The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-30 00:00:00

The first on the list is Count D'ORNANO, Governor
of the Invalides, and the last is General PICARD,
who commands the 17th military division. There
are 164 brigadier-generals. On the list of the
reserve there are 77 generals of division and 168
brigadier-generals. The general staff comprises
35 colonels, 35 lieutenant-colonels, 109 majors
of cavalry, and 299 captains. The Commissariat,
created in the year 1817, and organised according
to an Imperial decree dated the 12th of June, 1856,
comprises 8 commissaries general inspectors, 26
military commissaries, 50 deputy commissaries of
the first class, 100 ditto of the second class, and 80
adjutants ; making altogether 264.

Nor is this all. We now learn that in order to
mistify the public the Bourse has been tampered with
in right Imperial style, in order to counteract the im-
pression prod uced, and soothe the irritable suscepti-
bility of the moneyed interest. But it will nota tail
long—a fall will follow—and then look out for
squalls. A panic is bad enough here, but over
the water it is far more disastrous, from the too
sensitive tenderness of an excitable temperament.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says—
" The influence to which I alluded yesterday was
again Active at the Bourse today, and produced a
further rise of lf. 40c. on the Three per Cent.
Rentes—a rise regarded as unnatural under exist-
ing circumstances."

It appears to be fast becoming the rule, and not
the exception, that Financial arrangements should
necessitate a series of novel and daring experiments.
Whether it be a Budget for India or a Budget for
England—the scheme submitted to the Legislature
for the better regulation. of the balance of Income
and Expenditure, strives now (invariably), not as
heretofore after the old-fashioned merit of exceed-
ing simplicity, but rather, it should be said, after the
new-fangled and somewhat questionable advantage
of extraordinary elaboration. It has been thus, as
the country is but too well aware, with the com-
plex Budget unfolded to view last month in a four
hours' speech by our accomplished Chancellor of
the Exchequer. It is thus now more recently in
the Budget for Hindostan, proposed, after due
deliberation, first of all in London and afterwards
(noised) at Calcutta by our unquestionably gifted
Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer—Mr. WILSON,
late England's wonder-inspiring" Calculating Boy"
at the Treasury. It must be admitted, however, at
once, in Mr. WILSON'S behalf, that complication of
some sort in his Budget (in the Indian Budget)
was something inevitable and unavoidable. A
Political Deluge had swept over our Indian Empire
immediately prior to Mr. WILSON'S arrival in Cal-
cutta. It was not so much that many of the old
landmarks had been removed in the confusion and
turmoil of the Sepoy Rebellion and its subse-
quent suppression. It was, as we have said, that
nothing less than a political deluge had passed over
the land, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin—the
old schemes of Government have been uprooted and
submerged—the Honourable the East India Com-
pany having expired and ceased to be among the
ruling powers of the earth, the proconsular fasces
being at length, in the fullness of time, transformed
into another of the many sceptres placed in the
grasp of our Constitutional Sovereign. Under this
❑ew order of things Mr. WILSON has had
scarcely the possibility of going by any precedent.
He has had to begin in effect from the very begin-
ning. He has had to create a new system, and to
place that new system is accordance with the re-
quirements of the Asiatic empire, placed financially
under his governance. Recollect, too, that when
the Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer takes the
Revenue of Hindostan into consideration, he does
so with the coffers empty. It is not simply that
there is an enormous deficit—but that there is
rather before him (to call things by their right
names) an absolute bankruptcy. The task imposed
upon this eminent financier, therefore, is that of
building up anew an entire system of Finance in
India from its very foundations—up—to the tre-
foils of the parapet, to the apex of the loftiest
pinnacle. This is absolutely what Mr. WILSON
has been called upon to attempt, and this is pre-
cisely what he has with a bold hand resolutely
striven to accomplish. The enterprise was
hardly less of a miracle of ingenuity in
its way than the Palace of ALADDIN that
was raised in a single night by the Genius of the
Lamp, in the Arabian story. The late Secretary
of the Treasury, now an Indian Chancellor of the
Exchequer, has so far already nobly acquitted him-
self of his enormous and suddenly imposed respon-
sibilities that—there at any rate is his scheme, such
as it is, in its entirety before the British Parliament
for candid scrutiny and impartial consideration.
In due time, we doubt not, that consideration will
be candidly and impartially accorded to it.
Already, however, this passing tribute is at least
demanded from all sides and from all parties with-
out exception—a tribute earned by the unflagging
zeal and indomitable resolution which have con-
ducted Mr. WILSON to the fabrication thus rapidly
of his Indian scheme of finance through a whirling
chaos of difficulties.

Mr. LINDSAY'S motion last night, seconded by
Mr. HORSFALL, and unopposed by Mr. MILNER
GIBSON, was, after some discussion, agreed to by
the House of Commons. It could hardly in fact
have been otherwise. It was simply to the effect
that an humble address should be presented to her
Majesty praying her Majesty to enter into nego-
tiations with the Emperor of the French, with the
view of making a treaty for the reciprocal abrogation
of all discriminating duties levied upon the vessels,
and their cargoes, of either of the two nations in the
ports of tile other ; and forprocurin g such alterations
in the navigation laws of France as might tend to fa-
cilitate the commercial interecurse and strengthen
the friendly relations between the two countries,
between France and England. Nobody in their
senses of course could seriously object to any such
proceeding. For it was simply a recognition
of the universally accepted truth that " Fair
play is a jewel." All Mr. LINDSAY and the rest of
our great shipowners want is just in so many words
—" A clear stage and no favour." It is the same
reasonable demand, in fact, as that urged of late in
another way by our English paper manufac-
turers. When we talk of Free Trade we
moan Free Trade ; and we merely demand, in
justice and in honesty, that so .called Free Trade
measures should, in point of fact, carry out in real
earnest and not in mere appearance Free Trade
principles. We cannot but think that a man so
astute as the French Emperor will weigh well in
his judgment, if only out of motives of self-interest,
otherwise of interest for Franbe, the "inexorable
logic" of those " facts" and figures which were ad-
duced last evening, in the course of his very able
Qpeech, by Mr. LIND:;AY, in ininging forward this
motion on the differential duties. Take, for example,
the astounding contrast drawn batwcen the rate of
insurance in our shipping under the old Pro-
tection system and that which has become ap-
parent (and with such extraordinary rapidity)
since the abolition of the Navigation Laws.
Mr. LINDSAY puts the question thus plainly.
He says—" Under the protection system in the
year 1721, the earliest period for which we had
any reliable figures with respect to its operation,