The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-29 00:00:00

LONDON,

the President of the Board of Trade, by whom it was
" worked " through the Commons, and whose readi-
ness on all points exhibited a thorough practical
knowledge of his subject, and his courtesy ia yierd=
ing upon many occasion:, points of minor importance,
and at once adopting any suggestions calculated to
improve the Bill, justly merits the highest commen-
dation.

The Bill itself, which has passed through a most
trying ordeal, now appears to give perfect satisfaction
to the representatives of both merchants and mariners,
of shipowners and seamen, and we sincerely trust that
it will not now meet with any obstruction in the
Upper House. The power and glory of England is
eminently attributable to her commercial enterprise ;
her flag " braves the breeze" on every ocean ; her
hardy sons have made the world of waters a highway
to every port upon the face of the earth ; her ships
convey the treasures of every clime from shore to
shore throughout the world. Our maritime and foreign
trade require a well-arranged code of laws and regu-
lations, and we look upon this Bill as well calculated
to effect this end, and we therefore hope to see it,
within a brief space, " the statute law of the land."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Ministers and the PRESIDENT may thank the
tact of M. liAttocHE for their escape on Friday from
a direct collision with the Assembly.
In the course of the discussion on Friday M.
DUPONT DE BRISSAC ascended the tribune and drew
the attention of the Assembly to the articles which
had appeared in the lkloniteur du Soir, demanding
the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry. No
Member rose on the Ministerial side, and atter a pause
M. JULES FAVRE ascended the tribune, and the fel-
lowing discussion took place :
M. J. Favro said that it was quite impossible for the
Assembly not to be struck with the penistance with
Which these attacks were made on the Assembly. It
was above all things necessary to seek out who suggested
these articles, and for that purpose the proposition of M.
Dupont appeared to him a most important une. lie
conceived, however, that it would be suitable not to pro-
pose to the Assembly the nomination of a committee to
icquiro into the matter until the Government was called
on to issue from that state cf impassibility which, was
really derisory, in face of the repeated attacks thus
made, and of the suspicions which were entertained of
the source from which they emanated. Such being
the case, he had to call on the Ministry to express its
opinion on the matter.—(Applause on the Left.)
No person on the Ministerial benches moved.

M. J. Fevre, after waiting for a short apace, went on
to say that be could not but feel surprised at the course'
which the Ministry appeared determined to adopt.
Here was the Assembly about in a few days to separate;
and yet at the very eve of such separation most scanda-
lous articles were published against that body, and calcu-
lated to produce the greatest alarm in the public mind.
And the very journals which contained these articles
were sold publicly in the streets, in the theatres, every-
where with the consent of the authorities! Yet here,
when the Ministry was accused of at least counte-
nancing these articles, it thought fit to preserve a si-
lence, to say the least of it, most significant under the
circumstances which had arisen.—(Applause on the
Left.) He would say, that a Ministry who acted
so gave just reasons for being suspected of conspir-
ing against the Assembly.—(Tremendous cheers ou
the Left.) This was not a case of majority or of mi-
nority—it was one which concerned the dignity of the
Assembly itself. As to the party to which he belonged,
it had done all that was possibly to preserve the public
peace.—(Oh, oh—laughter.)
Voices—And your own circulars.—(ob, oh!)
M. J. Fevre would not make any further reticule
than this, that if the silence of the Ministry was pro-
longed ho would consider that conduct as an act of
treason.—(Cheers.)
M. Baroche, the Minister of the Interior, said that if
the charge of the Hon. Gentleman only referred to the
responsibility of the Ministry for the articles complained
ot; he should not have ascended the tribune; it was his
last words only which induced him to rise. He accepted
fully the responsibility of the acts of the Government, but
not in the slightest degree that of any articles published
in the public journals. The intention of M. J. Fevre was
apparently to endeavour to attribute to the Government
the articles complained of; to assign to them at least
a complicity in what had been done. Tho Govern-
ment was altogether outside the pale of these accusa-
tions; it was not responsible for anything that was writ-
ten against the Assembly—it had nothing whatever to
do with such articles, and it had hoped that the Assem-
bly would have done it the justice to believe so, without
his finding it necessary to say so.—(Cheers.) As to the
charge of the journal being sold in the streets and thea-
tres, he had only to state that the authorisation had
been of many years standing, and that the Government
did not at present feel inclined to withdraw it.—(Exchs-
mations from various parts of the Assembly.)
M. Baze expressed an opinion that if those frequent
attacks were written, it was in a great measute the
fault of the Government in not more energetically setting
its face against the publication of these articles.—
(App:ause on the Left.) These attacks were of a most
scandalous character, and ought once for all to be put
down. The Assembly had a great duty to perform, and
he considered it could not do otherwise than appoint the
Committee of Inquiry as proposed.
The Minister of the Interior said that the position of
the Ministry was a very peculiar one, as every day it
found itself accused of conspiring against the Assembly
—against tha„Constitution. The Government had done
all it could to preserve peace in the country and develop
its resources, and yet in return it was accused of con-
spiracy with those who dreamt of coups detut and violent
acts of power! But in what interest could that occur ?
—(lnterruption, exclamations.) He had to declare that
neither directly nor indirectly, neither by itself nor by
others, did the Ministry entertain any idea or any inten-
tion of acting in the smailest matter contrary to the law
which governed the state.—(Loud cheers, answered by
exclamations on the Left.)
The President—Hon. Gentlemen should consider how
grate is the matter under discussion.
The Minister of the Interior—lf he had said that
the authorization granted to the journal complained
of should not now be withdrawn, it was because the
present meter was still pending; because there ap-
peared to him to be a desire to constrain the
Ministry to such or such a course. It must not be for-
gotten that in this matter the susceptibility of the Ministry
was deeply wounded by these continued accusations—
these reflections on its good faith. He could delare, cn
the frith of an honest man, whose honour or sincerity
had never been suspected, that all these charges were
quite unfounded, and that whoever should accuse him
personally of any act against the Government—(A voice
—" Against the Republic")—would calumniate him.
Last year, in the same way, 2.1. Dufaure had been
obliged to make similar asseverations, and the result
proved the truth of that gentleman's declarations. The
same would be seen on the present occasion. In conclu-
sion, he had to implore the Assembly not to believe in
imaginary perils. He called on it to do so, first, be-
cause it should have confidence in the loyalty of the Go-
vernment, and next because they ought to have faith in
their own force. The Government had full confidence
in the Assembly—why should not the Assembly have
confidence in it?—(Cheers.)
M. Baze repeated his former arguments.
The Assembly then, being consulted, declared that it
passed to the order of the day.
The Ordre thus • describes the conclusion of the
scene :

