The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-05 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
On Saturday the adjudication of the Lyons to
Avignon Railway took place at the hotel of the
Minister of Public Works, in the Rue St. Dominique
St. Germain. Two tenders only were presented—
Seguin, brothers, and from that
of h
rs. The former offered to reduce
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the
subventioncompanyx
oafs
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,000,000 f., which the State was
to grant, by a sum of 10,051,0001., and the latter by
11,000,000 f. In consequence the Lyons to Avignon
line was declared to be duly adjudicated to the com-
pany of the Forge-Masters, otherwise the former
company, Talabot. The lifoniteur of yesterday pub-
lishes the decree of adjudication.
Neither the Russian nor the Austrian Ambassa-
dor was present at Notre Dame on New Year's-day.
The Russian Ambassador, M. DE KISSELIEPF, has
officially explained that his absence was occasioned
solely by an accident; he had sprained his foot and
was unable to move. The Austrian Ambassador has
as yet offered no explanation.
The Constitutionnel says
The Russian Minis-
ter at Paris has handed to M. DE TURGOT, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, an autograph letter of the CZAR
addressed to Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON, in which the
Emperor of RUSSIA congratulates the PRESIDENT of
the Republic on having served the cause of civiliza-
tion by the great act of the 2d December."
M. SEGUR D'AGUESSEAU, member of the Consulta'-
tive Commission, has written a letter to the Journal
des Dibats, declaring that the account given by that
journal of hisproposition that "M. Louis NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE should be requested to fix his residence
at the Palace of the Tuileries, as the only pl;ce
worthy of him," tended to misrepresent the motives
which had led to that proposition. His object was
not, he says, " to give a vain satisfaction to a
question of personal propriety, such an idea being
as unworthy of the PRESIDENT of the Republic as
of him (the writer), but to cause just attention
to be paid to what the national dignity demanded."
M. SEGUR D'AGUESSEAU then gives the text of the
remarks which he made when presenting his proposi-
tion, and in the course of which he says, that "the
fact of upwards of seven millions of the people having
declared in favour of Prince Louis NAPOLEON proved
that the nation wished for a stable Government, and
above all things, as an essential and primary condi-
tion, for an executive power, strong, grand, and re-
spected. The humiliating position intentionally im-
posed on the head of the State during the last three
years had been a permanent offence against the dig-
nity of the nation, and such a scandal ought to cease.
The commission ought to declare openly that the PRE-
SIDENT of the Republic ought no longer to remain
thrust apart in a corner of the capital, but that the
ancient palace of the hereditary kings of France was
the only residence worthy to receive the representa-
tive of the French people." Such M. SEGUR
D'AGUESSEAU declares were the motives which alone
actuated him in making his proposition.
A decree appears in the Moseteur of yesterday,
ordering that henceforth all moneys coined at the Mint
shall bear the effigy of Loo's NAPOLEON.
Accounts have been received of the celebrations of
the religious ceremonies on the Ist inst., at Lille,
Rouen, Arras, Amiens, and other great towns. At
Rouen, Arras, N avers, and Meaux, the Archbishops
officiated in person. The attendance was everywhere
numerous, and everything passed off with the greatest
order. _ _ _ _

The PRESIDENT of the Republic will dine to-mor- '
row at the Hotel de Ville. Covers will be laid for
two hundred.
There will be an extraordinary representation at
the Grand Opera on Tuesday next, to which the
PRESIDENT of the Republic has invited the delegates
from the departments.
M. Ali.urAs, the Prefect of Police, has made one
official return of the killed and wounded among the
civilians in Paris on the 4th December. The total
number killed was 215 ; of these 137 fell at the bar-
ricades, and 88 have since died; 115 persons were
wounded. Of those killed the report states that ten
only were persons not concerned in the insurrection.
It has been arranged that M. DROUTN DE L'Huys
shall return to England as Ambassador.
M. DUPIN had an interview with the PRESIDENT of
the Republic on Saturday.
The creation of two new battalions of Chasseurs of
Vincennes is announced. General FORET is charged
with their organization.
The colossal statue of Liberty, which was placed in
the front of the Chamber of Deputies in the year 1848,
has been taken down by order of the authorities.
The Moniteur announces that the electric telegraph
has been placed in communication with the town of
Dieppe.
The Illoniteur contains the following article, signed
" Communique" :
" A journal pretends that the recent importation of
gold into France has caused a corresponding export of
silver.
It is sufficient to oppose to that allegation the returns
of the amount of gold and silver imported and exported,
as certified by the Customs, from the lit Jan., 1851, to
the 20th Dec. last:—

Value of gold imported ...
Value of silver imported...

Francs.
118,130,400
... 171,711,900

Total ...

- 289,842,300

Value of gold exported ...
Value of silver exported ...

••• 16,530,900
- 87,768,700

Total 104,209,600
it it appears from those returns that in place of di-
miaishing, the silver coin has increased during the above
period by 83,943,200€."
The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the Patrie by M. FRASER,
priest of Paris, Commander of the Pontifical Order
of St. Gregory the Great, and Chevalier of the
Legion of Honour : the senior parish

" Monsieur le li6lacteur,—The
regards me the exact account of what passed at the re-
ception on Wednesday last at the Elyacia:—Monsignor
the Archbishop had the kindness to present me to the
President. The Prince addressed some courteous words
Par J.
iJnag n
is as fa . 3, 1852.
to me, and gave me some honourable marksofinter arests.
I hastened to approach him, and with the accent of the
most sincere joy I said to him,—' Prince, whilst I con-
template you I am warmly penetrated with the sublime
and profound reply of the w
l'ceuvre de Dieu reuissira quand menu."
M. BASE, the ex-questor of the National Assembly,
has addressed the following letter to Al. NETTEMENT,
editor of the Opinion Publique ;
" Chateau de Ham, Jan. 1.
" My dear Friend,—You have published in your jour-
nal an article, borrowed from the journal the Pays, on
the prisoners of Ham. The details and appreciations
which this article contains, as concerns me, are com-
pletely inexact. I even flatter myself that for you and
for those who know me, the denial which I give to them
is quite superfluous. Will you, nevertheless, be kind
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Bourse, and the Securities continued to arise. The
104 f. 25c., and closed
dranastacted on Saturday at the
at 104 f. 60c. ; the. Three per Cents. closed at 71f.
40c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,100 f.,• Rouen, 690 f.;
Strasburg, 492 f. 50
Havre, 265 f.; Great Northern, 600 f.; Avignon, 285 f.;
e.; Tours
295 f. e aNI xa
n' t4e4ss, f .3;3P0 fa. r;
i Bou-
logne,sandßUSlNESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 3.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11% Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 20%
—Great
3%—Namur and Liege, 6%—Northern of France,
205±. ; B
andor d
131.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 81,,—Paris and Rouen, 2614
Paris and Strasbourg, 173A—Rouen and Havre, 10%—
Sambre and Meuse, 41/s—Tours and ranted, 91,4.
—Great Indian Peninsula, 4s/—Luxem-
bourg,

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 29th and 30th ult. have
arrived.
It was said that Lord HOW DEN would resign his
post as British Ambassador in consequence of the
withdrawal of Lord PALMERSTON from the Cabinet.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 30.—The Three per Cents.
were done at Madrid, on the 30th ult., at 38i paper ;
the Five per Cents., 17i ; Coupons, 8i ; Debt with-
out Interest, 5 7-16.