The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-07 00:00:00

THE FRE

PUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The affair of Louis BLANC is likely to lead to a
break up of the Ministry and of the Excutive Com-
mittee of the Government. We yesterday announced

the resignation of the law-officers of the Government,
and of N. JULES FAVRE. The Assembly, to mark
their sense of the manner in which the ex-law-officers

of the Republic had been treated by the Ministry
and the Executive Committee, elected M. PORTAL'S
the ex-Procureur-General, one of the Vice-Presidents

of the Assembly, and M. LANDRIN, his colleague, one

of its secretaries. Hereupon M. CREMIEUX, the
Minister of Justice, on whose conduct these elections

might be considered a vote of censure, at once resigned
his office. It is said that the Minister for Foreign Af-

fairs, and MM. LAMARTINE and LEDRU ROLLIN will
also resign. It appears that when the law officers, in the
course of their inquiries into the affair of the 15th of

May, thought they had discovered sufficient evidence
to authorise the inise eu accusation of Louis BL&NC,

immediately laid the case before the Executive Com-
mittee, and demanded the authorisation to prosecute
him. MM. ARAGO and MARIE were for giviig to the
law officers the required authorisation. MM. LAMAR.

TINE, LEDRU ROLLIN, and GARNIER PAGES were op-
posed to granting it. The Executive Committee then
compromised the matter by ruling that they would
not impede the course of justice, thus leaving the
law officers of the Republic to use their own discre-

tion. They submitted the case to the Minister of Jus-
tice, M. CREMIBUX, Who unhesitatingly gave his full
approbation to the prosecution of LOUIS BLANC,
and ended by saying to the law-officers, " henceforth

we will go on together," and he continued this course
up to the moment of the taking the vote in the As-
sembly, when he voted against his own law officers.
The Moniteur announces officially the resignation
of M. CREIIIEUX, and the Presse says—" The mem-
bers of the Executive Committee and the Ministers
sat in Council yesterday, previous to the sitting of the
Assembly. The vote of the Ministers on the ques-
tion of the authorisation of the prosecution of Louis
BLAlic is said to have given rise to a warm discussion.

On coming out of the Council the resignations of
MM. LAIIIETINE and LEDRU ROLLIN were con-
sidered to be certain. M. BASTIDE, it is said, re-
signed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the same
time with M. JULES FAYRE, his Under-Secretary of
State.

General P 1utROT, who commanded the garrison of
Paris until the 24th of February, has been appointed
Commander of Vincennes.
La Liberte states that the Committee on the consti-
tution will be ready to present their report to the
National Assembly by the middle of the present
month. It is said further, that MM. DUPIN and
DUFAuRE have distinguished themselves in the
Committee by the democratic spirit of their propo-
sitions.

The Commune de Paris states that " the Republican
Government has dared to arm the forts round Paris,
a measure which the late Government feared to adopt.
Ammunition is being every day publicly carried into
the fort of Romainville !"
The Minister of the Interior presented yesterday
the following stringent measure against armed as-
semblages :

" Art. 1. All armed assemblages in the public tho-
roughfares are forbidden, as are also all assemblages
without arms which may disturb public tranquillity.
" Art. 2. Armed assemblages shall be regarded as a
crime unless they disperse at the first summons, and
shall only be considered as a simple offence if they dis-
perse without resistance.
" Art. 3. Au assemblage is considered as armed if
several individuals amongst it carry arms, either openly
or concealed, and when any one who openly carry arms
are not immediately expelled from the assemblage by

