The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-23 00:00:00

multiplicity of fees exacted from suitors under the
name of fees of court—the unnecessary offices for
which litigants are taxed—the long permitted
imperfections of the Bankruptcy code—the
piecemeal enactments respecting Insolvency—the
unsatisfactory legislation respecting the County
Courts—the fact that the position of the Bar in relation
to these courts is left undefined and unsettled—the
giant evils of Chancery—the blunders and solecisms
in Acts of Parliament—the objectionable mode of
passing private Bills—the unsatisfactory practice re-
lating to divorces—the accumulation of business on
the hands of the Masters in Chancery—the unsettled
state of the appellate jurisdiction,—all bear witness to
the necessity of constituting a department presided
over by a Minister'of Justice ! To continue to divide
the responsibility of amending the law between the
Lord Chancellor, the Judges, and the Law Officers
of the Crown, all having themselves active and
laborious duties to perform, will only delay reform,
and perhaps perpetuate the vicious practices which
Lord Brtouone.m has so opportunely held up to public
view.

THE FRENCH. REPUBLIC.

We have received the i'aris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Count DE CHAMBORD, like his ancestors, has
" been taught nothing, has forgotten nothing."
Powerless and in exile, he still exclaims, as Louis
XIV. did in the height of his power, L'Etat c'est
nwi. He rejects anything like an appeal to the people
in sup port of his pretensions as treason to his " right
Divine," and in his manifesto, published in the journals
of Saturday, tells the people of France that they are
his property ; that they have no right to the enjoy-
ment of either property or liberty but by his good
pleasure, and that he will not accept advice even under
present circumstances from any of his adherents, but
"reserves to himself the direction of general policy."
This manifesto is dated
...from Wiesbaden. It is a
circular addressed to the chiefs of the Legiti•
inatist clubs in France, and is signed by
M. DE BARTHELFMY, the Secretary of the Legitima-
rist Club of the Rue Moethabor, of which M. BER-
RYER is President. The following is the pasccge in
which the Count DE CHAMBORD deliberately repu-
dia►es the proposition of M. DE LAROCHEJAQUELIN
for an appeal to the people, and stigmatizes the most
chivalrous of his supporters as guilty of something
like treason :
" The Count of Chambord has declared that he re-
served to himself the direction of the general policy. In
the prevision of sudden eventualities, and for sake of as-
suring complete unity of views and of action, which alone
gives force, he Lai designated the min to whom he de-
legates the application of his policy. This question na-
turally leads to the consideration of the subject of an ap-
peal to the people. lam officially charged to make you
acquainted with the declaration of the Count de Cham-
bord.. lie has formally and absolutely condemned the
system of an appeal to the people es implying the ne-
gation of the grand national principle cf hereditary
monarchy."

Such is the reward of the fidelity of the La Roche-
jaquelins such is the gratitude of the
Bourbons. The manifesto thus goes on to announce
the official appointment of a Legitimatist junta,
to whom all France is called upon to pay implicit
obedience

",`lt now follows that the Count of CRAMBORD
having reserved to himself the direction of ge-
neral policy, no individuality, either in the press or
elsewhere, can assume to himself the right of repre-
senting this policy. In the eyes of Legitimatists there
can be no head but the one, and those whom he has
designated as his mandataires, and they are, as you.
'nay perhaps already know, the Due de Levis, Ge-
neral de Saint Priest, M. Berryer, the Marquis de
Pastorel, and the Due de Cars."
The secession of M. DERRYER from the Burgraves is
now a matter of course; neither the PRESIDENT nor the
Ofleanists can place any trust in the acknowledged
chief of the Legitirnatist faction.

M. DE LAROCHFJAQUELIN has lost no time in re-
plying to the insult addressed to him by this mani-
festo, and in a letter addressed to the various journals,
after expressing his bitter regret at the blindness cf
those who could counsel the commission of such an
act of madness (acte inseiatee) as the publication of
this manifesto, announces bis virtual secession frcm
the Legitimatist party in the following words :
" I leave to others the care of henceforth defending
doctrines which, in my error, I thought I might sup-
port without being held up to public scorn. I shall
always rest faithful to the interests of my country in
obeying ire laws which govern it, without pre-occupy-
ing myself with wishing, or foreseeing the future, to
which I must submit. 1 shall religiously keep in re-
serve, for the satisfaction of my conscience, the political
symbol which has been the faith of my entire life, but
1 admit that the application of it will be impossible if
your manifesto should havo its effect."

