The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-21 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
In the debate on the Bill for suppressing the
clubs on the preceding day, M. ESTANCELIN, a young
Member of the Legitamist majority, unwittingly be-
trayed the arriere pensie of the DE FALLoux Go-
vernment, and by so doing afforded a proof of the
truth of the accusations which have been brought
against it.
" There is more danger for France," said this scion
of the parti pretre " from the entrance of Revolution-
aries, than from the invasion of foreign armies." The
utterance of this sentiment, on the anniversary of
the battle of Waterloo, by a representative of
the party which has three times, since 1789, ap-
pealed to the assistance of foreign armies, which
have three times desecrated the soil of France,
created the greatest tumult in the Chamber. This
etourderie was too much for M. Deem, the Presi-
dent, who loudly called M. ESTANCELIN to truer.
That gentleman in vain endeavoured to make some
sort of explanation, he floundered and floundered,
and at length left the tribune ; and the National
prints his words in large type, as the heading to its first
leader. In these days, when the Republican papers
are not permitted to utter their sentiments, it would
be well that they should adopt this sentence uttered
by one of the majority, as a standing motto, and con-
tinue it so long as the Republic shall remain in
danger.

The Prase has the following on this subject :
" This was a sad sitting. If we had retained a last il-
lusion this sitting would have destroyed it. The 13th of
June, which might have been a victory over insurrection,
will only be the triumph of repression. To repress is
not to govern. We will not attack the majority. M.
Odilon Barrot has forbidden this. But it must permit us
a few words, to which the death of Marshal Bugeaud
gives a solemn and almost prophetic sense—' Majorities
are bound to exhibit more moderation than minorities?' "

The representatives met on Tuesday in their
bureaux, to nominate a Committee on the Bill re-
lating to the school of administration. The new
measure brought forward by M. DE FALLOUX, the
Minister of Public Instruction, substitutes for the
plan brought forward by M. CARNOT, the creation of
an administrative chair in all the faculties. This
plan was in general approved of in the bureaux, some
Members, however, maintaining that even the chairs
thus intended were scarcely called for by a well-
authenticated necessity. The Members named to
the Committee are in favour of the Bill. The repre-
sentatives also examined the Bill tending to abrogate
Art. 67 of the law, relating to the National Guard, with
respect to the point of the double command. The
discussion was animated only in the 2d, where M.
OSCAR LAFAYETTE, GASC, and THOMINE•DES-
MISMES opposed the suppression of the article, con-
sidering it, they declared, as one of those columns of
public liberty which it would be dangerous to meddle
with. M. LECOMTE, on the other hand, maintained
that the proposed alteration was indispensable for the
preservation of public tranquillity ; and quoted the
opinion of Marshal BUGEAUD, who had declared that
he could not comprehend how the command of the
armed force required to preserve order in Paris, and
thereby in a great measure throughout France, could
be distributed amongst several hands. The Com-
mittee which has been named is favourable to
the Bill.

The Moniteur contains a long report, dated June
16, from General CHANGARNIER to the Minister of
War, giving a detailed account of the events of June
13. The matters mentioned in it have been already
published under various forms.
The Moniteur contains a circular from M. LA-
CROSSE, Minister of Public 'Works, to the engineers
of the Ponts et-Chaussees and mines, recommending
them to give their most active co operation to the
authorities should any disorder break out in the
neighbourhood near which they may be stationed.
All the men under their orders are at once to lend
assistance in the cause of public tranquillity, and, on
the re-establishment of order, the engineers are to
send in to the Minister a detailed account of the con-
duct of each man under him.

