The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-09 00:00:00

NEW NOVEL BY MISS KAVANAGH.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
A T II AL lE. A TALE.
BY JULIA K AVANAG 11.
Author of " Woman in France," Scc.
" Her heart upon her lips,
Her soul within her eyes,
Soft as her native clime,
And sunny as it 4 skies."
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborsugh-Street.

HER M AJE ST Y'S THEATRE,
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.

THIS EVENING.

Angri, Miss Poole, Mrs. A. Newton, Miss Goddard, Frank Bodda,
Sims Reeves, Richardson, Franc, Remusat, Arban, Zeiss, Winter-
bottom, Prospere, Barret, and the English Chorus.
Brio:M:11dt. the Mesws. Distin, and! Henry Cooper, Hayward, Hans
POSITIVELY the LAST WEEK BUT TWO of the present season.
Mr. Howard Glover's Grand Selection from " FIERO and LEAN-
DER," for the first time, this evening.
BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHO.NIE in B FLAT, for the first time,
this evening.

PROGRAMME.
PART FIRST.
Grand Selection from a MS. Opera, entitled" Hero and Leander,"
preceded by an Original Overture, composed expressly for these Can-
.certs, by Mr. Howard Glover. The principal parts will be sustained
by Mdlie. Angri, Miss Poole, Mrs. Alexander Newton, Mr. Frank
Bodda, and Mr. Sims Reeves, with a fall English Chorus.
ORDER OF THE SELECTION.
Overture.
Opening Chorus, " What sorrow has thy soul oppress'd."
Romania. "Star of Morni; g," Mn. Alexander Newton.
Song, "My fate is in my Hero's eyes," Mr. Sims Veves.
Romania, " A wild disorder," Miss Poole.
Ballad, " The strain I heard in hopaier days," Mdlle. Angri ; Horn
Obligato, M. steglich.
Arietta, " I do not love," Mrs. Alexander Newton.
Quartett, " The fated hour," Miss Poole, Mrs. A. Newton, Mr.
Frank Bodda, and Mr. Sims Reeves.
Aria, " Thou hast left me," Mr. ims Reeves.
Cavatina, " Why, oh ! why longed my soul to tell ?" Mrs. Alexander
Newton.
Song, "Voices from Home," Miss Poole; Cornet a-Pistons Obligato
31. Arban.
Aria Buffs, "Brightest beauty," Mr. Frank Bodda.
Grand Finale—Solo and Chorus, " His death alone'."

PART SECOND.
Symphonic in B Flat (first time), Allegro Vivace,
Adagio, Minuetto allegro vivace, Trio, un poco
mono, Finale, Allegro
Aria, Madlle. Angri, " Gone, he's gene !" from the
New Serenata, " The Sleeper Awakened" - - Macfarren.
Fantasie, Grand Pianoforte, Miss Goddard, on Airs
from "Lucrezia Borgia" - - - - - Thalberg.
Overture, " Fra Diavolo"
Duet, Madlle. Angri and Mr. Sims Reeves, " M'Ab-
bracci a," " Tancredi" - - - -
Grand Selection from the Opera, " The Siege of Ro-
chelle," introducing the celebrated " Bell Quar-
tett"— Soprano, performed on the Cornet-a-
Pistons, by M. Arban ; Contralto, performed on
the Tenor Cornet a-Pistons, by M. Zeiss ; Tenor,
performed on the Tenor Trombone, by Mr. Win-
terbottom ; and Bass, performed on the Ophi-
cleide, by M. Prospere. The Grand Chorus,
" Vive le Roi," by the full English Chorus. Ar-
ranged expressly for, and performed for the first
time at the Grand National Concerts by - - Balfe.
Fantaisie, Flute, Mr. Richardson " The Swiss
Boy" (by desire)
" THE GREAT QUADRILLE OF ALL NA-
TIONS" (20th time of performance), composed
and dedicated by special permission to His Royal
Highness Prince Albert, by - - - - Labitzky.
Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Rant.
Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky.

- Rossini.

Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery? 1 6
and Pit Stalls) .. •• •• ••)
The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com.
mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven.

