The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

Sporting Intelligence.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
4to 1 agst Vengeance (t?ken)
15 to 2 agst Coup de Main (taken)
3to 1 agst Pole Star (taken)
100 to 6 agst Poacher (taken)
100 to 6 agst Eloquence (taken)
20 to 1 agst Alma (taken)
20 to 1 agst Malacca (taken)
25 to 1 agat Pretty Buy (taken)
25 to 1 agst Hospitality (taken)
30 to 1 agst Artillery (taken)
30 to 1 ags Lance (take 33 to 1)
30 to 1 agst Porto Rico (taken)
40 to 1 agst Thames Ditton (taken)
CRITERION STAKES.
5 to 2 agst Sydney (taken)
1 agst Rosa Bonheur (taken)
DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Blink Bonny (taken)
14 to 1 igst Loyola
18 to 1 aget Sydney
25 to 1 agst Zuyder Zee

ACCIDENT AT THE ART TREASURES PALACE, MAN
CEIESTER.—By the fall of some scaffolding used in the
erection of this new building, five or six men were more
or less injured !on Thursday evening, but none of them
fatally.

In pursuance of this object we have doubtless
often been compelled to enunciate unpalatable
truths. And the present compels us to persist in
this un•courcierlike course. The present is no
time for soothing flattery. A. combined monetary
and commercial crisis in France is prolucing a
monetary crisis in England. Here we are in little
ultimate danger. Trade and manufactures are
with us in an unprecedentedly healthy condition.
We run no greater danger than that of temporary
pressure and embarrassment from the reaction or
contagion of French suffering. That, however, is
a sufficient reason why we should seek to avert
from France evils which must necessarily be se•
verely, though not fatally, felt by ourselves. With
regard to France, matters are very different. It
is not merely the money market that is disturbed ;
the manufactures and commerce of that country
are in an alarming condition. And this condition,
if not produced exclusively by the unwise policy of
the French Government, is in a large measure
owing to it, and has been Materially aggravated by.
it. This being the case, justice to our own coun-
trymen, and friendship to our French neighbours,
alike compel us to protest against the false policy
of the French Government,' even at the risk of irri-
tating the Emperor, or—what would be nearer the
exact truth—his masters, the gamblers of the
Bourse, and the protected interests.

The fundamental error of the French Govern-
ment is its having undertaken to do for the people
what it is beyond the power of any Government to
accomplish. The labouriug classes have been en-
couraged to look to the Government as able to in-
sure them constant employment and cheap and
plentiful provisions, and other necessaries of life.
Under any circumstances the attempts of the Go-
vernment to realise such expectations must have
been futile. But ever since the Prince President
or Emperor snatched the reins of government, the
seasons have fought against him. He calculated
with too sanguine an assurance that the return of
confidence and commercial activity, the result of
the establishment of a " strong Government,"
would be permanent. Some men see a strange
fatality in the circumstance that war, famine, pes-
tilence, inundation, have marked every successive
year since December, 1852. It has been as if " the
stars in their courses fought against Sisera." Every
year there has been a deficient harvest. The grape
disease has shown no symptoms of abasement. This
year there is at least a doubtful harvest ; and to
this have.. been superadded the inundations and the
certain failure of the silk crops. The agriculturists
have lost their crops, and the manufacturers lack
their raw material. The Emperor has sought to
counteract.. these evils by immense and costly public
works, and by giving an artificial stimulus to ma-
nufactures and commerce. In this he has been
stimulated and confirmed by daring speculators,
who have found their own profit in the course
whielt they have induced or encouraged him to
pursua. The consequence is that large sums have
bcon expended, and larger debts incurred, in beau-
tifying Paris and other cities ; and monopolist spe-
culiitofs have been enabled tolanneli out into foreign
enterprises, which are extensively withdrawing
capital from the country. We say nothing at
proent of the lavish expenditure incurred by at-
tempts to dazzle the populace by Imperial osten-
tation, though that, too, is an item in the
account. But the day of reckoning, which we have
foretold from the beginning, is fast approaching.
The foreign engagements the Credit Mobilier
can only be met by the continuance of that drain of
capital which is paralysing domestic industry. The
public workscan only be continued by imposts upon
the proprietary class, which must impoverish many
and alienate the affections of all. The system has
not realised what was expected of it. Builders,
paviours, artists, have had employment ; but in
ar,er,
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etdecieausduai
llnlyye nrdiiiasl
risen.
the great centres of manufacturing industry there
Provisionshick it
and house-
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.st in
the policy that has been adopted. The
prospects of the coming winter fill men with the
darkest forebodings. An immense strain has been
put on the national resources ; people are seeking
employment at a time when it is most improvident
to increase public works ; financiers at their wit's
end talk of a suspension of cash
payments—in
words of a recurrence to the system of assiguats ;
the Emperor's popularity declines,and 8
secret
co: hso-
cieties extend.
The most alarming feature of this state of affairs
is the uncertainty and vacillation which seems to
pervade the action of Government.. Disapproba-
tion of undue speculation is expressed, but no effi-
cient measures are taken to check it. One day it
is announced that the works at the Louvre are
opened for the completion of the Boulevard_ et
asuspended, and the next a supplemental credit is
Se-
bastopol. Alleviations of the restrictive.t _do tne
system are announced, and then indefini9ly
than
post-
poned. Either the Emperor is
undoes one day what he has do •_
or there is "a
in his uncertainty how to proceed;
power behind the throne greater
panic-stricken,ie on the preceding
throne "—the Bourse
• withhold him from
interests—strong
enough to
gamblerds.a,cnidisstihoen,prtoLtreocutgehd
such au anxious moment free is
tribune, is indispensable to the
obeying the dictates of his. better judgment. At
discussion facts would
safety of France. By
free
be elicited and a sound policy struck out. By free
1,110 press and the
discussion a public opinion would be formed that
would enable the Eserror to bid defiance to the
secret and sinister influences which now enthral
hint. By free discussion the irritation necessarily
engendered in the minds of men denied the means
of -asccrtaining the causes of their sufferings, or of
relieving themselves by the utterance of their com-
plaints would be dissipated. And yet, by a judi-
cial blindness, at this very moment the Press of
France is more strictly gagged than ever. It
therefore becomes the imperative duty of the Press
of England to urge these discussions,
and express
those opinions in the interest of France which
Frenchmen are denied the liberty of urging or
uttering for themselves. To do this •is a duty we
owe both to France and England, and we still con-
tinue to discharge it—temperately but firmly—nn-
deterred by the oracular fulminations of the
I Moniteur.—Daily .News.