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

mised that the struggle for place and power is carried
on! Who are you who put M. Guizor on his trial ?
What are your rights and titles? Where is your
glory ? What have you, more than► 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 ,w ith his politique a outrance—the

country has every reason to complain of it ; but you,
ye ungrateful and greedy Conservatives, do you not
feel that this policy has no other wrong than being
shown by him in its true light ? Have you not, like
him, practised for peace a outrance Y Have you not,
like him, been guilty of corruption a outrancc Q 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 he, thought
of 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 parent et
toujours ;—servile devotedness to England—contempt
of public opinion—gratification of the grossest appe-
tites ! 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 him?
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. Mold;
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.
M. Guizot and the present Cabinet have done so, and
the acts accomplished ia 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.
Molt says that Otaheite is a rock. With submission be it
spoken, M. Mole 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. Molt feels esteem only for continents, as the Marquis I
de Fodelet did for full moons? But continents are
beginning to become rare ; and, besides, if M.
Molt 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. Mold 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 gilled 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. Guivit and
his colleagues. It must be confessed that it is
somewhat bolder and more national than that
of M. Moll, It consisted in living on good
terms with Ragland, 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
tions, the aggrandisements necessary to the country.
But why does M. Mof*speak of English alliance ? He
does not want it. rival 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 Monitew 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
increased. They produced in 1844, 787,864,000 E;
in 1842, 751,257,000 f. ; and in 1843, 764,573,000 f.—

allowing 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
■f revenue :

Francs.
)Registry duties, mortgages, &c 214,082,000
*tamp duties 37,403,000
I Merchandise
Illastotns' duties on Colonial sugars
Foreign: sugars
Customs' duties on exports 1,249,000
Navigation duties 2,921,000
Other customs' duties and revenues
Tax on salt
Taxes on liquors
Taxes on domestic sugar 9,022,000
Various other taxes and revenues
Sale of tobacco 107,436,000
Sale of gunpowder
Post-office 46,417,000
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, 6,724,000 f. ; Post-office,
ifsa,B2thoe,odouotfi.e,sleoanysinalgt,
ananveitgainticorne,aigeuno-f
1,194,000 f., &c. The decrease, proceeding principally
pared with 1843 were the proceeds of
from a fallingweooamffs
3p60,w60de7r,008c01, The only items which experienced a di-
mthienduutitoines aosn navigation and salt, which amouated to
1,646,000 f. All the others exhibited an augmentation,
the sum total of which was 24,937,0001., leaving a sur-
plus of 23,291,000 f., nearly a million sterling.
THE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. price.
French Five per Cents l2l 85 .. 121 85 .. 121 80 .. 121 85
Three per Cents.•• B5 25 .. 85 25 .. 85 25 .. 85 25
New Loan •••••••• 86 45 •• 86 50 .. 86 45 .. 86 50
Bank of France 3260 .•3260 ..3260 ..3260
(}Quin Bank, I,ooof. Shares 1100 —llOO .• 1100 ..1100
Belgian Bank.. •
Belgian Fives, 1840 ••• • • • 104% •. 1041.; .. 104% • • 10434
1842••••• 1863.‘ .• 1063 i; .. 106% .. 106%
Two-and-a-Half 62 .. 62 .. 62 .. 62
Spanish Threes •••••• • • • • • • 37 .. 37 .. 37 .• 37
Active •••••• • • • • • • 3634 • • 3634 .. 3634 3634
Passive .••. • • • •
New Deferred. • 16 .. 16 .. 16 . • 16
Portuguese Five per Cents•. 60 .. GO .. 60 .. Go
gen= ..... 1043,; .7 1043/, .. 1043.;