The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-06 00:00:00

THI FRENCH. REPUBLIC•

We have received tie Paris journals of yesterday.
The Committee of ?ermanance of the Assembly
held their usual fortnightly meeting on Thursday.
Tho following report of the proceedings appears
in some of the journas :
" The Permanent Committee assembled yesterday
under the presidency d M. Lacrosse, one of the Vice-
Presidents of the NationallAssembly. Twenty-two mem-
bers were present, of whom eighteen belonged to the
committee and four to the bureau of the Assembly.
They were—M\l. Lacrosse, president ; Benoist d'Azy,
vice-president of the Assembly; Yvan, secretary; Le
Flo, questor; De Melun, General Changarnier, Vitet,
De Montebello, De la Tourette, General de Bar, Adm.
Cecille, Ponjoulat, Dufougerais, Didier, Gen. Grouchy,
Passyßernardi, Bocher, General Rullieres, De Kerma-
rec, De Montigny, and Hubert de Lisle.
" M. Lacrosse opened the sitting by communicating to
the committee the measures which She Government had
thought it its duty to take with regard to several com-
mittees of sevolutionary propagandism, connected with
the central me in London. The Government has been
long aware teat branches of the London committee were
established is Paris, and that their object was to propa-
gate revolutonary doctrines, not only in France, but
abroad, particularly in Germany, and after having ac-
quired a patty° proof that these establishments were
in full activiti, it ordered a descent of the police, which
led to the arrest of a certain number of persons, several
1 of whom were Germans, and the seizure of important
papers. One of the chiefs was also arrested at Stras-
bourg at the moment when he was proceeding into Ger-
many, having vial him proclamations and very important
documents. Tie President, moreover, announced that
tranquillity wat secured, that the Government was on
the watch, and was perfectly prepared to put down any
attempt at disterbance. As to the departments, nothing
new had taken /lace to give rise to any uneasiness. At-
tempts had been made in the departments of the Drone)
to seduce some sub-officers and soldiers from their duty,
but they were attended with little success. The revo-
lutionary agents had, however, succeeded in compromis-
ing some soldiers, three of whom had withdrawn them-
selves from the punishment which awaited them, one by
committing suicide, and two others by deserting. The
President then, alluiing to the :state of manufactures,
said he was happy to announce to the committee that
two of the principal branches jewellery and cabinet-
making—which had feared to be without employment in
the winter, will be able to furnish work to their nume-
rous hands by means of the extensive orders which they
have received in consequence of the Exhibition of Lon-
don. Building also was, he said, going on very pros-
perously in Paris, where the demolitions occasioned by
the prolongation of the Rue de Rivoli occupy a number
of workmen, and necessitate constructions on other
points of Paris. The harvest has been an average one,
the most satisfactory state both for the producer and the
purchaser, and consequently for the consumer. After
this statement of the President several members spoke
on the subject of the revolutionary propaganda carried
on by the French refugees in London.
" A Member of the Committee observed, that for a
long time past the British Government had tolerated the
political refugees at London in conspiring against all
Governments, and that it would, perhaps, no proper for
the Committee, through its President, to advise the
French Government to come to some understanding
with the English Government on the subject. He asked
the President whether the Government had taken any
stops in the affair 7
"M. Lacrosse replied, that he participated in the un-
easiness felt by several Members, and doubtless by the
Government itself, at the tolerance shown by the Bri-
tish Government ; that he regarded that tolerance as
bad and disastrous, but that he was not in a position to
reply to the question addressed to him.
" Another Member observed that the English laws
permitted refugees to say and write whatever they
thought proper, and that so lung as they refrained from
any act or demonstration the English Government would
not interfere. He did not, moreover, think that the per-
manent Committee could come to any resolution on that
point.
" A third Member, whom we believed to be Genera
Changarnier, remarked that the Committee was not a
deliberate body, and had no right to insert on its
minutes any mention of such a delicate subject. Its
only mission was to watch, and it ought not to depart
from its attributions. It had not to meddle in general
politics. Besides, he said, the Government had made
arrests, and that proved that it was on its guard. The
great majority of the Committee thought that the posi-
tion of the refugees in London, conspiring against their
country and against all Governments elsewhere estab-
lished, was a thing much to be deplored; but that it
could not interfere in:the policy of the Government on so
delicate a subject. Another member suggested that the
arrests made in Paris were perhaps the result of warn-
ings from the English Government, and the French
