The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-17 00:00:00

pictured Suicide of CRUIKSHANR, now is the time to
put the genuineness of those emotions to the proof.
For ourselves, although experience perhaps teaches
otherwise, we are disposed to believe well of
human nature. We cannot think that suf-
ferings so appalling will meet with nothing
but verbal pity. We cannot believe that
in this Christian land—and at Christmas time !
the cry of sorrowful, sinking women will be unheeded
in the mirth of social revelry. Business and
pleasure may distract the attention of many, but
this cry pierces to the heart, and all who have
hearts will answer it. Hence we confidently antici-
pate for the " Female Emigrant Fund" an amount
of subscriptions in some degree commensurate with
the practical excellence of the plan and its paramount
claims on public attention.

TEIE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The debate on the re-imposition of the tax on
potable liquors was resumed •in the Assembly on
Saturday by M. MAIIGUIN, who spoke against the
proposition,; he was followed by M. FowrovL, who
spoke in its favour, after which tha debate was,
on the motion of M. JULES PAYEE, adjourned to
Monday.
The Moniteur contains the following official com-
munication :

" Certain writers, whose pens seem to be dipped in
gall, display every day the zeal of perfidious curiosity in
examining into the past career of persons chosen by the
Government for public functions, and on this career they
comment with ardent malignity, and too often misre-
present it by false interpretations of the basest
envy. Frankly speaking, however, after three revolu-
tions inj less than forty years, who is the man,
having any experience of public affairs, whose
antecedents does not afford a hold to the passion of
detractors? as if the simple fact of having served his
country under preceding Governments were a crime.
These odious tactics will not have the success that is
expected. The nephew of the Emperor will remain
firm. He has taken for his rule of conduct the words of
his immortal uncle, uttered one day in the Council of 1
State:—' To govern by a party, is to place oneself sooner
or later under its dependence. I shall not be so caught;
I am national. I employ all those who have the capacity,
and the will to act with me. This is the way I have
composed my Council of State of the members of the
Constituent Assembly who were called moderates or
feuillants, like Dufermon, Roederer, Regnier, Regnault ;
of Royalists like Devaisnes and Dulresnes; and of
Jacobins like Brune, Real, and Berlier. I like honest
men of all parties.'"
The bfoniteur also publishes an official contradiction
of the assertion of the .National, that the PRESIDENT
of the Republic had written certain portions of
General D'llsurrouL'a.circular to the gendarmerie.
On Friday the General Committee of Finances
terminated its deliberations on the Bill relative to the
concession to a single company of the railway from
Paris to Avignon. This Bill, which was first pre-
sented by M. LAcaossE, was accepted by his succes-
sor, M. BIMINI, who introduced some modifications
into it. The sub-committee, which had been charged
to hear the explanations of the delegates of the
different companies, had proposed the adoption of the
Bill, reducing from twenty-two to ten millions the
indemnity granted for the passage through Lyons,
and diminishing from eight to seven per cent. the
interest which the company should receive before the
State came into participation of the returns. In the
sitting of: Friday the Committee rejected the Bill
by a majority of one (1$ to 12). It also rejected the
proposition for delivering up to two companies the
concession of the above line, one company to execute
the part from Paris to Lyons, and the other from
Lyons to Avignon. M. Pitosrzu DE CIIASSELOUP
LAUBAT was named reporter.
On this subject the Constitutionnel says:—
" The Committee on the Budget yesterday came to a
decision of a grave character, looking at our financial
situation, namely, the rejection of the Bill presented by
the Government for the execution cf the line from Paris

to Avignon. The result of this vote is that, if acted on,
the works on the line would have to be executed by the
State, which would modify deeply the financial plans
brought forward by the Ministry. On the one hand, the
budget of public works would be augmented 30 millions,
and on the other it would be necessary to renounce the
84 millions which the company takingline would have to
pay to the Treasury in the course of the year, and
which was to obviate the necessity of a loan. It was
said at the Assembly that the decision of the committee
might not be definitive ; it was come to by
13 votes to 12, leaving five members absent, who
have, it is said, demanded to have the question again
brought under discussion. Should this be done, the
result of the vote may be changed, as the majority of
the absent members belong to the party sow in minority.
But even with the ♦ote now given, it remains to be seen
it the Assembly will give its sanction to a decision come
to by so small a majority."
We find in the same journal the follpwing :—"
grand reception took place on Thursday at the Ely-
f 6e. It was remarked that certain Members of the
majority, who, since the message of the PRESIDENT,
had not been seen at the Elysee-National, were
present there on this occasion. Amongst the visi•
tors were MM. LABOCIIEJAILUELIN, MOLE, and M. DB
MONTALEMBERT.

By a decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, the
six remaining battalions of the Garde Mobile are
dissolved.

Saturday being the anniversary of the arrival of
the remains of the Emperor NAPOLEON in Paris, was
observed with great solemnity by the old veterans of
the empire. Mass was celebrated at the Hotel des
Invalides,: at which they attended. They paid
their respects to the Governor of the InvalidEs,
JEROME, the only surviving brother of the EMPEROR,
and proceeded in procession, attired in the grand
costume of the period of the empire, to the Place
Vendome, where they deposited wreaths of " im-
nzortelles" at the base of the EmrEaon's column.
There bad been a slight emeute at Marsillarques,
but the arrival of 400 troops from Montpellier soon
restored order.
General GEMEAU, by a proclamation dated the 10th
inst., has suspended the publication of the Censeur de
Lyon.
L'Etoile de Ni.rt, a Legitimatist journal, has been
seized by order of the Attorney- General, in conse-
quence of the publication of an article entitled 11 faut
tuer la Revolution.

The SentineUe of Toulon of the 12th says :
" Several steamers are about to leave this port for
Civita Vecchia, where they will take on board about
4,000 men of the French garrison at Rome, and bring
them back to France."
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-li.XCHANGE DEC. 15.
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B-nlogne and Amiens, 7—Luxembourg, %—Northern of
France, 2 die.—Orleans and Bordeaux, I'aris and
Rouen, 22—Tours and Nantes, 4.

SPAIN

Madrid journals of the 10th have been received.
It is ascertained that the true cause of the recal of
the Spanish troops from Italy was the refusal of the
Holy Father to agree to certain concessions demanded
by the Spanish Government, and particularly his
complete approbation of the sales of property con-
sidered as national.

A Madrid letter of the 9th says that it was ex-
pected that all the troops of the expedition to Italy
will have returned to Mahon by the present month.
The QUEEN showed great repugnance to submitting
the precautionary measures necessitated by her inte-
resting position.
MADRID BOMA, DEC. 10.—Thera have been
some fluctuations in our funds to day; the Three per
Cents., which left off yesterday at 31, declined to-
day to 30 11-16 for account, which was caused by
parties realising; Five per Cents., 131 paper. Ex-
change on London, 50 30.