The political meeting of representatives, until
lately presided over by; M. Dufaure, has now taken
the name of Cercle Constitutionnel. It held a sitting
yesterday in the Place Vendome, and proceeded to
its definitive organisation. General de Lamorieiere
was appointed President; General Bedeau, M. G. de
Beaumont, and M. Paillet, Vice-Presidents; and M.
Oscar de Lafayette and M. Peupin, Secretaries.
This body has decided to give its support to the pre-
sent Ministry.
The Committee charged to present a list of candi-
dates for the Council of State has determined to
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signated by lot to go out.
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been rumoured that rzbunaux nays :—" It having
since the lath in atthMe LED/Mt ROLLIN had been seen
he had there found an Palace of the Louvre, and that
by one of the asylum in an aartment occu-
piedemployes, at five o'clock
a company of gendarmerie mobile yesterday
a number of
sergens-de-ville were placed at all thaen idssues from the
palace, and a pereluisition was made • ,butup to a late
hour it had produced no result." On the other hand,
the Feuille d'Ostende says It is positive that Ai
LEDRU ROLLIN was on Friday night at Ostend. He
supped at the Hotel de la Cour Imperiale and left
the same night for England. He was provided with
a passport.
General DONNADIEU, formerly a deputy, died on
Monday, at Courbevoie, of cholera.
The Count Lis LIEUR, formerly director of the
parks and gardens of the Crown, died two days ago
at his retreat of Etangs-Gobert, near Versailles.
The Emperor NAPOLEON, with whom he was a
fellow-student at Brienne, held him in great esteem
and affection. He was the author of the Pomone
Francais, and several other valuable works on hor-
ticulture.
GIOBERTI, who some time ago sent in his re-
signation as Sardinian Minister at Paris, has re-
ceived his letters of recal, and yesterday presented
them to the PRESIDENT of the Republic. Marquis
EMMANUEL D'Azaomo succeeds him in the quality of
Charge d'Affaires.
Colonel Furman', agent of the Roman Republic

at Paris, has addressed a letter to the Presse, in which
le formally denies the truth of a statement in one of
the journals, that he had Nvritten to MAzzira, " that
,n consequence of the dei'eat of the Montagnard party
he ought to come to an arrangement and submit.
lie intimates that he should consider such counsel
An act of baseness, and he adds that the Roman peo-
ple are not the allies of any party— that they defend
their rights, hearths, and property, and will continue
to do so whatever may happen.
Madame CAVAIGNAC, the mother of the General,
died last night of cholera. She was of advanced age,
and was the widow of the celebrated Conventionist of
t lat name.

M. THEODORE BAC, representative of the Moun-
tain, has been seriously ill for some few days back.
Accounts have been received from Rome to the
14th.
The following letter from Rome is published in the
Nouvelliste, of Marseilles :
" Head-quarters, Villa Santucci, June 14.
"My letter of the 10th would have announced to
you the opening of the trenches. Since that day our
progress, though not very sensible to the eyes of men
who have not studied the art of besieging, has neverthe-
less been immense. By the second night the first paral-
lel, as you are aware, opened as if by miracle, at the
distance of only 300 metres from the place, had attained
the size ascribed by rule. The third night was conse-
crated to the opening of the covered ways, which give
the means of communication, and allow us to arrive in
the trenches without being exposed to the grape with
which the enemy has not ceased to cover us since he has
discovered the head of our sapping operations.
" Two batteries have been established behind the first
parallel ; these enabled us, on the following night, to
advance in the zig zags, and always sheltered by the
ditches' to the two bastions which form the point of at-
tack. A place darynes has been marked out, and has
rendered it practicable for us to establish new pieces for
the battering of the walls. In short, at the moment
when I write to you, five batteries have been installed,
and have already destroyed the parapet and all the
upper part of the wall of the place. The battery of mor-
tars especially produced the most remarkable effect.
Yesterday, an embrasure having been destroyed by our
shells, the Romans presented themselves in great num-
bers for the purpose of repairing it. A bomb fell in the
midst of them, and since that instant not a single at-
tempt has been made to resume any such labour.
" The two most advanced batteries are now brought
within the distance of about 80 metres from the walls;
we shall soon be within 4d metres, and we can then open
a breach practicable for horse. foot, and artillery. Our
losses to the present day are insignificant. Seven or
-ight men have been killed in the ditch, and about forty
have been wounded; among the latter are four officers.
" While our labourers in the infantry were thus labo-
riously approaching the walls of the piece, the General..
in-Chief, who had previously ordered an exact exami-
nation of the localities, gave the orders to al. Castelnau,
captain of the Staff, to destroy the foundery of projec-
tiles at Porto d'Anza. That officer, who had already
been charged with the occupation of Fiumcino, acquitted
himself of this new mission with his accustomed zeal.
By his orders three cannon have been spiked, more than
300 projectiles, 1,200 kilogrammes of powder, and two
boxes of cartridges, have been carried away and trans-
ported to Civita Vecchia. In short., the foundry has
been rendered unfit for use for several months to come.
On this, as on every other occasion, the marine lent our
land troops a useful and powerful assistance. I subjoin
the order of the day which General Oudinot addressed
yesterday to tho army:--

" ORDER OF THE DAY.
" Villa Santucci, June 13.

