The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-03 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY

EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1851:1_

oircumstances, to pursue a similar course.
The Prince de Joinville proclaims in stentorian tones
that he cares nothing for France—that self is with
him the great ruling principle—and that if he can
only thereby sub3erve his own private ends, he cares
not what disastrous results to the country may spring.
from the vaspenie which is felt as to what the course
of events under his inspiration will be. "He would,
and he would not." He would be a candidate, and yet he
shrinks from the open avowal of being a Presidential
aspirant. This undecided, unstraightforward conduct
mist not only diminish but extinguish whatever
respect may have been hitherto felt for him. It must
also do great injury to the Orleans family. He is
compromising others, as well as himself, by the course
he is pursuing. He is creating a prejudice &gainst
the entire. Orleans family, which must prove eminently
prejudicial, if not fatal, to their pretensions to the
first magistracy of France, at any future period.
Even had the other members of the family disap-

proved of that course, they would still have been
sufferers from it ; but the injury which it will
entail on them will be doubly great when the fact
transpires, as it forthwith will, that they are parties
to it. They approve of it, and must, therefore, share
in the responsibility. They are not merely suspected
of concurring in the double-dealing of the Prince
de Joinville with respect to the Presidency ; but
the fact is proved: They have been convicted
the crime—for such we regard it—against France.
The Times of yesterday, through means of a com-
munication from Paris, which that journal authenti-
cates, by the very form in which the communication
is ushered into the world, makes an unreserved
revelation on this subject. Our contemporary gives
the day and the dates of the conversation which
he describes. The circumstances, too, under which
the interview between M. Guizot and the Duke de

Nemours, in the presence of a great many other
persons, took place, are given with a minuteness
which is a guarantee for their scrupulous accuracy.
The meeting took place et Claremont, on the 27th
of August, the day on which a great many of the
most devoted friends of Louis Philippe had assem-
bled there, from all parts of France, to commemo-
rate the anniversary of his death. M. Guizot, in
the presence of them all, and in the presence, too,
of the ex-Queen, the Duchess d'Orleans, the Duchess
de Nemours, and other members of the exiled
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family, inquired of the Duke de Nemours the views
of the Prince de Joinville, and the members of his

family, with regard to the impending election for
the Presidency of the Republic. The Duke de
Nemours' reply was, that the policy of the Prince
would be a policy of abstention. He did not mean
to move in the matter. The answer was deemed

unsatisfactory by ~Guizot, and by all who were
present. The question was then put is
plain terms, and it was intimated that the
friends of the Orleans family had a right to a
plain answer. Such a question, as our contemporary
remarks, addressed directly and firmly, though re-
spectfully, under circumstances so peculiar, could not
be ' evaded. The Duke de Nemours Ras compelled

to be more explicit. He was forced to admit, that
while he had not declared himself to be a candidate,

nor authorised any one to put up his name as such,
yet that, on the other hand, he had not prohibited his
friends from bringing him forward, nor disowned
their acts when they had done so. And be it ob-
served, that this course of procedure on the part of
the Prince is not only not repudiated by the Royal
Family at Claremont, but is directly approved of by
them. It was vindicated by the Duke de
Nemours, by the ex• Queen, by the Duchess
d'Orleans, and the Duchess do Nemours.
There is good ground, in the absence of actual posi-
tive proof, that the line of conduct pursued by the,
Prince de Joinville has the special approval of all the
members of the Orleans family. France, at any rate,
will come to that conclusion, and she cannot be blamed
for doing so. The fact, then, stares us full in the
face, that in the intensity of the selfish views of this
son of Louis Philippe, he is quite prepared, should he
see any chance of success, to plunge his country into
a sea of the most frightful troubles, in his anxiety to
obtain the Presidency. Nor does ha reck the means
by which the object he has in view may be accom-
plished. lie knows it could only be by an alliance
with the Socialists and Red Republicans, who would

be willing to abet his plans, not because they are
friendly to him, but because they cherish an intense

dislike to Louis Napoleon. Iliey do not love the
Prince de Joinville, but, they hate the present occu-

pant of the Presidential chaii. It is only, w© repeat,
by an unholy and unnatural alliance with these

