The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-22 00:00:00

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

SV2.,TDAT.

The Journal Of loftily informs us that the rumours
of Ministerial changes are entirely without foundation ; so
we may expect that the Cabinet will have to face
the Chambers as it stands. The Journal des Debats asks
whether M. de Pomade will undertake the defence of those
elections carried with a high hand by the prefects, becasise
if so his courage must extort the admiration of his oppo-
nents. The Siecle cynically observes that the foregoing
announcement induces some persons to believe that a new
Cabinet is actually in course of formation, and there
is a general feeling that the public have not
heard the whole truth. Meanwhile M. Emile
011ivier, who by common assent is to be the
leading spirit of the new Ministry, has come forward to
support the candidature of M. Pouyer-Quertier for the
Third Circumscription, a chivalrous enterprise which, in
the opinion of the Siecle, will only obtain for him a second
soujfiet from the electors given on the cheek of his
protégé. The .Ifoiriteur Universel of yesterday publishes
a letter from M. 011ivier to an elector of the Third Dis-
trict, stating that he had often differed from M. Pouycr-
, Quertier, but that he knew him for a courageous speaker,
who had often fought against commercial liberty until he
ended by loving political liberty. He therefore engages
his friends to prefer bins to the "broken-winded" tribunes,
who are wearying the world with their feeble declamation.
Liberty without revolution is the great desideratum, and
M. 011ivier congratulates his partisans on the courage
with which they maintain this principle. His opponents,
he says, are now as unpopular as he ever was, only
his unpopularity was a mistake, which the future
will set right ; theirs is a punishment which
the future will augment. They are now as
powerless to serve liberty as to serve the revolu-
tion. What a lesson of morality for all! exclaims M.
Olivier in conclusion, and he bids his followers continue
fighting, and never to give place to demagogues. Very
diffeient is the tone of an address sent by a large number
of the workmen of Rouen to the workmen of Paris in
respect of this candidate. The Rouennais protest strongly
against the election of a candidate whom they had good
reason for rejecting. They cite a significant fact. The
faubourg situated in the vicinity of the immense establish-
ment of M. Quertier, and which is necessarily influenced
by the votes of his employds, was the one to turn the
scale at the election by a majority of more than a thousand
votes.
M. Felix ?yat denies that ho has withdrawn from a
candidature for which ho did not offer himself. It is
entirely an affair of the electors, and he believes that those
of the Eighth Circumscription who have a conscience are
anxious to prove it. M. Carnot has issued another circular
declaring that all necessary reforms can be accomplished
peacefully by the adoption of one fundamental principle,
"the constitution of the people should be the work of the
. i people themselves, and not of a single man." Hitherto
the elections have proceeded amid the most perfect order.
On their results it is at present useless to speculate.
The excitement that has been aroused on the subject
of Rochefort has caused a new profession to be started,
the members of which undertake to show off the cele-
brated candidate. In some of the large hotels, particularly
those where the English and Americans abound, these
guides appear, and profess to let strangers see the editor
of the Lanterne. Their scale of charges is carefully
arranged, and their chief object appears to be to procure
tickets of admission to the electoral meetings, where the
curious may hear, as well as see, the object of their

admiration.
Father Hyacinthe has written from New York to M.
Emile de Girardin to say that a translation of his sermons
and speeches has been made in New York by a Presby-
terian minister. It is preceded by a letter from
himself, which has been published in the American
journals. Father Hyacinthe requests that M. Emile
de Girardin will reproduce this document in its entirety
in his journal, because he is particularly anxious that its
contents should be known in Europe. He concludes with
the expression of an earnest wish that the cause of liberty
may triumph in Europe as it does in the noble country
where he is at present.
A terrible accident has just taken place in the coalpit
f Eully-Grenay in the Pas do Calais. A steam engine used
for hoisting the mineral extracted set fire to some wood-
work below, and in a short time flames burst out. The
cn3incer of the establishment ordered the orifice to be
cic:cd, and the smoke was forced back into the works. Out
of sixty-five men below, nineteen were suffocated.

Capt. Ramsay Harman and a small draught of
the Ist battalion of the 14th Regiment left Chat.
ham garrison on z•a-..urday for Portsmouth, to ern
bark in the Crocodile, 3, iron troopship, for con.
veyance to Bengal, to join the service companies.