The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-13 00:00:00

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
Saturday :—]
FRANCE.

DEFEAT OF THE NEW MINISTRY
IN THE ASSEMBLY.
The Assembly met yesterday at two o'clock, M.
Duoin, the President,
in the chair. After the trans-
action of some formal business,
M. de Remusat rose and said that he expected, in
presence of the grave and extraordinary facts pro-
claimed to France in the Alaxii,eur of the morning,
that Ministers would come forward and explain why
the former Administration had withdrawn, and the
new one been formed. Their conduct, he said, was
unaccountable. The silence of the Cabinet imposed
upon the Assembly an obligation to speak. It would,
he was sure, prove truVo its mission. It had saved
the country, and others had merely followed its foot-
steps.—(A. few " Bravos" on the Right.) He accord-
ingly called upon the Assembly to retire into its
bureaux and devise measures commanded by the gra-
vity of the circumstances.—(Partial approbation on
the Right.) Let the Assembly speak, and break
this king and generous silence.
M. Baroche, Minister of the Interior, said, that he
felt a certain embarrassment to reply to the ques-
tions put to him by M. de Remusat. He had never
questioned the eminent services rendered by the As-
sembly. Yes, it had saved France, but it was by the
harmony that had invariably prevailed between the
Legislative and Executive powers, since December,
1848.—(Bravos.) He would appeal to the Assembly,
and if necessary to the country itself.—(Murmurs
on the Left and part of the Right.) The Minister
could not understand those interruptions; was not
the country the supreme judge of all ? He would
appeal to the conscience of these whose co-operation
they hoped to obtain.—(Yes, yes • No, no.) "What,"
continued M. Baroche, " lam asked to explain our
policy, and you interrupt me by negative cries before
you hear use. You wage war upon our persons and
not on our policy." All were aware of the generous
and constant efforts of the executive power since
1848, and it would be the height of injustice and in-
gratitude to contest the part that power had had in
promoting a prosperity which recent agitation bad
not yet impaired. He was asked what was the policy
of the new Cabinet. It was indicated beforehand by
their past acts. It was not for the pitiful honour of
remaining on the Ministerial bench that he or any of
his colleagues would consent to forget their past con-
duct. Their policy was to be found in the Presi-
dential Message of the 12th November, 1850,
which had been applauded by the great majority
of the Assembly. The Cabinet was determined
to enforce respect for the Constitution, that
sheet-anchor of the country, and to persevere
in a loyal and courageous defence of the rights and
privileges of the Executive.—(Braves on the Right.)
That was the programme of the Cabinet—nothing
more nor less. It would be judged by its acts. It
wished to transact the business of the country, and
would show itself actively devoted to its interest. (M.
Vezin :—" Your presence is an act of hostility against
the Assembly." "Do not mind the interruption,"
exclaimed General Lebreton, " it is the expression of
an individual opinion which we do not share.") M.
Baroche, in conclusion, appealed fur support to all
those who were anxious to devote themselves with
them to the interests of the country, and he trusted
his appeal would be responded to by the former ma-
jority.
M. Berryer next rose, and said that he had not
intended to speak, bat after the vague and contradictory
reply he had heard, he could not remain silent. How
did it happen that a Cabinet so united and unanimous
divided into taro parts, and resigned after a vote of
the Assembly, approving the conduct of General
Changarnier, who was attacked by a journal whose
intercourse with the Executive was known? The Ge-
neral was called to account. The Ministry had nothing
to say in the affair, since none of the members were
in office at the time the document alluded to was
issued, and yet, after the whole Assembly gave a
solemn assent to the words of the General, the
Ministry considered it the moment to tender their
resignation ! It behoved the Assembly to give the
General a testimony of its high esteem and confi-
dence.—(" Speak to us of Wiesbaden," cried a
Mountaineer.) " I will reply to that interruption at
another moment," responded M. Berryer, " when it
will be the duty of all to explain their sentiments."
M. Berryer then asked why General Lahitte, who
had avenged the dignity of Erance, in a difference
with a nation jealous of her prosperity and power,
was one of the Ministers sacrificed ?—(" He made
room for the Ambassador at that Court," retorted
General Lebreton.) In conclusion, he called on the
Minister to explain the motive of the retreat of that
glorious Minister and of the rest of the Cabinet.
M. Baroche replied that the date of the retreat of
the Cabinet sufficiently explained the motive of its
resolution. They had adopted it after a series of
acts which had wounded the feelings and dignity of
the Administration. The Assembly might remember
a certain discussion on nn important point, of which
the Administration demanded the adjournment, and
which the Assembly refused to grant. He was asked
why he remained in office ? It was because an appeal
was addressed to his devotion and to that of his col-
leagues in the name of the general interest, and in
consequence of a situation which could not last. He
concurred with M. Berryer in his praise of General
Lahitte's conduct, which was part of the energetic
policy pursued both at home and abroad by the
Cabinet. In conclusion, he prayed the Assembly to
postpone its judgment until the acts of the Cabinet
were known.
M. Dufaure said that the question at issue was of a
higher and graver order. The National Assembly
was daily attacked by the Ministerial press in all parts
of the country. It was described as in a state of
constant aggression against the Executive. The
Government press regularly copied articles pub-
lished in England against that Assembly. He could
make certain disclosures relative to the part the
English press had acted in the reviews of Satory.—
(" Speak out! Speak out!" cried several voices.)
Those attacks were calculated to bring the Assembly
into disrepute. It was proclaimed unworthy of the
nation it represented, for the purpose of restor-
ing in France a Government, which the exist-
ence during thirty-six years of a Parliamen-
tary Government rendered impossible. Why those
seditious cries, uttered by the troops, if criminal,
intentions were not entertained ? They had pre-
occupied the Permanent Committee, who had had the
generosity to keep it= proses-rerbnux under seal. M.
Baroche said, "Judge us by our acts." \Vas not
the dismissal c.f General Changarnier a sufficiently
significant act ? It was an additional insult offered
to the Assembly after its vote of approbation, which
it could not but resent.
M. Roulier, Minister of Justice, repeated the frank
declaration alreedy m ide by his colleague of the
Interior, and protested the sincere desire of the
Cabinet to maintain the Censtitutieu, and not inter-
fre with the right of the nation to confide its desti-
nies to whoever it pleased. M. Dufaure had spoken
of the attacks directed by a certain press against the
Legislative power, and of seditious cries. Were the
Opposition journals less sober in their attacks against
the Constitution and less audacious in proclaiming
their factious sympathies ? The Cabinet had thought
proper to suppress the double command placed in the
hands of General Changarnier by the decress of the
lath of June, 1850, proposed by M. Dufaure him-
self. In doing so it bad merely carried into effect a
clause of that decree of M. Dufaure, which stipulated
that so anormel a situation should cease the moment
public tranquillity was restored in the capital.
G,,neral Bedeau, who followed, condemned the
conduct of the Executive in not prosecuting the offi-
cers guilty of the seditious cries uttered in the plains
of Satory, and dismissing General Neurnayor, who
had recently refused to obey an order contrary to
military regulations. The proof of the guilt of those
officers could be arrived at if the seals were removed
from the process -verbaux of the Permanent Com-
mittee.

