The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-22 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The truckling of the Ministers to the parti-pretre
in the matter of the Education Bill so disgusted the
citizens of Paris that they returned. MM. CARNOT,
VIDAL, and Da FLOTTE by large majorities, thereupon
the reactionary party becomes outrageous, and
threatens the introduction of all sorts of repressive
laws in direct violation of the Constitution ; and the
consequence is, that the Assembly becomes disgusted,
and the Reds having obtained a majority in the Paris
elections, are also enabled to outvote the Ministry in
the Assembly. The Reds proposed to impose a stamp
duty of sc. on the transfer of every 100 f. of capital of
rente, and notwithstanding the opposition of M.
FOULD, the present Minister of Finance, of M. HYP
a majority of 400 to
consternationb produced by
POLITE PASST, the late Minister of Finance, of M.
BERRYER, and of M. Ducos, they have succeeded in
2carrying propositiontghreeiratwasthe
y
this severe and unexpected check, that M. ROUHER,
who had the measures of repression with regard to
public meetings and the press ready drawn up
to place in the bands of the President,
withdrew them, after a short consultation with his
colleagues. The withdrawal of these Bills is the
first symptom of returning sanity that the Ministers
have exhibited since the Paris elections, but, we fear,
that like the withdrawal of the Bills, it is only of a
temporary nature.
Six of the insurgents of June transported to Belle
Isle, who were transferred to Vannes, in the depart-
ment of the Morbihan, to be tried for rebellion and
for setting fire to the wooden houses in which they
were confined, have been acquitted by a jury.
M. LAUAT, a barrister, and proprietor of the Unien
Democratique de l'Ariege, who was prosecuted by the
Attorney-General for an article reflecting on the
judgment of the High Court of Versailles, has been
acquitted by a jury at Toulouse,
The military schools of St. Omer, Grenoble, and
Toulouse, have been suppressed.
The withdrawal of the repressive Bina by the Mi-
nistry was, as we anticipated, merely a temporary
withdrawal. It will be seen from the following re-
port of the proceedings of the National Assembly
that they were presented yesterday afternoon.
The Assembly met at half-past two, when the
Chairman of the Committee on the Paris Elections
moved that MM. Carnot, Vidal, and De Flotte
should be proclaimed Members of the Assembly. •
M. Denjoy here rose and observed that one of the
Members stood in a particular position ; he meant M.
de Flotte. He had been sentenced to transportation
by a decree of the Constituent assembly of the 27th
of June, 1848, which declared that all the individuals
insurrection
of as having participated in the
of that period should be transported, and
bad charged :General Cavaignac (the then Chief
of the Government) with the execution of the
decree. Until the contrary be proved, the legal
itnoosukrpgaerntt thejunein. suriurc.tioDne,
presumption existed, and M. de Flotte, whotctually
of
nwina
ythen asked thes in his opinion an
Minister of Justice and the reporter of the Com-
mittee if any administrative inquiry had satisfied
the Government that M. de Flotte had been re-
leased from Belle Isle as the victim of an arbitrary
measure.
M. Rouher, Minister of Justice, replied that the
Government had been pre-occupied with the le gal po-
sition of M. de Flotte. The decree sentencing him
to transportation bore the character of a decree of
public safety, and did not deprive M. de lotte of his
civil or political rights, but merely of his liberty.
M. de Flotte was not tried by a court of justice, and
he had since recovered his liberty with the integrality
of his civil and political rights. The Government,
consequently had no objection to raise against the le •
gality of his nomination.
The election of M. de Flotte was afterwards put
from the chair and sanctioned by the almost unani-
mous vote of the Assembly.
M. Router,; Minister of Justice, nest ascended
the tribune, and deposited on the table two projects
of law relative to the re-establishment of the stamp
on newspapers and the augmentation of the security
in money required from their proprietors. The
Minister stated that the press, since the revolution of
February, had undergone a serious modification, and
attended less to political matters than to social re-