The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur contains the following account ofa
the outbreak at Chalons, which we announced in
our Lae edition last evening :
" At Chalon-sur-Saone on Saturday night, to-
wards the hour of nine o'clock, a body of a':ou.
40 men suddenly made their appearance and rushed
on a little post of infantry, which they surprised.
They then proceeded to the railway station with
cries of Vive la Republique ! The republic has
been proclaimed at Paris ! The republic is every-
where ! Inhabitants of Chalons, to arms The
station-master, who had formerly been in the
army, at once collected the men belonging to
the railway, and repulsed the rioters. From
the railway, they went to the bridge over the
Saone, the head of which they took possession
of, in order to prevent any one from going to give
the alarm at the barracks. The officers of the garri-
son, who had hastened to the sub-prefezture to
obtain SOCale information relative to the rumours
already in circulation, forced the passage, sword
in hand. Shortly after, the troops arrived, the sol
appearance of whom was sufficient to cause the
illegal assemblage to disperse. Before midnight, the
15 principal offenders were in tilt hands of justice."

The Monitear states that travellers coining into
Franc© from al:),
oad must, on every journey, have
their passports viia-ed by a diplomatic agent, or at
the French consulate. In order that no fresh ex-
pense shall be imposed on travellers by this regu-
lation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has decided
that the charge for the visa shall only be made for
the first j(iuroey, and that all the oiht-ra required
during the year for which the passport is valid shall
be delivered gratuitously. It may be as well to
m-ntion on this occasion that the tariffs in force
allow the embassies and the consulates to grant
passports gratuitously to poor persons, and to re-
duce the usual charge to persona who cannot afford
to pay the full amount."
It was reported that every difficulty had been
removed by the English and French cabinets rela-
tive to the refugee question.

The delatch from Lord Malmesbury has been
•ommunic ittd by Lord Cowley to Count Walewski.

Tire llfoniteur says :—The manager of the
Drapeau, found guilty by the jury of insult
(offense) towards his Majesty the Emperor, has
bee! condemned 10 airteen months' imprisonment,
and 1,200 francs damages."

Tile following telegraphic despatches have been
received here :

‘ March Bth.—The Emperor has
institutedATEceßr3.ltura.R,
lGcommittee for the question of the
eina ‘iSpatiFE
of the pea-ants. This committee, which
icTion RSBURG,
will ho pr .aided over by the Enaparor hitusz.f, is cam-
posed of 13 councillors of the empire, among whom are
the Grand Duke Constantine, Prit:ce Orloff, and Count
Bludeff. The cold continues very severe ; the whole
country is covered with snow."
‘g BERNE, March 9th._The federal commissioners
recommend the dissolution of the Italian Mutul! Benefit
Avwciation, and that its foreign members should either
of the /I",erSenreahl disposal
Council to receive a countriesfixed
refugees should be placed at the
be sent away to their respective
residence" ob. ap -
pointed to a ex-3(1 residence. It likewise suggests tbct
al)

93 25 Credit Foncier
March 9.—The following wero the
_..,.._
4q.111130
2 per 590
Do. and month Belgian 43
3 per Cent. ••••• ••• 69 35 piedmontese (5)
90
Do. end m0nth...... 69 45 Roman B9
13,nk Shares ...... 3050 Austrian . . ....... 9l
Credit Mobilier ... 852 :-.0 Spanish Throes 43
Do. Acc0unt......... 833 —. florae Debt
l utSi°
Conteuzis 7... ....
37:1

RAIL,
Orleans ...... ......... 1346./1
Northern ........... 917
New Ditto ............... 785
Lyon and Dilediteran. 817 A
New Ditto ...........
Geneva ..................

WAYS.
midi ..
Westoru CGS
i Strasbur.g
i Grand Central
S,riinian
i Austrian

THE REFUGEE QUESTION.

The following, according to the Buncl of Berne,
is a correct analysis of the despatch of Count
\VBle:is v:eki' (wed Jan. 20, to th© French Charge
cl'.A.ff on Vie refugee queAtion, and which was
communicated by the latter to tie Federal Coun-
cil : _ . _

