The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

attention has been drawn to a paragraph in
your paper of the sth inst., announcing a contest for the
county of Heref)rd, in consequence of the death of
Joseph Bailey, E-q., our highly respected representa-
tive. Ido not know who your informant may be, but
as the Parliamentary agent of Mr. Bailey, I am most
happy to be enabled to state that he is not only living,
but that his friends and constituents have every hope
that he may be re3!ored to health, and his useful and
valuable services continued to them. I need not bay
that the canvass of the county is a fabrication. I shall
be obliged by your inserting this contradiction in your
paper. Yours obediently,
NICHOLAS LANWARNE.
Hereford, July 6, 1850.

MADAME PASTA'S CONCERT.—The only concert
that will be given by Madame Pasta previously to her
leaving England, will take place in the Great Concert-room
at Her Majesty's Theatre, this evening. It is the farewell
concert of the great prima donna, and is for her exclusive
benefit. Madame Pasta will herself appear for the first time
In this country for: the last twenty years, and she will be
supported by her favourite pupil,lle. Parodi, and by all
the artistes of the establishment, who have kindly given
their support on the occasion.

MR. WEBSTER'S BUNEFIT.—We remind the lovers
of the drama that the benefit of Mr. Benjamin Webster, to
whose management we are indebted for the production of
the Love Chase, Money, Time Works Wonders, the Catspaw,
the Serious Family, and so many other now stock pieces,
takes place to-night at the Haymarket. The most effectual
encouragement that can be given to the British drama is to
encourage Mr. Webster to persevere in such a course of
management as that which has produced such excellent
results.

CREMORNE GARDENS.—Great celebrations are to
take place in the grounds of this establishment in the course
of the week. To-day and to-morrow a Scottish fête is an-
nounced. The sports in Holland•park are to be repeated;
and, as the advertisement announces, by the same performers,
some of whom appeared before Her Majesty when at Bal-
moral ; and on Wednesday, in honour of the juveniles, a
balloon is to ascend at night. If the weather is fine, such a
bill of fare cannot fail to attract the pleasure-seekers in large
numbers. • _

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Pat is journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
At the sitting of the Legislative Assembly on Fri-
day, M. Durix, the President, rose and addressed the
Assembly as follows :
"Gentlemen, at the moment when a neighbouring
people, our ally, deplores the logs which it has just ex-
perienced in the person of one of its statesmen most
worthy of esteem, I think that it will be to confer honour
on the French tribune to express our sympathetic re-
gret on this occasion, and to manifest our high esteem
tor the eminent orator alluded to, who, during the whole
course of his long and glorious carer, has never ex
pressed any sentiments towards France but those of kind
feeling and justice, and whose linguage has always been
that of courtesy towards her Government.—(Loud ap-
probition.) It the Assembly deigns to approve of my
words, mention shall be made of the fact on the official
minutes of our sittings."_

Unanimous marks of assent arose from every part
of the Chamber, and some time elapsed before the
business of the day was proceeded with.
Never before has any foreign statesman hail such
honours as these paid to his memory. This official
record of the regret and sympathy of the French
Assembly is as unprecedented a testimony of respect
and regret as was the aijournment of the British
House of Commons on Wednesday; as is well ob-
served by one of the Paris journalists, " of all the acts
of homage of which the memory of Sir ROBERT PEEL
is the object, that which the French Republic has
rendered to it, through the organ of her representa-
tives is, unquestionably, the one which will the most
sensibly touch the English nation."
Almost all the journals, of all shades and parties,
speak in terms of commendation of the unprecedented
mark of resp7ct paid by the A-sembly to the memory
of the great English statesman.
The Constitutionnel says :
" The sitting opened to-day with a homage rendered
to the memory of Sir Robert Peel. It is M. Dupin, who,
in taking possession of the chair, made himself the organ
of the feelings of the whole of the Assembly. It was an
honour to the French tribune, ho said, to express our
sympathetic regrets, and to manifest our high esteem for
an eminent orator, who, during a long and gl )rious
career, has never had any feelings but those of justice
and benevolence to France and words of courtesy to its
Government. The spf.ech of M. Dupin was received
with the most lively marks of approbation, and the As-
sembly decreed that it should be inserted in the minutes."
The Presse says
" We congratulate M. President Dupin on having re-
paired, at the op:ning of the sitting to-day, a piece of
forgetfulness on the part of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. It is not in the ante-rooms of the Assembly,
but in the tribune, that General de la Hitte should have
on the day before yesterday, announced the death of
Sir Robert Pee!. Such a name merit •ti such an honour.
M. Dupin felt that. He made himself the interpreter of
the sympathetic grit f of France, by some simple laud
dignified words, to which the Assembly associated
itself with a feeling of unanimity, and which will be
recorded in the minutes."

The Debate says :
"At the commencement of the sitting, the President
rose, and, in the name of the Assembly, expressed noble
and sympathetic regret for the eminent man whose loss
England deplores. We do not know that such an honour
has ever been rendered in this country to the statesman
of a foreign stste; but none deserved it better than Sir
Robert Peel, who 'had never expressed any sentiments
towards France but those of kindly feeling and justice,
and whose language has always been that of courtesy
towards her Government. ''

