The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The New Prussian Gazette publishes the following
as the text of a note addressed by Lord Palmerston,
on the 13th ult., to the British Minister to the Ger-
manic Confederation :
" My Lord,—The Government of her Majesty can-
not understand by what reason the Germanic Confe-
deration imagines that the resolution of September,
1834 (the occupation of Frankfort by the Prussian
and Austrian troops), could be considered as a reply
to the
i protestation made by her Majesty's Govern-
ment n July, 1851. In fact, the military occupa-
tion of the free city of Frankfort, to which the re•
solution of 1834 applied, was an object quite dif-
ferent from the projected incorporation of the Austrian
and Prussian provinces, against which your note of
the 9th July protested. To that must be added,
that although the objections of the British Cabinet
against the events of 1834, and those more
recent against the project of 1851, were well founded,
yet the Federal resolution of September, 1834, re-
ceived a complete and peremptory reply in the note of
Mr. Cartwright, of the 21st November of the same
year, and your Excellency acted wisely when, in re-
plying to the communication of a resolution, come to
seventeen years since, and foreign to the matter in
discussion, you immediately sent the copy of the reply.
made at the time. The Government of her Majesty
has nothing present to add on the subject of the mili-
tary occupation of Frankfort in 1834, and as the
Germanic Diet has not replied to the protestation
hich the British Cabinet recently made against the
Incorporation of territory into the confederation, which
'was not included by the treaty of Vienna of 1815, in
which Great Britain took part, her Majesty's Govern-
ment does not think proper to say anything more at
present on the subject. I have the honour, &c."
The political commercial commission of the Ger-
manic Diet has decided that the Congress which has
been convoked shall be called on to discuss all the
questions agitated in the conferences of Dresden, and
not merely the projected treaty drawn up by the
special conference
.at Dresden.
A new treaty for the international guarantee of
literary property was signed, on the 21st inst., by the
plenipotentiaries of the two Governments of France
and of Hanover, in the capital of the latter kingdom.
The Chiarnbers of Saxony are convoked for the Ist
of December.

KOSSUTH.
(From the Scotsman.)
Far more than enough is popularly and certainly
known to justify the bestowal of a cordial and
honouring welcome on Louis Kossuth. There is as
little truth as taste in the mode in which the limes
seeks to handle this point. " What would we say,"
says Baron Brunnow's mouthpiece, " if Mr. Smith
O'Brien effected his escape from Botany Bay and was
received with a conwratulary address by the corpo-
ration of New York ? Yet Mr. Smith O'Brien is, in
the eyes of hosts of Irishmen and Americans, as per-
secuted and honest a patriot as the late dictator of the
Magyars." The answer to any such trash as this is
very easy. Let people of New York or anywhere
else that are so inclined pay honours to Smith
O'Brien—and let the world judge both of them and
their hero. One of O'Brien's colleagues did escape,
and did receive honours in America ; but does any-
body, for that, believe that the payere, of those ho-
nours represented the American people, or that the
receiver of them is a hero and a martyr? Does any
sane man in the civilised world even pretend to be-
lieve that O'Brien is a counterpart of Kossuth,
or " Young Ireland " of the Magyars ? In
all respects the contrast 13, as we may say,
ludicrously, violent. Ireland, whatever may have
been the case in former times, has for many years
(with the exception of an alien Church, of which
Mr. O'Brien was a member and supporter)
enjoyed an equality with the rest of the kingdom as to
laws and liberties, and many and valuable exemptions
as to taxation ; at the very time of Mr. O'Brien's ex-
ploits she had received from the other divisions of the
kingdom gifts of a munificence unparalleled in his-
tory ; and so little was " the insurrection" a national
movement that, after months of preparation and
menace, it was suppressed by a police-constable.
Hungary was attempted to be robbed of her ancient
constitution and liberties ; and so truly national was
the resistance that in a few weeks the armies of
her invaders and oppressors were driven across the
frontier, and but for the intervention of a colossal
power, the victory would have been permanent
and its fruits secured. Corporal Trant, and Haynau
—2O policemen, and 400,000 Austrian soldiers—
Widow Callaghan's cabbage-garden, and the many
blood-dyed fields of Hungary and Transylvania—
Kossuth presiding over Parliaments and directing
armies, and O'Brien getting his eyes blackened at tea
parties and creeping about in ditches—are contrasts
which all may understand. The Times' argument is
nothing better than this—that because there was folly,
knavery, and cowardice in Ireland, there could be no
wisdom, nor honesty, nor bravery in Hungary—that
because the names of freedom and patriotism are often
profaned, no such things exist.
There is still another reason why we may feel safe
in honouring Kossuth—a short-hand mode of deci-
phering the whole question. Scarcely a single man
of English name and nature will deny that the rulers
of Russia, Austria, and Naples are the enemies—the
brutal and blood-dyed enemies—of everything that
Englishmen and freemen hold dear. See, then, what
they think of Kossuth—see how they raged and
trembled, when, stripped of all save his tongue and
pen, he walked forth from the Turkish prison. We
are not likely to go far astray by honouring what they
hate—the man must have something in him both good
and great, whose name, even in exile and flight, is, in
the serf-guarded palaces of Petersburgh and Vienna,
a sound of fear.

IRELAND.
POOR RATES IN CARLOW.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—The following letter from
the Earl of Bessborough was circulated among his
Lordship's tenantry resident within the electoral divi-
sion of Garryhill. It refers to the rate struck on
that division which wai subsequently reduced on
the application of Mr. Blackett ; and his Lordship's
observations apply with cqual force to other districts
of the country were strange labourers are encouraged :
" Bessborough, Oct. 3.

