The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

be earned by persons of their class in almost any
other occupations, were prepared to act, and to relin-
quish situations which were of the utmost importance
to themselves and families. How unreasonable
was it, while claiming credit for their own twelve
or thirteen years' servitude, which they thought
" was a sufficient guarantee for their steadiness
without binding them to a tree months' notice," to
make no allowance for those who had acttd as kind
and considerate masters during these periods, and
who should be supposed incapable of using the
power thereby afforded for any sinister purpose.
The directors had just reason to complain of the un-
warranted and unwarrantable suspicion.

One fact should not be forgotten by the men.
There were 138 drivers on the northern division of the

line, and there were 230 applications for employment
by competent Tpersons within a single week ;
while during the same time there were 128 applica-
tion for the 130 situations on the southern division.
This must convince the malcontents that kubstitutes
could be more easily provided than they had previ-
ously supposed. The contest has, however, termi-
nated. The men have yielded at discretion ; the
great majority have declared their adhesion to the
existing regulation, by affixing their signatures to the
document issm d by the company withdraw-
ing the objection to the three months'
notice. We have now only to express our hope
that the directors will use their victory with modera-

tion, and exhibit the magnanimity which their con-
duct during the discussion warrants us in anticipating;
that they will let " bygones be bygones," and pro-
claim a general amnesty for acts committed during
the unfortunate discussion that has been brought to
so happy a termination.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
M. Yon has been induced to tender his resignation
as Commissary of the Assembly, and M. DUPIN has,
to quote the words of the National, had the weakness
to accept it. In his letter of resignation he says—
" Notwithstanding the honourable decision of the
Bureau of the Assembly to retain my services, I have
determined; from unwillingness to embarrass the As-
sembly, which I have faithfully served, to relieve myself
of the tunctions of Commissary of Police, which the As-
sembly did me the honour to confide to me."
The ccnfiict impending between the Assembly and
the Executive will not be even postponed by the re-
tirement of M. Yore. The official reception of the
Legislative Assembly took place at the Elysee on
Tuesday evening, and the two Presidents, M. BONA-
PARTE and M. Dunn, could not refrain, even
on that public and complimentary occasion,
from talking at each other. In his address
M. Dunn took occasion to assure the PRESIDENT of
the Republic that all the acts of the Assembly, as well
as those of its Bureau, were inspired by a profound
attachment for the person of the PRESIDENT, and a
warm desire to preserve a good understanding be-
tween the two powers of the state. Hereupon he was
interrupted by M. BONAPARTE, who audibly ex-
claimed, " I must believe it, M. le President, because
you say it." On which General BEDEAU immediately
withdrew in disgust. The address was again
interrupted by the PRESIDENT of the Republic, who
thus addressed the President of the Assembly :
" You and I, each in the limits of our attributes,
must endeavour to enforce respect for the laws of the
country and the authority which is given to us by the
constitution, without encroachment by the one power
on the other. Ido not insist on the prorogation of
my powers, but I do insist, when I shall restore to
the people the power which I have received from it,
to restore it intact and respected. My conviction is,
that France wishes for peace and order, and it would
blame the one of the two powers which would attack
the other." The entourage of the Elysee treated
DUPIN with the greatest contempt, and observed that
as he had played out his part the sooner he quitted
the stage the better.
M. DE LA DEVAUSAYE, a Bourbonist representative,
has given notice of a proposition to the effect that
every representative whose allowances have been
seized for debt within the last three months, shall
be considered as having given his resignation of his
seat in the Assembly. It is not said whether the
Hon. Gentleman intends to apply the same principle
to the Presidency of the Republic.
We find the following in the Independance of Brus-
sels of Sunday.
" There was much talk last eveninc, in a large poll-
tic,Al salon of a letter said to have been addressed by
ene of the Princes of the House of Orleans to an
eminent individual in France, and in which the idea of
the fusion of the two branches was considered as imprac-
ticable, impolitic, and compromising for the dignity
of the children of Louis Philippe. According to this
letter, the before his death, is s'a.ed to have
nothing which could be either directly or indirectly
considered as an approbation of, or a desire for, such a
fusi, n, or even as a tez.dency towards acts which might
It a,l to it. The members of the House of Orleans are
all more united ihan ever in this idea, and in the resolu-

tiou to keep away from any co-operation iu political
movements of an) kind. The old chiefs of the Orleaniat
arty entertain similar feelings as regards the luzion.
All that may be attempted or imagined in certain cote-
mitue,, the principal fault of which is that they have no
authoril from the contracting parties, is therefore
without value, without foundation, and without im-
port arice."

RUSINi SS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 1.

Boulogne :and Amiens, 83A—Luxembourg, 11s—Ditto,
21— Namur and Liege, B%—Northern of France, 15—Or-
leans and Bordeaux, 3% ex div.--Paris and Rouen, 26%—
Rouen and Havre, 103 —Sambre and Meuse, 3%.