The Sun. — 1851-04-14 (London, England)

FRAN CE.  from Toulon, of the 7t,li instant, announces  that considerable activity is observable in the dockyards of that port. The ship of the line Charlemagne has 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 6'h instant, amount to 3,144 462 f., being an increase of 186,857 f. as compared wi h the corresponJing 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  " The Presse 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 pe Tie 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 fit of madness and suicide, coat!. try, family, children, and generations to come. That 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? Preci3ely in order that France, fallen, all at once into revolution from the biindness and impotent rashness of the roan 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 Franco fur the madness of those radical factions, fur whim immolation alone would have been p-ace. And why did those admirable elections of 1848, effected under the iofluence of that unhoped fur wisdom which seizes on rati• ma in ex vreme peril, repudiate en masse Socialists and Dagitim t.s s, to nominate a republican and n3odotrate repre, eta ktion, courageous against all pas,ions, even against its own? It was that the question should be establishal between the country and the patriots, and not between two irreconcileable and desperate fictions of the county. And why ,on M'ty 15 and in June, 1848, did the people hurry up to Paris 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 c0u1.4 have voied fur a Socialist or Legitamatist, vote for a name (dangerous I admit, but neutral), signifying precis-ly the contrary to what you say, that is, not siguitying either Legitimacy or Socialism, saying peace when you say war, conciliation and no; hostiliq! And why did you yourselves more than any one aid in giving that signification to the election of the President of the R. public? It was in order that the GovErnment, representing France, should interpose with greater authority, greater popular favour, between these two extreme principles, which desire to have a solution of civil war in the place of a solution of harmony.  M. de Lamartine concludes by an allusion to the logic of M. de Girardin. He says : " Ales, France has bad too much 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 sciffolds! She has had the logic of war: the despotism of Napoleon and three millions of meu immolated to the ambition of one man! She has bad the logic of monarchical power without counterbalance: the revolution of 1830 and the fall of a race legitimated by trBdition 1 She has had the logic of resistance to reforms and the obstinacy of blindness: the revolwion of 1848 and the precipice of elective monarchy! She has had the logic of impatient proletarianism : the battles and the corpses of June, 1848! liould you give to her the implacability of parties? No, you do nut wish this, bu.t beware then of its conclusions."