The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-10 00:00:00

ONDON, SATITRDAY EVENING,

pving a well-circumstanced tenement, with comfort-
able farm-house' and out-offices, for which he pays
3001. per ennum—a just rear, such as would be given
by a solveet tenant, and that of a clerk in a mercan-
tile house, receiving an annual stipend of 1501. per
annum. Under the Act they are required to pay the
same charge, viz , 41. 7s. 6d. each. The former has
his lands well stocked—cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry,
milk, butter, vegetables, flour, possibly (on rare oc-
casions) a bare, or some other description of game,
and many things that make fearful inroads on the in-
come of the citiaen, are all at hand without trouble
or outlay. lie has nothing to pay for house rent, and
can use his farm-horses for moving about, if he con-
siders it necessary. According to the estimate of
Mr. BOOKER, he would have a capital of 2,4001. ;
the more correct estimate we believe would be
3,0001. or 101. per acre, so that his family would not
be utterly unprovided, if he were suddenly cut off.
The necessity for insurance would thus be dispensed
with. On the balance of cash between what he ex-
pended in rent, rates, taxes, seed, labour, and all the
other necessary expenditure of the farm, and the
amount of produce sold (which he would alone take
into account), there might not be an apparent profit
of 1501.; and he might, and very probably would,
consider himself aggrieved, making no allowance
for a comfortable house (rent-free), milk, butter,
vegetables, eggs, poultry, mutton, beef, and pork, &c.,
&c. Servants' wages would form part of the farm
expenditure, and be calculated in that department,
so that if he made what he called a profit of 1501.
per annum, it would be available for luxuries, the
necessaries being all provided for previously.
The clerk, on the other hand, who by un-
tiring industry and unblemished integrity, ex-
hibited through a service of twenty or thirty
years, during which he had gradually worked up
from a salary of 1.5& or 203. per week to the com-
parative affluence of 31. a week, or 1501. per annum,
will first have to pay for rent and taxes for a cottage
in some of the suburbs at least 301. per annum ;
then 6d. per diem, or 71. 163., for omnibus tares
(aesuming that the " Association" will give up the
penny recently added). He must then dress rather
more expensively than would be required in walking
through and overseeing a fnrrn in the country. A large
proportio❑ of the balance of his income is abwrip-Al
in providing the articles which his fortunate neigh-
bour receives off his holding without any outlay,
while he in vain looks to the possibility of putting by
any provision for wife or children, in the event of
his unexpected decease. They must stand their
chance, and if anything should happen to the father
aed protector before they are able to provide for
themselves, must have recourse to the tender
mercies of the union workhouse. Well may ouch
a person envy the lot of the fortunate agriculturist,
and bitterly feel that giving relief to the latter, while
denying it to himselt; is little better than heartless
mockery ; that it is, in fact. adding insult to the deep
injury already inflicted on him.

yet more miraculous truthfuhr.sb—therefire we are
not obliged to accept at his hands a contused Agglo-
meration of red, an I while, and yellow, and b.,w down
our heads before it as before, a masterpiece.
Or, upon another hand, that bee -.use a different artist
has achieved triumphs both in genre and historical
painting, that therefore we are not obliged to see in
any wooden face he may be pleased to depict nobility
of sentiment or grandeur of expression. Against all
shams, of what kind soever they may be, the voice of
the true critic is raised in spite of every obstructing
consideration. In art as in other things this latitude
of comment should, we maintain, be unscrupulously
exercised—no matter whether the aspirant for praise
be a sign-painter or a Royal Academician.

