The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-06 00:00:00

THE FRENc H REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday
The journals of the re-actionary party are unani-
mous in their declarations of hostility against the
PRESIDENT and his Message. The Constitutionnel
supports him as a matter of course, and M. LAMAR-.
TINE at length enrols himself among his supporters.
The Pays thus speaks of the Message :
" As to the new policy which the Message proclaimed
yesterday, it is ours. We have constantly defended it; we
have not ceased a single day to demand the re-establish-
ment of universal suffrage as a reparation, and the par-
tial revision of the Constitution as a solution. Because
this policy becomes that of the Government, it will not
cease to be ours, for it has not ceased to be that of right,
of equity, and of necessity; and if we see it so highly
supported now-a-days, we are more happy than proud.
Our pride is only the gratitude and confidence of our
patriotism."
The SUcle, the organ of the CAVAIGNAC section
of the Republicans, also supports the Ministerial
measure for the restoration of universal suffrage. It
Says—
`! The arguments of the President are the same as
those we have been bringing forward for some time.
He supports himself on the defects in the law; he shows
that it has gone beyond its object, that it was unjust,
and contained the germs of civil war, that it brought
the powers of the State into disrepute, and that, in fact,
it was in flagrant opposition to the text of the Constitu-
tion as to the Presidential election, a text which requires
a certain number of electors which the law of May 31
will never furnish. One thing which we must admit is,
that the President of the Republic has had the good
sense not to make the re-establishment of universal suf-
frage subordinate to any condition; he has merely sought
to demonstrate to the majority, a demonstration, how-
ever, which but slightly concerns us, that in the re-
pealing the law of May 31, the difficulties which in
the Assembly and the country opposed themselves to the
revision of the Constitation would be smoothed down.
The majority did nut allow itself to give way for so little;
it evidently did not expect anything so clear and so posi-
tive; it immediately rejected the urgency demanded by
the Ministry. M. Berryer had the bad skill to throw
himself in the way of a first favourable vote. He unfor-
tunately found a pretext in the incredible order of the
day of General Saint Arnaud. France will judge of the
causes of this hostility, which suddenly breaks out be.
tween the majority and the President of the Republic.
She will not allow herself to be led away by all that re-
action and its adherents may imagine to impede the re-
establishment of universal suffrage. She will not lose
sight of the fact that the tranquillity of men's minds, the
security of industry and the certainties of the future de-
pend on this re-establishment. She will unanimously
declare all those to be enemies of the country who by mis-
chievous considerations of party and of personal interest
should oppose the repeal of the law of May 31. There
never has been any cause for that law. We defy any
one to find a substantial argument for its being main-
tained."
The following is the text of the new electoral Bill
presented to the Assembly by the Minister of the
Interior :--
Art. 1. Within thirty days after the promulgation of
the present Bill the electoral list will be drawn up by
the mayor, aided by two delegates from each !com-
mune, named by the juge•de-paix, and living in the
canton.
Art. 2. It shall contain in alphabetical order all
Frenchmen 0121 years of age, in possession of their civil
and political rights, and inhabiting the commune for six
months at least; such persons as shall attain their majo-
rity beforo the definitive closing of the list; soldiers and
sailors on on duty inscribed on the electoral lists of the
commune, where they shall have satisfied the necessary
conditions.
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in Paragraphs 1,2, 3,5, 6, and 7 of Art. 3 of the law of
March, 15, 1849; bankrupts, individuals designated in
Paragraph 4 of Art. 3 of the law of March 15, 1849,
whatever may be the term of the imprisonment to which
they are condemned; persons condemned to imprison-
ment in virtue of Art. 330 of the penal code; individuals
condemned for acts against public morals and decency;
individuals condemned to more than three months im-
prisonment in virtue of Articles 98, 100. 101, 102. 103,
105,106 107, 108, 109, 112, and 113 of the law of March
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