The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

Vtirb Wlittion

SUN OFIICE, Seven o'clock.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1548.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*329
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ..• ••! •••
Turbercular Diseases... ••••*** * 175
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 122
50
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels .of
..
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs
Respiration ... ••• ••• ... 245
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... ••• ••• •••
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ••
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations—. •••
Premature Birth •••
••
Atrophy
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ,••
Sudden ... ••• •••
•••
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes not specified

... 20
... 45

... 25
... 13

DEATHS FROM ALL CAIISES ...

1,208

ropulatien Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1843-7. In the
1841 Five Summers. Week.
West Districts... 300,711 . . 142 ... 179
North D.stricts.. 375,971 .. 182 ... 222
Central Districts 373,653 ... 178 ... 212
Bost Districts ... 392,444 ... 219 ... 245
South Districts .. 501,190 ... 251 ... 350

Totals... ..... 1,948,369
Males ... ...
Females ... ...

••• ,
1 208

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ...
Females ...

573
635

814
762

Total ... ... ... ... ... 1,576
•In this number are included 45 cases of death by
Cholera, 76 by Scarlatina, and 56 by Typhus Fever.

FRANCE.
MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS.
The National Assembly met yesterday at one
o clock. Extraordinary precautions had been adopted
for its protection. The number of troops in its im-
mediate neighbourhood was estimated at about twenty-
five thousand men ; the advance guard stationed on
the Place de la Concorde was composed of the
7th and 9th battalions of the Garde Mobile ;
the quays and streets adjoining the palace and the
Esplanade of the Invalides were occupied with sol-
diers. The garrison of the palace had been likewise
reinforced, and a battery of artillery was planted in
front of the edifice, at the entrance of the Pont de la
Concorde, A. second 15th of May was
not conse-
quently to be apprehended.
The most contradictory reports circulated in the
Salle des Pas Perdus. The Members of the Mon-
tagne, it was said, intended to move the impeach-
ment of the President of the Republic. Another
rumour states that M. Marrast, who had an interview
with M. Odilon Barrot in the morning, was to pro.
pose to the Assembly to confer the superior command
of the troops on General Lamoriciere, who had ac-
cepted it. It was also mentioned that M. Caussidiere,
former prefect of police, had been arrested, &c.
M. Clement Thomas, a member of the Assembly,
fought a duel in the morning with M. Coetlogon,
editor of the Corsaire. That journal contained, on
Sunday, an article in which M. Clement Thomas
was grossly insulted. The editor having refused to
give up the name of the author of the article, M.
Clement Thomas struck him. A duel ensued with
small swords, and the two combatants were danger-

ously wounded.
Generals Cavaignac and Lamoriciere arrived at an
early hour, and remained a long time in conference
together. General Lebreton took his seat, dressed in
his full uniform, having been invested in the morning
with the command in chief of the forces concentrated

