The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.
The Committee on Parliamentary initiative will
take into consideration in one of its early sittirgs tee
different propositions relative to the arrest of repre-
sentatives. It is affirmed that a great part of the
majority is decided on supporting one of the proposi-
tions (that of M. Pougeard), which states that any
representative who does not satisfy the claims of his
creditor, with:a one month from the date of the de-
nunciation to the Questor of the Assembly, shall he
eousidereel to have vacated his seat.

LIBERTY AT ROME.
(From the National.)
The Italia del Popolo publishes in its last number
a moat remarkable letter that M. Mazzini has just
addressed to the President of the French Republic,
from London. Notwithstanding the strict regula-
tions by which the introduction of this review into
France has been endeavoured to be prevented, the
National continues to receive it, and could give the
whole of the letter of M. Mazzini. We shall confine
ourselves, however, to placing before our readers the
picture traced with such breadth by tl-le author, of the
present situltion of the Roman States—% picture
which will throw a sinister light upon the ParHa
mentary discussion which will soon commence, con-
cerning that melancholy chapter of our annals—the
deplorable expedition to Rome.
The letter of M. MazzLi is preceded by the fol-

lowing mottoes :
" Until now, I have been merely a volunteer ; but
I shall with pleasure place myself at your disposal if
you think I may be useful to the sacred cause which I
have ardently embraced, and which has been my
dream for the last ten years."—Nap leon Bonaparte,*
Letter to General Sercognani, Terns, Feb. 28, 1831.
" I also, banished from my country, often complain
of that law of exile which strikes my family; how-
ever, when we see that now, all who possess a noble
soul are driven out of their native country by these
in power, then we become proud of belonging to the
ranks of the oppressed and proscribed."—Louis Napo-
leon B.;nsparte, Address to the Polish Refugees,
Arenenbarg, August 17, 1833.
"Our arms have overthrown ut Porne those tur-
bulent denugogues who tbr,ughout the Italian pe-
niniula had compromised the cause of true liberty, and
our brave soldiers have had the signM honour of re-
storing Pio IX. to the throne of Stint Peler."
MeJslge of the President of the Republic, Novera-
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br1?,1850.
TO LOUIS SAPOLE'7)I, PItEtIDENT OF TILE FRENCH

REPUBLIC

• You spe,.k, Sir, of the 7ibe;ty of Route! But of
what liberty ? Is it individual liberty ? Is it the
liberty of the press, of association, of speech, of voting,
ofteaehing, protected by a civic militia, by unchanr-
able representation of the people ?
The 1117:erty of Rome—l will recapitulate, for
Fleoice, which so Soon f.)rgeti,steee Wr 11 known facts
--the liberty of Roele i the •permanent dissolution of
the civic guard, notwithstpn hog the decree of the
6'h Juis, passed by the French authorities, the
recond article of which said—" It shall be ininze-
diirtely M-on-,Yanized upon it; or;ginal footing ;"
is thv prohibition of r.ll re uolon (cercies) and
of all I,Jblitical aS'Weation—lha ceeriscation
alt eru:s, thus leaving the honest citizn
svi bout any; deft nee egaicst the roLher and
the brigand ; it is the suppression of t.,11 journals,
exlept those of the Government; it is the commis-
sion insttutel contrary to tour promises of the 23 I
Augtht, 1819, to inquire into the pretended attempts
vommitted against religi in aud her ministers under
the government of the Republic ; it is vexstious
proceedings ag,inst for, igners, the d.!nunciation of
hotel keepers, the conditions of evidence again put in
force by a notification of th,3 31st August ; it is the
measure of the 31 Septemlx-r, by which all printing
officers are obliged, under pain of imprisonment and of
he-,vy fines, to give to the Government an accurate
and progre,s.ive account of the types and of the work-
inc:n ; it is the commissicn of cansure instituted against
all in the service of the Republic, their almost generel
di,onissal, and the rni,,ery of nearly seven hundred
Toe liberty of Rome is the disbanding of the army
and the exile of nearly all its officers ; it is the sus-
pension of all the institutions appointed on the ,17. h
October; the recall to all the employments connected
wi h the palice, and amongst the sbirri of all the men
belonging to the reaction, and of the dregs of the
spies and assasAns of Gregory XVl.—it is the re•
establishment of the Inquisition and of the vicariat.
Ttie liberty of Rerne is the paper circulation re-
duc.ed by the orders of the Pentitical Government by
35 per cent., the day afier the parr payments, et
par, of alt the salaries, the pensions, and all the
charges of the State ; it is the tax upon the barriers
re-e e:utolisllect., the stamp duties increased tEnF:old, the
restitution of mortmain, the increase in the price of
salt, the restitution of the tax en moveables, the in-
crease of the taxes by 13 per cent., the tax upon
paten`;, the misery which is vi.ibly increasing in all
parts, ard in all classes of the Sate.
Tee liberty of Rona is an amnesty which excludes
the members of the ProviAonal G-,,v,rnmeet, the
Triumvirate, all the members who forimd the Minis.
tries, the representatives of the people, the prefets of
the provinces, the chiefs of the military bodice, those
who had received the amnesty of 1848, and who had
taken any part in the revolution ; the immediate
effect of which vr?s a fresh emigration—it is a
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proprio, which, repealing that -et' 1848, re-organizes
despotism with a council of state elected by the Pope,
from triple lists presented to him by the provincial
councils, without the intervention of the Commons,
increased by members appointed by him at his plea-
sure, and condemned t(i silence except on those occa-
sions when the Government may think fit to ask its
advice; it is the institution of provincial councils,
whose members are chosen by the Pope, and must be
30 years of ago, must have resided for ten years in the
province, must possess property to the value of at least
32,000 francs, and of religious conduct, and of political
opinions known to be good; again, these assemblies
may be suspended or dissolved according to the good
pleasure of the Government.
The liberty of Some is a daily, an hourly persecu-
tion ; it is the filling of fresh prisons tcarceri nuove),
together with those of the Castle of St. Angelo, of the
Holy Office, of Termini, with men torn away from
their families as bring suspected, and who rot without
a trial, amongst felons and murderers until it may
please the Government, or death, to release them. It
is the pointing out of these men who are known for
their Republican opinions to the violence, to the in-
sult, to the daggers of the sbirli, who have now
become masters of the State ' • it is the inevitable con-
sequence of such a state of things,—an increase in
the number of crimes, the roads entirely without
securit:-, and the villages invadcd and despoiled by
robbers.
Tois, Sir, is the liberty, the true liberty of
Rome, brought about by your arena, and corroborated
by the allele' journal of the Government which you
have restored. In the name of France, which we
love, let that line of the Message which speaks of the
invasion as a glorious action (fait glorieux), he
quickly erased, for since the awakening of the people
glory and honour are synonymous.
Jos CPU MAZSINT.

