The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-14 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
They are filled with reports of what passed at the
sitting of the Commission of Permanence, but these
reports are so contradictory that it is almost impos-
sible to believe that all the journals are speaking of
the same occurrence. For instance, the Journal des
Debats, in speaking of the proceedings of Friday,
says :
" The Commission met to-day, M. Dupin in the chair.
All the members who took part in the meeting of TU4S-
day last were present, as also MM. Mole and Berrycr.
The Commission heard the accounts of the review. It
appeared struck by certain manifestations which took
place after the example given by some officers. It is
said to have expressed much astonishment that the Mi-
nister of War did nothing to prevent such manifestations,
and which he himself had censured at the last meeting
of the Commission. The Commission adjourned to the
next day to resume their deliberations.
On the other hand the Constitutionnel declares :
" We can assure our restless that no Minister was re-
quired by the Commission of the National Assembly to
give explanations about the review. The Commission did
not see in what passed at Sartory anything which called
for the extraordinary and immediate convocation of the
National Assembly. '
Whilst the National reports that—
" The Commission decided, after an animated discus-
sion, that the accounts given by the members should be
inserted in the minutes for the information of the As-
sembly. The Commission, moreover, adopted a resolu-
tion to the effect that it saw with pleasure the calm and
silent attitude of almost the whole of the troops, and
that it blamed and deplored the seditious acclamations
excited and in some measure ordered by certain officers
of the cavalry in presence of the President of the Re-
public and the Minister of War. The Commission, re-
assured by the excellent spirit shown by the troops,
whose commanding officers left them free to follow their
own inspirations, inferred that military discipline would
resist all attempts; and it therefore thought proper to
do no more than merely note in writing the facts that
had occurred and the impression produced by them."
In seeking to form a fair judgment from the compari-
son with each other of these contradictory reports, we
must bear in mind one important fact, the existence of
which is scarcely compatible with the accuracy of the
report of the Constitutional—the Committee, after
sitting for some hours, adjourned to the next day. If
the report of the Constitutionnel be correct, it is
scarcely possible to imagine what necessity there
could have been for any adjournment.
It appears that at the meeting of the Com-
mittee, they refused to confirm the minutes
of the proceedings of the former sitting, which
had been drawn up by M.
M
LEON
__ FAUCITEU, and which
softened down the nature of the explanations demanded
by General D'HAUTPOUL. Having referred back
these minutes for correction, the Committee resolved
that the accounts given by its different members of
what each had observed at the review should be in-
scribed in the proces verbal, for the information of
the Assembly. During the course of the discussion
attention was drawn to the circumstance that Colonel
DE MONTALAMBERT, the brother of the Comte DE
MONTALEMBERT, the Jesuit orator of the Assembly,
had made himself moat conspicuous by shouting
" Vive I'Empereur," in which he was, it is said, en-
couraged by Colonel EDGAR NEY, aide•de-camp of
the PRESIDENT.
After a great deal of discussion the Committee ad-
journed to Saturday, and, on their re-assembling on
that day, the following vote of censure on General
D'llmrroun, the Minister of War, was agreed to, the
Count DARN being the only member of the Committee
who opposed it :—" The Committee considers it its
duty to record in its procis verbal the disapprobation
which it attaches to the facts which were reported
to it at its sitting of yesterday, by the members
of the Committee who were present at the
review which took place on Thursday on the plain
of Satory. It also disapproves of the acts of
encouragement which produced these manifestations,
and the absence of all repression of the acts coms
plained of, notwithstanding the warnings given to the
Minister of War, and the promises made by him on
that subject to the Commission, to the effect that he
would enforce the observance f the rules of military
service and maintain the discipline of the army.
Nevertheless, the Committee, considering the general

altitude of the troops, who only yielded, and that to a
very limited extent, and by a spirit of obedience to the
illegal encouragement and provocations of some of
their leaders at the moment of the defiling, is of opi-
nion that there is no occasion to convoke the Legisla-
tive Assembly at the present moment, and adjourns
till the next meeting."
The Bulletin de Paris of yesterday denies that
Colenel NET, aide. de-camp of the PRESIDENT of the
Republic, encouraged the officers to shout " lave
l'Empereur !" and " Vivo Napoleon !" on the con-
trary, he tried, but in vain, to prevent them.
•The Patrie has long been hesitating between Bona-
partism and Legitimacy ' • it has at length declared
for the former, and all the Legitimatist editors have in
consequence quitted it.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT
of the Republic, reducing the export duty on cast iron
from 25c. to lc. the 100 kilogrammes.
The same official journal publishes a second decree
of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, appointing Ad-
miral MONTAGNES DE LA. ROQUE to the command of
the fleet in the Levant, in the place of Admiral TRE•
HOURT, whose period of service has expired.
The Moniteur publishes a notice from the Minister
of Commerce, announcing that in future no cigars can
be imported by foreigners residing in France without
a special permission from the Minister.
The Fi;,e per Cents. were quoted in the Passage de
l'Opera at 91f. 70c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE