The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

home, the interests of themselves, of the directors,
and of the shareholders. Without the recognition of
the feasibility of this latter project, and that, too, on
a very agreeable and comprehensive scale, we
should, especially in a mercantile country like
England, and in a mercantile age like the nine-
teenth century, be disposed to view the proposed
enterprise with an unconquerable suspicion.
Such suspicion, indeed, comes so very naturally,
that- it attaches itself unfortunately to the strictly
charitable associations, so that the secretaries and
treasurers of such associations are not unfrequently
watched with a distressing, because undeserved, jea-
lousy. Be it said, therefore, at once, that the com-
pany here alluded to is in no degree to be regarded
as a merely benevolent undertaking, but that which
is indisputably beneficent in all its immediate and
ulterior tendencies—it is certain, when carried out, to
secure to itself the reward of its very laudable exer-
tions. It has been a subject to us of very consider-
able satisfaction to observe that the scale upon
which the whole scheme has been projected
is of a kind altogether so comprehensive
and cosmopolitan, that it embraces alike
the intended emigrants from England and others also
from the different nations of the European Continent.
It is worthy of recollection, in reference to this fea-
ture of their enterprize, that the soil and climate of
Australia are capable of supporting, with an abundant
and various productiveness, the different agriculturists
collected together from the diversified dominions of
the old world. In the provinces of that southern
continent, where according to one of the most
brilliant wits of our generation,:the earth is:so genial in
its exuberance, that it requires only to be tickled with
a hoe to make it laugh ifito harvests, the English
settler might tend his apple-trees, the German his
vineyard, and the S2rvian his plum orchard, each with
large returns and entire satisfaction. Consequently,
it is not with pardonable rashness, but with laudable
prudence, that the Colonization Assurance Company
have proposed aiding the ambition alike of English
settlers and settlers from the Continent; and if the
association be only carried on in accordance with these
same wise and enlarged principles we are satisfied
that it must rise simultaneously in popularity and
prosperity.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
It would appear from the following article which
appears in the Napoleon that the PFESIDENT of the
Republic has actually surrendered himself bound hand
and foot to M. THIERS ,and the Orleanists, and has
consented to become, instead of the Chief of the State
—the elected of six million Frenchmen—the underling
of a faction, the tolerated of the club of the Rue de
Poictiers. The Napoleon says :
" The Paris election is a ray of light c'arted into the
depths of eeciety. The evil is revealed, and in the free of
this revelation all political distrusts have disappeared.
The President claiming the honour of a generous initia-
tive, decided ( n surrounding himself with all persons of ex-
perience, all devotedness. It has been teen by the eager-
ness with which all the most important men responded to
the call, wh a; real patriotism there is in the views of certain
parties, so otter: accused of after thoughts, and in the
minds of the statesmen to whom personal views were at-
tributed. The President of the Republic himself nobly
dispelled the imaginary notions which ought nel er to
have been entertained of the exile restored to hie
country by the Republic, and raised to power by the na-
tional will. Both sides separated, animated with a like
self-denial, and an equal zi al for social interests,
which now become the predominant political in-
terests. The election of the 10th March las
cemented and :oiled the union of the two great
powers of the stet-. This is rot the first time that
imprudent adversaries have served the cause they
sought to oppose. Such a result narrows considerably
the Ministerial questions which have so much occupied
the journals. Tho question is not who shall bo Minis-
ter, but what will the Ministry do in accord with the
Assembly? It is not our province to prejudge the reso-
lutions of the Government and the Assembly. What
we have to record with satisfaction is their perfect sym-
pathy, their emulation to give to society ell the guarane
tees of which it now stands in need more than ever, and
which it has a right to require on the morrow of a sur-
prise brought about by secondary circumstances it is
true, but, which, if its dangers were not understood,
might one day compromise the general cause of order
and civilisation."
In another article entitled " the situation," the
journal of the Elysee thus confesses its sins and prays
to the para. pretre for absolution :
The barbarians are at our gates, but be not uneasy,
they will not get into the place neither by cunning nor
by force. We have behind our ramparts an immense
population which, notwithstanding some traitors, will
always render impossible the triumph of an enemy whose
only object is pillage. Though our adversaries should
increose their numbers by some other deserters, they
would not succeed. Have we not for us justice, truth,
and civilization. The prevailing true idea now is, the
bettering the condition of the poorer classes, an improve-
ment which it is impossible to effect if the Government
is not strong, and society does not feel confidence. The
false notion is the doctrine which pretends to reach
the same end by the overthrow of all that exists, and
by the triumph of chimeras which have no root in the
last nor hope in the future. If the •Government has
committed errors, it is quite ready to admit them, for it
desires but the good, and is ambitious of ao other glory
than that of saving the country."