had directed the French legation to
"The countobltheGegin,rnserbevn,y,:shaying that on a previous
occasion
Tuthteo the Federal Council the nmeosuvres
which the refugees in Switzerland, esnec.ally those
notoriously practice, and
to mand their removal from the Frei ich frontier.
yde aor or evasive replies could be obtained, and
i ti.
itcihtee
minister, nothing but
lAi According
ei:radoL3icaroingrt;itnnogly forced to renew his injunc ions to
the legation. The complaints of the French go-
vernment, he says, particulary relate, not so much
to tne French refugees, as to those from different
parts of 'tall'. The minister refers to the events
at Genoa and
_Leghorn on the 14th of Jan-
nal-, and Says that they prove that the Italian
refugees are specially distinguished by demagogical
peiversity. The Federal Government is bound to
send these dangerous men into the interior. That
Government would violate the conditions of Helve-
tie neutrality, and would deceive itself as to the
extent of i, 8 privileges, if it were to think that to
invoke that
neutrality in order to relieve itself
from giving satisfaction to France would suffice.
To tolerate more or less formally, even by silence
anti inaction, that men enjoying an asylutn should
make an
abusive use of that asylum to attack
France by plots or publications is to fail in the
dudes of neutrality. The legation is therefore re-
quested to insist with the Federal Council on mea-
sures being adopted without delay for removing
into the interior, far from the frontier', refugees
who may be pointed out as taking part in erimi-
ntl acts, and particularly those who are organised
into a society in the canton of Geneva. The
F. ench Government, it is added, cannot allow
the Federal Council to invoke as an excuse the
indifferance or ill-will of the cantonal authorities.
Tbe despatch concludes in these terms, which
are believed to be alm ,st textual :---‘ In case the
federal government should not take the necessary
means for satisfying the demands of France, it
would incur a
grave responsibility, and must
only blame itself for the consequences which its
devirminatien Inv
ocoasign.' "

..........,..• •••••

The delegates of the States of Grrrnany whose con-
tingents form the 10th corps of the Federal army
assembled at Hanover last week to make
the necessary arrangements fur the grand
manoeuvres which are to take pl ice on the
12th September at Nordbtem men. The contin-
gent of the Duchy of Holstein forms part of that
c)rps, but the/ King of Denmark did, not cause

himself to be repre3entcd, so that the coatinvnt
will not take part in the mano3uvres.

A letter from Kalisch, in the Austrian. Gazette,
says :—"As an instance of the small number of
troops at present in the kingdom of Poland, it may
be stated that the important fortress of Iwangorod
one of the first strongholds of the kingdom is only
garrisoned by a single battalion of infantry."

The Vienna journals state that Sir Hamilton
Seymour has received an oflLial inti,nation that
the English cabinet has no intention of replacing
him at the Austrian court.

Advices from Vienna announce that the depar-
ture of Baron do Buclberg from that capital is fixed
fir the 15th inst., and that M. Knorririg will
direct the affairs of the embassy until the arrival of
M. de Balabine, the new Russian representative.

The Second Chamber of Baden has just adopted
unanimously the bill presented by the Government
for the execution of the German monetary conven-
tion of the 24th Feb., 1857. The samo bill had
been previously adopt'Ad by the First U)amber.

It may he remembered that when the Prince
Royal of Sweden was nominated Regent, in conse-
qucmce of the iquess of the King, a member of the
order of nobles proposed that an additional allow-
ance of 100,000 rixdalers (nearly 200,000 f.) should
b 3 made to H.R.H., bat the motion was rejected
by a large majority. Last week a similar propr,si-
tion was again brought forward, but it was rejected
by 85 votes to 36.

Baron Dujardin, Belgian envoy to the Germanic
Confederation and to the court of Bavaria, has been
recalled, and appointed minister at the Hague.

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

(Prom the Times)

It is now quite clear that the differences which
shook the walls of Parliament on the subject of
‘he Government of India have narrowed them-
selves into a very small point indeed. Ditcus-
sion, truth, and publicity have done their usual
work, and all that remains to settle seems to be
the manner in which the Indian Council shall be
chosen. The new era is, in fact, inaugurated, and
the East India Company only holds office until its
successor shall be appointed. A change is also, we
may presume, impending over the Government
of India in India ; not an organic change, but one
which in an absolute Asiatic monarchy is often
more momentous—a change in the person of the
resident Sovereign. It is not likely that Lord
Canning, conscious as we believe him to be of high
desert in a most trying situation, of having inlin-
tfdned calinnees and presence of mind in the midst
of a community frantic with the most exaggerated
apprehension, and of having remembered the dic-
tates of justice when all around him were crying for
indiscriminate slaughter and extermination, should
be willing to retain office under the Tory Ministry.
They gave when in opposition, or thought it neces•
sary to appear to give, implicit credence to all the
wretched and groundless figments of the Calcutta
agita,ors, and did all they could to embitter a
situation already more than sufficiently onerous
and distressing. It is not likely, this, that Lord
Canning should continue to serve under Lord Ellen-
borough, and it therefore behoves the Government
and the country to turn their attention to the
choice of a successor.

