The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-27 00:00:00

THE FRENCH R

'PUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
It is a curious fact, that the official Monitour is the
first of the journals which has violated the new press-
law, requiring journalists to attach their signatures to
the articles they write ; and that too while warning
other journals against committing an infraction of
the law. We find on this matter the following pithy
remarks from the pen of M. LEOPOLD DURAS in the
National :
" The Moniteur in this note, which is intended pre-
cisely to point out to the journals some of the dangers to
which certain forms of signature expose them, is the first
to violate the text and spirit of the law of which it gives
US the interpretation. The note, in fact, is not signed.
The word 'communique' cannot supply the name of the
author as rt quired by Art. 3. It is, therefore, the Mo-
niteur itself which violates the law at the moment when
it is recommending its execution; it is taken in flagrante
delicto of contravention. We require no other proof of
the insurmountable difficulties which attend the applica-
tion of the law of July 23."
The most important of the revelations yet made,
in consequence of this signing system, is that
M. DE COEME:NIN, the far-famed Tit-non, is a contri-
butor to a provincial journal. The Journal du Loiret
publishes an article signed by that gentleman, in
which he strongly urges all the friends of order and
society to remain firm to the existing Constitution,
Ind to p.-rmit no alteration in it, inasmuch as it is
impos-ible to substitute for it any arrangement which
would not have more enemiss than the present. The
Journal des Debats has at length publi,hed a political
article, it is signed LOUIS ALLOURY, and is on the
subject of the recommendations of the Councils- Ge-
neral of Departments. It is a very lengthy affair,
extending over nearly four columns ; M. Louts AL-
LOURY, however, is not nearly so long-winded as M.
BOILA.Y, who signs himself Reductur en chef
of the Constitutionnel, and who spreads a dull and
wearisome article over five mortal columns.
The Journal des Debats publishes the circular of
General ST. PRIEST, which we gave yesterday, and
prefaces it by the following observations :
"One of the persons named in the Wieibaden cir-
cular, General de S'. Priest, has addressed a letter to the
Union, which we copy. It the language of the circular
was unfortunately too clea, that of M. de St. Priest is
not clear enough. It is assuredly very far from consti-
tuting a disavowal, while it does not amount to an ap-
probation. M. de St. Priest wishes to avoid irritating
matter. It is an example which we mean to follow.
We have net courted disputation: we have simply con-
fined ourselves to an expression of the painful and dis-
couraging sentiment with which we were inspired by an
act which others have not hesitated to designate as de-
plorable, disastrous, and insensate."
The National has the fiillowing on the disavowal
of the supposed Presidential manifesto by the journals
of the Elysee :
"An article has appeared in the journals, intituled
Ce que rout le President,' and it positively states that
the President wishes for an immediate revision, that is
to say, a violation of the Constitution. The Constitu-
tionnel says that it is authorised to declare that the cor-
respondence from whence the article in question ema-
nated receives no official communication. We must be
allowed to mistrust a little this authorisation of which
this Constitulionnel boasts. It is scarcely two months
since M. Baroche bad our journal sei2pci fur having put
faith in the authenticity of the confidential articles of
the Constitutionnel; but, admitting what it says, it is un-
derstood that the Bulletin de Paris has no official cha-
racter, it has founded its article on information, on ideas,
and on reasonings which are its own. The intentions
which are attributed to the President of the Republic
are nothing but a calumny. M. Bonaparte has sworn to
respect the Constitution, and he must be very indignant
at the projects attributed to him by men who call them-
selves his friends. It suits him not to contradict them;
he thinks it useb ss to declare that the article ' Ce que
veut le President' is false in every point ; he considers
that silence is the best reply to such inventions. The
President is the best judge of what his honour requires;
we have nothing to say to what concerns him personally,
but unfortunately the article has made some noise.
There are people who are always ready to make use of
a calumny with a view to agitation ; there are people
who do not unders,and that the first magistrats of the
Republic resigns himself loyally to descend at the fixed
day from his elevated position; the article has been
hawked about and commented on ; uneasitaess has b en
caused, mistrust has been raised, and the public mind
alarmed. What ! the Prefect of Police every day sends
to the kAirnuls long rectifications on very secondary facts
which scarcely occupy public attention, and when the
President is calumniated, when the quiet of the whole
country is disturbed his pen remains inactive!"
We have to record another name among those of
the writers in the National, that of M. ALEXANDRE
REY, who, in an article on the Wiesbaden circular,
demands of the Legitimatists—" Do you approve of
all the principles laid down in that circular ? Aye or
no ? '

The Legitimatist leaders, finding that the greater
number of their supporters are inclined to join M. DE
LAROCHrJAQUELIN in his secession, have sent off to
Froshdoiff to endeavour to obtain from the Count DE
CH kIYIBORD some modification of the DE BAUTHELEMY
circular.

It is rumoured that in consequence of the determi-
nation of the PRESIDENT to hold several more reviews,
to be followed by champagne suppers to the non-
comini6sioned officers, the Parliamentary Commission
will, at its next sittirg, convoke the Assembly.
The Society of the loch D.cember made no at-
tempt at a demonstration, either at the review at
Versailles or on the PRESIDENT'S return.
The Governor•Guneral of Algeria announced, on
the 15th instant, that cholera had again broken out
in Algeria.

The Socialist journal Le Peuple has been sup-
pre:se•d by the sentence of the Correctional Court of
the Seine, and the director condemned to a fine of
3,000 f., for having made a false and fraudulent decla-
ration on the subject of the caution money.
Two more regiments marched on Wednesday even-
ing from St. Cloud to Versailles, for the purpose of
joining the camp at the latter place. The %bole of
the regiments of the garrison of Paris will in turn
form part of the camp, and be reviewed by the PIIE
SILENT of the Republic.
PARIS BOURSE, SEPT. 26 —Latest Prices—
Five per Cents., 92r. 80c. ; Three per Cents.,
57f. 60c. ; Bank of France, 2,270 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
Li)NDON STOCK EKCHANGE, SEPT. 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7:Y4.ex div.—Dutch Rhenish, 314
—Namur and Liege, 7 Northern of France, 14 LA —Or-
leans and Bourdeaux, 2%—Rouen and flaws, 9%—West
Flanders, 1.