The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, I 8 8.

victims of Belgian liberty has acquired a lasting
guarantee from the generous sentirm.nts recently ex-
pressed be4ore his senators by the truthful lips of
LEOPOLD. Denmark from FREDERICK, Sweden
from OSCAR, Austria from FERDINAND, and Hanover
from ERNEST, have severally obtained the sureties of ,
a gradual and comprehensive emancipation. Bohe-
mia is rising again in the beautiful loveliness
of her nationality. Hungary the same : Gallicia the
same : Posen the same : and even upon the outskirts
of the barbarian dominions of the AUTOCRAT the gag
of hope has been unfurled. Elsewhere among
the minor princedoms and subordinate sovereignties
of Gl...many, the triple dogma of democracy—
liberty, equality, and fraternity—has acquired an
extraordinary number of votaries; and at last
a royal knight has risen for the people in the
ambitious monarch of Prussia. Everywhere through-
out continental Europe the spirit of liberality has
diffused itself, ererywhere—excepting only in the
Spanish and Portuguese peninsula!
It would be impossible to expect that the English
Government should regard with indifference the
apathy evinced by the population of Spain and Por-
rugs! in the sublime movement which has convulsed
the realms of Christendom, which has shaken crowns
into the dust like acorns, and which, above all, has
revealed in the human race the shadow of a new
resemblance to the Divinity in the attributes of its
political Omnipotence. The Government of the
United Kingdom could not, even if it were so dis-
posed, remit) a passive spectator of the retrogressive
policy adopted in the Cabinets of Lisbon and Madrid.
Remonstrance in that event had long since become au
historical necessity. It had become a necessity on this
account; because the reigning Princess of the
Spaniards, and the reigning Princess also of the
Portuguese had been conditionally elevated to their
thrones by the arms, the diplomacy, the friendship,
and the heart's blood of England. Yes, it is because
the virgin brows of ISABELLA and of MARIA DA
GLORIA were girdled with the diadems of the Bra-
gauzes and of the Spanish Bourbons by England ; it
was because England had crowned those claimant-
of Spanish and Portuguese royalty, on the simple
condition that their sway should be identical with
the national happiness and the constitutional
freedom of their people ; it was because
that condition has been flagrantly violated
ever since the intriguing DIETZ planted foot
upon the quays of Lisbon, and ever since the un-
principled and profligate CISRISTINA returned to the
orange avenues of Madrid—that remonstrance be-
came a solemn duty with the English Government,
and that the preservation of silence by our Minister
for Foreign Affairs would have rankled like a per-
petual remorse in the conscience of Great Britain.
Ire defiance, therefore, of the vulgar insolence of the
language recently addressed to Mr. BuLwza by the
Duke of Soromarost, despite the petulance of par-
tizanship and the vociferous vituperatiotie
of our contemporaries, we maintain (what
we have already distinctly maintained) that England
had a right to gni; teat the adoption of " a legal and
constitutional policy" to one of those sovereigns sht
had been principally instrumental in raising to the
throne—in raising to the throneien (letthiia
sspwsosirodna betw
well weighed in the judgments of the d
multitude) conditionally 1 With the most profound
deliberation we say conditionally, for ISABELLA
alone gained the ascendancy orer her opponents
through the generous co-operation of England—a
co-operation given to her champion; by England, on
the understanding that the success of Isaseetea should
he the security of the c, nstitutionul rights of the
Spaniards. Is there a doubt that such was the
stipulation of the British Government? No; for an
influential writer has recently remarked, in allu-
sion to the blood and treasures lavished in the cause
of Queen ISABELLA by England—"it was for that
(namely, for the fulfilment of that sacred and consti-
tutional condition), that the heights which crown San
Sebastian and the valley of Hernani have been
bleached with the bones of her children !" It was not
only, we maintain, the right of England to interfere
by her advice with the mad proceedings of the
Narvaez Administration, it was a duty which pressed
heavily and imperatively upon the soul of the British
Government. Lord PALMERSTON has vindicated that
right and satisfied that duty. Boldly, bravely,
simply, honourably, he has cast aside all considera-
tions of mere expediency. He has proved himself
-rue to the memory of those valiant men who shed
their blood in the rivers of Andalusia, and on the
mountains of Navarre, and who perished in strug-
gling ageinet the brigands of Zumalacaregui and
the other leaders of the Carlist buccaneers.
Happy were it for the fame of England, if the pre-
leceesor of this illustrious statesman had evinced a
-imilar devotion to the cau-e of patriotism, of
humanity, of nationality, and of justice ! Happy
for the credit of the Earl of ABERDEEN, if but one
single communication, such as the one addressed, on
he 16th of March, to her Britannic MAJESTY'S re-
presentative at the Court of Madrid, could be
chronicled among his Ministerial effusions! In the
event of Senor ISTURITZ requiring the recal of
Mr. BULWER, that able and distinguished am-
bassador will return homewards in all the
arestige of an act creditable to him, alike
It a diplomatist and as representative of
British Sovereignty. However much his official
character may have been depreciated by the deception
practised upon him so successfully in reference to
Mantpensier marriage, the and decision
of his conduct towards the Duke DE SOTOMAYOR
must elevate the reputation of his Excellency beyond
even that which he has hi. herto deserved and enjoyed.
Of Lord PALMERSTON, from whose genius as a
statesman the whole transaction has emanated, we
need otOr ohs-rve that the position he has assumed in
relation to the dictators of Spain is eminently worthy
of his brilliant and prolonged career ; it is worthy of
one whose name has been identified during the last
-hirty years with the glory and the greatness of
England !

