The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-22 00:00:00

- Qs----
__e.—f.--4--6.--e-----.--Th :_>/c-'-- 16,44\ s \
. , , t ........_ r
./. - (7)-- s•V- --- k
e'-• Z.-Z-,
_.......) . - h•
_ , . . •
.•.,.• • • • ,7
• . ,
- - - • . . . ..
_.
-- • ~„ , , c
* - .k. ',...„ ... .
-*,.•';•'..;..47,--;„.:-. ~.,. •-•
„,.„.,- , . .4-_,-4,-
~,P.,‘ tl. v,.'.., ' ,••••.. 4,. , - 24 . • 41111111
: - :- 4% •••t,-2-•; - . . , ~,, - • •
:,- ' - - I. .
'-3417...";,,,,,. Y 4 • . ',.
-tingiar
4., . , = '-'*-e. • • chss7...' k,_‘.• ,- ~ •
„..-2::= . • •
~- *if, Pi ',, x.. , , • ie. ~.-• , :•N . 411,,,,t ,' • , gbh:4l'f .0.,..,
\ - fir ,• •• , `, ~ • , A-9,4 Af.. zuheli• It ••4
, ~ t
41* •A.-'' .1•(
; , •; _ %
' riiiii....."--", • • ' . . $ the
\i • ~.-.e. - 4 ..,„ :•j, '4O
~7
.., .4.-
••1-.."--,-.-": et, ` `4 t) I
,
. -' ~ttiv,. •
-s. • „L. .., 4, ",
, ,
~,k
ie >`:- *,.t. 4. v v ~.47,.. ,fir
1404,, .
.. •..• $, ;• 4,74,41/4, 4,--
;,, •ti A• .1 ''r• • .I—",:e. ~
‘,4_,w,..__ ,
t„ , ,
..../.,,,,,,,;,,,
Vii. , rovi,;;- r, 1,., -•••• ~„,,t4. 1,7..-
doti ~,.
„t,, ~,,..,4#114,+-.
,:lv ~.
-,-,. , • • - I —. s ...
,
z 4 .t- •
4'
2-,-, •-• ' 6 -L ~i• r„,-1!,-- - ',.;:,.. , ,;;,•44 • 5 ••.rc,..,,1,,N..4..it, . # v..,- Tr •v. • '..:. '
---•

•• .y.,, •
;:"4474-:
P'39
1e.13
~. _
... ~. 14 a s
England. That public opinion is deliberately on
the aide of the French Alliance, and opposed to the
encouragement of assassination as a-means of carry-
ing out political views. WhateVer might be the
colour of the new Ministry, its 'primary principle
would be to maintain the most friendly relations
with the Government and people of France, and,
without reference to questions of "dictation by a
Foreign Power," or slight diplomatic indiscretions
committed under pardonable exCitenitint, to effect
such necessary amelierations in our laws, as would
render them no longer an exception to the general
code of humanity.

(Front the Morning Advertiser.)
Verily we have had our reward. It may have
been long delayed, but it has come at last. It is
an ample reward, and we are abiindsix4ly satisfied
with it. We have lived to see the-$o se of Com-
mons—a House consisting of the popularly chosen
representatives of the .people—proclaim in the
hearing of the world, after a whole night's debate
and deliberation, that the sentiments with which,
for six long years, the Morning Advertiser has iden-
tified itself, with regard to the present regime in
France, are their sentiment and the tnintiments'of
the constituen'ies by whom they were bent to Par-
liament. This, thee, is indeed the hour of our
triumph.
To labour in the pursuit of one object for so
many years, unceasingly and alone, and often amidst
obloquy and opposition of no common kind, is
not often the lot of a public journalist. Much
less is it a common thing to persevere in such a
course amidst great and manifold disconragements
knoWn only to one's self. Yet that has been our
destiny. From the time that our Government
identified itself with the Government of Louis
Napoleon, soon after the unconstitutional acts of
December, 1852—deeds perpetrated in violation of
the most solemn oaths and amidst a large amount
of bloodshed—we have not ceased to hold up an
alliance with the author of all the crimes which
characterised the days of December, as being at
once one of the most unfortunate and unprincipled
into which the British Government over entered
with a foreign Power.
Nor did we fell to predict the dissetrons conse-
quences, as well as the dishonour to the English
name, which would inevitably result from that
alliance. Our predictions were soon found to be in
the course of fulfilment ; our words were soon seen
to be in the way of verification:- Gradually, but
steadily and surely, it became manifest to all that the
Government of England had become so entangled
in the meshes of the Ruler of France, as that our
Ministers had. actually become, in effect, the
minions of Louis Napoleon. They had practically
abdicated their functions as the servants of their
own Sovereign—that Sovereign towards whom the
people of this country cherish feelings of loyalty
and love surpassing in their intensity the alle-
giance and affection with which any other Sovereign
that ever sat on the British throne was regarded.
Under the system on which Lord Palmerston
wes administering the affairs of the country, Eng-
land, indeed, would have soon, in effect, become a
French province.
But the people have willed it otherwise. They
have risen in their might, and determined to take
matters into their own hands. By means of the
representative branch of the Legislature, they have
told Louis Napoleon in terms which he will never
forget, and they have proclaimed it aloud to the
ends of the earth, that " Britons never will bs
slaves." Louis apoleon knows that now. If
our Ministers failed in their duty, the people hale
not. If the Cabinet crouched before the occupant
of the Tuileries, the country has not. Englishmen
have defiantly thrown back in the face of Impe-
rialism the insolent menaces which in reality came
from the Tuileries, though cstensibly from certain
colonels of the army. The people of Englend have
boldly vindicated their independence and asserted
their determination to maintain intact the right of
refhge for those who have escaped from the clu tehes
of Continental despots. This sea-girt isle has been
for generations a glorious and f'eciire asylum for the
po'itically persecuted of all nations, and English-
men are prepared to shed their bleed rather than
that the sanctity of that right should be invaded.
Nay, to get: roils are the people of England that,
badly as tlicey think of the present Ruler of
France, they will afford him a. third time,
as they have done twice
_before, a place of
safe' y, when, driven from his throne and
his country by the resistless torrent of popular in-
dignation among his own subjects, he flees to Eng-
land as to the only country in Europe in which he
could, in the supposed contingency, find rest for
the soles of his feet. It will lie a curious coinci-
dence should it turn out that Louis Napoleon
himself may be among the first to seek an asylum
in this country, after having done all in his power
to deprive others of a place of safety on our shores.
-But in expressing our boundless joy that after
six long years of labour we have seen a severance
of the bonds:which have connected Imperialism in
France with the Government of this country,—
let us not be understood as opposed to an alliance
with the French people. There is not, on the con-
trary, anything which W 0 more earnestly desire
than a cordial and compact alliance between the
peoples of the two countries. Both nations love
liberty. .Geographicaily they are almost one ; two
hours' sail brings them into contact. Providence,
therefore, evidently meant that they should be
friends and fellow-labourers in the great work of
aiming at the wor:d's emaneipat'on from the fetters
of a degrading and destructive despotism. And
now that a breach[has been effected between Louis
Napoleon and our Government, the great obstacle
to the alliance between the two countries has been
removed, and all that remains for the people of
each to do is, to turn so favourable an opportunity
to proper account.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Reccipb.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

lBb7. 1656.