The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

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an interview with Si: John Pakington yesterday, at the
C lonial-office.

Mr. tdmond Wodehouse had an interview with Sir
John Pakington yesterday.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Dispatches were also received from the Governor of
Sierra Leone and from the Governors of the North
American Provinces,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the io llowicg notice :
"By a decision of the Minister of Finances, the
intereat•attached to Bons du Trcsor is fixed as fol-
lows, from and after Monday, the 7th of June cur-
rent:—

four Atto-five monthshavingfrom
t. e
nt o pun,
" At 2i per cent. for bonds having six to eleven months
to run.
" At 3i per cent. on bonds of a year."-
This diminution of the rate of interest had become necessary in consequence of the continued increase
e
eof
the receipts in the Treasury. These receipts
ames3e nu
at the present day to 94 millions, although the reirn
bursements which the Treasury had to make ,to
the
capitalists who did not agree to the conversion are
entirely effected.
M. GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC'S articles on Belgium
are reprobated at considerable length in the' Ministe-
rial Pays, the. Prase, and the Siècle. The Debats
briefly expresses its astonishment at the introduction
of the name of the Chief of the State in the article
disavowed by the Moniteur. The Indipendance of
Brdssels has likewise entered the field. Neverthe-
less, we find in . the .Constitptionsel a reply 'of M.
VERON, the director of that journal, to the commu-
nicated note in the Moniteur. This article will pro-
bably cause great sensation, and will excite much
interest, as to the notice that will be taken of it by
the Government. M. VERoN says—
" The Moniteur contains a serious accusation against
the article on Belgium', published in the Constitutionnel
by M. Grapier de Cassagnac. The article is charged
with infidelity or exaggeration. That article had, be-
sides, produced a lively impression at the Bourse. In
presence of these two facts, we cannot refrain from
giving some explanations to justify in the eyes of the-
public the insertion in the Constitutionnel of the two ar-
ticles on Belgium, by M. Granier de Cassagnac. Since
the re-election of the Prince President of the Republic,
we have not had the honour of approaching the Chief of
the State; M. Granier de Cassagnac only has brought
us several articles as the expression of the ideas of the
Prince President. We were obliged to refuse the inser-
tion of one of these articles; but from a sentiment of
respectful conciliation and of deference, that refusal,
given with regret in order to fulfil a conscientious duty,
rendered more easy for us the admission of the new
articles of M. Granier de Cassagnac, emanating from
the same source. There is particularly one fact that
we should not have allowed to appear in the columns
of the Constitutionnel, as it compromised the name of
an honourable man, if it had not been affirmed to us
that this fact and this personal accusation were gua-
ranteed by the word of the Chief of the State. The first
article of M. Granier de Cassagnac on Belgium appeared
to have been inspired by a movement of rancour and
anger not justified by the complaints of which the
article made itself the echo. We therefore begged'
roar colleague to modify the tone of the article, and
to render it more moderate. When M. Granier de Cas-
sagnac read his second article to us, we confess that, in
face of the positive affirmations of our colleague, we did
not put this useless question to him, are you authorised
to fetter the policy of the Chief of the State in matters
so eminently serious and delicate? Have you made
yourself acquainted with his views and intentions?' We
did not for a moment doubt but that M. Granier de
Cassagnac was the interpreter of the ideas, and even of
the sentiments, of the Prince President of the Republic.
It would have been euspectiug his veracity, or supposing
him capable of carrying his indiscretion as far as a
breach of confidence. We- shall only add one, word
more, and that is, that we still firmly believe, even after
the article of the Moniteur, that M. Granier de
Cassagnac was completely authorised. It is
necessary, in fact, once for all, that the public should
be made acquainted with the meaning of the
convenient and anonymous signature Communi-
qué. Are we to understand by the word communiqué
that it is the Cabinet, the Ministers who speak? Or
does it veil the signature of the Chief of the State? It is
necessary that this question should be solved on account
of the contradiction given by the Moniteur to the Con-
stitutionnel. We have lately published several articles
by M. Granier de Cassagnac, under the firm conviction
that they suited the pulicy of the Chief of the State.
Having no longer the honour of conferring with Prince
Louis Napoleon on questions on the order of the
day, I was obliged to accept M. Granier de Cas-
sagnac as an authorised intermediary. We regret
at being compelled to give this recital by the ar-
ticle of the Moniteur; but we cannot allow such
serious accusations to weigh on us, or even to re-
main without defence under the blow of a warning
from the•Mieistry of General Police, for the publication
of false or incorrect news. It would be wrong to con-
clude from all this that we shall change our attitude and
aththe Prince Presi-
people, that he
doueur
r
has saved France, and that it is be alone who can still
tl aiesgtehaegeefec t Wo
teei gtlt cannotm ifleliognest oh t o
protect us from Socialism and from 'formidable re-
volutions."
At the end of this article are the following lines,
signed by M. GRANIER DE CASSAoNAC:—
" It will be remarked that the communicated article
published in the Moniteur in no way disavows the policy
which we believe should, for the interest of the Govern-
ment, be followed towards Belgium."
The Panics PRESIDENT on Saturday again visited
the works at the Louvre. He was in an open car-
riage, and alighted several times, and going amongst
the workmen, left with them marks of his generosity.
The PRINCE was everywhere received with loud ac-
clamations.
General DE LAWCESTINE reviewed on Sunday the
National Guards of the communes of Issy, Vanves,
Clamart, Plessis-Piquet, Grenelle, Montrouge, and
Vaugirard. After the review the General and his
staff were entertained by the officers of the divisions '
which he had reviewed at a breakfast, at a restaurant
in the Champs Elysees. The health of the PaiNcE
Pnesinesm. was proposed by one of the Colonels.
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm, and re-
plied to in an appropriate speech by General DR
LANCESTINE. The health of the General was after-
wards proposed, and received with loud acclamations,
as was a toast to " the union of the National Guard
and the army," and another to the memory of the
EMPEROR.
M. D SYILLE, ex-Representative, condemned to
transportation by the High Co
b Court
of Justice of
Ver-
sailles, has just been pardoned y PRINCE PAESI-
the
DENT of the Republic.
Thesentence of five years'
named CLIEVASSUS,
imprisonment passed on a person
for being concerned in the Lyons plot, has been
be
is to be escorted
commuted to banishment,and '
from Belle Isle to the Belgian frontier. A man
named JOURERT has conducted himself so well at
to pass the remainder
Belle Isle that he is authorised
h ) in one of theprisons
of Paris. Lastly, full pardon has been accorded to a
jeweller named-Taw; condemned to imprisonment
for having taken part in the insurrection of June.
The Minister of the Interior has just addressed a
circular to the prefects, relative to the alimentary
regime of the departmental prisons, and particularly
calling their attention to the bread. The Minister
calls for the institution of a rigid inquiry on the im-
portant question of an increase in the quantity of
bread furnished to each prisoner, and for which nu-
merous applications have been made. He has, like-
wise, sent a circular to the prefects of the departments,
directing' them to make a minute investigation into
every case of hydrophobia which may occur, with
view of discovering, if poSsible, the means of checking a
that horrible malady.
The France Centrale of the 6tb, published at Blois,
says—" 111. FILLIN DE PERSIGNY, the Minister of
the Interior, arrived here the day before yesterday,
and left yesterday for Tours:' The Journal
de
1 Indre-et-Loirc announces the arrival of
the Mi-
nister at Tours, with his young wife, both preserving
a strict incognito. After visiting the various public'
buildings of the town, they took their
departure on
Friday afternoon.
M. PitOUDHON, Judge of the Court of Appeal of
Besancon, has addressed a letter to the • Ipuma s, con-
tradicting a statement made in the Paris correspon-
dence of the Independance of Brussels, from which
we copied the account, that he is the father of the
writer of that name.

