The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-14 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
On Monday the renewal of the Bureau of the Na-
onal Assembly took place, when M. DUPIN was re-
elected President by an immense majority. General
BEDEAU was the only candidate for the Vice-Presi-
dency who received a sufficient number of votes.
MM. CHAPOT, LACAZE, PEUPIN, and BERARD were
elected Secretaries.
The National thus comments on the disgrace of
General D'HAUTPOUL :
" We have endeavoured to ascertain the causes of the
marked disgrace thus inflicted on General d'Hautpoul,
and the best-informed persons have replied to us that
there was but ore—the decided incapacity of the Governor
of Algeria. It is certain, in fact, that the dismissal of
General d'Hautpoul is not to be in any way attributed
to a sudden fit of respect for the Constitution and the
electoral law, for General Magnan, who has been, not
for six months, but nearly two years, at the head of the
4th military division, is continued in his command. It
is said that General d'Hautpoul is furious against the
ingratitude of the Elys6e. We can well believe it, but
why is ho of so little ability? All that would be only
amusing, if Algeria was not the sufferer by the political
combinations of the Elysie. To recompense the orga-
nizer of the reviews of Satory, General d'Hautpoul was
made Goveanor of Algeria for six months, and God
knows what that step has cost. At present, a presump-
tuous and ignorant pasha is got rid of, and a governor
appointed ad interim; and all this because M. Bonaparte
could not make up his mind to discontent two or three
ambitious mediocrities who figure in his saloons."
It is said that Dr. VERON has had a serious
quarrel with LEON FAUCHER, and that the Constitu-
tionnel is to be considered as the organ of the
Elysee as contradistinguished from the ;Ministry.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has declared against any
revision of the Constitution, and in favour of the
candidature of General CAVAIGNAC for the President-
ship of the Republic. The following article appears
in the Presse :
" The situation has ceased to be obscure. The light
of the sun at noon is not more clear-1. The respect of
the Assembly for the letter of the Constitution is in-
vincible' (declaration of the Constitutionnel of May 10,
1851); 2. The right of petition is dying—the right of
petition his dead' (declaration of the Messager de l'As-
semblie of May 11); 3. 'M. de Falloux is as opposed
as MM. de Laboulie and Nettement to all prolongation
of the President's powers' (declaration of the Opinion
Publique of May 12). Thus, no revison of the Consti-
tution—no pressure from without by means of petitions
—no prolongation of the President's powers. Manufac-
turers and traders, you can fabricate and purchase
in all security; you have ten long months before
you ! It will be time in March, 1852, to get un-
easy; that will, in fact, be too soon, for if the law of
May 31 is before then repealed, everything will pass
over most quietly. The elections will then take place
as in 1848, with perfect tranquillity. The great party
of order has already its candidate, namely, General
Cavaignac. Already General Cavaignac has the sup-
port of the' Siecle; the co-operation of the .Dibats will
not be wanting to him; and probably that of the Con-
stitutionnel will be also given to him. It is useless to
speak of the Legitimatist, fusionist, and Orleanist press;
for, as it made use of M. L. Bonaparte against General
Cavaignac, so it will make use of M. Cavaignac against
M. L. N. Bonaparte. From every side the rumour
reaches us that the candidateship of General Cavaignac
is making rapid progress, and that it is above all well
received by the banking world, the manufacturers, and
the merchant class. Everywhere this idea is gaining
ground—to vote unconstitutionally for M. L. N. Bona-
parte would be to render M. Ledru Rollin constitu-
tionally eligible, three millions of votes being ready to
vote for him."

