The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-07 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
A great sensation was created among the fre-
quenters of the political salons of Paris, by the state-
ment that the Government had, in the course of
Wednesday afternoon, received from Madrid a tele-
graphic dispatch announcing that her MA3ESTY the
Queen of Sreng is seceinte. She has completed the
third month of her pregnancy. The dispatch was,
immediately after its receipt, communicated to the
Duke of SOTOMAYOR, the Spanish Ambassador at
Paris. The communication has been made in an
official form by her MAJESTY'S medical attendants at
Madrid to the Spanish Government.
The National Assembly was engaged on Wednes-
day in discussing the alterations proposed to be made
in the law of electoral circumscriptions. In the
course of the debate General CAVAIGIIAC declared
that his opinion was unvaried that the proposition
was unconstitutional. The election in the communes
was the exception, and that in the cantons the rule.
"I have only to add," said the Hon. General, " that
not long since a Committee declared the Constitution
to be defective ; now we have one proposing to us to
violate it. That I consider a most objectionable
symptom, and I deem it my duty to point it out to
the attention of the Assembly."
Shortly afterwards General BRDBAU rose, and said
that he certainly thought that the vote by commune
was the best course to be pursued, yet he was arrested
in that opinion by a scruple. He could not but think
that the text of the Constitution did not permit the
proposition to be adopted.—(Noise.) lie said so
because he considered that the Constitution ought to
be observed to the letter. In the present case he felt
a doubt if that were done, and in his doubt he stopped
short--all being bound to observe the Constitution.
These emphatic declarations by Generals CATAIG-
NAC and BxDEAU, that all are bound to observe the
Constitution, are considered by many persons as ex-
ceedingly significant.
The Committee charged to examine the question of
transportation has made choice of the place where
prisoners are to he sent to. It is to be, for convicts
of the first class (that is, for those to be confined in a
citadel), the island of Weithaon; and for those of
the second class the island of Noukaiva, both forming
part of the Marquise group. It is said that M.
BASE is to propose an additional article, running
thus :—" Persons condemned to transportation cannot
he transferred from the place fixed on for their
punishment unless in virtue of a special Bill."
The debate was adjourned.
The Council of Discipline of the Order of Advo-
cates assembled on Wednesday evening, under the
presidency of M. DUVERGIER, in the absence of M.
BoieviLeexas, the 13atonnier, who was absent from
illness. M. CREMIEUX and N. JULES FAVRE, and
sight other advocates who defended the prisoners
before the High Court at Versailles, were present,
and laid before the Council their means of defence.
M. Mom. (de Bourgee) not belonging to the Paris
bar, could not be summoned to attend. The result
of the deliberations has not yet transpired.
Intelligence has been communicated to the Minis-
ter of Agriculture and Commerce, by the represen-
tatives of the Haute Saone, of the breaking out of
the cholera in the town of Gray. The number of
deaths there has been within the last few days as
many as 60, an amount out of all proportion to the
population. Fortunately the neighbouring districts
were still safe.

The Patrie states that the various rumours respect-
ing diplomatic changes, as mentioned in some of the
Pari▪ s papers, are unfounded, and amongst others that
of General BARAGUAT D'HiLmuus being replaced at
Rome by M. DE RAYNEVAL.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic, being slighlty
indi▪
sposed, was unable on Wednesday to preside
over the Council of Ministers which was held at the
Elysie.
M. FRANCOIS ARAGO, ex-Member of the Provi-
sional Government, and M. HIRAU SAY have been
delegated by the Council General of the Seine, the
one as President, and the other as Secretary of the
Council, to invite the PRESIDENT of the Republic to
the banquet which will be given at the Hotel de Ville
on the 10th inst.
The Moniteur de Soir thus , announces the fall of
Zaatcha :
" We read in a private letter relative to the affair of
Zaatcha:—At the departure of the last courier, a report
was current in Algiers that the oasis had at length been
carried by our troops after a desperate resistance. The
works ably directed were advanced to the wa!l, and even
under the Kiabah. A mine having blown up the fort,
the assault was made with complete success."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on
Thursday, at 57f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents. at 911.;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 750 f. ; Rouen, 540 f.; Havre,
235 f. ; Great Northern, 446 f. 250. ; Avignon, 217 f,
50c.; Vierzon, 315 f.; Basle, 102 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 4021.
50c.; Paris and Strasburgh, 357 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes,
2771. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 6.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), I2N—East Indian, 4—Luxembourg, %
Ditto, I%—Northern of France, 2113 dis. Orleans and
Bordeaux, 314 Paris and Rouen, 22—Paris and Stras-
bourg, 6—Rouen and Havre, 9%—Sambre and Meuse, 2%
—Tours and Nantes, 4.

THE COFFIN or:nxn LATE MAJESTY THE QUEEN
DOWAGER.—It is not intended to exhibit the coffin
which is to contain the remains of her late ikbjesty
the Queen Dowager.

FRIDAY EVENING-,