The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Journal des Debats publishes the following
as a detailed analysis of the report and the proposi-
tions of the Second Committee of the Conference of
Dresden. That body has not yet completed its task,
but it has already sent in the five following proposi-
tions, the adoption of which, the Journal des Debats
remarks, will bea rude attack on the constitutional
regime such as it is established in several German
States :--

" 1. All -the members of the Confederation engage to
abrogate all the clauses introduced since 1848 into the
constitutions of their country, or concerning the consti-
tutions of these countries, and which may be incompatible
either with the Federal Constitution or with the mo-
narchical principle.
"2. In all cases where a dispute may arise between
the Sovereig and the States of his country either on the
interpretation or on the application of the Constitution,
the States, as well as the Sovereign, will have the right
to submit the question in dispute to the Federal Diet,
which will seek to interpose its good offices, or will pro-
nounce on the question either by itself or through an
arbitral tribunal.

" 3. Any general refusal to vote taxes on the part of
the States will be regarded as an act of resistance of the
subjects against the Government, and will be, on that
respect, treated conformably to Art. 25 of the convention
of Vienna of 15th May, 1820.
" 4. The Sovereign Princes, united in the Confedera-
tion, cannot be controlled or limited in any way by the
States of their country in the accomplishment of their
duties, or in the execution of the conventions resulting
from the Federal Constitution.
"5. When, in the cases provided for by Arts. 2.5, 26,
and 28 of the said convention of Vienna, the armed in-
tervention of the Confederation in a German state shall
be necessary, the Confederation wilt seek to enlighten
itself as to the causes of the difference which ha 3 arisen;
and, in the event of its being found to have its source in
the Constitution or in tho laws of the country, it will
cause thorn to be modified."
Tee committee in its report explains that the object of
its first proposition is the abrogation of the fundamental
rights of the people voted by the Assembly at Frankfort
on the 27th Dec., 1848—that is to say, the abrogation
of the princii:l. of universal suffrage and that of all re-
strictions to the right of veto by the Sovereigns. The
conference, in alopting it, will virtually adopt, Ist, the
abolition cf tee oath to the Constitution taken by
the army ; 2d, the principle of the non-inter-
vention of the tribunals in cases connected
with the rights of sovereigns in order to render
impossible the recurrence of what has recently
taken place at Electoral Hesse, where the exercise of the
public authority was cramped by the judicial power; and
3d, the principle of independence of the sovereign power
with regard to the choice and maintenance in office of
the Ministers, whose existence will be no longer at the
mercy of a fluctuating or chance majority. The com-
mittee, moreover, declares that it considers the publica-
tion of new laws as useieas, and that it ern b- sufficient
to correct or revise the federal convention and the final
one of Vienna, and it is to this work of revision that its
efforts will be applied.

THE METROPOLITAN MARKET BILL
AND THE CORPORATION.

