The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-28 00:00:00

Every now and then we see newspaper announce-
ments of intended accessions to office, which usually
have no foundation in fact. One of the latest, put
forth with " all the pomp, pride, and circumstance"
of paragraphing, was to the effect that the lion.
!BANC'S SCOTT, Member for the county Berwick,
was about accepting a colonial appointment, and that
Sir Huon CAMPBELL was to be bis successor in par-
liament. There is something cool in this :—a
gentle-
man's acceptance of office depends on two contin-
gencies, namely, that office has been offered to him,
and that he be willing to take it. But, we rather
think, that the election of his successor as a parlia-
ment man" depends on the electors. In other words,
we doubt whether it ought to be quite certain that,
as a matter of course, if Mr. SCOTT ceased to repre-
sent Berwickshire, Sir HUGH CAMPBELL or any other
ducal nominee could be thrust on the county,
without the compliment of consulting the electors.
At any event, it ought not to be so. But there are
pocket-counties as well as pocket-boroughs, and the
Bucc.r.suou interest, we fear, is too potent in the
border county—until the ballot permit the electors
really to exercise their privileges. At present they
will not be called upon to undergo the mockery of
an election, for Mr. SCOTT denies that he is about
accepting any colonial appointment, and (as a ne-
cessary consequence ) that any of " the CAMPBELLS
are coming" into Parliament for Berwick county.
The newspaper announcement was wrong.
Another and more recent piece of news is, that Major
BERESFORD—Barber FRAIL'S "
abou: re-
linquishing his post of Secretary-at-War, and ac-
cepting that of Paymaster-General. That " W. B."
is likely to quit his present office is more tban pro-
bable—for we do not see how Lord DEBBY can re-
tain him. The office be is most likely to accept is
that of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. As for
the Paymaster-General-lip, it is dTclared that
" B." is general paymaster already, with FRAIL
as his deputy ?

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

elections
of 'Feb, February,
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Y.
Tllih'ee have
ireceived e thetbe Pf Li swjiontgi r n al s
article
the
sub-
ject of the election of Members For provincial
o f yo ens ttehred e
Councils :
" The departmental elections,
itr for its being
tiford public spirit a fresh oPPrrin?'
testimonies
manifested. Cenuected with fixed for the 31st, will
malorevaedmyeabteeonf
enthu-
siasmthe o object, tw, ht
hicelyl twhiel lc lupireofv eofoilc'thee the
statetoerset 1 m
hasthe
"reduced itself ie
social renovation which has generally_,! fruitful' results.
rwrhanatce,thaentichwahriacchteris
olfeattlhieesge
should be is
already indicated. Since the revolution
inspired by uthT;
in order to escape
e
one ieiea of coestii ; ut.ng a strorte power i
the public mind has not ceased to be
t
Prince, energetic yet moderate, alone offered
rguaaran guarantees
from anarchy. The name of Napoleon personified in pa
sufficiently complete to bring to a good end . work
commenced in the midst of so many ruins. Thu instinct
of the masses has not deceived them. Never did
it show itself more sore and persevering, and
never has public confidence been more completely
justified. Each time that France, mistress of
herself has remitted her safety to the hands of the
heir of the Emperor, she has received in force and
prosperity more than she had dared to hope. Hence this
intimate union between the popular will and the chief
whom France has taken. Hence the striking manifests-
tione of which they are the sign. Whatever tends to
strengthen this situation is an act of reason and patriot-
ism on the part of the country. The acclamations of
Alsece are a further guarantee of stebi/ity, founded en
'lie union of all. The approaching elections will remain
faithful to the carne spirit. Two sorts of candidates
ought not to be ellowed seats in the departmental coun-
cils: those who, despite the lessons of experience, still
dream of re-opening the arena of past strifes; and those
who would not show themselves exclusively devoted to
local interests, which it is their mission to represent.
The men chosen by the people ought to he at once pene-
trated with the spirit of conciliation and pace conform-
able to the general spirit of the populations, and ani-
' mated with the one desire of fulfilling their mandate. It
is only upon these conditions that the councils of depart-
mente could usefully fill the part which is eesigned to
them by the constitution and the public will. In fine,
it must he repeated, that in presence of the sentiments
exhibited by France, doubt cannot he permitted. Parties
will not venture upon an impossible struggle, on which
they know beforehand that they must he beaten. The
elections of the 31st July will once more confirm this
unanimity of ideas and of sentiments which open for
France a new era of grandeur and of prosperity."
The Salut Public of Lyons states that it is almost
certain that the PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic
will pass through that city on his way to the south.
His arrival there will take place, it is said, on the 27th
of September.
We read in the Bulletin de Paris on the fete of the
15th of August :

