The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

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public, and to substitute for it a Bonapartist
Imperial regime ? Did he plot to revive the era of
Cagsens ? A seat in the Cabinet is the reward of
such plotting, not a hut in the Marquesas. M.
ALPHONSE GENT and his companions did not plot
the subversion of the Republic, even according to
the showing of
.their accusers ; the utmost guilt of
M. ALPHONSE GENT and of his co-accused went,
even admitting the truth of the accusations brought
against them, "to this extent, no more ;" they
wished to alter the present Constitution of
the Republic, they wished to revise the Constitution.
If to seek the revision of the Constitution be a crime,
then are the Due DE BROGLIE, M. MOLE, M. LEON
FAUCHER, M. BAROCHE, M. GUINOT, M. MAGNE,
all the Ministers of the PRESIDENT of the Republic,
upwards of 170 of the Councils-General of France,
and the PRESIDENT of the Republic himself, equally
guilty with M. ALrnorsu GENT, and all ought
equally to be sent to the Marquesas. But it

would appear from the evidence that M.
ALPHONSE GErT, if he conspired at all,
conspired rather to maintain the Republic, and
we have yet to learn that it is a crime for men to
combine together to uphold obedience to the law.
The details of this trial, however, prove the exist-
ence of conspiracy—of a widely organized conspi-
racy—on the part of those, who have sworn obedi-
ence to the law, to violate their oaths, after the
example of the Emperor of AUSTRIA and the King
of NAPLES, and not only to violate the law them-
selves, but to persecute all those who are
ready and willing to obey and to defend the law,
What is the crime of which those who were recently ar-
rested in Paris were accused ? That they sought to
maintain the Republic and the Constitution, and that,
in order to do so, they consulted together to agree
upon a candidate for the Presidency. Is that a crime ?
We opine not. Nay, further, their candidate, who-
ever he might be, would be the only legal candidate at
present in the field, for the great party of order,
the great party which is always preaching obedience
to the law, has started two illegal candidates,
viz., M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE and M. DE
JOIN TILLE, the election of either of whom will be
a violation of the law, unless the Constitution shall
be previously revised. Now, the friends of M. Louis
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE have been exerting unscru-
pulously all the powers of the Government ; have

organized secret societies, "The Society of the 10th

December," to wit ; have used every means in their
power of openly or secretly influencing the French
electors and the French Assembly, in order to pro-
cure such a revision in the Constitution as shall legalise
his re-election, in order to enable him by such re-
election to, so say his opponents, escamoter la ripublique.
Now surely it is as great an offence in the Bona-
partists to conspire to procure a revision of the Con-
stitution in one sense, as it is in M. ALPHONSE GENT
and his companions to conspire to procure a revision
in the opposite sense ; therefore it is clear that, even
admitting the accusations brought against M. AL-
PHONSE GENT and his companions to have been proved,
an admission which, however, we do not make, still

he is no more guilty than are his accusers, than are

the men of the reaction of all shades, who are noto-
riously and avowedly plotting for the absolute sub-
version, not the mere modification of the Republic,
and the substitution for it of an Imperialist or a
Royalist regime. We would remind these gen-
tlemen that it is just possible they may not
succeed in their machinations, that it is just possible
that by some future Republican Government they
may themselves be accused of haying, in this year
1851, conspired for the subversion of the Republic ;
and we ask them whether they consider they are
acting the part of prudent men, in setting the pre-
cedent of giving jurisdiction to courts-martial in suoh
cases, and in sending those convicted by such courts-
martial to the Marquesas ?

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The political trials at Agen are over; three of
the persons accused of conspiracy, viz., MM.
LESSEPS, DESOLME, and DurrAu, were acquitted ; and
one M. GAUSSENS, the editor of a republican journal,
was found guilty, with extenuating circumstances,
and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. The
speeches of M.M. CIIEMIEUX and JULES FAVRE, for
the defence, are spoken of as masterpieces of fo-
rensic eloquence.
The foundation of the new central market of Paris
was yesterday laid by the PRESIDENT of the Repub-
lic. The ceremony was very imposing. The Cure of
St. Eustache and the Prefet of the Seine each pre-
sented addresses to the PRESIDENT, who replied to
them as follows :

" Gentlemen,—lt is now forty years since the idea
was entertained of raising a vast monument to preserve
from the inclemency of the seasons the numerous class of
persons whose painful and daily occupation is to supply
the population of Paris with all that is necessary for its
existence. But, thanks to the enlightened direction
of the Minister of the Interior; thanks to the ener-
getic co-operation of the Municipal Council of Paris,
and of its worthy Chief; thanks to the decisions of
the National Assembly, the work which I so ardently
desired, is at length accomplished. The construction
of those markets, a real benefit to humanity,
facilitates the supplies of Paris, and invites a greater
number of departments to combine in it. This work,
then, is not merely and solely municipal, for Paris is the
heart of France, and the more active and powerful its life,
the more it is communicated to the rest of the country.
In laying the first stone of an edifice whose destination
is so eminently popular, I confidently cherish the hope
that, with the protection of the Almighty, and the co-
operation of all good citizens, we shall be enabled to lay
in the soil of France foundations whereon to erect a
social edifice sufficiently solid to afford shelter from the
violence and the fickleness of human passions."
The PRESIDENT then proceeded to perform the cere-
mony of laying the foundation-stone amidst enthusi-
astic cries of " Vise ! la Republicque." There was
not the least attempt at any disturbance of the public
peace.
The Five per Cents. opened at 91f. 65c., fell to 91f.
35c., and closed at 91f. 70c. ; the Three per Cents.
closed at 55f. 90c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 867 f. 50c.;
Great Northern, 460 f; Avignon, 205 f.; Vierzon, 430 F.;
Basle, 150 f.; Bordeaux, 385 f.; Paris and Strasburg,
355 f.; Tours and Nantes, 2651. 75c.; Amiens to Bou-
logne, 260 f.

B 081NESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Sari. 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10 ,A 3 —Luxembourg, I%—Namur
and Liege, 614—Northern of France, 141%1—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 4A —Rouen and Havre, 9—Tours and Nantes, 6%.

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