The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-24

PANS, August 9, 1852

Paris Correspondsncs Of the Republic.
Nass "a ar.. 3aa PARIS, August 9, 1852.
The Monitew contained yesterday two DEGREES,
which II lie to be hoped are the first of series, 10
be continued at intervals throughout the season.
The drst authorizes the following individuals to
return to France: Creton, Duvergier de Hsuraun.
ne, Chambolle, Theirs, de Remusat, Jules de
Lasteyrie, General Laidet, and Antony Thouret.
These persona were temporarily removed from
French territory by the decree Of the 9Th Of Janua
ry; in the same sentence were included the Afri-
can generals and the questors of the assembly. The
second removes the Introduction of resdence in
France from seven persons unknown to fame, with
the exception, perhaps, of Theodore BAG, an earn
est but not an ultra republican; these seven. with
come sixty others, were expelled from continental
and colonial France on the 9th of January; none
OF these sixty have been allowed to return excepa,
Emile de Girardin, on the 29th Of March, and Ma
thicu do Ia Drane, about a month since.
These DEGREES were not expected at present; the
18th of August, the occasion of the national fete
would be signazed, il was thought probable, by
amnesty to the political exilcs more or less gen.
eral. II the two DEGREES just mentioned contain all
the names from whom the sentence of prescription
lie to be Withdrawn, the clemency, or, more proper
y
been most meagreIy exercised. Perhaps, how.
public opinion, and may very likely be intended
to prepare the national mind for a wider opening
Of the prison doors on the coming 18th.
There are still sixty. eight ex representatives of
the people under sentence of banishment-Orle
lists, Legtmiss, Republicans. In the list of eight
given above, five are Orleanists, one Legitmist,
(Chambolle,) one mongrel Republican, (Thouret,)
and one not yet classified, (Thiers) He has been
every thing in bis day. and one can tell to what
party he is affiliated at this particular moment.
The elections for the councils. general, just held
throughout France, have produced curious re-
suit. The government, which had its own candi.
dates in nearly every canton, has generally suc-
ceeded in electing them, where anybody has been
elected at all; but the abstenton OF the voters has
caused fully one-t third of the elections to be null
and void. The annals of universal suffrage can
show no such instance of indifference. The law
requires that candidate, to be returned, must
ceive, beside majority over all competitors, one.
quarter of the suages of all the voters inscribed
upon the register. In many cases, the candidates
highest upon the list did not receive the eighth,
the tenth, the twelfth part of the possible
vote of their respective localities. The govern
ment papers deduce from these facts the same in
ference they would have drawn from immense
majcrities and overwhelming unanimity, viz,
that the people repose the most perfect con-
fdence in the present regime. "They feel
that whatever the government does it does we'll,
and that they might only make botch of it, If
they attempted to interfere says the Constitu-
tionel "They abdicated last December" said the
SalM Public, of Lyons, 'and think that things have
gone better since" This il ingenious and spe-
cious; but the candidates and projects to con-
slider the matter in another point of view. The
Baron de Scorbiac, official candidate at Montau.
BAN. after most Notifying discontinue, writes
as follows to the project of his department:
81 had supposed, sir, in accepting the candidates
ship to the Council General, that was conforming
to the desires of my fellow. citizens.
"The general abstention Of the electors con.
vinccs me that was laboring under an error.
81 decline being again considered candidate"
Now, the Baron de Scorbiac had been brought
forward by the administration expressly to be
elected, like ten pin set up to be knocked over.
The government earnestly desired that Baron
Scorbiac should be returned, and made it's wishes
manifest by causing the project to issue an cleo
toral circular, and the Baron TO get out profes.
sion Of faith. The electors, filed with desire to
be agreeable to the government, abstained, almost
to a man, from the polls; thereby offending the
government, annoying the project, and mortify-
calls evincing profound confidence in the ad-
ministration.
Again, the viscount de Gironde on the same
ticket with the Baron, and with him q victim Of
electoral Indifference, also writes to the project that,
"in presence of this electoral manifestation, he
considers it incumbent upon him to withdraw
his canddateship." The Visccunt, like the Ba-
ron, sufferer by this original plan of express
ing confidence in the government by rejection of
it's candidates.
The Project of the Euro holds different opinion
upon abstention from that entertained by the
Moniteur and the Salut Public. After gratifying
display Of indifference in bis department. he issued
forth with the following patriotic appeal:
"Recolect that abstention is in fiat contradiction
with our civic rights. Recollect that it is an act
OF ingratitude towards the government which sum-
mons you 10 the pos-that it is a desertion of the
ranks IN which you marched rs one man upon the
two solemn elections which have preceded, and
that 1t is the abandonment of the precious in
terests OF the country"
little while ago absten,ion was an act of conf
dence; now it ia an act of ingratitudc. The Mont
tesr and the project pull different ways. But it lie
not difficult to tell which speaks the real sentiments
of the government. Whatever people may cause
to be printed in their regular organs, they not
always either blind or deaf and are able to appre-
ciate in its true colors very marked manifestation
Of public opinion. ..
Warnings upon journals are literally raining in
all the departments. The Project of the Loiret not
having been able to serve note upon hostile Jour
nal, and yet being bccomingly anxious for an OPP
portunity to evince his zeal. warned friendly
sheet instead This journal-apropos of the late
elections--accused an opposition paper of having
cut the city up into sections. and thus rendered
the election null. For this allegation, "of nature
to discredit the departmental authorities, by rep
resenting them as having undergone the influence
of newspaper" the retaliation Of the project was
served upon the editor. Another editor 10 notified
for having thrown the responsibility of the Austen
ton of the electors upon the shoulders of the pre-.
feet; and others still, in all the eighty six de.
partments. Thus far only four journals have re-
ceived their second warning, and only one, the
Corsairs, Of Paris, has undergone temporary sus.
pension. '-'
The railroad from Paris to strasburg will be
opened to the public ON the l2th of this month.
Though inaugurated by the President on the 10th
Of July, there remained some important finishing
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