The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-20 00:00:00

E FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The election by the Bureaux of Members to form
a Committee to examine the Bill on Departmental
organization took place on Tuesday. Only twenty
Members obtained the majority, and another ballot
will take place for the remaining ten. Of the twenty
Members elected, eleven are opposed to the Bill and
nine in favour of it. Those who are in favour of the
measure are MM. de Crou,seilhes, Ileurtier, Rouher,
Moulin, de Melun, de Broglie, de Champauhet, Odilon
Barrot and Denjoy. Those opposed to it are MM. E.
Arrago, F. de Lasteyrie, des Retours de Chaulieu, Ge-
neral de Larnoriciere, Betting, de Laucastel, Frichon,
Lahoulie, de Vatimesnil, Favreau, and Tarconet.
The election of non• commissioned officers in the
National Guard of Paris took place on Tuesday, The
Bonapartist candidates were in general elected by con-
siderable majorities. Oa Tuesday General BARA-
GUAY D'lftwEns reviewed the garrison of Paris in
the Champ de Mars.
On Tuesday, 1,200 packages were dispatched from
Paris for the Great Exhibition in London.
We find the following in the Ordre on the sui.ject
of the French screw steam navy :
" The naval returns of England, published at the com-
mencement of 1851, contain the names of four ships of
the line and six frigates, provided with screw apparatus
of from 350 to 450 horse-power, the most of them afloat
for several years. It mentions, besides, that three new
ships of the line, of 80 guns, with screw power, are on
the stocks, namely, the Agamemnon, the Sans-Pareil,
and the James Walt. In fine, the English journals an-
nounce the approaching launch of the Agamemnon at
Woolwich, and of the Sans-Pareil at Plymouth, and
the immediate commencement of a fourth vessel on the
spot which the Sans-Pareil thus leaves vacant. In pre-
sence of such preparatives, it is natural to ask if the
French navy possesses an analogous amount of screw-
power. It may be remembered that ,in France the first
serious attempts a screw navigation were made on
board the Napoleon in 1843 by the zeal of the Post-
office administration, and they proved the value and
importance of the new invention. Eight years have
since elapsed, and would have been sufficient to create a
body of screw-vessels sufficient for the protection and
defence of our naval interests. And yet, if from the list
of our screw-vessels be excepted some petty advice-boats
of 120 horsepower, useful at most to carry a letter, and
two or three iron vessels, quite unfit for fighting, it will
be found that our resources in war vessels with screw-
power are reduced to the Pomone frigate of 36 guns,
and 220 horsepower, the machinery of which was made
by M. Mazelis, of Havre ; and the Isly frigate, of 24
guns, the machinery of which, made by M. Cave, has
not been yet, received. The Charlemagne will be the
only French screw-ship of the line fit to be at full work
this year. As to the Napoleon, the Austerlitz, and Jean
Bart, the period of their being fitted out cannot be fore-
seen. The Committee of Naval Inquiry has been, we
are informed, much occupied with such a state of things,
to which unexpected eventualities might assign extreme
gravity."
Public securities were firm at the Bourse, with very
little business doing. The Five per Cents. opened at
96f. 45c., and closed at 96f. 60c.; the Three per C nts.
closed at 581.; the New Loan, 961. 35c,; Orleans Rail-
road Shares, 885 f.; Rouen, 6601.; Great Northern, 4801.;
Avignon, 192 f. 50e.; Vierzon, 4161. 26c.; Basle, 1601.;
Paris and Strasburg, 378 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes,
251 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 19.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9 ex div.—Dutch Rhenish, 3-
-East Indian, 12!x—Northern of France, 1438—Paris and
Rouen, 25% ex div.—Paris and Strasbourg, 10—Rouen and
Havre, 10%—Sambre and Meuse, 3%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
The discussion on the Ministerial question was
continued on that day in the Chamber of Deputies,
and General PLUM made a furious attack upon the
Narvaes Ministry for their despotic and illegal con-
duct, and declared that since the fall of the Cabo-
marde Ministry no event had occurred in Spain
which had given such unmitigated satisfaction as the
downfall of the Government of NArtvaEz.
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 14.—The latest quotations of
the Funds are as follow :—Three per Cents., 33 to 15-
16 ; Five per Ce:lts., with current Coupons, 1.1;s; Cou-
pons, 7'' ; Passive Debt, 5. Exchange on London,
50 60.