The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-27 00:00:00

THE FRENCH LIBERALS.

PERMANENT CONSTITUTION OF THE ELEC-
TORAL COMMITTEES OF THE LIBERALS.

COMMITTEE OF THE GAUCHE CONSTITUTIONELLE.

(Re-union Odillon Barrot.)
Gentlemen and Honourable Fellow-citizens,-- We
congratulate ourselves on not having despaired of the
public mind in our country, and we thank you for the
patriotic devotion with which you have met our appeal.
The elections of 1842 are a striking contradiction, and
at the same time a useful lesson, to those who proclaimed
that France, henceforth absorbed in the care of her ma-
terial interests, would no longer think of her honour
nor of her liberties.

We have to deplore the loss of several of our friends
who had given guarantees in the last Chamber of firm-
ness and independence in their opinions. They have
honourably fallen, fighting under their banners, and for
the cause to which they had devoted themselves. The
country will remember their courage and perseverance,
and better days will return to them.
One of the characteristics of the Parliamentary
struggle which has just terminated is the universal and
spontaneous union of all loyal and independent opinions
in the same thought, that of inflicting justice on political
defections, and of strengthening by striking examples
those sentiments of probity and of fidelity to one's co-
lours, without which the Representative Government is
impossible. After such examples we must hope that
these desertions which have stricken such mortal blows
at public morals, and which has caused the victory of a
principle to pass from day to day over to the opposite
principle, will no more be repeated. The political terri-
tory will be no more composed cf that moveable sand
upon which neither power nor opposition can found or
elevate anything great or durable. The struggle will be
between parties, and not amongst person S—between con-
flicting opinions, and not amongst interests.
Another characteristic not less significant of the 1842
general election is, that the candidates supported the
most strongly by.r the Ministry, have been the most ar-
dent to disavow it. The candidates whom we have sus-
tained, hare, on the contrary, openly and loyally hoisted
their banner. This circumstance alone would suffice,
independently of any electoral statistics, to prove that
the universal sentiment of the nation is in favour of a
cause which ought to sustain our efforts, and redouble
our confidence. _ .

Finally, Paris, that city which made the revolution of
1830—which moderated its first impulses, but which will
not permit that it degenerates into an ignoble specula-
tion for the profit of personal ambitions—Paris has of
ferded a grand and salutary warning to the Crown, and
this warning, Rouen, and entire departments, have re-
peated. It is no longer the cries of the National Guards,
nor the street clamours, nor the necessarily passionate
discussions of the Press or the tribune. Here is the mass
of the most peaceable citizens, the most interested in the
preservation of order, who have just by their choice
reminded our July Government of the conditions of its
origin.
Let us hope that the new Chamber will know how to
comprehend all the bearings of this warning. In the
last session, promising symptoms of reconciliations (rap-
prochemens) were already manifested ; men of talent and
&-* feeling, who had been divided and kept asunder by
deplorable dissensions, trusted on the basis of a moderate
progress, and proposed and defended together, reforms
become indispensible. We will aid in these reconciliations.
We feel all the grandeur of the mission which is
allotted to us, and of its difficulties. We know that in
order to accomplish it, it can only be by the united
efforts of all conscientious and enlightened men whom
France has within her bosom. The melancholy catas-
trophe which has just stricken France with stupor
aggravates these difficulties, and prepares us for great
and difficult trials for the future: It is now much more
important than ever to be prepared for them, and for
that we ought to draw still more closely the ties which
have already united us. Everything has been done to
loosen and break these ties, but they have kept together
amidst all our political vicissitudes. The last elections
have attested their power ; let us fortify them still more,
as perhaps the safety of France depends upon it.
It is doubtless under the influence of this sentiment
that a great number of our correspondents have testified
the desire to see the relations which have been esta-
blished between us at the last elections continued and
regulated.
We hasten to meet these wishes and to submit then;;'
to you. It appears to us of the greatest utility that the
citizens who have assembled in electoral committees
should continue to watch over the formation of the elec-
toral lists, and over everything which is connected with
the free and full exercise of the electoral franchise.

The meetings of these committees, above all, should
take place in the month of March or of May, at flit., mo-
ment when the operations of the revisions of the lists
commence. The meetings should take place in every
canton, since it is et the chief town of each canton
that the labour is formed. The central committee of
the chief town of every electoral arrondissethent wi.l con-
yoke these cantonal meetings, and direct.. the operations
thereof.

