The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The PRESIDENT has determined to dispatch M.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTR to Madrid without delay,
with directions to oppose by every means in his power
the project of the Spanish Government of an armed
intervention for the restoration of the POPE. The
conduct of the POPE ill thus urging on the Catholic
Powers to make war on the Roman Republic, for his
personal advantage can scarcely be reconciled with
the pretext which his HOLINESS was pleased to
put forth in the course of last summer for
not joining in the war of liberation against
the Austrians, viz. that as a Christian priest
he felt he ought not and could not go to war. Is his
HOLINESS, then, no longer a Christian priest, or how
comes it that war, which in the summer was sacri-
legious in his eyes, when proposed to be made against
the Austrians, becomes in the winter sacred when pro-
posed to be made in their favour ? On this subject we
find the following in the National:—
" When M. Ledru Rollin exclaimed on Thursday,
'Let the Pope meditate profoundly on the resolution
which he is about to take, that as a priest of Christ he
cannot cause the effusion of blood for things which
Christ condemned,' M. Ledru Rollin no doubt was not
acquainted with the note dated Gaeta, Feb. 11, and
signed by Cardinal Antonelli. In this note, which the
Pope has charged the Cardinal Secretary of State to
address to all the Powers, the Sovereign Pontiff, for-
getting his spiritual character, makes an appeal to
foreign intervention to conquer bis temporal throne. We
quote textually from the note Since Austria, France,
Spain, and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, are by their
geographical position in a situation to efficiently co-
operate by arms in re-establishing in the domain of the
Poly See the order which has been destroyed by a horde
of sectarians, the Holy Father, confiding in the religious
interest of these powers, demands with full confidence
their armed intervention, to deliver principally the States
of the Holy See from that faction of wretches, who, by
all sorts of crien.ss, exercises there the most atrocious des-
potism.' Such are the terms which the priest of Christ,
the evangelical chief of Christianity, speaks of his fel-
low -citizens, and of those whom he formerly called his
children. The Romans, who offered to the Pope to gua-
rantee his spiritual authority—the Romans who only
exact the free and pacific exercise of their sovereignty,
the Romans are a horde of sectaries, a faction
of wretches, covered with crimes. Alas! can the love
of terrestrial things mislead the heart of Pius IX. to such
an extent, and cause him to forget that, after all, those
whom he qualifies so severely are men and Christians?
Is it worthy of the Sovereign Pontiff, we ask, to abuse
the sacred power with which he is invested to strike with
anathema and devote to eternal damnation the unfortu-
nate citizens, guilty—note this well—not towards the
Church, but towards a temporal sovereign? In the
Catholic point of view, we must blame with energy this
encroachment of the two powers one on the other—the
confusion in acts which arises therefrom—and finally
and especially, that diplomatic calculation which leads
to the empf,oyment of spiritual thunders, to punish
faults comnsitted in the laic jurisdiction. It is a de-
plorable th mg for religion to come to the aid of poli-
tics, and to endeavour to reconquer a throne by means
of papal c urses and priestly excommunications. And,
as it it were not sufficient to alarm Catholic consciences
for the pro motion of personal interest, the Pope does not
fear to make an appeal to violence, to solicit the arms of
the foreigner to crush his subjects' and restore him his
tiara stained by Roman blood. There is not a dispos-
sessed prince who would nut be covered by shame by
such a demand of intervention; and, on the part of the
Pope, it is an action for ever dishonourable. And let
us not be accused of exaggerating the disdain with
which such conduct inspires us; we remember that
Pius IX. himself, who demands from Austria, Franco,
Spain, and Naples, to co-operate by their arms in re-
establishing him on his throne, refused in the month of
May last to declare war to Austria, because, he said,
as chief of the Romish Church, he couid not consent to
shed the blood of his children, the German and Austrian
Catholics. The blood of the Romans is apparently less
precious. NVhatever Hi ay be the result of this hypo-
critical comedy, to which we could wish to believe the
Pope a stranger, the question of intervention is clearly
laid down- Austria, Naples, Spain, and France are
summoned by Pius IX., not to a congress, but to give
armed !mit:tame—it is not the Pope who complains and
demands aid and protection, but the dethroned Sove-
reign who .requires to be restored. This is the moment
for our Go vernment, which is so desirous of being silent,
to act. M. Drouyn de L'lluys pretends that he has re-
mained faithful to the policy of his predecessors; the
opportunity of proving it is excellent; if Austria and
Naples, as is not doubtful, should invade the Roman ter-
ritory, how many vessels and soldiers will the French
Republic oppose to the aggressors?"
The debate on the Electoral Law was continued
in the National Assembly on Tuesday and Saturday.
An attempt made by M. DEMASURE to modify the
clause excluding those who had been guilty of
adultery, by limiting the exclusion to those who
should be declared as fit subjects of exclusion by the
courts, was unsuccessful, his motion being rejected
by a majority of 375 to 291. On the motion of M.
GOUDCHAUX, all persons who are contractors with
the Government were declared ineligible; and on
that of Al. MATIIIEU DE LA DROME, persons
who had be come bankrupt in foreign countries
were declared ineligible, as well as those
who had become bankrupt in France. In the sitting
of Saturday M. FREDERIC BASTIAT proposed a most
important amendment, viz. that no Minister o f
State should be capable of being elected a repre-
sentative, nor should any representative be capable
of being appointed a Minister. This proposition was
referred to the Committee.

