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

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday
There were various rumours current on Sunday as
o the course of conduct which General Ca valGNac
and his colleagues were supposed to be about to adopt
n consequence of the vote of the Assembly on the
°ubject of President. On this subject we find the
following 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
-ildirect amendment—some desperate subterfuge.
TA is possible that the National may still deceive itself
such a point as to suppose that no other Govern-
,
-nent 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. If
he National thinks so, it is strangely mis-
;aken. 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 stuop down and pick
them up. A head of the executive power, a sorb of
3ey of France Algerised, is a personage that can
.!asily 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;
sut General de Lamorici6re withdrawing, has not the
majority General Changarnier left ? It cannot be
said of him that he has ever been undecided or doubt-
Ail, and that in order to expose his person, and at last
ieclare for one particular side, he waited until there
was neither peril nor merit. The 14th of April is
there to answer for his firmness and sincerity. As to
the head of the new Cabinet, he 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. Marrastt the
lo nothing better than name M. Dufaure President of
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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
,here 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 Natioswl, therefore, will act wisely not to
depend too much on the embarrassment of the majo-
rity, for that journal, by an imprudent counsel, may
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Anger is a bad councillor, and the wrath of
EMILE DE GIRARDIN bath here overcome his pru-
lence. The object of the Judases of the Republic is
now avowed—it is to make M. DI:FAURE President
cf the Council of Ministers, because he has not the
slightest pretension to the Presidentship of the Republic.
Undoubtedly he has not : with M. Dneaune 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 Lours Purraprz
sighs for the restoration of the " good things" which
then fell to the lot of a dynastic Minister; and CHA
GARNIER, the personal friend and the ready flat-
terer of the ORLEANS dynasty, would fain play the part
BUGEAUD in Algeria. That they would succeed in
-wentually 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-
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
above 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
'o 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, 643
in number, left the Quai de Bercy yesterday morning
in six large boats, fitted up with every regard to their
proceed in these boats as far as
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thence in steamers to the coast.
The Minister of War and several high military and
livid officers were present at the embarkation, and
took great interest in the arrangements. General
AE 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-
ment. After his speech, which was received with
:oud cries of " Viva la Republique ! Vive l'Algerie
Vive la France ! and Vive LAMORICIERE I" M. Du-
Fault; in the name of the National Assembly, and
TRELAT, as President of the Committee on Agri-
cultural Colonies, also addressed the colonists in a
"eeling manner. Before the departure the Cu/4 of
Bercy pronounced a benediction on the flag hoisted by
the colonists, and addressed to them a few words of
,ncouragement and consolation.
The illoniteur contains the following :—" Alma-
nal announces, on the faith of a London paper, that
the Duchess of BERRY recently passed several days
Total mounted garrison guns ... 4,812 r n Paris, and that the police, informed of her place of
For the service of this gross aggregate of cannon our residence, was content with watching her movements.
artillery returns yield only the comparatively insig- 'The first part of this news is false—the second is
nificant number of 9,000 gunners—being scarcely Lbsurd."

present purpose, however, will be sufficiently satisfied

by conveying the condensed result of many diffused
calculations. For instance, the general summary &
garrison artillery enables us to arrive at these con-
clusions—that there are in

England
Scotland
Channel Islands
Ireland

1,454
Stations abroad ....... .......... 3,358