The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the French papers of yesterday.
Several bronze medals of HENRI V., have been
seized at a manufactory in the Quarter of the Hotel
de Ville, and the dies from which they were struck,
have also been discovered and seized. The engraver
of the medal has been arrested. Several of these
medals have also been seized in the shops of the
Boulevards, the Passages, and the Paleis National.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic attended on Satur-
day the anniversary service for the repose of the Soul
of his Father, Louis BONAPARTE ex-King of Hol-
land, which was celebrated at the Church of St. Leu.
Several of the old soldiers of the empire were present.
The Countess LOUISA &mom, the daughter of the
late King JOACHIM MURAT has arrived in Paris.
The railroad from Tours to Saumur was opened
yesterday.
The Petrie of last night contains the following
semi-official statement on the subject of the affairs of
Italy :
" The report is current that, with the consent of all
the Powers, the King of Naples and the King of Pied-
mont are simultaneously to interfere in the States of the
Pope and in Tuscany. The journey of the Piedmontese
General Baia, who has left Turin for Naples, passing
through Florence and Rome, is said to be in connexion
with this plan of intervention. Should the intervention
take place, it is said that the English and French fleets
will take up their position at Leghorn and Civita
Vecchia."

It is generally understood that this plan of inter-
vention has been fully arranged, and that it meets
with the approval of all the great Powers.
The National has the following on the prospects of
Republicanism in Italy :
" The Tuscan Provisional Government has already
admitted in principle that the fusion of Tuscany with the
Papal States would be the best guarantee of their future
independence. It has only yielded in this to the impulse
of unitary democracy, which aims at the formation of a
vast Republic, with Rome for its capital, and with the
Italian Peninsula as its limit.. If, therefore, a new
State be formed—ltaly Central or Roman Republic, no
matter the name—an immense step will be made to-
wards the end which we speak of. It may, in fact, be
affirmed in advance, that Lombardy and the Duchies,
when their hour of deliverance arrives, will join the Ro-
man Republic rather than the Kingdom of Piedmont. The
choice of Venice is not doubtful. Sicily, which now with-
out doubt, would fear to adventure in a perilous fusion,
and so weaken the elements of the resistance which is in
preparation, would not hesitate, if Naples, delivered up
to its Bourbons, did not hold it in check. As to Pied-
mont, who does not know it? Who does not know how
much the democratic action finds germs there ready to
bear fruit? The population of Turin is royalist, or
rather, constitutional—the liberalism of Gioberti mar-
vellously suits their present instincts. But Genoa, the
Novarrais, and Savoy, are hostile to the monarchical
principle. It is, therefore, not too much to affirm, that
a Republic firmly established in the centre of Italy would
inevitably dismember the kingdom of Charles Albert.
Such are the probable chances of the present unitary
democratic movement, produced by the presence of the
foreigner in Italy. It is the want of a com-
mon defence—it is the deep hatred of the
Austrian yoke, which prevails over these in-
testine divisions, these municipal antipathies, which
have so long caused the slavery of Italy, after having
brought on her ruin. Does that mean that they have
disappeared? We dare not either hope or promise it.
Federalism has deep roots in Italy, and unity is as yet
only a state of theory, of instinct suitable to the moment.
If it were given to the republican dogma to destroy in a
few days all the dissolving influences which have so long
separated the Neapolitans from the Romans, Milan from
Turin, Genoa from Venice, &c., we should see in that
phenomenon, so little anticipated, its most magnificent
consecration. But we doubt that such will be the case.
Besides, since the die is cast, this is the manner in which
we should like to see the future acts of the Italian demo-
cracy unroll themselves. The cry of Give la Ripublique
raised at Rome, will find echo in Tuscany. There
we certainly see some symptoms of re-action mani-
fested, but they will be put down without much trouble.
When the first difficulties shall have been surmounted,
let Florence stretch out a fraternal hand to Rome. Let
armies, treasures, alliances, diplomatic relations be all in
common. If the frontiers of the Roman States be me-
naced, let the Tuscan battalions go and defend them. If
the Grand Duke Leopold causes arms to be taken up
against the rebellious capital, let Garibaldi and his brave
legionaries hurry to the walls of Florence. Without
menacing Piedmont, without feeling, as in other times,
the doctrinary abuses of M. Gioberti, without paying
attention to the means which might be devised to make
him expiate them cruelly, let the new Republican State
offer him a loyal co-operation in the war against the
foreigner. If he reject it, if he be determined to carry
out his ideas of Papal restoration, it will be time then to
appeal from the Minister-Priest to the Chamber, already
decided to overturn him, from the monarchical capital to
the republican provinces."
The Moniteur publishes a return of the produce
and consumption of beet-root sugar from the com-
mencement of the season of 1848 up to the end of
January. It appears that during this period 44 ma-
nufactories have stopped working, and the general
quantity of sugar produced was lessened by 12,328,474
kilogrammes.

BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 19.
THREE O'CLOCK.—The rise at the Bourse made fur-
ther progress to-day. The French Rentes and Shares
opened considerably above Saturday's closing prices,
and continued to rise steadily till almost the last moment
when there was a slight reaction in consequence of the
wish of the fortunate speculators to realise the profits.
The Railways participated in the rise. Exchange on
London (30 days), 25 25; ditto (90 days), 25 15.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 19.
Boulogne and Amiens, 93A—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 11—Luxembourg (71.), %—Ditto (101.), 2 ex
int.—Namur and Liege, 81—Northern of France, 9
Orleans and Bordeaux, 3X—Paris and Rouen, 20% ex
div.—Paris and Strasbourg, VA—Rouen and Havre, 13;8
—Sambre and Meuse, s%—Tours and Nantes, 2

TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20; 1849.

concentrated in a single Assembly, c imposed of
representatives of the people elected by direct
universal suffrage, and in the Provisional Go-
veinwent. 3. Laws may be proposed both by the
Legislative Assembly and by the Ministry. 4. The As-
sembly shall be composed of 120 representatives, elected
by departments in proportion to population. 5. The elec-
tion shall take place in the communes, and the votes
shall be cast up in in every department. 6. Candidates
for the representation must be 25 years old or upwards;
electors must be 21 years and upwards. 7. Women,
persons declared by the tribunals incapable of managing
their own affairs, strangers, or persons sentenced to
punishments not within the competency of the tribunals
of first instance, or to any punishment for fraud, rob-
bery, and similar crimes against property, are neither eli-
gible nor electors. 8. The Assembly is convoked for the
15th of March, 1849. 9. A Bill for the immediate
organization of the Italian Constituent Assembly shall
be speedily presented to the Assembly. 10. The
Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the
Interior is charged with the execution of the present
decree.—Given in Florence, Feb. 10.

" Th© President of the Provisional Government,

GUERRAZZI.

"The Secretary for the Interior,
" MAamoccm."

TURKEY.

Advices have been received from Constantinople
of the 4th by the Levant Mail. The Journal de Con-
stantinople of the above date says :
" In consequence of the gravity which the affairs of
the Moldavian-Wallachian principalities appear to as-
sume, a great activity has reigned in the Divan for some
days past. The meetings of the members of the Otto-
man Cabinet are more frequent than usual, and the
communications between the Porte and the repr?senta-
tives of the great Powers receive from this state of things
an unaccustomed movement. It results, from letters
received 'at Constantinople by the last mail from Bu-
charest, that arrests continue to be effected in the prin-
cipality of Wallachia. These arrests, the letters state,
take place at night, and terror is the order of the day at
Bucharest. All the men suspected of being well with
the party of the old Boyards will tremble for their
liberty and their fortune. The same communications
declare that these acts are effected independently of the
will and authority of the Commissioner of the Porte,
Fuad Effendi, and of the Caimacan, Prince Constantine
Cantacuzene."