The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-03 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

THIS EVENING, at 7. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. M
Ashley and the Misses Hants. With THE WILLOW COPSE
Mr. Benjamin Webster.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.

Tins EVENING, at 7, THE LOTTERY TICKET. After which,
THE GAMESTER: ➢lr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. I] ermaun Vezin,
&c. And THE WATER \IAN.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and 'Manageress, Mrs. Swanboronch.
This EVENING. at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr
Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And INO. Concluding with
THE CHOPS OF TILE CHANNEL.

C'FlnisTy MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-Park, OPEN daily (ex-
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under twelve. ecl

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office
open fromll to 4.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1869.

The Irreconcileables in France—meaning thereby
the would-if-they-could-be Revolutionists—are doing
their very utmost to justify the EMPEROR in any
amount of reaction and repression. They are assail-
ing the Imperial Government with a flagrant malig-
nity and an insolent audacity, which are, even by
them, unparalleled. The ;Rappel is beaten jusqua
l'extermination. The din raised by it, and by the
Reforme, and the Revell is like the sounding of a
tocsin. The three journals we have named are true
to their antecedents. They rage and foam against
NAPOLEON 111. as though they were simply inspired
by those who are nothing less than demented. One
of the three, the one intermediately mentioned,
boldly arraigns the EMPEROR at the bar of public
opinion in an elaborate argument, entitled signifi-
cantly " Our Dead." It commences its attack by
demanding from all Democrats " a tribute of respect
to the innocent victims of the coup (Taut." It re-
minds its readers that those victims were unarmed.
That they included among their number old men, and
women, and children. It shrinks not from the re-
minder, that they were shot down on the streets and
boulevards, in which they chanced to be at the time,
as peaceful wayfarers. It says this, while in the same
moment naively asking—in reference to the victims—
" Where were their remains buried?" Adding, yet

more naively, "No one can tell." Precisely—it were
difficult, indeed, to say where lie hidden away the
debris of a hypothetic:,) hecatomb. " A fe-,v were

taken to the cemeteries"—Eraetly ! Those, namely,
who lamentably fell in consequence of their own
hair-brained temerity in going into the very streets
and boulevards from which they had been solemnly
warned by Proclamation. " A few were taken to
the cemeteries—but how many corpses did the Seine
eogulph? how many ? No one knows." Not a
doubt of it—nobody does know, or possibly can
know, what never took place, what never could have
taken place by any possibility. The Seine is not like
the hole in the Forum—a bottomless abyss. Sub-
merge, in the current of the river flowing through
Paris, any considerable number of dead bodies, and ,
according to the laws of nature, decomposition itself
would cause the revelation of the atrocity sooner or
later. Sunk, weighted, to the bottom—the navi-
gation of the river would be obstructed. Thrown in
unweighted, after the lapse of a given number of
hours, the mouldering remains would float to the
surface, and thereby reveal themselves. Therefor
' there is an acquittal of the Author of the
coup d'etat from this monstrously extrava-
gant charge of a wholesale and utterly
wanton massa,:ce
could ol:iy have d (which could have done no good,
one harm to the cause he was en-
...eavouring to promote, supposing it to have been
thereby carried out)—there is, we say, a distinct
acquittal of the EMPEROR from the absurd charge of
this wholesale and wanton massacre (which never
took place) by the declaration of the Reform that
" No one can tell" where the victims were buried !
And that "No one knows" how many the Seine

engulphed ! No one possibly can know. No oue
possibly can tell. The dead were buried away
in the cemeteries. The wounded were carried away
to the hospitals. The political prisoners, taken in the

streets, but thee, by the way, not unarmed, were
deported to the penal settlement at Cayenne. Those
are the facts. That is the summing np of an out-
break, the summary suppression of which was con-
doned by all France immediately after wards—namely,
by the votes of nearly eight millions of her adult
male population. Forgetting that rather important
fact, the Reform howls over its ram3mbranc3
It diatribe,
of a stupendous massacre that never happened.t
then follows up its incoherent
by giving, with a black border to it,who alistw
ere(extending
through four columns) of the people killed
on
Thatese4mthh
reofarDraeyceomf December, 1851,
names—nameson the
of
eßoulevards.
per-
fectly authentic throughout—is thereupon succeeded
by what the irreconcilable journalist entitles "A
Page of history." And it certainly is an im-
portant page— a page including in it half
a dozen very stalking reminders. First
" On the 26th of September, 1848, Louis NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE took his seat in the Constituent Assem-
bly and uttered the following words—, After 33
years' proscription and exile, I am at last restored
to my country and all my rights as a citizen
For this happiness I am indebted to the Re-
public. To the Republic I tender my oath of gra-
titude, my oath of devotedness.'" Secondly, "On
the ensuing 27th of November Loris NAPOLEON came
forward as candidate for the Presidency of the Re-
public, and thus concluded his manifesto. if lam
electctt as President, I shalt cors;ilel/4., lh ininotir
pledged to handing ovor Rilecessor, after four
years Lave cxpirkl3) Mg-Alter with a consolidated Go-
vernment, liberty unimpaired and great progress ac-
complished.' " Thirdly, "On the 26th December
LOUIS NAPOLEON was installed a 9 President of the
Republic ; where, introduced into the Chamber and
called to take the chair, be said, 'ln presence of GOD
and before the French people, represented by the
National Assembly, I swear to uphold the Demo-
cratic Republic one and indivisible, and to fulfil all
the duties which the Constitution entails upon me,' "