The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-25 00:00:00

FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Avignon and Marseilles Railway Bill was read
a first tune by the Assembly on Tuesday.
The High Court of Versailles was on Tuesday the
scene of another scandal, in consequence of the gro,:s
mi3conduct of a witness, M. VALOIS, who, instead
of confining himself to facts, abused the prisoners, who
were representatives, calling them not representatives,
but wretches—hereupon the prisoners, as might have
been expected, loudly protested against the insults of
M. VALOIS. Theso protests were renewed
in the course of the day in consequence
of the manner in which a certain Cap-
tain GOUBEAU gave his evidence. The Captain
stated that upon his arresting a couple of individuals,
one of them said "Take care, I am a representa
tive ;" on which he (the a itness) exclaimed, " You
a representative ? rye, a representative of the Ca
naille !" Hereupon the prisoners rose, en masse, and
protested against the shameful insults to which they
were subjected, and one of them, LAMAZIERE, de -
nounced the witness as a liar, for which he was
immediately sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
and a fine of 100 francs. The Counsel for the
defence energetically denounced the insulting con-
duct of the witnesses.
The Republique and the Democratie Paeffique of
Tuesday were seized for publishing the following
letter from Louis BLANC and his companions in
exile:—
" Citizen,—The sentence which has, in the person
of citizent Caber, just struck one of the most pure
and courageous,servants of democracy, has not surprised
us. Whatever opinions may be formed on an attempt
at colonization, inspired moreover by so elevated a feel•
ing of devotedness, every Socialist considers himself as
jointly attacked by the judgment pronounced against
Cabet. It belongs to those who have sanctified the pil-
l-ry and the hulks to re-establish also the benches of the
correctional tribunal. Each of us henceforth has paid
his debt. The musket, the hulks, exile, imprisonment.
the galleys, and infamous condemnations are the conse-
cration of new ideas. It is still the gibbet of ignominy
transformed into the standard of victory ; the cap of the
slave become the glorious symbol of liberty. Health
and fraternity.
" The members of the committee,
"Lours BLANC, President ; J. CAZIVANT, Se-
cretary ; CAUSSIDIERE ; Louis MENARD ;
RATTIER ; J. P. BERJAEU ; A. BOLTRA ;
DELEAII) A. Dußois (a journeyman ca-
binet-maker) ; A. WATRIPON ; MARTIN
BERNARD."
Notwithstanding the seeming reconciliation between
the parti-pretre and the Ministry, it is evident that the
breach is becoming every day wider between the dif-
ferent factions of the so-called party of order. It will
be remembered how energetically M. EMILE DE
GIRARDIN exerted himself to secure the election of
N. Loses NAPOLEON BONAPARTE to the Presidency
of the Republic at the time that M. TRIERS declared
that such an election would be a disgrace to France.
No sooner, however, had the election taken
place than M. DE GIRARDIN was discarded,
and M. TRIERS, the man who had laid the
Boulogne guet-a-pens for LOUIS NAPOLEON,
was feted at the Elyste. The apparent friendship of
N. 'JCIIIERS in 1849 was merely another guet-a pens,
into which the PRESIDENT has again unwittingly fallen,
and M. THIERS now endeavours to degrade the
PRESIDENT, and to make him appear powerless and
ridiculous. The object of these mano3uvres of M.
'rums are thus explained by the Presse:—
" Do you desire to know what is the hope of M.
Thiers? We will tell you. M. Thiers hopes that the
day shall come when the domination of his own virtual
Presidency becoming insupportable to the President, so
only in name, the latter will, in a violent access of pas-
sion, attempt some inconsiderate enterprise.
" Such is the calculation. The whole edifice is built
on this supposition, on this eventuality, which they
reckon upon as certain. The report of M. Thiers is the
first stone of the edifice—the vote of the majority is the
second."
The health of M. DE FALLOUX continues in such a
precarious state, that bis resignation is considered
inevitable. It was said that the portfolio of Public
Instruction would be offered to M. VATISMENIL, who
had been one of the Ministers of CHARLES X. ; but
the DE FALLOUX and the MONTALEMBERTS object to
N. VATESMENIL, because he is not a Jesuit. Thus
do these pseudo-Republicans, in their zeal of Jesuit-
ism, out-do even the priest-ridden CnannEs X.
himself.
There are rumours of an approaching change of
Ministry, the PRESIDENT being, it is said, determined
to surround himself by his friends all the members
of the present Ministry will, it is said, retire, with
the exception of M. ODILON BARROT ; and MM.
VICTOR HUGO, DARU, DE LA MosuowA, and
MATHIETJ DE LA REDORTE, will enter the Cabinet.
The Patrie, however, states that these rumours are
without foundation.
The Constitutionnel says that, according to letters
from Venice, a rumour was current in that city that
the Austrian Cabinet bad determined to condemn the
Hungarian Generals in their absence, and to abandon
the demand of extradition.
The Evenement states that dispatches have been
addressed by the French Government to General
AUPICIL, at Constantinople, instructing him to act in
conjunction with the British Ambassador.
The same journal states that the object of the
mission of M. PERSIGNY to Vienna was to ask for
the remains of the Due DB BEICHSTADT, in order to
have them laid by the side of the EMPEROR. Had
the request been complied with the intention was,
that there should take place a magnificent funeral
ceremony on the 25th of December, the anniversary
of the translation of the remains of the EMPEROR to
the Invalides. The young EMPEROR, however, gave
a point blank refusal to the request, on the ground
that it would not be becoming to remove the son of
an Austrian Archduchess from the side of his mother.
At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday the dis-
cussion commenced on the proposition of M. CRETON,
for abrogating the laws of proscription against the
members of both branches of the Bourbon family.
The Commission had recommended its not being
taken into consideration. M. CRETON spoke at some
length against this conclusion of the Committee, and
disclaimed any idea of sowing the seeds of division
between the moderate men who had brought the
country back to a state of calmness and security,
and to render an act of justice to unmerited mis-
fortune.

M. Berryer said that though he had always
opposed laws of proscription he should vote for the
rejection of the present measure. He did so from
the firm conviction that the families alluded to
would not avail themselves of the abrogation of
these laws. Under the present system which pre-
vailed in France, no member of the house of Bourbon
would ever consent to return to the country. To
recal them from exile at this moment would he
considered only be to make "confusion worse con-
founded."
M. Pascal Duprat said that he had intended to
oppose the proposition, but the speech of M. Berryer
had
induced him to change his opinion, and he should
now vote for it unless the Government, who would
doubtless speak on
which
the subject, should point out any
glaring dangermlgkt arise. It was not tne
wish of his party to efface the past, but merely to
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sition was good in itself, but in the present
affairs he was opposed to its adoption. The Govern-
ment had clearly stated its views to the Committee
on the subject, and on that opinion doubtless the
Committee had come to the resolution to oppose its