round the palace.
The greatest agitation prevailed in the Assembly
when M. Marrast, the President, made his appearance.
No sooner had the Secretary read the minutes of the
preceding sitting than the tribune was invaded
by members holding in their hands petitions for and
against the dissolution of the National Assembly.
The procession to the tribune lasted about 20 minutes.
Messrs. Buchez, Laissac, Mathieu de la Drome,
Grandin, Denjoy, Montreuil,- Gent, &c., succeeded
each other, and explained the object of those petitions,
but the noise was so great that it was impossible to
ascertain either their origin or importance. The
signers of one of them protested against the re-
actionary manoeuvres of the Royalists of every
description.
M. Odilon Barre, Minister of Justice, having
ascended the tribune, silence was restored. The Go-
vernment, he said, had thought proper to adopt mea-
sures to ensure respect fur the laws, and protect the
security of the Assembly and the people. The time of
the engagerr ent of the Garde Mobile being on the point
of expiring, the Government had prepared regulations
and conlitions to facilitate the re-engagement of
such of the men as wished to continue in the service.
February was the term of their engagement, and
the Government did not wish to leave matters to the
last day. The measures devised were such as would
satisfy the gratitude of the country for the services
rendered by those brave soldiers, the necessities of the
treasury; and the regularity of the military service.
The soldiers discarded were to receive a certain
sum, which would enable them to wait until
they could find employment. The proposed re-
organiz stion had excited considerable emotion,
particularly among the officers, who were
desirous to preserve a rank to which'they were no
more entitled than the other officers of the National
Guard. That emotion was communicated to a few
battalions, and the Government saw the necessity of
adopting means to prevent that discontent from de-
generating into rebellion. The eternal enemies of
public repose, order, and society—(" You and your
colleagues," exclaimed M. Bourzat.—Cries of " Or-
der, order.")
Ihe President told M. Bourzat that if he inter-
rup'ed M. Odilon Barrot a second time he would be
obliged to call him to order.
M. Odilon Barrot, continuing, said that the enemies
of society were anxious to turn to account the discon-
tent of those brave young men, and, during the night,
the Government had received a report, the certainty
of which could not be questioned, that those
deluded soldiers had entered into communica-
tion with a focus of political passions. This cir-
cumstance was a danger, of which the gravity had
been perhaps exaggerated, but as it might lead to
deplorable consequences, the Cabinet could not,
without sacrificing its responsibility, avoid paying it
particular attention. It preferred preventing dis-
turbances than having to punish their authors, and
the chief of the military forces had, accordingly,
adopted the necessary precautionary measures for de-
feating those culpable manceuvres. The President
of the Assembly having, by virtue of a decree of
the Assembly, claimed the disposal of the troops, his
request was immediately complied with, and he ap-
pointed General Lebreton, one of the questors, to take
the chief command of the armed force. The liberty
and independence of the Assembly were completely
The legislative and executive powers
guaranteed•
might differ
in opinion on certain points, but there
were two on which they were perfectly agreed—the
defence of the Constitution, to which they had sworn
allegiance, and the repression of anarchical and anti-
social attempts.
M. Degousee, one of the questors, said that, find-
M.
in the morning the Palace of th
arte AillssembhlYe
had
d-
rounded with infantry, cavalry,. and
the cause of
that military display. lie there met M. Goudchaux,
Vice-President of the Assembly, who had called to
apprize the President of what was passing. Mar-
rast immediately wrote for information to General
Changarnier. Au hour and a half afterwards an aide-
de-camp brought a letter from the General, stating
that being then with the President, he could not wait
upon M. Marrast. This was a want of courtesy to-
wards the Assembly—)No, no ! Yes, yes !)—and a
violation of one of its decrees, providing that the
president alone had the right tOcommand the troops
for the protection of the Assembly.
M. Marrast said, that M. Odilon Barrot had told
him that when the conspiracy was discovered •
lt was
so late that he did not wish to disturb his sleep—
(Oh,oh)—otherwise, he should have been informed
of what was going on. Having claimed the disposal
of the military forces, the President of the Council
immediately complied with his demand, and it was he
had invested General Lebreton with the command of
the troops.
This incident having terminated, the Assembly corn-
menced the discussion on the proposition of M. Rateau
in favour of the dissolution of the Assembly.
111. Fresnau, who spoke first, contended that recent
events had completely proved that the unlimited
authority of the Consituent Assembly was incom-
patible with all regular government. The country,
he maintained, had not bowed to a mere name
on the 10th of December last, and those who asserted
that there was no political meaning in the choice
made by 6,000,000 citizens calumniated the country.
The country knew what it was doing when it named
the adversary of the policy which, right or wrong,
was supposed to be that of his rival. The question at
issue, he was aware, could be easily solved by the
present Ministers surrendering their places to certain
Members of the Assembly, but they could not desert
the post of honour in which they were placed, and
were bound to remain to defend the policy which had
triumphed on the 10th of December.
M. Jules Fevre, who followed, said that, in con-
sequence of the military preparations with which the
Assembly was surrounded, it should have passed to