The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-23 00:00:00

TUESDAY, DEC. 20.

Two hours before the hour announced for the com-
mencement of this day's public sitting the galltrits of the
Chamber have been crowded with visiters to secure a hear-
ing of M. Casimir Periet's expected reply to the speech of
M. Mauguin at the close of the sitting of yesterday.
The business of the si ting is opened by M. Eusebe Sal-
verte, who reads the project of a law in virtue of which it
is proposed, that on the .29th of July, 18.3, the anniver-
ssry of the revolution of 1830, the remains of General
Foy, Liancourt, Manuel, and Benj imin Constant, shall he
romoved and deposited in the Pantheon, and that an in-
scription shall be affixed to the walls of the building in
honour of the victims of July. The discussion on this
project is unanimously fixed for Saturday next.
The first speaker on the di bat,., which was yestet day
adjourned, is M. Madier de Montjan, who asked for leave
on the instant to answer M. Mauguin, but gave place to
M. Casimir Perier. He begins by observing, that the
events of Lyons, which formed the only subject of the
order of the day, was in fact almost the only subject
which had not been introduced by M. Mauguin, whose
speech. in truth, might fairly he described as one de om-
nibus rebus et quebusdom uliis. M. Madi, rde Montjau
proceeds to pronnunc• a warm and animated eulogium
on the town of Lyons, which, up to the date of the late
catastrophe, had constantly shown itself the most en-
ightened and intelligent, tl e most submissive to the laws,
Irvl the most attached to the terolution of July of any in
tl'e kingdom. After alluding to several passages in the
►peech of M. Manguin on the subject of the brigading of
the workmen, he declares that his Honourable Colleague
'IAA thrown away his eloquence on this subject, and had
41tIly proved, in the statements he had hazard, d on the
matters of fact, that his memory was not equal to the
acknowledged brilliancy of his talents. This insinuation
calls forth much violent interruption from the benches
of the Opposition to the right of the President, who ex-
claim against it as a disgraceful personality. 31. Madier,
however, persists, with the most exemplary patience, in
availing himself of every interval of comparative quiet to
proceed with the reading of his speech. The object of the
latter part of it evidently is to throw the odium of the
disasters which befel the patiiots of Italy and Poland on
the unwarranted promises of encouragement and assist-
ance which had been given them by M. Mauguin and hi►
party; but despairing to obtain a hearing, Dl. Madier,
after occupying the tribune fur upwards of an hour, at
length discends from it, without completing the task he
had undertaken.

The next speaker is M. de Tracy, who although be-
longing to the ranks of the opposition, endeavours to rally
the Chamber to the question from which his friend M. Mau-
ruin had been the first to wander. He applies himself to the
period when the Prince Royal and the Minister at 'War
arrived at the seat of the insurrection, and contends that
much more might have been done for the relief of the suf-
fering workmen than had been undertaken or attempted.
As to the original cause of the distress, which produced
the insurrection, he concurs with the previous speakers in
denying that the revolution of 1930 had any thing to do
with it, and refets the whole to the enormous debt be-
queathed to them by the restoration, and to other cause•,
in which the workmen at Lyons, and in the other mann
lasturing towns of Franco, were only suffering in common
with the commercial interests in neighbouring anil rival
countries.

