The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Prince Louis NAPOLEON arrived on Sunday even-
ing. No attempt was made to disturb the public
tranquillity, as the preparations of General CAVAIG-
NAC were so complete as to render all such attempts

hopeless.
The speech of M. LEDRU ROLLIN at the Chalet is
regarded by almost all the moderate papers as a
declaration of war against society.
The Journal des Debuts says:—
" The speech of M. Ledru Rollin is not precisely a
chef d'xuvre, but as it has been put forth as a pro-
gramme of the future, it is well to know to what we are
proceeding.
" To what, therefore, are we to come, or rather what
wculd be our fate if M. Ledru Rollin had the guidance
of affairs ? To a general war and assignats. That
is not only the result, but it is the avowed object of
the programme of M. Ledru Rollin. The old mem-
ber of the Provisional Government remarks with
great severity on the foreign policy pursued by the
present Government ; he announces that he will
speak more fully elsewhere ; but he has already
said enough to convince us that he has nothing in his
head but revolutionary propagandism. With regard
to the domestic policy pursued, M. Ledru Rollin ex-
presses his views on financial affairs, and chooses as his
model the great citizen, Cambon. That name is too
closely connected with the system of assignats to be rea-
dily forgotten, and a reference to the Moniteur will in-
form us of all his propositions on the subject of assignats,
forced loans, suspension of the payment of pensions, &c.
There is nothing in all this to quiet uneasiness; and
when speaking of the subject, M. Ledru Rollin exclaims
with enthusiasm, 'May we not find another Cambon?'
" But M. Ledru Rollin asks other very indiscreet
questions. For instance, he demands what has been
done for the people since February? It is not for us to
reply; but had we to do so, we should say like every one
else, Money has been wanting.' But to this M. Ledru
Rollin observes, that he could never comprehend that
objection. He is very fortunate. Let him then address
himself to M. Goudchaux, or even to M. Gamier Pages
and M. Duclerc, to all finance Ministers; past, present,
and to come, always excepting a Cambon, and ask
them if they understand it. But that is of no conse-
quence. Our fathers,' he said, 'lived by expedients,
and it is thus that all revolutions are supported.
Such, therefore, is the programme of thefutore. A great
country must live like a spendthrift, from day to day ;
making bills, and doubling the expense in proportion as
he devours his capital. What a future. But it is said,
at such or such a period, in times of great embarrass-
ment, millions and even milliards have been found.
That is true. There is a great alchymist—credit ; there
is a philosopher's stone—which is confidence. But con-
fidence cannot be commanded. You may apply to it
what has been said of a ,woman, She is like your
shadow; fly from her, and she follows you ; follow her,
and she flies from you.' You complain that money has
been concealed—that there must, after thirty years of
peace, be plenty of it, and that it must be found. Seek
it then, ye searchers after measures. It will hide itself
in the bowels of the earth from whence it first came, and
you will be reduced like the great citizen Cambon to
make laws against it—and that is what is called a pro-
gramme for the future—and you do not observe that it
is only the deplorable and vulgar prospectus of the past!
We know of no greater reactionist than M. Ledru
Rollin ; when ho speaks we think we are listening to
a voltigeur of '93. What Frederick William wished to
do for the middle ages, M. Ledru Rollin wished to effect
for the Convention, and it is well known bow the thing
succeeded beyond the Rhine.
" The great object of M. Ledru Rollin is to make
republicanism enter into our habits, but we humbly
opine that different manners may be adopted for effecting
it. When he was Minister of the Interior he endea-
voured by his circulars and his commissaries to instil his
own republican ideas into the habits of the people. We
doubt whether he has had reason to congratulate himself
on his efforts, and we think he must have learnt that it
is not for the country to make ;itself the image of the
Republic, but for the Republic to become the image of
the country."
It would appear from the Constitutionnel that the
6puken speech was even more violent than the pub-
lished one. That journal says :
" The speech delivered by M. Ledru Rollin at the
banquet at the Chalet, on the anniversary of the French
Republic, was, it is said,'.before publication very much
corr.- c,ed and softened down. This is scarcely to be
credited, for even in his well-known circulars has he
ever given way to more violence of expression. What
is here called right of labour, forced loan paper money,
&c., is nothing more nor less than universal war with ali
its const quences, and that is the happiness which M.
Ledru RAllin promises to France in the name of the true
Republic."
It is abundantly evident that LEDRU ROLLIN is
now willing to go to the extremest lengths of Com-
munism in order to gratify his hatred of the moderate
Republicans.
In the Reforme of yesterday we find the following
attempt to excite the Communists and Red Repub-
licans to another rising. In large characters there
appears :—"Bieith Bulletin of the- Republic of 1848.
Departdre of the transported (insurgents)." Here
follows a dismal account of the departure of 550 in-
surgents for Havre, in the midst of rain and storm.
Then conies the following bulletin, equally in large
print :—" Other Bulletin of the Republic of 1848.
Fete at the President's of the .National Assembly.
The musical part of the fete given this evening by
the President the National Assembly will be com-
posed of a fraginent of Eden, of Christopher Co-
lumbus, by DAVID, and of an air of the Favorite,
sung by Mdlle. LAMORCIERE. Viva la Repub-
lique.' "
We find the following resume of the present state
of parties in France in the Siecle :
" We are far from considering as well rounded the
al.arns which at present are felt in the public mind; we
must not, however, deceive ourselves by illusions; the
violent party does not consider itself as vanquished; far
from being broken by the late events, they ara still
closely united; they have the cohesion and the discipline
of an army, and they march forward with boldness to the
accomplishment of their designs. Let it not, therefore,
be forgotten that there are sixty thousand men, all ene-
mies of social order, animated by mad passions against
the National Assembly, and keeping up amongst them-
selves the most intimate relations, and that they may be
on foot either to vote -or to combat on the first signal
from their invisible chiefs, and ready, for the purpose of
securing the triumph of their Utopian schemes, to range
themselves under any standard of insurrection that may
be unfurled.
"There are many honest citizens who are discontented
with the Republic, which has not, we confess, been as yet
calculated to inspire them with much enthusiaszn,:and very
well disposed, as they say, to receive pretender, provided
he presents himself under favourable circumstances, and
surrounded with a respectable cortege. This classofcitizens
await Louis Napoleon, doing him the injustice to sup-
peso that ho will prefer the character of an adventurer
to that of a devoted citizen. Others would prefer the
Prince de Joinville, whose foresight, if he had been free
or more influential, would have saved the late govern-
ment from its faults, and from their attendant ruin.
Oilers, again, feel convinced that the restoration of
Henry V. is inevitable; others, again, in their impatience
and discouragement, would be kclined to accept the first
corner. But let all who entertain those ideas reflect
that at the back of any movement that might be made
by any party there would bo found the army of So-
cialists, ready to turn; their demonstrations and their
efforts to their own advantage, and to trample every
standard in the dust and in blood, in order to raise their
own red flag on the ruins of our city. Let all who feel
impatient and discontented bear these reflections well in
mind. To them we would say,' 'France, if united, will
triumph over every peril which may threaten her.'
The Moderate party in the country is endowed with
strength and intelligence; let it continue to be just, firm,
and vigilant, and it will have nothing to fear from fac-
tions. The Republic is France—it is us. France will
have the government Which she thinks best suited to her
interests, and of which she will be worthy."

