The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

TEE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday,
The Moniteur has the following:—

"Five o'clock.
"According to a telegraphic dispatch which has
reached the Government, General Oudinot has set cut
on his march for Rcme, where, according to every in-
formation, ho was culled by the wishes of the people.
But having met from the foreigners who occupy Rome
more serious resistance than he expected, he took up a
position at some cl.stance from thatcity, and was waiting
the arrival of the rest of the expedition."
The plain meaning of this is, that General OUDINOT
has been defeated. The fact is, that the Jesuits and
parti pretre have been but too successful, in obtaining
crt deuce for the falsehoods which they have circu-
lated. They have always represented the Roman
Republic as an anarchical outbreak, hateful to the
great majority of the population, who were coerced
by a handful of terrorists, the said terrorists having
no disciplined, armed force to back them. The
French Government believed them, but- they find,
instead, that the Roman movement is a national
movement, that the people are determined not
again to submit to the sacerdotal tyranny, from
which they have emancipated themselves, and
that they have a disciplined force. The
French Government has, by its interference in
favour of the PorE, placed itself in a false position,
from which it will find it difficult to extricate itself.
The Republicans of France will never suffer the
PRESIDENT of the Republic to destroy, by force of
arms, the sister Republic of Rome; for the purpose
of restoring Monarchy; nor will the Republican
soldiers of France willingly act against the Republi-
cans of Rome. Neither the PRESIDENT nor his Mi-
nisters are aware of the progress Republicanism has
made in the army ; albeit, an incident which occurred
on Saturday ought to open their eyes to the danger
which those must incur who, following the example of
Lours PHILIPPE, seek to escamoter the Republic. The
National says—
" A fact of the most serious character took place yes-
terday, at the barracks near the Invalides. In order to
punish a citizen soldier for having been considered
eligible as a candidate to lie proposed to the choice of
the electors of the Seine; to revenge itself for the tact
and good sense with which Boichot has shown himself
a slave to military discipline, the Government had con-
ceived nothing better than to have him conveyed to the
donjon of Vincennes. At noon a cellular van arrived
on the esplanade of the Invalides, and it was soon known
that it was destined for the removal of Sergeant Major
Boichot. At this news the greatest emotion prevailed
in the whole regiment. The soldiers surrounded the
van, and when they saw the serjeant major appear, cries
of Vive Boichot,' ' Vivo la Republique' were imme.,
diately raised. At the moment when the vehicle was
about to drive off, they rushed forward to unharness the
horses. The gendarmerie which were serving as an
escort presented their bayonets, and in the struggle
several of them were twisted off, and the parties dis-
armed. In the midst of this disorder, which the officers
of the regiment for a long time in vain endeavoured to
appease, the van drove off for Vincennes, escorted by a
squadron of lancers. The army will henceforth know
in what light the Government understands the exercise
of the rights conferred by the constitution, and the
country will learn what may become of discipline under
such chiefs."
The account of the removal of BOICHOT to Vin-
cennes, and the resistance offered to such removal
by his comrades is confirmed by the Moniteur and
the Patrie.
The reactionary tendencies of the PRESIDENT and
his Cabinet, have also roused the susceptibilities of
the armed force of Dijon. The Moniteur publishes
the following official account of an entente which took
place in that city, on the anniversary of the procla-
mation of the Republic :
" The anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic
by the National Assembly, led to a disturbance of a ra-
ther serious character at Dijon—an emeute by the armed
force. After a review which had taken place, a number
of National Guards marched to the Hotel de Ville, in
order to release some artillerymen of that force who had
been arrested. A small post of troors of the line were
attacked at the point of the bayonet by the National
Guards, but the soldiers courageously defended them-
selves and were enabled to secure the prisoners confided
to their charge. The gendarmerie, however, in whose
custody some others were placed, were overpowered
by numbers, beaten, and compelled to release their
prisoners.

"An attack of such a serious character against disci-
pline, the authorities, and the law, demanded a severe act
of repression, and the Government has understood this.
The prisoners who had been released have been retaken,
and warrants have been issued against those men who
have made of their uniforms a standard of revolt, and
the judicial authorities are taking cognizance of the
affair. Before any judicial expression, however, can
take place, the Government owes an example to the
people. On the report of the Minister of the Interior,
the President of the Republic has dissolved the National
Guard of Dijon."
For the sake of France, for the sake of Europe,
for the sake of the not irresponsible PRESIDENT, who,
with a trusting ingenuousness which does infinite
credit to his forgiving nature, has confided his desti-
nies to the keeping of those ho have been heretofore
his bitterest enemies, for the sake of themselves, we
hope that the French Ministers will pause in their ca-
reer of reaction, or not all the pomposity of M BARROT,
added to the presumption of M. LEON FAUCHER, and
the jesuity of the smiling M. DE FALLOUX (whose
smile is as that of RICHARD will be sufficient to
avert a terrible catastrophe.
M. GARNIER PAGES has declared himself a candi-
date for the department of the Seine.
The Assembles Nationale, the organ of the ultra-
reactionary party in Europe has the following re-
velation as to the character of the league against
Hungary :
" We know, at length, the true character of the than-
garian-Polish insurrection ; it is a revolutionary coali-
tion, and as such calls for the application of the treaty
of Kansa, which engages Prussia as well as Russia.
According to this treaty each of the three Powers must
bring in a contingent of 150,000 men, which will make
a force of 450,000, with 750 pieces of cannon."

The Republicans of Europe are obliged to the
Assemblee .Nationale for the hint. The Kalisch con-
federation should he met by a Republican league
embracing every Republican of every European na-
tion. The formation of such a league would be the
proper answer to Russia.
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