The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

GERMAN Y

ITALY.

M. DE LAMARTINE ON THE RE-
VISION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
We extract the following from the forthcoming
number of M. de Lamartine's periodical, the Conseiller
du Peuple :
"Opinion in France is the true sovereignty; it is, be
assured,irresistible like destiny. Call yourselves
royalty or republic, monarchy or democracy, legitimacy
or Orleanism—Bonapartism or Socialism— the name is
nothing ; public opinion is king in France—that is the
truth. If then public opinion, eighteen months
hence, should say--' I wish the Constitution to be
corrected,' everybody will say the same thing; the
National Assembly will say the same thing in spite
of factious coteries and parties. Nothing can resist the
current of a crisis of opinion in such a country as this.
It is the country of echo, as Pythagoras would have said;
there is only one voice when the true voice shall have
pronounced the feeling of the day. The Constituent
Assembly will arrive at Paris sTith the full powers of
the people. It will be republican, because France will
have two years to reflect, and reflection which demon-
strates the impossibility of three restorations in compe-
tition of rights, will be the republic as much as the in-
stinct of the people. But it will be moderately
republican, for the country, business transactions, pru-
dence, time will show, that any violent or extreme Go-
vernment is illogical in a nation which above all enter-
tains a repugnance to civil war or sui6de. It will then
revise the Constitution in three or four articles. 1. It
will re-establish the sincerity of universal suffrage, the
unity of rights and peace between classes, by re-estab-
lishing universal suffrage, mutilated by the law recently
passed. 2. It will free universal suffrage from
elements really vitiated, or too floating, which injure
it. It will re-establish the votes by communes,
or by groups of communes. It will destroy the execra-
ble system of election by ballotting lists, which syste-
matically blind the eyes to mislead the hand. 3. It will,
perhaps, establish two Chambers, instead of one, but of
equal power; an elective Senate in place of a Council of
State, which occupies the place of a power without
having the action of one. I said myself, in supporting
in 1848 the principle of one Chamber, that I only,
defended the system for five years, during the revo-
lutionary period in which a sovereign Chamber is obliged
at every moment to take the dictatorship, and dice
tatorship cannot be divided. 4. It will examine the dis-
position of France, the Government more or less happy,
more or less republican of the expiring Government, and
it will decide if it will or not efface from the Constitution
of 1848 the article which interdicts the re-eligibility of
the President; it will examine, besides, if it will or not
prolong the constitutional duration of presidencies
during the first years of the republic. if it should
decide for the re-eligibility and the prolongation of
the first magistracy, it is sovereign, and will nominate
a provisional Executive Government, and will con-
voke the country to the election of a new President. If
the country should nominate another person, the Presi-
dent will retire, as at the end of their forced dictator-
ship, or their legal power, the provisional Government,
the Executive Committee, General Cavaignac, the Con-
stituent Assembly, retired; and the Conservative Repub-
lic will then be founded. There will be a solution; a so-
lution of public good sense—a solution by the Constitution,
a solution by opinion, a solution by law and patriotism!
Why dream of others? For that there must be neither
treason, nor violence, nor coups d'etat, nor corruption of
the army, nor an 18th Brumaire, nor a 15th May of the
bayonet, nor an appeal to revolutions. There must be
only two things—a people exercising the sovereignty
through the ballotting-box, and a disinterested citizen
understanding veritable civic grandeur in the person of
tha present President of the Republic. Both these
things may meet to found together the practical sove-
reignty of the nation, and to give to the republic the
only element it wants—the sentiment of its practica-
bility and duration. Tile speech which the President of
the Republic recently delivered at Lyons seems to attest
(what I have always t bought of his elevated good sense and
his honest ambition) that he so understands the grand
which the republic offered, and which his name has ren-
dered easy. If this name gave offence to prudent re-
publicans, if their duty was to warn the nation against
being carried away by a souvenir of glory which might
have compromised liberty—this name also, it must be
admitted, and I have admitted it—might have given
force to the maintenance of free institutions at the com-
mencement. The people lives; by souvenirs and preju-
dices. This name surrounded the cradle of the Repub-
lic with souvenirs and prejudices. Well-inspired states-
men make use of everything, even of a danger, in order
to cause institutions which they wish to leave to their
country to take deep root. Tee name of Bonaparte may
be peril or salvation according to the man. Let him
choose between the applause of barracks and the serious
and lasting esteem of p,,sterity."

