The Sun. — 1850-12-10 (London, England)

GOTULAND. He was either innocent or guilty. If innocent he should have been dismissed free and scatheless, without censure or punishment ; but if guilty the majesty of the law should have been fully vindicated, and its extreme penalty carried into execution upon one of the most atrocious miscreants ever called upon to answer for his crimes before an earthly tribunal. His offence was the highest known to the law, and effected by the most infamous means. It was wilful, deliberate, and cold-blooded murder, secretly planned, while his victim was living under his own roof; with his own hands he drugged the poisoned chalice, and with words of kindness and charity on his lips, and a sympathising and benevolent senile on his countenance, delivered the fatal cup that was to consign the aged woman to a lingering and painful death. And what was the " extenuating circumstance" that should mitigate the penalty justly attached to his outrage against the laws divine and human ? That he, an ordained minister of the Gospel, had violated the solemn oath of chastity which he had taken—that he was an adulterer as well as a murderer—a base and treacherous poisoner.  As to the alleged companion in his guilt, we shall not interfere with the verdict, the merciful verdict, of the jury. She has been exonerated from all participation in the crime. Let her receive the full benefit of the decision. Her feelings cannot, even under the most favourable circumstances, be very enviable. To a person of any degree of sensibility the exposure that has ' taken place—the ripping up of the most secret transactions of her life, and the position in which she has been placed—must have entailed sufferiegs of no ordinary magnitude. We must, however, protest against the assumption that the double crime 'of suicide and murder, from which she was barely rescued, should be regarded as a demonstration of her innocence, and as arising from the natural ebullitions of a sensitive and honourable mind when suffering under the pressure of unmerited suspicion and false accusation. It is scarcely necessary to allude to the admission of necessary evidence, and the bringing up the fellow-prisoners of the miserable man on trial to detail the gossip of the gaol, and the trifling conversations and demeanour of the accused during his detention. They must be condemned by all right-minded men, who, so far as the criminal code of England is concerned, will join us in exclaiming with the Barons of Runnymede, "Nolumus loges Anglia mutari."  THE FRENCH REPUBLIC  We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Journal des Dibats, which on all matters relating to the funds may be considered as a high authority, has the following on the decree authorizing the sale of two millions additional of Rentes : "The announcement of this adjudication appears to have caused some surprise in the financial world ; it appears to us, however, that it was a thing which they rather ought to have expected. On opening the general discussion of the Budget, on the 18th July last, the Minister of Finance positively declared that he should not wait for the end of the year to make use of the power of selling granted to him by the law of 18th May. The funds in question, moreover, stood foremost in the number of resources of which, in setting forth the financial plan of 1850, he recknoned on availing himself, in order to keep the floating debt within its just limits. The different Bills for supplementary credits recently voted, particularly that relative to the levy of 40,000 men, must have warned attentive speculators that these limits would be reached, if not exceeded. The Minister declares that it is the opening of these several credits which has decided him to proceed to the adjudication, and his motive is evidently just. There are two other causes which might naturally influence him—the price of rento and the security of offers of stock. He was right to avail himself of so many opportune circumstances."  It would seem from the tenor of the following, which appears in the Constitutionnel, as if the Bonapartists were becoming aware that their only chance of retaining power was by maintaining a republic, and that they now aimed, not so much at destroying as at corrupting republican institutions, so as to bend them to their own purposes. To parody the words of LAFAYETTE " they would fain make of the Republic the best of Empires." The article is curious, as showing the present tactics of the Bonapartists. It purports to be a criticism on M. GUIZOT'S recently published works on Moria. and