The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-09 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Message of the PRESIDENT is of course com-
mented on in all of them but is approved of by none
save and except the Debats and the Constitutionnel,
the former of which announces that it was M. Louis
BONAPARTE himself who wrote this official docu-
ment.
The National is as might have been expected
greatly displeased With the Message. It says—
"We expected little from the Message; and what have
we found in it? Absolutely nothing. It is an ill-ar-
ranged, vague, and confused production, in which the
moat important questions are carefully glossed over; it
speaks at length on what every one knows, and is silent
on those subjects on which every one was desirous that
it should speak. It is a retrospective junction of shreds
taken from the Moniteur as to the state of the customs
and other statistics, and very clumsily sewn together,
unus et alter assuitur pannus. Not one original idea,
without ensemble, and without any plan for the future.
Of great problems of government at home, what does it
contain? Nothing. Of action abroad? Nothing, ex-
cept a few ambitious and empty words. In fact,
it contains nothing, or next to nothing, re-
lative to Italy, Germany, Hungary, the Dunubian
provinces; nothing of our alliances; nothing of the
conduct which we are to observe :towards other
powers. A speech from the throne could not have been
better arranged. 01 all the reforms to be realised at
home, nothing is said more than was done under the
last regime. In a word it is a programme of weakness,
and a programme of weakness is a prelnde to revolu-
tion."

The Presse considers the Message as a very milk-
and-water affair, and accuses the PRESIDENT of
having abandoned his old principles, and the Credit
and the Siecle, the two journals which are generally
considered to be under the control of M. Duraante,
are even more severe upon the PRESIDENT than is the
National itself. The Credit, in allusion to the
language of the Message on the subject of Rome,
which it stigmatises as wilfully ambiguous, and to
the rumours which were yesterday rife in Paris,
that the PRESIDENT, acting under the influence of
M. DE FALLOUT, had given orders to OUDINOT to
attack Rome at once in violation of the armistice,
says—
" We broadly affirm that the Minister, or that the
Cabinet who would give such an order without consult
ing the Assembly, and who would dare to compromise
the honour, the fortune, and the blood of France with-
out the authorisation of the representatives of the
people—who should rashly excite the passions of the
country and m Europe, and light the flame of civil
and foreign war, we declare that a Minister, or a CLbi-
net, so imprudent, so audacious, and so false would de-
serve to be at once impeached and tried with the utmost
severity."
The Message as published in the Moniteur differs
from that published in the other papers in a most
essential point. In speaking of the resistance offered
to General OUDINOT by the Romans, the Message as
published in the Moniteur says—" This unexpected
struggle, without making any change in the final
aim of our enterprise, has paralysed our beneficent
intentions, and rendered abortive the efforts of our
negotiations." The message as published in the other
journals, has, after the words " beneficent intentions,"
the following passage : " Completely altered the
state of the question, so that now it is only in Rome
that it can be resolved in a manner consistent with
the honour of France." This latter version was
the one originally laid on the table of the
Assembly, but the PRESIDENT subsequently altered it
as it appeared to explain somewhat too clearly his in
tentious with regard to Rome. The interpellations
which were to have been addressed to the Government
on Thursday on the subject of foreign affairs, have
been postponed to Monday, in consequence of the
illness of M. LEDRU ROLLIN. It was said that the
Government had yesterday received a telegraphic
dispatch, announcing that General OUDINOT had
commenced his attack on Rome on the 2d, and that
at the time the dispatch was sent off he was in pos-
session of the whole Trasteven quarter of the city,
including the Vatican and St. Peter's, and
that he was negotiating with the Consti-
tuent Assembly for the surrender of the
remaining portions of the city. The French admit
that they lost 150 men killed in this attack, which it
appears was commenced by General OUDINOT, in .di-
rect violation of the treaty entered into by M. LES-
SEPS with the Roman Republic, which, it will be seen,
was in direct uniformity with the resolution of the
7th May of the National Assembly.
The following is a copy of the treaty signed by M.
de LESSEPS, and repudiated by General OUDINOT :
" Art. 1. The support of France is insured to the po-
pulation of the Roman States; they consider the French
army as a friendly army which comes to assist in the
defence of their territory.
" Art. 2. In accordance with the Roman Government,
and without mixing in the administration of the country,
the French army will take its exterior cantunmeuts
which are convenient, at the same time, for the defence
of the country, and tor the salubrity of the troops.
" Art. 3. The French Republic guarantees against all
foreign invasion the territory occupied by its troops.
" Arr. 4. It is understood that toe present arrange-
ment must be submitted to the ratification of the French
Republic.
Art. 5. In any case, the effects of this treaty cannot
cease till 15 days after the official communication of the
non ratification.
" Done in double at Rome, and at the head-quarters
of the French army, the 31st of May, eight P. 31.
(Signed) " C. ARMELLINL
A. SAM.
G. MAZZINL
" Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Minister Plenipotentiary
of the French Republic in Mission."
General OUDINOT addressed the following letter to
the Triumvirs :
" Messieurs le Triumvirs,—l have the honour of
making known to you that I accepted for my part the
ultimatum which was transmitted to you on the 29th of
this month by M. de Lesseps.
To my great astonishment, M. Lesseps brings me,
on his return from Rome, a sort of Convention in com •
plete opposition with the spirit and base of the ultimatum.
I am convinced that in signing it, M. de Lesseps has ex-
ceeded his powers.
" The instructions I have received formally interdict
me from associating myself with this last act. I con-
sider it as non avenue ; and it is my duty to declare this
to you without delay.
OUDINOT DE REGGIO, the General Commanding-
in-Chief the Expeditionary Corps of the Mediter-
ranean."
The General, at the same time, sent the following
letter to M. LESSEPS :
" Monsirur le Ministre Plenipotentiaire,—You have,
since the 17th of this month, paralysed all the move-
ments of the corps under my command.
" You demanded of me that the truce, promised ver-
bally by you to the Roman troops, should be extended
until an answer had been received to the dispatches you
had forwarded to our Government. Although I consi-
dered such a delay as very prejudicial to my military
operations, I nevertheless consented, in order to avoid
the appearance of any difference of opinion existing be-
tween us. Since that period the Roman troops have been
moving about wherever they thought it their interest so
to do. I have, on the contrary, confined my operations
within the part of the country having Civita Vecchia as
its basis. You, on the 29th, proposed an ultimatum, the
terms of which I accepted, although certain of its stipu-
lations did not give me entire satisfaction.
"During the day you wrote me from Rome, that in
every probability that ultimatum would be accepted
that very evening ; and that, contrary to what I ex-
pected, you had signed conventions with the Roman
Republic to which you hoped I would also affix my
signature.
" These conventions are in formal opposition to the
instructions which I have received. I also believe them
to be contrary to the wishes of my Government ; I nat
only shall not give my assent to them, but I shall regard
them as null and void, and I have declared as much to
the Roman authorities. When the Government has sig-
nified its reply to the dispatches forwarded to it I shall
scrupulously obey its instructions ; but in the mean time
I regret to say that it will be impossible for me to act
any more in concert with you.
(Signed) " OUDINOT."
M. DE LESSEPS is so disgusted with the manner in
which he has been bamboozled by the French Cabinet
in this affair, that he has retired altogether from
diplomatic life.

