The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-31 00:00:00

flr2.; rity, !“1, far front bC.a)K
firm, eonrelt.&:,,,, ;cid a' required,
doe, not exist The Ministry e:tt.er retire or
the (.natnl•f...r. This is tjJ, ti;-e;

a klouhti&.

the etrtrary would he n iug a;,d hselt:,7;sc.,)n-
tradi.•th,n give! to thentsvives. Nevertheit ss, we
liave bP,-n iteAt ftry ud,,pt phi 14,4
graceful tOteinative. It he eon eely ihtormed,
AI. GUIZOT said, on leaving the Chamber, 'I should
have remained with one vote; I have three; that is
three times more than I require!'"
The National, though delighted at the result, has
no great hopes from the amalgamation of parties.
" 11 hen the numbers of the ballot were announced,"
says that paper, " the Opposition, en masse, set up
such a shout of bravos that we thought the walls of
the building would give way. 'What is the meaning
of all these transports? What base you gained?
Who will replace the Cabinet expiring under your
blows ?" It thus describes the scene :

" The atmosphere on Monday last appeared to an-
nounce an unlucky day. A cold wind drove with it
torrents of rain, and "a thick fog covered the city. At
the Chamber of Deputies all was moNement and agita-
tion. Scarcely had the .President taken his seat than
an immense crowd rushed into the hall. After some
words from M. Gamier Pages and M. Billault, M.
Dumon, the Minister for Public Works, ascended the
tribune, and demanded that the Chamber should
declare its opinion, not indirectly or equivocally,
but publiely, and in an explicit manner. To
which appeal his friends responded with loud applause.
The Chamber was about to vote, when the President an-
nounced that twenty Ministerialists had demanded the
secret ballot. At this announcement contemptuous
laughter was heard from the Opposition benches. The
names of the Members were called, the anxiety became
extreme, the Deputies rose, and;',the balls fell into the
ballot-box. The white advanced with the courage
derived from their masks ; the black dashed for-
ward boldly, showing the colour of their balls. At
length the ballots were counted, and the President
declared the result. On this we thought the
walls of the Chamber would have burst, the Opposition,
in a body, raised such a shout. M. Vivien having
been called on to develop an amendment of which he
had given notice, replied, In the existing state of affairs
I withdraw my amendment.' The greater part of the
Opposition Members abstained from voting. If about
eight Deputies had not lent their aid to the feeble majo-
rity, the final ballot on the Address would have been
null for want of a sufficient number of voters. Such is
the history of the sitting. The majority seen by the
board on Saturday clearly consisted but of three, or
rather, there was no majority for Ministers, because the
members of the board should be deducted from it ; and
the decided energetic maj rity demanded by M. Guizot
consisted on Monday but of eight, of which six were
Ministers."
The Courrier Francais, another Radical paper, says
it is all up with GIJIZOT, but fears he will cling to
the sinking vessel to the last :
" After the vote of the Chamber, might it not be
justly said to Ministers,:.Et nunc ibtelligl.,l or, according
to an old translation,' Is it clear?' The Ministry ought
to comprehend that it is not in vain that an appeal is
made in France to the sentiment of national :dignity ;
the conscience of the Parliament satisfies such a cry,
or the echo of this cry, which infalliby resounds in
the conscience of the country. After four years of
a system of humiliation, concessions, pusillanimous
arrangements, and disavowal; the Cabinet of
October 29 has not any longer permission to sport
with the honour of France as with a toy that is out of
fashion, which has no weight in the balance of its great
policy I The Chamber has spoken. What do you wait
for ? Retire, or if you dare it, pronounce a dissolution ;
appeal from the judgment of the Chamber to that of the
country ; place your policy before the electors, and try !
You will not venture it. You will drag on under the
weight of your unpopularity, without either knowing
how to redeem your faults or quit power. Your barque
is reduced to place its flag half-mast high, but you will
not abandon it, bearing, as it does, your fortunes and
your portfolios ; you will wait until the opinion of the
Chamber and of the country withdraws from you the
last wave ; and rather than renounce the last hope of
saving your wretched cargo, it suits you better to go
ashore in the mud and be shipwrecked in the filth."
The Siecle thus exults in the victory :
" The result, under which the Ministry remained as if
thunderstruck, is known—an absolute majority. of three
votes, to which the support of the six Ministerial Depu-
ties contributed. And to the imposing minority which
had just protested against the humiliation inflicted on
France must be added, according to the avowal of M.
Guizot and M. Dumon, the Conservatives who had ab-
stained from voting, and eight or ten of whom, present at
the sitting, remaining motionless on their benches, had
protested in their manner by silence ! The minority
thus exceeded by several votes the number of
the Ministerial voters ; it was a victory for the
Opposition—a solemn protest in the name of
France. Moved by the same impression, all
comprehended it at the same time, and applause burst
forth, the acclamations of the tribunes responded,
and this enthusiasm was immediately communicated to
the crowd which from the morning had besieged the
doors of the Chamber ! We shall not abuse the advan-
tage given us by yesterday's result to attack the decision
of the bureau on Saturday. We believe that every one
is now convinced of the necessity of introducing into the
regulations a means of conciliating the certain verifica-
tion with a publicity of voting. This question will re-
turn before the Chamber ; and the Opposition will at a
later period bring these party quarrels to a conclusion.
At this moment, it is sufficient for it to have mortally
struck a disastrous administration. To those English
journals which exposed to the gaze of John Bull, three
days back, in immeasurable letters, the triumph of M.
Guizot, we send back as our answer the official bulletin
of his defeat. Let us hope that this example will not be
lost on his successors, and that it will remind foreign
Governments of the respect, too much forgotten, of the
rights and dignity of France."
Queen CHRISTINA'S journal, the'Pr esse, considers
the fall of the Ministry sealed, and but kindly pro-
mises to show zeal and devotion in their cause if they
would only have the goodness to walk out of office :
" The political importance of the votes yesterday can-
not be concealed. We shall, however, leave to other
journals the task of developing it ; for if we have not
ceased for a single day during a period of three years to
warn the Cabinet—to endeavour to restrain it—to check
it on the edge of the precipice, down which imprudent
flatterers were precipitating it, we have never had a
thought or a desire of overturning it. We have on all
occasions attacked only its faults, and if it. should think
itself bound to retire, the eminent men who compose it,
whose character we honour, and whose immense talent
we admire, will carry with them our regrets. The
sincerity of our devotedness may have appeared doubt-
ful to them whilst in power ; but once their resigna-
tions given in, this doubt can no longer exist in their
minds."

