The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes a decree nominating
General DE LAIIITE Minister of Foreign Affairs, in
the place of M. DE RAYREVAL ; and another by
which M. DARCY, Prefect of the Rhone, is nomi-
nated Under-Secretary of State for the Department
of the Interior. _

The members of the parti•pretre, not daring to
quarrel openly with the PRESIDENT of the Republic,
have adopted a paltry and therefore most charac-
teristic plan of manifesting their spite ; they have
refused to vote any allowance for furnishing the
palace of the Vice-President of the Republic, M.
BOULAY DE LA AIEURTHE, who is the personal friend
of the President.

The Preece thus appreciates the situation :
" It is now beyond a doubt, that whatever the new
Ministry may do, in spite of its words and in spite of its
acts, in spite of the proclamation of M. Curlier, in spite
of the transportation law, and in spite of the re-estab-
iiihment of the duty on potable liquors, the majority will
neither forget nor forgive the message. The divorce is
henceforth accomplished. The message is the official act
of that divorce. It will be in vain to attempt to bring
them together. These reconciliations will not be sincere.
The two powers are in opposition, and neither of them
will yield."
And, looking upon it in this light, the Presse
adds :
" What do we see? A majority, humiliated and of-
fended, revenging its impotency by little acts of rancour,
instead of displaying force and dignity. This majority
puts on the appearance, but it has not the virtue of re-
signation, It bows its head to insult; but watches for
an opportunity to annoy. It sulks; it decides that it
w ill attend no more public ceremonies; it reduces credits
which involve the dignity of the executive, but it dares
not attack M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in a direct
way; it strikes him on the shoulders of M. Boulay ode la
Meurthe)—the most inoffensive of men. We could have
understood the majority causing its prerogative and its
dignity to be respected; we could have comprehended its
not remaining under the blow of the message. But, if it
wished to enter upon the conflict, it should have been
openly and resolutely. It should have been commenced
on some great question, some serious interest, in order
to arrive at a solution in the triumph of one of the
powers, and not in the humiliation of both."
The breach between the PRESIDENT and the parti-
pretre is becoming every day wider. The Evenement
says—
" There was much talk in the lobbies of the Assembly
yesterday of the formation of a new club of represen-
tatives, which would hold its sittings at the Pedals des
Beaux Arts. It will, it is said, be composed exclusively
of the Members devoted to the Elysee, and in opposition
to those who hold their sittings at the Conseil d'Etat.
The principal members of the majority, and particularly,
MM. Thiers, Berryer, do Broglie, and do Remusat, re-
garded this organization as an act of hostility directed
against them, and the irritation which had been before
remarked on certain benches of the Assembly appeared
to revive more warmly than ever. The following is the
constitution of the bureau of this new club:—Presi-
dent, General do Grammont; Vice-Presidents, MM.
Deviate sad Abatucci; Secretaries, MM. Gavini and de
Csulaincourt. The first meeting took place on Thurs-
day, when forty members were present, among whom
were MM. Quentin Bauchard, Gaslonde, General Tartas,
Antoine and Lucien Bonaparte, Laborde, Vaudrey, Per-
signy, General Rapatel, d'Ornano, Abatucci, de Cassa-
Lianca, Cordier, &c.

The Assembl ee Nationale acknowledges the reality
of the split. It says—
" We have to state with profound sorrow, that attempts
are making to divide the majority. The union of the
Assembly formed the most firm rampart against revo-
lutionary attempts; by paralysing its force all power is
weakened, and all interests are compromised."
It is said that M. THIERS has ceased to have any
connexion with the Conititutionnel, which has
throughout supported the new Cabinet, and that he
has transferred his services to the Order. The fol-
lowing article, said to be from his pen, which appears
in that journal, may be considered as a declaration of
war by the Orleanist faction, against the PRESIDENT
of the Republic :
" In proclaiming itself, without embarrassment, with-
out reservation. and without compromise, the champion
of the personal policy of the President of the Republic;
in accepting beforehand, whatever they may be, the re-
sults, at least uncertain, of the policy inaugurated by
the message; in thus approving of what it has so much
opposed, in manifesting its disdain for what it has so
much praised, the Constitutiongel has given all possible
Eclat to its rupture with the men whose patronage and
co-operation have not hitherto been useless to its pro-
sperity. If it is an act of conscience which it per-
forms, a painful sacrifice which it makes to its new
convictions, we have neither a right nor desire to
blame it. Let that journal be permitted to think
that, under a Republican Constitution, and in the
perilous situation in which France is placed, the Par-
liamentary power, deprived of unity and initiative,
must humble itself before the exclusive direction of the
President; let it believe that the idea of M. Louis Bona-
parte, restrained too long by the scruples and tho resist-
ance of his old Ministers, or by itio pressure of the
Assembly, is about to suddenly develop itself with so
much the more grandeur, as the execution of his designs
will be confided to men f less influence and less renown.
Its persuasion is so entire and so lively, that it knows
not how to accommodate itself to the temporisation of
those who wait. It believes, it knows, it admires, it