THE MOORS, &c.
Our notes from the moors and forests are limited
this week. ahe weather has been so bad as to inter-
fere materially with the sport.
Lord Lovat shot one d4y last week 35 brace of

grouse; the Master of Lovat 40 brace; and Mr.
Stourton 33 brace—all on the same moors. Sir Henry
Meux bagged 35 brace at Dundriggan in a day,
and he has stalked and shot several fine deer in the
corries. We hear that Lord Ranelagh, at Ardgour,
has shot several: fine-headed stags. In Suther-
landshire Lord Ellesmere got a noble stag, 28
stones weight as he fell. Lord Selkirk, at Gilder-
mory, has also shot a stag of very large dimensions.
At Flichity, Captain Lowndes, B. Langton, E,q.,
and Mr. Macdouall, shot in three days 57i brace.
At Banchor, the Messrs. Bonham Carter shot, on the
27th, 163: brace—a very wet day, wind so high that
the birds were as wild as hawk.. The Foyers party,
John Fowler, Esq., Mr. Gould, and Mr. Rendel,
bagged, last week, about 200 brace of grouse
and several red deer. Mr. Balfour has had some
good fishing in the Conon, and brought down two
fine dear in the forest. Mr. Massy and party, at
Kinrara, killed, on the 12th, 90 brace of grouse.
On the 15th, shooting on Cairngorm, Mr. Massy,
with his own gun, brought down 15 brace of grouse
6 brace of ptarmigan, and some mountain hares.
Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., and R. Palmer, Esq., at
Pityoulish, shot 30 brace on the moors of Aviemore
on the 12th.

Sir Arthur Chichester's sport in the Lochcarron
forest during the month has been unprecedented. In
one week he brought down seven deer—one particu-
larly a very fine stag—and mortally wounded other
four; all good shots. During the same week he
killed three roebucks. His sport on the moors has
been equally successful. One afternoon he shot
twenty brace of old cocks, and caught a number of
salmon the same evening.
Captain Hall, of the Madras Cavalry, shot a fine
deer at Applecroas the other day; and Colonel Whyte's
sport on the Carron has been good.
At Torridoo, Kinlochewe, Mr. Charles Mackenzie,
of Scotsburn, killed one deer on the 21st, and on
Wednesday was so fortunate as to secure a couple—
one stag with a famous head, and, without the offals,
weighing 19f stone.
OTTER HUNTING.—On Friday, the 23d instant,
Sir Arthur Chichester having devoted the day to
otter bunting at Shieldaig, Applecross, had some
splendid sport, and brought down two uncommonly
large otters, with hall, at a long distance.
Tug NESS.—This river continues far too high, and
so much rain has fallen that there is not much pros-
pect of its falling to the proper size within the season
now approaching a close.
PERTHSEITRIC Mooas.—Mr. Forman, at Glenbruar
(Athol-), 283 brace to his own gun in four days; at
Kinloch (Strathbraan), 1501 brace and three hares,
on the 12th ; at Granituily (S:rathtay), the party on
the 12th, 133 brace; Mr. Hay bagged 26i brace and
a ha-re, after mid day of the 14th; at Dalnamine Mr.
Ite:nertson 34 brace on the 12th, Mr. Clason 32, and
IVlr. Robertson 10, on the same grounds; at Glendyr
on the 12th. Sir James Carnegie bagged 63 brace.—
Inverness
Courier.