Marshal BUGEAUD has had a relapse of cholera, and
is again in extreme danger.
The following notice from the Board of Health at
the Prefecture of Police has been posted up :
" Since the sadden appearance of the unusual heats
the choleric epidemic, which was sensibly decreasing,
has resumed a new intensity. This increase, however,
has not the gravity attributed to it by the public. In
c• nsequenco of the reigning heat, there are hygienic
precautions already recommended, which ought to be re-
gularly folloyyed. It cannot be too often repeated that,
ia a great majority of cases, the cholera is preceded by
a derangement of the bowels, which it would be impru-
dent to neglect, and for which the advice of a physician
urinhg ou
the lgreeastoberl,
beats,
should be immediately taken. At all time!), but more
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people are too generally induced to make an
and
precaution
in abase of cold
and refreshing drinks. Great
should ulso be observed the use of exciting or alco-

holic liquors. _ln some arrondissements the epidemy
has become sufficiently intense for the administration to
thick it its duty to open several dispensaries which had
not before been brought into activity, although organised.
This measure, purely of precaution, will immediately
afford the population all the medical aid that can be re-
quired.
"Paris, June 6." " The Prefect of Police, REEILLOT.
'We read in the Union Medicale of yesterday :
" May cold baths be taken during the cholera? Such
is the question which should be daily addressed to our
brothers of the faculty, and which has frequently been
Idilressird to us during the last few days. We shall say
only that cold baths are not forbidden; but we know
(hat several of our brethren, whose opinion is of autho-
rity, participate in our view of this matter, and do not
hesitate, not only not to prevent the use of bathing in
,he river, but even prescribe it as a preservative. We
know that, under the advice of the medical officers,
aeveral regiments quartered in Paris take river baths,
and that the use of this means has been found worthy of
approval.he
cholera
is making fearful progress in. Pub.