The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-01 00:00:00

FRANCE

The Government has received the following te-
legraphic dispatch, dated—
" TOULON, SEPT. 28, P.M.
" his Highness leaves Toulon to-morrow morning to
proceed to Aix. The Prince has assisted at a ball of-
fered to him by the city. It is impossible to describe
the enthusiasm with which he was received at his ar-
rival and at his departure. The rooms resounded con-
stantly with cries of Vive l'Empereurr "
The French Government has received a dispatch
from Brussels, announcing that the Belgian Ministry
had resigned, and that the Chambers were pro-
rogued until the 25th of October. This event is
regarded as an immense victory by the French Mi-
nisters.

An article of the Pays will find a responsive feeling
in every well-disposed mind, as it is impossible not to
utterly reprobate the violent language used against
the Head of the French nation in some of the foreign
journals. The Pays expresses itself on the subject as
follows :

" Assuredly the odious crime cannot be ascribed
to any of the old parties who divided France. All
these parties, it must be said to their honour, have
been horrified at it. Some wretched remnants of
the secret societies in which a social re-organization
prepared by pillage and murder, yielding, perhaps,
to the interested suggestions of the men who feel despair
at seeing the happiness of France—such, no doubt, will
be the only elements which the hand of justice will find
in the investigation of the baffled plot. Who, however,
dare affirm that certain pamphlets—some of them com-
posed abroad by writers calling themselves Frenchmen—
that certain journals published in neighbouring countries,
have been without influence on the minds of the conspi-
rators of Merseillea? Are the authors of a manifesto
published a few days ago in a Belgian journal, and
which contained these sanguinary words, Citizens,
men, do not discuss, do not vote against, crime—
they strke it 1' free from all participation in the crime?
The journal which decorates itself with the title of La
Nation Beige exceeds all the others in violence. After
having shamefully outraged the French people, the
clergy, the magistracy, and the army, it does not shrink
from a direct provocation to assassination. Here are
some textual quotations from that journal:—' At
Bourges and Nevers, the peasants who were brought in
were so drunk that they did not know what they cried.
It is alleged that in their drunkenness they even forgot
th.y 1-nne6 or LAI,. yelleO " ViveUt
lea Rouges !" instead of " Vive l'Empereur;" All
honest people were disgusted at the ignoble
spectacle.' On the 15th September, the .Nation Beige
published, besides, the following lines, which one would
think traced with the point of the knife of Ravaillac:—
We are all mutually responsible for humanity; and on
that account vie cordially thank all men of generous
heart who devote themselves to unmasking and striking
despots wherever they may appear. Despots are the
common enemy whom we are proud to combat by their
side; and we are well convinced that they will not dis-
arm until the whole world shall be purged from the race
of oppressors. Happy shall we be if a single voice re-
sponds to this appeal.' On the 24th September, the
same journal publishes a long piece of verse, which con-
cluded with these lines:—

' En regardcrtt passer Noir et sa fortune,
La France clans ses mains sent fromir le poignard!'
No one is ignorant of the grave difficulties which arise
for Governments from the liberty of the press; but at no
period has liberty, even the most extreme, been con-
founded with the excesses, the orgies of license. There
are, in such a matter, bounds which the most vulgar
morality, the 'most elementary notions of international
law do not permit to be disregarded. Is it enough for a
man to be the elect of a great people for him to be
placed out of the pale of humanity? Is it for having
saved Europe from menacing anarchy that he should be
exposed to the most odious, the most revolting provo-
cations?"