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

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The vote of want of confidence in the Ministry,
proposed in the National Assembly on Friday by M.
JULES FATRE, 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 VT only.
The following explanation of the order of the day
issued by General CHANGARNIER on the subject of
the letter of the President of the Republic to General
OUDINOT appears in the ilioniteur of Sunday :
" The President of the Council having annoucced at
the tribune that be would demand an explanation rela-
tive to the order of the day attributed to General Chan-
garnier, the Hon. General hastened to declare to him
that no order of the day had been read to the army
on the subject ofthe 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 in 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 an 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 BARROT, 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
MARRAST, the President of the Assembly, that the
above explanation should appear in the Meniteur of
Friday, whereupon General CuAsiceasiiss waxed
mighty wrath, and protested against the publication
of this disavowal, and M. DE FALLOUI, and the
Legitimist portion of the Cabinet declared they could
not suffer any act to be done which should annoy
that excellent Royalist, General CHANGARNIER, 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 Henriquinquists in the Cabinet gave way.
These circumstances occuring at the same time
with the ill-success of the fraud practised upon the
nation in the matter of the Roman expedition, the
arrest of Sergeant BOICHOT, the seizure of the
journals, the severe sentences passed on the
gerants of the different Republican journals, and the
attempt made by M. TRIERS and the clique of the
Rue de Poictiers to exclude the names of General
CANADINAc and MM. DUFAURE, MARIE, and F. DE
LEYSTERIE, from the list of Moderate candidates for
Paris, after having pledged themselves to vote for
the Di who 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 tho 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 past 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.
MOLE and THIERS were at the bottom of the poll
last night. M.DR LAMARTINE, who had declined to start
as a candidate, has received many votes, and Sergeant
BIOCHOT, the victim of General CHANGARNIER, 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 BOICHOT 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? He wished to know what the Cabieet had already
done, and what it intended to do hereafter?
M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
said that the Hon. Gentleman could scarcely expect him
to enter into a detailed account 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. He could, however, state
that when the French Calsitiet heard of the intentionof Rus-
sia to interfere in the affairs of Hungary, it at once perceived
the full gravity of such a proceeding. Ia consequence,
it dispatched ;note to the Courts of Berlin, Vienna, and
London, intimating the grave perturbation which might
result from such a course being persisted in--a pertur-
bation affecting not only the East and Gt i many, but the
whole of Europe. 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 arranging the matter in un amicable manner.
Should other measures be found necessary, the Cabinet
would come forward and annoutiee the fagt to the As-
sembly, and demand the means of carrying them out,
M. Fiecon would have nothing to say against the de-
claration of the l-lopourable Minister had not the affairs
of the last few days peeved that too much confidence
was not to be placed in the assertiolus of the Cabinet
(Mons, done). The circumstances conneeted wftb 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.--(Murinurs on the Right.) In consequence