The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-01 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The National Assembly has committed an open
and fligrant violation of the Constitution, thus set-
ting the example to any who may be inclined to
follow it. Should the PRESIDENT openly adopt mea •
sures to secure his re-election, and should the Na-
tional Assembly remonstrate, he might quote their
vote of Thursday as a precedent, and set them at
defiance, so far as legality was concerned.
It will be remembered that the Constituent As
sembly determined, after many debates, to make it
a fundamental principle of the Constitution .that
the electors should vote for their representatives in
the chief towns of tho Cantons. This was done
is order that the rural electors might be
enabled to exercise their franchise freely, which they
could not do if their votes were taken in the parishe.,.,
as they would is such cases be subject to the intimi-
dation of the priest and of the local authorities. This,
which is one of the fundamental principles of the
Constitution, has been violated by the present priest-
ridden Assembly, which has determined by a majority
of 418 to '2Ol to subject the rural electors to the
direct ioterferince and intimidation of their priest, by
ordering the votes to he taken for the future in the
p,lrisht s.
The preposition of Colonel CIIAIIRAS for the sale of
the crown jewels was negatived by a majority (1439
to 187.

The Illopiteur da Soir has the following.—

" T journals—l'Grdre and the Voir du People— pro
tend that we have reproduced and approved of an article
of the Credit, attributing to the Piesident of the Itae-
pablic a speech to the pretects recently appoiuttel. This
is an error of the journals alluded to, mach they will,
wiliout doubt, hasten to rectify. We have not repro-
duced a word of the article of the Credit, and we could
not approve of a larguago which we had every reason to
consider apocryphal."
M. PE hAYNEVAL has given in his resignation of the
office of French Minister at Rome, in consequence of
liberal instructions given to General BMIAGUAT
DithwEas. The instructions to General BARAGUAY
D'llinustas are in accordance with the views of the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, as developal in his letter
to M. EDGArt NEI%

The Legitimatist plot of the Rue de Romford has
more extensive ramifications than had been at first
suspected, and persons of some importance are said to
have been implicated in it. Upwards of 400 Legiti-
matists are said to have been arrested in the provinces,
in consequence of the discoveries which have been made
during the course of the examination of the prisoners.
Neither M. MOLE nor M. DE MONTALEMBERT were
present at the PRESIDENT'S reception on Thursday
evening. The absence of these leaders of the parti-
pretre was much commented on.
The trial of 23 persons accused of belonging to a
secret society called the Les Amis de l'Egalit6 was
brought to a close at a late hour on the night of
Wednesday. Fifteen of the accused were acquitted,
and the others were condemned as follows ;—LEGRE,
six months' imprisonment; CASTINET and PRICIOT,
one year's imprisonment, 100 f. fine, and one year's
interdiction of civil rights; SALGULE and THERM'',
six months' imprisonment, 100 f. fine, and one year's
interdiction of civil rights; Hanaust, two years' im-
prisonment, 100 f. fine, and two years' interdiction of
civil right. When called up for his defence, the
last made a violent speech, in which he declared him-
self a Communist, and said that while life lasted he
would combat for a Republic in, which every man
should be supplied according to his wants, and no
one allowed to have 10,000 f. a year when others were
starving.
The French Government has sent orders to Rome
to send home that portion of the expeditionary army
for whom it has been impossible to find barracks, and
who are ill lodged.
The Evenement announces that M. DE PERSIGNY is
about to proceed to Berlin on a special mission.
The Estaffette mentions a report that the PIIESI-
DENT of the Republic will grant a general amnesty
to all the political offenders on the 10th of December.
Letters from Lyons of the 27th inst. state that the
overflowing of the Rhone has caused much damage in
that city. The houses on the quays and the adjoining
streets are completely flooded, and the inhabitants
obliged to remove with their property.
PARIS BOURSE, FRIDAY, Nov. 30.

The market has been again heavy tc-day, and prices
aro a shade lower; Threes closing at 56f. 85c., and
Fives at 69f. 65c. The market closed as follows:
Threes, for cash, 50f. 90c.; for account, 56f. 85c.; Fires,
for cash, 89f.650.; for account, 89f. 65c.; Bank of France
Shares, 2,395 f.; Spanish Threes, 371. 75c.; Ditto Fives
and Neapolitan not quoted.
RAlLwAys.—lt has been almost a dies non in the
Share Marktt; prices, however, havo varied but little.
Rouen elose3 at 5251. ;' Havre, 230 f.; Bordeaux,
3981. 75c.; Northern, 441 f. 25c.; Paris and Strasburgh,
357 f. 50c.; Nantes, 277 f. 50:.; Montereau, 1151. Other
lines not quoted.

BUSINI,. SS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, Nov. 30.
Great Indian Peninsala, % —Namur and Liege, 6 ?a—
Sambreand Meuse, 2 4.