The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel contains a long article by M.
GRANIEE DE CASSAGNAC, in which, taking a review
of the unfavourable results of preceding Parliamen-
tary experience in France, he arrives at the conclu-
sion that, in proportion as they were failures from
the way in which they were constituted, the present
experiment must have salutary consequences. M.
GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC mixes up with his argu-
ments on this point some eulogy upon the Govern-
ment which approaches almost to adulation.
The Pays writes in the same strain. It says,
among other things,—
• It is to public opinion that the Government of Louis
Napoleon owes the immense influence which it exercises
over the whole of France; public opinion has always
been for the nephew of the Emperor, the mysterious
Egeria that he has silently consulted, and it has inspired
him with the wisdom which presides over great enter-
prises, and the self-reliance which secures the execution
of them. It is that mild and sympathetic goddess that
will always guide his steps in the path in which the
people walk, in his progress towards the future."
M. DE LAMARTINE has addressed a letter to the
Journal de Saone-et-Loire, in which he expresses his
intention to refuse any invitation to offer himself as a
candidate for the Legislative body. •
MM. MARC DEPRAISSE and GREPPO, ex-represen-
tatives of the people, who had been included in the
list of persons ordered to be transported to Cayenne,
have had a change effected in their destination. They
are to be banished for life.

The Marquis DR JAUCOURT, Minister of Marine
under Lours XVIII, and formerly Peer of France,
died at his seat, in the Seine-et-Marne, a few days
ago, aged 94.

-TheDowager Lady RANCLIFFE has died in Paris.
The Legitimatists have resolved, it seems, not to
stand candidates for seats in the Corps Legislatif;
and it is saki that a letter has been received from tae
Count DE CHAMBORD, approving of this resolution, on
the ground that they could not take the prescribed
oaths of fidelity to the PRESIDENT and to the Con-
stitution. A similar objection would stand in the
way of Orleanists, and, indeed, of Republicans, so
that there appears to be nothing calculated to prevent
the representative body being as Bonapartist as needs
be desired. It is also said that the four Cardinal
Archbishops have declined to enter the Senate, prin-
cipally in consequence of the confiscation decrees.
Marshal GERARD also refuses the profferred honour.
With respect to the obnoxious decrees affecting the
property of the ORLEANS family, the rumour of an
inclination on the part of the PRESIDENT to submit
them to the Senate is again revived, but with what
degree of truth it is not easy to determine.
The Society of Booksellers, Printers, and Sta-
tioners of Paris have addressed a letter of thanks and
congratulation to M. DE BILLING for the zeal dis-
played by that gentleman in the matter of interna-
tional copyright, on occasion of the ratifintion and
exchange of the recent treaty between France and
England. The society glance at the difficulties
which prevent for the present the adhesion of Bel-
gium and Holland to the principle which acknow-
ledges and the law which protects the rights of intel.
lectual property—and express a hope that the cordial
agreement of the Cabinets of London aDd Paris on
this point will produce a disposition in those states to
reconsider the grounds of their former refusal to treat
o n any reasonable basis.
There was a slight rise in the price of public securi-
ties. The Five per Cents. opened at 103 f 20c., fell
to 103 f. 100., rose subsequently to 1031. 35c., and
closed at 103 f. 10e. for the end of the month; the
Three per Cents. closed at 64f. 85c.; Orleans Rail-
road Shares, 1,120 e.; Rouen. 657 f. 50c.; Havre, 265%;
Great Northern, 568 f. 75c.; Vierzon, 507 f. 50c.; Basle,
210 f.; Bordeaux, 4351.; Paris and Strasburgh, 467 f.
50c.; Tours and Nantes, 295. ; Amiens to Boulogne,
293 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 578 f. 15e.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1114 ex div.—Central of France
(Orleans and Vierzon), 19A—Dutch Rhenish, 354—East
Indian, 20—Luxembourg, 34--Namur and Liege, 53/
—Northern of France, 18,(A—Orleans and Bordeaux, 814,
Paris and Rouen, 261,E—Rouen and Havre, 10k —Sambre
and Meuse, 3%.