The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-12 00:00:00

GREECE.

By the Levant mail, we have received Athens jour-
ash to the 29th ult., and Constantinople to the 26th
ult. The Greek Government has made known that
the insurgents dislodged from Hypates, and inces-
santly pursued, have been obliged to cross the frontiers,
after losing a great many in killed, wounded, and
prisoners. At Palechori, also, the rebels have been
defeated. General Auricu, Ambassador of the French
Republic at Constantinople, arrived at Athens on the
25th, and left on the next day for his destination.
According to the Courtier d'Athenes, he had an inter-
view with the KING unknown, by his MAJESTY'S
desire, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

WINDSOR CASTLE AND TOWN APPROACHES IM-
POVEMENT a Parliamentary raper, printed on
Saturday, an estimate is given of the charges to be in-
curred under the Bill for improving the approaches to
the Castle and town of Windsor, and a statement show-
ing whence the funds are to be raised. It appears that
the estimate for building a bridge over the Thames, to
form part of the communication from the South-Western
Railway station to Windsor, &c., is 83,4201., and that
the Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Com-
pany have agreed to pay 60,0001., and the Great Western
Railway Company the sum of 23,7001., making 280/.
above the estimate for improvements.
An acceleration of the mail trains between London,
Rugby, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, via Derby, York,
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, will take place from and
after Sunday, the 18th June. The down night mail
train will continue to leave London at nine P.M. and
Rugby at 12.5 A.M., and will from thence be accelerated
to arrive at Edinburgh at 2.15 P.M. instead of 4 P.M.
The up mail will leave Edinburgh at 11 A.M. instead of
9 A.M., and be accelerated to arrive at Rugby at
1 A.M., and London at 4.30 A.m. (the present time). By
these arrangements the letters and evening papers from
London will reach Newcastle-upon-Tyne upwards of one
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
The recent elections are the subject of comment in
all of them.

The National thus acknowledges its defeat in
Paris :

