The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-03 00:00:00

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The journals of the reactionary party have, ever
since the return of M. EUGENE Sup, been announcing
" a reform of the Electoral Law," that is .to say, an
attack upon the principle of Universal Suffrage, but
as yet no Ministerial measure has been proposed to
the Assembly on the subject—not that the Ministers
shrink from making an attack on the Constitution—
not they indeed. They have prepared a measure for
the " regulation," as they call it, of Universal
Suffrage,, but an: unexpected obstacle has arisen in
the way of its proposition to the Assembly. The
PRESIDENT of the Republic. do s not approve
of it, because the changes proposed will give
the Legitimatists and Orleanists an advantage
over himself and his friends in any future elections.
MM.'THIERS, MOLE, and'euxisuAnNisu, have been
endeavouring to persuade him to consent to the pro-
posed alteration, which will disfranchise at least two
millions of votes. General CHANGARNIER has a per-
sonal interest in this question, as it is well known that
the Legitiinatists intend to start him as their candidate
for the Presidency of the Republic in 1852, trusting
that he will be the French General MONK of the new
restoration.

MM. VIRLLARD and AI3ATITCCI recommend the
PRRSIDBNT to renal M. DUYAIIRII, and to adopt
system of conciliation; and M. DUNN, the President
of the Assembly, gives the same advice : he says that
the time has arrived when all the friends of France
should take their stand on the ground of an
" honest and moderate Republic," and that the Go-
vernment should be composed of " honest and mode-
rate men."
A letter from Toulon of, the 30th ult. mentions
that the Viscount DR CHAVIGNY, condemned to hard
labour for life, for the murder of his wife, died last
week in the hospital of theconviet prison.
PARIS Bonus, MAY 2.—Latest Prices—Five per
Cents., 87f. 70c. ; Three per Cents., 54f. 65c.; Bank
of France, 2,0801.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAT 2.

Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 12%—Dutch
Rhenish, 13/4—East Indian, SLA —Northern of France, 12%
—Paris and Rouen, 194.

GERMANY.

On the 29th ult. the Erfurth Parliament was pro-
rogued by the following message from the Council of
Administration, which was delivered by RADOWITZ
to the House of the People, and by CARLOWITZ to the
House of the States :

" MESSAGE OF VIE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL.

" The Administrative Council of the Contederate
German Governments has received the statement of the
resolutions which the Parliament assembled here since
the 20th March has passed concerning the drafts of the
constitution, Sac. ( Vorlagen), notified and delivered to it
in the name of these Governments in the opening
message.
" With these resolutions, which the Administrative
Council will make known without delay to the Confede-
rate Governments with a view to a closing declaration,
the Parliament has discharged that more proximate co-
operation in the work of the constitution of the Ger-
man Union, which article 4 of the Federal Statute of
the 26th May, 1849, designated to be the purpose of
this session.

" While the Administrative Council accordingly re-
cognises the labours of this Parliament directed to this
end as ended for the time being, but still reserves the
right of reconvokiog it (dessen Wiedereinbelnfung
jedoch vorbehdlt), it expresses to those men whom the
first German Parliament united here its lively thanks
and its perfect estimation of that sense of patriotism,
that earnest will, and that assiduous zeal which have
been displayed in the revision of the constitutional drafts,
and in the motions of amendnient that have emanated
therefrom.
" The Administrative Council receives these results
in the belief which they strengthen—the belief, that is,
in the successful solution of the great political question
which the Confederate Governments have proposed to
themselves under the consciousness of their duties and
their signification' of acquiescence, and it (the Council)
accompanies them with the sincere wish tbat the work
of the constitution in its completion may obtain
that appreciation which, in the true interest of
all parts (i. e,, of the federal whole), it has to lay
claim to.

" I hereby, in the name of the Confederated Govern,
menti, declare the session of Parliament closed."

Several of the officers of GEORGEY'S army have
been sent as prisoners to fortresses i❑ Bohemia. The
Emperor of AUSTRIA is, it is said, about to visit
Trieste, Venice, and Milan. The Cologne Gazette
thus comments on the act of political suicide recently
committed by the boy EmrEaort, at the instance of
his bigotted and priest-ridden mother.
"What Autocratic Austria did not venture to do under
Mettt,rnich, Constitutional Ausiria has done publicly and
officially, viz., the recall of the Jesuits; in the official
journal of Verona we read the decree of installation
signed with Radetzky's own hand, whereby the,e worthies
have the necessary localities assigned to their cardinal.
Schwartzeuburg is most zealously interested in the mat-
ter, and dispenses the neediul cash with a liberal hand.
Their net is spread widely. Vienna has been omitted,
probably to prevent the young men from coming into
collision with their spiritual power; nevertheless, their
influence has been secured i❑ the highest quarter; the

future father confessor of the Court is to be a member
of the order of the Jesuits."

