The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

" The third plan, although it has the majority of the
Ministers in its favour, is far from being considered as
finally decided upon in the mind of the Imperial Govern•
ment; added to which, it is said that other dissensions
threaten to produce the speedy dissolution of the present
Cabinet of Vienna, which will cause the question to be
delayed."
_ _

The attention of the Parisians appears to be en-
grossed by the approaching elections. The Dibats
and the Constitutionnel support the Ministerial candi-
dates, MM. ROGER (du Nord), EDMOND ADAM, and
ACHILLE FOULD.

The Siecle supports the two first, but proposes to
substitute M. VICTOR COUSIN for M. ACHILLE
FOULD.

Marshal BIIGEAUD has accepted the candidateship,
and has addressed the following letter to the
electors :

" La Durantie, Sept. 2.
" I did not feel anxious to return to public life; I
would most willingly have waited for the next general
election; but since so honourable an invitation as that
of Paris presents itself to me in my retreat, I should, by
refusing it, be guilty of a cowardly indifference about
the destinies of France, as yet so uncertain (si incer-
taines encore). I accept then, with ardour and gratitude,
the oiler of being returned for the department of the
Seine. I will devote myself with an active and ener-
getic perseverance to the defence of civilised society
against the anti-social ideas of Communists and Ter-
rorists. I will devote myself also to the interests of the
great city, and of its banlieue ; in a word, I am heart
and soul the soldier of order, of family, and of property.
If the anarchists should once again assail society, I
would not remain a cold impassible spectator of civil
war, I would rush into the ranks of the National
Guard and the army, and should not fear, for sake of
so firm and holy a cause, to follow my brave lieutenants
who fell in the days of June. This, you may say, and
pledge yourselves for on my account.'
The following letter, addressed to JEROME BONA*.
PARTE, ex-King of Westphalia, and brother of the
Emperor, by his nephew, Prince Louis NAPOLEON,
also appears in the Paris papers of yesterday :
"My deur Uncle,—Your wise counsels on the subject
of the elections about to take place have only anticipated
the letter which I was about to write to you to the same
intent. I believe, as you do, that at this time it will be
my duty to accept the mandate of my fellow-citizens, if
they shall honour me with their suffrages. Under cir
eums tepees which happily no longer subsist, I have not
hesitated to prolong my exile rather than suffer my name
to be used as a pretext for pernicious agitations. Now
that order is established, I hope that unjust prejudices
will no longer prevent me from contributing as a repre-
sentative of the people to the consolidation of the Re-
public, to its happiness and glory. Be pleased to make
known these sentiments, and accept, my dear uncle, the
assurance of my respectful attachment.
" Your devoted nephew,
"LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE."
The eandidateship of Prince Louis NAPOLEON
will be supported by the ouvriers, the Red Republi-
cans, and the Socialists, but none of these bodies are
nearly so well organized as they were at the time of
the last election.
The Constitutionnel says, that a deputation from
those decorated for their bravery during the days of
June, having been introduced to the chief of the
Executive, General CAVAIGNAC addressed them as '

" I know that the executive pc wor
for baying awardeci recompenses in a civil war; we have
been reproached with a forgetfu!ness of our past princi-
ple. This is an error; What we thought at other times
e think still. But it is not true to say that you gained
your crosses in a civil war. You gained them in a
social war, waged by society itself against its enemies;
that was the real field of battle. I hope that we shall
never have to renew such a combat, nay, I venture to
promise you that we shall not. The mediation of France
is accepted by Austria. The mediation that we have
imposed has been accepted, because we have been mode-
rate. We are then assured of the maintenance of peace.
I know not what the future may have in store,, but, for
my part, I will do all that shall depend on me to pre-
serve peace—for it is by peace that we can give firmness
to our institutions and develop the material and intelJec-
tualtreasures of France—aEd I repeat to you that the
mediation that has been accepted has been imposed by
ourselves."

M. CAUSSIDIERE has succeeded in effecting his
escape from France and is in London, from whence,
on the Bth September, he addressed a letter to the
Rybrine announcing his intention of presenting him-
self before the COurt on the day fixed for his trial,
and of replying to the charges brought against him.
In the course of the sitting of the National As-
sembly yesterday, the President officially announced
that AL PASCAL DUPRAT had been appointed to an
extraordinary mission to Austria. M. CRESPEL DE
LA TOUCBE brought forward his motion respecting
the suppression of the journals by the Executive Go-
vernment, and after a very animated discussion, the

Assembly resolved, by a majority of 515 to 218, that
it would not ,take into consideration the decree re-
lating to offences of the press so long as Paris should

continue in a state of siege.

BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 11.
THREE O'CLOCK.— Considerable animation was evinced
at the Bourse to•day, but prices were rather weaker
than on Saturday, in consequence of the resolution come
to by the Frankfort Diet to refuse its adhe3ion to the
armistice between Prussia and Denmark. Bons du
Tre-,or are at 20 discount.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAIL WAYSAT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, SEPT. 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Paris and Lyons, 4%—Sambre

and Meuse, 2%.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Presse gives the following as the actual state
of the Austro-Italian question; and from the known
connexion of M. EMILE DE GIRAEDIN with the
reactionary party throughout Europe, we consider
that this account is very probably a correct descrip-
tion of the views and intentions of Austria in accept-
ing the Anglo-Gallic mediation. The Presse says—
" If we have hitherto abstained from alluding to the
different versions published by the Paris press as to the
recent reply of the Austrian Cabinet to the offer of me-
diation by Fracce and England, it is because we were
well aware that the dispatch received by the Minister
for Foreign Affairs from Vienna made no mention of
the conditions and reservations on which, according to
our contemporaries, Austria had made the acceptance of
Ihe mediation to depend.
" A simple expose of historical facts will prove how
much of those statements has been erroneous, or at least
surmise.
"We have before alluded to the pressir.g invitation
addressed to the Court of Vienna by the French Go-
vernment. Our Cabinet demanded that Austria should
give a categorical reply, yes or no, to the offer of me-
diation.
" The dispatch containing that request was commu-
nicated on the 30th of last month to Baron de Wessen-
berg, the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs. lie
promised to bring the matter immediately before the
Council, and to give a definitive answer in a few, days.
"The Austrian Council of Ministers assembled several
times to consider of the subject, and on the 2d Baron de
Wessenberg informed M. de Lacour that the Imperial
Government had decided in the affirmative, and as the
French Government had merely demanded a plain reply
of Yes or No,' the Baron de Wessenberg merely con-
fined his answer to the simple Yes,' without giving any
opinion on the bases proposed by France and Engalnd
for the solution of the Italian question.
"From this it results that up to this time the French
Government only knows one thing, that the offer of me•
diation is accepted in principle by the Imperial Court.
The question of knowing to what point it admits the
plan for the pacification of Italy proposed by the two
mediating powers remains at the moment intact.
"From the information we have ourselves obtained,
we can say that Austria, before giving any answer on
this plan, wishes to regularise her relations with the
French Republic, the recognition of which will only be
officially accomplished on the day when the two Govern-
ments shall have duly accredited their representative
The Emperor of Austria is about to appoint a Minister
Plenipotentiary to Paris, and the request to do the same
to Vienna has been already received by the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
" In the meantime, Baron de Wessenberg has given
our chargé d'affaires at Vienna an assurance that he is
about to seriously examine the propositions made by
France and England; and that as soon as that examina-

tion shall have been completed he will draw up a de-
tailed reply, which will be communicated to the medi-
ating powers, as well as to the other powers parties to
the final act of the Congress of Vienna—a step rendered
necessary by the fact of the propositions made affect-
ing the system of the European balance of power as es-
tablished by the treaties of 1815.
" In other words, Austria reserves to herself to give
her final answer to the propositions under the form of a
memorandum, addressed to all the powers of Europe.
Nevertheless, it is established, that from this time,
Austria has entered into a formal engagement with
France and England to make use of their good offices to
bring about the pacification of Italy. This is a power-
ful guarantee for the maintenance of peace.
" There is, however, at the same time, reason to fear
that the negotiations which are about to be opened be-
tween Austria and Sardinia, under the auspices of the
mediating powers, will not produce so prompt a result
as might be desired. In the Ministry at Vienna there
is said to be far from an unanimity of opinion on the
bases to be laid down for the pacification of Italy.
" These plans divide the opinions of the Austrian
Ministry. The first agreeing to the plan proposed by
the mediating power proposes the line of the Adige as
the extreme frontier of the Italian provinces of the em-
pire; the second claims, with the Central German Go-
vernment; the line of the Mincio; and the third, to
maintain the political union of the Lombardo-Venetian
kingdom with the Austrian empire, securing to the for-
mer a National Administration, independent of the Cen-
tral Government of Vienna. To complete this latter
proposal, a son of the Archduke Regnier, an Italian
Prince, born at Milan of Italian parents, is to be placed
at the head of the Lombardo-Venetian Government.