The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-15 00:00:00

objections to nominations either during good
behaviour—virtually for life—for long terms of L F
4ST _NEWS
years, or for short periods, with power of reno- 1
mination. If appointed for life, or, like the '
Judges, during good behaviour, there would be
the chance of their becoming incompetent from
age or ill-health ; and public opinion could not
be brought to boar on them as in the case of
Judges, who are subjected almost daily to the
strictures of a most critical audience. A long
term of years would be equally objection-
able. There would be a total absence of
responsibility, and also of motive for exertion,
while the party might be compulsorily removed
at the moment when he was most efficient and
his services were most valuable. The short
period, with the privilege of renomination, would
be perhaps the worst of any, for then the party
would always seek to curry favour with those
through whose instrumentality he might hope to
retain the enviable position he was occupying.
The principle of election by an independent
constituency, for a moderate term, is not open to
any of these well-founded objections. Then the
member can maintain his own ♦iews without
greatly caring how palateable they may be to the
Government of the day. He has nothing to fear
from its animosity, or to hope from its favours.
He must look to the wishes and desires of
those by whom he was elected, and from whom
he may again hope for a similar mark of confi-
dence. Of course it is essential that the
Crown should be represented in such a
council—that men of groat eminence just returned
from India, and thoroughly acquainted with the
existing state of affairs, should be enabled to ob-
tain seats without being subjected to the delay
and annoyance of a contested election. A few
should, therefore, be nominated ; but the majo-
rity ought to come before a constituency, on
whom it would be impossible to exercise madue
influence.

The qualifications of the members, and the
nature and extent of the constituency have yet
to be decided ! On these points Sir JAMES
GRAHAM has a hobby of his own. He wishes to
build on the old;foundation—" stare super anti-
" quas vias." With this purpose he desires to
make the new council as like the old Court of
Directors as possible, and that the members
should be nominated in the bill, and approved of
by Parliament, holding their offices dam se bene
gesserint, and to be mainly selected from the
present Court. Those suggestions will be consi-
dered, but although they may be partially acted
on, we scarcely think that they will supersede the
Government resolutions.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY.

The resignation of General Espinasse is accepted
and M. Delangle, President of the Imperial Court
of Paris, is appointed Minister of the Interior.
General Espinasse receives a seat in the Senate.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Plenipotentiaries met in conference to-day.
The admission of the principle of the political Repa-
ration of the Principalities has been confirmed in
an unguarded moment of candour by the Govern-
ment print, the Patric. But the short paragraph
which announces it has cost the Patrie a sound
rating for its indiscretion, and orders are sent
round to its complacent contemporaries not to copy
the Patrie. So much for the liberty of the press !
It is indeed rather mortifying that, after all the
vapourings of the Moniteur and the Ministerial
press, the pretensions of the political union of the
provinces have to be renounced, and the chance of
some brilliant foreigner wearing the Moldo-Walla-

Chian crown are considerably diminished.
The Courier de Paris gives the following account
of the election for members of the Council-General
at Dijon. Marshal Vaillant obtained 1,075 votes
against 516 given to M. do Bourceret, the Opposi-
tion candidate. M. Vernier, Deputy and Mayor of
Dijon, obtained 935 votes, against 302 given to
M. Gavalre, the Opposition candidate. M. Detour-
bet, the government candidate, obtained 737 votes
against 350 given to M. Magnin Philippon, the
opposition candidate. M. Chevalier, government
candidate, 954 votes against 475 to M. Luce Veil-
lard, the opposition candidate.
It is said that the military authorities have de-
cided that it is not expedient to institute any legal
proceedings against the military meu engaged in
the late duel in which M. de Pene was wounded,.
the civil authorities having negatived the proceed-
ings against the civilians.
The weather, which was much cooler in Paris on
Friday and Saturday, is nearly as hot to-day as it
was previous to tLe rain last week. The thermo-
meter marked 92 Fahrenheit (331 centigrade) in
the shade at 3 p.m. Fortunately, the heat is tem-
pered by a light breeze from the west.
BOURSE, June 14. The following were the
closing quotations :

4} per Cents 93 951
1)o. end month —

3 per Cent. ..... ... 68 15'

D. end month 6B 35
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 628 75
RAILWAY S.•
Orleans
Northern

Credit Foncier
Belgian 41
Piedmontese (5) 92
Roman 9O
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 33
—Fon CASH.

Midi
Western' 590
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

New Ditto 750

Lyon and Mediteran.. 768 i

New Ditto -
Geneva

CANDIA.

Private letters from Greece speak of the disturbed
state of Candia as more grave even than is generally
reported. One third of the population of the
island is composed of Mussulmans, and most of
them have been obliged to abandon the open plains
and come into the fortified places. Moreover, a
certain number of Christian families have aban-
doned the country and pne to the islands of Syra
and Milo, which belong to the kingdom of Greece.
If the charges brought against the Governor, Yely
Pasha, bo not exaggerated, the Christians must
have greatly suffered ; and he, too, must have
greatly changed. No man could be more tolerant,
more liberal—to all appearance—in political and
religious matters than Veiy Pasha during his resi-
dence in this country ; and he was about the last
person supposed capable of such acts of oppression.
It is thought there is more in it than meets the
eye as yet.