The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-24 00:00:00

BRENO.EI ELECTIONS.

(From the Daily Hews.)
The official statement of .the result of the Paris
Elections has not yet reached us. For the exact ac'
curacy of the statement which appeared in the
greater part of our yesterday's impression we n",
course cannot vouch. It professes to be no more
than a hastily formed estialate, rapidly made avd.
hurriedly collected. The sources whence it has been
obtained, however, are such as to warrant our con-
fidence that it will be found to be a pretty close
approximation to the truth. Let us, therefore,
examine what is the nature of the first decided
symptom of the recovery of the national mind of
France from the state of suspended animation into
which it was cast by the Coup d'Etat. . .
The Circular of the Minister of the Interior esti'
mates the number of Registered Electors within
the ten Electoral Circumscriptions of Paris, as high
as 350,000. According to the Returns of our Cor-
respondent 206,724 of these have recorded their
votes at the late Election, leaving 143,276 electors
who have abstained from voting. Of the electors
who have deposited their votes in the ballot-bares
110,525 appear to have voted for Government al'
didates, and 96,199 for the candidates of the OP;
position. This is a very remarkable exposition
the state of political feeling and opinion in tha
Capital of France. There can be no doubt that the
most strenuous exertions were made by the agenta
of Government to induce the electors to come fer-
ward in support of its candidates. The appeal,,
the Emperor's Address, at the close of the session,
to the working classes in particular, was a not veil
creditable provocation to class prejudices ; and the
circulars, accompanied by bulletins of the Govern'
meat candidates, sent on Monday morning t.°
every elector who had not voted on Monday, we
an unequivocal threat of proscription. Again, the
greatest difficulties were thrown in the way of tbt
iOpposition candidates. The intolerable treat:al;
experienced by the friends and agents of M. F.
be
Lasteyrie, described by our correspondent, maybe
taken as a fair sample of the excesses in which
the lower class of Government agents have
o
indulged. Yet this unscrupulous conduct n$
the part of the Parisian authorities he
barely succeeded in hounding 110,525 voters ret
the Government—less than one-third of the Regis,"
tered Electors of Paris—to the ballot boxes.
though an unequivocal declaration had gone fort
that Government would hold all the electors 1111
did not declare for it to be against it, 143,276 stoe
sullenly aloof, and 96,199 recorded their votes
against Government. In other words, more the':
two-thirds of the electors of Paris-239 475—W*
demanded the reality of Parliamentary Govern;
ment ; and of that number 96,199 have declare'
their preference for Opposition candidates.
This is a courageous, yet temperate and legal 0'
pression of public opinion which the Emperor eiT;
not afford to disregard. So far as the numbers No.g
have voted for the different candidates enable t
to conjecture, it would appear that a majoritl.
the Opposition voters is composed of the Paul
Republicans. Among those who have 'abstain:,
from voting, the Monarchists and the Socialist ,
publicans may be inferred to have preponderate.;
-Yet these two classes are precisely those whose Iv
tility to the reigning dynasty might have been cor,
petted to be least irreconcileable. Many of, of
Monarchists are devoted rather to the prineillio,
Monarchy than to any individual House or 0
narch ; many of the Socialists regard political for et
as of comparatively secondary importance ;
both of these practicable classes stand obstinso
aloof from the existing Government, declaring '.
they will not condescend to take part in slim:ll%m
tions ; while the Political Republicans brave cot
anger of Government by recording their votes
the men whom it most deeply hates andlears.
The Emperor is too clear-sighted a man ne"o
perceive that a national feeling so deeply-rooteo,o
fearlessly expressed, cannot be resisted. Unless 1.51
resuscitated dynasty is to be a mere ephenlejo
shadow, he must make up his mind to, devise sfure
means of engrafting a really elective Legisii"ool
on his Imperial system. It may, or it ronY,o.
be too late for this. It is clear that more than "to
thirds of Electors of the metropolis are hostile tn,o
irresponsible despotism ; and it is equally clear,:oup
:the distrust of his sincerity engendered by the tido
d' Etat has placed him in a state of moral iscd
from all the elements out of which a constitufletioo
Government party and a constitutional Opensl or
might have been formed. But if the Emperor e.A•
not make the Corps Legislatif really a free eorP:vi
sion of public opinion, he will be left without:oos
safety-valve to carry off popular discontent, Witup
any index to show when danger is at hand•
and
can at no moment feel secure from the enu
li3i explosion, which may shatter to fragments the f!
edifice of the Imperial Constitution. True, rovo3
of the industrious peace-loving citizens of F 0 lig
are disposed to acquiesce in his despotism, so 1° it
a 9 it can ensure tranquillity ; but so soon a 5
shall appear that it inadequate to this purpose,
soon will their qualified adhesion be withdrawn. 'JP,
Empire is not the only organisation to which tile'
look for the discharge of the functions of Gover:,
ment. That assembly, which on the day of the o°.;
d'Etat, adjourned under protest, is still in e%1,,,,e
once, and may even, after a long interval, reenli
its authority, as was the case in the seventeen .do
century with the " Rump" of the Long Parliani"
of England.

