The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-30 00:00:00

THE SUN,

success will be immediate. Therefore, although
taught otherwise by experience, we venture to antici-
pate that the Parliamentary Session of 1850 will
realise the popular expectations, for those expecta-
tions are founded on common sense and com-
mon justice, and we might almost add in common
humanity.

The "great national address," as it is magnilo-
quently termed, of condolence with the Earl of
RODEN, has been at last presented to that venerable
nobleman, with all the state and ceremony befitting
so great an occasion ; and we will candidly admit, the
tone and temper in which it has teen responded to
leaves little to complain of. As political manifestoes,
however, both address and reply appear to be totally
unimportant ; and we cannot help thinking that the
projectors took very great pains to very little purpose.
Never did any respectable old lady or gentleman,
afflicted with a weakness for autographs, labour more
industriously for the acquisition of a signature than
did the "sympathisers" to add the name of a discon-
tented Peer or a neglected parson to the list. They
grieved for the punishment inflicted on Lord RODEN,
and left no stone unturned, no source untried, to
acquire that sad companionship which, it is said,
lightens grief.
"Solatium miseris socios hab ere doloris."
And while we cannot admit that this outburst of
sympathy is very flattering to their judgments, we
do not feel disposed to think it extravagant in his
Lordship to pay his tender-hearted friends the com-
pliment with which his reply begins, that the testi-
mony was as " honourable to their feelings as it was
gratifying to his own." But the second paragraph
utterly extinguishes the political character of the
whole drama.
His Lordship says, " I cannot but appreciate the
generous sympathy (.f those who may differ with me on
the policy, or propriety of. certain parts of the course
which 1 pursued in reference to the events of the 12th
July last, hut who feel satisfied that I acted w.th honesty
of purpose."
We never attributed any wilful malignity to
his Lordship for the very indiscreet part he
took in this unfortunate transaction, nor would
we now detract from the consolation which
be appears to derive from what we cannot
look on in any other light than as a tribute to
his private worth, for as a justification of his public
conduct, o condemnation of the acts of the Govern-
ment, we-Must regard both the address and reply as
total failures. Public functionaries must be judged
and dealt with according to their public acts, and not
by their honesty of purpose or good intentions.
The candid statement made by his Lordship forces
us to the conclusion that he is even more guilty in
this transaction than we had before imagined ; for he
says, when a renewal of the Processions Act was
projected in 1849
" I candidly allow that I did state, that at such a
time it would have had the appearance of being exclu-
sively levelled at those who bad so willingly tendered
their services in the preceding year to support the Royal
authority."
Here we have his Lordship using his influence to
prevent the re-enactment of the Act against proces-
sions, which would have saved the country from all
the horrors of Dolly's Brae ; and for what sage rea-
son.? Lest forsooth his " brave and loyal" brother;
should take offence. He interferes to prevent the
passing of a wholesome and necessary Act, lest
the tender sensibilities of the Ulster Orange-
men should be hurt. Yet, with an inconsistency
quite irreconcileable, we find him enunciating that
"his convictions had always been opposed to proces-
sions of all hinds." How his Lordship would attempt
to reconcile these inconsistencies we know not, in-
deed there appears to be on many occasions through
" this unpleasant discussion" an unfortunate opposi-
tion between bis Lordship's acts and words.
His Lordship says he will not enter into the details
of the collision, and that he "rejoices that the matte:
is now in the hands cf the eminent judges who pre.
side in the highest criminal court in Ireland." Wt
presume he means the prosecution against the Even•
ing Post newspaper, the organ of the Irish Govern.
ment.

