The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-23 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Although the Assembly has consented to take into
consideration the demand of urgency made by the
Minister of the Interior for his repressive Bills, it is
not by any means certain that he will be enabled to
carry them. It is clear that there is a schism in the
camp o the mliority ;: M. LATIOCIIEJACQUELIN
against the Ministerial measures on Thursday, and
should the section of the Whites of which he is leader
make common cause with the Reds, as they did on
the question of imposing a stamp duty on transfers of
stock, they will most assuredly again beat the 'niers.-
Mole-Berryer coalition, of which the Ministers are the
tools. The journals have all declared, with wonderful
unanimity, against the law on the press, and notwith-
standing the statement of the CorirrierFrancois, that
the editors of the principal journals of the Moderate
press had had an interview with the Minister of the
interior, it would appear they were never consulted.
That statement, and the official contradiction of i',
are so curious that we give them :
The C ourrier Francais says
_ .

" Tl.e editors of the principal journals of the moderate
press had yesterday a conference with the Minister of
the Interior on the Bill which a as to be presented on the
press The Minister of the Interior, in the absence of
the Minister of Justice, informed them of the principal
provisions of the Bill. The gentlemen of the moderate
press observed to the Minister that the Bill would pro-
duce an affect altogether opposed t the desire of the di -
fiinders of order, and various arguments were adduced in
support of that affirmation. The Minister expressed
his regret that these observations had not he pre-
sent, d before it had been drawn up in council. It was
replied to the Minister that the press bad not considered
it right to interfere before being consulted, and that it
hal Waited to the very last moment to be applied t
The committee of the moderate press who were present.
were, M. Bertin (Debat6). M. Veron (Conslitutionnel).
M. Lubis (Union), M. Forcade (Patric), M. de Valette
e), Latour Dumoulin (Coors icr
journals of the moderate press, iu their
(1-raisBmeetingnecna)
l ine.e thiVTchumiejo°rning had declared unanimously that
they cuu!d not support a measure on the press opposed
to the object which the moderate press desired to attain.
The result of this deliberation was stated to the Mi-
nister. It is to be hoped that the Bill will be submitted
to a new examination."
Surely M. LATOUR DumouLni, who it was said re-
C-, •
presented the ourrzer Francais at that interview,
must know whether or not any such interview took

place, and whether or not what is stated by his own
journal as having passed at that interview is correct,
yet the fact is officially denied by the minister in a
"communication" contradicting of the comments made
by the National on the statement which appeared in
the Courrier Francais. The following is the "com-
municated" note which appears in the Patrie and the
Aloniteur du Soir:—
•' The National of this day states that the Minister of
the Interior convoked yesterday the editors cf the prin-
cipal journals of the moderate press to communicate to
them his new Bill on the press. The National then er.-
ters into a long comment upon what it calls this truly
polite attention. The statement of the National is com-
pletely incorrect. It is not true that the Minister or any
pther member of the cabinet convoked the editors of the
journals or made any communicatio❑ to them. The
truth is as follows :—Yestorday et the commencement
of the sitting the Minister of the Interior was informed
that some memb,,Ta of the moderate press cf P.iris wore

desirous of speaking to the Minister of Justice, or in his
absence with the Minister of the Interior. The Minister
of Justice being absent, the Minister of the Interior
went to the editors who were desirous of speaking to
him, lie met these gentlemen in one of the lobhi,s of
the assembly, where a sort of conversation took place.
The Minister listened to the obEervatiuns which were

presented to him, and promised to transmit them to his
colleagues, which he did inmeliately. The laws which
were presented to-day would have been presented yester-
day, if the entire sitting had not been taken up with the
discussion of the Swap Bill."
The Consiiiutionrel, the Ministerial organ par
excellence, has merely the following relative to the
proposed law on the press :
" Some journals pretend that the Government con-
sulted the different organs of moderate opinion before it
prepared the new law upon the press. The story is com-
pletely inexact. Several proprietors or editors of news-
papers went esterday to the Chamber to make some
ob.ervations concerning the new measures ; but the
Minister to whom they addrt ssed themselves replied it
was too late, as the Council had already decided. Thus
was not only the moderate press not heard—it was not
even consulted."