M. Remusat declaredioabin himself dissatisfied with the
explanation of the Cabinet,
retiring n et, and insisted on the As-
semblyJlß Bureau, and appointing a
Committee to draw upsubmit to the Assembly
an energetic resolution and
or proclamation to the people.
M. Baroche combatted the
motion
of the Assembly and a citizen* He
both as a member
was
withoutentreated his col-
leagues to pause and
weigh
the gravity of
and
was
afl precetdheentprion"
posed resolution,
which
grant
of violati on of
Parliamentary annals,
the division of powers and of the rightsa
Exe-
cutive. the After the Minister had left the tribune,
As-
sembly was thrown into the utmost confusion.the
The members rose and rushed into the he •-
cycle. It was with the greatest difficulty the rni
officers
of the house prevailed upon them to return to their
seats.
When silence was somewhat restored, M. DuP in
consulted the Assembly as to the urgency of the re-
solution moved by M. Recount, which was adopted
by a considerable majority.
The President was next preparing to put to the
vote the immediate retirement in the bureaux, when
a division was loudly demanded on all sides. A
ballot took place, which gave the following result :
For the motion . • ••• ... 330
Against it • . 273
The motion .. •.•
was accordingly adopted, and the
Assembly retired into its bureaux at half-past five
o'clock.

