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

FRANCE.

A descent of the officers of justice was effected on 1
Monday evening, about eight o'clock, at the Cafe du
Danemarck, in the Rue St. Honore, and led to the
arrest of about SO 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 Taal,
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 2d of December
last, been one of a group who cried on the Boule-
vard des 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 3d December, in the Quarter Bour-
donnais, Vive la Republique democratique et so-
ciale !" " Down with the President !" The tribunal
also condemned a man named Lamarle to four
months' imprisonment anti 100 francs fine for having,
on being arrested for some offence, on the 4th inst ,
said to the soldiers, who were conveying him to the
guardhouse, that " they were canaille: 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 600
of the political prisoners who were in fort Lamalgue
bare 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 C.lssation.
" The Senate (it says in the way of,explanaticn) is
the guardian and interpreter of the Constitution. Ir. is
to the Senate, then, coat tn,constitutional acts are to be
referred. The Senate may he seize,d of a question by
a decree of tho President. But aro there any acts
Which may not be sit aside by admininistrative means
witnont the intervention of the Senate? We can only
imagine two kinds, those of thei,lorps Legislatif and
of th, judicial power. If the Corps Legislatif should
exceed its att:ibutions then its acts would be
referred to the Senate to be se r. 3,ide as unconzti-
tationtil; but are we to think that judicial decisions may
t pally rOerred to the Senate, and that the Court of
Gaultier% will cease to he supreme arbitrator in question 3
ef kw? We raise the qtms.ion without being able to
.

This would be a serious innovation indeed, for it
would wake a body, the mere creature of the State,
the last court of appeal wi:h revpfiet to differenses
between the S: to and offending individuule.

GE AMA N Y.

A letter from Dinc:ban (Pruoti,...), of the 17,:h

ice. says—
" A sits;:mion bridge over the Vistula is about to be
emmtecc3 close to this town, and will be certainly. the
moat remarkable wort; c-f the kind in Europe. This
bridge, on ./hich the casletu railway will run, is to be
2,50 u feet in lei:gal acid 63 feet in breadth, and will be
placed en six pillars, 500 feet apart. four of which a ill
h.a placed in the bed of the river. Each pillar will be
provided witit Ft defence a;.;:air.st the fbating ;:tad as
in the Vistula the breaking op of the lee is attended
with considerable danger, sad would carry a'Nay any
works which were not terminsted, only one pillar will
he constructed a year. The cost of the bridge will be
7,600,000 f., acid a further bum of 11,400,000.'. will be
terv.iretl for the works at each side, in all 19 millions."