The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-12 00:00:00

description of this mighty empire. Bank of England
notes were received with implicit confidence during
the entire war. The credit of the Bank for all do-
mestic purposes was perfect, simply because it held a
certain quantity of Government securities. How
much superior would be the national notes, issued
from the Exchequer of Great Britain, for which every
Englishman was responsible with his entire property
and labour. Lord AsnnuaTow has told us that "we
could not have carried on the war against France
without the -Bank Restriction Act." Let us have a
new Restriction Act, that will enable us to gain a
glorious victory over distress, destitution, and misery
throughout the British dominions, in all parts of the
globe.

In another part of the paper will be seen a Letter
containing extracts from the Confession of Augsburg
in the original Latin and the contemporary
translation, bearing on the question of Sabbath ob-
servance. Having been made with care, they may
usefully be preserved by any desirous of collecting
documentary evidence on the opinions of the fathers
of Protestantism and the Church of England.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

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We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Moniteur contains the following :—" The
PRESIDENT said in his last Message—' I am resolved
to be worthy of the confidence of the nation in main-
taining the Constitution which I have sworn to.'
These words are clear and precise, and ought to be
safe from any misinterpretation or doubt. Notwith-
standing this, in certain journals, in drawing-rooms,
at the Assembly, everywhere in fact, rumours are
circulated of a pretended coup trete. This menace
is kept suspended, as if intentionally, over the heads
of the persons most easily alarmed, and in this way
public security is wickedly and maliciously troubled.
We are authorised to declare that in all this there is
perfidious intention, odious calumny, and insult to
the loyalty of him who never broke his word."
The Moniteur contains a long report, dated Nov.
9, from M. A. FouLD, Minister of Finance, addressed
to the PRESIDENT of the Republic, relative the mode
of paying the interest of the rentes into which the
money of savings' banks, the bons du tresor, and the
Lyons railway shares have been converted. The re-
port states that this vast operation is now rapidly
approaching its term, and that not less than 600,000
new inscriptions have been created throughout every

