The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

must and ought, es quickly as circumstances may
justify, disseminate to all our colonies ; they have
a powerful claim upon our enlightened consider•
ation ; they have many grievances to be redressed.
We have a great civilizing mission to work out.
Great in ourselves, we are still greater from our vast
dependencies on the British Crown ; their reform
has been already begun in a commendable man-
.
ner. Representative institutions, have been recently
conceded to New South Wales, and, to use
the words of Earl GREY, in an important dispatch,
lately published, to Sir Cu ARLES FITZROY, "these
will, it cannot be doubted, very speedily be extended
to the other Australian colonies:' In the same
paragraph his Lordship observes, " that all the re-
strictions heretofore imposed on colonial trade lay im-
perial legislation have now been removed." These
are grateful promises and grateful facts. The bless-
ings we have achieved for the mother country we
have aptly and generously bestowed upon our com-
patriots in another hemisphere. The advantages of
free trade are now not less with the colonists than
with ourselves. With free institutions they have a
lever in their own hands, by which they can raise
themselves to a scale of national importance and
dignity which will hereafter testify to the fostering
care and provident wisdom of their renowned political
architect. That much remains to be done for
our: colonies, need not be controverted. We are now
reducing our military forces in Australia, evincing
our confidence that they are enabled to guard them-
selves against any serious internal hostilities. It will
continue to be our especial duty to repel any attack
that may be made upon them by a foreign enemy. It
should be the aim of the British statesman so to ma-
nage the affairs of our colonies that the maintenance
of our regular forces within their respective confines
should be as limited as possible. To preserve their
loyalty and affection is the sole object we have to
covet. The work goes bravely on ; we have only to
persevere in the same course of universal charity,
slinking every portion of our empire with the pro-
gress and well-being of humanity, to ensure a rich
harvest to our immediate descendants and future
generations.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The debate on the CHANGARNIER affair was again
adjourned after the speech of M. DE LAMARTINE.
The situation becomes more clear as the debate pro-
ceeds; it is evident that CHANGARNIER was all along
the general of the Legitimatists. The speech of
M. BERRYER avows as much, and is considered both
by Republicans and Bonapartists as a declaration of
war. In commenting on it the Presse says :
" For three years, since the revolution of February,
the Legitimatist party had disappeared as apolitieal party.
It had veiled its altar, folded up its colours; postponed
to other times the vindicatisn of its old right; confounded
in the ranks of the reaction, it had co-operated, by its
votes in the Assembly, in that work of resistance which,
by russ or force, has taken back from the democracy
all the advantages which the latter had wrested from
the monarchy. It is the common thought of self-pre-
servation which has been the cementing bond of the
majority. Born from fear, the majority necessarily
ended in violence.,The Orleanists and the Legitimatists,
terrified at the same danger, fought together against the
Republic, which appeared to them as a forerunner of
Socialism. It is this negative coalition which has hitherto
been the point of support of the Government of Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte. The Legitimatist and Orlesnist par-
ties formed what is called the party of order—that is a
party without principles, without character, without
object, which could not propose anything, found any-
thing, organize anything. The presence of the Count de
Chambord near the frontier of France, the Legitimatists
at Wiesbaden, and the Orleanists at Claremont, have
proved that this neutral situation of the majority had
reached its term, and that a new situation was about to
commence. M. Berryer's speech yesterday was only
the Parliamentary consecration of a political act already
consummated. After that speech no illusion is possible.
The white flag has been raised from the dust in which
it had fallen: it now floats in the ranks of the majority.
In a word, the Legitimatist party has ceased to be one
of the divisions of what is called the party of order.
It is a hostile camp. The La Vent*: in the Parlia-
ment has risen; Charette is named Berryer. This re-
course to arms on the part of the Legitimatists, an
pounced by M. Berryer with a frankness which does
him honour, and which he disengaged from the respon-
sibility cf the manifesto of Wiesbaden, in order to render
it less unpopular, does not allow to M. Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte any hesitation or illusion.. There is no safety
for the elected of December 10 except in the Republic.
Henceforward, at,acked by the parties he had made his
allies, he must either become their prisoner, or must
break them in pieces with the only force that he can
employ—the Constitution and universal suffrage. If the
Republic could have suffered from the attacks which
were made on it by M. Berryer, it was gloriously reha-
bilitated by M. de Lamartine. But it may be said that
in his language the reality was effsced by the ideal.
The speaker looked at the political situationswith a
poet's eye, and unfortunately it the mirror is enchanting,
it is not always true. M. Berryer and M.. de Lamar tine
have been only the eloquent organs of the Monarchy
and the Republic. It was between those principles that
the contest was engaged rather than between the two
powers of the State. The dismissal of General Chan-
gamier, the review of Satory, the minutes of the Per-
manent Committee, become secondary facts, which faded
into comparative insignificance before the grandeur of
the struggle. However, the Executive power is not out
of the cause; the speech of M. Berryer aggravates its
responsibility by enlarging its duty. It is not any longer
enough far him not to betray the Republic, not: to sa-
crifice it to his ambition, he must defend it against all
Its enemies, and must renounce seeing allies in the par-
ties whom he considered his accomplices."
The supporters of the PRESIDENT seem also to be
of the opinion of the Presse. It is clear from the
following, which appears in the Constituiionnel, that
henceforth there is war, irreconcileable war, between
the Bonapartists and the Legitimatists :
"Do you desire to have back the monarchy with M.
Berryer (asks the Constitutionnel), then act as he does.
Keep the head of the Executive on tutelage. Take
from him all liberty and dignity, and you must even-
tually undermine his power. Place by his side, rather
_over his head, a man who, while he !appears to serve
him, is in reality watching him, patrontsitig
eclipsing him. Should there be question of a dotation,
grant it only on the demand of this chaperon. Should
there be cries uttered by the soldiers, which, however,
is unconstitutional, yes excusable, in presence of
the heir of the greatest name in modern history,
cause them to be suppressed by the general, who
placed by the side of the Constitution, is greater and
more respected. Let the eye of the country be di-
rected towards the elected of the 10th December, only
see his master, so that when in fifteen months France
shall have to elect a new chief of the Republic, she will
turn her eyes away with contempt and disdain from
the degenerated blood of Bonaparte, if she does not
even confound in the same disgust tho institutions which
he personifies. It is to attain this object, of which they
are so far from making a secret, that they glorify
themselves on account of it, that M. Berryer and his
friends have need of a President abased and eliminated
General Changarnier and his protectorate, are needful
for their designs. General Neumayer was also wanting
for the success of this Royalist combination. M. Ber-
ryer has said what he wieht d for—he has done so with
frankness and clearness; and if he luses those who follow
him he does not deceive them."

