The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The following announcement appears in several of
these journals :
" The President of the Republic rode out on horseback
yesterday, and as he passed through the Champs
Elysbes, which, owing to the fine weather, made a dis-
play of equipages nearly equal to what was seen before
the revolution of February, received numerous marks of
the public satisfaction at his recovery from his recent
indisposition."
On Sunday M. Durni, the President of the Na-
tional Assembly, gave a grand dinner to the PRESI-
DENT of the Republic. The principal members of the
Assembly, the presidents of the courts, the ambassa-
dors, &c., were among the guests. At the second
course, M. DUPIN proposed the following toast :
"To the President of the Republic ; to the union of
the public powers, for the strengthening of order in
the interior, and the honourable maintenance of peace
and good relations with other nations."
To this toast the President of the Republic made
the following reply :—" It is a happy augury for
peace at home as well as abroad, that the first anniver-
sary of the 10th December is feted in the midst of a
great number of tbe members of the Assembly, and in
presence of the diplomatic corps. Between the As-
sembly and myself there is a community of origin
and a community of interests. All of us being the
issue of the popular suffrage, we all aspire to the
same end—the strengthening of society and the pros-
perity of the country. Permit me, then, to repeat
the toast of your president, 'To the union of the
public powers;' and let me add, 'To the Assembly—
to its honourable PRESIDENT.'"
Lord NORMANDY was absent in consequence of the
death of the QUREN DOWAGER. M. TRIERS was
sufficiently recovered to attend. After the dinner
there was a grand reception, at which upwards of
1,000 people attended.
'The Evenement has the following on the subject of
the re-organization of the National Guard :
" The Council bf State, charged by the Minister of
the Interior to examine the Bill for the re-organization
of the National Guard, has, it is said, addressed its
report to the Minister, and, in all probability, the Bill
will in a few days be presented to the National Assembly.
We are assured that the Bill only excludes from the
ranks of the National Guard, in addition to persons
who are incapacitated by legal condemnations, those
citimns who live in furnished lodgings and have no
fixed domicile. Qne of the clauses of the law compels
the National Guards who have not a complete uniform
to provide it within a short delay, failing in which they
are to be struck off the list. It is r ffirmed that orders
have been given to all the mairies of Paris immediately
to take:a census of the new National Guard. It is also said
that the Bill suppresses the artillery and cavalry of the
National Guard, but gives to the Government authority
for a squadron of cavalry in each of the legions of the
banlieue, if this should appear necessary."
The .Reforme and the National state that the
following circular has been addressed to the colonels
of the gendarmerie throughout France by the Minister
at War. Both these journals express great indigna-
tion against General D'lairpouL for having issued
such a document, and the National suggests that
he should be impeached. The following is the
circular _ _

" Paris, Nor. 12, 1849.
" Ministry of War, Cabinet of the Minister. Most con

fidential.

