The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-24 00:00:00

THE SUN,

Fifth Edition, Bvo., 28. 6d.,
LETTERS to JOHN BULL, Esq., on Affairs
connected with his Landed Property, and the Persona who
Live thereon.

historian discern the true nature of the disease, why
do they not propose suitable remedies ? why do they
not direct the exertions of their party towards the
attainment of a measure that would afford im-
mediate relief, and which might be car-
ried, if the public attention were properly directed
thereto? But, in place of pursuing this rational
course, they go with the stream and join in
the cry that cannot lead to any practical result.
E sch may exclaim, Video meliora, proboque, deteriora
sequor. We would not speak, save in terms of the
utmost respect, of the talented author of " Free Trade
and a Fettered Currency." There is no person more
competent than be is to explain the true nature of
the " currency question," and to bring conviction to
his auditors. If he devote himself to the task, we
venture to assert that he will produce a greater effect,
and attract a more numerous, far more intelligent
audience than he can do by any Protectionist ha-
rangues, however graceful the diction or astute the
rguments advanced.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

By Sir EDWARD BIILWER LYTTON, B lit
Loudon : Chapmau and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
It would appear from the following article, pub.
lished i❑ the Constitutionnel, that the Bonapartists
are preparing a revolutionary movement against the
Constitution, for the purpose of securing by illegal
means a prolongation of the powers of the PRESIDENT.
We regret this exceedingly, because we are convinced
that all such illegal attempts will conduct those en-
gaged in them, not to the Tuileries, but to Vin-
cennes. The Constitutionnel says :
" In calm and ordinary times, under an old and regu-
lar Government, we should not se,3 without repugnance
the Constitution interfered with out of the forms pre-
scribed. Under a regime like ours, the result of an
audacious revolution, and imposed o❑ the country by
conspirators who boast of it; under a Constitution
made in a moment of crisis, in a city in a state
of siege, we cannot hesitate to think and to say
that the country itself; or the constituted bodies in
its name, and under its control, have a right
to touch it at any time, and that it is its duty to do it as
soon as possible. These are elementary truths, and the
simple notions of good sense, and to announce them is
to demonstrate them. In order to aseerttsin the wish of
France, an appeal to be made to the municipal councils,
these natural organs of the population, has been recently
spoken of. We should find two serious inconveniences
in such a measure: it would be to take the municipal
councils out of their legal attributions, and to give to
the opinion of the country a useless intermediate agent
which would necessarily weaken its authority. There
is only one idea which can make the Legislative As-
sembly give way, and that is the direct idea
of France herself expressed with calmness and
with full authenticity. All means which will
lead to the expression of the free and sincere wish
of France merit consideration. It has been proposed
by different departments to open a register in every
commune, with one or two very simple questions in•
scribed therein, to whi,l all citizens should be invited
to sign a yes or ano Such an inquiry, organized by de-
' part mental or cantcnal committees, might open a new era
by substituting the nation, in the place of ambitious men,
c inspirators, cr secret societies. We cannot to,) much en-
courage this ides; but, above all things, let not a moment
be lost. Questions however simple may be distorted
every moment. For one month or two they will pro-
bably remain free of any financial, manufacturing, agri-
cultural, or commercial complication, and might be
studied and solved on their own merits. Let us, while
there is yet time, demand a Government i❑ accord-
ance with the good sense, the reason, aid the experience
of the country, fearing, as has already so many times
happened, that we may be obliged to receive one from
the hands of necessity."
The Ordre has the following on the accession of
" the Mau of Ghent" to the ranks of the Legititna-
ties :

HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE

Tars DST —Morning 57 min.afteiffivening— 39
min. after 8
To • vronzow—Morning 19 min. after 9 f Evening 58 Mll2. after 9

WEATHER.--Si•N Otmcs, APRIL 24.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
41 —lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.82.
WIND W.S.W.—fine sunshiny weather.

