The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-27 00:00:00

greatest number?" The Machiavellian rule, divide
et impera, has long been acted on by every Govern-
ment, and the people but too willingly ran
into the snares that were spread for them.
While such was the case, while party could
be set against party, and class arrayed against class,
the people were ignorant of their real strength and
power. They neutralised the exertions of one ano-
ther, and prevented the attainment of objects desired
by all by their mutual j ealowies. That this will
no longer be the case, that there will henceforward be
a judicious and well-devised organization and co-
operation of " the many," the proceedings of the Con-
ference afford the strongest promise.

Such assemblages are at all times eminently useful.
They awaken the masses to a sense of the wrongs
under which they are suffering, and the nature of the
remedies that must be applied. Each delegate re-
turns to his own locality animated with a double
portion of zeal and anxiety Co promote the good cause ;
he becomes a missionary, whose chief object is to
instil a knowledge of sound principles into the inha-
bitants of his own district. On his return he will
have much to tell to his associates that must excite
the deepest interest. He will speak of the veteran
JOSEPH Hueez,who for thirty-two years has laboured
earnestly and efficiently—who commenced his politi-
cal career when it was unfashionable to be a Re-
former, and when any effort to ameliorate
the condition of the many Wa3 looked upon as a most
Utopian and Quixotic attempt, that might safely be
treated with contempt and ridicule. He will tell of
the gradual change that took place when rotten
boroughs were disfranchised, and the first instalment
of Parliamentary referm was conceded, until at
length the Hon. Gentleman has attained a position
and influence not exceeded by any Member on either
side of the House. The application may easily be
deduced. There is no question based on equity and jus-
tice that will not ultimately triumph. However dark
and gloomy may be its: present prospects, however
apcthetic and indifferent the people, truth will even-
tually prevail. He will also speak of the leaders of
the " League," of those who first met in a small
back rcom in Manchester, and Nvho, undeterred by
the paucity of their numbers, or by other circum-
stances that might well have discouraged men of an
ordinary stamp, entered upon a crusade against the
iniquitous bread-tax, and ultimately prevailed against
the united forces of the advocates of monopoly and
protection—of those who style themselves the
territorial aristocracy of the United Kingdom."
He will state how he mingled with Cobden;
Bright, and Crawford, with Hume and Fox and
\Vatmsley, with Heywortb, the two Thompsons, and
Kershaw, and with Lord Dudley Stuart, who,
although by birth one cf the ancient aristocracy, has
ever arrayed himself on the popular side, who has
been the able advocate of civil and religious liberty,
the tried friend of suffering humanity in every part of
the world, and whose efforts on behalf of wronged end
dismembered Poland, and liberal and disinterested
assistance to the exiled patriots of that unhappy land,
have given him an European reputation.
All these things will be narrated by the returned
delegates, and the one meeting to which we are now
alluding will give rise to hundreds throughout the
country. To hundreds did we say ? Aye to thou-
sands ; for not only will each man have to detail the
entire proceedings to the association by which he was
selected, but he will be followed for weeks after his
return by hundreds of his associates, and each
day will he have to narrate his adventures
to new auditories. The urgent necessity of
combined exertion will be thus forcibly impressed
on the minds of all, and they will learn the discipline
and tactics without which it is vain to hope fur suc-
cess. These unquestionable advantages will be
achieved by the judicious course adopted by the
Council of the National Parliamentary and Finan-
cial Reform Association in calling together the con-
ference, and inviting the attendance of representatives
from every association to devise the best means of
giving a proper impulse to the public mind, and to
mature a system through which the wishes of the
people might be best forced upon the attention of the
Legislature.

In Monday evening's impression of our journal we
shall publish in extenso the whole of the Governmelit
Metropolitan Bill for the enactment of regulations
regarding extramural interments. The readers of The
Sun will thereby be enabled to examine the sixty-six
clauses of the measure fur themselves, and to recog-
nise the justice with which we have inveighed
against the principles incorporated in the scheme pro-
jected by the Administration.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Court of Cessation has given a judgment
which virtually re-establishes the Censorship of the
Press, or, more properly speaking, which gives to the
Prefect of Police the power of suppressing every
evening journal: it has decided that the sale of
journals is illegal not only outside a shop or in the
streets, but even inside a shop, without an express
authorization of the Prefect of Police. Thus M.
CARLIER has the power of prohibiting the sale of
every newspaper except to subscribers; and he has
prohibited the aale in shops of the Evenement and the
Estafette, neither of which journals have been either
convicted, or even prosecuted: this great defender of pro-
perty is therefore endeavouring to confiscatethe property
of the proprietors of these journals. This conduct is
pursued by M. CARLIER for the purpose, it is said,
of enleavouring to provoke a premature explosion
but the people have learned wisdom by experience,
they keep within the bounds of legality, and render
their enemies powerless by obeying the law. In the
meantime MM. BAROCUE and CARLIEIC should con-
sider whether it is altogether wise to continue this
system of confiscatingjournals, seeing that it is possible
that they may be succeeded in power by those
who may be inclined to "profit by the lesson they
have taught them," and with whom "it will go hard
but they will better the example."
The division between the Ocleanists and Legiti.
matists is so wide that there is every chance that
M. EUGENE SUE will be elected, as it is not impre-
bahls that, even at the eleventh hour, M, FERNAND
Fox may go to the poll. His resignation in favour of
M. LECLERC was forced upon him ; and, not
content with forcing him to resign, the Le-
gititnatist journals have published a paragraph
stating expressly that M. FERNAND FOY had ex-
pressly engaged his friends to vote for M. LECLERC.
To this statement M. For has published a direct con-
tradiction, and thus the division has become evident to
all the world.

Considerable sensation has been produced in the
diplomatic circles by the receipt of a note from Prus-
sia on the affairs of Rome, by which Prussia has sig-
nified that she does not mean to allow a question of
such immense general importance to be settled with-
out her concurrence. The Prussian note is de-
scribed to be one of great fairness and power.
It is complained that hitherto no official
intimations have been made of the proceedings of
other powers, while it is contended that, although
Prussia be what is called a Protestant power, yet that
her Rhenish and other Roman Catholic subjects
oblige her to look narrowly to the dealings of the
great powers with the Court of Rome. In fact,
Prussia contends that she has as good a right as
England to take part in this question. England, it
is said, sustains the claims of Prussia, so that neither
Austria on the one hand, or France on the other, or
what is more to the purpose, both by collusion, will
be able to make cheap merchandise of the Roman
people.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT
of the Republic, reducing the expeditionary army
in Italy to one division, commanded by General
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Besancon, in place of General GEMEAU. General
GENESVILLER, commanding the Ist division of the
expeditionary corps in Italy, is named to the com-
mand of the sth military division, in piece, of General
HATEY, who is called to other functions. The
appointment of General D'ARBOUVILLE to the com-
mand of the 4th military division is cancelled. He
is named to the 12th military division, with head-
quarters at Bordeaux, in place of General CASTEL.-
LANE. He will, moreover, assume the command of
the 11th and 14th military divisions, of which the
head-quarters are at Bayonne and Nantes. The
15th military division, which was placed under the
command of General CASTELLANE, will remain
under the direction of the General who now com-
mands it. •

The following are the chief items of the Bank at,
count for the weEk

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- - Vranct.
Specie ... ... ... 340,003,838
Ditto in the departments ... 130,336,436
Bills iu portfolio
~.. ... 41,396,551