The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-23 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market----This Day.

Opened quiet, but strong. Sales, 8,000 bales er
more. Imports, 4,395.

The French Government and X Thiers.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing letter from the Minister of the Interior to the
Prefect of the Seine :

Paris, a y 21, .
Monsieur le Prefet,—l hasten to Mo
reply t 8063 the
report you have addressed to me upon the rumours
circulating in the second circumscription of Paris,
and according to which the Government, hesitating
to oppose M. Thiers, thinks of withdrawing his
competitor, M. Devinck.

I authorise you to contradict those rumours in
the most categorical manner.

Had M. Theirs, rendering homage to the great-
ness of the new empire, presented himself to univer-
sal suffrage as a friend of our institutions, the
Government would have welcomed with sympathy
his return to public life; but from the moment of
his consenting to join, in order to become their
champion, a reunion of the old parties entirely
composed of declared enemies of the Emperor and
the empire, he himself rendered impossible the wel-
come the Government were disposed to give to the
illustrious historian of the Consulate and the
Empire.

Whether M. Theirs presents himself to the
suffrage of the electors with or without repugnance,
whether he consents or refuses to explain his atti-
tude, equivocation is no longer possible, He remains
henceforth one of the representatives of a regime
which France has condemned, and which on that
account it is the duty of the Government to oppose.
M. Thiers is too honest a man for any one to
accuse him of taking an oath he does not intend to
keep. But what M. Thiers wishes is the re-esta-
blishment of a regime which has been fatal to France
and
oto himself—a regime flattering to the vanity of
..rae few and injurious to the welfare of all, which
displaces
authority from its natural bisis to feed the
passions of the tribune, which substitutes for the
fruitful movement of action the sterile agitation of
words, h;
which during eighteen years produced only
impotence athome and feebleness abroad, and
which commencin
amid riots (dans l' meats) con-
tinued through the uproar of riots and finished
amid riots.
No, sir, in the presence of aggrandised France, of
that France which has only,h become so prosperous
M. i
and so glorious since Thiers and his friends have
ceased to be at the head ofazatirs ; in the midst of
m
that great city, now the
in tranquil, the most
rich, and the most beautiful the universe ;—no
universal suffrage will not oppose to
meut which has rescued the cou-nt°rvfromt hreu gi
nov e r
thosen
a
who had allowed it to fall into th"
abyss
at
y,
Mousier le Prefet, &c., F. m,
Minister of the Interior.

6.4.0

Saiare!

3.14.1

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Blythe and Tyne.
Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.tio
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Cork and Bandon
Cornwall

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tillepe pan hap
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been paid to B.
Dublin & Belfast June.
Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June.
Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Glasg. and S. Western.
Great Eastern, Ord. stk
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Ditto EastAnglian st
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Great Northern
Do A stook
Do B do
Gt. S. and W. of Ireland
Great Western ...
Do Str Val gua. stock
Laneashite & Yorkshire
London and Blackwall
Lon., Brig,ht.,& S. Coast
Lon., Chat., and Dover
Lon. & North Western
Lon. & Sty.th Western
Man., Shef., & Lincoln.
Maryport and Carlisle.

DOlshares
Metropolitan
Midland
Do New
Do Birming. & Derby
Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland
Do. shares
Mid Kent
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Do Cray Line
North British
Edin., Perth, & Dundee
Nth. Eastern—Berwick
Do, G.N.E. purchase
Do Leeds
Do York
Do Carlisle
North London
Do New
North Staffordshire
N. and S. W. Junction 1
Scottish Central
Scot N. E., Aber. stock

19.16.41

it Do Scot. Mid. stock..
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it South Devon ...
it South Eastern
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Staines,Wok.,andWok
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Do C

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Waterford & Kilkenny
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West Midland -Oxfordl
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