The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-21 00:00:00

,SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1852

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Several more Councils of ArrondiQsement have
passed a resolution in favour of an application to the
Senate for an appeal to universal suffrage to render
the powers of the PRINCE PRESIDENT permanent.
Petitions for the Empire are still being signed in se-
ver,' of the departments.

Tne Moniteur says--" While our squt'lron was
causing the PACHA of Tripoli to deliver up the two
Frenchmen who had been subjected in that place to
the most violent and barbarous treatment, the Otto-
man Porte had hastened to send off a frigate bearing
an order to the PACHA to deliver up our countrymen."
There is an article in the Pays on the negotiations
for a renewal of the commercial treaty with Beleium.
The greater part of it relates to the condition in fa-
vour of the protection of literary property, which
the French Government imposra as the breie of the
new treaty, and which, according to the Pays, will
not he abandoned.
We read in the Patrie—" One of the members of
the late Legislative Assembly, whom his violent opi-
nions have caused to be successively expelled from
two countries where he sought an asylum, id. VICTOR
HUGO, has lately publiehed at Brussels a pamphlet,
called Napoleon le Petit, and which containe the
most odious calumnies against the PRESIDENT. It is
said that one day last week a functionary brought
this libel to St• Cloud. LOUIS NAPOLEON examined
it for an instant with a smile of contempt on his lip,
and then, turning to the persons present, said—' Look,
gentlemen, here is Napoleon le Petit by Victor Hugo
le Grand.' This happy expression, which hes been in
circulation in the salons, hag led to much laughter
against the ex-Mountaineer."
There is an article in the Gazette de France on the
subject of M. 10
...ROUDHON'S book. M. PROUDHON
bases the whole of his philosophy, says the Gazette, on
the negation of all that exists beyond the human in-
telligence. It does not admit that man is the creation
of GoD, but declares GOD to be a being imagined by
men, a fictitious existence created by him for the pur-
poses of delusion and government. The writer in the
Gazette proceeds at considerable length to show
that man is subjected to immutable laws over
which he has no control, the denial of the existence of
a power against which he can oppose no resistance is
not merely blasphemous, but ridiculous. VOLTAIRE,
says the Gazette, has observed that the existence of
a clock supposes the existence of a clockmaker, and
the existence of a world must imply that of a creator.
Was it necessary for the Gazette to take so much
pai▪
ns to overthrow the groundwork of M. PROUD-
.HON' s Philosophy ? To bestow time and argument
refuting a man who asserts that GOD is a fiction,
is like reasoning with a confirmed lunatic in order to
convince him that he is labouring under mental delu-
sion. To discuss seriously the theories of M. PROUD •
HON, is to raise a supposition that there really is some-
thing in them that requires refutation. The best
thi▪
ng that can be done is to leave them without com-
ment to the common sense of the mass. There
little danger of their producing any effect except upon
mi▪
nds es diseased as that of their author.
There was not much business transacted at the Bourse,
and there was little variation in prices. The Four-and-a-
Half per Cents, opened at 104 f. 60c., and closed at 104 f.
65c. for the end of the month; the Three per Cents.
closed at 75f. 55c ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,412 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 870 f. 50c.; Havre, 367 f.; Great Northern, 657 f.
50c.; Avignon, 470 f.; Basle, 3001.; Paris and Strasburg,
650 f.; Paris and Lyons, 757 f. 50e.; Lyons and Avignon,
5801.; Western of France, 60f.; St. Dizier to Gray, 545 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAIL WAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 20.
Dutch Rhenish, 6 ex d.—Grand Junction of France, 5
—Madras, 21A p.—Northern of France, 201. 3 per cent.
Bonds,
_l3l/2—Western of France, 9yB.

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