The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-15 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

The Paris journals of yesterday have duly arrived.
Conjectures are still rife as to the modification of
the Cabinet in conseVence of the difficulties of the
Roman question.
That M. DE FALLOUX'S continuance in the Cabinet
is only temporary is certain. Already he has dis-
continued his attendance at the councils which take
place in the Elysia. So much, indeed, is acknow-
ledged even by the Constitutionnel, though that journal
attributes the absence of the Minister of Instruction
to indisposition.
According to the same authority, it is tolerably
certain that after all General RANDOM will not be
appointed the successor of General ROSTOLAN. The
fact of the the former General being a Protestant is
regarded as an insuperable difficulty.
The Pairie states that, according to dispatches re-
ceived at the Ministry of the Interior, six of the
Councils General have come to a resolution in favour
of an early revision of the Constitution. In the
number of the Departments which have come to this
decision is the Gironde.
The Moniteur cant-tins an order from M. BREEN-
GEN, president of the High Court of Justice, fixing
the 10th of October for the opening of the trial at
Versail'es of the persons implicated in the conspi-
racy of June 13, 1849; also of such persons as are
accused of being concerned in the affair of May 15,
1848, but who had not made their appearance at the
High Court of Justice held at Bourges.
According to the Toulonnais, an expedition is now
fitting out as ith the utmost celerity to make a
demonstration against Tangier, and subsequently to
take up a position on the coast of Morocco, in the
event of the EMPEROR proving obdurate in his re-
fusal to attend to the complaints of the French Re-
public. The expedition is to be composed of four
line-of battle ships—the Friedland, bearing the flag of
Admiral PARSEVAL-DESCHENES, the officer in com-
mand, the Jena, the Hercule, and the Inflexible ;
four steam frigates—the Descartes, the Christophe-
Coloinb, the Cacique, and the Montezuma; and one
steamer as an advice boat, the Tartare. Six com-
panies of the 3d Marines, under the command of
M. CHAYANNES, chef de bataillon, and a company of
marine artillery, in all about 700 men, have been
placed on board the above vessels. The expedition
was expected to sail on the 12th, and it was thought
that Spain would avail herself of the same opportu-
nity to have her wrongs expiated by the Emperor of
Moaocco.

The PRESIDENT of the Republic on Thursday
distributed, in the Orangerie of the Louvre, the
prizes to the exhibitors deemed worthy of encourage-
ment for the articles which they had displayed at the
late Exhibition of National Industry. He presented
the Cross of the Legion of Honour to MM. Cu. L.
NIULLER, C. FLERS, J. DUPRE, RAFFET, Cu.
TROYON, A ÜBRY LECOMTE, and J. SECHAN.
The following is the speech which the PRESIDENT
delivered on the occasion :
" I did not wish to cede to any one the pleasure and
the right I have to present you with the recompenses
which are your due. The sweetest prerogative of power
is to encourage merit wherever it is to be met with. I
have admired the masterpieces which you have offered
to the public this year, in the exhibition of painting and
culpture. and I am rejoiced to testify to the great re-
sults of French artists in presence of a political agitation
which must have engrossed much of their attention and
leisure.
" I hope that next year's exhibition will be even
better then the present. The Emperor, in addressing
his soldiers, said, That there was never anything done
as long as there was still something to du.' Double your
efforts to contribute your share towards the glorification
of the French name. Let us encourage and honour the
fine arts, fur they tend to soften our woes and enhance
our jo)s.
" Be assured that I shall watch your progress with the
greatest solicitude, and you may rely upon the interest I
shall always take in your noble labours."
Both at the arrival and the departure of the PRE-
SIDENT at the Orangerie, be was saluted with shouts
of " Vive Napoleon !" " Vive le President de la Re-
publique !"
Considerable apathy was observable at the Bourse
to-day in consequence of the absence of all political
news, and but little business was transacted. The
Five per Cents. opened at 88f. 25c., rose to 881. 55c.,
and closed at 88f. 40c.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse,
on Friday, at 55f. 95c.; the Five per Cents. at 88f.
40c.: Orl, ans Railroad Shares, 755 f.; Rouen, 530 f. ;
Great Northern, 440 f.; Avignon, 225 f. , Vierzon,
312 f. 50c. ; Basle, 103 f. 75c ; Bordeaux, 407 f. 50c.;
Paris and Strasburg, 356 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes,
3031. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. SErr. 14.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzun), 1134—East Indian, 4—Great Indian Peninsula, %
—Namur and Liege, s,4l—Northern of France, dis.—
Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3 and Rouen, 21- Paris
and Strasbourg, s—Rouen and Havre, 10%.