We know not what turn his Lordship's re

joicing will take.when ho learns that the eminentjudges
of the highest criminal tribunal in Ireland indig-
nantly scouted the application from their Court.
We have so frequently gone through every point
connected with this unpleasant topic, that we have

scarcely a word to add ; but, hE fore we close, we may
notice one small matter charged against the Irish
Government. It is said that Lord CLARENDON never
discovered the illegality of such assemblages as those
. _ _

which met in deadly conflict at Dolly's Brae, and tha,

be never consulted his legal advisers till afterwards,

Tow this appears to us rather a stupid charge. His
Excellency could not have been so ignorant of
the common law of the land as not to know

that thousands of armed ruffians, who had frequently
shed each other's blood on former occasions, and
who in open day with feelings of deadly hatred to
each other parade through the country, are calcu-
lated to spread dismay and alarm among her MA-
.I asTl's peaceful subjects, and are ipso facto illegal.
it is, therefore, manifest that the opinion of the law
officers of the Crown was not obtained for his own
information, but rather for the info: mation of thoA4

Ivho, to palliate the omission of a saored duty, affected
ignorance of the law. We have now done with this

matter, we wish we could say for ever, but we fear

will occupy the attention of the L-ghlature, and
what turn matters may take there we will not anti-

elpate.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals cf yesterday.
The Assembly was occupied on Monday in dis-
cussing the Bill for the dissolution cf the Garde
Mobile ; the motion fir the first reading was carried
by a majority of 533 to 49. In the course of the
debate General CAVAIGNAC proposed that some pro-
vision should be made for the officers, who would be
deprived of their means of support by the disband-
ment of the corr. This proposition was favourably
received, and was ordered to be referred to the Com-
mittee on the Bill.

On Tuesday General CIIANGARNIER reviewed the
20th and 421 regiments of the line.
The Itloniteur publishes a decree signed by the
PRESIDENT of the Republic reducing the pension of
the ex-KING JEROME BONAPARTE, as Governor of
the Invalides, from 60,000 f. to 40,000 f., in conse-
quence of his receiving, since his appointment as
governor, the pay of a Marshal of France.
The Emperor of RUSSIA has, it is said, accredited
Count STROGONOFF as Ambassador to Paris. The
object of this appointment is to strengthen the reac-
tionary party, and to endeavour to consolidate Russian
and Absolutist influence in France.

It is stated that Count MOLE has effected a recon-
ciliation between the PRESIDENT and some of his
opponents. The Courrier Francais says--" We are
happy that both have understood the necessity of union
in these times of crisis. It is M. MOLF, it is said,
who has pointed out to the different heads of the
Conservative party the necessity which exists of draw-
ing towards the PRESIDENT, the latter being, more-
over, ready to make concessions to the Assembly.
Hence the disavowal of the Napokon. It iF, in fact,
evident that the two great powers of the State cannot
have opposite interests. What the majority wish is,
that the authority of the PRESIDENT should consoli-
date itself, in order that it may labour efficaciously to
save society from the dangers with which it is every
day more and more threatened. What Prince Louts
BONAPARTE desires is, that his efforts, instead of being
thwarted by paltry ambitions, should be loyally se-
conded without any arrare pensee.
M. EisILE DE GIRARDIN is to be started as one of
the candidates for Paris at the approaching election.
The Credit has the following observations on the
report of N. TETERS on the Public Assistance Bills :
" After having demonstrated that it is a special
matter for the human race to have two sexes, and com-
mence by childhood and end with old age Id. Thiers
establishes not less victoriously, that if there are pri-
vate evils which individual benevolence is charged to
so there are generations to which it is
necessaryprovidefar,
io arply collective) benevolence, or public
assi. tance, as defined in the Constitution of 1848.'
The following is ti e [tanner in which the Committee
has deciJed fir each of the three phases of human
1:f . For itf.tncy, there is no institution to add to
those already in existence. For adolescence, mature,
and old age, it had been affirmed, with some appear.
ante of reason, that the State could, by establish-
ments cf credit, place capital within the reach of all
the workmen of the towns as of the couutry dis-
tricts, and by adding subventions to the pension-funds
ensure al honourable repose to the o!el age of work-
men. The committer; has no faith in credit foncier, such
as it is proposed to establish it in imitation of Germany;
it rejects formally associations which are t) be aided by
tho State, aad does not attach much weight to others.
It sees nothing beyond savings banks; however it com-
prehends mutual-aid societies ;it would even tolerate
pension-funds, on condition that the Stato would not
contribute anything, and that payments are not to be
obligatory either for the workmen or the masters. It
allows also that something may be done with respect
to insalubrioua dwellings; that voQuintion might same-

