The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

:RE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT
of the Republic, countersigned by M. PARRIED, the
Minister for Public Instsuction, dispensing for t':e
future with the production of " certificates of study"
by aspirants for the decree:of Bachelor of Letters. This
does away at once with the monopoly of teaching
enjoyed by the University, and throws the degree of
Bachelor of Letters open to all who can pass the usual
examination.

Four regiments of the line have been armed by
order of the Minister of War with a newly-invented
musket, which carries ball 800 yards, being double
the distance obtained by the ordinary musket.
The National Assembly was occupied on Saturday
in discussing the new Bill on the Combination Laws,
and rejected by a majority of 393 to 203 a proposition
made by M. MoRIN for the immediate and total aboli-
tion of those laws.

No less than thirty seats in the Assembly have
become vacant in consequence of the decision of the
High Court of Versailles, convicting certain repre-
sentatives of complicity in the affair of the 13th June.
The following are the departments vacant, with the
names of the late members :—Allier : M. Fargin-
Fayolle. Ariege : M. Pilhes. Cher : MM. Felix
Pyat, Vauthier. Lire: M. Avril. Loire: M.
Martin Bernard. Haute-Loire: M. Maigne. Loire-
et-Cher: M. Cantagrel. Nievre: Al. Gam bon.
Hautes-Pyrenees : M. Deville. Bas-Rhin : MM.
Commissaire, Boch, Beyer, Kopp, Anstett. Haut-
ithin : MM. Pfieger, Kenig, Hofer. Saone-et-
Loire : MM. Rougeot, Rollant, Heitzmann, Jeannot,
Menand, Landolphe. Stine: MM. Boichot, Consi-
dkant, Rattier. Var : MM. Ledru Rollin and Suchet.
Haute-Vienne : M. Daniel Lamaziere.
M. BAROCHE he withdrawn his resignation of the
office of Procureur General. _ _ _

A Commission has been appointed to consider the
best means of establishing public baths and wash-
houses in all the towns and cities of France.
The Moniteur announces that Prince CALLIMACHI,
Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary
from the Sublime Porte to the French Republic,
had a private audience of the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public on Saturday last, at which he announced the
birth of two children of the Sultan ABDUL MEDJID.
A letter from Montpellier states that a silver mine
has been discovered in the department of the Herault,
which produces fine silver of the value of 88f. from
200 pounds' weight of ore.
Letters from La Calle in Algeria of the 3d inst.
state that the successful resistance of the insurgents
at Zaalcha has encouraged several tribes of Arabs to
commit acts of hostility against the French settlers.
M. RITLENT, the director of a society for cutting
wood, had been lassassinated, and the men employed
at the silver mines of Oumteboul been driven from
their employment, and their inspector put to death.
Letters from Oran state that the cholera is making
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dreadful ravages in the city and its neighbourhood.
Cotenel Louts DB BIaKEsY, one of the most dis-
tinguished officers in the Hungarian army, has just
died in Paris, in the twenty-ninth year of his age.
His funeral was attended by the Count Ladislas
Telekie, Envoy of the late Hungarian Government
to the French Republic ; MM. Szemere, Minister
of the Interior to Kossuth •, Almassy, President of
the Chamber of Deputies ; liejuiell, Director of the
ilungarian Police ; Brown and Perenyl, late Envoys
to Constantinople ; and a number of deputies and
officers who have lately arrived in Paris from Co-
morn.

PARIS BOURSE—LATEST PRICES—Nov. 19.—Five
per Cents., 89f. 55c. ; Three per Cents., 56f. 75c. ;
Bank of Frau., 2,385 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 19.

East Indian, 3%—Namur and Liege, 's%—Northern of
France, 2X! die. —Paris and Strasbourg, 6.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the lath have arrived.
The Committee on the Budget have proposed to
make extensive reductions in the ordinary estimates
of war, finance, and commerce, and to strike off the
whole of the 60 millions of reals demanded as extra-
ordinary estimates. These reductions if carried out
will reduce the amount of the expenditure to that of

the revenue. The Committee has proposed to do
away for the future with all retiring allowances to
Ministers of State. _ . .

The QUEEN gave a splendid banquet on the 12th
to the Prince of PRUSSIA.
The Barcelona Foment* of the 10th has a letter
from Solsona, which says that the celebrated Carlist
Chief BEIGES had entered Catalonia from France,
with about twenty followers, on the side of Agra-
munt and Sanahuja.
MADRID Rome, Nov. 13.—The funds art higher
again. The Three per Cents. were done at 23 cash,
and were sustained at that price; Five per Cents.
were done at 111 to and were 14 at the close.
The other stocks are as yesterday.

PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.—A public meeting, most
respectably and numerously attended, was held last
evening at the Bridge house Hotel, Southwark, for the
purpose of promoting the abolition of the punishment of
death. The chair was taken at seven o'clock, by
Charles Gilpin, Esq. Letters were read approving of the
object of the meeting from Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Mr.
Cobden, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. R. H. Horne.
The meeting was addressed by Mr. Ewart, M.P., Rev.
H. Christmas, Mr. C. Wordsworth, Rev. H. Richards,
Mr. J. Robertson, Mr. Scoble, Mr. A. Stevens, and Mr.
Webster, and various resolutions for promoting the abo-
lition of the punishment of death were unanimously
agreed to. The proceedings did not terminate until ten
o'clock.

DEATH OE COLONEL BARN WELL.—We regret to
announce, the death of this distinguished officer, which
took place in the early part of the week, at his residence
in Windsor-terrace. Colonel Barnwell was long in active
service, and passed through most of the -1), ninsular
campaigns under the Duke of Wellington. For his
services there the deceased received a medal with no
fewer than thirteen clasps. Latterly ho commanded the
9th Foot, which he left to fill the post of inspecting
field officer at Glasgow, where ho has been residing fur
the last twelve months.— Glasgow Mail.
THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE.—Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke ,and Duchess de Nemours
arrived at Claremont on Friday evening from Brussels
to join the family circle surrounding the Count and
Countess de Neuilly, at their retreat near Esher.