" After having said so much of the recent fetes in the
departments, we cannot avoid saying something of the
preparations that are making in Paris for the fete of the
15th of August. The parsons charged with them were
only waiting for the return of the Prince President to
submit them to him. This has been done, and the pro-
gramme appears to be fixed. According to our informa-
tion,' the following is what will take place. The fete,
which had been spoken of as occupying three days, will
occupy only one. A grand mass will be celebrated at
Notre Dame in presence of all the authorities, the high
functionaries, the chiefs of the army, &e. The Prince
President will review the National Guards and dis-
tribute the colours. There will he grand jousting on
the Seine, End in the evening the opera will be open
to the public gratuitously. The Place de la Concorde
has been chosen for the fireworks, which will be
of the grandest description. The principal dis-
play will represent the passage of Mont St. Bernard,
with the Emperor on horseback, and a fall of snow dur-
ing the march of the army. The illumination will be of
a nature to eclipse everything of the kind hitherto seen.
On the triumphal arch will be an immense eagle, whose
wings wall extend nearly 100 feet. There will be a dis-
tribution to the poor, and it said there will be a series of
amnesties and pardons."

General Baron GOUEGAUD, Grand Cross of the Le-
gion of Honour, and who was aide-de-camp of the
Emperor NAPOLEON and of King LOUIS PHILIPPE,
died in Paris on Sunday, after a long illness. The
funeral service will take place to-morrow morning,
at ten o'clock, at the church of St. Louis d'Antin.
Count THIBEAUDEAU, senator, has been confined
for some days to his bed, at Maisons, by a rather
serious malady. The ex-King Jaaoms visited him
on Saturday. The Count, who is very old, had been
a senator under the empire.

General Da LAW(ESTINE on Sunday. passed in
re-
view, in the Bois de Vincennes, five battalions of the National Guard. The General expressed to the corn.
appearancemande rs of tshneds e
discipline.troo p s his gir,ehaet satisfactioncrenera General
sfteartwtshredi
ofsrpmaarntodoinkg
proposed. the
" Viva l' o
officers,
e rbsr, essokdfasi
nt
toffered
courseto hoifmi t
Napoleon 1"
the corn-
hivenalsthreopfntnhdesPdaEtosipbEyNToorfietsheofß,e,pvulbvieic.bYhis toast
Ermnpefrreoumr l'
have just returned, Marseilles that abcut. twenty of
theWpeerlseoans exiled to Algeria for political offences
At the town of
pßincE pannainiT having been pardoned by the
celebrated, with neauvais, the inhabitants have just
great splendour, the festival of
P
Jeanne Hachette.Everything was exceedingly well
arranged, but the great event of the day was the pre-
sentation by
the PRINCE, of a E,through the Prefect of the
oriflarnrne magnificentcaptured lac-simile of the cele-
bratedy the heroine from the
Burgundians. In presenting this beautiful specimen
of French workmanship to
h
8 the Make, the Prefect
recalled the well-known speech delivered by the
PitINCE at a banquet at thehotel de Ville of Beau-
vais :—" It is encouraging to ttsntk that Providence
reserves it to one man to be the in
all." The Prefect made an
obviousrumebn t of saving
but graceful
application of this sentiment. LOUD; NAPOLEON
n
; a devoted himself for the general safety
d the
-h of Beauvais proved to have been
spec. a prophecy of
the 2d of December.
The I3.9urse was very firm. The Four-and•a-Half
per Cents. opomd at 103 f. 25c., end closed o at 1031.
35c., for the end of the month. The Three per
Cents, closed at 721. 45c. ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,405; Rouen, 935 r. Havro, 360 f. ; Crcat Northern,
638 f. 75c.; Avignor:, 468 f. 75c.; Basle, 293 f. 75c.; Paris
and Strasburg, 618 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 725 f. ;
Great Western. 631 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 590 f.;
ht• Dizier and Gray, 5231. 75c. ; the New Austrian
Lean, 94i.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 27.
Dijon and Besancon 2 —Dutch Rhenish, 53—Grand I
Junction of France,' Ys
4,3i—La2cembuurg Railway, 4N,_.

first in demand untilathey arrive at such quotations ;
as to deter from purchasing those who desire to ob-
tain fair returns for their investments. Other
channels then arise. Some frauds will, of course,
be perpetrated, but these may easily be guarded
against. A very moderate degree of caution will
frustrate the designs of the Mentagues, Tripes, et
hoc genus omne, while it would be folly of the worst
description to avoid good and bona fide transactions,
because there has been an attempt at swindling. As well
might a man refuse to accept a good Bank of Eng-
land note because he had once been the victim of a
forgery, or repudiate a real sovereign because an in-
genious smasher had formerly induced him to accept
base metal. A little care is necessary, but that can
easily be exercised, while the swindlers are exposed to
the most severe of the secondary punishments, ba-
nishment for a protracted term being the penalty in-
curred b
ryantthoseguipl
rtyeteonf
ceosb.taining money under
such