The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-16 00:00:00

of patriotism redeem the country from the appalling
' perils by which it is being rapidly surrounded, the
posterity of 35,000,000 will curse the day when the•
light first dawned upon the eyes of a PROUDBOX
and a Bec, of a PEAT and a LAGRANGE, of a LE-.•
ROUX and a BARnEs, of a HUBER and a BLANQUI.
But for such men as these, with their foul and dis-
' estrous doctrines, with their vicious and contami-
nating audacity, with their extravagant and imprac-
ticable propositions—Republicanism would at this
moment be more, if possible, in the ascendant
than it was in the spring of 1848 ; and the
intriguing enemies of democracy would never have
dared to raise their heads from the lurking holes
and cellars of concealment to which they had escaped
on the first explosion of the Revolution. Now, how-
ever, the demagogues and false prophets of the Moun-
tain have strangled the beneficent power of the true
friends of freedom in France, the Moderate Repub-
licans ; and they have done this by scaring a large
portion of the multitude to the supposed shelter of
reaction, through the dread of their evil supremacy,
and the hideous colour of their aspirations.
That we are more than justified in these lugubrious
opinions may be readily proved by one or two most
significant circumstances.
The disbandment of the Army of the Alps ! indi-
cates sufficiently well that the present Administrators
of France are by no means solicitous to offer any di-
rect obstacle to the advancing strength and increasing
influence of the AUTOCRAT.
The recent dispatch of Gen. DE LAMORICIERE, on a
secret mission as Ambassador Extraordinary to the
Court of St. Petersburgh, is of itself sufficiently sig-
nificant.

The movements latterly observable among the dy-
nastic refugees whether at Ems or Claremont, at
Hastings or Coblentz, are again not unworthy of
observation.
The apparent recognition. of the Republic by
NICHOLAS, and a variety of other equally remarkable
occurrences all coincide in affording some colour of
reason to the hints and inuendoes thrown out by the
different journals of Paris. One of these journals
boldly puts forward the alternative of a Return to
Monarchy, or a Retention of Republicanism. Another
insinuates that the time has at length arrived for the
upholders of the former policy to take the intiativf.
Another has ,gone still further, and has explicitly
declared that the formation of a new Cabinet will
very speedily be announced through the official
medium of the illoniteur—a Cabinet in which the
arch-supporters of the monarchical creed will occupy
the most conspicuous positions—where the President-
ship of the Council (without portfolio) will be en-
trusted to M. MOLE ; where M. TIUERS will be
Minister of the Interior; M. DE FALLOUX, Minister of
Foreign Affairs; M. DE MONTALEPABBRT, Minister of
Instruction ; Ger,. RULHIERES, Minister of War ; and
Admiral CECILE, Minister of Marine. How far the
assertion may be with or without foundation can be
only dimly and indistinctly imagined. Were
the appointments veritably made and officially pub-
lished, they would only be the means to an end,
the beginning of a conclusion, the initial of a daring
movement which could only terminate in the annihi-
lation of the conspirators, or in the proclamation
before the great door of the cathedral church of Notre
Dame by the heralds and trumpeters of " The Most
High, Mighty, and Puissant Prince NAPOLEON 111.,
Emperor of the French." Then the compact with
Russia would have to be completed—and time might
show that the dream of NAPOLEON and ALEXANDER
might be realised by their successors—that the Treaty
of 'Tilsit, after the lapse of forty years, might be re-
sumed as the basis of a new compact—that conti-
nental Europe might be shared between the two
Emperors at the mutual sacrifice of Austria and
Turkey—the second city of imperial France being
Rome—the second city of imperial Russia being
Constantinople.
Yet, before all this can be accomplished, thirty
millions of Frenchmen have to be trodden down
into submission. A great nation which has been
once endowed with the perftct freedom afforded by
the ballot and universal suffrage can no longer be
cajoled into obedience to a new despotism. It must
be conquered by the musket and the howitzer, by the
sword and the bayonet.
Let the Legitimists remember this as a political
truth, that—Even the white banner would have to
pass through such oceans of blood before it could tri-
umph, that in the end a Red Flag would be found
waving over the Tuileries.

In consequence of the sudden demise of JAMES
PATTISON, E-q , one of the Alernbers for the metro-
polis, another vacancy occurs in the repre-
sentation of the city of London. Although
the intelligence of the vacancy has only
been received within the last few hours, we
understand that a very large and most influential
portion of the electors have already appended their
signatures to the following requisition. Party feel-
ing for once has been entirely overlooked in
consideration of the probity, the ability,
and the many other noble and admirable
qualities which have already secured to the Right
Hon. Sir JAMES DUKE, the first magistrate of the
first city in the world, the esteem and respect of his
fellow-citizens.

The following is the requiEition :
" London, July 16, 1849.

"Impressed with the opinion that the personal cha-
ricter and commercial experience of the Right llon.
Sir James Duke, the Lord Mayor of the City of London,
combined with his business habits, and his long ac-
quaintance with public affairs as a Member of the House
of Commons, eminently qualify him for the representa-
tion of the various interests of this City in Parliament ;
" We, the undersigned electors, do hereby request his
Lordship to allow himself to be put in nomination to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the demise of our late worthy
representative, James Pattison, Esq."

Electors, of all classes of society, have already,
during the course of the past forenoon, eagerly signed
the foregoing document, as indicative of their regard
for the LORD MAT OR, and of their appreciation of his
eminent qualities, as a high civic functionary, as
a brother- citizen, as a man perfectly familiarized with
mercantile affairs, and as one who has acquired con-
siderable experience as a Member of the House of
Commons.