We ought no longer to be exposed to these suspenses
of power,* against which good citizens, in the day of
conflict, have only to oppose vai❑ complaints and barren
regrets.
We shall be happy to learn that you have desided
either to constitute an electoral committee for the
formation of lists, if one be not already formed, or to
continue that which already exists, with special and
perfectly legal purpose, since it is connected with the
exercise of electoral rights. We will aid these com-
mittees with all the information and documents that they
may have to demand of us. We will reply punctually
to all letters which they will do us the honour to address
to us, and it will not be our fault if the ties already
formed between us in the two general elections of 1839
and 1842 be not strengthened by the services which w e
have still to render to our country.
Receive, Gentlemen, and lionourzble Fellow-citizens,
the assurances of our distinguished consideration, and of
our devotedness.

(Signed) ODILLON BARROT.
ISAMBERT.
HAVIN.
GUYET—DESFONTAINES.
STOURM.
GAUTIER DE RUMILLY.
PIERON.
BEAUMONT DE LA SOMME.
ABATUCCI.
Paris, July 15, 1842. CHAMBOLLE.
The term p.uvoir is that usually employed by French
Liberal writers in alluding to the King, as the September laws
prohibit his name being used in public discussions.—Note of
Translator.

HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—It is somewhat
satisfactory to state that some of the power net machine
owners have, during the last and present week, reduced
a little their stocks. The manufacture of plait net, or
rather laces, still continue rapidly improving, as patterns
are now produced which fully equal in ornament fimeign
cushion laces. The tatting and lap and press branch
sill continues in a deplorable state. Still many of the
workmen have a suspicion that the manufacturers put
the worst side outwards, and keep the workmen
short of employment for a double purpose—first, to
lower their stocks, and, secandly, to keep down the rate
of wages, and thus enhance profits. A third purpose
(wore than hinted at) is, that they withhold employ-
ment upon the Manchester system, in order to increase
the public distress, and thus "bore" the Ministry to re•
peal the Corn-law—a step which would operate for the
sole benefit of Russia. It ought not to be overlooked
that the Russians have great numbers of partisans
amongst the mailer spinners, who are devoted to her in-
terest, as all the English ducts that Russia consumes is
but to the amount of 1,640,0001. yearly, of which,
1,200,0001. is bought from the master spinners in cotton
yarn : this is the true reason, and the motive of the Man-
chester Corn-law League, to forward Russian interest,
lest Russia should stop or check the import of yarns.
For a series of years nearly all the manufacturing inte-
rests have been sacrifice d for that of the Lancashire and
Cheshire master-spinners.—Notting/earn Journal.

