The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The press is still doomed to persecution. M.
BABESTE, the responsible editor of the Republique,
has been summoned to appear on the 14th of October
before the Court of Assize to take his trial, on the
charge of pubishing a letter from a subscriber con-
taining false assertions against the Government.
The Marseilles journals announce the arrival, on
the 26th in that port, of the Mississippi, having on
board sixty Hungarian refugees, and amongst them
KOSSUTH. This steamer only put in for coals, and
was to depart immediately for England. No person
disembarked from her, but several of the merchants
went on board.

The commercial report for the past week is highly
favourable. The cotton manufacture is in an active
state. Business in the south of France is described
to be very brisk. It is remarked that there is hardly
any exportation of corn to England at this moment.
The Univers publishes the concluding part of the
official pamphlet printed at Naples in answer to hlr.
GLADSTONE'S letters. The arguments contained in
this part are of the same general character as those
already noticed, except that the writer denies that the
Neapolitan Government has had any hand in the pub-
lication of the Philosophical Catechism, by RAPHAEL
MIRANDA. From the notes at the end of the pam-
phlet, it appears that in the month of June last there
were 1,819 political prisoners in the continental pro-
vinces of the kingdom, and 79 under extraordinary
surveillance. Besides these, there were 205 persons
detained in prison as a precautionary measure. It
also appears from official lists that, up to May 19, 79
condemned prisoners had been pardoned, and that
229 persons under trial had been withdrawn from the
action of the tribunals. Moreover, since 1848, eight
persons condemned to death have had their punish-
ments commuted by the KING.
The English sloop the Lord Duncan was on Friday
driven by the violence of the wind from Havre to-
wards Honfleur, when there was no one on board but
a cabin boy. When the boy found that the vessel was
before the port of Honfleur he let go the anchor, not-
withstanding the difficulty of the operation, and so
secured the vessel. The Custom-house officers having
presented themselves to visit it, the little fellow posi-
tively refused them admission, saying that he was
responsible for all on board. It was not until the
English Consul interfered that the courageous boy
allowed the officers to make the visit. The Lord
Duncan was afterwards taken into port.
The Bourse was firm, with little business doing. The
Five per Cents. opened at 92f., 30c., and closed at 92f.
65c. for the end of the month ; the Three per Cents.
closed at 56f. 40c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 857 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 560 f.; Havre, 230 f.; Great Northern, 458 f. 75c.;
Avignon, 206 f. 25c.; Basle, 148 f. 75c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 351 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 263 f 75c.;
Amiens to Boulogne, 258 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SErr. 29.
_ _

Boulogne and Amiens, 1O LA—Dutch Rhenish, 3—East In-
dian, 21—Luxembourg, 34—Ditto, I%—Namur and Liege,
61{4—Paris and Strasbourg, 11—Rouen and Havre, 1)
Sambre and Meuse, 3.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 24th contain no politi-
cal news of interest.

The Military Gazette states that the Minister of
War has ordered a certain number of guns to be cast
in the manufactory at Seville, on the most approved
model, for the defence of Cuba. _ _ _

The Archduke FERDINAND, brother of the Em-
peror of AUSTRIA, had arrived at Cadiz from Italy.
The Madrid Gazette remarks that no Archduke
of AUSTRIA has visited Spain since the last war of
succession.

The Epoca had been tried for the publication of a
seditious article, but acquitted.
MADRID BOLIA, SEPT. 24.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 35 7-16 paper; the Fire per Cents. at
16i; Coupons at 8i ; and the Debt without Interest at
6 1-16.