The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-03 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received such of the Paris journals as
were published yesterday, but as New Year's Day is
always observed as•a holiday in France, the greater
number of the newspaper-offices were awed,
It appears that the PRESIDENT rode through Paris
nn New Year's Day, and was very well received.
The official Moniteur was not published yesterday,
but the following, which appears in the Constitutionnel,
may be considered the official account from the Elys&s
of the scene which occurred between MM. BONA-
PARTE and DurtN, on the presentation of the depu-
tation of the Assembly to the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public. After a few introductory observations, the
Constitutionnel thus reports the conversation :

"M. Dupin—Monsieur le President, I bring you the
sincere wishes of th• Bureau—

" The President of the Republic (interrupting him)—
Monsieur le President, I receive the wishes which you
bring me, and I doubt not that they are sincere. It is
important that the good harmony of the powers should
not be disturbed in the times of difficulty through which
we have to puss.
"M. Dupin—All the acts of the Assembly, all those
of the Bureau, are inspired by a deep attachment fur
your person, and the warmest desire to preserve a good
understanding between the two powers of the State.
" The President of the Republic—l am willing to be-
lieve it, Monsieur le President, since you tell me so.
You and I, each, within the limits of our attributions,
ought to attach ourselves to making the laws of the
country, and the authority given us by the constitution
respected, without one power encroaching on the
other. Ido not care about the prorogation of my
powers, but am anxious when I deliver up to the people
the power which I have received from it to return it
intact and respected. My conviction is that F,atiee th -
sires peace and order, and it will consider that of the
two powers which should attack the other as in the
wrong. _ _ _

" Dupin—lt has always been so in our country,
You may rely upon the sentiments which I express to
you.

" The President of the Republic—lt is fortunate that
there are epochs which separate, as it were, the past
trees the future. One era has just finished—another
commences. Let us hope!"
The Dibals says it shall not report the proceedings
which occurred until it shall be better instructed ;
and as the Dibats is the organ of the Orleanist Bur-
graves, we may expect to see M. Doris's version of the
matter in that journal. Oi one fact there can be no
doubt, the PRESIDENT of the Republic snubbed the
representatives of the people; and in commenting on
this fact the Presse reminds its readers that the last
instance on record of a similar insult being offered
to the representatives of the nation was just before
the revolution of 1830, when CHARLES X. made use
of severe and even threatening words to M. ROYER-
COLLARD. "A. few days afterwards," adds the
Presse, " CHARLES X. was expiating on a foreign
soil and in an eternal exile the misfortune of having
spoken as a master before a free people."
The following is the proces verbal of the liberation
of M. MAUGUIN from the prison of Clichy :
" In the year 1850, the 28th of December, at half-pakt
seven o'clock in the evening, M. Bar., member of the
National Assembly, presented himself and showed u+-
Ist, An extract from the minutes of the sitting, de-
claring that M. de Larochejsquelein having addressed
interpellations to the Minister of Ju.tice concerning
the arrest of M; Mauguin, a member of the
Assembly, the Assembly, after having heard the
Minister and MM. de Vatimesuil and Laboulie, adopted
an order of the day motive, proposed by M. de Lar, ehe-
jsquelein. 211 y, An order from the President of the
Assembly, thus worded—' The President of the Na-
tional Assembly, looking at the order of the day adopted
by On National Assembly, to have M. M,uguin, repre-
sentative of the people, unduly arrested, inarnedkteiy
set at liberty, delegates to M. Baze, the questur of the
Assembly, all power, even that of demanding the public
force, if necessary, to effect his being set at liberty.—
Dupla. Half-past six in the evening, Dec. 28, 1850.'
M. Baze then called on the greffier, whose name is be-
low, in the absence of the director of the prison, to at
once set M. Mauguin at liberty, declarirg that, in case
of refusal, he would call in the armed force and break
in the doors;' to which the greffier replied, that in pre-

sNico iyf so formal an injunction, ho c3uid oniv obq th
°Hors of till Assembly.' In ennsecpumen M. Mauguin
was it ones set at liberty. (Signed) Baz-; Pcnigny,
Usher of the National Assembly ;
The Bonapartist journals are exceedingly wrath
with tug authorities of Clichy for not having re,isted
the execution of the mandate of the Assembly ; and in
relati.-,n to the threat of M. BAza to use mil Vary
force, the Patric publishes the following five of the
six-and--twenty regulations issued by the Commander-
in• Chief of the Army of Paris to the troops :-
1. Not to attend to any requisition until orders
shall have been issued by the Lieutenant-General for
so doing.
2. Not to pay any attention to the representatives.
4. To immediately shoot all traitors.
20. Every order which does not proceed from the
General-in-Chief is null. All orders from other
officers are to be disregarded, the ord-rs of the
General-in-Chief and of his regular agents are alone
to be executed.

21. Every requisition, summon!, or demand ema•
na'ing from any functionary, civil, judicial, or pun-

tical, is to be disregarded. -
Upon this text the Patric preaches of the dangers
which might have arisen had M. DAZE proceeded to
order out a military force to lib-rate M. MAUGITIN,
hut the organ of the. E'y,ea forgets that (I,.neral
CHANGARNIER voted in favour of the liberation of M.
M4UGUIN, and would, therefore, as Commander-in.
Chief of the army of Paris, have given the requisite
orders to carry out the decree of the Assembly—a
fact of which no doubt the authorities of Clichy were
aware, when they yielded such a ready obe-
dience. The whole affair, however, will even-
tually be again litigated in another form, for
M. CUEaON, at whose suit the representative M.
MAUGUIN had been arrested, has given formal notice
to the governor of the prison of Clichy that he in-
tends to proceed against him for the loss incurred by
the illegally setting his debtor at liberty.
The adjudication of the two millions is much
commented upon to the advantage of the Finance
Minister. The Bank of France has issued a notice
that it will take the new stock as follows :—" The

Bank will operate for the hearers of coupons of the
loan adjudged 313 t Dec., 1850, who will demand the
payment of the 2d, 31, and 4th term, upon being
remitted the coupons relating to these terms, and
against the lodgment of the fifth of the value of rentes
represented by each of these coupons. These coupons
will be converted by the Bank into rentes inscribed in
its name."