The following four amendments to the resolution
proposed by the Committee on the proposition of M.
DE REMUSAT have been laid on the bureau of the
National Assembly. The first, by D'ADELSWARD, is
as follows :

" The Assembly, firmly resolved to combat all parties
opposed to the Republic and to defend the Constitution,
passes to the order of the day."
The following is by M. SAINTE-BEUVE :
" The Assembly declares that it has not confidence in-
the Ministry, and passes to the order of the day."
MM. LESTIBOUDOIS, LEBEUF, and MIMEREL, pro-
pose :
" The National Assembly, recognizing the eminent
services rendered to the country by General Changer-
nier, but animated by a desire to preserve harmony be-
tween the powers, passes to the order of the day."
The following is by M. LACLAUDURE :
" The Assembly, considering that the Ministry, by
favouring the sale in the streets of a great number of
journals which daily attack the;Assembly, and,above all,
the:Republic and the Constitution,and constituting a pri-
vilege in favour of these journals by its refusal to permit
the sale of other journals which defend the Republic
and the Constitution, has committed a grave attack upon
liberty, and despised the rights of equality secured
by law to all citizens. Considering that the Ministry
and the Executive power, by ordering extrordinary re-
views which were unnecessary, and the displacement of
large bodies of troops, have occasioned to the country
great and completely useless expenditure; and consider-
ing that in tolerating at these reviews seditious cries ut-
tered in the presence of the Ministers, the President of
the Republic, and the Commander-in-Chief of the army,
and in not proceeding against the officers who were
grave
the attack
Ministry
guilty of these seditious cries, the Ministers have made
a
end
militarythe
Executive
Power, thed
Assembly
blames
passes
butTp; d
to the order of the day."
The National announces, in an article signed by
LEOPOLD DURAS, who speaks in the name of the
whole of the opposition of the Left, that it is
only on condition of adopting the amendment of
N. SAINT•BEUVE that that portion of the majority
which is opposed to the Elysee can hope for the sup-
port of the Republican minority in the Assembly.
The Republican press has suffered a great loss, by
the death of N. Louis PEEEE, chief editor of
the Sicle, who died suddenly, from congestion of
the brain, early on Friday morning, M.
PEREE
had been engaged at the office the whole of the day,
and an article, signed by him, appeared in the Siècle
GC Thursday, lie was one of the founders of the
Siecle, under the Monarchy, was appointed Mayor of
the third arrondissement by the Provisional Govern-