London, December, 1850.
*• The brother of M. Louis Bonaparte, then residing
with him.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
lIASCLIESTE2, TCESDAY.—It was pretty generally
expected, this morning, that the advices r€ccived yes-
terday
of a reaction in the New York cotton market,
to the extent of .1- to •
of a cent per lb., would
impart some additional activity both to the Liver-
pool market and our own. Thi,4, however, has not
been the case. Our nei,hbours have not done much,
but they
{ are reported firm in their prices ; and the
state of matters has been pretty much the same here
also. On the whelp, 1,
Lis 'market has appeared
quieter than it was last week,--a natural result
of some degree of disappointment, w verily:lc 1 I
has
caused
many buyers to do leas than 01do
ne,
had would haveonD,
bad they not been lookingr an
excitement in
Liverpool, to be extended, asus"i
Manchester. The tratisae,__ )of course, to
idons of the day in
yarns for home consumption, and shipment t for
the east, have, however, been to a o
extent. For Germany, on the othemrodher,lte
the purchases are altogether inconsiderable.and
'
B
sides the effect of recent political events on
the manufactures of central Europe, there is the intern
ruption arising from Christmas observances, to which
more time is devoted there than in England. As re-
garils goods, the day hss been fully as quiet in them
-
as in yarns. Bat, in every department, there is an
entire absence 01 any weakness in prices. Producers
being not only unClurdeneJl with stocks, but, to a
large extent, well supplied with orders, are a good
d cal at their ease about entering into further engage-
ments, arid therefore very independent.
ROCUDALE, MoNDAr.—We have had a fair demand
for coarse goods, considering the time of the year ;
but, in flannels of a better quality- the market has been
rather-heavy. In well there is no change worth re-
porting. Next Monday is the first or new market,
which this year is as late in the month as it can pos-
sibly happen.
MACCLP.YIELD, TLIESDIY —\Ve hive no altera•
tion to report in the state of our market since our
last report. Most of the mills having been making
holidays from New Year's Day up to Saturday',
.therrif*.s been a paucity of business ; the manufac-
-6
r rer.4, however, complain of the low prices offered
,T
,
: ,gtoos. The thrown and raw silk markets are
riiibaut:is blare.
fILTDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.--We have had a very
favourab!e tittnnelar,ce of buyers at the Cloth Hall,
' • though on the whole the exchanges of pods have not
i.
been so large as last week. We have every reason for
expecting this to be a very brisk season. Tcere has i
not been much doing amongst the:warehouses during