The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Presse, after quoting largely from the article
of M. Grapier de Cassaguae, in the Constitutionnel,
against Generals Changarnier and de Lamorkeere,
says :—" What a number of avowals in those pas-
sages, and what lessons in those avowals ! Atter
such avowals, what value can the magnificent
sword presented to General Changarnier in 1849 be
said to possess ? After such avowals, what ia_comes
of the famous subscription proposed and accepted, on
condition that uo payment sheltie! exceed 20 fr.? After
such avowal?, what must be thought of such saviours
of society, of such palace-conspirators, so pitiless
however for all other conspirators, real or supposed?
General Changarnier was long the hero, the beau ideal
of a certain portion of the Paris press. Well, then,
what do those journals now think of this heroic de-
fender of society, of order, and of the laws, whose fixed
idea was to seize on the dictatorship. Alas! what would
he have done with it? Juet the same as Gen. Caveignac
did. Ask Gen. Lamoric.ere, who was Minister of War
at the time. Yet that ex-Minister, he who was at
the head of the War department in June, 1848, is
nowindiganrahnittrtahraytile,
t:an
officer's
grade should be at the
mercy of
and that neither persons nor
property aro respected' In 1848, did he respect
persons and property ? Did he respect persons
when be had thousands of men transported with-
out trial ? Did be respect property when he totally
disregarded establishments which it bad taken long
years of stubborn labour to found ? Why then, and
on what gronad?, should a military grade be less sub-
ject to arbitrary rule than a journal ?"
The Paris correspondent of the Independance of
Brussels says :—" To the names of M. de Pyroni and
M. Courtais, who have been amnestied, must now be
added that of M. Marc Dufraisse. He was ordered
to be exiled to Cayenne, by the decree of the 9,1
Jsnuary, but is now living very quietly in London.
The pardon of this ex-representative was accompanied
by romantic circumstances. In 1849 two persons
took the diligence from Perigueux to Paris. One
was M. Marc Dufraisse, who was returning from
the Council-General of the Dordogne, the other a
sons-chef of the Ministry of Public Works, M. G—.
They made acquaintance on the road, and on sepa-
rating, Dufraisse laughingly promised his travelling
companion, whose reactionary ideas had, he said,
caused him pain, that on the day of the Socialist'
triumph, he would guarantee him his life and a
passport. And I,' replied M. G—, as a National
Guard of the 2d Legion, promise you that if I see
you behind a barricade, I will not fire on you.'
Events marched on. M. Dufraisse, who, by his
famous speech on regicide, acquired a good deal of
notoriety, became one of the chiefs of the Mountain.
M. G—, who, in addition to his humble functions
ati iouttehrer. Ministry, was secretary of M. de Moray, awas,.
the morning of the 2d December summoned by
that statesman, and attached to the Ministry of the
Ile became chief of the censorship, and
one
of the principal columns of the Administra-
tion, M. remembered his companion of the di-
lioBgEtelind
c.e:trielield he told thethat Athleinvisatherishtmheehatdvsehnatauldreehoef
, not for the sake of Dufraisse himself,
whose opinions
honour of hum he was far from sharing, but for the
Moray understood this and plighted faith. M. de
s.othis appeal, and M. Dufraisse,
after being provisionally
allowed to Leave !ally detaiced in France, was
official." v for England. The anecdote i 3

GERMANY. 7---
The project for the ;
Constitution of s,t,te rev.)ion of the Hanoverian
projectreferred to a committee.
tetring
the Chambers, by the raibiac;rl 1848, cornmunieattd to
onconsidering
has caused much ex-
it is probable that it Will jaltrY, has just been printed.
the turn that
Tile presentation of this
the Hanoverian
effitesiintaeuv:iltalTellygbb'een takien,
it, might have been easily taking that
Germany,
Constitution would not remain i't
that the, Gcvcrnizent will soon bring It is likely
against nslsoelationo, and One relativeforward a law
The negotiations between the Government to the press.
delegates of the Provincial Diets (the e and the
der) are carried on with much asper9nestrian
Bared will will not lead to any satisfactory Acy' result.