" TIIE" FIELD OP TURNIPS.--Yhere is a field of
turnips presently on the estate of Panmure,
lying immedi-
ately south of the noble chateau of that name, which,
whether we take into view its extent (more than three
hundred acres), or the number of animals (five thousand
sheep) to which the valuable crop affords sustenance, may
be said to be without equal in Great Britain, and in reality
an agricultural phenomenon. The crop consists of yellow
sad Swedish turnips, and is unprecedentedly heavy.—
Arbroath Gazette

THE GERMAN QUESTION.
POLICY OF PRUSSIA-7-151ANTEUFFEL'S

SPEECH.

The following is the reply of the Minister Man-
teuffel to the attack made on his policy by Camp-
hausen in the debate which took place on the Bth in
the Upper Chamber of Prussia :
" The speaker has alluded to a change of system which
he says has taken place. Certainly every one must
judge according to circumstances, and the reason why
the idealogists of Germany have never effected anything
is, that they always run their heads against the wall of
facts.
" The Bundestag is a creation of 1815—a creation of
haste, not now sufficient for the necessities of the nation.
Nevertheless it has continued to exist. Germany lived
under the weak shelter of its roof till, in 1848, the
pillars were shattered and the fabric fell. Then all the
blame was thrown on the design of the building, and not
on the materials; on the shape of the house, and not on
the beams and timbers. He did not underrate the in-
fluence the Frankfort National Assembly had at that
time; but when once recalled, it appeared as if one was
thrown back into the midst of a dream. The funda-
mental rights, the constitution of the Empire, the elec-
tion of an Emperor—the wretched end of all, with a
Raveaux as the Regent of the Empire, all these were
things could not be forgotten. Prussia resolved to place
itself at the head of Germany, and founded its union
with two Governments that immediately withdrew from
it. The day of Erfurt arrived; there too there were
excellent elements; but a calm spectator was compelled
to :admit that that assembly too was not free from
the ambition of governing.—(Applause.) In the Con-
gress of Princes at Berlin unity was not obtainable;
several of the States withdrew from the place; the
number of those which remained became continually
smaller ; only the small States continued faithful, be-
cause they hoped to find in Prussia a support. It
became evident that the union was impracticable ;
Prussia was to have a Parliament for the monarchy,
and, with its allies, another for the Bund. What
a state of confusion ! It was at last perceived that
a German Constitution, with this double embroidery
of Parliaments, was an impossibility ; it was perceived
by the College of Princes. In the meantime the old
Bundestag was thought of in other quarters. A great
part of the German States took a share in its revived
activity; Prussia was about to be excluded from its
legal right of participating in the discussion of German
affairs. Prussia, in the Schleswig and Holstein ques-
tions, would have lost its influence. When the danger
of war arose, it was certainly of some importance to
know for what object we were about to engage in it.
There could only be two grounds for it; either to
maintain the Constitution of the Union, or to support
a revolution effected by the officials of the Govern-
ment in Hesse. There are different opinions as
to the Hessian dispute ; some believe that the
conduct of the Government was arbitrary; others think
there was a dangerous official revolution.—(Murmurs.)
Yes, I call it dangerous, because such a revolution can
be made by the officials of the Government in their
dressing gowns and slippers, while a man of the barri-
cades must at least have the courage to expose his lite.—
(Cheers.) When a war was in question we were bound to
look round and see who were our friends and foes; it was
quite certain that Russia and Austria would have been our
foes in the conflict; but by our side not one great Power
would have st,,od. Dangerous as this position was, I should
not have advised his Majesty against a war, but that there
were only a few of the small German States with us;
besides them we had hopes held out to us that the
Hessian officers who had thrown up their commissions
would have joined us; then there was M. Mazzini in
Geneva ready to assist us with a money subscription;
and Klapka, Arnold Ruge, and other kindred spirits
had arrived in Holstein to help us. These would have
been our friends. The time had arrved when a decision
must be made; Prussia must have a voice in the Govern-
ment of Germany. It that was obtained the cause of war
ceased to exist. Here we reached the turning point,
here Prussia determined to break, and here Prussia will
break, with the revolution.—(Applause.) For this reason
M. Camphausen is very right when he calls our present
policy a transparent one; yes, in this question it shall be
so. The Prussian army has been withdrawn from Hesse;
it retired unwillingly, hut it did what its Sovereign
commanded. It began a retreat reluctantly, and felt
as it felt when it was withdrawn from Berlin before the
already conquered revolution.—(Cheers.) This has been
called a defeat for Prussia, but I believe Prussia will never
be stronger than when it avoids all contact with the
revolution. M. Camphausen thinks that we shall not
have the respect of Europe if we did not hold the sword
always ready to be drawn from the sheath; but I believe
we shall secure both the respect and confidence of Europe
if we maintain what is the true honour of Prussia. As
to the Dresden Conference I am compelled to be silent:
but I hope that a strong Germany will be founded there,
and that Prussia will find in it the peace to which she is
entitled."—(Applause.)

