The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-28 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28. 1849

Elm FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Credit publishes an address stated to have been
delivered by the PRESIDENT of the Repub:ic to the
new Prefects, before their departure for the depart-
ments. The following is the concluding portion of
the PRESIDENT'S speech :
"In face," says the President, as reported by the
Credit, "in face of the reactionary and revolutionary
parties, which hold in reserve for the day when the
public pow; rs are to be renewed, solutions of a nature to
cause the greatest perturbation in the country, and to
again throw everything into doubt, the agents of the
Government, in every degree, have at present another
solution to support and forward—s solution of a pacific
and organising character, and which, in the opinion of
the greatest number, is looked on as a guarantee of order
and security. That solution is the maintenance, the
continuance of what now exists. If the power elected
by five millions of votes hesitated to intervene in the
most menacing eventuality, in the name of the common
safety, it would be on its part an unpardonable act of
weakness and incapacity, a veritable desertion; if it

sought to so intervene by othtr means than constitu-
tional ones, it would be an odious folly. It is between
these two shoals that you will have to steer, in preparing
from the present moment the future and constitutional
re-election of the head of the executive power, by aiding
it with zit ycur efforts to merit by the strengthening of
order, and n) a positive improvement in the well-being
of the people, the affection and confidence of the people."
The Credit, in remarking on this document, declares
that if the above words differ by chance in some degree
from what the PRESIDENT really uttered, the purport
is most faithfully given. The Credit, for its own
part, states itself to be in favour of continuing the
PRESIDJINT in power.
Several very important Bills were introduced into
the Assembly on 3ionday by the 3linisters.
The Minister of the Finances brought in a Bill for
the purpose of authorising the Bank of France to in-
crease the circulation of its notes to 425 millions of
francs.

The Minister of Commerce brought in a Bill for
the establishment of a pension fund for old men.
The Minister of War brought in a Bill for the for-
mation of an additional battalion of the Foreign
Legion, into which the men of the six battalions of
the Garde Mobile, which are to be disbanded on the
31st of December, will be allowed to enter.

The Minister of Public Works brought in a Bill
demanding a credit of 75,000 f., for the arrangement
of the old Chamber of Deputies as a place of meeting
for the Legislative Assembly.
The second Bill contains a clause, introduced by
the PRESIDENT himself, authorising an advance of
money by the State for the formation of a pension
fund for old workpeople. Some of the reactionary
Members of the Assembly, on the ground that this
was the introduction into the Bill of a new principle,
moved that it be referred to the Council of State.
They were defeated by a small majority.
A number of Legitimatists were arrested on
Sunday night at a house in the Rue Runfort, where
they were assembled in secret conclave.
MM. CREMIEUX, Met's'. (de Bourges), and
JULES PAYEE, representatives of the people, and
the other advocates engaged in the defence of the
prisoners of Versailles, with the exception of M.
ConALLI and M. HENRI ARMAND, are cited to ap-
pear on the sth of December before the Council of
Discipline of the Order of Advocates, to answer for
their conduct in protesting against the decision of
the High Court and abandoning the defence of the
prisoners. The Council is competent to inflict the
graduated punishment of admonition, reprimand,
censure, suspension, and expulsion from the Order,
according to the offence committed.
The Session of the Council-General of the Seine
was opened in Paris on Monday. M. FRANCOIS
ARACO was elected President, and M. LANQUESTIN
Secretary.
The .Patrie states that the resignation of General
LAMORCIERE and M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT has
been accepted, and that their successors will be ap-
pointed at one of the first Cabinet Councils.
The illoniteur announces that M. WALLON has
been appointed Professor of Modern History of the
Faculty of Letters of Paris, in the place of M. GUIZOT,
who has been pensioned off.
" Several journals," says the Constitutionnel,
" speak of differences between the PRESIDENT of the
Republic and the new Ministry, or between the
members themselves of the Ministry. These rumours
have no kind of foundation i • and the Bill which had
served as the pretext for this piece of news is pre-
cisely that which was presented in the Assembly
yesterday by the whole Cabinet."

The magnificent Castle of Luneville, built by the
Dukes of LORRAINE, and formerly the residence of
StArasLs.us, King of Poland, was burnt to the ground
on the 23d inst.

The Bourse was firm at Monday's prices, with little
business doing. The Five per Cents , which opened at
90i. 5c., closed at 89f. 95c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. Nov. 27.
Boulogne and Amiens, s%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 12—East Indian, 3%—Northern of France,
21/2 dis.— Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3,/B—Sambre and Meuse,
1%.