The President of the Council next prepares, with hi.
wonl slow and deliberate step, to ascend the tribune.
Having carefully arranged his papers on the reading-desk,
he begins to read, but bad not advanced beyond the second
sentence of the paper when he discovered that some strange
error had been committed. After a good deal of laughter,
the commencement of the President's speech is discovered
in the portefcuille of General Sebastiani, who hastens to
send it to him, by one of the ushers in attendance. Hav-
ing at length ascertained that his papers were all right,
he begins by pressing one of his favourite topics—the ne-
cessity for a perfect good understanding and solidarite be-
tween the Chamber and the executive authority. Ile begs
the Chamber to be assured that they need never entertain
any apprehension as to the care, providence, and foresight
of the present Administration. Proceeding with a his-
tory of the rec. nt events, Le states that a reduction had
been made in the wages of the workmen at Lyons to the
amount of 25 per cent. soon after the date of the revolu-
tion. He describes the first meetings which took place at
La Croix Rousse, the chief suburb of Lyons, where the
silk trade is carried on, and quotes the instructions which
lead in consequence been given to the Prefects of the de-
partment of the Rhone to prevent all illegal meetings of the
workmen, under what pretext soever. The Mayor
of Lyons, however, had thought fit to sanction a
meeting of workmen at the Hotel de Ville,
which he assigns as the origo mull. If the
local authorities had not interfered, there would have been
neither disturbance nor insurrection at Lyons. After the
first meeting, at which a deputation of the Chamber of
Commerce and of the master-m enufacturers, together with
the delegates of the weavers, attended, the masters having
declared their inability to pay the price fixed by the tariff,
the meeting was adjourned, and the Mayor persisted in
calling a separate meeting of the weavers, inviting them
to name other delegates to meet another deputation of the
masters and of the Chamber of Commerce. Matters
were in this state, when a messenger arrived from the Mi-
nister of the Interior, with instructions to take the most
vigorous and active measures for the repression of dis-
turbance. To this messenger the Prefet of the Rhone re-
plied, at 0 e moment when the Place de Bellican was
covered with 6,000 armed workmen, " Sir, I shall answer
with my head for the tranquillity of Lyons." He blames
the Prefet in very marked and pointed terms for his un-
pardonable neglect to consult superior authority, which he
was in a situation to have done at any time within many
months before the arrival of this catastrophe. The mas-
ter-manufacturers had not withheld their complaints and
remonstrances; the Prefet could not, therefore, complain
that he was oat sufficiently instructed. He next reads the
correspondence between the Minister of the Interior and
the Prefet, in the course of which he points out the pre-
cautionary recommendations of the Minister and the un-
warrantable confidence of the Prefet.

The Minister was proceeding in this strain at the hour
of post, defending his own conduct and foresight, and
throwing on the Prefet, as the administrative scape-goat,
all the sins of omission, as well as commission, which took
place anterior to the insurrection. In the course of his
speech, M. Perier attempted to lay aside his manuscripts
and break out into an extemporaneous address, but the
awkward incident at the commencement of his speech
seemed still to weigh upon him, and to deny him that
freedom of utterance in which, occasionally, he is far from
being deficient. It is understood that if he proceeds to
reply to M. Mauguin on the subject of the brigading of the
workmen, he will be followed by M. Willon Barrot, who
is au fait to this subject from his recent brilliant defence
of the National and the Tribune in regard to it. His
language, however, will be snore measured, and his tone
more moderate,than that of M. Mauguin, the vehemence
of whose language is far from being approved of by the party
of which he wishes himself to be regarded as the leader.

(From the Morning Herald.)
We have received the French Papers of Wednesday,
and the Gazette de France and Messager des Chambres
of yesterday.
The motion of M. Salvertc in the Chamber of Deputies
for an inquiry into the late events at Lyons was rejected
on Tuesday without a division, after an outrageous attack
on M. Casimir Perier (in the lobby) by M. Dunloulard,
Prefect of the Rhone. The Minister proceeded on Wed_
nesday in the defence of his Administration. Marshal
Soult was not present. M. Dumoulard was erased from
the list of Councillors of State by a Royal Ordinance dated
Tuesday.
The general belief in Paris was that the Etnyeror of
Russia would withhold his sanction from the twenty-four
articles, and that the King of Holland would submit only
to force. The conviction that the general peace of Europe
would not be disturbed remained nevertheless unaltered.
The fall in the funds which took place on that day was
ascribed to the increasing belief that M. Perier would not
be able to maintain himself in office. It would appear
,C that the ricorous measures directed again-t the students,
cl Were proceeding on Monday with an address to Gene-
F! litti,,,arino, had caused much dissatisfaction among all
tbx Parisians.
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