The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-14 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REP ÜBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
Tne vote of want of confidence in the Ministry,
proposed in the National Assembly on Friday by M.
JULES FAVRE, gave rise to a most animated discussion,
in the course of which the Ministry and their sup-
porters broached the abominable doctrine that
because a nation dares to resist an act of injustice
attempted by
_the French Government, therefore
that nation must be conquered and destroyed at
whatever cost, for to that tends the argument of M.
ODILON BARROT, that it is impossible to enter into
negotiations with the Roman Republic, because it
has resisted the entry of French troops into Rome.
The Ministry not daring to meet the motion of want
of confidence with a direct negative, proposed the
order of the day, which was carried by a narrow
majority of 37 only.
The following explanation of the order of the day
issued by General CIIANGARNIEIL on the subject of
the letter of the President of the Republic to General
OUDINOT appears in the 3ionileur of Sunday :
The President of the Council having announced at
the tribune that he would demand an explanation rela-
tive to the order of the day attributed to General Chan-
gamier, the Hon. General hastened to declare to him
that no order of the day had been read to the army
on the subject of the President's letter. As commander
of the forces assembled in the first military division, he
merely communicated to the chiefs of that corps the
expression of the President's sympathy for our brave
soldiers. He did so before the discussion to which that
letter gave rise iu the Assembly, and on the day the
journals pointed it out to public attention. The Hon.
General added that he could not comprehend how his
letter could be regarded as au offence to the National
Assembly, whose rights and prerogatives he respects as
being those of one of the great powers of the State, and
to which he himself has the honour to belong."
It will be recollected that the announcement at the
tribune of M. ODILON BAREOT, which is alluded to
in the above document, was made in answer to certain
interpellations addressed to that gentleman, and it
was arranged between himself and M. ARMAND
MannesT, the President of the Asse.mblv, that the
above explanation should appear in the Moniteur of
Friday, whereupon General CH AN G ARN I EEC waxed
mighty wrath, and protested against the publication
of this disavowal, and M. DE FALLOUX, and the
Legitimist portion of the Cabinet declared they could
not suffer any act to be done which should annoy
that excellent Royalist, General CIIANGARNI ER, and
so the publication was deferred. M. ODILON BARROT
however, considering that his honour was pledged in-
sisted, but it was not until he tendered his resignation
that the Henriquicquists in the Cabinet gave way.
These circumstances occuring at the same time
with the ill success ef the fraud practised upon the
nation in the matter of the Roman expedition, the
arrest of Sergeant BOICIIOT, the seizure of the
journals, the severe sentences passed on the
gerants of the different Republican journals, and the
attempt made by M. Tutees and the clique of the
Rue de Poictiers to exclude the names of General
CAVAICNAC /Ma MM. DUFAURE, MARIE, and P. DE
LEYSTERIE, from the list of Moderate candidates for
Paris, after having pledged themselves to vote for
the 28who should have the majority on the preliminary
ballot, have at length opened the eyes of the citizens
of Paris to the dangers which must arise from the
continuance of the reactionaries in power. The re-
reaction (as it has been appropriately phrased) has
commenced. Yesterday was the first day of the
polling for the electors of Paris, and up to the hour
of the departure of the post the Republican candidates
were at the head of the poll by a large majority. It
was considered that the greater number of those
whose names appear in the list of the National would
be elected, and that the Red Republicans and So-
cialists would also carry many of their men. MM.
Moee and 'fauns were at the bottom of the poll
last night. i'd.DE LA AI ARTINE, Whollad declined to start
as a candidate, has received many votes, and Sergeant
BIOCIIOT, the victim of General CHANGAILNIEE, is, it is
said, sure of his election. The votes of the garrison
of Paris were taken on Friday and Saturday. The
Socialist candidates had the majority of the army
votes, and Sergeant BoscuoT was at the head of the
poll. Paris was perfectly tranquil during the whole
of 'yesterday, there was not exhibited even the or-
dinary bustle of a contested election.
