The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1851.

Two months since we directed the public attention
to the extraordinary inducement Afforded for invest-
ments at the other side of St. George's Channel. At
no former period of English or Irish history were
there so many advantages offered to purchasers, or
such extensive opportunities for gratifying any taste
"I'lneY which the fortunate owner of a few loose
thousands may choose to indulge in. He may turn
to any point of the compass, east, west, north, or
prefer
south—if he the bracing breezes of the
Atlantic, the milder air of some inland
loch, or the temperate climate of mid-
land counties, he will find something to suit
him exactly, in every •
quarter and every district,
from Cape Clear to Donaghadee, from Carntore to
Blacksod Bay, and that of dimensions suited
ions to his
finances, whether he be a mzlii•nnaire or the owner of a
few hundreds. He can find something suited for oc-
cupation or investment, for his future dwelling-place,
or where he may draw his rents from the
occupants,
obtaining a more profitable return for his money
than in any quarter equally safe. When once
he has fixed his choice, and been declared the pur-
cheser of any lot submitted to public competition, he
Ms no further trouble or difficulty to encounter, no
abstract of title to be laid before counsel, no compli-
cated and expensive searches to he made, and no
objections. to be argued, _perhaps made the founda-
tion of atuit in equity. While his money continues
idle and unproductive, all is prepared; the moment
his money is paid he 'will receive his deed of con-
veyance, not a verbose and prolix document,
containing lengthy and, useless recital!, calculated
to occasion expense and annoyance, if he should be-
come desirous of disposing of hl3 acquisition or
making it available as a security for a loan, but going
directly
to the point, without an unnecessary word or
sentence. But this paper, although short, will he
effectual; when once he has rte'll *v ed it he will have
nothing to fear from new
ei • whose
rights w ose
rights had been overlooked
sional men engaged in the
_ the prof es-
investigiition of 1

the title. Whatever may happen he cannot •
be disturbed or inconvenienced, evicted from his
property, or put to any cost or annoyance, in defend-
ing his possession against all comers. His tie will
be guaranteed by the Imperial Parliament, and in
any future dealing, with respect to it, no inquiry can
be demanded going back beyond the deed of transfer
executed by the Commissioners for the sale of En-
cumbered Estates in Ireland.
None but a legal practitioner can estimate those ex-
traordinary privileges at their actual value; but there is
probably no person possessed of property sufficient to
enable him to make an eligible purchase who will not
readily comprehend that something very desirable is
placed within his reach. We tell him, and we have
no hesitation in saying, that the estimate is by no
means exaggerated, but that it will be confirmed by
every person qualified to form a correct judgment on
the premises, that it may be considered equivalent to
fully 20 per cent. on the amount of purchase money,
or from three to five years' rental of the property. Let
parties think of these things, and compare the actual
value of estates with the prices at which they are still
disposed of (for we are happy to say that a great im-
provement is already perceptible in the market), and
they will see the prudence of seizing the golden
moment ere it flies, and availing themselves of the
opportunities that are rapidly departing.
Hitherto there has been a wild and unreasoning
panic with respect to Irish properties, similar to
that which prevailed with respect to railway
shares. Those who ware possessed of capital, which
they would gladly have invested on far less favour-
able terms than could easily have beer► obtained, bung
back until the tide turned. We need scarcely remind
our readers how we have exposed the folly of this
course. In April last, when the tide was at the lowest
—when London and North-Western shares were
quoted at 101 to 102, and Great Western at 47 to
we pointed out the inadequency of prices, and strongly
recommended our friends and the public not to let
the opportunity slip. Those who acted on our advice
have had no reason to regret doing so—the same
shares were yesterday quoted at 124 to and 78 to
79, being an improvement of 231. per share on the
former, and of 31/. per share on the latter, and we
have no doubt that they will reach still higher
amounts. In Ireland the panic reached to even a
higher pitch. We have seen well circumstanced
estates selling at thirteen or fourteen years' purchase,
or little more than one-half their real value. This
will not again occur, for the tide has turned
in _lreland also; although it is as yet
flowing but sluggishly, it will rise higher
and higher every day. Let not parties desirous of
making investments in that country suppose that
they can coquette much longer with impunity. When
the Securities for Advances Bill—the measure best
calculated to promete the prosperity of Ireland of
any that have been introduced for many years past—
becomes the law of the land, and it will unquestion-
ably be so early in the approaching session, there will
be a considerable increase in the rates of purchase.
Ocher measures also will be brought forward
calculated to develope the wonderful natural resources
of the country ; and we have seen the appliances of
science also directed to the same purpose, and have
heard of the almost miraculous discoveries of Mr.
