The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-20 00:00:00

After summing up the arguments which are used
by the journals who have lately expressed themselves
in favour of the immediate dissolution of the National
Assembly, and dwelling more immediately on the
hypothesis which has been raised by them, that in
the present chamber the new President will find him-
self in presence of a hostile boOy, the National pro-
ceeds :

" This hypothesis contains nothing of probability.
Does Al. Bonaparte find that the country has not suffi-
ciently recompensed the services he has rendered it?
Does he find the Presidential chair so confined that lie
wishes to exchange it for a throne? Does he secretly
entertain the design of trampling under foot that con-
stitution which has made him what he is; that consti-
tution to which he has sworn fidelity? Has he resolved
—he who has rrs yet done nothing for the country, to
make his debut in his political career by perjury, usur-
pation, and crime? It is not for us to reply to these
questions. It is for his partisans and for himself to do
so since his honour is deeply concerned in it. If he
should seek one day to realise these suppositions, the hope
of some and the dread of others, then he will doubt-
less have to combat the opposition of the Assembly, and
we sincerely hope that he would be vanquished. If such
is the arriare pensee of those who call for the dissolution
of the Assembly it will show still more clearly that it
would be dangerous for it to desert its post.
" We, therefore, call on it in the name of what it
holds most dear; in the name of the liberty which it has
organized—of the Republic which it has founded—of
the repose and of the future of France, to turn a deaf
ear to all the clamours raised a?,ainst it, and strong in
its incontestable right to valiantly accomplish its duty,
however painful it may appear. The maintenance of our
institutions, the continuance of public tranquillity, the
re-establishment of public confidence, the revival of
credit, and the happiness and strength of the country,
depend on its so doing. If it yields everything will be
lost. It is only by completing its work that the future
fate of France will be secured."

Considerable alarm was felt in Paris yesterday, in
consequence of the discovery of a plot to create a
disturbance on the installation of the new President.
The plan proposed by the perturbators is not very
well known, but it is believed to be this :—A proces-
sion is to be formed on the morning of the installa-
tion, which, after rendezvousing in the Place de la
Bastille, is to proceed along the Boulevards and the
Rue de la Pay to the Place Vendome, where Prince
Louis NAPOLEON resides; and there he is to be
saluted with cries of " Vive Louis Napoleon!"
" Vive l'Empereur !" Should the affair succeed so
far, further demonstrations are to be made against
the Republic. The BONAPARTE family deny all
knowletlge of it, and are using all their efforts to
prevent its taking place. They say it is a weak
invention of the enemy—a thing got up by the
Red Republicans, as the nucleus of a fresh insurrec•
tion ; and they accordingly beseech all those
who favoured their cause to discourage any such
demonstration by every means in their power.
That the Red Republicans may be implicated in the
plot we can readily believe. Starving men are al-
ways ready to join in any act of violence, as every
change in their condition must be for the better,
but that they are the concoctors of the plot we do
not for one moment imagine. The originators of
this plot, the men who supply the money, the plans,
the arms, are, those who supplied the money, the
plans, the arms, in June—the Bourbonists—(an
arrangement was entered into about a month since
between Louts PHILIPPE and the sister of the Duc
DE BORDEAUX, for the settlement of the claims of
the rival branches)—who, having made use of what
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN calls the planche Napolio-
nienne, would now fain kick it away. The danger to
LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, President of the
French Republic, threatens from the right, not from
the left—from the Bourbons whom his uncle sup-
planted, not from the Republic, of whom he was the
incarnation.

BARBES has addressed the following letter to the
editor of La Revolution Democratique and Sociale:—
" Dungeon of Vincennes, Dec. 12, 1848.
" Citizen Editor—It appears that my name figure s
also on those famous lists of national recompenses, of
which so much has been said within the last few days. I
feel no annoyance or anger against the authors of tho:e
papers for having placed me in company with those who
have been called assassins and thieves. The widow and
childre❑ of Pepin, the relations of the heroic Alibaud
and of Darrcas, carry with them no stain, the contact
with which can soil a Republican, and I do not know
that any one has made it a crime to Athens to have
adopted and supported, at the expense of the State, the
families of Ilurmodious and Aristogiton.
" Neither does my modesty revolt,against being placed
by the sideof certain other pretended malefactors such as,
for instance, Mailon, that unfortunate proletaire, who, be-
fore being condemned to the gullies for having fought in
the days of May, 1839, had been subjected to a preceding
condemnation of five years of reclusion, for having taken
from the ruins of a house, of which he was digging the
foundations, some bits of old iron, estimated (the Procu-
reur-General admitted it to the Court of Peers)at lf. 25e.
"To fire musket shots against tyrants, and to suffer
afterwards martyrdom in a prison, are as powerful, I
imagine, in absolving from all anterior faults, as to:be-
lieve in the mission of a friend of humanity, who dies of
the same punishment as you on the cross, and Jesus,
for that sole fact, has given place to the good thief in
that republic from above, which he calls the Kingdom of
his Father.

"But, in reality, if I have done my duty as a citizen
in the struggles of my country, against a Government
which oppressed and degraded it, it was never for the
sake of a recompense ; and as the acceptance of
pecuniary succour would be to commit a theft to the
prejudice of so many other unhappy ex detenus Kho
have more need of it than I have, I declare, citizen edi-
tor, that it is against my wish, and without my being in-
formed of it, that my name was placed on those lists.
" Salut et fraternitik

"A BARBES."
The Moniteur publishes decrees appointing Admiral
BAUDIN a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. It
also publishes a decree promoting 8 commanders in
the navy to the rank of post-captains, 15 lieutenants
to the rank of captains of frigates, and 33 ensigns to
the rank of lieutenants.
It is doubtful whether the examination of the votes
for the Presidential election will be completed on
Thursday. Should lit not „be so, the installation of
the President will be deferred.
In the National Assembly yesterday, after the
reading of the minutes of the previous sitting, M.
LAGRANGE mounted the tribune on a motion of order.
He protested again against the mode in which the
question of the amnesty had been put on the previous
day, and denied that he had had any intention of in-
timidating any person. He then referred to the po-
sition of the insurgents who had been transported,
and said that they had been condemned en masse,
without trial, and without examination. He therefore
called on the Assembly to declare a complete amnesty
before the proclamation of the President of the Re-
public.
M. GIIIGNIER DE CHAMPSANS opposed the motion,
and M. DE LAROCHEJACQUELIN moved the order of
the day, which was ultimately agreed to.
After the motion of M. LAGRANGE on the subject
of the amnesty had been rejected,
M. MAaaAsT announced that the Committee ap-
pointed to examine the electoral returns for the Presi-
dency of the Republic bad received on that day the
returns of eight other departments including Corsica.
The Committee would probably be able to appoint its
reporter on Wednesday or Thursday, but it was not
yet possible to fix a day for the proclamation of the
President.
A. Member here observed that he had every confi-
dence in the Government which so loyally accom-
plished its mission, but he was afraid that it did not
possess the 4oral power necessary to discharge its
duties with effect.—(Murmurs.) He accordingly
called on the President of the Assembly to state what
measures had been adopted for the maintenance of
tranquillity.
M. .MARRAST replied, that the good sense exhi-
bited by the population was a sufficient guarantee of
the maintenance of order, and that no time should
be lost in proclaiming the first Magistrate of the
Republic.