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
FULL-PAY RETIREMENT.—Major Kenny, of the
89th Regiment, is about to be placed on the Retired
Full-pay List, vice Major Dalzell, late 16th Regi-
ment, deceased. Major Kenny entered the army on
the 17th June, 1813; was promoted Lieutenant No-
vember, 1819 ; Captain December, 1832 ; and Major
26th February, 1845. He served in the Peninsula
from June, 1813, to the end of the war, including
the action at Oana, the battle of Vittoria, siege and
capture of San Sebastian, passage of the Bidassos,
where he was severely wounded above the left hip ;
at St. Jean de Luz, and the series of actions between
the 9;h and 13th of Dember, 1813, in front of the
entrenched camp near Bayonne. Served also in
Ave, and was present in most of the operations
throughout the war. He has the war medal with
three clasps.
THE VACANT QUARTERMASTER-GENERALSHIP.—
It is rumoured, and with some degree of certainty,
that Major-General Sir Frederick Storin, K.C.8.,
Colonel 83d Regiment, will succeed the late General
Sir Willoughby Gordon as Quartermaster-General
to the Forces ; a saving of the extra allowance of 5004
per annum, as in the recent appointment of Adju-
tant-General, will, of course, be made.
THE COLONELCY, IST DRAGOON GUARDS.—It is
confidently expected that Lieutenant-General the
Earl Cathcart, K.C.8., commanding the Northern
and Midland district, will be removed from the 3d
Dragoon Guards to the vacant Colonelcy of the Ist
Dragoon Guards, and that it is likely Major-General
Cavendish will succeed to the latter regiment.
PAYMASTERSHIP 23n FUSILIERS.-- Lieutenant
and Adjutant Hall Dare has been nominated to suc-
ceed to the paymastership of this regiment, vice Dunn
deceased.
BLACK MEDICAL OFFICERS.—It appears from the
evidence token on Army and Ordnance expenditure,
that Government had had it in contemplation to form
a Medical Staff upon the same principle as that
adopted by the Ea,t India Company, of educating
black men for service on the west coast of Africa, and
to be apprenticed to the medical officers serving there.
The plan was subsequently abandoned, from the cir-
cumstance that the young negroes to be educated
would cost too large a sum of money before they
attained these qualifications befitting them for the
appointments of military medical officers. The
shrewdness, however, which these men naturally pos-
sess would enable them to reach their acquirements
at an early period ; and we therefore regret that the
measure was not carried into effect.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. We understand
that reduction in this branch of the service is to be
continued, and not only are no new appointments of
clerks to take place, but every opportunity for re-
ducing will be taken advantage of.
MELVILLE HOSPITAL.—The Admiralty have or-
dered the purchase of the necessary vessels for the ad-
ministration of the Eucharist at this establishment.
SPRING CHANGE OF QUARTERS.—The moves of
the infantry at present stationed at home, a de-
tailed account of which we gave our readers some
months previously, will be completed during the
ensuing fortnight. The 91st are at presented bil-
letted in Manchester ; and after the embarkation of
the 52d Light Infantry from Liverpool for Ireland has
taken place, the 90th Light Infantry will proceed on
the 16th inst. to Dublin, en route for the south of
Ireland. After these changes have been effected, we
hear it is not the intention of the authorities to make
any further general moves. The Cavalry at present
stationed in Great Britain will make no change as
regards their head-quarters; the different troops will
be at the disposal of the Generals of districts. What-
ever change of quarters may take place, however, no
cavalry regiment will leave Ireland this year, but, either
dui iwg the spring or autumn, there will be an alteration
in their quarters. There has not been any inten-
tion on the part of the authorities to concentrate a
force in the. vicinity of London during the ensuing
exhibition, nor will such a project be carried into
effect. An augmentation to the police force has,
however, been nearly effected, and some foreign
police engaged.
IRISH CONSTABULARY.—The Inspector-General of
Constabulary, Sir Duncan M'Gregor (late of the
93d Sutherland Highlanders), has directed that in
future the constabulary throughout Ireland shall per-
form the duties of Billet-Masters instead of civilians.
THE SCREW TWO•DECKER SANSPAREIL."—This
ship, which was laid down at Devonport Dockyard,
on the line of the old French line-of-battle ship of
that name (captured on the Ist of June, and sub-
sequently the favourite flag-ship of Lord Hugh Sey-
mour), and which was afterwards altered and built
to receive a screw propeller, has, after various stop-
pages, suggestions, and re-arrangements, been so
nearly completed that the Admiralty have ordered
her to be launched on the lath March next ; she will
then be immediately fitted with her machinery, and
tried,and if found inefficient, will be altered to a frigate.
RUMOUR OF AN ACCIDENT TO THE ALBION.—A
report prevailed at Plymouth this week to the effect
that a vessel had arrived at that port bringing•
the in-
telligence that she had seen the Albion, 90, Captain
, Hope Johnstone, in the Bay of Biscay, dismisted,
and this report was said to have gained some weight
by the fact of intelligence having been received of
the arrival at Lisbon of the Phaeton, 50, that left
Plymouth two days after the Albion, and had seen
nothing of her. We give the above for the sake of
remarking that we have not the slightest confidence
in the rumour, and of observing that these reports
, are set 01%4 periodically of almost every ship. It

