The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-17 00:00:00

TIM FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We hare received the kris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
If we are to judge from the following decree signed
by the PRESIDENT of the Republic, which appears
in the Moniteur of yesterday, the cause of progress,
reason, and common sense has triumphed over that of
obscurantism and sacerdotal tyranny, the represen-
tative of which, M. DE FALLOUX, the apologist of
the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the panegyrist of
the Inquisition, and now the re-organizer of that de-
testable tyranny in Rome, is no longer a member
of the French Cabinet.
The decree says :—" The Department of Public
Instruction and Religious Worship is confided ad
interim, from Saturday, the 15th of the present
month, to M. LANJUINAIS, Minister of Agriculture
and Commerce."
A Council was held on Saturday, at which M. DE
FALLOUX did not attend, and at which it was decided,
in consequence of the representations of General
CIIANGARNIER, to continue General ROSTOLAN in
the command of the troops at Rome.
The official Moniteur of Saturday contains the fol-
lowing announcement :
" The letter of the President of the Republic to M.
Edgard Ney serves as a pretext to certain journals to
invent or to circulate all kinds of reports. The Assembide
Nationale, for instance, in its number,of this day, gave
as positive, that the President of the Republic declared,
in a Council of Ministers, that he tdid not pretend to
make the policy of the Cabinet subservient to his per-
sonal feelings, and that since the publication of his letter
had been attended with such consequences, he should
not hesitate to take from it anything of an official
character.' Another journal, the Estafette, states, ' that
there exists another very important letter of the Presi-
dent, which is said to have been addressed in form of a
circular to all the European Cabinets, and the object of
which is to explain or even to extenuate the bearing of
the letter of the 18th ult.' We are authorised to declare
that these statements are entirely unfounded."
The Assemblee Nationale is the organ of M. DE
FALLOUX.
The _Evenement has the following in relation to the
letter of the PRESIDENT tO:M. EDGAR NET :
" Some members of the committee of twenty-five,
being questioned to-day in the Salle des Conferences by
several representatives, communicated the explanations
given yesterday to the committee by the Minister of the
Interior, on the subject of the letter of the President of
the Republic. It results from these explanations that
the letter was communicated to the Council of Ministers,
and approved by all who were present; and that there
is perfect accord between all the members of the Cabinet
as to the policy that is indicated in it. It is added that
the great majority of the committee have also adhered
to that line of policy."
The Univers, the Union, and all the organs of the
parti-pretre are unanimous in declaring that the POPE
Will not give way. The Constitutionnel declares that
the Spanish Government is completely in accordance
with that of the French Republic on the subject of
the affairs of Rome, and that MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA
has received orders to sustain the demand of the
French Minister for the adoption of liberal measures.
Lord PALMERSTON has, it is said, demanded that
France should permit the Roman people to choose
their own form of government.
M. THEODORE BAC has presented the following
document, signed by himself and several Members
of the Mountain, to the Vice-President of the
Assembly :
" Seeing the letter of the 18th August from the Pre-
sident of the Republic to M. Edgar Ney;
" Seeing the note inserted iu the Aloniteur, and from
which it would appear to result that one of the members
of the Cabinet does not approve of the political line of
conduct indicated by this letter, of which he blames the
publication;
" Considering that the discipline of the army, the dig-
nity of France, and the security of the country, require
that there should not remain any longer a doubt with
respect to the agreement of the great powers of the state,
and to the policy which they ought to follow in the affairs
of Italy;
" The undersigned demand that the Legislative As-
sembly be convoked as soon as possible, for the purpose
of pronouncing in a sovereign manner upon the line
adopted and to Is;) adopted as a general policy, both
foreign and domestic."
[Here follow the signatures.]
The Presse has a long article on the subject of the
PRESIDENT'S letter and the disclosures which have
taken place consequent on its publication, in which M.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN contends that the effect of these
disclosures must be to insure the acquittal of those
accused of 13th of June, inasmuch as it is proved by
the published documents that there was a violation of
the Constitution on the part of the Ministry in the
conduct of the Roman expedition; and as the Consti-
tution enjoins on all citizens the duty of rising in its
defence, whenever it shall be violated, the citizens
who assembled on the 13th of June, and were dis-
persed by the armed force under Gen. CRANGARNIER,
were in their right, and CUANGARNIER, in dispersing
them, was guilty of an illegal act, for which he may
be hereafter held responsible. The Presse says the
following points are distinctly proved by the documents
now before the public :
"First—lt is proved that the attack' on Rome, of the
30th April, t,bok place notwithstanding the refusal of
the Pope to publish a manifesto according liberal insti-
tutions. It is proved, secondly, that, on the 9th of May,
the Pope was found to persist in his resolution to make
no declaration whatever. Thirdly—That the Ministers
had foully deceived the Assembly with regard to the
objects of the expedition. Fourthly—That the As-
sembly in granting 1,200,000 f. for the expedition never
supposed, and never would have sanctioned the supposi-
tion that the object was to overthrow the Roman Re-
public. Fifthly—That Civita, Vecchia having been
declared in a state of siege, in violation of all
.the prin-
ciples and declarations that had been proclaimed,
the distrust and resistance of the Roman people
were excited and provoked. Sixthly—That the
resistance shown on the 30th of April was in con-
sequence of these two facts, the state of siege in
which Civita Vecchia was placed, and the perti-
nacious refusal of the Pope to make any declaration in
favour of liberal institutions. Seventhly—That when M.
Odilon Barrot asserted that the resistance offered by the
Romans was a piece of treachery and a snare, he asserted
what could not have been true. Eiglithly—That he
equally deceived the Assembly when he pretended that
Rome was held by a set of strangers, who exercised a
reign of terror. Ninthly—That he deceived the Assem-
bly when he pretended that the Romans were animated
by hostility to the French. Tenthly—That, notwith-
standing all the false declarations of the Minis-
ters, the Assembly did, nevertheless, refuse to sanc-
tion an attack on the Roman Republic. Eleventhly—
That the Ministers, by not retiring before that
vote of the Assembly, which was one of censure,
did falsify the spirit of Parliamentry Government.
Twelfthly—' It is proved that the extra Parliamen-
tary manifestation of the 13th of June had been
caused by the grave violation of the expression of
the national will, committed by the Ministry on the
9th of May, when they issued the order for the army to
enter Rome by main force, despitelof the resolution of
the Assembly of the previous day, and in defiance of the
formal pledge on honour contracted by the Ministry to-
wards the committee not to enter Rome except on invi-
tation to act as arbitrators.' And, thirteentbly, It is
proved that the arms of the Republic have been em-
ployed against the Roman people, in contempt of the sth
article of the Constitution, and of the declaration of the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyn de L'Huys,
who on the 7th May said, "Is it, then, forgotten, the
conditions upon which the march on Rome was autho-
stised? I recall the two conditions—first, in case that no
serious opposition should be offered; and, secondly, in
dase that the army should be called by the free will of
the population."
Under these circumstances the Presse contends
that it is morally impossible, seeing it is admitted
now that the object of the expedition was from the
beginning to restore the POPE, that the prosecution
of those engaged in the manifestation of the 13th June 1
*an go on.
The Patrie says
The President of the Council of Ministers is still re-
tained for some days in the country by an operation
which demands almost absolute repose. M. Odilon Bar-
rot, however, passes some hours every day with the
directors of his department of -the Ministry, for the dis-
patch of important business."
The Constitutionnel says :
"At the moment when preparations were making at
Toulon for a new expedition against Morocco, it will be
learned with pleasure that such satisfaction has been
given to us as to render unnecessary any recourse to
extremities."

