The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-19 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
The Republique has the following on the division
on the Questors' Bill :
" To us it is evident, after this discussion, that the
leaders of the old majority and the Minister of War
were equally anxious for a conflict. The Left gave
warning of what was going on, and maintained the
public peace, in spite of both of them. We think that
it acted wisely in doing so. In fact, the representative
Government has not lost any right or prerogative,
and the military command has not received any ex-
tension. The Minister of War, it is true, contested
the rights of the Assembly, whereas his pre-
decessors had admitted the right of direct requisi-
tion. But M. Changarnier, when commander-in-
chief cf the army of Paris, had also slighted them,
not indeed by a declaration in the tribune, but by a re-
fusal to obey, not by words, but by an act. Can any one
imagine that after the decree of 1849. which was a ridi-
cul,ais compromise between M. 0. Barrot and the bureau
of the Constituent Assembly, the dignity of the Parlia-
ment received a far severer blow than it did yesterday?
Bat then M. Thiers and his friends were with MM.
Changarnier and Bonaparte against the Assembly. The
Elysean faction has certainly obtained an advantage
over the seventeen : it has obtained a vote which may,
break up the old majority, and which will cause it per-
haps to support projects of usurpation. But when the mo-
ment comes to execute them, the Elyseans will meet with
the votes of the Left, as the seventeen met with them
yesterday. The Left has made no engagement to any
one or anything—but the Republic. May it iu the diffi-
cult trials, which still remain for it to pass through,
preserve its unity ! In questions of principle, it natu-
rally remains united by the convictions of each; but in
questions of conduct, union is more difficult without being
less necessary. The Left, if united, will always obiige
its adversaries to reckon with it, and with the democratic
party; the Left, if divided, and neutralizing itself, would
disappear from the scene on which the future fate of
France, and perhaps of Europe, is being played."
The Legitimatist Electoral Committee of the de-
partment of the Seine has published a notice, which
declares that, looking at the honourable character of
Devinck, formerly President of the Tribunal of
Commerce of Paris, and after having heard the ex-
planations, so marked by patriotism and devotedness
to the cause of society which he has given; looking
also at the influential position which he occupies from
the large fortune which he has acquired by his in-
dustry, it recommends to all the friends of order to
support that gentleman as candidate at the coming
election in Paris.
The Minister of Justice has just addressed a cir-
cular to all the Procureurs-General and the Procu-
reurs of the Republic, recommending to their atten-
tion the vigorouse xecution of the laws, and giving
them special instructions relative to secret societies.
The Court of Cassation last evening rejected the
appeal sent in from the persons condemned for having
taken part in the Lyons plot.

The Siecle says :
"It would seem that yesterday morning the Elyse
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had its supporters under arms. It was said that its most
devoted friends had been convoked, and that a grand
council held on the measures which it would be ad-
visable to take in case the proposition of the questors
should, contrary to all expectation, be voted by the
Assembly. The resolution adopted after a mature de-
liberation is said to be this: to address a proclamation
to the French people, declaring that the Assembly was
the only cause of the present embarrassment, and that
the proposition was au insult to the elected of six mil-
lions of votes. It was also rumoured that it was a jour-
nalist, well known to the party of order, who had acted
as secretary. Lie proclamation once sent forth, it was
then to be seen what was next to be done."