The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-22 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
In the discussion which took place on the affairs of
Rome in the National Assembly on Tuesday (a re-
port of the commencement of which appeared in the
Third Edition of The Sun of last evening) M. Pou-
JOLAT, who advocated the restoration to the POPE
of his temporal power at any price, was followed by
M. T. Bac, who said the question before the Assembly
was one that ought to have a solution, and to effect that
object he had just laid on the bureau of the President an
order of the day to the following effect:—" The National
Assembly, persisting in its declaration of the 25th May
last, passes to the order of the day." The Government,
he said, had not expressed itself clearly as to the con•
duct it intended to pursue, but, from the explanations
which had been given from that tribune, it was evident
that if intervention took place the Government would
no: regard it with regret. The Roman Republic was
a fact which the French Republic should feel it an
honour to protect. The language which had been
used by the Minister! of Foreign Affairs might
do very well for a minister under the monarchy, but
it did not suit that of the French Republic, and
Republicans should not tolerate such language.—(Mur-
murs.) The Roman Republic flowed from the same
origin as the French Republic.—(Loud interruption.)
He maintained that the revolution of February and the
Roman revolution were of a similar character; but for
the former the latter would not have taken place.—(Hear,
hear, from the Left.) You would not allow a hand to
be laid on the French Republic; do not, therefore, inter-
fere with the Roman Republic, for that would be to de-
stroy your own principle.
M. Aylies said that no one had a right from that tri-
bune to contest the legitimacy of the events which had
taken place at Rome. But in making that declaration,
he did not mean to admit that there was any similarity
of character between the French and the Roman revolu-
tions. In his opinion the most important part of the
question was the declaration made at Rome, that the
spiritual Power should have every guarantee, and also
full independence. In that point of view the question
interested the whole Catholic world, and it would abdi-
cate its rights and its duties, if it did nat interfere to
establish the independence of the Spiritual Power.—
(Cries from all aides of " Divide, divide.")
Numerous Voices on the Right—The order of the
day, pure and simple.
The President—M. Bac has withdrawn his order of
the day; there is, consequently, nothing to divide on.
The incident was then declared to be closed.
The National protests most energetically again t
any attempt on the part of France to destroy the
Roman Republic, and to restore the POPE by force
of arms ; and argues, not without some show of
reason, that if France has a right to restore the
POPE by force of arms, Russia has the same right to
restore by force HENRY V., or Louis PHILIPPE.
These papers state that General AUPIC, the French
Minister at Constantinople, had joined Sir STRAT-
FORD CANNING in his protest against the occupation
of Wallachia and Moldavia by Russia, and that
General LE 'LO, the French Minister at St. Peters-
burgh, has addressed the Russian Government in
very decided language on this subject. The French
and English Ministers have likewise, it is said, for-
bidden the negotiation of any secret treaty between
Russia and Turkey, much to the delight of the latter
power, which is prepared at once to go to war with
Russia with the certainty of being supported by
England, and the probability of being supported by
France.

It was announced in Paris yesterday that the pre-
liminaries of the Conferences at Brussels for the
settlement of the Italian question had commenced,
and that Count COLLARED°, the Ambassador of
Austria to that Conference, had declared that he was
charged by his Government to make known that he
would not take any official part in the meeting, un-
less, before all things, the plenipotentiaries would
formally engage to recognise, in the name of their
respective Courts, the integrity of the treaties of
1815. To this important declaration, Count COLLA•
REDO added that Austria, in accord with her powerful
allies, was decided to take the necessary measures to
make the treaties which had been signed and ac-
cepted by Europe duly respected, and would not
admit that the Conference of Brussels should have
any other object.
AMETTLER, the Spani3h Progressista chief, bas
been driven across the frontier into France. He was
followed by the QUEEN'S troops, who again violated
the French territory by shooting five Spaniards who
had taken refuge in France, and seizing eleven others
and carrying them as prisoners into Spain.
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Institute, have named a special committee,
i composed
of MM. GARNIER PAGES, PAGNERRE, BTIIELEMY
SAINT-HILAIRE, and DUCLRRC, for the purpose of di-
recting the approaching elections.
The Committee on the Electoral Law have pro-
posed the following amendment to the Bill :—"All
functionaries receiving payment elected representa-
tives of the people, and not comprised in the excep-
tions specified in the 77th and 78th clauses of the
present law, shall be bound to choose previous to the
verification of their qualifications between their func-
tions and their legislative appointment; in default of
option,
they shall be considered to have resigned their
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