A severe storm has raged in Paris for several days,
and several trees have been blown down in the Gardens
of the Tuileries and the Champs Elysees. LL
Letters from Dijon state that the approaching
vintage will be deficient in quantity, but that the
wine will be of excellent quality.
The Council General of the Bank of France, in
its sitting of Thursday, voted the resumption of loans
on public securities, conformably to the law of May
17, 1834, and the ordinance of June 15, of the same
year. _

- We find the following in the Journal des Debate :
" We shall continue to call attention to the really ex-
traordinary situation of the Bank so long as this anomaly
shall subsist. The cash in hand has increased more than
7 000' 000 f. this last week; there are 256,297,000 f locked
up in the cellars of the Bank, and 140,538,000 f.
, in those
of the branch banks—in all, 396,835,000 f. The amount
of notes in circulation is 357,079,000 t. at Paris, and
ttlof
50,257,0001. in the branch banks, making
407,336,0001. The circulation of notes, a
therefore, o
only exceeds by 10,500,000 f. the cash in hand; and
if we except the branch banks it is below the
amount. We have not forgotten that among the
assets of the Bank figures a . credit on the state of
100,000,000 f., 50,000,000 f. : of which it lent on Treasury
4nd 50,000,000cwhich it paid on account of a loan of
150,000,0001. which it consented to make under the
reign of the Executive Commission and under the Mi-
nistry of M. Duclsrc. This credit of 100,000,000 f. is
due at the end of the present year. Unless any new
arrangement be made the Treasury will free itself from
the claim of the Bank, and it is probable that M. Passy,
when he thought of negotiating a loan of 200,000,0001.
in Consolidated ientes, calculated on paying off this
debt of the Treasury. This repayment will again cause
more cash to flow into the coffers of the Bank, and will
diminish the circulation of bank notes. The cash in