The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-01 00:00:00

THE SUN,

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 1.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
68— this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 3016.
Wnm E.S.E.—fine sunshiny weather.

,NDON,

As to protection, we are convinced that it has been
as injurious to the West Indian planters as it has been
to the inhabitants of this country. We believe that it
occasioned a degree of carelessness and negligence
that more than counterbalanced the increase of
prices. The same answer should be returned to those
now seeking for it that has been given to the com-
plaining farmer—" You aro yourselves in fault—
adopt a better and more economical system of culti-
vation, and you will find that you can encounter any
degree of competition to which you can possibly be
exposed."
There is, however, every reason that the
absurd restrictions that have been adopted
with respect to black labour, in deference to the un-
reasonable demands of the " friends of the blacks,"
should be promptly removed. If wise and politic
regulations were adopted for the obtaining of free
labour, we have no doubt that it would be found to
be at least as cheap, if not actually more economical,
than slave-labour. Let the friends of the West India
colonies, then, restrict themselves to this point. Let
them put forward no unreasonable pretensions, and
they will be supported by the great body of the
people, and their demands, being founded on truth
and justice, must ultimately prevail.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Assembly on Thursday discussed the Bth
article of the electoral law, which settles the diffe-
rent categories of exclusion. One of the clauses of
this article deprives of the franchise writers who
have ever been condemned for their publications, and
all mendicants. M. VICTOR HENNEQUIN, the son of
the celebrated Legitimatist advocate, combated this
clause, and reminded the Assembly that under its
operation BERANGER himself, the honour and glory
of France, would be deprived of the suffrage. Tant
mieux, was the exclamation .of the brutally ignorant
Strelitz of the parti-pretre, who sat on the
right. It would also deprive of the suffrage
M. .MICHEL CHEVALIER' one of the principal
writers in the Journal des Debats, Professor of Po-
litical Economy in the University of France, and the
author of several "honest and moderate" pamphlets
which bad been published by the committee of. the
Rue de Poictiers, but it would appear that even the
Journal des Debats is too democratic for these apostles
of ignorance, for the disfranchisement of M. Miciun.
CHEVALIER was hailed with shouts, and the article
was agreed to. We hope that this division will act
as a warning to M. MICIIEL CHEVALIER: and to all
men of his class not to prostitute their talents by
serving the parti-pretre, who never forgive their supe.
rio rity, and hate while they use them.
The National Assembly yesterday passed the Electoral
Bill. The following was the result of the ballot:—
Number of voters ... 674
Absolute majority 338
For the Bill ... 433
•
Against it ... 241

- Majority in favour
... 192
The Patrie announces the arrest of 50 Socialists,
who, when apprehended, were in the act of making
cartridges. The greater number of them had been
members of M. LOUIS BLANC'S commission at the
Luxembourg.
M. MICHEL (de Bourges) has been commissioned
by the committee of the Mountain to draw up a pro-
test against the electoral law.
The Patrie alludes to the subject of the Greek
affair in the following terms :—" Lord NORMANDY
has not yet left Paris, as has been reported. The pro-
longation of the stay of his Excellency is a proof that
the English Government intends to fulfil the satis-
faction which it has promised to give to France."
It is said that the French Government has pro-
posed to leave it to the King of GREECE to determine
whether be will accept the convention of Mr. WYSE
or the treaty of London, and that Lord PALMERSTON
has acceded to that proposition. Russia, it is said,
has demanded explanations respecting the convention
of Mr. WYsE, which it is contended is in contraven-
tion of the treaty of the 18th of April, to which
Russia was a party.
Senor ISTURITZ has arrived in Paris en route for
London.

M. GUIZOT has left Paris.
The following are the principal items of the weekly
bank account :

Francs.
Specie ... 342,226,943
Ditto in the departments ... 128,718,203-
Bills in portfolio
... 42,970,777
Bills in branches ▪
66,285,527
Bills lying unpaid •
885,285
Ditto in branches •
1,363,325
Bank notes in circulation 408,894,800
Ditto in branches 73,022,700
Credit to Treasury 40,282,683
Private credits 96,129,690
Ditto in branches ... 28,304,538
There is an increase of specie of about 11 million.
The portfolio shows an increase of discounted bills of
about 3i millions for Paris, and upwards of three-
quarters of a million for the departments. The issue
of notes is greater for Paris by 21 millions, and a
quarter of a million for the departments. The credit
to the Treasury has increased a million. Private
credits are 1i million more for Paris, and as much for
the provinces, so that altogether there is under every
head a marked improvement over the account of the
preceding week.
PARIS B onus, MAY 31.—Closing prices—Rentes,
Five per Cents., 92f. 80c. ; ditto, Three per Cents.,
57f. 35c.; Bank of France, 2,190.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-liaCliiia, MAY 31.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Dutch Rhenish, 2A,—Namur
and Liege, 674—Northern of France, 13% Paris and Stras-
bourg, 63C—Rouen and Havre, VA—Sambre and Meuse, 234
—Tours and Nantes, 2.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.
The Balsa was closed.

