The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-22 00:00:00

ALTSTRIX AND
ÜBLIC THE FRENCH
REP.
The followlog appears in the semi-official Journal
(le Frankfort of the 18th inst.:-
0 The affairs of France again present a threatening
aspect. Revolution will break out a fresh
uni if tl
sal
ie
Vresident throws himself into the arms, of ver
suffrage. No one can doubt that in this case M.
Louis Bonaparte will onwhily b
hee a
wnill instrumentthen be unable to
in the
hands of democracy, ela
keep under.
"We have said in a previous article that the '
northern powers were far from meddling in any
way in the internal affairs of France. If this country
is to be a prey to anarchy, it must undergo the con-
sequences of such a state of things. We know that
the rest of Continental Europe is on its guard against
revolution, wherever it may come from. We know,
also, that in view of such an event the most perfect
agreement exists between the Northern Powers. We
know that all the intestine discords now existing in
Germany upon material and formal questions will
dipp-tsr when it becomes necessary to protect home
and hearth against the invasion of revolution which
rosy not be confined to France, but wl be
fo reed to Had an issue for its devastating current.
-" In that case, the political question and the main-
tena.ece of society will absorb ad other interests. Ger-
many, instead of pursuing a federal organization.
which, icdeed, meets with many difficulties, but which
is not impossible, will be obliged to have recourse to
military absolutism, as the sole expedient to prevent a
catastrophe with
nicewhh we are threatened by anarchist
France enters into a path in
labsolutism, so s
hich the safety of the country can no longer depend
on the energy of Government, but must fall into the
quicksands of popular inconstancy. We repeat, the
north ern powers will never meddle in the internal
• affairs of France, but we do not deny that they only
a watt tla moment when France will meddle with
theirs. Wha)*lHey fear is a perpetually precarious
situation, whq&l may not even offer a gleam of con-
solidtation, which may maintain the rest of Europe on
the footing of an armed peace.
it m•ey those to whom are intrusted the destinies
of France take this state of things into consideration;
may they maintain intact their historical mission ;
may they support themselves, not on the sovereign
will of the people, which is nothing else but anarchy,
but upon the energy of those who have all to lose and
no thing to gain, and who perfectly understand that
°ell order only depends on the rigorous accomplish-
ment of the laws made by those who are interested in
their maintenance."
This is the return of the Emperor of Austria for
the prompt obedience of his orders paid by M. Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, in refusing to Kossuth a passage
ti rough France. We congratulate M. Bonaparte on
the great personal advantage he is likely to derive for
his voluntary humiliation before the throne of the
vassal of the Czar.

ITALY.
The official Gazette, 11 elfonitore Toscano, contains
three decrees suppressing entirely the importance of
the Tuscan Minister of War, and putting the entire
covtrol of the military resources of the Grand Duchy
into the hands of Austria. The first decree is as
follo•ws :
" We, Leopold I. 1., 84. e.—Considering our decree of this
a 9
• ' date by which, in consequence of the retirement of
3y A -
Vent. G,nertl Count Cesar de Laugier, the charge of
Minister Secretary of State for the War Department
is become vacant, and wishing to provide for the direc-
tion
of military affairs as well as fur the defini-
tive or.ganizatioa of our troops in the manner
most suitable to Oe future wants and circumstances of
the state, decree as follows:—' Art. 1. The decree of Oct.
22, 1843, is revoked, according to the terms of which
the geceral command of the troops of the Grand Duchy
having. been suppressed, the duties relative thereto were
attached to the Ministry of War. Art. 2. The said ge-
neral c6inmand is re-established, with the prerogatives
and attributions with which it was invested at the pe- '
riod of its suppression, and more particularly with
those determined by the instructions approved by the
royal nwtu proprio of February 19, 1820. We re-
serve, however, to ourselves the right of adding
thereto any modifications which may appear neces-
svry. Art. 3. In consequence of the preceding articles,
the attributions of the Ministry of War will boccme
again such as before 1848 belonged to the old Secretary-
ship of War. Art. 4. The general inspections of the
tro"os of the line and cavalry, instituted by the decrees
of Nov. 8, 1848, aid Sept. 20, 1850, are suppressed, and
the,ir duties transferred to the general command. Art. 5.
The staff ..st present attached to the Ministry of War is
dissolved, and the individuals composing, it placed in dis-
posability. Art. 6. The present functions cf the Minis-
ter of War are to be reformed and recast in proportion
comaiensurate with the restricted duties of this depart-
ment."
The next d,cree charges provisionally with the
Ministry of War M. Beldasseroni, President of the
Council and Minister of Finances.
The third decree appoints, by its Ist article, the
Chevalier Federigo Ferrari da Grade, formerly
lieutenant-colonel in the Austrian army, to the
rank of major-general in the TlF,cau troops, and
invests him with the genral military command
of the Grand Duchy. The 2d article assigns
to General Ferrari the pay attributed to his rank by
the Royal decree of May 20, 1850, besides the per-
quisites fcrmerly attached to the post of commander-
general. According to the 3d article General Fer-
rari is to propose and execute all that he deems of
most use for thy definitive organization cf the troops
of the Grand Duchy. The 4th article directs that
these propositions are to be presented for the approba-
tion of the Grand Duk through the channel of the
Minister of War, who will make kno•-.vn to the com-
mander-genera.' the decision of the Sovereign.
It is reported that the Tuscan officers of the guard
have offered to resign their commissions.