There is every reason to hope that the judicious
and temperate course adopted by Lord CLARENDON
and his colleagues in the Irish Government will
-eventually succeed in calming the excitement that
now unhappily prevails in Ireland, in restoring
-ranquillity to that ill-fated country, and preserving
its inhabitants from the horrors and bloodshed that
mist inevitably attend outbreak, however speedily
and completely it might be suppressed. It is impos-
sible to calculate the amount of danger that would
be effected to all the best interests of the nation
luring the raging of an internecine war, brief as
night be its duration. Of course the insurgents
themselves and the participators in their atrocious
deliigns, would be the chief sufferers. They would
perish by thousands and tens of thousands, far
those who escaped death by the sword,
or on the scaffold, would be exposed to
the most fearful privatinns from the famine that
Mould inevitably be the consequence of hostile pro-
ceedings, leading to a total neglect of the agricultural
perations necessary for the production of food for
the many, and also to the probable destruction of the
growing crops in the districts where the conflict or
conflicts might take place. But the loyal and peace-
able inhabitants would also suffer in no small degree.
Many would have to lament not merely the loss of
property, of fields laid bare, and desolated homesteads,
md a reduction from comparative comfort and
affluence to povertyandardeesished members of
titution;hutthey would
r
have to mourn for
nsaton,
families, whoseamdoeuanthtsofcpoeucludnianroyt
combepe
irecom.
heartrending and harrowing a character, how PI
fh e nteed scenes by
a n
that a t must be encountered are of so
minded men who would
a temporary success; and
ear-
nestly
recklesslyun selsi
no
vf
(t)lhvoes e
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country therein, and where
possible, be more fatal to the part
nothing more, could possibly be attsaitnheetl
ni ;sel wv•oeualdth,ainf
ie
the most speedy and sanguinary defeat.totheir
If order is
restored, and the people returnordinary
habits of peaceful industry, everything that can
reasonably be demanded will be conceded—measures
given to thfeauolciici
will be passed through the Legislature to remedy j
the substantial evils of Ireland, full security will be
uesp,ierish:f land that they themselves,
hy any means rernolvledenj4f)yromthe improvements
effected by their own industry • or that if
of their holdings, they shall receive full
'the possession,
and adequate cow'
therefor, and thus
L the best description of ezzoursgement will be

given to a better system of agriculture, to bring
the lands into the highest degree of fertility. Capi-
tal, the chief want of the nation, will rapidly flow in,
when its possessors are assured that they will reap
the fruits or their investments, and not be deprived
thereof by agrarian outrages, and the turbulence of
discontented men. The waste lands will be reclaimed,
affording in the process full employment for the
myriads of labourers now remaining idle, and unpro-
ductively consuming the national resources, in place
of adding materially to the national wealth ; and
when brought into cultivation a vast addition will
he made to the quantity of food applicable to the wants
of the people; and many of those who had
been engaged in the work of reclamation
will be rewarded by having houses and farms as-
signed to them on the lands thus made valu
able, and be enabled to spend the remainder of their
days in their native land, among their friends and
kindred, in place of having to seek their fortunes in
another hemisphere, and to submit to the toils and
privations which invariably accompany the enterprise
of the emigrant.