The following is the report of the Markets Improve-
ment Committee, to whom it was referred by the Court
of Common Council to watch the procedings on the Bill
for providing a metropolitan market, and conveniences
eonnected therewith, in lieu of the cattle market at
Smithfield, now pending in the House of Commons:—
" The copies of the Bill having been laid before U 3 by
the Rernembrancer, we proceeded to consider the same,
and are of opinion that the Bill is an unjust and arbi-
trary interference with the preecriptivo riartite, privileges,
and immunities of the Corporation of the City of Lon-
don, which has been seised in fee of its ancient market
from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary,' and which privileges have been fully es-
tablished and confirmed by charters from King Edward
111., Kings Charles I. and IL, and from other Sovereigns,
sad still further confirmed and Acknowledged by many
Acts of Parliament, and especially by an Act passed so
lately ae the sth and 6th of King William IV., and is in
direct contravention of, and opposition to, the opinion of
the judges of the lend. solemnly pronounced in the House
of Lord; in 1335, when, in answer to questions pro-
pounded by the House, they advise,l their Lordships That
a new market could only be legally granted so as to pro
vide for what might be called tha surplus accommoda-
tion of the public beyond what the market of Smithfield
can afford,' and that the rights and interests of Smith-
field ought not to be affected; that the Lill would be a
grievous interference, not only with the privileges of the
say of London, but with the trade of its citizens gene-
rally, and more especially with those having dealings in
meat and cattle, or carrying on business in the centre of
the City, and would occasion a disruption of a branch of
trade on which upwards of seven millions of money
change hands annually in the sale of live stock, inde-
pendently of enormous amounts paid for dead meat, and
would interpose great and unnecessary difficulties to the
effectual and speedy accomplishment of commercial
transactions in the sale and purchase of so important an
item. of the people's food; and because the Bill provides
for the establishment of a new corporation, consist-
ing, of five persons nominated by the Crown, under the
title of Incorporated Commissioners, who, whilst they
will be wholly irresponsible either to Parliament or to
the country, will nevertheless be invested with arbitrary
powers of imposing tolls and fines upon the subject, of
making rules and regulations having the r ffect and force
o. law and even of levying,' a distress without resort to
any of the ordinary tribunals of adjudication upon
any individual incurring deht3 to teem for tolls;
and because the necessarily heavy costs of this
Incorporated Commissicn, together with the sa-
laries and wages of the staff of officers, and all other
expenses whatsoever incurred by its authority, are to be
defrayed by additional tolls upon meat and cattle dis-
posed of in the market, thereby inevitably increasing
the price to the people of one of the articles which enter
most largely into their consumption. And that it is also
proposed, for the purpose of carrying out this Bill, to
authorise the Incorporated Commissioners to raise a sum
of 200,000/. by mortgage of the anticipated tolls to the
Commissioners of Public Works, the solo security for
such loan being the market tolls, dependent in amount
on the success of the project, and which, in• case of a
failure (as at Islington) would leave the amount of a
loan for a local purpose a permanent burden on the con-
solidated fund. That the Bill further provides that so
soon as the proposed new market shall be opened, Smith-
field market shall be closed, end no new cattle market
shall thenceforth be opened within five miles of St. Paul's
Cathedral, thus establishing a monopoly in favour of the
proposed new market and the parties upon whose lands
such market shall be held. That the Bi:1 having been
introduced into the Hou-e of Commons was referred to I
the examiner of petitions for Private Bills, who repotted
that the standing orders had not been complied with;
and the said Bill and the report of the examiner were 11
thereupon referred to the Select Committee of the House
of Commons on Standing Orders, who, after hearing the
statement% for and against di.;pensing v,itih the standing
orders, agreed to the following rr.s,,iiition:
" 6 That in the case of the Smithfield-market Removal
Bill the standing orders ought to be dispensed with.
That the parties he permitted to proceed with their Bill
on inserting the notices once in the Loudon Gazette arid
for three successive weeks in the newspapers; nod that
the Committee of Selection be instructed not to appoint
the first mecring of the Committee on the Bill for an
earlier day than ,Thursday, the Ist of May.'
"The resolution was reported to the House of Com-
mons on Tuesuey, the 1 1 th inst., and agreed to, and no
progress can therefore be made with the Smithfield-
market Removal Bill for three weeks from the present
time.

"Under these circumstances your committee have
deemed it expedient to be prepared with a petition
against the said Bill, and they directed the Rembrancer
to settle the drought of a petition in consultation with
the counsel retained on behalf of the corporation, and the
said draught petition having been approved by your
committee they r.nbmit thu ammo to this court.
" H. L. Taylor. " Valentine Rutter.
" Richard Hicks. " W. Webster.
" Jchn Dixon. " R. C. Bocknall.
" William William!. Obbard.
" Stephen BakJr. " George Harker.
"J. Josiah fillerd. "T. J. Holt.
" T. H. Hall.
" Dated March 13, 1851."

ROW IS THE QUEEN'S GOVERNMENT TO BE
CARRIED ON?
This is a question to be asked with some emphasis at
the
Present juncture. " After me the deluge!" was the
spe.lby which Metternich Mesmerised men into fealty
through veer. 41 Myself or a dissolution!" such is the
alternative by which Lord John Russell alone can stand.
An appeal to the country at a moment like the present,
is the foreieen calamity which " makes the Cabinet, of
so long life." .
With the " No-po__ „ .
Pcry excitement only dormant, and
capable of being soon re-stimulated from the hustings
"
into fierc.7r life; with the Free-trade" struggle to be
fought under eircumstmees the moat unfavourable to the
progress, it
prefer the perpGtuat. f feeble M. .
tr'3,' well be that the Liberal
advocates of
party should ion o a inistry
to the precipitation of that great conflict, compared to
success or failure in which the mere interests of party
are as nothing.
dispose off the Ecclesiastical
" Taxed
&Tire going. to the country on the t5,,,,3 et.
or Untaxed Bread," let us
Titles Bill. Don't let the
‘cry) o protection" be
etrengthened with the roar 0f,,,, r`afft.„ Popery.. Don't t rto be sickbed ' "
ex-
pose the zeal or the Free L
i' s "
with the fanaticism of
the
Re'lg'imi'r
iheral Protectionist.f„r Let
not Corn end CeTholics divide the,
they so long united. Do not
anatnetee,
hazard' a returne_etsofixicelid
duties by exposing the weaker brethren to the
of relaxed principles.
Even with C:e utmost degren of dissoliit. impossible
panic of
which An Lionottrabb. House is eapahCv, it is
not to f,,rer...e 4:ors than one temp
m too
probable sky, under stress of which it sees but
gathering on
probable the, the nirendy water-loged barque
must fins,liy go down. Can the Colonial-of-
fice weather Mr. Baillie's Ceylon motion, of which
we observe notice is given for next Tuesday
week, and which lowers, ominous on the journals of the
Route awaiting " in grim repose " i,s 1-(d-tape prey.
Escape is no dolbt peuisible, brit surely the Noble and
Bight Honourable Rulers of ,h .. Colonies must begin to
street with those sentiments of
..-er•---..
•,. \: /-*`• reeard Do.,.,ning- natural
I- ff\ piety with which men of feeling minds t•elte their last
44.1.j00k at the scenes of their greatness and their glory.
,7,1 `;,•;:, (4 j; would serve no purpose to run through the many
LI similar instances of plssiblY "'Vending dinomfiture: it
.., ei. ti.. York, nature of such a situation as the present to
.7''''''' stimulate attack, and enfeeble defence. Men will
....... i
''..... •,- 11 .• ' bVfight • harJ .- for glory or for lire, they will I
rat:'---' ' 111 "bltt faintly struggle ' -to prolong -a state which
„ita.c.i, "./ is, after all, but a lingering death. The Whig
4 N,,

