The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

Til E SUN, LONDON; IVEDNPST)AIr-

TeiVerrifort—i— Non, miffing-- can -6e recotnitir IT)utettirost butinddri-ATiif the capital. But as 3et no
which betokens a movement in any way hostile i adequate attention has h en pcid to requirements ex-
to the existing institutions of the country, isties „VI another direction, the want, the ab:olute and
either on the part of the populace or of their chief imperative want of pure water for the consumption of
magistrate. Whatever tribute of regard was paid to the inhabitsnts of London and IVestreinster. Very
Lours NAPoLLON by the, multitude was offered to the frequently, no doubt, there his been heard a discus•
elected of the 10th of December as a tribute of gristle b ion of this matter, but as yet its di,cessiore has each
tuds to hie feithfulnees to hie oaths, as a tribute of time been allowed to find in resolutions which
respect to his probity as a statfsman, as a mark of have afterwards proved altogether inopera-
homsge to an administrator who had m the Live. Abe system of irrigation adopted amongst
integrity of his position, while conserving the, peace us up. to the present time is in its character
and prosperity of the great nation eetrust.d by nauseous eeough, heaven knows, to have in-
six" milliuns of electors to his sup rinte edence, duced any set of men, however be otted wi h
Those who are the I, ast prediepo-ed of all men a reverence for ancient cueoms, to set in earneet about
to appleu I the prss-nt head of the Democratic some grand scheme of wholesale and comprehensive
Government of France must asluowledge, in spite innovation. When it is remembered tt.hatt.he
of themselves and their prijudicee,
that he has in mulcted refuse of the metropolis is nom
truth deserved well of his country hitherto; fur Louis ber of channels into toe current of tee Thames, and
NAPoLEON has, up to this moment, acted in every that yet that same current, thus polluted with name.
manner as Ivc4me the first magistrate of a republic., less abominations is itaibed by a large mars of the
and this in s?i•e of the eiaieter infleecce of all his metropolitan m„ititud,.,, it must be allowed that
many dynastic recollections. Himself the son of a ample cause exists for an immediate and radical
King, the nephew of an Emperor, and the recognized change in our arrangement,* for the irriga'ion of the
chieftain of the royal and imperial race of the &NA- capital, if only in obedience to the dictates ot disgust,
palms, elected to the chair of the Preeidency by an of shame, and of pity. Still, patent es the evil is to
er majority ofsuffrages,he has nevertheless the community, no energetic effort has up to this
.evr atw
be g
nought the numberless and inebriating tempts- moment been made for the better supply of water to the
o
tions cast in his way by good fortune, and after richest and the most ingenious metropolis in the whole
upwards of two years undisputed supremacy lie has extent of Cnristendom. In all this there are assuredly
still left the Power of the democracy unencroached ample reasons fur cempldint on-the part of the suf-
upon even to the snrillest particular. Should the hirers, on the part of those who are compelled by the
PaESIDENT continue true to these noble antecedents present system to poison'themselves daily by drinking
up to the close of the period fur which he has been impurities with the current that sheuld, on the con-
elected, he will have carved out for himself a niche trary , invigorate their constitutions. Vaal this
in the loftiest portion of the Walhalla of his lather- apathy on the part of our fellow-citizens in regard to
land. a matter, to them ot attett infinite itnpurtune,, shall
Nothing could by possibility be in better taste have given place to something like a reasonable
than the terse but suggestive speech, in which the display ot energy and enterprise, we must
President BONAPARTE addressed the functionaries of perforce be compelled to recur again and
Dijon on the occasion of his arrival amongst them. yet again to this necessity for a great im-
Like all the otter orations delivered by the Prince, provemeot. Inasmuch esthey tend directly to enforce
since his elevation to' tne chief magistracy of the the arguments we are here advancing, we would
Republic., the harangue in question will be found or, moreover briefly direct public attention to two
perusal to have been characterised by that earliest but Pintphletv being immediately upon the subject ol
a water supply fur London—pamphlets written re-
uneffected patriotism which has never ed to arouse
spectively by the Lion. WILLIAM NAriha and by
the enthusiasm of his us. His reference
in it to the pr, j. et of a reform in the Coestitue Mr. Julia T.RBERNER.* Front them will be seen
tion is marked, moreover, by the calmness of an the nature of the ,difficulties which have to be over-
impassioned spectator, of one perfectly indifferent to come before the desired change can be pertected,
the dictates of either political antipathy ur political difficulties which must inevitably yield in the end to
predilection. While the terms in which be alludes to any thing like a reasonable evidence of determinstiou
the horile power of the State, the power unfortunately on the part of a capital so abounding in all the re.
