The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-26 00:00:00

Tilt SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y

which recently polluted the city of the acropolis
with its plots, under the auspices of the
lect•ased COLETTI. At Copenhagen the Right Hon.

H. W. W. WYNN observes, with an interest that can
scarcely be appreciated in the soporific and lulling
regions of Belgravia, the fortunes attendant upon the
Danish standard on the banks of the Eider, and
under the wails of Friederichstadt. From the revo-
lutionary movement of Lombardy, the irritable de-
mands of Bohemia, the imperative petitions from
Gallicia, and the annihilation of the power exercised
for half a century over the Austrian councils
by the Lord of Johannisburg, the Em-
peror FERDINAND has been compelled to
adopt a policy such as three months ago could never
have suggested itself to the sanguine imagination of
Viscount PONSONBY. Even among the pageantries
of Saint P,tersburgh Lord BLOOMFIELD must recog-
nise the precarious posture of affairs along the con
tines of Lithuania and in the interior of Russian
Poland. At Lisbon Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR is com-
pelled to witness the insane and retrogressive system
eat orced by the Ministerial advisers of the
SOVEREIGN. And at Madrid the Right
Honourable HENRY BuLWER has received a
polite intimation that his recal by Lord
PALMERSTON will be regarded as a pleasant frag-
ment of intelligence by the members of the Narvaes
Administration. Everywhere is doubt, trepidation,
or annoyance to our Ambassadors and Plenipoten-
tiaries. Everywhere are the representatives of her
Britannic MAJESTY tormented, worried, importuned,
threatened, badgered, or regarded with suspicions.
And through the whole of this Lord PALMERSTON is
expected to preserve an equable temperament. Teazed
-o distraction himself in the House of Commons, one
while by the petulant personalities of Mr. URQUHART,
it another by the monstrous impeachments of Mr
Cnisnout ANSTEY, the Chief Secretary for Foreign
Affairs is expected to preserve the equanimity of his
disposition, despite all the annoyances pouring into
nis official portfolio through the medium of his con-

tinental dispatches.
Of all the shades and diversities of insolence evinced
by certain of the Cabinets of Europe towards the re-
sid.-nt Ambassadors from Great Britain, the conduct
NARVAEZ to her Britannic MAJESTY'S representa•
tive at Madrid is the most insolent and the most un-

justifiable. It is a becoming sequel to that ill-
tempered act of the Duke of VALENCIA—the banish-
ment of MONTPENSIER to Seville, possibly with a view
to the assuagement of his thirst for intrigue by po-
tations of inimitable orangeade. If a rumour
-mianating from the most authentic sources can be
,:redited, Mr. BULWEIL has acquired the antipathy of
the present Ministry of Queen IsAnaLLA, and a

direct demand for his recal is said to have been for-
warded by that Ministry to the Foreign-office in
Downing-street. The reason for this sudden dislike
to a man who has hitherto been regarded with
deferential respect, if not with positive cordiality
will not be for one instant incomprehensible to
hose who have perused the communication addressed
to Mr. BULWE& on the 10th inst. by the Duke
OK SorostAvos. That communication is a very
restive, and, in truth, an absolutely impertinent re-
joinder to one penned on the 7th instant by the Right
Hon. HENRY LITTON BULWER, inclosing an official
;etter received by that Ambassador from Viscount
PALMERSTON. Lord PALMERSTON'S letter, it must
not be forgotten, was dated March 16th, and conveyed
a salutary recommendation to the Spanish Govern-
ment in reierence to the adoption of .‘ a more legal
ind constitutional system" than the one hitherto
..dopted by NAsivA az and his colleagues. The
communication in which this letter was trans-
tnitted to the Duke DE SOTOMAYOR by his
Excellency the British Ambassador was couched in
language befitting the representatives of that Sove-
reignty which had been principally instrumental in
raising ISABELLA 11. to the throne; and Mr. BULWER
specified as much when he reminded the Spanish
Minister for Foreign Affairs, that " what especially
distinguished the cause of Queen ISABELLA from that
of her Royal competitor was the promise of constitu-
tional liberty inscribed upon the banners of her Ca.
tholic MASESTY." In reply the Duke DE SOTO-
MAroa perversely and indeed insolently inquired what
would be the response of Lord PALMERSTON supposing
the Spanish Government interfered in reference to
the administration of the British Cabinet, to the

