The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-11 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE WAR.

GREAT EXCITEMENT IN PARIS.

DOWNFALL OF THE OLLIVII4R
CABINET.

THE CROWDS CHARGED BY CAVALRY

PREPARATIONS FOR A BATTLE

BEFORE METZ.

THE . NEW MINISTRY.

At the second sitting of the Corps Ltislatif on Tuesday
night, M. Duvernois proposed the following order of the
day :—" The Chamber being determined to support
a Cabinet capable of organising the defence of
the country, passes to the order of the day."
M. 011ivier declared that the Government could
not accept the motion, which the Chamber never-
theless adopted. At the request of M. 011ivier the sitting
was suspended. The sitting of the Corps Dsgislatif having
been resumed, M. 011ivier announced that in consequence
of the adoption of the order of the day proposed by M.
Duvernois General Montauban (Duke of Palikao) had
been charged with the formation of a new Cabinet.
In yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Body a pro-
posal was adopted to declare urgent a resolution to post-
pone all payments for one month, dating from the 11th
instant. M. Forcade de la Roquette read the report
of the committee appointed to consider the project
brought forward on Tuesday. The report ac-
cepts Count de Keratry's amendment, to call out the
soldiers no longer liable, of the classes from 1858 to
1863, a step which will furnish about 300,000 men
who have seen service, and also to make a levy of
all citizens who have been under arms. The com-
mittee proposes, moreover, that all men between twenty-
five and thirty-five years of age who are unmarried and
have no children shall be required to join the army.
It is further proposed to raise the grant of 4,000,000
francs for the assistance of families of the National
Guard to 20,000,000 francs ; and the report concludes
with a few vigorous sentences upon the necessity for
union among all parties, and for the display of public
spirit, which were received with unanimous applause. M.
Forcade de la Roquette, before resuming his seat, moved
a vote of thanks to the French army, declaring that it had
deserved well of the country.
Unanimous cheering, three times renewed, greeted this
motion, and the HOuse decided that the President should
transmit it to the army. The above propositions were
unanimously adopted.
The Count de Palikao then announced that the new
Ministry had been constituted as follows :

General Cousin-Montauban (Count
de Palikao)
M. Chevreau

... Minister of War.
... Interior.

M. Magne... ... ...
M. Clement Duvernois...

... Finance.
... Commerce and Agricul

ture.

Admiral Rigault de Genouilly Marine.
Baron Jerome David ... ... Public Works.
Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne Foreign Affairs.

M. Grandperret ...
M. Jules Brame
M. Busson-Billault

... Justice.
... Public Instruction.
... President of the Council

of State.
M. Estancelin moved that the Legislative Body should
sit en permenance until the Prussians evacuated France. On
a vote there were 117 ayes against 117 noes, and the motion
was consequently lost. M. Jules Ferry questioned the
Cabinet as to the use it intended to make of the powers
conferred upon it by the state of siege, and criticised the
repressive measures resorted to. No reply was
given by the Government, and the matter dropped. M.
Lecesne proposed a resolution, having for its object the
establishment of the forced currency of bank-notes.
Urgency was refused.

THE NATION iL GUARD REFUSE TO ACT.
L'Opinion Nationale of Tuesday night publishes the
following :—" The crowd is summoned to disperse.
Several of the Garde Nationale at the moment they
receive the order to advance throw up their rifles, and
leave the barracks. Others remain in barracks, but do
not move their arms. Charges of Dragoons and of the
Garde Municipale are made to clear the vicinity of the

Palais."
" 2.30 P. M.=Le Marechal Baraguey d'Hilliers arrives,
accompanied by his aides-de-camp. He orders a new dis-
position of the troops. Charges recommence. We hear
the drums and bugles on all sides. Consternation is
general. Inside the Corps Ldgislatif deplorable scenes
are taking place."
A telegram states that later in the evening the Gardes
de Paris dispersed all assemblages, and at 11 p.m. tran-
quillity was restored.
The Soir deeply regrets the spectacle of dissension and
violence afforded by the Corps lAgislatif, and says the
sitting will not increase the prestige of the Chamber at
home or abroad. The journals almost unapimously de-
mand the general armament of the population. There
was a great display of military forces in Paris. Ten
thousand men of the marine and infantry arrived from
Cherbourg and other ports on Monday. The people cheered
the troops, and shouted, " A la Frontiere I"

THE STATEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
The following is the statement made respectively by M.
Parien and M. 011ivier to the two Chambers :—" The
Emperor promised that the Empress would convoke you
if difficult circumstances should arise. We did not wish
to delay summoning you till the situation of the country
was compromised. We have called you at the first
difficulties. Certain corps of our armies have
suffered defeat ; but the greater part has neither
been conquered nor even engaged—that which has been
repulsed has only been so by a force four or five times
more considerable, and has displayed in the combat a sub-
lime heroism which will secure to it a glory at least equal
to that of the victors. (Bravo.) All our soldiers who
have fought, like those who wait the hour of
battle, are animated by the same ardour, the
same impulse, the same enthusiasm, the same
patriotism, the same confidence in a speedy revenge.
None of our natural defences or fortresses are in the
hands of the enemy. Our immense resources are
intact. Instead of allowing itself to be disheartened by
reverses which it did not expect, the country feels
its courage rise with its disasters. (Bravos.) We ask
you to aid us in sustaining and in augmenting the national
movement, and in organising a levy en masse of all
that is capable in the nation. Everything is prepared.
Paris is being placed in a state of defence, and is sup-
plied with provisions sufficient for a long siege. The
national sedentary guard is everywhere being
organised. The regiments of firemen in Paris, the custom-
house officers, will be united to the active army. Every
man who has seen naval service for more than six years
has been called out. We shall shorten the formalities to
which voluntary enrolments are subject. We shall fill
up with our disposable forces the gaps in our army, and to
do so the more completely, and to form a new army of
450,000 men, we propose to you to increase the
Mobile National Garde, by summoning to it all
unmarried men from 25 to 30 years of age ; to
grant to us the power to incorporate the Garde
Mobile in the active army ; and, lastly, to summon all
disposable men of the class of 1871. Not shrinking from
any of the duties which events impose upon us, we have
placed in a state of siege Paris and those departments
which the enemy menaces. To the resources which they
have at their disposal against us, the Prussians hope to
add those-which may arise from our intestine discords,
and they consider the disorders at Paris as likely
to be worth an army to them. In this im-
pious hope they will be disappointed ; the immense ma-
jority of Paris will preserve its patriotic attitude. And
if a minority attempted to trouble by force the national
accord. we should use the powers which the state of siege
places in our hands ; we should not only appeal to the
courageous and devoted National Guards of the capital,
we should summon to Paris the National Guards of all
France, and should defend order with all the more firm-
ness that on this occasion order means salvation."
M. 011 icier added, in reply to several interruptions
from the Left : —" It would be failing in our duty to the
country to lose a moment upon a question of persons.
You may accumulate reproaches against the Ministers,
but we shall keep silent. We shall only defend the
measures which are proposed. The Ministers ask that
the Chamber should continue its confidence in them.
If other Ministers can better face events, dismiss
us—but immediately, as now we must not speak, but
act."

THE POSITION OF THE OPPOSING

ARMIES.

The following official news received from headquarters
is dated yesterday :—"A great part of the French army
is concentrated before Metz, Marshal Bazaine is charged