The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-01 00:00:00

FIE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
In the sitting of the Assembly on Friday the
Ministers sustained a severe defeat. M. BAROCIIE,
the Minister of the Interior, ascended the tribune,
and asked the Assembly to allow the Bill relative to
the mayors to be placed on the order of the day for
Thursday next. This was opposed by M. DR LA-
ROCIIEJACQUELIN, M. VATIMESNIL, and M. RAI:MOT,
411 Legitimatist deputies, on the ground that the matter
was not urgent, as the Minister had represented it,
and that it would be advisable to wait until the or-
ganic taw on communal organisation, now under ex-
amination before the Council of State, was ready.
The Minister ascended the tribune a second time to
persist in his demand, but the Assembly, by assis et
lere, refused to place the Bill on the order of
the day. A considerable amount of agitation
followed this vote. The rest of the pro-
ceedings were not of any great importance.
This decision will delay for six months the Bill,
the object of which was to give the nominations of
mayors to the Ministers, instead of to the commune.
The result of the division on Mr. RosnucK's mo-
tion was known in Paris on Saturday, and was re-
ceived by all classes of Liberals with the utmost
satisfaction. The reactionary journals content them-
selves with simply announcing the fact. Tne Presse
says :
" The speech of Lord Palmerston is incontestably the
most remarkable of all that he has uttered since he has
been in office. It would, in fact, be hard for a statesman at-
tacked with so outrageous a violence in all the acts of his
political career to find for the defence of his honour and
principles more dignity in tenure, more elevation in
ideas, more lucidity in the statement of facts, and a more
severe irony in the reprisals which his adversaries gave
him the right of inflicting on them."
The intelligence of the atrocious and cowardly
attack made on the Queeen of ENGLAND by ROBERT
PATE had excited the greatest indignation against its
perpetrator in all classes of society.
The four Bishops chosen to sit in the Superior
Council of Public Instruction, in virtue of the law on
secondary teaching, are the Abbe PARISIS, Bishop of
Langres ; the Abbe MORLOT, Archbishop of Tours ;
the Abbe DUPANLOUP, Bishop of Orleans ; and the
Abbe CTOUSSET, Archbishop of Itrieims.
It is said that the Ministry will be at once modi-
fi.d. in consequence of the check which it has received
on the law of mayors.
The National Assembly will, it is said, be pro-
rogued on the 15th August.
The Conseil d'Etat has rejected the Ministerial pro-
position to adopt a protection of 15f. per 100 kilo-
' grammes in favour of native and colonial sugar, but
has agreed to 13f. 50c. It has rejected the proposi-
tion to allow the executive power to lower the duty
without recurring to the law by 2t.. 50c. But the
Conseil d'Etat has agreed to a bounty for three years
in favour of colonial sugars.
The bankers of Paris, at a numerous meeting, have
adopted the resolution proposed by M. FELIX Via..
RES, from the 24th of this month forward, not to pay
or admit into their portfolios any bills not stamped.
They will, therefore, return to their correspondents all
commercial effects which do not comply with this
rule, imposed by the late stamp law.
electric telegrapah's,in re
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every part of the country. lle says:—
"Nothing could prevent the Government, once that
our telegraphic lines we,l3 established, from
every day
making known to the whole of Franca the principal
events of the day. By insuring in that way the truth
~f the documents, which often arrive only atter being
mutilated or altered, a great and moral revolution would
be effected in the press to the profit of truth.
The improvements effected in the electric telegraph
would allow that idea to be realised. It would be
recessary to establish an apparatus which would admit
ti d
meispa. tches of a considerable length to be sent in short
Amidst the apparatus realising this condition is
that which was exhibited to us by Mr. Bain, arid which,
the committee saw experiments made with. Mr. 131 ii.
electro-chemical telegraph transmits dispatches to their
destination with incredible speal, being able to send
1,.500 letter: in a cnioute."