The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-18 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The split between the Bonapartists and the other
sections of the reactionary party is :complete. The
Canstittdionnel attacks M. LEON FAUCHER, and in
return, the Ordre has the following onslaught on the
PRESIDENT :
" They talk of Lamerfte, Billault, Duclere, Lefranc,
end Faucher. Now it is curious that four of these per-
sons are absent from Paris. If the President had really
an intention to form a council so composed he would have
invited his future Ministers to town. Nothing of the
kind has taken place. We believe we may state that not
one of these persons has yet come to Paris, and that the
most complete uncertainty prevails as to the duration
and issue of the Ministerial crisis. Wo do not know
what may be the personal opinion of the President of
the Republic as to the nature and extent of his duties
towards the Assembly and the country; but we may be
allowed to warn him .that all serious men feel justly
astonished that, in the critical circumstances in which
France is placed, he should have dismissed one Ministry
before he had taken measures to replace it by another.
Could there bo a greater act of imprudence than to strip
the Government of Ministers at a moment when the
Assembly itself is absent, and when certain departments
aro in a state that may require resolutions to be taken
involving responsibility which could not be incurred by
men who are Ministers only in name t"
The Jesuit Univers is now as determinedly against
Louis NAPOLEON as it was in his favour whilst he
consented to be the tool of MM. DE MONTALEM.
BERT and DE Fe.enoux ; it dreads, lest being freed
from their iufluence, LOUIS NAPOLEON should act up
to the principles enunciated in his celebrated letter
to M. EDGAR NET. The Pays lauds his resolution
to restore universal suffrage, and is willing, in re-
turn, to support the motion for a revision of the Con-
stitution.] It is said that MM. BAROCHE, FOULD,
andPsOURElt will form part of the new Ministry.
The Permanent Committee met yesterday at
twelve o'clock, Genearal BEDEAU in the chair. The
following other twenty-seven Members were also
present ; M. Beze, questor, and MM. Chapot, Yvan,
and Berard, secretaries, constituting what is called
the bureau ; and of the Committee itself, Generals
Changernier, Rulhires, de Bar, and Grouchy, Ad-
miral Cecile, and MM. Didier, Dufougerais, Sauvaire-
Barthelemy, de Montigny, Vitet, Passy, Druet-Des-
vaux, trOlivier, Gouin, de Bernardi, Bocher, de la Tou-
rette, Kermaree, de Mortemar, Pou-
joulat, and de Melun ; only three Ministers, General
RANDON, and MM. LEON FAUCHER and ROCIIER,
attended. The Minister of the Interior declared
that a complete difference of opinion had arisen
between the Cabinet and the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public relative to the law of May 31, and that, in
consequence, the Ministry had resigned. The
Honourable Minister gave no further explanation
respecting the Ministerial crisis, but informa-
tion was furnished by the three Ministers re-
lative to the state of the departments of the Allier
and the Cher. They declared that calm had
been re-established in these departments, and that
the troops sent to the disturbed villages had not
met with any opposition ; the 41st regiment
of the line occupied Nevers and Bourges, and
the sth Chasseurs had entered the ISt military divi-
sion. The tribunals of Bourges and Riom, they
added, had been directed to institute a judicial inves-
tigation into the late occurrences. M. DE MORTE-
MART, who has been hitherto a staunch defender of the
Elysean policy, then asked the Ministers whether
their resignation was a really definite one, but they
made no reply, merely expressing by a smile their
astonishment at the question. They then withdrew.
M. Verar Called th 3 attention of the Committee to the
fact of an unfaithful account of the proceedings of the
preceding sitting having been given in the Avenement
du Peuple. M. DIDIER, the Mountain repre-
sentative, admitted that M. VITET'S statement was
perfectly well founded. A conversation then ensued
on the subject of the immediate convocation of the
Assembly, in which MM. DE MORTEMAR, PASSY,
POUJOULAT, and DUFOUGERAI3 took part. They de-
clared themselves to be of opinion that such a step
was not necessary, and that it was better to wait for
the regular re-assembling of the representatives.
MM. DUFOUGERAIS and PoussouLar sssigned reasons
for their chacge of opinion on this point. Even-
tually the following resolution was adopted :—" The
Permanent Committee decides unanimously that there
is no necessity at present to convoke the Legislative
Assembly."
The sitting then terminated, it being understood
that the Committee was to meet again on Sunday.
The following are the principal items of the Bank
of France account
Specie in Paris 497,283,510
Ditto branches ... 119,005,861
Paris portfolio 32,827,021
Ditto branches ... 60,605,331
Bank-notes in circulation ... ... 419,376,000
Ditto branches 117,582,575
Credit to Treasury ... ••• ... 73,778,846
Private credits, Paris... ..• ... 119,962,200
Ditto branches 30,149,353
Specie has declined about three-quarters of a toil-
lion in Paris, and upwards of five millions and a half
in the departments. The bills discounted, according
to the portfolio, are less by two millions and a half in
Paris, but the departmental accounts give an increase
of two millions. Bank-notes circulation is greater by
1,300,000 f. in Paris, and three-quarters of a million
in the departments. The credit to Treasury is less
by upwards of nine millions.
The Bourse was not so firm as on Thursday. The Five
per Cents. opened at 901. 65c., rose to 90f. 80c., fell
subsequently to 90F. 40e., and closed at 90f. 45c. for the
end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 55f.
60c.; Orleans Railroad shares, 860 f.; Rouen, 557 f. 50c.;
Havre, 211 f. 25c,; Great Northern,4ssf. ; Avignon, 210 f.;
Vierzon, 4201.; Basle, 1451.; Paris and Strasburgh, 348 f.
75e.; Tours and Nantes, 258 f. 75c.; Amiens to Bou-
logne, 2581. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Our. 17.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10—Namur and Liege, 634-
-Northern of France, 1334—Rouen and Havre, 8%—
Sambre and Meuse, 274—Tours and Nantes, 6%.