Boxes and Stalls to to had at the Box-office, where Programmes
of the performance n ybe obtained.
Mr. Thomas Maste. s of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseum,
and Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh-
ments and Wines, &c., &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.

MR. MACREADY.-
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed KING JOHN:
After which A RADICAL CURE.
To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Peter White, Mr. H. Bedford.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
_ _

Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE
GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed-
ford, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.

After which a new Farce called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS ;
or, The Shilling flop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce; Major Stiff,
Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright ; Alexander Panels, Miss
Chaplin.
To be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar
Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN; or, flints on Eti-
quette.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed an entirely new Play called TFIE TEMPLAR.
Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Cath-
cart, Everett, C. Kean ; and Mrs. C. Kean.

After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half."
Characters by Messrs. J. Vining, Keeley, airs. Keeley, and Miss
Murray.
To conclude with TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS.

Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed A PRACTICAL MAN.
To be followed by A DAY JF RECKONING.
After which THE RINGDOVES.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
WAR be performed Purim' OF FRANCE AND MARIE
DE MERANIE. Characters by Messrs G. V. Brooke, 11. Farren,
Norton, W. Farren, jun., Johnstone, G. Cooke, Dlddear ; Miss Helen
Faucit, and Mrs. L. Murray.
After which SPEED THE PLOUGH.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Under tho Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Pmorietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Last week of the gorgeous Spectacle.
Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. Second week of the
Revival of TURHN'S RIDE to YORK.
THIS EVENING.

The Grand new Spectacle of THE ENCIIANTED PALFREY; or,
The War, for of the Crescent.

Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing
the Magnificemt Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes.
The whole concluding with the Eittestrlan Drama (for the first
time these five years) of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

HIGII %%ATER Al LONDON BRIDGE

Tun UST -Morning 5 min. after 5 I Evening 25 nifti. after 5
To-Mositow—Moraing 4-5 min. after 5 I Evening 7 nun. arter 6

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 8.
THERMOMETER, LN THE &LID&
45—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this morning and during the night.
36—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30'39.
WIND S. ti. - dull, foggy weather.
MONDAY, DEC. 9.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
87—highest since noon yesterday..
29—lowest this morning and during the night.
81— this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.37.
WIND E.N.E.—dense fog all the morning.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.

