The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-13 00:00:00

LONDOiV, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1869.

Our favourable anticipations in regard to the re-
sults of yesterday, in England, France, and Ireland,
have been already, in a very great measure, realized.
They have been, unquestionably, justified. What-
ever sinister prognostications were indulged in by
the alarmists who talked with a certain amount of
confidence of blood-shed upon the anniversary of the
Battle of the Boyne, as the all but inevitable result
of a wide-spread insurrectionary movement on the
part of the Irish Orangemen, may be recognized, even
now, upon the very morrow of that anniversay, as
having utterly vanished into thin air as an evil dream
born of a morbid imagination. Those, again, who
cherished, with what one might almost after the man-
ner Sir BOYLE ROCIIE term a despairing hope, a
belief that at the last moment the Conservative Op-
position in the Lords would reject the Irish Church
Bill on the motion for thethird reading, in compliance
with the counter position of the Earl of CLANCARTY,
have found that extravagant anticipation completely
dissipated. Simillarly, it may said, now of all those
prophets of disaster in regard to the political insti-
tutions of France, under the imperial rule of NAPO-
LEON 111., who were exulting up to yesterday in the
certain prospect, as they conceived, of the crumbling
away of the very foundations of Imperialism, before
the advance of the formdidable phalanx of the
Opposition in the Corps L6gislatif, that the wish
may ba father to the thought, but that in any
case the thought has proved to be still-born. The
inexorable logic of events has already demon-
strated the absurdity of the more ominous
hints thrown out by the alarmists, as
to the disastrous results of y esterday in
the North of Ireland, at Paris, and at Westminster
—in Ulster, in the Corps Lcigislatif, and in the House
of Lords respectively. A single unhappy incident is
announced by telegram as having stained with blood
the sanguinary date of the 12,th of July—but not,
thank heaven, by means of any insurrectionary
movement whatever, but through another isolated
agrarian outrage, through another insulated attempt
at assassination. Inste ;d of the Lords complying
with the suggestion of the Earl of CLANCAIITY, that
absurdly ill-timed suggestion was withdrawn and the
Irish Church Bill having been duly read a third 'dm;
was passed through the House of Peers and sent
down, in its amended form, to the House of
Commons for further consideration. Finally
it remains to be said that at yesterday's
sitting of the Corps L6gislatif, the DIPEROR'S
Manifesto, as read from the Tribune by
the Minister of State, M. RouuErt, fairly took
the wind out of the sails of the Tiers Parti—aati-
cipated all the demands that were preparing among
the opponents of Personal Government in France—
and did this by virtually announcing, at once, a
grand and comprehensive scheme for the develop-
ment., under the 2Ects of Imperialism, of Respon-
sible and Constitutional Government.

This momentous message, which was yesterday
read by M. ROUIIER, in the name of his master the
Emperor NAPOLEON, to the Legkl hive Body, it
is in no way surprising to observe wls at once
favourably received by the national representativss.
Its perusal was closed in the midst of resounding
cries of " Long Live the Emperer." The result, in
effect, could liar ily have been otherwise. Through
the medium of the extraordinary modifications thus
announced, the Crowning of the Edifice may be re-
garded as already virtually accomplished. The
dynasty is consolidated. The Corps Legislatif is
assimilated to the House of Commons. The Minis-
try will be responsible to the Legislature. The
popular branch of the Legislature will retain in its
own hands the supreme right of regulating the na-
tional taxation. The historical document in
which all this is announced in the midst of
other immense concessions, each of Vassal of
very considerable importance, demands and
deserves to be considered piecemeal, as it were, sen-
tence by sentence. The EMPEROR recals to mind, at
the outset, his having announced distinctly, on the
28th of last month, his intention to submit at the or-
dinary session of the Chamber the resolutions and
plans which seemed most fitting to realise the wishes
of the country. Acknowledging in the very next
sentence that the Legislative Body appeesrs desirous
to learn immediately what reforms had, been decided
upon, the EMPEROR says frankly, " I. think it right to
anticipate its wishes." He then rrenaises—" It is my
firm intention to give to the pQwers of the Legislative
Body that extension which is compatible with the
cardinal bases cf the Constitution." Having made
which sufficiently satisfactory announcement, he goes
on to specify half a dozen of the most important
changes upon which he has resolved—" 1. The
powers to be accorded to the Legislative Body, in-
cluding the right of laying down the regulations re-
lating to its proceedings and the right of electing its
bureaux. 2. The simplification of the mode of pre-
senting and considering amendments. 3. To make it
obligatory upon the Government to submit to the
Legislative Body all modifications of the tariffs in
international treaties. 4. The voting of the Budget
by chapter in order to render the control of the Le-
gislative Body more complete. 5. The suppression
of the incompatibility hitherto existing between the
position of Deputy and the assumption of certain public
f unctions, particularly those of Ministers. 6. The exten-
sion of the right of interpellation." Having enumerated
these six vital important changes—changes by means
of which, as we have said, the French Corps higislatif
is in a manner assimilated to the English House of
ICommons, Personal Government thereby being vir-
tually replaced by Constitutional Government —the
EMPEROR goes on to add, " The Government will
also deliberate upon questions relating to the position
of the Senate and the more efficient 'solidarity'
which will be established between the Chamber and
the Government, the faculty of.exercising simultane-
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dis-
cussion of affairs of State in the Council, the establish-
ment of a real understanding with the majority
elected by the country, and the creation of all
those guarantees which we seek in our common soli-
citude." Well may the third NAPOLEON observe,
immediately after these extraordinaryannouncemen ts,
" I have already shown several times how much I
am disposed to relinquish in the public interest
certain of my prorogatives." And reasonably enough
may he claim in the closing sentence of a manifesto
so generous in its character, that there shall be left
intact the prerogatives which the people have most;