The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-30 00:00:00

TUE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
of yesterday.
On Friday the law on the press was passed by a
majority of 300, and on Saturday the law for pro-
roguing the Assembly from the 12th August to the
30th September was passed by a majority of 294 to
247. In the course of the di.cussion on the Bill M.
DUFAURE declared that the Government would be
responsible for the public security and for the safety
of the Constitution_ and the Republic during the
recess.

Divisions among the majority are becoming every
,day more manifest. The Legitimati.its who have
.joined the reactionary conspiracy for the sole purpose
of bringing back the Absolutist Prince HENRY V.
with a legion of priests and Jesuits in his train, are
becoming jealous of the provincial popularity of the
PaEsIDENT;and-are afraid of a Bonapartist restoration.
They consequently threatened to secede in a body
from the majority if the PRESIDENT were permitted to
make any more claptrap speeches after the manner
of those at Chartres and Hain, and accordingly, to
appease the Legitimatist susceptibilities, the follow-
ing appeared in the Itioniteztr of Saturday :
"In the journeys that the President of the Republic
has made to this day, public functionaries have addressed
to him by speeches their rellects and felicitations.
This usage which had, under the monarchy, been pushed
to abuse, ought to disappear from our habits. 'The
President of the Republic cannot, without doubt, but
feel flattered at receiving the felicitations of- the civil,
religious, and military authorities; but it would be much
better addresses should be conveyed to him without
being spoken. The President of the Republic would be
happy, especially, to fled in them the sincere and com-
plete expression of the wants and wishes of the popula-
tions which he visits."

It is amusing to find the different sections of the
reactionary party already sluabbling over the spoils
of the not yet defunct Republic. "First catch your
hare," gentlemen ; it will be time enough to consider
how to cook it afterwards.

The Moniteur contains three decrees, confiding,
ad interim, to M. DE TRACY, the Minister of Marine,
the functions of the War Department during the
absence of General RULRIERES; to M. DUFAURE,
the Minister of the Interior, those of Public In-
struction and of Public Works, in the absence of M.
DE FALLOUX and M. LACROSSE, all of whom have
accompanied the PRESIDENT on his trip to the opening
of the first section of the Tours and Nantes Railway.
The:PRESIDENT set off yesterday morning for the
Orleans line, accompanied by a numerous suite. his
absence will be for fbur days.
General DE GRAMMONT has been elected as repre-
sentative fbr the Loire, and MM. ECHASSERIAUX and
DELAJUS have been returned for the Charente In-
ferieure.

The Prince DE CANINO will, it is said, be put in
nomination for the department of the Soane et Loire.
These papers announce the death of Marshal Mo-
Lyron. The melancholy event took place on Friday.
The veteran was in his seventy-ninth year.
The budget for 1850 is to be brought forward on
Saturday next.
It was rumoured on the Bourse that England and
France had agreed to make a joint effort to put a stop
to hostilities in Hungary by mediation.
M. DE TOCQUEVILLE has fixed Monday, Aug. 6,
as the day WI which he will be prepared to enter into
a discussion on the affairs of Rome.

M. D'lttacounr, the French Ambassador at
Gaeta, has arrived at Toulon, and M. THEODORE DE
LESSEPS, the brother of the late Envoy to the Ro-
man Republic, has been dispatched to London on a
special mission.