(From the Morning Advertiser.) ,
The result of the elections in Paris will, ever
where on the Continent, revive the drooping el/iitle
of the friends of freedom. Three Republicansua
proved friends of enlightened liberty, have '0
triumphantly returned for that city. Ca,vaige of
Carnet, and Goudchaux are the representativeeir
three of the most important of the ten circunoerals
tions, or electoral districts, into which the Fre'ille
capital is divined. And even in several of o,
other districts the Bonapartist candidates only 045,
ceeded by narrow majorities. In three 001
these majorities not being absolute, that is, t-gto
greater than the conjoint votes of the other or
opposing candidates, there must be new coo,
tions. These will take place on Sunday liagal
when, it is to be hoped, the public
.spirit
, patriotism of Paris, being quickened into )0
greater vitality and effort by the triefePor
achieved on Monday, will defeat the nomineeew
automatons put forward by the Napoleonist
verntuent. tlO
Most heartily do we congratulate France 011
public spirit thus displayed by the people of rt,;(l,
discouraging amidst circumstances of the most discouraging
if any-one could have doubted before, the fltieti,
France for the freedom which representative itistiir
tutions give, no one can have doubts en the °ell
ject now. The triumphant return of threes Lilo
men as Cavaignac, Carnot, and Goudchaux, ni
have produced profound consternation in 'o
Tuileries. Such a result of the appeal of
the ballot-urn must have made the stout heart ,
the Imperial despot tremble, and caused an iio
at
earthly paleneness to whiten his dark and sinist
4
countenance. In the events of Monday he vie
have seen the hand-writing on the wall whioll„..
"
cords the impending doom of a dynasty found
in perjury and blood—in the violation of soleeto
oaths taken to defend if necessary, even with r
life, the Republic which gave him a political eo
istence—and in the remorseless butchery of litleil/no
beings, to an extent which extorted tears Irvil
Humanity in all parts of the world, and filled ear!
part of Paris with lamentation and woe. ;fly
From this hour we may confidently look for re
portant events in France. , The tide of
alism having reached its height will ebb ag.„3 it
with a rapidity far surpassing that with which
flowed. The grand Bonapartist inflation nleY, be
expected every day to burst. A crisis cantlevivill
remote. It is at the door. In what form it .00
I come, or what consequences may ensue, are Po' te,
on which we have no disposition to spseelfratoo
Suffice it to say, that though a fearful conjuric'
0
may impend, and though France may have to 13 it
through scenes of suffering- and of sorrow whird
is distressing to contemplate, before she has V,' b 0
of her IMperial oppressors, and regaincd her rig in
and liberties—yet brighter and better days are, og
store for her. And let us cherish the bope--le"00
rather say we are profoundly impressed with Ai
conviction—that the degradation and miser,'
itof is e sopnoctei smnlorwei::
has suffered from the reign
0:
have the effect of making her set a higher value
constitutional liberty when
iu her possession, and lead
a dhfimerrtohgaunarad
ahgeauri free:
with a watchful eye and
future attempts that may be made upon it.

IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PEERAGE.—Viscounto6 1
morree wilt stand for the next veoancy in the it of
Representative Peerage, after the election of the O'„
ictIGLAR SUREISED.—At an early hour yeeterafil
a young luau 'named George Wilton was 'co
witted into Westminster Hospital, in charge of the; 'ot
lice, with severe injuries, the. result of an ado:Tint
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burglary at the house of Mr. John Jubb, the prololdeter,
of the New Star and Crown, Broadway, Westruitoiee
Between two and three o'clock Mr. Jubb heard a."-00
in his bar, and being convinced that robbers were I°,o,
house, he hastily descended, followed by a young of
ot
in his service, when he discovered Wilton in the g'-j of
rifling the till. Not knowing whether he was artnetoret
not, and self-preservation being the first law of va ott
Mr. Jubb (who is a well known cricketer) seized a ire
.which was behind the bar, and gave the burglar Aar
mendous blow across the face, which rendered hie,' lce,
less, and he was secured until the arrival of the PS tbe
when he was conveyed to the station-house; a° bog'
charge being preferred he was then removed to the to
pita), and Mr. Nayler, the house-surgeon, atterideoce
him. His nose is completely smashed, and hie sila
frightfully disfigured. Wilton is well known to
police as an expert burglar.