The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-12 00:00:00

oishments aye over severe, the culprit is sustained by
public• pity, and the violence of 1.i4 punishment is thus
mitigated, even though the public think him justly
condemned."

We cannot apologise for the length at which we
have quoted from this admirable work. Every
opinion expressed therein carries with it a conviction
to tha mind of the sincerity of the writer, of the
justice and accuracy of the views he has put
forth. Now that the public feeling is so strongly
excited on the topic, we cannot render
better service than by putting prominently
forward the deliberate opinions of a man like Sir
CHARLES NAPIER. There is not a single page of his
work on military law and flogging from the perusal
of which it would be possible to rise without new
reasons being forced on the mind why the revolting
practice should be altogether abolished. They are
not new opinions taken up by him to suit
the present occasion ; they have grown with
his growth and strengthened with his strength.
Forty years of service in all parts of the world,
during which he has gained immortal honours for
himself, and attained the highest glory ; where his
services in every station, whether as subaltern or
commander, were such as to entitle him to the
laurels he has received, the fame he has won, have
only confirmed the impressions originally inculcated
by his renowned father, a father worthy of such
a hero, and the father of heroes, and who oftentimes
stated to his son, " that flogging was an inhuman,
and, in peace, an unnecessary punishment, injurious
to those honourable feelings that he justly held to be
the great principle by which troops should be mainly
governed ;" and who, of course, thought, with such
feelings, "that flogging ought to be abolished."

A letter from Kiel, of the 4th of August, says :
" The congress of German lawyers which was to
have met at Kiel on the 6th of this month, but the
meeting of which has been forbidden by the Danish
Government, will be held in the island of Heligoland,
which since 1815 has belonged to England. The
congress will be opened on the 14th of this month,
and proceed to deliberate on the measures to be
adopted in order to secure in all the states of Ger-
many the establishment of the public and oral examina-
tion of witnesses in all judicial proceedings, and trial
by jury in all criminal cases."

Letters from Rome state that the POPE has dis-
patched Monsignore CoanoLt Bussi to Bologna, with
orders to dismiss the 400 Swiss in garrison there.
These men, who were engaged for twenty years,
will be paid an indemnity. The laws of Rome re-
quire that none but Roman Catholics should serve in
the Swiss guards, and as more thanone-half of those at
present serving in the Roman territory are Pro-
testants, it is said that the POPE will take advantage
of that circumstance to diminish the difficulties in the
way of annulling the treaty with the Helvetic Con-
federation.

The deputation of Jews which went up to congra-
tulate the POPE on his accession, was well received.
His HOLINESS, on the 15th ult., issued an ordonnance
permitting Jews in distress to share in the alms dis-
tributed by his orders.

Madrid journals of the sth have arrived. Great
preparations were making at La Granja for the re-
ception of her MAJESTY. It was rumoured in Madrid
that differences had occurred in the Cabinet between
the Minister of Justice and his colleagues, in conse-
quence of his having taken upon himself, without con-
sulting them, to decree the suppression of the Com-
mittee charged with preparing the new code.
According to the Espanol, M. MON has dispatched
the Director-General of the Sinking Fund to Lon-
don, on a financial mission.

The following royal ordonnance, modifying the
import duties on cotton goods, has just been promul-
gated :
"Art. 1. Cotton from foreign ports and colonies, which
are not places of the production, will continue to pay the
present duty.
"2. Cotton coming direct from the foreign parts where it
is produced, will pay a customs duty of 5 per cent. on the
valuation of 256 reels the quintal.
"3. If a vessel arriving at the Havannah, or at Puerto
Rico, demand the depot of their cargo without discharging,
it shall be granted, on paying a duty of 1 per cent., and the
same amount on leaving, and a duty of 3 per cent. at the
port of its destination.
"4. Cotton coming from the Spanish colonic:2, and of
Spanish production, will continue to pay the present duty.
"5. The preceding provisions only relate to cotton im-
ported in Spanish bottoms; cotton in foreign vessels will
continue to pay the duties hitherto levied."

MARID, BVLSA, AUG. s.—The Three per Cents. were done
at 337 for cash, the Five per Cents. at 23, the Four per
Cents. at 213/4, the Debt without Interest at 63/4, and the
Coupons at 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Journal des Debats says—

" On Monday next the Chamber of Peers and the new
Chamber of Deputies will be opened for the short session, in
which the latter will proceed to the verification of the quali-
fication of its members, and to the formation of its bureaux.
It is said that the King will open this session in person, and
that his Majesty will confine himself to expressing in a few
words his satisfaction at seeing assembled around him the
representatives of the nation. The Chambers will reply by
an address to the words of the King, and, after the verifica-
tion of qualifications, the nomination of the presidents, of
the vice-presidents, the secretaries, and the questors, the
session will be prorogued to the usual period, the end of De-
cember or the beginning of January. It is at that time that
the usual opening speech will be made. It is thought that
the preparatory session, which will open on the 17th instant,
will not continue beyond the beginning of September."

