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

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Pat is papers of yesterday.
The affair of Louis BLiNc 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 1,1. JULES Favne. The Assembly, to mark
their sense of the manner in which the ex-law-officers

of the It'epublic had been treated by the Ministry
and the Executive Committee, elected M. PORTALIS
the ex-Procureur- General, one of the Vice-Presidents

of the Assembly, and M. LANDRIN, his colleague, one
of its secretaries. Hereupon 111. r
....REMIEUX, 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. L.&MARTINE and LEDRU ROLLIN Will
also resign. It appears that when the law officers, in the
course of their inquiries into the affair of the 16th of

May, thought they had discovered sufficient evidence
to authorise thf+ rnise en accusation of Louis BLANC,

immediately laid the ease before the Executive Com-
mittee, and demanded the authorisation to prosecute
him. 11IM. ABAGo and MAunt were for givixg. to the
law officers the required authorisation. MM. LAMAR•

TINE, LEDRU ROLLIN, awl 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 ow•n discre-
tion. They submitted the case to the Minister of Jus-
tice, M. CREMIEUX, 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 tpgether," 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. CREMIEUX, and the Presse says—" The mein-
bers of the Executive Committee and the Ministers
eat 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
BLANC iS said to have given rise to a warm discussion.
On coming out of the Council the resignations of
MM. LAMARTINE and LEDRU ROLLIN were con-
sidered to be certain. M. BASTIDE, it is said, re-
signed il.e Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the same
time with M. JULES FAVRE, his Under-Secretary of
State.

General PERROT, 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 AIM. Durim and
DurAußs 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.
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Interior presented yesterday Ammunition is being every day publicly carried into
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 disturo 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. An 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 arrestad 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
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pnent, and from three to six years if in the night. It
arms have been used, and the armed force is compelled
to act, from five to ten years' solitary confinement; Um
the night from eight to twelve years. In all cases a loss
of civil rights will be incurred.
" Art. 6. Any one taking part in such assemblages
unarmed, and who does not retire at the second roll of
the drum, will be liable to from three months' to one
year's imprisonment, and if force is compelled to be used
from 13 to IS 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. It 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; it
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 or 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,
vvhich 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 pot 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 Belgium re-
present the Court of Leopold as a centreh of intrigues
eirected against Republican France. 'I ere the game
is in nowise considered lost, and the playing ot it is
again commenced fur the advantage of those
is who
under-
were
driven away on the 24th F.rbruary. There an
standing with people in Paris, and the flattering hope is
entertained of being, at a given moment, very useful to
those who, in this country, labour fora 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--narnely, 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-