The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-21 00:00:00

' justifying the Papal Bull. This, we suppoz,e, con-
stituted his chief claim to the suffrages of the men of
Dundalk, but it was sufficient for the purpose.
Mr. Bowe.Est had formerly contested Reading
when Mr. STANF IRD was chosen. At Ar-
magh Colonel RAWDON, a tried and consistent Liberal,
was left in a minority by Mr. Ross MoonE, a bar-
rister of respectable character and position, but pro-
fessing strong Derbyite opinions. This is a second
Ministerial gain without any equivalent to the Li-
beral cause. At Ennis, the O'Goissams MAHON,
notwithstanding his tried and faithful services,
and the esteem and respect which he enjoyed among
men of all parties, was left in a minority by his op-
ponent, Mr. J. D. FITZGERALP, Q.C. The result
will, however, make no alteration in the state of
parties, nor will the exclusion of Mr. J. P. SOMERS
for Sligo, who has once more yielded to Mr. C.
TOWNLEY. It will be in the recollection of our
readers that there was a similar result at the
general election of 1847, and that Mr. TOWNLEY
was unseated on petition. Mr. SOMERS, we believe,
intenda once more to try his fortune before a Com-
mittee of the House. At New Ross Mr. CHARLES
GAVIN DUFFY, the well-known proprietor of the
Nation, has replaced Mr. J. H. TALBOT. Young
Ireland has thus obtained a representative in Perlis-
meat. We will hope that a better fate may attend
the Honourable Gentleman than that which befel
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, whom we would gladly see
restored to his home and country. We have now
gone through the Irish boroughs which have not re-
turned their old representatives, and it will be seen
that there is a gain to Ministers of two votes,
or of three, if Sir H. W. BARRON, whose consistency
could scarcely be relied on, with any degree of confi-
dence, for a single session, be omitted from the cal-
culation. The changes, too, have been altogether
against the Moderates, there being no instance of a
Whig or recite replacing a Derbyite or s nitra-Li-
beral ; while even a suspicion of partiality to the
RUSSELL Government was in many instances sufficient
to occasion the exclusion of well-known parties who
had otherwise acquired the good-will of their respec-
tive constituencies. Some county elections are already
decided, the chief results being the exclusion of Mr.
MORGAN JOHN O'CoNNEEn, a staunch Liberal,
whose
vacant seat has been supplied by Mr.BROWNF, amem-
ber of the Kenmare family, and the substitution
of Sir CHARLES COOTE, a Derbyite, and Mr'
MICHAEL DUNN, an ultra-Liberal tenant-farmer,
for the Hon. THOMAS VESEY, a Peelite, and the
Right Hon. J. W. FITZPATRICK, a moderate Whig.
We shall speedily have further intelligence from the
Irish counties, as many will be decided this day.
It is not, however, anticipated that there will be any
very great alteration in the balance of
parties from
the returns yet to come, so that in Ireland there will
probably be, on the whole, a Ministerial gain of three
or four, no very great change when the effect of the
possession of patronage be taken into consideration.

THE FRENC REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The proceediog at Strasburg continue to be the
lezding triple in tan capital. The telegraphic dispatches
frem the former city came down to tvv,rity minutes to
ticven of Monday evming. After the PRINCE PRESIDENT
had witnessed the operation of throwing the bridge of
cvoiezpeadri
itehde
bßys d
theem egnarvrai;sono
fe. frtrlt4paal,
boats over the. Ith.ine, he went flenr3 to Kehl, and re-
ce. He was ac-
IL.dan, Wurtem-
berg, Hesse, and Switzerla-‘e, and was received most
warmly. The weather was delightful, and the multitude
on each side of the river immange. The PRINCE re-
turned to the Prefecture at four o'clock, and in
half an hour afterwards drove out in plain clothes, in an
open carriage, through the streets to La Ilobertstan,
where jousting was taking place on the river.
Being recognised he was so cordially received that he
alighted sad walked amongst the crowd, which act of
confidence raised no enthusiasm of the spectators to the
highest pitch. The PRINCE returned to the Prefecture
at six o'clock. The last telegraphic dispatch is as fol

