The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-30 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LISBON, OCT. 23.
The Charles et Georges was this morning handed
over to the French agent. The French war
steamer was getting up steam to tow her out the
other French vessels were to leave on the following
day.

Newcastle is setting us all an example. If it be
but followed up we shall instruct well enough those
who have now in hand the framing of our New
Reform Bill, and shall really have, what Mr. DB-
,RAELI has promised us, one which will satisfy all;
If a Government goes wrong on any great ques-
tion, let the people know that it is they who are
chiefly to blame for it. Had Lord PALMERSTON
but known how the nation would receive his policy
of taking fright at French dictation, omnipotent
as he felt himself, we believe he would rather have
braved the French Court than the English people.
Had Mr. DISRAELI' but taken our warnings in
185 p, and not pressed his obnoxious increase of the
house duty, his graduated income-tax would have
secured him a high place among financiers, and he
might have remained in office no one can tell how
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much longer. He failed, however, to discern that FRANCE.
those who would readily have voted for the better
PARIS, FRIDAY.
part of his budget, could not afford to. vote against The Moniteur contains a long report from Prince
their constituents on the house-tax. And now, Napoleon to the Emperor on the Civil Organisation
if the Cabinet can but foresee the wish of of Algeria. It begins thus :—" Your Majesty has
suppressed the general government of Algeria and
the nation, it will not run counter to it.
No Government can do so and survive ; and there the local institutions connected with it ; but it did
not enter into your views to revive at Paris the ad-
is no reason whatever that any Government in
ministrative centralisation which was no longer to
office at any time should hesitate to give effect to exist in Algeria. Your Majesty confided to me the
the unquestionable will of the people. task of carrying out the decree of the 31st August,
Let then, we say, the nation make its will un- and I have prepared myself for that duty by serious
to your Majesty a decree, submit I now
mistakeable. It is the easiest and most time-saving study.
course, in the long run, to tell our Cabinets, before the essential object of which is to simplify the ad-
ministration. In confiding to local authorities the
Parliament meets, What we want of them. One and - greatest part of the attributions of the Governor-
all, they will do no more in the way of political General, I have desired to give to administrators the
reform than they are compelled to do. We do not means, and at the same time impose on them the obli-
believe that the present Cabinet is, as a whole, at g ation of greater activity ; I have also desired by di-
all less disposed to give us a good, honest Reform
m. inishing administrative intervention to leave more
Bill than was Lord PALMERSTON'S. From either
liberty to individual initiative." The report then
goes on to recommend in detail various measures
of them, as we sow so shall we reap. If meetings, in accordance with the preceding principles, and
wublic meetings, are everywhere held, as at New- the Emperor by a decree, in 59 articles, orders them
castle; if the people at large are encouraged to come to be carried into effect. The decree is divided into
forward, and to speak their wishe istinctly, they i three chapters, and the first provides that the pro-
may be sure the lesson will not' e lost on Down- mulgation of laws, decrees, and regulations relative
ing-street. These are days hich we hear a to Algeria, which has heretofore taken place at
4 Algiers, shall henceforth be made by the Cen-
tral Administration at Paris. The second
wily Governments need education ; and there are chapter contains these enactments :—" Algeria
no instructors for Government like public meetings is to continue to be divided into three pro-
of the people, backed by the comments of an en- vinces, and each province is to be divided into
lightened and independent press. Governments, civil rand military territory, the civil territory
like another class of pupils, need Lord ASHBURTON'S forming a department administered by the prefect.
Each prefect is to be assisted by a secretary-gene-
lessons on common things. Opinions are frequently
ral and a council, consisting of four members for
quite common among the people, but our rulers Algiers and three for the other two departments.
have little personal intercourse with the people, The commanders of military territories are to ex-
and know little of their opinions, however common. ercise civil powers, but - are to be assisted by a
Let the people, therefore, take the pains to teach council to advise in civil affairs. In each pro-
their own servants.
vince there is to be a council-general of from 12 .
to 20 members chosen by the Emperor from among
Our readers will have seen that the demands of
the European or native notabilities, and it =will
the Newcastle people, in the elegant language of have' to deckle various loiral questions, and. among
Yankeeism, "go the -whole hog." Universal Sul- them the imposition of extraordinary taxes and the
frage, the Ballot, equalisation of constituencies, and levying of loans, and is to be consulted on other
short Parliaments,—such is the programme of the local matters." The third chapter is relative to the
Provincial county of the PERCYS ; and the good folk of therovincial budgets, and enacts that a budget of
each province, prepared in concert by the prefect
INorth seem to be quite as hopeful of success with
a Conservative Cabinet as they would have been and commander of the military territory, is to
be presented to the council-general, and after exa-
with a Whig one, and we verily believe somewhat urination by it, it is to be fixed by Imperial decree.
more so. And they are right. We confess to a like It enters into minute details as to what are to be
feeling. There are men in Lord DERBY'S Cabinet, considered ordinary and what extraordinary ex•
enses and receipts ; it also provides for the keep-
men of weight in it too, in whom the nation does P
feel more confidence, in regard to domestic reforms, ins of accounts. In the course of the report it is
s
than it did in any of Lord PALMERSTON'S Ministry, stated that for some years past the budget of the
colony has been about 7,000,000 fr., of which
They may, as a body, they very likely will, dis- 3,000,000 fr. for the province of Algiers, and
appoint us,--still we have as much hope_ from 2,000,000 fr. each for the other two. Lastly, the-
them as we should have from the other ; this, decree enacts that from the Ist January next the
indeed, is saying very very little, for we never did local and municipal budget- of Algeria shall be
hope from Lord PALMERSTON for anything what- suppressed, and that the councils-general of the
within three months
matter of Reform.
ever but some great or little juggle or sham, in the provinces shall beconvoked
after the promulgation of the decree. To that
One of the orators spoke by proxy, and effec- document are appended three tables—the first,
enumerating the various employments in the
tively too. General THO3IPSON'S letter was nomination of the prefects ; the second, stating the
amongst his happiest efforts of the kind, and various subjects on which the said functionaries
setting aside some crotchety and questionable will have to decide; and the third setting forth
though clever epigrams towards the close on the what matters are reserved to the consideration of
peace question, the General sustained his old repu-
the central power. By another decree M. Gory
advocate at the Imperial Court of Limoges, and
tation well. On the Suffrage and the Ballot he is
member of the Council General of the Haute-
at home. He has long ago turned inside out almost Vienne, is appointed Prefect of Algiers, in the room
every conceivable fallacy on these subjects, and of M. Lautoux-Mezeray, placed on the retired list;
were Lord JOHN RussELL and the Whigs' capable and M. Legoazre de Toulgoet, sub-prefect of Ville-
of learning, or rather had they not a selfish fear for franche (Aveyron) , prefect of Constantina, in the
Zcepfell, appointed director of civil M.
their order, they would have yielded long ago to room of
affairs in Algeria.
the force of argument, and to the more appalling
The 2lfoniteur contains the following announce-
force of a large liberal majority against them. ment : " The Procureur Imperial of the
" Jack is not naturally a dull boy"—but there is Tribunal of the Seine yesterday ordered the
another well-known proverb, to wit, that "none are seizure of the number of the Correspondant, which
_ contains an article by Count de Montalembert,
so dull as those who won't learn ;" and we appre
'
hend the dulness of our Jack—and he may be again entitled Un Debat sur l'lnde au Parlement
some day a " Jack in office"—is of this character. Anglais.' The editor of the journal and the
author of the said article are charged :-1. With
an attack against the principle of universal
If he gets rid of his wilful dulness, we believe
might soon again enjoy the sweets of a room in suffrage, and against the rights and authority
Downing-street. which the Emperor holds from the Constitution.
2
One of the principal speakers alluded to the re- 2. With an attack against the respect due to the
laws. 3. With exciting to hatred and contempt
port set on foot by a relative of Mr. SontEnox
of the Emperor's Government. And 4. With
ESTUOURT% that the Ministry intends to enfran-
by exciting
'seeking tO disetUrb—pubtic tranquillity '
chise even the agricultural peasantry, and of course, the contempt or hatred of citizens one against the
therefore, the operatives in towns. Should they other—offences provided for and punished by Arts.
si
have really determined on this course, the General 1,4, and 7 of the decree of August 11, 1848, and
has furnished them, and not for the first time, with Articles 1 and 3of the law of July 27, 1849."
the very best reply to the stock objection that BOURSE, Oct. 29.—The market remains without
wealth would be overpowered by numbers. It is much variation. Railways have been flat. Threes
have varied from 72f. 95c. to 73f. ; Mobilier 905 f.
quite true, as he says, that wealth should have the to 9071. 50c. ; Lyons, 875 f. to 877 f. 50c.
Southern, ,570 f. to 572 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 717 f. 50c.
benefit of its riches, and knowledge of its superi-
ority ; " yet no one has discovered that, to give to 712 f. 50c. ; and Austrian, 657 f. 50c. to 660 f
them their due advantages in the market, it is fieces_ The following are the last quotations :

