The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

At the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday
M. ARMAND MARRAST was re-elected President for
the ensuing month. The following was the result of
the ballot :

Number of voters...
Absolute majority
For M. Marrast
For M. Dufaure ... 221
Lost votes
The reactionary journals still continue to call for
the immediate dissolution of the . Assembly, and
allude to the number of petitions that have been pre-
sented to the Assembly, praying for such immediate
dissolution as a proof that the country desires to pro-
ceed to the election of a new legislative body. That
the number of petitions may be large we can readily
understand, because a petition if it have but one sig-
nature attached is a petition, but that these petition'
form any data on which to ground an opinion
we utterly deny ; seeing that the aggregate of all the
signatures attached to all the petitions that have been
presented to the Assembly on this subjects amounts
only t 0,6.500
The Constftzdionnel and the Patrie deny the ex-
istence of a Ministerial crisis. The Patrie declares
that the most perfect accord reigns between the PRE-
SIDENT of the Republic and the Ministers.
M. ODILON BARROT has determined to remain at
the head of the Ministry, instead of becoming a can-
didate for the Vice-Presidency. The PRESIDENT
refuses to submit the name of M. VIVIEN as a candi-
date to the Assembly, and the probability is that M.
DUPAURE will be the person chosen.
M. PIERRE BONAPARTE has addressed the following
letter to the Editor of the Assemblee Nationale :
" Sir,—ln your number of this day you ask if I was
at the Assembly on the 15th of May? I was, and did
not quit it until after the expulsion of the President, and
when the mob, carrying off Hubert in triumph, evacuated
the salle. As soon as the tribunes were invaded I cried
out in the hearing of witnesses, Respect the national so-
vereignty.' I went then directly to the bench of Minis-
ters to offer my services to Messrs. Cremieux and Flocon.
They did not think it necessary to accept them, but
they thanked me, and said it would be better to have re-
course to reconciliation. M. 0. Barrot probably recol-
lects that at the same moment I manifested the like pro-
ject to himself I went over in fine to General Duvivier,
and said, •My General, let us act; and shall we not do
so in military fashion?' The General only replied by
inviting
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military division. Colonel Rollin, ahief of the staff, sent
me to the Luxembourg, whither I repaired with my
brave and excellent colleague, M. Lefebvre, of the Seine
Inferieure. MM. Marie, Gamier Pages, Arago (mem.
bers of the Executive Committee), M. Buell(' (Presi-
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tiality to lay it before your readers.
" PIERRE NAPOLEON BONAPARTIC,
Representative of the people."
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