The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-01 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The candidates put forward by the Government for
the election in the department of the Seine are MM.

Guyard-Delelain, bevinck, Duperrier, Moreau,
Peret, Fouche-LePelletier, Lanquetin, Kcenigswarter,

and Veron.
One of the clauses of the decree for the establish-
ment of loan on mortgage banks shows that the de-
cree of confiscation launched on the 22d January
against the property of the Orleans family is to be
carried out implacably. In the clause in question it
is provided that a portion of the sum of 10,000,000 f.
already decreed applicable to mortgage societies by
the decree of 22d January is to be allowed to each es-
blishment receiving the sanction of Government. It
would be difficult, under any circumstances, to esta-
blish these mortgage loan societies, owing to the large
capital that would be needed for the purpose, but the
difficulty will be rendered greater by this fatal blot,
which lies at the foundation of the whole plan. The
confiscation decrees are by all well-judging persons
admitted to have produced a most unfortunate effect.
It is generally believed that they were the cause of
the sudden check given to trade at a moment when
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The rays of Saturday says
Vile are positively assured that the Council of the
Bank of France assembled yesterday, to come to a c
de-
cision on the subject of the reduction of the rate of dis-
count to 3 per cent. The question, it is said, has not
been decided on, and the definitive deliberation has been
postponed to the next sitting."
The decoration of the Legion of Honour is con-
ferred, by decree of the 27th, by the PRINCE PRE-
SIDENT, on Af Sister ROSALIE (fill R
__ENDU), superior
of the Maison de Charite of the Sisters of St. Vin-
cent de Paul, Rue de :'Epee de Bois, No. 5, Paris, in
consideration of " the acts of courage, devotedness,
admirable charity, and attention of all kinds to the
poor and unfortunate-, which she has displayed during
fifty years," and by which " she has proved herself
the worthy
imitator of Sister MARTHA, who was
gloriously decorated by the EMPEROR."
An article in a London contemporary, turning
round upon Prince SCHWARZENBERG, who has hi-
therto been held up in the same consistent journal as
the model of a judicious Minister, has produced con-
siderable sensation at Paris.
A correspondent of the Sieele looks forward to the
accession of Lord PALMERSTON to power as a signal
for the energetic propagandism and strenuous assertion
of constitutional opinions throughout Europe.
A considerable sensation has been created in poli-
tical circles in Paris by letters which have been re-
ceived from Brussels, stating that General Jomenu,
one of the ablest of the engineer officers in the Rus•
sian service, has arrived in Belgium, for the purpose
of superintending the extensive works and fortifica-
tions which are to be erected for the defence of
Brussels. The raising of barracks at Antwerp for the
accommodation of a large body of troops is going on
with activity.
We read in the Debats—" In the provinces the
poorest beggar is laid in the tomb like a Christian,
with the bell tolling, and the priest performing the
funeral service. In Paris the number of deaths
amounts on an average to from 12,060 to 13,000 per
annum. It was 12,851 in 1851, and of that number
upwards of 6,000 were interred without religious
rites being peformed over their graves. This state of
things is about to cease, as the Prefect of the Seine,
at the desire of the PRESIDENT of the Republic and
of the Archbishop of PARIS, has just proposed
to the municipal council a plan for at-
taching to each cemetery two chaplains, to
perform the funeral service. They are to re-
side close to the cemetery, and to receive from the
city a special salary. They are to accompany the
poor man's coffin to the grave, to recite the appro-
priate prayers, and to throw holy water on the grave.
Such a measure can only be received with approba-
tion. There is in this act a homage rendered to the
equality of all men before death ; the dignity of the
poor man will be restored, and a useful lesson given
to all, profitable alike to morality and religion."
The Courrier du Havre says :—" Our national
discount bank intends to modifyits rate of discount
from the Ist of March. It will reduce its rate to 4
per cent., and 1-16th commission on allbills on Havre
from 5 to 105 days date, on Paris from 5 to 90 days,
and on towns where the Bank of France has branch
establishments, from 12 to 90 days. The initiative
which our Bank has taken will, we doubt not, be
imitated in other places, and will forcibly lead the
Bank of France to reduce its too high rate of dis-
count. By this means commercial transactions will
be facilitated, and credit have a development given to
it which it has hitherto wanted."
The Five per Cents were done at Casino at 103 f.
80c.
BUSINESS DONE INJOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE