The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-06 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
There has been another delay in the presentation
of the PRESIDENT'S Message. It had been promised
for yesterday, but at the sitting of the Assembly it
was intimated that the Message would not be pre-
sented on that day, although a sort of promise was
made that another day would not be suffered to elapse
without the presentation of this important document.
These delays have occasioned considerable uneasiness
on the Bourse, as they are considered indicative of a
schism in the new Cabinet ; indeed the Presse ex-
pressly declares that the new Cabinet is in a state
of dissolution, and that M. DE PALLOUX and Ge-
neral RULIIIERES will be compelled to leave,
as they insist on active intervention in the
affairs of Rome for the restoration of the tempo-
ral power of the POPE, and on introducing a measure
which shall place the whole system of education
throughout France under the exclusive superintene
dente and control of the priests, to neither of which
measures are the other members of the Cabinet in-
clined to give their support.
La Patrie states that the Message of the PRESIDENT
of the Republic had not been delivered on Monday,
in consequence of the extent of the exposition of the
general affairs of the Republic, into which it was
necessary to enter according to the terms of the Con-
stitution, and which could not be completed within
the time specified by M. ODILON BARROT.
The National Assembly on Monday elected MM.
DE PANAT and BAZE as Questors. General LEBRE-
TON, 'however, who had resigned in order to
prevent the authority of the Questor being insulted
by General CIIANGAREIER, polled 140 votes. A
motion of M. EMANUEL ARAGO, for a Parliamentary
inquiry into the elections of Lot and Garonne, was
rejected by a majority of 319 to 191. The allega-
tion was that the election in question had been influ-
enced by the dispatch of M. LEON FAUCHER.
In the same sitting, M. DUFAURE announced the
speedy introduction of several measures for affording
assistance to the labouring classes; and M. LEDRU
ROLLIN gave notice for Thursday of several inter-
pellations which he intends to address to the Govern-
ment on the subject of their foreign policy, and more
especially with regard to the affairs of Rome.
The French Government received yesterday an
official announcement that M. LESSEP, the Envoy
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome, has
positively become deranged in his intellect. A letter
is said to have been addressed to the PRESIDENT of
the Republic by M. LESSEPS himself, in which he
proposes to him (the PRESIDENT) a detailed plan of
a bedchamber. It was believed this unhappy inci-
dent would still further complicate the Italian
question.
The Minister of Commerce and Agriculture has
received a telegraphic dispatch from the Prefect of
the department of the Lower Rhine, dated Stras-
burg, the 24th of June, announcing that the em-
bargo placed at Manheiw on the steam-boat which
plies between that town and Kehl had been removed
on the 2d inst., and the boat had resumed her occu-
pation.
The reactionary club of MM.. BUGEAUD, MOLE,
and TRIERS held a sitting on Monday night,
at which it was determined to introduce a
measure by which the majority of the National
Assembly will be enabled to ride rough-
shod over the minority, and to stifle all discussion
they propose to increase the authority of the P RESS-
DENT, and to give the Assembly the power ofimpri-
soning and expelling any of its Members ; they also
proposed to suppress the standing committees of the
House, and to introduce a law, authorising General
CHANGARNIER to unite the command of the garri-
son of Paris w ith that of the National Guard, in
violation of the fundamental principles of the Consti-
tution. On the recommendation of M. TRIERS the
further consideration of this last question was ad-
journed. The meeting agreed to support the new
Ministry, on condition that it should introduce a strong
measure against the clubs. The great majority were
opposed to any amnesty.
We regret to learn from these papers the
sudden demise of the Countess of BLESSINGTON
on Monday night. Her Ladyship had been
present at a large dinner that day, and returned to
her residence in the evening in her usual state of
health. Shortly after her return she has seized with
illness and died in the course of a few hours ; from
apoplexy according to one account, from the cholera
according to another.
The cholera is at present making dreadful ravages
in Paris. CARLOTTA GRIST was attacked by it on
dSaunngdear.y, and was yesterday in a state of imminent
M. LUCIEN MURAT has likewise been attacked by
it, and is not likely to recover.
The Envoys sent by the revolutionary Govern-
ments of Baden and of the Bavarian Palatinate have
been refused an audience with the PRESIDENT of the
Republic, or even with the Minister of Foreign
Afidirs.