The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

FRANCE

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
last night]:— _ .

" Certain journals," says the Moniteur, " assert
that the raising of the state of siege, and the pre-
sentation of a decree ordering the removal to Algeria
of the insurgents of June, condemned to transporta-
tion, were conditions required by the new Minis-
ters previous to their entrance into the Cabinet.
Those measures were already agreed upon since
the vote on the proposition of M. Durrieu. They
obtained, moreover, the assent of the whole of the
new Ministry."
Before the meeting of the National Assembly on
Saturday last, a number of representatives belonging
to different opinions assembled in a room attached
to the hall of the National Assembly, to deliberate
on the raising of the siege of Paris. Three Ministers
—General Lamoriciere, Marie, and Freslon, were
present. The two first entered on an explanation of
the present situation of affairs. They declared that
the Executive Government was of opinion that the
state of siege might at this moment be raised without
danger, but that the existing laws on the press and
on the clubs did not sufficiently arm the Government,
and that it might be necessary to modify them.
Those explanations which were mentioned in
the standing committees were favourably re-
ceived. The Commissioners elected to communi-
cate with the Government appeared to coincide with
them. The club of the Rue de Poitiers, after a
long discussion, resolved to leave the Members free
to act as they pleased. The revelations made by
several representatives as to public opinion, and on
the proceedings of the clubs, produced a consider-
able effect in the committee-rooms. M. Berger,
the Mayor of the second arrondissement, and other
members of the same Committee, mentioned several
serious facts of threats uttered against General
Cavaignac and the Members of the National Assem-
bly. Nevertheless the general feeling of the Re-
presentatives appeared to be in favour of raising
the state of siege, giving the Government at the
same time additional powers to restrain the
press and the clubs, and to renew the state
of siege should circumstances require it. It was
further proposed, that in caae the Assembly should
be prorogued, the Government should be empowered
to re-establish the state of siege provisionally on their
own responsibility. MM. de Tracy, Combarel, De
Leyval, Poujoulat, De Tillancourt, Gerdy, and Porion,
spoke in favour of maintaining the state of siege.
MM. Dupin the elder, Coquerel, Duclerc, General
Changarnier, Degoussee, Moreau, Pascal Duprat,
Turck, General Lebreton, Charles Dupin, Glais-
Bizoin, Dapont (de Bussac), Berenger, Detours,
Chauffour, Flocon, and Menaud spoke In favour of
raising the state of siege, with certain restrictions.

FRANKFORT.
GERMAN PARLIAMENT.

In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 12th,
Eisenmann asked the Ministry whether it intended
to bring the Imperial forces to bear in Hungary ?
Berger, after an animated and enthusiastic allusion
to the news which the two last posts had brought
from Vienna, moved that the National Assembly
declare the Imperial Diet in Vienna, and the heroic
democratic population of Vienna, to have deserved
highly of the German Fatherland. As th s National
Assembly would not grant him a hearing, Berger
proceeded to declaim with some vehemence against
the refusal.—(Clamour on the Right and Centre.)
He would not allow himself to be interrupted ; at
any rate he would say every word that he had to say.
Rather than see his motion referred to a Committee,
and thus submitted to the usual drawling routine,
with every chance of its purport being grievously
frustrated, he withdrew it at once.
The House was upon the point of proceeding with
the order of the day, when
Schmerling, the Minister, said there were two in-
terpellations for him to answer in relation to Austria.
Before replying to them he begged to be allowed to
make a communication. The Assembly might
imagine that the moment news had arrived in Frank-
fort of the important events that had just occurred in
Vienna, this intelligence had seriously engrossed the
attention of the Ministry. With regard to the
employment of Imperial troops in Hungary, the
Ministry had already come to a determination. This
determination had been submitted to the Adminis-
trator, had been approved by him, and was already
being carried into execution. He could not at present
enter into further details, but would shortly lay an
ample, and, he trusted, very satisfactory statement
before the Assembly.—(Faint murmurs on the Left.)
In regard to the quartering of the Imperial troops, he
would distinctly state that the Central Power intended
to accord a proper indemnification for the maintenance
of all troops that were employed on extraordinary
occasions.
Wesendenck said that in consequen e; of the late
news from Vienna, and in consideration that the
Provisional Central Power can legally execute no-
thing that has not previously been resolved upon by
the Nationally Assembly, he moved that the Ministry
be called upon to give an immediate account of the
measures which it had adopted with regard to Hun-
gary and Austria.—(Wesendonck was not allowed to
establish his motion any further.)
Another Member of the Left moved—" In consi-
deration that the Imperial Diet in Vienna has de-
clared itself permanent, the National Assembly re-
solves that all interference on the part of the Pro-
visional Central Power shall be condemned as illegal,
and as a violation of the rights of the individual
states." ( The urgency of the motion was dis-
allowed.)
Wesenclonck said that as he had been refused per-
mission to establish his motion, and although he
could in no wise approve of Imperial troops being
sent (supposing this to be the case) against the demo-
crats of Vienna, he found himself obliged to withdraw
his motion.

The following sections of the fundamental rights
were carried to-day without discussion :
" All judicature emanates from the state. No pa-
trimonial courts shall exist. The judicial power is
exercised independently by the judicial court.
" Cabinet or ministerial judicature is inadmissible.
" No privileged courts shall exist either for persons
or landed interest. _ _

" Military judicature is confined to the passing
judgment on military crimes or offences, as also on
offences committed against military discipline, with
the reservation of such provisions as are made for the
declaration of martial law.
" No judge may be degraded or suspended from his
office, or disparaged either in rank or salary, except
by formal judgment and application of the law.
" No judge may either be translated or pensioned
off against his will, except on the ground of a judicial
verdict returned agreeably to the cases and forms
prescribed by the law.
" The proceedings of the court shall be conducted
publicly and vied we. In criminal matters an in-
dictment must be laid. A jury must return the
verdict in the case of heinous crime or political of-
fences.

" In matters where particular knowledge of a cal-
ling is necessary the civil law must be administered
or co-administered by judges both versed in the sub-
ject, and freely chosen by followers of that calling.
" Justice and administration shall be separate.
" Nowhere has the police the power of criminal
punishment.
"In the army only one and the same code of mar-
tial law is valid; this is founded on public process
before a jury.
" Administratio judicialia is at an end.
" The courts of law decide in respect of all viola-
tions of the law.

" Judgments entered in German courts of law, as
also public and authentic documents (instrumenta
originalia gel authentica), are of equal effect and
validity in all German lands."