The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-18 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1850,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
They all comment on the remarkable speech of
General LAMORICIERE, delivered on Tuesday ju-t
before the close of the discussion of the Law on the
Press. The General in the course of his speech thus
described the parties into which France is divided :
" There were two great parties there present: one,
when the day of revising the constiturion would arrive,
would propose legitimacy, surrounded with constitutional
institutions—would it not?
"Several Voices—Yes!
" General DE LAMORICIERE. continuing —And the
other would propose the Monarchy with republican in-
stitutions springing from the revolution."
After stating that he himself preferred the Repub-
lican form of government but that all wished for
liberty and parliamentary government, the General
thus proceeded to warn the Assembly against the
machinations of the Imperialists :—" Let not the As-
sembly come to the assistance of aparty which neither
wished for those who thought, who spok", or who
wrote, and which had excited a war, which he re-
gretted, between the press and the tribune, and which
wishing to have neither one nor the other, had placed
them in presence in order to get rid of them both.—
(Prolonged applause on the Left.) That party would,
on the day of the revision, propose the Empire, but
the Empire without its genius, its grandeur, and its
glory."
This denunciation, which seemed to give utter-
ance to the thoughts of almost all present, was re-
ceived with a triple salvo of cheers from all parts of
the Assembly. 'the G-mera I proceeded, "It is im-
possible to imagine a greater humiliation for France."
Again he was interrupted for some moments by ve-
hement cheering; when it had subsided he thus con-
cluded the most telling speech that has been ever
delivered in the Legislative Assembly of France :
" Beware, then, lest yon labour for that party.
The day of the revision of the Constitution,
that party will be in power, it will be
armed with all those laws which you have
so imprudently given it, and may it please GOD that
you may not have to repent having given them ; for
everything that you have done, or that you may du
against liberty, will on that day be turned against
y ourselves."

M. BAROCHE, who was totally unprepared for this
attack, merely observed in reply, that the period for
revising the Constitution would not arrive for 18
months. He thus left the honour of the sitting en-
tirely to General LAMORICIERE.
The Ministry is very weak in debating power,
there is not a single man who can improvise a reply.
The Journal des Dibats thus speaks of the passing
of the law of hatred against the press :
" We were prepared for this result: what we said of
the Bill during thr discussion we persist in saying after
the vote. The Bill is destined to strike not only the bad
press but the good one. Let the enemies of liberty
triumph; they have attained their- end. During fifty
years the press has passed through many regimes, more or
less hostile. For the first time during fifty years the ene-
mies of every colour have discovered the secret of its
strength and ita power, and they have believed that they
struck it to the Lean in striking it is its collective
organization. The instinct of hatred has served theta
well; they have not failed in their blow. Yes, the law
which has just been voted is perhaps the most fatal blow
which has been given to the liberty of the press during
the last fifty years. The Republic will have the glory
of having accomplished the work of destructien
before which the worst regimes had recoiled. There
were not as yet sufficient ruins accumulated
about us ; to the ruin of the institutions which
for thirty years have constitu,ed the prosperity of our
country, the Republic will have the honour of adding the
ruin of the press, the ruin of that liberty which in better
days was respected as the most vital of our liberties.
That which M. Ledru Rollin and Pascal Duprat had
dreamt of in the days of their power, MM. de Tinguy
and de Laboulie will cave the honour of having ex-
ecuted. MM. de Tinguy, de Laboulie, and the majority
of the Legislative Assembly have merited well of their
country. Now that the blow is struck, we will not be
so weak as to complain or give in our resignations.
The answer would be' So much the better, that is what
we wanted.' No, we will continue to exercise as much
of our rights as are left; we will fulfil our mission to
the end. We know what wo owe to ourselves, to our
cause, to our principles, to the traditions which our pre-
decessors have bequeathed to us. The law which wounds
us in our rights, in cur legitimate interests, we will exe-
cute it legally and without evasion; we will not attempt
to elude it in anything. We have been allowed two
months to conform to the prescriptions of our new code;
in two months we shall be ready.'L

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The editor of the Pouvoir, AUGUSTE LAMAR-
TINIERE, has engaged M. CHAIX D'EsTANGE to de-
fend him at. the bar of the Legislative Assembly on
Thursday.
PARIS BOURSE, JULY 17.—Latest prices : Five
per Cents., 96f. 15c.; Three per Cents. 57f. 95c.;
Bank of France, 2,330 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 17.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 141,4 cx in.—East Indian, 7TI ex in.—Namur
and Liege, 7—Northern of France, 141,c, ex in. and ex div.—
Orleans and Bourdeaux, 253 ex in.—Paris and Rouen, 23!.1
—Tours and Nantes, 414 ex in.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 12th have arrived.

