The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-31 00:00:00

lIE FRENCH REP U BLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel, it would seem, is now the
official organ of communication of the Russian
AUTOCRAT. The following announcement, which
we find in that journal, reads as if published by
authority :
"It is stated, that according to the points agreed to
between the Russian Government and that of Austria,
tkt. Russian troops of the army of operation in Hun-
gary will occupy certain towns of that kingdom as long
as there can be any doubt that the pacification of the
coutry is complete, and that calm has returned to men's
minds. According to the same information, Russia
is said to have obtained from the Austrian Govern-
ment that Hungary shall have her separate line of
customs, and shall not be comprised in the cus
toms union of the Austrian states. It is known that
Hungary had hitherto enjoyed the ptivilege of levy-
ing at the intermediate frontier between the territory
of the kingdom and that of the hereditary states a
duty known by the name of the Thirtieth. The collec-
tion of that duty demanded the maintenance of a separate
line of custom-house officers; but at the same time that
intermediatecommercial
individuality,
of
customs
and gsuearrvaendt eteodptrootHecutntghaery ama-
nifestations of the country against the competition of the
frontier countries. An association had been formed in
Hungary under the name of Vedegzlct, which obliged
its members to consume only national produce; and not-
withstanding the raillery of which it was the object, it
exercised a certain influence on the advance of national
manufactures. These manufactures, being arrested in
their development by the war, would have the greatest
difficulty in reviving, if an efficient protection did not
aid them. That is said to be the motive which has
determined Hungary to apply for a distinct customs
line, and Russia to support that demand with the Impe-
rial Government."

The Reform. has the following on the intrigues of
Russia with the reactionary party :

" As to the intentions and aims of the Czar, they are
too plain to allow of the least doubt. After having con-
quered Hungary rather by diplomacy than force of arms,
he now secures the rear of his army that he may be in a
position to march to the Rhine in concert with Austria
and Prussia. It is for the sake of obtaining this end
that he has deigned to conclude a treaty with Turkey,
by which the latter engages to furnish a contingent of
35,000 men to keep down Wallachia and Moldavia.
And now, ye statesmen of the 10th of December, if you
see not the perils that menace your country, you are
either blind or you are lending your hand to the Holy
Alliance of the north. Nicholas plays his last card.
The war, which was commenced in Hungary only to
terminate on the borders of the Rhine, will be the
supreme struggle between liberty and despotism. Europe
will be Republican or Cossack."
The Naturnal has the following on the fall of
Venice :

" A moment there was when France appeared to com-
prehend her duty and her right. A day there was
when the Government of February desired to extend its
hand to Venice. The ships were ready, the soldiers
were designated, the road was marked out, and Venice
had prepared for our brave soldiers some of those de-
ierted palaces into which Austria is now about to enter
as a master, just as she did at Milan, nourishing her
cane. We shall perhaps be able yet to show how our
diplomatists contrived to bring to nothing this noble and
patriotic design. To-day we can do no more than
write these words with grief:—ln eight days Hun-
gary and Venice! France looks on and is silent. What?
Republican France? The France of February? France,