The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-05 00:00:00

bers of partners composing banks of deposit
within the pale of its exclusive issue.
We therefore trust provision will at all events
be made for ascertaining the amount of the
country issue; and, to enable the country to free
itself of the injury it suffers from the exclusive
privilege of the Bank, when it becomes sensible
of it, we also trust that all restrictions will be re-
moved not necessary to secure its exclusive power
of issue within the space to be assigned to it.
But, before it is too late, we desire again to bring
the consequences of over-issue under the con-
sideration of our readers, namely, that home
prices are raised in proportion to the over-issue,
and in proportion as home prices are raised,
home consumption is diminished, and hence the
employrr ent of labour is lessened ; while, by
contraction again, which necessarily follows
over-issue, all fixed capital and commodities are
lowered, and wages are depressed. Hence ca-
pital, as well as labour, is in want of employ-
ment, and an industrious and intelligent country
presents the singular spectacle of having more
of labour and of capital than it can employ—
the excess of both of which, moreover, is daily
increasing. We are ourselves convinced that a
leading cause of this increasing superfluity of
labour and capital is the operation of the exclu-
sive privilege of the Bank of England ; and if
we cannot prevent the renewal of it, we are
at least desirous that it should be renewed in
such a manner as to preclude any claim of
indemnification on the part of the Bank, when
the country comes to see that it ought not to
have been regranted, and its well-being requires
hat it should be withdrawn.

We were on Saturday (but too late for inser-
tion on that day) favoured with a copy of a
letter written by Prince LuciEN BONAPARTE
to the Editor of the Tribune, in reply to some
observations made by the Parisian Journalist
with respect to the position of the BoNAPARTES
It will be found in another column, and as an
historical document is not unworthy of attention.
Circumstances may occur which will render this
renunciation of all title to the throne of some
importance. It is clear that up to the death of
the Duke de REICHSTADT, the BoNAPARTE
family conceived they had a right to the
throne of France, or rather, to use the pru-
dent language of the Prince of CANINO,
had not a right to the throne, but had the
duty imposed upon them by the people, of
seeing that the young Prince did not lose his
inheritance. The interrogatives which follow
do not amount to absolute renunciation of the
duties which the BONAPARTE family may be
supposed to inherit from " NAPOLEON II." and
sacrificing everything to the repose of their
country," may bear a double interpretation.
NAPOLEON became first Consul and then Em-
peror for the repose of the country ; he con-
quered Spain, Portugal, Italy, Holland, &c., all
for the repose of the country. The philosophic
historian may also hereafter indulge in a smile,
or give way to indignation, according to the
view he takes of the assumption of pe.fect disin-
terestedness by Prince LuciEN on behalf of his
brother. But, without entering into the question
of whether that assumption be a piece of politic
hypocrisy—as the haters of every human being
connected with the splendid tyrant of the age
will consider it—or whether, as inclination leads
ourselves to hope, it be the result of a mixed
feeling of fraternal regard and of personal
pride, we trust that this appeal of the BONA-
PARTE family will not be made to the French
Constitutional Government and to the French
people in vain. Whatever may be the wishes
or vague expectations of any part of that family,
the present Government of France must ulti-
mately stand or fall according to the view taken
of its acts by the enlightened middle clas,es of
the country. At any rate, the tendency of no
part of the p.esent opposition, as far as we can
discover, is towards a Bonapartea❑ dynasty. The
dispute is between republicans and the advocates
of limited monarchy, and one has as little idea
of recalling to the throne the family of
NAPOLEON as the other has of invoking the
aid of the elder BOURBONS. The French are
fond of comparing their revolutions to ours.
Allowing for the difference of national character,
the points of likeness between what took place
prior and succeeding to our change of dynasty,
and what has taken place in France during the
last thirty years, are certainly numerous ; and
we do not think that the latter country will be
a loser by making them still more so. Of course
we do not contemplate the abolition of the
ballot or the erection of rotten boroughs ;
but we do contemplate the pursuing of such
measures as will maintain the confidence of
capitalists in the constitutional regime, and,
consequently, maintain the people in employment.
To suppose that the restoration of the family of
BONAPARTE to their native country will dis-
turb the safety of that Government, is a lament-
able acknowledgment of weakness, enough of
itself to keep men's minds in doubt and anxiety.
Let the French Government act towards the
BONA_PARTEs as the English Government
acted towards the Crtom WELLS, and, like them,
they will, in all probability, settle down into
respectable private citizens, happier far than
when their chief' was .the scourge of Europe, the
desolation of France.

Mr. STEELE'S trial fur a libel in the shape of
a speech, came on at Limerick on August Ist.
When the last accounts left, the jury, not being
able to agree in their 'verdict, were ordered to be
locked up for the night.

A clergyman called on a poor parishioner
whom he found bitterly lamenting the loss out an only
son, about four or five years old. In the hope of consoling
the afflicted mother, he remarked to her that one so young
could not have committed any very grievous sin, and that
uo doubt the child was gone to Heaven. " Ah, Sir,"
said the simple-hearted creature, " but Tommy was so
shy,—and they are all strangers there !"—Atirencurn.
A BENEDICT MALGRII Lille—Mr. WATT
SMITH, of Galway, who spells his name with a double T,
as if two To were part of his nature, warns the readers of
the Connaught Journal that he has " ceased to cohabit
with his wile, in consequence of her notorious bad con-
duct, both previous and subsequent to their marriage, to
which he was forced, control-% to t.is wishes and inclina-
tion." The said' Connaught Journal says; that its patrons
have got the " Eutopian impression" upon their minds
that newspapers are compiled and printed without expense,
or Stamp Duty, and therefore that it is unnecessary to
pay for them. " But," says toe Editor, "we entreat
them to abandon an idea so erroneous, and so injurious to
u 4, and nut subject us to the necessity of employing more
cogent arguments for their enlightenment, which must be
the case, unless they will voluntarily listen to reason."
THE LATE MISTAKE AT CLERKENWELL
SESSIONB.-110USE..--.lt is at length ordered, after much
discu-sion and great deliberation, that the Grand Jury of
the county of Middlesex shall meet on Tuesday, the 13th
instant, in order to investigate the bills to be re-represented
to their consideration previous to the Special Commission,
which will open in the same week, for the trial of the pri-
soners at the Old Bliley Session•. There are 90 untried
prisoners to Newgate, marry of whom contidentialiy ex-
pect an acquittal, and some of them inveigh, in no mea•
sured terms, against the authors of the blunder, which, in
the event, they anticipate will inflict upon thein_seven
Vf cam' additional and unintritad confinement.