oy necessity antagonistic to his own, namely, that of quisite resources.
the Legislature as contradistinguished from the Ad- " Soft Spring Water from the Surrey Sands." By
ministration, are of a kind honourable to him as a
the i Hon.
dWillium Napier, Sivo. pp. 113, Lonct,,n : Smi,bt
statesman in their union of dignity and amenity. By 'tiro' Plan LCu"" Wat,i-r Supply for London,
ude 14, q., Sao. pp. 107. Lau
From all these things, it is scarcely possible to don: litliogbaus Wilson, 1851.
prognosticate otherwise than advantageously to the
Republic, so locg as the head of the nation continues
thus true to his oaths of allegiance.
Meantime the conspirators against the Constitution
in its entirety are flittering themselves into the belief
that at this moment there is something more than the
possibility of a Restoration. With the elder and the
younger branch of the house of Bousnos still in ex-
Wence, they ore even now sanguine that the revolu-
tionary outbreak of 1848 nisy be turned to the ad-
vantage of Legitimacy—haniiing over the liherliss of
the French people to the more secure custody of the
descendants of their ancient Sovereigns. Availing
themselves of the excitement prose ked by the sug-
gested modification of the Constitution, they are
looking forward to the possible, and to then not only
possible, but probable, rupture of the whole of the
existing system. Neverthele,s, in detainee of all
these hostile expectations, the true and moderate
Republicans may, we are satisfied, await with the
confidence expressed to the people of Dijon by the
President BoNApARTE, s confidence that the As-
sembly will fulfil its duties of revision in
a patriotic and conscientious spirit, aware of
the awful responsibilities banging over them
in the emergency, more especially seeing that
the great election of 1852 will come off so very
speedily afterwards. Let each of the representatives
say, as earnestly as Louts NAroLEON said on Sun-
day, " Whatever duties the nation may impose it
will find me ready to accept, and, believe me, France
shall not perish in my hands." Let them speak thus,
and think thus, and feel thus, and the Republic may
still laugh to scorn the evil machinations of its anta-
gonists. Is may survive the plots of the ultra-Legiti-
matiets as securely as it did the murderous assaults of
the Red Democrats. We have confidence that :Mb will
be the case, if the tnajerity of the citizens of France
remain true to the examples of probity and patriotism
hitherto afforded by the PRESIMINT.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Peris, journals of yesterday.
The speech of the PlltSlDbriT of the Republic at
Dijon is the subject of comment in all of them, and
it seems admitted on all bends that the speech as
publithed differs very materially from the speech as
spoken, and it is said that none were more surprised
than were the Minittere at the impromptu alterations
*Lich the PIiIsSIDIsIsT had made in the speech. M.
LEON FAUCtiEit, immediately after the delivery ot
the ai.wt-co, declared to the PussiDEra that if the
speech were published as spoken, the Mini.-
try would resign. The Minister having obtained
permistien to 'creek" the document, at once art
off fer Pens by special trait-, and prepared en ex-
purgated edition of the epeech for the lifuniteur.
