The Sun. — 1830-07-08 (London, England)

WILLIAM. Among the motley group, which consisted of thirty-seven individuals, there were those who have long been adepts at crime, and the offences of others were marked by cruelty and other aggravated circumstances, so that they looked forward to an awful crisis, which they considered inevitable ; and it is pleasing to :observe, that they were, to all human appearance, in some degree prepared to meet it. To those the sound of respite must have been peculiarly grateful. It is to lie hoped that the clemency of his MA.JIISTY towards his erring subjects will snake a lasting impression on their minds, and induce them, by their future conduct, in some measure to atone for the crimes which they have not only committed against individuals, but against society at large. Tito French Papers of Monday, which arrived last night, contain the result of a few of the ekelions of the Great Colleges which were convoked for Saturday last. This series consists of the Great Colleges of sixty-five departments, those of twenty departments being postponed from the 3d to the 19th inst. The number of Deputies to be elected by these sixty-five departmental colleges is 122. It has been always admitted by the Liberals, and has often been ostentatiously announced by the organs of the Ministry, that the greater, or aristocratic electoral assemblies, are more favourable to Ministerial can • didates than the colleges of arrondissement, in which the smaller proprietors predominate. The object of the Government in creating the former was to render them a counterpoise to the democratic influence of the latter. Being composed of only one-fourth of the landed proprietors who pay direct taxes above twelve pounds a year, they are generally persons who move in the upper walks of society, who mix with the higher class of official functionaries, anti who expect the favours of the Ministry, or pride themselves in being considered the friends of the Court. Hence they have generally elected Deputies of ancient families or of great wealth, disposed to support the Government, and attracted by a kind of magnetic influence to the right aide of the Chamber. Hence the Liberals, who had a decided majority in the last assembly, did not possess one-third of the Deputies returned by the aristocratic colleges. Among the 122 members elected by the series of colleges which met on the 3d instant, only 33 voted the hostile address which led to the dissolution of the last Chamber. lf, therefore, thia proportion, or about one-third of the present returns, were in favour of the opposition, the latter would lose no ground in the greeter colleges, while its triumphs has heels decided and complete in the smaller. But this, probably, is too low an estimate of the Ministerial defeat and the opposition victory. , Already we have accounts from nine of the great colleges, end in six of these the Ministry had been discomfited. Tito departments of the Lower !thine, of the Aisne, of the Oise, of the Alaurthe, of the Gironde, and of the Somme, have declared against them, By the next arrival wo shall have the returns from nearly all the other departments. lied they been in favour of the Ministry, the telegraphs avoithl hare already announced theist. When we mentioned with praise, some days ago, the order end tranquillity with which the elections in France had been conducted, we had not reveler(' the account of a disgracefOl riot whirls took place at Montauban in the South, in eon. sequence of the election of a liberal candidate,---a riot Ilse more disgraceful, as it was rather encouraged than sup. pressed by the authorities of the town. The Mayor had been appointed President of the College, and was likewise a candidate for the representation. The. Constitutional candidate, M. De PAIUSSAC, succeeded against WM. An assemblage, consisting of the lowest rabble, unrestrained by the authorities, attempted to break into the room where the votes were taken, and were only prevented by the military guard, over which the Mayor had no influence. Not having succeeded in preventing the election of M. Da PAXISSACi, they proceeded to his house and attempted his siaassinatioa. His windows were broken, his doors forced, and had he not escaped by a back-garden, he would have been messaged. The military force alone protected The Maier, A two uays afterwards, only thought proper to give the pnpulace a gentle hint, that however much at• teehed:to their principles of loyalty and religion, they must tint massacre a Liberal. In this town' and neigb, bourhoOdi it will be remembered, fanaticism displayed itself in the most frightful manner on the return of the Bov aotift, by the murder of the Prutestants..-- rams.