The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

two gunners to each gun, " while the Field Artil-
lt r% remains to be manned, and the various
riprnumeraries, non-commissioned officers, &c., to be
Mewise accounted for, altogether requiring a propor-
tbn of ten men to a gun !! !" Well may the writer
e nnhasis his deduction with three notes of admira-
tion. And in speaking of the disorganized condition
of the artillery he expresses himself in this forcible
sarcastic language :

" With the exception of the horse artillery, every
Alery soldier may be, and generally is, required to
erforna the various duties of a field, and the more
ious duties of a heavy artilleryman. His meta-
s- 'Those from a gunner into a driver, or
l'ix-na a driver into a gunner, is nothing to
.h. 2 changes he undergoes. With FALSTAFF, he
m'y say, ' I would to GOD my name were
-)31 t so terrible to the enemy as it is ; I were
brtter to be eaten to death with rust than to be
sc)ured to nothing with perpetual motion.' He is at
one time in the laboratory making rockets, then
-nounting a gun on a devil-carriage, then dismount-
-11,7 himself from a battery nag; here on the arsenal
g ound, there sweeping the parade ; in the morning
at mortar practice, in the afternoon at infantry drill ! !
Eis existence is delightfully Protean, though, per-
baps, it claims a stronger resemblance to that of
ti, ose bustling spirits who abortively crowd the
bank of the Styx, or employ themselves, like &sr-
inns and others, in doing what leads to no
p-ofitable result. We have always thought
foe dress of an artilleryman very significant; the
colours of the rainbow, carefully graduated, from the
v'olet of his trousers to the orange of his collar,
rrfectly symbolize the prismatic variety of his duties,
a id 'adapt themselves, picturesquely enough, to the
v:gimental motto of Übique."
With this preposterous diversity of employments,
t is manifest that no great excellence can be ever
acquired in any one of the manifold departments of
-le profession. And coupling the incessant and de-
sultory occupation of the men with their paucity
c.f numbers, it is obvious that the whole service
ants an infusion of strength and a general re-organi-
7ation. It is peculiarly creditable to the intelligence
of Dolman's Magazine that this enormous exigency in
tine public service should have been so very clearly
aposed through the medium of its pages, and that
roe voice of this monthly organ, in particular, should
Y.e amongst the foremost and the most audible in de-
manding a complete and searching investigation.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
There were various rumours current on Sunday as
to the course of conduct which General CATAIGNAC
and his colleagues were supposed to be about to adopt
n consequence of the vote of the Assembly on the
a übject of President. On this subject we find the
'allowing article in the Presse :
" It was rumoured yesterday that General Cavaig-
nac and all the Ministry had formed the design of
sending in their resignation en masse, in order to
alarm the majority, and force it to go back, this day
(Monday), on its vote of Saturday, by means of some
indirect amendment—some desperate subterfuge.
3:t is possible that the National may still deceive itself
'.;,a such a point as to suppose that no other Govern-
ment is possible but the African arbitrary rule which
has been in force since the 25th of June last; the
National may imagine that the majority, forced to
;he wall by the resignation of General Cavaignac,
could not find means of replacing him. It
he National thinks so, it is strangely mis-
taken. Ministers of the ability of MM. Senard,
Goudchaux, &c., &c., are not difficult to find ;
-t is not necessary to stop in order to choose
them ; all that is required is to stoop down and pick
them up. A head of the executive power, a sort of
Bey of France Algerised, is a personage that can
ffasily be done without; it suffices to have at the head
of the war department a sword, whose experience,
firmness, and sincerity give all kinds of guarantees ;
'nit General de Lamoriciere withdrawing, has not the
majority General Changarnier left ? It cannot be
laid of him that he has ever been undecided or doubt-
all, and that in order to expose his person, and at last
leclare for one particular side, he waited until there
was neither peril nor merit. The 18th of April is
there to answer for his firmness and sincerity. As to
the head of the new Cabinet, be is quite naturally
pointed out by the vote of Saturday. Is it not M. '
Dufaure, who supported the views of the committee,
and achieved their triumph, when M. Marrast, the
I reporter, voted against them ? If it were true that
i General Cavaignac was retiring, which we do not be-
i lieve, and that for many reasons the majority could
! lo nothing better than name M. Dufaure President of
the Council, and confide to him the task of com-
posing a new Ministry, M. Dufaure, as President of
the Council and Minister of the Interior, as was iL
1831 M. Casimir Perier, would have this advantage,
that he would give all the guarantees possible to the
candidates for the office of President of the Republic.
With M. Dufaure there would be a certainty that the
sincerity of election would be scrupulously respected,
that no intimidation would be exercised, no fraud re-
main unpunished ! With M. Dufaure, France would
at last return to the reign of legality, without which
there can be neither security, nor confidence, nor
credit, nor work—four links of the same chain. The
majority will have so much the more reason to choose
M. Dufaure for President of the Council, that he has
not the slightest pretension to the Presidentship of the
Republic. Charged to form a cabinet, M. Dufaure
would not experience the slightest difficulty in doing
so. The National, therefore, will act wisely not to
depend too much on the embarrassment of the majo-
rity, for that journal, by an imprudent counsel, may
very well expose General Eugene Cavaignac not to
have in the Assembly any other part than that of
General Clement Thomas, the difference between
May 15 and June 25 being duly taken into con.
sideration."