desperate demagogues that the Prince de Joinville
could have the most slender hopes of success. And
yet he is quite ready, perfectly prepared, to form an
alliance with the enemies alike of all morality and
of society,—the unrelenting enemies, moreover, of
his father, Louis Philippa. Though the passive can-
didature of the Prince, under these circumstances, is
well calculated to create alarm in France, because its
success would be tantamount to the ascendancy of
Atheism and Anarchy, yet we feel persuaded that in
the end, the thing will prove, eminently advantageous
to the cauFe of Louis Napoleon. If there had been a
doubt bafore in any one's mind, as to the propriety of
reelecting Louis Napoleon, there can be none now.
He will not, in the coming contest, be opposed, as on
the last occasion, by a genuine Republican, and an
ingenuous honourable man. Instead of Cavaignac,
the stern and true Republican, his opponent this time
will be a Monarchist, under the transparent guise of
Republicanism—one whom the friends of order
will oppose, and whose whole strength will be in the
support which the more desperate characters in the
faubourgs can render to him. What the worth of
that support will be we need not stay to state.
Neither need we mention what the result of a contest
with Louis Napoleon will be, should the Prince de
Joimille be so profligate and imprudent as fairly to
embark in it.

DAILY NE WS.—A fearful visitation has befal-
len the kingdom of Naples. The villages and towns
of one entire region have been laid in ruins by the
sudden and repeated shocks of an earthquake. At
Torento many dwellings were overthrown in a few
moments. For many miles round, in the district of
Basilicata, the fatal convulsion of nature spread terror
and dismay, while at Bari and Melfi whole streets
and all the principal buildings were levelled to the
ground, hundreds, if not thousands, of human victims
being overwhelmed in their fall. No previous pertur-
bation of the elements seems to have presaged the ap-
proach of the relentless foe. The summer air was
calm, and the clear wave broke upon the strand as it
had done every morn and eve for 70 years before.
Household traditions had indeed preserved the tale of
similar disasters some time about the year 1789 ; but
the details of horror had long since come to be re-
garded as almost fabulous among an illiterate and
enjoying people. The difficulty of realising such
a catastrophe is of itself so great, that simple folk
may easily be forgiven their practical incredulity.
Let any book-learned and unfeeling cynic try to
imagine or explain to others how the earth, without
opening her mouth, can suddenly seem as though
she bad swallowed up the busy multitude that
laugh and sing upon her bosom, so that in an in-
stant they go down into the pit—and we shall
then believe that it is possible readily to conceive
the panic and consternation of those who have
escaped hurt or unhurt from such a scene. Nor let
the cold and sceptic temperament oa which, perhaps,
we are sometimes too apt to plume ourselves in this
chillier latitude of; ours, judge too superciliously or
too severely the feelings wherewith the circumstance
above adverted to is dwelt upon, that it was at the
beginning of the prolonged convulsion of political
Europe, a like portent visited the trembling realm of
southern Italy. Superstition, whether social or reli-
gious, is sad enough to contemplate; we are among
the last that would say a word in palliation of the
blame justly ascribable to the systems of misrule that
generate its existence. We can infinitely more readily
forgive the constitutional perjuries of the court of
Caserta, and the baseness of its vassalage to trans-
alpine tyranny, than the deadening and demoralising
system of ignorance in which it deliberately holds
down its subjects. To tie or maim a people's hands is
guilt enough ; but to tamper with its eye-sight is
the sin against the spirit of mercy, justice, anti free-
dom, for which there is no forgiveness. Nevertheless,
if so be that government and governed are thus per-
mitted to subsist, and that the gloomy shadow of
intellectual darkness overlays the land, may not one
suppose that out of the depths a voice of conscience
may perchance arise, warning despotism of its ap-
pointed destiny, and " checking the exuberance of its
riot ?" If the King of Naples or his accomplice
councillors fear not the God who bath made all men
equally in his own image, and if they are deaf to the
shout of shame with which all emancipated Christen-
dom rings on account of their " cowardly and savage
cruelty" to the political dupes of their sworn profes-
sions of constitutionalism, is it not conceivable that a
rag of conscience may still be left, that an indistinct
and shapeless recollection of the fate which seventy
years ago befell their predecessors in oppression, may
recur to their minds, and that the physical calamity
may have startled them from their day-dream of
irresponsible power, were it but for an hour? We
venture not to preach to such impenitents from so
terrible a text. We loathe the dull presumption
that arrogates to itself the right of judging the
inscrutable visitations. of Providence, and labelling
them as special punishments for this or the other
error of mankind. But it is nowise inconsistent
with the humility and charity of the principles in
question, that we should hope, even against hope,
that a Sovereign whose ears are smitten with the
funeral dirge of myriads of his people, on whom,
amid the hum of peaceful industry, the sun bath sud-
denly gone down while it was yet Gay—should be
conscience smitten too, and driven to reflect, remorse-
fully, on the course to which he has so long and reck-
lessly given himself up. The King of Naples is a
Bourbon ; can any member of that doomed family
lay his head upon his pillow without remembering