PLYMOUTH—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
PoßTsmouTH—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BRIGHTON—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
lasTlNGs—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
SouTHAmrToN—Wind S., strong breeze—foggy.
FOLKESTONE —Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
TUNBRIDGE—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BASINGSTOKE • Wind N., calm—overcast.
BElsToc Wind E., calm—cloudy.
READING—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—foggy.
GREENWICH —Calm—overcast.
SWINDON—Wind S., light airs—overcast.
COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze— overcast.
CAMBRIDGE Wind S.. gentle breeze—overcast.
YARMOUTH—Wind S.W. calm—overcast.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine
o'clock :
CAR.Low—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
MULLINGAR— wind S.E., strong breeze—cloudy.
DUNDALK—Wind S. E., light breeze—cloudy.
POOLE Wind N.W., gentle breeze—foggy.
COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., calm—overcast.
SHEFFIELD—Fogu.
LANCASTER—Wind S.W., calm—principally clear.
BEArrocK—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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English feelings. It is a recognised and well-esta •
hlished legal maxim in this happy land, that " pre-
vention is better than cure ;" and far better would it
be that the censorship of the press were at once esta-
blished, and every publication revised and modi-
fied by public officers before it could be issued
to the community—aye, that every independent
journal were suppressed by the iron band of despotism
and its appearance absolutely prehibited, than that
it should be deprived of its utility by being prevented
from fairly commenting on the public acts of public
men, or even of persons in private stations, if those
acts should be prejudicial or dangerous to the national
interests, the safety and welfare of the community in
general. Then, indeed, would it be degraded from
the important and exalted functions it previously dis-
charged. In place of being the fearless vindicator of
national freedom, the terror of political criminals, the
scourge of political vice and turpitude, die indignant
exposer of public offences, it would sink into the ver-
bose and inane chronicler of aristocratic parties and
aristocratic movements, the sycophantic adulator of
those with sufficient wealth to purchase its venal and
fulsome praise. It could not in any case venture on
censure, however richly merited, for then (crede his
ex Highness) " it should be punished for it," and the
obsolete maxim, "the greater the truth the greater
the libel," would be restored with renovated force.
GOD forbid that this " liberty," of which we are so
justly jealous, should ever degenerate into licentious-
ness, that the right of legitimate comment on public
affairs should ever be turned into the instrument of
private malice or private vindictiveness, to invade the
sanctity of domestic life, or to calumniate, or to hurt
the feelings of individuals, when no public principle
was to be asserted: If any journalist should be base
enough so to misapply the extraordinary privileges
with which he is invested, no punishment could be
too great for his offence. The stringency of the
penalty should be proportioned to the magnitude of
the powers which had been perverted and abused.
Let the fullest measure of justice be inflicted on all
such offenders. There can be no sympathy or com-
passion felt for the wilful, malignant, and habitual
libeller, however formidable may be the personal con-
sequences of his outrage on propriety and the best
interests of society. But we boldly and unhesi-
tatingly deny that The Sun has thus prosti-
tuted its privileges or its powers. Private
slander we have ever held in the deepest detestation„
and it is with pride we assert that it is impossible to
exercise greater caution than we use, and have ever
used, against the admission of any untrue reports or
improper language calculated to inflict unnecessary
pain on any person, high or low, rich or poor,
exalted or bumble. But if the sacred duty we owe
to our friends and subcribers, and to the community
in general, as an organ (and one not altogether un-
influential) of public opinion, demand the notice or
consideration of any facts or subjects, we give it in a
fearless, straightforward, and unmistakeable manner •
While we never have gratuitously attacked, and
never shall unduly or unnecessarily attack, the indi
vidual, we never sacrificed and never will relinquish
the independence and privileges of our position.
So far as we were concerned the Duke of BRUNSWICK
might for ever have continued in the " natural and
sinister obscurity" to which he had been consigned by
the withdrawal of the confidence of his subjects, his
expulsion from his hereditary dominions, and the
substitution of a junior branch of his family on the
Ducal throne of Brunswick, without notice or obser-
vation. It was nothing to us whether he were
adorned by the virtues of an AURELIAN, or dis-
figured by the vices of a lIELIOGADALUS. So long
as these virtues or vices were concealed from public
view, provided that they belonged to the man and not
