The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-11 00:00:00

France and the Treaties of 1815..;.12';?-
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The following is the full textOfPialiAre:rtte'llle-ltb:)-
lished by the Constitutionnel of to-day, a summary
of which has already been received by telegraph :
" M.de Girardin could only characterise the speech
at AuxerreGobry_:srhadioyti:g that ' it will resoundin Europe
(
lik,e,
111.lcan. denni 'is mistaken. This speech will re-
sound in France and in Europe as the expression of
good sense. The opinion of the Emperor upon the
Treaties of 1815 is old and well known. He expressed
it three years ago before the Legislative Bodies in
the following terms, which certainly none have for-
gotten. "The 'Treaties of 1815 have ceased to
exist. The force of things has overthrown, or tends
to overthrow, them almost everywhere." The great
bodies of the state and public opinion applauded
these words as well as the proposition of a Congress,
necessary for the security of nations. Yet this
language was much more serious than that held
at Auxerre, since it is a far graver matter for agreat
Sovereign to deny treaties than to detest them. And
why does the Emperor detest the treaties of 1815 ?
He detests them for the reason which makes them
an object of hatred for the whole world. These
treaties, a hundred times broken, no longer possess
any moral authority. The manner in which they
had been set aside is an instigation and a precedent
for all who consider they have an interest in violat-
ing them still further. Without checking the am-
bition of states these treaties are a cause of distrust
among nations. It would be easy to prove that
they cost a milliard a year in Europein nothing but
armaments necessary to restrain the antagonisms
which they create and the hatreds they kindle. In the
Trc-4-; of 1815, conceiveVn the spirit of another
age, there is therefore as whole cloud; of storms
threatening the security of the present age, and so
so long as these treaties are not replaced by a new
system of public order suitable to the wants of the
age, international relations, the aspirations of na-
tions, and present customs, no Government can be
hseoettiirr_e
nof o nportivbaetiengindisturbedcanbe byan ambitiousoorn of n
neigho-t
being ruined by a financial crisis. The Treaties of
1815 are therefore a permanent danger for the se-
curity of states and private fortunes. Hence the
Emperor detests them as a sovereign, as a French-
man, as a man of sense, and as such is the signifi-
' cation with which the famous speech of Auxerre was
delivered.Theh
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of 1815,' implying
out my aid, desire to substitute for them a system of
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that does not recommend itself to the reason of every
enlightened mind ? But, say certain politicians,
there is in the Auxerre speech an instigation to war
and an encouragement to the ambition of Count von
Bismark. We must be allowed to say that it re-
quires a very penetrating vision to discover that.
What does M. de Bismark want ? It is said that
he wants the Elbe Duchies, and that seems proba-
ble ; it is said, further, that he wants to acquire for
his own country the direction and the influence of
Germany. Such projects would proclaim the in-
tention of again breaking the Treaties of 1815 for
the profit of Prussia, but they must be very clever
who could discover therein the formal intention of
modifying them for the profit of Europe. France
cannot, therefore, compromise her responsibility by
partial and narrow enterprise, foreign to her direct
interests, and calculated to disturb the balance of
general power. The object France has in view is
neither the ambition of Prussia, nor the ambition
of Austria, nor the ambition of Italy ; it is her own
safety and dignity. Her programme was known,
and it has just been renewed ; it is entirely com-
prised in the words—' Reform of the Treaties of
1815.' Every enterprise that will not march to-
wards this end will rind her not indifferent, but at-
tentive, vigilant, and resolved. Thus, the Auxerre
speech does not compromise us to the various in-
terests agitating Germany. It is like a last appeal
to the wisdcm of the sig-nitaries of the Treaties of
1a1:4,111 14YOAZ of tle psAmaua -illy securilL9l—..
Europe. It is for them to.see whether it is expe-
dient to leave to the always uncertain and formid-
able chances of war a general reform that France
has desired to come to agreement and peace. NciLher
has the Auxerre speech the sense maliciously attri-
buted to it by the Sicle and the Journal des Debuts.
