The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-19 00:00:00

MONDAY

EVENING, APRIL l9, 1852.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday. _ _ _

Marshal GERARD died on Saturday, at four o'clock
in the afternoon, in the 791 year of his age. There
only remains one marshal now of Lours PHILIPPE'S
creation, Marshal REILLE ; the others—Prince
JEROME BONAPARTE, EXCELQMAN, Hanisre, and
VAILLANT —have been created by the PRINCE. PRE-
SIDENT of the Republic, to whom falls the right of
making another, to complete the six, to which num-
ber the order is in time of peace restricted. It was
Marshal GERARD who directed the operations against
Antwerp after the separation of Belgium from Hol-
land. At Waterloo he commanded the advanced
division, to which
belonged General BOURMONT the
night of his desertion to the allies. General Lesvos-
TINE, the Commander-in-Chief of the new National
Guard, is son-in-law of Marshal GERARD.
Prince PAUL,
Wurtemburg, who died on Fri-
day, et his fiord in the Place Vendome, after a long
•
illness, was the only brother of the, present King of
NiTurtemburg, brother-in-law of King Jerome, father
of the Archduchess Helen, and of the Duchess of
NdSSUU, aid uncle of the Prince. President and the
Princess Mathilde. His eldest daughter is the widow
of the Grand Duke Michael, brother of the Emperor
isTichelss. The Prince was born on the 19th J.inuary,
1785, and was therefcre in his 67th year. He had
resided in France for the last thirty years, . and was
much attached to the country. He had served both
in the French and Russian armies. The
Prince had for several days before his death
been given over by his physicians ; on
he became insensible and speechless.
con-
version to Catholicism, and his reception of the last
nt
ThursdayTh
ea n announcement
Sacramentsuncoefmte by the POPE'S Nuncio of his
he Church from. the hands of a priest
from the Madeleine, produced considerable sensation.
This conversion of a member of a staunch Protestant
family is not, however, so very astonishing, consider-
ing the character of the Prince's disease—one affect-
ing the brain—and the state of imbecility in which he
lay. In consequence of his death, the ball, which was
to have taken place at the Tuileries on the 19th (this
evening), has been piistpimed to the 261.
M. CATLUS, ex- director of the National, has just
left Brussels, where he was in voluntary exile, for
England, and there he will embark, with his family,
for the United States. He is about to enter into busi-
nesse as he was before the events of 1848.
The Colbert steamer left Bordeaux on the 14th,
with the last batch of political prisoners for Algiers
who bad been confined at Blave.
We read in the Union :
There has been much talk for the last few days of a
grand military fete which is to be given by the army to
the Prince-President of the Republic, and some person
has gone so far as to state that the' officers would have to
subscribe four or five days' ea,' for thy exp*nses of it. The
truth is am!, originally, an idea was entertained of imi-
tating the
fete which was given to the Emperor Napo-
leon in 1811, a short time before the campaign of Russia,
by the Itoperial Guard, and which cost 140,0001. It
was soon, however, found that it was impossible to im-
pose on the army such a considerable pecuniary sacri-
fice; a sacrifice which, according to all appearances, the
President would not accept. The idea, therefore, of
erecting a large tent in the Champ de Mars capable of
receiving ten thousand persons was abandoned. It ap
pears that the fete will take place on the 9th, the eve of
the distribution of the eagles, and that no more than
from fifty to sixty thousand francs will be expended
on it."

The Government has received the following tele-
graphic, dispatch, dated Toulon, 15th, half-past six
P.M. :-

`• M. Quentin Bauchart has spent the day at Fort La-
malgue. He has ordered the discharge from custody of
260 persons belonging to the department of the Basses
Alpes out of 279, condemned to tramportation. This
clemency has produced an immense a ffect. The ex-
pressions of repentance and promises for the future are
candid, and prove the influence which the great name
and great acts of Napoleon always exercise on the
people. M. Quentin Bauchart was accompanied by the
Prefect of the Basses Alpes, and was hailed on his de-
parture by cries, a hundred times repeated, of Viva
Napolpon!'"
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 17.
Dutch Rhenish, 4;l;—Luxembourg, '3%a--Namur and
Liege, 6%—Northern of France, 241h—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, ls—Paria and Lyons, 11%s—Paris and Strasbourg,
233'g—Rouen and Havre, 121/ ex U.—Sambre and Meuse, 5
—Wert Flanders, 3%—Western of France, 8%.