The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-20 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
M. PIERRE BONAPARTE was on Friday found
guilty of striking M. GASTIER in the National As-
sembly. The Court of Correctional Police sentenced
him to pay a fine of 200 francs and costs.
In commenting on this sentence the Republique
says :
The Correctional Tribunal of the Seine yesterday,
tried Citizen Pierre Bonaparte, representative of the peo -
ple, for the blow which he gave in the Legislative As-
sembly itself, to Citizen Gastier, his colleague. The
tribunal condemned Citizen Bonaparte to two hundred
fraecs•fine. The same tribunal tried, on the 18th April
last, Citizen Eus,ene Raspail, and condemned him to two
years' imprisonment and thousand francs' fine for a blow
given out of the Legislative Assembly ! What a fine
thing is French justice? Will the fabulist, then, be
always right."
The National publishes the following pithy obser-
vations on the same subject :
"Some years ago a writer who thought himself in-
jured by a journalist struck his adversary a blow in the
face at a theatre and was summoned before the correc-
tional police (like M. Bonaparte). M. Bergeron was
condemned to be imprisoned for three years.
" The 11th April, 1849, M. Raspail, representative of
the people, thinking himself offended by one of his
vicinity of the Assembly, and was brought before the
col-
leagues, struck him in the face, in the passages in the
police. M. Respell was condemned to two
"On the 10th August, M. Bonaparte, representative
of the people, believing himself offended by M. Gastier,
cyoerarreac,
gives his colleague a blow before the whole assembly,
tiim"Prlisonment."
and brought before the correctional police, he is this day
condemned to 200 f. fine."
It is rumoured that the delay in the return of
General Ourcsor is occasioned by a difference of
opinion between the Cabinet and the PRESIDENT of
the Republic, and that the latter has written to the
General, by. M. EDGAR Nay, informing him that
he need be in no hurry to obey the orders of the
Cabinet. In allusion to this subject the Siecle says—
" Colonel Edgar Ney roust have embarked est Toulon
on the 14th or 15th with the order for General Oudinot
to return home. In order to throw some disguise over
his recal the General would bring home a few of the
regiments which had suffered most fatigue; but, as all
the materials of. war would be left behind, and as in 72
hours our marine could throw from 25,000 to 30,000
men into Civita Vecchia, the return of a portion of the
troops cannot be regarded as having any seriuus signifi-
cation. The truth is, the Pope has refused to return to
Rome, deSpite the most pressing instances of General
Oudinot, who could obtain no further fevoer than a pro-
mise that his Holiness would come to Albano to pro-
nounce a benediction on certain delegations from the
army representing the entire. The truth is that the
&Auto will be replaced by a Consulte; that all men of
weight and. character refuse to aid the Pontifical com-
mission, and that should the army leave Rome to morrow,
the commission, and all connected with it, would be
ignominiously expelled by the people. Is that an tan&
which can be called settled, unless, indeed, the soldiers
of the Republic should have taken the Eternal Cily only
for the sake of allowing the Austrians and Neapolitans
to establish a garrison for the maintenance of the cleric el
camarilla?"
The Evenement says, " It is announced that after
several interviews between General VAILLANT and
the PRESIDENT of the Republic, and the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, orders have been sent to General
OUDJNOT to postpone his return to France.
I: is rumoured that in answer to the remonstrances
of the French Government against the Russian inva-
sion of Hungary, the Emperor NICHOLAS declared
that he was determined to put down revolution at any
price, and hinted that after the settlement of the
affairs of Hungary it was by no means improbable
that he might, in conjunction with Austria, intervene
in the affairs of Italy and France. The Constitution-
nel of Sunday proclaims openly its sympathy with
the Austrians and Russians, and its detestation of the
Hungarians and their cause. After describing in
glowing colours the apocryphal victory of HAYNAU at
Szegeden, the Constitutionnel thus proceeds :--
" While the victorious Imperial army advances in the
south and centre of Hungary, the Hungarians appear to
be gaining ground in the west. The occupation of Raab
by 6,000 Hungarians, with 18 pieces of cannon, under
the command of Klapka, is now certain. 12,000 others
have been dispatched in two different directions, one of
which appears to be Oedenburg, the other Presburg,
which needs to be fortified against a coup de main. The
Austrian corps of General Czoriel is raised to 26,000
men by reinforcements sent to him ; it is to be regretted
that the greater part of these troops aro newly-raised
soldiers. They are accordingly waiting for the greater
part of the corps of General Nugent, commanded by
General Loderer, in order to attack the Hungarians on
both sides at once. In the meantime it is affirmed that
the latter occupy Viszprim and Stuhl-Wussemburg."