there are other earthquakes still more terrible and far
I less rare than those that level palaces and peasants
homes ? Of the various:dynasties that boast descent
from St. Louis, which of them is there that we have
not seen by a sudden shock from beneath burled
down from their high estate into the blood-stained
dust or into distant exile, since the memorable
day of warning in 1789 ? Four times has the dia-
dem been snatched from the brow of their kinsmen
in France during the last seventy years—once from
the occupants of the Spanish throne, and twice from
the family of Naples. Already the mutterings of a
fearful storm are heard throughout all central and
southern Europe. Where does the wretched Sove-
reign of the unhappy Sicilies expect that he can look
for safety, when the ground under his feet shall once
more be upheaved ? It is said that the imperial, royal,
and ducal gaolers of Italy are about to be gathered
together at Verona, to consult and to confer. One of
the ostensible objects is alleged to be the formation of
an Austro-Italian customs-league ; another the com-
position and publication of a joint defence of their
reactionary proceedings since 1849. The former is of
course a scheme for the universal establishment of
monopolies throughout the greater portion of the,
Feniusula, at the expense of the community at large ;
in other words, a wholesale project for bribing the
chief capitalists and speculators of Italy into deserting
the cause and interest of their country. If one
wished the illustrious conspirators to add a new source
of popular hatred to those already existing, we could
not desire anything better suited to that end than the
execution of a design so directly infringing the com-
forts and luxuries of all classes of society. And as
for the latter, Prince Schwarzenberg may dictate, and
King Bomba sign, but their extenuations and evasions
will be met wherever men dare to think and speak,
with one cry of scorn—" Did ye not swear three
summers since to observe the law of representative
freedom, and are ye not forsworn ?"

NOTES FOR STRANGERS.

