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

Another change has startled Paris from the apathy
of exhaustion—reminding France of the general
instability of her government. LOUIS NAPOLEON,
the elected of the 10th of December, having for
nearly twelve months occupied the palace of the
Elys4.i as President, has summarily 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 iii very remarkable position. There is a
daring in the 44'hole movement which arrests attention,
a candour which commands respect, and a reiterated
assurance of regara 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
kintaining that Constitution to which I have sworn
allegiance—en maintenant lu constitution 9ue j'ai
juree." It is insinuated by those who, hating the
Revolution, are anxious in every way to embarrass
the authority which has emanated from it, that in
his present proceeding the PRESIDENT has violated
the very Constitution, which he here again pretends
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-
vution of the Constitution. True, the event is the
di missal of his Ministry ; and true that that
Ministry bad 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
recognising these indubitable facts, we can see nothing
whatever which can be termed arbitrary or unconsti-

t utional in the proceeding of the French PRESIDENT.
Had LOUIS;NAPOLEON peremptorily dismissed a Go
vernment possessing the confidence of the nation we
should certainly have been amongst the first to stig.-
matiae 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-
fidence of the eeple, but without the confidence
even of the pop fair representatives. It was a Ca-
binet of shulling 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
sorts 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
Assembly was afraid of attempting through an uncer-
tainty as to the consequences, has been boldly
achieved by Louts NAPOLEON, the President.
Honest men there unquestionably were in the late
Cabinet, hut with them were mingled other statesmen
whose political probity was becoming every day more
awl more dubitable. Glaring lies and intolerable
reservations" were the ordinary arguments employed
by them indtscusitons itth their antagonists. They
set at defiance most of the more deeply• cherished
wishes of the country, and were tolerated by a hesi-
t-Iting Assembly solely from the disinclination of the
latter to produce anything like an abrupt catastrophe.
The wishes of the nation, the hopes of the popular
representatives, th• 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 aperer une fusion de nuances je n'ai obtenu qu'
Me 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
dly falling lower and lower in the estimation of the
country.

Ultra-Republicans and Ultra-Legitimatists must
ledge the truth -very modttstl
Y
reluctantly aeknow
confess6l in his manifesto by the PRESIDENT of the
Republic —the tru th that he was elected solely through
th- ir:flaence of th? name of NAponnoN. "An entire
says he " triuinphed oa the 10th of De-
cember, for the name or NAPOLEON 13 in itself a
programme—meaning; for the interior, order, autho-
rity, religion, public felicity ; for the ex-
tol i,r, National dignity." Taking such as the
syllabus of his policy of government, and
pledging, Eimielf to the maintenance of the Republican
Coustitut-i,,n, Lours NAPOLEON has manfully taken
the initiative in the work of Ministerial re-organi-
zation.

That the Cabinet already nominated is merely a
temporary "make shift" must he sufficiently manifest
from the political mediocrity of ids members. General