The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-27 00:00:00

THE FRE

NCH REPITI3LIC,

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Ministerial crisis still continues. M. BIL•
who was sent for by the PRESIDENT for the
third time on Thursday, has again withdrawn. His
failure is thus announced in the Patrie
:
" The combinations in which M. Billault was to have
entered bad been reserved ; it has again, and defini-
tively, failed. The negotiations with M. Billault are
broken. We are assured that several of his proposed
colleagues refused to join him. They thought that his
name would not offer sufficient guarantees to the men of
order."
The PRESIDENT sent yesterday for M. Ducos.
The Ordrc gives the following account of these
various negotiations :
" Nothing is changed with respect to the actual state
of affairs. The programme continues to be the great
scarecrow before which the most resolute draw back.
M. Ducos has just done what M. Augustin Giraud did
two days ago; he has withdrawn on learning all the exi-
gencies which were imposed on the new Ministers, and
his refusal has been the more sensibly felt at the Ely*,
as M. Fould had taken the trouble to call on him twice
at his apartment in the Rue Caumartin, in order to ob-
tain his consent. It is not one of the least curious symp-
toms of the present crisis to see M. Fould become
one of the most active agent, of the new combination at
the moment even that he resigns his portfolio on the
pretext of his sincere attachment to the law of May 31.
This is not, however, the moment for discussing this
eccentricity; we shall return to it hereafter. We shall
simply state that the refusal of M. Ducos has rendered
impossible the definitive formation of the Cabinet, which
it had been hoped to have announced this day officially
in the Moniteur. Everything is again placed in doubt,
and a proof of the difficulties which have been met
with is that M. Lacrosse has been sent for. The crisis,
it may bo seen, is far from drawing to its close. The
only Ministers whose acceptance can be relied on at this
moment are MM. Billault, Saint Arnaud, de Bourjolly,
Casablanca, and Fortoul. Magne, who had hitherto
appeared disposed to retain the portfollio of Public
Works, now begins, it is said, to hesitate. On the other
hand M. de Turgot, who had, whatever may be said to
the contrary by certain journals, accepted the portfolio
of Agriculture and Commerce, now declares that he
could not consent to bo the colleague of M. Billault.
The Ministerial interregnum may, therefore, be indefi-
nitely prolonged, in spite of the general impatience
, which begins to be manifested on the subject. As to
the Prefecture of Police, the chances now appear to be
• in favour of M. Pia:ri."

The Prefect of the Creuse has suspended M. CoN-
CATON, Mayor of Royere, for presiding at a patriotic
dinner lately given to M. NADAUD, a representative
of the Mountain.
The Journal de l'indre announces that M. VA-
LETTE, a carpenter, of Chateauroux, was to be prose-
cuted for having refused to assist in erecting a guil-
lotine when legally summoned by the Mayor of the
town.
The Marquis DE PASTORET had a mass celebrated
yesterday in the chapel of his hotel, Place de la
Concorde, for the repose of the soul of th© Duchess
D'ANGOULEME. It was attended by the Duke of
PARMA, father of the reigning Duke, General LA-
IIITTE, Admiral MACKAU, and several other person-
ages of distinction.
The Five per Cents. were done at the Boulevard
at 90f. 75c.
13USINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Our. 24.

Boulogne and Amiens, 10—Namur and Liege, 6%—West
Flanders, 13A.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 21st have arrived.
Senor ARTETA, the Minister of Public Works, has
resigned, and 11EINOSO has been appointed his suc-
cessor. _ _

MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 21.—The following are the
prices of Stocks :—Three per Cents. 36i ; Five per
Cents., with current coupon, 16k; Coupons, 8 i Pas-
hive Debt, 6 Exhange on London, 50 75.