" THE PREFECT OF THE HAS RHIN TO THE MINISTERS OF THE
INTERIOR AND OF GENERAL POLICE.
"Strasburg,
19th, 40 min. after Six Evening.
"At half-past four the Prince, dressed in plain clothes,
o
went in an open carriage and took a ride through the streets
Strasburg and to the Eobertstan, where jousts were taking
place, and other games. Ile was immediately recognised and
surrounded by a respectful and eager crowd. Every one
was anxious to see and come near him, uttering loud cries of
live Napoleon!" "Vive le Sanveur de la France Moved
by this truly popular demonstration, the Prince alighted
from his carriage and mixed with the crowd. The people
were then almost in a state of deliriam, and it was in the
midst of the transports of the people, respectful in their affec-
tion, that the Prince continued his promenade, and returned
to the prefecture at six o'clock."
The hospitalty exercised at Strasburg during the
fetes is of the most liberal description. Any visitor who
arrives, and finds himself unprovided with a lodging,
can proceed to tho Mairie, whore he immediately ob-
tains a ticket for some disposable room. The Mayor
has had a list made out of all the lodgings which the
town afforded, and from it he accommodates such per-
sons as apply to him. The prices charged have re-
mained within moderate limits, and the greatest good-
will is evinced in affording frank
,and kind accommo-
dation.
made
of tbhye engineers and naval
steam navy. It is
The Presse says—" It is well known that numerous
oe xtErceerrism ef
for
ot s have
improvementnow proposed to put steam-engines into all the sailing
ve been
vessels, and to make steamers of them by a procesa at
once simple and rapid." .
The Pays takes advantage of some tutbulent scenes
in the English 'electiOns to condemn the'system of voting
practised in England, and eulogize universal suffrage as
practised in France. As the Pays is an ardent advocate
of universal suffrage and rote by ballot, it is not sur-
prising that it ehould take advantage of the defects ap-
parent in a different system to set forth its own in favour-
able colours. " There are in England," says Galignani,
" however many persons who are as great advocates for
liberty as the' Pays can be, but who give a perference to
the English mode of election with all its defects, because
they believe that the results are more favourable to free-
dom than that which the Pays eulogizes, because the
machinery is not liable to the impediments which it
condemns."

Tne article in the Pays concludes by saying—
" Since 1848 universal suffrage has been often exercised.
It was not, as in constitutional Governments, the elite and
Privileged who went to fulfil the duties of citizens; it was
the whole people, great and small, noble passions and brutal
passions, edtication or ignorance, all ranks, all conditions, all
intelligences, cen'ounded in a common mission—the people,
that sea of changing waves in which unforeseen and terrible
tempests so often arise. Well ! nowhere was there any Gin.
turbance, or any violence; everywhere were the calm and
dignity of a nation which accomplishes the most important
act of its sovereignty with the conscience of the grandeur of
the work; the electors deposited their votes in the urn like
men who understood the gravity of their action and the con-
sequences of social salvation which were to result for the
whole nation. Thus universal suffrage, so calumniated by
its systematic adversaries. so dreaded by those who had not
seen it act, has twice saved France and civilization,whilst the
excesses of the English elections compromise and degrade the
representative system of constitutional monarchies." '
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 103 f. 20e.
declined to 103 f., and closed at. 103 f. 15e. for the end of
the month ; the Three per Cents. closed at 72f. 25c. ;, Orleans
Railway Shares, 1,3931.; Rouen,' 923 f. 75c. ; Havre, 350 f. ;
Great Northern, 637 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 467 f. LOc ; Basle,
'191.f. 26c.; Paris and Strasburg, 615 t. ;-Paris and Lyons,
698 f. 75c.; Great- Western, 590 f. ; Lyuna and Avignoil,
Prof.; the New Austrian Loan, 05;g.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
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Dijon and Besancon, 2% —Dutch Rhenish, 6—East Indian,
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Lyons, 171,%—Paria stnd Straibourg, 244,—Sambre and
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