The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-21 00:00:00

'EVENING, DECEMBER 21, no

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris par ers of )esterday:

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A Council of Ministers was held on Wednesday,
at which it was determined to prepare a new Bill on
the subject of the Paris and Avignon Railway. This
resolution was communicated by M. BINEAU, the
Minister of Public Works, to the President of the
Committee on the Bill.

At the sitting of the Assembly on Wednesday, M.
FouLD, the Minister of Finance, presented a Bill de-
mandieg a provisional credit in favour of the Govern-
ment of three-twelfths of the estimated expenditure
of 1850, and moved that the Bill should be considered
as urgent. The urgency was voted by a very large
majority.
M. Takes was present in the Assembly on Wed-
nesday for the first time since his illness.
The Council of Advocates have pronounced judg-
ment on the Counsel who refused to plead before the
High Court of Versailles. MM. Cremieux, Madier de
Monijau, and Dein are reprimanded ; and MM. Jules
Fevre and Desmarets are earned ; MM. Malapert,
Cullier, and Lapeyruere are absolved.
We read in the Opinion Publigue—" M. Dauu has
this day laid upon the bureau of the Assembly the
report of the Committee of Supplementary Credits on
the Monte-Videan question. This report contains a
full resume of the lengthened inquiry which the Com-
mittee has conducted during the last six months. The
question of 'urgency' is demanded."
The Ordre, which is the organ of M. ODILON
BARROT, reproaches the PRESIDENT with a disposi-
tion to aid Prussia against Russia and Austria,
should the latter Powers attempt to put down the
Erfurth Parliament, and to Haynau ise Germany, in
order to re impose the Austrian yoke • and accuses
Lord NORMANDY of endeavouring to induce the PRE-
SIDENT to adopt these dangerous courses. It is plain
from this avowal that, in the view of M. ODILON
BARROT at least, the Roman expedition was not to
diminish the influence of Austria ; and except by the
diminution of Austrian influence, it is hard to say
how French influence is to be increased in Italy.

The Estafette announces the arrest of M. LEOUTItF,
the gerant of the Reforme.
The Prefect of Police has published an ordonnance,
by which it is prohibited, from and after the Ist of
January next, to empty cesspools until their contents
shall have been disinfected.

It was remarked that M. BEIIRYER, during the
whole of the discussion on the reimposition of the

sine tax, had absented himself from the Assembly.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Thursday at 56f. 45c.; the Five per Cents. at 911.
90c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 760 t. ; Rouen, 547 f.
50c. ; Havre, 240 f. ; Great Northern, 461 f. 25c. ;
Avignon, 217 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 330 f. ; Basle, 1161.
25c.; Bordeaux, 4061. 250. ; Paris and Strasburg,
302 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantest 277 f. 50c

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STUCK-EXCHANGI4., DEC. 20.

Boulogne and Amiens, 7N—Namur and Liege, 6:Yi
.uxembourg, 21/B—Northern of France, 1% dis.—Rouen and
lavre, 9

SPAIN .
Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the
13th the proposition of OLOZAGA for an inquiry
into the influence exercised by the Government
during the last elections was taken into considera-
tion. General NARVARZ did not oppose the motion.
MADRID BOLSA, DEc. 14.—The Three per Cents.
closed on the 14th at 30 11-16 cash; the Five per
Cents. at 12/ paper ; the Debt without Interest 4
paper ; Coupons 8 paper.

GERMAN Y

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

Letters from Vienna of the 15th announces the
death of the Archduke FERDINAND D'ESTE, at
Brunn.

The Weiner Zeitung of the 18th publishes a letter
from Field-Marshal IVELDEN, stating that he has
transmitted an account of the origin and plan of the
Institution for the Relief of Invalided and 'Wounded
Warriors of the Campaign of 1848 and 1849, to the
four commanders-in-chief, for the purpose of obtain-
ing from them a list of the persons who `rill be
entitled to the benefit of the institution. lle publishes
a letter received by him from Field-Marshal RA-
DETzitv, expressing his warmest thanks to the
benevolent founders of this institution.

The Pesth Zeitung of the 12th gives a list of per-
sons who, under recent acts of amnesty, have had
their sentences commuted from death and lengthened
imprisonment to mitigated punishments.