Not one word in defence of the measure does the
Ministerial journal venture to offer. The Journal
des Debats declares, that all chiefs of parties equally
dislike the press, and would, if they could, fetter it ;
and with regard to the proposed measure it adds—
" We believe that the measure proposed will be more
than inefficacious, and that it will produce the very
contrary effect to that intended by Government."
The National describes the introduction of these
measures as the commencement of a solemn duel. " On
the one side is Paris—Paris, the capital of the revolu-
tion, Paris, the brain and the heart if France, PariF,
the sanctuary of the genius of progress, Pal is, the
city of the States General of 1789, of the Convention,
the city which, by a mere gesture, sent fourteen
armies to victory on the frontiers, and at the same time
crushed in the interior the rebellion of the partisans
of the past—Paris, ,A hich triumphed over the restora
tion and over the monarchy of July ; on the other
side is the chief of the executive power, M. Louis
BONAPARTE, not alone, but worse than alone, for he
is not strengthened but weakened by the assistance of
those men of fatality and of misfortune, who have
been successively the ruin of every cause in which
they have been engaged, who brought about the fall
both of legitimate and of quasi-legitimate royalty."
The article then goes on to describe M. Louis 13uNA-
PARTE as

"Engaging his responsibility in a crud against
the press and the :right of meeting—arming him-
self with the sophisms of M. Polignac and M. Guizot,
and me eting for adversary a people firmly resolved not
to quit the ground of the law, or t) ask for ether vic-
tories than such as may be afforded by the consti-
tution." _

" The street is calm," says the National in another
part of the same article, the " feelings are calm, the
press is calm. Who then is creating an agitation ?
The executive power, and no one but the executive
power. instructive contrast, which will not escape
the clear-Jighted observation of the country, and
which enables us to judge and to condemn the means
by the end, and the end by the means."
Having described the proceedings in the Assembly,
the National terminates :
" Such has been the first skirmish. But be it under-
stood that the struggle begun today will not termi-
nate with the vote for the proposed laws, supposing
the assembly to vote tlwrn. This struggle wilt be pro-
longed without intrcnission, inr-xorable, and implacable
to 1852. A challenge is thrown clown to universal
suffrage which universal suffrage will take up in due
time."
The journals of all shades, even the Bonapartist
Dix Decembre, condemn the ministerial measure
which the Univers pronounces will be inefficacious.

The Commission formed to tali e into consideration
the measures to be adopted in the interest of French
manufactures, with regard to the ExhibitiOn to take
dayspla ago,
place in l:ngland in 1851, held its first
when the Minister of Commerce maderst sitting two
known the preparatory measures adopted by the Royal
Commission of England. lle stated that the Ministers
Plenipotentiary of France, Prussia, Belgium, and the
United States, had been called on to form part of that
Commission, and French interests would conse•
quently have a vigilant and enlightened organ in
it. Several important measures as to the in-
structions to be given to the Chambers of Commerce,
and to the Consultative Chambers of Arts and Menu•
facture!, were proposed by the Minister, and
immediately discussed and decided on. The topogra-
phical plan, and the conditions of the competition for
the building destined for the Exhibition, which was
opened to the architects of all countries, is to be sent
to the Chamber of Commerce of Paris, where any
French architects who may wish to compete may in-
spect it. The General Committee was afterwards di-
vided into six special committees, as follows :—Com-
mittee of Administrative Affairs and Correspondence;
on Arts connected with Agriculture; on Mechanical
Arts and Philosophical Instruments; on Chemical
and Metallurgical Arts; on IVove Good!, and on the
line Arts. At a subsequent meeting, the following
gentlemen were chosen as Presidents of the above
Committee§ respectively CIIAS. DUPIN, M.
HERICHARD THURY, M. COMDES, M. LEGENTIL,
and M. FONTAINE. .

A letter from Brest of the 18th inst. announces
that the steam-corvette Espadan had sailed from that
port for Senegal.
A letter from Toulon of the 18th inst. states that
the steam-frigate Mogador had sailed thence with
ammunition and provisions for the French fleet :at
Naples. The Valmey three-decker and the ship-of-
the-line Ocean had received orders to proceed to rein-
force the fleet under the command of Admiral PARSE..
VAL DEiCIIENES.

The Municipal Council of Dieppe has appointed a
committee to organise a packet service between
Dieppe and a port in England.
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