No light task lies before him. The storm, indeed,
has passed, but the ocean of Indian politics must
long heave with a heavy and dangerous groundswell.
A revolt, however completely crushed and severely
punished, never learns the contending parties
exactly in the same relative position as it found
hem. Fear cannot be altogether soothed, hatred
cannot be extirpated although it can be silenced,
the conqueror cannot at once forget his triumph
iii the duties of a ruler, nor recover by an
effort of his will that confidence and sense
of security which fatal realities have so
rudely but so effectually dissipated. There is
danger that in the process of reorganisation, and
the readjustment of relations, old landmarks
should be lost sight of, and changs introduced
morn rapidly and more recklessly than circum-
stances demand. No one will be competent to
deal with such a state of things who is not tho-
roughly acquainted with the circumstances of India
before the outbreak, and able to compare the new
requirements of our altered position with the tradi-
tions which it has displaced. The next Governor-

General ought not t') be an experiment. He ought
to be a man tried, tested, and approved in the very
scenes and conjunctures amid wh;ch lie is to
act. Ho ought to boar a name respected and
feared by the natives of India, and inspiring the
military an civil services with confidence, acltnira-
ion, and esteem. He ought—but why multiply
abstract conditions of excellence and fitness whm
we find them all united in one man, whose name
every one must at once anticipat3 1 Of the two
gifted brothers to whom we owe the preservation
of India one has been swept away by die to:reut
that is just subsiding, but the other—and woo be-
lieve the abler—is still left us ; and we think it
wouli be absolute madness if, in the even:, of a
vacancy in the Government of India, any cemti-
deration were allowed to outweigh the claims of
Sir John Lawrence. It would be faint praise in-
deed t call him an able civil administrator, for he
and his brother may claim to be the inventors of
a new system of policy, though rough and simple
to European eyes, is admirably adapted for the
people for whom it has been devised. Tha best
t-ibute to the merits of the government of the
Punjab is that Lord tannin i; and his Council have
felt that they can do nothing batter for the popu-
lation of the ancient seat of the Mogul monarchy
than transfer them to the order of things devised
for the coercion f.ind pafificAtion of rude and semi
barbarous tribes lately ranged against us in deadly
ctonflict.

On the military part of Sir John LawrencA
career it is less necessary to dilate, for circum-
stances have given it a prominence and a cdobrity
more proportioned to its merits. Tae same intui-
tive sagacity which enabled Chatham to ste in the
Highland clans no longer the terror, but the fr,
support of the British Crown, taught Lawrence
to rely on the Sikhs, and -La extract from their
enmity to the natives of Hindostan a succour
against the unexampled treason of our trusted
and pampered B:ngal Army.' He not only put
down rebellion with a high hand and inflexible
will but was able to supply the wants of the
Not Or-Western Provinces. He found them armies,
leaders of inestimable value, artillery, and, last ani
most wondel fill of rll, he supplied the army of Delhi
wit') artilleTymen, whom he raised from among the
very men who had pointed against us the cannon of
Sobraon and Goojerat. What if appointments were
really made with a view to the public in' erest alone,
could possibly be urged against the elevation of Sir
John Lawrence to the post of Governor-General,
or, rather, the elevation of the post of Goveroor-
General by placing it in the hauls of Sir John
Lawrence ? If rank be the desideratutn, rank cut
be easily supplied. It is easy to make Sir John
Lawrence into al •rd, but not by an) means so easy
to make a lord into a Sir John Lawrence.

We should not permit ourselves to doubt as
to the probability of the selection of Sir John
Lawrence were it not for flit) ann nincement
which appeared some time ago—apparently on
loud authority--that it was the intention of
the Government, in the very probable event of

the resignation of Lord Canning to confer the office
of Governor-General on Lord Stanley. • Now, of
Lord Stanley we would speak with every respect.
He is a very advanced Liberal, is actuated, we
doubt not, by the best intentions, possesses good
abilities, which he has cultivated by much travel
abroad and much studyat home, but as an adminis-
trator, he is wholly untried; and there are reasons
in the speculative and philosophical turn of his
mind which may lead us to doubt whether
he may deal with details with the sadie
facility with which he can manipulate princ:ples.
At any rate, we trust that it wilt not be on India,
in its present critical state that he will for the first
time try his power of administration. Lord Stanley
has undoubtedly made a vary heavy sacrifice in
compliance with the wishes of his father, and laid
the Tory Government under weighty obligations,
by consenting to act -with men with whom
he has no feeling and no principle in c..mmon.
By all means let these obligations be suitably
acknowL deed. Let Lord Stanley have any-
thing he likes, except the Government of India,
to the exclusion of the man who, above all others,
is most fitted for the task. The Government, we
understand, !Announce that they have prepared a
bill which shall render jobbing with Indian patron-
age absolutely impossible. We hope all things
from professions so magnific.-,ant, but may, perhaps,
be permitted to 'suggest that there is no abuse of
Indian patronage which it is so importart to pre-
vent as jobbing the appointment of Governor-
General.