renders itself the guarantee not only of intentions which
are very simple, but of results. In such a state of mind,
it would certainly be guilty to hesitate, and we should
reproach ourselves were we to cause it to hesitate in that
faith, which is able to remove mountains. Let it then
undividedly devote itself to that agreeable and easy task
of glorifying the marvels which now dazzle us. May
fortune, in none of its sudden changes, disturb its
dreams! May Heaven spare it all regrets and decep-
tion ! For we, who do not call to mind without some
alarm the sad fall of princes, even the strongest or the
most skilful, who have sought to place their personal
will above all control; we, whom history teaches
that deliberative assemblies, in spite of the faults
inherent to their nature, would have almost always
preserved the Government and the country it•
self from the misfortune which have fallen on them—
if their voice had been more listened to, if their
independence had been sheltered from attempts at
corruption, and their action had been free from
restraint—we cannot encourage the President to rush
with blind impetuosity on the dangers which it is diffi-
cult not to foresee. He has exercised a right,' wo are
told, and you, yourselves, have admited it.' Yes, but
he has perhaps used it rashly. His absolute right also,
in virtue of his responsibility, would be to take a Minis-
try from without the majority. He has been advised to
do so ; some pretend, but we hope erroneously, that he
had entertained the idea of doing it ; if he had done so
without the most imperious necessity of duty for him,
and of safety for the country, will the Constitutionnel say
that he would have acted wisely ? He has resisted that
dangerous temptation, and while hurling a manifest
defiance to the majority has selected his new Ministers
from its body. He has preferred to be inconsistent
rather than provoke an inevitable struggle. We have
already congratulated him on it. This proof of mode-
ration, joined to the souvenirs of the ten months which

were Li from causing it to be foreseen, encourages us
not to despair for the future. But we cannot be, like the
Coutitutionnel, completely satisfied and assured. If we
are asked where we see the danger, we still reply that
the President of the Republic, at the same time that he
has broken the strongest bond which united him to the
Legislative Assembly, that of mutual confidence, has
condemned himself by his declaration, under the penalty
of incalculable embarrassments, to be constantly skilful
and fortunate. That is a privilege which rarely belongs
even to genius."
The Corsaire has the following :

" The following incident is related i propos to the
reception of the President of the Republic on Thursday
evening. At the moment when M. Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte was waltzing with Lady Stanley he was in
formed that Count Mo* whom he had not seen for
same time, had just entered. The President excused
himself for a moment to his partner, and interrupted the
waltz, to shako hands with M. M0:19.. M. de Montalem-
bert enjoyed a similar honour."

M. Guizot, M. Duchatel, M. Dumon, General
Moline de St. Yon, and Admiral Mackau, all members
of the last Cabinet of Louis PHILIPPE, are at present
in Paris.
The advocates of the State prisoners tried at Ver-
sailles hare been summoned to appear before the
Court of the Order of Advocates on Tuesday next.
The committee on the Budget has decided that the
entire line of railroad from Paris to Avignon shall be
leased to a single company. The conditions on which
the lease is to be granted are not yet fixed.
M. BACHE; of Calvades, has been appointed by
the committee on the Budget to prepare the report
on the Bill to continue the excise duty on spirituous
liquors, presented by the Minister of 'Finance. The
report will recommend that the Bill be passed.
The Five per Cents. were done in the Passage of the
Opera yesterday at 90f. sc.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 17.

Boulogne and Amiens, s%—Luxembourg, I%—Northern
of France, 2% dis.—Paris and Rouen, 'AOLA—Sambre and
Meuse, 11/2.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 12th have arrived.
The Gazette publishes the average price of corn,
&c., in each province of Spain for the month of June
last. The general average for all Spain was 46 reals
per fanega for wheat, which is equivalent to about
385. per quarter. The difference of price in the
different provinces is as great as ever. Thus, at
Salamanca the average price of wheat was only 23
reals per fanega in June last, whilst at Potevedra,
Gallicia, no great way off, it was 51 reels per fanega,
a difference of more than 120 per cent. So much
for want of facilities for transport. The minimum
price was at Salamanca, and the maximum at Tara-
gona, Catalonia, where it was .54 reals per fanega,
or about 535. per quarter. The average price of wheat
throughout Spain for June, 1848, was 38 reals per
fanega.
There were rumours in the political circles of an
approaching renewal of the Ministerial crisis.
MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 12.—. The Three per Cents.
were done to-day at 27 15-16 for cash, and were
afterwards offered at that price, closing at 1-,„ buyers ;
Five per Cents., 11= to i; Coupons, 6i; Passive
Debt, 3i to Exchange on London, 50 50.