will be remembered that something of the same kind
was in circulation about the Bellerophon on her pas-
sage home ; and the Birkenhead, steam-ship, arrived
this week at Portsmouth, was given up as actually
lost. We may add that the Albion was ordered to
proceed direct to Malta, without calling at Lisbon or
Gibraltar, and having two days' start of the Phaeton,
it is by no means extraordinary that the frigate did
not see the line-of-battle ship on her run to Lisbon.
LIEUTENANTS' OUT-PENSION OF GREENWICFI.—
The vacant Lieutenants' Out-pension of Green-
wich Hospital has been conferred upon Lieute-
nant John Jenkins Loney (1807). Lieutenant
Loney has been in the service since 1791, and has
served, afloat and ashore, for twenty-five years.
He was in the Ist of June, was in the action of St.
Domingo, and at its surrender. Latterly he was in
the transport service, in which he received an injury
in the head, and in command of Semaphores. Lieut.
Loney has had a family of ten children, most of whom
are living, and one is a Master in the service.
FATAL FEVER ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S SHIP
SCORPION.—We regret to state that we have re-
ceived accounts from the Scorpion, surveying-
vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Laurence, dated St.
Thomas's, December 19, to the effect that a fatal fever
had broken out on board that ship, and that one of the
victims was Lieutenant William Mooney (1844). Com-
mander Fraser and the officers of the Sparrow, cur-
' veying vessel, now at Queenstown, are not to be paid
off. They are ordered, in consequence of reports of
damage done to the fishing weirs, to proceed to Black-
water, to examine and report to the Admiralty the
mischief committed by accident or design.
ADMIRALTY AGENTS FOR THE CAPE Pecsirrs.—
The: Admiralty agent for the next screw steam-
packet for the Cape, to sail from Plymouth next week,
is Commander Arthur Mellersh (1849). As we have
already stated, the Admiralty decided on appointing
Commanders to this service, with the view of subse-
quently availing themselves of the experience they are
sure to gain in screw navigation in the future com-
mand of screw steam men-of-war.