The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1850,

No doubt can any longer be entertained that the
Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations,
destined for celebration in the ensuing year, will be
one commensurate in every particular with the
grandeur of the enterprise. After the magnificent
meeting convened yesterday in the Egyptian Hall, at
the Mansion-house, there cannot possibly, on this
point, be any further hesitation. Besides, as was fe-
licitously observed by one of the Right Honourable
Speakers, not the least distinguished among the Mem-
bers of her MAJESTY'S Government, there are certain
figures of arithmetic worth all the figures of rhetoric
in the universe—and in neither the one nor the
other were the proceedings of yesterday defi-
cient. While fourteen orators proclaimed the
immense advantages, and eulogized the bene-
ficent tendencies, of the undertaking, in
speeches of various, and, in one or two
instances, cf consummate ability the secretary
indicated the auspicious development cf the project
by reading aloud a brief but comprehensive list of
the mcst munificent subscriptions. This catalogue
of voluntary contributions towards the liquidation of
all incidental expenses may be regarded, we repeat,
as at once brief and comprehensive—brief, when con-
trasted with the magnitude of the scheme adventured
upon, but comprehensive as comprising represen-
tatives; of almost, every important class of the com-
munity.
Scarcely a syllable of commendation is required to
be pronounced on the illustrious personage from
whose generous heart and enlightened intellect the
notion of this superb Exhibition has emanated—his
whole conduct, since the morning of his nup-
tials with the Queen of ENGLAND, being his noblest
and worthiest panegyric. His Royal Highness the
Prince ALBERT, according to the happy remarks of
the gentleman who proposed the second resolution,
" is already associated with and identified by much
that is wise, and sound, and useful ; and since his
auspicious connexion with this country has won his
way by a quiet, unobtrusive, and most consistent
course, till at last the very mention of his name calls
up in the minds of Englishmen the deepest feelings
of the most affectionate respect." It was a felicitous
thought of the august Consort of our SOVEREIGN to
propose a demonstration such as the one by which
1851 will be rendered for ever remarkable
—tending, as it must inevitably do, to
secure the prosperity of Great Britain,
and to aid in the maintenance of peace throughout
both hemispheres, advancing the interests of com-
merce, and promoting the cause of civilisation. No
more brilliant evidence could by any possibility have
been afforded that the age is greatly in advance of its
predecessors, and that we especially, as a nation at
onc:•, mercantile, industrial, and manufacturing, are
willing to advance unrestrictedly with the rest of the
peoples of the earth upon the noblest of all the fields
of popular competition, the pacific rivalry of the
arts and the sciencee, the toils of the workshop and
the factory, the labours of the atelier and the labora-
tory. It was from his appreciation of the magnanimity
evinced by the inhabitants of these islands in the
cordiality, or we should rather have said the enthu-
siasm with which they have at once accepted the
scheme as laid before them by its illustrious projector
that one of the speakers yesterday expressed his con-
fidence in the advancement of the national character.
" I believe," said he, " that the proposition cannot
but be in harmony with the sentiments and feelings
of the philosopher, as well as with the wishes and
asoirations of the statesman, but that it should be in
harmony with the public feelings of this country is
most extraordinary, and is an evidence of the great
progress of public feeling, and cf the rapid circula-
tion of enlightened views, enlightened sentiments,
and liberal principles." Of the truth of this rtflEction
the facts themselves are the completest attestation.
In leaving the matter unargued as one altogether
self-evichnt we shall not be considered indifferent to
the fascinations of a logical demonstration. Nor, if the
reflection be received aright, shall we be regarded as
biassed by party predilections, when we observe that
any such exhibition as the one now in preparation
would have been incompatible with the maintenance
of commercial monopoly, that it could never have been
attempted in the days of mercantile protection, and
that prior to the acceptance of free-trade principles it
must have been either an egregious mockery or a
day-dream wholly incapable of realisation.
Under existing circumstances, however, we can hold
out inducements to the industrious of all nations with-
out distinction to compete with ourselves in the three
great branches of human industry—arts, sciences, and
manufactures. With the aid cf the new policy, in-
augurated not long since, under the auspices of the
Peel Government, England can witness with un-
alloyed satisfaction the opening of this noble Exhibi-
tion at the commencement of the new half-century---
an exhibition which must render the middle of the
nineteenth century an epoch for ever memorable,
being, in fact, as SIAILIEL Joists LOYD admirably
expressed it yesterday--

any circumstances, and at any cost. The Law Society
" A great Olympian festival of modern industry."
No finer enterprize was ever proposed to any one
of the great nations of Christendom—no enterprize
was ever conceived more capable of securing the
preservation of peace and of promoting amicable re-
have maintained their first false position too long ;
they now endeavour rather to justify themselves than
to preserve the purity and honour of their prefession.
Havirg struck the first blow on frivolous and insuffi-
cient grounds, a spirit of rampant and virulent anta-
gonism has sprung up, growing on what it ftd—
lations among the different races of the globe. The
" nursing its wrath to keep it warm," which it would
appear could only be satisfied by the destruction
recurrence of such exhibitions, in fact, necessitates
of the doomed victim. Victory, not truth, is now
the maintenance of good feeling among the competi-
the I the object. Mr. BAnnEst must not, however, despair
tors in the peaceful tourneys of industry ; it readers
his ease will be disposed of by a high and impartial
inevitable the continuance of good feeling among
various kingdoms of the earth, and binds together in '
the indissoluble bonds of friendship the most remote tribunal. No preconceived prejudices, no secret and hitherto antagonistic races of the four continents. hiss will influence the judgment of a British Ciurt Recognizing, therefore, the enormous advan- of Justice. His judges are above fear, and above
Cages that must inevitably accrue from reproach ; magna cat veritas, et prevalebit. How-
the due development of a scheme so happily ever thick the mists, and dense the darkness with
projected, it was with peculiar satisfaction that we I which prejudice may, for a time, succeed in enveloping
heard yesterday from the lips of the Prime Minister i a subj.ct, the light of truth will eventually shine-
of England his eloquent enforcement of the necessity '
forth clearly and brilliantly and dispel all de-
of carrying out the enterprize on a scale proportioned lusions. He, above most men, should know 1
to its magnitude. " I should be giving a very inaccu- , that there is an overruling PROVIDENCE,
rate view of the importance of the occasion," said the a retributive justice at work, that breaks
Noble Premier, "if I were to tell you that this was 4 the fetters of the captives--that takes the sting from

