The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Ministerial crisis still continues, but the PRE-
SIDENT of the Republic shows himself equal to the
situation, and has adopted the wisest, because the
boldest, line of policy that he can pursue without
making a coup d'etat or viohiling the Constitution.
He has not only emancipated himself from the ty-
ranny of CHANGARNIER, but from that of the Bur-
gravee also. He sent for them on Wednesday, and
they immediately repaired to the Elpee, prepared to
offer to the PRESIDENT their advice, in other words,
to bamboozle and to betray him, as they had so ofte❑
done before. On their admission, however, he
told them that he had sent for them, not to
listen to their advice, but to announce to them
his determination, which was that CHANGAR-
NIER should be removed from his command.
He concluded by saying that he was resolved to re-
spect all the prerogatives of the Legislative Assembly,
but that he was also resolved to exercise the right which
no power could deny him of dismissing a subaltern.
The Judases of the Majority looked aghast at this an-
nouncement, all their fond dreams of a planche Napo-
lionienne vanished at once, and the detected conspira-
tors slunk out of the Elysee and repaired to the As-
sembly, where M. MOLE in dolorous accents declared
that be had no reason to think that the resolution of
the PRESIDENT of the Republic was otherwise than
irrevocable. To add to their discomfort, the funds
rose when it was rumoured that CHANGARNIER was
dismissed, and the popularity of the PRESIDENT in-
creases in proportion as he separates himself from the
Burgraves. The Patrie gives the following semi-
official account of the interview :

" The President of the Republic assembled to-day, at
half-past two, at the Elyt is, MM. de Broglie, Dupin,
Mole, Berryer, Odilon Barrot, Thiers, Daru, and de
Montalembert. In inviting this conference, the Presi-
dent cf the Republic had for object to come to an ex-
planation with these influential members of the National
Assembly as to the true causes of the Ministerial crisis,
and the unfounded reports which have been spread on
this occasion. We think we can assert that in this con-
versation, which lasted more than two hours, the Presi-
dent of the Republic, whilst protesting his desire to
avoid any confl:ct, his respect for the power of the
National Assembly, and his decided resolution
to remain faithful to the policy of the message, de-
clared that he intended to maintain intact the rights
conferred upon him by the Constitution. In order
to add to the authority of these words every constitu-
tional guarantee, the President, we are assured, declared
to these Honourable Representatives that be was ready
to accept, for the formation of a new Cabinet, the co•
operation of such of them as shared his opinions relative
to the modifications which had become necessary in the
organization of the command of the army of Paris. On
this subject, the President, alluding to the rumours which
were current in the lobbies of the Assembly, is said to
have observed to M. Dupin, 'lf Sou want troops you will
have them; but as for ow lilies, I can promise you that
you shall not have any.' We are convinced that the en-
tire ecuntry wilt approve of this llngusge, which is at
the same time firm and concilietury, sad will support it
with all the moral power of its adhesion to this line of
conduct."

The following description of the interview appears
in the Evrnement
The Pre,,Ment listened with mute attention t the
observations adariased to him by f,ech of the speakers
in turn, who eurictiv ure-1 to prevail on him to lecall his
project of dismissing General Changarnier. All, with
a cuiple of exceptions, gave him to understand that per-
sistance in his dtt,:irmination could not fail of becoming
a casus belli bttweeu the Execu'ive power and the Par-
liamentary majority. M. Mole was particularly em-
phatic. 1!,.A soon as all had spoken, the President, in a
calm and energetic manner, expressed himself in words
of which the following will be found to be the perfectly
exaot sena:. :

"'I desire to continue in the most perfect harmony
with the legislative power. For sake of obtaining such
a good uaderstandfng betwzeu both powers, I am ready
to makt., ttll necessary sacrifices. lam prepared to form
a Ministry is the sense and according to the ♦iews of
the majur.ty, aed even, if necessary, to renounce the
dotation question. I will do all things but one, and that
is to the saclifice cf the right wtich I hold to revoke a
SUBALTERN."'

The followirg from the National, which is signed by
M. LEOPOLD DIMAS, may be considered as an official
declaration of neutrality on the part of the Repub-
licans : _

" An Elyt6au jourcal pretends that a portion of the
Republican Left had promised to support the Right in
case the Assembly should choose to invest General
Changarnier with the command of the troops destined
for its security. We affirm that no such engagement
has been taken. If the majority desire to avail them-
selves of the 32d Article of thP Constitution they Inuit, to
ensure the support of the loft, make choice of a general,
offering to the Constitution uni the Republic better gua-
rantees than can be furnished by Gcneral Changarnier."

Gentral NEUMAYER has retuned to Paris:

General RANDON has consented to accept the office
of Minister of War in any new Cabinet that may be
formed ; as such it will be his duty to countersign the
order for the dismissal of CIiAIiGAANIEN.

M. Duns held a levee on Wednesday evening,
which was attended by all the general officers who
are Members of the Assembly. An absurd rumour
was circulated there that M. CARLIER was to be the
new Minister of the Interior. It was considered
probable that a Republican Ministry would be no-
minated.

At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday M. Mou-
LIN ascended the tribune to report on various pro-
positions submitted to its deliberations respecting
the arrest for debt of representatives of the people.
One of them presented by M. POUJARD, provided
that members of the National Assembly might be
arrested for debt, rf, in the delay of one month from
the date of the notification of the judgment to the
questure, they should not have satisfied their creditors,
and in that case they should be considered to have
resigned their legislative functions. Others, Messrs.
FAUTRIER and SIMEON, extended the delay to three
months, and if in that period the representative
had not paid his debts, they asked that
he should cease to belong to the Assem-
bly. M. Clime Are the author of another pro-
position, required a previous authorisation from the
Assembly; and, finally, MM. EMILE Leaoux and
GARNON proposed that, in commercial and civil mat-
ters, representatives of the people should be liable to
arrest without any authorisation, and that they be
declared to have resigned their sect in the Assembly,
if, in the course of the month, they should not have
recovered their liberty. The Committee, added M.
MOULIN, had maturely exemined those propositions,
and decided that they should be the object of a gene-
ral report. They had unanimously recognised
their opportunity, resulting from the incident
of the 28th of December relative to M. MAUGUIN, and
the omission in the laws and constitution of a
clause regulating that important point. They were
also dseireus to avoid in future fatal discussions and
deogeroue collisions between the powers of the State.
Tile order of the day of ths2B,h December was not a
precedent thst could be invoked for the future, and
that fact, consequently, rendered the intervention of
the legislators more necessary than ever. That de-
cision of the Assembly did not imply the principle of
the absolute inviolability of the representatives, which
must formally be inscribed in a law, owing to the
silence of the Constitution. The 36th article, it was
true, proclaimed it, but there was a principle supe-
ri sr to that inviolability, that is, equality in the eyes
of the law, and civil equality. It would be an
exorbitant privilege if a representative of the people
could dispense from doing honour to his engagements,
because of his legislative position. It would be the
forfeiture of all honour, dignity, and justice. The
committee had been of opinion to take the three first
propositions into consideration, and recommended the
Assembly to refer them for examination to a special
committee. As regarded that of MM. EMILE LA...
ROUX, and GARNON, the committee viewed it with
less favour, because it was contrary to the decision of
the Assembly of the 28th of December last. The
Committee accordingly proposed that the first propo-
sition be taken into consideration durgerzcc, and that
the proposition of MM. EesteE LEaoux and GeetssoN
be rejected.