" Colonel,—At the moment when the President of the
Republic, perceiving the necessity of taking a more
direct part in the management of the affairs of the
country, has formed a new Cabinet, and confided to me
the portfolio of war, I consider it my duty to appeal to
the devotedness of the gendarmerie, and to claim from
them a co-operation of a novel kind, which will power-
fully assist the Government in the energetic course it
intends to pursue, in order to arrive at the complete re-
establishment of public tranquillity.
" I have had too long occasion to appreciate the ser-
vices which the gendarmerie render daily to society, not
' to know all that can be expected from their zeal and pa-
triotism under existing circumstances.
" The revolution, by creating a crowd of new func-
tionaries, has excited passions of every description,
and roused culpable ambitions, which threaten
order and society by their subversive doctrines.
In order to avert those dangers it is necessary for the
Government to be immediately informed of what is pass-
ing in the country. It is of importance that it should be
made acquainted, not only with the events and material
facts, but also, and particularly, with the moral situation
of the localities; and that the observations be not
subordinate to events, but precede them.
" The gendarmerie must not wait for agitation in the
public mind to remark upon it; they must observe it in
its habitual state, and calculate the influence that may be
exercised in each locality were the enemies of order to
attempt to disturb it. It is particularly indispensable to
watch the acts and tendencies of the agents of the
Government. I consequently desire that the officers
of gendarmerie, and even the commanders of
brigades, should directly address to me a series
of reports (not periodically), containing the remarks
they may think proper to submit to me, and all the facts
they consider necessary, that I should know, according
to the above indications, to enable me to combat So-
cialism, to arrest its progress in the rural districts, and
to insure public security, more by the prevention than
the repression of disorders.
"It is not possible, I know, to require from the stab-
officers commanding brigades complete reports, respond-
ing to ray views and those of the officers, but I never-
theless require from them those direct reports, because I
wish to be in possession of every fact. Their investiga-
tions, however, should be conducted with caution and
prudence: you will have to direct them in that respect,
to
enlighten them, and give them instructions in accord
with their intelligence and the degree of confidence you
may place in the discretion of each of them.
" I need not tell you, Colonel, that those reports, in-
tended to make known to me, without delay, events
which occur out of the ordinary line of the service, must
be essentially confidential. They shall not, consequently,
be communicated to anybody. They are to be indepen-
dent of those addressed to the functionaries of the judi-
ciary, civil and military orders, agreeably to the 45th
and 82d Articles of the Ordinance of the 29th October,
1820, which shall continue to be sent as usual. Those
new reports, however, will dispense you with forwarding
those which hitherto were addressed to the office of the
general correspondence on political events and the situ-
ation of the public mind. They must be transmitted to
me under a doable cover; the one enclosing the dispatch
being blue, and containing this address—' For the Mi-
nister alone;' and the other, the external envelope, will
be directed as usual. This correspondence will be copied
in a separate book, which every officer and sub-officer
must preserve and carry with him, even when he
changes his residence.
" Such is, Colonel, the delicate mission I confide to
the gendarmerie. I am alone to receive the above in-
formation. It is in my private cabinet the matters con-
nected therewith shall be transacted, and I alone am to
confer on the subject with the President of the Republic.
" Bear in mind thei period at which Marshal Moncey,
the first Inspector-General of the Gendarmerie, was the
chief of a police much more efficacious than that of M.
Fouche. I require from the:gendarmerie activity, vigi-
lance, and devotedness. I will be happy to solicit for
them the just recompense which the President of the
Republic is disposed to grant them, as I will punisti
with prompt Justice those who, unconscious of their
duties, should not becomingly fulfil the important mis-
sion I confide to them. Remember that the gendarmerie
is the advanced sentinel of public order,
" You; will appreciate the importance of this con-
fidential letter. I request you to acknowledge its re-
ceipt, and to acquai▪
nt me with the measures you have
adopted to ensure the immediate execution of my orders.
You will also furni▪
sh me with an account, nominally
and under your personal responsibility, of the officers
and sub-officers of your legion, to whom you have
thought proper to communicate part or the whole of the
present instructions.
(Signed) " D'HaterPom.."
The Bonapartist Club has removed its sittings to
the Palais National.
M. D'HAuTrour„ formerly Bishop of CAHORS, and
uncle of General Itetrrour., Minister of War, died
at Toulouse on Tuesday last, in the 86th year of his
age.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the election of
the PRESIDENT. The day passed off in Paris quietly.
It is said that M. LEON FAUCHER will be ap-
pointed Ambassador to England, and M. BUFFET to
Vienna.

General CASTELBAJAC has refused the Embassy to
St. Petersburgh, which will it is said be offered to M.
LAGRENEE.

PARIS BOURSE, DEC. 10.—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 90f. 90c. ; Three per Cets., 56E; Bank
Actions, 2,425 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Dzo. 10.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 13—Luxembourg, 2—Northern of France, 2
dis.—Orleans and Bourdeaux, Wit —Paris and Rouen, 21
—Rouen and Havre, 9% Sambre and Meuse, 2

WINDSOR THEATRICALS.--We understand that in
consequence of the lamented decease of the Queen
Dowager, the theatrical performances at Windsor Caste
are postponed.