The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-06 00:00:00

dismissal from the Government was the fact of his
having declared himself decidedly in favour of the
memorable coup cl. Rat of the 2d of December, that
daring act,'which has subsequently received, through
universal suffrage and the ballot, the decisive approval
of the whole French population ! With Viscount
PALMERSTON again in office, and next time, as we
have intimated, not as Foreign Secretary, but as
Prime Minister, England would be enabled to
enter into a staunch and cordial compact with the
Republican Government of France, and with the Re-
publican Government of America—a compact by
which those three nations, the most liberal and the
most powerful in Christendom, might set at naught,
at once and for ever, the atrocious machinations of
the AUTOCRAT and his German satellites. 17:
In reference to the possibility of witnessing the
carrying out of this scheme of alliance with France,
it may be incidentally observed, that one by one the
various accusations of a most atrocious character,
directed against the PRESIDENT by his as-
gallants in this country, are being clearly and tri-
umphantly disproved. Ho was charged very recently,
it may be remembered, with the crime of having re-
ceived an autograph letter (concerning his proceed-
ings on the 2d ultimo) from the Emperor of RUSSIA.
This, it may be observed, has now received an official
contradiction. Louis INTAPoLtoie, again, was vilified
for having, according to these most veracious publi-
cists,Republic by suddenly
broken
proclaimingfaithhimswi himself Emperor.
the
Emperor. Mail after
mail reaches us from Paris, and not a
i
whisper more s heard in regard to
that preposterous assertion. But beyond all this, the
PRESIDENT has been abused as a monster of cruelty
for what has been called, again and again, the atrocious
massacre of the people by the soldiers on the boule-
vards. Well—the particulars of the killed
and the civilians in Paris on
the h
woundedof
December
og
nis published in due course, and
what is the nature of the revelations ? Why it turns
4 t
out that the massacre of thousands presents to us a
total of 215 killed and of 115 wounded ; while
out of the 215, 137 fell at the barricades, 78 ex-
piring afterwards. Out of the entire number killed,
moreover, it is asserted that only ten persons were
not concerned in the insurrection. So much for the
reported massacre of the innocent population !
Every additional particular, indeed, received in
reference to the coup d itat of the 2d
of December only assures ue more and
more that so great a change—a change, moreover, re-
establishing the ballot and universal suffrage—was
never before effected with so little effusion of blood.
Let it be borne in mind, in addition to this, that the
movement in question effectually crushed the anar-
chists, and that by the votes of the nation on the 21st
ultimo it has been consecrated as an act of patriotism
by the almost unanimous approbation of the French
multitude. Everything considered, therefore, we are
by no means extravagant in the anticipation of an
alliance between the liberal Cabinets of England,
France, and the United States, an alliance we are
gratified to regard as inevitable on the reinstatement
of Lord PALMERSTON as chief of the new Government.