But before these desiderata can be attained perfect
tranquillity must be restored. All the energies of
the Government must be exerted for that purpose.
The time of the Legislature, the consideration of the
Cabinet, is necessarily devoted to the means required
to preserve public order. A Coercion Act, or a mea-
sure for the security of the Crown, will consume at
least as much time in passing through Parliament as a
bill for the improvement of the relations between
landlord and tenant, for the sale of encumbered
estates, or for the reclamation of waste lands. While
the law officers of the Crown are wholly occupied in
prosecuting for sedition, for felony, or for treason,
they cannot mature provisions for simplifying titles
or legalizing tenant-right. A certain quantity of
business only can be disposed of during the session;
and the Irish cannot complain if the Acts intended
fur their relief, to promote the prosperity of their
country, and to develop all its magnificent resources,
are postponed for still more essential eaactments for
the suppression of tumult and disturbance.

Those whu have disregarded the benefits of savings'
b inks, and endeavoured to convert the advantages
conferred upon the industrious classes by turning
these institutions into a means of embarrassing the
Government, and creating an additional loss to the
national Exchequer, must not be surprised if they
rind a Bill introduced to deprive them of the bless-
ing they have misapplied, and to recruit the public
purse either by the imposition of a direct tax upon
the country, or at least the withholding of the money
that would otherwise be made applicable to Irish
purposes. In every instance they would only have
themselves to thank for the prolongation of the
grievances by which they are afflicted, and the evils
under
at
nwi
cf which h e
hbeyyt
theirtey thus
s are
deprive
pl
ursi
delusion suffering.
themselvessngoftGo othveernment
trucu-
lent harangues, and following the insane counsels of
the sedition•mongers, how much more so do they
prevent the required capital from flowing into
Ireland, and being expended in permanent and
valuable improvements, or in sustaining the lan-
Kuisbing and almost extinct manufactures of their
country. Capitalist. are a sensitive and prudent race,
they will not wake investments where they have
to encounter not only the ordinary risks inci-
dental to every speculation, but also the danger of a
total loss of their property from the establishment of
anarchy and confusion. Manufactures will not
flourish in a neighbourhood where the " Queen of
Weapons" is in the hand of every idle vagabond who,
too idle to work himself, would gladly destroy the
productions of the better disposed and more indus-
trious. Railways will not be created where the
people are openly exhorted to take up the rails, and
to convert them into weapons of offence. Better to
keep the money lying up, hoarded and unproductive,
than risk its total loss. Before, then, capital can
be hoped for perfect quietude must be obtained ;
then, indeed, those who have the means will
gladly employ them in a country possessing so
many advantages from its natural resources, and the
great cheapness and abundance of food and labour.
Die great enemies of Ireland are those who, by their
denunciations and outrages, keep English capital and
capitalists from their island. Let the people free their
soil front these vermin, more pernicious than the
snakes and vipers, which their Patron Saint is re-
ported to have banished. Let them become peace-
able and orderly, applying themselves earnestly to
the duties of their several stations, respecting the
rights and properties of others, and zealously labour-
ing to improve their own position in society. Let
them but pursue such a course for a brief period, so
as to give an assurance that they are really deter-
wined to persevere in such conduct, and they will,
indeed make Ireland what she ought to be—

" Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea,"

" The beings of the mind are not of clay," said
BritoN, and consequently he argued they are im-
mortal. If, then, they, the creations of the poet's
imagination, endure, how unfitting were it that the
memory of him who created them should pass away.
How sorrowful would be the lot of genius it for-
gotten after death. Happily, such injustice is of
very rare occurrence. The poet may be too often
neglected or contemned during life, but with his
existence his unjust treatment ends; friends are loud
in lamentation, and even foes join in celebrating his
praises—

