The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-14 00:00:00

FRAN CE.

The Gazette de France, the organ of the Para-
pr3tre and the Jesuits, has the-following on the elec-
toral manifesto of the club of the Rue de Poictiers :
" The committee of the Parliamentary club of the
Bue de Poictiers met yesterday to hear the manifesto
which has been prepared under the direction of
fifteen of its members, and the reduction of which
was entrusted to Messrs. Thiers and Remusat.
This document is said to be remarkable for
its absolute silence respecting the great questions
which actually occupy the political men of every
party. Thus it appears that not a word is said in it of
religious liberty, of liberty of education, nor of com-
mercial freedom—now the most indispensable of all—nor
of administrative decentralization, so universally de-
manded from one end of France to the other; nor of
universal suffrage, which has saved France from
anarchy, and which alone can secure the definitive
triumph, not only of material order over ma-
terial disorder, but of moral order over moral
disorder, the original cause of anarchy and civil war.
Neither does the manifesto say a word relative to the
great constitutional questions which form the indispen-
sable basis of every sound political organization. But,
on the other hand, we find in it a few high sound-
ing but empty phrases about order, religion, family
.property, the electoral independence of the pro-
vinces, an independence long proclaimed by them; and
above all, we detect a certain Imperialist perfume.
which constitutes its distinctive character, and which
cannot be mistaken. Such, WO are informed, is the
tenor of the electoral manifesto, of that great
committee. A number of members refused to sign it,
at least after a first perusal, and it is not without
astonishment that we read to-thy in the Union
an article in praise of a document evidently intended to
lull the departments to sleep, but which, we are sure,
will be counteracted by that ardent patriotism of which
they daily give so many proofs. The departments de-
sire conciliation and moderation, but they do not wish
for the triumph of the policy of absorption for the mere
benefit of M. Thiers and the intriguers by whom he is
surrounded."
In the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday,
the clause fixing the annual salary of the Pre-
sident of the Republic at 600,000 francs was adopted.
A division was demanded on the additional grant of
50,000 francs per month under the head of frail de
representation, when the numbers were—for the alio w-
ance, 418 ; against it, 341. The allowance was con-
sequently granted?'
The General Democratic Committee formed in
1848, in support of the election of Louis Bonaparte,
has been re-established for the elections of 1849,
under the title of " Democratic Union of the Seine,"
with a sub-committee in each of the 14 municipal dis-
tricts of Paris.

The Parliamentary Club of the Palais National
hal also instituted its electoral committee, of which
M. Dupont de l'Eure is named President. Some
members of the Moderate Left belong to that com-
mittee, of which M. Pierre Bonaparte is one of the
secretaries. Several friends of the latter intend to
,propose him as candidate for the department of the
Seine.

it would appear from the Gazette de France, that
the division between the Legitimists, pur sang, and
the club of the Rue de Poictiers, is becoming every
day greater.