The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN,

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, OCTOBER 7.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and daring the night.
56—this day, at noon.
BknoNETER, 29.78.
Wnrn W.—Morning, cloudy; Afternoon, heavy showers.

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LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1851.

In the first volume of the works of M. Louis NA-
POLEON BONAPARTE, at page 95, in the chapter
entitled " Project for a Constitution, 1833," we find
the following passage :—" Le peuple Francais donne
asile aux strangers bannis de leur pays pour la cause
de la liberty," The man who published the above to
the world as his principle and his opinion, the man
who solemnly declared that " The French people
affords an asylum to foreigners banished from their
country for the cause of liberty," and who, on the
faith of that publication and declaration, was elected
President of the French Republic, has refused to
permit Kossunf to pass through Franaces.e
oTflrt
oibe "ty,
h,e
wan banished from his country for the cause
the author of these fine phrases has refused
e theumsedai i asylum,polic.
man of the Absolutists. e
and the refugee of Thurgovia has be
Of all men in the world, M,
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is the last whom we
eLhootrsuild have suspected capable of the perpetration of
such an act of pitiful meanness. Had the Govern-
ment of Switzerland quailed before the power of
Louis PHILIPPE, as he has quailed before Austria
and Russia, M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE would
never have had the opportunity of thus exhibiting to
the world the very peculiar manner in which he sup-
ports the dignity of the name which he inherits, and
the admirers ofNAPOLEON would have been spared the
pain of witnessing the nephew of the victor of Austerlitz
acting in the capacity of second in command to the
chief of, the police of 'Vienna. For the second time
within half a century has the lustre of the star of the
house of Bonaparte been tarnished by the malefic
influence of that of Hapsburg. The son of a Corsican
attorney had by his transcendent genius re-created
the Empire of CHARLEMANGE ; as the incarnation of
the democracy of France and of Europe, he had re-
duced all the legitimate monarchs of the earth to a
state of vassalage, andhis ante-chambers were crowded
with serf-kings anxiously awaiting the honour of an
audience, who trembled at his frown and were proud
to obey his behests. Suddenly this great and powerful
EMPEROR, the master and maker of kings, forgetting
his democratic origin, forgetting that his strength
arose solely from the fact of his being different
in every respect from these serf-kings, listened to
the wily counsels of the tools of Austria, took an
Austrian princess, to wife, and by so doing volun-
tarily degraded himself to a level with the Ro-
manoffs, the Hapsburghs, the Hohenzollerns, and the
other defeated princes of Austerlitz and of Jena. Aus-
tria, true to her traditional policy, had accepted the alli-
ance of the man she feared and hated, only the more
safely to betray him ; and so well did she play her
base part that six years had not elapsed from the
time of his marriage ere he was dethroned. The
nephew of the great man is now President of the
French Republic ; he seeks to be re-elected to that
high office, and, until the events of the
last week, his chances of re-election were greater
than those of any of his competitors. The Le-
-1 gitimatists, divided among themselves, had determined
not to start any candidate, the Republieans
had not as yet agreed upon any candidate, and the
only serious candidate in the field against hiss was the
Prince DE JOINVILLE, whose candidature was at least
as opposed to the letter of the law as was his own.
his chances were, we repeat, excellent ; but he must
needs seek for extraneous aid in support of his
candidature, his journals boasted in the most impolitic
manner that his candidature was supported by the
King of NAPLES and by the Emperor of AUSTRIA,
and, as if this were not enough to disgust the French
nation—which is of all others the most jealous of any
foreign interference in its internal affairs—we now
find him ostentatiously refusing to accord hospitality
to an unarmed and banished exile, lest by so doing be
should offend the Emperor of AUSTRIA, and giving
way to the bullying which even the Sultan of
TURKEY defied. Those who advised him to adopt
this suicidal measure, enemies in disguise, whoever
they were, they have done that which is more da-
maging to him than could, even have been an
attempted coup d'etat which should have failed. The
French are a chivalrous and generous nation, who may
forgive a crime, but who never forget a meanness.
And what has been his reward ? That which should
be the reward cf all who act as he has done ; that
very party, whose support ho thought to obtain by
pandering to the evil passions of the host
of the Duke of BORDEAUX, has turned
against him, and no sooner had the Legitimatist
intriguers succeeded in making the unfortunate
Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE fully commit himself
by refusing to permit KOSSUTH a passage through
France, than they at once throw (off the mask and
proclaim General CHANGARNIER as the Legitimatist
caudidate for the Presidency of the Republic, so con-
vinced are they of the irreparable damage that
Louis NAPOLEON had dcne his cause by thus osten-
tatiously holding himself furth to the world as the
obedient servant of the Austrian EMPEROR.
We cannot but be proud of the contrast between
the conduct of the English Government and that of
the French with regard to the Hungarian exiles. The
events of Marseilles prove the exact amount of the sin-
cerity and of the zeal with which the efforts of Sir STRAT-
roan CANNING were supported by the representative
of the French Government at the Porte, as the mag-
nificent reception prepared for KossuTH and his
companions by the unanimous British nation will
prove to the despots of the earth how deep-rooted is
our aversion to tyranny and oppression, and how
fixed is our determination to honour and aid and
comfort those who are engaged in warring against
tyrants and oppressors, be they of what country they
may.

Agricultural societies are now meeting in every
part of the country. Elated with the successful
termination of the harvest operations, the farmers are
assembling in all directions to talk over the various
improvements that have been introduced or suggested,
and to take sanguine or gloomy views of their future
prospects,
each; but, according to the peculiar temperament of
above all, to hear the great men of the
I districts--the Members of Parliament and local
oracles—declare their opinions with respect to
More favourable
in general and agriculture in particular.
Parliament opportunities could scarcely be
found for that purpose. Th
since the prorogation of two months' interval
person to indulge
his
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cular hobby to his full content.
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to their respective country seats.
to speak, while the farmers, resting afteyr
exer-
tions, with pockets well supplied and ample leisure enjoy the creature comforts provided for thies.
were quite ready " to eat and drink for the goodu se'
of
their country ;" aye, and what was more important to
the. would-be orators, to listen to the west prosy
orations with exemplary patience.

The coveted opportunities have at length arrived.
The men are forthcoming; but where are the confi-
dent predictions of future success, of the speedy
rastpcitation of the inanimate monopoly, which was
" not dead, but merely slumbering, ?" Alas I not a
single vaticindtion is hazarded to glad the bucolic
heart with favourable anticipations as to a re-
vival of the bread-tax. The "sliding scale"
haangers, lo
and
since avowedly slipped through their
fi
has
not even the most zealous Protectionist
there is scarcei
()us venturedanddrii to demand a return to that iniquit-
n system. This- is bad enough, but
measure—a fizYeda
dut single prophecy as to the diluted
substitute, TiraP. Y-- which was suggested as a
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