The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-24 00:00:00

ranged. He proposed that certain fees should be
levied in the proceedings, that might be substituted
for the old attachment, out of which not only the
5001. a year to these parties, but even the 1,5001. a
year to the Recorder (now payable by Government),
might be provided for. We have not yet heard whether
this straightforward and reasonable proposition will
be acceded to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It ought to be so at least, and if the anticipations of
the Honourable Member for Dublin, as to the pro•
bable amount of the fund be realised, all parties will
be satisfied, and the removal of the Recorder's salary
from the national Exchequer will convince the Minister
of Finance that, in public as well as in private mat-
ters, " Honesty will ever be the best policy."

THE 1 ENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The debate on the Russian invasion of Hungary
was not brought to a conclusion on Tuesday. An
attempt to give the question the go-by by moving
the order of the day proved unsuccessful, it having
been rejected by a majority of 459 to 53. The dis-
cussion was to have been resumed yesterday, and it
was considered probable that the amendment to M.
JOLY'S resolution, which was proposed by General
CAVAIGNAC, would be adopted. This amendment is
somewhat less violent than the resolution, yet still it
cannot but be considered as a warning to the
Reactionary Powers, inasmuch as it calls upon the
Government to adopt the measures necessary for the
energetic protection of the country. The difference,
however, is of small importance, 23 is justly observed
by the National:—
" We care not what form of amendment be accepted,
provided it expresses this—that the French Republic
accepts the challenge thrown down by absolutism, and
that it be sgnified to Austria and to Russia that the
Republic will appeal to the sword if the Russians do not
at once evacuate Hungary, and if the Austrians remain
a day longer before Venice, or in the Roman States or
Tuscany. • _ _

And the amendment of General CAVAIGNAC certainly
goes to this extent. Indeed it is evident, from the
manifesto of the Emperor of UUSSIA, that France
has no choice left but to become, as Austria has be-
come, a Russian province, or to drive back the bar-
baric armies of the CZAR to their native wiids.

The Messager du Midi publishes a long account of
an emeute which took place at Montpellier on Satur-
day, in consequence of the refusal of the Prefect to
communicate to the people the contents of certain
telegraphic dispatches which had been received from
Lyons and Marseilles. The people attempted to break
into the Prefecture, but they were dispersed by the
military, and tranquillity was soon afterwards , re-
stored. Saveral arrests have taken place.
Count LADISLAUS TELEX', the Envoy from Hun-
gary, has addressed to the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs a letter informing him that he has received
from his Government an official order to make known
to the Government of the Republic the act of the
Hungarian Assembly, by which the House of Haps-
burg• Loraine is deprived of the throne of Hungary,
which is declared a free and independent European
Power. . _ _

Since the above was written we have received the
Paris papers of yesterday evening.
The debate on the amendment of General Ca-
VAIGNAC to the resolution on the Russian question
was brought to a conclusion in the early part of the
sitting of the Assembly yesterday, by the adoption of
General CAVAIGNAC'S proposition by a majority of 436
to 184 ; an addition to it proposed by MM. JOLT and
BASTIDE, to the following effect—" To take measures
necessary to preserve the independence and the liberty
of nations "—having been previously rejected by a
majority of 346 to 269.
The following is the text of General CAVAIGNAC'S
motion, as finally adopted :—" The National As-
sembly calls the serious attention of the Government
to the events and the movements of troops which are
taking place in Europe; and, pre-occupied by the
danger of that state of things, as well for the welfare
of liberty as for the interior and exterior interests of
the Republic, it recommends to the Government to
take the measures necessary to protect them energeti-
cally, and passes to the order of the day."
The Ministerial crisis still continues. It is said
that the DuraußE and PASSY modification has failed,
and that it is probable BUGEAUD will be the new
President of the Council.

PARIS BOURSE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23.
TunEE O'CLOCK.—The debate of yesterday has had
a depressing effect on the Bourse to-day, but the Funds
improved at the latter part of the day, on its being as-
certained that the majority of the Assembly was in
favour of the Government. Exchange on London, (30
days), 25 52i ; ditto (90 days), 25 40.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. MAY 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7 ex coupons—Northern of France,
94—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3—Paris and Orleans, 29%
Faris and Rouen, 191/2—Paris and Strasbourg, 4%.