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It is paid that the Sultan has informed the representa-
tive.; of foreign powers that they will not in future be
received by him, except on the introduction of his
Ml:Aster of Fureigui Afisirr, according to the usage of
other European courte, and that, moreover, notice must
be given some days previous at the Porte, in order that,
his highness's pleasure may be taken on the interview.

ELECTION OF ALDERMAN FOR THE

lATAPD OF OIIVAP.

This morning a wardmote was held at the Guildhall
Coffee-house, King-street, Cheapside, for the election of
a fit and proper person to be Alderman of the Ward of
Cheap, in the room and etend of Mr. R. H. Kennedy,
reigned in consequence of his conviction of ciinspiracy
as one of the Royal British Bank directors. The 14,rd
Mayor, Sir R. W. CArden, M.P., presided. There was
a very full attendance, and the contest is expected to
be a severe one. The candidates for the h,nour of re-
presenting the ward in the Court of Aldermen are Mr.
Sheriff Allen, Mr. James Caucton, wholesale stationer,
and Mr. Cockerel!, the ex:ensive c isl merchant.
£he latter gentlern in, finding he had no chance,
has resignel. The eupporttrs of the other two gentle-
men are F o evenly balanc,d that at pre.ient it is doubtful
to predict which will be the succe-sful candidate.

The precept for summoning the wardmote having
been read by the ward clerk,
Tile LORD MAYOR addressed the electors on the object
of their assembling, and beep•ike a patient hearing for
all the electors who wished to addres, the meeting.
Mr. WHITS, jun., proposed Mr. Sheriff Alien a-t a
fit nn I proper peri,on to represent cue ward, and he did
eo from a conviction that that gentleman was well quali-
fied, both by head and heart, to p,,rfurin the onerous
duiies to which he aspired. Gear, hear.) He imprt•s;ed
,n the Lord Mayor and the gentleman who might be
el,:cted the necessity of the Court of Aldtrwen taking
into their consideration the state of the dwellings for the
labouring classes. He considered corporations held
their properties for the benefit of the cJinutunity, &c.,
and ho knew of no better mole in which a prtion of
the princely income of the Corporation of It nd 03111,1
be expended than in improving the dwellings of the
labouring clasees.
Mr. SURR, ecoonded the noirination of Mr.
Sheriff Allen. They wt-re called on to select between
t ;co gentlemen, one comparatively a stranger to the ward,
and as Mr. Sheriff Allen was a gentleman of gradual
political progress rather than sudden changes, and a
gentleman who had much lei,,ure on his hands, he
thought him the most fitting man to fill the present
vacancy. It had been objected to Mr. Sheriff Alien

that he had not been a member of the Common Council,
but some of their best aidertnen had not been members
of the Council, and he instanced the care of the present
Lard Mayor. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. JOIN prop ,sed Mr. Causton as a fit
and proper person to fill the office of alderman of the
ward. Mr. Causton had risen to his present position by
his own merits, and those were the men to be trasted
with the discharge of public duties. That gentleman
bad served the City 10 years in the Common Council,
and he thought that a great advantage. Mr. Causton
had been tried, and found an honest roars, and
he (Mr. Hal!) bore testimony to the admirable
manner in which Mr. Sheriff' itilen had
iiaiharged the onerous duties of Sheriff with
satisfaction to the City. He con letnne,l the introduction
of the question of " lodging-houses" or the support of
charitable institutions, but he must say that if Mr.
Causton were elected he would be found a willing aid

liberal supporter of all the charitable institutions of the
City. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. Du PRE seconded the nomination of JTr. Causton
from the belief that that gent'emao bad a prior claim to
their suffrages over Mr. Stieriff A.llen. Toey shoal
judge of a man by his antecedent, and if they did so
they would not fail to appreciate the consistent and
straightforward conduct. of Mr. Causton. Pa.t services
ave a better guarantee than untried pledgee ; but
.vhilst he must adroit the disadvantage to Mr. Causton
of b,Ding opposed by Mr. Sheriff Allen against whom 11,1
(Mr. Du Pre) nor any other person could say a w.:rd

hear.)—he called upon the electors to vindicate
the principle of honorary tried mon instead of c ,m-
-parative strangers. Mr. Causton had been a liberal
supporter of the City charities.
Mr. JOHN BENNETT addressed the meeting on behalt
of Mr. Cockerel'.
A show of hands was then taken, which was largely
in favour of Mr. Sheriff Alen, and declared according'y
by the Lord Mayor.
A poll was then demanded en behalf of Mr. Causton.
The Lord Mayor appointed tomorrow for taking the
poll, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock.