The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

A descent of the officers of justice was effected on
Monday evening, about eight o'clock, at the Cafe du
Danemarck, in the Rue St. Honore, and led to the
arrest of about 50 German refugees of Communist
opinions. This establishment was long noted for
being a place of rendezvous for the demagogical party.
Eighty-four persons of the department of the
Meuse, ordered for transportation to Cayenne or
Lambessa, arrived in Paris on Tuesday. Amongst
them are an ex-sub-prefect, three advocates, and two
schoolmasters. Most of the prisoners belong to Total,
Metz, and Nancy.
It is stated that the measure determined on by the
Government to re-establish prison labour is already
producing good results. Everywhere labour in the
prisons is being most successfully organized.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police has con-
demned a man named Campion to two months' im-
prisonment, for baying, on the 21 of December
last, been one of a group who cried on the Boule-
vard den Italiens "Down with Napoleon ! down
”
with the President ! and for having declared that
a captain of the staff, who happened to pass, ought
to be assassinated. A man named Chollet was
sentenced to forty days' imprisonment, for having.
cried,
.on the 3i December, in the Quarter Bour-
donna's, " Viva la Republique democratique et so-
ciale !" " Down with the President !" The tribunal
also condemned a man named Lansarle to four
months' imprisonment and 100 francs fine for having,
on being arrested for some offence, on the 4th hist ,
said to the soldiers, who were conveying him to the
guardhouse, that 4' they were canailles and the
butchers of the President," that "the President was
a canaille," and that " the army degraded itself in
obeying him."
A letter from Toulon states that more than 500
of the political prisoners who were in fort Lamalgue
have been set at liberty.
The decree which regulates the internal organiza-
tion of the Council of State, the Senate, and Corps
Legislatif, and their relations with the Prince Presi-
dent, published in the Moniteur does not elicit much
observation. There is, however, a question raised
by the Constitutionnel of a very serious character
with respect to the powers attributed to the Senate.
This body may quash any act of the Corps Legislatif
which shall appear to exceed the rights conferred
upon it by the Constitution. That is undoubted, but
the Constitutionnel inclines to the opinion that it may
equally overrule a decision of the highest legal court
of appeal—that of Cessation.
" The Senate (it says in the say of explanation) is
the guardian and interpreter of the Constitution. It is
to the Senate, then, that unconstitutional acts are to be
referred. The Senate may be seized of a question by
a decree of the President. But are there any acts
which may not be set aside by admininistrative means
without the intervention of the Senate? We. can only
imagine two kinds, these of the Corps Legislatif and
of the judicial power. If the Corps Legislatif should
exceed its attributions then its acts wou4l be
referred to the Senate to be set aside as unconsti-
tutional; but are we to think that judicial decisions may
be equuly referred to the Senate, and that the Ccurt of
Caseation will cease to be supreme arbitrator in questions
of law? We raise the question without being able to
ant ye it.

This would be a serious innovation indeed, for it
would make a body, the mere creature of the State,
the last court of appeal with respect to differenses
between the State and offending