The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

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the lovely, the graceful, and the beautiful, and in a
worship of the hideous, the awkward, and the un-
natural. How this league of the extremes of folly
against common sense is to be carried out
remains to be seen, whether Mr. CLARKE will give up
his Puritanism to join the Pre-Raphaelites in their
ultra-Catholicism, or whether, giving up their ultra-
Catholicism, and deriving their inspiration from Mr.
ROGEIFORT CLARKE, they will found a new second.
commandment school of art, in which beauty shall be
deemed blasphemy, and the least approach to nature
sin, is as yet uncertain ; but that Clarkeism and Pre-
Raphaelism are but different stages of the same
disease, is, we think, abundantly evident.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
They all contain long articles on the question ol
the revision of the Constitution, one of the most re-
markable of which is by M. DE LAMARTINE. In that
article he distinctly states that it was the Legitimatist
Deputies who, on the 24th of February, 1848, urged
him to conclude his speech by proposing a provisional
Government, and that having precipitated the
monarchy of July into a republic, they now seek to
plunge the republic into anarchy ; and be significantly
reminds the BERRYERS, the DE FALLoux, and their
'clique, that on the 18 Fructidor, when the Legiti-
matists were intriguing and conspiring against the
first Republic, the Directory crushed the treasonable
conspiracy by seizing 53 of the, conspirators, with
Picaacau at their head, and deporting them ; an act
which was approved of by all France. He concludes
by recommending the PRESIDENT to propose a repeal
of.the Electoral Law of the 31st May—that is, a return
to universal suffrage, and to appoint a really Repub-
lican Ministry.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has a long article in the
Presse on the intrigues of the Monarchists, which he
concludes in the following terms :
" The Republic will not beroverturned, for to be so,
monarchy should be re-established. But it is all over
at present in France with the monarchy, for it could not
there resume its course, four times interrupted, except
in going back at least to 1750. A. whole century fallen
to ruins does not spring again into life. If Charles 11.,
brought back by Monk in 1659, could again raise up the
throne in the place of the block on which the head of
Charles I. fell in 1649, the reason was that in England
only a king fell. The institutions remained standing ;
the British aristocracy, the inequality of property, the
regime of substitutions had survived the protectorates of
Oliver and Richard Cromwell. But is it so in France,
where the right of the eldest son has been abolished,
where equality of division in the property left has become
part of the system, where the hereditary aristocracy has
disappeared? The impossibility of re-establishing the
monarchy is equivalent to the impossibility of over-
turning the Republic. No, it will nut be overturned,
because it could not be reduced."
CLOT BET, chief physician of the PACIIA of
Egypt, has just arrived in Paris from Alexandria.
The Bourse was feeble, with very little business
doing. The Five per Cents., opened at 90f. 65c., and
closed at 90f. 35c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 56f.
sc. Orleans Railroad Shat es, 820 f; Havre, 245 f; Great
Northern, 472 f. 50c.; Avignon, 220 f.; Vierzon, 430 E;
Bale, 1451.; Bordeaux, 398 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg,
3631. 75e.; Tours and Nantes, 271 f. 25c.
tiaiI.NESS DONE IN FOREIG'.N RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, W—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 17144—East Indian, 16—Northern of France,
I.l%—Paris and Strasbourg, 101/2—Rouen and Havre, 9%_
Sambre and Meuse, 3;%4.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived.
The elections are over, and the majority returned
are Ministerialists. It is said that the Government
will propose Senor MAYANS as President of the
Chamber of Deputies. The Narvaez party will
propose Mom.

PORTUGAL.
The Madrid Ileraldo states that SALDANHA has
addressed the following proclamation to the inhabi-
tants of Lisbon :
" Inhabitants of Lisbon!—The flag which I have had
the honour to unfurl is so eminently national that as
soon as it was known that flag was adopted in all parts
of the kingdom in the most sincere, frank, and decided
manner. Let us consolidate the throne of her Majesty
the Queen Donna Maria 11. and her dynasty; let us re-
form the constitutional charter; let us have really free
elections, in order that we may be enabled to have a
truly national representation, and justice, liberty,
immorality,
corruption, and economy, in the place of the
corruption, and robbery that have been proclaimed as
the theory of Government.