The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

raised that the struggle for place and power is carried
un ! Who ore you who put M. t; vizor on his trial ?
What rrr your rights and title,. ? ',"here is your
glory ? What have you, more tL i he, done to add
to the power of your country ? Are your past
deeds so great and high as to warrant your assuming
this haughty tone ? You certainly are welcome to
reproach him IN ith his politique a outrance—the
country has every reason to complain of it ; but you,
ye ungrateful and greedy Conservatives, do you not
teel that this policy has no other wrong than being
shown by bins in its true light? Have you not, like .
'dm, practised for peace d entrance ? llave you not,
like him, been guilty of corruption a entrance Y Have
you not, like him, drawn around a narrow and
cupidinous oligarchy, the circle of immovability ?
Does France stand indebted to you, any more
than to him, for improvement in her laws
and customs ? Have you, more than be, thought
..f those who labour, and suffer, and are productive,
beyond the sphere within which you work your
ambition ? What have you the right to reproach
him with ? To show in all its nakedness the very
system to which you are yourselves subservient—to
talk about what he practises—le paix partout et
tordeurs;—sexvile devotedness to England—contempt
of public opinion—gratification of the grossest appe-
cites! But here is his merit. He has at least frank-
ness with his theories. He lays them down boldly
before you, and defends them with courage ; he
boasts of having gone to Ghent ; he finds the treaties
on the right of search admirable ; and he crouched
to the earth that he might be received into the good
graces of Europe! What right have you to cry
out against him ? What do you require of hint?
That he should continue to do as he has done, and
what you have done yourselves, but that he shall not
avow it, that he shall seek to excuse what is not
excusable, and add hypocrisy to shame."
The Globe, a Ministerial paper, thus turns into ri-
dicule the pretended policy
.of the new candidate for
the Premiership :
"M. Guizot, the man who has so much lowered
France, as every one knows, has another manner of
comprehending the English alliance than that of M. Mole;
he does not make it the object of a sterile contemplation;
he does not want alliance for alliance ; he wants it to be
of use in the affairs of the country. Our improved
agriculture, our enlarged manufactures, demand impe-
riously that France should establish or fortify its
moral authority abroad in the interest of her com-
merce. Our navy, destined to play so great a part
in the future conflicts of the world, has need of a
merchant navy to recruit it. All this requires every
possible maritime extension to be attended to.
Guizot and the present Cabinet have done so, and
the acts accomplished is Oceania only wanted to
be the work of M. Thiers, who understands admirably
how to organise the claque of the journals, to have
obtained from all quarters a universal approbation. M.
Mole says that Otaheite is a rock. With submission be it
spoken, M. Mold has shown himself exceedingly hasty
in speaking of these matters. What are the Bermudas?
A rock. What St. Helena? A rock. What New Pro-
vidence? A rock. What Malta? A rock. Propose
to England to abandon these rocks! Is it possible that
M. Milo feels esteem only for continents, as the Marquis
de iJodelet did for full moons? But continents are
beginning to become rare ; and, besides, if M.
Mole fears to irritate Great Britain in taking a
rock, what will he not fear in taking a country?
The present Cabinet, then, had seriously thought of
providing for the maritime wants of France ; it had
founded a number of factories on the western coast of
Africa; recruited the French flag at Madagascar; taken
possession of the archipelago of the Marquesas; and had
prepared the future possession of the archipelago of
Otaheite. It knew perfectly well, and M. Mote has
nothing to inform it on the point, that all these acts
were viewed with a jealous eye in England, if not on the
part of the enlightened men who govern the country, at
least by the men of ardent passion who agitate it ; but
it knew also that nothing grand and efficacious is done
in politics without difficulties and struggles, and it is
precisely with a view to diminish obstacles of this nature
that the Cabinet had renewed and strengthened the
English alliance. Such is the system of M. Guizot and
his colleagues. It must be confessed that it is
somewhat holder and more national than that
of M. Mole It consisted in living on good
terms with England, in giving it marks of esteem, In
inspiring it with testimonies of confidence, in order to
shelter, under this sympathy and under these good rela
Lions, the aggrandisements necessary to the country.
But why does M. Mole speak of Engli :h alliance ? He
does not want it. From the moment he is decided to
restore Otaheite to the missionaries, to evacuate the Mar-
quesas, to snatch away the French flag from all points
where it could offend the eye of the English, he has
nothing to do with an intimate alliance with them. As
soon as alliances do not serve public affairs, and are re-
duced to a platonic adoration, they are good for nothing.
We have no alliance with the Great Mogul, because we
have no business to transact with him; but the English will
become the Great Mogul for us, as soon as we withdraw
successively on every point before them, from a fear of
knocking against their policy or their commerce."
The Aloaitear publishes returns for the year 1844
of the direct taxes, comparing them with those of
some preceding years, and the result is highly favour-
able. The Customs and Excise have both greatly
inexeased. They produced in 1844, 787,864,000 f. ;
in 1842, 751,257,000 f. ; and in 1843, 764,573,000 f
showing an increase comparatively to 1842 of
36,607,0001., and of 23,291,000 f. over 1843. The
following are the returns under the different heads
of revenue :