" Soldiers—Yesterday you bravery and perseverance
enabled us to establish our batteries at within 100 metres
uf the ramparts of Rome. Before directly attacking the
place, I have made the following notification.
" Inhabitants of Rome—We did not come here to
bring war among you : we came to strengthen order
and liberty. The intentions of our Government have
been misunderstood. The operations of the siege have
brought us before your ramparts. Until now we have
not wished, excepting at rare intervals, to reply to the
fire of your batteries. We now have arrived at the
moment when the necessities of the war burst forth in
terrible calamities. Spare these calamities to a city
filled with so many glorious recollections. If you persist
in repulsing us, on you alone will rest the responsibility
of irreparable disasters.'
"' This appeal to conciliation has not reached those to
whom it was addressed. The Government which op-
presses the inhabitants of Rome have replied to these
words of peace by a refusal to listen to words imprinted
with so much moderation. Soldiers, few hours have
passed since your batteries have made the enemy's
Batteries suffer the most notable damage. Since you
are constrained to besiege Rome, we shall accomplish
our duty to its full extent, and our success cannot be for
one single instant doubtful. France has her eyes upon
as. You will justify her expectations. In testimony of
sis satisfaction, the General-in-Chief dispenses with all
.he slight punishments inflicted in the army since the
battle of the 31 of June.'
" General Oudinot has addressed the following letter
:o the President of the National Assembly:—
" Head•quartcrs, Villa Pamphili, June 12.
1849, Five o'clock P.M.
" The events of the war have, as you know, brought
the French army to the gates of Rome. In the event of
the gates of the city continuing to bo closed against us,
1 shall be constrained, in order to penetrate into it, to
employ immediately the means of action which France
has placed at my disposition. Before having recourse
to this terrible necessity, I regard it as a duty to make
a last appeal to the population, who cannot have any
hostile feeling to France.
" The National Assembly, like myself, is no doubt
anxious to avoid drawing sanguinary calamities on the
capital of the Christian world. In this conviction, I beg
of you, M. President, to have the goodness to give the
enclosed proclamation the most prompt publicity. If,
twelve hours after the reception of this dispatch, a reply
in conformity with the intentions and honour of France
does not reach me, I shall regard myself as con-
strained to attack the place with main force. Receive,
M. le President, the assurance of my very distinguished
consideration.

(Signed) " ' OUDINOT DE REGGIO, the General-in-
Chief of the French Expedition.'
" The Triumvirate remains deaf to all the propositions
which have been made to it.

" Civita Vecchia, June 15.
P.S.—Garibaldi has made a sortie with 1,400 men,
who have been annihilated. The French army is fight-
ing with unparalleled vigour. The breach is opened,
and at the present moment, perhaps, the assault is
going on."
PARIS BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20.
THREE o'CLocK.—The market was firm, and at ono
period of the day manifested a decided tendency to ad-
vance. Towards two o'clock a slight reaction set in,
and prices closed at about the quotations of the day be-
fore. The Five per Cents., after going up to 87f. 95c.,
closed at 87f. 50c.; and the Threes, after being done at
54f. 50c., closed at 54f. 40e. Roman closed at 75f., or
2f. lower than the day before. Bank of France Shares
closed at 2,390 f., being 10f. higher, Railway Shares
were not much negotiated, and present but little variation
in prices. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 40; ditto
(90 days), 25 30.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JUNE 20.
Boulogne and Amiens,
RFrancennen (Orleans
Havre,
rned,
Vierzon), 12%—Northern of France, 10%—Paris and Or-
3S°arbre and Meuse, and Rouen,/8
Meuse, 3A—Tours and Nantes, 3Ai.