fri4htful condition of Ireland, or to the unfortunate
people of Asia ? " What," continued the irritated
diplomatist, " what, in fine, would he do if we were
to remind him that the late events on the Continent
vave a salutary lesson to all Governments without
excepting Great Britain, and that consequently the
administration of the State should be given up to the
illustrious PEEL, to the skilful man, who, after having
coneiliated the general opinion of his country, has
known how to merit the sympathies and the esteem
of all the Governments of Europe ?" As if the
Constitution of England had been established through
the assistance of Spanish valour and Spanish negotia-
tion, as if in any respect whatever Spain was
authorised to catechise the Statesmen of
Great Britain ! In presuming to discern an
analogy between his imaginary proposition and the
recommendation of Lord PALZERSTON, the Duke DE
SOTOMATCE. misrepresents entirely the character of
that communication. Instead of being a dictatorial

interposition in the internal government of Spain, it
was a friendly whisper of advice uttered in a period
of terrible and mom .ntous catastrophes. Let
NARVAEZ beware ! or, so soon as Mr. BULWER shall
have dt-parted homewards, the Voice of CASSANDRA
!nay Lecome audible in the streets of Madrid.

The peaceable and loyal inhabitants of Dublin, and
indeed, of by far the greatest portion of Ireland, have
'ieen kept in constant anxiety and alarm in conse-
quence of the feverish and excited state of the public
mind, and the possibility of some speedy collision be-
tween the authorities and those who openly profess
-heir di-affection. and avow their readiness to have
recourse to armed resistance upon any the slightest
provocation, or rather what they may be pleased to
consider as such. The Government have adopted
every possible precaution, and have made the most
judicious arrangements for the maintenance of public
order and tranquillity. There is no undue inter•
ference with the people by which an outbreak might
possibly be occasioned. They manifest a perfect
consciousness of their strength, and suffer events to
pass apparently without notice that, under other
circumstances, would immediately arouse them into
tille,ol,:w)invwisyteoyal
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popular meetings for which a le itimate pretext can
b to e put forward, adopt such ga
course
strictly within the limits of
constitutional.
law,
he renders the more respected from his own He
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which
s
adherence thereto. There are some
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however, so manifestly illegal, so resortedclearlydg
inai
to
with the intention of organising the pt4ple for civil
war, and so much calculated to bring the idle massesl
I
into hostile collision with the military or police, and
to create terror in the minds of the well•dis-
posed, that they could not possibly be suffered
to prevail without the Executive being thereby
subjected to the charge of gross and culpable
negligence ; we allude more particularly to the
recent practice of numerous bodies of people assem-
bling together for the purpose of being trained and
drilled to the use of arms, and of practising military
movements and evolutions. Such conduct is in ex-
press opposition to the provisions of an Act passednearly thirty years since, and which, although seldom
of the moral force
enforced, owing to the adoption
the entire of his triumphant career , still remains on
principle by the late Leader of the Irish nation during
