The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

TIE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel has kept its promise to com-
ment upon the letters of Generals CHANGARNIER and
DE LAMOMCIEEE. In the number of yesterday there
la nearly a page on the subject from the pen of M.
GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC. The greater part of thearticle,
however, consists of a review of the military career
of General CHANGAIINIER, which is made with a view_
to: show that he is not the able man that he desires
the world to imegine be is. In the concluding portion
of the article are some sharp observations. M. GRA-
NIER DE CASSAGNAC says :
"Unfortunately, there are in the political career of
the General three well-established facts, which it ap-
pears to us very difficult to reconcile with the terms of
his protest. First, in March. 1349, General Changers
bier applied to Prince Louis Napoleon for a written au-
thorizstion to throw the Constituent Assembly out of the
window. Secondly, at the period of creating the great
military commands, General Changarnier again urged
with energy the necessity of a coup d'etat; and, as
,Prince Lsuis Napoleon received these overtures with
treat coolness. the General complained aloud before
the Ministers, declaring that there was nothing to be
done with that Thomas Diafobus; and thirdly, in No-
yeraber, 1850, when the Alass's trial was going on,
General Changarnicr assembled at the Tuileries, in one
of the clrawing-rocnis given to him by the President
with the command of the army of Paris, a number of
Political personages, to whom he proposed to arrest
Louis Napoleon and to send him to Vincennes ; to shut
'up
the Legislative Palace, by proroguing the Assembly
for six months; and to assume himself the dictatorship.
Amongst the persons thus convoked and present was
`Count Mole, who refused to take part in such treason,
and who immediately informed the head of the State of
what had taken place. These three facts, perfectly au-
thentic and absolutely incontestable, chow what cre-
dence is to be given to General Changaznicr's declara-
tions concerning his mansuetude, his spirit of order, and
stints j)nrdolund respect for the law. To have desired to put
by violence to two Assemblies, or to prorogue
them; to have wished to arrest the elect of 6ix millions
of men; to have proposed to imprison him from whom
he held his position and command; and all that, in order
to impose en France himself as dictator—that cer-
tainly, whatever may be said of it, neither evinces
great respect for legality, nor any great frankness of
character, and, in addition, renders somewhat sus•
picious, it will be admitted, the recital of the various
attempts made on the virtue of this new Joseph."
These charges are far snore serious than military
blunders imputed to CLIANGARNIEE. Neither he or
Count MOLE can pass them sub silentio. M. DEUAS-
SAGNAc winds up with the following apostrophe to the
1 cusant generals :
"Do you then suppose that you have carried away
With you the good sense and the honour of your country,
and that all honest folks disappeared from France the
day when you passed the frontier? Pale imitators of
Pichegru and Moreau, you have their pretensions, but
not their glory. May God bo pleased to stop you in
time, that you maynot have their destiny.
The Pays has an article on the letter of General
DR LAMGRICIEUE. The style is very different from
that of the Constitutionnel. It says :
"No ore, not even himself, shall cause us to forget the
considerable services which General de Lamoricia:e has
rendered to France and to society. The army has
always reckoned him amongst its most valiant soldiers,
and anarchy amongst its moot fur mid able adversaries.
ar heroic combats in Algeria remind us of him, and in
the disastrous events of June he gloriously contributed
with his person to the safety of the country. Those are
merits which no one has a right to deny or depreciate;
and, for our part,-we recognise them the more willingly
thatos wo have never seen in M. de lemoric,ere one
those ambitious men of gigantic plans
h.() dream of the perilous sublimities of power. There
isin Lereorieere only one defect which paralyses
those. eminent qualities, and that is, an ardent imagiea-
'Al, a precipitation, and
" a vivacity which someames
causes Isis cooler reason to deviate from his object, and
'root that moderation which is so requisite in a political
man. We remPtl'h, r the phrase by which the illustrious
!Alai Bugeaud clsseacterised that impetuous organi.-
zA
-thon• 'lt is,' said he a head weich goes rolling on
and on, until it finds a lisle to fall into.' The letter of
General de Lasnoritea:e is, in our opinion, a fresh
I)."°°f of his proneness to yield to sudden inspires
lions. His bitterness of tone, his violence even,
spring rather from the head than from the heart,
from the circle in which he lives rather than from what
his conscience dictates. Is it seriously that M. de
latmoric:l o can speak of the present Government as
!naintaietieg itself by force in power, when in. reality it
alts for its base universal suffrage, and the strongest
Manifestation of the national will. Is it sincerely that
be reproaches the Government with not respecting
either persons or property, when that Government has
Consolidated in co efficient a manner, the great principles
on which rest the safety of society and the future pro-
gress of civilization ? Let M. de Lamoric'a e examine
Lie conscience and say, if placed between the dangers in
which France was being engulfed, and a patriotic ithe
Wily, if, having the power like Louis Napoleon to
crush anarchy to its very root at the price of some en•
cridces called for from liberty, he would have hesitated
an instant. These attacks against the national sove-
reignty, this ingratitude for tho benefits which society
owes to the present Government, are not worthy
of General de Lamoric!a-e. His heart and his patriotism
Will one day regret the errors of his head."
The Muniteur contains a note to the effect that
the only motive the Government had in view in not
authorising the publication of the letter of the Count
Da Cumenorcee was respect for the Constitution. The
Government could net authorise the publication of a
letter which counsels refusal to take the oath re-
quired by 'the Constitution grounded on a principle
essentially contrary to that of the national sove-
reignty.
The PRINCE PRESIDENT has ordered that there
shall be, from his privy purse, distributed to all the
/workmen who suffered by the late fire in the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine the full amount of all their losses
by that calamity..
It is said that 3,000,0001. are to be accorded for
the execution of the Cherbourg Railway, and
3,000,000 f. for that of the line from Toulouse to
Cette.
The management of the Italian Theatre was con-
fided iu 1849 to M. RoECoEL for six years, but in
September, l§so, it was taken from him by the Mi-
nister of the Interior on account of his embarrassed
pecuniary situation. M. RONCOM appealed to the
Council of State against the Ministerial decision, and
in the event of its being confirmed demanded da-
mages. M. BER, his partner, joined him in this
proceeding. Mr. LUMLEY, his successor, on the
contrary, presented a request that RoNcocti's demand
[should be rejected. The matter was pleaded before
and examined by the Council of State, and on Mon-
day judgment was given. The Council decided
"tat Mr. IstsetnEr had no right to interfere, and his
intervention was set aside. A. similar decision was
given with respect to M. BEE. As to M. Roemome
the Council allowed him, as, at a late stage of the
• proceedings, he had requested, to withdraw his ap-
' peal against his dismissal, and with respect to his de-
mand for damages, it declared that he was not entitled
to any.
A b.ographical notice in the Patrie on Madame
SAQui, who, at the age of 75 years, is now dancing
on the tight rope at the Hippodrome, states seine
Curious facts to account for her being compelled at
so advanced a period of life to continue a fatiguing
and hazardous performance. It appears that Madame
Segue had acquired a handsome fortune many years
age, and had resolved to retire, when her brother,
who was the manager of the Rouen Theatre, was on
the point of becoming bankrupt with debts amount-
ing to 600,0001., and, to save his credit, Madame
SAQUI paid the whole amount, and reduced herself to
poverty. Since that time she has never been enabled
to accumulate sufficient wealth to retire, and latterly,
according to the Patrie, she met with a terrible mis-
fortune. She was returning from Spain with about
30,000 f., the fruit of great exertions, when she was
stopped by banditti and robbed of the whole of her
• money. In her youth she was patronized by the
Emperor NAPOLEON, who frequently made herwant pre.
cents ; and on one occasion, when much iof
money to meet some engagements, she applied to the
EMPEROR for the large sum of 10,000 f., and he sent it
to her immediately.
- There appears to be a cessation of all speculation
at the Bourse for the present. The Four-and-aillslf
per. Cents. opened at 99f. 70c., and closed a the
:4 came
price for the end of the month; the Three per
1 y,tt_it: closed at 701. 30e.; Orleans Railway Shares,
587Len.0u_e_n,.755c.;
Basle, 242?, 50Avignon, Havre, 290 f.•, Great Nortlerrn,
3081. 75a ; Vierzon, 5771. 50e.;
burg, mu. 2,e-; _Bordeaux, 6121. 50c.; Paris and.Stras-_
Lyons, 6111. 21! Tours and Nantes, 370 E; Paris and
BUSINESS DONE IN
LONDON sToeVREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
East Indian, 2414 18.
and Liege, 6%—Orleans and
aunction of France, 4—Namur
10%—Paris and Strasbourg,Lyons,Bordeaux, 15%—Paris and
memo, 61/4 _West Flanders, 2ll,x—Sambre and
U%---WeStern of France, 7%.•

