The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

AFFAIR OF TOULOUSE.

The Provisional Municipality of Toulouse protested,
on the 30th ult., against the dissolution of the Municipal
Council of that city. That document, signed by M.
Arzac, the Mayor, and Messrs. Gase and Roaldes, the
adjoints, appeared in the Emancipation of the next day.
Those three functionaries rested their opposition on a
manifest violation of the 27th article of the Municipal
Law, which provides that the Ordinance of dissolution
should always specify the period at which the re-election
of the municipal officers should take place, a formality
which had been omitted in the Royal Ordinance pub-
lished on the 30th at Toulouse. Immediately after sign-
ing this protest, the Mayor and his two Deputies de-
clared themselves in permanence at the Capitol. They
dressed themselves in their official costumes, and deter-
mined to await the result, and not resign their functions
until compelled thereto by force. Several members of
the Municipal Council came to congratulate them on their
noble attitude, and urged them to persist in their resistance.
At eight o'clock in the evening of the 30th the new
municipality presented itself to take possession of the
Capitol. M. Arzac, having by his side the two adjoints,
received them standing. M. Gase then addressed them
in the name of the Mayor, and pointed out to General
Lejeune, the new Mayor, the illegality of the Royal Ordi-
nance, together with the protest of the municipality.
The envoys of the Prefect, who did not expect to meet so
energetic a resistance, muttered a few words of excuse
and retired, and, on their way back to the Prefecture,
were hooted by the people. An hour afterwards they
returned to the Capitol, but found the municipality as
determined as ever to yield only to force. It had even
made preparations to spend the night in the Capitol, when
M. Delaralde, the principal commissioner, accompanied
by M. Segond and the other commissaries of police,
came to summons M. Arzac, M. Gase, and M. Roalde, to
vacate their municipal functions. M. Gase then called on
M. Delaralde to draw up a protest of the whole transac-
tion ; and the latter having acquiesced in his demand,
the Mayor and his two adjoints left the Capitol.
The Municipality of Toulouse was justified in its oppo-
sition, and the Government itself has admitted it, by the
insertion in the Royal Ordinances, published by the Mo-
niteur, of the paragraph relative to the convocation of
the assembly of the municipal electors.
The Messager says, " According to accounts just re-
ceived from Toulouse, every thing there is perfectly
tranquil. • The now mayory formed by M. Maurice Du-
val is composed of Baron Lejeune, as provisional mayor,
and Messrs. Leon Ducos, Florentin Asre, and Jean Do-
minique Larigandere, as his deputies. M. Maurice Du-
val has published the following proclamation :
Inhabitants of Toulouse,—Two Royal Ordi-
nances pronounce the dissolution of the Municipal
Council and National Guard of Toulouse. France
has her eyes upon you. You will prove to her,
by your respect for the use which the Govern-
ment makes of its constitutional rights, that you un-
derstand what liberty is. By your choice, and by the
mandate which you will give to those whom you shall
elect, when the legal period for the reconstitution of
these two bodies shall arrive, you will not place the
Royal prerogative in the impossibility of choosing your
Magistrates amongst citizens who would not see that
election alone imposes the duty of accepting functions
to which they are called by their position, as well as by
the law. Do not give way to the falsehood which seeks
to disfigure the most pure actions and intentions. Show
to the country that Toulouse, the city of learning and
trade, faithful to the principles which triumphed in July,
will strengthen the powers of the laws by patriotic
obedience."'

The arrest of M. Lenormand, the ex-Commissary of
Police of Toulouse, was immediately made known by
telegraph to the authorities of that place.
On the approach of General St. Michel to Villeneuve
d'Agen, says a letter from that place of the 2Gth ult.,
the inhabitants went nut in crowds to meet him, and sa-
luted him with cheers.

The Mayor of Le Mans had charged M. Girard, a
member of the municipality of that place, to accompany
the Inspector of Taxes charged by the Prefect to con-
duct the census, and to make observations upon the pro-
ceedings adopted by him. The inspector and the dele-
gate of the municipality not having agreed upon certain
points, the Mayor had written to the Prefect to say that
he has withdrawn from the delegate the authorization
which had been granted, so that the inspector will pro-
ceed with the census alone.

Mr. Parsloe, the old and well-known prompter
of Covent-garden and Drury-lane theatres, took his an-
nual benefit last night at the Haymarket Theatre. In
addition to Mr. Alacready and Miss llelen Faucit, in the
play of Money, Mdlle. Celeste appeared in her original
part in The Child of the Wreck ; the little :Marshal's
danced in their own unsurpassed style, and Mr. Rayner
came up expressly from Southampton to give comicality
to the attractions of the evening.
WHAT IS A BULBUL.—A lady of consider-.
able pretensions to knowledge lately asked a well-known
wit what sort of a bird the bulbul was ? The wag, with
the greatest possible gravity, replied that he did not
know, unless it was the male of the cow-cow (cuckoo),