times be had recourse to ; and lastly, that the hospices
might to made less disagreeable to the poorer classes.
That is all. M. Thiers has condensed his views in this
way : What is good and incontestable the ancient so-
ciety had imagined ; what it has left to be done is pre-
cisely what is doubtful, problematical, and contestable.'
Such is the nonentity of a plan which has be on come to
by a committee of thirty members, with M. Thiers at its
head, and after nine months' close atentior. Besides,
ought any one to be astonished at this, when at the
commencement of the report is found the following
avowal of the primary idea which presided user all the
labour of the committee ? The fundamental principle
of all scciety is, that each man is charged to provide f r
his own wants, and those of his family, from his own re
sources, either acquired or transmitted.' Ne, M. Thiers,
you have thus defined only the principle of all egotism,
that which, at the beginning of the last reign. M. Dupin
defined by the expression chucun pour soi, cYzacun chez
soi. The fundamental principle of society, on the con-
trary, is mutual assi:t Ince. In whet limit ought public
assistance to be exercised? That is what, by the text of
the Const:tution, you were called on to determine, and
what you do only by the most incredible and cynical
denial of justice."
General NIEL, who commanded the Engineers
during the siege of Rome, arrived at Toulon on the
24th, together with several of the troops whose period
of service expired on the Ist instant.
A letter from Marseilles, of the 25th instant,
announces the arrival of HORACE VERNET on his
return from Rome, where he has been studying
the theatre of the last operations of the French
army, previous to his preparation of his grand histo-
rical painting.
M. DESLOGES was tried before the Court of As-
sizes at Paris on Monday, for having attacked Repub-
lican institutions in a pamphlet, comparing the merits
of the white and tricoloured flags. He was found
guilty, with extenuating circumstances, and sen-
tenced to imprisonment for two months, and to pay a
fine of 300 f.

The French Government received dispatches on
Monday relative to the negotiations for the cession of
a portion of Lombardy to Piedmont.
A joint note from Austria and Prussia has just
been addressed to the French Cabinet, calling on the
Government to unite with them in obliging Switzer-
land to expel the revolutionary leaders who are there
sheltered. Should France refuse, these Governments
are determined on compelling the Swiss Government
to accede to their demands, even should an armed in-
tervention be necessary.

The report of the Commission of the Budget on
the Paris to Avignon Railway will be presented in
a few days. It appears that the delay which has
arisen has been caused by a change made in the
original direction of the line, the result of which
will be to form a junction with the S. Etienne line
from Lyons as far as Gisors. The Minister of
Public Works is now negotiating with the St.
Etienne Railway Company for that purpose. It is
positively stated that the negotiations with the
Northern Railway Company are almost brought to a
conclusion, and that the company, in consideration
of.an increase in the term of its concession, will take
on itself to construct the line from St. Quentin to
Manhenge, an extent of 90 kilometres, and which
will form a more direct communication between
Paris and Cologne.
The Bourse was crowded to excess yesterday, and the
Five per Cents. opened at 95f. 50c., with every appear-
ance of a further rise. It was shortly awn-yards an-
nounced that an English house was selling Government
1.-tick. The Bourse bccame agitated,_and after several
fluctuations the Five per Cents. closed at 95". 30c.; the
Three per Cents. closed at 58f. sc. ; Orleins Railroad
Shares, 830 f.; Rouen, 5871. 50e.; avre 255 f.; Great
Norther'', 471 f. 25c.; Avignor, 215 f ; Basle, 116 E 25c. ;
Bordeaux, 416 f. 25e.; Paris and Strasburg, 360 f.; Tours
and Nantes, 273 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 29.
Boulogne and Amiens, 734 Dutch Rhenish, 2—Luxem-
bourg, I%—Ditto, 2%—Northern of France, 1% dis.—
Orleans ar&d Bourdeaux, 3%.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 23(1 have been received

The discussion on the Bill authori6ing the Minis
ters to collect taxes had not been brought to a con
elusion.

It was rumoured that there was a probability that
diplomatic relations with England would be restored,
and that Lord HowDEN would be appointed British
Ambassador to Madrid. The Bolsa was closed on
the 23d.