SPAIN.
Our accounts from Madrid are of the 13b.
yp forrvaidAernaenjuffz,e
thei
All the Ministers set out that dla
order to hold a Council under the
QUEEN ; they were to return at night, and the of
an-
nouncement of the appointment of the new Minister
of Marine was expected on the following day.
Signor
MARTINEZ, of the B,oyal Navy, was thought to have
the brst chance.
It was said that the Government had concluded a
satisfactory arrangement with the Bink of Sr. Ferdi-
nand for the payment of the next half.year's interest
of the national d b'. The conditions obtained by the
Government are considered very favourable, and the
interest it is to pay is six per cent.

GERMANY.
The law relative to the duty on Prussian news-
payers was passed on the 15th by the First Chamber
without any modification. It is to take effect from
the Ist July naxt.. In the Second Chamber the Pre-
sident of the
,Council announced that the session
would be closed about the sth of June.
The Breslau Gazette states that the marriage 01
the Emperor of AUSTRIA, with the Princess SIDOIIII

Saxony is considered, in well-informed circles, as a
matter definitively egreed' on.

TURKEY.

Sir STRATFORD CANNING and his family ere making
their preparations for quitting %Constantinople, the
Government steamer Growler being in daily expec-
tation for conveying them home. The departure of
Sir STRATFORD is greatly to I.)* regretted.