Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-05-25
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FOREIGN NEWS BY THE HIBEKNiA.
FRANCE,

FOREIGN NEWS BY THE HIBEkNtA'
FRANCE.
The FRENCH ELECTION. The London cor
respondent of the New York Advertiser says
tThe first effect on the French funds OF
nearly per cent, and the alarm OF Inc re-
actioniss was excessive and pitiaole' NO
lesson was gained from it, however, and no.
thing but words OF execration and the OLD
threats of reporting 10 ian amendment oil the
electoral law or in other words 10 the sup
preston of universal suffrage, found vent
from The defeated party. The Socialists, ON
the other hand, have continued 10 avoid all
provocation 10 and aimed collision. The
threats of subversion, of an appeal TO force,
and of an attack on the constitution, are thus
confined TO the adherents of the government,
and 10 the so called friends Of order,' whose
patience is already tried beyond endurance
by the deter minaion of the Socialists TO lei
things work legally. OF course, however,
crisis cannot now be much longer delayed.
The return of M. Sue will at once carry 10
the popular side all that mass of political
towards who rush to take the first advantage
Of change Of tide, and as soon as the pre-
sent balance is destroyed, which, from lis
evenness, keeps each party from being the
first 10 strike, there will be a decisive demon.
.tration and hard fate for the minority
Socialist reign of two or three years, prepa-
ratory to the restoration of Henry the 5th,
has long been anticipated by many persons
and the idea has now been greatly strength
ered.
"The first step that will be adopted by the
government under the impulses of their pre-
sent confusion, seems as yet to be entirely
doubtful. Some parties expect modification
of the Ministry, in a spirit of concession,
while others as confidently anticipate fatu-
GUS resort to despotic force. self destroy
ing g. shifting mixture ofthe two is most pro-
bable. In any case the continuance of the
present order of Government can scarcely be
question of more than few months. A mea-
sure most strongly spoken of as likely 10 be
attempted forthwith is the alteration Of the
age at which citizen is TO be entitled to the
right Of voting from 2l to 25, but il will be
remembered that after the last election, on
the 10 h of March, all sorts OF similar schemes
were hurriedly proclaimed and as hurriedly
abandoned 1t can hardly be doubted that
any direct attack, such as this, upon univer-
sal suffrage, would at once furnish the signal
for the impending collision. Nj. Lamaratine's s
"model leaders of the civilization of the
ha IN ,bpoit
quietly to so speedy an intimation, from their
own chosen Government, that instead of be-
ing leaders of civilization, it had now been
discovered that they are four years behind
all The rest of The worlds citizens, as regards
period at which they may safely be entrusted
with even the first exercise of political pow
er.u
Paris is perfectly traquil. The government
may fall, perhaps, but society will not be in
danger. There has been meeting of Gen.
erals Bedeau, Lamoriciere, Lebreton, and
Others who have confidence of the respecta-
Bile Republican party, for the protection Of
society in the event of the Government CIV
ing way. The greatest danger 10 De appre-
hended is the resignation of Louis Napoleon
if he should not be warmly supported by the
majority of the National Assembly This
is talked Of now more generally than at any
other crisi, for the last six months.
NJ. Napoleon Bonaparte, the cousin of the
President, has been an active supporter of NJ.
Eugene Sue.
REVOLUTION IN lcELAND.-The Hamburg
Free Press says:-''lt is announced that a
republican movement has broken out in Ice
land, and that the Danish Governor has been
driven away. The maintenance Of the COM
mercial monopoly of Copenhagen, of which
the Icelanders have long complained, is the
cause Of the outbreak. Two steamers have
been sent with troops 10 chastisc the insur-
gents.