those who form part of it.
" Art. 4. When an armed or unarmed assemblage
shall be formed in a public thoroughfare, the mayor or
one of his deputies, or a commissary of police, or any
other agent of the public force, or of the executive power
wearing a tricoloured scarf, shall proceed to the place
when the assembly shall have taken place. A roll of
the drum shall announce the arrival of the magistrate.
If the assemblage is armed he shall summon them to
retire and disperse. If the first summons shall be dis-
regarded, another roll of the drum shall be beaten, and
a second summons made. In case of resistance the
assemblage shall be dispersed by force.
" Art: 5. Parties arrested shall be liable to the follow-
ing punishments:—lf the assemblage makes no use of
their arms and disperses at the first summons, from six
months to two years' imprisonment; if the assemblage
takes place in the night, from two to five years' impri-
sonment; if the disperson does not take place until the
second summons, but without the use of force and with-
out using their arms, from two to five ye%rs' imprison-
ment,
and from three to six years if in the night. If
arms have been used, and the armed force is compelled
shet
o act,
night
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ton yea rsif in
twelve
years. In all cases a loss
of
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solitary confinement;
~Art. 6. Any one taking part in such assemblages
md
the drum, will be liable to from three months' to one
year's imprisonment, and if farce is compelled to be used
unarmed ntd s w
who will
l be
does e incurred.
from 13 to 18 months.
~ Art. 7. Any inciter to armed or unarmed assem-
blages by means of writings, placards either posted up
against the walls or distributed, will be punished accord-
ing to the preceding. articles. The printers of all
such inflammatory writings or placards will be considered
as accomplices, and punished as such. If no result has
come from the above writings, and only a provocation to
it has taken place, the. imprisonment shall be from six
months to one year if the assemblage is to be armed; if
unarmed from one month to three months.
" Art. 8. The prosecutions for a crime or a misde-
meanour shall not prevent proceedings against the same
party for any more serious offence which may arise out
of the said assemblage.
Art, 9. Art. 463 of the Penal Code is applicable to
the crimes and misdemeanours above stated.
" Art, 10. Prosecutions for the above-named offences
shall take place before the Court of Assizes."
Signed by the Members of the Executive Committee.
The Committee on Finance on Tuesday devoted a
long sitting to the application of the law relative to
expropriation to the railway lines. The Committee,
without contesting this right to the state, came to
the opinion that it could not be applied to railways,
which had concluded with the state contracts inter-
dicting all expropriation for periods of greater or less
duration. The Committee on Public Works also de-
liberated yesterday on the same question, and came
ultimately to an opinion contrary to that of the
Finance Committee. The Sub-Committee charged
to consider the re-purchase of the lines has
made its report, through M. LEFRANC. In this re-
port it is affirmed that the state ought to possess the
railway lines and work them itself. It declares that,
by the law of expropriation, the state has a right to
take possession of the railways ; but, as to the ways
and means, it ought to be left to the decision of the
Government itself, which has not yet divulged its
secret. In all cases it thinks that the state cannot
take the lines without treating on terms of mutual
arrangement with the companies, and in case of dis-
accord, having the matter decided by a court of
arbitration.
The intriguers for a restoration are busily at
work, both in Belgium and England. We
extract the following from the National on this
subject, protesting at the same time against the
assumption that England can be regarded as antago-
nistic to the democratic party in France. It is only
a miserable minority of an aristocracy which is itself
a minority that countenances these intrigues. The
great bulk of the people of England look upon the
contemptible Orleanists in the same light as the great
hulk of the people of France, as things too mean to
hate or dread, and yet, like other vermin, too loath-
some to be entirely despised—things not to be sought
.out—but to be crushed, should they obtrude them-
selves on public notice.
The National says--
" All the letters which we receive from Belgiun?, re-
present the Court of Leopold as a centre of intrigues
Ther the gait is
me
eirected against Republican France. e
is in nowise considered lost, and the. playing ot
again commenced for the advantage of those who were
driven away on the 24th February. There is. an under-
standing with people in Paris, and the flattering ho.p i
e s
entertained of being, at a given moment,very useful to
those who, in this country, labour for a
counter-revolu-
tion.
The Belgian Government can only be an.instru-
ment in the hands of the two great powers which are
now the chiefs of the Conservative party, the antago-
nists of the democratic party--namely, England in the
first rank, Russia in the second; and these two powers
will certainly think twice before commencing a conflict. '
The Minister of Public Works has communicated
to the departmental authorities the measures they
will have to adopt with respect to the men now em-
ployed in the ateliers nationaux of Paris, who are
about to be sent to their respective departments. In
many departments, where there are a great number
of workmen, the opening of credits for the execution
of bridges, roads, and railways will enable many men
to be employed ; and other works: of great impor-
tance and real utility are to be immediately under-

taken. The men who are to be sent from the capital

are to go in divisions of 200 each, and are to reeeive

an allowance for their expenses on the road.
A decree of the Minister of War, dated the 28th
ult., calls into active and immediate service the
80,000 men forming the contingent of the class of

847. M. LEON HooDE, recently Commissary.Ge-

neral in the Ariege, has been nominated Prefect of

that department ; and REcquiE, who was Com-

missary• General of Lozere, has been appointed Pre-
fect of the Herault ; N. AUBERT has been appointed

Prefect of Corsica.

M. Ti/ERs has been returned for Rouen,
The National Assembly met yesterday, and it will
be perceiv6d from the following report of its pro-
proceedings, that several important matters were
brought before it. The Finance Committee reported
against the Railway Bill and the Executive Com-
mittee presented the Budget for 1848.

