The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-10 00:00:00

our low estimate of intellect, by continuing to give
thousands of pounds for everything else, but
to our literary fund nothing but twelve hundred?
Of course we cannot ba understo)d to advocate an in-
discriminate pensioning of every amateur scribe.
There are many who do not deserve, and there are
many whose recognised celebrity renders them in-
dependent of any such help. But there are, also a
large class whose labours have already earned for
them their country's gratitude, men who have sowed
plentifully, but whose golden harvest has yet to be
reaped, and to these a present help would be a God send.
Hereafter their names may become celebrated, and
gold may be poured upon their coffins.

" When his bark lies buried deep
Will Envy be the first to weep"—

but nom their life is a burden to them—the very ten-
derness of heart and refinement of sensibility which
enable them to charm the souls of others render
them more acutely sensible to the tortures of poverty
and the ignominy of neglect. If not fur their sakes,
at least for our own—for the honour of that en-
lightenment and liberality to which we, as a people,
lay especial claim—let something more than twelve
hundred a year attest the British nation's appreciation
of men of genius.

['HE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The large majority by which the Government
has carried the Bill for the regulation of primary
schoolmasters, preceded as it was by their victory of
the previous day over the united forces of the Moun-
tain, the Legitimatists, and M. TRIERS, may be con-
sidered as a complete triumph of the policy of the
Presidential Message. Indeed the Constitutionnel,
which has now become the Ministerial organ, declares
that it considers these votes to ba absolute triumph of
the policy of the Ministry.
The discussion on the organic law relating to
Public Instruction is fixed for the 14th. The
Presse prophecies that it will never pass into a
law. In the opinion of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, the
Ministerial BM and the De Falloux project will
both be so altered and amended that no party will
accept them, and the Assembly itself will
be divided into so many fractions that it
will be impossible to carry any measure on the
subject.
The agents of the Monte Videans are exceedingly
active in endeavouring to enlist a French Legion to
serve against ROSAS. They have, it appeared, made
overtures to the Garde Mobile to enter the Monte
Videan service. Several members of the Assembly
intend, it is said, to bring forward a proposition for a
mixed expedition to Monte Video, the ex-
pence of which is to be ultimately paid
by Monte Video, the French troops to remain in
Monte Video until the charge of the expedition shall
be defrayed.
General DE LAMORICIERE arrived in Paris on
Tuesday.
A letter from Toulon of the sth instant announces
the arrival i❑ that port of La Cnimere, from Civita
Vecchia, having on board two companies of engi-
neers. Six regiments of the army of occupation at
Rome had received orders to hold themselves ready
to embark.

The Assembly yesterday adopted the first article of
the Bill on primary schoolmasters.
The Bill presented on the previous day by the Mi-
nister of Justice for increasing the pay cf non-com-
missioned officers by 20c. per day, was rt ferred by
the Assembly to the Committee on the budget. In
the course of the sitting, however, on the motion of
M. de Mornay, who, being struck with the political
importance cf the Bill, thought that it should be
examined by a special committee, the Assembly
came back on its decision and referred it to the
bureaux.

PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 9.—Cosing prices Cash :
Rentes Five per Cent. 94f. 40c.; ditto, Three per
Cents., 57f. 75c. ; Bank of France, 2,415.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDUi' STOCK-EXCIIANGF, JAN. 9.

Dutch Rhenish, 116— Great Indian Peninsula, 3/—Lux-
embourg, 1A Ditto, 23/4—Namur and Liege, 71;1—Northern
of France, 11/2 dis.—Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3;4—Parisand
Rou..n, 231/2—Sambre and Meuse, 2%.