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, HYDE PALK.-Monday
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, admission, ls.
Friday, ee. 6d. (from 9 till 6 o'clock each day); Sa-
turday (from 12 o'cloek), 2s. 6CI
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.-Divine service, daily at 8
A.M.; 9.45 a.m.; 3.15 P.M. On Sundays, 9.45 A.m.;
3.15 P.M. Admission daily. Tu view the reonuments
and body of the Cathedral (gratis); the galleries, 61;
the ball, ls. 61; the groat bell, model room, library,
6d.; the clock, 2d.; vaults, 6d.-in all, 3s. 2d.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.-Divine service daily at 7.45
A.,M.; 10 A.M.; 3 P.M. Oa Sundays at 10 A.M.; 3
P.M. Admission to view from 9 till 1-
past 5, gratis;
with the exception of the smaller chapels, for the
whole of which there is a charge of 6d.
HOUSE OF LORDS, WESTMINSTER.-Tickets issued
(gratis) teem the Lord Great Chamberlain's office
(Abingdon-street) every Wednesday and Saturday,
from 11 till 4, to view the House on Wednesday and
Saturday, from 11 till 5. When their Lordships are
hearing appeals the public are admitted without
tickets.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, WESTMINSTER.-When the House
is sitting, admission is obtained to the Strangers' Gal-
lery by ti Member's order. A limited number may be
accommodated in the Speaker's Gallery, but in this
case the name of each person must be inserted previ-
ously by a Member, in a list for a particular evening.
WESTMINSTER HALL AND LAW COURTS (when the
Courts are eitting).-Free.
Tuz TEMPLE, FEET-STREET.-The Church may be
viewed daily, except on Saturday and Sunday, gra-
tuitously, and without a bencher's order, from 10 till
4. On week days prayers are read at 9; on Sundays
there is divine service at 11 nod 3. The Middle Tem-
ple Hail is open to the public without payment or or-
der, from 10 till 4; elso the Inner Temple Gardens,
from 6 till half-past 8 evening.
LINCOLN'S LIN.-Admission daily, except on Sunday,
to the Cimed, hail, and Library, gratuitously, by
hcecher's order. Prayers are read in the chapel on
week days at 8; on Sundays there is divine service at'
11 and 3. The chapel may also be seen on applies-
floe to the head porter.
BRITISH MUSEUM, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMS-
BURY.-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday, from 10 to 5 (gratis). With the ex-
ception of Saturday the libraries may be viewed
without orders. Admission to the print room, medal
room, and botanical department, can only be ob-
tained by an order from Sir Henry Ellis, the prin-
cipal librarian, or the heads of the respective depart-
ments.
Mr. ROACH SMITH'S MUSEUM of LONDON ANTIQUITIES
may be seen by special appoiatmont. Apply by letter,
to Mr. Smith, 5, Liverpool-road, City-road.
NATIONAL GALLERY, TRAFALGAR• SQUARE.-Ironday,
Tuesday, Wedn,esday, and Thursday, from 10 till 6
(gratis).
VERNON GALLERY, MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.-Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 10 till 6
(gratis).
NORTIIUMBERLAND HOUSE.-Tickets (gratis) to be ap-
plied for at the house on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, and Thursday, from 10 till 2. The gallery, eze.,
to be viewed on Friday and Saturday, from 11 till 5.
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, CLEVELAND-SQUARE, ST. JAMES'S
-Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 10
till 5, by tickets (gratis), issued by Mr. Smith, 137,
New Bond-street.
DUDLEY GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.-
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Satur-
day, without tickets (gratis).
MANSION-HousE.-To view the Egyptian Hall, Ball-
room, &c., Tuesdays and Fridays, from 11 till 2.
Visitors are required to leave their names on the Ftie
day or Tuesday previous.
GUILDHALL, KING-STREET, CHEAPSIDE, i 3 for the pre-
sent closed.
THE TowEn.-Daily, except Sunday, from 9 till 5. The
armoury, 61; the regalia, 6d.
THE MINT.-Admission by special order from the Alas-
tor of the Mint.
GENERAL POST OFFICE.-Apply by letter to the Post-
master-Genera), or the Secretary, for an order cf ad-
ROYAL EXCHANGE.-Open to the public from 9 till
half-past 3, and from 6 till 8, every day except Sun-
day.
COAL EXCHANGE, LOWER THAMES•STREET.-Gra-
tuitous admission, every day except Sunday, from
9 till 4.
CUSTOM HOUSE, LOWER TuamEs-STREET.-Gratuitous
admission to the long room, every day except Sunday,
from 10 till 4.
THE DOCRS.-The West India Docks, the East India
Docks, the St. Katharine's Docks, and the London
Docks, msy be viewed gratuitously by an order pro-
curable at the offices of the respective superintendents.
In the case of the London Docks, tho wine vaults may
be seen by presenting a " tasting order" from any
wine merchant.
BETHLEM HOSPITAL, OR BEDLAM, LaninETH.-Apply
for an order to the president (Sir Peter Laurie), the
treasurer (Mr. John Edward Johnson), or the Home
Secretary. Visitors will also be admitted on the per-
serial introduction of a governor; and it may be use-
ful to know, that the Aldermen of the city of London
are ex officio governors. The days of admission are
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from
11 till 3.
MILLEANK PRISON, PENTONVILLE PRISON, &c.-Apply
in writing to the Home Secretary for au older.
Foreigners will procure tickets at. the respective em-
bassies. Miilbank may be seen every day except
Saturday and Sunday, from eleven till one, and from
two to four. Pentonville may be seen on the same
