The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-15 00:00:00

time, by the imposition of this typhus-fostering
impost, it deprives us of that without which all other
sanitary measures are of no avail, air and light.
We trust, therefore, that the householders through-
out the kingdom will at once organize for
the purpose of bombarding Parliament 'with
petitions for the total and immediate repeal of the
window duties ; that they will entrust those
petitions for presentation to their represen-
tatives, and that they will give those repre-
sentatives distinctly to understand that the
votes of the petitioners will, at the next election
(which is perhaps nearer at hand than many persons
imagine), be withheld from any representative whose
name does not appear in the division lists as voting
for the immediate abolition of the window duty. We
would also suggest that those Members of Parliament
who are opposed to the continuance of this impost—
more especially the Members of the metropolitan dis-
tricts and the representatives of cities and large
towns, whose constituents are more immediately
interested in this question should before
the opening of the session of Parliament meet to-
gether to organize a combined plan of operations,
and to fix upon some gentleman who should act as
leader in the event of Lord DUNCAN being unable to
return at once to his Parliamentary duties. What-
ever is to be done must be done quickly, as there is
no time to be lost.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur contains the following order of the
day from the Minister of War :--
" Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Soldiers !
"Called by the President of the Republic to the
honour of commanding you, my duty is as simple as my
will to fulfil it is energetic—

"To labour for the maintenance of the public peace
in strengthening the Constitution;
"To make respected in all ranks discipline and
hierarchy; _

"To ca-use justice and general interests to prevail
over those which are personal;
" Such shall be the object of my care. I reckon on
the devotedness of all, as all may count on mine, for the
performance of this task.
" Paris, 12th Jan., 1851.

Signed) " The Minister of War,
" REGNATJD DE ST. JEAN D'ANGELY."

This document is important as showing that the
regular hierarchical command in the army is restored,
and that General BARAOUAY D'HILLIERs does not,
like his predecessor CHANGARNIER, hold an inde-
pendent command, but is strictly subordinate to the
Minister of War.

The Committee of M. 13,EMUSAT has appointed
M. LANJUINAIS its reporter. M. LANJUINAIS was
Minister of Commerce in the ODILON BAREOT Ca-
binet. The Committee sat for seven hours on Mon-
day : the Ministers of the Interior and of War were
both examined.

The production of the proas-verbaux of the Com-
mittee of Permanence has excited the laughter of all
Paris ; the Burgraves have rendered themselves su-
premely ridiculous and to the public man in France
ridicule is death. It is, however, abundantly proved
in these reports that the insolence of CHANGARNIER
was such as to render the co-existence of the com-
mand of the army of Paris, and of the PRESIDENT of
the Republic impossible. The example set by CHAN-
GARNIER was such as to strike at the root of all dis-
cipline, and to call imperatively for his removal. It
was not, therefore, as the Journal des Debats pre-
tends, a fault to have removed him. On this point we
find the following in the Constitutionnel :
" A journal, which we respect in spite of its errors,
regrets that after having passed two years without com-
mitting a fault, the President commits a gratuitous one
in withdrawing the command from General Changarnier.
And who has told you that this act is a fault? What do
you really know of the matter? On what information do
you speak in this manner? Can you assure us that the
unity of the Executive Power created by the Constitu-
tion, sanctioned by six millions of men, more necessary
than ever to strengthen society which has been shaken,
has not been compelled to protect itself against an autho-
rity of which ambitious parties bad made a rival almost
an enemy? Are you very certain that the powers of the
Chief of the State, of which he owes an account to
society and the law, were not weakened, were not
threatened by this avowed competition, by this Presi-
dent of parties opposed to the President of France ?
The Government has now demanded, with the ap-
plause of all honest and loyal men, the complete and
official publication of the minutes of the Permanent
Committee, of those mysterious archives of another
Council of Ten, which their authors had placed under
seals, and with which they threatened the Government.
Wait until these documents are brought to light, and
then, when you shall have been enlightened and in-
structed by documents which can neither have been
dissembled nor altered, then you will know the whole
truth, and you will say whether in the interest of the
law and in that of the national sovereignty, threatened
by an intrigue, the President has committed a fault."
The same journal announces that ALLAIS has
abandoned his appeal against his condemnation, and
has made a written declaration that he is the victim
of an intrigue concocted by M. YoN.
It is probable that the Committee of M. REMITSAT
may merely recommend a vote of thanks to CHAN.
GARNIER ; but let their report be what it may they
cannot escape the ridicule of the public.
The Journal des Debais recommends the Burgraves
to offer to the PRESIDENT a Peachum and Lockit re-
conciliation ;it says— _ _

" Let us speak our minds to men of all parties.
There are Legitimatists from heart and conviction,
and yet there is not a Legitimatist of any sense who
does not avow that the moment for a restoration, if it
is to come, is not yet arrived. There are Orleanists,
and we declare ourselves openly to be amongst the
number—yes, there are Orleanists who bitterly regret
the fall of the monarchy of July, 1830, and who persist
in their conviction that this monarchy answers best to
the interests and opinions of the country; but there is
not one Orleanist of sense who has any wish to conspire
and risk a revolution for sake of raising at this moment
the fallen throne, and placing on it an infant. There
are Bonapartists : it is even possible that there are some
of them so unreasonable as to imagine that with cries
of Vive l'Empereue they could restore the empire;
but there is no Bonapartist conspiracy. Ideas about an
18th Brumaire and a military proclamation may have
crossed some minds; but they will always stop before
certainty and reason, before the oaths of the President,
and we will add, before the force of things. Let us,
then, address ourselves in a word to the sensible men of
the Legitimatist, Orleanist, and:Bonapartist parties (with
the exception of some imperceptible minority), and they
will all agree that there is but one thing possible at this
moment, which is, The President and the Chamber."
There was a great crowd assembled at the Bourse,
but there was very little business transacted. The
Five per Cents. opened at 941. 95c., rose to 951. 10c.,
and closed at 95f. ; the Three per Cents. closed at
57f. sc. ; the New Loan at 94f. 90c. ; Orleans Rail-
road Shares, 855 f.; Rouen, 675 f. ; Havre, 273 f. 75c. ;
Great Northern, 470 f. ; Vierzon, 3861. 25c. ; Basle,
140 f.; Bordeaux, 400 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 3521.
50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 2471. 50c.
BUSINESS DUNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 14.
Boulogne and Amiens, 83 —East Indian, 12—Great In-
dian Peninsula, 2%—Namur and Liege, BM—Northern of
France, 151,4—Paris and Rouen, 27%—Sambre and Meuse,
3—Tours and Nantes, 5.