The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUN,

tration. A Cabinet of Transition it was called for 1'
the nonce, but since the morning of its appointment
it has still continued to hold its ground in defiance
of the most contemptuous opposition. Than this
assuredly nothing could scarcely have been more
unpalatable to the rival politicians grown grey in
their career as administrators. It is proclaimed to
the people that the affairs of the country can be at-
tended to without any mediate or immediate aid
from themselves, and that men, so to speak of pro-
vincial reputation, have done more for the good of
the population than the statesmen who have hereto-
fore dreamed of monopolizing to themselves the per-
quisites and the privileges of Government.
In consequence of these recent occurrences,
the cause of the PRESIDENT has been amazingly
strengthened in the estimation of the general
community, while that of his calumniators
and assailants has been deteriorated very
nearly beyond the reach of redemption. Not-
withstanding all the sinister predictions made by the
counter-revolutionists, with a view to depreciate the
influence of Louis NAPOLEON among the multitude,
his integrity has been displayed so conspicuously as
to be now visible in the sight of all men.
Scarcely three months have elapsed since it
was prophesied that he meditated a coup
d'etat, yet he has done no such thing, but on
the contrary has preserved the capital in a
state of uninterrupted tranquillity. It was said that
he was about to take up his residence in the palace
of the Tuileries, yet he is to the pre-
sent moment residing in the Elysee Nati-
tional. It was asserted that he had become
altogether dissatisfied with his simply democratic and
magisterial prerogatives, yet he is nothing more even
now than mere Monsieur le PRESIDENT. He has
failed to grasp the fasces of a Consul, the sceptre of a
King, or the diadem of an Emperor. There are no
golden bees embroidered on the dais of his banquet-
ting-room. The illoniteur has recorded no repetition
of an 18th Brumaire. The Assembly has neither
been decoyed to the gardens of St. Cloud, nor driven
at the point of the bayonet out of the windows of the
Orangerie. M. THIERS can eat his cutlet undis-
turbed before going down to the Repub-
lican Parliament to declaim against the in-
dividual he was wont to laugh at in his sleeve as
the planche Napoleonienne. M. BERRYER can move
without impediment to the tribune, where he unfolds
the brief occasionally entrusted to him by the Count
DE CHAMBORD. The Orleanists can correspond in
freedom with the Prince DE JOIN vILLE, or with the
guardians of the Comte DE PARIS. Every section of
the counter• revolutionary party continues to be un-
fettered by any arbitrary proceedings on the part of
the PRESIDENT of the Republic or his Government.
And yet this is the traitor to the Constitution, who
was said to be plotting for the seizure of the
reins of despotism ! This is the man who
was three months ago to have strangled
democracy in the capital, and to have dispatched his
imperial emissaries, with almost irresponsible autho-
rity, in each of the eighty-six departments ! After
the glaring falsification of these prophecies, it is to
be hoped that the real enemies of the Republic will
refrain for a while at least from directing their poi-
soned calumnies against the heads of the veritable
guardians of the Constitution. Uneloaked themselves
in their endeavours to uncloak their antagonists, they
must surely pause for a time before they venture once
more to tamper with public credulity. The people will
not readily believe their bodings of evil however
emphatically pronounced, or however circumstantially
attested. Besides, they should bear in recollection the
sagacious hint of the fabulist—or, when the period of
peril really does arrive to the Republic, their warn-
ings will be regarded with either silent contempt or
manifest derision. Nevertheless, under any circum-
stances, we cannot but think, when we look back
upon the record of the events which have taken place
in France since the February of 1848, but more espe-
cially since the memorable 10th of December, that
the veritable source of danger to the Constitution,
and generally to the whole sacred cause of democracy,
may be discovered in the bosom of that very faction
which has hitherto most noisily pronounced Louis
NAPOLEON the secret traitor to the Republic. We mean,
of course, the highly conscientious faction of the Le-
gitimatists, embracing the advocates of both the
Bourbon and the Orleans dynasty. Among these
sinister politicians may, unhappily, be discerned most
of the eminent and practised statesmen in France.
Fortunately, however, the object of their calumnious
animosities has recently shown both them and the
nation that he can manage admirably well without
having recourse to their personal assistance. Hence
the cause for congratulation to the Republic, which
we continue to recognise in the career of the Cabinet
the world was at first disposed to laugh at, but
which is now widely and favourably known as the
Ministry of Transition.