In the National Assembly, on Saturday, the fol-
lowing conversation took place, on the subject of
Russian intervention in the affairs of Hungary :
M. Flocon wished to learn what policy the French
Cabinet intended to pursue in the affairs of Germany,
relative to the entrance of the Russian troops into Hun-
gary ?- Ile wished to know what the Cabinet had already
done, and what it intended to do hereafter?
M. Drouyo de Lhuys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
said that the lion. GAitlernan could scarcely expect him
to enter into a detailed acceuat of what had taken place,
or of what precise course the Government intended to
pursue hereafter, in the matter to which he had directed
the attention of the Assembly. Ile could, however, state
that when ilieFrench Caliii, et heard of the iutentionot Rus-
sia to interfere in the affairs of Hungary, it a t once percdve d
the full gravity of such a proceeding. In consequence,
it dispatched a note to the Courts of Berlin, Vienna, and
_Loudon, intimating the grave perturbation which might
result from such a course being persisted in—a pertur-
bation affecting not only the East and Germany, but the
whole of Etnope. It immediately commenced negotia-
tions on the subject, as was the duty of a prudent Go-
vernment. It should persist in that course, with the
hope of art anging the matter in an amicable manner.,
Should other measures be found necessary, the Cabinet
would come forward and announce the tact to the As-
sembly, and demand the means of carryne; them out.
M. Flocon would have nothing to say against the de-
claration of the Honourable Minister had not the affairs
of the last few days proved that too much confidence
was not to be placed in the assertions of the Cabinet
(Allons, done). The circumstances connected with the
expedition to Rome were of a nature unfortunately to
make the Members of the Assembly cautious in placing
implicit confidence in the statements made by the Go.
verement.—(Murnaura QII the Right.) In cviriequnce

he had to propose that the Mfnister of Foreign AT,:rs :
be called on to produce such documents as would show
to the Assembly at what stage the negotiations had ar-
rived at present.
This proposition had no result.
The People gives the result of the votes in the
garrison of St. Omer, where there are 48 soldiers,
who are natives of the department of the Seine, and
who consequently vote for Paris. Out of these votes,
Boichot is at the head of the list ; but the numbers,
either because they are suppressed, or from an error
in the impression, are not given. The second on the
list is M. Ledru Rollin, with forty votes. Then fol-
lows Felix Pyat, 38; Bac (Th.), 38; Lamennais, 37;
Considerant, 06 ; Lagrange, 36 ; Pierre Leroux, 36 ;
Proudhon, 36 ; Ratier (Ed.), 36; Savarv, 36 ;
Thore, 36 ; Greppo, 35; Herv6, 85 ; Madier de
Montjau, 35, &c. General Cavaignac has only 13
votes, General Larnoriciere 13, M. Dufaure 9, M.
Lamartine 7, M. Odilon Barrot 5, M. Leon Faucher
3, General Changarnier 1, Jerome Napoleon 1, M.
Thiers 1.
M. D tICUENE, the editor of M. PnouDiros's journal,
Le People, was tried on Saturday before the Court
of Assize of the Seine for having published a series
of seditious libels on the sth, 6th, 11th, 18th, and
19th of March last. He was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to imprisonment for five years arid to pay a fine
of 12,000 francs.
Letters from Toulon of the 9th instant, state that
all the ships iu the port were completing their pre-
parations for sea, and that orders had been received
there to embark 5,000 additional troops for Civita
Vecchia. A portion of the cavalry had been already
embarked.
The French Funds were in demand yesterday in
the Passage de I'Opera, although but few speculators
were in attendance, the elections occupying general
attention ; the last price was 90c. 76f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-FaCHANGE, MAY 12.
Boulognen 6J—Northern of France, 10 t. 4
DLcht h and Amiens,enisli, orleans and Bordeaux, 3—Paris and
Rouen, 2lN—Paris and Strasbourg, 414—Rouen and Havre,
9%—East Indian, 21/2