" When his bark is buried deep,
Will envy be the first to weep ?"
The love which all mankind bear to the name, and
the honour which they delight in paying to the
memory, of the dead poet, is invariably excessive, and
might be deetned extravagant were it not most na-
tural that they should seek to lavish their tears
and praises—all they have to give—upon the grave
of him, their great benefactor, appreciated it may
be too late. But not his contemporaries
alone, every succeeding generation which benefits
by the lessons of the bard, joins its voice to
that grateful chorus which perpetuates the
praises of those benefactors of mankind—" Poets
whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world." An
instance of this noblest form of hero-worship has just
been afforded by the meeting at Stratford-upon-
Avon, which we reported yesterday, held in honour
of the anniversary of SnansrEitz's birth. SHAK
SPBRE certainly does not come within the cate-
gory of those unfortunate poets to whom we have
just alluded—that, indeed, would have been itnpos.
Bible. What age could have been insensible to his
merits ? Nevertheless, he furnishes an example of
the enthusiastic veneration with which a great name
—a great literary name—is invariably regarded. At
the present time, when extraordinary political changes
in foreign countries are engrossing public attention,
and when disturbances nearer home have hardly
ceased to occasion alarm, a body of men, some
among them of the noblest .and most powerful in
the land, meet together fur the purpose of celebrating
the birthday of a man who has been in his grave
two centuries ! Far, however, front wishing to
cavil at such a proceeding, we are rejoiced at it. We
are inexpressibly rejoiced by so unmistakeable an
evidence of the strength and tenderness of the popular
attachment to poets and poetry even in this practical
age. And were another evidence of these sentiments
required, we should find it in the cordial and eloquent
remarks uttered by Lord MORPETH at the Shak-
spere Festivity—himself a poet, and distinguished
by many peculiar traits of character, which render
him a fitting participator in such a scene. The dis-
course of the Right Honourable Member for the
West Riding was on this occasion most graceful and
appropriate. One of his introductory observations
deservedly elicited loud cheers from all his
auditors—" I have no sympathy," he said, " with
those who see harm in everything—in fic-
tion, in poetry, in plays." I have nu
sympathy with such as these, said Lord 111ORPETH)
and so say we. " A thing of beauty is a joy for
ever ;" and they who, by cultivating and idealising
the beautiful, rejoice the hearts and elevate the minds
of their fellow-men, are the true benefactors of their
kind. And as such SHAKCPBRE is deserving of as
much commendation as is the most zealous patriot
1
or philanthropist that ever existed. His celebrity,
according to Lord AOMTII, has also another utili.
an intention to eschew
politics in his discourse, the
NI • base.
Noble Lord, however,
that in wide and compre-
hensive bearing he might even there allude to politics,
ni .Iy,
follo aim &ot," b.
..skod. "We
io ws

not the writings and the genius of SHAxsreaz con-
tributed in no inconsiderable degree to augment the
consideration and influence of England ? I myself
feel that I could bear witness to this when travelling
among our transatlantic brethren of the great Ameri-
can Republic, for I found that, however willing any
one might be to raise a dispute about the Maine boun-
dary or to pick a quarrel about the Oregon, or to boast
how they had licked the Britisher's' at New Orleans,
yet I never found a single American who was not
eager to claim brotherhood with the countrymen ot
Sumurgaz." After alluding to the expression of
similar sentiments by the French and Germans, he
proceeds d to ask, "Do we not now feel every day
that the most startling events of contemporary in-
terest connect themselves with the associations ot
SUANSPERE ? While the tide of war seems now let
loose upon the plains of Lombardy, and is perhaps at
this moment breaking uponthe
oipethat
the rvaiomlepnaerets of Ve
rona,
at oppeorsoinoag,
faatclteioasnt we
, maymsapyare the tomb of Juliet. And Venice
—perhaps in this country we do not care very much
whether it is a republic or an imperial fief—but we
should care very much if we thought that a man
could no longer swim in a gondola and walk
_6 aye, many a time and oft on the Rialto.' Then as
for the Danes, although we ourselves have not been
always quite regular with that nation, yet the thought
of HAMLET, the image of the buried majesty of Den-
mark,' deepens and enlists our sympathies with that
gallant people, and we should look upon it almost as a
Rational insult, if armed invaders were to bombard
the palace of Elsinore. Am I not right, then, in say•
ing that there is hardly a mood of the mind or play
of the fancy in circumstances of passing events which
Snmesretz has not anticipated and has not chroni-
cled ?" The hearty cheers of the audience answered the
Noble Lord's inquiry with an unhesitating affirma-
tive. Wishing to do honour to the memory
of SHAKSPERE, and to suit his observations to
the character of the times, Lord Moaraxu
could hardly have seized upon a happier idea than
that of exhibiting the departed poet as an instrument
in promoting that spirit of peace and amity among
nations which is the glory of these times. Having,
by the charm of his writings, associated the histories
of foreign countries with the most familiar and pleasing
associations of the English people, and having, at the
same time, by the genius and truthfulness of these
same writings, inspired other nations with a warm
and lively interest in England and the English lan-
guage, SHAIESPERS, as Lord MOICPETII justly re-
marked, has done much to facilitate the kindly inter-
change of national sympathies ; and hence it is
peculiarly fitting that, at the present time, the me-
mory of Sa.wrzaz should be especially comme-
morated.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

