The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-02 00:00:00

'THE MILITARY COMMAND OF

PARIS.
The Nat;onal publishes the following letter from
Marshal Soult, Minister of War, to General Pajol,
announcing to the General that he has been displaced
in the command of the First Military Division

" 30th October, 1842.
" General,--I have the honour to inform you, that
by a decision taken the 29th of October, 1842, the
King has superseded you in the command of the First
Military Division, and placed you en disponibilite.
" In announcing to you this arrangement, I cannot
but express the regret I feel, that you did not re-
spond by acquiescence to the desire I feel to procure
for you a situation that his Majesty was disposed to
grant you. I should have been happy to have seen
you the object of a particular manifestation of the
King's high satisfaction for your honourable and an-
cient services. You will surrender the command of
the First Division to Lieutenant-General Count Se-
bastiani, appointed to succeed you in this command.
I have given orders that you be paid at Paris, your
place of residence, the amount to which you are
entitled.

" Receive, General, the assurance of my most dis-
inguished consideration. • ,
" The President of the Council, Ministary Secre-
tary of State for the War Department,
" Marshal Duke of DALMATIA."

" It would be difficult," adds the National. " to ex-
plain the brutal order which strikes General Pajol,
and the form, no less brutal, in which it is couched.
General Pajol always served the Government with
zeal, but the doctrinary Cabinet cannot forget that
he was one of the first to embrace the cause of the
revolution of 1830. That fact was sufficient to ren-
der him suspected, notwithstanding all his services.
It appears, moreover, that M. Jacqueminot having
been appointed Commander of the National Guard,
desired that a man whose services would place his
own in the shade should not be maintained in the
command of the division, and before whom he would
have reason to blush. One of M. Jacqueminot's qua-
lities, and which renders him dear to the juste milieu
party, is, that he is afraid of Foreign Powers, he
himself having so declared at a large meeting of
electors. General Pajol is not animated with the
same sentiments. From this fact there consequently
existed an incompatibility of temper between the
commander of the troops of the line and him of the
National Guard of the department of the Seine. The
necessary intercourse between those persons would
have been unpleasant for both. It was then deter.
mined to dismiss the old servant of the republic and
the empire, the man who (a serious crime now-a-days)
never would wear a white cockade, and who is cogni-
sant of the manner in which a fallen monarch was
compelled to travel to Cherbourg. We have been
told, and Marshal Soult's letter confirms our informa-
tion, that a long negotiation was carried on with the
General, in order to induce him to accept the place of
Aid-dc-Camp to the King. Some skilful and hitherto
successful advocates endeavoured to induce him to ac-
cept the appointment; but he firmly refused, and the
authorities could not dissemble their bad temper.
This explains to us the brutal, unceremonious letter
of Marshal Soult, and the disgrace which it inflicts
upon a General officer covered with wounds, at the
very moment when drawing-room Colonels arrive at
the first rank, both in the National Guard and in the
regular army."

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 1.

The eighth municipal election for sixteen new
officers to serve in the Town-council took place this
day, and has terminated in the return of thirteen
Tories and three Reformers.

BEVERLEY, Nov. I.—THREE O'CLOCK.
Six Liberal candidates were elected without oppo-
sition. The Tories durst not, after their signal defeat
last year, show fight on this occasion. They have
lost four more seats in the Town-council, which now
consists of twenty Reformers and four Tories. A
procession is now parading the town, accompanied
with banners and music, playing "0, dear, what can
the matter be." In Beverley the accession of a Tory
Government has done wonders. The Tories are obliged
to acknowledge that their present Member of Par-
liament will have no chance at another election, and
that the return of two Liberals is certain.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 1.

Elections took place to-day in the various wards
for members of the Town-council, when nearly the
whole of the seats were manfully and successfully
contested by Complete Suffrage candidates. The old
Councillors who took the suffrage pledge were un-
opposed; but all who refused were rejected by the
Association, and when they went to the poll com-
pletely defeated. It is certainly deemed a most im-
portant triumph, and I think it may be fairly taken as
a proof of the daily increasing power of the Asso-
ciation.

LICHFIELD, Nov. 1.
STATE OF THE POLL.

NORTH WARD.

LIBERALS.

CONSERVATIVES.
Johnson 213 Bonell 152
Morgan
Dalton 213 Thorneloe l5l

Smith