The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following report of the
Minister of the Interior to the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public, relative to the late disturbances at Cette :
" Monsieur le President,—ln the evening of the 7th
the town of Cette was the scene of violent disorders. A
crowd of misguided men forcibly entered the hall
in which the Municipal Council was deliberating,
and afterwards pillaged several houses and burnt
the furniture. Neither property, persons, nor the
public force were respected. This scene of de-
vastation lasted for four hours, in the midst of an im-
portant town, with a garrison, National Guards, and a
Municipal Council, without any attempt being made to
suppress it. Under these circumstances, which called for
all its devotedness, the National Guard of Cette has not
done what it ought to have done. Out of sixty men who
had received orders to protect the Hotel de Ville scarcely
twenty made their appearance, several citizens inscribed
on its lists even joined in the riot. The standard df
order was abandoned, and attacked by those who should
have carried and defended it.

" The National Guard is the armed country; its dutt
is to protect the execution of the laws, and to cause proL
perty and persons to be respected. No force caa supply
its place. Order would perish, and liberty would be im;
possible in the ranks of a nation who should have arms
and yet would not use them to maintain public security.
In the face of disorder every citizen is a soldier. The
National Guard of Cette has failed in this duty; I pro-
pose to you, Mons. le President, to dissolve it.
"The municipal authorities on the same occasion have
been equally reprehensible. The Mayor of Cettedid not
interfere personally to repress the disturbance, which
would have yielded before his voice and his authority,
lie did not make the summonses required by the law; he
did not employ the public force when it was required, nor
in a useful manner; but he left the town free to the
voters; a greater scandal could not have been given to the
people. You will doubtless be of opinion, Monsieur le
President, that a striking reparation is due to the in
sulted authority of the Government. I have the honour
to propose to you to dismiss the Mayor. Allow me tO
express my regret that I cannot find in the rights with
which the Government is invested a course of proceeding
better proportioned to the gravity of the facts which have
occurred. " Accept, &c.,
"LEON FAUCHER, Minister of the Interior."

In consequence of the above report, the PRESIDENT
of the Republic has issued a decree dissolving the
National Guard of Cette, and dismissing M. MERCIER,
the Mayor of that place from his functions.
The Moniteur likewise publishes an official notifi-
cation of the regret expressed by General NARVAEZ,
and the amende made by the Government of Spain to
the French R:public in consequence of the remon-
strai_ces made by the French Minister at Madrid to
the Spanish Government on the subject of the viola-
tion of the French territory by a company of Spanish
troops who had pursued a band of insurgents across
the frontier.
The Moniteur also announces that M. BUFFETT,
the Minister of Commerce, is charged ad interim with
'he functions of Minister of Public Instruction
luring the absence of M. DR FALLOUX, who has been
~blig(:d to leave Paris in consequence of the severe
indisposition of his father.

Marshal BUGEAUD has been addressing a series of
Bobadil speeches to the authorities of Lyons, in the
course of which he pays the most fulsome adulation
to Prince WINDISCUGRATZ and his Pandours. In this
BUGEAUD is consistent. Who so fit to be the panegyrist
of the murderer of BLum as the butcher of the Rue
"Fransnonaine ?
Serious disturbances have broken out in the
islands of flyeres in consequence of an attempt to
enforce some new custom-house regulations. A
brigade of gendarmes and four companies of the
line were dispatched from Toulon for the llyeres on
the 7th.

BERNARD, the Clubbist, bas been sentenced by
the Court of Assize on the Seine to five years'
imprisonment, and 2,000 francs fine, for having in
the Clubs of Belleville and Batignolles delivered
speeches exciting the citizens to hatred of each other
and*. the Republican Government; for attacking
the principles of property and family rights; attack-
ing the Constitution, outraging the religion legally
recognised in Franca ; exciting to civil war, to
pillage, and incendiarism ; and, finally, for attacking
the rights and authority of the National Assembly.
The French Government has received an official
report relative to the gold mines of California. This
document has been laid before the Commissioners of
Mines for their opinion, which is to be published after
it has been communicated to the Ministers.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 12.

Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon), 9,4 —Luxembourg (71.), %—Namur and Liege,
B,l4—Northern of France, 8,4 Orleans and Bordeaux, 3
Paris and Orleans, 301,4—Paris and Rouen, 19,/4—Rouen
and Havre, 10,41—Sambre and Meuse, 5% —Tours and
Nantes, 1%.