The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-19 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

During the sitting of the National Assembly yes-
terday, M. LEON FAUCHER, the Minister of the In-
terior, read a decree signed by the PRESIDENT of the
Republic, nominating M. BOULAY DE LA MEURTIIB,
General BARAGUAY DaHILLIERS, and M. VIVIEN, as
the persons from among whom the Assembly is to
choose the Vice-President of the Republic. M•
VIvIEN will in all probability be the person chosen.
At the close of the proceedings of the National
Assembly on Wednesday, M. ODILON BARROT pro-
posed to the Assembly to adopt a Bill in the following
terms :

" The President of the Republic orders, &c.
" Art. 1. The authors and accomplices of the attempt
of May 15th, now ordered, on January 16th, for trial, by
the Court of Appeal of Paris, are sent beiore the Na-
tional High Court of Justice.
" Art. 2. The National High Court of Justice shall
meet at Bourges in the month fbllowing that in which
the present Bill is promu'gated.
" Art. 3. The Minister of Justice is charged with the
execution of the present 8111. _ _ _

" Given at the Palace of the Elysee, on this 17th of
January, 1849."
The Minister then proposed, and it was agreed,
that the Bill should be sent to the bureaux, which
would name a Committee to send in a report on the
question of its urgency.
Yesterday the following representatives were
nominated by the Assembly members of the Com-
mittee :—MM. A. Dubois, St. Romme, Mais, Bonnin,
Labodere, Jean Reynaud, Dupin, Flandin, Corne,
Vernher, Aubry, Bauchart, Baroche, and General
Poncelet. The Committee met immediately after-
wards to consider the subject.
The Presse has a " communication" on the subject
of the mission of General PELET to the Court of
Turin. After stating that General CAVAIGNAC had
refused the request of CHARLES ALBERT for pervnis-
sion to have a French general placed at the head of
the Sardinian army, the Presse thus proceeds :
" As soon as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was elected
President of the Republic, Count Martini was sent by
Charles Albert to offer his congratulations, and at the
same time to repeat the request which had been made
in vain to the Government of General Cavaignac. Count
Martini, in his conversations with the President, alluded
to a promise made by General Cavaignac, that he would
give permission to General Pelet to proceed to Turin, in
order to assist the King in the re-organization of his
army, and the President respecting this promise con-
sented to sending General Pelet. In order, however,
that no misrepresentation or ill-founded hopes should
take place, he insisted that the mission of the General
should be invested with a diplomatic character, in order
that no one should imagine that a French General had
been allowed, even temporarily, to enter the service of a
foreign power.
" It appears to us essential to give these details at a
moment when the Turin journals are stating as positive
facts, that General Lamoriciere and other officers are
about to enter into the Sardinian service. A great
nation like France should only promise what she can and
will perform. We consider it our duty to state this
truth to the Italians, in order that the illusions which
are held out to them may not hereafter be transformed
into unjust accusations against our Government by those
who have been told of promises which have been never
thought of."
The same journal contains the following open
avowal of the designs of the reactionary party.
Speaking of the dissolution of the Assembly, the
Presse says—
" Let us go direct to the point. The', real
motive why the National Assembly is divided on the
question of dissolution is, that one-half trembles for the
existence of the Republic, while the other does not—
such is the truth; it may be veiled, but however thick
the veil thrown over it, the eye accustomed to examine
the secret feelings of parties cannot be deceived. Are
those disquietudea about the durability of the Republic
without foundation? We shall not make any affirma-
tion to the contrary. Yes, the representatives who have
voted against taking into consideration the proposi-
tion of M. Rateau are not wrong when they persuade
themselves that the same spirit will not preside at
the next elections that there did when the elections of
April were made. But do they think that postponement
will tend to give durability to the Republic? It they do
they are strangely deceived. The longer they delay the
more will the Republican edifice be shaken, for the more
will resistance extend. On this account General Ca-
vaignac and Ledru Rollin ought to have voted for dis-
solution, and MM. Berryer and Thiers against it.
Every delay with respect to the dissolution of the As-
sembly is manifestly so much gain to the monarchical
idea. All the late partial elections show it. If we are
to credit our own letters and communications from the
most opposite points, the opinions and interests repre-
sented by MM. Thiers and Berryer are making the
most rapid progress, and their triumph in the next gene-
ral election will be the more marked and certain accord-
ing to their postponement."
Here we have an open avowal of the existence
of a plot to disturb the existing Government
in France. If any of the parties concerned
in this intrigue are at present residing in England
we trust the British Government will do its duty, and
not hesitate to put in force the provisions of the
Alien Act for the immediate deportation of all those
Rho abuse the hospitality of England by plotting to
overthrow the Government of a neighbouring state.
These reactionary intrigues are producing, as a na-
tural consequence, counter-intrigues. " Is it true ?"
asks the Assemblee Nationale ?
" That a new secret society, more numerous and more
threatening than any that have preceded it, is now form-
ing throughout the whole of France?
" That in Paris and the suburbs it is being organized
into legions, battalions, and companies, similar to the
National Guard?

