The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-15 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Notwithstanding the vapouring of the Reaction-
aries, who boasted that they would oust M. MARRAST
from the Presidential chair of the National Assembly,
that gentleman was yesterday re elected by a ;large
majority. The Reactionaries, first of all, turned their
attention towards M. LAMARTINE, who was to be re-
warded (so did the Reactionary journals phrase it)
for his speech on the motion for the dissolution of the
Assembly, in which, as they impudently and menda-
ciously (according to their wont) asserted that he had
repudiated:the Republic, by being elected President of
the Assembly in the room of M. MARRAST. Foiled
in their endeavours to induce M. LAMARTINE to come
forward, the leaders of the Iscariot party next turned
their attention towards M. DUFAURE, who was equally
prompt with M. LAMARTINE in disavowing all con-
nexion, with them. They, however, well knowing
that none of their own party would stand the least
chance against M. MARRAST, determined to. start
M. DUFAURE, in spite of himself, and they expe-
rienced a signal defeat, the numbers at the con-
clusion of the ballot being—
For M. Armand Marrast 4OB
For M. Dufaure

Majority for Marrast..... —195
After the election M. POITALIS presented the re-
port of the Committee on the celebration of the anni-
versary of the Revolution of February, and M. Laori
FAUCHER declared that the Government would im-
mediately introduce a Bill founded on that report.
After a long speech from M. PROUDHON against
the report of the Committee proposing to grant the
authorization required for his prosecution for the pub-
lication of an alleged libel in his journal Le Peuple,
reflecting on the PRESIDENT of the Republic,
the discussion on the third reading of the propo-
sition of M. LANJUINAIS for the dissolution of the
Assembly was commenced by M. PEAN, who pro-
posed the amendment of which he had given notice, a
copy of which has already appeared in The Sun. After
a short discussion, it was rejected by a majority of
409 to 347.
The amendment of M. SENARD, which was to the
following effect, was then proposed :—" The Assem-
bly shall loesiles vote, before dissolution, the Budget
of receipts and expenditure of 1849. The Committee
named for the examination of the Budget shall present
partial reports to the Assembly from time to time,
which reports shall be distributed and submitted to
discussion, in compliance with the standing orders.
No debate other than that of the Budget and the
electoral law shall be put on the order of the day,
except in the intervals left open by the discussion
of the two laws, and without retarding the defini-
tive vote."'

M. SENARD was addressing the House when the
post left.
The Deputies who meet at the Palais National and
the Beaux-Arts decided on Monday evening thatthey
would support the amendment of M. SENAED on the
proposition of M. LANJUINAIS concerning the disso-
lution of the Assembly. The meeting of the Rue
de Poitiers unanimously declared itself to be adverse
to M. SENARD'S proposition.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic visited the Bourse
on Monday, accompanied by M. Acimma FOULD.
He was much cheered. A rise of 75 centimes took
' place in the price of stock during the course of his
visit.

M. ALDENIZE, the Commandant of the 6th batta-
lion of the Garde Mobile, who was arrested by order
of General CHINGARNIER on the 29th ult., and im-
prisoned in the Abbaye, has been set at liberty, and
retains his rank.

SALAMANCA, the ex-Spanish Minister who
was
who was
arrested
b by
n the
Bordeaux French
in authoritiesenstoyd
from thence he
was transferred to Tours, and is now ordered Bayonne, t
conveyed
to Paris.
He is so disgusted with the annoying persecution to
which he has been subjected by the
that he has, it is said, demanded passports for
Echn police
e ging
l,and.
31. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, son of the ex-King
of WESTPHALIA, has addressed the following order
of
the day to the Second Legion of the 13ani• mile, of
which he was lately elected colonel :
National Guards of the Second Legion,—Your suf.
frages have elected me colonel of ono of the finest and
bravest legions of the National Guard of the department
of the Seine, 'Yesterday your acclamations proved to

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