The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-31 00:00:00

quarterly tables of the revenue. On the premises above
recited he will receive into the Treasury cotferi, on fofeign
wheat in bond or in transit for importation, 200,000/. ; on
flour, 20,000/. ; on oats, peas, beans, and barley, probably
another 50,0001.: so that he will realise against the meeting
of Parliament some 320,0001. to 350,000/., wherewith to make
a parade of pseudo-financial " prosperity." If, under our
present system of corn-laws, modified even by the imposition
of fixed duties, results thus inconsistent can be realised—of
plenty to the Exchequer with destitution to the people—this
is, alone, sufficient reason for their immediate abolition.

Letters received from Dresden, of the 23d instant, leave no
doubt that the Government and the Lower Chamber of the
States are in direct opposition on several important questions.
It will be recollected that the Chamber adopted an address to
his MAJESTY contrary to the wishes of his Ministers.
This circumstance gave the Cabinet great annoyance,
and a council was held in consequence to consider whether
the Kura should not at once dissolve the assembly and issue
writs for a new election. After mature deliberation, this
proposition was rejected on the ground that in the present
excited state of the public. mind, such a measure
would only increase the irritation. It appears also that another
symptom of misunderstanding had manifested itself. During
the discussion on the propriety of drawing up an address,
one of the KING'S Ministers declared that certain words used
by one of the speakers were revolutionary, and the President,
on the subject being referred for his opinion, said the lan-
guage was perfectly in order. The Chamber also requires
important reforms in the courts of law, substituting oral for
written testimony, a reduction in the standing army, and
establishment of a national guard or militia to perform cer
thin military duties now entrusted to the regular army.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 23d instant, ac-
cording to which new conspiracies had been discovered, both
in the east and west of the Peninsula. The Heraldo states
that sixteen persons had been arrested at Valencia in con-
sequence of another plot against the Government, and the
Castellano contains a letter from Salamanca announcing that
the whole of the cavalry and infantry in that town had been
ordered to march to the frontiers of Portugal, in order to
watch some revolutionary movement anticipated in the Tras
os Montes. NARVAEZ, accompanied by the Captain-Ge-
neral and Governor of Madrid, insrected all the barracks of
the capital on the 23d. Additional troops continued to
arrive. One of the journals states that " active preparations
are now in the course of being made for the construction Of
a railway from Cordova to Malagra. The English engineers
are already on their way here to survey this line."
No business was done on the Bourse.

