The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE

Mr. ROBERT-HOUDIN will repeat his SOIREES FANTAS-
TIQUES THIS EVENING, to be continued every Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Saturday until the end of the Christmas vacations.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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Rejected communications cannot be returned.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, DECEMBER 19.
THBRMOMETER, Lowest, 44; Highest, 48; Noon, 47.
BAR( METER, 29.92.—W1ND N.E.; fine.

lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 45 min after 8 I Evening .. 16 min. after 9

TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1848.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The following is given as the result of the'polling
for President, so far as the same was known yesterday
morning :
BONAPARTE
CAVAIGNAC
The returns from all the departments have been
received except from Corsica and from Algeria. It
is expected that LOUIS NAPOLEON will have been all
but unanimously elected in Corsica, and that in Al-
geria General CAVAIGNAC will be found to have a
very large majority. The following is declared by
the Committee of the:National Assembly as the offi
cial result of the voting in twenty-nine departments,
the returns from which they have examined :-
-Voters
Suffrages expressed 2,980,130
LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 2,290,028
CAVAIGNAC
LEDUC ROLLIN .
RASPAIL
... 30,031
LAMARTINE
About 10,000 votes were annulled, as being uncon-
stitutional or uncertain.

The Journal des Debats has the following on the
composition of the Cabinet of the new President :

" M. ODILON BARROT, who has at length deter-
mined to accept the appointment of President of the
Council will hold with it the Portfolio of Justice.
M. DROUYN DE Lnurs will be Minister of Foreign
Affairs, M. LEON DR MALLEVILLE, Minister of the
Interior. M. HYPPOLITE PAssr has definitively
accepted the Ministry of the Finances; M. ACHILLE
FOULD, who had at first been nominated to this office,
and afterwards to the Ministry of Commerce, will not
take any part in the present Ministerial combinations.
M. LEON FAUCHER, whose special acquirements fit
him equally either for the Ministry of Public Works,
or for that of Commerce and Agriculture, will be
appointed to the former : his well-known opinions on
the question of free-trade having created a difficulty
which prevents him accepting the Ministry of Com-
merce. This last office will be conferred on a
young member of the Assembly, new to public
life, but who has on several occasions given
evidence of having devoted much attention to
the study of serious subjects—M. BUFFET.
It had at one time been intended to have given the
portfolio of Commerce to M. DE Psalm; ; but it was
remarked that M. DE PARIEU had become an object
of public attention, principally from a speech in which
he had supported with great talent a resolution, con-
taining a proposition for the nomination of the Presi-
dent of the Republic by the Assembly."
General RHULHIERES, it appears, has been ap-
pointed Minister of War; but as it is said that
General OUDINOT will hot accept the Embassy to
St. Petersburgh, it is possible that the arrangements
for filling up this office may not be completed.
M. DE TRACY will be appointed to the Ministry of
Marine, and M. DE FALLOUI to that of Public
Instruction and Worship.
It appears certain that the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs was offered to M. REMUSAT and refused by him.
" We can state from a positive source," says the
Patric, " that General OUDINOT has refused to accept
either the post of Minister of War, or the Embassy
to Russia, his intention being, it is said, to devote
himself exclusively to the functions of representative
of the people, in the event of any new arrangement
depriving him of the command in chief of the army
of the Alps."
We find the following in the Estafette :
"M. Odilon Barrot has stated this afternoon that
General Cavaignac has consented to have his name
placed on the list for Vice-President of the Republic,
with the names of M. Gamier Pages and M. Thiers.
There are three candidates for the portfolio of the Mi-
nistry of Commerce and Agriculture, refused by M.
Fould, viz., MM. Bixio, Victor Grandin, and Parieu.
It is stated that M. Parieu is the candidate preferred by
M. Odilon Barrot."

The same journal states that M. DUFAURE will be
the Ministerial candidate for the Presidency of the
Assembly at the next election.

The Moniteur announces the promotion of M.
VERNINAC (General CAVAIGNAC'S Minister of Ma-
rine) to the rank of Rear-Admiral.

The Moniteur says :
" One of the journals has pretended that there was a
talk in the National Assembly of the resignation of the
Ministry. Such a statement hardly merits contradic-
tion. The present Ministry has declared its firm inten-
tion, up to the proclamation of the President of the Re-
public, to watch over the maintenance of order and the
laws, and nothing can induce it, until the legal expiration
of its mandate, to decline this mission of honour and de-
votedness."

The Constitutionnel mentions as a symptom of re-
turning confidence and prosperity that not less than
1,800 transfers of stock took place at the Bourse on
Saturday ; by 18 or 20 times more than the usual
daily amount, these transfers being for cash and not
fur the eccount.

M. Bixo has been definitively appointed Minister of
Commerce. M. CHARLES BLANC, the brother of M.
LOUIS BLANC has resigned the office of Director of
the Beaux Arts.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE left Paris on Sun-
day for London, having, it is said, succeeded in making
arrangements with the French Government for the
more speedy transmission of the mails between Parrs
and London.

BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 18.
THREE o'CLocK.—The rise in the price of of the public
funds continued to-day, and there is every appearance of
a further advance. The discounting has, however, greatly
aided the rise. There were 82.500 f. of Five per Cents.
Rentes, and 12,000 f. of Three per Cents. Rentes dis-
counted to-day. The new Ministry gives great satis-
faction. The Spanish Three per Cents. were not quoted
to-day. Exchange on London (30 days) 25t. 40c.
424 c.; ditto (90 days) 274 f. 30c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FO.KEIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon), B—Luxembourg (71.), %—Northern of France,
11%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3—Paris and Rouen, 19—Rouen
and Havre, 9%—Sambre and Meuse, 3%.

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