The face of the country at this moment presents the
appearance of a luxuriant garden. Everywhere the corn
fields are fast approaching to maturity ; hay-making
is in same districts completed, and in others gene-
ral, and numbers of men and women are employed
at it. The potatoe crop this year indicates an abundant
yield, indeed far beyond an average crop, and with a
continuance of warm weather will become available for
food at a low price in a very short time.—cork southern
Reporter.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS:
The inauguration of the Brussels and Liege
road took place on the 17th with great ceremony.
At 10 in the morning a train of honour, bearing b 1
Minister of Public Works, set out for the station;ot
the Nord for Ans, and arrived at 2 at the highiit
point of the line. Here the Minister found the public
functionaries, and those invited to be present *Mil
Liege. An address was delivered by one of the OW
officers of the communal council on the Occasion, to
which the Minister replied briefly, alluding to the
terrible misfortune which had prevented the King''ol
the Belgians from being present. He also stated that
his Majesty, desiring to recompense the service* of
several persons connected with the railroad; had PT'r
sented the Order of Leopold to M. Maus, the en-
gineer; M. Borguet, the contractor; M. Lemonviert
Ike architect of the stations; and M. Pastor, the want;
facturer of the machines, The train then descendN.
the inclined plane with between 1,000 and 1,100 pee-
sons in the carriages. On its arrival at Brussels, the
several persons having quitted the carriages, pleeea,
themselves in the order determined on beforehand, and
traversed the city to the Hotel de Ville. An immense
number of persons assembled to view the procession,
and the windows were crowded with elegantly dressed
women. At six o'clock the grand banquet given hi
the city took place, and was remarkable for its oar
nificence. Loyal toasts were proposed and responded
to, and the entertainment passed over with great CO:
diality. The guests separated about 9 o'clock,
which hour the city was brilliantly illuminated. -Pe
day passed over without accident. One circumstOce
contributed to cast a gloom on the
_proceedings of Ole
day, and that was the cause of the King's absence.
A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle states that, ;s'
days back, a Spaniard, when playing at the raiiiliME
table, in the Salle des Redontes, broke the .110,t"
winning 130,000 francs. He set out immediately'Vi
Brussels. ,:s '
M. Berthault, the banker of Autun, whose este
lishment is the only one in that town, has, accOrdil4
to the Patriote de Saone et Loire, called his creel-1
together. The debts are said to amount to
_sell
millions, and the stoppage has caused the most &es'
trous consequences.
We learn from Brest that the second maritime-40
bunal, before which Vivo, Vienna, and Ripoli,oo
accusation of piracy in the Pocha, were sent by tll6
council of revision, upon their appeal against te.!
judgment which, as we have stated, condemned tbeni
to close confinement, has again declared them gull
and sentenced them all three to hard labour at
hulks for life. They have, however, lodged anoto,ef
appeal.
The St. Malo races, which were to have taken plel
in August, have been put off till the Bth and 9thl:'
September. They are expected to be very'brillise,"
as several plates are to be run for. ts.
We find the following in the Courrier de Lyaloe
" There are in France a number of astronome.
great men in their own little circles—who deny Or
gether the science of M. Arago. Of this number
a certain Godard, of Vienne, who has caused a iet,F'`
to be inserted in the journal of his locality, declarliP
that the eclipse of the Bth will not be visible eithel
France, Spain, Savoy, or Italy. The eclipse (sad:,
~„
Godard) will take place on the meridian of Pekin,
the 20th deg. of the equator. This meridian is Ssr:,
leagues from Paris, and the earth remains fixed. 31
circle which the sun runs through in 24 hour. d
150,000 leagues of circumference. The swiftness
the sun is 625 leagues an hour.' This precious deli
ment is regularly signed with the mighty name t
• Godard, the man of science of Isere.' But Isere is ille°f
the only district so highly favoured : Lyons has 110 lig
philosopher, denying loudly and asserting boldly. f 2;
has formally stated his theory, and declares tbattheen.,
is a sponge which rises and falls each day aboven,
below the sun, thereby causing night and all;
Eclipses, he holds in sovereign contempt, very Ptle
nently inquiring how it is possible to have any
the stars are fixed. Should any one presume to
his views on the subject, he has a ready and se
umphant answer. He says, 'How can it be other.'
when I have distinctly stated the facts in my boox-1,
the formation of the world ?' It must not be fortrt
ten that the philosopher of the Rhone declaresit
the earth breathes like an elephant, its nostrils be_
volcanoes !"
A man and two women were arrested a f0i1.%
ago at the fair of Quinzey, for practising the s too
a Lin/erica/lie. The band consisted originally', ,
men and two women, but one of the former e 5",
when the gendarmes were on their trace. .16' our,
dressed in black, with a long beard of the sarn?e°•
and the other was in the attire of a grazier! fered
costed in the fair a farmer, named Vernier, anheyW
to change gold pieces of 40f. for 524 f.; which
him receive, agreeing to allow hiin a large :P.-
each piece exchanged. The far Mer d ,got
two gold pieces, which he went out z.11,:d and
tested. Finding them good, he retl, whieb
gave the rest of the money for two roille uioneP
it is unnecessary to say consisted of coPk and Ole
The cheat was, however, soon discovereu; the' en
gendarmes were sent after them. OnC et off
and the two women were discovered id ASZkil ofte
the main-road, having with thcni ii cabribtet and
trunks, filled with disguises, wigs, picklocks, a ,Z;
and other objects used by such adventurers.
fourth person is still at large. .t