" Out of the eleven candidates presented by the Na-
tional to the suffrages of the electors of the Seine, one
only, and it must be admitted that the just considera-
tion which he enjoys, the universal esteem which sur-
rounds him, had made him the candidate of all par-
ties—one only. we say, has issued from the electoral
urn. Our defeat is complete, we admit; but, if we
pass condemnation as to persons, we are less dis-
posed to consider ourselves as conquered as to prin-
ciples and ideas. It is sufficient to cast a regard on
the list to comprehend in what embarrassment the
victors are placed to appreciate their triumph. How
disengage, in fact, the veritable opinion of Paris, from
this incredible melange of names, doctrines, pas-
sions, all opposed to each other, and some noto-
riously hostile? How imagine that the Parisian electors
are at the same time socialists, like MM. Proudhon and
P. Leroux; conservative monarchists, like M. Thiers;
revolutionists, like MM. Caussidiare and Lagrange; re-
publicans, like M. Goudchaux; imperialists, like M. Louis
Bonaparte; and peer of France, like M. Victor Hugo?
This strange list shows the confusion of mores mind, be-
trays the disarray of intelligences, but is only an acci-
dent of the situation; it is elsewhere that the veritable
sense of the country must be sought. It will be found,
not in a partial election, but in the ensemble of the selec-
tions made by the whole nation. The Assembly which
has issued from the universal suffrage is there to reply
to us, and to say if in fact we have been mistaken in our
republican
majority
concurrence.
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pvueurrsally consulted, it contains
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in our eyes the right of sovereignty temporarily dele-
gated by the people. It is in virtue of this right that it
has appointed an Executive Committee. The members
of that Committee, responsible and revocable on the in-
stant, only exist by the majority. The day on which
they should cease to fulfil the conditions imposed on
them, the day when their intelligence or their • force
should not be equal to their duties, they must fall. At
present, like us, the republican majority which elected
them, thoegh placing the utmost confidence in their de-
votedness, is but ill satisfied with their conduct, and de-
mands mere vigour of action. a more decided iniatiTe.
In confiding to them -the care of governing, the me.-
jority by no means intended to abdicate the right of
demanding from them an account of the manner in
which they exercised the chief power, no more than
we have renounced, strongly in favour as we may
be to the persons, our right to criticise their,
conduct. In fine, our situation is exceedingly simple,
exceedingly clear, and the result of partial elections can-
not modify it. Sincerely and absolutely devoted to the
cause of the republic, we are, and we have always been,
independent of men, whoever they might be. Persons
are nothing—the principle alone touches us. That prin-
ciple commands us to consider as the expressiou of the
Sovereign will what the republican majority of the As-
sembly decides. Thus, with it, and like it, we will sup-
port the Executive Committee as long as it will be faith-
ful to its mission, regarding it as our duty to warn it or to
blame it, or, if necessary, to combat it, if it be not more
in harmony with the authority from which it emanates?,
The France Nouvelle, a new journal, of which M.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS is the principal editor, has the
following:—
" Among the new corners, M. Thiers and M. Victor
Hugo seem to us called on to play a double part in the
Chember. M. Thiers is the sword which cuts the knots
of questions. M. Hugo is the sword which will cut the
Montagne in two. M. Thiers and Victor Hugo are two
very different men. M. Thiers is the man of the moment,
the minute, the second; M. Hugo of the future, and the
future in such times as these is to-morrow. M. Thiers
then is the man of to-day—M. Hugo the man of to-
morrow. M. Thiers is the figure, the calculation,
the fact, logic, clearness, the compass. the square, the
rule—he is the man who weighs a Republic, and tells
you exactly, It is worth so much.' M. Thiers is
the man of business of a nation. He is attractive,
lively, active, restless, talkative ; long in speeches,
and yet inief iH words—a great deal of physiog-
nomy, rapid gestures, a shrill voice ; little, but be-
come a good deal bigger since M. Louis Blanc; giving
to all that he touches a sort of grace peculiar to him ;
well informed, speaking well, thinking exactly,—play-
ing with words and struggling against ideas—insinuat-
ing himself everywhere, thanks to the smallness of his size;
full of discernment—capable in a word of becoming an
admirable tool in the hands of Providence. M. Thiers
will save us from bankruptcy. M. Hugo is thought.
He is exactitude in the idea, as M. Thiers is exactitude
in the fact. He is the man who goes to the bottom of
the cause, and who divines the result. M. Hugo is the
physician of a country. He every day feels the pulse of
the crowd--he sees all the crises of the social malady—
and he hears the heart of France beat. He knows what
words must calm; he says at times a met which turns
out to be the mot of the situation; one of the first he
understood the danger in seeing the nation bleeding,
and he swore to atop the haemorrhage. M. Hugo will
save us from the guillotine. We have seen with plea-
sure these two men arrive at the Assembly—one of
whom will prevent ruin, the other death."

The election of Prince Louis NAPOLEON 18, how-
ever, the one which has excited the greatest astonish-
ment and alarm. In the department of the Charente
Inferieure the peasants went to the poll with cards
in their hats with the words " Vive Napoleon !"
" A bas la Republique !" This fact, as it appears to
us, explains the whole proceeding. It is hatred to
the Republic, not love to Prince Louts, that has
secured for him his return. The reactionnaires wished
to test their strength. They dared not propose the
Prince DE JOINVILLE as yet—the attempt would have
defeated itself. Neither would they venture to pro-
pose the Count DE CHAMBORD, who, of all the pre-
tenders, is the only one who has any pretence for
bis pretensions. It was necessary, therefore, to find
a candidate who had aforetime come forward as a
Pretender, but whose claim to the throne was not
one whit more valid than the claim of an Orleanist
Prince, and accordingly Prince Louts NAPOLEON
was fixed upon, and started without his knowledge,
and against the wishes of the members of his family
at present Paris, who have sent the follow-
ingnotice rteostidhing in
the newspapers in respect to the rumours
afloat with respect to their relation :
"It is not true that he is at Paris. It is not true that
he is at Auteuil; consequently it is not true that the
Executive Commission bud deliberated in arresting him.
The citizen Louis Bonaparte came hero publicly imme-
diately he heard. the news of the revolution of February;
he quitted Paris at the end of twenty-fours, at the re-
quest of the Provisional Government. He has since that
remained very quietly in London, where he could have
learnt but yesterday, the news of his nomination to the
National Assembly.'