• The popular feeling was very strong against the
non-interference of England.

SPAIN.
The following telegram was received at Mr.
Reuter's office, this day:—

" MADRID, OCT. 29.

" An official decree calls in part of the conscrip-
tion for 1858, in order to replace the men sent to
Cuba. .

The Diarie 'Grobser no publishes an article, com-
plaining of the violence exercised in the affair o.
the Charles-et-Georges.
The Count of Peracamps is dead."

sary to keep the poor man out." " There is no
justice, no truth, in saying if you give votes to the
poor man you take away the power of protecting
themselves from the rich." The rich, in fact, can
always protect themselves. Admirable, too, were
his remarks on the Ballot : "Rich men say to them-

4/ Per. Cents. ... • 95 75 Foncier 650
Do. end month .. 95 75 •Belgian 4f
3 per Cents 73 Piedmontese (5) ..
Do. end month 73 Roman
Bank Shares 3125 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 907 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 910 Home Debt

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selves, what would become of us if we had the Bal-

Lot?" Why, this—that if two rich men were con-

vesting an election, one rich man might get the

votes instead of the other. We cannot doubt that

both the General's letter and the report of the

meeting have caught the eye of some members of

he present Cabinet.

We advise them, if they

should have passed them over, to give them a serious
look again. They will be a good preparation for

he next Cabinet meeting.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Duchess of Malakoff have returned to Albert-gate
House, from Windsor Castle.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left
town for Kimbolton Castle. The noble duke and duchess
will shortly leave England for Germany.

The Earl Granville has left Bruton-street for
Italy. The count4ss has left Florence for Rome, where
the uebk /earl will meet her ladyship.