The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Tlfoniteur publishes the following telegraphic
dispatches from Italy:—
The Government has received from General Ou-
DINOT the following telegraphic dispatch, sent from
Marseilles the 7th, at half-past seven o'clock in the
evening :

" Palo, May 4.
" The 3d brigade has disembarked. The head-
quarters are at Palo, with tho 2d brigade. The Ist is at
Yoiidoro, within six leagues of Rome."
The Government has also received the following
telegraphic dispatches :

" Turin, May 4.
" Lyons, May 6.
"THE MINISTER OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
"Radetzky left Milan yesterday for Malghera. Ho
has given orders for the entry of 27,000 men into Ro-
magna and Tuscany, who are already on their march.
Three battalions have been sent from Trieste to occupy
Ancona."

" Turin, May 3.
" Lyons, May 4.
" There left Mila❑ on the Ist 6,090 men for Ferrara.
The rumour is that they are to enter Bologna. Other
troops have left for Tuscany. The garrison of Milan is
reduced to 5,000 men."

"Leghorn, May 5.
" THE CONSUL-GENERAL OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER

FOR FOREISN AFFAIRS.
" The Austrians entered Lucca this morning. They
are expected this evening at Pisa."

" Gaeta, April 30.
" THE MINISTER OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" The King of Naples entered the States of the Church
yesterday at the head of 5,000 men. The King was re-
ceived at Terracina with acclamations of the people,
crying Vive Pius Lx.' The flotilla has disembarked
zt Terracina. Some sailors and soldiers have gone to-
wards Porto- di-Anzo."
The PRESIDENT of the Republic has addressed the
Alowing letter to General OuDiNoT. It was pub-
shed in the semi-official Patrie of Tuesday evening.
" My dear General,—The telegraphic news, annoui?c-
eg the unforeseen resistance which you have met with
rider the walls of Rome, has greatly grieved me. I had
:oped, as you know, that the inhabitants of Rome, open-
their eyes to evidence, would receive with eagerness
,1 army which had arrived there to accomplish a friendly
.nd disinterested mission. This has not been the case.
)ur soldiers have been received as enemies. Our mill-
iry honour is engaged. I will not suffer it to be assailed.
:reinforcements shall not be wanting to you. Tell your
Adiers that I appreciate their bravery, and take part in
,ehat they endure; and that they may always rely on my
support and my gratitude. Receive, my dear General,
:he assurance of my sentiments of high esteem,
" LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE."
This letter, it will be perceived, is countersigned
by no Minister, and it is moreover written in open
defiance of the decision of the National Assembly.
This letter, like the letter to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,
has been written, it is said, not by the Prince
himself but by one of the Ministers, for the
purpose of compromising the PRESIDENT, SO as
to facilitate the return of the Bourbons. As we
have before remarked, M. DE FALLoux does credit
to his Jesuit instructors. His brother, the Abbe
DE FALLOUT, who has for some time past been in-
triguing at Rome for the restoration of the POPE
and the Inquisition, has been expelled from the city,
having been discovered in treasonable communication
with the foreign reactionaries.
In commenting on this most ill-judged letter the
National says—
" Such, then, is the reply of the President oF the Re-
public to the vote of the Assembly; this is the attention
he pays to the will of the Representatives of the nation;
this is how he shows his respect for the Constitution.
" We must confess we had difficulty in believing what
we said. At this moment even, the defiance hurled by
the first functionary of the Republic against the sove-
reign power appears to us unintelligible.
The direct and personal intervention of M. Louis
Bonaparte in a question which was the subject of dis-
cussion between his Cabinet would be a fact sufficiently
grave, but when that interference is manifested after
a decisive and final vote, which has constitutionally put
an end to the discussion, what is to be thought of it ?
It is without the countersign of any one of
his Ministers that M. Louis Bonaparte has pro-
mised reinforcements to General Oudinot. But is he
ignorant that he has not the right to order a single
company to advance a step ? If he has net himself read
the Constitution to which he has sworn, has he no one
near him who could have reminded him of the bearing
of his oath ? What is to be understood by this ? Is
it in case of need he will dispense with the assent of his
Ministers, as he would appear to wish to dispense with
the authorisation of the Assembly ? All this requires
explanations, and they cannot be given too promptly.
"It is not our wish to make use of irritating expres-
sions in a discussion which may lead to incalculable
consequences. We impose silence on the indignant feel-
ings of our heart. It is coolly and legally that we now
discuss the matter ; we shall not, therefore, express the
suspicions which have arisen in our minds at the events
which have been for some time passing before our eyes.
But we are convinced that the Assembly, carefully
watchful of its rights and of its dignity, will not permit
with impunity any attack on the Constitution, from what
ever quarter it may be directed. It is its duty to defend
it, and this duty it will fulfil, convinced as it is of hav-
ing the support of the nation."
The National Assembly on Tuesday rejected the
proposition of the Committee on the budget for the
reduction of the army by 75,000 men. The Ministry
may thank Generals CAVAIGNAC, LAMORICIBRE,
BEDEAU, and M. DE LAMARTINE for their preserva-
tion from defeat on this occasion. They all four
spoke against the proposition for reduction. In re-
turn the Ministers, through their Electoral Com-
mittee of the Club of the Rue de Poictiers, scold and
bully the electors of Paris for having in the prelimi-
nary scrutiny returned the names of these gentlemen,
together with those of M.M. DUFAURE and
MARIE at the head of the list of candi-
dates for the Department of the Seine.
This conduct on the part of the Electoral
Committee proves the truth of the assertion we made
some time since, that the names of General CA-
VAIGNAC and his friends had been proposed originally
by the Committee solely with the intention of deceiv-
ing. We trust the electors of France will in every
instance exercise their own judgment as to every can-
didate, and not suffer any club or any newspaper to
dictate to them a list to be voted as a whole.