A junction has been effected between the Bona-
partists Electoral Committee of M. NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE and the Republican Electoral Committee
of the Club of the Institute. M. N APOLEON BONA-
PARTE, who sets off at once for Spain, will return)
to Paris before the elections.

The trials at Bourges still continue, but do not ap-
pear to excite any interest.
The .1/oniitear announces thattranquillity is becom-
ing re-established in the provinces.
The, ConsWetionnel says—
" The rise in the French funds evinces a great ad-
vance in public confidence. It is not, we are informed,
the effect of speculation, but arises from bona fide pur-
chases. Capital, which after the Revolution of February,
had emigrated to England, is now returning to France,
and being invested in the funds. We know of instances
of persons, who had sold at 75f., purchasing back at
86f. A number of orders are also arriving from the
provinces. The Government besides appears as confi-
dent in its own credit as the public. It was said that
the Minister of Finances had refused to enter on a con-
ference relative to a loan. He has taken measures to in-
sure the service of the Treasury without augmenting for
the present the consolidated debt. He is prepared to
pay the approaching interest on the Fives, without
having recourse to the 100 millions which the Bank has
still to pay out of the 150 millions loan. It is added that
money is flowing into the Treasury in exchange for the
Bons of the Republic to such an extent that the Govern-
ment is thinking of reducing the interest on them to 5
per cent.

Fifty of the most distinguished officers of the old
Polish Army of Independence left Paris on Friday
for Turin, to take commands in the army of CHARLES
ALBERT.

The Commission appointed on Friday to prepare
a list of candidates for the functions of Councillors of
State elected on Saturday M. FRANCOIS ARAGO as
President, and M. SIMARD as Secretary.
The appeal of the five persons condemned to death
for the murder of General DE BREA and his aid-de-
camp, Captain MANGIN, was yesterday rejected by
the Court of Cassation. The application for mercy is
now before the Minister of Justice, and will be laid
by him before the PRESIDENT of the Republic.
Cocas AuTHENTIQUE, MARCH 10.-French Five per
Cents., 88f. 75c. 89f. 88f. 75c. 80c. 89f. 89f. 25c. 88f. 75c.
50c. 25c. 50c. 75c. 60c. 89f. 88f. 90c. 75c. 89f. 88f. 60c.
75c. 50e. New Loan, 88F. 88f. 75c.; Three per Cents.,
581. 57f. 75c. 50c. 58f. 57f. 56f. 75c. 57f. 57f.25c. 10c. 25c.
47f. 56f. 50c.; Bank of France, 2,400f.2,4201. 2,425 f.
2,4301. 2,450 f. 2,460 f. 2,4701. 2,4641. 2,450 f. 2,425 f.
2,4501. 2,4401. 2,430 f. 2,425 f. 2,240 E; Obligations of
the City, 1,1901.; Roman, 69if.; Belgian Five per
Cents., 1840, 921.,; Ditto, Four-and- a-klalf per Cents.,
82ff.; Raytian, 295 f. 300 f. 295 f.; Spanish Three per
Cents., 30k. Exchange on London, ono month, money,
251. 17ic.; three months, money, 25f. 10c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN_ RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARCH 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9:yi —Central of France(Orleans
and Vierzon), 13—Namur and Liege, 8143—Northern of
France, 111/i—Orleans and Bordeaux, 334—Paris and Rouen,
21%—Paris and Strasbourg, 434 ex in.—Rouen and Harm,
124—Tours and Nantes, VA