The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

The following is the answer by the CJunt do
Montale-‘-,bert to the public proclamation as well as
to the ¶rivate circular of the Prefect of the
Doubs

"Electors,—Official and other documents charge the
Catholio and Liberal candidate with wishing to ' paralyse
the energies of France, to imperil her security at home as
well as her legitimate influence abroad, to give up the coun •
try to hazard, to pave the way for fresh revolutions, to dis-
turb and endanger the Empire.' In a word, he who during
10 years represented you is, according to these documents,
a man of disorder and revolution. My whole life is one
long contradiction to the calumny. I never attempted to
overthrow any Government; 1 never had a hand in any
conspiracy, never figured in any adventure, never ap-
plauded any revolt, and never profited by any revolution.
I am driven to declare that among the servants and
the panegyrists of the Empire there aro not many who
can say as much. The whole of what they tell you
amounts to this :—You must name deputies docile and
resolved to do everything the Emperor tells them. If this
be so, the shortest way is to suppress the Legislative Corps
altogether; for if it be composed only of salaried approvers
it is but a costly and useless piece of machinery; its sup-
pression will simplify matters and reduce t he amount of the
Budget. The Emperor will be very well to go on alone.
He has no need of a crowd of advisers all paid to be always
of his opinion. Bnt the Emperor himself one day said
that ' his Government needed control and publicity,' and
the country has taken him at his word. The whole of
France is at this moment shaking off its sleep. In all direc-
tions she is calling back to public life men of whom I feel
[ride and honour to be the friend— Thiers, Dufaure, Ber-
ryer, Odillon Barrot. These are men who have given proofs
of independence and patriotism in the most stormy times,
and therefore the more competent to exercise salutary con.
trol in times of calm. They have all responded to the call
and come forward as candidates. Not one of them has put
forth pretensions incompatible with the maintenance of the
Empire, though all have demanded the restitution of the
rights which France long possessed, and which sooner or
later ahe will obtain from those who have the honour to govern
her. Like them, and with them, I demand—less of taxation
and more of liberty, fewer conscripts and greater control, less
of arbitrary rule and more of responsibility, less police and
more discussion. My programme is comprised in three
words. I want three things as Lecesary for the country as
they are advantageous to the Government—viz., peace,
economy, and liberty I

" Cu. DE MONTALEMBERT,"

Count de Persigny, Minister of the Interior, has
addressed the following circular to the prefects :

" Paris, 28th May.
"Monsieur le Prefet,—For the first time since tie esta-
blishment of the empire, the parties hostile to the Institu-
tion which France has given herself, dare to attactr them
in the face of universal suffrage. Men of 1815, of 1830,
and of 1848, coalesced in a common effort, endeavour on
several points to surprise the good faith of the country, in
order to turn against the Emperor the very liberties which
he has recently given, and all, as if obeying a common
watchword, have recourse to the same manceuvm.
"Not being able to deny the grand things vhich have
been accomplished during the last ten years—fin every one
has them before his eyes —they attack the moans which
have served for their accomplishment—that is to say, the
finances of the State, because, as few persons are conver-
sant with questions of that kind, they hope to to able with
greater impunity to disseminate falsehood and error.
"Their calculation is very simple. If they could suc-
ceed in disturbing public opinion as to the state of our
finances, they would at the same time weaken the faith of
the country in our institutions, and that is tie secret of
their attempts.
"The country, however, Monsieur le Prefer, will not bo
the dupe of lying assertions. If the Emperor has been able
in 10 years to raise France to so high a degree of prospe-
rity, it is because he had known how to adminibly employ
our resources for public prosperity, and a good management
of the finances are not able to go on one without the other.
" In order to satisfy the great interests of the country
abroad and at home, the debt has been increased by 87 mil-
lions of rente, but as the increase of the pubic revenue
amounts to 3JO millions, without any addition nade to the
taxes, that charge is insignificant in comparison with the
results obtained, and with France enlarged by thee depart-
ments. So much for the debt.

" As for the budget, which is not two milliards, as is
erroneously stated, as there must be deducted 550 millions
of expenses which, according to our system of lueping ac-
counts, are only entered for the sake of order, there follows,
in our day as in all times, the ascendant progrefs given to
it by the development of social riches. But while the
Government of July had successively increased it by 500
millions, the empire has only added to it 300 millions to
effect the great things which you are so well aware of. Thus,
on this noblyemployed budget, without reckoning innu-
merable public works, roads, churches, schccls, &c., the
empire has found the means of devoting one milliard to our
railways; and that milliard has produccd for the country, in
our towns and in our rural districts, more than milliards of
wealth.