The Bishop of CLIFTON, as Dr. J. W. HENDREN
is pleased to designate himself, has written forcibly
on the disgust excited in the mind of Miss AUGUSTA
TALBOT for what is termed fashionable life, of the
little happiness she derived from the " charms of
society," and the anxious yearning after the peaceful
retirement of " the Lodge," which induced her " to
beg admission as a postulant—that is as one intended
to become in due time a nun, if considered to be
properly qualified ;" in accordance with which feel-
ing, " she wrote a most earnestly supplicating letter to
that efftct."

The Right Reverend Doctor has also kindly
informed the public of the "consternation"
excited in the convent by the proposition. Many of
the nuns objected to it strongly—not on account of
any personal feeling against the dear creature who
had been educated under their auspices, but for " the
reason that they would be accused of having in-
veigled her to enter among them on account of her
wordly advantages." This would probably have
proved fatal to the hopes of the youthful aspirant, but
for the opportune interference of the benevolent
Bi.ahop, who stepped forward, the deus ex machina,
to remove all impediments to the consummation
so devoutly to be wished for, which would enable
Miss TALBOT, if she should satisfactorily pass through
the preliminary ordeals; to spend the remainder of
her existence in tranquil seclusion, and devote her
80,0001. to the building and endowing of churches
and chapels, and schools and hospitals, and 'orphan-
ages, &c., which are so much required, as the' Ca-
tholic Church in England is very poorly provided."
He certainly made the suppliant know the value of the
boon he was conferring. lie told her that he " did not
consider her at all fitted for the conventual
life, but that he might be wrong in his judgment, and
therefore would not oppose her wish, if the commu-
nity were willing to give her a trial." Even this ob-
stacle was cleared any by the kindness of the eccle-
siastical superior, who wrote to the lady abbess in a
similar way, "but adding, that in such a case the cen-
sures of the world, which they apprehended, must be
disregarded." And thus it happened that the earnest
prayer of the petitioner was granted, and that, " ac-
cordingly, she was admitted somewhere about the be-
ginning of September."

It may be interesting to our readers to quote the fol-
lowing extract :from The Secret Instructions of the Je-
suits, which are given in an admirable pamphlet,* to
which we have already directed the public attention
in our impression of the Ist inst. It shows the mode
in which the members of the society are to act to-
ward those whom it is desirable to inveigle into a
convent. They are informed

" HOW WIDOWS' CHILDREN ARE TO BE TREATED TO
MAKE THEM EMBRACE A RELIGIOUS LIFE.
" Mothers must press upon their daughters the diffi-
cultie% of tho marriage state, with the miseries they have
endured themselves, and when they are growing up must
rqiuse them all that is attractive in drt,ss, promising them
con.iclersbl,l portions if they become nuns. Let them
Pc'r'rv(l.e in this discipline, that the children, tired of
leading such a life at home may enter upon a religious
life.

,th).u.r, ::imeinbt,rs mn4t converse familiarly,
,‘ With the son. .1.
, vineyard's°3
t,u,,,itied for the Order, they must intro-
dalucdeifth'ehtnyinto the whatever they think
to enter the Society, such
parts
of the
will attract and induct, showing
and country seats,
as the girdeu,
youth;
remark
world, and
of God for then?
ewith each
where the member, ittnus;;:hpfarra9'
Let them speak
boon easy the ruins
rot, and the
of their travels in various
other; uponh the agreeable
intercourseevery-
thing l ikely t tohe
they
engage
are, haviin.; the glory
pre-eminence ef our order above au others'
Compare the conduct of the persons engaged about
poor Miss TALBOT with these instructhms, and
e
we wonder at the " diTust for fashionable life," the
little happiness derived from "the charms of soeiety,,,
by the poor young lady ? Might she not have been
so " tired of leading such a life at home" as to be

willing to embrace a religious life, and might not
the unpleaiing matrimonial proposals have been urged
on her for the same motives ?

