The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-21 00:00:00

two, and added to the Bill.

Although, however, we highly approve of the
object of the Noble Marquis, and readily admit that
a certain limit should be specified, below which
estates should not be disposed d, we fear
that the best mode has not bean adopted for carrying
that laudable intention into execution. Every per-
son in any degree acquainted with the nature of Irish
property must know that some estates would be
cheaper at thirty years' purchase on the ascertained
rental than others would be at fifteen. Tee former
may be let to solvent and improving tenants, who have
considerable interest in their holdings, and there
might be the prospect of a considerable rise at no
distant period ; the latter might be overrun by a set
of pauper occupants, in direct hostility to the law,
who, to use an expressive Irishism, would at
any time rather " bring down a landlord than a
woodcock," or "an rgent than a partridge."
Fifteen years purchase might be less than
half the value of the one—for instance of
Mr. GARDE'S prorerty at Duncamnick, which was
in April sold by the. Commissioners for forty-two
years' purchase, while it might be more than a.fair
price for the otter. The fiir mode would be to have,
at the demeni of any r.e.-son intereit d, whether as
owner or etcumbrancer, a valuation of the rate that
should be obtained at a sale, and if 80 per cent. of
that amount were not oLtained, then that she sale
should necessarily be adjourned. We trust that some
such change will be rrLde during Its progress through
the House of Commons.
The other clause, which LfLrds protection from
arrest to , the. proprietors of " encumbered estates,"

pending the sale, is so manTestly just and equi'able
as not to require a single argument in its favour. It
would be bard, inde:d, if virrlictive cr,dltors could

get summary remedies against the property, while
they incarcerated the rerscn of the owner, or that
they could, through tha interventi, n of the sheriff,
prevent a person from attending during a proceeding
of such vital importance to himself and family.

The Sabbatarians are beginning to grumble at the
success of the Fhlm demonstration which they put
up Lord AFAILEY to make anent Post-office labour on
the Sunday. Their principal organ in the press com-
plains of the stringent manner in which the Govern-
ment have carried. out the resolution, and if the
SaLbatarians themselves were the only per-
sons inconvenienced, we should simply reply to
them, Vous
„tavez voulu, Georges Dandin, vows
tiavcz voulu, and urge the Ministry to give
the worthies Sabbath tbservance to their
heart's content, but, unfortunately, others
are also inconvenienced, and among them many who
have throughout this controversy fought the good
fight of common sense, in opposition to blind
fanaticism. The proprietors of weekly news-
paper!, whose property will, in many instances,
be absolutely confiscated by these new regulations,
and who held a meeting yesterday on the sub-
ject, was brought under . the consideration of
the House of . Commons by Mr. W. J. Fox,
in reply to whom the Chancellor of the Exchequer
said that "he had never had the slightest doubt but
that that arrangement would be productive of consi-
derable inconvenience, and Honourable Gentlemen
seemed, to be finding that out.—(Hear, hear.) He
should not be at all surprised if in due time they
should receive recommendations from their constitu-
ents which would induce them to reconsider their de-
cision upon the subject."

It is evident, therefore, that the Ministers only
wait fur a little "pressure from without" to rescind
the obnoxious regulation, awl we htpe the constitu-
ents in every part of the kingdom will give their
Members. instruction to support the motion of which
Mr. LcCKE has given notice, for the first open day,
for a further consideration and revision of Lord Asu-
LEY'S resolution.

TEE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

IVc have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The National has a long and very ably-written
article on the subject of Lord STANLEY'S motion.
The National thus exposes the intrigues of the Russian
party in the mouse of Lords, which we ourselves have
frequently denounced. Io speaking of the speech of
the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, it says--
"He hinted that the main object of the motion of
Lord Stanley was to cause the failure of the negotia-
tions pending between France and Great Britain.
He might have added, that the Cahiret of the
Elysee, acting in concert with Lord Stanley,
had rt larded the conclusion of the a ffuir, iu
order to leave to the Tories a ground of debate which
they judged excellent. This little intrigue now exposed
to observation c'e:..rly shows us the tendencica of the
Dyke.. It is, or at least it fin would be, with M. tie
Nesstlrodo and M. do Sebwartzenberg against the Whig
Cabinet, and with Lord Aberdeen, so dear to Louis
Philippe. It hoped, by aiding Lord Stanley, to eject
Palmerston from the Ministry—Lord Palmerston guilty
of having recognised the Republic, and suspected in
consequence by all the Kings and Queens of Europe, not-
withstanding the services he has rendered them."

The Assembly on Wednesday rejected the propo-
sition of M. ADELSWARD, to impose a tax of 5 per
cent. on capital, by a majority of 330 to 264.
The question of the dotation may be considered as
virtually settled. M. DE KEDEEL has withdrawn his
amendment in favour of one proposed by M. FUTOUL,
to the terms of which the Ministry have, it said,
assented. The Futoul amendoment is as follows :
" There is opened to the Minister of Finance, on the
estimates cf 185€', a credit of 2,160,0001. for extraor-
dinaryedPeriensgy dull,ilency of the Republic."
and the price of
The
Bourseexpenses
was of thee exceedingly
Government stock was a shade lower than yesterday.
The Five per Cents opened at 941'. 20c., fell to 941., rose
subsequently to 94f. 25c., and closed at 94f. 20c.; the
Three per Cents closed at 56f. 50e. ; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 755 F. ; Rouen, 558 f. 75c. ; Grc at Northern,
4471. 50e.; Avignon, 1731. 75 ; Vierzon, 34uf. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 326 f. 25c.; Touts and Nantes, 212 f. .50c.;
the New Roman Loan, 76i.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDOIs, STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 20.
Boulogne and Amiens,l6l4—East Indian, 7%—Paris and
Rouen, 22—Sambre and Meuse, 2%.