The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-09 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

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

KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN) —Wind W.N.W., gentle breeze—

cloudless.
Poarsmotrrff-Wind W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
SOUTHAMPTON-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-rain.
FOLKESTONE -Wind W., gentle breeze-overcast.
TUNBRIOGE - Wind W., gentle breeze-rain.
BASINGSTOKE -Wind S.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
BRISTOL- Wind N.W., gentle breeze-cloudless.
READING-Wind W., strong breeze-cloudless.
GREENWICH-Wind W., 'gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
SWINDON-Wind W., light airs-partially cloudy.
OXFORD-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-cloudless.
LEIGHTON - Wind S., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
CotcaßsTEß-Wind N.W., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE -Wind S.W. gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
Ruouv-Wind N.W., gentle breeze-cloudless.
BIRMINGHAM -Wind S.W, gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
PETERBOROUGH-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-partially
cloudy.
YARMOUTH -Wind S., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
LYNN-Wind S.W.. gentle breeze - partially cloudy.
CREWE-Wind N.W., gale-partially cloudy.
MANCHESTER-Wind W., strong breeze -principally clear.
LEEDS Wind W.N. W., hard wind-partially cloudy.
Yoax-Wind N.W., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
LANCASTER-Wind N. W., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
WHITBY-Wind N., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
SNAP-Wind N.W., hard wind - partially cloudy.
CARLISLE-W ind W , strong breeze-partially cloudy.
Bairrocx-Wind N.W., hard wind -cloudless.
BERAVICK-Wind W., heavy gale-cloudless.
EDINBURGH-Wind N.W., hard wind - cloudless.

The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Thursday morning at nine
o'clock :
M goAB—Wi nd S.W., strong breeze—principally cloudy.
CARLOW—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
DUNDALK —Wind S.S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
POOLE—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BRIDGEWATER—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
LIVERPOOL—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Litiros - Wind W.S.W., hard wind—cloudy.
YORK —Wind S., gentle breeze - overcast.
LANCASTER—Wind S W., storm—overcast.
SIIAP—Wind S , strong breeze - rain.
WHITEHAVEN Wind S.E.,gente breeze overcast.
CAMISLE —Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain.
BEArrocK—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
EDINBURGH Wind NAV.. hard wind—rain.
DUNDEE —Wind S.W., strong breeze—cloudy.

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LONDON, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1850.

New sources of anxiety as to the possible settle-
ment of the Schleswig..Holstein Question open them.
selves to our conjecture in consequence of the sudden
death of the Prussian Prime Minister, Count BRAN-
DENBURG. At the first receipt of this very startling
intelligence we find it difficult to guess whether or
not the disruption of the present Cabinet of
FRIEDERICH WILHELM will tend to results of an
advantageous character. It is true that the latest
political act of the deceased statesman was no other
than a bold essertion of a pacific and conciliatory
policy. Nevertheless, while acknowledging the some-
what tardy submission on his part to the
demands at once of justice and humanity,
we cannot so speedily lose a recollection of the
circumstance that to the departed administrator are
attributable that disastrous policy which, within the
frontiers was repressive, and beyond them aggressive.
Having succeeded to the conduct of the Administra-
tion at a period when Democracy appeared to be
shaking down the whole monarchical fabric of the
house of HOHENZOLLERN, Count BRANDENBURG re-
placed the fallen diadem of the Great FREDERICK on
the brow of his descendant by the regular organiza-
tion for the time being of a civil and military despot-
lam. The inadequacy of such molerate rulers as
BECKERATH or CAMFLSAUSEN, and their associates,
their total and utter inadequacy to compete with the
dominating leaders of the revolution, had prepared
the Count BRANDENBURG immediately on his assump-
tion of power to throw aside at once and for ever the
policy of concession and conciliation. The Prussian
sceptre under his guidance became transformed into a
two-edged weapon, trenchant and incisive. Awed
by the resolute attitude assumed by the Berlin Go-
vernment when presided over by BRANDENBURG, the
aspirants for Germanic liberation were compelled
*after a bloody struggle, to yield, in the hope of some
better opportunity. When meditating over these oc-
currences it is impossible, of course, to withhold the
expressions of cur contempt for the faithless and vac-
cillating SOVERTIGN who had himself raised the
sanguine spirit of the democrats only to disappoint
them by the bullet and the bayonet. At the same
time, however, it must be admitted even by the most
enthuliastic sympathisers with the revolutionists that no
portion of the blame can in justice be directed against
the Prime Minister of the reactionary Government.
The Count BRANDENBURG stood pledged to no poll-
tieal party whatever. He enfered upon the conduct
of affairs untrammelled by promise, and at perfect
liberty to follow in every instance the dictates of his
own judgment. Himself a natural half-brother of the
previous Monarch, and consequently uncle to the reign-
ing SOVEREIGN, his wishes were in a measure bound
up with the maintenance of the existing dynasty.

