The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

A descent of the officers of justice was effected on
Monday evening, about eight o'clock, at the Cafe du
Danemarcic, 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
Lambesse, arrived in Paris on Tuesday. Amongst
them are an ex-sub-prefect, three advocates, and two
schoolmasters. Most of the prisoners belong to Tou!,
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 having, on the 2,1 of December
last, been ons of a group who cried cn the Boule-
vard des Italians " 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 31 December, in the Quarter Bour-
donnais, "Viva la Republique democratique et so-
ciale 1" " Down with the President !" The tribunal
also coedemned a man named Lamarle to four
months' imprisonment and 100 francs fine for having,
on beines arrested for some offence, on the 4tl inst ,
said to the soldiers, who were conveying him to the
guardhouse, that " They were canailles and the
butchers of the President," that "the President was
a canaiqe," 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
obeervation. 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
.soy act of the Corps Legislatif
which shall appear to exceed the rights conferred
upon it by the Constitution. Thu; is undoubted, but
tha 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 way of explanation) is
the guardian and interpreter of the Constitution. It is
to tho Senate, then, that utconstitutional 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 moans
without the intervention of the Senate? We can only
imagine two kinds, those of the Corps Legislatif and
of tha judicial power. If the Corps Legislatif should
exceed its atnibuticna then its acts wou'd be
referred to the Senate to be set aside as unconati-
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titional; but are we to think that judicial decisions may
be equally raferred to the Senate, and that the Court of
Cessation will cease to be supreme arbitrator in questions
of law? We raise the question without being able to
solve ir."

This would be a serious innovation indeed, for it

would make a body, the mere creature of the State,
the lest court cf appeal with respect to differenses
between the State and offending individuals.

GERMANY.

A letter from Dirschan (Prussia), of the 17th
inst. says--
"A susver.sion bridge over the Viitula is about to be
commenced close to this town, and will b 2 certainly the
most remarkable work of tho kind in Europe. This
bridge, on which the eastern railway will run, is to be
2,500 feet in length and 63 feet is breadth, and will be
placed on six pillars, 500 feet apart, bur of which will
be placed in the heal of the river. Each pillar will be
provided with a defence against the floa!kig ic?, and as
in the Vistula the breaking up of the Le is attended
with considerable danger, anal would carry away any
works which were noi; terithiated, only one pillax
be c.netructed a year. The cAt of the bridge will be
7,600,000 f., and a further sum of 11,400,000 i. will he
required for the works at each side, in all 19 millions."