The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-21 00:00:00

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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The following answer to M. MOLE'S letter has
been addressed to the editor of the Assembles Na-

tionale, and will appear in the Constitutionnel of to-
morrow :

" Sir,—ln the letter of Count Mole, which you pub-
lish in your number of to-day, there are insults and a
denial of facts. As to insults, they aro not allowed to
an) body. As to the denial of facts, in
order to make it
ju-t'y E ppr(c4ited, it would suffice to cite the name of
the person to whom Count Mole narrsted the incidents
of the meeting at the Tuileries. The country would
soon decide 13,tween the two contrary affirmations which
was the true one. GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC."
A decree of the PRINCE -PRESIDENT of the Repub-
lic, dated the 27th March, but only just inserted in
the Bulletin des Lois, opens an extraordinary credit of
250,000 f. to the Minister of the Interior for the pay-
ment of the expenses caused by the arrests effected
after the events of December.

The Journal du Havre states that a new Bill is now
in preparation by the Minister of Marine, according
to which the present conditions for advancement and
promotion in the navy will be very materially modi-
fied. The term of service now required before pro-
motion can be obtained will be reduced ; the propor-
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much younger age than by the existing regulations.
We read in the Patrie
" The Commission appointed to examine the question
of the right of the poor to a portion of the receipts of
the theatres has, it is said, completed its task, and its
opinion is stated to be entirely in favour of the managers
of the theatres, who have solicited a change in the regu-
lations on_ this subject:!_.
-The same journal says—.
" Some journals, in publishing their letter from Con-
stantinople, relate, as an extraordinary fact, if not as
one insulting to France, the refusal of the Ottoman
Forte to open the passage of the Dardanelles to the
French line-of-battle ship the Charlemagne. Our cor-
respondent had also related to us the circumstance,
which we did not think it our duty to raise to the im-
portance of a political incident. The Porte recently
spontaneously authorised the entrance of the steamer, on
board of which Admiral Romain Desfossea went to Con-

stantinople, and it was thought, in the Council of the
Sultan, that to open the passage to several French ves-
sels would be to create a precedent which would compel
the Turkish Government to be as gracious for other
flags which are not regarded so favourably as ours.
France has a greater interest than any other nation in
the observance of the treaties which secure the inviola-

bility of the Dardanelles. -These treaties, if they were
not rigorously observed, might become the cause of
serious political difficulties. Our relations with the
Sultan are, besides, too friendly for it to be allowed to
give an unfavourable interpretation to an incident which
has no real importance."
On Tuesday morning the Republican Guard, in
full dress uniform, were drawn up in several lines in
the Salle des Pas Perdus at the Palais de Justice, to
take the oath individually to the PRINCE PRESIDENT
and to the constitution. The President of the Court

of Appeal and the Procureur of the Republic placed
themselves in the centre, and the oath having been
read aloud, each soldier, on his name being called,
advanced, and raising his right hand, said, " Je le
jure."

The last refusals of the oath by councillors genera
include the names of the Marquis de Mornay, Couni
H. de r Aigle, and M. Viet, ex-mayor of Compiegne,
in the Oise ; Viscount Henry de Trdveneuc, ex-
Representative, in the Cotes-du-Nord; Walckenaer,
Dubois, Lignier, Pillard-Tarin, and de Vendeuvre, in
the Aube; and the Prince de Berghes and M. Urbain
Puntons, in the Haute-Garonne. The number of
refusals in the municipal councils goes on increasing.
M. Gomaz, President of the Tribunal of Commerce
of St. Omer, has refused ; M. de la Pierre, a
sublieutenant of chasseurs, has refused the oath,
and has given his reasons in the following lan-
guage :
" the eagle has not yet acquired the right to treat
with a sort of disdain the ensigns under which the sol-
diers of France have fought for thirty-seven years.
Many hearts disposed to receive the eagle, illustrated by
the equally glorious victories and defeats of our fathers,
suffer at the mere semblance of disdain, or of insulting
forgetfulness of other misfortunes, of those lilies which
our ancestors at the price of their blood also covered with
glory, of that flag also which during twenty years we
hope we have carried not without honour."
This letter alludes to the speech of the PRESIDENT
of the 10`11 of May, wherein he alludes to the whole
period elapsed since the empire as one of misfortune.
The sole of the pictures of Marshal SOULT com-
menced on Wednesday afternoon. It was extremely
difficult to obtain entrance from the immense
crowd which besieged the doors, and which
was formed en queue in a line extending
up the Rue du Sentier almost to the Boulevard.
MURILLO'S Conception of the Virgin, the pearl
of the collection, was knocked down to M.
DE NIEUWERKERKE for the Louvre, at the price of
586,0001. The St. Peter of the same master fetched
151,0001. The Infant Jesus and St. John, by Mu-
limbo, was sold for 63,00 V. ; Jesus bearing his
CrOSS, by SEBASTIAN DEL PIOMBO, fetched 41,0001.
It was reported by some that the three last pictures
were purchases by Lord HERTFORD, and by others
that they were bought for the Emperor of Russ's.
What is certain is that they, were knocked down to
the same bidder. The price fetched by the Concep-
tion of the Virgin has surpassed all expectation-
-23,4401.1
The PRESIDENT of the Republic has ordered M.
C. L. MULLEa to paint a picture representing the
ceremony of installation of the great bodies of the
state by Louis NAPOLEON, in the Salle des Mare-
chaux, at the Tuileries, which is to be placed over the
fauteuil of the President of the Legislative Body, in
the room of that by M. COURT, representing King
Louis PHILIPPE swearing to the charter of 1830.
The provincial journals contain favourable ac-
counts of the corn crops, and even the pasture lands
appear not to have suffered so much from the long
continued drought, as previous statements had led us
to fear. In many of the departments, however, the
fruit-trees have been so much injured by blights and
by the frosts of the spring that the fruit crop will be
a total failure. The accounts respecting the vines
are various. In some parts of the wine-growing
countries not more than a quarter crop is expected;
in others an average crop is reckoned upon.
The receipts of the Orleans and Bordeaux Railway
Company for the month of April last amount to
561,269 f., being an increase of 205,639 f. as compared
with the month of April, 1851.
Tbis being the Feast of the ASCODSiOD, Ind one of
the four great holydays kept in Paris, the Bourse re-
mained closed.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,
.MAY. 20.
Charleroi and Erquelines, 14East 22% —Great
Indian Peninsula, 6,7i—Ditto, s,—Maria Antonia, BN-
-223/—Ditto,
Namur and Liege, 63/8—Northern of France,
20/. 3 per Cent. Bonds (formerly Bolougne
dand Amiens
Shares), J 3,4—Paris and Lyons, 10N—Paris an Stri±zbourg,
21:Ks—Rouen and Havre, 11—Sambre and Meuse, 4,43,