The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-14 00:00:00

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AN-11.GrotER0NNI.E0IN:alhpoaocykleeA:nA:;:rrvd.Deed.
GTEhNe followingEß
,1 mla nletter;es rdinarye.g:loy3:6tlo3T'sl2e.o,aeri_sios.
crees on the oath; has bc-,enpublished:—
F:a‘nMcelweirhinaistdrtfirotipbuilliwa4hleh might be equalled, but
which could not be surpaseed.
"Under the Restoration--I held a grade.in the army
proportional to the then obscurity of the services I had
rendered.
"-Under the Gocernment•- of Jaly-113 e chanees of war
raised me rapidly to the Bullion of lieutenantegeneral.
"Twelve days after the proclamation of the Republic,
when M. the Due d'Aumalc, whom 'I had just rtecon-
ducted on board the S.don, hcmouring him with a salute
.from the artillery of the-Place de la Marine, as if the
King Louis Philippe atilt. inhabited the Tuileries, had
left me the Government of Algeria ad interim.
"I wrote to the Minister of the Interior that I bad not
wished for -the proclamiatien of the Republic, but that it
did not appear to me to change my duties towards my
country; the provisional Government did not break my
iword, and on-the 16th Apfilit had no 'cause to regret
heieg able to Make ere A short time after that
day I was appointed. Governor-General of Africa. [soon
leftahat high pusitior, where everything was .easy for
me to effect, to respond to the confidence of the electors of
Paris, who called me to -the Constituent Assembly.
General Cavaignac, charged with the Executive Go-
vernment, after the deya of June; 1848, at which time I
was absent, named me on the 30th of Jane Comm andcr •
in-Chief of the National Guards of the Seine. On the
14th of December of the • same year General Cavaignse
having desired me to • call at-the hotel he occupied,
Rue,de Varennes, told me, in tho presence of all the
Mi47.tere, that the polic believed in a Bonapartist
movement, prepared to profit by the ceremony of, the
anniversary of the tiansletion of the remains of the
Emperor to the Invelidee, in order to excite the rpular
rt,
inetsh,uasii,
das
to-proclaim
tperoecolnadi
mu conduct
iNma
EpOln=Bonaparte
Generalte et haevaTtguni lsee
finished byasking -
ea y •opinion on the measures to be
' taken. I gave him it, and finished by saying, My
dear General,-I have given my 'hand. to Louis Napoleon
to make him a President—not .an- En3peror. In a few
days he will be President of. the Republic; bat you may
deend upqn itatiat itis not to-rnorrow that he will enter
tho Tuileries, where you nave established my quarters-
general.'
• " These winds expressed-briefly, but exactly, my un-
ehakeable determination to re mains-` in all my life
I have-been--a main of order and-of the laW.
" Louis Napoleon BonapartEehas several times at.
tempted to make me deviate from the right li
ne ne which
to
I had traced to myself, in order to . determi me
servo his ambition. Tie .has offered . We, and ,made
other persons .oft' r me, . net only the dignity of
Marshal, which Franoe would have seen conferred
upon me without considering itself falleo, but, ano-
ther military dignity . which,„ bine° the fall of the
Empire, has ceased to .dominate our hierarchy. He
wished to attach to that dignity enormous pecuniary
advantages, which, thanks to the eimplieity of my ha-
bwihtst,nlvhearyd lnatoe,mtheraittpiirerdsoitselalininlnterr.estilhuavdin
on my conduct, he endeavoured to gain me over by pre!
gnopeinret;ievneede,
tending that he was resolved to prepare for the triumph
of the cause of the monarchy: to which be euPPosed
that I was devoted by my predilections.
All these kindi
of seductions were powerless. I never ceased to be,
when in the command of the army of Paris and in the
Assembly, ready, as I once stated during a sitting of the
Committee of Permanence; after the review* at Satory,
to defend with energy the legal-powers of Louis Napo-
leon Bonaparte, and to.give every opposition to the ille•
gal prolongation of those powers. • "
" It is not to you that it is necessary to tell how those
,powers have been establiateed under a new form, and
what iniquitous and violent acts have accompanied his
installation.
" Persecution has not cooled my patriotism. The
exile which I have undergone in solitude and silence,
which now you force ma to break, has not changed in
my eyes my duties to France. •
" Wore it,to be attackeel;l .would solicit with ardour
the hittiotit of fighting.in its defence.
" The eenly French Journal which I here 'see has just
informed me of the decree, which determines the mode
of taking the oath—Which -is to be demanded from all
military authorities. A. paragraph, evidently drawn up
in order to be applied to the' proscibed generals, gives
thetas a delay of feat%months..l hays no need of deliberat-
hag so long upon a question of duty and honour.
" This oath—exacted by the perjured man who has
failed to corrupt nac--this oath I refuse.
(Signed) " CHANGARNIER."

RAGGED SCHOOLS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.'
Stn,--Secing a letter from a Mr. John Lloyd in this
evening's Sun on the above subject, may I be, al-
lowed. the indulgence of replying to that letter in your
columns? - ' .
I quite agree with your correspondent when he says
that there are few societies which have such strong
claims to the support of the afflatiat as Ragged Schools.
Your correspondent states that.there are many who de-
cline to contribute to these schools, not because they
object to the nature of the plan, but to the name only.
Now I certainly have -never yet. heard or read a single
sentence at all. disapproving ,of the title until I read
Mr. L.'s letter, and I cannot myself at all agree in
calling things by their wrong.. names. These schools
are schools for the ragged, and• why refrain from calling
them raggeFl schools? The► reason that is given in the
letter is that direCtly a boy is admitted into one of these
schools, however ragged ho might have been before, he
, will
is immediately transformed into quite a different being.
To prove to the contrary, let Air...L. go some Sunday '
cviiring to Field-lane or Plunotree-sourt schools, raid I
undertake to say, that out of the- whole.nuinber
and decently in
a dozen in
there will not be found more than
situations, or they emigrato
the state' which- .he- describes, , as-clean
ently clad; for we. o not keep such lads as these..
as soon as they attain a certain level they retire into
others of the ragged population, lEtatci,o;nthUsm making room for
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through the mune. system,
Hoping you will.thiuk this worthy of insertionragged school. thus always keeping it a
RAGGED SC,
HOOL.
. . ,
A 'TEACHER
, A t•
Young Men's Christian Assnciatio .
ti, May 11,