1 We can understand that it suits the Opposition
journals to depict the majority as separated,
however little it may be, from the general policy
of the Government. This is not the case, and the
Emperor knows well that he may reckon upon
the loyal assistance and energetic devotion of the
Corps Legislatif. No doubt the majority might be
better acquainted with the views of the Govern-
ment, and therefore more closely associated with
its policy. No doubt also there are in the Corps
Legislatif a certain number of members whom a
perhaps exaggerated and unreflecting dilletanteeism
groups round Opposition orators clever in the art
of speaking welT. After having applauded M. Jules
Favre or M. Thiers, these honourable deputies re-
solutely vote against them, and they act quite
rightly, since that is their opinion ; but a little less
literary talent, and a little more political spirit,
would better conduce to the good order and autho-
rity of the sittings. What these honourable Depu-
ties have applauded are not the doctrines of M.
Thiers, throwing sarcasm with a liberal hand upon
the constant votes of the majority itself, but the wit
and cleverness of the speaker. It is still above all
the idea of peace, of that European peace necessary
to all, which the policy of M. Thiers would have
long since lost, and which the policy of the Emperor
will preserve, if it be still capable of being pre-
served."

THE MURDER IN JERSEY.--Tuesday.---The police
succeeded yesterday in capturing a man who is
strongly suspected of being concerned in the murder of
Miss Esther Susan Le Brun, at St. Peter's, Jersey. The
suspected individual is a Frenchman, who gives the name
of Frangois Bradley, though this is presumed to be false.
Ho escaped from custody three weeks ago, while in charge
of the police at the Royal Court, where he had been exa-
mined on a charge of burglary in the parish of Grouville.
While in gaol he boasted that he knew an old woman
living with her lunatic brother in the parish of St. Peter's
(where the deceased lived), and that if he escaped and was
brought back to prison it would be for something very
different from o the offence for which he was in
s found cuund sto dTo.
When apprehended yesterday his left hand
have bean cut with something sharp—just
cl suchv a wound
and inside
as broken glass would make.
011 his
and his jacket,
his cap marks of blood were discovered,othes Na
as though they had
sleeves and part of the body
wet,wereany mention of the mur-
derbeen recently washed.
the suspicions enter-
tained it which greatlyanctoo
d for the wounds in his hands,
tained of him. a
He
• ceecTthem while engaged in loading a
being made to him h
saying that he received
it
is proved that no such cargo
flg .rdnew ado v arsi statements con-
vessel with bricks,
w during the time mentioned. The police
had been shipped dur .
r search. The
Withoutpin
prisoner, though
handcuffed, their
gh
are still prosecutinghis escape from the officers who appre-
hended him, but ffed
handcu , made
he was captured after a smart chase aud
lodged in prison.
THE ILIrLS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, May 9.—The
North German Lloyd steamship Bremen, Capt. Neynaber,
left for New York at noon to-day with mails, 120 cabin and
535 steerage passengers, and a full cargo of general mer-
chlue £B,
including 21 Packages of jewellery, from Havre,
va,500. The Hermann, belonging to the same com-
pany, Capt. Weak°, which left Southampton on the after-
noon of Tuesday, the 17th ult.., arrived at New York on
Saturday, the 28th, at 9 p.m, all well, and she is expected
off Cowes on her return voyage on Wednesday next, with
mails from New York to the sth inst. In consequence of
a recent order from the Treasury, the Mayor of South-
ampton, accompanied by the medical superintendent of
quarantine, went on board the Bremen immediately on
t
her arrival at this port from Bremen on Mondayhiiaat
'and
midnight, to make an official inspection of thre. sr>
onboard.
ascertain the state of health among the p
a:sterste'erage After a most minute inspection, inclhuedfirn
'great satisfaction
de-
partment, these officials expressed
tend salubrity in which
at the perfect state of cleanlinesstho excellent arrangements
they found the ship, also at
'on and the general con4prt of
made on board for ventilation
Mail Steam Packet 'Company's
passengers. The Royal
Brazil steamer Douro, with the Braz and River Plate mails, sailed
this a.i
-te
,rnoen. She 89 took outpassengers, among whom
were Governor and Mrs. Robinson, for Montevideo, the
Hon. G. Talbot, for
Buenos Ayres, and Lieut. Thompson,
for Rio de J
=Giro; English jewelry, value £1,202 ; French.
jewelry, t
value £0,449 18s. 6d. ; specie, £94,347 ; and bar
silirer,
T 7
050 • albo a full cargo:of generalmerchandise.
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