The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The following are publi,hed by the National ss the
votes of the army :

GARRISON OF CAIIORS.
... 7 I Leclerc ...
ARRAS.
... 62 I Leclerc ...
DIJON.
... 52 I Leclerc ...
MONTMEDY.
Sue ... ... 13 I Leclerc ... 1
Tue Napoleon publishes the decrees of the Firs
Consul after the 18th Brumaire with the following
introduction:—

Sue

... 5

Sue

... 12

Sue

... 13

" The epoch at which the First Consul assumed the
direction of affairs resembles in many respects the present
period. It is nor, then, entirely useless to examine the
manner in which France accepted his domination.
Nothing can better indicate that manner than the study
of the decrees and ordinances published since the da)
when France entrusted him with power. They establisi.
the most remarkable analogy between those times and
the days we now live in."
A second article is untitled " Les Precedents."

"For new times," it says, " we roust have new men,
who have nothing to do with the past, and who art
not dragging after them the weight of Ministerial or
Parliamentary precedents. Beyond that all is peril.
obstacle, impossibility. With the veterans of th
Monarchical regime we stumble at every step 01
an act, on a speech, and instead of taci4
the difficulties of the present we waste our tier.
in a stern debate on the past. On every side we re
gard the past, while the present occupies all minds;
our eyes are always cast back, while Fiance looks ful;
in front. Yet France spoke high in the election of th.
10th of Decrmber. She entered resolutely on a re,
line, and no one ought to hesitate to follow her who i-
disengaged from the thraldom of precedents. Each epoa
supplies its men. The people, inspired by an admirab e in-
stinct, have found in their President the man of the situ.
!Wen. The President, inspired in turn by a popular senti-
ment, has already found, and will again if need be.
the men to co-operate with him in his patriotic en-
terprizp. History never repeats itself, but in th.
succession of events which comprise the life of a peopl.
there are analogies it it is necessary to be acquaie tea
with in order to deduce the benefical consequence:
they involve. The Consular period present with our
time a certain resemblance which should not be lightly
treated when we call to mind the immense results al
most instantaneously obtained by the poweiful genitD•
who undertook the mission of saving France. Scarcely
was he in possession of power, when General Bona
parte composed his Ministry. Who were his men ?
Cambaceres, the profound legist, who on the benches o
the Plain bad let politics pass by without touchir4
them; Tallyraud, who shone for a moment under th.
Constituante to vanish in presence of the revolutioL-
ary tempest. Rude, a Montagnard all but t ff4cet
and little compromised, but whom he wanted in ordet
to become acquainted with men; Laplace, the illustrious
savant; Garda', the modest financier, whose talents fel
administration was his only merit; Berthier, his faithful
Chief of the Staff, &c. All these men who have breomt,
historical personages, were free from engag-m3,-.,ats of tre
past; and we all know with what intelligence, what ar•
dour they seconded their glorious chief in his work, a.
wonderfully carried on, of pacification and social tem..
ganization."