The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-28 00:00:00

rHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

One of the Protestant Sovereigns of the Confedera
tion has at last protested, boldly and explicitly,
against an arrangement which would render the
Prussian Monarch the Lord Paramount of Germany.
There is a manliness in the proceeding of the King
of WIRTEMBURG which extorts respect by its cour-
age, if it fails to win admiration by its prudence.
After presiding over the destinies of his people during
a period of thirty taco years, the Sovereign of Wir-
-1 temburg feels a very natural disinclination to shrink
from an independent potentate into a kind of pro-
consul to a parvenu Emperor. With every am-
bition to forward the dream of a national con•
f solidation, he recoils from the prospect of sinking into
a Prince subservient to the imperial sway of the
house of Brandenburg. Here we fear is the great
difficulty to be overcome before:anything like German
unity can be realised. The jealousies of the monarchs
will interrere with the patriotic aspirations of the
multitude. The disguised cupidity of power on the
part of FREDERICK WILLIAM will lead to such an
estrangement between himself and others of the con-
temporary rulers of the Confederation as must mate-
rially diminish the chances of a satisfactory settle-
ment of the hopes of fatherland.
While the recent occurrences at Stuttgard be-
tray a " split'' among the Protestant princi-
palities, it is certain that nothing will
interfere with the unanimous coalition of
the Catholic Principalities. Unless some medium
course be traced out for the removal of all
existing differences as to the investiture of some more
acceptable candidate with the Imperial authority at
Frankfort, there is every probability that the nine-
teenth century will witness the revival of that great
confederacy of the Liga which reached its culminating
point in the seventeenth—that Liga which was to
Catholic Germany what the Sonderbund was to Ca-
tholic Switzerland. And futurity can alone decide
whether such a revival might not evoke from
the crowd of this generation some second
TILLY, some redoubtable warrior, half-priest,
half- soldier, half- fanatic, half-hero, with the
gallantry of ROLAND, the contrivance of SPINOSA,
and the circumspection of MONTECUCULI.
Before the German races can really effect anything
to their ulterior advantage, in the way of compacting
so many separate principalities into one solid and
harmonious nationality, the Princes of Germany
must renounce their competition for the crown, and
the p eoples of Germany must forego all their pernicious
endeavours to secure to themselves the predominance.
The aim of all must be to render Germany ONE.
Not to render it Prussian, or Austrian, or Bavarian—
but ONE—one in its policy, one in its power, and one
in its patriotism. It will not have been forgotten
that Prince -METTERNICH pronounced the achievement
of Italian independence to be a geographical impossi -
bility. For that and for many other erroneous doc-
trines the proprietor of Johannisberg is now rusti-
cating down at Brighton. His MAJESTY of Prussia
would act wisely if he so disclaimed all desire to in-
terrupt the attempts at consolidating the nationality
of Germany as to prevent the necessity of the popu-
lation dispatching him from Berlin in an
old scratch wig and a pea jacket to join a kindred
fugitive at St. Lecnard's. It is true that
the imperial diadem has been rejected by FREDERICK
WlLLtaxt himself, and that that refusal has been sub-
sequently repeated by the members of his Govern-
ment—but both the language employed by himself
and by his Ministerial advisers is sufficiently am-
biguous to keep his partizans still on the tenterhooks
of expectation. Besides this, it is preposterous to
assert that Prussia is no voluntary cause of the pre-
sent complication of affairs in regard to the uegotiation
of a satisfactory settlement with the Central Diet at
Frankfort. The fact is patent to the whole of Europe
that the determination which dispatched the depu-
tation from Frankfort to lay at the feet of the
King of PRUSSIA the crown of the Emperor of
Germany was the result of those consummate in-
trigues which had been long fostering under the in-
fluence of the Berlin Cabinet. But for those in-
trigues, we are satisfied that the question of German
unity would have been long since brought to a happy
conclusion. It is to the prejudice of the reputation
of FREDERICK WILLIAM that he has not merely ob-
structed the advance of the Teutonic races to their
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claration of war against Denmark, for the spoliation
of her peninsular dominions.
While, however, this sinister influence has been
exercised over the fortunes of Germany by the
policy of the Prussian SOVEREIGN, it is certain that
the policy of the Austrian Government would have
been no less inimical to the cause of the general
Confederation, but that the statesmen of Vienna have
been themselves embarrassed by the necessity of
employing great armies against the Lombards and the
Hungarians. But for the perils which threatened the
Court of Olmut z, both from the countries in the vicinity
of Pesth and those in the neighbourhood of Milan,
it is tolerably clear, frem a knowledge of the bygone

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The National Assembly on Friday rejected a mo-
tion for the reduction of the navy estimates by a
majority of 301 to 293.
'lhe schism among the members of the Bonaparte
family is complete, and the Constitutionnel, the organ
of M. TRIERS and the Orleanists, thus endeavours to
turn it to account :
' M. Napoleon Bonaparte, as if to justify more com-
pletely the measure taken with respect to him, has
just published a letter in which he attacks the policy
of the President, whose friend he calls himself, and
attacks the Cabinet from which only a few days ago
he accepted the title of ambassador; and he attacks the
six millions of citizens who nominated the actual Pre-
sident of the Republic for the sake of ensuring a happy
reaction of order against anarchy. M. Napoleon Bo-
naparte need not defend the cause of the Constitution,
unless, indeed, against that disorganizing party towards
which he seems now to incline; nor need he take the
defence of the President in hand unless he should do
so against the Republicans de la Vtille, who have suf.-
ficiently manifested their sentiments by pursuing with
their hostility and insults the candidate of the 10th
December, and yet it is with such persons that M.
Napoleon Bonaparte seeks to become reconciled."
The authars of the guet a pens of Boulogne are at
their old tricks ; it is to be hoped that the PRESIDENT
will discover the true character of the reactionary party,
to whom he has confided power, before it is too late.
The following letter has been addressed to the Cen-
tral Bonapartist Committee by M. NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE :

"Madrid, April 13.
"M. le President,—l thank you for the offer which
you have made me, in the name of the Committee, to
propose me as a candidate for the Department of
the Siine. Nothing could be more flattering than for
me to be elected representative of the people for Paris.
"You well know my political opinions: a partisan of
order and friend of the President, whom I defended
when he was attacked by reactionnaires. I did not think
it necessary to have recourse either to the men or the
forms of past times to cure the wounds of our country.
" The only means of safety appear to me to be, re-
spect tor the Republican Constitution, frankly applied;
regard for the people; a demecratic conciliation in the
interior ; and a grand, wise, and energetic policy
abroad. This alone is worthy of France and a Bona-
parte. This is the path which I shall follow, if my
fellow-citizens of Paris call up )n me for their repre-
sentative.
_. . .

"Your devoted fellow.citiz-n,
" NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The following order of the day wls issued by
General OUDINOT to the troops previous to their em-
barkation for Civita Vecchia.
" Soldiers,—The President of the Republic bas con-
fided to the tha chief command of the Mediterranean
expeditionary corps.
" This honour imposes great duties upon me, which
your patriotism will help me to fulfil.
" The Government is resAved to maintain, every-
where, our former legitimate influence, and will not
suffer the Italian people to be at the mercy of a foreign
power or of a minority. It has encharged us to plant
the French standard upon the Roman territory in tes-
timony of our sympathy.
" Soldiers and sailors, children of the same family,
fraternity will enable you topousumpaorpenourgtmocni.nn• dgr
eah nmt
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you will unite your efforts and your devotion, and this
privationsthe
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every
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cences which will pots erfully stimulate your instincts of
glory. Military honour commands discipline as well as
bravery; forget it not I Yuur fathers enjoyed the rare
pril ilege of causing the French name to be cherished
wherever they fought. Like them you will respect the
property and the manners (manes) of friendly pecple, in
its solicitude for nhom the Government has ordered that
all the expenses of the army shall be paid for in money.
You will consider these principles of high morality on
all occasions as your rule of conduct.
" By your arms and your example you will cause the
dignity of the pccple to be respected, who are suffering
nu less from license than despotism.
" Thus Italy will be indebted to you for what France
has been able to acquire for herself, viz., order in liberty.
" The General in- Chief,
(Signed) " OCDINCT DE REGGIO."
The names of Lours BLANC and CAUSS IDIERE
were publicly exposed in front of the Palais de Justice
on Wednesday, as having been condemned par con-
tumace. There were crowds of persons present who
presented offerings of flowers, so that before the
exposure was completed the scaffold and pillory on
which the names were exposed resembled a flower
garden. The Reforme, after quoting the law of the
Provisional Government, abolishing the punishment
of the pillory for political offences, thus comments on
the exposure of the names of Lours BLANC and CAUS.
SIDIERE, as an act of petty spite, to be expected only
from men of the mental calibre of ODILON BARROT
and LEON FAUCHER. " What," says the Reforme—
" You come in this cowardly fashion, and with your
hangman's hands buffet your political atagonists, who in
their benevolence pardoned you at the moment of crisis
even to the extent of committing treason;—what thus to
execute in effigy, upon the place of shame, and in the
midst of revolutionary Paris, two men among others who
call themselves Caussidiere and Blanc, it is to dishonour
justice, it is to violate decency, it is to descend below war
and the most unlicensed violences of civil strife; it is to
exhaust the vengeance of cowards. The savage who
scalps and then eats his enemy is more civilized than
those academician professors of moderation and virtue
who nail honourable names to the stake."
The loan of 23 millions of the city of Paris was
adjudged to Messrs. BECIIBT, at the rate of
1,105 f. 40c. per obligation.
The Constitutionnel makes the following remarks on
this subject:—
"The rate at which the new loan of the city of Paris
has been taken proves that the Prefect of the Seine was
perfectly right in postponing the adjudication from the
26th of March last. This el( lay has produced to thecity
a profit of 2,505,000 f., arising from the difference of the
rate of the adjudication at present, and that previously
offered. However, the price of 1,105 f. 40c., at which
MM. Bechet, Lethomas and Co. have taken it, will give
er m d isibd
ute
taking into account 1 per cent. p
an interest of 5,} per cent. to the holdannuers of thetr bonds,
each year in primes. The_loan of 1832, which was for
40 millions, was tendered for at the rate of 4 per cent.
interest, and 3 per annum distributed in primes; and yet
the quotation of the Five per Cents. was then 97f. 85c.,
which gave to the bondholders 5 1.10 per cent. on their
capital. It is thus seen that the fidelity of the city of
Paris to fulfil all its engagements will not have been
without profit to it in this new operation."
The reactionaries intend, it is said, to start the
Prince DE JOINTILLE as a candidate fur the Upper

Marne.
The streets were patrolled during the whole of
Thursday by strong bodies of troops, although there
was no appearance of any disorder to justify these
precautions ; probably it is intended to carry the
elections, in a reactionary sense, by military coercion.
The Government has removed three regiments of the
garrison of Paris on account of their loyalty to
republican principles, and General CHANGARNIER has
replaced them by the troops who, in 1830, fired upin
the people.
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