The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-02 00:00:00

France—but in other respects a fifth-rate officer—so
valuable. Whether there be unanimity of view in
this Cabinet just named we have no means of know-
ing, but if these men seek to establish at home, ac•
cording to the programme of the President, order,
authority, religion—and abroad national dignity
even though they fail, we must respect their good in-
tentions, even in deploring their want of power and
want of ability. To say more to-day were prema-
ture. When better informed as to obiects and acts,
we shall be more in a condition to speak unre-
serTedly.

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Now ready, at all the Libraries, in Z vols.,
THE MAID OF ORLEANS.
A Romantic Chronicle.

By the Author of
" Whiterriars," " Owen Tudor," &c.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. 'Webster, :,ete Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Macready ;
Ophelia, Miss P. Horton ; Gertrude, Mrs. Warner.
To he followed by en original Farce called THE GUARDIAN
ANGEL. Mr Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggy, MN. Keeley.
To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.
Due notice will be given of the appearance ot Mr. and Mrs. KEAN.
The Box-office is under the direction of Mr I. T. Archer.

11,21.ftt13. .1.1,„ Al rr_;LPlii.
rle,' Olt treet ion of NI ante Celeste.
THiS EVENING,

Will bl performed THE SONS OF MARS.
To be followed by a new slippery sketch called M RS. BUNBURY'S
Sir. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks,
Mr. Nlght ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith: Mrs. Banbury, Dirs. F.
Matthews: Mrs. Ilighbury Barnes, Miss Brooks.
After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr.
Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chant Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Mr. Charles Pusher, Mr. Boyce; Bruest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell; Mrs.
Waters Rummer. Mrs. Frank Matthews.
To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Mader the Management of Madam:. Vestris.
Solo Lewe, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,

,
Will be performed DISCHARGE YOUR TIGER.
After which a new comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN.
To be followed by BEAUTY AND TPIE BEAST.
To conclude with AN APPEAL TO 'CHB PUBLIC.
Dress boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Is. No
4xl -price t' aoy part of the house.
All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15,
New Bond-street.

PRINCESS'S THEAT.a.K.
Mr. J. M. Mwidoc, Stele Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE-
COND.
To be followed by a new Extravaganza, entitled TIIE FIRSNIGH
To Ofielude with a new Ballet entitled LES P A TENET:RS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
rider the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Flighuess
Prince Albert, &c.
Triumphant success of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet,
which has•been nightly received with Mithustasrn, and p on unced
by the public press to be the ni)st go-genus hippo-dramatic piece
giver produced at the A mphitheatre.
Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed Fitzball's grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitled
THE PROPHET, in which Mr. W. West will appear.
niiowea by an Illimitable display of SCENES IN THE
C -143LF.. by the first Rinestrian talent of the day.
To conctkide with TEII DUMB DRIVER.
Dox-office open tl'om Eleven till Four.
stage s:tanager, Mr. W. West.

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347 rainn. after 3
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WEATHER.--►SDN Omen, Nov. 2.
TLIERM,IIIEIER, Lowest, 41; Highest, 52; Noon, 56

BAROMETER, 29.66.
WIND E.S.E.—fine clear weather.

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I ONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1849.

