The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-21 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The trials of the insurgents are to be proceeded
with forthwith. The murderers of General BREA
have been recognized. The man who fired the shot
which killed the unfortunate General is named
CHARLES VICTOR VELPERO, and was arrested at
Vitry. His accomplice is named CROPART. It was
Cumin who urged on his companions to massacre
the General and his aide-de-camp.
The Committee of the National Assembly charged
to investigate the causes of the insurrection has, 'it is
said, developed those causes in a satisfactory manner
in its report, which will be presented in a few days.
BOUCHARR is the reporter. Le Droit says that the
number of killed and wounded on both sides during
the late insurrection exceeds ,i 3,000.
The following project of a decree has been pre-
sented by M. PASCAL DUPRAT to the Committee on
the Laws of the Press :
Art. 1. Every Frenchman, having civil and political
rights, shall have the right to publish his opinion by
speAking or by the press, complying with the following
conr44oris :-2. The declaration to be made before the
publieta-ao4 pf any journal, shall contain the name, resi-
dence, and prodOEsion, of the chief editor. 3. All manu-
scripts, signed by tiiPir nuthors, shall be delivered to the
printers, who shall be 1.440il tg produce them for any
poses of justice. 4. Proceedings may be taken at
the rake time against the chief editor and printer for
every art444e pot signed, who shall be liable to the same
punishment th 4 igiOt have been inflicted on the author.
S. Every writer who shag #lopt a false signature, for the
purpose of avoiding respousibiliq'l stall lose his civil
rights for a term not exceeding five yearo, viithout pre-
judiee to any other punishment to which be rpa Pr
liable, 4. Jlis accomplices also shall be liable to the same
punishment, 7. Whoa a PDrnal shall have been three
times found guilty of publishing gilder false signatures,
it may be suppressed, 0, The cbAef editor shall always
be included in any proceedings against any other editor,
unless he can show that the era.* has been inserted
without his knowledge. 9. All previous laws as to
caution money, and the responsibility of the eonduotor
of the journal, are abrogated.
According to the Afeseager, both France and Eng-
land are about to send a fleet to the Black Sea to
watch the proceedings of Russia.
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The promotion of M. Sinoua to the Archbishopric
of Paris is officially announced in the Afewiteur.
M. DE CORMENIN, on Tuesday, visited at Vin-
cennes the persous confined there for the attempt of
May 15. He saw MM. BARNES, ALBERT, SOBRIER,
and RASPAIL. He found the three first calm and ex-
pecting to be amnestied; hut M. RASPAIL was ex-
ceedingly violent. He speaks during the night time
aloud, and at great length, as if before his judges;
in the morning he falls into a state of great prostra-
tion, and the gaolers are obliged to bathe his temples
with cold water to recal him to himself. The pri-
soners asked for, permission to see their families, and
to be allowed to walk out.

Geneneral COURTAIS is still at the Conciergerie.
M. DORNES, one of the editors of the National, and
a Member of the National Assembly, died on Wed-
nesday of the wound he received while attacking one
of the barricades in the late insurrection. M. Blzzo
has been elected one of the Vice-Presidents of the
Chamber by a large majority, the numbers being—
M. BIYIo, 228 ; M. TRELAT, 57 ; M. VIVIEN, 26.
The vacancy was occasioned by the election of M.
ARMAND MARRAST to the Presidency of the Chamber.