to the public character, we would neither flatter him
by ascribing the one, or censure him by imputing the
other. But when he repaid the hospitality so gene-
rously afforded to him in common with every other
political refugee—to the high-minded and noble as
well as to the base and mean—to the victim of un-
merited misfortunes as to the sufferer from his own
unjustifiable acts—by assailing one of our most
cherished institutions, one of the most potent bul-
warks of popular rights and popular liberties,
we could no longer remain silent. We speak of him
in his public capacity to prevent the possible conse-
quences of his public acts. As Mr. Justice ERLE
justly and truly remarked, our article—for which
two actions have already been brought, and two trials
in banco have taken place at an enormous expense—
" was directed throughout to the defence of journal.
ism against the party by whom the verdict which
called it forth had been obtained." The whole tenor
and effect of our observations showed that we had no
other object than that which the jury by their verdict
have found ; and we repudiate with disgust the hor-
rible meaning which the Duke endeavoured to affix
to one of our expressions, and to sustain by an un-
founded allegation, that the word " own " was printed
in a larger type than the remainder of the sentence.
Having thus vindicated ourselves from charges to
which we could not properly allude during the pen-
dency of the action now happily and justly disposed of,
we must offer a few remarks as to the particular
mode in which these proceedings were conducted.
If the object of the Duke were merely the defenceof
his private character against what he considered to
be unwarrantable aspersions, why, we ask--seeing
that he asserted that he was not desirous of " gagging
journalism," or entering upon "a profitable specula-
tion"—did he not apply to the Court of Queen's
Bench for liberty to file a criminal information, in
place of instituting an action, or rather actions, for
pecuniary damages ? The former has ever been re-
garded as a more satisfactory vindication of character
than the latter. The complainant, who considers
himself aggrieved, has the opportunity afforded him of
denying on oath the accuracy of the charges pre-
ferred against him; of showing that they were
wholly unjustifiable and undeserved; that his hands
were pure and undefiled. He could not in such a
proceeding heap insults or slanders on his opponent.
It is for the Duke to say why he did not adopt that
obvious and straightforward course, for the less
satisfactory proceeding by civil suit, where he himself
could not be called on as a witness, or enabled to clear
his reputation from what he considered to be improper
aspersions, under the sacred obligation of an oath.
Again we ask, why did not the Duke place his
case in the hands of some one or more of the many
eminent advocates who adorn and reflect honour on
the English bar ? There is, happily, no lack of such
persons, to whom the pecuniary interests, the reputa-
tions, the honour, even the lives of the suitors may
safely be entrusted, and who would ably and fearlessly
discharge the duty imposed upon them. The Duke,
however, preferred to act 03 counsel on his own be-
half, and in doing so sought a latitude which no
practising barrister would venture to assume. No
leader of the English bar would disregard the
repeated remonstrances of the learned and
respected judge, who presided on the bench of justice
with so much courtesy and dignity. No respectable
practitioner would have disregarded " those conven-
tional courtesies which belong to society in general,
and the technical rules which prevail in courts of
law, and which are necessary for the right and due
administration of justice ;" nor would he travel be-
yond the limits of the subject-matter then under in-
vestigation for the purpose of assailing in a privileged
a-Meese the characters of the absent and of the dead—
of those who ware there unrepresented and incapable
of defenditg themselves. He would not read to the
jury a long written address, every word and sentence
of which had been carefully framed and ela-
borated, and calmly and maturely considered.
There might have been some excuse for the
introduction of irrelevant matter, if it bad occurred
in the heat of discussion, and had been improvised
from some circumstance occurring at the moment,
but there could be none when it was premeditated in
the privacy of the closet, without any disturbing in-
fluences to warrant or jus:ify sue allegations. The
Duke, however, took his own course. He had all the
advantages of prufessiotial assistance and legal ex-
perience, without any of the drawbacks that might
arise from the feelings of those who might be un-
willing to hazard their professional reputations by
the introduction of topics justly and properly for-
bi&iden by the or4imary and well-r,-( tg: iced r, gut - lion, of the tribunal before vs h;ch the inquiry was
conducted. It was undoubtedly the privileBe of the
Duke to conduct his own case if he thought proper,
but it was a precedent which on public grounds we
Should greatly r.gret to see generally followed. li
was -not, as Sir FREDIRICK THLIGE2 truly re--
means that
marked, from sad necessity or deader