REECE REECE, which converts the peat, that is to be
obtained in almost boundless quantities, into a source
of wealth more rich than the sands of California.
For Ireland' " the good time is rapidly coming," and
once more we earnestly recommend the matter to the
attention of our friends and the community in gene-
ral, certain that, as in the case of railways, those
who follow it will have no cause to regret that they
had done so.

4 The art of governing a country consists in having good I
laws, and in their being well administered. The ac-
complishment of these objects is held to be the acme of
political wisdom. Without advancing on the part of
England that, either theoretically or practically, she
has as yet attained to a state of constitutional perfec-
tion, it can, nevertheless, be fearlessly asserted that
we have substantially acquired all the essential points
that form the basis of civilization. However institu-
tions may vary in different countries, and however
much leading statesmen and philosophers, Trans-
atlantic as well as European, have elaborately des-
canted upon their respective forms and excellences, it
is still beyond question that we enjoy the rights of civi-
lized life in a greater ratio than they are participated
in by the citizens of any other nation. Life, liberty,
propsrty, justice, reputation, public health, and mo-
rals, are privileges which are happily secured to us
by the laws of the realm. It is at once the comfort,
the pride, and the boast of the Englishman to know
that to the humblest, not less than to the highest, of
every class judicial protection is afforded against any
infringement of these paramount social advantages
and during the present year, when we expect such a
mighty influx of strangers from all parts of the
world, great as their eagerness may be to wit-
ness the Exhibition itself, it is more than
probable that the foreigner will return to his native
soil far more impressed with the combined view of
our political and social liberty than with any other
subject to which his mind may be attracted. The
extensive realization, and the progressive develop•
ment of human freedom and happiness to which we
have attained, and upon which we are yearly im-
proving, will excite the admiration, not unmixed
with envy, of the thousands who will so speedily
visit our hospitable shores. To what, then, amongst
many co-operating causes, are we chiefly indebted for
our enviable distinction throughout the universe ?
Much of our fame is, doubtles, attributable to the
genius and characteristics of the English people.
Their inherent love of order, peace, honesty, industry,
and skill, have largely contributed to the acquisition
of their unrivalled renown ; but its primary cause is
mainly traceable to their strict love of justice and
unswerving impartiality, and to the extreme jealousy
with which they have watched and, at all times, in
proportion to the political power they possessed, have
sought to enforce the pure administration of justice
throughout its several departments. It is to this ex-
treme and most wholesome vigilance that we owe the
inappreciable advantage that the judicial functions
are for the most part so admirably discharged in this
country. Whenever the English discover a blot, a
stain, or even a slight imperfection on the escutcheon
of justice they are restless until they have gained its
removal. As a race we are fond of broad humour.
We enjoy the eccentricities and obfuscated intellects
of a Justice SHALLOW on the stage, but put the same
character on the magisterial bench, and all humour
would speedily vanish from the Englishman's mind,
to be supplanted by a feeling of stern indignation.
With us the powers of the magistrate are considerable,
particularly the wide range that is left to his discre-
tion. The magistrate it is who first sets in motion
the wheels of criminal justice; his functions are of
the gravest character. The slightest error on his part
may seriously prejudice the interests of the commu-
nity. From inconsistency of conduct, or mental in-
firmity, he may ruin beyond redemption the peace
and happiness of. a whole family. Through the like
causes those whUare alleged or supposed to be the
guiltiest may escape with impunity, and those again
who should never have been troubled beyond a simple
inquiry
eaxrpeeneseu,bjaencdtedto sacrifice unefdesyearvueadble mteinmtal
e.
Alderman HUMPHERY .I?een possessed of
Hanazdiety,
keener faculties, Mrs. SLOANE would have been
speedily made amenable to the ends of justice ; and
bad Mr. TYRWLTITT evinced ordinary discernment,
the superior judges would never have been troubled
and barefaced calumnies of
with the vamped-up
ELIZABETH REED against her late master, Mr. REN•
DELL. It is true that Mr. Justice TALFOURD did
notis prmit the defendant to leave the court without
h
unqualified opinion that his character remained
unblemished, an encomium that must have been snore
satisfactory to Mr. ItEzDELL than if it had proceeded
solely from Mr. Trawurrx, who so indiscreetly suf-
fered the charge to go to trial, exhibiting as weak an
instance of magisterial judgment as was ever displayed
within the precincts of a court of justice. The public
mind is too familiar with the facts of the case to re-
quire a recapitulation; but thus much is manifest,
that if any magistrate should presume to repeat
the cruel farce of sending a similar case before
the higher tribunals, the first thing that
justice would demand would be the removal of the
justice himself; he would become an intolerable
incubus. We must keep the tributary streams clear
if we desire the broad river of justice to be untainted.
