The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1851.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Ministerial crisis continues and threatens to
be something more than a Ministerial crisis ; the
situation is becoming more clearly defined every hour,
and it is now evident that the con7inuance in the

command of the garrison of Paris of General CHAN-
GARNIER is totally incompatible with the continuance
at the Elyt.6l of Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE as

Preident (4 the Republic.
The Constitutionnel makes the f Mowing appeal to
the BurgrAves to rally round Louis NAPOLEON
Will it be denied that the more Louis Napoleon
gaias ground in public opinion the more he appears
to lose it in the National Assembly ? Parties become
irritated, and coalesce at the risk of soon betraying
each other. The President of the Republic, in spite
of many difficulties, has restored prosperity to the
country ; the hour for the revision of the Constitu-
tion will soon strike. What an immense misfortune
it would ha for France if Louis Napoleon B maparte
were to be re-elected! What a misfortune for France
if that reelection should take plac:. aithout disturbance,
without shuck, without revolutionary an,: sanguinary
days, without the overthrow of public f ,rtune, without
diminishing our credit and our importance abroad—in a
word, without overthrowing that Reputalic which a fine
Lvgitima ist spirit in the National Assembly a few days
slice diadainfoly called a consump.ive subject, whom
current of air caused to cough.' A wow is declared by
;.arties against the President, and it is the more invete-
rate h-cau ,e the country, from a haling of gratitude,
and, above all, the &site for repose, seems to have an
increasing wish to prolong his pow rs. ' France,' say
the Legitimatists, wants Henry V.' The Orleanists
say,' France wants the Regency and the Count de Paris.'
The Montagnards say, France wants Communism,'
and yet these three parties, each having a contrary oh-
ct of its own, now coalesce and obey the . same niot
d'ordre—namely, that of causing Louis Napoleon Bona-
parte to disappear from the stage of politics, either by
conflict or by a non reelection. As we may be permitted
in these times to imagine the impossible, let us suppose
Louis Napoleon at Vincennes, or to have given in his
resignation, or not to be re-elected. To what Givern
meat, what political and financial state of things would
these three parties lead us after the rupture of their
uuion? We cannot bring ourselves to draw. so terrible
and sanguinary a picture."
The Constitutionnel then proceeds at some length to
apostrophise Al. THIEItS, for whom it professes at-
tachment, notwithstanding his " febrile and fluc-
tuating ambition." It calls upon him, in the interest
of the country, to give his support to the honourable
and courageous men who abstained from joining in
the hostility of a portion of the Assembly to the PRE-
SIDENT, and thus produce in that body a majority
which would inspire respect and confidence, and re-
store prosperity to the country. This, it says,
would be a noble part for M. TULLES to play.