The National announces that 4,000 French troops
have landed at Venice from four steam-frigates.
In the same journal we find an article warning the
Vienna Ministry and their Archduke JOHN that their
reactionary intrigues are discovered.

"Does Austria, for instance," asks the National, "be-
lieve that we are ignorant of what is passing at Vienna ?
Do we not know that the mediation, at first refused, was
only accepted at the instances of the Ministers of Holland
and Belgium, and with a view to gain time ? Do we
not know that the project of the Camarilla was to begin
by crushing Hungary, and then to return with all its
forces, not against Italy, but against Vienna, where the
democracy has broken down all impediments?"
" Does the Assembly at Frankfort, discredited amongst
the Germans themselves, hope to deceive us ? Let it
try, then, to push liberal Germany against us.- As for
Prussia, we know that her King feels too uneasy about
his own throne to be thinking of us. Russia remains—
this flaming sword of absolutism, supreme hope of the
phantom of an Emperor that the Archduchess Sophia
rules from Sehoenbrunn. Russia? She has a numerous
army but little money ; and even if she possessed ex-
haustless treasures, they would be neutralized by the
fear of putting her troops in contact with the west.
The Czar dreads ideas more than artillery. Lot war
break out and Gallicia, which out of horror of Austria
(another insult to Austria) spreads her arms to him,
would, as well as Posen, be occupied by Russian troops,
but they would advance no farther. And what do Hun.
gary and Bohemia, crushed but not enslaved, wait in
order to proclaim their entire independence ? The signal
of war." _ _

" A high Prussian functionary said to the one of our-
selves a few days ago, and he :is a man not disposed to
accept the republic, Before a year is about, no matter
what happens, the different German states will be formed
into a republic, not into a single republic, but into a se-
ries of Republics united by a federal link. And that
which will provoke this general revolution will be the
entry of a French army into Italy.'
"If these words, emanating from a man so well placed
for appreciating circumstances be true, the miserable

game played by Austria may retard her fall, but will not
save her. A law superior to all polhical combinations
rules European affairs. The old monarchical mould is
broken, and everything tends in the world towards the
constitution of the unirersal democracy."