" 4 I I understand that the guardians
of the Carlow Union have found it necessary to strike
a rate of 63. in the pound upon the Garryhill division.
I regret this very much, but am not surprised at it ;
instead of receiving any assistance from the rate-
payers in keeping down the rates, I have found that
the more I did to lessen the rates the more they have
done to increase them. I gave money to tenants
unable to hold their land, on condition of
their leaving the country. They were taken
in as lodgers until their money was spent,
and are now a charge upon the division.
I have during the last four years given very exten-
sive employment in draining, and found work for as
many of the poor of the division as I could. The
farmers, on the contrary, have generally employed
strangers, many of whom are now chargeable upon
them. They can, therefore, only blame themselves
for the heavy rate they will now have to pay. If
they would have listened to the repeated warnings
which I have conveyed to them, their rate would now,
probably, have not been one-half of what it is. In
addition to this, the ratepayers in Miltown and
Straduff have been continually bringing strangers
and lodgers, for many of whom the Garryhill divi-
sion are now apying.
" If the farmers are anxious to lighten the rate they
had better at once discharge the strangers that they
are employing, and employ their own poor. If they
do this, I shall be ready, also, to set some work on
foot. If they do not, I am only wasting money in
my endeavours to assist them, and the result of a con-
tinuance in their present course must be a constantly
increasing rate.

THE CONSOLIDATED " BESSBOROUGII."
ANNUITIES.
The complaints of the remonstrant poor-law
with guardians have been attended a certain amount
of success, and Government, it seems, have
thof
ave the ave agreed to
terms which will, in all probability, b
suspending hostilities, for the present at least, effect
Treasury minute adopted at the last meeting of the h :
Cabinet Council was made public this evening. T
following is a copy :---
" copy or TREASURY MINUTE, DATED TUE 21sT
OCTOBER, 1851.
"My Lords have had under their consideration the
memorials which have been received from many unions
in Ireland in reference to the consolidated annuities
charged upon them under the Act 13th Victoria,
chap. 14, stating various grounds upon which relief
is sought in Bo
annuities, but I nme cases from any repayment of the
of payment. ore generally urging a postponement
My Lords
of the greater part
P
0. opinion that the present state
lief from the oppertaoct Ireland does not call for any re-
bornemind th%t these °f
the
in Act ; and it must be
speet of loans whiny ';'24annuities are payable in re-
in course of repayraue' have, or ought to have, been
menu have been rendered easier
that the terms of repay-
the period, and that the easier by the extension of
exempted from any whole of Ireland •
payment c, .. has been
the past year. n tail account during
"My Lords, however, cannot
districts in which relief can
1)1 dlulet that there are
" In the case of those districts, for
the local resources are insufficient tromitanee, where
nary expenditure for the relief of the poor,
the
it i 8 is necessary to have recourse to assistan'eaeV wnabeTe
Rate-in-Aid-Fund for this purpose, it cannot be the
petted that further sums for the paymentof th econ-
solidated
annuities can be raised.

"With regard to postponement, my Lords are of
opinion that such a course would only tend to prolong
a feeling of uncertainty as to future payments.
"Itis a great object to restore confidence to the

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owners and occupiers of land in► the distressed districts
in Ireland, and with this view the demands of the
Government ought to be definite, both in amount,
and also in time.
" My Lords think, therefore, that:remission of pay-
ment, either altogether or to a certain extent, accor-
ding to the circumstances of each district, is far pre-
ferable to postponing the payments; but the sanction
of Parliament must be obtained before any definite
measure for this purpose can be carried into effect.
It is the intention of her Majesty's Government to
submit a measure to Parliament with this object early
next session.
"In the meantime my Lords are prepared to adopt
the following course in anticipation of the measure to
be submitted to Parliament :
"The Poor-law Commissioners in Ireland are au-
thorized to direct the treasurer of any union in Ire-
land to retain in his hand any sum which he may have
received from, or on account of, an electoral division
in which the expenditure for the relief of the poor
in the year ending September 29, 1851, has amounted
to 43. in the pound on the valuation then in force, and
not to pay over to the Paymaster of Civil Services in
Ireland the annuity due from such electoral division
for the current year ; and where the annuity for the
current year, added to such expenditure, amounts for
any electoral division to a sum exceeding 4s. in the
pound on such valuation, to pay over to the Pay-
master of Civil Services such sum only, in respect of
the annuity, as, together with the charge for relief of
the poor in the past year, will amount to 43. in the
pound, and to retain the remainder in his own hands.
"Her Majesty's Government will propose to Par-
liament that the sum so retained in respect of the
annuities due for the current year shall be entirely
remitted."

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Oct. 25:

ASSETS.
Cash in hand ... ~. ~. ... £495,156,389 50
Ditto in branch banks ... ... 117,639,170 0
13i113 past duo ... ••• ••• 120,487 85
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 12,339,032 g. On. were received
from the Branch lk,niti. ••• ... 34,493,676 43

Bills in the branch banks ~ • ... 59,916,552 0
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 926,800 0
Ditto by the branch banks ... ... 2,234,850 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 7,821,491 10
Ditto by branch banks... ... ... 3,304,896 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0
Ditto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0
Routes of the reserve fund ... ... 10,000,000 0
Rentes, disposable funds ...
... 42,677,621 28
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds
••• ••• ... 12,952,725 74
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0
Heal property of the branch banks ... 3,559,746 0
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0
Ditto branch banks ••• ••• ••• 108,000 0
Expenses of administration of the Bank 293,268 41
Ditto at the branches ... ... ••• 324,821 0
iiscellaneous .. 2,049,203 94

f. 897,779,699 25