the Duke had been driven to this alternative;
he had boasted of his ample resources, which
enabled him to distribute the proceeds of the large
verdicts he had obtained against journalists of a very
different character from ourselves, in acts of charity
and beneficence. But it would certainly have been
better if he had not mentioned these matters to the
jury while the amount of damages (if any bad been
given) were still undecided, or endeavoured to gratify
his liberal feelings at the expense of ourselves. We
do not think a professional advocate would have in-
troduced such a topic, or cast it as an ingredient in
the case into the jury-box. But as the Duke thought
proper to allude to it, we confess to a slight feeling of
curiosity to discover w hick were the fortunate institu
tions or charities that benefited to so large an extent
by his Highness's exceeding generosity.
We shall not now advert at any length to the
omission of those parts of the article which migh.
possibly have led to pleas of justification on our part.
The matters relating to the witness Casfraiß
lisin-
HOLD to our judgment appeared the most important
part of the subject. The Duke, however, deliberately
and advisedly disregarded it, and, therefore, we need
offer no objection, as he manifestly considered it as
forming no sufficient ground of complaint. It would,
however, serm more fitting, as a general rule, that
the whole of an article should be submitted to a jury,
than that detached portions should be selected, which
might by themselves appear objectionable, when taken
without the qualifications contained in the remainder
of the publication. We speak of it not in reference to
our own case, but as inconvenient, If generally
adopted.