Mi3S TALBOT was not to become a professed nun
until after she had attained her full age. If we wish
to know why so long a probation was enforced upon
that young lady, we may learn it from the rule con-
tained in Chapter 9 :

" Never admit any one, except for very important
reasons, to take his last degree while he is in expectation
of being left an estate, unless he be a younger brother in
the Society, tor above everything the greatest exertions
must be made to augment lands, for ends known to the
Superiors."

Our space, unfortunately, will not admit of our
availing ourselves more largely of the modes by
which " rich widows," " rich merchants, citizens, and
married people without families," are to be gained over,
so that their whole property may fall to the society,
if the plans pointed out be skilfully observed. To all
who wish to know these matters more fully, we
once more earnestly commend the last publication of
the late lamented JAMES SEDGWICK, Chairman of the
Board of Taxes, whose recent melancholy death must
be fresh in the public recollection.
• " A Letter to the Lord Bishop of London on the Pro-
mulgation of the recent Papal Bull." By a Barrister.
London : J. Ridgway, Piccadilly ; W. and T. Piper, 23,
Paternoster-row.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The negotiations with M. ODILON BARROT for
the formation of a Paliamentary Ministry have been
finally broken off. M. BARROT insisted that the
Home Department should be given either to M. Du-
FAURE or to M. LEON DE MALLEVILLE, and the
PRESIDENT was equally determined that neither of
those gentlemen should have a seat in the Cabinet.
In the National Assembly yesterday, M. BAZE as-
cended the tribune, and demanded that the proposi-
tion of M. DESMARS, relative to the application of the
law of the 31st of May, 1850, to the election of the
President of the Republic, be placed as early as pos-
sible on the order of the day. The report on the pro-
position was deposited on the 21st of February last,
and the Assembly had had ample time to examine the
question.
M. LEON FAUCHER observed that several other
propositions to the same effect had been referred for
examination to a Committee of the House, and that it
would be advisable to wait until that Committee had
made its report. He could not see the object of an
isolated debate on the law of the 31st May, 1850,
which, if attacked, would not want defenders in the
Assembly.—(Murmurs on the Left.)
M. BAZE replied, that the proposition of M. D.ll
MARS did not imply in any manner the application or
non-application of the law of the 31st of May, 1850.
Its sole object was to induce the Assembly to decide
by a formal vote that the law in virtue of which
representatives of the people were returned, should
likewise serve for the election of the PRESIDENT of the
Republic.
After a few words from M. DESMARS, the As-
sembly, being consulted, gave the priority to the
motion of M. BAZE, and resolved that the propo-
sition of M. DESMARS should be discussed on
Friday.
A terrific hurricane raged at Lyons on the 22d.
The Bourse continues tecble, and public securities
have a downward tendency. The Five per Cents.
opened at 94E. 30c., and closed at 94E. 10c.; the Three
per Cents. closed at 57t. 75c.; Orleans Railroad Shares,
895 f.; Rouen, 6551.; Havre, 295 f.; Great Northern,
481 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 202 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 445 f.;
Bask, 158 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 373 f. 75c.;
Tours and Nantes, 275 e.

BUSINESS DON E IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 26.

Boulogne and Amiens, 101/B Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 18—Dutch Rhenish, 31,4—Namur and Liege,
81/s—Northern of France, 15%•-Orleans and Bordeaux, 414
—Paris and Rouen, 261/B—Paris andlStrasburg, 11—Rouen
and llavre, 113/4 Sambre and Meuse, 3% Tours and
Nantes, 61;,3—West Flanders, 21%.