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

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1863.

As startling a contrast in its way es that very
recently presented to view in America by the simul-
taneous publication of the Orders of the Day
signed respectively by Generals LEE and HOOKER,
the Federal and Confederate Commanders-in-Chief,
has just now been submitted to the wondering con-
templation, not only of our good friends the Pari-
sians but of the adult male population of all France.
si F. DE PERSIGNY" is the name affixed to one of
those documents. "CH. DE MONTALEMBERT" is
the signature to the other. M. DE PERSIGNY, in
the one instance, addresses himself to all the Pre-
fects indiscriminately, in his capacity as Minister
of the Interior. M. DE MONTALEMBERT, on
the contrary, addresses himself to the electors
of the Doubs exclusively, in his capacity as a can-
didate for their suffrages, that is to say as one of
the foremost of the candidates of the Opposition.
The Minister's circular blazons itself far and wii:e
upon the walls of the French metroplis.
The Count's address, on the other hand, will
hardly be allowed to appear, wa should conjecture,
even in the most rashly outspoken of our Paris, or
of our French provincial, contemporaries. Such
as they are, however, we present them elsewhere
this evening in extenso to our readers, commending
each of these remarkable documents to their very
attentive contemplation.

As inspiriting a trumpet-call—the very reveilles,
as it seems to us, of the more rational aspirations
of Frenchmen for a return to Parliamentary free-
dom—as any yet sounded for a dozen years past
within the boundaries of France, is breathed forth
in noble and reverberating accents through the
Address penned to (we will venture to call them
at once) his constituents at Doubs, by the Count
DE MONTALEMBERT. Simple though the medium
is, through which this illustrious Champion of Let-
ters, of Liberty, and of Religion, addresses himself
(through the Electors of the Doubs) to the whole
mass of his compatriots, placed at his lips we may
say as truly as WORDSWORTH said of the Sonnet
when placed at the lips of MILTON—
"The Thing became a Trumpet."

Not one alone, but all, of the French Constituencies
will take well to heart, more or less eagerly of
course in proportion to the fervour or the coolness
of their political predilections, the burning words
breathed forth with a simple yet most impresive
eloquence by this beneficent but formidable advo-
cate of Constitutional Government. Accused of a
desire to paralyse the energies of France, to im-
peril her security at home no less than her legiti-
mate influence abroad, to jeopardise the stability of
her institutions in a word, to imperil the Empire,
by preparing the way for new Revolutions—the
Count DE NIONTALEMBERT condescends at the very
outset of this the latest of his addresses to the con-
stituency he aspires to represent in the Imperial
Legislature—the Count DE MONTALEMBERT, we
Y. condescends to repel those charges categorically,
to re •
twa,Ptudutte, for once and for all, the notion that he
~,,,,,v4741 any conceivable point of view, be regarded
sr:lllico.rder and revolution. With a noble
e oua t:11/41'itY, he exclaims, "My whole
never:,ha
__ contradiction to th
ouv„ntnent7l. It alts y•
e calumny. I
spiney, never I had
toi overthrow any
by any revolution;
any
and in any con-
:,
A. revolt, never
very quietly An . profited
tttrtcloPoo adds,
less, scathes in
% a "Iltente
all driven to declare thatof
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ants and panegyrists of the among Qthi
not many who can say es reuTP're, there are
whole purport of the eh
Summar:re
°facial
to the covert insinuations or to the boi:eurneuti,
and
blushing imputations cast against himself by
ch
he is here, in this manly address, repi,ingi
words
that
may comprehend, the Count
then
says any
says to his good tritnida the El2cturs of the Doubs
and through them we repeat to all France " The
whole of what they [namely the officials] tell you
amounts to this :—You must name deputies docile
and resolved to do everytl: lug the EMPEROR tells
them. If this be so," he observes with a calm but
cutting irony, "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 snppressioP will
simplify matters and reduce the amount of the
Budget. The EMPEROR will be very well
able to go oa alone. He has no need of
Crowd of advisers all paid to be always of iris
opinion." The force of sarcastic logic could ro