The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-24 00:00:00

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COMMEMORATION OF THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION OF FEB. 24, 1848.

On Monday evening last a meeting of political
exiles was held at the Literary InAitution, John-
street, Tottenham-court-road, to commemorate the
revolution of the 24th of Feb., 1848. The meeting
ought, of course, to have been held upon the 24th
(this day) ; but it seems that all the halls and places
sietable for such a gathering were engaged for th's
evening, and Monday last was therefore selected in
its stead. The platform was decorated with the
banners of Poland, and the flags of various nation-
alities funned a background.
M. TALANDIER opened the proceedings by intro-
ducing M. Longepied as president.
The CHAIRMAN, who on his appearance was
greeted with loud applause, proposed three hearty
cheers for the British Press and Parliament, which
were given with great enthusiasm. He described,
in a powerful and graphic manner, the crimes of
the Dour-Decembrians—thestreanis of blood which
they caused to be poured forth upon the Boulevards
—the brains of men which were dashed out against
the walls—and the heaps of the bodies of victims
which were piled up in the cetnetriee, but at the
same time he reminded them that out of evil came
good. Their exile had been to them the school of
misfortune, but it had also been to them the school
of experience. They had learned in their exile to
know their faults, and they had been taught by it
lessons which would be invaluable in future. He
concluded by expressing the hope that the justice
of man would soon chastise the oppressors of France,
and resumed his seat amielst loud applause.
Mr. BLIGHT, an English operative, then ad-
dressed the meeting, pointing out the crimes and
the midnight ambuscade of the Man of the 2d
December. He condemned Lord Palmerston for
his treachery, describing him as the ass which as
sumed the lion's skin ; but he said that, at length
Cobden and Bright saw the end of the tail, and
called the attention of the public to it. He re-
ferred in touching terms to the betrayal of Poland,
of Hungary, and of Italy, and resumed his seat
amidst great cheering.
M. FELIX PYAT said he had great satisfaction in
hearing it repeatedly remarked since the vote of
Frid ty night that the English Parliament and the
English nation, too, had deserved well of the cause
of humanity. They had, indeed, admirably as-
serted its claims against the arbitrary power which
had successfully invaded the deliberative indepen-
dence of Belgium, Switzerland, and Piedmont, but
had failed in its arrogant attempt to bully this
country. With its commanding voice it had ex-
claimed to the advancing tide of despotism,
"Stop 1. thou shall go no further !" and already the
ebb of its hateful waters had begun. The haughty
and boastful threats by which it had been sought to
nebula this country to the wishes of the despot no
longer rung in our ears, and with their subsidence
fell also the Minister, whose name history would
darken with the charge of having been willing to
sacrifice the honourable independence of his coun-
try at the shrine of Bonapartism, a degraded sub-
serviency which lost him place and power. By
the fall of that Minister, the English nation had
made a noble protest against the complicity in ab-
solutism, in which it had been artfully sought to in-
volve it. It now became them, as the victims of that,
system, to protest, in turn, against its uniigbteous
persecution. M. Pyat concluded by reading to the
meeting a letter addressed to the Parliament.
and the press, the communication of it being re-
ceived by repeated bursts of applause.
Mr. MURRAY said that as an Englishman he was
there to protest indignantly against the arrogance
of the man who, after his ignoble adventures at
Boulogne and Strasburg, after conspiring from
motives of mere ambition against the lawfully con-
stituted power which reigned over France ; and
after having slain thousands of innocent persons by
the hands of his satellites, now sought to expel
from our hospitable shores the unfortunate men
whom his oppression had driven to them for an
asylum. The downfall of Lord Palmerston's
Cabinet could only be regarded as a just punish-
ment for the truckling spirit in which it had acted,
and he hoped would prove a lesson to his successors.
(Hear, hear.)
M. TALANDIER remarked that the position of
affairs at the present moment ought to induce them
to sink all minor differences, and to unite with a
thoroughly cordial entente for the preservation of
their common interests in the future that was before
to others he did himself reserve fora more fitting
occasion,
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present unanimity might not
be endangered. (Hear, hear.)
M. ZENO SWIETOSLAWSRI vindicated the conduct
principle
of Orsini, declaring that bad Louis Napoleon not
been the destroyer of Italian. liberty and the re-
presserapproach to liberality or
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by his army of cecuPa I°n-ome, Orsini would
not have made the atempt of the 14th of January.
Orsini then was not an assassin, but a patriot.
of any
The name of Orsini was received with three
cheers, and the proceedings were closed by the
singing of the A/ arscillaise and the chant u d Depart,
in the burthen of which the audience ' •
joined.

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weapons were openly displayed. When order wale
restored several gentlemen were found to be pre-
sent an excessively tumbled and disordered ap-
pearance, but there remained little else to recall
the excitement. Gentlemen of opposite parties
crossed over to each other to explain their pacific
dispositions, and that they got into a fight where.
there only purpose wasto prevent a fight. Mutual
explanations and a hearty laugh at the ludicrous
points of the drama were followed by quiet and a
return to business. Disgraceful though all such
scenes are, it must be admitted that Mr. Grow was
in no way responsible for this. He was brutally
I a9sailed, and defended himself at last only after
forbearance had ceased to be a virtue. If the les-
son which he impressed upon his assailant shall
have the effect of restraining henceforth
i Mr. Keitt's exhibitions of insolence and his
'offensive affectations of superiority over. his"
!equals I don't know that the result will have
(been too dearly purchased. He seems to have la- .
lboured for years under the impression that a man
who don't own negroes can be trodden upon with
impunity, and it is to be hoped that his present dis-
comfiture
will inspire him with the respect for his
colleagues which is their due.
" The contest upon the 'yeas' and ' nays'.
throughout the long night certainly seems to make
the death of the Lecompton Constitution. Its op-
ponents triumphed at last, and forced • upon the
kdininistration men an agreement that on Monday
next the vote shall be taken upon Mr. Harris's
!motion for a reference, without any delay, on any
further factious opposition, and thereupon an ad-
Ljournment was carried. I confess to some misgive
'ings as to the propriety of yielding to them even so
'far as to postpone the final question until Monday.
;They know now just how many votes they want,
and as success is vital to the administration, the
'most desperate efforts Will -be made between this
ssnd Monday to change the votes, or induce manta
!absent themselves. Hilving the power this morning
it would have been better to finish the work up at
once. It is scarcelyito be anticipated, however' that
any of the Northern Democrats who-strugglid so '
faithfully all through the night to secure to the
people of Kansas their just rights will' fall by the
way now. They have put their hands to the plough,
and are not likely to turn back again. It is reason-
able to hope that within a few hours after this
reaches the public eye the Lecompton Constitution
wilt b 3 in the hands of a committee, whose official
report of the facts of the Kansas imbroglio cannot .
fail to satisfy a decided majority of Congress that it
never ought to be forced upon a protesting people."

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