The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-22 00:00:00

conclude without expressing our appreciation of the
compliment paid to ourselves for the put
we have taken on the all-important question. We have
merely given utterance to our honest convictions,
we have discharged the sacred duty which devolved
upon us as public journalists of endeavouring to pro-
mote, by every means in our power, the attainment
of those measure on which the prosperity of England
mainly depends. We confess, however, that it is
satisfactory to find so handsome an acknowledgment
of our labours as that contained in the report of the
Retford Currency Society.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

c.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The National has the following :—At the moment
of going to press we received, with a request for im-
mediate insertion, the following letter, addressed by
the Honourable General CAvA:Gstac to the editor of
the Illoniteur du Soir :
" Monsieur to Redacteur,—l have just seen an article
in your journal this evening. I give a public contra-
diction to whoever may preteed to have ever heard me
utter a single word which was not expressive of the
deepest respect for the fundaments,' law of the country.
I giro a formal contradiction to whoever shall prettnd
to have heard me say, directly or indirectly, that 1
should ever place my efiectiona and my sword at the
service of him, who, after having sworn to observe the
constitution of the country, would accept a candidate-
ship, and an election prohibited by that constitution.
Accept; &c."
The following is the passage of the article in the
Moniteur du Soir, to which General CAVAIGNAC gives
such a peremptory contradiction :
"A representative of a southern department, ex-
pressed hie astonishment to General Cavaignac, at the
silence which he had observed relative to the opinion
attributed to him by M. Savalette, on the subject of the
prolongation of the powers of the President of the Re-
public. Why should I put myself forward,' replied
the General; ' why should I correct inexactitudes of
recital more or less intentional?' But, in fact,' again
asked the representative, what do you think of the
solemn election of 1852, and what will you do, if, not-
withstanding the terms of the constitution, the immense
majority of voters should again confer the Presidency of
the Republic on Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?' If the
majority of the country,' replied General Cavaignac,
• were to declare itself in that way, I cannot admit the
right cf any one to place himself above the will cf the
country, freely expressed. What the country wishes
every one should wish. If it be clearly and loudly shown
that France, of her sovereign authority, again invests
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte with the office of first magis-
trate of ;he Republic, I bow with respect and submission
before the majesty of such a wish; I again place my
aff,ctions and my sword at the service of the country
and of its executive representative, and defend them
wish all the vigour of my patriotism against the attacks
of the parties vanquished in 1830 and in 1848. The
country and its will before all.'
The truce between the' Bonapartists, the Legiti-
matists, and the Orleanists has already ceased, and
their respective organs in the press are now attacking
each other as energetically as ever; the ALLAIS affair
(Arzeis is the man who gave information to M. Yost
of the plot for the assassination of General CHAN-
GARNIER), seems destined to be a perpetual source of
annoyance to poor M. CARLIER; finding that his
attempt to pooh-pooh the revelations of ALLOTS did
not succeed, he sent a physician to examine him, with
orders to report as to h;s state of mind. Dr.
BnoussArs accordingly visited him, and reported that
he was perfectly sane; then-upon, finding his at-
tempts to ignore the plot unavailing, N. CARLIER
wrote a note to the journals, stating that the
club of which ALLAIS was a member was
not a Bonapartist club, but was presided
over by a celebrated Legitimatist. Had he
stopped at this, N. CARLIER, perhaps, would
have been safe, but, unfortunately, the worthy Prefect
was so " left to himselrasta condescend to particulars,
and in the foreign correspondence of a Belgian journal
(the foreign correspondence of all the reactionary
journals is inspired direct from the office of M. CAR•
LIMO, he announced that the celebrated Legitimatist
was the colleague of M. CHAMBOLLE ; thereupon the
Opinion Publique, the organ of the collergue of M.
CHAMBOLLE, publishes the following defiance to M.
CARLIER

‘• There has just happened what might have been ex-
pected. The prefect of police has written to a journal,
by the hand of a hussier, that it was a well-knevvn Legi-
timatist who presided over the Bonapartist society of the
Fsubourg Montmartre. Two days utterwarda the Pays,
a paper whose relations with power are well known, in-
quires if this Legitiatmiat do not happen to be a friend of
M. Chambclle? To-day we find a Belgian journal
giving insertion to a letter from Paris, written by friends
of the prefecture of police, that the well-known Legiti-
matist, the !colleague of M. Chamholle, is M.,Leo de La-
horde. Our friend M. Leo de Laborde authorises us to
give a defiance to the prefect of police to write his name
at the foot of this allegation of the Belgian journal,
• which he declares to be an odious and cowardly calumny,
which, as if ashamed of itself, has token refuge in a to-
' rrige journal because it could not be published here
without a signature. lie calls on the prefect of police
to explain himself publicly, and if be keeps silent the
public equity will judge this unheard-of proceeding.
which introduces into the French press an insinuaticu
which, by travelling in the world, becomes at the end of
three days a calumny."
It was not to be expected that after such an assertion
on the part of M. CARLIER, silence would be observed
by the Orletuoist M. CHAMBOLLII, and accordingly we
find the following in the Ordre :
" Do you desire that we should for your edification
tell you what the intrigue is that appears too most pro-
bable, aed in which it is hoped to make you play the
part of dupes. People talk about a very little committee,
composed of diveree elements, but united by a common
thought, that of bringing together through fear the
men of your party, even those of different intentions, for
the sake of voting the prolongation of the President's
p ,wers, and by the following method:—lnquietude
would be exerted unceasingly as to the designs, and
as to the enterprise more or less near of the ancient
Conservatives and ancient Constitutionalists, and as an
act of supreme ability the opportune moment would
plac:ng the question between legitimacy
andSeised
this for
projeet
of
prolongation. If it suits your purpose
to make yourselves the instruments of this manceuvre,
you may do so; but it is easy to foretell even at this day
the effects. Need we try to lead cur readers through the
labyrinth of these inventions and tricks? One word is
enough. Aey intrigue, no matter what colour it may
assume, or from what side it may come, or to what ob-
ject it may tend, will be openly condemned. Neither
surprise nor violence! This was our maxim long before
it found its way into the Message of the President. Let
us all adopt it for the sake of arriving at the only one
honourable solution, which is, that the mejority has a
right to decide freely and pacifically what are to be the
destinies of the nation."
The Council of State has decided that the new
Electoral law applies to municipal elections, thus de-
termining that it applies to all elections, and conse-
quently to the election of President of the Republic.
The Bourse was feeble to-day. The Five per
Cents., which opened at 931. 25c, fell to 92r. 80a.
e
and closed at 921.
-50-; the Three per Cents. closed
at 57f. 70c. Rouen
Railroad Shares, 6071. 50c ;
Great Northern, ; Avignon, 191 f. 25c. ; Bale,
1281 75c- ; Bordeaux, 60f.
Stras-
burg, 341 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 240 f.; the New
4 387 f.
50c. ;
Piedmontese Loan, 85f. Paris and

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