The Ordre slates that the epee ch, as deliveied, con-
tained a passage in which the PausIDDRT said, allud-
ing to the Legislative Aseembiy, '• teat he hail found
a very (ItelflCO cu-operation fer the repression of die-
order, hut•that when he wished to ptopose popular
ameliorations he had only met with inertness. The
Ordre regards this as a very violent and gross attack
upon the Assembly. In the Ilioniteur version of the
speech the following harmless passage occurs :
'..1 hey would have been that neither intrigues, nor
attacks, nor the peesior ate diecueeions of parties, are in
harmony wish the sentiments and state of the country."
In the epetchas spoken after the word intrigues there
came, according to the Sikle, the words of eke salons,
and before the word parties there occurred the word
Parliamentary. It the version of the Siècle and of
Ordre be the ti us one, then may the speech of the Pax-
arnsnT be considered as a declaration of war against
the Assembly, and in this light it is regarded by the
three great fractions of which the Assembly is com-
posed. The lit:publican Antiund say s—
" The LA/Iguagt, of the Preradout, even softened as it
is, Futlices mu cur eyes to ooastittre the must grave at-
tack upon the dignity and authority of the Assembly.
The speech at Dijen is an open defiance thrown out to
the Legitimist aid Orleanist majority and Republican
minority. M. Bonaparte places himself above the Cob-
tititutont to put ter., and in t.ce of the ltgislative power
what h- calls his Government. Accoldteg to the Con
attiuttoh, there is no other Government than the As-
limb!) and the Presideot unites:, and of these two
If an ordinary map of London were published, powere the aseozi i, subordinate to the first. M. Bona-
giving an outline of its subterranean wonders, instead par a. undereetabds things differently. He speaks ot the
re vinoti ot the CAistuatnin as it it were pomade out of
of its countless streets and palaces, we doubt not but the formal limits of Article 111, and says he is re•
that even those who are most. familiarly acquainted solved to perform the culled which the country may
with the organiatition of a metropolis would be filled impose upon him. The cou,•try has nothing to impubei
with absolute astonishment. In that chart would be ut:et:lnt of the °sift moat he took on 11. Bonaparte 'or the future,
but the accourpli•h-
-m he 20. h of December.
represented a net. work of arrangement of the utmost That is not a new day, and we are surprised that M.
imaginable intricacy ; in some portions, too, of more Bonapare should consider it necessary fur x
oers
et uensetetotor that
h de
ino
than surprising magnitude. The drainage, the hem or iL
lightieg, and the irligatiou of the capital alone sworetoat the
hit)i nationalaceeiht°firbe his
eyteil h
In presence
and of the French people, represented by the National
would constitute a labyrinth, the winding of Assetably, I swear to be fitithfut to the ceinocratic Ite•
which would be scarcely calculable by any public, one and indivisible, and to perform allswtuhhneadt doesdauytiiens
second customary method of computation. For the yestyhe? Coonatstiotntrietihne.' bi i
construction arid repair of those innumerable channels ithaeple'seodhsotlitumtieonh
May, 1852, Si. Bonaparte shall cease to be President of
for the conveyance of gas, of water, and of sewage the Republic, and that he shad not be re-eligible for four
Matter, it must be obvious, even without the assist-
"
&
years. This is our only answer fur to-day to the -
olaration of Dijon.
ance of such a guide as the one here intimated, that The Aesernblie Nationale, the organ of M. GUIROT
the utmost ingenuity was requiiite. Added to which, and the tuttiontets, is still more indignant. It sap—
the cost of tee whole system of arrangement necessi • "lo whom are addressed these reproaches of intrigues,
tales, and has for a very considerable number ofyears this couch =alum of attacks, this blame on the pibalou.
necessitated, an enormous and perpetually increasing ateh tdar-b.ourses i
soil
poot reratii l ? I
t parties?
