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

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

- We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel has kept its promise to corn-
talent upon the letters of Generals CHANGARNIER and
DE LAMORICIEUE. In the number of yesterday there
is nearly a page on the subject from the pen of M.
%ZANIER DE CASSAGNAC. The greater part of the article,
however, consists of a review of the military career
of General CuasGaamait, which is made with a view
to show that he is rot the able man that he desires
the world to imagine he is. In the concluding portion
of the article are some sharp observations. Al. GRA-
liIER DE CASSAGNAC says :
" Ilefortunarely, there are in the political career of
the Geaerul threo well-established facts, which it ap-
pears to us very difficult to reconcile with the terms of
his protest. First, in March, 1849, General Changar-
bier applied to Prince Louis Napoleon for a written au-
thorization to threw the Constituent Ass. mhly out of the
window. Secondly, at the perioi of creating the great
railitary commands, General Cliangarnier again urged
with energy the necessity of a coup d'etat; and, as
Prince L uis Napoleon received these overtures with
great coolness, the General complained aloud before
the Ministfrs, thelarinp; thet then., was nothing to be
clone with that Thomas Diafoil ?IS j and thirdly, in No-
vember, 1850, when the Aiat,'s trial was going on,
General Cht,ogarebr assembled at the Tuileritts, in one
of the drawing rooms given to him by the President
with the command of the army of Paris, a nuna-.)-r of
political personages, to wh,m he proposed to arrest
Louis Napoleon and to send him to Vincennes ; to shut
up the Legi,lative Palace, by prorogutog the Assembly
for six months; and to assume hierist It the dictatorship.
Amongst the persons thus convoked and present WS
Count Moll, who refused to take part in such treason,
and who immediately informed the head of the State of
what had taken place. These three Lets, perfectly au-
thentic and absolutely incontestable, show what cre-
dence is to be given to General Chargarnier's declara-
tions concerning his mansuetude, his spirit of order, and
his profund respect for the law. To have desired to put
an end by violence to two Assemblies, or to prorogue
them; to have wished to arrest the elect of six millions
of men; to have proposed to imprison him from whom
he held his position and c,Ahtnat,d; and all that in order
to impose en France lairvelf as dictator—that cer-
tainly, whatever may be said of ir, 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 more serious than military
blunders imputed to CHANGAUNIER. Neither he or
Count Moan can pass them sub silentio. M. DE CAS-
SAGNAC winds up with the following apostrophe to the
mutant 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 be pleased to stop you in
time, that you may not have their destiny.
The Pays has an article on the letter of General
Da LAMORICIERE. The style is very different from
that of the Constitutionnel. It says
"No one, not even himself, shall cause us to forget the
onsiderable services which General de Lamoric e has
rendered to France and to society. The army has
always reckoned him amongst its most valiant soldiers,
and anarchy amongst its most formidabla adversaries.
Our heroic combats in Algeria remind us of him, and in
the disastrous events of June be 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
that we have never seen in M. do Lamoric ere one
of those ambitious men of gigantic plans
Who dream of the perilous sublimities of power. There
is in M. de Lamoric are only one defect which paralyses
!hose eminent qualities, and that is, an ardent imagina-
tion, a precipitation, and a vivacity which some mars
!eases his cooler reason to deviate from his object, and
'rem that moderation which is so requisite in a political
n- We remember the phrase by which the illustrious
Marshal Bugeaud characterised that impetuous organi-
zation. 'lt is,' said he, • a hi ad which goes rolling on
IV on, until it finds ahle to fall into.' The letter of
enetal de Lamoric*e is, hi our opinion, a fresh
proof of his proneness to yield to sudden inspire
bens. His bitterness of tone, his violence even,
spring rather from the head than from the heart,
Itom the circle in which he lives rather than from what
his conscience dictates. Is it seriously that M. de
j'anaoricia e can speak of the present Government as
znitiroainiag itself by force in power, when in reality it
has for its base universal suffrage, and the strongest
Ilaillf,station of the national will. Is it sincerely that
he reproaches the Government with not respecting
either persons or property, when that Government has
consolidated in so efficient a manner, the great principles
on which rest the safety of soctel and the future pro-
gress
of civilization ? Let M. do Lamoric a examine
114 conscience and say, it placed between the dangers in
Which France was being engulfed, and a patriotic illo•
if, having the power like Louis Napoleon to
crush anarchy to its very root at the price of some sa-
crifices called for from liberty, he would have hesitated
an instant. These attacks against the national sove-
reignty, this ingratitude for the benefits which society
ones to the present Government, are not worthy
of General de Lamer is 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
DE CHAMBORD 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
is Fau-
bour—
, St. Antoine the full amount of all their losses
by that calamity.
It is said that 3,000,000 f. are to be accorded for
the execution of the Cherbourg Railway, and
31000,000 f, for that of the line from Toulouse to
Cette.