•• After the explanation of M. Baroche, and amidst
the most contradictory exclamations, M. Cretcn ascended
the tribune, to which it was said he was bringing
some curious revelations about the relations of the
Ely:6l with certain journals, which lose no opportunity
of attacking the Assembly. He was prevented from
effecting his object by the calls that were set up for the
order of the day. While the Chamber IV aS breaking up
in the greatest agitation, several groups became formed,
in which animated discussions took place, and in which
we are obliged to acknowledge certain proofs were ad-
duced which had for effwct to shake the confidence of
the greatest number in Ministerial declarations."

The Assemblee Nationale of Saturday repeats its as-
sertion that the article in the Moniteur du Soir is writ-
ten by the PRESIDENT himself, and M. ADRIEN LAVA-
LETTE, who signs his name to the article in the
Assemblee Nationale, offers to prove it if called on to
do so. The Assembles Nationale and the Moniteur du
Soir are both printed at the same office, and there-
fore M. ADRIEN LAVALETTE possesses the means of
making himself acquainted with the authorship of
the incriminated article.

The Sicle thus comments on the speech of M.
BAROCIIE

" We give full credit to the promises of M. Barocbe,
but we cannot for all that attach to them more value
than they are worth. So long as you are Minister, you'
tell U 3 that we may rest quiet. But do we not know how
Ministers are made and unmade? What would have
signified such an engagement in the mouth of M. Bar-
i-La on the eve of the 31st October last? What can ye
do? Have you not already given your promise
solemnly on two different occasions that the jour-
nal lately condemned by the Assembly should not be
allowed the privilege of public sale? Have you been
allowed to keep your promise? Does not a superior
power mock at you and your promises? What faith,
then, can
observed
et ed
afford
thatto your s
last
pompousye
year,
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declarations?‘e
of
Minister proro-
gation,l'he there were the same sort of apprehensions and
auepicions. The analogy is unfortunate. At that time
this same Moniteur du S'oir, then,asnow, written under
the inspiration of Government, defended
h the Constitution
with talent and energy a st e attacks which it wan
feared were preparing gin thegeneral departmental
council,. We only wish that the journal would
now return to the same line of conduct."same
It is said that but for the promises of M. BAROCRE
the majority would have voted for the Committee of
Inquiry.
On Friday the PRESIDENT of the Republic was
present at the first representation of a new melodrama,
entitled Le Roi de Rome at the Ambigu Comique.
The hero is the son of the EMPEROR. There were
some 300 veterans of the empire in the pit, who gave
Louis NAPOLEON an enthusiastic reception.
In the Assembly on Saturday, during the discus-
sion on the vote for General CHANGARNIER'S salary
as Commander-in-Chief of Faris, Colonel CIiARBAS