The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-24 00:00:00

T E SIA N,

ready taken into consideration this subject, and had taken
steps for r,:ndering the position of the Ameers ot-Shcle-
as atrrt.calik as poe.sible. As for back as 1841 the Go-
verr;M'ent of India took into !heir serious consideration
all the matters %%Meth the Noble Lord who had intro-
duced this quto;tioa hod broui:ht unckr the notice of
tiP, House, and a resolution was come to that ev:•ry z.:51-
sistf:rice should be affj.ded to these unfortunate Princes',
until the whole of the matter in di-put: cou`l . be cloored
Tee Noble Lord represented the Art,rs s m06e14
of virus and honesty, tint he lied heard a very clitY,rrnt
account of them. However he should be sorry to pro-
nounce any option upon that point. He did not,. objTet to
the terms of the motion, but what he did Lad fault with
s,vas, that the Noble Lord should have nkyd up a matter
of state policy v: `rich was supposed to have been settled
t,s far 134ek us 1844. There would be no objection to
produce the fo.pers, but as their production would ro-
of), n a settled que,tion, he could not help expressing his
conviction that it wo,uld be injudicious to do sr.),

After a lee words from Col-onel ESICOEIVr,
Tvir. repealcd th-A there would be no oh-
to produce the papers, but in the abscnc) of the
Lob :o Lou! who made this motion, it was not., mceis:;.ry
for hires to trouble the Raise withany 1f,,ngtb6.13"1 oh'
servations to bhow that, it would be injudicious to cell for
them. The two 7-'P,r'trSc%vrin
hlehg.tho Noble
asked for would forthcoming.
Mr. HUME sciti, in referertc,, to the Aracers of Sit de,
the itopri scion vvitich prevailed in 1843 that the 13riti,11
Goverrim,:nt had bLen made the victim of an artful
tr,rud, had berm cot;firrtvd by subr,apient inquiries,
end it vitv, there ore, the duty of the
14-gislaturo to do tardy justice to these in-
j PrinCYs. The papers now celled for
would give but an inadequate history of the whole oc-
currences in liinde, and he hoped, on a future ccca,,ion,
the House and the country ~ouferl be put in possession of
ail the facts of the case. Years had rolled by since tae
irjustice was perpetrated, but it was nevrr too late to
'nuke amends for the wrong which had been done, and
he was"rrjoiced to hear that there was now a prospect of
the Am'ers of made obtaining some substantial redress
far their sufferings. Much dectptiou had been practised
noon Parliament in reference to this case, and he trusted
that, for the sake of justice and humanity, the Govern-
ment would now produce all the papers in full, and thus
give the country an opportunity of considering the whale
matter.
The motion was then agreed to.
FOREIGN POSTAGE.

