The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-15 00:00:00

HZ SUN, LONDON, THVREIDAY EV

FRANCE.

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
last night
The tranquillity of Paris had not been interrupted
up to six o'clock last evening. The streets in the
neighbourhood of the National Assembly and the
Place de la Concorde were occupied by troops, who
cleared the streets when they saw any assemblage of
people attempting to congregate. Numerous arrests
have been made. The law for the exclusion of Louis
NAPOLEON was the subject of an interesting discus-
sion in the National Assembly, which had not con-
cluded when the post left.
The Assembly met at half-past one.
M. Duclerc, Minister of Finance, proposed in the
name of the Executive Committee, a Bill to authorise
the Government to take possession of the assurance com-
panies.—(Sensation.)
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debate on that Bill, in consequence of the statement
made the day before by the Minister of Finance, to Mon-
day next.--Agreed to.
M. Degousee had to propose that the Bill relative to
Louis Napoleon be at once taken into consideration; the
state of political events demanded it. Louis Napoleon
was in all probability quite innocent of what was passing,
but such a state of things ought not to be permitted to
continue. —(Agitation.)
M. Jules Fabre should propose that the order of the
day be not changed. There were certain matters re:a-
tive to this question of Louis Napoleon, which demanded
to be cleared up. The Assembly seemed to have al-
ready made up its mind on the subject ; still a sense
of justice seemed to demand a delay, at least until the
report on the returns of that representative should be
brought before the House.—(Confusion—cries of " Yes,
yes," " No, no.")
X Degousee had no objection to give the priority
to the reporter on any of the elections of Louis Na-
poleon.—(Hear.)
M. Jules Fabre, the reporter of the 17th bureau, had
to, state to the Assembly the conclusions of that bureau,
on the election of Louis Napoleon for the
Charante Inferieure. The election was perfectly
regular. The question of his nationality had been
raised, but the bureau thought that the admission of the
representative now named ought to be pronounced
provisionally, allowing him to justify his being a French
citizen. The [lon. Deputy then entered at length
into the circumstances which had induced the bureau to
come to this resolution, founding it on the vote passed
by the Assembly on June 2, when the proposition of M.
Pietri to abrogate the law of 1832 against the Bonaparte
family was brought forward. He showed that the whole
Assembly as well as the Executive Committee had been
of opinion that the Bill had been virtually abrogated by
the fact of the revolution of February, and by the ad-
mission of three members of the Bonaparte family into
the Assembly. M. Crimieux, the Minister of Justice,
had in the most formal manner declared that to be the
case, and had even brought forward an order of the day
motive, to show that M. Pietri's proposition was not re-
quisite. But M. Crimieux was the organ of the Execu-
tive Committee, and therefore the Assembly was to be-
lieve that the Government was decidedly in favour of that
course.