part of the country :
" The Government, however," says the report," would
but imperfectly perform its task if it did not devise
means of having the dividends paid exactly. Already a
first experiment was made in the last payment on the 5
per cents., into which the above values were almost all
converted. By means of temporary measures, and by
organizing at Paris a sort of auxiliary commercial
service, the payment was effected without any com-
plaint being made, and without any change of import-
ance in what had previously taken place in paving
the dividends and their arrears. But it having been
evident that in order to provide for such a mass of pay•
ments the ordinary means of execution were insufficient,
Id. Passy appointed a Committee of experienced men—
selected from the court of accounts and from the cen-
tral administration of finance, to examine the question
and to see what course it would be necessary to adopt.
That committee was finishing its labours when I (M.
Fould) took possession of the post of the Minister of
Finance, and I now, after having attentively investigated
its deliberations, come forward to propose to you a series
of provisions calculated to meet the case. One of the
principal inconveniences of the present system is to oblige
the administration to assign every year nominative
warrants for each portion of rente—a labour of immense
extent, and which has to be repeated with the payers
and receivers general, with other documents in such
numbers, that the administration considered it
necessary to dispense with a part of them for
1849. The Bill which I adjourn to the present ,re-
port will remedy this state of things by substituting
from 1850, in the place of nominative statements of
arrears, transferable nominative bulletins which will
remain in the hands of the payers and which will be
available for ten years. On their side, the receivers-
general, who in the departments will continue to be
charged with the payment of the dividends to the par-
ties interested, will receive, in place of a copy of the
nominative statements, a list of these same papers by
numbers in series and by the sums due, which in like
manner will serve for several years, being modified only
in what regards rentes newly, inscribed or annulled.
This modification, and some others which have been
decided on, will produce a notable simplification of
labour, and the additional work can thus be effected
without any augmentation of expense. It is also in-
tended to introduce measures to enable the holders of
the rentes in the departments to obtain at the chef-lieu,
by means of third parties, with facility and without ex-
pense, the sums coming due to them. A simplification
of this extensive nature will, it is believed, constitute a
money to invest la purehaiie inure readily into the
public funds."
The report is followed by a Bill, in six articles, car-
rying out the plans set forth in it, and bearing the
approval of the PRESIDENT of the Republic.
The following proclamation by the new Prefect of
Police, M. CARLIER, has been posted on the walls of
Paris this morning :
" Inhabitants of Paris,—The high confidence of the
President of the Republic has just called me to the post
of Prefect of Police. It will be for me as eternal honour
to have been considered worthy of seconding in those
delicate functions the great and straightforward policy
inaugurated by the acts and declarations of the head of
the State. I am about to demand from my fellow-citizens
their co-operation and support, in promising them my
zeal and energy. Peaceable men of all classes can only
see in me a friend ; I am, and always shall be, I do
not say the enemy, but the courageous and inde-
fatigable adversary of perturbators, both chiefs and in-
struments. Pro ection to religion, to labour, and to
family ties, to property, to good institution., to repent-
ance even; vigilance and rigour towards Socialism, im-
morality, disorder, improper publications, and the ob-
stinacy of the factious—such will be the rule of my
conduct.
" National Guards, heads of manufacturing and in-
dustrial establishments, fathers of families, tradesmen,
workmen, assist me in the accomplishment of my mis-
sion; it belongs to the initiative of good citizens to faci-
litate the action of the laws and of authority; the internal
discipline of families and workshops is the most power-
ful auxiliary of the police of, the State; our cause is the
same; you wish for a protective Government; we wish
for enlightened liberty; moderation founded on force
will, doubtless, daunt bad passions. The most trying
days are passed; but we must not slumber on a first
success; nothing has been done while there yet remains
anything to do for order and security. Inhabitants of
Paris, the question now is to form a league against
Socialism; that is the cause of every interest. Let us
revive private confidence by restoring public security;
let us secure the future welfare of all by the stability of
institutions faithfully respected, but firmly applied; it is
between us all a mutual assurance; we have therefore a
right to rely on each other. You may rely on me.
(Signed) " CARLIER.
"Seen and approved by the Minister of the Interior,
(Signed) "F. BARROT."
The proclamation of M. CABLIER is severely
criticised by the Republican journals.
The Constitutionnel of Saturday publishes an
elaborate defence of the PRESIDENT of the Republic
against the attacks of those who impute to him im-
proper motives for the dismissal of his late Ministry.
It mentions two imputations in particular which it
regards as calumnious. The first is that he aimed at
the empire, and had therefore resolved to appoint
Ministers who would support this project. This im-
putation, says the tiontrtztiazonnel, is refuted by his
Message. The second imputation assigns to him a
wish to obtain a Cabinet which would support a
demand for an increase of salary as chief magis-
trate. To this the Constitutionnel gives a very
conclusive answer by stating that M. DUFAURB
and his colleagues had unanimously agreed to
demand a salary of three millions of francs per
annum for the PRESIDENT of the Republic, ;and were
certain of obtaining it, from the majority. If,
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which would strengthen the executive for the public
welfare, even although by doing so he should sacri-
fice his own personal interests. The Constitutionnel,
however, does not believe that the majority will act
so unworthily as to resist now what they would have
acceded to the late Ministry.
It would seem, from the above article, that M. TRIBES
regards the new Ministry as likely to last, and the
experiment of the personal government of the PRE-
SIDENT as at all events feasable.
The following scene took place at the High Court
of Versailles, duringith. sitting of Friday :
The Judges took their seats at eleven o'clock.
M. &in, Avocat-General, resumed his requisitory,
and proceeded to recapitulate the charges proved
against the accused who belonged to the Artillery of
the National Guard. Having had occasion to mention
that it had been proved that some National Guards,
who took part in the demonstration of 18th June, had
changed the plate of their shakos for others bearing
the number of the sth Legion—
The accused Schmitz interrupted him with the
exclamation—That was never said I
The President—Accused, you have not the .right
to interrupt.
Schmitz—Nor has he the right to lie.—(Agitation.)
The President—Accused, I shall be obliged to cause
you to be removed from the court.
Schmitz--I shall be glad if you do.
M. de Royer, Avocat-General, said that the
outrage the prisoner had made to a magistrate was
unpardonable. Besides, he was wrong, in point of
fact, ai Duteuil hsd deposed to the oircumitigice