The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-07 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

We announced yesterday that the difference sub-
sisting between the French Ministry and the National
had been for the present, at least, patched up, and that
the conciliatory amendment, proposed by General
OUDINOT to the vote of censure moved by M.
PERREE, had been carried by a majority of 32. This
victory, however, has been obtained by explanations,
and humiliations, and submissions, and retractations,
which cannot but be more damaging to the Ministry
in general, and to M. LEON FAUCHER in particular,
than could have been the most adverse vote.

In allusion to the announcement which had ap

peared in the Moniteur of the preceding day, and
which had been universally regarded as a bold

defiance of the Assembly on the part of the Ministry,
M. LEON FAUCHER said, " I will first give explana-
tion on a note inserted yesterday in the Moniteur,
and which appears to have been judged of by every
one as it ought to be. Several persons have con-
ceived that there is therein a defiance thrown out by
the Ministry against the Assembly. The Ministry
rejects this interpretation. It understands too well
the duty it has to fulfil to endeavour to attack the
Assembly directly or indirectly. Its only object has
been to reassure the country at the moment that
tranquillity might be again menaced. This is the
whole meaning of this note." Then with regard to
the lithographed bulletin which had been sent every
day from the Home-office to the Prefects, M. LEON
FAUCHER declared that he was ignorant of the exist-
ence of such a bulletin until his attention had been
called to the subject by the speech of M. PEEREE on
Saturday, an assertion to which the Assembly good
naturedly gave credit, although the writer of
this bulletin was in the daily habit of having long con-
ferences with M. LEON FAUCHER and with his
under-secretary before the said bulletin was
concocted. M. LEON FAUCHER, however, promised
that this bulletin should cease to be issued officially.
The Minister then proceeded to explain the
causes which led to, or more properly speak-
ing, to apologise for the arrest of Colonel
FORESTIER, as the only cause mentioned was
that on Monday the Colonel had used language
offensive to the PRESIDENT of the Republic. It had
been most painful to the Cabinet, he said, to order
the arrest of the Colonel. After having thus cried:pec-
cavi, the Minister of the Interior proceeded to plead
in mitigation, the fact of the existence of a widely-
ramified conspiracy against social order, which had
been defeated by the military display of the 29th ult.,
and in order to prove his case, M. LEON F.LuonEtt
read a series of papers, without date, purporting to be
reports of inflammatory speeches uttered in certain
clubs, but which were never communicated to the

Committee to which the project of the law relating
to clubs was referred, and the utterers of which were

not, as they ought to have been, arrested. His proofs
of the ramifications of the conspiracy in the provinces
were ludicrous; they were, that at Dijon two civi-
lians had been seen disguised as soldiers, that at
Seulis the letters A. P. had been.chalked upon cer-
tain houses, and that at Strasburg 300 workmen who
had been dismissed from the Arsenal had gone to the
Mairie to ask for bread. With regard to the Stras-
burg affair, M. DUPONT remarked that it was rather
extraordinary, if the Ministers really dreaded the
outbreak of an insurrection on the 29th, that they
should have sent down a telegraphic message on the
`2Bth, dismissing 300 workmen from the senal, to
which the Minister at War replied that he had an-
nulled the order on the Ist February, when the
men were again taken into employment—a
circumstance which tends to render the conduct of
the Ministry still more open to suspicion. The con-
sequence of these explanations, we may almost venture
to call them humiliations, was the adoption of the reso-
lution of General OUDINOT, which was to the follow-
ing effect :
" The National Assembly, adopting the conclusions
of the Committee, and considering that the offensive
bulletin for the Assembly has been formally denied by
the Minister of the Interior, passes to the order, of the
day.".

Priority was giTen to this resolution over that
proposed by M. PERREE by a majority of 32, as we
stated yesterday. The resolution itself was then put,
when there appeared—.

For the resolution
Against it ...
Majority

... 461
... 359
... -102

This increased major* was obtained by a promise
made to the Opposition that a modification should be
made in the Ministry, and that MM. LEON
FAUCHER and DE FALLoux should retire. Over-
tures have been made to MM. DUFAURE and VI..
VIEN to join the Ministry, but both gentlemen have
declined.

Before the debate the election of Vice-Presidents and
Secretaries for the ensuing month took place. The
following were the results. For Vice-Presidents :
Number of voters ... 673 -
M. Goudchaux 506
Geheral de Lamoriciere ......424
M. Havia 494
M. Corbon ... 453
M. &Ilanit ... 419
General Bedeau ... 364
M. Grevy 325
M. Guinard ... 122
M. Vivien ... 66
M. Dufaure . . ... 59

In consequence, the first six representatives are de-
clared to be duly elected Vice-Presidents for the ensuing
month. The following are the votes given for the two
Secretaries :
Number of voters ... 671
Absolute majority ... 336
M. Peupia 567
M. arri/a ... 363
M. de Ileckeren 313
In consequence, MM. Peupin and Perris are declared
to be duly elected Secretaries for the ensuing month.
The Assembly during its sitting yesterday com-
menced the debate on the question of dissolution,
the discussion having arisen on the following amend-
ment, proposed by M. LANJUINAIS, to the motion of
M. RATEAU

" Art. 1. A first deliberation on the electoral law
shall be immediately entered upon. The second and
third deliberations shall take place at the expiration of
the delays fixed by the rules of the House.
" Art. 2. Immediately after the vote on this law, the
electural lists shall be formed. The elections for the
Legislative Assembly shall take place on the first Sun-
day following the definitive adoption of these lists. The
Legislative Assembly shall meet the tenth day following
that of the elections.

" Art. 3. The order of the day of Assembly shall be
so fixed, that independently of the electoral law, the law
on the Council of State, and the law on the responsibi-
lity of the President of the Republic and the Ministers,
shall be voted before the dissolution.
" Art. 4. The decree of the 11th Dec., 1848, is an-
nulled, so far as is contrary to the present law."
MM. RATEAU, PAGNERRE, and WOLOWSICI have
withdrawn their respective propositions in favour of
the proposition of M. LANJUINAIS. The debate had
not concluded when the post left.
BOURSE.—Peuis, TUESDAY, FEB. 6.
THREE O'CLOCK.—The division of yesterday in favour
of the Ministry had a good effect on our Bourse today.
The French Funds and Railway Shares all partook in
the benefit. The Five per Cents. are nearly If per cent.
higher than the closing prices of yesterday, and they
closed at the highest prices of the day. It is thought
that the Rateau motion will be rejected, but that a com-
promise will be male, which will enable the Ministry
to dissolve the Assembly in the course of April. Ex-
change on London (30 days), 25 32i to 35; ditto (90
days), 25 22i to 25.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. G.
Boulogne and Amiens, 81—Datch Rhenish, 11/s—Namur
and Liege, 81,4—Northern of France, Orleans and
Bordeaux, 2%—ltouen and Havre, 93/4.