The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

Done in Council of Ministers at the Elyk43 National
the 9th of January.

LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
Countersigned—BAßOCHE,
Gen. REGNAULD DE ST. JEAN D'ANGELY.

General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS has published the
following order of the day, on taking the command
of the first military division :
" Soldiers,—Having been called by the confidence of
the President of the Republic to the command of the
army of Paris, I think it right to state to you sincerely
how I comprehend my mission. To maintain in the
army placed under my orders the strict and rigorous
discipline established by my honourable predecessor; to
preserve to each grade the influence and authority which
devolve on it by the regulations; to respect and cause to
be respected on every occasion the rights of the powers
established by the constitution; to support with energy
the authorities in the execution of the laws—such are
our common duties. We will not fail in them, lam
well assured; your past career and mine are surd gua-
rantees of our conduct.
" Paris, Jan. 9. " BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS."
It appears that M. DROUYN DE LHUYS exhibited
some hesitation in accepting office ; he had consented
to become a member of the Cabinet at three o'clock
on Thursday, he had withdrawn his consent at half-
after five, but ultimately consented to retain the
' portfolio of Foreign Affairs. The Left have, and
will observe the strictest neutrality, if we may
judge from the following article which appears in the
National:— _ _ _

"The attitude of the representatives of the Left an-
noys singularly the parties which seek to trouble by
their quarrels the public tranquillity. In private con-
versations the Left is reproached with its inaction, at-
tempts are made to conciliate it by caresses, t©
irritate it against the adversaries of to-day, the
accomplices of yesterday, the allies perhaps of to-
morrow. In the journals it is endeavoured to cause
our friends to declare themselves by accusing them
of coalition with the Legitimatises, or with the Ca-
marillo of the ElyEe,. But nothing can change the
reserve of the Republicans, and, in fact, what part would
they have to take in the intrigues which now agitate the
official world? Is the question seriously about defending
Parliamentary prerogatives, or causing the free exercise
of the executive power to be respected? In no respect.
It is true that the different champions put themselves
forward as defenders on the one hand of the sovereignty
of Parliament, and on the other of the rights of the re-
sponsible power. But they themselves divulge the real
state of the matter, by the public recriminations in the
journals of the majority. The press of the Ely:i.e
repeats each day that the chief men of the majority
are solely occupied with the interests cf the exiled
dynasties. The one, pilgrims to Wiesbaden, and the
others, visitors at Claremont, conspire to overthrow
the Republic and the Constitution. They endea-
vour by disputes, constantly renewed, to render the
Government impossible, to excite alarm, to cause the
past, which they want to restore, to be regretted.
Masters of the majority of the Assembly, of all the high
military and administrative positions, of the high mili-
tary commands cunningly obtained for their adherents,
they conceive that all that is wanted is a crowned head.
The monarchical press on its side unveils the projects
of the camarilla of the Elysi2e. Around the President,
political intriguers, impatient to consolidate the high
fortune which they have obtained by the election of the
Dix LiK:embre, are in movement. To preserve the sala-
ries and luxury to these men, a prolongation of powers
is necessary. As there is no hope of making the majority
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laboured in concert to overthrow the Republic,
after having gone together over the road of
the counter-revolution, the monarchical factions separate.
each seeking the path which it considers the rettotet to
SC:Z2, on the object of its desire. Are we to abridge the
distance for either of the competitors? The Republicans
of the Assembly have not fur a moment mistaken the
;rounds
of these quarrels, which the good sense of the
public has not allowed to pass the threshold of the dy-
nastic antechambers. Ready to support the rights of
the Assembly against every Invasion of the executive
power, ready to combat the plots of the factious sheltered
under the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty, they
have remained impassable to the. spectacle of miserable
rivalities. Their attitude has disconcerted the projects of
the Legitimatist, Orleanist, or Imperialist conspirators.
I The indispensable addition of the two hundred votes

