The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-23 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic left Paris
on
Wednesday evening, for Orleans, by a special train.
The intention of the PRINCE is to visit the Sologne,
where it is proposed to construct a canal. He was
accompanied by the Ministers of the Interior, Justice,
and Public Works.
The Minister of State on Wednesday transmitted
to the Senate the new Copper Coin4ge Bill, which has
just been adopted by the Legislative Body.
All the directors of the theatres of Paris were on
Wednesday morning summoned to the hotel of the
Minister of the Interior. The Minister called them
together in order to make known to them the inten-
tions of the Government with regard to the tenden-
cies of the dramatic literature of the present day,
which are much to be regretted. In a few concise
words, the Minister explained his vievvs of the object
of the stage, and its influence on pubic morals ; and
he announced to the directors his firm resolution not
to allow the representation of any piece of a nature
to excite the passions and pervert the public mind.
The Patric publishes the following communicated

note :
" A great number of persons imagine and report that
the Empire is to be proclaimed on the occasion of
fête. To attribute to the Gevernment the desire of a
pretext for changing the established order of things, is
to form a very false idea of the manner in which it un-
derstands its duties. If necessity should ever lead to
such a resolution, it would ouly be accomplished on the
initiative of the constituted powers, and with the consent
of the whole people. As to the acclamations of the
army, they are, it is tzue, for the chief of the state a
valuable proof Lf the sentiments with which it is ani•
mated, but they cannot proeuce any political result.
'rhos, at the ceremony on the 10th May next, the
60,000 men assembled in the Champ de Mars would in
vain salute the President by the name of Emperor, as
that act would not advance the re-establishment of the
Empire one hour."
And the 214oniteur has the following official contra-
diction of the report, conceived in nearly the same
terms :
" Many imagine the empire is to be proclaimed at elite.
Such are strangely mistaken in attributing to the Go-
vernment the desire of a pretext to change the established
order of things. Such a change, if rendered necessary,
could only be accomplished on the initiative of the con-
stituted powers with the assent of the whole people. The
sixty thousand soldiers to be assembled in the CbamPs
de Mars, on May 10. would vainly salute the President
as Emperor, the empire would not be brought one hour
nearer"
This appears to be conclusive as far as the 10th of
May is in question, but what the lith of August,
the day appointed for the ceremony of the distri-
bution of the eagles, will bring forth, offers a field for
conjecture. That day, as the anniversary of the birth
of the EMPEROR, has already been declared, with the
Ist of January, to be the two great fele days of the
year, upon which the decorations of the Legion of
Honour are henceforth alone to be bestowed. The
Senate and Corps Legislatif are well disposed to
take the initiative indicated rather than repelled in
the note communicated to the Patrie. May we
venture to believe that by the 15th of Augu-t, the
hirth-dey of the EMPEROR, the army and National
Guards will, in receiving the eagles, be prepared to
ratify and confirm the proclamation of the Empire ?
The Moliteur publishes a decree settling the rank
of the great bodies of the State. The Senate is first,
the Legislative Corps second, and the Council of State
third.

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The Public has been instructed to offer the follow-
lowing explanation of the curious circumstance con-
nected with the Russian Imperial Almanack, which
we lately mentioned :
" For some days past rumours have prevailed at Paris
that explanations have been asked from a diplomatic
personage relative to an almanack published in a foreign
country (Russia), and which continued to include
amongst the number of reigning families the house of
Bourbon. These rumours have no serious foundation.
The almanack in question is published with the autho-
risation of the Government mentioned, but not by order
of that Government. It appPars that the editors of that
book merely c:pied the almanack of Gotha, which
gives annually an historical account of the house of
Bourbon. This publication, consequently, has no official
character."
Vice-Admiral HALGAN has just died in Paris in
his 84th year. He commenced hi 3 naval career in
1784. _

The Bourse was dull except for Railway Shares, which
were more firm. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
opened at 100 f. 90c., and closed at the same price for
the end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed
at 70f. 93e.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,217 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 813 f, 76r.; Havre, 300 f.; Great Northern, 625 f.;
Avignon, 273 f. 75c.; Viet zoo, 595 f.; Basle, 256 f. 25c.;
Bordeaux, 620 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 580 f.; Tours and
Nantes, 370 E; Paris and Lyone, 6181.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 22.

Charleroi and Erquelines' 13 !,4, —East Indian, 21'Y—Grand
Junction of France, 43i,—Northern of France, 24%—Orleane
and Bordeaux, 1514—Paris and Rouen, 3111—Rouen and
Havre, 12 ex div.—Tours and Nantea, 11%—Western of
France, 7 N.