The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Jane Butler was brought before Mr. Ingham for
re-examination, charged with stealing 50 sovereigns,
a 101. Bank of England note, and some ancient coins,
the property of Isaac Buckmaster, of Norris's-
building•, Snow's-fields, Southwark ; and Ann Gil-
lingham, a brothel-keeper, in Bluegate-fields, St.
George's-in-the-East, was charged with receiv-
ing a portion of the money, knowing it to have been
stolen.

Mr. INGHAAI said that he should commit both the
prisoners for trial.
Butler was obliged to be carried out of court as she
was in such a debilitated condition.

FRANCE.

The following are published by the National as the
votes of the army :

GARRISON OF CAHORS.
... 7 1 Leclerc ...
♦RRAS.
... 62 1 Leclerc ...
DIJON.
... 52 1 Leclerc ...
NONTNEDY.
Sue ... ... 13 Leclerc ... 1
The Napoleon publishes the decrees of th• Firs
Consul after the 18th Brumaire with the following
introduction:—

Sae

... 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 not, 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 day
when France entrusted him with power. They establish
the most remarkable analogy between those times and
the days we now live in."

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A second article s entitled " Les Precedents."

" For new times," it says, " we must have new men,
who have nothing to do with the past, and who are
not dragging after them the weight of Ministerial or
Parliamentary precedents. Beyond that all is peril,
obstacle, impossibility. With the veterans of the
Monarchical regime we stumble at every step on
an act, on a speech, and instead of facing
the difficulties of the present we waste our time
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 France looks full
in front. Yet France spoke high in the election of the
10th of December. She entered resolutely on a new
line, and no one ought to hesitate to follow her who is
disengaged from the thraldom of precedents. Each epoch
supplies its men. The people, inspired by an admirable in-
stinct, have found in their President the man of the situ-
ation. 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-
terprize. History never repeats itself, but in the
succession of events which comprise the life of a people
there are analogies it is necessary to be acquainted
with in order to deduce the benefical consequences
they involve. The Consular period presents 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 powerful genies
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 of
the Plain had let politics pass by without touching
them; Talleyrand, who shone for a moment under the
Constituante to vanish in' presence of the revolution-
ary tempest. Fouch& a Montsgnard all but effaced
and little compromised, but whom he wanted in order
to become acquainted with men; Laplace, the illustrious
savant; Gardin, the modest financier, whose talents. for
administration was his only merit; Berthier, his faithful
Chief of the Staff, &c. All these men, who have become
historical personages, were free from engagements of the
past; and we all know with what intelligence, what ar-
dour they secon'Jed their glorious chief in his work, so
wonderfully carried on, of pacification and social re-or-
ganization."