The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-14 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The speech of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, at
the banquet at the hotel de Vile, on Monday, ap-
pears to have given great satisfaction to all parties,
except to the members of the white-red coalition, the I
extreme Legitimatists an the extreme Socialists,
who have united together, as in the days of June,
1848, for the purpose of producing disorder, as it is
through disorder alone that the parties to this strange
coalition can ever hope to put their subversive and
anarchical theories in practice. With the exception
of these persons, who constitute a very
small minority, the speech of the PRESIDENT
appears to have given great satisfaction to all; and
considered as a supplement to the message of October,
the speech cannot but be gratifying to all those who
wish to uphold the Constitutional Republic. Those
persons who have of late been fearing or affecting to fear
an intended coup d etat, may re-assure themselves when
they read the following words of the PRESIDENT :
" It is no paltry copy of any past whatsoever that we
have to make; what we have to do is to call together
men of heart and intelligence, to consolidate some-
thing greater than a charter, and more durable than a
dynasty the eternal principles of religion and
morality, as well as the new rules of a sound
policy. The City of Paris will comprehend a line of
conduct, which, in following the strict line marked by
the Constitution, yet allows to be opened a vast horiz ,n
of hope and security." These words containing a dis-
tinct disavowal of any intention of attempting to
revive any past whatever, be it empire or monarchy,
and at the same time giving a pledge to follow the strict
line marked by the Constitution; have had the
most happy effect in tranquillising the minds of the
French people, whi!e the emphatic announcement of
the PRESIDENT in the former part of his speech,
"We will advance instead of standing still," has
given satisfaction to all who wish to see re-
forms introduced into the administration, as
those administrative reforms which all desire to see
effected have a better chance of being carried out now
that the PRESIDENT, who is his own Prime Minister,
has taken the initiative, than they could have whilst
he remained what his former Ministers endeavoured
to make him, the slave rather than the master of the
Cabinet.

The Paine says " We are requested to state that
there will be no grand ceremony at the Hotel des
Invalides, on the 15th of December, the anniversary
of the entry of the remains of the Emperor into
France, as has been announced. There will only be
a low mass. The great ceremony has been reserved
for the 15th of May, the anniversary of the death of
the Emperor." _ _

The ceremony has been deferred for probably the
same reason that the review was postponed, which it
had been intended should take place on the 10th of
December. It was di!covered that several of the
liegititnatist and Socialist coalition had conspired to
raise a cry of "Vice L'Empercur" during the progress
of the PRESIDENT along the lines, in order, if pos-
sible, to create an idea that a coup detat was intended,
and thus to raise an entente. The review was in
consequence put off, and several of the con-
spirators arrested. The majority of those arrestrd
are Legitimatists.
The rumour of the approaching publication of a
general amnesty fur all political offences committed
up to the present moment is revived. It is well
known that the PRESIDENT is extremely desirous that
such an amnesty should be proclaimed with as little
delay as possible.
_ _

In the National Assembly on Wednesday the
debate on the re-imposition of the duty on potable
liquors was resumed and again adjourned. M. DE
MONTALEMBERT was to open the debate yesterday.
The Aloniteur contains 40 more nominations to the
Order of the Legion of Honour. Amongst them is
that of LOUIS LUCIEN BONAPARTE (brother of the
Prince of CAmtio). His discoveri?s in chemistry, and
the services generally rendered by him to science
during his long exile, are stated as the grounds on
which his nomination has been made.

It is said that General CASTELBAJAC has at length
definitively accepted the Russian Embassy.
Eighty-three of the insurgents of June, who were
transported to Belleisle►, and who have been pardoned,
arrived in Paris on Wednesday.
ABOLITION OF THE PASSPORT SYSTEM.

Messrs. WRIGHT, IVYLEAFE, and POTTER, and Capt
WARREN, a deputation from the shareholders in the
Boulogne and Amiens Railway, bad, yesterday, an
interview with the PRESIDENT of the Republic at the
Elysee, at ten o'clock. They were received with
much courtesy and with marked kindness. The
moment the PRESIDENT saw them he said, "I
have excellent news for you, gentlemen—an im-
portant communication to make to you, in the an-
nouncement that passports will be discontinued."
After a conversation which lasted some time, and
in which the PRESIDENT was highly complimentary
on the late feat of travelling, the gentlemen above-
mentioned proceeded to the hotel of the Minister of
Public Works, with whom they also had an interview,
and by whom they were received with courtesy.
They paid a visit afterwards to M. TuAvax, Di-
rector-General of the Post-office, with whom, and
with M. PIRON, Deputy Postmaster-General,
they also had a long conversation on the comparative
merits of the Calais and Boulogne routes. M. THAYER
expressed his admiration of the feat they had just
performed, and gave a decided preference to the Bou-
logne route.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 56f. 30c.; the Five per Cents. at 91f. 60c.;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 757 f. 50c,; Rouen, 551 f. 25c.;
Havre, 242 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 458 f. 75c.; Avignon,
220 f.; Viorzon, 330 f.; Bale, 105 f.; Bordeaux, 405 f.;
Paris and Strasburgh, 361 f. 250.; Tours and Nantes,
278 f. 50e.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 13.
B-ulegne and Amiens, 61x—Great Indian Peninsula, 51
—Northern of France, 11A die.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Vienna papers contain the following decree,
suspending the publication
.of the Presse news-
paper :
The wicked tendencies of the Presse newspaper,
and the very malicious article which it contains in its
number of yesterday, are such that the authorities, on
whom it is incumbent to execute the exceptional
state, would ♦iolate their duties if they were to allow
that newspaper to enlarge its sphere, and this
the more, since its persisting in causing the mea-
sures of Government to be suspected appears as a
defiance of those frequent exhortations which the Go-
vernment has condescended to bestow on the editors of
several journals, and the nonconsideration of which has
already led to the suppression of the said journals. the
Military Governor has, therefore, thought proper to
suppress the Presse newspaper during the continuance
of the state of siege.
" WELDEN,
" The Civil and Military Governor.

" Vienna, Dee. S."
The " malicious article " alluded to by WELDEN
was on the German question, and advocated the views
of Prussia.
The Government has determined that the Central
Hungarian Railroad shall become the property of the
state. The principal ,conditions made between the
directory of the railroad and the Austrian Govern-
ment were—" The shareholders to receive 4 per
cent. State bonds instead of their railway sharer,
which have a nominal worth of 5,000,000 florins
(800,0001) 2. The bonds to be paid in eight yearly
instalments. 3. The interests at present due on the
railway shares to be paid in ready money by Govern-
ment."

It is said that RADETZKY has tendered his resigna-
tion of, and has recommended HESS as his successor in
the Government of Lombardy.
The Constitutional Journal states, upon good autho-
rity, that the Government intends to issue the patents
for the convocation of the Diets of the different Crown
lands in the course of next week.

It is contemplated to remove the privileges hitherto
enjoyed by Venice, of being a free harbour. The
Minister of Commerce considers this measure impe •
native for the suppression of smuggling.
The Austrian Exhibition of National Industry is
postponed to the year 1852, because the exhibition
which is to take place in London of specimens of
manufacture from every part of the, world is fixed
for 1861, and which will therefore clash with our
exhibition.