M. Ledrn Rollin—The Minister of Justice was no
more our organ than you were when you were reporter
in the affair of Louis Blanc!
M. J. Fabre—But M. Cremieux, as Minister of Jus-
tice' was then. a member of the Government, and the
whole Assembly had certainly considered him as its
organ.—(Hear, hear.) That Honourable Minister had
declared " Let us admit Louis Napoleon! We have no
one to fear!" That had ~,been the sentiment of the
whole Assembly.—(Some cries of " No, no.") Then,
that was the opinion, he must maintain, the epinion of
the immense majority of the Assembly, as well as of the
Government. It was, in fact, that conviction which had
in great measure induced the bureau to recommend
the admission of Louis Napoleon as a representative
of the people, by a majority so large that only ono
Member had voted against it. The Honourable
Deputy then proceeded to argue that the present con-
duct of the Executive Committee was altogether incon-
sistent with what it had decided on on June 2. He asked
why if the Executive Committee had seen any cause for
proceeding against Louis Napoleon ,when the last elec-
tions came on, why had it not made some declaration to
that tffect in time to give warning to the electors, that
they might avoid giving their votes to a person who
could not represent them in the Assembly? Placards
had been posted up for days before the election, and
not a word against him had been uttered. Why was
that? Because, up to that time, no one entertained
any fear of the person who had now been made, by
the conduct of the Government, so formidable. It. was,
therefore, since then that the Government had been
induced' to change' its opinion. And why? Because
his name had been brought forward by a baud of se-
ditious men as a rallying cry.—(No.) Well, then, was it
because he had been elected by four departments? or, if
not that, was it that there was any real danger from
him as a pretender ? Here the Hon Deputy referred to
the attempts of Louis Napoleon, and declared that they
had been called for only by the acts of a Government
whose conduct was odious to all. There could not be
any danger now, when a Republic was established, of
which Louis Napoleon had always proclaimed himself
an ardent admirer. He concluded by calling on the
Assembly not to be inconsistent with its former decision
—not to admit a Bill which would show to the world us
afraid of a single man.
(The sound 'of drums beating outside was here heard.
A person coming in declared that great agitation was
perceptible outside, and that all the shops were shut in
the neighbourhood.)
M. Buchez, as reporter of the 10th bureau, on the part
of that body, had to recommend the Assembly to follow a
line alt2gether contrary to that just advocated.—(Marks
of interest.) The reason was, that the circumstances of
the present time were different from those connected with
the first elections. Then any man could be admitted to
take hie seat withoutdanger, since no one could say from
what point strength might arise to the Republic. Now
that the Executive Committee was formed, and that the
precise position of the Republic was known, it would be
an act of folly to admit any one to take a seat in the As-
sembly who might trouble its tranquillity. He main-
tained that Louis Napoleon was not a simple representa-
tive, but a Prince and a Pretender, who ought to be placed
on the same footing as the Prince de Joinville, Henry V.,
&c. If he were admitted he would become the object of
popular adoration.—(Cries of "Oh, oh.") He main-
tained that each time that Louis Napoleon had attempted
to enter France, he had been led to do so by his ambition.
as nephew of. the Einperor Napoleon. In consequence,
in the name of the sixth bureau, he had to propose to
the Assembly not to admit Louis Napoleon for the de-
partment of the Seine.
M. Ernard said that, as reporter of the sixth bureau,
he had to propose to the Assembly to permit Louis Na-
poleon to take his seat in the usual way for the depart-
ment of the Yonne.
M. Vieillard (who had, formerly been governor or pri-
vate tutor to Louis Napoleon) said that he was on the
point, the day before, when M. de ',martin° ascended
the tribune to present the Bill against Louis Napoleon,
to fulfil a sacred duty, which he should now perform.
He had known Louis Napoleon for thirty years, and
could declare that he was not what had been stated of
him in that Assembly. He might be made a deputy in
spite of his declared repugnance, but he could not be
transformed into a pretender. All these stories of
money given, were absolutely unfoundeds—LouiaNapo-
leon had no desire to come to France, or to take his seat
in the Assembly. He (M. Vieillard) would read a letter
which he had a few days before received from Louis
Napoleon. (The Honourable Representative hero read
the letter written from London, in which the writer de-
clared that he was unwilling at present to enter France,
where, his presence might be the cause of embarrass-
ment to the Republic. not on account of his opinions,
but because he would in all probability be an object to-
wards which seditious men might look for the purpose
of forwarding their own views. If his country wanted
him, he would hasten to enter the French territory; if
not, he should remain where he was in England.) M.
Vieillard then asked if that was the language of a pre
tender, and after passing a warm eulogium on Louis
Napoleon, declared that the Assembly would act weakly
and unjustly in making any difference between him and
the rest of the Bonaparte family.
M. Marschal spoke at some length against the ad-
mission of Louis Napoleon. He maintained that that
person was a pretender, and that if the door was opened
for one it was to give encouragement to the others.
M. Fresneau declared that be could not believe that
the Assembly would dismiss from his seat a representa-
tive elected by four departments. The rumours of con-
spiracy, affixed to the name of Louis Napoleon were all
false; no conspiracy existed, except against the weakness
of the Executive Committee. The Hon. Representative
alluded to the scene of the day before, and asked, wits it
proper for M. de tamartine to have taken advantage of
a oistol-shot, which had gone off by accident, to rush to
the tribune and present a Dill against an unoffending
man? He then asked if the Assembly had not the
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said that, he meant merely to speak of
the glory of the Emperor: He saw no reason why he
was not, in a Republican Assembly, to express himself
freely relative to the Emperor, or any other question.
In conclusion, the Hon. Representative declared that he
feared no
,imeute to the cry of "Vive Louis Napoleon!"
though he should dread one greatly to that of " Vive la
Pologne!" The best cry of all would be " Vive la Sou-
verante du Peuple!"
General Clement Thomas gave an account of the cir-
cumstances which had occurred the day before on the
Place de Concorde, but he added nothing to what was
already known. He could not tell whether the pistol
went off by accident or not. The men who were pre-
sent were in the crowd, were well known to the police
as those who daily endeavoured to excite disturbance at
the Porte St. Denis and the Porte St. Martin, and that
was the reasoti why he had ordered the Pace to be
cleared. His object in making this statement was sim-
ply, he said, to explain his oa n conduct, and not to in-
fluence in any way the decision.
Repellin spoke strongly for the non-admission
of
',Louis Napoleon.
M. tours 131ancisaid that, as a 'RePublican,• he must

oppose the Bill brought in by the Govetnment. Shame
and execration be on him who attempted to forward his

own penionalambition ! But he thought it wou dbe to

give a fatal importance to any ()Le-to exclude him,
when elected by the people, from the Assembly. The
Republic was ;now fixed beyond the power of human

power to cause it to remit; and why fear any man ?
Republican ideas would advance so rapidly that nothh;g•
could withstand them, if left free career ; but a mensut e
like that now produced would be a means to impede
their progress, by casting a doubt on their omnipo-
tence. It would be fair in respect to the Republic
declaring in the Constitution that there
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i whatever. The Hon. Represen-
tative then diverged into a short dissertation on the
organization of labour, amidst cries of " Enough,
enough." He next spoke of the calumnies directed
against those who had devoted their life to the Republic;
this subject being also apparently distasteful to the As-
sembly, he went on to declare himself against all laws of
conscription, and at last left the tribune amidst loud
cries of " Divide, divide," and the marked inattention of
the House.

--
M. Pascal Duprat supported the exclusion of Louis
Bonaparte. The law was against his taking his place as
a representative. Neither the declaration of M. Ore-
mieux as Minister of Justice, nor the wish of the As.-
sembly, as expressed by an order of the day motive,
could do away with the law which existed. The law
still remained in force, and he demanded to have it
maintained against Louis Napoleon.
M. F. Lasteyrie spoke against the Bill for exclusion.
[Left sitting.]
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 13.
THREE o'CLocK.—The market has been very quiet
to-day, with scarcely any business doing. Speculators
await the vote of the Assembly on the Railways; but, on
the whole, both Funds and Shares are better.