The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

Nothing was done on the Madrid Bourse on the 25th.

The Paris Opposition journals can at last boast of one of
their candidates being returned during the recent elections,
though the victory has not been obtained in a very legitimate
way, The High Royalists and the Republicans and Radicals
clubbed their votes together, and defeated the Ministerial
candidate at Douai. M. CHOQUE, the Opposition candidate,
had 264 votes; M. DANEL obtained 255, only 9 short of his
opponent, and these were given by the Legitimatists. The
Opposition papers of all parties rejoice in the result. The
Quotidienne, a Royalistjourn al, thus proclaims the triumph, and
holds out the promise of still greater victories :—" The elections
which havejust taken place prove that the Royalist party draws
fresh force and courage from the wretchedness of the present
state of things. They show that the electoral body is un-
dergoing an important transformation. In all the colleges,
which met on the 20th and 27th, the number of the Opposi-
tion votes has increased. We must, in conclusion, repeat
the assertion, that it is to the Royalists that in a great mea-
sure is due this cleverly managed struggle. Let us hope that
their example will be followed. France seemed to be shut-
ting her eyes to the perils which surround her; now, that
she beholds where she is being led, she comprehends
the necessity of action. Our friends in all the pro-
vinces will consider it their duty to initiate the Royalists of
Blois, Coutances, Douai, and Vendome. Our letters announce
to us a firm resolution to exhibit on the occasion of the
general election the same activity, the same union, and the
same fidelity to engagements."
" Thus, then," says the National, "it is seen that the
Opposition has gained the victory, and the Ministry is de-
feated—beaten precisely in the college upon which it most
confidently relied. Poor M. MARTIN (du Nord) is also cast
down ! Poor man! His good town of Douai has failed him !
He had answered for it with his head, and it has refused to
redeem the pledge which was so precious to him! Good
Gob! whither can he fly? Thus the Opposition may dis-
pense with blowing the trumpet of victory in honour of his
success. The election of 11L CROQUE will not certainly put
down the ' Ministere de l'Etranger,' nor the Pensee du
Regne.' Still it is not without importance."
M. TIIIERS' journal thus joins in the song of triumph :
" Here is a complete check for the Ministry. The election
took place in the seat of a Cour Royale, and in an arrondisse-
ment of which the other half sends M. MARTIN (du Nord),
Minister of Justice, to the Chamber. It was against M. DANEL,
a member of the parquet of the Cour Royale of Douai, that
the Opposition candidate had to struggle, and M. CIIOQUE
gained the victory. Let us add up : M. MARMIER is elected
at Jussey, against M. AMEDEE TIIIERRY, M. GUIZOT'S can-
didate; M. DELZERS is elected at Espalion, against M. Pons,
the Ministerial candidate, who had just been promoted to a
function of the magistrature. Out of the nine re-elections
which the promotions to the peerage rendered necessary,
eight are known ; the Ministry has received two checks. M.
DEBELLETME, jun , was only elected after having signed a de-
claration drawn up by the Opposition. M. ClioQuE has ob-
tained a triumph so much the more remarkable, that his po-
litical opinions were clearly marked, and that he struggled
against the most active and most direct Ministerial influence.
We shall again refer to the result of these partial elections,
which may beforehand allow an opinion to be formed of the
definite result of the general elections."
The Ministerial journals merely state the result of the
election. On Monday the KING, accompanied by the Mi-
nister of Commerce and Generals GOURGAD and D'HouDE-
TOT, took bis usual carriage exercise at Eu. "It appears,"
says the Memorial de Rouen, " that the works for extending
to Eu the port of Treport, which will assume the name of
Philippe Port,' are about to commence. It is also said that
the railroad from Rouen to Dieppe will be immediately pro-
longed to the same royal residence."
The Prince and Princess of SALERNO had arrived in Paris,
and were lodged at the Elysee-Bourbon, in the apartments
which the EMPEROR occupied during the Hundred Days.
They are to remain about ten days in Paris, and will then
proceed to Fontainableau, where the KING will also repair,
and thence they return to Italy.
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that the innumerable mass of all the small capitals abstracted
from economy are about to be lost in the new disorders of
jobbing in shares. The gambling in the railroads enters for at
negfsthoe of the
indigent? laboriolics Could the
least nine-tenths in these deplorable speculations. Was this
the object of the law of 1842? Could the legislator forsee that
the railroads would be the fruit of the investments of the
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legislator desire that the denier of the poor, earned by the
sweat of their brow, and reserved as the means of bread for
the days of non-occupation, should be scandalously adven-
tured in all the risks of the agio, and be carried off by spe-
culators more clever, more practised, and frequently less
honest? At the approach of a winter which appears to pro-
mise much rigour and misery, this mad displacement of small
capitals, these continual and constantly increasing subtrac-
tions from the savings of the poor, ought to fix the special
attention and solicitude of the Government. It is to the
Minister of Public Works in particular that we address our-
selves, for it belongs to him to put an end to these scandalous
disorders. By advancing at least the moment of the last
adjudications which remain to be made for this: year, and
putting an end to the delays contrived for the advancement
of isolated interests, he will the more speedily quench the
fever of speculation which has for some time menaced the
fortunes of the public, and which transforms society into a
coupe-gorge industrial."
In reference to the gamblings in railroad shares the Ri:vue
des Deux Mondes says:—

" A single question at present engrosses attention—''that of
the railroads. We may even say that that question:Das, for
the last month, seriously pre-occupied the public mind.
The enthusiasm felt for railroads continues unabate j, and the
confidence of capitalists in theadvantages offered by/those im-
mense enterprises, so far from diminishing has perils
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But it is nevertheless true that the present situatir /n calls for the
consideration of the most enlightened men, ar zd the
greatest
vigilance on the part ofthe Goverpment.. Two
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Strasburg and Lyons, are to be adjudged in th
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.nded that several
of the Companies which have constituted. themselves to bid
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of joining a powerful Company,
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