The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

circum

stances invariably keep them. Those cir-
cumstances are the relation which the number
of working hands in any branch of industry bears to
the existing demand for their labour. It is that re-
lationship which fixes and settles the price of labour
on all occasions and under all circumstances. It is
inexorable and immutable, and no combination on
earth can ever permanently override or divert its
operation.

It is also the unhappy prerogative of those combi-
nations to reduce the members of them all to one level,
wholly irrespective of the diversity of skill, prudence,
and capacity for application, which will always exist
among any considerable body of men, whilst they
exercise over their subjects acts of intolerable tyranny
in many respects.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Ministerial crisis still continues, and it is said
that the PRESIDENT of the Republic is not at all anx-
ious to terminate it, as he hopes by delay to procure a
demonstration from the departments in his favour.
He insists, it is said, as a sine qua non for admission
into his new Cabinet, that the Ministers to be ap-
pointed shall at once countersign an order for the
dismissal of General CHANGARNIER from the com-
mand of the garrison of Paris ; and shall propose a
Bill for the renewal of the dotation to the Assembly.
A Cabinet Council was held on Monday evening,
when some of the Ministers consented, it is said, to
retain office. On this subject we find the following
in the Bulletin de Paris:—
" The report is current that General Changarnier has
been dismissed. The rumour is completely false. It is
nearly certain that four only of the Ministers will retire.
namely—MM. Baroche, Romain-DesfosFC, Rouher, and
Bineau, who persist in resigning. It is hoped that
General Schramm will consent to retain his portfolio."
The Pouvoir has the following :
"It is considered certain that five Ministers—viz,,
MM. Romain-Desfost.64, De Parrieu, De Lahitte, Bineau,
and Schramm, persist in their resignation. It is con-
sidered probable that M. Fould will remain at the Fi-
nances, and that M. Baroche will quit the interior for
the department of Justice. It is quite true that M.
Curlier has expressed a wish to resign, but, up to the
present moment, the President of the Republic has not
consented to his retirement."
The following more than hint to the Bonapartists
in the departments to be up and doing appears in the
Patrie :
" The Ministerial question is still in the same posi-
tion. The President of the Republic has had several
conferences with different statesmen, but up to the pre•
seat time nothing more has taken place than simple con-
vetsations. The prolongation of this crisis is without
doubt to be regretted, but it must be allowed that the Or-
leanist-D- gitiinalist-Socialist coalition has created great
difficulties in the formation of a new Ministry. It is be-
sides as well to allow the position to clear itself up in
order that public opinion may be better able to appre-
ciate it proprly in its causes and consequences. The
President, without concealing from himself the gravity of
this state of things, may reasonably think that it is his
duty, as well as that of the Assembly, to wait un,il the
departments shall have had an opportunity. of making
known their views of the facts which have just taken
place."
In the meantime the Assembly is preparing for the
conflict ; their tactics are already proclaimed. On the
appearance of the decree dismissing General CHAN-
GARNIER from the command of the garrison of Paris,
the Assembly, in conformity with the thirty-second
article of the Constitution, which is as follows—
" The National Assembly determines the place of its
sittings ; it fixes the importance of the military
f rces established for its safety, and it disposes of
them"—will fix the amount of military force which
it considers necessary to guard itself against a
coup d'etat en the part of the PRESIDENT, and will
nominate General CHANGARNIER to the command of
that force ; and thus there will be in presence of each
other the army of the PRESIDENT, commanded by
General BARRAIIIJAY D'HILLIERS, and that of the
Assembly, commanded by CHANGARNIER. The
Members of the Mountain have it in their power, by
abstaining from voting, to prevent the appointment
by the Assembly of CHANGARNIER to the command
of the troops destined for its protection ; the Mountain
will, however, vote for conferring the command on
CHANGARNIER, on condition that the Assembly shall
immediately thereafter order the impeachment of the
PRESIDENT and his Ministers.