The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-19 00:00:00

THE _FRENCH RE-PUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Monitcur publishes a Est, cf the PnsideLts,
Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the Councils-
General.

The Archbish;.p of PARIS is, it is said, about to
undertake a very long journey. After visiting some
of his venerable colleagues in their dioceses, he will
leave France and travel over a part of Germany.
The PRINCE PRESIDENT did not go to the Phi d€s
Hanes.

The Moniteur contains a decree, obliging all ves-
scls to carry lights from sunset to sunrise.
Prince JEROME BONAPARTE returned to Paris early
on Tuesday morning.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the occasion
of the fete of the 15th instant, gave a grand dinner
to his colleagues and the members of the corps dip-
loinatique. Monseigneur GARIBALDI, the Papal
Nuncio, Lord COWLEY, and the Ministers and
Chargé d'Affaires of Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Bel-
gium, Brazil, Denmark, Two Sicilies, Spain, Greece,
Hanover, Holland, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Sar-
dinia, Saxony, Sweden, Norway, Tuscany, Turkey,
Uruguay, Wurtemberg, &c., were present. The
Papal Nuncio, in the name of the corps, proposed the
health of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, to which M.
DROUYN DE Luurs replied by a toast "to the Sove,
reigns and Governments whose representatives he had
the honour to see around him."

The _II oniteur publishes the opinions expressed by
several councils of arrondissement on the state of
affairs. The prevailing feeling is one of confidence
in the Chief of the State, but some of the councils
manifest an earnest desire for the establishment of the
Empire, as being better calculated to ensure stability
in the relations of society, than the Republican form
of Government. The Council of Thionville says :
"Considering that it is the duty of all good citiz ns
to seek the means of preventing new catastrophes and
to put an end to a state of things which, by throwing
doubt over all affairs, still checks the spirit of induitry,
commerce, agriculture, and credit, the council expresses
a hope that, in virtue of the terms of the Constitution, a
senatus consults will propose to the suffrage of the nation
the re-establishment of the hereditary empire in the
person of Louis Napolesn."
The council of arrondissement of Toulouse desires—

" That the Senate, penetrated with a conviction of
existing circumstances and with a view to the interests
of the country, will seek for the most proper means of
consolidating in the hands of the Prince President the
power that he holds under the national will."
Ths Council of Muret expresses a desire that sta-
bility maybe given to the power of which Louts NAPO-
LEON has made such good use, and that the proposi-
tion may be submitted with the least possible delay to
the sanction of the people. The Councils of Amiens
and Bar-le-Duc express themselves in similar terms.
That of Mirecour, in the Meuse, contains the same
wish in the form of an address to the PRINCE PRESI-
DENT. Many of the councils confine themselves to
expressions of satisfaction for the services rendered
to society by the PRINCE, but without allusion to the
future.
The following order of the day to the National
Guard has been issued : _

" ORDER OF TUE DAY OF 16TR AUGUST, 1852..

" At the review of the 15th of this month the Prince
President was satisfied with the fine appearance of the
battalions and squadrons of the National Guard, with
the regularity of their marceuvres, and the good spirit
which animated them. The General in command hastens
to transmit to the officers and national guards the expres-
sion of the satisfaction of the Prince.
" Islarquis da LAWOESTINE,
" General Commanding in Chief.
" A. Isnard, Colonel, Chief of the General Staff"

Tho Bourse was heavy with a decline in the price of
public securities. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened
at 104 f. 95c., and closed at 1041. 80c. for the end of the
month; the Three per Cents. closed at 75f. 75c ; the
New Austrian Loan, 94f.; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,4121. 50c.; Rouen, 870 f.; Havre, 363 f. 75e.; Avignon,
470 f.; Basle, 3031. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 647 f. 50c.;
Paris and Lyons, 761 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 587 f.
50c.; St. Dizier to Gray, 5451.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AuG. 18.
Dijon and Besangon, 2%—East Indian, 265/B—Great In-
dian Peninsula, 61/2—Luxembourg, 6% ex d.—Northern of
France, 26—Paris and Strasbourg, 253/.