The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-12 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

W. H. Rae and J. Williams, Glasgow, commission
agents and produce brokers, to meet Nov. 17 and Dec. 8,
at twelve, within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow.
J. Johnston, Parkhead, Lanarkshire, baker, to meet
Nov. 18 and Dee. 8, at eleven, within the Globs, Hotel,
Glasgow.
D. knennan, Inverness, draper, to meet Nov. 17 and
Dec. 8, at one, within the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness.

J. Atkinson, Glasgow, merchant, to meet Nov. 17 and
Dec. 5, at twelve, within the Star Hotel, Glasgow.

FRAN CE.

The following are the principal enactments of the
Bill proposed by the Council of State for regulating
the responsibility of the President of the Republic
and of his Ministers.

The Ist article of the Ist chapter is in these words :
The President of the Republic can only be im-
peached on account of any acts in which he may have
taken part in the exercise of the power delegated to
him in the following cases :
" 1. If he should be guilty of an attempt, or a con-
spiracy, against the safety of the state, or of as attempt
or conspiracy, with the object of destroying or changing
the form of government, or of suspending the empire of
the constitution and the laws.

" 2. If he should be guilty of exciting to the violation
of Art. 45 of the Constitution.

" 3. If he should be guilty of a violation of the'Consti-
tution, by assuming the command of the armed force in
person, by ceding any portion of territory, by making
war without the consent of the National Assembly, by
granting an amnesty without the intervention of the
law, by using his privilege of pardon with regard to a
Minister or any other person who may have been con-
demned by the High Court of Juitiee, by leaving the
continental territory of the republic without being autho-
rised by law."
The 2d article declares the President responsible,
notwithstanding the countersign of a Minister.
The 2d chapter relates to the responsibilityZof
Ministers. They can be impeached if they should be
guilty as accomplices of the crime of high treason de-
fined by:the 68th article of the Constitution, or if they
should be accomplices in any of the crimes mentioned
in the article the text of which is given above. The
cases in which a Minister may be held civilly respon-
sible are mentioned, and these relate principally to
expenses incurred without a vote of credit, or in ex-
cess of the credit voted.

The 3rl chapter relates to the mode of impeach-
ment. The President or his Ministers may be im-
peached upon an accusation signed by ten members of
the Assembly. _ . _

The loth and 16th articles relate to the form of
proceeding by the Assembly to pronounce the ar-
raignment. If the arraignment is pronounced, the
Assembly will pass a decree convoking the High
Court of Justice, and designating the town where the
Court will hold its sitting. The Assembly will also ap-
point the commissioners who are charged with the
ministere public (a sort of institution unknown to our
courts, and framed with a view to hold the balance of
justice between the prosecution and the defence) before
the High Court, and the accused is immediately divested
of his functions by the very tact of impeachment.
The last paragraph was warmly opposed by M.
Tourangin and others. The 6th chapter relates to the
responsibility of secondary agents. The rest are
without importance. The Council of State has
adopted the Bill, as described above. The Ministry
wish to adjourn the debate on it.
We read in the Paine of Saturday—" We have
been assured, though we cannot believe it, that the
proposition of the questors of the National Assembly
relative to the defence of the Chamber, was delibe-
rated and decided on in the salon of M. Mole, and
that M. Thiers and General Changarnier were pre-
sent. Thus it would seem that M. Berryer lent his
voice, and M. Mole his salon, to the party manosavres
suggested by M. Thiers. We repeat that although
this circumstance is affirmed to us as a fact, we find it
so improbable that we cannot believe it." The Patric
of Monday evening states that it has reason to believe
that the statement is true.

M. Raudot has presented the following proposition,
relative to the electoral law :

" Art. 1. All Frenchmen who have acquired their ma-
jority, who enjoy their civil and political rights, and
who have satisfied the law of recruitment, and con-
stantly reQided in the commune, shall be kept on the
electoral list of the commune.

" Art. 2. Every Frenchman who has acquired his ma-
jority, enjoying his civil and political rights, who is not
an elector in the commune where he resides, in conse-
quence of not having been there fur three years, shall,
on bis demand, be inscribed on the list of the commune
in which he shall have satisfied the law of recruitment."