The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-17 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The law of hatred against the Press was passed
yesterday in the Assembly by a majority of 127 mem-
bers, there being for the law 392, against it 265.
Immediately after this division M. DE MONTALEMBERT
presented the report of the committee on the proro-
gation. The committee recommend the prorogation
of the Assembly for three months.
The division between the PRESIDENT of the Repub-
lic and the Legitimatist and Orleanist majority of
the Assembly is now open and avowed, and each party
is proceeding to overt acts of defiance, which must
eventuate in a collision. The Pouvoir (the avowed
organ of the PRESIDENT) of Monday contains the
following attack upon the Assembly :
" The Assembly ought to prosecute as its most im-
placable enemy whoever would do it the fourth of the
mischief it is doing itself. Never has such instability
been exhibited to the eyes of mankind. The disposition
of the morning is not that of the evening—laws become
the offspring of caprice, instead of maturity and wisdom.
Already has this unlucky law on the press been three
times radically changed. The committee changes the
law of the Ministry ;—Messrs. Tanquy and De Laboulie
change the law of the committee, and M. de la Roche-
jaquelin changes the law of Messrs. de Tanquy and De
Laboulie. There is one thing which does not change,
and that is the stupefaction of the country at the aspect
of such versatility. People ask one another if in the
state of profound disorganization into which the country
is thrown order is not rather compromised than de-
fended by an assembly which shows itself completely
without political spirit, as without capacity for
business, and if it be not rather an obstable
than 'a guarantee. People even ask one another
if France, so long as she is depending on assemblies, is
not fatally condemned to struggles, convulsions, and re-
volutions. Certainly it is a public fact that there is
much more order and calm in the country than in the
Assembly; and that if agitation, struggles, and ambi-
tions aro artfully kept up anywhere, it is in the legisla-
tive sanctuary. What province, what town is there
where persons attack each other, threaten each other
with such fury as at the Palais Bourbon? There is not
one; and if there was .one it would be placed for much
less in a state of siege. The experience of the last 60
years is there to show us that the flame always took its
origin in the legislative assemblies. France demands '
repose;
should slight that necessity, and should keep up the fire
in place of extinguishing it. It was thought that the
Constituent Assembly had, in failing, reached the lowest
point of discredit to which a deliberative body could fall;
but the present Assembly seems likely to pass that point.
Everything seems to announce its approaching end, for
its nets are all so many resignations?'
Daring the sitting of Monday the Legitimatist,
M. BAZE, drew the attention of the Assembly to this
article, and moved that the gerant of the journal,
M. LAMARTINIERE, should be called to the bar of the
Assembly. Hereupon M. Rouuen, the Minister of
Justice, who the other day insulted the Republic
which pays him by denominating the revolution of
February a funeste catastrophe, rose and said that—
" The Assembly could either adopt the course just
proposed, namely, to summon the responsible editor to
the bar, or direct the Government to have him prose-
cuted. He had to state that over and over again the
Government had submitted to the President of the As-
sembly articles which attacked that body. That func-
tionary had not been of opinion that it was necessary to
notice them. The Government did this, because it was
not the duty of the Government to interfere when the
Assembly was attacked, The Government had to dis-
claim every support or countenance of such articles; and
he took that opportunity of declaring that it opposed
with all its force such a system of attack on the great
powers of the state; and, in conclusion, he had to deolare
that the Government gave its lull support to the pro-
position just made."—(Loud exclamations on the Left.
Great agitation.)
It was to have been expected that M. Rounnit,
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who,
on andthe. trial of the
who vilified the Republic which made him what he
is, and but for which he would still have continued
a village lawyer, should, on the first opportunity,
desert and betray the PRESIDENT who had appointed
him Minister; but we scarcely expected to find M.
BattocnE following in the wake of M. ROUHER ; that
worthy Minister declared that he joined most
heartily in the language of his colleague, and pledged
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himself to suspend the licence granted to the proprie-
tors of the Pouvoir to hawk their journal in the
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A telegraphic dispatch had been
' Madrid. The health of the QuBE received from
N continues in a
• satisfactory state.
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