The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-22 00:00:00

... 243,854
... 16,384
••• 845

Against _
Abstaining ... ..
VOTE OF THE NAVY.

For .. ••• ... 14,675
Against ••• ••• .. 4,830
Abstaining ...
••• 417
The decree of the Bth, respecting liberated convicts
sn rupture de ban, and persons proved to belong to
secret societies, has already produced a good effect.
It has caused Paris to be freed of the greater part of
the malefactors who had been released from the bagnes
and the central prisons—they having taken to fight
to escape transportation. A number of persons have,
however, been arrested, and amongst them several
noted convicts.
The Government has received telegraphic dis-
patches from several departments announcing that
the people were voting with the greatest eagerness.
The elections go on with order both in town and
country.
A dispatch fram Toulouse announces the arrest of
the three insurgent leaders at Mazarniel, and from
Avranches of the arrest of Colonel MOUTON.
The Debate of Saturday has, for the first time, a
short leader highly praising the resolution of the
Minister of War to reward the gendarmes who in
the late troubles most signalised themselves by their
courage and resolution. The article is significant
of no deep hostility to the Government.
We are told by a provincial journal that the Duo
D'AUMALE has ordered all the persons who are
charged with the administration of his immense
private possessions to vote for Louis NAPOLEON.
The Constitutionnel, as well as the Pays and the
Press*, strenuously appeals to the country in his
behalf. They all represent the question as one be-
tween government and anarchy. The Coltstitu-
tiennel promises that the delegation to LOUIS NA Po.
',sox of the necessary powers to found a Government
shall be followed by years of peace, the interests of
the country requiring that time should be given to
repair the evils of revolutions by the revival of in-
dustry, commerce, and cultivation.
The outspoken article in the Pays says—
"Of the three forces of Government resulting from
the Republic—the Constitution, the Assembly, and the
President, the first two are annihilated—the President
alone remains. If the President were to-morrow to be
condemned by the majority of the country there would
remain nothing of the Republic. Revolution would
resume its course without obstacle. One out of two
things would then happen. Either the army would go
to the Elysia to seek Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and
take him to the Tuileries, or,Demagogy would go to the
Hotel de Ville, to there prepare the Government of
Terror and of Communism. In the former case we
should have a military dictatorship; in the latter, a
revolutionary one. We prefer a legitimate and regular
government, the force of which will be right and law.
France will think with us. It will like better to be
governed than oppressed. *Yes, means a government;
No, a revolution. Between a government and a revo-
lution France will have to choose. She has already
chosen."

General DE CMYTELLANE has, speaking in reply to
a deputation of citizens of Lyons, used these remark-
able expressions
" You are, Messieurs, under great obligations to Louis
Napoleon; you may have your personal preferences, but
at such a moment as this you ought to bury them in your
heart. We ought all to rally round him, for he has
doubted.r
e
saved the country. What we must now look to above
everythingthese
last
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Wbat we have just witnessed is assassination, pillage,
incendiarism—it is universal destruction. That which
passes under our eyes explains what I never before
had comprehended—how great peoples and great
cities have fallen into decay and disappeared from
the list of nations. Without doubt it was in follow-
ing such courses that these peoples reached annihilation.
Two years ago I feared for a moment, when I saw
family and property attacked, that we were entering on
the same course, to alive at the same result. Happily,
we need fear so no longer. The vigorous measures
1
which have just been adopted open to us bettor pros-
pects." The prefects of departments in eheir addresses
hold similar
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Prefect o
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of Oise,thet i
fort
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tine-
qstuaenscteio, says,
6a,nrighueagree.
can n
is clearly put between civilization and barbar-
ism—between order and anarchy—between property and
robbery—between religion and the most degrading
cyni3nie." The Protestant congregation at Strasbourg
has given
in its adhesion, through its pastor,
to the measures taken by the President of the Re-
publicin the interest of France, put in peril by the
violent struggles of parties; and in the interests
of religious and civil society, troubled to its foundations
by menaces of anarchy." Whatever, then, may be the
future policy of the Government, there can be no doubt
of the actual dangers of society, testified to as they are
by general officers, by msgistrates, by journalists of
honourable name, and by the correspondence, public and
private, addressed to foreign papers or to individuals.
The estimates made of the number of votes likely
to be given
in favour of Louis NAPOLEON'S demand
for power to found a new Government, range between
six and eight millions.
It appears that for more than fifteen days before
, General ST. ARNAUD, M. DE
the coup aut.,. Louis NAPOLEON imparted his plans
M. DE MAUPAS, the Prefect of Police.
Tti\olheßtyhilrieepatc:hdnisMficdounsel, and concerted their measures
so well, that not one of the seventy•eight persons,
whom it was determined to arrest on the night of the
2d of December, escaped them.

We are indebted to the Morning Post for a con-
siderable portion of M. GRANIER D CASBAGNAC'S
pamphlet on the events of the 2d of December. The
Paris Correspondent of our Contemporary writes as
follows _

' promised to you yeßto.a
.• .udien.tique des evenements de Di-
., quotations from
M. Grainer de Cassagnac. I forward
to you the d'the '° recitefi°l;77:2ltPbpiPyortion of the work—at least one-third
of the whole, and by far the moat interesting portion,
as the latter part of the ricit contains the Presidents
proclamations and half a hundred other things with
which the public are already perfectly acquainted.
I recommend the narrative to your readers' attention,
as it throws new lights on the coup d'etat, and relates
many of its most interesting details:—