The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-31 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The marriage of M. DE PERSIGNY with Madlle.
DE LA MOSKOWA was celebrated at a late hour on
Friday night, at the chapel of the Elye6,, in presence
of LOUIS NAPOLEON. The PRESIDENT'S household,
the Ministers, the widow of Marshal NET, the
Prince DE LA MOSKOWA, and a few relations, were
the only persons present at the ceremony.
There is an article in the Pays on the rumours
which have been current recently respecting the in-
tentions of foreign powers, and which, although there
was reason to doubt their exactitude, appear to have
had an injurious effect by creating a want of that
confidence in the future without which all the opera..
tions of commerce and finance must be paralysed, and
every interest except that of the systematic opponents
of tranquillity and stabslity be injured, more or less.
The remarks of the Pays are some of them confirmed
by an official article in the Moniteur, which is the
more important from the fact of its having been pub-
lished immediately after an extraordinary Council of
Ministers, and with the direct authority of the chief
of the State, who has very recently expressed himself
in the strongest possible way in favour of the main-
tenance of peace. The Pays says :
" For some days past there has been a good deal of
talk at Paris and London of the visit of the Emperor of
Russia to Vienna and Berlin, and of its results on the
general affairs of Europe. An English newspaper, the
Times, goes so far as to present the private conversa-
tions which have taken place 'between the august Sove-
reigns as premeditated confeienCes, in which a plan of
conduct With respect to 4"rattce was laid down, in ex-
pectation of certain eventualities. The same journal,
which by the way is knciwn'for its systematic malevo-
lence to the French Government, goes further, and pub-
lishes a sort of resumd of.the pretended resolutions said
to have been taken in these pretended conferences. As
the paper in which we read this strange document has
great notoriety, we cannot leave its inventions without
reply. What does the note falsely ascribed to
the
say? Although it is very long, we can
sum
Sovereignsit
in p F
a word—it denies the sovereignty of
France
rince. Yes, if the Times is to be believed,
it is not France which is sovereign in France, but Eu-
rope. Tans Europe wculd have
u
the right to say to us,
Yon are a nation of 36,000,000. You have never sub-
mitted to the law of any one, and have often imposed
your own. You have made war, on many occasions, not
only for questions of territory, but for questions of in-
fluence and dignity. Servitude is repugnant to your
nature, to your history, to your manners, to your senti-
ments. What matters ! I forbid you to take such or
such a government because it does not suit me, and I
derive the right of making this interdiction from the
Treaty of Vienna.' The Treaty of Vienna! That is
the immutable imprescriptible Constitution to which
,Europe wishes to enchain France. Bat is that possible?
Is it serious? In truth, the Times mocks too audaciously
the Sovereigns whom it causes to speak, and France,
which it wishes to intimidate.
The Pays concludes thus :
" Did Europe protest after the 10th December, 1848?
Did she protest after the 20th December, 1851? No I
She respected France in the exercise of the most incon-
testable right of a nation—that of its sovereignty. What
Europe did not do either with respect to the election of
the 10th December, 1848, or with respect to the election
of 20th December, 1851, she will not do with respect to
any other act of the will of France. She will respect
that will, whatever France may decide. She will respect
it from equity and necessity. Let us then not be at all
alarmed. What is just and necessary in the world is
always inevitable. Europa is not called on to change
her conduct with respect to France. She has nothing to
impose on her; and she will impose nothing. She can
only demand of her in her turn to respect her own in-
dependence. The name of Bonapara, which re•appeers
after a long eclipse, disquiets her perhaps. But in the
measure in which she sees the name farther off, and the
man who bears it nearer, she will be some more and
more reassured, and she will console herself for what the
uncle cost her, by thanking God for what the nephew
has spared her, by saving France from a wreck, and Eu-
ropean civilization from a tempest."
The following is the official article in the Moniteur
above referred to :--

" Some foreign journals endeavour to attach credit to
the report that the Northern Powers, in the prevision
of certain eventualities, would he ready to renew the
coalition of 1815, and that they have deermincd before-
hand the limits beyond which France would not be per-
mitted to mcdify her governmen►. This report is a
falsehood; the eventualities which are the pretext of it
have no probability. There is nothing ts indicate the
necessity for any change in our institutions. France
enjoys the most complete tranquillity. All the powers
keep up the most amicable relations with her, and they
have never made less pretensions than at present to in-
terfere with our domestic regime. They know that
France will, in case of need, cause her rights to be
respected, as she respects those of other nations, but
these rights are neither threatened nor disputed. Let
fallen parties rely as formerly on foreign intervention to
cause the triumph of their pretensions over the national
will ; they will find that th;s old tactic will have no
other result than to make them more odious to the
country."
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the customs
and indirect taxes for the month of April, which
amounted to 14 244,9171., .or 4,567,797 f. more than
in the corresponding month of 1851. The receipts
for the first four months of the present year amount
to 46,773,3641., an increase on the same period of
1851 of 10,347,1191.

The Coristitutionnel, after quoting from the Ami de
la Religion the paragraph respecting the Bill on
public instruction, which has been given in the 211es-
senger, says :—lt ilt s now certain that, in conse•
quence of the opposition which this Bill has encoun-
tered in various quarters, it will not be presented to
the Legislative Body this session, and that the ques-
tion is thus adjourned till next year."
The Mirquis of LONDONDERRY has arrived at the
Hotel du Rhin.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 29.
Dutch Rhenish, 45/B—East Indian, 22%8—Great Indian
Peninsula, 614—Northern of France, 231,6—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 15% ex d.—Paris and Lyons, 10 yB—Paris and Rouen,
30—Paris and Strasbourg, 213/4—Rouen and Havre, 11—
Sambre and Meuse, 4%8.