The Sun. — 1851-04-12 (London, England)

FRANCE..  A letter from Toulon, of the 7th instant, announces that considerable activity is observable in the dockyards of that port. The ship of the line Charlemagne his been armed, and the steam-frigate Napoleon is being prepared for sea with all haste. A dispatch bad been likewise received from the Minister of Marine, ordering the equipment of the new frigate the Sibylle. The receipts of the Orleans and Bordeaux Railway Company, from the Ist July last to the 6th instant, amount tQ3,144,462f., being an increase of 186,857 f. as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding year. M. de Lamartine, in the Pays, publishes an article under the head of "Legitimacy or Socialism," in reply to M. Emile de Girardin, who had declared that there was no choice left between the Legitimatists and the Socialists. We give an extract from the article of M. de Lamartine  4‘ The Pr esse asks, and the other journals interested in the separation of France into two parties, ask after that journal, what is there between legitimacy and socialism? We reply boldly; there is almost the whole of France between the two; only that! There is the Republic, strong and moderate, which comes between, and will always come between, those unreflecting and irreconcileable parties. There are humanity, country, reason, property, labour, the people in immense proportion, and in immense force. There are universal suffrage, the national representation, the Government, the army. There is everything which wants to live, and wants to have its posterity live, against all that wants to die, in dragging after it, in its 6t of madness and suicide,_choautntry, family, children, and generations to come. T is what is between who you call legitimacy and what you call socialism, that is between two principles carried to their radical consequences, murderers of the country, of civilization, and of themselves. And why did the republic of reason, of necessity, and of pacification, which you applauded yourselves in crying out with one confidence, spring into existence on February 25? Precisely in order that France, fallen, all at once into revolution from the blindness and impotent rashness of the men of monarchical coalition should not be enclosed within that dilemma of blood, legitimacy and socialism. It was in order that an elastic and pacific government should promptly separate the armed parties, and should interpose prudence, the instinct of pre• nervation, and the generous character of interest of France for the madness of those radical factions, for whom immolation alone would have been peace. And why did those admirable elections of 1848, effected under the influence of that unhoped for wisdom which seizes on nations in extreme peril, repudiate en masse Socialists and Legitim.t4sts, to nominate a republican and moderate repret eatation, courageous against all passions, even against its own? It was that the question should be established between the country and the patriots, and not between two irreconcileable and desperate factions of the country. And why on May 15 and in June, 1848, did the people hurry up to Peril from the provinces ? It was to fling themselves with the Assembly between these extreme and desperate parties who thirsted for combat when France, society, and reason desired peace. And why, in the election of December 10, did France, when she could have voted 'for a Socialist or Legitamatist, vote for a name (dangerous I admit, but neutral), signifying precisely the contrary to whatyou say, that is, not signifying either Legitimacy or Socialism, saying peace when you say war, conciliaton and not hostile.), ! And why did you yourselves more than auy one aid in giving that signification to the election of the President of the Republic? It was in order that the Government, representing France, should interpose with greeter authority, greater popular favour, between these two extreme principles, which desire to have a solun"on of civil war in the place of a solution of harmony.  Aide Lamartine conclurles by an allusion to the logic of M. de Girardin. He says Alas, Erance has had too ranch of this desperate logic. She has had the logic of royalty : the emigration and its follies. She has had the logic of revolution: the committee of public safety and its scaffolds! She has had the logic of war: the despotism of Napoleon and three millions of men immolated to the ambition of one min! She has had the logic of monarchical power without counterbalance: the revolution of 1830 and the fafl of a race legitimated by tradition! She has had the logic of resistance to reforms and the obstinacy of blindness: the revolution of 1848 and the precipice of elective monarchy! She has had the logic of impatient proletarianizm : the battles and the corpses of June, 1848! Would you give to her the implacability of parties? No, you do not wish this, but beware then of its conclusions."