TABLE.
State ofDthlelWLYindWanEd Weather Ti i E
at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
A
are arranged in order of latitude.
F.tworro ( DUBLIN ) —Wind N.W., gentle breeze—
partially cloudy.
W bad N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
PLYMOU
Wind W., entla breeze--overcast.
Po RTSMOUTH--- g
N— Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BaselllAaTmosi—Wi,d \V., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
So UT t I AMMON Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
FOLK ESTON Wind W., genie breeze—partially cloudy.
TUNBRIDGE_-Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
FoLeirrawroicF. Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
G rtEttN W ICH—Wind SW , gentle breeze—partially cloudy
7,,wirm.,„
_wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
COLCHESTER—Wind S. E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE —Wind S.W., gentle breeze— partially cloudy.
YARMOUTH—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
tior.YHEAD—'+ Ind N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LIVERPOOL—Wind S. W., gentle breeze —partially cloudy.
WHITBY— Wind W , gentle breeze - principally clear.
DARLINGTON—Wind S. S. W., gentle breeze— cloudless.
CARLISLE Wind W., strong breeze—cloudless.
BaArrocw—Wind N.W., gentle ureeze—partially cloudy.
The returns trum the following places indicate the state of
tele wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine
CORK —Wind W., strong breeze—cloudy.
Lola/um—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
tiINGSTOWN ( DUBLIN) Wind W.S.W ~ gentle breeze—
partially cloudy.
M ULLMGAB— Ind W., gentle breeze —principally cloudy.
Pools Wind E , gentle breeze—scud, rain.
flasrmas —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
RUGBY—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
BIRMINGHAM Ind S. E., gentle breeze—overcast.
PETE RBO to 'UGH— Wind S. W., gentle breeze—cloudy.
LEEDS - Wind S.W.. gentle breeze partially cloudy.
YORK—Wind S., calm—partially cloudy.
CARLISLE— Ind S. se., gentle breeze—cloudy.

We need scarcely remind the taxpaying commu-
nity that the question of the income-tax is the first
to be decided on the re-assembling of Parliament after
the Easter recess. Oa the conduct of the chosen
representatives of the people during the early part of
next week, it will depend whether the gross and un-
paralleled iojustice of placing in the same class, and
assessing at the same rate, incomes derived from real
estate, from dividends, from the public funds,
or from safe investments in chartered com-
panies, and the precarious profits of trade, or the
hard-earned wages of physical or intellectual
toil, is or is not to be continued for three years longer
The inequality and unfairness of this system has been
so frequently and so ably exposed, that it would ap-
pear to be almost a work of supererogation to add to
the numerous and convincing arguments that have
already been put forward. It seems to be like an
attempt to

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.776 in. Tile mean
temperature was 46'1'3. The wind was in the east or north •
east during the first four days; and duri, g this period the
mean daily temperatu• e was about -it°, or shout 5' below
the average of the same day in ten years. During the last
three days the wind was in the soutu and south-west, and
the mean temperature rose 10 degrees higher, or from 4° to
6" above the average.

"It is afflicting to us to see the eloquent and impla-
cable organ of the Conservative party, who, contrary to
the feeling of the whole Liberal opposition, carried a
vote of stigma against the pilgrims to Belgrave-square,
and launched against the whole party the sentence of
fatal incapacity—it is, we say, afflicting to us to see the
last Prime Minister of the July monarchy treat this
same monarchy as an incomplete regime—a troncon de
Royaute, Guizot is converted. The author or
the • History of Civilisation in Europe,' the member of
the Aide Toi Society, the Minister of the 11th and 29th
October—the chief of the coalition of 1839, M. Guizot
is a L,,gitiwatist. Such an ardent and proud nature can
never do things by halves. A weaker or more timid
a, irit would have buried in solitude this painful renun-
ciation of ruined convictions. M. Guizot takes posses-
sion of a journal to proclaim it to all Europe. First we
had manifestoes; now we have war, not only against the
Ropublica❑ party and the arcient dynastic oppoaition,
out war against this great fraction of the Conservative
party which, while sustaining under the leadership of
Guizot himself, the monarchy of July, little thought
it Was only defending an expedient, and not principles,
and principles to which it still adheres."
Tha i:eourse was badly att-nded teal Govern.
meta securities were ❑navy. The. Five per Cents. opened
at 92f. 30c, and closed at 92t. 20c. The Three per
Cents, closed at 571. 10c.Orleans Railroad Shares, 830%;
Iti.iuwn, 6321. 50c.; Havre, 260 f.; Great Northern, 473 f.
75c.;Avignon, 202 f. 50c.; Basle, 145 E ; Bordeaux, 4021.
50o.; Paris and Strasburg, 3701.; Tours and Nantes,
278 f. 75c.
uusio.ESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TrE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 23.
Boulogne arid Amiens, 10—Luxembourg, 314—Maria
.s.ntonia, B—Northern► of France, 15—Sambre and Meuse, 4
—Tours and Nantes, 61,6.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING APRIL 24, 1851.