calumny—that overthrows the machinations of the
persecutor, and restores the victim to home, and
friends, and family, to unblemizlied character and un-
sullied reputation—which, in tl-e beautiful language
of the Magnfficat, puts down the mighty from
their seats, and exalteth the humble and meek."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals ofyesterday.
On Thursday the Bill authorising the transporta-
tion to Algeria of the insurgents of June, at present
in confinement at Belle Isle, was passed by a majo-
rity of 416 to 203. The discussion on Thursday-
was much less disorderly than it had been on the pre-
ceding days. In the course of it General D'HAuTe
Fool. stated, that from all the accounts which had
reached the Government, it was clear that the men
were themselves anxious for their removal. There
was only one means of putting an end to the state in
which they were now placed, and that was for them
to submit to the condemnation which had been passed
on them by the Constitution. In the meantime the
Government was about to place them in a better situ-
ation. They would be in a roomy establishment, and
there was every reason to believe that it would be soon
ready for their reception. "We will defend them
from the Arabs," said the llon. Minister in conclu-
sion, " but we will also defend them from your in-
citements to disorder, which might be attended with
as much danger as the Arabs. Those who have pro-
pagated poisonous doctrines, who have been led to the
greatest crimes, are in my opinion at least as dee-
erous as the inhabitants of Algeria. If these men
return to ideas of order, of labour, of respect for
family ties, they will become landowners—they vi ill
find a new country in Algeria, and eventually they
may become good citizens.'
Towards the conclusion of the discussion, M.
JULES FATRE wished to know what was the position
of such of the men sentenced to transportation as had
been pardoned—he begged pardon for using that
term so improperly, as no one could be pardoned who
had not been tried and condemned—(4 urmers.) He
believed that the inferior administrative agents con-
sidered these persons with a suspicious and evil eye.
He knew a case in which a woman, who had been
taken up for being engaged in the insurrection of
June, had, when set at liberty, received permission to
reside in Paris, but only for three months, her written
permission formally intimating to her that at the end
of that period she was to apply for a fresh authorisa-
tion. By what right was that done ? He knew of
none. Nothing was more sacred than the liberty of
the subject, and it was for that reason that he had
thus addressed himself to the Hon. Minister.
M. FERDINAND BARROT, who expressed his readi-
ness to reply at once, was greeted with cries of " No!
no! do not reply; it is an interpellation ;" whereupon
the PRESIDENT decided that it was an interpellation,
and that on the following day the Assembly would
take it into consideration.

There was a review of two brigades of troops on
Thursday.
The Constitutionnel publishes the following an-
nouncement on the subject of the passports required
by parsons travelling between France and England :
"Hitherto the English, when wi.hing to come to
France, hate Brea compelled to provide themselves pas:-
pot ti from the Embassy, or feom French consuls residing
iu England. On their arrival Lt the French frontier,
they handed those passport to the local authority, who
t:ansmittld them to the Alinistersof the Interior, and
delivered to the travellers a provisional pass to come to
Paris, or into the departments. These formalities took
ranch time ar:d occasioned delays, which pre►ent;d tra-
vellers from deriving tie ads antages of the new mode of
locomotion. In order to obviate these inconveniences,
the consuls of the Republic in England have been au-
thorised to deliver to the English and French who wish
to come to France a simple pass which will serve them
to go and return, and will be valid for a month. After
the expiration a that period if the traveller wishes to
prolong his stay on the French territory, or leave it to
travel on the Continent, he must provide himclf with a
regular r assport. This measure, it will be understood,
will much facili!ate the relations between the two
countries."

For these ameliorations the traveller is indebted solely
to the liberality of the PRESIDENT and his Ministers,
who would, no doubt, have long since abolished the
passport system altogether but for the absurd preju-
dices of the ignorant and bigotted majority of the
National Assembly.
M. GALLOT, the editor of the Reforme, was sen-
tenced by the police court of Paris, on Thursday, to
pay a fine of 6,000 f. for having attached a printer's
name without his permission to the number of his
journal of the 22d of December last.
The Mowing are the chief items in the weekly
account of thc Rink of France :

Francs.
Specie in Paris ... 316,527,297
Ditto in branches 134,093,224
Bills in Paris portfolio ... 44,145,042
Ditto in branches 70,107,208
Bills lying unpaid 1,988,132
Ditto in branches... ... 1,619,720
Bank Notes in circulation ... 390,417,500
Ditto in branches ... 71,488,625
Credit, to Treasury ... 74,397,667
Private credits ... 77,681,366
Ditto in bi-anches ... 24,965,539
Lord Ertouon.i:a visited the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public on Thursday.
PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 25.—LATEST PRICES.—Five
per Cents., 94f. 60 ; Three per Cents., 57f. 60e.;
Bank of France, 2,365 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 25.
Boulogne and Amiens, 77/4 Great Indian Peninsula, s''i
—Namur and Liege, GA—Northern of France, 11/2 dis. ex in.
—Sambre and Meuse, 3%.