Hence-
forward these enactments will be strictly enforced,
the statute-book in full force and efficiency.
and all persons violating the law, by drilling or in-
structing others in military tactics without the sanc-
tion of the magistrates, will be subjected to trans-
portation for a term of seven years; while those who
receive their instructions Ai I be liable to be fined
andilnprisontd therefor.
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those useless articles, when they can no longer with
impunity take pert in grand spectacles, and attract
the attention and excite the envy of their gaping as-
sociates by their proficiency in military tactics and
evolutions. The consignment of the officers and ring.
leaders to the several gaols and houses of correction
throughout the country will moderate the ardour cf
the enthusiastic recruits, and induce them to have
recourse to other pastimes, leading to less unpleasant
results.
Meanwhile the leader par excellence, Mr. JOHN
MITCHELL, appears resolved that the gagging Act
shall have no effect upon his conduct, and if the tur-
bulent passions of the people should be appeased, it
will not be owing to any failure on his part
of the usual amount of stimulating writing and of
"open and advised speaking." On Monday,
when, as the editor of a public journal, he
must have been well aware that the Bill for the secu-
rity of the Crown and Government had received the
Royal assent on the preceding Saturday, and was,
consequently, at that time part and parcel of the law
of the land, Mr. Alitcusu, presided at a meeting held
at the Princess's Theatre, Abbey-street, when he an-
nounced that the English Chartists and the Irish
people " had one common enemy to destroy—the
Legislature of England." And he further proposed
that the former " should undertake to make Eng-
land ungovernable by any English Government,
Whig or Tory, which withheld from them
their full rights, while the Irishmen would
engage to make Ireland ungovernable by any Mini-
stry, good, bad, or indifferent." This is certainly
tolerably plain and unequivocal. To do justice,
however, to the " War Editor," he is by no means
mealy-mouthed on such occasions; and if sufficient
grounds for a prosecution, under the new statute,
were required by the law officers of the Crown, they
would nut long be withheld. No religious enthusiast,
in fact, ever longed for a martyr's crown more fer-
vently than Mr. MITCHELL pines for a prosecution
for something more than a misdemeanour, and it
would be hard to disappoint so earnest a demand.
If, however, the political horizon is cloudy with so
many portentous and threatening indications, the
prospect is not altogether dark ; there are some blue
spots in the heavens that warrant favourable expecta-
tions that the tempest and storm may pass away
without expending their fury on Irish ground. Ad-
dresses of confidence in the Government, and expres •
sive of the determination of the parties from whom
they have emanated to support the con-
stituted authorities in their efforts to protect the
lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of all
classes, are flowing in from every quarter of the
country. A knowledge of the well-disposed and
loyal inhabitants is thus obtained, and if the Go-
vernment should see a necessity for calling on Irish
men to come forward and enrol themselves for the
maintenance of the peace of the country, we are sa-
tisfied that they would manifest similar alacrity to
that which recently reflected so much credit on all
classes of society in the British metropolis.

