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

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The fete given by the Prefect of the Seine on
Monday, at the Hotel de Ville, to the PRESIDENT of
the Republic, in commemoration of the election of '
the latter, went off as well as the best friends of the
PRESIDENT could have desired. Two hundred guests
sat down to dinner in the magnificent salle du Troia.
The prefect, M. BERGEN, in proposing the health of the
Elect of the 10th of Dec., said" that it was on the same
day last year that France had chosen him for her
chief; France had given him her confidence, which
be had returned by an unbounded devotion, and
France, a great nation, that would be neither forget-
ful nor ungrateful, would long bear in mind the
efforts hehad made to ensure the safety of the country."
The toast having been drank with enthusiasm,
the PRESIDENT of the Republic replied as follows :
" I thank the municipality for having invited me to the
Hotel de Ville, and for having this very day caused suc-
cour to be afforded to many indigent persons. To
solace misfortune is in my opinion the best way to cele-
brate the 10th December. I am not going to recapitu-
late what we have done within the last year. Of one
thing alone I feel proud, which is, that, thanks to the
men who have surrounded me, and who surround me
still, I have been enabled to maintain the law intact,
and to preserve tranquillity without recourse to violence.
The year now commencing will, I trust, be yet
more fertile in happy results, especially if, as the
Prefect of the Seine has said, all the great powers
remain intimately united. I call great powers
those elected by the people, the Assembly, and the
President. Yes, I have faith in so fertile a union. We
will advance. instead of standing still, for that which
gives force even to the humblest mortal is to have before
his view a great object to attain, and behind a great
cause to defend. For us the cause is that of civilization
altogether. It is the cause of this wise and sacred
liberty which is every day more menaced by excesses,
which are its profanation. It is the cause of the working
classes, whose comfort is unceasingly menaced by these
insensate theories, which, exciting the most brutal pas-
sions, and causing the most legitimate fears,
raise hatred against the very idea of ameliorations.
It is the cause of representative government, which loses
its salutary prestige by the acrimony of language and
the delays thrown in the way of the most useful measures.
It is the cause of the gr,atness and independence of
France, for if the ideas which we combat could triumph
they would destroy our finances, our army, our credit,
our preponderance, while it would, at the SEM time,
drive us into a war against all Europe. Thus, never was
there a more just, more patriotic, or more sacred cause
than ours. The object we have to attain is itself as noble as
is this cause we defend. It is no paltry copy of anything
past which we have to remake; what we have to do is to
call together all men of heart and intelligence to con-
solidate something greater than a charter and more
durable than a dynasty—the eternal principles of re-
ligion and morality as well as the new rules of a sound
policy. The city of Paris, so intelligent, and which
does not desire to recal revolutionary agitations except
for the purpose of guarding against them, will compre-
hend a line of conduct which, in following the strict line
marked by the Constitution, yet allows to be opened a
vast horizon of hope and security. It has often been said
that honour finds an echo in France. Let us hope that
reason will find an equal echo in the minds and hearts
of men devoted, above all, to their country. I propose
a toast to the municipal body."—(Great cheering.)
The banquet was followed by a grand ball in the
evening, at which upwards of 6,000 persons were
present.
At nine o'clock the PRESIDENT of the Republic,
with the Prefect of the Seine on his right and M.
AttAco on his left, and followed by his usual attend-
F ants, made the tour of the saloons, where he was re-
ceived with every mark of re6pect. Dancing was

kept up to a late hour.
The Moniteur announces that Mr. RonEaT STE..
PUEMON has been appointed a Chevalier of the
Legion of Honour.
In the National Assembly on Monday, the propo-
sition of M. DESMOUSSEAUX DE GIVRY, for the resto-
ration of the magistrates of the Court of Accounts,
who wore dismissed by the Provisional Government
on the 18th April, 1848, was referrcd to a Com-
mittee.

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It is said that the Members of the Left intend to
secede from the Chamber in a body whenthepropo-

sition for the reimposition of the wine duties sliall.be
put to the vote, their object being to prevent the
making a house.
General SANTA Cu uz, the Bolivian Minister
in Paris, is engaged in negotiatiug a treaty of
commerce between the French and the Bolivian
Republics.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on
Tuesday, at 561. 50c. ; the Five per Cents. at 91f.
65c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 760 f. ; Rouen, 555 f.;
Havre, 242 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 463 f. 75c.; Avig-
non, 220 f.; Vierzon, 332 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg,
363 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 280 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. - - '

Boulogne and. Amiens, 6X—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 13,4—East Indian, 3%—Great Indian Penin-
sula, :Y4—Northern of France, 1% dis.—Orleans and Bour-
deaux, 34—Paris and Rouen, 22—lambra and Meuse, 2;,i.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Mew- Zeitung of the sth, in an article dated
Hermanstadt, Nov. 23, states that, in consequence of
the numerous petty and other crimes committed in
Transylvania during the revolution, so many persons
are now in prison that the existing courts of judica-
ture are insufficient to examine into the cases of
many individuals who may possibly thereby be
incarcerated for a longer time than they ought to be.
Temporary courts of judicature, consisting of a
president and three or four counsel, are to be estab-
lished in the military districts of Carlsburg, Klausen-
burg, and Fozarasch, in sufficient numbers to meet
the existing demands, the sentence to be passed by
them being according to the Austrian Legal Code,
Parts 1 and 2, on Crimes. These courts being tem-
porary, the stipends for the president, judges, &c.,
are to be monthly.
The Soldaton it Freund, of the sth, states that the
corps of observation concentrated ou the frontiers of
Saxony from Eger to Teschen, amounts to 26,000
men. The same journal adds that the Archduke
ALBERT, commander of this corps, is gone to Dresden,
for the purpose of coming to an understanding with
the Court of Saxony.
Dr. FiscuoFr, who was a Deputy of the Krem-
sier Diet, and was arrested ten months sinco, closely
imprisoned, and treated with great rigour, was
last week discharged without form of trial, the Go-
vernment not having been able even to suborn wit-
nesses to get up a probable accusation against him.
The Killner Zeitung publishes a telegraphic dis-
patch from Vienna of the 6th inst., stating that the
Minister of War has sent an order to the Austrian
troops in Theresienstadt in Bohemia, instructing them
to prepare to march to Saxony within four-and-
t wen ty hours.
The POPE and Tuscany have consented to join the
Customs Union between Austria, Modena, and
Parma. .

M. BACH, the Austrian Minister, will remain in
office.

PRUSSIA.

WALDECK has resumed his seat as one of the
Judges of the Ober Tribunal.
A telegraphic diFpatch from Berlin, of the 10th
inst., in the Kohler Zeitung, states that Baron RA-
DOWTZ and M. BOTTICKER, the Prussian Members of
the Administration of Germany, are about to leave
Berlin for Frankfort, where the Austrian Comtnis-
sioners are expected to arrive. It is stated that the
Archduke JOUN is at length willing to resign his
office as Regent of the Empire.
The Sehwiebiehe Merkur has letters from Rastadt,
of the 4th inst., stating that the Prussian Rhine army
is being placed on a war footing. The armament of
Rastadt, too, is being revised.