The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-21 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The jioniteur contains a decree, signed by the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, dismissing PIERRE
BONAPARTE, who was Leiutenant-Colonel in the
African Foreign Legion, from the service, for having
returned to France, when on a mission, without the
orders or permission of his superior.
The various modifications proposed in the combina-
tion-laws, were rejected on Monday by the National
Assembly, and those laws therefore still remain to ham-
per the manufacturers, and:to press most unjustly on the
operatives of France ; for while the first are punish-
able only if they combine unjustly and abusively, it
being left to the magistrate to determine in each
particular in what injustice or abuse consists, all
combination on the part of the workmen is abso-
lutely prohibited and punished as a crime. Thus whilst
the law is on the face of it unjust to the workmen, it
is a snare as regards the masters, who can never by
any possibility guess at the meaning which any par-
ticular magistrate may apply to the terms unjustly
and abusively, and who consequently can never know
whether or not any particular combination into which
they may enter is or is not a breach of the law. All
these anomalies would have been got rid of by the
adoption of the proposition of M. MORIN for render-
ing all peaceful combinations legal, and punishing
only those who had recourse to threats and violence,
or by applying the same rule, as was proposed by M.
WoLowsm, to both masters and workmen. The
manifest justice and fairness of these propositions were
however, quite sufficient to secure their rejection by
an Assembly in wick the parti-preare and the Legiti-
matists command a majority, and we are not surprised,
therefore, that the Assembly rejected them, and de-
termined to conserve the old darling injustice.
It appears that the Monarchical plotters who, during '
the summer of 1848, made Richmond the focus of
their reactionary intrigues, have removed their head-
quarters to Paris. We yesterday announced the
arrival of M. GUIZOT in the French capital ; we now
announce the arrival there of his inseparable, the
TALLEYRAND in petticoats, the Princess LIEVEN, who
gave a grand reception on Sunday evening, which
was attended by bl. GUIZOT, General CDANGARNIER,
Count MOLE, and iII. BERRYER, who thus assembled
to do honour to the female friend of the CZAR and
the woman-flogger. GuizoT and MOLE shook hands
and conversed together for the first time for many
years—PEACHUIL and LOCKIT again.
MM. De Dampierre, Estancelin, Lemeslier, De
Ladelaussage, Cholla, Richard de Charancey, Flaudin,
Ramond, Paul de Kendrel, General Tartea de Gram-
mont, De Mortemail, and De Vavin, have been named
Commissioners to examine the propositions of MM..
Flaudin and Durand Savoyat relative to the stud of;
horses at Saint Cloud.

The Avignon and. Marseilles Railway Bill has been
passed by a majority of 337 to 187.
The Prefect of Police, M. CABLIER, has prohibited
all music and dancing in cafes which have not
obtained a special licence from the Prefecture of Po-

lice for that purpose.
The &eel, has an article on the subject of the
Turkish question, in which it seeks to prove that the
CZAR, in his proceedings in that affair, was actuated by
a wish to cause embarrassment to France.
" The Emperor Nicholas," says that journal, " de-
clared that the treaty gave him the right of demanding
either the extradition or the expulsion of the Polish re-
fugees in Turkey; but in deference to the Sultan he
would only demand the latter of those rights. Only
(added the Czar), I demand, in return for that conces-
sion, that all the Poles in the states of the Sultan shall
be expelled.' In order to judge of the bearing of this
demand, it must be explained that all the Polish refu-
gees in Turkey are living there under French passports,
and that they have made positions for themselves which
they could not abandon. Thus the Czar, by making the
demand, placed the French Ambassador foremost in the
ranks of resistance, instead of Sir Stratford Canning—
that is to say, the French Cabinet instead of the English
one."

Considerable excitement prevailed in the neigh-
bourhood of the i'alais de Justice on Monday, in
consequence of a report that the names of LEDRU
ROLLIN and his companions condemned par contumace
would on that day be exposed on the pillory. Several
of the supporters of the condemned were on the
ground, with wreaths of inunortels and bouquets of
flowers, prepared to turn the intended insult into an
occasion of triumph. The Government, however,
more wise than the judges, determined to spare itself
the disgrace of taking part in an odious exhibition ;
the names were not exposed, and the peace was pre-
served, thanks to the good sense of the authorities.
M. DE L'EEPINASSE has presented to the Assembly
the following proposition relative to elections
" Art. 1. For the future, all elections resulting from
universal suffrage shall take place in the commune.
Art. 2. The municipal authorities, with the authorisa-
tion of the Prefect, can divide the election into as
many sec,ions as may, seem advisable, without, how-
ever, even having more than 500 electors in any one
section. In communes where the electors shall not
be 500 in number, there shall be but one section.
Art. 3, Every elector regularly registered who shall,
without legitimate motive, not have given his vote, shall
be punished by a fine of If. to 101. A second offence
shall be punished with a fine of from 10f. to 50f.; and
for a third one, a citizen shall be deprived of his civil
rights for a space of from two to five years. Art. 4,