It adds :
" For the defence an honour of that Parliamentary
Government, to which you ate so much attached, and to
which you owe so many brilliant triumphs of eloquence,
act in such a way that each party in the National As-
sembly may not be able to say, in the presence of an
alarmed and menaced country, No Government can
exist without us or with us.'"
The Patrie reiterates its assertion regarding the
authenticity of the Instruction signed REIBEL, and
declares that it was issued only two months since,
without the knowledge of the PRESIDENT or of the
Ministers, and that it was a portion of a plot for a
military restoration of Orleanistn, in which plot M.
DUPIN and General CHANGARNIER were accom-
plices, and of which the sham conspiracy of A.LLAIS
was a portion. The Republique has the following on
the sanguinary order :
" Cade our readers now understand why the journal of
the European coalition, the Assemblee Nationale, did not
cease during six months to 'recommend a dictatorship and
a Dictator? Do they understand why the Royalists of
the Assembly have desired to maintain, at every cost,
the monstrous situation of an omnipotent and irrespon-
sible General? We do not deny the cleverness of the
arrangement; in the event of a conflict, which no
pains were spared to excite, the Constitution, the
President of the Republic, the Opposition party of the
Assembly, might, in virtue of the instructions Ceangar-
nier-Reibel, have been set aside at once, and the dictator,
possessing himself of all the powers, including that of
causing 6 parties to be immediately shot,' might have
treated with Europe on the condition of the fusion, or
any other monarchical arrangement, destined to cause
the happiness of France. W e must render homage to
the great party of order—it neglected nothing for suc-
cess—it only wanted the occasion of an enteute, which,
however, was obstinately refused by the intelti
gsnce of the democracy. In the present conflict
between the President and the Assembly, we republi-
can socializts have only to occupy ourselves with
the interest and preservation of the Republic. When
the peril appeared to us to come from the Executive
Government we attacked, by all the means the law
permit'ed, the princely journeys and speeches, the re-
views with champagne, and the unconstitutional cries of
soldiers under arms. At present the danger comes evi-
dently from the other side, and in seeing under what
seaime wt lived without knowing it, in seeing an occult
dictatorship suppress, of its own authori:y, all pu+ lie
powers, and substitute for them a savage despotism, of
which all the instructions appear to have euisauated from
Attila or Haynau, we say that it is impossible that such
a regime can siirvive the darkness which protected it, and
that the destinies of Paris and of France cannot remain
at the mercy of an irreepensible General, labouring fur
a restoration which cannot be accomplished without being
preceded by a formidable revolution. T. play success-
tully the part of Monk, it does not suffice to lie—the
game must not be allowed to he teen."
The following from the Ordre may be considered
as the CHArtGAILNIER manifesto :
" The strange declarations mentioned on Monday in
the Patric, and repeated yesterday by other journals,
stating that it was intended to wait to are tee effect pro-
duced in the departments by the Ministerial crisis, give
rise to the idea of calculations of middling prudence,
founded on a long temporisation, Yesterday, on the con-
trary, all the news in circulation led to the supposition
that the situation was about not to iersninate, but, to sud-
denly be aggravated by the dismissal or General Chan-
gamier. Last evening, it was positively asserted, this
resolution, already decided on in principle, would be
signed by the President of tho Republic, end accepted
by an Elycean Ministry, in which would remain MM.
A. Fouls, Bineau, Dumas, and General Schramm. It
was remarked that bei, ral of the persons who dissemi-
nated these rumours, or who greeted them with joy, haft
during the day entered into conferences with some of the
Mountain, without doubt to rouse up their old ho bitty
against the illustrious General, and sound their dieposi-
tiens on the measures which the Assembly might be led
to take for its defence. The adventurous spirits who
counselled the President of the Republic to fliug himself
without return into a course of aggression are obliged,
in fact, to foresee the ease where the Assembly, whilst
remaining on the defensive, will not deliver its, If up dis-
armed. What more direct challenge, what more
thr, atening provocation could be conceived, than the dis-
missal brutally announced the day after the sitting, at
which General Changarnier, in place of allowing himself
to be caught in the kind of trap held out for him, in order
to place him in hostility with the Chamber, replied in
a victorious manner to the Mountaineer speaker, M.
Napoleon Bentiparte, coming forward to inflict on him a
public blame, and declared solemnly that he bowed with
respect before the constitutional rights of the National
Assembly and of its President ? What is the crime of
the General-in-Ceief of the army of Paris ? Is it to
have not admitted as emanating from him, as assigned
by him, as naving a general and permanent character,
instructions which, in reality, he never gave, such as
they are published, which do not emanete from his staff,
which he did not draw up, which he did not sign, and
which, in the thought clearly expressed by the general
of brigade who had so construed the rr commedations of
the General-in-Chief, applied solely, as common sense at
once indicated, to the ca of combat Is that crime to
have denied in strong terms that he w,.:5 the audacious
contemner of the Constitution ? Is it to hive declared
that, if a legal requisition was addressed to him, net by
a represeetative, not by several, but in the
name of the whole Assembly, he should consider him-
self bound to obey? What, it is because he pronounced
such words, because the majority unanimously ap-
plauded, because the whole Chamber, rninux MM. Miot,
Valentin, and Bouraat, passed to the order of the day
pure and simple on the denunciations directed against
the General, that his dismissal has been proposed, de-
manded, signed, and that a chance Ministry should come
with the ordinance of dismissal in its hands, and signify
to a sovereign Assembly to submit to that humiliation,
or to prepare for a struggle? Nor we cannot believe that
the President of the Republic will allow himself to be led
away by senseless counsellors to such extremities. It is
said that the act in question is strictly within his right.
Yes, undoubtedly it is. But it would he also within the
right of the Assembly to invest General Changarnier on
the instant with the superior command of the troops
charged to watch over its safety, and, in the present
circumstance, its honour, as well as its duty, would pre-
seribe to it that course."
It was rumoured on the Bourse on Tuesday that
General CHANGARNIER bad resigned, and the funds
immediately rose. On this the Freese observes t—
" The Ministerial crisis has not varied during the
course of yesterday. It continues, and as it continues, it
grows worse. A tingle point appears definitively re-
solved: General Ghangarnier, admitted to be impossible,
is irrevocably dismissed. Whatever may be the combi-
nation which carries tee day, whether the old Ministry
remains, or a new one is appointed, no doubt subsists on
that head. There is between the President of the Re-
public and General Changernier an incompatibility of
situation and dignity which does not allow the mainten-
ance of his command to be thought of. This resolution,
which appears to have bean teken two days ago, has
been re'arded, it is said; in its ex. cation, iii order to
allow public opinion to declare itself. General Chan-
garnier may have measured yesterday, by the thermo-
meter of the Bourse. the decline of his importance and
popularity. The news of his resignation has been re-
ceived by a movement upwards. This movement at the
Bourse, known at the Assembly about four o'clock, pro-
duced a profound emotion."
We find the following in the Debate :
For two or three days past the Pre,se has accused
General Changarnier of falsehood, or of having allowed
anarchy to reign in the army of Paris, because he has
not discussed in the tribune the acts of the generals of
division,
d, rs. Theiosiron,,andetl thpeubllaiegwenilei eralassilofybrigade placed under
his
appreciate the merit
of this polemic. In the first column of the second page
of the number of yesterday the same journal contains the
following article: —' General Reibel, having been sum-
moned to the Ministry of War, has, it is said, affirmed