The Presse estimates the Conservative majority in
the new Chamber at 124, the Debuts at 107. The
following statistics of the new Chamber may be found
not uninteresting :
"New writs must be issued, when the Chamber meets, for
five colleges in which there have been double returns, but it
is more than probable that in all these cases members will
be nominated of the same opinions as those called on to resign
one of their seats. The double returns alluded to are, on the
Conservative side, those of M. de Salvandy for Evreux and
Lectour ; and, on the Opposition side, of M. G. de Beaumont,
for Mainers and Saint Calais; General de Th lats. for Chalons
and Lannion ; M. Paillet, for Chateau-Thierry and La Ro-
chelle; and M. Berger, for Thiars and the second Arrondisse-
ment of Paris. The numbn. of new Deputies amounts to 117,
of whom 84 are Conservative and 33 Oppositionists. The
number of Conservatives who sat in the late Chamber, and have
not been re-elected in 1846, is 57 ; and that of the Opposition
Deputies in the same case, 60. Out of these 57 Conserva-
tives not re-sleeted, 24 did not stand at the late election;
out of the 33 others, 20 were replaced by Conservatives,
and 13 ousted by the Opposition. Out of the 60 Opposi-
sition Deputies not re-elected, 16 did not come forward ;
whilst out of the 44 remaining, 7 were replaced by gen-
tlemen of their own political opinions, and 37 thrown
out by Conservatives. 'We have in a former article al-
luded to the discomfiture of the Legitimatist party; it will
therefore be sufficient at present merely to state, in addi-
tion, that they have lost 17 seats and gained 6, leaving a
difference of 11 against them, or about half their number
in the Chamber. The public press has found particular
favour at the late election, and will be more fully repre•
sented in the new Chamber than on any occasion since
1789. Independently of the great number of Deputies
known to write in periodicals, we find six jou!nalists be-
longing to the Paris press elected, viz., M. E. de Girar-
din, of the Presse; M. Leon Faucher and M. Chambolle,
of the Sh?cle; N. Louis Reynaud, of the Courrier Francais;
the Abbe de Genoude, of the Gazette de France; and M. C.
Lesseps, of the Commerce. Two other well• known members
of the Paris press stood, but have been thrown out, viz., N.
Michel Chevalier, the able writer of articles on political eco-
nomy in the _Mats, and M. Cuvillier Fleury, a contributor
to the same journal. As the principle of free trade at pre-
sent excites so much attention, we cannot better conclude
this sketch than by stating that the principal libre-echan-
gistes, or supporters of that doctrine, in the new Chamber,
are MM. Theodore Ducos, Clappier, Lherbette, De Lamar-
tine, Blanqui, Leon Faucher, and Reybaud ; while against it
are, in the Left Centre, M. Thiers ; in the Centre, M. Dar-
blay ; in the Extreme Left, M. Marie; and on the Minis-
terial bench, M. Cunin Gridaine, Minister of Commerce. The
elections for Corsica, which are expected to be both in
favour of Ministers, will take place on the Bth, and the new
Chamber will meet on the 17th." _ _

It is probable that before the Chamber meets Mar-
shal SOULT will have retired from the Presideney of
the Minstry. On the subject of his successor we find
the following in the Portefeuille :
"We have announced that M. Guizot had proposed the
Duke de Broglie to his Majetv as the successor of Marshal
Soult as President of the Council of -Ministers. We can now
add that the choice of the Duke de Broglie has met the ap-
probation of all the members of the Cabinet. The question
is, however, will the Duke de Broglie accept the oiler ?"
The general opinion appears to be that the Duke
DE BROGUE will not accept office, and in that case the
Presidency of the Ministry will
be conferred on M.
GUIZOT.

Dispatches have been received from Captain BE-
RARD, of the Rhin, dated from St. Helena, in which
he states that he had visited the French colony at
Akawa, in New Zealand, and found everthing tran-
quil. Captain BERARD adds, that he had received
from the Governor of New Zealand an assurance
that arrangements had been made between the Eng-
lish Government and the Nanto,Bordelaise Company
respecting this colony.
"We have received," says the Constitutionnel,
"some details of an unsatisfactory nature relative to
our squadron on the western coast of Africa. Before
the departure of the vessels, some of the captains
having complained of the quality of the provisions
furnished to them, Captain BOUET, Chief of the Staff
of the Division, made a general inspection, and found
that the biscuit, among other things, was in a bad