The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-06 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH
MINISTRY.
We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The French Ministry on Saturday tendered their
resignation to the PRESIDENT of the Republic, being
moved thereto by two events which occurred in the
Assembly on Friday. The first was the result of the
interpellations addressed to the Minister of War by
M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE on the subject of the
order alleged to have been issued to the garrison of
Paris by General CHANGARNIER, which order, or
pretended order, appeared in the Pattie, the known
organ of the Elysee, and supposed to be personally
under the control of the PRESIDENT ; an account of the
discussion on this subject appeared in our Third
Edition of Saturday. The Minister-at-War, it will
be seen, desired that the matter should be postponed,
but in expressing the desire insinuated that such in-
structions had been issued, and gave it to be plainly
understood that CHANGARNIER was to expect no aid
from the Ministry; the postponement, however, was
refused, CHANGARNIER himself voting against it, and
then CHANGARNIER utterly denied the truth of the
statement which had appeared in the Pattie, and
which had been just before endorsed as it were
by the Minister of War; and on his denial the
Assembly voted the order of the day, thus
giving him the victory over the Ministers.
On the same day the election for Chairmen of Com-
mittees for the ensuing quarter took place, when
those Questors who had supported M. YoN against
MM. BAROCHE and CARLIER, were all elected
chairmen of Committees, as was General LEFLO who
had personally insulted the PRESIDENT of the Repub-
lic by quitting the Elysee at the commencement of
the New Year's Day snubbing and before M. BONA.
PARTE had finished his speech. These events induced
the Ministry to tender their resignation. The fol-
lowing appears as the premier Paris of the Pattie of
Sunday :—"Yesterday at noon the Ministers assembled
in Council in the Cabinet of the PRESIDENT of the
Republic. We believe that we may venture to affirm
that the subject of deliberation was the incident which
terminated the sitting of Friday. However that
may be, on the breaking up of the Council all the
members of the Cabinet tendered their resignations,
which were, it is said, accepted. A. great agitation
reigned in the Assembly ; the greater number of the
Representatives both in the lobbies and in the Hall of
Conference were engaged in most animated conversa-
tions and made the most opposite conjectures. Many
lists have been circulated, but as none of them have
a character of authenticity we abstain from mention-
ing them."
It is said that the PRESIDENT sent for M. ADA-
Tuca, and applied to him to form a Ministry, and
that he recommended that overtures should be made
to M. ODILON BARRGT, but it is said that he has re-
fused to enter the Ministry without M. DUFAURE.
Another rumour is that M. LEON FAUCHER, has
been commissioned to form a new Ministry, and that
he has made it -a condition of accepting office that
stringent measures should be adopted against the
Legitimatists.
The Presse states the following lists were circulated
on Saturday as those of the new Ministry :
Justice—Odilon Barrot.
Interior—Leon Faucher.
Public Works—Count Daru.
Public Instruction—M. Fortoul.
Finance—M. Passy.
War—General Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely.
Foreign Affairs—M. de Flavigny.
Agriculture and Commerce—M. Bocher.
Marine—M. Romain-Desfosses.
A Second List.
Justice—M. Abbatucci.
Interior—Leon Faucher.
Foreign Affairs—M. de Persigny.
Finance—M. Fould.
War—General Baraguay d'Hillier3.
M. CARLIER has resigned his office of Prefect of
Police.
The Pattie of Sunday denies the truth of General
CHANGARNIER'S statement to the Assembly on
Friday, and publishes in extols() the document
to which it referred, which contains the passages
which it had quoted. In allusion to this docu-
ment it says in a postscript—" Just as we were
going to press we received the authorisation to pub•
lish the entire text of the general and permanent in-
struction which was the object of the incident which
occurred in the sitting of Friday." This instruction
is signed by the General of Brigade REIRELL.
It is said that the PRESIDENT of the Republic was
exceedingly anxious to dismiss General CHANGAR-
NIER on Friday evening, but that the Ministers told
him it was then too late.
The Ordre (the organ of the Odilon-Barrot party)
declares that it believes the resignation of the Minis-
ters is a mere make-believe.
The following is the composition of the Standing
Cominittees of the Legislative Assembly as declared
after the election of Saturday:—
Bureau. President. Secretary.
1. M. de Laussat Eschasseriaux
2. M. Baze • • Ladoucette
3. M. de Panat Cunin-Gridaine
4. M. de Grouchy ... Lesperut
5. M. Crouseilhes ... De Riancey
6. M. Radoult de Lafosse Ancel
7. M. de Laboulie Paulmier
8. M. Berryer • • . Fremy
9. M. Lepelletier d'Aulnay B.Delessert
10. Count Mole • • Poujeulat
11. General Leflo ... Quentin Bauchard
12. M. Odilon Barrot Denjoy
13. Admiral Dupetit-Thouars De Bryas
14. M. de Mornay ... Chapot
15. M. de Keratry Desmaroux.
The Five per Cents. were done in the Passage of
he pera at 94f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 4.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9—Luxembourg, 2%—Namur and
Liege,-83/4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 41/s ex int.—Paris and
Strasbourg, 9%—Rouen and Havre, 11 L6—Sambre and
Meuse, 3.