The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.

We yesterday stated that the Chamber of Deputies
had met in their bureaux, and appointed a Committee

:o consider the case of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN. In

the first bureaux, M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN himself
spoke, and gave the following explanation of his
conduct :

" The Honourable Deputy commenced by declaring
that he was altogether a stranger to the course adopted
by the Count de Pontois in the Chamber of Peers,
and that the report that the proposition of the Noble
Peer had been presented at his instigation was a
calumny alike against Honourable Peers and himself.
' I belong temporarily,' continued the Honourable
Deputy, to the Opposition, and have been so from
the day that M. Guizot ascended the tribune, the
26th of March, and disavowed his language at Lisieux,
arrogantly sending to sit on the benches of the Left
those Members of the majority who were not of opinion
that everything was going on perfectly well. I certainly
desire the existence of the Cabinet to be of short dura-
tion, but I do not want to see it overthrown by an in-
trigue; and it would be one were I to participate in the
presentation of the proposition which so materially
affects the Ministry. The Cabinet, if it falls, ought to
come down under the weight of its seven years' impuis-
sance. Having said so much, I have now to declare
that I never had any intention of offending the

EVEN

Chamber of Peers. The journal which I direct
has, in a hundred instances, defended the peerage.
and for me to attack it now would be a grave want
of consistency. As to the allegations made in the Presse
of the 12th of May, I maintain its strict exactitude; and
if I think fit at present to say nothing more, I do not,
on the other hand, retract a single word of my former
assertion. lon that occasion said what I meant, and I
meant what I said. But what was it that I alleged?
Did I affirm that Peers had purchased a right to sit in
the other Chamber? No—nothing of the kind. I de-
clared that promises of peerages had been sold. The
Government may deny the fact, as it has denied that
the office of referendary at the Court of Accounts was
sold, as it has denied that the privilege of a third lyric
theatre was accorded to a journal (the Epoque)
which obtained for it 100,000 f. It may, in tact,
deny everything ; but between the denial of Minis-
ters having an interest to deny everything, and the
affirmation of a Deputy having no interest to say but
what is true, the Chamber and the country will decide.
As to the question of a committee being elected fa-
vourable to the authorisation, I do not think I ought to
examine it. I shall merely confine myself to demand-
ing from the bureau, of which I form part, to be guided
in its choice only by considerations drawn exclusively
from the relations established between the two Cham-
bers, and to put aside completely everything connected
with myself personally. I have not sought the éclat and
publicity of these proceedings ; but, on the other hand,
I have done nothing to avoid them. I have no fear as to
the resulc, and, should a struggle arise between the
Ministry and myself, I certainly shall not give way,
but shall defend my assertion, not only in the Chamber
to which I belong, but in the Chamber of Peers."

M. GuizoT declared his great anxiety to have all
the facts of the case elucidated. On this subject the
Journal des Debats says—
" The Chamber of Deputies proceeded in its Com-
mittee-rooms, on Saturday, to appoint a Commission to
examine the demand made by the Chamber of Peers to
be authorised to summon to their bar M. Emile de Girar-
din, a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. A consi-
derable majority declared in favour of the demand.
Several Members, however, expressed a wish to reserve
their opinion until the author of the article complained
of should have given an explanation. The Ministers were
in favour of the demand of the Peers. M. Guizot declared
that he sincerely desired that the facts should be com-
pletely elucidated. M. Cunin-Gridaine observed that the
pretended sale of promises of a peerage, to which
the Presse alluded, did not appear to the Cabinet of a
nature to be noticed ; but that now, when a discussion
had been commenced, it became necessary that the
truth should be made known. The Opposition in gene-
ral repelled the principle of delivering up one of the
Members of the Chamber of Deputies to the jurisdiction
of the Chamber of Peers. Of nine commissioners two
only, MM. Paitlet and Leon de Malleville, were named
by the Opposition. The other commissioners are MM.
de Saint Aignau, Lavielle, Cousture, Delangle, De
Morny, d'Haussonville, and Gillon."
The Presse makes no comment whatever on the
proceedings in the Bureaux.

