The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
They all comment on the recent Ministerial com-
binations. The National considers the acceptance of
office by M. DUFAURE as a sort of betrayal of the
moderate Republican parry. The Constitutionnel
cannot disguise its ill-humour at the exclusion from
the Ministry of Marshal BUGEAUD, whose mission,
had he obtained a seat in the Cabinet, it would have
been by wheedling the PRESIDENT, and alternately
bullying, and intriguing against his colleagues, to
prepare the way for the accession to office of M.
TniEas. We are not, therefore, surprised to find
the Constitutionnel thus giving vent to the feelings of
disappointment under which its tricky patron labours :
" We have not yet much to say about the new Minis-
try. What strikes us is that Marshal Bugeaud forms no
part of it. We regret it profoundly. No one in our
opinion answered better the double necessity of the situa-
tion which may be expressed by two words—assistance
and resistance. With Marshal Bugeaud the Cabinet
would have acquired additional force. We should not
have had any observation to make on the personnel of the
Cabinet, if it were not that what has passed with regard
to the election of President of the Chamber reveals a
tendency on the part of a certain portion of the Moderate
party to create for itself a distinct position. This fact
having taken place, it is not easy to avoid remarking that
the Ministry has taken the greatest part of its Members
out of the smallest fraction of the majority. In this
sense it is the Ministry of a minority ; it is a Ministry
determined by the elections of Paris, but not by the el,c
tions of all France."

The Debats waits for the Ministerial programme
before passing judgment on its policy.
The programme was to have been produced in the
sitting of yesterday, but in consequence of the objec-
tions taken by MM. DUFAURE and DE TOCQUEVILLE
to one part of the Message in which it is declared
that the French troops shall enter Rome bon gre mal
gre, the presentation of the Message has been post-
poned; and a Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at
which, after high words had passed among the
Ministers, it was agreed to modify the objectionable
passage, so as to meet the views of MM. DUFAURE
and DE TOCQUEVILLE. There were rumours, how-
ever, rife in Paris last evening of a break-up of the
new Cabinet.

The Message, it is said, gives a complete exposi-
tion of the present social and political situation
of the French Republic, and recommends the
adoption of measures for improving the condition of
the labouring classes, at the same time that it advises
the immediate passing of severe measures of repres •
sion of the liberty of meeting, of speech, and of
the press.
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M. D'ANDRE, the chef de Cabinet to M. DROUYN
DE I4IIUYS, has been appointed Minister Plenipoten-
tiary at Dresden ; and M. ItEmnAttnr, the present.
Minister at Dresden, is appointed Minister at Swit-
zerland, in the place of General THIARS, who has
resigned.

The exposition of national industry and of the
productions, both manufacturing and agricultural,
of France, was opened yesterday.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, JUNE 4.
THREE o'CLocK,—The Funds opened to day at no
less than 1 per cent. above the closing prices of Satur-
day; but upon its becoming known that the President's
Message had been postponed because the Ministers could
not agree on the paragraph respecting the expedition to
Rome, they immediately gave way, and closed at nearly
Saturdafs prices. Exchange on London (30 days), 25
45, money; ditto (90 days), 25 35, money.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 4.
Boulogne and Amiens, 64,—Northern of France,
Rouen and Havre, 9%—Paris and Orleans, 29—Sambre and
Meuse, 3.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

The Prussian Official Gazette of the 30th ult.
publishes a new electoral law fur Prussia. The fol-
lowing are its principal provisions :
"See. I. The representatives of the two Chambers
will be elected by dircct electors, in direct circles (wahl
begirhen), and the direct by indirect electors (urwahlern)
in circles for indirect election.
" Secs. 5,6, 7. A wahlmann will be elected for each
250 souls, and when parishes do not contain the requi-
site number, two or more will be united to complete the
minimum amount of 750 souls. The circles are then to
be divided into thirds, each of which will elect one
wahlmann or direct elector.

" Secs. 8, 9. All independent Prussians net deprived
of rights of citizenship by legal sentence, and who may
have resided six months in any given parish, are eutt-
to vote as to-Iva/der (indirect elector), providing he be
not in the receipt of public charitable relief. The
standing army and landwebr shall vote wherever they
be quartered, without regard to duration of sojourn.
They will also be collected, if possible, in circles of 750.
"Sec. 10. Tho urwahlur will be divided into three
classes, according to the amount of direct taxes paid by
each, so that a third of the collective sum of direct
taxes will be apportioned to each class. This collec-
tive sum will be calculated according to parishes, when
they constitute an electoral circle, or according to dis-
tricts where the electoral circle is composed of several
parishes united. In case of individuals paying no direct
Government tax, they may be rated according to the
amount of direct parish contributions.
"Sec. 12. The three sections will consist of-1,
Those paying the highest direct taxes; 2. Those paying
the largest quota after the former; and 3. Those paying
the smallest sum. To this latter class will belong all
those who do not pay direct taxes—that is, those who
are entitled to vote by paying parish or provincial rates.
"Sec. 18. Electors enjoy their priviliges during the
whole duration of the legislative period for which repre-
sentatives are elected.
" Sec. 29. All Prussians aro eligible to become re-
presentatives who have completed their thirtieth year,
have not been deprived of rights of citizenship by legal
sentence, and who have lived one year within the Prus-
sian territory.
" Sec. 31. When a representative is elected he must
declare whether he accepts or not, at once and without
reserve. Conditional acceptance is not permitted. The
total number of deputies to be elected amounts to 320.
The elections for direct electors are to take place on the
17th of July. The Chambers are to meet upon the 7th
of August."

During the course of the Whitsun holidays there
were several disturbances in the neighbourhood of
Berlin; the unarmed citizens were, in many instances,
attacked by the drunken soldiery with their side-
arms, and many of them were killed.