THE UNITED STATES' ARCTIC
EXPEDITION.
(From the .New York Tribune.)
The annexed letter from surgeon Kane to Mr.
Henry Grinnell will be interesting, as giving the
opinion of a competent observer in regard to the
question of Sir John Franklin's position :
" Rensselaer, near. Philadelphia, Oat. G.
"My dear Sir,—You ask me whether I have
changed the views I expressed to you when we parted
in Mx of lest year as to the fate and actual position of
Sir ..Man Franklin's party, and you remind me that I
then thought the northward passage, by Wellington
Channel, the one which they had most probably taken.
" I have seen nothing since to change this opinion,
hut many things to confirm it. You know that Sir
John's instructions gave him the elternative of this
course, after making a decided effort to proceed to the
southward and westward from the neighbourhood of
Cape Welker, and I need not renew to you the argu-
ments that have demonstrated his purpose to avail
himself of this discretion.
"Now our own observation, as well as all the in-
formation which we have derived from other sources,
makes it seem an almost unvarying fact, that the ice
holds much longer in those parts of the, Sound which
are to the west and the south of Wellington Channel
than in the channel itself. I should think it quite
safe to say that, under ordinary circumstances, the
navigation, though obstructed and difficult, would be
practicable some weeks earlier by the northern than
the western route. It seemed to mb, too, very de-
menstrabla from ascertained facts that the earlier
leads occur on the eastern side of Wellington Channel.
The currents from the Pole towards the Equator are
modified, of course, by the rotary movement of the
earth,
and our own experience during our long drift
down the western shores of Baffin's Bay confirmed
the representations of all the whalers we met that in
the first months of the season the greater -masses of
Polar ice track their way along the
western coasts,
the easterncom,
comparatively free.
leaving
" The position
of Franklin's
party in the winter of
184-G has now been definitively ascertained. It was
in the cove between C
and the so-called
Baechey Island, which is in
Kileynvefelrget,apeninsula forming
the south-eastern Cape of
N
ton Channel. His
encampment occupied the narrow
between Lancaster Sound and this channel, of low land
rsof
and com-
manded a full view of the ice-clad waters both,The
traces of his parties continued northwardly l\t.e even
discovered the unmistakable marks of sledges- extend-
ing toward the north. These were, in one place, well
defined' on the shingle limestone, and, further on
the hardened snow of former years. There can ben©
doubt, then, either that Sir John did in fact proceed
north from his first wintering ground, or that, at
least, he made observations in that direction to a con_
Merable, and we do not know how great a distance.
` So much for deductions from the immediate re-
sults of your expedition, jointly with the British ex-
.paluoring parties; I say jointly, for you are aware that
rnoved to,ether, and that the discoveries at and
gear
of bothwneartieonms.ade
tQar CaPe Ailey '
" Whathee
the southwa;d at the same time by
Sir John Franklin had penetrated to
at this poir,t marl westward before making harbour
know that
he'Zicit,elf.stion of minor importance. We
from what all the wintered
near the Great Channel, and,
Sir John, it is net l world knows of the character of
Bchuslighet degree probable that
he would rest at
eastern bores e ..
.the had
?to penetrate to '
along the„ey after ice opened
mere hope of being al,l °• wellington Inlet,
south
the
w,st a:**Fetne later
apvearill'j(htlizstellf of tbe earliest leads
track whena
detached he would
his
srder then to
if
the
ice
did
bc and
Iteh;erretaainly did
e
even if he was raiolved to
the season should be more advaZirli
push his way toward Cape Walker.
leave his quarters early in 1846, and
marks which might support the idea that he 4°
somewhat haf:tily, as if availing himself oi e did so
pected pathway. If there are no traces olfinhilnQl,7,
N_EIV.SrA -T., .24:1 direction. jf Caper Walker, as there are n'otpne. 0--f
" • • date toan 1840-6 in tho neighbourhood of
.. i i.-
"7. , , _ chey, the inference seems to me irresistible that
..,./i.74 rooee:\J‘o9". assed northward by Wellington Channel, and
i Ile.,- 'e\''': - e did not return.
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.::i...e,1, t.7.,,?,--7Arcl- ~ ...N-- nyi,hi not ba able to do so without having ea.
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