The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-16 00:00:00

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 16. 1832.

The French Morning Papers of Wednesday,
With the Evening Papers dated yesterday, have
been received. An ordinance in the Moniteur
a►►nounces that M. SEBASTIANt is so far re-
covered as to be able to resume his official duties

33 Secretary for Foreign Affairs. This will re-
lieve M. C. PERIER of some trouble ; for,
what with his battles in the Chambers and other
aiieial duties, his situation has not lately been
a sinecure.

Another instance was afforded on Tuesday,
or the utter itnpolicy of persecuting the Press.
The French Ministry, not convinced by re-
peated defeats, persisted in its ungracious
Course, and prosecuted the Editor of the
National—M. ARMAND CARREL, the spi-
rited gentleman who first resisted the Ordi-
nances of CHARLES X.,—together with
three other writers ; and behold the result—
an unanimous acquittal ! What can the
Government of the citizen KlNG—himself
the creature of the revolution brought aboa
by these men—hope to gain by such inveterate,

such heedless, nay, such provoking conduct ?
If a fresh explosion be their aim, they cannot
surely go more fatally to work. That such in-
Judicious proceedings cannot render the
KING more beloved, or consolidate his Govern-
ment, may be inferred from the eagerness
which Juries display in acquitting those who fall
under the displeasure of the Ministry. The
wiser course then would be to leave such matters
to the corrective influence of public opinion.
The Chamber of Deputies resumed the

discussion of the Budget of the War Depart-
ment when several reductions were proposed by
the Opposition. General DEMARCAY wished the
permanent pay of the Marshals to disappear al-
together, on the ground that General Officers were
sufficient—whereas the Marshals were, he said,
" good • for nothing, and in time of peace far
more trouble than profit." This produced a
general laugh. The President of the Coun-
cil maintained that the utmost reduction
bad been made, and contended in ra-
ther warm terms that the Chamber, in its
ideas of economy, was unknowingly led away by
a sentiment of social jealousy.—(lnterruption.)
" Yes, gentlemen," continued the Honourable
Minister, "it inust not be concealed that there

exists in the country a disease, a spirit, as it
were, of vertigo.—(lncreased interruption)._
‘t A spirit of vertigo," repeated he, which
possesses certain individuals, and seeks to
influence the vote of the Chamber. I

entreat the Chamber not to yield to
this extraneous sentiment, but to recollect
that one of the principles of our Revolu-
tion is equality before the law, but not social
equality. Woe to the country which seeks to
reduce every thing to the same level ! There
,
would soon be no army, no administration, and
soon, I may add, no country ; this social equa-
lity would involve every thing in ruin."—( Ap-
probation from the Centres.)
A division afterwards took place on a propo-
sition for reducing the salary of general officers,
when there appeared for the reduction 164 ;
against it, 167, leaving the Minister only a ma-
jority of three. The following are extracts:—
( From Gallignani's Messenger of Wednesday.)
Yesterday M. Armand Carel, Editor, and M. Paulin,
Gi,rant, of the National, and M. Achille Roche, Author
of an article inserted in the Monument, and M. Pierre
Lyon, the Gerant of that Journal, were brought before the
(kind of Assizes for provoking disobedience to the laws,
and exciting rebellion by the publication of discussions
upon the question of the personal arrest of writers in the
newspapers, and maintaining that being illegal, resistance
'by force was lawful._ The prisoners were ably dtfended
by M. Comte, and M. Odilon Barrot, and notwithstanding
arguments of M. Persil, the Procareur du Rui, who con-
ducted the prosecution, they were all unanimously ac-
quitted by the Jury.
M. Lennox, whose long confinement we have before no-
ticed, is at length released.
The Moniteur contains as Otdonnance stating that
General Sebastiani is recovered from his indisposition; and that, therefore, the Ordonnance of the 25th
ecember
1831, charging the President of the Council with the si - nature of the Foreign Department, is revoked.
M. Scg•
hastiani resumed the active duties of his office Yesterday.
T Muniteur also contains an Ordonnance, adding th; poi t of Binie (Cote du Nord) to the number of those