A ROMANCE WITHOUT FICTION.
About three years ago, the Rev. R. S. m.ciay,
of
Concord, Franklin county (late of Gettysburg), re-
ceived a call on the Board of Foreign Mis*ions con-
nected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, to
visit China, and preach the Gospel to the benighted
Celestials of the central flowery land. M'Clay was
young, ardent, enthusiastic, and most willingly em-
braced the high and holy duty assigned him.
In due time he arrived in China, and was stationed
at Fan Chua, some 700 miles in the interior, from
Hong-Kong. There he studied the native language,
and commenced his labour among the Celestials, with
the most flattering success. Still there was something
wanting—a void in the heart to be filled ;he sighed
for that best solace to man, either in weal or woe—
a wife. How to get one was an intricate question to
solve. There were no American ladies there from
whom he could make a choice; as for a Chinese wife,
tha laws of the land forbade it, neither did his
inclination desire it. What, then, was to be done?
A fertile imagination can accomplish wonders—
a firm determination can surmount difficulties
that would " o'er-top old Pelion." He wrote to the
board of mission on the subject—he wrote in pathetic
—we might perhaps say poetic—strains of his lonely
condition for the want of one on whom he could be-
stow his affections, and who would be the partner of
his joys and sorrows through life, and ended by ask-
ing the board to send him a young lady who would
be willing to become his wife, agreeably to his di-
rections, which he sent in the form of a blank decla-
ration, to be filled up by the lady accepting the
proposition.
This was a novel proposition, but the board was of
opinion that it was a just one, and proceeded with
due diligence to search for the object desired, and,
strange to say, success crowned their efforts.

Letters from Vienna of the 28th ult. state that
Couut Nesselrode had joined the Emperor of Austria
and Prince Schwartzenberg at 'sell

The Risorgtmento of the 28th ult. announces the
return to Genoa of the royal steamer Mozambano,
which conveyed to Civita Vecchia M. Pinelli, Envoy
Extraordinary of Sardinia to the Holy See. A letter
from Rome states that the Pontifical Government had
refused to receive M. Pinelli in his official capacity,
but nevertheless consented to hear the propositions of
which he was the bearer.

Some time previous to receiving Mr. M'Clay's
letter, a young lady, Miss Henrietta Sperry, of
Brooklyn, New York, made application to the board to
be sent as a missionary to China, but was refused on
account of being unmarried. To her the application
of Mr. M'Clay was shown ; she at once filled up the
blank application, and a correspondence ensued,
which ended in her leaving New York, in company
with a number of other missionaries, on the 12th of
March last, in the ship Tartar, for Hong-Kong,
where she will be met by Mr. .M'Clay, and the
nuptial ceremony will be solemnised.
The lady's personal attractions have been described
to us, by one who had the pleasure of seeing her pre-
vious to taking sail on her mission of love. She is
described as being beautiful and fascinating in appear-
ance, and possessed of that charm of loveliness which
should adorn every female character—a well culti-
vated mind, stored with the richest gifts of know-
ledge from the fountain of education, and a moral re-
finement which will bear with it the jewel of a bright
inheritance beyond the confines of time.—American
Paper.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LOWESTOFT RAILWAY AND H ARBOUR.

On Saturday the half-yealy meeting of this com-
pany was held at Lowestoft; Mr. S. M. Peto pre-
sided.

The revenue account for the past half-year showed
that 5,4951. had been received, and 3,8461. expended,
leaving a clear profit of 1,6481.
The CamasiAN, in moving the adoption of the
accounts, referred with satisfaction to the present
position and future prospects of the company, and the
progress made in the completion of the construc-
tion of the harbour works. They had so far suc-
ceeded in keeping their outlay within the amount
of capital, that their total f xpenditure was 346,2161.,
and the further sum of 4 2501. was only required to
complete the construction of their works, making their
total outlay 350,467?., which would be greatly re-
duced by the sale of their surplus lands ; the receipts
on the railway traffic were also satisfactory, and he
looked forward to the success and future prospects of
the company realising
.the expectations of the pro-
moters and proprietors. They had erected an ice-
house, the profits of which would realise 6 per cent.
on the outlay—(Elear)—they had ample accommoda-
tion for the fishing trade, and they were in treaty with
influential parties for the erection of oil and cake
mills, so essentially required in Suffolk and Norfolk,
which would add greatly to their revenue, as also
steam flour-mil!s.

CAptain ANDREWS stated his entire confidence in
the succesiful completion of the works, which were
fast advancing to their final completion, securing a
safe and commodious harbour at a smaller cost than
-anticipated ; there had been an increase on the revenue
from the dues on the harbour alone of the half-year
of 8361. 2s. 9d. Within the last week a vessel water-
logged, drawing 17 feet of water, had been towed into
the harbour, where it sank, and but for its existence
the vessel must have been irretrievably lost. The
works of the harbour were in that state of forward-
ness that a very short time would ensure their entire
and satisfactory completion.—(Hear, hear.)
After some further observations the accounts were
received and adopted, and the proceedings terminated
with a vote of thanks to the chairman.