Another change has startled Paris from the apathy
of exhaustion—reminding France of the general
iiveability of her government. LOUIS NAPOLEON,
the elected of the 10th of December, having for
nearly twelve months occupied the palace of the
Elys4e as President, has sammarily dismissed his
Cabinet. And whatever may be thought of the
abruptness of this measure, it is undeniable that the
conduct of the PRESIDENT evinces extraordinary
boldness, immense self-confidence, and a determination
at all hazards to encounter with an unquailing front
the dangers of his very remarkable position. There is a
daring in the Aole movement which arrests attention,
a candour which commands respect, and a reiterated
assurance of regard for the Constitution, which is
beyond all possibility of contradiction. " I wish,"
says the Chieftain in his very able manifesto, " I
wish to he worthy of the confidence of the nation by
In,tintaining that Constitution to which I have sworn
allegiance—en rnaintenant la Constitution gue j'ai
jaree." It is insinuated by those who, hating the
Revolution, are anxious in every way to embarrass
the 2uthority which has emanated from it, that in
his present proceeding the PRESIDENT has violated
the very Constitution, which he here again pretends
to conserve. For ourselves, we must acknowledge
that, viewing with the utmost jealousy the occurrence
which has just startled a certain class of politicians,
we fail to recognise in it any rupture of the moral
bond binding Louis NAPOLEON down to the conser-
vation of the Constitution. True, the event is the
dismissal of his Ministry; and true that that
Ministry had up to almost the last hour of its
existence carried its measures by considerable ma-
jorities through the Legislative Assembly, through
the Assembly of national representatives. Yet
recogni.ing these indubitable facts, we can see nothing
whatever which can be termed arbitrary or unconsti-
tutional in the proceeding of the French PRESIDENT.
had LOUIS'NAPOLRON peremptorily dismissed a Go.
vernment possessing the confidence of the nation we
should certainly have been amongst the first to stig.
inatiz.i the act as an act of private ambition, as an
act of treason to the Constitution. As it is, we
maintain, and have maintained now for some time,
that the late Cabinet was not only without the con -
fill, nee of the uwple, but without the confidence
ern of the pop/11? representatives. It was a Ca
binet of shuffling and inconsistency. It was a Ca-
binet of duplicity and recalcitration. Composed
of the 'most incongruous and heteroge-
neous elements, it was perpetually and, of
late, rather alarmingly and perilously falling into all
s ,rts of dilemmas and contradictions. To be brief—
what the people shrank from accomplishing by a resort
to the streets and the barricades, what the Legislative
Assemllly was afraid of attempting through an uncer-
tainty as to the consequences, has been boldly
achieved by Louis NAPOLEON, the President.
Honest men there unquestionably were in the late
Cabinet, but with them were mingled other statesmen
whose political probity was becoming every day more
and more dubitable. Glaring lies and intolerable
reservations" were the ordinary arguments employed
by them in discusarons irSh their antagonists. They
set at defiance most of the more deeply-cherished
wishes of the country, and were tolerated by a hesi-
tating Assembly solely from the disinclination of the
latter to produce anything like an abrupt catastrophe.

The wi4hes of the nation, the hopes of the popular
representatives, the intentions of the PRESIDENT were
in this manner frustrated. Hence the latter remarks
with indisputable truth, " Instead of effecting a
fusion of different shades of opinion, I have
only obtained a neutralisation of forces—
Au lieu d'operer une fusion de nuances je n'ai obtenu qu'
une neutralization de forces." Tired out with these in-
effectual efforts at amalgamation, disappointed in his

aspirations, the PRESIDENT of the French Republic,
the chosen of the 10th of December, the man elected
by more than six millions of votes, the chieftain em-
powered by the nation to select the members of the
Government, employs the authority reposed in his

hands by dismissing a Ministry which was antago-
nistic within itself, which reigned over the Assem-
bly simply upon sufferance, and which was day by
dqy falling lower and lower in the estimation of the
country.

Ultra-Republicans and Ultra-Legitirnatists must
reluctantly acknowledge the truth very modestly
coon-sled in his manifesto by the PRESIDENT of the
Republic—the truth that he was elected solely through
the influence of the name of NAPOLEON. "An entire
system," says he " triumphed on the 10th of De-
cember, for the name of NAPOLEON is in itself a
yrivamme--meaning ; for the interior, order, autho-
--iitti ,'region, public felicity ; for the ex-
t iic*)ritiOtnal dignity." Taking such as the
:_*-.-iiillab ' 4 hi 3 policy of government, and
Al
-I WO iiichself to the maintenance of the Republican
Ijisaiastitu 'go LOUIS NAPOLEON has manfully taken
i_ A, .0
e:•inki!itil in the work of Ministerial re-organi-
,,,
;=---:- L 33 li 4t, cat abinet already nominated is merely a
4'l; "." ry "make•shift" must be sufficiently manifest
from the political mediocrity of its members. General