The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-24 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING,

THE FRENCH REP lUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Pattie says—" All the Ministers gave in their
resignations last night, but the PRESIEENT of the Re-
public refused to accept them." To which the
Moniteur du Soir adds :—" We are assured that the
Prince adjured his Ministers to unite their efforts to
his own, in order to continue to ensure to the country
the order, calm, and security of which France has
more than ever need to sustain the trials which
await her."
Is the use of the word "Prince" in the above ex-
tract, from the Moniteur, intentional ? Consti-
tutionally it is the PRESIDENT, not the Prince, who
has Ministers to adjure.
There was a meeting of the Ministers held again
on Tuesday morning, at which M. LEON FAUCHER
strongly urged upon his colleagues the necessity of
resigning office, and they again tendered their resig-
nations ; but, at the reiterated request of the PRESI-
DENT, they agreed to remain.
The vote of censure was aimed quite as much at
the PRESIDENT himself as at his Ministers, and many
of those reactionaries who voted for it declared to
M. LEON FAUCHER that their votes were not directed
against the Minister of the Interior personally, but
that their object was to show that they would not
allow an unconstitutional candidate to be elected as
President.
The [National has the following on the relative po-
sitions of the PRESIDENT, the Ministers, and the As-
sembly :
" The Ministry remains. We had foreseen and
wished it, and we thank M. L. Bonaparte. It is well
that the Assembly should know how its vote has been
received at the Elysee. The Ministry, accused and
convicted of having, in opposition to its duty, exercised
its influence to excite petitioning, it is not M. Leon Fau-
-1 cher alone, it is not even his colleagues. The Govern-
ment considers itself responsible for the abuse of influ-
ence with which the Minister of the Interior is re-
proached, and accepts the censure that has been be-
stowed on him. Nothing is more just. After
the Message of the 31st October, after the speech
at Dijon, nobody has a right to suppose that
the Ministers had an action independent of that
of the President of the Executive Power. The
responsibility of their faults, as well as the merit of
their good services, reaches the person who appoints
and dismisses them at will. The old constitutional
theory is no longer applied. The President is praise-
worthy or otherwise according to what he does and
what is done by his Ministers. It is not for us to deny
this. Thus the Assembly must resign itself to support
a Ministry which it has twice condemned. After the
vote of the 18th of January it saw Ministers declared
unworthy of its confidence, return to their seats as if to
defy it. At present the insult of the comedy of re-
signations which in definitive would end by the return
of M. H. Faucher, M. Baroche, and M. Rouher, is
spared it. The Assembly will show itself grateful for
this good proceeding. It is now warned that its most
formal and most decided votes will not succeed in
shaking the Cabinet. As long as they shall possess the
confidence of M. Bonaparte, the Ministers will retain
their portfolios. It will be vain for the majority to
take the most severe measures against them, to ex-
press the clearest blatne—there will be no ministerial
crisis. The Assembly may complain as much as it
pleases, but the Elys63 laughs at its wrath. It has been
too well shown to the Executive Government that in
spite of the Constitution its power is equal—what do we
say ?—superior to that of the legislative power—so that
it has no need henceforth to take into account the move-
ments of independence of the majority. It is tied down
besides by its voluntary complicity in all the reactionary
laws proposed by M. Louis Bonaparte during the last
two years. Let it be punished where it has sinned. If
it had been more severe formerly, it would be more
respected now; and we should not witness the incredible
spectacle of a Ministry condemned for having failed
in its duties, and coming the day after to brave its
judges from the very place on which it sat on the
eve as an accused party. The result will in-
form us which of the two powers is to gain by the
extraordinary situation which the maintenance of the
Cabinet will produce. It would depend on the majority,
if its courage endured longer than a day, and was not
fatally succeeded by the most deplorable weakness, to
draw from it a great profit for its consideration and its
authority in the country. It would be merely sufficient
for it to be consistent with its vote of Monday by perse-
vering in its distrust. Will it dare to do so? We
doubt it, and, to say the truth, we care but little. All
that passes in the upper regions of the Government leaves
us quite indifferent. To choose between M. 0. Barrot,
the probable successor of M. Faucher, and that great
Minister himself, we prefer the seeond. We owe to him
to have ruined in the mind of every honest man the pre-
tended revisionist movement. He must complete his
task, and aid us in finishing as promptly as possible
with the chance of aa unconstitutional re-election. He
will not fail in doing so—of that we may be certain.
Lot him rest therefore."

The whole of the Orleanists and upwards of 70
Legitimatists voted in favour of the -vote of censure
proposed by BAZE.
We some time since announced that the French
Government bad invited the maritime states to send
delegates to a sanitary congress, to be held in Paris,
for the purpose of considering the subject of quaran-
tine. Those who have adhered to this proposition are

France, England, Austria, Russia, Spain, Portugal,
Sardinia, Tuscany, Rome, the Two Sicilies Turkey,
and Greece, and the majority of the delegates have ar-
rived in Paris. Each nation will have two delegates,
a consul, and a physician. France has named M.
DAVID, ex-consul-general at Genoa, and now French
minister there, and Dr. DIELIER, member of the Aca-
demy of Medicine ; England is represented by M.
PERRIER, consul-general at Brest, and Dr. SUTHER-
LAND, one of the members of the Board of Health
of London ; Austria by M. LAVISON, consul-
general at Marseilles, and Dr. MENIS, Aulic
councillor • Spain by M. SEGOVIA ; Portugal
by M. MOUSINHO DS SILVEIRA, first secretary of
legation at Paris ; Sardinia, by 111. MAGNETTI, COIF.
sul-general at Lyons, and Professor 80, director of
the lazarettos at Genoa; Tuscany by M. CEccoNI,
and Dr. BETTI; Russia by M. EBELING consul-
general at Paris, and Dr. ROSEMBERG; dreece by
M. VITALII, consul at Malta, and Dr. COSTE, phy-
sician to King aruo, and director of the sanitary
affairs at Athens. The representative of the Holy
See, the Two Sicilies, and Turkey are not yet ap-
pointed. Three secretaries are attached to the con-
ference, two for the diplomatic and consular element,
M. ERNEST BAROUCH, jun., and JULES DAVID, and
one for the medical part, Dr. DESORMEAUX.
There was very little business transacted at the
Bourse. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 95c., and
closed at the same price for the end of the month; the
Three per Cents. closed at 561. 85c.; Orleans Railroad
A7svcig.;noHn,av2roes,f.2; 4vlfier2zso%.!
Shares, 855 f.; Ro4u6e6nt,
25c.; Avignon,
Great :Northern,
437 f. 50c.; Basle, 153 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 395 f.; Paris and
Strasburg, 361 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 272 f. 50c. ;
Amiens to Boulogne, 271 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10:54—Northern of France, 714%
ex in.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 43,E ea in.—Paris and Rouen,
25-I(2—Paris and Strasbourg, 115 Z

kind. It goes further, for it invites the diet to declare
itself competent to summon the particular states
whose internal situation should threaten the safety of
the Confederation, to put their constitution, their
laws, and their policy in harmony with the funda-
mental laws of the Confederation. This proposition
being based on the articles of the fundamental laws
of the Confederation,
_ and the stipulations of the
second committee of Dresden, the great powers are of
opinion that the Diet might occupy itself immedi-
ately with the affair, without requiring any prelimi-
nary instructions. Bavaria and Hanover, however,
hesitate on this point. We moreover learn, that
Austria and Prussia have proposed to the Germanic
Diet to suppress all the journals whose tendencies
are in opposition to the monarchical principle, reserv-
ing however to itself to make a general law on the
liberty of the press."