The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The money market since the departure of the previous
steamer had been very easy, and money plentful. The
general trade of the country was in a satisfactory con-
dition. Business was brisk, stocks and securities were
in demand.

The market for breadstuffs was quiet, and prices were
without change. Western Canal flour, 4 dolls. 12ic. to
4 doll. 25c. per barrel (steady); Genessee prime wheat,
1 doll. 10c. to 1 doll. 12c. per 601 b.; Indian corn, round
yellow, 62c. to 64c. per bushel; Indian meal, 3 doll. 250.
to 3 doll. 37ke. per barrel.
The cotton market at New York is reported brisk,
with a good amount of business doing. Prices have ad-
vanced slightly, the abundance of money being the
cause assigned. New Orleans and Mobile middling fair
to fair, laic. to 10)ra. per lb.; Uplands middling fair to
fair, 94c. to 91c. per lb., or a rise of ic. per lb.
Provisions were in good demand at former prices.
Exchange on London, 1094 to 110; Paris, 5 17;
Hamburgh,-354 to 36; Bremen, 784 to 78k.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Minister of Public Instruction has addressed a
long circular to the Rectors of Academies explanatory
of the decree, of the 10th April last, relative to a new
plan of studies. That decree, he says, is destined to
secure a good grammatical education to all classes of
pupils, as it is useful to all ; and when it is completed,
to enable such pupils, as have a vocation for the liberal
professions to continue, after passing an examination,
the study of lettres or of the sciences. He denies
that, as has been alleged, the Government wishes to
make a separation between lettres and sciences ; and
as a proof of it he states that the examination for a
degree in sciences will comprise literary matters, and
for one in lettres, scientific subjects.
General BJDEAU has addressed the following letter
to the Minister of War, refusing to take the oath of
fidelity :

" Mons, 15th May, 1852.
" Monsieur le Ministre,—An order fixes the time with-
n which the oath imposed on soldiers is to be taken.
Placed out of the pale of the law since the 2i December,
I might abstain from replying to that prescription. But
I du not wish that my silence should be falsely inter-
preted. My acts have always had for principle and
object the respect and the defence of the laws. I was for
that sole cause arrested, imprisioned, and violently pro
scribed. Injustice and persecution do not change honest
convictions. I refuse the oath. BEDEAu."
The PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic has re-
mitted to M. VIGNAUD, lately responsible editor of
the journal La Province, the punishment to which he
was condemned by the Court of Assizes of the Haute-
Vienne, for an insulting article against the head of
the state.
M. BAUNE, one of the ex-representatives, under
sentence of banishment, was present in Paris last
week at the marriage of his daughter, who had ob-
tained permission to that effect. He has since re-
turned to Brussels.
The Marquis DR PAsTo-
We read in the Pays---"
RET, agent of the property of the COUNT DE CHAM-
BORD, fulfilled, in the opinion of some persons, the
functions of Lieutenant-General of the kingdom.
After having been replaced in this last-named post by
the Duke D'ESCARS, he passed generally for being
the writer of the document of Venice. He has just
contradicted those assertions by two solemn acts, in
taking the oath of fidelity to Louis NAPOLEON_; one
as member of the Commission of Historical Docu-
ments, and the other as member of the Superior
Commission of Public Assistance. Such facts have
no need of comment."
According to a Paris letter in the Independance of
Brussels, the French Government proposes to increase
the stipend of the Archbishop of PARIS from 40,0001.
to 50,000 f., those of fourteen Archbishops from
15,0001. to 20,0001., and of sixty-five Bishops from
10,0001. to 12,0001. It also proposes, says that
journal, to increase the stipends of the Vicars. General
by 5001., to improve the position of some of the
lower clergy, to increase the allowance to the
Chapter of St. Denis, and to grant 180,000 f. for in-
creasing the choirs of cathedrals.
The Journal du Loiret says :—" We
have an-
nounced that the PRESIDENT of the Republic had
bought a property in the Sologne. The
Pa
.Unce
rillaire,
purchased two estates the chateau of La
and the chateau of La Motte-Beuvron,with the lands
attached to them. They were bought
together
ti
o n
o f
tf for
er
the sum of 1,500,0001. It isk
ton these estates an
inte
PRESIDENT, it 15 said, to matoen.„
essay of agricultural colonisai
The Constitutionne/ contradicts a statement made
by the Sit'xle, that the National Guardo of Paris will
of s
amount to an effective strength . ,000 men, and
says that Colonel VIETEA has written to say that the
22 battalions only amount to 17,000 men.
The Presse extracts the following from a history of
Prince Louis NAroLEON BoriaraarE, by A.
BARDIER
4, on the 29th January, 1849, Changarnier wrote
to General Forey the following letter, which exists ou
the register of the orders of the brigade:--A If this
frightful little scamp (airreur petit dr6le) renews his
proposition to you, turn on the heel and present your
back to him.—CHANGARNIER.'
General CHANOARNIER, adds the Presse, spoke thus
of N. ARMAND MARRAST, President of'
h
stituent Assembly, who had demanded that the
ee
guard-
charged to defend the Assembly should be increased
by two battalions.
On Thursday last the Arab Chiefs, in passing
were
through Lyons on their return to Algeria,
present at a sham-fight given by
the General CASTEL-
wetai l
LANE in honour of their visit, and
of which were watched by the Arabs whole ol
great
e details
in-
terest and attention.
The Bourse was firm, with a trifling advance in the
price of railway shares. TheFour-and-a,-Ralf
opened at 991. 90c.. and closed per Cents.
a
of the month; the Three perCentat.9c9llo, sgedsea. tfo7rotfh. e9oenc.d;
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,1951.;
2901.; Great Northern, 5881. Rouen, 770 E; Havre,
Vterz,m, 592 f. 50c ; 3asle, 2413 y Avignon, 317 f. 50e.;
75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 5581. 75c.;7.; Bordeaux, 618f.5c
Tours and Nantes,
3681. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 6131.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN 75c.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,RAILWAYS AT TEE
Dutch Rhenish, 41/-East MAY 24.
2 Indian,Junction
of France, 3%—Namur and I; 223/s—Grand
23—Ditto, 201. 3_iege, 61/2—Northern of France, and
per Cent.
Amiens Shares), 13 _Bonds (formerly Bolon,gneparis
and Lyons, 10%—p N., Orleans and Bordeaux,
15 ntras-
ails and Pouen 293 Paris au-
bourg, 21 Sambre s and
Nantes, IDA. and Meuse, 51xt Tour

Accounts from
M
19th inst. aSdrPidAhlavNe. been received of the
tohf e dismissal of General CORDOVA, the
rumour of coup d'etat or changes in the Constitution
had partly subsided. General LERSUNDI, Captain-
of the officers of the different corps composing the
New Castile, having summoned a meeting
rumours gave them a formal assurance that those
The Three were done at 43 ; the New
8 were totally devoid of foundation.,
f
per Cents.
Three per Cents. at 21 13 16 ; the Debt of the
GeneralSi n
garrison,ce
First Class at 81 ; and that of the Second at 5 56.

Mr. Ogden, who for some years held the office of
United States Consul at Liverpool, has been appointed to
the B=9 cage in Alancheiter.