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

inevitable. LANLARTINg cannot fail to exert over the
members •f the new Chamber the same powerful and
salutary influence which he has already exercised
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.
Or,
we foresee how happily that gentle and
confiding again,
spirit, which invests with so much splendour
his beautiful and 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, LADIAIITINS stands 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 call a new world into existence
to redress the balance of the old !" Even so may,
LAMAILTINE 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-
pretatihas summoned into existence this new
world. 'The future alone can show how much of, its
fair promise may be realised—to that future we look
with anxious but hopeful anticipation.
sen ve,

Madrid papers-of the 20th have arrived.
It is said 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 berg 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 fraudulent con
=
duct of Lenitu RoLLipi, LOUIS BLANC, and ALBEIT,
in attempting to falsify the elections by issuing
duPlicate,voting tickets, by prolonging the time for
registration,- and by various other methods. The
proclamation of Liwatr RoLux for keeping open the
registration lists until Monday night, was issued
without the knowledge of his colleagues, and has not
been published in the Moniteur. 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,
have been communicated to us. Emissaries of the
Luxembourg, to the number of snore 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
have been delivered to a great number of foreign work-
men resident st 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
slip into our republican elections, and falsify the ex-
pression of the will of the country."
We find the following on the same subject in the
Patrie
" 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
rotes. In announcing this fact, we did not hesitate to
condemn the proceeding as having all the character of
en abuse of influence, and we added that the working
population' would refuse to obey this electoral mot
d'ordre. We were right in reckoning on its good sense
and intelligence. We are assured that a very small
number 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. Caustntene, 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 Maivies, in the mode of distributing the voting
cards to the electors, several electors obtaining two
or more suihorisations ; and, moreover, it having
been asserted that certain persons were bilged 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-
ever shall sell or purchase a vote shall be interdicted
fexercising all civic rights for a space of time
nroormore than ten years, and not less than five ; and
in addition, both the buyer and seller shall be con-
s fine double the sum received or
con-
demned
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
Commune de Paris
rue:ion
says--
„ It is generally supposed that the defi • nitive result of
twosof or
th three
Bth o days.of
March,
the
es
t3h7e
aoiesdde ballot(31 two ifpl itahybt: knownin st
an error. The army must vote, and in virtue of articles
result of the votes of the different corps will be comprised
in the general list of votes of each department. It is
therefore necessary that the precis verbaux of each corps
be known before the representstives can be known:'
The schism existing among the members of the
provisional Government is now openly avowed.
Lspati ROLLIN and the Communists have omitted the
names of their moderate colleagues from their elec=
total lists. Those colleagues, however, have had the
good sense not to follow such a bad example. The
National thus alludes to the split :
e We have believed it good and wise policy to maintain
the prine'pal of unity in the Government to the period of
the meeting of the constituent assembly. It seemed to us
necessary that the men who took possession of sove-
reignty on the 24th of February should arrive altogether
before the new chamber, to render an account of the
exercise of their power. Faithful to this sentiment we
continue to give the list of the central committee, with-
out being desirous of entering on the system of exclusion.
Our independence towards all the Members of the Pro-
visional Government, without exception, is complete ;
but our personal sympathies are nut equal towards all—
we &Clare 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 everythin:,
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
as little, but acts. That day cannot be far distant ; but
see are certain that public opinion will thank us for ad.
journing to the meeting of the assembly a discussion
whiutest present would only embarrass the march of the
Govetument, and by consequence aid the enemies of the
Republic, who are always alive, always ready to profit by
'our faults. It is impossible for moderation and patience
not to prevail in the ead."
fanitistu Roma?: is pursuing his career of col..
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ruption and despotism with a recklessness that puts to
shamOhe comparatively puny attempts of M. Du-
...
ciwrisr,, and the late Government. The Presse says
• decree of the Provisional Government,
dated''Xpril 12, inserted in the Bulletin des
Lois, 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 tbe sum of 932,000 f. 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 922,000 f. has
been expended before a third of the yfiar has elapsed ?
Does the fault lie with M. DUCHATZL or M. LZDRU
*ROLLIN ? Will it be necessary, in order to ascertain
that fact, tq gait for the revelations of some Revue
Retrospective ?" •
Were we 'ilot right when we said a few days since
that M. LNDRU Rot...ma was no Republican ? The
gazette de Tribunaux gives the following account of
the Montagnards, some of whose recent proceedings
hire attracted a good deal of public attention :
"The Montagnards, whose;effective force, somewhat
variable, amounts to from 400 to 500 men, were formed
at the Prefecture of Police, the first ,of them having
been that small knot Republican combatants, who,
headed by AL Caussidie .e 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 organization
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 missions
intrusted to them. As a proof of their want of disci-
pline, it may be stated that a few days ago, in conse-
quence of a misunderstanding with the staff; the corn_