The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

Fr
PrO 4bitton

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

FRANCE.
.Yesterday being the anniversary of the arrival of
the remains of the Emperor Napoleon to Paris, many
old soldiers of the Empire proceeded in full uniform
to the chapel of the Invalides to attend the usual ser-
vice on that occasion. On arriving, however, they
lwarned that no service would take place, as the da-
magee occasioned by the fire at Marshal Sebastiani's
funeral had not yet been sufficiently repaired, and
workmen were still employed in the chapel. Some
of •the veterans proceeded forthwith to the Place
Vendome, and deposited a garland of flowers with
the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in the
centre.

GERMAN Y.
The official organ of the Prussian Cabinet has pub-
lished an article announcing distinctly that the Go-
vernment will readily recognize the new order of
things in France, which promises "to lessen the
danger of the present period." It examines critically
the conduct of the late National Assembly, by which
that body lost its influ-.r.ce with the people and made
its destruction possible, and points out the folly that
led it to insult and threaten the Executive power,
without having at its command the force that could
alone enable it to act. It estranged from itself the
confidence of the nation, though it was more
indispensable to its existence than to the President,
who had the army at his disposal, and made but an
f the unskilful attempt attempt to defend itse,i,
tive it had defied. " Probably, saagainstys the Ministerial
manifesto, " as the el
boas
of tha army to the Pre-
sident have now become clear, a positive resistance
on the part of the Assembly would have been of no
avail, would have ltered or hindered nothing; but it
would not have disappeared under the reproach of
such a
singular want of ability either to act or to ad-
vise." The article then proceeds :
since the opening of the last session of the Assembly
a thunder-storm hovered over France. An outbreak was
unavoidable. The only question was whether the bolt
would be launched by the Assembly or by the President.
If it came to a real conflict, there could be no doubt,
under the circumstances, as to which party would pre-
vail. Had the Assembly acted in the spirit of a real
national representation, silenced the mischievous elements
within itself, bridled the revolutionary passions, instead
of betraying a cintinual terror of them, had it busied
itself more with the material interests of the mass of the
People, an event like that of the 2d of December would
have been superfluous and impossible.
Had the Assembly anticipated the President, and
bad the latter waited passively, it may be safely assumed
that it would have done so; the spirit of the army on
one side, and that of the democracy and Socialists on the
other, would have been arrayed against each other, in a
conflict much more general and more bloody than the
present, and internal peace and order would have sus-
tained a much heavier and more destructive shock. For
the Assembly would never have been able to have re-
strained the masses, and confronted the perils with which
the now abolished Constitution of 1848, threatened the
whole of Europe.
The Conservative Governments of the Continent,
which, under the hitherto existing state of things in
France, must have been unceasingly anxious at the threat-
ening prospects of the coming year, and whose position,
laborious enough without that anxiety, must have been
rendered still more difficult by it, will not refuse their re-
cognition to a change in the political situation which
promises to diminish the (lingers of the present,
and thus makes the commencement of the way to a
better future possible. Every other consideration must
be ma3o subordinate to the effecting this object. History
has more than once proved the events that, on moral
grounds, were deeply to be deplored, have been the ne-
cessary and unavoidable points of (rat sitioa to something
better.

" We are not a little surprised, therefore, to find the
present oecurrenc..9 misund,:rstood, even by those organs
of the press that claim to be the heralds and supporters
of the strictest Conservatism. Hateful reminiscences
and comparisons—violent attacks on eminent political
characters, ou whom, for the moment, no full and im-
partial judgment is possible—can pass neither for
patriotic nor politic."
The report of the Commission of the Second Cham-
ber of Prussia on the Treaty of Commerce between
Prussia and Hanover, and the admission of the latter
State into the Z )Ilverein, has appeared. The Corn-
misti,m has decided unanimouly on recommending
the Chamber to assent to the treaty as laid before it
by the Government. Though the Chamber of Hano-
ver has rejected the Government Bill relating to se-
veral judicial reforms, the Ministry believes the above
treaty will receive the assent of the Hanoverian Le•
gislature also.