At the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday
the subject of the PRESIDENT'S letter to General
OUDINOT was brought forward by M. GREVY, in
reply to whom M. ODILON BARROT stated that, though
the letter in question was not the act of the Cabinet,
he and his colleagues were ready to assume the whole
responsibility of it. He declared that the object of
the letter was merely to express sympathy with the
army, and that it was not intended as the inaugura-
tion of a policy contrary to that of the Assembly.
A long discussion ensued, in the course of which M.
LEDRU ROLLIN made a violent attack on the Ministers
and the PRESIDENT. He declared the letter to be an
insolent defiance of the National Assembly and a
violation of the constitution. Ultimately the debate
on the subject was adjourned on the motion of M.
GREVY and M. FAVRE, in consequence of M. ODILON
BARROT having announced that M. LESSRPS, the late
Minister at Madrid, had been sent by the Govern-
ment as an envoy to Rome, to express to the Roman
people the wishes of the Assembly, as expressed by
the vote of Monday, which showed that the Govern-

ment di,l not intend to oppose the Assembly.
It was rumoured in the Assembly that the Mi-
nistry had received a telegraphic dispatch announcing
the entry of both the French and the Neapolitan
troops into home.
BOURSE.—PARIS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 9.

THREE o'CLocK.—The Funds having risen yesterday,
on a report, which has since been contradicted, of the
entry of the French troops into Rome, the improvement
has vanished. To-day, the Five per Cent. Rentes opened
at fully per cent. below the closing prices of yesterday,
end continued weak all day. The other public Stocks
and Railway Shares were also weak, and the business
done was exceedingly limited. Exchange on London
(30 days), 25 30; ditto (90 days), 25 17i.

tIUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7—Northern of France, 1014—
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 141,8—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 3—Paris and Rouen, 22 Paris and Stras-
bourg, 41,4 —Rouen and llavre, 101,—Tours and .Naites, 3%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived.
The Espana says, the Cortes will be prorogued on
the 24th May.
MADRID BOLSA, MAY 4.—Three per Cents., 25i
paper; Four per Cents., 10i paper ; Coupons, 7
paper; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 82 paper, 84 money.
Exchange on London, 50 55 paper.

SOCIETY or ARTS.—Yesterday evening the mem-
bers of this society met at their rooms in John street
(Charles Barry, Esq., R.A., in the chair), when Mr.
Digby Wyatt read a most interesting paper on metal
work, and the artistic designs of which it is capable.
the paper was illustrated by drawings, and some rich
pecimens of manufacture in gold, silver, bronze, iron,
d other metals. Mr. Wyatt, in a very lucid manner,
-tined the principle of each metal, and showed the uses
which it might be applied. At the conclusion of the
cturer's address an interesting conversation ensued,and
. vote of thanks having been passed to Mr. Wyatt, the
iroceedings terminated. The attendance of scientific

ntlen3en was very numerous.
SERVANTS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.-011 Wed-
. slay next, the 16th inst., a large meeting of the patrons
nd friends of this institution is to take place at the
.anover-square Rooms. His Royal Highness Prince
Ihert is to preside. All the tickets have been applied for.
VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP OF THE COUNTY PALA-
' INE OF LANCASTER.—We understand that Lord Camp-
tha Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has eon-
forred the appointment of the Vice-Chancellorship of the
County Palatine, which office is in his gift, and vacant
f.y the demise of Mr. Twiss, upon Mr. Wood, Q.C., one
of the Members for the city of Oxford.—Morning
Paper,