The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-09 00:00:00

appeared in our Third Edition of
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ei !Pet of lie 1a public ~reseeded yesterday,
-pest 12 o'clock, to open the Sessian of the
I-General of Agriculture, Commerce, and
ieteeeil.ctaree, which is holding its sittings in the
Palace of the Luxembourg. The President went in
an open carriage, having on his right the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and in front the Minister of
Agriculture and Commerce, and of the Interior
The other Ministers followed in separate carriages,
and the last was occupied by the orderly officers and
aides-de-camp. The Prefect of Police also accom -
panted the President. The usual escort of dra-
goons completed the cortege. Oe the President
entering the Court of the Luxembourg, the
band of the 61st Regiment of the Line
struck up the well-known air composed by Queen
Hortense, " Partant pour la Syrie." The crowd
was composed of more respectable looking persons
than usually forms such assemblages, and received
the President with much respect. The majority
cried "Vivo Napoleon!" a few shouts of "Viva la
MSPllYsigne !" were also heard. Oe the whole his
reception was flattering. The President opened the
proceedings by a speech, of which the substance is as
follows:—Ile showed the necessity of all intelligent
men combining together in the present circumstances.
Their task was never more difficult than now. The
best way to render powerless what was false was to
adopt what was useful, after the convulsions of the
last two yearn. The Government had already afforded
the first succour by relieving property from the
burden of 27,000,000 E, as announced by the
Minister of Finance, and by the Bill on the re-
form of the mortgage system. Further measures
intended by the Government, its renunciation
of a part of the duty on registration, and
a new project relative to credit, will affurd
real advantages to property without exposing
the country to the dangers of piper money. Some-
thing should also be done to diminish the price of
sugar, without prejudice, however, to colonial or domes-
tic produce. The want of credit was a grievous injury
to the agricultural interests of the country ; uncertainty
as regards the future paralyzed all operations, kept
down prices, and occasioned an immense loss to
agriculture—a loss out of all proportion to
the remedies already suggested. Instead of in-
dulging in vain theories, men of sense should unite
their efforts in imparting strength to the Govern-
ment for the maintenance of order, and respect
for the law ;—this was the surest way of benefit-
ing, the credit of the country. Attention to the
general interests of the country did not prevent
the Government from paying particular attention
to the state of the working classes. Savings banks,
previsions for old age, mutual relief, salubrity of the
lodgings of the working classes, were the objects to
which, until the decision of the Assembly was known,
the Government would direct attention. " An assem-
blage like yours," concluded the President, " com-
posed of men so enlightened and so competent, will,
I trust, be fertile in happy results. Free from party
spirit, which always paralyzes the best intentions,
you have only one object in view—the good of the
country. Examine, then, with all the care you are
capable of, the most practical questions—those that
are of immediate application. For my part, I shall,
with the aid of the Assembly, leave nothing undone.
But I cannot too often repeat—' Let us hasten ; time
presses ; let not, I beseech you, the progress of evil
paseions outstrip our progress.' " This speech was ap-
plauded throughout, and particularly the concluding
sentence.

The Napoleon alludes, as follows, to the "manifes-
tation" of Monday last, of which the President of
the lietpublic was the object A great noise has
been made in the papers of the pretended insults
offered to the President of the Republic while passing
through the Faubourg St. Antoine, on his return
from the review at Vincennes. The details given on
this subject are inexact. The passage of the Pre-
sident in the midst of that populous quarter was, as
saluted by cries of Vire la It6publique !'
Vive Napoleon In certain groups. however, easily
reconi!ed, the cries of Vive la Il.6publique !' were
uttered in a menacing manner. The crowd was
imtnense, in consequence of the annual fair, which
that 4dyhaci. attracted vast numbers of people ; but
nothieg hostile or insulting was remarked in those
shouts. As to what has been said about outrages
and. personal violence, of which it was stated the at-
tendants of the President were the victims, they
merely consisted in the fact of a tilbury driven by
two servants not in livery having been stopped by
groups; and one individual who wished to seize the
homes' reins having received a blow of a whip, the
interference of the sergens de yille became necessary
to diseegage the personsewho were driving the til-
befeerv.'? -
The Napoleon touches on the very grave subject
of the, revision of the constitution. It invites all
",pound minds, the intelligent men of all parties, to
ex4min,3 in. good faith, and to indicate with
precision, the articles of the constitution that
are susceptible of amelioration. It is not for
tit," is says, "to present the programme of those
artielt;,e LA them be examined without reserve,
:reerimination, without unjust suspicions,
aka: vv!.sball take a part in the controversy with zeal."
`ll6o_ Napoleon intimates that, in case the approaching
election for Paris be of the same kind as on the 10th
i'reeel a revision of the electoral law will become ne-
cesvieey.. 'Tae paragraph is worth giving :—" An elec-
toral law which would tontine to produce such results is
sdeen ly judged. Society must demand its reform. The
Ooir•til7ution has only proposed the principle of election
=-the low fixes its conditions. It is from a new law
will have to demand precautions and
fenetrenteess against a similar surprise. A representa-
tive eof the Morbihan (M. Larochejacqueliu) pro-
posed, a few days since, to put the itepublic or the
Monerchy to the vote. It was too late. What will
by to the vote on the 28th in Paris is Socialism
and tee Law of Election. The vote of the 28th will
condemn the one or the other. We may look forward
to fierce attacks on this in the Socialist journals of
to. morrow."