Mr. BALLAINTINB, who held the brief for the prose.

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cutrix-, actually threw it up at the close of her cross.
examination, no other facts having been elicited by Mr.
CLARRSOIi than those which he was ready, and offered
to establish before Mr. TYRWEIITT. The counsel,
jury, and judge all approved of Mr. BALIANTINE'S
conduct. Numerous similar charges had been pre-
ferred by the woman against other parties, and had
been dismissed. It was impossible to credit the
woman's oath, and yet Mr. TYRWHITT laid stress
upon her having sworn to the fact. There was
medical evidence that an offence had been effected ;
but, as Mr. Justice TALFoURD remarked, and as any
one of common perception might have easily seen, such
evidence " did not by any means point to the prisoner."
These magisterial freaks must be put a stop to. It
would be well for the magistrates every now and then
to dust out the chambers of their intellects.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur contains the following :—" From the
13th inst. the interest on Treasury Bonds shall be
fixed as follows :—From three to five months' date,
2* per cent. per annum; from six to eleven months'
date, 3* per cent. ; and for those at twelve months'
date, at 4i per cent."
The Committee appointed in consequence of M. DE
REMUSAT'S motion sat yesterday for nearly six hours.
The Committee heard explanations from the Minis-
ters of the Interior and of War. It also examined
the proces-verbaux of the Permanent Committee. It
is supposed that the report cannot be sent in before
Wednesday.
The production of the proces-verbaux of the Com-
mittee of Permanence has covered the Burgraves
with ridicule; these documents, which were sealed so
carefully by M. Durex, alluded to so mysteriously
and so pomponsly by M. CHAMBOLLE, and kept back
out of mercy to the Ministry, according to General
BEDEAU are found to contain absolutely nothing, to use
the words of the Constitutionnel. _

The pet journal of the Orleanists, the organ of the
Burgraves the Journal des Debats thus prepares us
for the ridiculous result of the labour of M. DE
REKUSAT'S Mountain

"So much had been said about documents that the
public imagination had finished by attributing to them a
certain importance. Now this supposed importance
was probably founded merely upon the mystery with
which they were surrounded, and the precaution that
had been used in putting the papers under seal. The
mystery over and the seals broken, there will probably
rest nothing."
Well may the .National ask— .
" Well, what will come out of these proceedings? What
will result from this Parliamentary Commission, which
the journals of the Elysee call a Committee of Public
Safety ? There will just come nothing at all.
But if the procis-verbaus divulge no real plots, there
are an infinite number of sham plots, propounded both
by Burgraves and Bonapartists. The great Burgrave
plot for the restoration of Orleanism is thus brought
to light by the Legitimatist Union :
" The political world has been for the last two days
much occupied with an article which has just appeared
in the Independance of Brussels. This article, or rather
this correspondence, addressed from Paris to the Brus-
sels paper, contains very serious revelations, and such as
are of a nature to cause disquiet in the public mind. It
is not our purpose to discuss these denunciations, or even
now to seek for the origin of them; to ask who guided
the pen and who suggested to the correspondent of the
lndipendance this charge of a friend of the Elysee
against the National Assembly. In presence of the
great trial which is going on before the country our
good faith makes it a duty for us to abstain and to wait.
As this document is of a nature serious enough to find
its place in the discussion which is about to open
we have considered it right to publish the tenor of it.
After tracing out a rapid history of the days which
followed the prorogation of the Assembly; after having
shown parties in competition in the Committee,
the correspondent of the hidipendance brings between
them the person of General Changarnier. Enveloped in
clouds, wrapped up in mystery, like a new Proteus, M.
Changarnier, according to the account of this corre-
spondent, confines himself to flattering alternately Legi-
timatists and Orleanists, giving to each contradictory
hopes. To the latter he said, am a bird, look at my
wings;' to the former, lam a mouse, vivent les rats ! '
It is through these preparations that the author of the
letter in the Indipendanee leads us step by step to the
revelation, not only of an intrigue, but cf a fine Or-
leacist conspiracy, in which are involved M. Thiers, M.
Dupiu, and others under the protection
it
of the sword
of General Changarnier, aspiring, as is said, to
become mayor of the Palace of the Duchess of Orleans.