" That its members meet very frequently and in small
numbers, at the wine-shops of the capital, when they
make all their arrangements?
" That the central committee, which was at first in-
stalled in the Rue Montmartre and is now on the Boule-
vard St. Denis, has established corresponding committees
in each chief town in the country; that each of these
committees have subcommittees in the smaller towns,
and that the latter, in their turn, have agents in all the
communes?
" That if the men at the bead of this association do
not come into the Ministry by legal means—that is to
say, by circumventing the President, near whom one of
their members has been introduced—the agents of the
society will content themselies by causing the removal,
by means of reports made of their conduct, of all func-
tionaries suspected of moderate ideas.
" That in case the Government shall be the price of a
coup de main, or of a fresh conquest, these same agents
will be immediately installed in office.
"And that in fine these chiefs, who have taken care
of themselves in case of a defeat, have already provided
themselves with passports to leave the country, and
that in order to remedy difficulties which might stand in
the way of the escape of the conspirators, they actually
took from the Prefecture of Police, on the 20th December
last, the jeuilles de route which might be necessary for
them."

The reactionary party may create emeutes, and may
bring destruction on themselves, by exasperating the
people, but we have no fear for the ultimate safety of
the Republic.
General Zuccut has arrived in Paris.
l'Ve read in the Patrie

" The President of the Republic has, since his ap-
pointment, received one hundred and forty thousand
letters from Paris and the departments. Most of them
contain applications for places or relief; more than
5,000 contain duplicates of the Mont-de-PiA,6, sent by
unfortunate workmen without occupation, in the hope
that Louis Napoleon will redeem the pledges. The
President has given orders for the redemption in favour
of the most necessitous; but, with a budget of 600,000 f.,
it is not possible for him to relieve every misfortune.
The narrow means of the first magistrate of the Re-
public were discussed to-day in the lobbies of the Na-
tional Assembly, and there was a talk of a proposition to
be made by several representatives for increasing the civil
list of the President to 1,000,000 f. per annum."
M. FALLOUX entertained the PRESIDENT of the
Republic at dinner on Wednesday. Amongst the
numerous guests who had been invited to meet the
PRESIDENT were the Archbishop of Paris, Marshal
Bugeaud, Generals Changarnier, Bedeau, Baraguay
d'Hilliers, and Lamoriciere ; MM. Marrast, Thiers,
Mole, De Noailles, Victor Hugo, Berryer, Laroche-
jaquelein ; the Cure of the Quinze-Vingts, who re-
ceived the late Archbishop of Paris when wounded at
the barricade; M. Cuvier, the Protestant pastor; M.
Cerfbeer, of the Jewish Consistory ; and the heads of
several learned and scientific societies.
During the course of the sitting of the Assembly
on Wednesday, the President stated that the prepara-
tion of the organic laws was going on most actively,
and that not an hour was lost.
BOURSE.—PARIS, THURSDAY, JAR. 18.
THREE O'CLOCir..—The French Funds:opened to-day
with every appearance of a further rise, but after aslight
hesitation they suddenly gave way, and closed rather
below yesterday's prices. There was no news of any
kind. Exchange on ;London (30 days) 25 37i ; ditto
(90 days), 25 27g.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 81/5 ex exchange—Luxembourg
(100, 254—Northern of Franee, 73A ex div.—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 2% ex div.—Paris and Rouen, 18—Paris and
Strasbourg, 23—Rouen and Havre, 93A.