The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1848.

Several days ago the ingenious redacteur of the

Presse designated the different candidates for the
Presidentship by names symbolical of the tendency
of their policy and of the hue of their character.
The phrases were articulated with much of the arro-
gance, and also, we must acknowledge, with much of
tha felicity, of the oracles breathed through the
tubular trickeries of the Delphic Apollo. " General
VAIONAC," said the journalist, " is the incarnation
f.: the National; M. DE LANIARTINE is moderation ;
M. LEDUC' ROLLIN, intimidation ; M. Tn lERS, inter-
vention ; Marshal BUGEAUD, arbitrary rule ; M.
LOUIS NAPOLEON, the future." Since this very epi-
t;rammatic sentence was written the candidates have
?en reduced to four—CAVAIGNA C—LA MARTINE
LUDRII ROLLIN—and LOUIS NAPOLEON. THIERS
has recognised the impossibility of obtaining the
suffrages of the population, after a career which,
however brilliant, is devoid of the leaven of
principle and of the glory of courage. Bu-
CEA.I.II) has d
a vanced with eagerness to respond
to the requisition of a few enthusiasts; but
in the very act of
ofadvancing to compete with the
and musclesthe political gladiators, he has
:addenly thrown away his
CHANGARNIF.a, again, was we and retreated.
mentionedapons
the most prominent of thrnP
coe as one among
competitors, but the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the National
Guards
of
faasd
admirers
iisraepr-s
Fointed the expectations of a little cluster
the
encounter. declining to participate in the anxieties
MOLE was talked of by the lovers of
retrospect of a monarchical mediocrity, but he, the
Eke manner, even before the struggle has commenced,
to employ the conventional but expressive slang of
the turf—nowhere ! RASPAIL afforded a certain
evil fascination to the mob of ultra-democracy
even from the depths of the Donjon of Vin-
cennes ; but RASPAIL, like all the other evanescent
favourites of the moment, has already, like the
glow-worm in Hamlet, begun "to pale his
ineffectual fires." PItOnDHON, with that distracting
eccentricity which is the principal characteristic of
his creed, has diminished the chances of the only

Socialist candidate, by announcing his determination
to abstain from casting any votes into the urn of elec-
tion, because the office of President is contrary to his
priuciole•. The wheels, and bands, and pivots, and
and pistons, of the great political machine are
Bing each moment more complicated in position,
bewildering in number, and more violent in the
ty of their movements ; and out of all this extra-
(•^,';nary elaboration and intricacy of mechanism, out
(.I'lll the roar and din of agitation, the Administrative
t-3,;vi;:ur of the Republic is expected to emerge on the
lOth day of the approaching December. There is no
longer any Egyptian pert capable of disgorging a hero
who may be transformed by events from a Republican
consul into an Imperial dictator. The beach of Frejus
will be untrodden by the Coming Man. The orangery at
St. Cloud will not again be diversified by the glitter-
Inn: blades of the soldiery. The destined President is
r. this moment within the boundaries of France.
ho is he ? CAVAIGNAC ? LAMARTINE ? LEDILLT