The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-16 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The semi-official Constitutionnel has the following
on the subject of Greece :
A report has been again in circulation that our Am-
bassador at London had been recalled, in consf (Fleece
of the affair of Greece. We can affirm that this rumour
is not correct. There is every reason to believe that the
English Cabinet will yield to the just demand of France.
What, in fact, is the point in question ? We have al-
ready said that two negotiations had been folio% ed lip
simultaneously with regard to the Anglo-Greek diffe-
rences, the one at Athens and the other in London.
That at Athens did not lead to a convention accepted
by the parties; conditions were imposed by farce on the
Hellenic Government. On the contrary, the negotia-
tions at London led to a treaty, which was to receive its
execution if, before it was notified at Athens, another
one had not been concluded on the spot. What has been
done at Athene, we once more repeat, is not a treaty.
The French Government, therefore, demands that the
treaty of London shall alone be executed. This conclu-
sion, which is so equitable, cannot but be accepted by
the Foreign-office. It is only in the very improbable
case of a refusal that any complication can arise."
The following letter appears, in the Presse, the
and the National.
" TO THE EDITOR Of THE PRESSE.
" Paris, May 14, 1850.
" Monsieur et Cher Confrere,—An unheard-of circum-
stance has just occurred in our printing-office. •
" By a decree of M. Baroche, dated this day, the brevet
of M. Boule, printer of the Republique, of the Voix du
Peuple and of the Estafette, bas been withdrawn.
"At half-past seven o'clock this evening, at the
moment when these three journals were set up, a polies-
officer entered our printing-office and put seals upon our
presses.
The RePublique, the Voix du Peuple, and the Este-
fette cannot appear to-morrow.
"It is thus that the Government gives us compensa-
tion for the damage done to our presses on the 13th
June, 1849.
" We leave it to public opinion to designate the mea-
sure which has just been taken with regard to us.
" Accept, &e.
• " EUGENE BARESTE,
Redacteur en Chef de la liepublique.
" LIUGRAND,
Gerant de la Voix du Peuple.
" A. DUMONT,
Gerant de Estafette."
The Press* says comment is unnecessary. The
fact speaks for itself.
The Government has also dismissed all the func-
tionaries who have signed any petitions against the
lectoral Bill. On this subject the Patrie contains
the following semi-official announcement:—
" We are assured (says that paper) that by a decree
of the President of the Republic, decided upon this day
in a Council of Ministers, M, Ernest Desmarest, de-
pmu.t
y rlamrdayouoirn,odf etytphuethird arrondissement of Paris, and
mayor of the ninth arrondissement,
have been dismissed from their functions, for having
signed the petition of the Amis de la Constitution against
the Bill for the revision of the Electoral Law, and which
petition was published this morning by all the journals'
of the opposition. It is added that the officers of the
National Guard who have signed the petition have been
suspended from their functions."
There is no authentic intelligence from the Soane-
et-Luire, from which we gather that General CASTEL-
LANE has not found it so easy as he had anticipated to
put down the insurrection. It is generally believed
that the Government has received unfavourable news
which it suppresses, as the accounts in the semi-
official journals are in direct contradiction to each
other. The semi-official Illoniteur du Soir says :
" The alarming reports which are spread about the
department of the Saone-et-Loire are without the least
foundation. The attempts made at disturbance by a
few hundred workmen of the Creuzot—attempts which
are. besides utterly unconnected with politics leave been
properly repressed. The general commanding the 6th
military division has adopted all the,measures com-
manded by prudence, and public tranquillity cannot be
disturbed on any point."
The equally semi-official Patric states—
" The Government received thismorning two tele-
graphic dispatches, one from General Castellsne, the
other horn the Prefect of the Soane-e•-Loire. •
_Neither
yet arrived ru the spot.
rated for the purpose of
Tthheegetrn,e)orpals
rntnent hits the'enve!oping the seditious. The Gore
norwer
et hbee piu rge fee
oc
ut
eheandt
cer-
titude that the movement of the Crenzot is eormeoted
with the general plan. The mot d'ordre from ,n es
had merely hem misunderstood, and the moment fixed
hal been anticipated,"
While the Con,tilutionnel, the recognised organ of
the Gvernmenr, publishes the following in a post-
script :
" .vlore recent accounts, just communicated t ) us, say,
that no change has taken place in the situa'ion. The
strike still continua, brit the workinen do not commit usy
netstiltty.Pie:muttons had been taken to pre-
serve orda-."
It was reported in Paris that the insurgents' (who
had been joined in many instances Iv the troops)
had gained
refused
CASTELLANE,
o h
possession of the town of, Aaiun, and had,
adestirettrhed
the summons
bei
onsonfg
iGnesnueffiru.l
cient force to attack them. General CLIANGARNIER has
sent off two of his own regiments to reinforce General
CASTELLANE. Disturbances have likewise broken out
in the D6partment of the Arriege and in that of the
Pyrenees Orientales. It is Said that negotiations
have been nefirly-cobil tided-- for -a te-cdriiiiliitiOh
t ween the two branches of the House of Bourbon,
with a view to a restoration, and that the conspiracy