The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-16 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.-Sux OPIUM!, APRIL 15, 1560.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.28 ; rising.
WIND, East ; light breeze, and fine weather.
APRIL 16.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
43 —lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day at noon.

BARO3IETER-30.31 ; still rising.
WIND, S.W. ; fine weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1860.

It is really refreshing— nowadays to get even
an ALhreviated report of a Parliamentary oration
from Paris, the epitome of an outspoken harangue,
in which one of the French representatives is
dimly heard through that muffled whispering
gallery of the Moniteul boldly arraigning from
the tribune the policy of the Imperial Govern-
ment. Such actually is the nature and cha-
racter of the speech delivered only the
other day in Paris by M. JULES FATRE,
and reproduced to a certain extent in
the columns of the Moniteur. It may be pronounced,
even in this mutilated shape, as it has been pro-
nounced, an oration constituting " one of the most
complete and damaging exposures of the duplicity
of the Imperial policy with regard to Italy." Fancy
a speech that can be truthfully so defined being de-
livered at all in the French Chambers in 1860, during
the reign of NAPOLEON III.! And then imagine
that harangue so delivered actually reported in any
shape, however abbreviated, in the columns of the
Moniteur ! It is a double concession to the spirit
of the age—it is a momentary concession at once to
the Freedom of the Press and to the Freedom of
Debate. Rigorously fastened down though the
valves of the State Engine are habitually—an in-
cident. of this kind indicates that the Imperial
Engine Driver finds it expedient once in a way to
blow off a little of the surplus steam, with the hope
possibly of guarding against the imminent proba-
bility of the ultimate explosion.
The occasion selected by M.
‘Tuurs FAVRE for
the delivery of this bold oration, was that of the
discussion provoked by the bill for the reduction of
the contingent for the current year from 140,000
to a maximum of 100,000. 7m. F
'" RE) towards the
close of his harangue, intimated his
own con-
sciousness " that his language under the exist-
ing constitution might appear rash, but that he
should nevertheless speak with complete in-
dependence, and express his opinion candidly and
fully." Ile contioated—" The question, in his opi_
Lion, was to ascertain what was the °ilk et and what
must be the consequences of the glorious campaign
on the banks of the Mincio, so suddenly interrupted
by an unexpected peace." That object, as he re-
minded the Chamber, he had a year ago himself
defined to them as the enfranchisement of Italy,
and he added—" But a few days after the procla-
mation of the 3d May, 1859, had proved that his

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opinion was correct, and that the war had, in fact,
been undertaken for the purpose of giving inde-
pendence to Italy. The language of the Emperor
appeared to him to be perfectly clear on this
point ; but the programme, in spite of its greatness,
was net well understood and not well received. The
partisans of Italy were not then very numerous ;
and public opinion joined too readily in the re-
proaches cast on that warlike and sacrified nation of
being inconsistent. The Italians had, he said,
nobly replied to their detractors, and had shown
the patriotism with which they ware filled." The
hon. deputy furthermore insisted that with the in
dependence of Italy the interests of France wen,
to his own thinking, bound up indissolubly. In
testimony of the reasonableness of which opinion
he exclaimed—" Open the annals of Europe and it
will be seen that since the fall of the
Roman empire two principles had been con-
stantly opposed to each other in Italy, one
represented by Germany and the other by
France." Adding, " When he looked on the map
of Europe, and contemplated that vast triangle of
which the Mediterranean was the centre, and of
which France formed the summit, it appeared to
him to be a power commanding at once the Atlan-