The Bourse was extremely firm, with a further ad-
vance in the price of Railway Shares. The Four-and-
a-1111f per Cents. opmcd at low. 20c., and closed at
boor. 30c. for the end of the month;
Cents. closed at 70F. 15c. ex dividend; Orleans Railway
t
Shares, 1,220 f.; Rouen, 800 F,; Havre, 3111
25c.;feGrzron",
Northern, 603 f. 750.; A ; 4.,..v,n0n, 332 f. 5".1 r Paris
627 f 5"; f
6061. 25c.; Basle, 257 f. 50c ;Bordeaux,
and Strasburg, 566€. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes'
Paris and Lyons, 631 f. 25e.. the Three per
mwAyS AT THE
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RA,—.-rnms 7.
LONDON STOCK EXCELANwys-- Northern of
East Indian, 22%—Namur and Liege' '8 and Strasbourg,
France, 23IA—Paris and Lyons, 10'54
Qn hrPairtind Mouse, 4%.
12214—Rouen and Havre, 12 %

- -
SPAIN.
The
Madrid journals of the
they 2d have arrived, but
"
do not contain a word of news. The Reraldo
and Clamor Publico have re-appeared, but only as li-
terary
journals until their responsible editors ere ac-
cepted by the Government.
Thy Three per Oents, Were donetbt 013 gio Now