The French elections are passing over with un-
expected tranquillity. Universal as is the interest
concentrated upon them, and momentous as will be
the result to which they must inevitably lead, their
progress is only marked by an unusual quietude and a
profound calm. And it is but right it should be so. It
is but right that the interest elicited by these elections
should be of too grave and anxious a character to be
manifested by any outward demonstration, even among
a people so demonstrative as the French; and it is more
especially well that an affair of such vital importance
to the whole nation should not be marred by any,
even temporary or trivial, impede. The first general
election of Republican France is for many reasons a
subject of deep interest interesting from the
present circumstances which occasion it, and in
teresting from the future consequences which
may fellow it ; interesting to those who
are actors in the scene, and interesting to the spec-
tators observing it. A general election is at all times
worthy of attention and productive of serious thought,
that is to those who have time to consider its abstract
importance. Generally speaking, when an election
takes place in this country, for example, public atten-
tion is too much occupied with speculating as to who
will get in and who will be rejected to look upon the
affair in any more extended light. But removed
from the immediate scene of action, as we are now in
contemplating the French, the grandeur of the spec-
tacle as a whole, its sublimity as an idea, becomes
apparent to us. We recognise the full merits
of that triumph of civilization—a representative con-
stitution. We witness the marvellous combination of
popular liberty and public order. We see all the advan-
tages of the veriest democracy enjoyed without
their degenerating into the evil consequences of
anarchy. We find a people, at the same time, exer-
cising authority and yielding obedience—exercising
their rightful prerogatives as individual men, or se-
lecting their law-makers, and yielding ready obe-
dience, as loyal citizens, to the Legislature thus
chosen by themselves and their countrymen. By this
proceeding—and by this alone—the power of the
people is at once proclaimed and preserved. By
those unpretending and, apparently, unimportant en-
tries at the polling-booths, a minority of the people
are invested by the rest with that power which is the
birthright of all the members of a free nation, and
hence the acts of that chosen minority become the
acts of the whole people, whose representa-
tives they are. No form of government
could by possibility be devised more liberal
to each, and more just to all, than is a representative
constitution when equitably organized. Errors lino
faults, inseparable from all human institutions, toe
often detract from the perfect character of this forte
of government, for the form of government itself is n
perfect one. Errors and faults have crept into our
own 'node of organizing a representative Legislature
—errors and faults which we are solicitous of having
avoided and amended for the future ; but notwith-
standing their existence the people of this country are
fully impressed with the inestimable advantages of the
Constitution which they enjoy, and consequently they
experience no common interest in the now happily
accelerated progress of other nations towards a parti-
cipation of those advantages. All the people of
Europe will, ere long, be ruled by their own repre-
sentatives. France has for a considerable period
possessed a representative legislature, but the im-
portance of such a Legislature will just now be
manifested in an especial manner. Free from the
Control of a Sovereign, and free from the corrupting
influences of a regal Ministry, the French Parlia-
ment will be now invested with peculiar power, and
through recent events become the observed of Europe
and the warning lesson, or encouraging example, of
surrounding nations. The representatives will be pos-
sessed ot no ordinary responsibility. Their position will
be a most onerous and important one. No selfish de-
sires, no vain ambition, no miserable pride, should,
more especially in the present instance, stimu-
late any citizen to solicit the suffrages
of his countrymen. No interested motives,
no personal friendship, no promised reward, should
induce any elector to give a vote for his represents
tive—a representative who will have to represent not
his constituents alone, but France and Republicanism.
Let ushope that a due sense of their awful responsibility
now influences the people of France whether electors
or elected. In a few days the result of their delibe-
rations will be made known by the publication of
the names of the members of the new Parliament ;
and, ere long, the consequences of the
election must be manifested by the decisions
and reeelutions of the Chamber If—though happily
such a misfortune is hardly probable—if the present
elections be influenced by such a spirit as LEDILU
Rommes, the result will be speedy and inevitable—
trouble for France and destruction to Republicanism.
But such is not likely to be the issue of the trial. It
is more than probable that the new Assembly will be
comprised of men of politics and characters as various
as their occupations, of which, judging from the lists
of the candidates, they are likely to present an extra-
ordinary variety. No doubt the new Chamber will
be occasioeally agitated by sonic Qtttbursts on the
part of the violent and ultra-Republicens, and also at
intervals led away by the specious reasoning of some
secret partizan of the old regime. Perhaps there
may be in the list of new representatives some men
of genius and ability, hitherto unknown, who
themselves conspicuous in
make
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the
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however, is doubtful. But ono thing is, happily,

