The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

LONDO N, TUESDAY

HE FRENCII REPUBLiC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Presse, in the last weekly commercial bulle-
tin, says :--
" Some orders begin to be received by the mennfac-
turing houses for the departments of the south and for
exportation, and England., which has been for some time
occupied exclusively with the elections, has lately sent
some important orders. The Parisian trade is still very
dull, but the period is not yet arrived when business
generally becomes active. The manufactories in the de-
partments are well occupied; purchasers of woollen and
cotton goods present themselves, and sales would be
more extensive if prices were not so high. A further
rise is spoken of at Mulhouse and at Rouen. The trade
ci , .
in corn has been very active. Is has been said that
wheat'l of the new crop would be of rather middling
.quality,
from many y, but as favourable accounts have been ro-
v
of the departments, as welt as from
abroad, purchasers will not submit to pay a
higher price. The same remark may be applied to
wines and spirits. Speculators have taken advantage
of the presence of disease in many of the vine-
yards to spiced general alarm, and to produce an enor-
mous rise. It hue, however, been found that the evil
was not eo serious as it had been represented, and there
is every reason to hope that the crop may produce more
than three-fourths of an ordinary one. The rise has
consequently been followed by a material fall, and it is
expected that many
speculators in the markets of tbs
south will be serious sufferers.''
Examinations for the admission to the Ecole Nor-
male were to commence yesterday. 163 young men
have demanded to compete for the 25 places of pupils
which have to be given this year, and 141 of them
have been admitted. Of these 135 are Catholics, 4
Protestants, and 2 Jews. Of the 22 rejected candi-
dates 18 are Catholics, 3 Jews, and 1 Protestant. It
will appear from this that the rumours which have
been current that it was intended to prohibit Protes-
tants and Jews from competing were totally-un-
founded.
The Comstitutionriel has a regular Derbyite arti-
cle. It says, remarking on the late elections in
Englencl—
" Alt parties, with the exception of the Conservative
one, have suffered severe losses in the late elections; the
Conservative party alone comes out of it not only intact,
but strengthened. The situation is therefore good for
the Government, which supports itself ou
that party.
Whatever may be the calculations made, one fact is in-
disputable, and that is, the Tory party counts twice the
number of any other fraction in the House of Commons.
To place it in a minority it would require to unite, not
only two of these fractions, but all the three, and even
then the three Must be unanimous. It may be said with
reason that, setting aside the question of protection, Lord
Derby was always secure of having a majority. That
majority will be compact and stable; it Will not be
turmed, like that of Lord John Russell for the last
two years, of elements changing every
price or daily negotiation. 2-lo one besi clay at the
des conceals
from himself that the slightest apprehension on the
subject of affairs on the Continent will suffice to rally
round the Ministry all the wavering votes, and a
tein number of Members ‘7?1i030 family relations con-
cert with the Whigs, but whose, opinions are siscerely
Conservative. The appearance of a complication in
Europe would give a majority of eighty to Lord Derby."
M. SOMMIER, one of the representatives of the
Jura, who was exiled after the events of December,
has received permission to return to France.
' It is said to be in contemplation to carry into exe-
cution one of the plans of the imperial epoch, which
consists in converting the Luxembourg into a pro-
menade, completel) isolated from any habitation, and
enclosed with iron railings, and accessible on all sides.
The garden will thus be surrounded with fine and
wide e,treets, similar to the It
ues de I'Est and tie
I'Ouest. In this iiroject the Rue Seufilet is joined to
371013,:mit.e0e ~ and caused "t
the Rue Corneille. end the elbow formed by the meet-
ing of the Rues Vaugieard, Monsieur le Prince, and
'l:llTunnfeepre3 o.
rwniciris_
Cents.
tw. disappear.was p euxet extremely maetl 'rho Four- and-a-
Cunt'', 'Wetted at 76. 65c, • Orleans Railway Shares,
1051-65 e., for the end 'of the mown; the Three per
1,450 f.; Itotuu,
North-
ern, 685 f, ; Avignon, 4651.; Beale, 3 tsf.; Paris and
Stresburg, 670 h;
951 f. 250.; 'Havre, s9or.; Greet North.
Faris and Lyons, 782 f. 50c ; Great
Western, 627 f. 50c. ;
Lyons ettd. Avignon, 625 ft; Sr.
1/zer and. Geay, 5771.50 e.; the New Austrian L05n,95,.
Dijon and Besangon, 314-East
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 2.
Luxem-
bourg, Indian, 27-Great Indian
Peninsula, 6%- Grand junction of France, ”,i-Luxem-
Bonds, 137/a-Paris and Lyons, 20%,-Paris and lieuen,36%
7-Northern of France, 26:Y8-Ditto, 201. 3 per cent.
-Paris and Strasbourg, 2614-Room and Havre, 14% -
Sambre and Mease, 7%-West Flanders, 4.

