The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Ministry has withdrawn the Bill for the
regulation of Public Instruction which was- intro-
duced by M. de Falions, and which gave the priests
power of controlling the education of the peop'e.
M. Rodat has presented to the Assembly the fol-
lowing proposition :
" Art. 3 of the decree of the Provisional Govern-
ment of the 4th of March, 1848, suppressing the
stamp duty on periodical publications, is abrogated.
The laws abrogated by the said article are again
brought into vigour, to be fully executed until the
promulgation of the organic law on the press."
M. Desmousseaux de Givre has presented a propo-
sition to the effect that the National Assembly shall
not attend any public ceremony or send a deputation
to it.
The Evenement says : —" We are positively assured
that the Minister of Public Works is about to bring
fresh propositions before the Assembly on the subject
of the Paris and Lyons Railway. These propositions
will completely change the Bill presented by M.
Lacrosse, and on which the committee on the budget
had been called on to deliberate. The proposition is
to return to the principle of working the railroad by
the State."
La Presse mentions that a resolution is about to be
moved in the Legislative Assembly to the following
effect :—" The National Guards of all towns contain-
ing 12,000 inhabitants are dissolved and disarmed.
The army on active service is reduced from 500,000
to 200,000 men." It adds, that this resolution is to
be supported on the faith f the following assertion of
M. Ferdinand Barrot in the Legislative Assembly on
Monday, to the effect that the National Guard is an
eliment of disturbance, and if the National Guards
of Lyons were organized it would be necessary to
increase the garrison of that city from 10,000 to
25,000 men.
A letter from Auxerre of the sth instant states
that the Municipal Council of that town having been
dissolved by the Prefect, a re-election had taken
place, when 24 Republicans were chosen, and not one
Legitimatist.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Wednesday at 55f. 65c.; the Five per Cents. at
80f. 87c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 725 f. ; Rouen,
525 f.; Havre, 230 E ; Great Northern, 427 f. 500. •
Avignon, 215 f.; Vierzon, 297±. 50c.; Basle, 102f1
50c.; Bordeaux, 395 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 3551.;
Tours and Nantes, 281 f. 25c.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES:

We learn from our Hamburgh correspondence of
the 3d instant, that the last debates of the Schleswig-
h olstein Diet have turned upon the question of
the quarrels between the Stadtholdership and the
Administrative Commission, which was appointed
on the strength of the late treaty between
Prussia and Denmark. The debate led to
no result whatever. In the course of the
discussion it was stated by the friends of the Stadt-
holders that:no steps had as yet been taken toward
the final conclusion of a peace, nor was it known
whether a-peace was likely to be made on the basis
of the preliminary convention of the 10th of July
last, but that the Duchies were prepared to renew
the war, if compelled by dire necessity.
The financial budget for 1850 showed an income
of fourteen millions and an expenditure of eleven
millions, thus leaving a clear balance of three millions
in favour of the Duchies.