The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-19 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The National Assembly on Tuesday voted the
grant for the expedition to Rome by a majority of
227, the numbers being for the grant 388, against it
161. The members of the extreme left abstained
from voting. General OUDINOT left Paris on the
evening of Monday, to take the command of the ex-
pedition. Everything was in readiness at Toulon on
the 13th, for the embarkation of the troops. No em-
barkation, however, took place on that day. The
steam frigates Infernal and Panama have been added
to the expeditionary fleet. This is the boldest
overt act for the restoration of Absolutism and Priest-
craft in France that the reactionary party has yet ven-
tured on ; it surpasses in boldness and in imprudence
the contemplated intervention by M. GIIIOT in favour
of the Sonderbund. That the cautious ODILON
BARROT should have permitted himself to be thus
committed by the fiery bigotry of M. DE Fannon' is
matter of surprise. The partisans of the Je4uits
cannot conceal their exultation at the apostacy of M.
ODILON BARROT, and the adoption by him of a
principle
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HENRY V. The Gazette de France says—" That which
is abouttobi executed under the auspices of M. BARROT
justifies the intervention of 1823, and the act of ;An -
dujar which caused the rights of humanity to prevail
in Spain. We thank M. BARROT for having at
length adopted the policy, entirely French, of M.
DE VALLELE."

The Notional observes, and observes justly—
" Thanks to the Government of M. Bonaparte, the
French Republic draws its sword for the first time, and
it is against Italian liberty that it directs it. It is our
own principle that we are about to combat at Rome.
We refused intervention in favour of the pkople, and we
gave it without 13;:ing asked to the sovereigns. We say
distinctly, that if the scheme conceived by the Ministry,
and confessed in the bureaux by Messrs. Faucher,
Drouyn de Lhuys, and Falloux be realised; if, in truth,
our troops be sent to the Roman States to crush the revo-
lution, and restore the Pope to his temporal throne,
France will be for ever dishonoured. We demand that
in order to be logical to the end, the Croats of Radetzky
mid the Cossacks of Nicholas shall be called into
France." _

The same journal in another article says—
" The Pope restored to the Pontifical thronci by
foreign bayonets, will be, no one can doubt it, the elder
branch of the Bourbons enthroned in the Tuileries by
Wellington and Blucher, with this difference, that it
u►ill not take fifteen years to produce a 29th July in
Rome."
The Assemblie Nationale attaches a political ob-
ject to the visit of the Due D'AUMALE to the Duchess
of ORLEANS. It says—
" The Due d'Aumale has set out on a visit to the
Duchess of Orleans at Eisenberg. To this journey is
attached the solution of important questions affecting
the interests of parties which now divide France."
The object is to induce the Duchess of ORLEANS
to consent to the terms agreed on between Louis
PHILIPPE and the Princess of Plano. for a recon•
ciliation between the two branches, and a restoration
of Monarchy in France by intrigue if possible, and if
not by the force of Cossack lances and Austrian
bayonets.
The Three per Cents. were done at 24i for cash; the
Five per Cents. at 11 for paper; the Debt without in-
terest at 4; and the Coupons at 6f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 18.

Boulogne and Amiens, 8%--Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 14%—East Indian, 4 Northern of France,
11 %—Paris and Orleans, 34 cx d.—Paris and Rouen, 22%
—Paris and Strasbourg, Rouen and lime, 111 A,—
Tours and Nantes, 3.,zi ex in.