The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1868.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FR,-)31 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20.

The press prosecutions have produced some of the
oddest results. The ten journals are decidedly more inte.
resting than they ever were before. As they are forbidden
to summarise the debates, they either abstain wholly from
comments, or paraphrase them in the most roundabout
and amusing way. The Debate, for instance, reports that
a debate took place in a large city in the 48th parallel of
latitude. But it does not (Heaven forbid it should) venture
to mention the speakers' names. The Avenir National
says : " During the appeal we cannot judge, discuss, or
appreciate' the debates without exposing ourselves to
new trials and fresh condemnations ; we have therefore re-
solved not to occupy ourselves with what is said and done
in the Senate or the Corps L4gislatif. The other con•
demned journals, we believe, will take the same resolution."
Notwithstanding this announcement, the Siecle and some
of the other journals give an " appreciation."
The military law has passed the Senate by 120
votes to 1. Dare we say, asks the Temps, that
the single dissident was M. Michel Chevalier ? That
was, I believe, the fact : the economist bravely voted and
spcke against the project. The only noticeable thing in
the debate was, that several of the senators pretended to
fear that a million and a quarter of armed men would be
insufficient to defend France. The Etendard contradicts
the International for saying that the prefects had reported
the repugnance of the people to the new law. According
to the Etendard, it was known that the law had been well
received. I can only say that sources of information must
be open to the Government of which ordinary mortals never
dream.

Apropos of the new loan, La Gironde reminds us that
this is the tenth loan in sixteen years, and that seven of
these loans have been raised in times of peace. The total
amount of the whole is three milliards. To these extra-
ordinary resources, however, we must add the indemnities
from Italy, China, Cochin China, the old debt of Spain,eand
an increase of taxation amounting to over 70 millions.

I have previously mentioned the electoral contest at
Lille. A most curious libel has been brought against the
Opposition candidate by the organ of the Prefect du Nord.
It is that English money is being sent to pay for his elec-
tion expenses. The passage runs thus :—" Everybody
knows that English money furnished by English manufac-
turers is being contributed in considerable sums to defray
the expense of the candidature of M. Gtsry Legrand." The
point of this is that Lille is a manufacturing town protest-
ing against English competition, and therefore nothing
could answer the purpose better than to insinuate that M.
G dry Legrand is coming forward in English interests. The
accusation is more than absurd ; it is infamous.
Three Italian bandits have just been executed at Mar-
seilles. It is stated that the incredible number of 150,000
persons were present at the execution.

A letter in the Etendard states authoritatively that the
Pope has decided to bestow the cardinal's hat on Mgr.
Borromeo. The nomination of Mgr. Chigi, Lucien Buona-
parte, and Mgr. Darboy are said to be equally certain.
The late Due des Cars left, it seems, four volumes of
t.emoirs. Acting on Pope's principle, " For what I have
printed I can only hope to be forgiven, for what I have
burnt I deserve to be praised," the duke requested that his
memoirs should be burnt, and his wish has been fulfilled.

It is said the French loan will not be out for a month at
least.

The French Senate has, of course, passed the military
law by 125 out of 126 votes. The single dissentient was,
it is believed, Michel Chevalier, the friend of Cobden.
The catastrophe which has just happened at Naples shows
bow terribly that large city is exposed by its proximity to
Vesuvius. The telegrams published in the foreign papers
make no mention of the omnibus said to have been
buried. They state that three houses were overwhelmed
by the fall of the hill, and other serious damage inflicted.
The small hill in question overhangs the quarter Sainte.
Lucie, and the catastrophe seems to have been a sort o'
landslip. The event caused immense excitement in the
city. The Duke of Aosta and the authorities were early
at the scene of the disaster.

The response of King William to the Catholics of
rrussia has given the utmost satisfaction at Rome. The
Journal de Rome recites this response side by side with the
resolutions of the University of Munster in favour of the
Pope, the offerings being received at Rome, and the ad-
dress of Munich to the King of Bavaria, as a consolation to
his Holiness " for the sacrilege of senseless and ungrate-
ful sons."