Baron STURMER has resigned the post of Aus-
trian Internuncio at Constantinople, and is expected
at Vienna in the course of the present month.
The Wanderer says the investigations of the flagrant
plundering of the Jews in the year 1848, in Neustadt,
on the \Vaag, and near Syered, having been termi-
nated, the injured parties are now to receive indem-
nification. Some villages will have to pay as much
as 10,000 florins, which will be raised by putting in
executions. _

The Emperor of AUSTRIA has given orders for the
establishment of dockyards at Pols and Trieste, and
for increasing the navy to six ships of the line, six
frigates, and a proportionate number of small craft.

HOLLAND.
'LIB racing, APRIL 30.—This afternoon at ha'

past three o'clock, the usual ceremony of betrothement
and exchange of rings, took place at the palace of his
Royal Highness Prince FREDERICK of the Nether-
lands, between her Royal Highness the Princess
Louise, eldest daughter of Prince FREDERICK, and
his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Swum's and
NORWAY. His Royal Highness the CROWN PRINCE
proceeded from his hotel to the palace in great state,
attended by a mounted guard of honour. A grand
gala dinner was given on the occasion by Prince
l'uunuaicic, at which above 80 persons sat down. In
the evening the Prince and Princess FREDERICK and
the illustrious betrothed received the congratulations
of those who had been present at court.
Yesterday evening the British Ambassador at this
Court, Sir E. DISBROWE, gave a ball to the CROWN
PRINCE. Their Majesties the KING and QUREN
graced it with their presence.
Vice-Admiral LUCAS, Minister of Marine, has been
appointed Aide-de-Camp extraordinary to his Ms'
JaSTT.—Dutch Papers, May 1.

SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN.
One of the Holstein deputation, Syndic Pgmo,
returned on the 27th ult. to Kiel from Copenhagen.
It was believed he brought with him the conditions
on which a negotiation would be entered into by the
Danish Government. A conference of the Stadt-
holderschaft was to be held the next day, to deter-
mine the further instructions to be given to the de-
putation, with which M. PISETIN will return to Co-
penhagen.
General Waxissri had issued the following public
notice :

'1 Head-quarters, Kiel, April 27.
The great number of applications for posts in the
Schleswig-Holstein army induces the undersigned to
notify publicly that only German officers can be ac-
cepted,
and of theta only those who are provided with
the best testimonials of ability and zeal, which must be
submitted for examination b4-fore any satisfactory answer
to their application can be expected. Officers of the Staff
and Artillery will be preferred, and, if selected, will be
placed advantageously. Cavalry officers are among those
least required.

" Vox WiLlaar.N, General in Command."

GREECE.
Intelligence has been received from Athens to the
18th ult. At that date the differences with England
continued unsettled ; the Greek Court was intriguing
to gain time, until it should receive from St. Peters-
burgh an answer to its last communication. The Greek
nation admits the justice of the greater part of the
claims of England, and is desirous of coming to a
settlement, but the Greek Government, acting under
the inspiration of Russia, interposes every obstacle to
an amicable settlement.

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THE MAILS.--SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, ALc
ar 2.
nes,
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's
Captain George Abbott, took her departure and
with the usual British and foreign West Indiac .
& ia charge
the mails for the Gulf of Mexico, Honduras,. :
sthhiipsrnaasr,noon
ger route is
of Lieutenant Hay, R.N., Admiralty
agedntMobile to Vera
via Bermuda, the Bahamas, Havannah,",he Thamei took
Cruz and Tampico, in the Gulf of Mexico.,som '
h are Lieutenants
nut only 17 passengers, alnongsti khi for Jamaica. The
Browne and Stubb- and Ensign Brick
'f' quicksilver, value
freight list comprises 1,450 b
17,500/. sterling, for mining operations in Mexico ; specie
value 20,7004 for
nah and Barbadoes, and a full
general cargo. The
HvTaay,awnith the West India and Pacific
!nails, will probably reach soSouthampton on Saturday or
Sunday.