The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-09 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paid journals of yesterday,

The LORD MAYOR and other members of the Cor-
poration of London went at one o'clock to the Elysee,
.o take leave of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, and
to renew to him their expression of thanks for the
cordial welcome with which they had been received at
Paris. They afterwards proceeded to the Hippodrome,
*here their arrival was announced by the firing of
cannon, and on their entrance the orchestra played
God save the Queen:' Notwithstanding the heavy
rain, the performances continued, and the LORD
MAYOR and his friends remained to the end, and wit-
neesed the ascent of the balloon.

In the Assembly the proposal of a vote of credit
for defraying the expenses of the army of occupation
in Rome gave rise to a discu..sion, in the course of
which MM. ASAGO and JULES FAVRE warmly re-
newed their protests against the invasion and occu-
pation of the Roman territories. M. BAROCHB in
reply stated that France continued to occupy Rome
in order to keep out. the Austrians. In commenting
in this debate the Stick says—
"At Rome. under the authority of the Pope, and in
presence of a French army, sent there, according to the
declaration of M. Odilon Barret, to protect the rights of
justice and humanity; at Rome women are stripped
naked and flogged—wives, sisters, and daughters of men
who have committed political crimes—and God only
knows what highly generous sentiments, what honour-
able actions may be enveloped in so elastic a designa-
tion—yes, in the Holy City they flog women, the
cowards! At Naples. Oh! at Naples it is different;
we who write these lines have met here in Paris an
nonourable family whom we could name, only we should
fear to point them out to the police of the embassy, and
who have been obliged to fly their country after the con-
fiscation of their property, because the head of the fa-
mily, a distinguished advocate, had dared to defend a
person accused of a political offence; and yet to see M.
Baroche and General Oudinot coming to the tribune,
the one with flue phrases and the other with his military
diplomacy, in the face of such horrors as these! Why
your policy and your diplomacy in presence of such acts,
when liberty is oppressed and justice outrageously vio-
lated, when all the laws of humanity are trodden under
toot, your temporising diplomacy and your miserable
policy which dares not raise its voice, is something
shameful! In the name of Heaven do not, at all events,
make it a matter of glorification!"

The Orleanists are exceedingly sore at the conduct
of the recalcitrant Legitimatists. The Ordre gives
vent to its rage in the following terms.—
" What! you have resolved on a meeting of eighty
Legitimatists to spend the three months' parliamentary
vacation in agitating the revision! Are you then re-
solved upon sacrificing to the Montagnards the electoral
law of the 31st May, the law regarding the sale of jour-
nals and pamphlets in the streets, and the law regard
ing the clubs, of which they demand the complete aboli-
tion? No, far from it, say you, you have no such in-
tention. Then you must know that it is impossible.
Nevertheless, you agitate the question. You are driv-
ing to revision along with those who demand the proro-
gation of the powers of the President of the Republic—
with those who openly call for his re election in an un-
constitutional manner, although you stand pledged to
resist such taking place, as calculated, according to the
avowal of one of your leading orators, to lead to the ruin
of France. Allow us to tell you that you are involving
yourselves in a tortuous underground way, which is full
of snares, and that your boasted chivalry runs great risk
of going astray."
The trials at Lyons still continue, the city is full of
troops, and every opportunity is taken of endeavouring
to provoke the people to an outbreak ; the people,
however, have been hitherto too wise to furnish the
authorities with a pretext for letting loose the troops.
Their conduct has been admirable.

The Moniteur publishes a decree by the PAESI.
DINT of the Republic, ordering that, in consideration
of the eminent services rendered by Marshal SaDAS-
TIANI during his long and glorious career, his re-
mains shall be interred at the Hotel des Invalides.
The Moniteur states that the Commission nomi-
nated in March last, under the Presidency of General
OODINOT DE REGGIO, to examine and set forth the
services which railways may render to the country
in the event of a war, offensive or defensive, has re-
ported that it is important in a military and economic
point of view that corps and detachments shall con-
tinue as before to go on foot, but that railway ma-
teriel, after certain modifications not of an expensive
nature, may be immediately employed in the convey-
ance of troops ; that to convey troops by railway is
an easy operation ; and that such conveyance may
have great strategic importance, and add considerably
to the force of the State. The Committee has
submitted a series of regulations on the subject to the
Minister of War. It also dwells on the military im-
portance of a railway round Paris.
The following are the chief items of the Bank ac-
count for the week

..____.
Francs.
Specie in Paris .. ... ... 465,823,455
Ditto in branches ~. ... ... 132,520,563
Dial ill ratio prtfigig ~. ... 38/Q0,662