is pirtodnuctedin the Parliament
expenditure. Yet, in spite of all these considerations, The
old inouarchical parties of whom you speak form
it has become nevertheless altogether undeniable that the urejotity of the Assembly ; is it then the majority
el which you ~,sirrd to summon to your bar at the banquet
Tingly inadequate, and with all our boasted advance-
the vast plans here alluded to are strongly and gla-
othfelea'.jceiet.?nt }r‘dtainmcee. yt'lnoduesray",hwaitlelyneortrohram it
hate any ret
may i,urn
i to
meet in the way of practical civilia ition, we are still
guised, nor eriy ate writ at funest or impr
seticabsle-
barbarously ignorant of the capabilities ot science, or urepian et:tutees. France, yon add, has placed con-
of the responsibilitiee devolving upon those who are one
end tho eteer. Biz' who in France a k f
ti•ituce in me, - bickers. 1 em the adversary of both
possessed of almost inexeauttible hinds, like the di- return to the eld /Jaime? has not that term hen
Wit.; &ems, then, do
thrown aside mutes the old frippery of "NZ-
Z-ns of Loudon and Westtninst4r. With this extra- long
goeuet and political charlat4ll -
you suppose is t_orob:gitvheins t,per:thetiiits:oog,:ltbo,
laetp, cif:
,tilutri9ilftoun,l:
ordinary amount of capital at their coretnand, and
' with two millions of people to care fur, the aa- under whatever fern. it may beertisguieed, and vee '
thori'ies intrusted with the management of these to be exteeted I
rutrchy
,? y,41 *peek of the
meters ought, if only out i f regerd to the the future fortune of Frstice, netween he rete•lutieeiste
commonest scrupled of conscience, to re cegvize
timltad,
miurivere,ptorir ;xi:LQs
.1:0E11
whichuir
ez 1
incley.p‘eierdtglitutlif tine.
who e 4 arij
a large portion at least of the sa stem Writer° t• etions; it is to the parties
carried on so insufficiently for the ceta et dea con- kiy ie 'het tne n
word tscties is tic/chested; and sincei
venieuee of the metropolitan poaulation ; put uteri ly jibe Esa eunve Petser, trim the time of the be tle el
for their comfort and conveteience, but likevviert, end ceupit4:iintahselp'c't.rbii.,Pilberib.tlithwol'wl) ciii,Pesrace of Paul" ex'
Assembly nobly that etreng•• attack againsttibtell'a'd)vveerisravillestto'ef
in an especial manner, fur the improvunient of the
public health and the diminution of the general
~f
io
suck duties
hat. imposed on. you; but is not the first
a personal poiicy ? You speak of the duties which
mortality— These impressions are, happiia, by this
duties to meintaiu treequillite ? Is not the
time somewhat clearly lecegeixtd as teusenatele by first to resp,ct, the' Parliamentary power, which has
never tallies, whatever may to said to the contrary, in
its assistants to all the ameliorations asked for
the large proportion of the multi. ude. lehe sanitary
movement Las, more pto tit ulai Iy of late, made con- by the '
hields the chief 14,a er to av hi all that of him
who
bevernu.ete I' Is it nut lb fir it e '
verts, not in tens but in thousand,,, arid in tens of
thousands. Everyone, more or lee;, has b eeme
at lea,t, that she itua► not
coups cleat. ail that can lead to the belietfetaf ant 1 ' mind
, iunadl
futziliatized with the necessity of removing pee specti., P In order that France shall net p riah
blvt:truelti y our toottra, it. order,
the feculent outpourings of a great city
exereseed.
very grievously, you teutcobserve your oath, snit
eh y tbe will ut the ci uotry, freely idol 1,gall)
8u far beyond its eubutbs, RS to seeder it e
and air too of
seareelY P°aible for the influence-of decomposition You ought not to allow yourself to be led awry in the
to centirattnate its atmosphere. The need air, path of tenaerities, or recommence the campaign of prece
of
torian reriews, or submit to the tyranny of a fatal thou ht
the purest descriptioii, is now-a-days which wou d swallow up in the failure of a third and art
known to be
tf the f' be
catenatel for the proper maintenance attetept the nine woratee of the good %Met& you h4ve
hemline of every living creature as that ut t ffect. o, mod el the evil whichh youl have prevented,
petiodicenutriment. Scarcely •••d 1 during your passage throl.g power.
ignorant as not to' be any 1"1" "is so The Opinion Publique, the organ of the ultra-
in home measure aware that
human beings itt.bills Leg:him...Lois, Say :• that [hie speech places the question
heurishmeet through the 01 revision on a- new groued, for it is of alf attire to
lungs and the Fires
than by the crgans of scarcely
gestion.