Them is something ominous in this appearance
pf an approaching union between the Government of
the French Republic and that of Austria. The Aus-
trian alliance has invariably brought misfortune to
those FrenCh rulers who have entered into it. The
marriages of MARIE ANTOINETTE and of MARIE
LOU/SE were the precursors of the downfal of the
BOURBON and the BONAPAnan ayeesties, and the
rittenfn to with Austria for the suppression of
the Sonderbund was immediately followed tbc
expulsion of Lours PHILIPPE from France. This
fear of offending the Absolutists, which is now the
characteristic of the French Government, is turned
to excellent economical account by the National. It
says—
" The army and fleet will cost this year mere than
500,000,000 f., or more than a third of the whole Budget.
What is the use of so expensive a military establishment?
The Government of M. Bonaparte, no more than the
majority, wishes not for war. Ia Italy it 'plays the
game of Austria, and looks on while Venice is crushed.
It has no sympathy with Hungary. It applauds the
savage war carried on by Russia and Austria; it expels
the Polish refugees pointed out by the Czar; it obeys
the desires and injunctions of Prussia. It has no desire
to quarrel with England. Wherefore their 500,000 men,
100,000 horses, and a considerable fleet? It might evi-
dently, without compromising its noble policy, reduce
the war and marine budget by a fifth. It has restored
the absolute royalty of the Pope—it has given true liberty
and the Holy Inquisition to the states of the Church.
It may at last repose under its laurels, and recal our ex-
peditionary army to Toulon. We do not imagine that
it has any intention of throwing 30,000 or 40,000 men
into Fiume. for the sake of aiding Russia and Austria to
bear true liberty to the Hungarians."
It was rumoured that MM. ODILON BARROT,
PASSY, and DUFAURE were about to succumb to the
intrigues of the Legitimatists, and to quit the Minis-
try, leaving the field open to M. DE FALLOUX and
his Jesuit friends. It appears, however, that at a
meeting of the Legislative Committee of the Assem-
bly on Friday the most unbounded confidence was
expressed in M. ODILON BARROT, in consequence of
which the intrigue of the parti-pretre has failed. The
Evenement of yesterday has the following:—
" A mcelification of the Ministry had been talked of.
Three Ministers, it was said, were to resign. Amongst
that the M .dlDiffaes.rsYeneweaws rues
arranged mentioned.
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taaCppoettunrcsh hheolwd -eyveesr:
terday at the Elysee."
The Moniteur announces that the direction of the
Ministry of Public Instruction has been confided to
M. LANJUNAIS during the absence of M. DE FAL.,
Lova, who has gone into the country for the benefit
of his health. We all remember the celebrated re-
tirements into the country of M. DUCHATEL during
the-time he held office.
VIDEL and TOCESSEREL, editors of the Tra-
vail Affranchi, have been released from prison, after
67 days' close confinement on a charge of having par-
ticipated in the revolutionary movement of the 13th
of June.

douacuE a commissary of the Provisional
Government, and M. LAUTERRE, secretary to the
Socialist committee, who were arrested in Paris
on the 13th of June, have been discharged from
prison. -
M. BERENGER (de la Drone) has been appointed to
preside over the High Court of Justice to try the
political offenders of the 13th of June.
It is said that M. Lama RaLLIN is in Paris, and
intends to surrender to take his trial.
M. EUGENE CARPENTIER, responsible editor of the
Tribune des Peuples, who was arrested on the 13th
June on a charge of complicity in the affair of that
day, was set at liberty on Thursday by order of the
Chambre des raises en Accusation, who found nothing
proved against him. M. HERMAN EWERBECE, a
naturalized Frenchman, accused of being connected
in the same affair, has also been just released from
confinement.
The Court of Assizes of the Aisne has just pro-
nounced sentence on the parties implicated in the
riots at St. Quentin on the 13th June. One of the
benches,prisoners has been condemned to five months, two to
three months, and one to two months' imprisonment,
and each of them to 500 f. fine. Four were acquitted.
At the moment when the prisoners quitted their
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surrounded and attended to the prison by the crowd,
crying " Vive les Rouges !" At the door of the
prison the escort was obliged to charge on the crowd,
by which some persons were wounded.
The Minister of Marine has addressed a dispatch
to the Maritime Prefect of Toulon, declaring that
until the definitive vote of the Budget in 1850 shall
permit him to fix on a more large and regular basis
the composition of the squadron of the Mediterranean,
he has decided that it shall consist of the following
vessels under the name of squadron of evolution,
under the command of Admiral PERCEVAL DE*
SciIENES :—.The Friedland, 120 guns ; Hercule, 100 ;
Jemmapes, 100; Inflexible, 90; lena, 90; Jupiter,
86 ; Psyche, 40; Pomone, 40 ; Descartes, 540 horse-
power ; Vauban, 540 ; and the Caton, 260. The
Descartes, not being yet ready for sea, is to be finished
in her repairs as quickly as possible.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, AUGUST 18.
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of France, 3A die. n,

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