The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-10 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,

THE FRENCH- -REPUBLIC;

We have received the Paris journal; of yesterday.
The lioniteur publi4les a second warning which
has been serve] upon the Constitutionnel in MM..
pence of 111. ATERON'd article of . the Bth inst. The
effect of this second warning is to give to the Govern-
ment the power of suspending, and even sappresting,
the journal in virtue of Article 32 of the Law on the
Press, decreed on the 17th of February, 1852.
We read in the Moniteur :—" Some journals hays
ascribed to the Government the project of proposing.
a law for interdicting work and sales on Sundays
and holidays. The Government never entertained any
such idea. It desires that the religious law shell be
respected ; it has prescribed to contractors for works
which it causes to be executed that they shall not em.
ploy men on the days which religion consecrates to
repose; but there stops its duty and its right; it
does not belong to the civil power to intervene,
except by the example it gives, in an affair of con-
science."

The PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic went on
Tuesday in en open carriage to Vincennes, and' wit-
nessed experirwnts with the new description of gun-
carriage which he has invented. He returned by the
quais. He was only accompanied by an otlicier
d'ordon n an ce.

The correspondents of some of those English papers
which have shown themselves least favourable to the
Government of Louis NAPOLEON received invita-
tions to present themselves in the cabinet of M. LA-
TOUR DUMOULIN, director of the department of the
press in the ministry of police. Oa Tuesday after-
noon the correspondent of the Daily News waited
on M. LATOUR, DumouLiN, whose manner is repre-
sented as being characterised by perfect politeness
and suavity. The tenor of his communication was
that the French Government had observed attentively
since the 21 of December the attitude of the Eng-
lish press, and regretted to perceive that many of the
London newspapers were not only hostile to the pre-
sent Government, but outrageous towards the
head of the state. Now the French Government
did not ask for support at the hands of any,
foreign newspaper ; it did not even wish to depre-
cate opposition ; but it was determined not to
allow the parson of the head of the state to
be treated with outrage and insult, and his
name to be dragged through the mire (traine dans la
bone). It was not only in the letters of the corre-
spondents that this offensive manner of mentioning
the person of the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON was prat •
tised, but also in the leading articles. But in either
case, for the future, the person of the correspondent
would be held responsible, inasmuch as it was only
fair to suppose that he furnished the false news on
which the insulting appreciations contained in the
leading articles were founded. The correspondent
was then given to understand that if either the Paris
letter of the Daily News, or the leading articles of
that paper, contained any expressions outraging the
person of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, he would be consi-
dered as the responsible person, and be forthwith
expelled from France. (The correspondent of the
Morning Chronicle and Advertiser, whom the direc-
tor also has seen, has received a similar warning.)
The correspondent of the Daily News protested
against this principle. He stated that if the French
Government made the Paris correspondent of an
English paper responsible for whatever appeared in
that paper relative to France, it would act neither ac-
cording to the principles of justice, law, nor inter-
national usage. It was known that the responsibility
could cnly lie with the editor of the newspaper in
England. A correspondent formed no part of what
the French call the redaction of a paper. He was a
private person, who sent confidential letters, the ree
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might either prosecute in the English courts of law,
or lay a diplomatic complaint against with the
English Government, which would, in point of fact,
come to the same thing; only in the latter case the
French Government would hold the English one
responsible for the prosecution of the paper, as had
been recently the case in Belgium. When the PRINCE
PRESIDENT'S uncle became Emperor, he was attacked
with violence by the English newspapers; and he
took this means of redress. He caused a criminal
information to be filed against the editor of the news-
paper, who was defended by Sir JAMES:MACKINTOSH.
The upshot of the affair was the condemnation of the
newspaper to considerable daniages. M. LATOUR-
DUMOULIN answered that the French Government
could not accept the theory of the irresponsibility of
correspondents. For the charge of uttering false
news, although it seemed scarcely necessary to touch
this question, the correspondent remarked that such
errors were necessarily incidental to the journalist's
vocation, but that they were in his case at least never
intentionally committed. In all events, he was sure
that the Daily News would have no objection to insert
such rectifications of false news as the Government
would communicate. M. LATOUR DUMOULIN
said that the Government was anxious to
afford every facility to English correspon-
dents for sending correct news ; it would even have no
objection to communicate at times important docu-
ments which it could not permit to be published in
France. For instance, the Count DE CHAMBORD'S
letter, although the indipendance Beige was seized
for the publication of it, would have been confided
without difficulty to; an English newspaper. These
and other civil offers were made politely by M. LA-
TOUR DUMOULIN, who acquitted himself of his deli-
cate task with no want,of civility. But his ultima-
tum was that the Government could not 'accept the
theory, of the irresponsibility of correspondents.,
Whatever difference of opinion may exist among
political proceedings in
our contemporaries as to
France, it is certainly to be deplored that very violent
personal attacks have been frequently directed by
PRINCE PRESIDENT, giving some of the most influential among them against the
but too just .grounds for
remonstrance. Nevertheless we can by no means
acknowledge the propriety of M.L.vrouu DUMOULIN'S
views, as to the individual responsibility of a foreign
correspondent.
Captain KLEEER, who was condemned to death by
a court-martial for the affair of the 13th of June, and
whose.sentence was commuted by the PRESIDENT of
,the Republic to
imprisonment, has just been set at
liberty by a further extension of clemency spontane-
ously accorded by the PRINCE.
The rresse persists, notwithstending the foemer
contradiction given by General CHANGARNIER to the
assertion that he had offered to invade England if the
Provieional Government of the Republic would place
only 12,000 troops at his disposal, in stating that
the offer :was made, and repeats what it had said on
the subject, to show that its assertion was well-
founded.
The affair of the " conflict," set up by the Prefect
of the Seine on. the subject of the decrees against the
Orleans property is to be pleaded before the Council
of State on Saturday. The report will be presented
by M. LEON COItNUDAT, a Member of the Council of
State, and .M. RIVERCUON will address the Council
as Government Commissioner. M. PAlli; FORE and
M.,MA.TBIEU BODET will plead on behalf of, the Or-
leans family. , , • „
M. SENxisr, conductor •of tllO, trom
Epernay to Sedan, .has.been nominated .guardian of
the tomb of NAPOLEON at the Invalides, with a
salary of 3,000 f. a•year. He was one of the persons
who accompanied the EMPEROR to Elba, and after-
wards' proposed to accompany him to St. Helena. The
EMPEROR bequeathed him 20,0001'.
The Union states that during the whole of the term
of his imprisonment at St. Pelagie, M. PROUDRON
wore a white blouse and a blue cotton nightcap.
The Corsaire of yesterday, in giving an article
about the Corn Exchange in Liverpool, puts the name
of the building in English, but, fearing that its
readers may not understandit, adds a translation of
it in a parenthesis and calls it l'Echange des Comes !
An ex-gendarme, nearly 100 years of age, named
HElLiciA.Nrt, died a few days ago at Colmar. He
formed part of the detachment which conducted
ROBESPIERRE and SAINT-JUST to the scaffold.
There was bat little business transacted in Governs
*meat Securities at the Bourse. Railway Shares con-
tinue to be in good ckniand. The Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. opened at 100 f. 30c.,- and' closed at
100 f. 25c. for the end of the month; the Three per
Cents. closed at 70f. 25c.; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,225 E; Rouen, 802 f. 50e.; Havre, 315 f.; Great Nor-
thern, 610 f.; Avignon, 365 f. ; Vierzon, 612 f. 50c.;
Basle, 260 f.; Bordeaux, 635 f.; Paris and Strasburg,
5751. ; Tours and Nantes, 3Slf. 25c. ; Paris and
Lyons, 635 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE',',Juagx 9.
sutorramsbeorurly
680n12303g:
_ aCnentral of Prance (Orleans andlrierzon), 235/1--`East In-
22.4—Luxembonrg, B:l—Namtir and Liege, 61,—
Bordeaux, 141 ex
Northern of France, 2378—Ditto 20/. 3 per Cent. Bonds
Ranoudeu/k.anmidenffs
as,hvrae,res)l,2:l:lovrelsetansand
d.—Paris and Rouen, 3134—Paris and
Flan-
ders, 3..