Francs.
Registry duties, mert,gages, &c 214,082,000
Stamp duties 37,403,000
Merchandise
Customs' duties on ). Colonial sugars
Foreign. sugars
Customs' duties on exports 1,249,000
Nnvigation duties 2,921,000
Other customs' duties and revenues

Tux on salt
Taxes on liquors
Taxes on demestic sugar 9,022,000
Various other taxes and revenues
Sale of tobacco 107,438,000
Sale of gunpowder
Post-otliee

Fares in mail-coaches
Fares in mail•packets

In all

. 787,864,900

The increase in 1844 as compared with 1842 was
40,436,000 f. ; that on registry duties exceeded
11,000,000 f. ; on customs' duties it was 14,700,000 f. ;
on the sale of tobacco, 6,724,0001. ; Post-oflice,
1,194,0001., &c. The decrease, proceeding principally
from a falling off in the duties on salt, navigation, gun-
was 3,8'29,000f., leaving a net increase of
The only items which experienced-a di-
-317;76d0e7r,0,
tcf::
di-
minution as compared with 1843 were the proceeds of
the duties on navigation and salt, which amounted to
1,646,0001. All the others exhibited an augmentation,
the sum total of which was 24,937,0001., leaving a sur-
plus of 03,291,000 E, nearly a million sterling.
TIIE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15.
First highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents• •.• 121 85 .. 121 85 •• 121 80 .. 121 85
Three per Cents..... 85 25 .. 85 25 •• 85 25 85 25
New Loan •• •• •••• 1.:6 45 .• 86 50 .. 86 45 .. SG 50
Ba.ik of Franeo• • ••• •• •••••;i2'S•O —3260 • 3260 ..3'260
Gouin Bank. I,ooof. Shares.. 1100 ..1100 •.1100 1100
Belgian Bank ..• ••••••• •• • • 620 630 620 .. 630
Belgian Fives, 1840
1842 •• •••• 10614 •• 1063 •• Io6ls
Two-suet-a-iialf.... 62 .. 62 .. 62 • • 62
Spanish Threes ••••• • • • • 87 •• 37 .. 37 37
7.63 i 3.: is 36N .. 364 i

Active • • • • • • • • • •
Paysive . • • . • • • • • • • • . •

6 ..

6 '!,l • •

New Deferred."... 16 16— • • 16— • • 16
Portuguese Five per Cents .• GO .. 60 60 .. 60
uovaar, 104!4 .. 10-1! .. 101; .. 1

RAILWAY 3HARES.
Versailles, R.B. ••• • . • ...... 500 .. 500 .. 490 480
L.B.•••••• ...... 395 .. 395 •• 375 .. 380
Rouen
Rouen to Havre.. •• •••• 815 . 815 • 815 .. 815
Orleans •••••••••••••••••••1125 ..1125 ••1117 50 ..1125
Strasburg to Bale•••• ••.... 300 .. 300 •• 295 . 297 50
Avignon to Marsellles•• •• 945 .. 946 25 • 942 50 .. 942 50
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. JAN. IG.
Versailles, 11.11.. ••• • • ...... 500 .. 505 475 450
L.B.
Rouen
Rotten to Havre.•
Orleans —1132 50 ..1132 50 ..1117 50 ..1125
Strasburg to Bale•• .• .• 300 .. 300 •• 29S .290 25
Avignon to Marseilles

MANUFACTURR Or CAMPnucE.—Mr. Ritchie, of
.
No. 34, St. Mary-at-iiill, has sent a letter for publication
to the newspapers, stating that the reporter of the Great
proceeding.,Wardmote which appeared in Tuesday's
papers, " had no doubt mistaken the subject of one of
the presentments the other day, stating that a catnphine
manufactory was carried on by bun (Mr.ltitGhie) upon
certainillinsgaprteor,nisbe y which h
s,
viz'Stt.3fel lives
-'t.it!fill' in the ward of
B her Majesty's
subject.: were endangered," and requesting a contra-
diction to that statement, t: since no such camphine
manufactory exists in that neighbourhood, the premises
being simply used as a depOt wherein the article is put
in ; quare tin bottles and hermetically sealed." Mr.
Ritchie will are how far our reporter had mistaken the
subject upon casting his eye over the following, which is
almost a verbatim copy of the presentment itself:
The inquest jury of the wa•d of Billingsgate doth
rei'enotn( the; George Ritchie.
(lay litcht,ef.diccN,mobe3r4, I',ll, acid divers fel-
, St. Mary-at-hill, for
that,
lowing days, in ant upon the duelling-hoLse and floors
thereof, and in the warebeibes thereof, he did exercise.
and carry on a certain trade or business for the mann-
flic!tire eta certain spirit called camphine, or lamp spirit,
and did permit and suffr the same to remain, and doth
i
yet continue to retain the same n the said dwelling-
house,
house, from the inflammable nature
of which spirit, the
great quantity of it, and its liability to ignition, the lives
and properties of the people there, and the premises ad-
joining thereto, are exposed to the danger of being burnt
and destroyed by fire." •
ARCHITECTURAL SHABBINESS.—The British Mu-
,;pinri, when completed, will have a grand façade in front,
and as mean brick building at the sides and back. It
has been compw.-ed to a pers•in with a limited waidrobe,
who, to hide a scarcity of linen, puts on a handsogie
" aw4l."--,Pwtch,