The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-30 00:00:00

President declared that the arrest was legal, the
Constitution of 1848 not having reproduced the
prevision of the Charter of 1830, by which :.,embers
of the legislative body were protected from arrest
during the session, and for six weeks preceding and
following it. On Saturday M. DE LenociaEsaQue-
LIN brought' the matter under the notice of the As-
sembly and 'denounced the arrest of M. MAUGUIN as
a gross breach of privilege. Acting under the
advice of M. Dueler, the President of the Assembly,
he addressed interpellations to the Ministry on the
subject, contending that inasmuch as at the time of
the enactment of the Constitution, inlB4B, imprisonment
fur debt was abolished, it was impossible that the
Constitution could provide for protection egainst that
which was non-existent, but that the Assembly, when
it re-enacted that law, must be taken to have also re-
enacted the exceptions. M. ROUHER, the Minister
of Justice, opposed the liberation of M. MAUGUIN,
and was replied to by M. VATISMENIL! whereupon M.
DE LAROCHEVAQUELIN moved an order of the day
motive, ordering, in the name of the Assembly,
the immediate liberation of M. N. GUIN,
and this motion, notwithstanding the opposition
of the Ministry, was carried by an over-
whelming majority, Republicans, Tiers porti, and
Legitimatists all uniting in a vote against the
Ministry. M. Dorm immediately signed an order
for the liberation of M. MAUGUIN, and dispatched
it by the principal usher of the Assembly to Clichy.
This first direct collision between the Assembly and
the Executive will speedily be followed by another,
on the subject of M. YON, who still maintains the ac-
curacy of the informations he gave to the Com-
mittee of Permanence on the subject of the plot
of the Rue de Saussaies, and who is supported by M.
DUPIN. The following " communicated" note, se hich
appears in the Patrie, proves that this affair of M.
YON is likely to become very serious :
" M. You yesterday reproduced before the Correc-
tional Tribune of the Seine, affirming that he gave credit
to it, the declaration of Allais that he had been received
at a private audience by the President of the Republic.
This assertion is completely false, and is a fresh and
odious calumny. The President of the Republic has
never seen Allais."
The same journal says :
" The journals of this morning announced that the
bureau of the Assembly had met yesterday to deliberate
on the question of dismissing or retaining M. Yon. This
is an error. The members of the bureau met, in fact;
but only the question of adjournment was discussed, and
this was_decided in the affirmative. Now that the Tri-
bunal of Correctional Police has given its sentence in
the affair of Allais, it was supposed that the bureau
would no longer delay its decision; but we are just in-
formed that it has been postponed to Sunday, and that
eight members of the Bureau are of opinion that M. Yon
should be maintained in his functions as commissary of
police of the National Assembly."
The Ministry demands the immediate dismissal of
M. YoN ; and M. CARLIER has directed the Sergens
de Ville not to obey the orders of M. YON. The
Assembly treat it as a question of privilege, and their
decision in the case of M. MA UGUIN proves how cer-
tain the Minister is to be defeated in any attempts he
may make to curtail those privileges ; when we con-
sider, moreover, that ere -long a fresh demand must
be made from the Elysifte for money, and the neces-
sity, therefore, that exists for keeping the majority
in good humour, the probabilities certainly are that
ere long a change of Ministry, involving the retire-
ment of MM. BAROCHE, ROUHER, and CARLIER,
must take place.
Annan has appealed against the decision of the
Court against him.
The following from the Siicle shows the effect
produced on the French Money Market by the recent
proceedings of the Bank of England :
" Much astonishment has been felt in the financial
world that England should take a resolution directly
contrary to that of France for the sake of preventing an
exportation of gold. The determination taken by the
directors of the Bank of England has been induced by
the large exportation of gold into France by English
speculators and merchants, who have been buying
eagerly French goods, and particularly railway shares.
These speculators hoped that by subsequently throwing
those very goods and shares upon our market to obtain
back a larger quantity of gold owing to the depreciation
they expected to cause in the value of gold, and the
consequent rise in the price of all articles. It is owing
chiefly to this cause that there has been such a quan-
tity of gold sent lately to the Mint. Already has the
measure of the Bank of England produced an effect, for
within the last two days the exchange on London has
been returning to its former level. Paper on London is
becoming more scarce, which is a sure indieation of the
approaching diminution of English sovereigns in our
market."
We find the following remarks in the Constitution-
nel on the gold question :
" Two measures which may interest us at the moment
when the question of the geld coinage is agitated in
France, have just Leen adopted, or ire on the point of
being so ; the one in Belgium, and the other in England.
The first, voted by the Chamber of Representatives, and
at present before the Senate, is the removal of gold
from circulation, and the suppression of the Icgal cur-
rency of French coin in Belgium. What consequences
may result to us from this ? Evidently none of a very
serious nature. The removal of gold from circulation in
Belgium will only throw the precious metals into com-
merce to the amount of 14 millions. As to our gold coins,
dthime tqualashnetidtylliyn the suppression 13J1';h4ert: TegnalLee=7;
their value being guaranteed by the French Government,
the Belgians who use them have no loss to fear, and they
moreover understand that they will be more useful to cir-
culation when Belgian gold shall be withdrawn. The other
measure to which we allude is that recently adopted by
the Bank of England—the raising of its rate of discount
from 2i to 3 per cent. Whilst the continental nations
are alarmed at seeing the influx of goldlinto their states,
England, on.the contrary, seeks to prevent its exporta-
tion. From the accounts given by the English journals
it appears that the value of gold bullion in the cellars of
the Bank, which was last week 16,037,6901., has de-
creased to 15,820,000/.—a diminution of 217,560/. in
only eight days. The advance in the rate of discount
has no other object than to stop this exportation. The
state of the gold market presents at this moment a per-
fectly exceptional character; it arises from the unusual
fall which has taken place in the exchange between Paris
and London. Within the last few days it has been so
law as 24f. 80c., or 30e. below par; hence the profit
which French merchants and capitalists derive from
getting themselves paid in sovereigns, which they im-
mediately convert into 20f. pieces. The rise which has
since taken place in the exchange on London to 24f, 90e.,
had for result to reduce the profits of this operation, and
the measure of the Bank of England will tend to a fur-
ther rise."

M. LACLAUDURE has presented the following
amendment to the proposition of M. D'OLIVIER,
is for
the observance of Sundays and fête days :
" Wherea-, if it just to grant to the daily workman
a day's rest in the week, it is also just and conform-
able to the principles of morality and religion to take
precautions to prevent the workman and his family
from being exposed to die of hunger during that day's
rest. The undersigned proposes to add to Art. 1 of
the Bill the following amendment All workmen
by the day shall receive, for his day of rest, the
same pay as he receives in the week for his day's
work.' "

We find the following in the Presse :—" M. DE
MONTALEMDEET, who at first formed part of the
Parliamentary Club, recently founded by M. MOLE,
has just withdrawn himself from it. His retirement
is attributed to some differences of opinion on ques-
tions connected personally with the PRESIDENT'of the
Republic. M. DE MOUSTIE; the father-in-law of
M. DE MONTALEILBERT, continues to be one of the
secretaries of this club."

There was a considerable number of Bourse specu-
lators assembled in the passage of the Opera, but
there was no business transacted.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEc. 28.
Boulogne and Amiens, 834—East Indian, 12 —Namur
and Liege, 87‘,—Northern of France, 15%—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 314—Paris and Rouen, 271,E—Paris and Stras-
bourg, 9 —Rouen and Havre, 11.