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

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Monileur gives the following summary of
Thursday's sitting of the Legislative Body.
"The Legislative Boby met yesterday at three o'clock,
M. Billault in the chair. The President stated that he
had received four bills, one for the union of two com-
munes in the department of the Marne; a second, for
the creation of a new commune in Corsica; a third, re-
lating to a loan by the department of the Cotes-du-
Nord; and the fourth, concerning a new delimitation of
communes in the Seine-et-Marne. These bills were or-
dered to be referred to the bureaux. The bill to autho-
rise the city of Bordeaux to contract a loan of 4,800;000f.
was then adopted by assis et level, as were three other
local bills one authorising the Hautes-Pyrenees to
borrow a sum of 41,000 f.; another, authorising the de-
partment of [the Meuse to impose itself extraordinarily
to the extent of five additional centimes on the principal
of the four direct taxes; and the third, authorising the
department:of the Pas-de-Calais to impose itself in
1853 to the extent of one additional centime. M. Lai,-
leis then presented the report of the committee charged
to examine the Convict Rehabilitation Bill. The report
was ordered to be printed and distributed, and the dis-
cussion WQ3 fixed for Monday. The sitting was then
brought to a close at four o'clock. Before the public
sitting the members met in their bureaux to nominate a
single committee on seven bills of local interest."
General CANROBERT has addressed a second and
more detailed report of his mission in the depart-
ments to the PRESIDENT of the Republic. He con-
cludes by saying—
" Socialism appears to me to have established its prin-
cipal fortresses in the Nievre, the Cher, the Indre, the
Allier, the Crease, and some parts of the Auvergne and
the Limousin. The explanation of this circumstance
may, doubtless, be found, at least with regard to the
three first named of these departments, in the conveni-
ent but certainly dangerous practice which many large
landed.proprietors have of not occupying themselves with
their large estates, at a distance from which they reside,
and let them out on lease to speculators, who frequently
know nothing of cultivation, but are always greedy of
gain, and have no other object than that of getting as
much out of the land as possible, without caring how
much they may impoverish it, and grinding down the
country people, who have no property of their own, and
are obliged to comply with all their demands."
According to the Patrie, the position of corre-
spondents for foreign newspapers will be made one of
serious responsibility ; for the Minister of Police has,
according to this authority, resolved on prosecuting
correspondents guilty, in his opinion, of publishing
false news. The 15th article of the law on the press
renders propagators of false news liable to a year's
imprisonment and 1,0001. fine. The Minister of
Police ought to begin by giving a definition of false
news, for a repetition of rumours, subsequently turn-
ing out false, might involve a correspondent in a
trial, and yet occuTrences of importance can some-
times be explained in no other way than by the im-
pression produced through rumours of the kind.
Attacks on soldiers and incendiarism continue. The
following notice has been issued:—
",The reports received from the;officers of gendarmerie,
announce that the most energetic meaausres have every-
where been adopted to put an end to incendiarism and
to punish the incendiaries."
The Bourse was more firm. The Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. opened at 1001. 15c., and closed at 100 f. 35c.
for the end of the mouth; the Three per Cents. closed
at 701. 60c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,207 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 7951.; Havre, 290 f.; Great Northern, 593 f. 75c,;
Avignon, 275 f.; Vierzon, 5921. 50c. ; Basle, 2501.;
Bordeaux, 617 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 573 f. 75e.;
Tours and Nantes, 3704; Paris and Lyons, 615 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 30.

Central of France (Orleens end Vierzon), 23% tuxem-
bourg, 33%—Narnur and Liege, 61/2—Northern of France,
24—Ditto, 201. 3 per Cent. Bonds (formerly Bolougne and
Amiens Shares), 13l4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 15%—Paris
and Strasbourg, 22 —Rouen and Havre, 11 Yei —Sambre
and Meuse, .514—Tours and Nantes, 1114.