Mr. JACOB BELL wished to inquire of her Ma-
jesty's Government as to the further progress of the
negotiations for the reduction of the postage of letters
betwte.n France and England; also whether it is in
contemplation to (fleet a general reduction of foreign
postage ?
Mr. HAMILTON said negotiations were still pendinr,
upon this important subject both with France and the
United States, and it was hoped that they would be
brought to a satisfactory termination.
The House then adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Althoug'n an animated discussion is described to
'have t alio-I,piece yesterday in the Corps Legislatif
on
the budget, there is not even an allusion to the sub-
ject in any of the morning papers. The Illoniteur
iii. poses of the thing in a few lines, for until the minutes
be adopted by the House there can be no publication
of the debate, and then only in the shape authorised
by the President of the Assembly. Galignani con-
trive:, however, to give the following lively sketch of
the proceedings :
" The discussion on the Budget of Expenees was c. 410-
peenc:.d yesterday (Tuesday) at one o'clock before the
Legislative Rudy, M. ittbault being in the chair. The
President of the Repubits was present on the occasion,
having conic to the Cnamher in a state-carriage, followed
by two others containing his suite. Lie entered by the
Large iron-gate in front of the bridge, which had been
tetfere passed through only by the &Teter Napoleon.
The Prince, who w, s in plain clothes; end
cecompanit d by M. Duces, the Minister of Ma-
rine, took his place in a private tribune to-
wards the right side of the House. The pro-
cet dings commenced by a speech from H. de
Kerdrel. lie expressed his surprise at seeing on the
bench appropriated to the Government Conamissioec rs,
whose cluv it was to defend the various credits proposed,
men who bad formerly been most forward in proposing
reductions. He quoted the opinions of M. the
President of the Legislative B idy, and of M. btourin,
ono of the Government Commissioners, to that dire,
and read passages from a work written in; Prince Louis
Napoleon, which insisted on the necessity of redactions
in the army. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to
argue that the vote of the House could not, as matters
were now arranged, be either an enlightened or
a free one. Ha complained that the amend-
ments of the Deputies, when once rejected by
the Conceit of State, could not be voted, or
even explained by their authors before the Rouse, a pro-
ceeding which was at variance with both the dignity
and independence of that body. He quoted a passage
from the Constitutionnel, which declared that the inter-
vention of the Council of State in the labours of the
Committee on the budget rendered all discussion ilia-
' sory, and that the Councillors of State were in fact the
dispensers of the public fortune. At least, the Hon.
Gentleman remarked, they ought in such a case to be
appointed for lite. The Honourable Gentleman con-
cluded by declaring that a change ought to be effected in
the present mode of examining and discussing the
budget.—M. Billault remarked that the Honourable
Gentleman bad, in reality, spoken more of what
the Constitution had fixed, than on the budget
itself. 'I did not, however, think it necessary
to stop him,' added the Honourable Gentle-
man, although I could and ought to have done
so.' This declaration did not appear to be favourably
received by the House.—M. Devinck then spoke at some
length, entering into minute financial developments con-
nected with the budget. He declared that he approved
fully of the conversion of the Five per Cents., and;blamed
the Republic of 1848, and even the Government of Louis
Philippe, for having added so much to the floating debt.
The lion. Gentleman terminated by accusing the Com-
mittee on the budget of endeavouring to foment a secret
opposition to the Government.—Count de Chasseloup-
Laubat, the reporter, replied with much warmth to that
accusation, affirming that the Committee was not in any
respect hostile to the Government, and that it had
merely endeavoured to explain with fairness and sin-
cerity the financial position of the country. These
words were received with applause.—M. Jollivet de
Castelot next read a speech in favour of the system at
present existing in France; after which Count de Mon-
talembert rose and declared that he took the same view
of the budget, its examination, and its discussion, as M.
de Kerdrel had done. (It was remarked that the Prince
President, who had hitherto sat far back in his tribune,
now came more forward, as if to hear the Hon. Gentle-
man better.) M. de Montalembert said that he must
protest against all idea of tending towards the re estab-
lishment of the Parliamentary regime, although he did
not hesitate to say that he admired and regretted that
regime, which had given so many years of peace and
prosperity to France. He was contented with the
existing system, at the same time that he
must declare that in his opinion the great
difference which existed between that system
and one of absolute power was, for the Le-
gislative body to vote the taxes in all its independence.
Yet who could say that such independence existed when
the present mariner of examining the budget was consi-
dered? The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded at
some length to enumerate the various impediments
which, ho said, the intervention of the Council of State
had thrown in the way of that examination, He also
enumerated the fate of the various amendments pro-
posed by the Committee, and declared that the manner
in which they were treated amounted to an absolute
massacre of the innocents:—M. de Parieu, one of the
Councillors of State, next spoke, and said, that
the discussion which had just taken place ap-
peared to him to have
no other object than
to attack the enactments cf the Constitution, which
