The Sun. — 1850-03-18 (London, England)

LUCIEN MURAT. The Constitutionnel states that General CHANGARBIER, and Messrs. THIERS, MOLE, DE BROGLIE, DE MONTALEMBERT, BERRYER, and SAINT PRIEST, were on Thursday summoned to the Elysee, to give their opinion on the present state of affairs. The resignation of M. FERDINAND BARROT took place in consequence of the advice given by the reactionary chiefs above alluded to by the Constitutionnel. If report says true, the PRESIDENT of the Relpublic has surrendered at discretion to the Royalist reactionaries ; has recanted all his professions-of independence; and has consented henceforth to be the mere tool of the TRIERS, MOLE, and IitINTALEMBEBT faction. We do not attach much credit to these rumours, for we cannot believe that Lours NAPOLEON would commit such an act of political suicide as, of his own free will, to become the mere " planche IVapoleoniessne" over which the BOURBONS are to walk to a second Royalist restoration. M. RouuEn, it is said, will succeed M. 13AEOCHE as Procureur-General ; and either Count Franauvr or M. GUSTATE DE BEAUMONT Will succeed General DE LA HITTE in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nothing can exceed the chagrin of the reactionaries at the admirably prudent conduct of the people on Friday, Nilo would not make an oneute in order to give General CHANGARNIER an opportunity of mowing them down with canister and grape. The Censtitulionnel of Saturday thus gives vent to the feeling of disappointment felt by the party of order ! (order, GOD save the mark) at the refusal of their adversaries to be irritated into the commission of a breach of the public peace. It says : " Let us remark the astonishing discipline of our adversaries. They present to us the spectacle of order in anarchy. The Ited press considers itself so much in revolution, that it makes no more articles, it publishes orders of the day. All its organs repeat the same proclamation to the people, as a military order is repeated. The demagogical party obeys as if by a watchword. After the success of the Socialists, comes the proclamation of the ballot at the Hotel de Ville. That solemnity, so triumphant for them, would naturally attract an immense concourse. It has been seen that there were very few spectators, and no illegal cry was raised. The order had been given by the chit fs, and it was punctually executed."  Among all the strange circumstances which have sprung from the French revolution, not the least strange is certainly this formal complaint on the part of the organ of the Government, that the people not only will not rebel, but that they pay such an implicit obedience to the laws that they will not even raise an illegal cry. The Assemelee .Nationale, the organ of the Orleanist Court party of the DE PEASLINS, the TESTES, the DUJANIERS, the DE BEAUVALLONS' et hoc genus omnes, goes a step further than the Constitutionnel. It makes a guess that certain tradesmen have voted; ~for the successful candidates, and publishes their names in order to denounce them to the vengeance of the reactionaries. As the votes are given by ballot, it is impossible for the writers of the Assemblee Nationale to have any accurate information on the subject, and we find in the Constitutionnel and in the Journal des Deiats, of Sunday, letters from several of the tradesmen thus denounced, denying that they had voted as stated by the Assemblde .Nationale. The matter was brought before the Assembly in the sitting of Saturday by N. DR LASTEYRIC, a moderate Republican, who said that although he was no lawyer; hia common sense told him that his conduct was not only calculated to excite hatred and ill will, and to expose free citizens to threats and intimidations, but was moreover a manifest violation of the law of the land, s‘hich declared that the secrets of the ballotbox should be held inscrutable. The Minister of Justice began his reply by saying that, much as he applauded conciliation, he could not allow himself to be deceived by such mock conciliation as was exhibited in the coalition to which the results of the late election were due. This imprudent sally was re, calved with loud shouts of disapprobation by the Mountain, who accused the Minister of being a promoter of civil war. \Vhen calm was somewhat restored, the Minister proceeded to say that in such a case es the present it was for the individuals who felt themselves aggrieved to bring actions against the newspaper who had so dealt with their names, as the Government could not be called upon to institute proceedings. M. 13aitocur, the new Minister of the Interior, supported the view of the law taken by his colleague e and with regard to the violation of the secrets of the ballot-box, he begged to remind the House that many individuals who voted boasted afterwards of the way in which they gave their votes, and had themselves to blame if the affair had become subject-matter of discussion. It is quite amusing to observe the fuming and fretting cf such gentlemen as M. BAROCEIE, who have ever since May last been preaching up the doctrine of implicit obedience to the will of the majority, as testified by universal suffrage. Surely the will of the majority of the electors of Paris should be held as sacred as regards the representation, as the will of any other majority ? The National, in commenting on the denunciation of the Assembke Nationale, justly observes that those tradesmen who are thus held up to the hatred of a pasty might exercise terrible reprisals by publishing the names of those among their customers who have been intimidated into obedience to the orders of the secret tribunal of reactionaries, and have 1: fc them, the names of those who have contracted debts which they have not paid; and those workmen whom the reactienaries would fain starve into obedience, might also paint out to public notice those men who, enjoying large incomes, never give to the poor either 115.sist&nce or alms ; and those who expend a magnificent fortune on their mistresses and their dogs, without thinking of the poor who are starving at their gates." The Paris and Avignon Railway Bill has been replaced amongst the orders of the day of the Legislative Assembly for the 25th inst. La Patric announces that M. DE ROYER, Advocate-General at the Court of Appeal of Paris, has been appointed AttorneyeGereral in place of M.