The Journal des Debate, the accredited organ of
the Orleanist faction, does not fail to take note of the
unconditional surrender recorded in these articles of
the Napoleon :
" The note (it says) published by the Napoleon ap-
pears to have a certain official character. This declara-
tion is the result of the interview which took place im-
mediately after the elections of Paris between the Presi-
dent of the Republic and some of the most eminent men
of the Parliamentary majority, Messrs. Mold, Thiers, De
Broglie, Berryer, Montalembert, St. Priest, and General
Changarnier.
It would appear as though the defeat of the re-
actionaries at the Paris elections had so stunned them
as actually to have deprived them of their senses.
The authorities have actually commenced prosecu-
tions against all the Republican journals for having
urged the people to abstain on Friday from any
demonstration which could by possibility lead to a
breach of the peace, and, as if to render their
intentions still more unmistakeable, the Pa-
trie, the Ministerial journal, in one of its
leaders has the following passage :—" Do not despise
the sword. Contempt of force is foolish. The
enemy within must be destroyed. The sword is
110 LT. RODESPIaREI talked of the " holy guillo-
tine," and has deservedly incurred the execration of
posterity fur the phrase. Where is the vast differ-
ence between his holy guillotine and the holy sword
of the reactionaries, seeing that each is to be used to
shed the blood of political opponents, only because
they are political opponents ? The Republicans are,
however, too prudent,to afford their opponents the so
much desired opportunity of using the " holy
sword ;" they will bide their time patiently, knowing
that the elections of 1852 will give them a decided
majority. The reactionaries also are aware of this,
and universal suffrage, heretofore the theme of their
eulogium, has all at once lost its prestige. Already
are measures talked of to be adopted by the Assembly,
in direct violation of the Constitution, to hamper the
exercise of universal suffrage, but even the adoption
of.. these measures will not excite the people to
violence, or afford to CHANGAINIER the desired oppor-
tunity of using the "holy sword."
" The people," says the National, " are calm
because they are strong, they are patient
because theirs is the future. You can-
not deprive them of either their calm, their
strength, their patience, or their future." In another
part of the same article the National, addressing the
reactionary factions, says—" Moral force and mate-
rial force have alike deserted you. On whom do you
rely ? Is it on the Bourgeoisie, which has just con-
demned you ? Is it on the Proletariat, which sees in
you its irreconcileable enemy? Is it on the army,
which has proved to you that it intends to be the
army of right and of principle, and not the Praetorian
guard of ambitions reprobated by all ?"
The Republique thus shadows forth the tactics of
passive resistance which will be adopted by the Re-
publicans, should the reactionary Assembly attempt
to violate the Constitution. It says—
" It is evident that means will be sought of suppress-
ing, if not of perverting and falsifying universal suffrage.
That is what we have to watch. Thank heaven, the
Constitution hos put a cheek to retrograde attempts, by
deciding that the suffrage should be direct and universal.
That if a violation of the Constitution be attempted we
have a sure weapon—the refusal to pay the.taxes—' no
more universal suffrage, no more money. This argu-
ment' rendered all others unnecessary."
Even in the Assembly the reactionaries cannot
refrain from giving utterance to their rage and fears,
tlenr scold like old women. On Saturday they in-
terrupted M. JULES FAVRE no less than fifty-two
times in the course of his speech, and at length M.
SEGIJR D'AGUESSEAN, one of the most bigotted of the
parti-pretre, exclaimed, " Paris by its late vote
uttered a cry of war," to which M. jurss
FAVRB justly retorted, " And you have now
uttered the language of an insurgent," an opinion
in which M. Durex seemed to concur, as he called
the worthy ci- devaut Noble to order.
The Patric is endeavouring, in conjunction with
the Assemble Nationale, to organize a system of ex-
clusive dealing. This is a dangerous game, for if the
Socialists in the Faubourgs were to do the same, the
reaction areis would lose at least three votes for every
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