The
Siecle says—
" At the opening of the sitting of this day the Presi-
dent Dupin
pronounced in a f.,w words a noble and
touching tulegium on the statesman whose premature
death England
and the whole of Europe deplore at the
present menient. The words of M. Dupin and the una-
nimous adhesion with which they were received on all
the benches of the Assembly wilt be inscribed on the
minutes of the House. Of all the acts of homage of
which the memory of Sir Robert Peel is the object, that
which the French Republic has thus rendered to it,
through the organ of her representatives, is, without
contradiction, that which will most sensibly touch the
English nation. The new spirit which unites in common
principles and sentiments two great rations which had
been for a long time enemies, never received a more
brilliant consecration. M. Dupin could not have inau-
gurated more worthily his again taking possession of the
chair in which he has been placed by the confidence of
his colleagues."
The Univers says—
" M. Dupin, at the commencement of the sitting, ren-
dered homage to the memory of Sir Robert Peel. The
Assembly associated itself to the sympathetic regrets
manifested by its President for the illustrious statesman
whom England has just lost."
The Republique says :
" M. Dupin opened the sitting by a sort of funeral
oration on Sir Robert Peel. He invited the Assembly
to deposit on its proces verbal the regrets with which the
death of that illustrious man inspired him. The assent
with which this proposition was received was unanimous,
without any eze pun of opinion. This incident should
suggest some sad reflections. Where is the man among
our statesmen whose death would inspire siwiler senti-
ments not only in foreign countries but eve n in France?
Which of them has rendered real services to his country

or displayed a character which c,namands esteem?
None. We may say so without fear of contradiction
from any party. The greater part of them have nothing
written on the record of their services but facts of in-
trigue or charlatanism, and recantations which corrupt
the public mind. It becomes them well really to C. le-
brate the author or the promoter of so many political
and financial measures gloriously inscribe d in the history
of his country. Had Sir Robert Peel ever the ridiculous
pretension to save his country? It is true he was only,
afar all, a statesman of the first order. Ours have very
different pretensions."
The Corsaire says :
"We must be just. The President of the Assembly
opened the sitting by a motion of which the whole world
will comprehend the great propriety and delicacy. The
question was to do honour to the memory of the late
Ministede of Great Britain, our old and eternal rival.
Not a heart in France will hes:tate to associate itself
with this movement of the National Assembly. During
his long career as a statesman Sir Robert Peel has
never for a single day been hostile to French interests.
On this account a solemn silence reigned in the hall
as soon as the name of the originator of the famous
corn-laws was pronounced. (After giving M. Dupin's
speech,' it adds)—Unequivocal signs of adhesion were
heard from all the benches, from those on the Right
as well as those en the Left. At the same moment M.
Dupin continued—' If the Assembly deign to approve
Of my words, mention will be made of them in oar
minutes.' Everybody rose without exception. This is
a splendid testimony of sympathy,
especially if it be
considered that it is given by a French Assembly to an
English Minister. Such a phenomenon was never pro-
, duced before."

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The Evenement says
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has just struck England—the death of Sir Robert Pee 1—
sho wpasasisraupnorsemibale that
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France. Let us do justice to M. Du pin,
P 11, who has made
himself the intrepreter of the '
griet and of the sympathy
of the French public, in pronouncing, atthe opening
the sitting, a few dignified and elevated ated wards
on that
important event. M. Depin understood h
has nobly fulfilled it. The Assembly by
iist duty, and
applause,
appropriated to itself the sentiments with
I onhiswhich its Pre-
sident was inspired, and expressed a wishmotion,
that the expression of that homage rendered to the
memory of Sir Robert Peel should be recorded in its
minutes."
The Union says :
" The French tribune could not but join in a brilliant
and last homage to the memory of Sir R. Peel. Hewhose
loss England and the whole world deplore, had i n fact,
gratltude
exceptional rights, we shall not say to the '
but
to the eternal esteem of our country. It is on this' ac-
count that the Assembly hailed, with signs of its a pro P
bation which were not equivocal, th, simple and touching
words pronounced by the President at the opening of the
sitting. This legitimate tribute, paid to the memory of
the illustrious Sir Robert Peel, is one of the most strik-
ing testimonies in favour of one of the most incontest-
able glories of the present times."
The Legitimatist Club of the Rue de Rivoli has de-
termined to oppose any attempt to prolong the power
of the PRESIDENT. It will also oppose the proposal
for a prorogatiOn of the Assembly for three months,
notwithstanding this proposition is supported by M.
DR MoNTALEMBERT. On these two subjects the
National has the following :
" We are assured that, immediately after the proroga-
tion, a camp of 35,000 men of all arms will be formed
at Versailles, and the command given to a General as
much a friend of the Elysee as he is little agreeable to
M. Changarnier; and what is more serious, he will not
derive his authority from the commandant superieur of
the troops of the first military division. This news has
excited much conversation in Parliamentary circles.
Several members see in it something more than a lesson
to M. Changarnier; and it might happen that the future
camp of Versailles would change the opinion of certain
members of the majority, and espteially of the Right,
upon the necessity of a long prorogation."
The General to whom the command of this corps
will be given is General BARAGUAT D'HILLIEES.
Al. DE Peaseasiz left Paris for Berlin on Thursday.
M. DE FALLOUK is at Angers, in an alarming state
of health.
The first number of the Proscrit was published on
Friday, and was immediately seized.
The Debats of yesterday states that a young lad,
17 years of age, named GEORGE ALFRED WALKER, a
Frenchman, was taken into custody on Friday, close
to the door of the Elysee, for having declared his in•
tention of assassinating the PRESIDENT of the Republic,
who, he alleged, prevented the good republic from
being established. Weesceit had been long watching
lan opportunity of effecting his purpose, but by some
chance always failed. lie had never seen the PRE-
SIDENT, and on Friday, after having waited at the
door of the Elysee for a long time, though the
PRESIDENT had passed close to him; it wits not
allotted that by his hand Louis NAPOLEON
should fall. He gave himself up to the
police, and fully avowed his design. He
was examined by the Prefect of the Police on
Saturday. He is a printer. He declared that he had
long harboured the idea which haunted him con-
stantly, and he had been so often baffled that at
length he felt that fate was against him, and gave
himself up.
Ills parents AN highly honest people.