I - The Salut Public of Lyons, of the 27th, says :
" Since yesterday there has been an unusual move-
ment of the troops in our city. Several regiments have
left, or will leave to-day for the frontiers of Savoy. We
are not aware what are the circumstances which have
given rise to this congregation of troops towards the
frontier, but it is probable that it has been caused by
the negotiations between Austria and Piedmont."
The intelligence of the conclusion of peace between
Sardinia and Austria is confirmed.
The Breese has the following as to the difficulties
which had attended the negotiations :
" Since the evacuation of Alessandria the conduct of
M. Bruck has been marked by continual tergiversation.
It would have been imagined that Austria was appi e
hensive of some movement which might weaken the ef-
fects of the battle of Novara. The entrance of our sol-
diers at Rome and the state of siege of Paris have
completely changed these dispositions. Since that
the tergiversations have all finished—the only exigen-
cies have been brought forward. Amongst the condi-
tions which Austria would wish to impose on Piedmont,
there is ono which has never, until now, been brought
forward. The question is to force Italy nolens volens to
enter into a customs league. Doubtless, this would at
one time have been a grand conceptioe; but, in the
present state of the country, it is to be questioned whe-
ther it can politically and commercially submit to the
conditions which Austria would impose on her. A cus-
toms league would doubtless be all to the interest of
Austria, and to the detriment of France, and it is there-
fc;:e strange that Piedmont has not met with more sup-
port from our Government. The result of this league
would be in a short time to render all Italy tributary to
the capitalists of Vienna, and to throw all the trade of
the Mediterranean ports and of the Adriatic into the
hands of Austria. This has been clearly the object of
M. Bruck, and it is that which has excited the attention
and raised the objections of Piedmont. If she refuses it
I is probable that war may recommence, and if she yields
the whole country will be in revolt."
The Bourse on Saturday was rather firmer, but
the amount of business was still limited. Threes
for the account closed at 53f. 35c., and Fives at
87f. 95c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 28.
East Tndian, 3 —Namur and Liege, s%—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 2A—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon),
11%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 24th have been received.
Their contents are unimportant.
MADRID BOLSA, JULY 24.—Three per Cents.,
26k; Five per Cents., 11k, both paper. Exchange on
London, 50 75.

Parry COUNCIL AT OSBORNE FOR THE PROROGA-
TION OF PARLIAMENT.—(THIS DAY.)—This morning
at nine o'clock, the Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord
President), Viscount Palmerston (Secretary for
Foreign Affairs), Sir John Hobhouse (President of
the Board of Control), Sir George Grey (Secretary
for the Home Department), the Right Honourable
11. Labouchere (President f the Board of Trade),
Earl Fortescue (Lord Steward), and the Hon. 11. L.
Bathurst (Clerk of the Council), left the Waterloo.
bridge terminus of the South-Western Railway- for
Gosport, where they would embark on board the Fire
Queen royal steam-yacht for Osborne, where her
Majesty held a Privy Council at one o'clock, to
arrange the Royal Speech on closing the session of
Parliament. The ceremony by Lords Commissioners
will, it is expected, take place on Wednesday, at the
illiremtuerent
theto town
Queen at
at eit.°
Balmoral oclock.
House of Lords, at two o'clock. The special train
TwhitehNtheeb iNlelipnrisetmeriserwwil
Castle on her return from IrfAand, and the Marquis
of Lansdowne will join Ler Majesty in Dublin next
week.

MADAME VESTRIS' BENEFIT AT TUE LYCEEM.
The benefit of Madame Vestris is fixed for this evening
at the Lyceum. The announcement of this fact is tanta-
mount to saying that the number of persons the house is
capable of holding will be accurately ascertained to-
night. The performances consist of Planch6's lively
comedy The Follies of a Night (in which Mr. Charles
Mathews and Madame Vestris appear), The Beggars'
Opera, with Madame as Lucy, Miss Kathleen Fi zwtlliam
as Polly, and Mr. W. Harrison as Macheath, and Bor
and Cox. Mr. Sims eves has given his v_duable ser-
vices, and will appear in the last scene of Lucia de
Lammermoor, and Mr. C. Mathews will speak a farewell
address.

The steam- ship America, Captain Harrison, de-
parted from Liverpool, on Saturday aftcrnoor, for
Halifax and New York, with the usual North-American
mails and 100 pas3engen.

GERMANY

AND

THE I%,TORTIIERN STATES

PRUSSIA.

On the evening of the 27th a royal ordinance was
published in Berlin removing the state of siege.
A Frankfort paper says that there is a secret ar-
ticle in the armistice between Prussia and Denmark,
by which Prussia engages to execute the armistice
notwithstanding the opposition of the Duchies, and
to enforce its observance on tine part of the Schles wig-
Holsteiners by force of arms if necessary.
The cologne Gazette says that Prussia has offered
to assist Austria and Russia against the Hungarians.