The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Republique ha 3 the following on the defence of
the Roman expedition by M. de Falloux :

The Minister of Public Instruction, who had so
great a share in this fatal expedition, was bound to
cover with his body his unfortunate colleagues—he did
so with resignation. Ha did not attempt to reply to his
terrible adversary, for that would have been impossible.
He divided his reply into three parts—the abuse, the
arguments, and the political matter. The abuse did not
fall from a person high enough placed to disquiet him;
to move M. de Falloux 3, man would be required of the
elevation of M. Thiers; but M. J. Favre, in his opinion,
is only a petty lawyer who changes his brief. As to
the arguments, it is useless to reply to them, the country
had done so in re-electing 111. de Falloux and that in-
comparable majority. 0 happy Loyola! what an ad-
vantage to have been brought up in your principles to
find so convenient a manner of escaping from an em-
barrassing reply! As to the political matter, M. de
Falloux had plenty of elbow-room, and availed himself
of it to fly before a too formidable adversary. In place
of answering to accumulated quotations brought forward
by M. J. Favre, from dispatches, ministerial speeches, and
proclamations of the general-in-chief, M. do Falloux en-
tereci into a long eulogiam on the Papal power, as the pa-
rago❑ of human institutions. Little did he care for the
state of siege, the ssspension of the liberty of the
press, the interdiction to circulate in the streets after
eight o'clock, the imprisonment or exile of the best citi-
zens; the standard of Bt. Peter floats from the Vatican,
the Sacred College has resumed its authority, the Holy
Inquisition is restored, the Roman Republic is flung to
the earth! But the Cataolic Republic is upstanding; joy
and abundance are aboat to revive, for Catholicism ren-
ders abundant and fruitful whatever it touches. What,
then, is it that has pronounced so many unjust con-
demnations, caused so many massacres, led to so many
assassinations? What condemned Galileo, John Huss,
Savonarola, Jerome cf Prague? What directed the
poniards of John Chatel and Ravailiac? What gave
the signal for the massacre of St. Bartholomew and the
war of the Sondarbund? It is Catholicism, as under-
stood by M. de Fallon; who has the courage to say that
the distinction between the rich and the poor is the law
of God. He forgets tint Christ said—' My kingdom
is not of this world,' and that he also said—;lt is easier
for a camel to pass though the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.'"

The Chambre d'Accusation met on Wednesday to
decide on the case of the accused of June 13, but,
after occupying the whole day, adjourned without a
decision. The Chambre du Conseil has decreed that
there is no case against thirty-seven of those who
were arrested, but it proposes to the Chambre
d'Accusation that seventy-two persons shall be
brought to trial. Among them are thirty-one Repre-
sentatives, viz., Ledru Rollin, Considerant, Boichot,
Rattier, Commissaire, Felix Pyat, Gambon, Fargin-
Fayolle, Brives, Deville, Beyer, Pffieger, Avril,
Koenig, Martin-Bernard, Cantagrel, .Menand,
Rougeot, Landolphe, Hoffer, Kopp, Anstett, Rolland,
Heitzmann, Suchet, Maigne, Pilhes, Boch, Vauthier,
Ronjat, Desmaziers, Janot, and Louriou. Among
the newspaper writers who are accused are Langlois,
Thore, Ribeyrolles, Delescluse, and Paya. Among
the other accused are MM. Guinard, Forestier, and
Etienne Arago.