The articles in the Paris papers, with the exception, per-
haps, of one, possess little interest for the English reader.
That one appears in the Journal des Debats, and relates to
the wanton, unjust, and wicked attacks made by certain
London journals on the character of the French nation, and
the pretence set up by (we are glad to say) only one jour-
nal of respectability for keeping possession of Chusan. The
Journal des Dehats is justly celebrated for the ability of its
writing, the calm good sense, and the peaceful impartial
tone which pervades its columns. A reproach from a
paper like this tells, therefore, with great effect, and
cannot fail to be felt by every upright English-
man, the more especially when it is known that
there is but too much truth in its sarcastic remarks.
We only entreat our Contemporary, and the French
in general, not to take sentiments expressed in certain Lon-
don papers as the sense of the nation, or as an indication that
the wished-for peace with our powerful neighbour is at all
diminished in the breasts of our countrymen. If the people
were polled throughout Great Britain and Ireland, we believe
not one in a hundred would be found to concur in the offen •
sive remarks which from time to time have been
directed against the whole French nation. In ani-
madverting on the proposition to retain Chusan
in violation of treaties, that journal makes the
following remarks :—" The English did not take time to
appreciate all its advantages, and, instead of appropriating
Chusan to themselves, they took possession of a frightful rock,
the den of pirates and smugglers, and caused the island of
Hong-Kong to be permanently ceded to them. They have
not been able to do anything with this sad conquest, not-
withstanding all the money they have expended, and Hong-
Kong has been a sort of burial-place for the troops and British
residents. As to Chusan, it has been occupied by the English,
but only provisionally, and it has been stipulated that it shall
be restored to China on the day when the last portion of the
ransom agreed upon shall be paid. If Cie English have not
been able to habituate themselves to Hong-Kong, they have
well accustomed themselves to Chusan. During the three years
that they have had for experiencing all the inconveniences of
their permanent possession, they have been equally able to
appreciate all the advantages of their provisional possession,
and the regret that they feel at having established them-
selves at Hong-Kong, doubles that which they feel at being
obliged to quit Chusan. What is worth taking is worth
keeping, says a proverb; and the English journals are for
keeping what they have got. They are lesirous, therefore,
of finding a means of retaining Chusan, #thout having the
appearance of violating too openly the- faith of treaties.
We remember having a month or two', ago insinuated,
without meaning any harm, that the English would seek
for some pretexts to put the Chinese in the wrong, and
they would not be sorry to receive some offence, in order
to have the right of demanding reparation. This inno•
cent assertion caused a certain outcry in the English press,
and regret was expressed that a journal, generally so mo-
derate, should thus take part in the accusation directed
against the ambition and cupidity of England. We
were really almost affected at these reproaches, and were be-
ginning to ask oumelves whether we
had not given way,
without wishing itVida some old feeling of jealousy. Un-
fortunately, however, a light has come from the East. All
the letters from India and China call for Chusan, mid one
of the members of the Colonial Government is coming
to England to demonstrate the necessity of retaining this
fortunate island. The English journals are a little em-
barrassed. How, indeed, is Chusan to be retained in the
face of the Pottinger treaty? It has been stipulated to give
it up on receiving the last payment. The time for this is
approaching rapidly, for it falls on the 31st of December
of the present year. In two months this island, in
which the English have found themselves so comfort-
able, must be given up, and they must bid adieu to
its seductive banks. If these accursed Chinese had but the
genius of bankruptcy ! But no ; they pay, alas! with a tor-
menting punctuality. The Americans have not yet had time
enough to teach them the improved system of repudiation.
This is what vexes certain English journals. They are in the
rather rare position of a creditor who is heartily desirous of pro-
testing his debtors' bills, and experiences the disappointment
of finding them solvent. The Chinese pay their bills as re-
gularly as a Lombard-street banker. There is, therefore no
honest way of retaining possession of Chusan. If the English
Government should keep Chusan, which we are far from
thinking will be the case, it will be neithermore nor less than
an act of spoliation. To attempt to renler us responsible for
such conduct is a rather light way of tranquillising con-
science."
The following account of an imposing ceremony, which
took puce at the Tuileries, on Tuesday, is extracted from
the papers :
At one o'clock the King, accompanied by the Prince Royal,

Count de Paris, the Princes his sons, and attended by his Ministers
and the officers of his household, entered the throne-room at the

Tuileries, when the Marshal Duke de Dalmatie, President of the
Council, presented to his Majesty the Commissioners appointed for
directing and superintending the erection of the monument to the
memory of the late Duke of Orleans. The Marshals of France,
the Generals of the Army, and the Admirals of the Navy now in
Paris; General Jacqueminot, Commandant of the National Guard
of the Seine, with his staff; the General Officers of the Na.
tional Guards of Paris and the Banlieue, the Colonels and Lieu-
tenant-Colonels of the different legions, the Prefect of the Seine,
the Prefect of Police, all the generals and superior officers in the
War-office and Admiralty, General Sebastian!, Commandant of the
First Military Division, with his staff; General Schneider, Com-
mandant of the Division without the walls of Paris, with his staff;
the Colonels and Lieutanant-Colonels of the Infantry, Cavalry,
Artillery, and Engineers; and the Military Intendants and Sub-
Intendants, were present at this ceremony. The Duke de Dal-
matte advanced, and presented to his Majesty the minutes of the
inauguration of the statue, with the following address :
" Sire,—l have the honour of presenting to your Majesty the
minutes of the inauguration of the equestrian statue of Mon-
seigneur the Duke of Orleans, Prince Royal, which has been
erected in the court of the Louvre, and which the Army and Navy
have spontaneously desired to offer to posterity in perpetuation of
the memory of his Royal Highness. The Commission, presided
over by Marshal Vallee, and of which were members Marshal
Count d'Erlon (deceased), Lieutenant-Generals Baron d'Athalin,
Count Baudrand, Baron Berthieme, Baron Woirol, Baron Ru.
Patel, Count Schramm, the Military Intendant Melcion d'Arc, and
M. Martineau de Chernez, Auditor of the Council of State, Secre.
tary, has given to all the preparatory works of the monument at-
tentions which I hope the King will have the goodness to appre-
ciate. I have also the honour to present to your Majesty the
medals which have been struck on this sad and solemn occasion."
The King immediately delivered the minutes to the Count de
Paris, whom he held by the hand, saying—
" My dear cannot do better than give this to you.
You will keep it as a precious testimony of the feeling of confi-
dence and affection which the army entertained for your poor
father."

