The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-30 00:00:00

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which are wrong. What would be said if a jury to
whom an issue of fact had been sent, merely stated
that there was conflicting evidence ? or if a court of
law, to whom a:disputed point had been referred,
answered that skilful barristers entertained oppo•
site views ? The parties who brought the case for-
ward were already perfectly aware of these disputes
and differences, and it was to obtain a solution
thereof that they had recourse to the judgment of
another tribunal, and if the judgment was so vague
and equivocal they would most probably conceive
that much time had been misspent, and expense
very uselessly incurred for such a result. So
the Legislature and the country, who awaited
a distinct answer to a plain and simple ques•
tion, will conceive that they are very little wiser or
better informed on the point than they were when
the Committee commenced their labours, and that
Parliament had indeed been most unnecessarily called
together at an inconvenient period of the year, if all
that was obtained in return therefor was the informa-
tion that " the evidence as to the effects of the Act of
1844 " was contradictory, and that the members of
the late and of the present Cabinets were of opinion
" that it is not expedient to make any alteration in
the Bank Charter Act of 1844." Verily—
" Parturiunt montes, nascitur ridiculus mus."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NEW MINISTRY.
We yesterday announced that General CAVAIGNAC
had been elected President of the Council, with power
to appoint his own Ministry. The General at once
proceeded to exercise the power thus conferred on
him, and during the sitting of the Assembly on Wed-
nesday evening he presented the following as the list
of his new Ministry :

Senard
Bastide
Goudchaux
Bethmont
Lamoriciere
Carnot
Thouret
Recurt
Admiral Leblanc .. Marine.
These names were well received, with the ex.
ception of those of M. CARNOT and Admiral LE.
BLANC. M. CARNOT, it will be recollected,
was the Minister of Public Instruction under
the Provisional Government, and emulated M.
LEDRU ROLLIN in the ultra character of his circulars.
lie probably owes his appointment to the respect in
which General CAVAIGNAC, in common with every
iniltary man, holds the memory of his father. His
name was received with a burst of disapprobation by
the Assembly. An attempt was made to oppose the
appointment of Admiral LEBLANC, on the ground
that he was not a Member of the Assembly, but it
was over-ruled. The character of the Ministry is
altogether one of moderation, and the appointment of
General LAMORICIERE, the brother-in-law of M.
TRIERS, would seem to indicate that it would receive
the support of that gentlemen and his friends.
It was to Gen. LAMORICIERE that ABD-EL-KADER
surrendered. Gen. LAMORICIERE pledged his honour
to ABD-EL-FADER that the terms of the surrender
should be observed, and that the Arab Chief should
be permitted to retire either to Syria or to Egypt,
that word of honour so pledged was violated by the
perfidy of GUIZOT, who disavowed General LAMORI-
CIERE, and on that pretence kept ABD-EL•KADER in
France. General LamoafcrEEE is now himself
Minister, and one of his first acts will no doubt
be to permit the ex-Emir to transport himself
either to Syria or to Egypt, as he had pledged himself
to do at the time of the capitulation. Less cannot be
expected from a brave soldier and a man of honour,
such as LAMORICIERE has proved himself to be.
Great allowance must be made for the extraordinary
position in which General CAVAIGNAC is placed, but
we must confess that we do not altogether like the
composition of the new Ministry. It is too hetero-
geneous in its character to work well. How, for
instance, can any united action take place in a Cabinet
in which are M. CARNOT, the ultra-Republican, and
friend of LEDRU ROLLIN, and General LAMORICIERE,
the brother-in-law of TIIIERS, and the friend of the
Due D'AIJMALE, whose Orleanist predilections are all
but openly avowed. Nevertheless it must be ad-
mitted that it is a vast improvement upon the former
Ministry, and the appointment of M. GOUDCHAUX
as Finance Minister cannot but tend greatly to the
revival of public credit.
The appointment of M. SENARD to the Ministry of
the Interior creates a vacancy in the Presidency of the
Assembly. It is generally supposed that M. Du-
FAURE will be the new President. It was during the
course of the sitting of Wednesday that the election
of General CAVAIGNAC to the office of President took
place. At the commencement of the sitting the PRE-
SIDENT proposed the following proclamation, which
was voted with acclamation :
" TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE.
" Frenchmen 1 Anarchy is conquered,—Paris is still
standing, and justice shall be done ! Honour to the
courage and patriotism of the National Guards of Paris
and the departments ! Honour to our brave and ever
glorious army ! to our young and intrepid Mobile Guard !
to our schools ; to the Republican Guard ; and to so
many generous volunteers who have ascended the breach
for the defence of order and liberty l All, with a con-
tempt of life, and with superhuman courage, have driven
back from barricade to barricade, and pursued, to their last
dens, those monsters who, without principles, without
colours, seemed to have armed themselves for massacre
and pillage alone.--(" Very well.") Family, institutions,
liberty, country, all was struck at the heart, and beneath
the strokes of the new barbarians, the civilization of the
19th century was doomed to perish. But no! civiliza-
tion cannot perish ! No ! the Republic—that work of
God—the living law of humanity—the Republic cannot
perish. We swear it by France herself; who rejects
with horror these savage doctrines, in which family is
but a name, and property but a theft. We swear it by
the blood of so many noble victims, who have fallen
beneath their fratricidal balls. All the enemies of the
Republic had leagued against her in a violent and des-
perate effort. They are vanquished, and henceforth
none of them can attempt again to cast us into
such bloody collisions. That sublime enthusiasm,
That from all parts of France has precipitated
on Paris the thousands of soldier-citizens, whose
loyalty has affected us all, does it not proclaim
that, with universal suffrage, the greatest crime is
to rise against the sovereignty of the people? Are not
the decrees of the National Assembly there to confound
the miserable calumnies, to proclaim that its our republic
there are no classes, no privileges possible; that the
ouvriers are our brothers; that their interests have
always been with us the most sacred; and that, after
having energetically established order, and assured
severe justice, we will open our hearts and arms to all
who labour and suffer amongst us? Frenchmen—
unite in the holy love of country. Blot out the last
traces of civil discord; maintain firmly all the conquests
of liberty and democracy; let nothing cause us to
swerve from the principles of our revolution; but let us
not forget that society must be ordered; that equality
and fraternity can only be developed in concord and
peace; that liberty needs order to establish it, and to
defend it from its own excesses. It is thus that we will
consolidate our young Republic, and that in the future
we shall see it from day to day become greater and more
prosperous. May it acquire new power, and a new
pledge of duration, from the trials which it has now un
dergone."

