The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-12 00:00:00

and watched by the same party. Why does the magis-
trate refuse ? Because the complaint is groundless? Not
at all. Because the accused denies the charge of Mr.
DuNN ? On the contrary, he does not attempt to dis
prove or gainsay it. " I believe this man," says Mr.
DUNN, "intends to commit a felony upon me. Will you
take my eharge ?" Mr. BOND does not refuse because
he doubts the fact—because there is no case—because
there is no probable ground to proceed upon—but be-
cause this ESCOTT—of course, letter and figure—is a police
constable. " I have nothing whatever to do, Sir," says
Mr. BOND, " with regard to the management of the
police." What of that? Has he no cognizance to take
of offenders, policemen or not ? If the constable mis-
conducts himself (he adds) or any complaint is
lodged against him, he must be taken before the Com-
missioners of the Police, who, "if they saw occasion,"
would.order the constable to be brought before him, to be
dealt with according to law. But what if they should
not " see occasion ?" Now, among the very numerous
charges of delinquency which from time to time are
brought against "officers of that force" at criminal as-
sizes,—we have seen several of personal outrages ad-
duced, and in several instances established. Suppose
other Magistrates had held the same opinions
as Mr. BOND, how would those culprits have
ever been committed ? Does Mr. BOND imagine that
he is administering justice in the name of the QUEEN'S
Majesty, or of the Commissioners of the Police ? And
does he seriously imagine that any man in his senses
will submit to carry his complaint against a policeman
for an assault or an annoyance, or a suspicion of felo
nious intent, before the Scotland-yard Commis-
sioners in the first place, to be remitted to the proper
tribunal in the second, only in the event of
these Commissioners, forsooth, " seeing occa-
sion" for it ? We are really sick of the ridiculous
pretensions and vagaries of the police constabulary on
many recent occasions. But, for Heaven's sake, let the
Commissioners stick to their drillings and reports, and
marchings and counter-marchings, without presuming to
interfere between the subjects of the QUEEN and their
remedy against any members of a paid constabulary who
may have acted illegally towards them. We entirely
coincide in Mr. DUNN'S opinion of his own case :—The
conduct of the constable has been illegal (unless, in-
deed, he have a pocket warrant from the Home Secretary)
and though we should deprecate all extreme measures,
we should not particularly lament if such intolerable and
suspicious intrusion on any Englishman's privacy had
been summarily chastised in the person of a policeman
in plain clothes, whose actions dust really have borne so
felonious an aspect. Mr. BOND was bound, at all events
to hear the charge; but he seems to have been impressed
with as reverential an awe for the aristocratic majesty of
the Police Commissioners, as the Inspector FORBES
himself ; from whose refusal to listen to Mr. DUNK pre-
viously, he seems indeed to have taken his own cue.

Madrid journals of the 4th inst. have been received.
The Chamber of Deputies had adopted by a large
majority a resolution authorising the Government to
regulate the public debt. During the discussion which
took place the Minister of Finance said there was no in-
tention either to raise a new loan or increase the taxes.
The interest of the debt was large, amounting to
330,000,000 teals (3,300,0001.), but ,Spain had ample
means to meet all her engagements, provided she be
well governed, and the resources at her disposal be pro-
perly applied.

The Chamber was to take into consideration on the
sth inst. the project of law lately presented by the
Minister of the Interior, authorising him to negotiate a
loan of 15,000,000 reels, to be applied to the construe-
tion of roads.

The Three per Cents. closed at 34i for cash, and 315 i
at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 251 at 60 days; and
the Debt without Interest, at 8 13-16 at 60 days.