The Journal des Debats has the following on the
resolutions of the Councils-General :
" Out of eighty-five departments (that of the Seine
meets at a 'etcr period) sixty-four bare deliberated on
the revision of the Constitution. That is the first point
to be stated. But all the councils in which the question
has been brought forward have not decided in favour of
the revision. Nevertheless, to form an idea of the
progress which this question has made during a year
in public opinion, it is well to compare,l the result of
the last session with that which has just terminated.
Last year only three Councils declared for the revision—
those of the Aube, the Marne, and the Gironde. But
this year the following is the recapitulation and classi-
fication, as exact as possible, of the votes of the 85
councils : —32 Councils have declared for the legal revi-
sion, that is for the revision effected at the period and
by the means which the Constitution itself has deter-
mined. Out of these 32 councils there aro two (the
Ariege and the Oise) which have specially called the at-
tention of the Assembly to article 45 of the Constitution,
relative to the non-re-election of the President of the Re-
public, and a third, that cf. Corsica, which formally de-
mands a prorogation of the powers of M. Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte.`.one Council, that of the Pyreuess-Orientales,
has demanded the pure and simple revision; and has also
solicited a prolongation of the powers of the present
President of the Republic. Ten Councils have expressed
the pure and simple wish for a revision. Five have de-
clared for the revision with the least delay possible. One,
that of Puy-de-Dome, has foreseen the case in which ex-
traordinary circumstances, and the public safety, may
oblige the Legislative Assembly to revise the Constitu-
tion, and it has recognised its right so to do. Two
Councils, without formally demanding the revision,
have expressed the desire that the Assembly shall
adopt means for setting aside the perils of the ac-
tual state of affairs. One Council, that of Gard,
has shown itself indifferent with respect to the revi-
sion, and has contented itself with expressing the wish
contained in the well-known motto of M. de Laroche-
jaqualin—' Republic or Legitimate Monarchy.' On
the other hand, twenty-one Councils hare separated
without having deliberated on the question. Ten
Councils have rejected resolutions proposed in favour of
the revision. Two, those of the Var and Vaucluse, have
positively expressed the wish that the Constitution
shall be respected. On the whole, out of 83 Councils-
General 52 have declared themselves, more or less di-
rectly, more or less clearly, against the present Consti-
tution. We class in this category the Council-General
of the Gard, although it has solved the question by an
alternative. But its wish is not favourable to existing
institutions. Thirty-three Councils have refrained from
deliberating, or have declared themselves against the
revision. As far as we can judge by the documents be-
fore us, the numbers in the majorities by which the
question has been decided one way or the other have
been very variable. Such is the summary of the votes of
the Councils-General on this grand question of a re-
vision."

The Constitutionnel, the acknowledged organ of
the Ministry, has the following on the arrest of the
Archbishop of CAGLIARI:—
" We foresaw that attempts would be made to misre-
present the events which have taken place in Sardinia;
but we were far from thinking that it would be done by
declaring ignorance of these facts. This pretension is
not less strange than that of wishing to throw on the
Piedmontese Government the reproach of giving the
provocation. Because an ecclesiastical dignitary declares
that he will not obey a law, a Government commits an
act of provocation in enforcing the law, and not allowing
it to become a dead letter! There are bishops in France
who have protested against the law on publio instruc-
tion, and who have declared that they will net give it
their co-operation; will the French Government be
guilty of provocation in currying that law into execu-
tion? The law on charitable establishments has existed
for thirteen 3 ears in Piedmont; it is not the Goverment
which has snddenly thought of applying it to Sardinia;
it was the two Chambers who voted that application by
a law of the Ist of May, 18.50. Is or is not Piedmont a
constitutional kingdom? Are the Ministers bound or
are they not bound to obey the decision of the two Cham-
bers, converted into a law?"
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The grand review which was to have taken place at
in
Versailles on Sunday, honour of the visit of the
Nepaulese Ambassador, has been postponed to Tuesday.
Had the review taken place on a Sunday the ground
would have been crowded by r)ersons who would have
drowned any Monarchical Cries h
E6publique ; ' on a ale ek day, Lwerieveesrof " Vive la
disposition of the forces at the command' a jdi
ofuthceisoons
ciety of I.ooa December may, perhaps, secure a
sem-
blance of a Napoleonic demonstration.
Accounts from Guadeloupe of the 19th ult. state
that JOSEPH HENRY, alias SIXIEME, was guillotined
02 the 17th.
General DE CASTRO, founder of the Republic of
Costa Rica, has arrived in Paris, whore he proposes to
pass some time.
girSINESS DONF IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. ta.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7% ex div.—East Indian, 94--
Paris and E2Rell, 2414,