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PROOF OF POWERFUL WRITING.—The late
Cobbett was fond of applying a negative test toss,neli;
powers as a writer. "I always know said he, Thhe
I have hit my opponent a hard knoa, by the noiseVtv
makes. If he be quiet under the infliction, lam PI:00.;41
sure that I have hit wide of my mark ; but if he bell,
immoderately, I may safely conclude that I have bit
la
hard in a tender place."
By the recent death of Wasey StenT, be•
solicitor, at Romford, as many as eight offices have
come vacant, viz., clerk of the peace for the liberty, ,10;.,
clerk to R. Reede's feoffees, commissioners of poi
vestry, the Romford and Ilford benches, tax corotl'1:1
sioners, and commissioners of sewers. Most of the legej
gentlemen in the town and neighbourhood have en°rid,
the field, in warm pursuit, as candidates.—Esserger,' r,
INCENDIARY FlRlL—Between one and two yesteoe
day morning an incendiary fire was discovered to be raFfieiceb,
the farm of Air. John-on, Plumstead Marshes, near Woe's° of
which, before it was subdued, destroyed too large stacks
re
hay. When the fire was discovered both stacks of baY „,,
burning, and al reared to have been ignited at the same !`".95
That it was the act of an incendiary there can be no doueria,
a few days since a similar attempt was made, but which,
tunately, was unsuccessful ; while, in the course of We 0-d
day night or Thursday morning, several sheep, which sere 0,
the Marshes, the property of Alr. Johnson, were horribly 01,
titated. The engines, from the dock •) ard, Woolwich, Graf
soon on the spot and set to work. A mounted policeina'oo,
the R. Divi,ion, was despatched to town ; Mr. Hereter, t•with the southwark-bridge-road engine proceeded to the fr
The fire was fortunately confined to the hay-stacks.
The neighbourhood of the Louvre was, on Thil.l4;
day, put into confusion by the following eircumstanee:ba
There is, in the Impasse des Provencaux, stable,lot
door of which having been left imprudently open, °,l",,erio
the horses get loose, and ran into the street. A dealt p•
cider, named F—, endeavoured to stop it, with the illietbe
torn of leading it back to the stable ; but the motnent ,0
animal saw. him, he rushed forward, flung him d°!,is's
and, seizing him by the back with his teeth, shook Pwo
most violently, and then bore him off at full gallop cl,°,lon
the Rue de l'Arbre Sec. At this strange sight, and 'oe
dreadful screams of the man, everybody was so overcool,
that no attempt was made to stop the infuriated anittd,
At last some of the inhabitants of the neighbourMeth
arming themselves with sticks and brooms, succeed e,
after some time, in forcing the horse to let the mein fhe
M. P— was taken away in a dreadful state ; an"sat
ferocity of the animal may be judged of frOm the "lis,
that it actually broke loose again, and rushed after 0
victim, but was secured a second time, and led hee/`
his stae.
A yoblung journeyman copper-plate printer, 19 Yelt
of age, returning home to breakfast two mornings Bqoo
his apartment on the summit of it softy house in the 00
Saint-Jacques, stopped on the landii:9; of the P.llO
story, and, leaning over the rail, seemed to he lost aloo
reverie. A person of his acquaintance cot:ling re'
asked him what he was contemplating. The) -outh .0g
plied that he was thinking of the means of not lut„l.l,eci
occasion mount so highlaecirl3e,
.dfo rtThhheiesl
afbsrrti
eesantkde
step
breakfast, aeendnddt bho oeet'dl
sttie
hteaihrsa,damndadheatdhejuTtscroe
of the young man fell at his feet, he having thrown bite'.,.lly
self over the balustrade. When taken up, he was Wt..' to
senseless, but not dead, and he now lies in the hosPitt''
which he was carried, in a hopeless condition.
Between five and iix years ago, a man, asia 0)1
the name of Benoit, was, admitted into the hesPicegrv,
'Foul, in the Meurthe, as an assistant in the infirn't";l
arid, by the extreme regularity of his conduct, e`r3,te
the good will of the Directors, the Sisters of ne.,
who attended the sick, and particularly of their 511trn
Hot-, so that he was at length placed in the more :„-ed
portant office of porter. Such was the empire he,g3—the
over the Superior, that a short time ago, he, utnwi the
pretence of having succeeded to a large prove,' 'll see
Loire-Inferieure, prevailed upon her to accept bills dr.6' eti
by him to the amount of 6,000 f., for which he Mice
cash from a banker, and then decamped without oticci;
or leaving any address.
Info unexpected ceoll,"1.0
took the film from all ees. rmation was laid before
the Magistrates. Warrants were issued, and, after lu Z
and wide searches, the fugitive was caught at Laogiriet
in the Haute-Marne, and brought back to Tool. •
ene time he showed a ti
disposition to betray his It.
plices ; but this afterwards appeared to be nierclY Ligth
numvre to delay his trial, which was fixed for the
inst. When called in the morning of that day tuTors
his breakfast, he did cot answer, annul, on his Cellself
entered, he was found dead, having eien
hung him
cord. Thus all chance of discoveringhis history, or
his real name, is probably for ever lost.

IRS.
rs. Thomas , f a son. _ War*
At 11fanchester, on the B
mornin THg
of Monday, the 2ith
MOn the I6th instWhe.e,ler ato Oporto, the lady
of George
Esq., of a son.

tlile.;T.l..:taignes(ti.blin. Greenwich flospitil, Captain Willi°
Camberwell 74EttatL...........„.............._...................................,.............1,
0 the 21st inst Lucy, wife of Mr. &owl James Dlr..
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