The Bill for arming the fortifications of Paris has
been adopted in the Chamber of Deputies, by a ma-
jority of 227 to 131—majority, 96. The clause for
depositing the artillery in the town of Bourges, not to
be removed but in the event of war, was agreed top
with the consent of the Government. The affair is
thus settled to the satisfaction apparently of all parties,
with the exception, perhaps, of the Marquis DE LA
R OCHEJAQUELIN, and a few other Legitimatists. In
reference to this Bill, the Journal des Debats makes
these remarks :—" Every ene is agreed as to two points
—first, that in time of peace the fortifications of Paris
should not be armed ; and, secondly, that in order to
quiet every apprehension, the artillery to be employed
on the fortifications should not be placed too near the
capital. Marshal SoULT, President of the Council,
when he introduced the Bill, at present before
the Chamber, designated Bourges as the town in
which it was proposed to deposit the artillery and
military stores. The Committee on the Bill has after ma-
ture reflection proposed, by an additional clause, that the
artillery and military stores intended for the fortifica-
tions of Paris Allan be deposited at Bourges, and shall
not be transported to Paris except in case of war. M.
BETIDT.ONT by his amendment required that the artillery
shoAdd not be removed to Paris except' by virtue of a
special law. We candidly confess that we find no
essential difference between M. BETHDIONT'S amend-
ment and the clause proposed by the Committee. The
guarantee is the same. The Bill having: declared that
artillery cannot be transported to Paris except in
case of war, suppose that a Minister was so audacious
as to violate the clause of the Bill, and to arm the
fortificationsor under a prete,c.t of
war,
of
peace, or
the Chambers be at
hand? be seriously asserted that in
n o t
rAe
an sally
l iyn
cs timeeanserious,
u it
sp
order to encompass Paris with cannon a Ministry would
violate the constitution ? But it is manifest that a Mi-
nistry which would be capable of making such an attack
on the fundamental law of the kingdom, on the Cham-
bers, and on the entire nation, would not be arrested by
a clause in a Bill. Whether the law shall so declare
it or not, the period at which the fortifications of Paris
should be armed will ever be a Parliamentary question
as long as there shall exist in France a constitution.
The charter does not declare that the Chambers shall
discuss questions of peace and war. It says apparently
the contrary. It declares that the KING may declare
war and conclude treaties of peace ; and still a single
example cannot be given of the KING having declared
war or signed a peace without the intervention of the
Chambers. It is not solely because treaties of peace,
like declarations of war, almost always induce a vote for
supplies—it is because Ministers are responsible for
every act of the KING, and; that as a last result every
• act must be discussed at the tribune."

According to the Revue de Paris, a grand congress of
kings and queens will take place at Paris in the course
of the ensuing summer. That journal says :
" The report that several crowned heads are soon to arrive
at Paris is daily more and more confirmed. Well informed
persons affirm that this meeting of constitutional' sovereigns
will take place in July. The illustrious personages who are
to be the guests of the King of the French are the Queen of
England, the young Queen of Spain, the King and Queen of
Naples, and the King of Holland. Louis Philippe and his
family will do those several sovereigns the honours of France
and Paris. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours will go and
meet her Britannic Majesty, who will first arrive ; the Prince
de Joinville will repair to the frontier of Spain in order to re-
ceive the young Queen of that country ; the Duke d'Aitmale'
will proceed to Marseilles and receive his uncle, the King of
_Naples; and the Duke de Montpensier will receive the King
of Holland, who will come by sea, and land at Dunkirk. In
order to give a suitable reception to those august visitors, the
apartments formerly occupied at the Louvre by Henry IV.
will bo, in addition to the Tuileries, thoroughly repaired and
sumptuously furnished."
The Journal des Debats publishes extracts from let-
ters received from Macao, announcing that there is a
probability of the revocation of the law in China against

the propagation of the Christian religion, but we can
place no confidence in the accounts transmitted to that
journal from China, for they are generally either mere
rumours or some fictions of the writer. The following
is the statement :

" We have received letters from Macao containing intel-
ligence which, if it be confirmed, will produce a lively sensa-
tion in Europe, and do great honour to the French mission in
China. It is nothing less than the abolition of the religious
edicts which forbids the Chinese to embrace and practise
Christianity. We know that these, edicts, after having been
revoked under the reign of the Emperor Khan Hi, were again
brought into force,Zabout a century ago, on the advice of the
Tribunal of Rites; and, until these latter times, at least, have
been put into execution by the Chinese magistrates with
the utmost rigour. Thus Christianity has found a double ob-
stacle to its introduction into the middle empire ; for, on
one hand, were the laws which interdicted foreigners from
penetrating into the interior of the empire ; and, on the other
hand, the Chinese who, if left to themselves, would be inclined
to embrace the religion of the Gospel, are restrained by the
pains and penalties denounced by the edicts. It i.s these edicts
which it is now in contemplation to abolish. To obtain this abo-
lition, the French mission, as may be well believed, could not
make any direct propositions to the Chinese '.commissioners. It
was only by influential means that it (aught or could act.
Thus the first overtures came from the Chinese negotiators
themselves, from Ki Yng, the representative of the Emperor,
and from the treasurer, Hu An. Ki Yng has a liberal and
philosophical mind. Far from having any prejudice or anti-
pathy against Christianity, he repeats,, both in personal con-
ference and in his written correspondence, that a religion
which forbids evil and commands good cannot be a false one.
He adds, that as this religion is professed by the great Em-
peror of the French, and by the noble nation of which he is
sovereign, the abolition of the law- which forbids its exercise
in China would be the best means of confirming a friendly
alliance between the two countries. In a word, he offered his
mediation with the Emperor and the Tribunal of Rites to
obtain a revocation of the anti-Christian edicts."
The papers publish accounts from Algiers to the
Ist inst., giving details of the attack made by the
Kabyles on a French convoy, which had left Tenez for
Orleansville, in which some persons were killed on
both sides, and ten French soldiers were made prisoners,
Troops were assembling at Milianah for an expedition
against these Kabyles, and Marshal BUGEAUD was to
leave Algiers for that place on the 3d. No doubt re-