The France says, "The Cabinet may be regarded
as overthrown, as an existence at its last gasp. It
must not be forgotten, however, that there are people
who are not to be turned out of doors by the most
decided means of moral expulsion."
According to the Revue de Paris, the dissenting
Conservatives did all the mischief :—" Those Conser-
vatives who had seceded from the Ministry, remained
firm in their resolution to the last, with the exception
of five or six. Fifteen constantly voted with the left
centre. The Ministerial majority, on Saturday,
against the amendment of M. DE CARNE, would not
have been so considerable, if a friction of the extreme
left had not persevered in voting against it." To con-
clude the summary, we give the opinion of the Quoti-
dienne, the bitter enemy of the present dynasty :
"As to us, it is of little consequence whether M.
Guizot remains or retires. The country is warned ; it
will not shut its eves—at least if we can help it. Two
hundred and five Deputies Lave firmly refined to sub-
scribe to the fresh shame which the system wanted to
impose on France. From whatever part they come wo
thank them all, and we salute with gratitude this evi-
dence of a regeneration which cannot be far remote.
French in heart as well as by birth, what we want
above all is that our country shall never lower its flag ;
shall never be wanting to her glorious destiny ; shall be
always that which our fathers have made her at the cost
of so much blood and so many sacrifices, by so many
heroic efforts, by so profound a sentiment of the mission
which she holds from God himself;—grand, free, strong,
and proud !"
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers :
" It was M. Dupla," says the Globe, "who, standing at
the foot of the tribune, prevented the Opposition Mem-
bers from voting, in order that there might be no Ad-
dress to the King. This was surely a very fine part to
he played by a man who calls himself a supporter of the
Constitution, and who, scarcely a month ago, solicited
the Conservatives for their votes to make him President
of the Chamber."
We read in the Dehats—" The news which we gave
on Saturday of Zurbano's execution was officially con-
firmed yesterday. He was shot in the town of Logrono
on the 21st. He died with courage. like a soldier, and
even with repentance, it is said, cursing his wife for
having urged him to revolt, and for having caused his
death, as well as that of his two sons."
A letter from Lucerne of Jan. 24, in the Zurich Ga.
rate, says :—" Dr. Steiger, who was arrested forty-
eight days back, was at last set at liberty yesterday.
Although the hour was late when the news was made
public, a crowd of persons hastened to manifest their
sympathy with this courageous man. The Executive
Council has replied by a decided refusal, to the applica-
tion of Berne to suspend the calling in of the Jesuits
until a decision was come to on the wish expressed by
Zurich, referring to the law on the veto and to the can-
tonnal sovereignty. The same authority has complained
to Argau of the ill-usage which several persons from
Lucerne have undergone in the canton, and has de-
manded, besides, that the refugees of Lucerne should be
removed from the frontier."
A letter from Constantinople, of the Bth, announces
the death of Athanase, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, at a
very advanced age. The same letter mentions a report
that new troubles have broken out in Bulgaria, on the
frontiers of Servia and Wallachia, at the very moment
when the political agent of the Sovereignty of Servia
was neg-Aiating an amnesty with the Ottoman Porte fur
insurrectional
movement individuals compromised in the former
movement in Bulgaria.
A letter from Alexandria, Dec. 27, says The