The management of the Italian Theatre was con-
fided in 1849 to M. RONCONI for six years, but in
September, 1850, it was taken from him by the Mi-
lliner 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. BEE, his partner, joined him in this
proceeding. Mr. LUMLEY, his successor, on the
contrary, presented a request that RONCONI'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
that Mr. LUMLEY had no right to interfere, and his
intervention was set aside. A similar decision was
given with respect to M. BER. As to 111.Roeicoar,
the Council allowed him, as, at a late stage of the
proceedings, he had rt quested, 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
OAQuI, who, at the age of 75 years, is now dancing
on the tight rope at the Hippodrome, states some
curious facts to account for her being compelled at
BO advanced a period of life-to contiuue a fatiguing
and hazardous performance. It appears that Madame
Secant had acquired a handsome fortune many years
age, and had resolved to retire, when her brother,
who was the manager of the Barren Theatre, was on
the point of becoming bankrupt with debts ewount-
leg to 600,000 f., and, to save his credit, Madame
SAQUL paid the whole amount, and reduced herself to
poverty. Since that time she has never been enabled
to accumulate sufficient wealth to retire, end latterly,
according to the Paine, 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 rolked of the whole of her
money. In her youth she was patronized by the
Emperor NAPOLEON, who frequently made her pre..
Bents; and on one occasion, when much in want of
money to meet some engagements, she applied to the
EMPEROR for the large sum of 10,0001., 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-a-Half
per Cents, opened at 991. 70c., and closed at the
same price for the end of the month; the Three per
Cents, closed at 701. 3004 Orleans Railway Shares,
1,170 f.; Rouen, 755 f.; Havre, 2901.; Gratt Northern,
582 f• 50a.; Avigneu, 308 f. 75c ; Vieizon, 577 f. 50,a;
242 E Soc.; Borde,eli, 612 f. 50e.; Paris and Stras-
burg, 551 f, 25c ; Tours d Nantes, 3701.; Paris and
Lyons, GUI. 25e ea
BUSINESSLONDDOON STNEINO FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
East Indian EXCHANGE. MAY 18.
and Liege, ,
uland Junction of France, 4 amur
ear's and Bordeaux, 1514—Pans and
Lyons, 101,a—Paris and Strasbourg, 21%—Satubre and
Metal; 5% West Flanders, 31i;i—Weatern. of France, 7 Ve•

SPAIN. -
Our accounts from Madrid ore the 13th.
All the Ministers et out thattt of
yf for Aranjuez, in
order to hold a Council under
tbe and the an-
at
tight,Pr.`sideney of the
QUEEN ; they were to return
nouncement of the appointment of new Minister
of Marine was expected on the following y
Martnraz, of the Royal Navy, was thougeht. to have
the best chance.
It was said that the Government bad concluded
a
satisfactory arrangement with the Bank of St. Ferdi-
nand for the paym-:;nt of the next half-year's interest
of the national d:bt. The conditions obtained by the
Government are considered very flvourable, and the
interest it is to pay is six per cent.

GERMANY.
The law relative to the duty on Prussian news-
papers was passed on the 15th by the Ftrst Chamber
without any modification. It is to t!.-lie eff,,ct from
the Ist July n^xt. In the Second Chamber the Pre-
sident of the Council announced that the session
would be closed about the s:h of June.
The Breslau Gazette states that the marriage of
the Emperor of AUSTRIA with the Princess SwoNIA of