We shall now allow the correspondent himself to explain
the plan of the conspiracy which he denounces to
Europe:—' Before all things, it is necessary to make
public opinion distrustful of the President, by ca-
lumniating his intentions, misrepresenting his acts, sow-
ing divisions, producing agitations, and alarming the
masses. Two pretexts have admirably served the jour-
nals of the Permanent committee to arrive at this result,
to which it is known they laboured with a zeal and an
ardour worthy of a better cause. These pretexts are,
on the one hand, the Societe du Dix Decembre, and, on
the other hand, the reviews of Satory. The Neumayer
incident has made so mach noise that it is superfluous to
return to the details of that affair. It is known that on
that occasion General Changarnier is reported to have
said in a moment of violence that the President must
be got rid of—that it was time for him to be t tken
to Vincennes. Might not these words, which I only
can attribute to a momentary burst of excitement,
have been spoken before some members of the Go-
vernment? On the other hand, the Permanent Com-
mittee took care to draw up the minutes of its sittings,
in view of the events which were preparing in the shade.
This event not taking place they hastened to hide them
from the public by placing them under seals. If the
plan of some exclusive Orleanists had been carried out
to the end the day following the arrest of the President,
these same minutes, which had been shut up with such
mystery, would have been published in the Moniteur as
a justification of the revolutionary measure decreed by
the Permanent Committee, signed by M. Dupiu, and
executed by the Commandant-in-Chief of the Army
of Paris. Was it not, in fact, thus that the parts
were distributed ? Was not the Permanent Com-
mittee, oa the faith of the projects falsely attributed
to the President, to declare the Assembly and
the Constitution in danger, to publish the minutes of
its sittings, sad decree the downtal of Louis Napoleon?
Was not M. Dupin to sign the order investing General
Chargarnier with full powers to secure the execution of
the decrees of the Assembly? Did not M. Dupin for
several dais carry the order about him? Did he not
show it to several influential men? These are the new
questions which are addressed to him. Such is what is
affirmed, and what I repeat under every reserve. The
order being signed, M. Dupin, more prudent in action
than in speech, would not deliver it. It was then that,
in order to make him pass the Rubicon, the conspiracy
of the Rue des Saussaies was got up, a plot invented for
the sole purpose of obtaining !tom his alarm what
could not be obtained from his zeal. M. Dupin believed
in the plot, but he retained the order in his pocket. If
be has sinned it was only in intention. Let the coun-
try judge him lightly ! The execution of this order had
been fixed for the sth November at the latest, for the
Assembly was to meet on the 11th, and it was necessary
that on arriving it should find itself in presence of faits
aceomplis, which it would only have to sanction under
the pressure of the ,army of Paris, commanded by
General Changarnier. He would immediately after
have demanded its dissolution, in such a way as a man
makes a demand with 100,000 soldiers at his back. The
end may be divined. Under the pressure of a dicta-
torial power manifestations would have been easily
got up in favour of the Regency of the Duchess of
Orleans, and, but for the hesitation of M. Dupin,
the Republicans of the Left and the Legitimatists
would have been reduced to renounce, the former
the Republic, and the latter Legitimacy, and to again
conspire, no longer against the President, but against
the Regent, having on her right M. Thiers as President
cf the Council of Ministers, and on her lefs M. Chan-
gamier as generalissimo of the land forces. These facts
are too serious for me to dare to guarantee them en-
tirely; but, if they are inexact—which I hope they are
—their publication will furnish the men incriminated an
opportunity of contradicting them.' In reproducing the
above, we have had only one object in view, that of placing
under the eyes of the reader a serious document, which,
according to all appearance, will figure in the great dis-
pute now pending between the Parliament and the Exe-
cutive power. Some persons have regarded this article
in the light of an indictment, and really it has the ap-
pearance of it. Let us now wait for the indictment on
the other side!"
On the other land, the Burgraves declare that the
demonstration of 29th January, 1849, which was de.
Glared to be against the Republicans, was, in fact, to
prevent Louis NAPOLEON from proclaiming himself E in-
peror, and that it is out of revenge for his services to the
Republic on that day that CHANGARNIER is dismissed.
The following is the explanation of the mystery of the
29th January, 1849, now propounded by the friends
of General CUANGARNIER. According to the story
told, General CIIANGARNIER was sent for that morn-
ing to the palace of the Elysee, and had an interview
with the PRESIDENT of the Republic. On that occa-
sion Louis NAPOLEON represented to the General
that the election of the 10th of December, in
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a staggering one and General CHANGAUNIRR
hesitated. He reminded Louis N APOLEON that, in
order to carry out such a revolution effectually,
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