inevitable. LAMARTINE cannot fail to exert over the
members s,f the new Chamber the same no:s erful and
salutary influence which he has already exorcised
with such effect, not only over Paris and France, but
over all Europe. We anticipate the fervour of his
poetic imaginings and impressive oratory stirring up
the patriotism, and calling forth the latent enthusiasm
of his hearers to the fulfilment of some of those high
aspirations which his genius has long since prefigured.
we foresee how happily that gentle and
which invests with ao much splendour
chOoirsn'fiabdgeiaanuigntisZilriand attractive language, may serve to
still the rising storms of ambition, and to create the
institutions of Republicanism out of the chaos of
Anarchy. Conspicuous in the future of the new
French Parliament, LAIIMITINE stanas before
us somewhat like CANNING as he appeared on
that memorable occasion when he electrified the
House of Commons by this audacious and magnifi-
cent declaration—" I calla new world into existence
to redress the balance of the old !" Even so may
LAMARTINS silence the murmurs of the envious and
refractory. He, too, has called a new world into ex-
istence—the world of peace, and charity, and con-
cord—where confidence is the link which unites
peoples and governments—where sympathies are the
treaties which unite once hostile nations; he, too, has
called a new world into existence to redress the
balance of the old world, in which very different
feelings predominated. He, or rather let us say, the
better feelings of this age, of which his high intellect
and Christian heart are but the type and the fitting re-
presentative, has summoned into existence this new
be realised—to that future we look
xiousnibauyt hopeful anticipation.
world. The future alone can show how much of its
fair
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Madridt
is
said papers of the 20th have arrived.
I
that a junction had taken place in Cata-
lonia between the Carlists and the Republicans.
The discount on Bank Notes has risen 12 per cent.
The 20th being Holy Thursday, the Balsa was
closed.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

Great complaints are made of the fraudulentcon-
duct of LEDRU ROLLIN, LOUIS BLANC, and ALBERT,
in attempting to falsify the elections by issuing
duplicate voting tickets, by prolonging the time fur
registration, and by various other methods. The
proclamation of LEDRU ROLLIN for keeping open the
registration lists until Monday night, was issued
without the knowledge of his colleagues, and has not
been published in the Illoniteur. With respect to
the doings of the LOUIS BLANC party, we find the
following in the Commerce :
" Very grave facts, said to have occurred on Saturday,
nave been communicated to us. Emissaries of the
Luxembourg, to the number of more than three hun-
dred, have, it is said, been sent to the banlieue, with the
mission of widely distributing the list of the Commission
des Travailleurs. It is added, that the horses of the
Garde Republicaine were placed at the disposal of these
emissaries We are also assured that electors' cards
nave been delivered to a great number of tureige work-
men resident at Paris, and that these workmen have
been strongly solicited to vote for the candidates of the
Luxembourg. We hope that an investigation will be
made into these facts. Fraud must not be allowed to
.lip into our republican electiotts, and falsify the ex-
pression of the will of the country.
We find the following on the same subject in the
Putrie r—
" It is known that a proclamation of the delegates of
the Luxembourg, stuck up on the walls of Paris, invited
workmen to go to-day at six in the morning to the
Champs de Mars in order to agree on the unity of their
votes. In aunouncing this fact, we did not hesitate to
condemn the proceeding as having all the character of
in abuse of influence, and we added that the working
,copulation would refuse to obey this electoral mot
d'ordre We were right in reckoning on its good sense
-aid intelligence. We are as,ured that a very small
dumber of workmen responded this morning to the
appeal from the Luxembourg. They dispersed without
coming to any decision, on the wise observations of some
citizens, who made them comprehend the imprudence
of their conduct."

