The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

'THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The fetes in honour of the Constitution, which
took place on Sunday, passed off admirably. The
illuminations and fireworks in the Champs Elysees,
at the Barriere de l'Etoile, the Observatory, and the
Barriere du Trone, were magnificent.
The dinner at the Hotel de Ville went off excel-
lently, and the decorations and illuminations of the
Galerie des Fetes, in which it was held, were superb.
Alms and food were distributed to all the poor of
Paris.

Two Democratic banquets were likewise given on
Sunday evening. The one was that of the " Social
and Democratic Press," the other of " The Female
Social Democrats." The first of these banquets was
given at the Château Rouge, and the Abb6 de LA..
MENNAIS presided. There were about '2,100 persons
present, and among them all the representatives in
the Assembly of the Montagne party, including MM.
LEDRU ROLLIN, Ric, BAVIGNIER, DAVID (d'Angers),
GUINARD, GREPPO, JOLT, LAGRANGE, SCIICELIIER,
&c. The toasts and speeches have not yet been pub-
lished.

The banquet of the Democratic Ladies was at
the Barriere de Maine, and they mustered to the
number of 1,200. M. PIERRE LEROUX was the only
member of the National Assembly who attended.
Both banquets went off without any disturbance.
The Archbishops of Paris, of Lyons, and of
t3ourges have issued pastoral letters, indirectly re-
commending their flocks to vote for General CA-
VAIGNAC as President.

The Bishop of Arras, the well-known Cardinal DE
LA Tout D'AUVERGNE, has issued a circular, strongly
and directly urging his flock to support the claims of
General CAVAIGNAC. He commences by declaring
that, believing that the finger of GOD was mani-
fested in a remarkable manner in the Revolution of
[February, they ought to forget the manner in which
some people endeavoured to turn it to their own
profit, and seeing the action of PROVIDENCE in the
affairs of this world, they should, in electing a PresL
dent, look to the only means now left to insure the
restoration of order, tranquillity, and peace, and the
maintenance of religion. He, therefore, calls upon
them to beware of the vain boasting and fallacious
promises of some men, and to elect the man whom
their love of their country and their wisdom would
suggest to them. He then adds that when some of
the clergy asked him his advice as to the choice
they ought to make, the following was his
answer :—" The education which I have received has
taught me that gratitude was the virtue of an honest
and generous mind. I will never forget our deli-
verance from the insurrection of the month of June
last ; besides this, I am the son of a man who has
wielded the sword ; I have myself borne arms for a
time, and I shall vote for a sabre. I know France,
I think I will thus serve her, and prove to her that
I love her as she deserves." It should be recollected
that the Cardinal was a soldier before be was a bishop.
In answer to a requisition requesting him to stand
for the Presidency of the Republic, M. Lours BLANC
has written a letter, in which he says that he does not
think that there ought to be a President of the Re-
public, but that "if they think his name can be made
use of as a protest against the title and functions of
President of the Republic, he agrees to it willingly,
happy at being chosen to represent the great family
of the Luxembourg."
M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT arrived in Paris from
London on Sunday.

The Moniteur, of yesterday, publishes the fol
lowing :

" The Evismcment, on the faith of the Capitole of Tou-
louse, attributes to General de Lamoriciare, on the oc-
casion of the election of the President, an expression of
which the odiousness exceeds the absurdity. It would
bo to lower oneself to give such inventions the honour
of a contradiction. The indignation and disgust of
honest people will not fail to do them justice."
The sth company of the Ist battalion of the
3d legion of the National Guards of Paris met on
Saturday to choose delegates for the Central
Committee of Election for the President of the
Republic. Out of one hundred and sixteen voters,
eighty-nine declared in favour of General Ca-
vsaartac, fourteen for Louts NAPOLEON, ten for
M. LEDRU RoLuti, and three for M. DE LAMA&TINE.
The French funds improved in a trifling degree
yesterday on the Bourse.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. Nov. 20.
Boulogne and Amiens, 5% ez coupons—Luxembourg
(74), %—Namur and Liege, 414.

S PAIN.
Madrid journals of the 15th have arrived.
The Gaceta contains the following:—

I"In some of the New York journals, the articles of
which have been republished by the English papers, a
negotiation is spoken of as entered upon in Madrid be-
tween the Spanish Government and the North American
Minister, with the object that Spain should cede the
island of Cuba to the United States for a sum of money.
Although so absurd a piece of news sufficiently contra.
dicta itself, nevertheless, in order to thwart the designs
which its authors and propagators had proposed to them-
selves, we think it right to declare, being duly autho-
rised for the same, that this news is absolutely destitute
of all foundation.
The Heraldo says—
" An Angle,-American journal, the New York Herald,
has Published a long article, in which it minutely relates
the negotiations commenced by the Government of the
United States with that of Spain, for the cession of the
island of Cuba. According to the American paper,
these negotiations have been very favourably received by
the Spanish Government, and aro about to terminate by
means of a payment to Spain of a sum which is calcu-
lated at about 150 millions of dollars. The circumstance
of the Anglo-American papers being famous thrctighout
the world for the false news and data which they delight
to propagate, adorned with a thousand details intended
to give them an ' appearance of truth, would
almost absolve us from the duty of contra-
dicting this about the island of Cuba ; but as
it appears to have produced a certain impression on the
foreign journals, it -is our duty to declare ex-
plicitly that it is altogether false; that no one has made
to the Spanish Government the ridiculous proposal of
its putting up to sale, as if it were a useless piece of fur-
niture, one of the best parts of our territory inhabited by
Spaniards; and that if any one bad made such a pro-
pos4l, he would probably be answered that, rather than
consent to the separation of Cuba from the mother-
country, Spain would expend her last resources, and
would shed the blood of her best sons. The false news
of the Anglo-American journal has probably no other
origin th,•su the sinister intentions of the bad Spaniards
residing in the United States, who appear to obey a
by all possible maims to effect
flourishing a possession, and which con-
tfohreerigunin in
ofifue so nce, in seeking
trasts in so admirable a manner with the ruined foreign
colonies of the Caribbean Sea."
The Balsa was closed on the 15th.