The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-03 00:00:00

LON DON,

fully, professional men have been hunted down by
aris.ocraticel persecution until they have been com-
pelled to abandon their professions and to quit the
place ; and this intimidation has been, like the bribery
to which it has of necessity given rise as a counter-
acting influence, not confined to one set of poli-
ticians, or to one class of society, but it bee been
universal. We trust the Commission will inquire
into these practices also. Again, we find from the
evidence that that worst of all intimidation, the
intimidation of brute force, has been unblush-
ingly resorted to in the conduct of elections ; prize-
fighters have been hired to interfere with the freedom
of election, and to protect or to punish the voter
according to the manner of his voting. We hope and
believe that there will not be found throughout the
length and breadth of England any public man or
public writer who will venture to vindicate the
employment of the intimidation of brute force,
and yet brute force is employed at all
contested elections, and, as in the instance
of the Isle of Wight election, it not unfrequently oc-
curs that the voter records his vote at the peril of his
life. Now, the only remedy for this species of in-
timidation is the ballot, which, by rendering it im-
possible for the hired ruffeans to know how a man
has voted, will effectually protect him from their
violence. If we need a proof of the effectual
working of the ballot in this respect, we have only
to cast our eyes across the Chennel, and we shall then
see that in France, the country par excellence of bar-
ricades and revolutions, the elections for representa-
tives of the people are always conducted in the most
quiet and orderly manner, because, being protected
by the ballot, the voter is enabled to record bis
suffrage without rendering himself obnoxious to the
violence of the rioter, or to the persecution of the
tyrant; and when we shall have the ballot in this
country our elect ions will cease to be the scenes of
disgraceful violence and debauchery, which they are
at present, and not till then.

THE FRENtin REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday ;
none were published yesterday, the printing-offices of
the newspapers having been closed the preceding
(All Saints') day. The Bourse and public offices were

likewise shut.
The leading articles of the Paris journals of Satur•
day possess little interest, being, for the greater part,
mere repetitions of what has been said for the last
four or five days. The Constitutionnel, having been
reproached by some of the Conservative organs with
having by some of its articles created alarm in the
public mind, turns round on its assailants, and declares
that if there be alarm, it has arisen from the perti-
nacity with which they have put forward political
intrigues to qualify party spirit, instead of making
sacrifices to the good of the country. M. DB LA-
MARTINE publishes in the Pays another of his tran-
quillizing effusions. He is still an advocate for the
revision of the Constitution, and is willing that
Louis NAPOLEON should be re-elected, if, after a re-
vision, the people should desire it, but he does not
anticipate any thing like disaster let the result of the
election be what it may.
We learn by electric telegraph from Paris yester-
dsy morning, that M. DAVIEL, Procureur of Rouen,
is appointed Minister of Justice in the place of M.
CORBIN, who declines office.
The new church erected at St. Leu, was inaugu-
rated on Friday by the PRESIDENT of the Republic.
Tne new building has been erected on the site of the
old one, in which were deposited the remains of
CHARLES BONAPARTE, father of the Emperor NA-
POLEON; King Louis, and two of his sons. It was
to give to these relics a resting-place more worthy
of them that Louis NAPOLEON, from a sentiment of
filial piety, ordered the construction of the new edi-
fice. It has cost 150,000 f., of which 100,000 f. have
been paid by the PRESIDENT of the Republic,
and the remainder by the Minister of Public Wor-
ship. The PRESIDENT of the Republic arrived at St.
Leu at half-past nine, accompanied by General
ROGUET, his first aide-de-camp, and Dr. CONNEAU.
He was received on his arrival by M. ARRIGHI DE
PADONE, Prefect of the Seine-et-Oise ; M. LEPIC,
Sub-prefect of Pontoise, and the Mayor of St. Leu.
The PRINCE was hailed with cries of " Vive Napo-
leon !" " Vire le President I" A considerable
number of young females, dressed in white were
drawn up near a triumphal arch, under which he
passed between a double rank of National Guards.
All the houses were gaily decorated with flags and
garlands. At ten o'clock the Bishop of VERSAILLES,
attended by a large body of the clergy, received the
PRESIDENT at the principal door of the church. The
PUESIDENT, after visiting the tombs, entered the
building, when Divine service was performed. Among
the distinguished persons present were the Princess
Mathilde, Prince de Canino, Prince Napoleon Bona-
parte, Generals Piat, Armaudi, and Merlin, Count de
Niewerkerke, and a great number of officers of the
National Guards, and the mayors of the surrounding
communes. During the service a collection was made
for the poor, by the Princess MATHILDE, accompanied
by General ROGUET, and the appeal was liberally re-
sponded to. After the mass the PRESIDENT repaired
to the Place de la Marie, where he reviewed the Na-
tional Guards, by whom and the assembled multitude
he was again hailed with loud and enthusiastic cheers
of " Vive Napoleon !" He started on his return to
Paris at half-past twelve o'clock.