The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-04 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals 44 yesterday.
The National Assembly proceeded on Wednesday to
renew the Presidents and Secretaries for the ensuing
month. In the Second Committee, M. EUGENE SUE
wee elected President by 18 votes against 17, given to
the Due DE BRuGLIE.
The negotiations for the formation of a definitive Mi-
nistry have again completely failed.
The Messager, the organ of M. TRIERS, has the fol-
lowing on this subject :
" Yesterday M. Odilon Barrot met M. Fould at dinner
at the house of a friend. The conversation having turned
on the recent failure to form a Ministry, M. Odilon Barrot
declared, in the presence of M. Fould, that the President of
the Republic had never called upon him for a programme of
his policy, and had never made him any proposition what-
ever, from which it may be concluded that the President of
the Republic wished to make it appear that he Was seeking
to form a definitive Ministry, but in reality never made the
attempt. As to the law of the 31st of May, M. Barrot denies
that he had expressed himself respecting it as has been stated.
He was merely disposed, by way of conciliation, to adopt the
modification proposed by the committee on the Municipal
Bill, if it should have received the sanction of the majority,
but he went no further."
The Journal des Debats publishes in &stens° the pro-
test of the French Government against the incorporation
of the Sclavonian end Italian provinces of Austria with
the German Confederation, and precedes it with the fol-
lowing remarks :
" Our correspondent at Berlin writes us that the German
journals show great discontent at the importance which the
Dibats has attached to the pretensions of Austria. The as-
sertions, how ever, of the German journals can neither change
the nature of things nor destroy facts. France has twice
protested, as we have before said ; she did so at Vienna by
her note of the 31st of January, and afterwards by that of
the 23d of February. She has done still more ; she has very
recently communicated to the Imperial Cabinet, and to all
the other Cabinets who signed the convention of the Con-
gress of Vienna, a memorandum in which the question raised
by the pretensions of Austria is discussed in all its phases, and
in its relations with the politics of Europe. Has Austria the
right to demand the admission into the Germanic Confedera-
tion of her Selavonian and Italian possessions? Does it come
within the competency of the Confederation 2 Both of these
points are treated at length in the memorandum of the
French Cabinet, and the dangers of such a system to the
Germanic Confederation and to the peace of Europe are forci-
bly pointed out."
The brother of M. BAROCHE, the ex-Minister, died
yesterday.
There was a perfect panic at the close of business at
the Bourse yesterday, and the most improbable:reports
were circulated to account for the fall in Government
Stock. The Five per Cents. opened at 931. 35c., and closed
at 921. 75c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 571.; Or-
leans Railroad Shares, 885 f.; Havre, 275 f.; Great North-
ern, 475 f. ; Avignon, 2051.; Vierzon, 447 f. 50c.; Basle,
155 f..; Bordeaux, 402 f. 50c; ,:Paris and Strasburg, 367 f.
50c.; Tours and Nantes, 276 f. 25c.
BUSIINESS 'JONI. IN FOREl3ris4 RAILWAYS AT TEE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 3.
Boulogne and Amiens, 95,4 Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 18—East Indian, 1514—Luxembourg, 1%—
Ditto, 3%—Orleans and Bordeaux, VA Paris and Stras-
bourg, 107(3 Rouen and Havre, 111A3—Sambre and Meuse,
3N—Tours and Nantes, 61A3.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have arrived.
Their contents arc devoid of interest.
MADRID BOLSA, SIARCH 29.—The following are the
prict•s of Stocks:—Three per Centr., 35i to ; Five
per Cents., with current Coupon, 18k to i; Coupons, 9
to 9*; Passive Debt, 7 5-16 to 7-16. Exchange on
London, 50 90.