The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE.

The following is the full text of the article in the
Constitutionnel, signed Paulin Limayrac, a sum-
mary of whicn has already appeared :

" When a Government has succeeded to a series of
other Governments whose adherents have been deprived
of their posts or of their influence, it is a natural conse-.
quence that all individual malcontents feel inclined to
coalesce against it. As each cannot inform the public of
the secret of his regrets and of his disappointments, he
invokes great principles and broad reasons, and all en-
deavour to deceive the electors by a display of fine doctrines
and of noble sentiments. Liberty is a sonorous Word,
which lends itself to everything. The emigres Loth
within and without, who have learnt nothing by expeni-
ence, and who imagine that all the past has been forgotten •
—the men of 1815, of 1830. and of 1848, the enemies
iiof
all liberty in the past as well as the enemies of all order
could be a
They clamour loud for liberty, as if France ever .
the present, cling without a blush to that
diculous
slave. But let us pass over these outbursts offing
lace
professions of faith. In what is actually p
congratulate the
there is a great fact upon which we .
tion is at an
Government; it is that henceforth all equivocation
end. Hitherto, former parties had confined themselves to
attempting to undermine the ruling power by those under-
handgran rdwerord.
tphreiynoeipnldoesovfotuhreedGboyvearnmtheonu:ainudpetty
intrigues in which they excel. Working their way
into the centre of the Administration, by means of their
attack-
ing it in the detail of its management. The tendencies
vrietliaatteionl
of a popular and vigorous Government, full of
energy, full of love for the masses which created sap
and
aforrtsmetor
sympathy for the popular classes who were it, full of
it, were often distorted by men of another the first to hail
slipped into humorous posts rind stain p, who had
devotion, corrupting under the false semblance of
what was
of bygone influences. In theirgo.o by instilling the poison
under-
mining work, public opinion w Ignorance of this
and occurrences opposed to the .
as often astonished at acts
' How comes it,' has often interests of the Government.
Mr. So-and-So, a known been said in the provinces, . that
much influence upon wn
enemy
of the Government, has so
Behold functionaries the resolutions of the Administration?
appointed and dismissed by his in-
fluence—such a favour
legranted or declined at his bidding.'
devoted friends of
fPthe tta mislead public opinion, Many
intrigues. Butothers, hGovernmenteeboeuctame alarmedro .at these
d
justifying this state of things, from an rainrytereasptpofv:ontgacialil-
tion, turned these petty sets of treason into a State doctrine.
Thanks to Providence and the mistakes of former faotione,
all this will be put a stop to. Urged by their impatience,
and by a sort of frenzy, they unmask themselves before the
to
Government and the country. The enemies of unive
suffrage, they attack it. Under the leadership of
menstorm
iu ideas even than in years, they attempt to
m older
the
ni-out ar-
Government with their ancient weapons and wo
11 encounter the fate
msur. All these follies of old age will a
great service will
all such follies meet with.
Bat what
in putting an end to the
they not render to the Government
araasking
false friends, by
system of equivocation,
by
ynd false services I Placed face
false devotion a
showing up • the task of the Government
0131013,
to face with declaredtheen
obstacles which impeded its action,
will be free from all
e Bin ire will be strengthened in pro
and the genius of th . . p
' to what the spirit of intrigue will have lost."
portion

T BASTERN FISHERIES.--The mackerel fishery
IL
.s :olv, being carried on with vigour by the Great
Y arraoual boats. Fair deliveries have been made. Prices
have fluctuated considerably, but have been tending down-
wards, having fallen 60s. per 120, while over• day fish have
been quoted 52s per 120.