The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-19 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Legislative Assembly was occupied during
the whole of the sitting on Monday in discussing the
Sugar Duties Bill.

A. Council of Ministers was held on Monday at
the Elysee, under the direction of the PRESIDENT of
the Republic. The news arrived from Dresden,
Vienna, and Berlin, was the principal subject of dis-
cussion. In presence of this intelligence, the council,
it is said, decided that instructions should be at once
dispatched to the French Minister at Vienna to in-
form him of the precise attitude which France in-
tends taking in case any conflict should by possi-
bility arise between the two great German powers.
The views of the King of PRUSSIA are said to have
met with most sympathy in the council.

The new Spanish Minister, the Marquis DE
VALDEGAMAS (M. DONOZO CORTES), has arrived in
Paris.

Orders have been given for the reinforcement of
the garrisons on the eastern frontier.
The National announces its apprehensions of the
speedy failure of employment for the labouring
classes in consequence of the persevering efforts of
the reactionary party to represent the present state of
things in France as of an essentially temporary
nature. It says :
" The policy of the Royalist factions is bearing fruit.
A crisis is approaching—a crisis has already commented
—the crisis of labour. We should be wanting in our
most sacred duties in presence of imminent and cruel
sufferings if we did not take the initiative in throwing
light on the grave situation which menaces the working
classes. How could it be otherwise? These eternal
declamations of the reactionist parties about the pre-
tended instability of order—these systematic attacks on
the Republic—these openly avowed designs of a return
to some monarchy or mock monarchy these in-
quietudes. these agitations unceasingly spread abroad—
how could such things fail. in creating distrust as to the
intentions of certain men and their adherents ?"

The nomination of a member of the Academy of
Sciences, in the room of M. GAT Lussec, was warmly
contested yesterday. Four different: ballots took
place ; and, in the last, M. CAGNARD DR LATOUR was
declared to be elected by a majority of 34 ♦otes
to 19 given to M. Lim FOUCAULT.

TWO reports were yesterday presented to the As-
sembly from the Committee on Supplementary
Credits. One, on the Bill demanding a credit of
522,019 francs for the payment of the half-year's
interest on the Greek loan guaranteed by France, re-
commends the Assembly to grant the credit, on the
ground that it would be neither opportune nor politic
under existing circumstances to depart from the
friendly line of conduct which had been hitherto
shown towards Greece; and the other, on a credit of
915,145 francs for the expenses of the Mediterranean
racket service from the Ist of April to the 30th of
June, after reminding the Assembly that, by a decree
of the Constituent Assembly in 1849, this service was
to be thrown open to private competition, consents to
grant the credit, on the understanding that an ar-
rangement to that effect shall be come to previous to
the expiration of the above term.
M. JuLEs MIOT has presented a proposition to
the Assembly, demanding that there shall be a
grand exhibition in Paris of the manufacturing,
artistical, and other productions of all the countries
of the world.

We read in the Messager de I' Assemblie—
" There was a good deal of conversation yesterday
among the representatives in the Salle des Conferences,
respecting a strange resolution of the Council of State.
The proposition of M. Pradii, relative to the responsi-
bility of Ministers and the President of the Republic,
was the subject for discussion on the order of the day.
M. Bosley (de la Menrthe), the President of the Council,
stated that the Government wished the proposition not
to be discussed at present. M. Vivian replied that he
considered that pretension so exorbitant and so anti-
constitutional, that he must ask the Council not to take
any notice of the request. The Vice-President of the
Republic having, however, insisted, M. Rivet, Councillor
of State, was dispatched to M. do Royer, the Minister of
Justice, to request from him clear and precise explana-
tions. The Minister of Justice answered that he could
give no reply without having consulted the President of
the Republic, and that, in consequence, he begged the
Council of State to suspend its deliberations on the
matter. The Council of State accordingly adjourned, but
caused the circumstances to be inscribed in its proses
verbal. It was said that interpellations would be ad-
dressed to the Minister of Justice on the subject."
The Moniteur announces that the Comte DS
GALINA, Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of
SARDINIA, presented bis credentials yesterday to the
PRESIDENT of the Republic.

The Bourse was firm. There was a large amount
of business transacted in railroad shares, which rose
considerably. The Five per Cents, opened at 94f. lie.,
and closed at 94f. 25c. The Three per Cents. closed
57f. 85c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 895 f. ; Rouen,
6621. 50c.; Havre, 2971. 500.; Great Northern, 485. ;
Avignon, 1971. 50c.; Vierzon, 453 f. 75e.; Basle, 160 f.;
Bordeaux, 4121. 50c.; Paris and Strashurgh, 381 f. 25c.;
Tours and Nantes, 2851. Exchange on London, 251.
short.

BUSINESS DONE ]N FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCII 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10% Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), IS—Dutch Rhenish, 3%—Luxembourg, 13/4
Ditto, 343—Maria Antonia, 7—Ditto, New, 2%—Namur and
Liege, 8 %—Northern of France, 15% Orleans and Bordeaux,
414—Paris and Rouen, 27—Paris and Strasbourg, 11%—
Rouen and Havre, 12—Sambre and Meuse, 5!1/4t—Tottra and
Nantes, 63/4—West Flanders, 2%.