"The financial state of France is, therefore, as solidly
established as ihe result of the operation of the empire is
striking. This is the truth—this is what the French psople
will in their good faith comprehend—and this is what his-
tory will relate to the glory of the empire.—Accept, &c.,
"F. DE PERSIGNY."

The following is a correct list of all the candidates
in the nine districts of the Seine—of the Govern-
ment as well as of the Opposition :

GOVERNMENT CANDIDATES.

District.

Ist. M. Delessert, proprietor.
2d. M. Devinck, ex-deputy.
3d. M. Varin, merchant.
4th. General Perrot, ex-deputy.
sth. M. Frederick Levy, mayor of the 11th district.
6th. M. Fouchd Lepelletier, ex-deputy.
7th. M. Constant Fay, merchant.
Bth. M. Kcenigswarter, ex-deputy.
9th. M. Picard, ex-mayor of Ivry.

OPPOSITION CANDIDATES,
1. Joseph Blanc, printer; M. Ravin, political editor of the
the Steele, and Ferdinand de Lasteyrie, ex-deputy.
2 M. S. Didkr, workman, and M. Thiers, ex-minister.
3. M. Emile 011ivier, ex-deputy.
4. M. Ernest Picard, ex-deputy.
5. M, Coutant, printer, and M. Jules Favre, ex-deputy.
6. M. Cochin; M. Dupuis, barrister; M. Gueroult, chief
editor of the Opinion Nationale; M. de Jouvenel; and

M. Prevost Paradol, the editor of the Journale des De'

bats.

7. M. Cantagrel, ex-deputy, formerly editor of the
Democratie Pact:file; M. Darimon, ex-deputy ; 'M.
Phillippe Dore, professor ; and Dr. Earnest Gregoire
8. M. Adolphe de Milly, manufacturer, and M. Jules

Simon, member of the Institute.
9. M. Eugene Pelletan, journalist.

The Constitutionnel (the Government organ)
issues an address to the electors. It says, in its
;mpression of to.arty :
"Ten millions of electors, having (to quote the words of
the Minister of the Interior) to render an account only to
God and their own conscienees, give their votes to-day and
to-morrow (Sunday and Monday). We confidently await
the popular verdict, and we have already pointed out what
those millions A bulletins will signify which bear the names
of the candidates recommended by the Government to elec-
tion by universal suffrage. Sympathy for the Imperial
dynasty, gratitude for past favours, certainty for the future—
that is what universal suffrage means in the coming ballot.
Citia-ns who love the greatness of your county; electors
who have any pretension to patriotism, and who conse-
quently render justice to the noble and successful efforts of
a policy which gives order and prosperity at home, avd
makes France be esteemed and respected abroad ; electors,
who have a memory, and who, consequently, remember the
abyss from which the Empire and the Emperor have saved
France, proceed to the vote, consulting only your hearts and
your reason. Let us repeat it ; we are full of confidence.
Universal suffrage will not hesitate in its decision between
the representatives of order, of progress, of the national
greatness, and the spectres of anarchy. We are once more
about to see what an imperceptible minority in the country
are the enemies of the Imperial institutions."

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The New Zealand Chiefs, ac-
companied by their interpreters and attendants,were
present at the Crystal Palace on Saturday. The various
contents of the palace appeared to excite their attention to
a most extraordinary degree. What more particularly
struck them was the varied collection of ferns in the tropi-
cal and other parts of the building, which they said was
the strongest reminiscence of their own country they had
yet seen. They have accepted an invitation to be present at
the palace on Saturday next, that being the Queen's birth•
day, and in commemoration of which the great foentains
will be played (for the first time this season) at two o'clock
prior to the concert.

HALIFAX WOOL AND WORSTED MARKET, SATUR
DAY.—The wool market has been firm at former
quotations. The quantity of wool changing hands just
now is by no means great, all parties waiting for the new
clip; biquiries are, therefore, only for immediate wants,
and the " matchings" thus sought up fetch last week's
prices. In foils and brokos an average amount of business
has been done. Spinners ask an advance on proviou, rato,
Frames are fully employed. The piece trade continues
comparatively quiet, heavy goods being little in request.
SUICIDE BY PRUSSIC ACID.—On Saturday in-
formation was forwarded to Mr. W. Carter, coroner
for Surrey, of the death of Joseph Medway, aged 22, a
medical student, lately residing in Penton-street, Kenning_
ton, who committed suicide by swallowing a quart; ty of
prussic acid. It appears that the deceased left home in his
usual spirits on Friday and returned at half-past eight, and
having procured a light he l roceeded to his bed-room,
Not making his appearance the bed-room door was forced,
when the lifeless body of the young man was found lying
on the bed,