The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

THE LODGER CLAIMS.

The wives of a number of claimants having proved
their husbands' right to vote,

Mr. Gilbert said he had a number of ladies who
wished to prove their claims, but they resided in St.
Mary-le-Strand.

Mr. Noakes said he must object to any but those
belonging to St. Clement's parish.
Mr. Gilbert—Well as you've raised that objec-
tion, I hope you'll get the cold shoulder when you
get home. (Laughter.)

A claimant named James Nash here came for-
ward to prove his claim.
Mr. Noakes protested against Nash's name being
'taken before others merely because he had pushed
himself forward. There were between 40 and
50 persons in attendance, the time of each being
quite as valuable as that of the man now
making his claim. If the system of pushing was to
be allowed to prevail the strongest man would get
on the best.

The Revising Barrister—Well, we will take the
claimant, as he's got to the front, but the rest will
be taken alphabetically. Nash's claim was then
allowed.

FURNISHED APARTMENTS.-A BEDROOM QUALIFICATION.

Edward Barton claimed in respect of one room on
the third floor of the house No. 30, Arundel-street,
Strand. The qualification in question was a bed-
room, for which the claimant paid 6s. 6d. a week.
The Revising Barrister said that was the first
time that qualification had been put forward. He
doubted whether it was sufficient. The room was
a furnished bed room, and the question was whether
it was of the annual value of £lO without the fur-
niture. The furniture in a house had been held to
double its value.

The claimant said it appeared to him the room
was of -the annual value of £lO. The sum of 3s. Bd.
a week would be £lO a year, and certainly the
room would bring over that.
The Revising Barrister said he should allow the

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HER MAJESTY.

EDINBURGH, Sept. 15.

The Royal train arrived at Penh at 3.23 a•In•
he Queen was loudly cheered as she alighted on
he platform. Among those present were Lord
Kiunaird, Lord Provost Pullar, Rev. Dr. Norman
:',lacleod, and Rev. Dr. IVatson, Dundee.
The Royal party breakfasted at the station, and
left for the north at 9.20.

ABERDEEN, Tuesday Evening.
Iler Majesty and the Royal party arrived at
Ferryhill, Aberdeen, and at Balloter station punc-
tual to the stated time. Balmoral Castle WO
reached shortly after 2 o'clock.
The weather fair and chilly.