But we do thick that we have a just ground of
complaint in the unnecessary multiplication of suits,
the double litigation forced upon us fur one and the
same cause of action. Why should a party recover
double or treble damages for the same injury ? If a
bill of exchange were dishonoured, the holder might
bring actions against all the parties—acceptor,
drawer, and all the indorsers; but if he recover
damages against one of these parties, and that the
amount assessed by the jury were satisfied, the other
suits would be discontinued, at least upon the pay.
went of the costs. But here it was different. A jury
having ascertained the amount to which they con-
ceived him entitled—his shilling (!) being honestly paid
—why should he seek for further pecuniary compen-
sation ?

The recent "appreciation" in the value of silver,
is comparative scarcity as a medium of exchange, and
,he extraordinary demand for it in all parts of the
world, are worthy of deep and serious consideration.
The bullionists may, perhaps, find that the game is
not so completely in their own hands as they have
hitherto thought; and it is by no means improbable
that, ere many years have elapsed, those who have
hitherto stuck to the letter of their contract in direct
violation of its spirit, who have rigorously insisted on
their "pound of flesh," and would agree to no modi-
fication or alteration, may be the first to cry out for
an equitable arrangement, based upon the real value
—the " purchasing power" of the pound sterling,
and not the mere weight and purity of the gold con-
tained in the "sovereign."
It is perfectly manifest that this change baa been
occasioned by the large amount of gold obtained from
California, which has altered the previously existing
proportions of gold and silver. The world has re-
peatedly witnessed such changes, and it is more than
probable that we are on the eve of a great monetary
convulsion, such as that which was produced in the six-
teenth century by the discovery of the Mexican and
Peruvian mines, and the extensive importations of the
precious metals from the New World to Europe. The
people were then ignorant of currency principles;
they were not aware of the alteration in prices that
must necessarily ensue from a considerable addition to
the circulation. The enhanced prices were attri-
buted to every cause but the true one. The people
were discontented and dissatisfied ; they de-
manded stringent remedies without knowing the
source of the disease ; they found that
' prices were more than quadrupled within leis than
half a century. The average cost of wheat which,
from 1460 to 1560 had only been 9s. 2d. per quarter,
was in the next 40 years increased to 2/. 7s. 5d., or
rather more than it now sells for, notwithstanding the
vast increase of population that has taken place during
the interval. The cause of this miraculous alteration is
now perfectly obvious. It was not that wheat had
become dear, but that money was made cheap.
It was not that there was a scarcity of food—a famine
in the land—or that the soil of England had become
less fertile, or its inhabitants less industrious, that there
was a great addition to the indirect taxation of She
country, which should necessarily fall upon the con-
sumers, but simply that the mines of South
America had proved very productive and
easily worked, that the ¶uentity of labour re-
quired to produce the precious metals was much less
than had previously been the case. And, as labour
is the true measure of value, bullion became cheaper,
and the natural consequences of that plain and simple
fact were said to be the " dearness of all other com-
modities," just as at this moment many short•
sighted persons ascribe the ruinously low prices of
agricultural produce to the abolition of the corn. laws,
and the absence of protective imposts, in place of to
the monetary scarcity produced by the iniquitous and
impolitic laws of 1819 and 1844.
There were " corn-laws" enacted at that period also,
but, of a very different character from those now de-
manded. They were directed against monopolies,
regrating, forestalling, hoarding, and other acts, then
supposed to be practised by the " rogues in grain,"
but, like every interference with the natural course of
trade, they proved not only very mischievous, but
utterly inefficient for the purposes for which they
were enacted. The increase of prices went regularly
on, more money would be demanded, and more money
paid for goods with every addition to the circulating
medium of the country, and no Act or Acts of Par-
liament could prevent the inevitable results of the
vast addition to the measures and representatives of
value in the country.
And yet those times, during which these alterations
were taking place, are still known as " the golden
days of good Queen Bass." There was ease and
comfort on every side, the national industry was
stimulated to the highest degree, because it met with
its legitimate rewards. There was full and re-
munerative employment for every man able and
willing to work. At first, perhaps, the mere
labourer suffered a little from the change, for
in every case of transition, even from a bad to a good
system, some degree of inconvenience must be sus-
tained by some parties. If it be " a bad wind that
blows nobody good," it must be a singularly " good
wind that blows nobody harm." I, may be imp(.&4-
ble to suit the wishes of, or satisfy all parties, and
therefore "the greatest good to the greatest number"
is a maxim that must be acted on whenever it can b
without gross and palpable injustice to the few.
But the evil to the labourer was of a very brief and
passing character, and he pet haps eventually received
the greatest advantages of any from the change. At
first his wages would procure less food than be for-
merly could obtain, but speedily employment be-
came more regular and constant. There was to
compulsory idleness, no wasting of valuable hours.
There wasesomething to be done in rainy weather, even
in the short cold days of winter, when he would under
different and less favourable circumstanees be turned
adrift to seek the tender mercies of the union work
house. His wages will soon be increase, for from the
new branches of industry opened, there will be less
competition for any single description of labour.
And the farmer, who finds that he can defray his
rents, rates, tithes, and taxes with little. more the
one-ha the quantity of produce formerly required
will apply a ta neiderahle portion of the surplus that
remains for his own use to the improved eultivatioo
of his holding, or, in other words, the employment of
additional labour, for which there will he ate increased
demand, aid cons, quently an increased price, or what
is popularly known as " better wages."
These ate the results that must follow the in-
creased 'apply of bullion from the golden sands of
California. Prices will gradually increase as