did not allow any amendments when once rejected
by the Council of State to be again brought before the
Legislative body. Yet the Constitution was the conse-
quence of the decree of the 2rl of December, which had
not only saved the country from anarchy, but proved
the salvation of the public fortune, which bad been ever
since in a regular course of improvement.--M• Monier
de la Sizeranne adduced arguments in favour of main-
taining the army at its present strength.—M. Steurra,
Councillor of State, argued that honourable gentlemen
were too precipitate in forming en opinion en the
Constitution. Toe country looked at it very differently,
for all that France asked for was simply to bo al-
lowed to remain tracqnil; and no one could deny
that sine° the Constitution had been promulgated,
tho coun:ry had enjoye:f complete tranquillity. The
lion. Gentleman then, in, replying to the observations
made relative to the presentation of amendments, said
that the speeches which had been that day delivered
would have been better suited to an adjoining chamber
(this allusion to the lath and plaster building of the Le-
gislative Assembly was received with murmurs). After
some observations from the reporter, the general discus-
sion was declared to be closed. The President then
rose, and said that before the House passed to the dis-
cussion of the articles, he wished to communicate to the
Members the contents of a communication from the
Minister of State, which had been handed to him in the
course of the sitting. The letter in question stated that
the Government considered it right to inform the Legis-
lative Body that the amendments presented by the
Committee on the Budget, having been rejected
by the Council of State, ought, according
to the terms of the Constitution, to be looked
on as not }having been brought forward, and
that consequently, the terms of the report, which
said that there only remained one course for the Legis-
lative body to adopt—namely,to reject the whole chap-
ter,' appeared to it (the Government) to be an uncon-
stitutional ant. This declaration produced great com-
motion, and Count de Chasseloup-Laubat, at once rising,
energetically declared that no man was more constitu-
tionally inclined than he was, and that the language of
his report did not go farther than what he conceived the
nature of the case demanded. After a few observations
from M. Billault, the discussion of the articles was ad-
journed to this day. The sitting was then brought to a
close at half-past five."
At the opening of the sitting, the President read a
Bill transmitted to the Legislative body by the Mi-
nister of State, approving of a convention entered into
on the 19th inst. between the Minister of Public
Works and the Lyons to Avignon Railway Company.
The Bill was referred to the bureaux.
We read in the Presse :
" The Illoniteur will soon be installed at the Palais
Royal. The chief editor, M. Grim, will be under the
direction of a comae de surveillance, composed of three
public functionaries—viz., M. Perron, who will repre-
sent the Ministry of State; H. Chevreau, who will re-
present the Ministry of the Interior; and M. Latouci ra-
Dumoulin, who at the Ministry of Police has tho sp
surveillance of all matters respecting the press. These
three persons will select the writers who are to assist
el
the chief editor."
The Government received yesterday a dispatch,
dated Cayenne, May 13, announcing the arrival there
of the Allier corvette, with the first convicts, under
the charge of M. DE SAItDA-CANIGA. This gentle-
man gives a very satisfactory account of the conduct
of the convicts, who are, he says, disposed to labour
and to lead a reformed life.
The Illoniteur contains a notification to certain
journals that they must not continue to evade the
signature law or they will be fined. The • Illoniteur
also contains the Bill for making a fusion of the
southern railway companies.
The continued fall of rain is beginning to create
uneasiness, lest there should follow inundations of a
destructive character such as occurred in 1846..
Last night a telegraphic dispatch was received from
Lyons, stating that the Saone had swelled to such an
extent as to be no longer navigable for the Lyons
steamers. The Journal de Lot et Garonne states that the
Lot and the Garonne had risen consider
All ably, end
overflowed their banks in many places. the hay
crops have been destroyed. On the day before the
inundation all the hay on different islands was sold by
tender, and the loss to the purchasers will he very
great. Inundations have also taken place in the Ail),
the Saone-et-Loire, and the Jura. The Loire had
overflowed some places, so had the Allier, but ac-
cording to the last accounts these rivers were becoming
lower. A good deal of damage has been done.
M. CADON TAILEFER, manufacturer at Laigle
(Orne), writes to the Siecle that he is ready, in con-
cert with other capitolists, to make the whole of the
Paris and Cherbourg line on condition of receiving a
subvention of 30,000,000 f.
" It is stated," says the Patric, " that the Roman
rcololbogena v, er andy sootn o
Government has just conceded to a French com-
pany the r.pile;s it e
is to
said,l
v wta73o,
from
will,Rome
Ancona. rh
commenced."

Paris, it is calculated, annually consumes straw-
berries to the amount of .5,000,000 f. Epinay, near
St. Denis, sends every dry, during the season. 500 f.
of asparagus to England. Meudon, last year, sent a
similar amount of plums every day; and Honfleur and
its neighbourhood 1,000,000 f. worth of melons in the
course of the season.
The Bourse was dull, with not so much business
doing as for tome days past. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opened at 1011. 40c., and closed at 101 f. 50c. for
the end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at
701. 80c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,2371 50c.; Rouen,
1860 f.; Havre, 330 f,; Great Northern, 620 f.; Avignon,