The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y EVENING,

They are manufacturers of agricultural pro-
, duce, and it cannot possibly be desirable or
beneficial for persons of their position or class,
that the prices of the " raw material" the
lands they occupy—should be unduly enhanced. If
they enter upon the task in a calm and unprejudiced
spirit, anxious only to form an unbiassed judgment
as to the line of policy that is most beneficial for the
community at large, and even for their orirn particular
class, we promise them that they will rise from the
perusal not "sadder," but infinitely " wiser men."
They will rejoice, for they will ascertain
that their position and prospects are much better
than they had previously supposed, that there was no
adequate foundation for the gloomy vaticinations and
dark forebodings which the would- be prophets dinned
into their ears with so much energy and perseverance.
They will no longer be seduced from their industrial
pursuits and active duties to listen to the dreary and
interminable harangues and untenable arguments of
the advocates of monopoly, who, while shouting with
stentorian lungs for "protection fn. British industry,"
are really attempting to defraud their fellow-country.
men of a considerable portion of their scanty
earnings, in order to support " their own establish-
ments and rank in society," " their former habits of
life," " the expectations and marriages of their
daughters," " the educating and purchasing cf corn-.
missions in the Army or livings in the Church for
their younger sons," and, above all, the means of
corrupting the free and independent electors of the
convenient borough which returns the head of the
family to, a seat in the House of Commons, and gives
him position and influence to provide for his relations
and friend", and to quarter his dependents on the
public purse. These are the objects which they
desire to secure and not the welfare, the happiness,
or the prosperity, of the industrious elnstvg, whether

engaged in agricultural or manufacturing purEuits,
or the mere labourers, the "hewers of wood and
drawers of water."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
They are principally occupied by the report of M.
TRIERS to the Assembly on the law for affording
relit f to the necessitous. The report fills several
columns, and, as might have been expected from the
antecedents of the reporter and the composition of
the Committee, condemns in no measured terms all
the plans which have been proposed for the formation
of a public provision for the poor and destitute.
The Legitimatist journal La Mode is to be pro-
secuted for falsely and calumniously stating that a
coup d'etat bad been determined on at a Council of
Ministers, over which the PRESIDENT of the Republic
presided in person.
PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 28.—Latest Prices :—Five
per Cents., 951. 35c. ; Three per Cents., 581.; Bank
Actions, 2,385 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 28.
Boulogne and Amiens, 734 - Central of France (Orleans
anal Vierzon), 123 I—Dutch Rhenish, :I—East Indian, 4
—Northern of France, 11/2 dis.—Paris and R, uen, 23%
Rouen and Havre, 934.

SPAIN.
Midrid journals of the 22d have arrived. Their
contents are unimportant.
MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 22.—Three per Cents. 29k,
account ; Five per Cents. 124 paper. Exchange
on London, 90 days, 50 35.

GERMANY.

THEUSSIAN CONS
BY
THE CHAMBERS.
The
Ministerial
crisis in Bgrlin is over, and the
ACCEPTANCEru 110 N O
CF r
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Ministers have triumphed, as the Second Chamber
has adopted the greater portion of the articles of the
Constitution which had been rejected by the Com-
mittee.
The Second Chamber met on the 26th, and the
Minister MANTEUFFEL, addressed the members on
the subject of the alterations proposed by the Com-
mittee in the Constitution. He regretted, he said,
that the articles had been received with so much
mistrust, and that unjust suspicion as to the inten-
tions of the Crown had been connected with them. He
was empowered to declare that in case the propositions
were accepted, the Constitution would be accepted
and sworn to by the KING. H© would not attempt
to define whether the Crown had done well, or
chosen the fittest time for the introduction of the
message; the Ministry took the responsibility of the
act in both particulars. The Crown adhered firmly
to the principle that the Upper House should consist
of half hereditary and half elected members, but it
did not attach so much importance to the time at
which it should come into existence. For this rea-
son it accepted the amendment of Count ARNIM
(above alluded to), and, should it be carried, it would
make no obstacle to the Crown taking the oath to the
Constitution. The second essential point held by
the Government was the creation of the Court
of Special Jurisdiction for the trial of treasonable
offences. He could not enter into all the arguments
for and against it, still he trusted the Chamber
would accept it, and for that support he appealed to
their patriotism. He asked those who did not con-
sider its acceptation desirable, whether they could
advise his MAJESTY, should the message be rejected,
to swear to the Constitution ? and what consequence a
procrastination of taking the oath to it would produce
to the nation he would not anticipate. One inevitable
consequence of the rejection would be the retire-
ment of the Ministry ; they attached no high value
to their services, but who could guarantee
that a change in -the personality of the
Government (wechsel der personcn) would not
produce far deeper results ? Tne names attached to
the message were most intimately connected with the
Constitution of the sth of December, and the endea-
vours to realise the German unity. If a change in
this policy should be introduced, it was clear to
him that the union of Germany would be inde-
finitely deferred and thrown to a distance He
warned them not to make the question of voting the
taxes the rock on which the vessel of the State
might split when just entering the harbour; he
warned them, too, that the political opinions of
many of them would be changed by a compulsion,
not from the Government, but the force of circum-
stances and the patriotism of the country ; he who
would concede nothing on the present occasion might
obtain the applause of the party of Anarchists, but
he would not receive the approbation of Prussia or
Germany.

soundest and most unanswerable arguments, exhibited
in the strongest light the folly and absurdity of the
bucolic agitation, and of the mania that has recently
taken possession of the agriculturists, and which has
led to the various " gatherings" which it has been
our painful duty to chronicle and record from day to
day in our columns.
It would be impossible, within the limits of a
single article, to give even the most cursory
sketch of the historical research and lucid views exhi-
bited in this admirable composition. Our readers must
judge for themselves from the original, which will
be found in full in another part of this day's impres-
sion. We earnestly entreat all who are anxious to
arrive at a sound conclusion to attentively peruse,
and maturely consider the facts recorded, and the
palpable deductions from those facts contained
therein. It will, we can assure them, well repay the
time and labour that may be devoted to the study.
There are none who may more largely profit
thereby than the agriculturists. They will learn the
gross deceptions that have been practised upon their
credulity. They will discover that nothing could be
more strongly opposed to their real interests, than the
revival of the obnoxious and inequitable imposts for
which they are about to array themselves in opposi-
tion to the wishes and feelings of the great majority
of their countrymen. Tbey will find that their pre-
decessors have suffered most deeply, under the most
stringent systems of protection, and that the present
distress is trivial in comparison to that which was
endured by farmers when the importation of foreign
corn was practically prohibited—when they were
not only exempted from external competition, but
even when a bounty was offered on the exportation
of their cereal produce. They will perceive that the
fluctuations in prices were by far greater and more
disastrous than any that can be anticipated so long as
free-trade doctrin'es are recognised and observed.
Above all, they will be taught that it is essentially a
landlord's question which they are expected to con-
test; that it is to sustain high and exorbitant rents
and oppressive taxation a that they are called
upon to enrol themselves as recruits, and not,
as they are led to believe, in behalf of fair and remu-
nerative prices for their produce ; that they are en-
deavouring to support the luxury and extravagance of
their landlords, and not to procure comfort and com-
petence for themselves—to enable the proprietors to
liquidate the charges and encumbrances created by
the undue expenditure of their forefathers, and to
receive the same returns from mortgaged inheri-
tances which their ancestors did from free and un-
fettered estates.