neooloes inoro abundant. The fundholder
Prlii anoultant may perhaps then feel disposed to alter
the def;nition of a pound—►hat transparent fallacy on
which they pin their faith at present. They will not
then think that the public saitn is maintained by the
delivery of 5 dwts. 3 gre. of yellow metal of is certain
degree of finene”, when they perceive that it lacks
the command over the necessaries and comforts of I

life that the possession of a pound now carries with
it. There will bit wailing and lamentations among the
drones in the national hive. The " moneyocracy"
will be clad in sackcloth and ashes, There is yet
time for an equitable and amicable settlement ; let
not the golden opportunity be neglected or misap
plied, or they may too late find that the people will
laugh to scorn the whining complaints of those who
in other times were their hardhearted oppressors and
rigorous taskmasters.
THE

FRENCH REPUBL

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and. yesterday.
These journals all comment on the state of affairs
in Prussia, which they consider as very grave. They
all, from the Legitimatist Opinion Publique to the
Republican National and the Socialist .Presse, pro-
phecy the downfall of MMSTEUFFEL and the King
of PRUSSIA. The Opinion Publique hints at the pro-
bability of the abdication of the .UoNAacEt, the Ali-
nisterial Constitutionne/ expresses its alarm at the
strength of the war party, the Union declares that
" the real difficulties are now commencing for the
King of PRUSSIA," and adds—' GOD grant that after
having assumed a menacing attitude against his
powerul allies, he may not be obliged to have recourse
before long to their friendly intervention r
The National hus comments on the prorogation of
the Prussian Chambers—
" We will not exaggerate, as they do at the Bourse,
the probable conseauefices of this measure. The Pens.
sian nation has three or four times already allowed itself
to be insulted in the person of its representatives. It
will no doubt endure this last affront, but the Royal au-
thority is gradually undermining; itself by such proceed-
ings. The few words by which an incapable Minister
can always get rid of Assemblies to whose respect he
has forfeited all claim, lose their prestige, and leave
the desires, sentiments, and opinions of the country
just as they were. A concealed irritation and a bitter
memory survive their constrained obedience. The elements
of resistance accumulate, hostile convictions gain ground;
oppression, becoming heavier, wears away and crushes
its foundations; the divorce of the dynasty and the
people is pronounced in every heart; and when the
propitious moment comes, the decree is carried into ex-
ecution. For these reasons we clap our hands for joy
at this new act of authority, which increases the depth
of the abyss between the House of Hohenzollern and our
Prussian brethren. May they not forget the 4th De-
cember, and be ever mindful of the days of March."
We read in the Presse—
" The Minister had no alternative but to retire, or
have recourse to those measures which the constitutional
regime authorises, but which, nevertheless, in most
cases, are the prelude to coups d'etat or revolutions.
On the morrow, December 4, the Minister announced t,
i
the Chambers that they were prorogued to the 3d
of January. This gives a month's respite. The Ca-
binet reckons on obtaining absolution for its indignity
by the insolence of accomplished facts. It will not
succeed; it will only fill up the measure and make the
cup run over. Ah! you fancy a national movement can
be stifled by adjourning the Chambers. Do not deceive
yourselves. Your destiny is to go as far as you can, to
employ every means, and fail at last. Alter proroguing
the Chambers you will dissolve them; after stifling dis-
cussion in the Parliament, you will try to stifle it in
the press, you will suspend the journals, proclaim mar-
tial law; and if, as we believe, your soldiers will not
follow you, you will call in the foreigner, you will call
on the Diet which your have resisted; you will exhaust
the whole arsenal of repression, and when you have
broken all your weapons, you will fell powerless before
the public reprobation, before the conscience of that
people whom you want to abase, and ,who will stand up
against you."
The supporters of the politics of the defunct Re-
forme have recently started a journal called the Vote
Universel. This journal has been repeatedly prose-
cuted during the period of its brief existence, but in
spite of prosecution it still lived on ; in order, how-
ever, to effectually destroy it MM. BAROCHE and
CARLIER have caused its editor, M. CHARLES DE
LESSEPS, to be arrested on a charge of being con-
cerned in the Lyons conspiracy, which conspiracy is
a mere police-concocted shatn. However, M. DE
LESSEPS has been kept in confinement a fortnight
without even having been examined by a magistrate,
and is now ordered to be transferred to the prison of
Lyons. In a letter which he has addressed to the
journals, he says—
" I defy not only the courts of Lyons, but all the tri-
bunals in France, to find that I have any relation, I will
net say of a political character, but any relation of any
kind, even as a private individual, with the department
of the Rhoue, the city or Lyons, or with the departments
which surround that city within a circumference of forty
leagues. The circle is large; hut still I believe that I
do not advance too much in Blaring that during my
whole life I have neither written nor received a letter
irons it. At all events, I affirm the fact as respects the
last three years to the present day. Surely this is
peremptory."

- Liu;idreds of persons have been arrested on the ac-
cusation of being concerned in this pretended plot,
concerning the details of which not vie word has been
given to the public. The police are exhausting the
patience of the people by their conduct in this
matter, As is justly observed by th, Sieele, - the plot
of Lyons is covering France with misery and with
tears, and is exciting the worst pas.qons."
The Committee of the Assembly has reported
against the proposition of M. VICTOR LEFRANC for
the amendment of the electoral law.
The Bill for the establishment of baths and wash-
houses for the poor was passed on Saturday by a ma-
jority of 345 to 278.
The Moniteur publishes the law recently passed by
the Assembly, by which the public are to be allowed
the use of the State telegraphs throughout France,
for the purpose of sending private communications.
The law comes into operation on the lit of March
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The Moniteur also publishes the law passed two
days ago relative to the credits demanded by the
Government for the extraordinary levy of 40,000 men.
A decree appears in the Illoniteur, authorising the
Minister of Finances to proceed to public sale, by
sealed tenders, of 1,542,547 f. of Five per Cent.
Rentes, and of 493,217 t. Three per Cent. Rentes,
arising from Caisses d'Epargnes and the Lyons
Railway. The adjudication is to take place on the
23d of December next.
BUSINESS DO F' IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TOE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7;/,—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 15% Great Indian Peninsula. 1% —Namur
and Liege, 71% Northern of France 1.4!,¢ Paris and
Strasburg, 8%4 Rouen and Havre, 9% -- Sambre and
Meuse,