ceived by evil desizners, who, wherever they may appear
disturbing the public tranquillity, and in whatever man-
ner, shall be apprehended and severely PLMlShed.

`: Conde DE CASAL,

GERMAN Y.

The Alinisterial journals of Berlin of the 21st,
state that Austria bac proposed, in case of certain
events, to march 200.000 troops through Piedmont.
This proposnl, which has been submitted to the
Cabinet of Turin, has made a deep impression at
Berlin.

The same papers mention a secret treaty between
Russia and Austria, and that they endeavour to gain
the support of Prussia.
The object of the secret Austro-Russian treaty is
to protect Europe against the results of the crisis
which is impending in France. The Ministerial
papers contain an official contradiction of the rumours
which were lately circulated respecting Chevalier
BUNSEN, the Prussian Ambassador at the Court of
St. James's, and protest that the Chevalier has not,
as has been asserted, been insulted by certain German
refugees.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES

At the commencement of the month Austria and
Prussia► came to an understanding on the course of
proceeding with respect to the Duchy of Holstein.
The Federal Commissioners will remain until a defi-
nitive Central Federal Power is organized, when
the latter power will administer the Government of
Holstein, and not restore it to the King of DEN-
MARK till he acknowledges all the rights of the Ger-
man Confederation. The Diet will finally settle the
relations between Holstein and Schleswig.
The Danish Commissioner for Holstein, Professor
RAVIT, has claimed, i❑ the meetings of the Commis-
sion charged with the settlement of the frontiers, the
province of Eidersledt for Holstein. He rests this
claim upon a concession of it by the Emperor
CHARLES V. This claim was quite unexpected by
the other Commissioners.

TURKEY.

Intelligence has been received from the frontiers of
Bosnia, of the 14th instant, that the chief of the
rebels, Inaaknim KAPICII, has been killed. One
thousand Albanians are marching by Trawaik to-
wards Kraina, and committing the greatest excesses.
On the Ist, 23, and 31 instant there were some
encounters on the Montenegrin frontier between the
Mont,negrins and the Turks the former had five
killed and eight wounded, but the loss on the part of
the Turks was much greater.
The Breslau Gazette states, that the Christian po-
pulation of Bosnia and the Herzegovine have ad-
dressed a petition to the Sultan calling for the union
,f Bosnia and the Herzegovine under one Vizier, and
demanding the nomination of Christians to the Court
of the Sultan with a seat and voice in the Divan ;
the suppression of the name of Rjah, and the ac-
knowledgment of Christians as citizens and as ele-
ments in the state ; also freedom from the jurisdiction
of the Koran.

Paid.

ITALY.

The Grand Duke of TUSCANY arrived at Capua on
the 10th. The King of NArLas had arrived there
previously to receive him. They stayed a few hours
at Capua, and then proceeded to Naples by the rail-
road.

A Turin letter of the 18th, in the Univers, men-
tions a p.tition sent a few days before to the Pied-
tnontese Chamber of Deputies by a priest, praying
that a pamphlet, entitled " Letter or St. Peter to the
BiNhops of Piedmont," be prohibited, on account of
he virulent attack it contains upon the rights of the
Romish hierarchy. The Umber, it appears, refused
to take the petition into consideration, on the ground
that it could not usurp the functions of the Sacred
Congregation of the Index at Rome. The same cor-
respondent states that the sees of Turin and Cagliari
are marked vacant in the Royal calendar of this
year.

- The Official Milan Gazette publishes a sentence of
the court martial of that city condemning a person,
named PAIIRAVICINI, to two months' imprisonment,
for having attempted to prevent other persons from
smoking.

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