The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-08 00:00:00

as a political cipher, a warming pan, a makeshift
Chancellor of the Exchequer, who only holds office
until his Peelite successor can be appointed. Finan-
cial Reformers need not therefore be discouraged
because he is nominally the Minister of Finance. But
if they urge their claims steadily and perseveringly,
and evince u►itquivocal determination not to be bam-
boozled, they will attain the success they deserve,
notwithstanding the nominal position of the Right
Hon. Baronet as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Let all persons, then, who are assessed under Sche-
dules D and E be up and doing, and they will be as-
sisted by:the friends of equity and fair play throughout
the length and breadth of the land ! If they act
properly, they will obtain some relief, which, although
it may not be to the full extent of that to which they
are entitled, will at least be an instalment of justice. Let
all those who object to the atrocious tax on light
and air now exhibit the activity and energy
which the exigency of the case requires, and protest
against the pretended boon, which would perpetuate
the gross inequalities—we had almost written
iniquities—of the present system, and shut
out the prospect of future relief; and, above all, let
those who do not think it advisable to maintain
taxes on industry, that paralyze the national
energies for the purpose of paying off at par
a debt, the consideration whereof was barely Gs. Bd.
in the pound, come forward and protest against the
reversal of the old Whig policy, and the deliberate
application of several millions per annum to the liqui-
dation of the national debt.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Committee on the Budget was appointed on
Thursday, it consists of twenty-seven Reactionaries,
one moderate Republican, and two members of the
Mountain.

The enormous amount of the unfunded debt,
600,000,000 francs, occasioned considerable uneasi-
ness. In several of the bureaux the Members urged
the immediate reduction of the army.
It is said that arrangements are in progress for
the appointment of a permanent Ministry, of which
MM. ODILON BABB(); BAROCHE, and ACHILL)!
FOULD will be memb9rs. MM. GUIZOT and
DUCHATEL have joined M. BBRRYER and the Legi-
timatists, M. TRIERS refuses to co-operate with
them, and now declares himself a supporter of the
Republic and the Constitution.
The Bourse, which was dull at the commencement of
business, became more animated at the close, and the
price of Government securities improved. The Five per
Cents, opened at 94f. 10c., and closed at 94f. 25c.; the
Three per Cents, closed at 58f. ; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 885 f.; Rouen, 647 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 476 f.
25c.; Avignon, 190 f.; Vierzon, 416 f. 250.; Baile 157 f.
;
50c.; Bordeaux, 395 f. Paris and Strasburg, 366 f. 25c.;
Tours and Nantes, 256 f. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Mar= 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 934—Dutch Rhenish, 314 —Great
Indian Peninsula, s;vs—Namur and Liege, 81,4—Northern of
France, 151,u Orleans and Bordeaux, 3% Paris and
Rouen, 26 - Paris and Strasbourg, 10 jQ ex div.—Rouen and
Havre,ll —Sambre and Meuse, 314—Tours and Nantes, 5%