There was not much business transacted at the
Bourse, but prices were firm at an advance on
Tuesday's quotations. The Five per Cents. opened
at 94r. 85c , fell to 94f. 75c., and rose subsequently to
95f. 10c., at which they closed; the New Loan,
95f. 25c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 57f...;_0r•

leans Railroad Shares, 862 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 672 f. 50a ;
Great Northern, 481 f. 25c. ; Basle, 136 f. 25e.; Bor-
deaux, 40f. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 355 f. ; Tours and
Nantes, 250 f.
BUSINESS °ONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TBE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 2.

Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16 —Namur and
Liege, 834—Northern of France, 15114—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 4 ex div.—Paris and Strasbourg, 9 ti— Tours and
Nantes, 5.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have arrived.

It is said that Grn+•ral FIGUERAS has resigned the
War Ministry, and that General SANz will be his
successor.

MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 27.—The Three per Cents.,
34i ; Five per Cents., 121. Exchange on ,London,
50 60 paper.

GERMAN Y.

The German Journal of Frankfort of the 31st ult.,
states that the marriage of Prince GEORGE of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz with the Grand Duchess
CATHERINE of Russia, will b 9 celebrated at St.
Petersburgh towards the end of March. Count
HARTIG, Austrian Ambassador at Cassel, had left for
Dresden, and M. DE NosTlz, and M. ZAENCHENDORF,
Minister of Saxony to the Germanic Confederation,
was to leave on the following day.
The King of PRUSSIA gave a private audience on
the 30th ult. to M. ARMAND LEFEBVRE, who deli-
vered his letters of credence as Ambassador Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the
French Republic.
The young Prince ALEXIS PASKEWITCH passed
through Vienna on the 26th for Rome, the bearer of
an autograph letter from the CZAR to the PorE.
Tile Cologne Gazette states that the Austrian
army, under Field• Marshal LEGEDIXSCR had left
Fulda en route for the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein.
Count LEININGEN, the Fed.?ral Commissioner at
Cassel, has issued the following proclamation :
" Since the Permanent Committee of the Hessian Diet
has, in its present composition, placed obsta-iles in the
way of a recogniti:in of and obedience to the Elector's
decrees of the 4th, 7th, and 28th of SeptF,mber, and
since that board hal used its rights of impeaching public
functionaries in a manner which was calculated to pro-
duce, and which, indeed, has produced, the most lament-
able consequences, I have, in obedience to my duty as
Federal Coulmi•aioner, and on the strengh of the powers
plenipotentiary which I hold, thought proper for the
present to prohibit to the said committee every official
meeting and activity. Any act of disobedience against
this decree of mine will meet with immediate punishment
according to the forms and provisions of the existing
state of war. " COUNT LEININGEN,
" Cassel, Dec. 26, 1850." `• Federal Commissioner."

The Kolner Zeitung states from Cassel, that there
can be DO doubt as to the reasons why the Federal
Commissioner has thought proper to suspend the
standing committee, for that, according to the pro-
visions of the Hessian Constitution, it will within a
few weeks become the duty of the Government to
convoke a Diet. If the Diet be not convoked it is
the duty of the committee to impeach the Minister of
the Interior, and as it is not the ELECTOR'S intention
to convoke a Diet it was thought convenient to remove
the possibility of another impeachment.
On the 27th ult. the Elector of HESSE received
officially all the authorities civil and military.
The Prussian Stoats Anzeiger of the 31st ult. says :

"M. von Manteuffel will go—t,) Dresden only in the
event of the return of Prince Schwartzenburg to the
conferences, and this appears to be decided upon. The
best understanding appears to prevail between the
Courts of Vienna and Berlin; the reception given by the
King, as well as by the great men of the kingdom, to
the Austrian Premier is most 11 steering, and everything
seems to argue for the favourable solution of the present
state of things "
Accounts from Vienna are to the 27th ult.
It is said that various communities of Botsen have
presented petitions to his MAJESTY, requesting him to
invoke the regular Diet, in conformity with the
statues of the constitution. _ _

The Silesian National Committee has adopted the
proposal of an address to the Emrmtoit for the imme-
diate convocation of the Silesian Diet by a large
majority.
Intelligence has been received at Vienna, by tele-
graph from Zara, that in the Herzegowina the new
S'adtholder has addressed a proclamation to the inha-
bitants of Mostar, and there was every prospect of an
amicable settlement of the affairs of the Herzegovina.
Accounts from Dresden are of the 30th. The
various Committees met on the morning of that day,
but there was no general meeting. It; was said that
M. DE LAGRENE was expected in Dresden to watch
the proceedings as Special Plenipotentiary fur the
French Republic.
The Dresden Chambers re-assembled on the 30th.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Free Press of the North, under date of Nor-
derstapel, 26th ult., says, "Yesterday, a skirmish
took place near Wohlde, at the distance of a league
from this place. It is said that the Danes, though
their force was very superior, were compelled to
retire with considerable loss."