days from two to four. Admission to the Hulks, at
Woolwich and Portsmouth, are to be obtained by
orders procurable in the way already stated.
THE BANK OF ENOLAND.-Admission by order from
the Governor or Deputy-Governor.
THE MONUMENT, FISII•STREET-HILL.-Daily, except
Sunday, from 8 till sunset-3d.
DUKE OF YORK'S MONUMENT, CARLTON•HOUSE-TER-
RACK-Daily, except Sunday, from 10 till 4 on pay-
ment of 6d.
THAMES TUNNEL.-Daily, id.
EAST INDIA Cc3IPANT'S MUSEUM, LEADENHALL-
STREET.-Friday, from 10 till 4 (gratis). On Tues-
day end Thursday, by orders from a director.
UNITED SERVICE MUSEUM, WHITEHALL•PLACE,_SCOT-
LAND•YARD.-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs-
day, and Friday, from 11 till 5, by members' tickets
or ambassadors' cards. On Saturday by personal in-
troduction or ambassadors' cards.
SOCIETY OF ARTS, JOHN-STREET, Ai:emu:tr.-Daily,
except Sundays, by members' orders and ambassadors'
cards, from 10 till 4.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS.
-Oa Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
from 10 till 4, by members' orders. On Friday and
Saturday, foreigners possessed of tickets, procur-
able at the various embassies and consulates, will be
admitted.
ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.-Daily
by orders from fellows.
KENSINGTON GARDENS, HYDE PARK.-Public prome-
nr.de-military music daily, except Sunday, from 2
to 4.
HORSE GUARDS.-Guard mounting daily at half-pass 10
and 11, and on Sundays at 10.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE -For admission apply, by letter,
to the Lord Chamberlain. The days for viewing the
palace are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 12
till 4. There is no admission when the Queen is re-
siding in the palace.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE MEWS.-Apply, by letter, to Mr.
George Lewis at the Royal Mews for cards of ad-
mission. The stables are on view every day except
Sunday, from 1 till 3.
WINDSOR CASTLE.-On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
and Friday, from 11 to 4; by tickets (gratis), issued
by Mr. Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street; Messrs. Col-
naghi, Pall-mall East; Mr. Ackermann, 96, Strand;
and Mr. Moon, Threadneedie-street; and at Windsor,
at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, Winchester Tower.
The Private Apartments may he seen by an order
from the Lord Chamberlain, but only in the absence
of the Court. The North Terrace is open daily, from
8 A.M. till sunset; the Grand Parterre is only available
on Saturdays and Sundays; the Royal Garde.ns can
only he seen by au order from the Office of Woods and
Forests, or any of the Queen's Equerries; the Kennel,
Dairy, and Aviary, may ho seen by an order from
Major-General Weneyes, at Cumberland-lodge; the
Royal Mews are shown daily, except Sunday, between
1 and half-past 2, by tickets, to he obtained, not earlier
than 12, at the Lodge, near the Post-office.
KEW GARDENS.-Daily, except Sunday (gratis).
HAMPTON COURT PALACE.-Daily, except Friday,
(gratis).
WCOLWICH-TEE ROYAL A usmAre-Admittance
daily, except on Sunday, and without order (gratis),
from 9 till 11; and from a quarter-past 1 0114, to
view the grounds, which contain upwards of
28;000 guns of varione calibre, and 4,000,000
of ehots and shells. Foreigners require a card from
the legation of the country to which they belong.
and the name of every person forming a party must
be written upon it. A epecial order is required from
the Board of Ordnance, Pall-mall, London, or front
the office of the Commandant of the Garrison, to view
the interior of the departments. The Rod:lndy-Ad-
mission gratis, and without order!atuoc view the ar-
money and models daily, exceptd'd Saturday and
n 1
Sun-
day, from 9to 11, and from till 4. Visitors give
their names at the entrance. he Dockyard-Admis-
end without orders from 9 till half-
sion gratuitously, and '
past 11, and from half-past 1 till 4 o'clock. Foreigners
must produce cards from their respective legations.
To view the interior cf the C.epartMent,
a special order
is required from the Admiralty ea Whitehall, or
the
Commodore- Superintetagent at Woolwich. Exercises
of the Royal Horse Artillery and Field Batteries on
Woolwich Commun.-These generally take place on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, end Thursdays, when the
weather is favourable ; but the assembling of the
troops depends upon the other duties they have to
perform in the garrison. Mortar and Howitzer Prac-
tice-Visitors have tho best opportunities of witness-
ing this praotice from half-pest 2to half past 3 o'clock
on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Teuredays.
GREENWICH Hosea...ea.-Daily, gratis; picture gallery,
20..; chapel. 2d.
CHELSEA HOSPITAL.-Daily(grati,).
DULWICH GALLERY (eve Mlles from London).-Men.
Thursday, and Saturday
(grday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
atis), from 10 till 5. Tickete to he procured from
the principal print-sellers in Londoe.
TIIN FL' AXMA.N GALLERY, AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,
GOWER-STREET.-(Free)-Saturdays, trona 1 till 6.
TIIE MusEuet OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY JF
RaiYN-
STREET.-(Free)-Monda„n,
Ja' Tuesdays, and WedEeS•
days, from 10 till 5.
THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, LAMB'S CONDUIT-STREET.
-Kordays, from 12 till 4-(Free.) Divine service
on Sundays at 11 and 3;
a
for the benefit of the charity, gratuity in silver