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repeal this, nor dare they enforce it. What the con:-
sequence? Three nephews of Napoleon are sit • tir, al-
ready in the National Assembly, and a fourth, PrinceP
Louis .Napoleon,. is elected at Paris. Will Art. 6 of the
law of 10th April, 1832, be maintained against him, in
spite of the 84,000 votes he has received? This is 'im-
possible. What, then, will be done if it should happen
that any department should elect the Count de Cham-
bord, and another department should nominate one of the
Princes of the other branch? In fact, such a state of
arbitrary rule and anarchy cannot last much longer.
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It is evident that Prince Louis has been put for-
ward by the Legitimists and the Orleanists as a pilot
balloon, to see what chance there would be for the
pretenders whom they respectively support. An
analysis of the poll tends still further to support this
view of the election. Of , the army, where it might
be imagined the great Bonapartist strength would lie,
only 2,101 voted for Prince Louis NAPOLEON, whilst
in the Banlieu of Paris, where reside the old nobility
partisans of the Count DE CHAMBORD and the nou-
veaux riches partisans of the Orleans Monarchy,
Prince Louts NAPOLEON polled 25,000 votes.
The following incident in relation to this return
occurred during the sitting of the National Assembly
on Saturday :
" M. Fleeckeren demanded an explanation from the
Government relative to a circumstance which appeared
to him of great gravity. It had, ho said, been stated
in private letters that on a regiment of the line entering
Troyes it bad been received by the National Guard of
that place. When the two regiments met, the National
Guards cried 'Vive la to which the regi-
ment of the line replied by cries of Vivo Louis Na-
poleon.' (This remark of the Honourable Deputy was
received with loud marks of astonishment and incre-
dulity.) He would, therefore, demand whether the
Minister of War had received any information on the
subject?
" The Minister of War replied, that the Government
had received no information of the kind, and he did not
hesitate to declare that it was a calumny. It was, he said,
far from his intention to bring an accusation against any
man, unless on very strong grounds; and, therefore, he
had no right to consider as guilty the man whose name
had been brought so prominently before the public ;
but he would declare that he should hold up to public
execration any mau who should dare to lay a sacrilegious
hand on the liberty of the public.—(This declaration
was received with a triple salvo of applause, and all the
Assembly rose in a body and shouted Vive la 116pub-
lique.') Honour and glory, continued the Hon. Minis-
ter, be to the citizen, who, faithful to his duties, devotes
his blood, his fortune, his talents, and his understanding
to the service and happiness of his country, but shame

and misery be to him who would dare to sp eutate on
the difficulties of the time and on the sufferings of the
oouutry, and to make use of a glorious name for the
benefit of his own personal ambition.—(Renewed ap-
plause and cries of Vive la Republique.')
" Cries arose on all sides of We will have no re-
action,' We reject pretenders of any regime,' We
will neither have Royalty. nor Imperial debpotism, nor
(military dictatorship ;' whilst others exclaimed that
the affair was an imagined imposition, in order to in-
jure Louis Napoleon. The sitting was closed amidst
great agitation.'
It had been expected that Prince Louis NAPOLEON
would have taken his seat on Saturday, but he did
not make his appearance.
M. THIERS took his seat on Saturday.