that the instructions signed by him had been given him
by General Changarnkr: GPneral R.ibel begs us to
give the most formal contradiotiun to th© latter part of
that ossertin "

The same journal says—
" The Representatives who boll their club in the Rue
de l'Universitii had a meetir4i. on Muntlay evening,
which was very numerously avended. The subject of
discussion was the Ministerial crisis, and the dangers
which might result from it. The meAng was unani-
moua in expressing a wish that t.h-r, and .rstanding he•
tween the powers of the State—Tor a moment disturb •-c1
—might be re-established as soon as possible, and that
the maintenance of General Changarnier in his com-
mand might si-rve as the pledge and guarantee of that
union. It declared with the same unanimity that, on
those conditions, its concurrence would be assured to the
new Cabinet."
The Pouvoir states that M. MOLE advised the PRE-
SIDENT not to attempt to remove General CHANGAR.
NIRR from his command ; the PRESIDENT, however,
remains inexorable. It is said that as MM. BAROCUE,
BENEAU, LAHITTE, and ROUSER are in favour of re-
taining CHANGARNIER, their retirement will be ac-
cepted ; but that as the other Ministers, including Ge-
neral Scintamm, are not opposed to the dismissal of
CHANG/La:slur:, the will still retain office. The fol-
lowing extracts from the three evening organs of the
Elyt,ef., furnish the latest authentic intelligence on
the sub.) .ct of the crisis :
The Patrie 3;,y s—
" Notwithstanding all the r. ports of a contrary na-
ture which hive been corrent at the Bours, and at tie
Nationt.l Assembly, no definitive resolution has yet been
come to. The financial world, however, appears to have
resumed confidence. A rather important improvement
has taken place in the price of the fends. This rise was
generally attributed to the news that the eat major-
general of the army of Paris was to be dissolved. There
is nothing astonishing in the effect of this report. Every
act of energy on the part of the President, within the
limns of the Constitution, must necessarily inspire con-
fidence, by showing to public opinion the torce and po-
pularity of the elected of the country."
We read in the Bulletin de Paris :-
1. The rumour of the dismissal of General Changer-
nier is without foundation. We have reason to believe
that it was never contemplated by the Government.
The Ministerial crisis is nearly terminated. The re-
tirement of MM. Baroche, 'Rouher, and Bineau, is still
spoken of. As to M. Roinsins Desfosses, his retirement
is positive, but the only motive is the desire of the rear-
admiral to have the command of rs squadron. It is said
that he will have for his successor M. Ducos. MM.
Leon Faucher and Dant are spoken of fur the Interior
and Public Works. M. Mo!6 and about forty members
of the majority had an interview with the President of
the Republic this morning at the Ely: A great num-
ber of Representatives visited the Ministers this morning
to entreat them to remain in their places."
We read in the Moniteur du Soir :
" The Ministerial crisis was today the sole subject of
conversation in the lobbies of the National Assembly,
hut the conversation was less animated than yesterday.
MM. Thiers and Odilon Barrot had a long conference in
the 14th bureau."
The B )urse was animated, and the price of Public
Securities was firm. The Five per Cents. opened at
941.60 c., and rose to 94f. 80e.; they closed at 94f. 75c. ;
the Three per Cents. closed at 56c. 80c. ; Orleans
Railroad Shares, 8351. ; Rouen, 6771. 50c. ; Havre,
267 f. ; Great Northern, 470 f.; Basle, 186'. 25c. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 3521. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes,
2471. 50c. ; the New Loan. 94f. 75c.
13USINPSS Ot)Nt• IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 8.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9 —Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 153 i —Luxembourg, I►/e Ditto, 2%—Namur
and Liege, 8% —Northern of France, 15 Sambre and
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