Marshal BIIGEAUD was to leave Algiers for France
on the sth June. The correspondent of the National
gives the following account of the cruelties practised
by him in his late expedition into Kabylia:—
" Several villages were carried, they may indeed be
called towns, for one reckoned a population of above
6,000 souls. They were defended by towers. The
Marshal himself ordered the devastation. It had been
agreed that the firing of three guns should be the signal
for the cessation of the pillage. The troops, carried
away by their ardour, rushed to the villages, and sacked
everywhere trinkets, jewels, precious clothes, carpets,
goods of all sorts, arms in abundance, and gold and
silver in profusion, became their prey. The booty was
immense. Innumerable jars of oil were broken; streams
of oil were spread in all directions, and the conflagration
kindled in the houses soon reached that sheet of
eminently combustible liquid. It was a horrible scene.
All the inhabitants who were on the soldiers' passage
were put to the sword. Amidst this shocking confu-
sion, the Marshal saw a Kabyl chieftain of athletic sta-
ture running to him, and, by his gestures and cries,
asking to see the commander of the French army. lie
bad come to demand that the devastation be put an end
to, tendering the submission of his countrymen. There
was in his voice and face such sorrow and such sincerity,
that, overcome by his prayers, the Marshal ordered the
three guns to be fired, when the pillage and devastation
ceased, to the great regret of the Marshal, who, as he
observed last night on his terrace, would willingly have
been more vigorously attacked, in order that he might
have destroyed more, and inflicted a still severer lesson."

The National's correspondent adds that the country
thus cruelly devastated is most beautiful and fertile,
and that whilst publicly proclaiming the final re-
duction of the Kabyls, the Marshal was heard to say,
the very evening before, " Kabylia is subdued, but I
answer not for the future. Nothing is secured and
firmly settled : we may have to begin again in six
months."
The Journal des Debats states that the Committee
of the Chamber of Deputies, to whom the Bill was
referred, which was :presented by the Government,
demanding an extraordinary credit of 3,000,000 f. for
the establishment of agricultural camps in Algeria,
had unanimously declared against its principle.
" We learn," says the Union Monarchigue, " that
domiciliary visits have been made in certain hotels of
the Faubourg St. Germain, and at the residences of
persons who have afforded some marks of interest
and sympathy to the Spanish refugees. The autho-
rities displayed extraordinary force, and several com-
missaries of police directed the search. The warrants,
we are assured, were directed against M. le Comte
DE MONTEMOLIN• In a single house more than 40
agents were employed to examine the apartments,
cellars, and garrets ; but in vain—the pursuit was
ineffectual."

In the Passage de "Opera, on Sunday, the Three
per Cents. were done at 79E 10c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Jura 7.
Namur and Liege, 3%—Northem of France, 11%—Paris
and Lyons, 51/4.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE B.—Wind W.S.W., light breeze and hazy.
DEAL, JUNI 7 N.N.W. to N.N.E., fresh ;
P.M. S. W. to S.S.W., light.—Arrd. Stratford, Mauritius. Sld.
Britannia, Rio Janeiro; Gratitude, Trinidad.
POILTSMOUTII, JUNE 7.—Wind variable.—Arrd. H.ALS
Frolic, San Bias.
COWES, JUNE W.S.W.—Arrd. Achilles, Per-
chard, Bahia.
LivEltrooL, JUNE 7.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Agnes,
Gillies, Porto Rico ; Caledonia Brander, Boyd, :Sew Orleans ;
Dumbarton, Pendleton, ditto; Liberty, Norton, New York.
Sid. John S. de Wolf, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Superb,
Newfoundland. Off port, Flora.

WATERFORD, JUNE 6.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Margaret,
Trinidad.

OFF DUNMORE, JUNE B.—Wind E.—Kilsick Wood,
Brown, Porto Rico, for the Clyde.
CORK, JUNE s.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Unicorn, Jardine,
New York, and sailed for London. Sld. 3d, Jessie, Quebec ;
Walter, St. Thomas's; Andrew King, New York; sth, Sa-
guenay, Quebec. Off port, Robert Newton, New York.
C
ARRIVID IN TILE HANNEL—Joseph Hume, America, for
London.

FALMOUTH, JUNK 7.—Wind E.—Off port, Alexander
Harvey, Rosser, Valparaiso.
BRISTOL, JUNE 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Rosa, Le Pe-
taurel, Mauritius ; Edina, Yule, St. John's, N. B.

ANOTHER VESSEL PLUNDERED ON THE IRISH

COAST.

Belmullet, sth June.
I have to acquaint you that I have been this day- in-
formed that the Wellington, bound for Westport, -from
America, was plundered of a large quantity of her cargo
(Indian corn meal) of the entrance of Black Sod Bay on the
2d inst.