The Executive Commission have given notice that
on Monday they shall make a demand of 100,000
francs a month from the Assembly to meet their cur-
rent expenses, and that they shall consider the refusal
of their demand as tantamount to a vote of want of
confidence. They have been urged to take this step
in consequence of the proceedings at a meeting of 400
deputies, held on Friday, where a feeling inimical to
the Executive Committee, as at present constituted,
was manifested. The National, which has hitherto
been a thick and thin supporter of the Executive, has
a very significant article in its number of Satur-
day :
If," it says, " the commission is insufficient—if for
the future, and the future means to-morrow--iti strength
continues to give way, a change will become necessary,
nay, inevitable. '4Ve repeat, that it is yet in the power
of the Executive to postpone its fall. But for that pur-
pose it must draw close and unite ; it must no longer
mask by contradictory measures a deplorable irresolu-
tion ; it must, in a word, march without hesitation in the
way traced out for it by the republican majority."
M. LAMARTINE is rapidly declining in popularity
in consequence of his too open indulgence in those
feelings of hatred and contempt for the middle classes
which he, in common with all of the aristocratic class,
entertain for men who gain, their living by their own
industry, and which feeling induces him to join with
communists, et hoc genus omne, to plunder the hated
industrious middle classes. This accounts for the
ultra-republicanism of all the ci-devant aristocrats and
legitimists. The drones of the hive, whether high-born
or low-born, always seek to plunder the working
bees.

The Moniteur tires the names of the Commission
appointed to report on the project for allowing
100,0001 a month to the Executive Commission. As
this is to be a Cabinet question, it is worthy of re-
mark that the majority is in favour of Government.
M. MAEEAST is to draw up the project of a con-
stitution.

A crowd assembled on Saturday evening, at the
Porte St. Denis, but on the approach of the Garde
Mobile, shortly after eleven o'clock, they dispersed,
hut shortly afterwards re-assembled. The rolling of
the drum soon announced that a summons was being
made to the people to disperse, and in a few minutes
after wards all the streets leading out on the open
space opposite the Porte St. Denis and the Boule-
vards, were occupied by the troops; orders were
given to let no one pass, and thus agitators and
curious spectators found themselves completely
hemmed in. No one was allowed to pass until day-
light, and thus agitators and spectators were kept out
all night in the streets. This is an excellent plan,
and if generally adopted would effectually keep away
all idle spectators who go out of mere curiosity, and
who always constitute more than three-fourths of
these assemblages.
The following election returns have been made
from the departments :
Charente Inferieure—M. Louis Bonaparte.
Basses Pyrenees—M. Barthe.
Mayenne—M. Thiers.
Gers—M. de Panat.
Orne—M. Thiers.

The following letter, dated Wednesday, has been
sent to General CLEMENT Tuomas by M. D'ALTON
SHEE

" Citizen General,—Under a Republic with universal
suffrage, the functions of colonel in the National Guard
are above all things political. Two months ago, on ac-
count of my democratic opinion, I was nominated in the
14th arrondissement by nearly 7,000 electors. To-day
the same arrondissement, called upon to elect eleven
representatives, has given to M. Thiers, who loves not
the Republic and its adherents, the same number of
votes. This is in my eyes a sufficient warning. De-
voted to the maintenance of order, no danger would stop
me from fulfilling the duties which my rank imposes on.
me ; but to do this I must be in a community of princi-
ples with the men I command. It seems to me to be
absurd for me to place my devotedness at the service of
men of the past. I have the honour, in consequence, to
present to you my resignation. Accept, General, the
expression of my regret, and the assurances of my con-
sideration."

In commenting on this letter the Constitutionnel
observes, that it is not so long since M. D'ALTON
SHEE was a much more devoted " man of the past"
than ever M. TRIERS had been. It will be recollected
that, until within the last two years, M. D'ALTON
SHEE was a warm supporter of M. GUIZOT. The
Government, it is said, intend to propose to the
Assembly to annul the election of Prince Louis
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, on the ground that being a
naturalized Swiss he is a foreigner, and therefore in-
capable of sitting in the Assembly. Paris was per-
fectly quiet yesterday.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 16.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6k—Northern of France, 41
—Paris and Straabourg, 2.