The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-07 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The discussions in the British Houses of Parlia-
ment and the expressions of friendship towards
France, given utterance to by all the leading British
statesmen, appear to have produced the happiest effect
in the French capital.
The Patrie has the following on the attempted
assassination of the Queen of SPAIN :
The attack made on the Queen of Spain has pro-
duced a deep and most painfnl sensation in Paris. All
the representatives of the foreign powers and a great
number of French political personages called this morn-
ing at the hotel of the Spanish Minister. The French
Minister of Foreign Affairs was among the number.
General Roguet called in the name of the Prince Pre-
sident, to express his sympathy and regrets for the mis-
fortune which had happened to Queen Isabelle."
The reception of M. DE MONTALEMBERT at the
French Academy took place on Thursday, before a
most numerous and brilliant auditory. The eager-
ness to be present was increased by a knowledge of
the fact that M. GUIZOT was to reply to the
Honourable Gentleman's address. At two o'clock
M. DE MONTALEMBERT rose, and, as is usual
in such cases, proceeded to pronounce a pa-
negyric on M. DROII, to whose chair, vacated by
death, he has succeeded. He commenced by
declaring that his predecessor had come from
a part of France noted for the independent feeling
and moral courage of its inhabitants, namely,
Franche-Comte,which had produced in modern times
Cu TIER and C. NODIER. M. Daoz was born at Be-
san eon, in 1773, and was educated under the imme-
diate care of his father, whose anxious solicitude pro-
tected him from the infidel opinions which were then
almost universal in France. M. DE MONTALEMBERT
then traced in animated language the
_career of M.
Ditoz, from his first work, "Un Eqsai our l'Art
d'être Heureux," to his "Philosophie Morale," which
opened to him the doors of the Academy in 1824.
But what in peaticular served as a theme for remark
to M. DE MONTALEMBERT was M. Dxoz's great work,
which had occupied upwards of five and twenty years
of his life, the " Histoire de Louis XVI." The
Honourable Gentleman here spoke in the most severe
terms of the spirit which led to the First Revolution,
and attributed to the first Constituent Assembly the
calamity that France was condemned to replace the
asuses of the old regime by so many crimes and
disappointments. It was that body, be declared,
which, in 1789, made revolution the syno-
nyme for methodical destruction and permanent
war against ala authority ; it was that body which
baptised with the name of Constitution a weak arti-
ficial creation without root or majesty, ephemeral as
passion, and barren as pride. M. DE MONTALEMBERT,
in tracing the events of the revolution, took occasion
to pass a high a ulogium on MARIE ANTOINETTE, and
then passing to:the present day, declared Socialism to
be the off,pring of the pernicious doctrines supported
by the first assemblies. Whether the reaction which
had now set in against socialism was to last or not,
he could not say, but he considered that the present
respite ought to be turned to account for the purpose
of loudly proclaiming what the true principles of go-
vernment, religion, and liberty really were. The
Honourable Gcntleman concluded thus :—" I have
already spoken too much of every thing to have any
even for the purpose of re-
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the honour which you have done
me. I am anxious to conclude, for I comprehend and
share in your just impatience to hear that imposing
voice which has been too long silent, and which will
procure me your indulgence by causing me to be
forgotten." The voice thus alluded to was that of M.
GUIZOT, who replied in a far briefer manner, and a
more reserved style of political allusion. In the
course of his remarks, he praised King Louts Par-
LIPPE for the opposition which he had always shown
to anarchical principles, at the same time that he al-
lowed sufficient scope and influence to true liberty.
He concluded his reply in the following words :
" What the Act,dem has always sought out and up-
held, and what hasy
particularly pleased it in you,
Monsieur (tun ing to M. DE MONTALEMBEET), is
unic n of
that happy respect for the past and move-
ment towards the future ; that spirit of conservatism
joined to
es. That is, in fact, pre-
ciselya of
a spirit of liberty; that junction of noble
traditions with great hop
the problem which weighs on our time,
which the solution is as indispensable for the ho nour
society. For in Spite of y,
of French mental power as for the safety of Fresuch
ou Monsieur, and
not-
withstanding the glorious denials which such an as-
sertion must mait with in France, and in this place,
the human mind itself runs in the present day
it has nee I of being lifted up and
amongst us, ma; sy a risk of abasement,
saved." and like so-
ciety, Ho tb
of their remarkr, and the sitting was altogether a
gentlemen were frequently
most interesting, one. applauded in the course