The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

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'HE FRENCH PURL.
We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The war against Protestantism proclaimed by the
Univers is being carried on vigorously, under the im-
mediate superintendence of that patron of the Inqui-
[Aden and the justifier of the St. Bartholomew's Ems-
Mere, M. DE MONTALEMDERT. Last week M.
MicnELET (whose great crime in the eyes of the
parti- pretre is that he is the biographer of LvTnnß)
was forbidden to continue his historical lectures in
the College of France, and now M. JAcquits,
who has for eighteen years been professor of philo-
sophy in the College of Louis le Grand, has been
deprived of his professorship because he wrote a letter
in a magazine called the Liberia de Penser, in which
be attacked some of the dogmas of Romanism. This
article was denounced in the columns of the Univers,
and its author delivered over to the secular arm by
the inquisitors who conduct that pious print, and his
dismissal immediately followed.
The Siecle has the following, on the state of the
country—
" The situation of our manufacturing districts has
again become worse. The cotton and woollen manu-
facturers, unable to dispose of their goods,
have been obliged to put their work-people on
short time. Roubaix, Tourcoing, Elbceuf, Reims, sod
Men are loudly complaining. Lyons and St.
Etienne are not better off. The orders from the
United States have not answered the general expecta-
tion, and the home trade is almost nothing. At Nismes
also trade is at a stand still. We have heard much this
week of a labour crisis—crisc du travail. It is but too
real. Political causes have had, no doubt, something to
do with this; but the principal cause is to be found in
the mildness of the season, which checked the sale of
winter goods; and it is only at the last moment the mer-
chants from the provinces decide on making sales for
summer."

The clergy of Paris have waited on the Archbishop
expressing their regret at the opposition shown by the
Bishop of Chartres to the Archbishop's Pastoral
letter.

M. AMBROISE THOMAS has been elected to the
seat in the Academie des Beaux Arts, left vacant by
the death of SPONTINI. _ _

M. VICTOR LluGo has promised, should his •health
permit, to advocatt the cause of M. MicusLET in the
Assembly.
General AUPICK has, it is said, accepted the Lon•
don Embassy.
The Moniteur contradicts the statement of the
Evenement that the Government intended to dismiss
seventeen Procursurs-General for " want of zeal."
The Bourse was feeble, with little business
doing. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 45c., and
closed at 94f. 35c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 57f.
80c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 8951.; Rouen, 6601.;
Havre, 295 f.; Great Northern, 4821. 50c. ; Avignon,
2121. 50c.; Vierzon, 4501.; Basle, 160 f.; Bordeaux.,
407 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 3771. 50c.; Tours and
Nantes, 2781. 75c. Exchange on London, 24f. 910.
short.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 24.

Boulogne and Amiens, 10%—Central' of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 173 i —Great Indian Peninsula, b,—Lux-
embourg, 2%—Namur and Liege, 85e—Northern of France,
151,4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4% Paris and Strasbourg,
1074—Rouen and Havre, Il%—Sambre and Meuse, 4%—
Tours and Nantes, 6!A.

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