ENGLISH OPINIONS CONCERNING

FRENCH POLICY.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and some-
thing more, says a contemporary. It is a huge
gaping abyss, to fill which thrones must be
tumbled over, empires destroyed, the interests of
peoples remorselessly sacrificed, and the cause of
peace and prosperity in the world ruthlessly op
posed. The particular form of necessity which
makes these somewhat insatiable, not to say un-
reasonable, requirements is something to write
about. The press is an overwhelming power in
the State, and the exigencies of leader-writing
surpass all minor considerations of justice, truth,
and policy. The necessity of producing so maul
columns of editorial discourse per diem creates a
demand for subjects, which will take no denial,
and, failing a prompt response, nothing is more
natural than that Necessity shall fall back on her
maternal faculty, and invent what she is unable to
find. Such being the state of matters, what more
easy than for a leading journal at its wit's ends for
a topic to commence its sage lucubrations with an
intimation to the effect that " a rumour is current
concerning General Menabrea which cannot be
lightly set aside,", yet of which the sagacious
censor is " unwilling to admit the authenticity till
it receives the official confirmation of the Italian
Prime Minister himself ;" and from this convenient
start-point to strike off into a general rechaufe °f
the Italian and Roman questions, gracefully an-
notating the retrospect with criticisms the reverse
of complimentary to the Italian and French nations,
and personally defamatory of the French Emperor ?
As a matter of fact, the limes has nothing fresh
to tell the world about Mentana, or Rome and the
" Antibes Legion " this morning. No new ligh!
has dawned on the vexed question of Italian greed
and the integrity of the States of the Church. Bat
th re was grievous need of a topic, and our con'
temporary could have no difficulty in finding sane"
thing sufficiently pointed or even spiteful to sal
of Napoleon the Third, the best abused, most
scandalously irritated, and yet the most peaceable
and peacemaking monarch in Europe. The die'
tressed journalist has therefore without remorse
revived the defunct disturber of European peace'
reopened the old sore, and the world and public
opinion in England are once more provoked to la-
termeddle and muddle in the affairs of Italy with-
out a sufficient occasion or any definite cause. The
September Convention, which is alleged to bale
been " one of those transactions of which, owl
to the besetting irresolution of his character, so
also to the peculiar difficulties of his position, the
Emperor Napoleon alone, of all men past and Pre"
sent, could have been capable," is said tc be the
ground of a new demand on the part of Italy for
the evacuation of Rome by the French troops.
The 'limes condemns this demand, supposing it tf
have been made. But on what grounds ? The fo'"
lowing sentence places the view taken by our con-
temporary, and evidently suggested for the coil'
sideration of Italian statesmen, beyond question
" The Emperor Napoleon has never said that the
Italians should have Rome ; he has, on the e°l2-
trary, plainly declared that they should not have
it. Unless they are strong enough to make him with
draw that declaration, they had better abstat.a_
from every step that may remind him of their
wishes." In short, the article points to war. 14
does not in so many words say to Italy, "Drive
the French out of Rome," but with a sinister sneer,
calculated to produce more effect on the Italian
temperament than a volume of advice, it says'
‘, unless you are strong enough to comp'
compliance do not threaten." So much to the
Government and people of Italy ; meantime the
leading English journal has a word for the Frtee'
f b°
people :it was "to the vaingloriousness ,n,or
whole of the Grand Nation that the Be3Pvhis
Napoleon deemed himself bound to sacrifice ,
Italian sympathies. Had there never been
Sadowa, we should never have heard of a geon3oo
It was because an army of half-a-million wasoo
ready to uphold the lustre of the French arm
the Rhine that a necessity was felt to send aei,
vision of twenty thousand to re-assert the feAucl
ancy of French diplomacy on the Tiber- water
so on until the charge of pusillanimity eelei e teas
in the assertion that the reoccupation of Mlliologe
merely an act of cheap bravado. Can lae,tatiog
more galling to the French people, more lmitself,
to their Emperor, or more unjustifiable it'
_l,oi?
and particularly in time of peace, be COnrg,
yye
And then, as though to cap the weakulo ivar
had almost said wickedness, of an incentive
ban
sa
with a piece of supreme folly, our cooteug;
proceeds to ask, "If it took little less
earthquake at the Vatican to bring the_,l,hterS
troops to Rome, how many of the Italian 1111:1.,,i0V'
Notes may be required to get them out of it row
Obstinacy and irresolution, are therefore °I it i 0
bined in the character of the Emperor tit tbel
useless for the Italians to remonstrate noleoe.ooo
are willing and prepared to act. Can any :pion,?
be offered for such an appeal to public eolltiors
The policy of France on the Italian gne,,,foligh4
clear as the day, and perfectly consistent It; Em'
out. During the life of the present Pope one the
peror is pledged to his protection. Ws° It is a
Italians must be content without Rome: 3 of 010
mistake to desire it, and the exigenel,e,, roll,' 14
situation prevent compliance with whatl; templesenseless requirement. Rome may be ever he
or the tomb of the Italians, but it cameropoll'
this their capital. The city is not fit for a .O pro'
With
Florence is in every way suitable. ,
vino, the Emperor of the French will bealit;
an
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his support of the Italian Kingdoms of hes
himself the most powerful and useful hithoc, 0
friends. The course which Napoleon has mess
pursued in this difficult and delicate faculty v*
101°,a ,Arios
eminently sagacious, and evinces a
disturb rno
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and moderate statesmanship. He
diverted from his purpose by the , No a't
ence of his enemies at home or abroad' 4./dritlit
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the French intervention in Italy, can fipd
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the grave interests of peace and acuity 4..9?
and imperil the future of two great States

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