It appears that the Rammergericht of Berlin, in annullng
the sentence of two years' imprisonment passed on Herr
Twesten, substituted a penalty of 300 thalers (245 English),
or, in default, four months' imprisonment. This it did,
however, under a sort of protest. The court maintained
that the deputies were protected by the constitution
against any prosecution for their language in Parliament,
but, being compelled to bow to the decision of the court
above, they had no alternative but to impose the fine.
Austria has contented her Polish subjects ; Russia prefers
to expatriate them. But this is not all. The Court of St.
Petersburg is chagrined with the consideration shown by
Francis Joseph towards his Polish subjects. At the grand
imperial banquet the other day at Vienna, the Polish dele-
gates were invited to appear in their national costume, and
the éclat of this ceremony is not caviare to the Russians.
The Invalide Russe persists in regretting that " her brother
Sclaves of Bohemia and Croatia are oppressed by the
system of M. Beust." This is part of the Pan-Sclave pro.
pagandism, but Russian envy is not likely to cheek the
progress and unification of Austria.
The Times Berlin correspondent reports that 160 of the
sequestrated estates of Polish noblemen have at last been dis-
posed of by auction. Until the Russian Government took
upon themselves to force the sale of the lands at public auction
and permitted others than the Sclavo-orthodox to bid for
them, it was impossible to find purchasers, although the
Government had set apart 250,000 roubles a year to assist
the investors. The roles held together, and the orthodox
were afraid to buy. Even the Land Credit Company, to
whom the fund was entrusted, declined the task of expa-
triating the Poles who could not be sent to Siberia.
The lands now sold have passed at merely nominal
values into the hands of Jews and Germans from the Baltic
provinces. At present the ejected landlords have no alter-
native but submission to these cruel measures, against
which even thelßussian Conservative party, to their honour,
protest. It is supposed that the loan just made to the
Land Credit Company by Rothschilds may have been sanc-
tioned on condition that part of the funds shall be applied
to this process of ejectment. So far GOO estates are confis-
cated out of 50,000 in the piovince. The process must be
the present land-
,esinosLeardtouf alienate the
the country, it
it will have replaced Poles by another variety of subject
foreigners.
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A telegram from Constantinople, published in the Con-
tinental papers, states that a more liberal policy is to be
afinfdtythteimn
applied to Crete. The suburbs of Constantinople are to be
erected into a separate jurisdiction, in which a number of
Christians have been appointed to hold official positions.
Thus Western ideas progress at the Porte. Will rsees-
sity at last regenerate Turkey as it Las done Austria
The Telegraph has reason to believe that the post vacated
by the resignation of Sir John Rolt as one of the Lord,
Justices of the Court of Appeal in
Chancery, has been
offered to Sir Roundell Palmer. This is an offer which
reflects the highest credit on the Prime Minister. In the
earlier part of his career Sir Roundell Palmer voted with
the Conservatives, but of .late years followed the example
of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Cardwell, and other leading
Peelites, in joining the Liberal party. He was Solicitor
and Attorney General in the Governments of Lord
Palmerston and Earl Russell, and since the Liberals have
been in opposition has acted in every instance with Mr.
Gladstone. His appointment to the Court of Appeal
would give the highest satisfaction to the profession ; and,
with Lord Cairns and Sir Roundell Palmer, the decisions
of that tribunal would
command the entire confidence of
the public.

Mr. Butler-Johnstone, M.P. returns in the Morning
Post to the subject of Ireland, and announces himself as an
advocate of the doctrine of races. People seem to regard
race, he says, as an unknown quantity, and a very small
one, in political matters. Mr. Johnstone, however, insists
that this unknown quantity, this x of race, is a very
potent factor; and declares that every study of history
must proceed on the basis of the most attentive study of
its laws. Applying this principle to Ireland, the hon.
member maintains that " we can never expect to lick the
Celt into a Saxon ;"
in spite of all we do or can do, the
Celt will most provokingly remain a Celt, and no amount
of material incubation will change the duckling into a
chicken. Ireland's discontent, he contends, is not without
the solid basis of a substantial grievance, for her wants
are legislated for in an assembly
the great majority of
which are ignorant of her peculiar character and require.
ments.

To obviate all these difficulties Mr. Butler-Johnstone
proposes a local Legislature sitting in Dublin, consisting
of representatives elected to serve also in the Imperial
Parliament. He would abolish the
present Viceregal
Court, and appoint a prince of royal blood as perpetual
" Prince of Ireland." Further, he would offer a general
amnesty for all political offences ; and he thinks that if
these were all "given in a lump," it would convert the
Irish into a loyal people.
The Rev. W. K. Macrorie, incumbent of Accrington
and Bishop-elect of Maritzburgh, writes to the Daily News
to say that it was never contemplated that the consecra-
tion should take place at Accrington, the Bishop of Cape-
town having from the first disclaimed any intention of
performing any service in an English diocese without the
full concurrence of the archbishop of the province and the
11;shop of the diocese.