A report of M. GODELLE, in the name of a com-
mittee recommending the taking into consideration of
the proposition of M. MORIN, relative to the periods
at which motions for the revision of the Constitution
may be brought forward, was yesterday distributed to
the National Assembly ; as was also a report, like-
wise by M. GODELLE, in favour of the proposition of
M. MOULIN, to the effect that motions relative to the
revision should be referred to a Special Committee.
We read in the Presse :—"' The fusion is settled,
General ST. PRIEST and General CHANGARNIBR have
had a long conference.' Such was the rumour pre- '
valent yesterday at the Assembly. It may be, that
the fusion has taken place at Paris, but it is not so at
Claremont, where it was on Friday last altogether
disapproved of ; for the Duke DE NEMOURS, whatever
may be asserted, is on this point of the same opinion
as his sister-in-law, the Duchess of ORLEANS, and
leis brothers, the Duke D'AUMALE and the Prince DE
JOINVILLE."

A homicide, named MorrcHenmoNT, brought out
for execution at Chalon on the 10th, after a desperate
struggle with the executioner, escaped from the
scaffold, but was secured by the gendarmes, who re-
conducted him to prison, refusing to be instrumental
in bringing the criminal a second time to the guillo-
tine. An immense sensation was created in the town
by this incident.

The Bourse was again very much depressed, and
Government Stock was offered for sale in large quanti-
ties. The Five per Cents. opened at 901. 5c., and
closed at 89f. 60c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 55f.
55c. Orleans Railroad Shares, 817 f. 50c. ; Great
Northern, 471 f. 25c.; Avignon, 218 f. 75c.; Vierzon,
425 f. ; Basle, 145 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 363 t. 75c.;
Tours and Nantes, 273 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, BIAT 13.
Boulogne and Amiens, 93/4—East Indian, 15%—Ditto,
22%—Luxembourg, 31i—Namur and Liege, Vie—Northern
of France, 143/,—Paris and Strasbourg, 104—Tours and
Nantes, 4576—West Flanders, 314,

of the pen, or, as in the majority of instances must
be the case among an unlettered and uneducated
peasantry, without making his mark, indicative of a
full approval of a concurrence in the spirit and letter
of a paper which he is totally unable to decipher.
" His Reverence, glory be to GOD, puts it there
for us to sign, and sure we know it must be
all right when he bids us.".;: Finally, in
order to cut a splash in the provincial, and pcssibly,
lin the Dublin newspapers, when the ceremonies of the
mass are over, the assembly is constituted, ex cathedr6,
a public meeting. It only remains to put the peti-
tion, thus unanimously signed, to the vote, and of
course it is carried by acclamation, and blazoned
abroad as the full, free, and deliberate expression of
the sentiments of the patriotic and intelligent clergy
and parishioners of the parish of Ballybotherem.
We trust that when, as may be expected within a
very few days, a mass of petitions thus concocted
after the recipe promulgated by Dr. APGETTIOAN,
come to be shovelled into the precincts of the Senatorial
Chambers, they may just be estimated quantum
valeant, or in an inverse ratio to their numbers.
Many illustrious and indignant orators will indubita-
bly appeal to such emanations of popular feeling from
the Isle of Saints as an insurmountable proof of the
fearful tyranny of the proposed Ministerial enactment,
and the stern determination of the pious Romanists of
Ireland to resist even to the death the insult attempted
to be offered to the gracious condescension of the
Holy Father in granting a Christian hierarchy
to :this benighted land. But, as for any real
influence or importance, such wholesale scrawls are
worth precisely their respective weights in waste
paper. Lord JOHN may, if he thinks proper, shrink
before the shower of paper pellets; and, indeed, after all,
the carrying of his measure, as it is at present emascu-
lated, is of no very vital moment. But the public
mind of England, gullible as JOHN BULL proves him-
self to be on many occasions, is neither to be brow-
beaten:by braggadocio, nor humbugged by palpable
and glaring trickery. If the " Cardinal Arch-
bishop" is yet, according to the aspirations of the
faithful, to purge the isle of infidel heresy, and cele-
brate high mass in Westminster Abbey, the sages of
the Vatican may rest assured of this, that such an
eventuality must belrealized by some more potent
and convincing instrumentality than either the
championship of the Irish Brigade, or the gentle per-
suasions of the M'GETTIQANS, their subalterns, and
their herds.