The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-15 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven e' Clock.

FRAN CE.

The Siecle says :—" The cause of universal suffrage
is won. Not only is the majority henceforth divided,
but what authority can the law of May 31 now enjoy,
after having been disavowed by the executive power,
and only indebted to the incapacity of the Ministry
for a triumph founded on three votes ? Three votes
and a half, excluding from universal suffrage
3,500,000 citizens, is an impossibility, which it is
unnecessary for us to demonstrate. On the first op-
portunity which shall present itself, these votes, fol-
lowed by many others, will pass to the side of reason.
of good sense, and of peace, and the law of May 31
will be done with. The vote of yesterday finishes
nothing, it begins everything."
We read in the National:—" A majority of seven
votes against the repeal of the law of May 31—such
is the balance-sheet of the Royalists. Let them
congratulate themselves, if they please, on their
triumph ; for our part, we consider our defeat as a
victory. Seven votes ! but such a figure speaks
volumes. There were 703 voters, so that the ab-
solute majority was 352. 348 votes placed in
the urn proclaimed the principle of universal
suffrage, whilst 355 maintained the restricted
suffrage. The law of May 31, mortally wounded
by the presentation of the new Bill, has now
virtually ceased to exist. From yesterday that law,
condemned by common sense, right, and the Consti-
tution, is no longer capable of being executed. We
defy those who voted for its maintenance to have it
applied on the day when the three millions of ex-
cluded voters should present themselves at the door of
the electoral sections, holding in one hand, not even
the Constitution, bat merely the vote of last evening
and the Message of M. Bonaparte, and in the other
their bulletin. There is no amount of physical force,
cannons, bayonets, or what not, that could struggle
against such moral force. The Assembly, split in
two, has signed the death-warrant of the law of May
31. Who can deny it ?"
We read in the Aational—" Yesterday, at the
moment of the ballot, we saw with emotion M.
Francois Arago enter the Assembly, supported by two
colleagues, to tender his vote. Confined for a long
time past by a cruel illness, he left his bed to fulfil a
civic duty, and join his vote to those of the members
who wish to save France from the horrors of civil war."

We learn from the Akbar of Algiers, of the 6th,
that accounts have been received there from the
column which had marched towards the east, but
they contained nothing of striking interest. The tor-
rents of rain which had fallen had prevented the Go-
vernor-General from forming a junction with General
Cuny until the 2d inst. On the 3d, however, a
movement had commenced, and the French troops
had penetrated into the country of the Maatas, and
burnt several villages.

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ENGLAND TO KOSSUTH.
Some fine and impassioned verses so entitled appear
in the Weekly News and Chronicle of this day; from
which we extract the following :
Thought writes the doom of despots—thought pervades
The lowliest alleys and the loneliest glades,
And general culture with her smile allures
The 'erst rude hearts of artisans and boors.
On iron roads—along electric wires,
Science and Freedom flash their kindling fires,
Invaded Darkness mourns her sons released,
Each day the Press gains ground upon the Priest.
The peasant reads—let but the soldier think,
And Europe's Empires, based on Bayonets, sink.

Kossuth! our love goes with thee—when we heard
First of thy coming—all our hearts were stirred,
Presentient of thy presence—now thou 'rt grown
One of ourselves—a brother of our own—
In this Great England thy true words have lit
A quenchless fire—let tyrants quake at it!
Let nations bless its blszieg!—never more
Shall England sit upon her island shore
Alone among the Peoples—thou hest taught
A loftier wisdom and a nobler thought.
With you great Nation o'er the Western wave—
Hand joined in hand—we've sworn the world to save.
We—heirs of ancient freedom—we who give
The civic rule by which the nations live;
When Europe's despots, with their rabble rout
Of cowled camp-followers, league to trample out
The life of Freedom; in her holy cause—
In her great name—our voice shall thunder " Pause!"
Elsewhere in the same journal we find the significant
remarks subjoined :
Magna virim neater—it is our greatest glory, hitherto,
to have been the parent of such an offspring as America
—the mother of prolific nations! And it will be the
consummation and crown of that glory, when England,
in her old age, shall be enabled to fight the last battle
against the last enemies of freedom, with no other
auxiliaries than the members of her own family and her
own descendants, inspired by her voice, and collected
under her banner from every quarter of the globe.