Anger is a bad councillor, and the wrath of M.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN hath here overcome his pru
Bence. The object of the Judases of the Republic is
now avowed—it is to make M. DUFAURE President
of the Council of Ministers, because he has not the
slightest pretension to the Presidentship of the Republic.
Undoubtedly he has not : with M. DUFAURE as Pre-
sident and General CHANGARNIER as Commander-in-
Chief, it would not be their fault if there were no
Republic to have a President. M. DUFAURE, one of the
old Ministers of the corrupt court of Louis PHILIPPE)
sighs for the restoration of the " good things" which
then fell to the lot of a dynastic Minister; and CHAN
GARNIER, the personal friend and the ready flat-
terer of the ORLEANS dynasty, would fain play the part
of BUGEAUD in Algeria. That they would succeed in
eventually restoring the " dynasty " we do not for a
moment believe. It fell rotten from its own cor-
ruption—it fell because it was an organized falsehood
—it fell because there was no truth in it. Never-

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theless, any attempt to restore it, although unsuc-
cessful, would be attended with much bloodshed and
much confusion ; to avoid the chance of which it is
*hove all things necessary that the corrupt agents
of the corrupt monarchy should be kept altogether
aloof from power in the Republic.
The Patrie says—
" It is almost unanimously agreed in the two prin-
cipal clubs of representatives to endeavour to induce
the National Assembly to declare that the election of
the President of the Republic shall take place imme-
iiately after the section of the Constitution relative
to the Executive Power has been voted. The club of
the Rue Taithout, or the Montague, does not reject
this opinion. The club of the Palais National and
the friends of the Government are alone in favour of
deferring the election of the President until after the
organic laws are passed.
The first portion of the colonists for Algeria, 843
in number, left the Quai de Bercy yesterday morning
in six large boats, fitted up with every regard to their
comfort. They will proceed in these boats as far a.
-Jhalons, and from thence in steamers to the coast.

The Minister of War and several high military and
officers were present at the embarkation, and
took great interest in the arrangements. General

DE LAMORICIERE addressed them in a speech of en•

couragement, and promising that they should inces-
santly be the objects of the solicitude of the Govern-

Tnent. After his speech, which was received with
:oud cries of " Vive la Republique ! Vive l'Algerie !
Vive la France ! and Vive LAMORICIERE !" AL Du-

FAURE, in the name of the National Assembly, and

11. TRELAT, as President of the Committee on Agri-
cultural Colonies, also addressed the colonists in a

'eeling manner. Before the departure the Cure of
Bercy pronounced a benediction on the flag hoisted by

the colonists, and addressed to them a few words of

-)ncouragement and consolation.

The Moniteur contains the following :—" A jour-
nal announces, on the faith of a London paper, that
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the Duchess of BERRY recently passed several days

fn Paris, and that the police, informed of her place of
residence, was content with watching her movements.
The first part of this news is false—the second is

absurd."