... Interior.
... Foreign Affairs.
... finance.
... Justice.
.. War.
.. Public Instruction,
.. Commerce.
.. Public Works.

When the President concluded, General Cavaignac
addressed the Assembly, and declared that he desired to
restore to it the extraordinary powers which it had con-
ferred upon him. He observed that the state of siege
which exists did not necessarily infer the existence of a
dictatorship, and that the latter was now unnecessary,
and ought not to be allowed to continue; but that the
state of siege ought not yet to be removed. He con-
cluded by announcing that the Ministers had authorised
Cavaignac.
him to give their collective resignation.
After a few words from M. Flocon,
The thanks of the Assembly were then voted to Ge-
neraleral Cavaignac proposed that the Army, the Na-
tional Guard, and Garde Mobile should be included in
this vote, Which was
agreed to.
A similar vote was passed to the President of the
Assembly, and a tribute was offered to the memory of
theo w ArchbishopdefafParStrasbourg) M.
rn rreGteiin—(e;al Cavaignac, then proposed the follow-
ing The Assembly confers the executive
p
with the title of the Pre.
d3eoicaf:e
sidentthe of the Council of Ministers, with authority to ap-
point Cabinet."
M. Portalis observed, that the General was in some
measure a stranger to public affairs, and suggested that
the Assembly appoint itself the Ministers, as otherwise
it would have no chance of duration.
Some Members having demanded that the two para-
graphs of the decree proposed by M. Martin (de Stras-
bourg) be put separately from the chair, a most con-
fused discussion ensued, amidst the greatest tumult.
When silence was restored,

M. Dufaure contended that the division was indis-
pensable in the interest of the liberty of all opinions,
some Members being desirous to vote for the first para-
graph who would not give their approbation to the
second.

General Cavaignac next, demanded, as representative
of the people, the division of the decree.
This course being agreed to,
The President read separately the different para-
graphs of the decree,