Hitherto mingling only in the fashionable circles
of the Prussian capital, a gay and veteran frequenter
)f the Court arid of the highest circles of the German
aristocracy, all his predilections were naturally
enough on the side of the constituted authoritie,, and
inimical to those views which had found utterance in
:he language of civic insurrection. Hence no one
was in any degree astonished at the course
adopted by the Berlin Ministry directly
its councils had passed under the direction
of the old Count BRANDENBURG. His arbi-
trary notions were consistent at least with the
principles which had influenced himself personally
throughout the whole of his long career. They were
the fruits of his own courtly education and of his al-
most regal experiences.
Meanwhile due regard was given by all impartial
spectators of the events transpiring in the kingdom of
Prussia, to the wants and wishes of the Prussian po-
pulation. Acknowledging the reasonableness of the
policy adopted by the Count BRANDENBURG on the
score of his own individual partialities, we nevertheless
found it iinpossiblc, like some of our contemporaries,
to shut our eyes to the yet greater reasonableness of
the democratic hopes and liberal aspirations preva-
lent among the German multitude. We preserved
very vividly in our remembrance the words and the
bearing of FEITEDERICIT WILHELM at the moment of
the first outbreak in 1848, when fastening the na-
tional cockade with his own hand in his royal helmet,
and traversing the streets of his capital under the
shadow of the Germanic tricolor. To those acts of
rashness and enthusiasm the whole of the subse-
quent movement was in a great degree attribu-
table, and hence, to our thinking, there was a
monstrous violation of all faith in the after-conduct
of the fickle and volatile representative of the house of
HOHENZOLLERN. Fortunately for him, at the instant
when he felt his throne sinking under him into an
Abyss of political anarchy he discovered in the person
.3f his uncle the vindicator of his dynastic rights and
the conqueror of a hitherto successful and dominating
revolution. Without even the slightest experience in
the cares of office Count BRANDENBURG nevertheless
displayed on the instant an aptitude for power, arising
out of the innate vigour and virility of his
intellect. Added, moreover, to his large mental ca-
pacities, the newly discovered statesman revealed
mother quality scarcely expected in him, and one yet
more essential to him in his difficult and almost be-
wildering position—the quality of the most stern and
inflexible resolution. Grinding down the popular
movement under the iron heel of the soldiery, placing
Berlin in a state of siege during a protracted period,
endeavouring to intimidate Hesse and other of the
minor principalities by the Prussian dragoons, Count
BRANDENBURG compelled the populace, however
unwillingly, to bow before the arrogant presence of
,f his Administration. In reference to the treatment
)f Denmark, his conduct was, however, rather weak
than culpable. Since his elevation to the supreme
teat in the Cabinet he had consented, somewhat in
;ontradiction to his usual custom, to permit rather
than to instigate warlike proceedings in favour of the
Schleswig insurgents. Happily for his reputation
ois last Ministerial act was in a manner expiatory of
this shameful concession. Scarcely forty-eight hours
lad elapsed after the withdrawal of his principal
antagonist RADOWITZ from the Ministry, in
consequence of the rejection of his bellicose plans as
he Minister for Foreign Affairs, when the veteran
Premier breathed his last in the very midst of the
political crisis. What the result of this unexpected
lissolution may be, it would be somewhat
liflicult to surmise : siilt we cannot refrain from
ndulging in a belief that good, and good alone, can
:ollovv both in regard to Prussia herself and to the
rest of the Germanic Confederation. Statesmen can
now be selected not pledged to the arbitrary prin-
ciples hitherto indulged in by Count BRANDENBURG.

