The Sun. — 1849-05-07 (London, England)

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1849.  Everything is in preparation for the election, on Sunday next, of that Legislative Chamber which is to decide the destinies of the French Republic. Of course, there are all kinds of sinister forebodings and insidious insinuations on the part of those very suspicious and most unscrupulous gentlemen, the promoters of the reactionary movement. " The French population,"—say they, wagging their beads, —" is no longer to be humbugged by those democratic sophisms which were wont formerly to dazzle it into obedience. The departments will no longer submit to the dictation of the capital. he multitude is not again to be surprised into the passive and bewildered acceptance of republicanism, as in February. A junta of insolent and daring conspirators will no more be permitted to domineer over thirty-five millions of people, startled by them into a state of obsequious bewilderment. Socialism, communism, sodality, the rights of labour, all those profound and mystical dogmas, which were first propounded in joke and afterwards in earnest by JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU, stink in the nostrils of the community. Anarchy is to be repudiated at all cost. That the inhabitants of the French departments are resolved upon. That they will have. They will save France from the evil influence of the demagogues who in the early spring of last year juggled the country out of its senses by a sort of political legerclemaix. Those knaves who in the February of 1848 effected a burglarious entrance into the national palaces, who filched the authority of Government from a panicstricken Administration, who expelled the Legislature with the assistance of a few hired bayonets—are now on the eve of being for ever deprived of the opportunities of playing over again their desperate game of hazard, and are being conquered and annihilated (poor fools !) by means of their own vaunted panaceas the ballot-box and universal suffrage 1" Such is the language used by the apologists of that rotten system, the monarchical system of Bourbon idiots and of Orleans' swindlers, the system of toadies, and place •hunters, and matchmakers, and duellists, and assassins, and debaucbees, the system which produced the Teste robberies, the Beauvallon ruffianism, the Sophy Dawes plots, the Choiseul Praslin murders I We are told, forsooth, that Frenchmen are no longer to be cheated out of their wits as in February ; but that the departments will, through the ballot and the franchise, declare for the good days of Loots PHILIPPE rather than for the evil days of the Provisional Government !  And are there men so silly, so demented, so besotted by their own prejudices, as to believe that one soul in existence can swallow such stuff as this ? The Good Days of Louis PHILIPPE The Evil Days of the Provisional Government That is the contrast harped upon perpetually by the reactiox'Wires 1 With the first they associate Order; with the second Anarchy. To the first, with a sublime audacity, they attribute every virtue, every truth, and eve." 7 honesty. To the second, with a matchless abnegation of facts, they apply all those epithets of abhorre.nce which are exclusively uttered in reference to crime, to falsehood, and to corruption. That man inust be silly, indeed, who can listen  with anv patience to such trash as is here talked by the leaders and organs of the reactionary movement. Why, history gives the lie to every one of their asser- , tions. They talk of the crimes of the Provisional Government, while the homage of the world is still resounding over Europe for the magnanimity of those great men who saved France from a bloody catas• trophe, and the continent from an awful and destroying convulsion who shed not one drop of blood when the passions of the multitude were wholly at their bidding who saved their bitterest antagonists from the death they had richly merited for their atrocities by the noblest decree that every emanated from the rulers of a great people. They talk of the crimes of the Provisional Government—when the immortal members of that Government rescued France from destruction by their own insulated and unassisted courage— when they preserved peace with the rest of the world—restored order to their own land, and, as a magnificent token of their want of selfishness, resigned their extraordinary powers into the hands of that Assembly which they themselves had called into existence, descending from the pomp of sovereignty to the simplicity of citizenship. A vast deal has been said about the peculations of M. LRDRII Rommv, about the weakness of M. DE LAMARTINE, about the incompetence of M. ARAGO, about the insane ideas of M. Louis Blanc, and about the terrorist designs of