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

Cronin

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 andl of the hue of their character.
The phrases were articulated with much of the arro-
gance, and also, we must acknowledge, with much of
the felicity, of the oracles breathed through the
tubular trickeries of the Delphic Apollo. " General
CA VAIGNAC," said the journalist, " is the incarnation
cf the National; M. DE LAII ,IRTINE is moderation ;
M. LEDRU ROLLIN, intimidation ; M. THIERS, inter-
vention ; Marshal BUGEAUD, arbitrary rule ; M.
Louts NAPOLEON, the future." Since this very epi-
grammatic sentence was written the candidates have
been reduced to four—CAVAIGNAC—L .A MARTINA
LEDRII 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-
GEAUD has advanced with eagerness to respond
to the requisition of
is the a few enthusiasts; but
very act of advancing to compete with the
skill and muscles
away his
political gladiators, he has
h mentioned
suddenly thrownweapons and retreated.
CHANGARNIER, again, was as one among
t
the most prominent of the
competitors, ors but the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Natien
Guards has ,
disap-
pointed the expectations of a little eluster of admirers
of the
by declining to particip ste in the
anxieties
encounter. MOLE was talked of byu y, the
lovers
retrospect of a monarchical mediocrity, but of the
he,
like manner, even before the struggle has commenced, j)
is, to employ the conventional but expressive slang of
the turf—nowhere ! RAsrAIL afforded a certain
evil fascination to the mob of ultra-democracy,
even from the depths of the Donjon of Vin-
cennes; bat RASPAIL, like all the other evanescent
favourites of the moment, has already, like the
glow-worm in Hamlet, begun "to pale his
ineffectual fires." Paounnom, with that distracting
eccentricity which is the principal characteristic of
his creed, hag 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
principles. The wheels, and bands, and pivots, and
valves, and pistons, of the great political machine are
becoming each moment more complicated in position,
more bewildering in number, and more violent in the
activity of their movements ; and out of all this extra-
ordinary elaboration and intricacy of mechanism, out
of all the roar and din of agitation, the Administrative
Saviour of the Republic is expected to emerge on the
10th day of the approaching December. There is no
longer any Egyptian pert capable of disgorging a hero
.‘yho suay,be.transformed by events from a Republican
,'lO6llOll. into an Imperial dictator. The beach of Frejus
will be untrodden b the Coming Man. The orangery at
St. Cloud will not A ain be diversified by the glitter-
' ing bratlessattit. 'ery. The destined President is
at this inatiteilt.,7 - - -
Who iiA bif •
in the boundaries of France.
. ~, . A4GIiAC ? LAMARTINE ? LBDBU