of the Left has been vainly waited for, and vainly so-
licited. The whole country, like the demoeratical
representatives, look on with supreme indifference at
the spectacle of these divisions of the counter-revolu-
tionary parties. That calm and cold contempt in pre-
sence of the agitations of the official world prove clearly
enough that public opinion is paying attention to higher
interests, and that, thanks to the progress of demo-
cratical ideas, the turbulent passions of the princely
families have no more the privilege of moving the
people. Let the monarchical agitators then cease to
busy themselves about what the Left will do in such or
such a phase of their paltry competitions. The Left
combats for principles, and it cannot mix itsef up with
intrigues and personalities. One-day, perhaps, it will
take pity o❑ a man who, so long the object of base adu-
lations, will have been shamefully abandoned in his dis-
grace by the servile flatterers of his power, but it will
never consent to elevate a pedestal to an enemy of the
Republic."
At the sitting of the Assembly on Thursday Gen.
CHANGARNIER was present, but he sat alone on his
bench, every one seemed to have deserted him, and of
all the representatives present General LEFLO alone
had the courage to enter into conversation with him.
During the sitting the Burgraves adjourned to one
of the committee-rooms to deliberate. The Evene-
meat says that the three following questions were dis-
cussed :

Ist. Shall M. DUPIN resign his office as President
of the Assembly in order to make way for General
CHANGARNIER ? To this M. DUPIN replied, " The
only thing certain in this case is that I shall vacate
the chair ;" and M. DUPIN is right, for the whole of
the Republicans would vote against .ieneral CH AN-
GAUNTER, and their 200 votes, joined to those of the
Ministerialists, would place him in a minority.
2d. Shall an army of 40,000 men be required to
watch over the safety of the Assembly, and shall the
command of it be given to General CHANGARNIER ?
3d. Shall An order of the day be proposed hostile
to the Ministry, and which shall indicate a want of
confidence in the PRESIDENT ?

The Evenentent adds that M. TRIERS was 'one of
the most active of the promoters of these deliberations.
The Gazette de France says, it is announced that
to-morrow, at the opening of the sitting, MAL DE
REMUSAT and DUFAURE will demand explanations of
what is now passing. We cannot but congratulate
ourselves, should these explanations tend in any man-
ner to elucidate how it happens that eight represen-
tatives assembled at the Elys6e, by private letters
from the PRESIDENT, can have engaged the Assembly.
The National in expressing its belief in the truth of
this statement, adds, that a proposition will be for-
mally made to place the troops of the first Military
Division at the disposition of the President of the
Assembly.

The Princess LIEvEN is, it is said, taking an
active part with the Burgraves in all these intrigues
against the PRESIDENT and the Republic. The inti-
mate connexion sof this lady with the Court of
Russia are well known, and the very fact of her tak-
ing part with CUANGARNIER and the Burgraves is
sufficient to prove them guilt of complicity with
the Cossacks.

The Burgraves, however, are not by any means in
high spirits. N. DE BROGLIE spoke in most discou-
raging terms of their prospects on Thursday evening ;
he said that the power of the Assembly was almost
annihilated, and that the PRESIDENT would, if he
acted with moderation, make himself entirely master
of the situation.

Admiral ROMAIN-DESFOSSES is appointed com-
mander of the Levant squadron, and Admiral MoN-
TAIGNES DE LA ROQUE Of that in Mexico.
The Count DE MONTALEMBERT was elected a
member of the French Academy on Thursday, in
place of M. Ditoz, deceased.
There was very little business transacted at the
Bourse. The Five per Cents. opened at 941. 95c., and
closed at 94f. 65c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at'
561. 75c.; the New Loan at 941. 75c.; Orleans
Railroad Shares, 848 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 6801. ; Havre,
1721. 50:,..; Great Northern, 468 f. 75c. ; Avignon,
1871. 50c.; Vierzon, 388'. 75c.; Basle, 137 f. 50c.;
Paris and Strasburg, 352 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes,
246 f. 25c.
BUSIM SS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 10.

Boulogne and Amiens, 8718—East Indian, 117 A—Luxe-
mbourg, 2%—Maria Antonia, 63A —Ditto, New, 2%—Namur
and Liege, B', —Northern of France, 15% Paris and
Rouen, 27 Rouen and Havre, 1034 Sambre and
Meuse, 2%.