The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-01 00:00:00

We are glad to find that the Freehold Land move-
ment is making great progress throughout the country.
It is the true method by which, and by which alone, the
working man can work out his political emancipation.
It is to Englishmen, what from its name the
Societi aide toi Dieu t'aidera ought to have been
to Frenchmen. The support which this movement
receives from the veteran and eminently practical
Reformer, Colonel TLIOMPSON, is a sufficient guarantee
to every one who may have before doubted of its
feasibility ; a report of his admirable speech at the
Bradford meeting, on this subject, will be found in
another column, and we strenuously recommend it
to the attentive perusal of every Free-trader and Re-
former.

'CUTE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
M. CLIAMBOLLE thus replies, in the columns of the
Ordre, to the attack of M. DE LAMARTINE on the
Committee of Permanence :
" M. de Lamartine, making himself, after three months
of scandals and calumnies, the plagiarist of the Decem-
brists, does not fear to denounce thirty or forty of his
colleagues as having been concerned in manoeuvres more
or less secret, more or less culpable, which had perhaps
the character, and, at all events, ought to have the effect
of conspiracies. If we had not belonged to that Perma-
nent Committee, which is the principal object of his de-
nunciations, we might be indignant; but it is allowed to
us who went neither to Wiesbaden nor to Claremont to
smile and treat as it deserves this piece of calculated
buffoonery, this ridiculous fable, the recitals of
ehich, disseminated in advance, were to cover
more eorious faults and long-premeditated designs.
When a man of M. de Lemartine's fame twice
in a fortnight makes himself the echo of such silly
assertions, it is natural to ask the question—How has he
fallen into such an excess of blindness and passion?
How? That would be a sad history to narrate, for, in
looking closely we should find all the springs which,
already under the monarchy, after having isolated M.
de Lamartine, precipitated him into a wild and senseless
opposition. What he reproaches M. Tillers, M. Berryer,
and M. Dufauro with every one knows or divines. For
General Changarnier it is a difficult matter; he had a
mass celebrated at the Tuileries after Louis Philippe's
death. It is a great crime assuredly; but is it not a
greater one to have displayed on April 16, 1848, with-
out any official title, sufficient activity, presence of
mind, and energy, to have in a great measure the
honour of the day's result. Another general (imprudent
as he was) went out to walk whilst Ivl. de Lamartine
was speaking! Oh! for him no mercy; he certainly
conspired! But who is it? Is it by chance General
Cavaignac, that Republican of tiers-19(11.u, coterie,
Divine right, who was shameful enough in the ter-
rible days of June to save Paris and France, whilst
that glory belonged by right to the Executive Com-
mittee? Yes, certainly, all these party chiefs, since M.
do Lamartine has such 'grievances against them, must
be, whether aware of it or not, conspirators! And why
should ho show them any consideration? Is he not also
as authorised to reproach them with having recently
compromised the public peace, as he might be to accuse
the chiefs of the old opposition of having agitated the
couetry by banquets?—he, the author of that • Histoire
des Girondins,' in which St. Just and Robespierre were
so opportunely justified and glorified;—he, the chief
speaker at the banquet of Alic..on ;—he, the ardent ad-
mirer of the socialist harangues pronounced at Lisle and
elsewhere by M. Ledru-Rollin;—he who, on the eve of
the catastrophes generally foreseen, and which others
endeavoured with all their efforts to turn aside, made
every exertion, with M. d'Alton Sh4r,., to bring about
that famous revolutionary banquet of the 12th arrondis-
sement, whence was to issue the opportunity for the
plotters, the crisis for the king, and a long train of eu
ferings for the people!"

The Moniteur du Soir has the following :
" The dotation of the President of the Republic was
the subject of general conversation to-day in the Salle
des Conferences at the Assembly. Several members,
who pretended to be well-informed on the subject, said
that the Bill would only be presented by a definitive Mi-
nistry, to be chosen from the old majority. In the prin-
cipal groups which were formed, the question of the do-
tation did not appear to excite so much opposition as M.
Thiers appears to have anticipated in the tribune,
except on the part of some .Montagnards and ultra-
Legitimatists."

It was rumoured that MM. ODILON BARBOT and
LEON FAUCHER have been commissioned to form a
Ministry out of the old majority, and that this Mi-
nistry will propose the Dotation Bill. On this ru-
mour the Fresse makes the following sensible
remarks :

" It is evident that the majority, after having ad-
mitted its weakness, and submitted to its fall, will
seek to resume by stratagem that which it is inca-
pable of acquiring by force. It will play a moGst
part for a few days. It will applaud M. de Roger;
it will caress M. Vaisse. It will put forth in its. ,journals that its divisions are at an end, and that
it has reconstituted itself as before. Who knows?
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it will. perhaps hold forth in its half-opened hand the
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himself to
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snare? Will he consent to alienate his right and his
dignity
for a hope of dotation. Will ho choose his
Ministry in the ranks of the fallen majority? Will
he restore to the Burgraves the influence which they re-
gret? Then we pity lam, for in delivering himself up
to the fallen majority, he exposes himself much more
than if he were to abandon himself to the hostile majo-
rity; he yields to humiliated enemies who have not
only an ambition to satisfy, but have also a humiliation
to avenge. Such is the peril which the President of the
Republic incurs by abandoning situation. What has
made the strength
of the executive power in the con-
flict which has been going on before our eyes ? It
is his right. He was Attacked because. he dismissed
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the hopes of the Monarchical parties; because he
had returned to the ground of the Republic. These
attacks have only served to enfranchise and to