M. LaDRU Roux.; and hh Commissioners have in
every district in the provinces exercised the most odious
tyranny to procure if possible the return of those who
will be willing to aid him, either as dupes or accom-
plices, in his schemes for betraying the Republic.
At Rouen the communal schoolmasters, who are all
in the pay of the Minister of Public Instruction,
were convened and commanded to sign collectively
an engagement to vote for the Government can-
didates or resign their places. At a little town
called Neufchatel a body of two hundred con-
scripts were stopped by the mayor, put into the
Hotel de Ville, and there kept under lock and
key until they had voted. Instances are given of
electors being stopped on their way, their lists taken
from them, and they obliked to return home, by hired
ruffians. The 411emorial de Rouen says it is useless
making complaints to the Government Commis.
sioner, " who is so good a man that he refuses to
believe any evil of others." The Journal de Rouen
contains accounts of men being beaten, and the lists
taken from them, because they were not democratic.
The Gazette de Lyons contains accounts of similar
proceedings in its neighbourhood. It says that in the
Place des Terreaux they were burning heaps of lists
of names which had been violently taken from elec-
tors. There was a grand demonstration of the clubs
of Lyons, of the workmen employed in the Government
eteliers, and of the voraces, in favour of the democratic
candidates. The Journal de Toulouse contains also
some curious proceedings of the Government Com-
missioner. Having menaced the inhabitants of a par-
ticular town to have its privilege of chef lieu con-
veyed to another place, unless the votes were for
the Government candidates, he next, proceeded by
way of corruption, having changed the guardians of
the bureau de bienfaiscmce, and then told them to vote
money for the poor, who would not otherwise go tAJ
the polling place. The same Government Cemiiiiis-
sioner threatened that he would smash like glas, any
officials whom he suspected of not going with the
and that he would make a patriotic
offering to the Republic of the money due to them.
Another Government Commissioner writes to the
curate of Limoux, that he had received a dispatch
from the Commissaire-General of the department,
prescribing the most energetic measures against the
members of the clergy who use the influence given
them by their character to lead public opinion astray
by recommending candidates hostile to the revolution,
and threatening the clergyman to whom the letter is
addressed with his displeisure. So much for the
system of terror and corruption practised in the pro-
vinces. The following extract from a long letter in
the Constitutionnel contains some indirect revelations
of the terror practised in the capital :

" There are men who dssire to make a sort of repub-
lican restoration, with similar persecutions, and who
dream about a certain revolutionary history which is
gone by forever. These men affect to date the Republic
at its 56th year, imitating the ludicrous example set by
Louis XVIII. Instead of the flag of glory and liberty,
they demand the drapeau of blood. They revive the
costumes and heed-dress of what they call la bonne
epoque. They give to journals the titles of the old
dewagogie; they admit no title but that of citizen; they
call on the people every day to plant trees of liberty;
they demand that public tables be set in the streets for
repasts in common—doing the Spartan republic and the
fraternity Lamoarette; these are peurilities resembling
those practised by the Restoration. But there are
other doings much more alarming—they are not satisfied
with calling themselves Jacobins and Montagnards;
they also take their doctrines, and seem to renew their
acts. They can only comprehend a republic under tire
form of a revolution en permanence. They demand the
right of deliberating in arms iu their clubs; they demand
that the Assembly shall be opened on the 31st of May
in order to place this inauguration under the auspices of
a sanguinary reminiscence. 'they evoke all the horrors
of the past. They belong to the historic school founded
on what we shall not call the worst times, but the
worst of deeds of our history. All that is old. With
that France will have nothing to do."
It is generally believed, however, that all the at
tempts of the Ledru-Rollin faction to carry the
elections of Paris have proved abortive. M. Di-.
LAMARTINZ is, it is said, at the head of the poll, and
General CAVAIGNAC, the Governor-General of Ai.
Biers, second. The return of General CAVAIGNAC
for Paris will be one of the most severe rebuffs that
Lenny ROLLIN has yet received, inasmuch as Ge-
neral CAVAIGNAC threatened to transport from Al-
geria the commissary, sent thither by M. LEDRU
ROLLIN, if that personage attempted at all to interleie
with the Government or the inhabitants of that co-
lony; and General CAVAIGNAC is just the man icy
have kept his word, even had the meddler bee.i.
LEDRU RoLuirr himself instead of his man.
i.'he commissary M. COUPUT was, it seems,
sent to Algiers, by LET:mu ROLLIN, wi,hout the
knowledge of his colleagues, and the Provisionsi
Government has annulled the appointment.
An attempt was made on the 16. th and 17th to get
up a Ledru-Rollin derhonstration in Algiers, but it
signally failed. The great body of the people rose
against the anarchists, and assist, d by the Civic
Guard tore down the bonnet rouge, and dispersed the
mob.

