The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
Peri?, is crowded with strangers, who have come to
witursa the fetes of the 10th of May.
A general warning has been addressed to all
jaarnels that they are not to publi,h any notice of
the private meetings of the -Council of Ssk.
ice C'onstitutiowarl intimates that a law is about
to be prepared for allowing stock to be exchanged for
terminable annuities.
I; has been stated that a bill is now under
examiaati )n by the Council of State for the pro.
secution of Frenchmen for crimes committed
out of the French territory, or foreigners guilty
of crimes arrested in France. The bill, which
was drawn up by M. ROUHER, enacts that any
Frenchman guilty of a crime according to French
laws, committed mit of the territory of the Re-
public, may be prosecutcd and judged on the demand
of 'the public prosecutor, or on the complaint of the
injured parties, even though he may. have been pro-
secuted in a foreign country, unless indeed there may
have been a judgment. A prosecution may also be
commenced against a Frenchman guilty in foreign
countries of the offences of using false passports, ex-
citing to debauchery, robberies and swindling. These
prosecutions may take place even when the victims
of the crimes or offences are foreigners. Foreigners
arrested on the French territory, as authors or ac-
complices of murder, manslaughter, poisoning, cutting
and wounding, rape, arson, piracy, forgery, and rob-
bery in foreign countries, on the person or to the pre-
judice of a Frenchman, may be prosecuted, tried, and
condemn id in France.
NVe read in the Constitutionnel—
"ale fireworks have been pustponed to Thursday.
The arrengements ordered by the Prefect of Police
for Wedne3day ail stand good for the following day.
A kind of rehearsal of a part of the fireworks has
already taken place at the Trace:Yore. A certain Hum-
ber of men belonging to different regiments of infan-
try of the garrison were on the grounds, and fired off
a aumber of the Roman candles. A number of spec-
tators rere present who appeared highly delighted with
the scene."
By order of the Minister of War, according to
a decree in the Itcaniteur, all the officers in
the army in France are to take the oath prescribed by
the Constitution—within one month from the Ist
inst., for those resident in Conic:, the bland of Elba,
Capraia, in England, and in the states bordering tan
France within two months; in the other states of
Europe, four months ; out of Europe, this side of
the Cape of Good Hope, six month and for those
beyond it, twelve months. Those officers abroad are
to deliver it in writing to the consular agents, to be
by them transmitted to the Minister of War.
A letter from Lorient, of the sth inst., states that
the Goeland steam-frigate had been dispatched on the
previous day in great haste to Belle-Itle, in conse-
quence of an alarm that an attempt would be made
by BARBES and ALBERT to escape from that place, in
which attempt they were to be assisted from without.
The Goeland was ordered to watch the coast, and
search every boat that might be seen leaving. The
steamer returned to Lorient in 48 hours after her
departure, bringing an account that everything was
quiet in the prison, and that there was no cause for
any further uneasiness.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic has just awarded
an annual grant of 2,0001. to the musical school of
Metz, which is a branch of the Conservatoire of Paris.
It is also said that the PRINCE has given a cup in
enamel, of the national manufacture of Sevree, of the
value of 1,200 f., to be run fcr at theinext cavalry races
at Samna.

Public securities rose cgain at the Bourse on Saturday.
The Foar-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 100 f. 25c.,
closed at NOE 30c. for the end of the month; the Three
Per Cents. closed at 70f. 70c.; Orleans Railway Shares,
-1,19u1. ; Rouen, 775 E ; HMO, 2931. ; Great
Northern_, 5921. 50c.; Avignon, 292 f. 50c ; Vierzon,
5901.; Bute, 048 t. 750.; Bordeaux, 620 f. ; .Paris
and Straiburg,. 572 f. 50c ; Tours and Nantes, 3701. ;
Paris and Lyons, 617 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 8.
East' Indian. 221,4,—Great Indian .Peninsula, 5 ii•-s-Grand.
Junctbn Of France, 43 —Luxembourg, 3%—Namur and
Liege, (31.—Northern of France, ex div.—Ditto,l,2ol.
3 per Ctrit. Bonds (formerly Bolougue and Amiens Sshares),
13 .!—Orleans and Bordeaux, 1548—Paris and Strasbourg,
2114—West Flanders, 31/4.