Madrid journals of the 28L12 have been received.
They contain a rumour that Government was seri-
ously occupied with the preparation of the budget,
that it may be ready for the Cortes, which is expected
soon to be assembled. _ .

_ea se ee
The Madrid Gazette states that the losses in the
last civil war had been ascertained to amount to
5,728,309 reels, and had been paid.
The Duke and Duchess DE MONTPENHER arrived
at Corunna on the 23J, and left shortly for Santiago.
The President of the Council was expected on the
30:h ult. to be present at the adjudication of the rail-
way from Ararat uez to Almansa.
The Diario _Espanol asks, " How is it that Spain,
with a surface little less than France, with a fertile
soil which bears every class of products, and in which
mineral wealth abounds, with great ports on the ocean
and Mediterranean, with a mercantile marine of some
importance, and with 16 millions of inhabitants
occu-
pies so subaltern a place in the political map O f Eu-
rope ?" And it considers that the usual reply given
to the question, viz., bad government, decay, backward
state of industry, &c., though containing somewhat of
truth, does not go to the essence of the matter. It is to
the inveterate habit of servilely imitating everything
French that the. Diario Espanol mainly attributes
the subaltern position occupied by this country. It
observes that the importance of a people does not
depend so much on its material wealth as on its
and instances Prussia, which
characterwit
h lt
p o paunici,t spirit ;
about the same as Spain, and less
extent of territory—which is, besides, scattered, and
not compact like that of Spain—yet holds a higher
position than the latter. " Why is this ?" it asks ;
and replies, " For a very simple reason, because she
(Prussia) never forgets her founder, FREDERICK 11.
We, on the contrary, separate our view from our glo-
rious history, and have only eyes to look at France.
Of what avail to us would be a marine, railroads, in-
dustry, and all material improvements, if our educa-
tion, customs, habits, and laws are French ? Spain,
however much her wealth may increase, will be
always a secondary and subaltern nation as
long as she has not a light and life of
her owe," &c. An individual who had his eyes
always fixed on another in older to resolve how to
act, would be not a man but a shadow ; and if, in
addition, he contrived only to imitate his model in
•vhat is bad, it would he difficult to know how to
qualify him. Yet this is exactly what Spain does
with regard to France, according to the Diario
Espanol :—" The liberty of the press is suppressed in
France," it says, " end the decree of suppression is,
translated h‘re in a- moment. Parliamentary Go-
vernment disappears there, and in an instant changes
in the constitution are talked of here. That our
circumstances are very different from those of the
neighbouring republic matters not ; let us do what
is done there; this is our system . . . . our
system is to copy, and we must continue copying."
The consequence (adds thin journal) is that in Spain
there is now " a system of centralization of the Em-
lire or Consulate ; various laws of the period of the
Restoration ; a press a la Louis Napoleon ; and an
electoral system, literally translated from that in-
vented by the counsellors of the Throne of July." It
complains that in tranquil and ordinary times Spain
has gone on, copying institutions invented as heroic
remedies agaieet great tempests, and says that a
people whose system of government is composed of
such, strange and heterogencus elements, besides
being necessarily iil governed, is in danger of losing
its nationality.
MADRID BOLSA, JULY 28.—The Three per Cents„
45 1-16 ; Exchange on London, 50 35.