M. CAUSIDIERE, the Prefect of Police, has issued
a notice declaring that it having been represented to
him that very grave abuses had taken place in some
of the Mairies, in the mode of distributing the voting
cards to the electors, several electors obtaining two
or more authorisations ; and, moreover, it having
been asserted that certain persons were busied in
buying up votes, he thinks it necessary to publish the
enactment of Art. 113 of the Penal Code relating to
this subject. It is there clearly affirmed, that "who-
everotfo their
givecu
es
of
towards entering
shall sell or purchase a vote shall be interdicted
from exercising all civic rights for a space of time
not more than ten years, and not less than five ; and
in addition, both the buyer and seller shall be con-
demned to pay a fine double the sum received or
promised.
It would appear from the following paragraph that
it may be some time before the result of any of
the elections can be known. The Comnzune de Paris
says—
. It is generally supposed that the definitive result of
the ballot will be known in two or three days. This is
an error. The army must vote, and in virtue of articles
37 and 38 of the instructions of the Bth of March, the
result of the votes of the different corps will be comprised
;n the general list of votes of each department. It is
Therefore necessary that the proces verbaux of each corps
~, known before the representatives can be known."
The schism existing among the members of the
2rovisional Government is now openly avowed.
LEDRU ROLLIN anal the Communists have omitted the
names of their moderate colleagues from their elec-
toral lists. Those colleagues, however, have had the
.4.00 d sense not to follow such a bad example. Tne
National thus alludes to the split :
~ We have beloved it god and wise policy to maintain
the principal or unity in the Government to the period .1.
the meeting of the constituent assembly. It seemed to us
power. Faithful
o}:atihthoe
nfeu,il.hnt,torsa;tshctioesmuismie,fnitetti,,xmec,eltnwl
stii
otahn.e..
necessary that the men who took pos,ession of cove
reignty on the 24th of February should arrive altogether
before the new chamber, to render an account of the
all the Members of the Pro-
cklititrbienidnegpdeensdier;:
exercisecontinue
Pro-
visional Government. without exception, is complete ;
`out our personal sympathies are not equal towards all—
we declare that distinctly. Still, on behalf of the repub-
lican cause, we have imposed silence on our private sen-
timents, desirous as we are to secure, before everythinn
by the union of all democratic forces, the consolidation
of the Republic. A day will come on which, resuming
our full liberty, we can discuss not persons, who interest
us little, but acts. That day cannot be far distant ; but
we are certain that public opinion will thank us tor ad-
journing to the meeting of the assembly a discussion
which at present would only embarrass the march of the
Government, and by consequence aid the enemies of the
Republic, who are always alive, always ready to profit by
,ur faults. It is impossible for moderation and patience
not to prevail in the ead."
M. LEDRU RoLLIts is pursuing his career of cot..
ruptiun and despotism with a recklessness that puts to
shame the comparatively puny attempts of M. DU-
CHATEL and the late Government. The Presse says
—" A decree of the Provisional Government,
dated April 12, inserted iii the Bulletin des
Loin, as No. 229, opens to M. LEDRU ROLLIN,
Minister of the Interior, an extraordinary credit
of 500,000 f. for extraordinary expenses of pub-
lic safety. The decree is not preceded by an
preamble whatever. We shall not attempt to supply
that silence, and we shall
confine ourselves to a single
observation. The opening of this credit involves the
supposition that the sum of 932,0001: set down for
the same purpose during the present year, by the law
of August 8, 1847, has been completely exhausted.
How comes it to pass that this sum of 932,000 f. has
been expended before a third of the year has elapsed ?
Does the fault lie with M. DUCHATEL or M. LEDRU
ROLLIN ? Will it be necessary, in order to ascertain
that fact, to welt for the revelations of some Revue
Retrospective,"
Were we Rot right when we said a few days since
that M. LEDRU Itomrs was no Republican ? The
Gazette de Tribunaux gives the following account of
the Montagnards, some of whose recent proceedings
have attracted a good deal of public attention :
" The Montagnardv, whose :effective force, somewhat
amounts
to from
variable,4oo to 500 men, were fformed
at the Pretecture of Police, the first of them having
been that small knot of Republican combatants, wile,
headed by M. Cauasidiare and M. Sobrier, took posses-
sion of the hotel on the Quai des Orfevres, in the midst
of the struggle of the 24th February. The organiz ni al
of this corps has never been regular, neither have its
uniform and equipments. The Montagnards, without
Joining any other corps, and it must be said without con-
senting to submit to the severe rules of discipline,
placed themselves at the moment of danger with praise.
worthy devotedness at the disposal of the Prefect of
Police. They have, however, acquitted themselves
with zeal and intelligent energy of the difficult mission, 1
intrusted to them. As a proof of their want of disci-
Phu; it may be stated that a few days ago, in cense-
queue° of a misunderstanding with the stair, the mu-