GERMANY.
Accounts front Berlin of the 30th ult. state that
the KING'S health is improving, awl that the fever has
abated. His spirits have never flagged. There is
no doubt entertained as to the insanity of the assassin.
The Berlin Constitutionnel has the following :
" Denmark has up to this moment not assented to the
last propositions of peace made by Prussia. It is con-
sequently asserted that the Prussian Government will,

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maintain high prices for sugar, aert4hovver...tl tees -these propositions should not be promptly ac-
to
toiled artisan and miserable setups devote a 1 cep oted, withdrisie ob. infiletety-frons the work of peace."
On e 25 th ,rnnceScHwawriEriiHßOß left Vienna
portion of their hard earnings for tiJlusive benefit
- ,
join the Emperor of RUSSIA at Warsaw. The
fe of a privileged body. The case Ito
to that of the corn-laws, the onistinction beingcilelY II
similar 1 Russian Ministers at Berlin and at Vienna are also
gone to Warsaw.
that the parties for whose advan the bread-tax Prince MICHAEL RADZIVIL died at Vienna on the
of land in the
was imposed were the pp x.
25th.
Prince WINDISCHGRATZ intends to retire to his es-
United Kingdom, while thoseerested in high
.
, . tates. It is said that he has declined the pecuniary
sugar duties are the proprietors remuneration offered him for his services.
Indian Islands. The principle Ind in the IN est
iactly the same in
both instances, and we confess
;t
;t we cannot see
how the boon now demanded be consistently
I granted by a Parliament which"
after mature
:d duties should be
de-
liberation, decided that hencefc
sanctioned for fiscal purposek,
and not for the
sake of protection.
The Monopolists and Prolonists are therefore
alike driven out of court. i
supererogation to adduce a`sii rgument in answer
almost a work Of
to the absurd demands of th a
finer. The'good old
times of monopoly have ha departed. It has
gone to " that bourne wheino traveller returns,"
and there are but few disinsted mourners over its
unhallowed remains. jag in all its varied as-
pects has been ably denoJl and will no longer be
tolerated, more especially its most flagrant and
abominable guise. The 1,
sh nation has done all
that could possibly be exled at its hands to ex-
tinguish
slavery through' the civilized world.
It has not merely prohibite,e abomination through-
out its own colonies and derlenciest but it has added
20,000,0001. sterling to public debt in a single
session, as compensatio?r those who had em-
barked their capital in theculation in consequence
of the supposed encouranent afforded by legisla-
tiveght all its influence to
enactments. It alsOn
neighbouring nations in
bear upon the councils'
order to obtain their cad co-operation in the un-
dertaking, and has p
submitted to a heavy
annual drain, not y in money but in the
seamen, to promote the
same philanthropic
lives of our gall seamen,
But all this is not
sufficient to gratify°
Quixotic zeal of certain indi-
viduals. They wc, involve us in general hostility,
in order to cart a mad crusade against all who
y'
" accursed thing." Common
still connive ate
sense was not, rAvever, altogether banished from
England, end ;'M proved that there were certain
4 even the most zealous " abolitionists"
lwenougltdhs to
not :'iihe total exclusion of slave• grown sugar
would inv-e the country in a series of commercial
difficultie,/rom which it could scarcely extricate
itself lyi.ut a rupture of friendly relations with
almost ery nation. There would be bat little con-
sistel in excluding slave-grown sugar while every
oti. description of slave-grown produce was ad-
ced, or in banishing, as unholy, the muscovados of
aba, while we freely accepted the tobaccos and
cottons of America.

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, MAY 29.—The bulletin of this
morning respecting Prince MAURICE is very unsatis-
factory. The Prince had a very restless night ; the
fever ran high and the nervous symptoms increased.
Towards morning he became worse. His case ex-
cites great apprehension.
The Second Chamber, in its sitting this day, Famed
unanimously and without discussion the law relative
to the temporary maintenance of the divers laws and
ordinances of the province of Liruburgh.—Journal du
Commerce d' Anvers.