The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

the PONTIFF pretended to create and fix, and
also to prevent the exercise of any real authority in
connexion with these unwarranted titles. And for
these purposes the Bill is all that could be desired ;
but we cannot help thinking that the Premier, in his
singularly clear and able speech in bringing forward
the question, pointed out another evil that should
also have been guarded against.
We cannot forget that in the evidence
taken in 1826 before Parliament, both Dr.
MURRAY and Dr. DOYLE (two unexceptionable
witnesses), declared that the Roman Catholics
of Ireland were as jealous of any undue interference
with the independence of their Church on the part of
the Vatican as of the British Government, and that
they strongly relied upon the system of " election of
their Bishops" by the Roman Catholic clergy of the
dioceses, as affording the most effectual security
against* any Papal aggression. Those who were
elected by the suffrages of the natural born subjects
of the British SOVEREIGN could not be very
inimical to that authority, and to impute
disloyalty to the elected would be also to
charge the electors. But that valuable guaran •
tee, that efficient safeguard, has been deliberately
set aside, the ancient principle has been violated.
For the first time, during a long succession of years,
the POPE totally set aside the election of the Roman
Catholic clergy of the diocese. He did not select
any one of those who had been chosen dignus,
dignior, or dignissimus, not even one resident in the
country, or who had obtained a single vote from the
Irish priesthood. He treated the reverend constituency
with the grossest contumely, and elevated Dr. PAUL
CULLEN, an Irishman by birth, but one who
had for more than thirty years breathed the atmos-
phere of the Papal Court and mingled in all the in-
trigues of the Vatican, to the important and influential
situation of Roman Catholic Primate of all Ireland.
This was the first and the most formidable step
against the independence of at least a portion of the
British empire, and this unquestionable mischief is
not in any degree guarded against or even noticed in
the provisions of the Bill now about to be brought
before Parliament.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Dotation Bill was rejected by a majority of
396 to 294.

M. ROTER, the Minister of Justice, announced at
the commencement of the sitting that the Ministers
would not take any part in the discussion. The only
member who spoke in favour of the dotation was M.
DE MONTLLEMBERT, and from his speech it would
seem that Louts NAPOLEON looks to the parti-pretre
for support, and that he is prepared to sacrifice
the liberties of his country in order
to obtain it ; for M. DE MONTALEMBERT
spoke of the PRESIDENT'S letter to Colonel NET as a
fault for which he had since amply atoned. The
PRESIDENT would be much better without the support
of the parti-pretre than with it; their support has
been the prelude to the downfall of every power in
France which has relied upon it.
The PRESIDENT has determined to refuse to avail
himself of any national subscription to make up the
dotation.

The Presse reports the expression of its dissatis-
faction at the support given by Louis NAPOLEON to
the Electoral law of 1850. It declares that be has
taken a course which, without helping him in his
demand for a dotation, renders his position so bad as
regards public opinion, that he shuts the door against
the possibility of a revision of the constitution in his
favour.

The Bourse was well attended, and the prices of
public securities rose. The Five per Cents. opened at
96f. 80:%, and closed at 96f. 85c.; the Three per Cents.
closed at 58f. 20c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 181 f. 25c.;
Rouen, 673 f. 75c.; Havre, 275 E; Avignon, ME;
Vierzon, 411 f. 25c.; Baste, 161 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 400 f. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 375.; Tours and Nantes, 253 f. 75c.
BUSINESS tmiNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, F. 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9% Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 165,4—Dutch Rhenish, 3%—East Indian, 12
—Great Indian Peninsula, 55,4—Ditto, 25,4—Luxembourg,
25,4—Namur and Liege, 85,4—Northern of France, 151,4
Orleans and Bordeaux, 4—Paris and Rouen, 27 49—Paris and
Strasbourg, 9%—Sambre and Meuse, 3%—Tours and Nantes,
1%.