The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-07 00:00:00

(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE-)

FRAtiIiFORT, MARCH 30.=-Private letters - re-
teired this evening from St. Petersburgh, announce
that all the corps of the Army of the South are on
their march towards the Pruth, and. that the .EM-
peror will set out in eight days. In consequence of
the arrival of a cabinet messenger, an extraordi-
nary sitting of the German Diet was held yesterday
afternoon.

(PRIVATE CoRRESPONDENCE.)

BERLIN, MArtor 27.—We expect to-day his
Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, who is going
to St. Petershurgh. •We learn that this' Prince is
to have a command in the Russian army of operation.
Lieut.-General Scholer, our Ambassador at St. Pe-
.tersaurgh will-at:company the Emperot! to Bessarabia.
It is said that in consequence- of the special. repre-
oentations of a great Power, General U., who is im-
ptisoned in the fortress of Spandau, for taking part
in the Polish conspirady, will soon be set at liberty.
..1,11 extraordinary activity is observed in the Foreign
Department. We hear that a -particular treaty of
alliance will soon be concluded by a great poWer,
the result of which might be, that Prussia would
tike a more direct and active part in the.decision of
6eveval European questions. Our Funds remain
aln:st always in a favourable state, independently of
all political junctures, which shows the confidence
of the holders in the Government.

(From the Moftiteur of Friday, April 4.)

PARIS, APRIL 3.—The meeting which took place-
'en Sunday last, at the Champs Elysees, the mode of
its organiLation, the nature of the deliberations in
which it was engaged, the publicity which has been
.given to these deliberatiOns,—all this has called up
painful recollections, has awakened serious alarms in
the minds of prudent men and friends of order, and
necessarily excited the solicitude of the Government.
The elections are incontestably the most important of
the operations in which the citizens are called to
concur, the choice of deputies has for them an inte-
rest so urgent and so legitimate, that it is just and
necessary to leave them great latitude in the means
of forming their judgment on their choice. These
means are in their power. The journals, the pam-
phlets, the professions of faith, the circulars are dis-
seminated with perfect liberty. This is not all.
Meetings more or less numerous are frequently held,
ut which the electors endeavour to agree together.
The'9ovenunent knows the existence of these
meetings, and does not throw any obstacle in their
way, because formed in private houses, and exercis-
ing sio influence without, they do not offer any seri-
ous inconvenience.

This is not the case with the assembly of the
elector; of the first arrondissement of Paris; formed
on Sunday last, in one of the coffee-houses in the
Champs Elysees. This meeting was convoked : it
was held in a public place without having obtained
permission to do so—without having ever given no-
tice to the authority whose business it is to preserve
eider ; it constituted and organized itself; it pro-
ceeded like a deliberative assembly ; it has published
its regulations without any thing to make known
the authority from which they emanated; it has its
presidents, its secretaries, its entire bnreau, without
its being known from whom these functionaries bald
their powers ; it allowed a solemn discussion, in
which, under the form of an examination of titles to
the character of candidate, the speakers passed in
review the most serious facts, the most important
acts of the public authority, approved or blamed the
conduct of the Chambers, that of the electoral col-
leges; that of all France; it adjourned to fix a day
to resume the course of its labours, and on the fol-
lowing day the journals published the proces verbal
of this Stran,e sitting.
It must be said, because it is the truth, public
order was not disterbed,—that is to say, the influ-
ence of these animated debates did not produce any
effect beyond the bounds of the meeting, and Under
this respect the Administration was not obliged im-
mediately to interfere. However, it cannot be dis-
sembled that such assemblies, placed entirely beyond
the ruction of the public authority, have in them
something irregular and dangerous, which cannot be
tolerated.
The law of February 5, 1817, which regulates
the holding of the electoral assemblies, absolutely
interdicts all discussion, all deliberation. How should
it be possible, that what the law prohibits is a re-
gular and legal assembly, presided over by a func-
tionary appointed for the purpose by the Royal au-
thority, could be permitted in a meeting of the same
citizens, when it is neither foreseen nor authorised,
when no man invested with a legal character, is ap_
pointed to maintain order in it, and to check dan-
gerous deviations ?
How should it be possible to conceive, that the
faculty was left to one or to several persons to as-
semble at their pleasurein a public place an immense