TilE FRENCH. REPUBLIC.
We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Io the Assembly on Thursday M. EMMANUEL
ARAGO ascended the tribune, and read a circular ad-
dressed by the Jug.. de Paix of Sere (Lot•et-Ge-
ronne), calling on the several mayors under eis juris-
diction to encourage by every means the signing of
petitions in fhvour of the prolongation of the powers
of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, " if' they venerated
their father and mother, if they loved teeir wives and
children, if they cherished the religion of Jesus
CHRIST, it they believed in GOD," The Hon. Repre-
sentative asked whether such language ought to be
tolerated by the Government. M. ROUHER, the
Minister of Justice, expressed his disapprobation of
such coeduct in any functionery. He had only
heard of the matter two- days back, and had at once
written for explanation., but had not as yet received
an answer to his communication.
The Committee on the proposition of M. BAZE, re-
lative to the sale of journals in the btr«,t,ts, has
adopted the principle of it, and appointed a Sub-
committee, consisting of MM. BAZE, EvARIsTE, BA-
VOUX, and CANET, t) prepare a report as to the excep-
tions that may be admitted.
The Bulletin de Paris says—
" The Government is seriously desirous of inspiring
confidence, and consolidating order and public tran-
qullity, at a moment when the country is already in a
of :Anxiety in pres,Pce of the grave questions of
tee revision of the constfution and the prolongation of
'he powers of the President. The measures which they
have nearly decided ou adopting are said to be—lst, An
ensemble of new repressive laws; 2.1, The nomination
fa Prefect of Police at Lyons, where the pelted is in-
sufficient et present to repreis the continual awmpts to
disturb urde,, ; and. 3.1, A place for removing, f,:r the
department of the Seine-, the reprim dejuqice, vagabonds,
and persons ithAlt
The President of the REPUBLIC, by a degree of
The 4th instant has promoted General OUDINOT DE
REGGIO to the reek of Grand Cross in the Legion of
Honour, in consideration of forty-three years' service,
nine campaigns, and one wound.
A French squadron, consisting of six sail of the
let Brest on the 6th for Cadiz, where it is ex-
pected to reamin for some time in consequence of the
late events in Portugal.
The Bill presented on the 34 instant by the Mi-
nister of Public Works, for the execution of the
Lyons to Avignon Railway, bas just been distri-
buted. The Minister proposes to make a direct con-
cession, for ninety-nine years, to.the St. Etienne, to
Lyons Company of the Avignon line, which is to be
divided into two-sections, the first from Lyons to
Valence, and the second from Valence to Avignon.
The company is to execute the works under
the control of the Government engineers,
and is to receive in thirty equal payments a
subvention to meet one -ball of the expense,
toe said subventi not to exceed • sixty millions, and
the company on its side to expend at least a like sum.
The State is not to be called on to expend more than
44,000 f. per kiloMetre for its share of expense. The
company is to be authorised to procure thirty mil-
lions of its capital by means of a loan, for the interest
and sinking fund of which the State will guarantee
five per cent. interest. Tne bonds of this loan can be
issued only to the extent of eight millions, until the
complete execution of the line from Avignon to
Valence ; and when the whole line is finished, the
bonds of the loan are to be preference ones over any
other payment. The section tram Avignon to Valence
is to be finished in two years and a half, and the re-
mainder in three years after. The line is to start
at Lyons from Perrache, where a goods station is to
be established, common to it and to the line from
Paris to Lyons. At a period of fifteen years after
the completion of the line, if the profits exceed 8 per
cent., one-half of the surplus is to be paid to the
State. Such are the principal conditions of the Bill.
The Bourse was aninasted, and the price of public
Securities was rather firmer. The Five per Cents.
opened at 911. and ciosA at 90f. 80c. The Three per
Cents. closed at 56f. 40c. Orleans Railroad Shares,
821 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 625 f. ; Great Northern, 475 f. ;
Avignon, 223?: 75c.; Basle, 143 f. 75e.; Bordeaux, 4001.;
Pe, to and Strasburg, 366 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes,
273 r. 75c.

-311;ii NESS DOT,TE IN FOREIGN RAIL'iVATS A'_!` TkIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHAN(;E, MAY 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10 East Indian, 16—Namur and
Liege, 7"A—West Flanders,

SPAIN.
Madrid journal 3 of the 4th have arrived, their con
ens are without interest.
J3:,lse was cuyied on the 4th.