The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-08 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—SITTING OF FEB. 5.
At two o'clock M. Dupin, President, took the chair.
The number of Deputies was more numerous than usual,
and amongst them was General Bugeaud.
The President informed the Chamber that be had re-
ceived a letter from M. Dupont de l'Eure, resigning his
seat. This letter, the President added, will he communi-
cated to the Minister of the Interior.—(Cries from the
left. " Read, read.")
The Chamber being consulted, decided that the letter
should be read.
M. Garnieron, one of the secretaries, ascended the tri-
bune, and read the letter, the substance of which was as
fol ows :—Tire letter began by M Dupont's expressing
his profound sorrow at the death of M. Dulong, his rela-
tive and dearest friend. He then entered into a long and
bitter criticism of the acts of the Government. " For a
long time back," continued M. Dupont, " I had resolved
to resign my Peat, when I saw the Government and the
Chamber forgetting their common origin, and wandering
every day further and further from the revolution of July,
by rejecting its principles, repudiating its recollections,
and returning with an inconceivable predilection to the
men and the measures of the restoration." M Dupont
then particularly iiweTt upon the impunity that bad fol-
lowed the putting Paris in a state of siege. He said it
was in vain I e hoped that the Government would renounce
its pretensions to legitimacy or quasi legi,im,ey. In
this position," added M. Dupont, " I asked myself if
that was what had been promised to the people—if
that was the way to do honour to the dogma of the
sovereignty of the people, a dogma which should eternally
remain the basis of our constitution. Thinking this, what
remained for me to do but to resign my seat ? I should
be unwilling to continue to form part of the Chamber to
contribute to keep up in the minds of the people illusions
of which they must learn to disabuse themselves."
The reading of this letter was frequently interrupted by
murmurs from the central benches. _ _ .

M Laflitte developed his preposition relative to the
draining of the marshes in France.
At half-past three the discussion upon the question was
going on.
Extract of a letter of the 28th ult., from Madrid :-
4‘ The Count de Torreno has just set out for Santarem
upon an extraordinary mission. He is charged to deliver
a declaration to Don Mienel from the Qin en Regent, that
;be continuance of Don Carlos on any part of the territory
under his d minion will be considered as an act of hostility,
and treated as such. We learn from Salamanca that the
Spanish and Portuguese troops hive come to blows. This
hostility has arisen out of the animosity that prevails be-
tween the inhabitants of Estremadura and the partisans of
Pon Miguel, who is detested, as much on account of his
own tyranny as for the protection he affords to the Pre-
tender.'
The Memorial Bordelais of the 2,1 inst, gives the fol
lowing of the Ist from Bayonne Yesterday afternoon
an English courier, with despatches from Madrid, passed
through this town. He left the Spanish capital at four
10 the morning of the 29th tilt., when every thing re-
znaine4 perfectly tranquil. He had been stopped by the
Cat li-ts, but they bad not touched his despatches. He is
said to be the bearer of the profession of the political faith
of M. Martinet de la Rosa. El Pastor has arrived at
Tolosa with 60 prisoners. He has also seized 14 arrobas
of wrought silver, which were intended to be sent into
France. The last letters from St. Sebastian state that
.the Governor-General, in order to appease the rage of the
~leople, excited by the assassination of one of the inhabi-
tants, has ordered all the Carlist prisoners of war in the
;own to be brought to immediate trial. If any one of
them should escape from condemnation, it is to be feared
that the populace will break out into excesses."