1 of the skin, less discourage hemoureble mete who still thought they
Renee it is
that wee deglutitionand di-
to ventilatioen, and might reckon tor the future on the moderation and
at We have
Be n spirit of conduct of the PiariloNT of the Republic.
I
much more attention paid latterly The etlic!, %mob it produced at the A i.St Hilly wax a
have witnessed moreover a display searimeet of just rt.3ortishlitebt and patriotic sadn; IPS.
y of hitherto u
customed enterprise in the buildieg of . nose- The wen, the most calm, aid most indulgent, tip-
publicpublic baths pefeedprofoundly wounded at this new Set of aggrete
and other wholesome and admirable establibh .- ' .
'fleuts• 810111 being prutoundly convinced, that wilt such pi e•
Exulting as we do, and as we have reason to tenei, ne, there was nothing to be done.
exult, over these very noble and perceptible The Union, the organ of M. BLkart.R, aurae:et-
improvements, it must unfortunately be ac. ises the delivery of the speech as a tact at once serious
knowiedged, at the same time, that we have and painful; and even the cautious Libels says—
_ .•
reinnveticts where the union ut tee two greet
U et
CSUse also to lament the indifference displayed powers of tee Mate 8 -
IS more Ulan ever necessary, we
simultaneously by the majority of our metropolitan
an'tl:ri,r4it4ret profoundly atl that can !end to week, n it;
reformers in regard to a change not less desirable at heariniervvetat neaten teat we were veritably efiliteed
K
Re-
as a step in the way of sanitary tdvancena “
en' We I public delivered at
which the President of the
have purer air, it is true, though still we are far flow i touud Us to betteral).ii°l3.
him k
out e a better The President had accus-
thiogs, and, in geoeral, we had sten
havinguse or. what he calif' his tribune. It
arrived at anything at all epptoechiug styes- td to be regrii,ed that, a
lieu in our system of ventilation. We have more hie calm attitude be did tr:(l:te moment when he spoke Of
abundant light. thou h sdll the benefit atising from that he theught it necessary to diesels guard it, and
reply to unjust attacks
the recent abolition gethe " t , by re
o• window-tax has scarcely ,ro. te
prisals still more unjust."
, The. 1 Itk.BIDEZ.T returned to P •
begun the process of its
development. We hive teken Btitiri ENS t; e: e ;INT koickaw.,, anti on Mouday.
into account the LONDON STOCK EXCifANGIE"4S .1'
i TUE
neceseity of berating eur dead ,
Boulogne and Amiens, 91:4--Central ' Jest 3. rt 1
in extramural cemeteries -1. ontee ( viro:intt
, and the not lee% urgent e et,
r and. ..erzone, 1714 —Northrt t, of k ran °t
necessity of tehiuving the a cc, 14)a —Paris and ;WA --.- Yarit) and Strasbourg, icvk ..,
sew matter beyond the ; Rom) Rousso sad

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Dante..,

~tjK I.'~.

Madrid journals of the 29z11 uit. have arrived.
There i, nothing of polhical intea-st. A decree in
the Gazette unites tae general diirect ion of ihr State
clonmiea with that of (meet ; this vii,l enable a
contdderable iwving to be effi:cled. The tepreAwata-
tives of ditferent parties were abiut to hold meetings
previous to the assembliug of the C./ tee. Some of
the journals haring stated that differences may
arise bet.weeu the Spanish and Engli•ll Governments
in cans. quence of an Et:glishman named WpDhAnt
hiving been at Join oil the occasion if the recent
Spniarcis against the !mots, the
iier'uldi Wes that he was not iu the island at the
ti•iie.
The Balsa Rai closid.