The gifting commenced at half-past one.
M. Cremieux was present, and took his seat on the

extreme right, exactly opposite the Ministerial benches.
M. Buchez that before he delivered over the
chair to the successor which the Assembly had given
him, he wished briefly to sum up what had been done
during the time he had presided over its laliours. The
Republic had been solemnly proclaimed, the Executive
Committee nominated, the regulations to guide their pro-
ceedings fixed, and the standing Committees appointed,
of which two were of an exceptional character—that on

finance and that on labour. Nothing had, in fact,
more characterised the labours of the Assembly
than the attention paid to the various subjects con-

nected with the condition of the labouring classes.
Thus, an inquiry had been ordered throughout France
into their position; the councils of prud'hommes bad
been instituted, and the state of the national workshops
had become the especial object of attention. The As-
sembly had also fixed the nature of the foreign relations
with other states. When the Assembly had first met,
only the United States had acknowledged the Republic,
but since then the Italian States, Belgium, and Spain
bad followed that example, and no doubt the rest of
Europe would soon do the same. Such having been the
case,lhe thought that it would be admitted that what had
been dune was, not unworthy of a :great nation. All
that now remained for him to do was to thank his friends
around him for all the kindness that they had shown
him.—(llear.)
M. Senard, the new President, then took the chair,
after the usual accolade had passed between him and
his predecessor. He thanked the Assembly for the
honour which they had done him. The Republic re-
quired large, noble, and generous institutions, and the
acts of the Assembly showed that it was determined to
pursue such a line of conduct as would lead to that de-
sirable result. But what was principally necessary was,
that they should all march together, that there should
be a unity of will and great energy in carrying out their
objects. Hitherto a certain agitation and irritability
had been exhibited, such in fact as was inseparable
from the commencement of the labours of a deliberative
assembly. This, he hoped, would now cease, and greater
gravity and order mark their sittings. The Hon. Pre-
sident passed a high eulogium on his predecessor, and
concluded by expressing his determination to do all he
could to merit the high honour conferred on him.
M. Fayet, Bishop of Orleans, complained that it was
impossible to hear one-half of what was said in the
Chamber, and that it was really very unpleasant
to be obliged to wait until the next day, to see
in the Moniteur the real state of the question on which
they had voted the day before.—(Laughter.) Some-
thing certain ought to be done in the matter.
Zshort discussion here ensued on the subject, from
which it appeared that the matter had been very seri-
ously inquired into, and that the theatre of the Tuileries,
the old Chamber of Deputies, and the old Chamber of
Peers at the Luxembourg had been severally examined.
It was at last thought that the old Chamber of Deputies
would serve best, when some alterations had been effected
in it.

M. Flocon, Minister of Commerce, declared that he
was in favour of the Tuileries as the locale of their deli-
berations. That building had been long used for pur-
poses with which the people were not concerned; it was
time that it should be shown that it was now under the
national sovereignty.
It was eventually decided that a Committee should be