The Moniteur contains a decree opening a credit l'L
two million francs to the Minister of Public Work,
for continuing the railway works between llornmar-
ting and Strasbourg.
It is said that M. ODILON BARROT has been
elected by an immense majority for the departmen,
of L'Aiine.

On Monday night there was "a scene" in th.
Cabinet of the Provisional Government between M.
LAMARTINE and M. LEDRU ROLLIN. The latter
desired the further postponement of the meeting ot
the Assembly, the former peremptorily opposed it:
the latter threatened a popular demonstration, th,
former treated the menace with contempt. N.
LEDRU ROLLIN then declared that he would have
Paris covered with barricades. M. Lastawriste ruse
and declared that he set his colleague at defiance,
that the majority of the Government were quite pre-
pared for any measure of that description promote.,
by the Minister of the Interior, and that they would
resort to effectual measures of defence. After this,
report says, M. LEDRU ROLLIN lowered his tone.
In every section of Paris in which the result °I
the polling has become known it has been favourable
to the moderate members of the Provisional Go•
vernment, while MM. LEDRU ROLLIN, ALBERT,
Louis BLANC, and FLocost hold places which show
that their popularity, even among the great body of
the working classes, was over-estimated. It appears,
however, that all the members of the Provisional
Government will be returned for Paris. The follow-
ing is the order in which they at present stand
Dupont (de l'Eure), the venerable President of the
Provisional Government, is at the head of the
poll ; then follow M.M. de Lamartine, Cre-
mieux, Garnier Pages, Cormenin, Beranger, Marie,
Carnot, Bethrront, Goudchaux, and Wollowski,
all of whom have ♦ery large majorities. After them
come MM. Vellu, Peupin, Schmit, Lamennais, Co-
querel, Marrast, General Duvivier, Victor Ilugo, and
Ledru Rollin. Louis Blanc, Albert, and Flocon
have fewer votes than any of the above. It is right
to state that the returns from the districts in which
the ouvriers are most numerous are not yet known,
with the exception of the seventh, in which M. LEDRI:
ROLLIN and his friends appear in a minority. Ot,
the Bourse the funds rose considerably ii; consequer.ct,
of the turn taken by the elections.

The Presse gives the result of the scrutiny of the
7th section of the third arrondissement, in as far at
regards the first nineteen names at the head of the
pull :
Lamartine

Dupont(de l'Eure) 648
Aragu 640
Murrast_

Cremieux
Wollowbki
Cormenin
Caraignac
Varin
ilucht z
Lcdru It u in
Albert
Louis Blanc 109

Gamier Pett,i3
635

Marie
628
Bethtuont..•
Du vivier
B.ranger 564
Berger

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As far as the accounts from the departments go,
the elections appear to have proceeded as calmly as,
in the metropolis. At Rouen the balloting was
over, and the election day had passed more quietly
than Easter Sunday and Easter Monday usually
do. At Havre and Lille the same tranquillity
existed. At Brest the military part of the elec-
tion was over. The Journal de la Marine says
the different corps of the Marine at Brest were
called on yesterday to vete for their representa-
tives in the National Assembly, to wit, the officers
and military functionaries at the prefecture of the
Merino, the 'agora not sntbaked itthe held-quartsra

of the crews of the line, and the staffs and crews of
armed ships on their respective ships. It then gives
the result. The only member of the Government in
the list is M. DE LAMARTINE, and he is at the head
of every list. The other favourites are—MM. LA-
CROSSE, DECOUVRANT, ROSSEL, LH BRETTON, SOU-
VESTRE, GRAVERAU, BRUNEL, LB GRANDAIS, &C.
With the exception of M DE LAMARTINE and
M. LACROSSE, who was a member of the Chamber
id Deputies, the whole of the Brest candi 'ates are
new men.

A decree has appeared in the Moniteur putting an
end to the organization of armed bands of foreigners
in France. _ _

It is said that M. LAMARTINE has concluded a treaty
offensive and defensive between the French Republic,
Switzerland, the Italian States, and that portion of
Germany represented in the Diet at Frankfort.
A large quantity of troops entered Paris yester-
day. The infantry of the line are now doing duty
regularly at the prisons tux' some of the public build•
ings, in the plaee of the National Guards.