Government wished to be prepared to prove that the
proceedings of the refugees were not confined to writings,
but extended to criminal acts."
The arrests on account of the pretended plot still
continue ; up to last night 232 have been arrested.
The Patrie, the organ of the Government, admits that
many of those arrested are not concerned in the plot,
but that they havebeen arrested for security's sake, that
is to any, to prevent them from taking measures to
start a Republican candidate for the Presidency in
opposition to the unconstitutional candidature of M.
Lours NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
It is said to be in contemplation to arrest the prin-
cipal partisans of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, who are
already denounced as revolutionists by the Con-
stitutionnel.
We read in the _Mats—
"lt may be remembered that the members of the
Democratical party in tho Assembly formed a Commit-
tee of Surveillance, consisting of MM. Victor Hugo,
Miot, Joly, and others. It appears that the Committee,
having received anonymous warning that the Government
intended to have its members arrested in the act of
violating the law concerning secret societies, determined
to sit in the Legislative Palace itself. Accordingly M.
V. Hugo and some others met two days back iu the
old Salle du Trone, now used as one of the bu-
reaux. The Vice-President of the Assembly informed
those Members that he could not tolerate the meeting of
a Committee of Surveillance, formed illegally, by the
side of that regularly nominated by the Assembly.
General Leflo, one of the quseetors, in consequence, gave
orders to interdict to every one during the recess, access
to the bureaux and committee-rooms, with the exception
of the library and the Salle des Conferences, where the
deputies .remaining in Paris are in the habit of assem-
bling every day."
The same journal has the following on the subject
of the re-election of M. Louis NAPOLEON BONA-
PARTE :
" The Constitutionnel supposes that the party of order
will be divided between the Prince de Joinville end
Prince Louis Napoleon. It thus supposes that the latter
will be a candidate. But such a supposition is gratui-
tous, and for the present has as little reality as that of
the Prance de Joinville. The revision question has yet
to be settled. Now, suppose revision should be rejected;
will the President allow himself to be presented as a
candidate? Would he accept an unconstitutional prolon-
gation of his powers? Would he accept it in defiance
of his own oath? Nothing proves that he would ;
nay, his acts tend to the opposite conclusion. He is no
longer the man of Strasbourg and Boulogne, and we say
so to his praise. In 1848 he consented to leave Paris at
the request of the Provisional Government. When
elected to the Constituent Assembly he at once resigned
in order to calm public emotion, and remained in Eng-
land; nor did he return until all was tranquil, two
months after the insurrection of June. He returned,
in fact, to accept the constitutional candidateship of the
Presidency of the Republic; and his acts have since ex-
hibited fidelity to the law an his oath. On what ground,
then, does the Constitutionnel undertake to say that
Louis Napoleon will, in case of the revision being re-
jeciied, present, or allow himself to be presented, as a
candidate ? We will say no more."
The following are the chief items of the weekly Bank
account:—
Specie in Paris F. 485,145,828
Ditto branches 133,953,100
Paris portfolio
364%30737:092843 Ditto branches
I3aek notes in circulation ... 409,039,100
Ditto branches ... 117,927,525
Credit to Treasury ... ... 125,334 000
Private credits, Paris ... .. 92,983 845
Ditto branches ... 32,925,656
Upwards of 51- millions of specie in Paris, and
300,000 francs' worth in the branches marked the

unbroken flaw of the precious metals into the coffers
of the Bank. The portfolio has decreased 1,300,000 f.,
but the country portfolios have increased nearly a
couple of millions. The circulation of bank-notes
is contracted by 7 millions in the city and nearly 3
millions in the country. The credit to the Treasury
has increased nearly 4 millions. The accounts cur-
rent have increased nearly 5 millions in Paris, and

upwards of 2 millions in the departments.
The Bourse was very calm, and pricos improved.
The Five per Cents. opened, at 94f. 10e., and closed at
94f. 30c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 56f. 35c. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 870f_; Rouen, 595 f.; Havre,

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233 f. 750.; Great Northern, 4611. 25c.; Avignon, 205 f.;
Vierzon, 423 f. 750.; Basle, 151 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 386 f.
25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 356 f, 25c.; Amiens to
Boulogne, 25Sf. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK E.KCEIANGE, SEPT. 5.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 175/B—East
Indian, 21—Great Indian Peninsula, 57g —Ditto, 4 —Northern
of France, 14%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 44—Paris and
Rouen, 23V2 Paris and Strasbourg, WA,

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 31st ult. have arrived.
They contain no intelligence of importance.
Tha Bolsa was closed.