His Majesty then, turning towards the Committee and officers
with which the throne-room was filled, said—
" I appreciate, my dear Marshal, the seal with which the Com-

mission, under your direction, has fulfilled the wish of the land

and sea forces, and I thank them as well as you. On receiving
this new homage to the memory of a beloved son, over whom
France mourns with me, I am too much moved to be able to ex-
press as I would all that I experience at this moment. But, how-
ever painful it may be to me now to make my voice heard, I
recover my powers when called upon to express to the Army, the
National Guard, and to all France, how deeply my heart, and the
hearts of all belonging to me, are penetrated with such a homage,
and to testify, at the same time, to the people of Paris how much
we have been touched by those striking demonstrations with which
they have surrounded the statue which you have offered to me in
the name of the Army."

In the course of the day his Majesty, in the hall of the throne,
and surrounded by the Royal Family and his Ministers, delivered
to the Duke d'Auntale the insignia of the Grand Order of the
Golden Fleece, conferred upon this Prince by the Queen of Spain.
The Spanish Charge d'Affaires was present.
Prince Ferdinand and Prince Leopohl of Saxe-Coburg Gotha
arrived on Monday at the Palace of St. Cloud.
It is said that the King is shortly to pass in review the troops that
have lately arrived in Paris.
" The funeral obsequies of Count Eugene Ney, who was re-
cently Chargé d'Affaires of France at the Brazils, were peforraed
on Tuesday at the Church of St. Roch. His brother, the Prince
de Moskowa was the chief mourner.

The Presse says :—" It will be recollected that the negotiations
pending a few months ago between Prussia and Denmark, relating
to the Sound dues, did not terminate in any decided result. We
now believe, however, that this negotiation, which interests all com-
mercial nations In the same degree as Prussia, will be resumed
during the next month. At the same time, it must be remem-
bered that the existing conventions do not expire till 1851."
A further depression of stock and prices of shares took
place on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday, but to no great
extent. The Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 25c. ; the New

Loan, 82f. 40c.; the /lye per Cents , 117 f. 40c.; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,1871. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,0021. 50c. ; Havre,
787 f. 10c.; Avignon, 985 f. ; Vierzon, 725 f. ; Bordeaux, 626 f.
25c.; Boulogne, 565 f. ; Troyes and I'dontereau, 500 f.; Basle,
265 f.; Northern, 7711. 25c.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 5211. 25c. prem. ; ditto
(Caton), 504 f.; ditto (Ganneron), 509 f.; ditto (La Pin-
sonniere), 503 f. 75c.; Northern Line (Laffitte), 570 f.; ditto
(Roam:ni), 535 f. ; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 528 f.; ditto
(Decan Lebeuf), 528 Z; Paris and Strasburg (Hinguerlot),
515 f.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 521 f. 55c. ; ditto
(Drouillard), 504 f. 50c.; ditto (O'Neill), 5121. 50c.; ditto