We are rejoiced to observe that the admirable letter
,f Lord JOHN RUSSELL to the Bishop of DURHAM is
iroducing the most happy effect throughout the
length and breadth of this Protestant land, for while
tt has been received by all true Protestants with
leartfelt delight, it has effectually unmasked those
-raitors in the camp, who having acknowledged in
..xplicit terms the QUEEN'S supremacy, have been the
'nost forward in leading their flocks, " step by step,
o the very verge of the precipice." These men are
or very shame forced to affect a sort of disapprobation
if the Papal usurpation, but it is expressed so gin-
;erly, and is accompanied by such manifest endeavours
o sow divisions in the Protestant camp (teste the
etters of Lord JOHN MANNERS and of Mr. DISHAELr,
Ind the reply of the Bishop of EXETER to the address
of his clergy), that it is in fact an encouragement to
the myrmidoms of sarcedotal despotism to proceed
in their endeavours to subjugate the QUEEN and
people of this realm, and a declaration that
there is no unwillingness on the part of those
who " repudiate the name of Protestant" to aid,
sssist, and abet them in destroying the independence
of the State. If we needed any further prcof of the
real feelings of this party, we should find it in the lead-
ing articles of their organs in the press. There,
under cover of the anonymous, they speak out more
fully than either Lord JOHN MANNERS or Mr.
DISRAELI have thought it prudent to do, and we
accordingly find that in their journal this party ex-
pressly state that it is " unbecoming in a Minister to
declare publicly and officially that the country is
attached to the glorious principles of the Reformation."
ro this declaration we bind them, and we ask how
long the Protestant Church is to be desecrated and
:ts interests endangered by the presence within its
camp of those who deny the QUEEN'S supre-
macy, who repudiate the name of Protes-
tant, and who declare that it is unbe-
coming in a Minister to state that the country is
attached to the glorious principles of the Reformation ?
It is to the baleful presence of these men as teachers
in our Universities that we are to attribute the recent
perversions to Rome ; they are traitors and spies in
the camp, and the people of England, on whom Lord
JOHN RUSSELL may rely with confidence, the Pro-
testant people of England call upon him to
adopt measures for the immediate vindication
of the QUEEN'S supremacy, and for the removal
from within the gates of those unworthy sons of the
Church of England who, JUDAS-like, betray her
with a kiss. Tbere may be some difficulty in re-
moving such of the Romanising clergy as think it
consistent with decency and honesty to propagate
Popish principles, while professing allegiance to a
Protestant Church and receiving its emolu-
ments, from the preferments they hold in the
Church and in the Universities, but there
can be no such difficulty in removing these
deniers of the supremacy of the QUEEN from places of
trust and profit under the Crown ; and more espe-
cially does it become the duty of the Minister of the
Crown to recommend such removal when the office is
one which gives the holder of it an opportunity of
perverting the sentiments of the immediate heir to
the Crown, and of training him up in servile fear
of a sacerdotal despot, instead of in the
exercise of that freedom of thought and inde-
pendence of action which best becomes the free sove-
reign of a free nation. Looking back to the occur-
rences of the last three years ; considering the
numerous members of the house of WILBERFORCE
who have been recently perverted to Rome ; consi-
dering the pains taken by the Bishop of OXFORD to
encourage, by every means in his power, those
practices of the " unworthy sons of the
Church," which Lord JOHN RUSSELL has
so indignantly denounced, we ask the Noble
Lord whether he thinks it proper that that
Right Rev. Prelate should continue to hold the office
of tutor to the Prince of WALES ? Whether he
thinks it decent that the leader of those contumacious
priests, who denounce the legal judgment of a court
of law, and deny the supremacy of the QUEEN,
should continue to exercise the functions of Lord
High Almoner to her MAJESTY ?

By the returns which relate to navigation, for the
nine months ending the 10th October last, the number of
vessels entered inwards was 24,02.); while, in the corres-
ponding nine months of last year, it was 93,672. The
amount of the tonnage in the former case was 4,593,445; in
the latter it was 4,612,789. Judging from the number of
clearances outwards, the slipping trade, instead of being
injured by the repeal of the navigation laws, has already
been benefit.d by that measure ; for the number of vessels
cleared outwards in the first nine months of the present year
was 23,542, and the tonnage amounted to 4,677,162; while
in the corresponding nine months of 1849, the number of
vessels cleared outwards was 21,781, and the amount of ton-
nage was 4,301,935. These facts do not altogether quadrate
with the predictions of utter ruin to our shippingtradefrom
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.

The Dibats states that the Perma-
nence assemnieci on Thursday. One of its members
declared in the most formal manner that it was within
his knowledge that, on the 29th October, in the even-
ing, twenty-six of the most active members of the
Society of the 10th December held an extraordinary
sitting, in the course of which there was discussed a
proposition for the assassination of the President of
the Assembly, M. Dorm, and of General CHANGAR-
NIER, as being the two great obstacles to the accom-
plishment of the designs of the society, which propo-
sition having been unanimously adopted, those present
proceeded to draw lots, by placing twenty-four rolls
of blank paper in a hat, and two rolls inscribed
the one with the letter C, the other with the letter
D. The person who drew the letter Cat once de-
clared that he was ready to execute.the orders of the
society, the person who drew the letter D remained
silent. The president of the meeting announced that
the day of execution would be fixed afterwards.
The Committee of Permanence having received this
communication remained sometime in deliberation,
nod at its rising MM. BAZE, LEON FAucinn, and
INlorte,r proceeded to the office of the Minister of the
Interior, with whom they had a long interview ; of
the result of the interview our readers may judge
from the following announcement, which appears in
the Illoniteur of yesterday :
" A decree issued on the 7th of this month on the re-
port of the Alini,ter of the Interior, and submitted to
the Council of State, orders the dissolution of the Society
for Mutual Relief eitahlished in Paris under the title of
the Society of the 10th of December."
M. FERDINAND BARROT has arrived in Paris from
Turin.

PAM BOURSE, No-v. B.—Latest Prices.—Five
per Cents., 92f. 75c. ; Three per Cents., 57f. 60c. ;
Bank of France, 2,290 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 8.
Boulogne and Amiens, 73%—Dutch Rhenish, 234—Paris
and Rouen, 24%—Paris and Strasbourg, 8%.