appointed to consider the question.
M. Duclerc, the Minister of Finance, brought forward
a Bill to fix the budget of 1848. It declares that the
ordinary and extraordinary credits for that year, which
were fixed at 1,738,000,000 f. are augmented for certain
matters by 12.000,000 f., and reduced in others by
71,000,000 f., which leaves a definitive reduction of
58,000,000 f. The credits for the year, therefore, are
fixed at 1,680,000,000 f. in all. On the other hand, the
resources, ordinary and extraordinary, of 1848, which
had been fixed at 1,670,000,000 f., are augmented in
certain cases by 126,000,000 f. and reduced in
others by 111,000,000 francs, which leaves
a definitive augmentation of 15,000,000 f. The receipts,
therefore, should be for the year 1,685 millions. [We
give these figures in round numbers, confining ourselves
to millions. It would appear by this statement that the
budget is to show an excess of 5 millions.]—Referredito
the Finance Committee.
M. Bineau—l have to present the report of the
Finance Committee on the Bill to authorize the Govern-
ment to take possession of the railway lines. The cons
elusions of the Committee were exceedingly simple :
they ran thus—" Taking into consideration the various
motives brought before us, we have to recommend the
National Assembly not to adopt the Bill."
M. Leon Faucher had to call on the Assembly to dis-
cuss as soon as possible the proposition lately presented
to convert the Bons du Trisor and the money in the
savings' banks into Five per Cent. Reute at 70f., or the
price of the day. He should propose Thursday next
for the purpose, as the matter was urgent, the financial
position of the country being most dissatisfactory. The
Honourable Minister of Finance, in bringing forward
his Bill relative to the railways, had not thought fit to
state to the Committee what were his resources to
,meet
the claims which must be made on him in consequence
of that measure. For his part in finance matters, he
did not understand why these were to be secret. Some-
times a case might certainly arise to warrant a mo-
mentary secrecy, such, for instance, as had occurred
in a neighbouring country, where a great Minister
kad kept silence on his plans for raising up the finances
of the country, both as to his resources and his mode of
execution. But the present position of France presented
nothing of a similar nature ; the whole question was to
know how the state was to pay its engagements. France
was proceeding rapidly to a national bankruptcy, and
yet the Government sat quiet on their benches, and did
not even condescend to say what they intended to do.
This was the more necessary from the distressed state of
commerce. Confidence ought to be restored, and cer-
tainly the conduct of the Government did not appear
likely to restore it. He and the other members of the
Committee had done their duty in bringing forward this
subject before the House. They had satisfied their re-
sponsibility—it was now for the Government to meet
theirs.—(Loud cheers.)
M. Garnier Pages said that the reason of the delay
was, that the very nature of the Bill brought forward
was considered likely to cause a full in the public funds.
The Government had kept silence, because if its plan
was declared, as the Bill spoke of the conversion of
other securities into Five per Cent. Stock, a fall in that
security would, in all probability, take place. As long
as the matter was secret the funds remained
with little alteration, no one knowing what
might be decided on. He did not want any
great delay, for the plan would be almost
immediately made known ; but he must request the
Assembly not to allow itself to be borne away by the as-
sertion of gentlemen from that tribune—assertions
which, he must say, were exceedingly exaggerated.
Before the disussion on the proposition of the Committee
came on, the Government wished to have the railway
bill brought forward, as, if the proposition should pass,
it would have the effect of sending down the Five per
Cents., and thus rendering the task of the Government
more difficult in the railway bill.
M. Jules de Lasteyrie must maintain that the Go-
vernment was altogether too careless of the interests of
the country. Here were the holders of Bons du Tresor
and depositors of savings banks kept out of their money,
and nothing done to relieve them. It was a Committee
which was obliged to take the first step. The Hon.
Deputy dwelt for some time on the dreadful position of
the finances, and the little appearance of tho Govern-
ment doing anything to change the situation.
The Minister of Finance could not allow that the ex-
pressions of the Hon. Member were well founded. He
had joined together the two subjects of the Bons du
Tresor and of the savings' bank, and if they were of
little importance, the latter were certainly far more im-
portant—(oh, oh, and marks of surprise)—as the holders
of Bons du Tresor, for the most part, were excessively
rich.—(A tremendous burst of disapprobation greeted
these words.) He had to pray the Chamber not to
attach more consequence to his words than they merited.
All:would certainly be paid in the end, but the savings'
banks' first, as not a person who held Bons du
Tri;or now suffered.—(Loud denial.) The Govern-
ment had thought most deeply on the position of the
country, and had even been about in a few days to
propose a measure to pay The depositors of the sav-
ings' banks in part. As to the complaint that he
had kept his secret as to his plan relative to the rail
ways, he had done so certainly, and he rejoiced that
such had been his line of conduct. The reason why
he had done so was that the Government had about
it plenty of persons anxious to hear what was in-
tended, in order to go and speculate in the funds. He
had to declare that whenever the Assembly called on him
to speak—to divulge the secret alluded to—he would
do so at once, but not before, and for the reason which
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solidate the Bons du Tr‘sor, although the proposition
was presented at four o'clock, the result was discounted
at two o'clock at the Bourse, by an improvement in the
firm of the Bons de Tresor of 7 per cent. He would not
lend his.self to such acts!
M. Berryer inveighed in the strongest manner against
the dilatory conduct of the Government in the financial
matters of the country.
M. Garnier Pages observed, that France must un-
doubtedly do honour to her engagements, and he then
declared that, with a little energy and a little good will
from all, France, would decidedly fulfil every demand
against her.
M. Billault supported the views of the Minister.
The Minister of Finance again answered some of the
objections brought forward, and concluded by calling on
the Assembly to adjourn the proposition until after the
railway bill had been disposed of. He did so, Ist, be •
cause it would enable the Government to give immediate
employment to many thogottud workmen on the seyeral

lints; and 2dly, because it vvouid prevent the fund. from
being affected before the Government Bill was discussed.
The proposition of the Committee could only serve to
favour stock jobbing.
The question was then put to the vote as to which
should be first discussed.

One trial was doubtful, and nnother was on the point
of taking place when post hour arrived.
It seemed so clo,e a thing that a division will pro-
bably be had recourse to.
[Left sitting.]
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 6.
TIIREX o'cLocx.—The market has been quiet, and
little business done in consequence of the public wishing
to await the course of events in the political world. The
result of the elections is looked forward to with anxiety,
as on it will depend the course to be adopted by the
Government. For the Account, the French Three per
Cents. remain as yesterday. Five per Cents. without
alteration. For Money the Three per Cents. are un-
altered ; Five per Cents. have fallen 25c ; Bons du
Tilisor, 25 discount; Bank of France Sl,ares have risen
20f.; Roman, a rise of 2i; Rothschild's Receipts better
by If. 50c; Exchange on London (30 days), 25 40; ditto
(90 days), 25 15.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JuNs 6. '
Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Namur and Liege,
,31/i—
Northern of France, 4.