There have been violent quarrels between the
KING, CHRISTINA, and NAILVAEZ, on the subject of
the title of Prince, proposed to be conferred on the
latter. CHRISTINA demands the same title for her
husband and bis children, and this the KING-CON-
SORT refuses.

GERMANY.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from
Vienna of the 12th, which ssys:—
" By command of the Emperor Field• Marshal Count
Wallmoden Gimbel% has undertaken, pro tern., the com-
mand of the 3i corps d'arrnie of the pensioned Baron
Von Haynau. The Lloyd states that Baron Ilaynau is
already on his way to Gratz; and in regard to his sum-
mary dismissal it states that he very frequently sha-
gs appears, often only half carried out the
om
tered himself under the extended full powers committed
commands
mima'n and,
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of the Ministry—sometimes not at all, and at
other times deferred them to such a time as appeared to
him more opportune. He is said to have carried on pro-
ceedings against persons in Hungary after their pardon
had been pronounced at Vienna, and in other cases to
have extended grace where he had been specially di sired
to wait for the decision from Vienna. Among the in-
stances given of following his own will instead of that
of the Ministry is that of the tax imposed upon the
Israelites. The Lloyd, nevertheless, regrets that the
same favour was not extended to Haynau that was shown
to Windischgrate.
The affairs of the Duchies was the subject of a
warm discussion in the Second Chamber of the States
of Hanover on the 12th. Al. LANG read a declara-
tion in favour of the Duchies, and against the
treaty of peace concluded between Prussia and
Denmark. The declaration states that Germany
would dishonour herself for ever in the eyes of all
nations if she did not put all her forces in movement
against any foreign intervention. The Minister, M.
STUVE, observed that the affair was too serious to be
decided on without a formal proposition. N. LANG
said that, for the present, he should make no further
remark on the subject. The affair was then brought
under discussion. M. Ihtugis said that the treaty
of peace would inevitably lead to war, and he trusted
the Government would know how to protect the ho-
nour and interest of a state belonging to Germany.
The majority of the Members of the Assembly rose
in support of this observation.
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DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

The Independance Beige says—" Our Hamburg
correspondent announces to us to-day an important
fact. A Russian fleet of eighteen vessels has cast
anchor before the port of Kiel, and it is expected that
it will force the passage of the port, at
the same time that it lands troops to take in
the rear the Schleswig-Holstein army. This aid
accorded by the Emperor of RUSSIA to the King of
DENMARK would be of 'a nature to abridge
the struggle, and would leave scarcely any doubt of
its issue. The Duchies, however, continue to or-
ganise an energetic resistance, and societies are being
formed in a great part of Germany to send them aid
in troops and money. Men are already speaking of a
protest from Denmark to the Prussian Government
found on this fact, that peace having been concluded
by the Cabinet of Copenhagen, and that of Berlin, as
well in the name of Prussia as in that of the Confe-
deration, the German Governments cannot permit
their officers to take service in the Schles wig- Hol-
stein army. It appears. besides, that at Berlin the
most decided partisans of Schleswig declare that it
was impossible to obtain from Denmark a more ad-
vantageous peace than has been concluded."
Accounts from Hamburgh state that the bead
quarters of the Schleswig-Holstein army are to be at
Schleswig.

ITALY.
The POPE has consented to grant the dispensation
ft)r the marriage of the Count of MONTEMOLIN with
his cousin the Princess CAROLINE of Naples. It is thus
organ,
King. BOMBA revenges himself for the affront put upon
him three years since, when the Orleanist intrigues
by the warm t.
prevented. the marriage of his brother Count TRAPANI
with the Queen Of SPAIN. The French Orleanist
the Debats thus speaks on this subject
.:
"The marriage Of the Count de Montemolin wish the
sister of the King of Naples is for the moment imps ded
Ferdinand
can be readily opposition o
conceived that the projeate I alliance of a
Pretender,. like the son of Don Carlos, with the sister of
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