• SPAIN:
The 11.facfrici Gazette of the 4th, publishes -a. royal
decree, ordering that the vessels of the. Pontifical
States arriving in Spanish ports shall be, placed on
the same footing, with regard to duties, as those of
Spain. The .Espana of the 4th, announces that the
Go verntuent has farmed out the octroi duties of six
provinces.
The Three per Cents. were done at 451; the New
Three per. Cents. at 22 5-16; the Debt of the 'first class
at el; and that of the second at si. •

of the j own 31s.
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concession. At
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vbei-enpinia tblispaised but
in virtue -of a.
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con-
cession will he granted by the police authorities,
and in the--provinces- by the Government. The edi-
tors must - be_24 years of age, be Austrian sub-
jec.ts, and of irreproachable reputation. The political
-and religious journals are bound to furnish a caution
money, the maximum of which is fixed at 10,000 fib-
rins. ,The journals now existing will have a delay of
three mouths granted them to furnish the caution
money. Journals having a hostile and dangerous ten-
dency may be suppressed after two warnings. The
police may prohibit the distribution of articles printed
abroad. Offences of the press will be tried by the or-
dinary tribunals.

I The King of Prussia will leave Berlin for Breslau
on the:lo:h, to visit the Exhibition of Industry, ac-
cording to ti promise obtained by the Committee.
The order of the Finance Department, by which in
March last 'the import duty on grain and flour was
suspendedkr the whole of the Zollverein till the end
of August next, has kept down the price of provisions,
which in some districts were becoming scarce and
dear. Another order of the Finance Minister has
just extended the application of the first decree, and
prolonged it till the end of September. Many re-
presentations having been made to the Government
that it was desirable other articles produced from
grain, besides flour, should have the same exemption
from duty, it is now ordered that pearl-barley,
crushed corn, and greats shall also be imported duty
free, till the close of the above-named month.
A letter from Vienna of the 3d says:-9 This
evening the Court of the ExpEßon will leave for
Pesth, and the Imperial guard will follow the day
after to-morrow. His MAJESTY will be absent for
from six weeks to, two months. Ile will go through
the whole Of Hungary. On the 11th be will leave
Pesth for Czegted and Keskemeth ; on the 14th he
will arrive at Temeswar ; on the 99d at
and on the 23d he will arrive at Baden."
The new law for imposing a stamp duty on journals
in Prussia has been promulgated,
and will come into
operation on the Ist July next. Jaspereing ;

BELGIUT
Paris on Tuesday evening, announces that 25 Liberal
A telegraphic dispatch from Brussels,
and 19 Opposition Members have been elected.
received in

S WITZERLA ND.
The Union Francondoise of the 6th says :—" We
learn a fresh act of persecution against the Catholic
religion in Switzerland, being the suppression of the
religious corporations existing in the canton of Tessino,
and the confiscation of their property.
The law which
authorises this act of violence and spoliation was passed
by the Grand Council, by a majority of 53 votes to 51.
The Grand Council consists of 114 members, so that
there were several absent when the vote was given."