62 63

St South Devon 100 46 48

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE THREATENED ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPEROR.

St South Eastern 100 76/ 771 771 1
St Do Preferred ...100 1091 110 1111 12
St Do Deferred... lOO 41 411 411 f
St Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok'g. all 121 131
St Taff Vale

The Times thinks it would be too early as yet to pre-
iiounce any opinion with respect to the alleged attempt
upon the life of the Eta Perot Napoleon. A young man,
named Baurie, 22 years of age, late from London, was
arrested on Friday evening, and he, it is said, admitted
his intention to assassinate the Emperor. Ile had a
loaded revolver about him, and was the bearer of letters
from persons in London to persons in Paris, re-
vealing an extensive plot, with which the Work-
ing Men's International Association is supposed
to be mixed up. Numerous arrests have been
made ; some of the alleged conspirators have
escaped, but a quantity of shells, cartridges, and nitrate
Of potash has been seized. Unfortunately, these disco-
teries seem to establish a connection between the present
Conspiracy and the plot of last February, and as at the
latter-named epoch many person§ *ere imprisoned and
inquiries were made which have led to no results, it is
impcssible to say how long we may be kept in the dark.
on the subject of this new treasonable combination. We
do not know to what extent even the spontaneous confession
of the prisoner may help the French police in their inves;
tigation. What is certain is, that the affair has hitherto
only had the effect of winning loud cheers for the Emperor
as he and his Empress drove out in an open carriage off
Saturday afternoon. That France prefers personal rule
td a republic, a Napoleon to a Rochefort, is a point which
it reqUires no Plebiscite to clear up ; but that does not
prove that France prefers persona) rule to all other forms
of Government, or.that she thinks that despotism may
best be tempered by Plebiscites. The result of ari Appeal
to the people under the pressure of such terrors as haunt
the French voters at the present moment can scarcely be
Considered a fair index of their • real wants and
tendencies. Whatever improvements the new Con-
stitution may actually introduce in the olicy of the
French Government, that Government will continue to
stand on the same principle on which it always Stodd—:
the demoralization of the sound Liberal party and the
readines6 of the mass of the people to accept order with-
out any certain guarantee of liberty, rather than establish
a liberty which, in their apprehension, may lead the way
to revolution. But at the time of the formation of the
January Ministry we were led to hope not only that
order was to be made consistent with liberty, but that
liberty itself was to be so constituted as to become the
best security against revolution. If the Emperor obtains
as large a majority as he anticipates, if, above all thing/Si
he obtains the votes, be they few Or many, that are
really worth having, there will be so many of them given
ad terrorens and so many ad misericordiam, that we shall
not be able to say to what extent he may have to be eon=
gratulated upon the favourable result.

The Standard is afraid there is no room for the sugges-
tion that the last plot against the life of the Emperor of
the French is in any part the manufacture of the police
authorities. The conspiracy seems a great deal too real;
the Government hastens to give names and particulars
without waiting for the termination of those tedious, not
to say cruelly prolonged, inquiries to which it invariably
has resort when it has strong suspicions but no evidence.
It would of course be unjust to adopt at once the state-
ments of the Journal Officiel, so far as they affect indi,
-Viduals not under arrest, and who may probably be able
to explain satisfactorily their relations with Baurie.
The Journal Officiel identifies these conspirators with the
International Working Men's Association, the head-
quarters of which are in this metropolis. But whoever
the organisers of the plot may be, we trust that if they
are unearthed within the British empire, British law will
be strong enough to punish them according to their
deserts. We cannot allow our hospitality to be abused by
scoundrels who call themselves politicians and patriots,
and are nothing more nor less than murderers ; and
happily, public opinion has so grown since 1858
that there need be no fear that a stupid in-
dulgence for political crime will induce juries to
refuse to do their duty. Messieurs les assassins can no
longer offer the plea that they struck their blow
to rescue an oppressed country. If France does not
possess every liberty a great nation ought to possess,
every liberty is within her grasp, and the only shadow of
extenuation that could be suggested for the murder of the
Emperor Napoleon has vanished. This conspiracy,
assuming the truth of the information we possess upon it,
is a crime for which no excuse can be found, and it is
more, it is a prodigious blunder. The conspirators will
have confirmed the power of the Sovereign they soucht to
kill, and strengthened the dynasty and the form of tiovarn.
ment it was their object to overthrow.

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St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100
10 Waterloo and Whitehall