1` S

THE SUN,

Ministry carrying through the session of 1851 is a
spectacle which it depends on themselves to make either
.Aibliuse or ri,llculius. I), e1,..g th,t they ar. restored
to office by a state necessity, they seize the opportunity
of signalising their new lease of power, by well-considered
and honestly-urged measures of practical reform,
they may retire at its expiration with general respect.
If, on the other hand, they rely on the peculiarity of the
crisis, as a sufficient excuse for inaction and reserve, the
consequences of the national dissatisfaction may prove
permanently disastrous to their hopes of future power.
Let them be wise in time.—Weekly News.

LONDON,

listen to me, unless you take toe direct to the shirt, and
be there within ten minutes from this time, I will give

,-
,u • b:.:. I th'r.l.- at,t
touch relish." Under tuts tared; tae rascal confessed he
ss as not going towards the shirt, but he would now do so.
They then turned back, returned up the hill across Mount
Wise, out at the Southern Barrier Guardhouse, down
Stonehouse- hill, over the Bridge, up Union-street, Stone-
house, Union-road, Plymouth, and then through Flora-
street, into Stonehouse-lano; into the very midst of the
locality inhabited by cadgers, lurkers, thieves, and
sharpers of all sorts, and into which few men, knowing
the character of the neighbourhood so well as Mr. Ta-
gert, would have had the courage to have ventured at
midnight, especially in such company. Determined not
to be beaten, Mr. Tagert boldly went forward, and,
on his companion knocking at the door of a public-
house, he refused to give him the chance of
then escaping him, by acceding to his request
to wait outside the door " while he went in after
the shirt;" but," said the young man, "the room is a
very small one." "No doubt," said Mr. Tagert, "if
you can get in, I can also do so; at all events I will try."
They went in, and in a room, not a small one, they
found the shirt tied up in paper, apparently just
as the fellow had received it from Mr. Tagert's ser-
vant. Mr. Tagert secured the shirt, and then gave
his countryman some advice, enforcing one por-
tion by repeating it again and again—and that was that
he should at once leave the town, lest in the morning
ho should find himself in the custody of the police.
Whatever use he made of some portion of the Rev. Gen-
tleman's advice, it is evident he was disposed to risk the
chance of being taken into custody, for on the following
evening, after eleven o'clock, he found his way
to the residence of the Reverend AL B. Hutchinson,
the incumbent of St. James, Devonport, whom he
saw, and after apologising for calling so late, said
he had come to him as the clergyman of the parish
to ask his advice; the tact was, he said, he was the son
of a gentleman, and had been sent to Paris by his father's
wish to make himself acquainted with the pictures in
the Louvre as the means of improvement as an artist,
but was sorry to say that he had lived " too fast," and
as a consequence had been obliged to leave France.
During part of the six months he had been in England
he had been engaged as a scene painter at Tiver-
ton. All went on well enough until a few
weeks since the manager put his name (Mr. Arthur)
in the play bill ; this reached his father, and the conse-
quence was a letter informing that unless he gave up his
connexion with the theatre, his father would give him up
and never again acknowledge or assist him; under this
pressure he had left Tiverton and come into this neigh-
bourhood, and hoped to get employment here. He had
written to his father who had promised him money, as
the letter which he handed to Mr. Hutchinson would
show. This letter had all the appearance of a genuine
document, and promised him a remittance on Thursday.
Now what he wanted advice upon was how he was to
subsist until the money arrived from his father
on Thursday. Mr. Hutchinson saw no reason for
disbelieving the story, and the time not admit-
ting either of inquiry, beyond the applicant himself;
or of arrangements fur his relief, thought the best prac-
tical aid he could render was to let the young man have
ss. whereon to subsist, until other steps could be taken.
He thanked Mr. Hutchinson for his great kindness, and
promising to see him again, bade him good night. We
need not say that he has net yet returned, and that we
believe Mr. Hutchinson does not entertain an idea of the
amount being returned to him through a post-office order.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

The following is the official statement of the quantiti
corn, &c., received in the port of London from the pui
Essex, from the 10th March, 1851, to the 15th March,
both inclusive :

ies c

851,