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

SUN, 'LONDON, THURSDAY

I THE FRENC

REPUBLIC.

We have receiv-ed the Paris papers of yesterday.
Although an. Animated discussion is described to
have Liken place yesterday in the Corps Legislatif on
the budget, there is not even en allusion to the sub-
ject in eny of the morning papers. The Moniteur
clitposes of the thing in a few lines; for until the minutes
b adopted,
the House there can be,no publication
of the
and the, only in the shape authorised
e debate,pted, b y
n
by the President of the Assembly. Galignani con-
trives, however, to give the following lively sketch of
the proceedings:—
" The diseussicn on the Budget of Expanses was com-
menced yesterday
.(Tuesday) at one o'clock before the
Legislative Body, L. Billault being in the chair. Tee
President of the Republic W 8,4 present on the . occasion,
having come to the Chamber in 'a state-carriage, followed
by two others containing his suite. He teetered by the
large iron-gate in front of the bridge, which had been
before pansod through only by the Emperor Napoleon..
The Prince, woo vets, in plain clothes, and
accompanied by M. Pecos, the 2,linister of Yte-
rimn took his place' lit at private tribune to-
wards the right eidee of the eHoule.- The pro-
ceedings commenced by a speeeh from M. do
Kerdrel. He expressed his surprise at seeing on the
bench appropriated to the Government Commissioners,
whose duty it was to defend the various credits proposed,
men who had formerly been most forward in proposing
reductions. He quoted the opinions of M. Billault, the
liresident of the Legislative Thdy, and of M. Stcurm,
one of the Government Commissioners, to that eff,:et,
and read passages from a work written by Prince Louis
Napoleon, which insisted on the necessity of reductions
in the army. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to
argue that the vote of the. House could net, as matters
were now arranged, be either an enlightened or
a free one. He complained that the amend-
ments of the Deputies, when once rejected by
the Council of State, could not be voted, or
even explained by their authors before the House, a pro-
ceeding which was aavariance 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 illu-
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 lire. The Honourable Gentleman con-
cluded by declaring that a change ought to be effected ia
the present mode of examining and discussing the
budget.—M. 13illault remarked that the Honourable
Gentleman had, in reality, spoken 'more of what
the Constitution had . fixed, than on _ the budget
itself. d I did not, however, think it necessary
to stop him,' added the Honourable Gentle-
MAD, although I could and ought to have done
so.' This declaration did not appear to be favourably
received by the House.-7-M..Devinek then spoke at some
lergth, entering into minute financial developments con-
nected with the budget. Ho declared that he approved
fully of the conversion of the Five per Cents., and;biamed
the Republic of 1848, and even the Government of Louis
Philippe, for having added so much to the floating debt.
The Hon. 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 Lon-
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 hack in his tribune,
now came more forward, as if to hear the Hon. Gentle-
man better.) M. do Montalembert said that he must
protest against all idea of tending towards the reestab-
lishment of the Parliamentary regime, although he did
no
whichhesitate
to
shady that he admired and regretted that
regime, given so many years of peace teed
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 =ester of exemining 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 iunucentsd—M. de Paiieu, 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 bo ogain brought before the
Legislative body. Yet the Constitution was the conse-
quence of the decree of the 2d of December, which had
not only saved the country from anarchy, but proved
the salvation of the public fortune, which had 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.-51. Stourm,
Councillor of State, argued that honourable gentlemen
were too precipitate in forming an opinion on the
Constitution. The country looked at it very differently,
for all that France asked for was simply to be al-
lowed to remain traequil; and no one could deny
that since the Constitution had been promulgated,
the country had enjoyed complete tranquillity. The
Hon. 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 pa:sed- to the dis-
cussion of the articles, he wished to communicate to the
Members the contents of a communication_ frem.
the
the
Minister of State, which had'been handed to him in
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,
said that there only remained one course for the Legis-
lative body to adopt—namei_,
,
y to reject the whole
appeared tochap-
ter,'
it ('he Government) bean uncon-
stitutional act.. This declaration produced great cum-
motion, and Count de Laubat, at once rising,
Chasselou
energetically declared that no man WB5 more constitu-
tionally inclined than he was, and that the language of
his report did not go farther -than what he conceived the
p-
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 convent-ion 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 Moniteur will soon be installed at the Palais
Royal. The' chief editor, M. Grun, will bd under the
direction of a comite de surveillance, composed of three
public functionaries—viz., M. Tenon, who will repre-
sent the Ministry of State; M. Chevreau, who will re-
present the Ministry of the Interior; and M. Latour-
llumoulin, who at the Ministry olPolice has the special
surveillance of all matters respecting the press. These
three persons will select the writers who are to assist
;he 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 SARDA-CANIGA. This gentle-
man gives a very satisfactory account of the condnct
of the convicts, who are, he says, disposed to labour
and to lead a reformed life.
The Moniteur contains a notification to certain
journals that they must not continue to evade the
signature law or they will be fined. The • Moniteur
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 thould 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 considerably, and
overflowed their banks in many places. All the bay
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 be very
great. Inundations have also taken place in the Ain,
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.
CAnoa TAILEFER, manufacturer at Laigle
(Orne), writes to the Siècle that be is ready, in con-
certn
stated," of 3:) ,
sayseoo , 0
theOo Df
~ I ent tiis o
with other capitalists, to make the whole of the
v
Paris and Cherbourg line on condition of receiving a
sub
Patrie, "that the Roman
Government has just conceded to a French com-
pany the railway from Rome to 'Bologna, and to
Ancona. The works will, it is said, be very soon
commenced."

Paris, it is calculated, annually consumes straw-
berries to the amount of 5,000,000 f. Epinay, near
St. Denis, sends every day, during the season. 500 f.
of asparagus to England. Menden, last year, sent a
similar amount of plums every day; and Honfleur and
its neighbourhood 1,000,0001. worth of melons in the
course of the season.
The Bourse was dull, with not so much business
doing as for some days past. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opcnod at lOU. 40c., and closed at 101 f. 50c. for
tti9 end of the month;. the Three per Cents. closed at
701. 80c.• Orleans Ratiwa,y Shares, 1,2371.50 e.; Ronan,/
. 8601 • littvre, 3301,; Great Northern, 6201,; Avignon,