The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-25 00:00:00

TUE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Presse, in the following article, attempts to
prove that the surrender of GEORGEY was brought
about by the diplomatic act of Lord PALMERSTuN,
It says, under the head of explanations concerning the
submission of the Hungarians—
"No doubt now remains ; the war in Hungary is de-
finitively terminated. The numerous and circumstantial
details which we receive from the German journals re •
move every uncertainty and destroy all hope. The
submission of Georgey is that of Hungary itself. But if
the facts are known, it is not the same with the causes
which have led to this sudden catastrophe. Those
causes have not yet been published by any journal or
any correspondence, but private communications, the
exactitude of which we can guarantee, allow
us now to point them out. They are not to be sought
for in the state of affairs, which was certainly bad,
but by no means desperate ; they are to be found in
certain diplomatic negotiations, in which, we regret to
say, our Government has played the saddest and
most ridiculous part. For a long time past the Hunga-
rian question has engaged the attention of the English
Government; it has done so in a twofold point of view—
of commercial interest, Hungary promising to become an
excellent market; and of political interest, and of the
ascendancy which this war would give to Russia in
Western Europe. The more the war was prolonged,
the more considerable would that ascendancy b?come.
When the English Government finds a difficulty in its
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Russia; he does not send an extraordinary ambassador,
with great noise and pomp, but quietly accredits special
agents to the Emperor and the Hungarian generals. It
is to the intervention of these English agents that is
to be attributed the submission of Georgey, the
bases of whose capitulation were discussed and agreed
upon at Warsaw during the last visit which Prince
de Schwartzenberg made to that city. This submission
is, therefore, neither a coup de tete, nor an act of despair,
but the result of a diplomatic negotiation skilfully con-
ducted by England to save Hungary from the worst dis-
asters of an unequal struggle, and at the same time to
take from Russia the pretext for increasing her army of
occupation, and for prolonging its stay beyond her own
frontiers. What was the French Government doing at
this time:? ,The Minister of Foreign Affairs, after long
studying some phrases on humanity, at length decided
on drawing up the vague instructions which he gave to
General Lamoriciere. He charged the Hon. General to
humbly demand from the Emperor of Russia what were
his intentions with regard to Hungary when the
struggle should have been terminated. Such, in
fact, was the question which our ambassador has-
tened to submit to the Emperor Nicholas imme-
diately on his arrival at Warsaw. The reply was at
first evasive and dilatory. The negotiations had not yet
completely finished. They were terminated under the
very eyes of the General, and without his having the
slightest suspicion of them. Our diplomacy did not
shine more brightly at Warsaw than it does at Gaeta.
M. de Lamoriciere was only informed of it by the salvos
of artillery, which announced the definitive success of
Russia. lie seized this opportunity to renew the
famous question which M. de T( cqueville had charged
him to ask. It is positively stated that the Emperor
then replied, with the most amicable candour, that his
forces having become free he should employ them against
the spirit of revolution wherever it should show itself. '
The communications which we have received add, that
the representative of the French Ripublic made no re
ply, either because he had caught at no allu,ion, or that
the recent example of M. de Lesseps had sufficiently
edified him as to the reserve which a wise Government
exacts from our diplomatists."
The Committee of the 25th, which remains en
permanence, to represent the Legislative Assembly,
met on Thursday to consider whether it was expe-
dient, in consequence of the turn events had taken in
Hungary and Sardinia, to call the Legislative As-
sembly together immediately. After some discussion
it was decided that it would not be necessary to cell
the Assembly together before the time fixed for its
meeting. General CRANGARNIER, who appeared
before the Committee, expressed himself satisfied with
the state of Paris.

It is rumoured that in consequence of
the opposition with which his proposition for
the imposition of an income-tax has been met
by the propertied classes of France (for the followeri
of M. fulEas have joined the Legitimatists in their
opposition to the imposition of an income• tax), M.
PASSY will retire from the Ministry. The rumour
produced a fall in the French funds.

Count MOLE has written to some of the journals to
say that there is to be no meeting of the Legitimatist
and Conservative members at his chateau, as had
been stated by some of the papers.

In the eleclion for members of the Council Gene•
ral, in the canton of Canbreiner, Calvados, M.
(Imo; who was a canriiLte, only obtained 310
votes, while his competitor, M. THLRAU, a notary,
and Mayor of Canbremer, was elected by a majority
of 897.

The railroad from Dijon to Chalons sur• Saone is to
be opened to the public on the Ist of September.
The following are the principal items of the weekly
Bank returns :

Specie in Paris ... ...F.241,491,616
Ditto branches 131.386.768
Bills in Paris portfolio ... 43 700 318
Ditto in branches portfolio ... 79,845 880
Bills under protest in Paris 4,215.528
Ditto in Branches ... ... 2,778,433
Bank ❑otes in circulation in Paris ... 364.392,300
Ditto in branches ... ... 43,243,225
Credit to Treasury... 58,622 931
Pr►vate credit accounts, Paris ... 84,0:5,016
Ditto in branches ... 25,928,607