The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-27 00:00:00

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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 protestation made by her Majesty's Govern-
ment in 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-
menr, 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 Chambers 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 Time?,
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 congratulary address by the
i
corpo-
ration of New Yolk ? Yet Mr. Smith O'Brien s, in
the eyes of hosts of Irishman and Americans, as per-
secuted and honest a patriot as the late dictator ot 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 payers of those ho-
nours represented the American people, or that the
receiver of them 13 a hero and a martyr ? Does any
sane man in the civilised world even pretend to be-
lieve that O'Brien 1; a counterpart of Kossuth,
or " Young Ireland " of the Magyars ? In
all respects the contrast is, 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. 0 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'Bilen'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" n 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. Corl'oral Trant, and Haynau
—2O policemen, and 400,000 Austrian soldiers—
Widow Callaghan's cabbage-garden, and the many
blond-dyed fislds of Hungary and Transylvania—
Kossuth presiding over Parliaments and directing
armies, and O'Brien getting his eyes blackened at tea
parties nun 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 bnavery in Hungary—that
because the names of freedom aud 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 thick of Kossuth—see how they raged and
trembled, when, stripped of all save his tongue and
pen, he walked forth unto 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 I3essborough 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. Biackett ; and his Lordship's
observations apply with equal force to other districts
of the country were strange labourers are encouraged :
" Besshorough, Oct. 3.
* 4 I understand that the guardians
of the Carlow Union have found it necessary to strike
a rate of 6s. ia the pound upon the Garryhill division.
I regret this very much, but am not surprised at it ;
instead of receiving any assistance from the rte-
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, _f
i are now apyiug.
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.

BEssuoßouGH."
THE CONSOLIDATED ANNurnEs.
The complaints of the remonstrant u ,
guardians have been attended with a certain amount
of success, and Government, it seems, have agreertO
terms which will, in all probability, have the effect of
suspending hostilities, for the present at least. The
Treasury minute adopted at the last meeting of the
Cabinet Council was made public this evening. The
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Copy TREAsuILY MINUTE, DATED THE 21ST

OCTOBER, 1851.
"My Lords have had under their consideration the
memorials which have been received from many unions
in referencelrelanduipnoiltttconsolidated annuities
charged to the
Victoria,
chap. 14, sta.aiontng them under the Act 13:b
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1 ch relief
evacr:,ous grounds upon which .is sought in
annuities, but raor es from any repayment of the
e generally urging a postponement
of payment.
" My Lords are of
of the greater part of t'int°--
P. ' n that the present state
Irelandof does not call for any re
lief from the operation
annuities are
anthe..i.kot ; and it must be
borne in mind that these
payable in re-
thort ought to have, been
sect of loans which have,
in course of repayment •
'that
theby extension of
ment have been rendered
Irelandtt'l‘eernas onarsepl:eye:
the period, and that the whole of -
exempted from any payment on this account during
the past year.
"My Lords, however, cannot doubt that there
districts in which relief must be given. are
" In the case of those districts, for instance, where
the local resources are insufficient to meet the ordi-
nary expenditure for the relief of the poor, and where
it is necessary to have recourse to assistance from the
Rate-in-Aid Fund for this purpose, it cannot be ex-
pected that further sums for the payment of the con-
eQlidated annuities can be raised.

THE SUN,

" 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
owner 3 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 4s. in the pound on the valuation then in force, and
not to pay over to the Paymaster of Civil Services in
Ireland the an reaity due from such electoral division
for the current year ; and where the annuiv 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, togetherewith the charge for relief of
the poor in the past year, will amount to 4s. 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
cf France on Oct. 25:
__

Cash in hand ...

ASSETS.

£495,156,389 50
... 117,639,170 0
120,487 85

Ditto in branch banks

Bills past due .„. ••• •••
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 12,339,032 f. Oc. were received
from the Branch Banks _ 34,493,676 43
Bills in the branch banks ... 59,916,55 S 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 Tr6sor... 50,000,000 0
Ditto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0
Rentes 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
Real 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
Miscellaneous ... ... 2,049,203 94

E 897,779,699 25