The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-19 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Members of the National Assembly were oc-
cupied on Monday in discussing in their Bureaux the
details of the organic law on departmental organiza-
tion. The Legitimatists wish to give a greater de-
velopment to the principle of local self-government,
and desire more particularly that the mayors should
be elected by the people, or the municipalities, with-
out the interference of the Government. The Or-
leanists are in favour of a system of centralization,
and of the appointment of the mayors by the Govern-
ment. The Republicans are divided on the policy of
centralization, but are unanimously in favour of
greatly extending the suffrage for the election of the
members of the municipalities.
General CAVAIGNAC and his party, including M.
DUFAIIRE, will support the proposition for an am-
nesty to all political offenders. It is considered pro-
bable that the Government also will support it, as the
PEESIDEST of the Republic has al ways been per-
sonally in favour of such a measure.
A brother of the order of the Ecoles Chretiennes
(the order to which Frere LEOTADE belonged) has been
arrested at Rheims on several charges of indecent as-
sault ; .he will be tried on the 28th of this month.
We read in the Pays--
" The journals of the coalition attempt to turn to ac-
count, with their usual honesty, the division which ap-
pear! to have recently arisen in the meeting of the Rue
des Pyramides. Our readers know that this meeting,
formed aJsrat to preserved to the party of order in the
Assembly the ensemble and force which belong to it, and
which the exigencies of the Legitimatist meeting of the
Rue de Rivoli threatened to compromise, consisted of
all the Moderate Members of the Assembly, who took the
election of the 10th Dec. as the basis of their political con-
duct, and supported Louis Napoleon by their influence
and votes. Since the coalition has caused perturbation
in,the Assembly, division has slipped into the meeting
of the Rue des Pyramides. Some members have
endeavoured to cause their colleagues to deviate from the
path traced to them by the regulations and antecedents
of the meeting; others have determined to remain faith-
ful to the policy of devotedness and patriotism, which
rejects the spirit of party, and supports the chief of the
state. lade inr. Another incident completed the
schism. On Friday a sitting was held for the re-election
of the bureau, and M. Baroche was chosen president,
M. Beugnot and M. Lion Faucher vice-presidents. Im-
mediately the coalitionists imagined a resignation en
masse, and on Saturday, in the lobbies of the Assembly,
M. Thiers and his friends were named amongst the se-
paratists. It appears, however, that the number of
these friends disposed to follow the chiefs of the coalition
in all their proceedings is very limited, and that their
separation will produce such slight effect, that they begin
to ask themselves whether it would not be more pruden
not to proclaim their weakness by such a sudden re
treat."

The Es,perance of Nancy says—
" The President of the Republic has been kind enough
to accord a sum of 3,000 f. to old soldiers, the most un-
fortunate of those presented to him during his passage
through the department. This sum, small in propor-
tion to the misery existing, but very large compared to
the narrowness of the President's resources, is to be
immediately remitted to those for whom it is destined."
There was not much business transacted at the Bourse,
and there was very little variation in the price of public
securities. The Five per Cents. opened at 96f. 50c.,
and closed at 96f. 45c.; the Three per Cents, closed at
57f. 80c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 885 f.; Rouen, 660 f.;
Havre, 275 f.; Great Northern, 480 f.; Vierzon, 417 f.
50c.; Basle, l 60.; Bordeaux, 398 f. 75c ; Paris and
Strasburg, 378 f. 75c.; Tours and Nautes, 251 f, 250.
BUSINI,:SS DONE IN FOREIGN RAIL VA AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9 cx div.—Dutch Rhenish, 3-
-East Indian, 12—Great Indian Peninsula, sN—Luxena.
bourg, 2%—Namur and Liege, B:l',—Northern of France,
14%—Paris and Strasbourg, 10—Tours and Nantes,