The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-22 00:00:00

FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
In the Gazette des Tribunaux, of Sunday, there ap-
peared an account of a Socialist conspiracy to assassinate
the PRESIDENT. That journal said " that one of the
recently liberated insurgents of June, 1848, who was
arrested two days ago on a charge of embezzlement,
has confessed to a conspiracy among the liberated
insurgents to assassinate the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public. They cast lots who should be the first to
make the attempt, and it fell upon the person
who now confesses. On the 24th December
he went! to the Italian Theatre to execute the
project, but fortunately the PRESIDENT did not
attend. The prisoner has given information as
to his accomplices, eleven of whom are arrested."
Such was the statement by which Paris was fright-
ened from its propriety on Sunday; but when Mon-
day came the good Parisians discovered that the
whole was a fabrication of the " honest and mode-
rate" party, which acknowledges as its leaders M. DE
MONTALEMBERT the Jesuit, and M. TBIERS the
Vol taireiao.
All the journals of Monday contain the following
official communication from the Prefecture of the
Police :
" The Gazette des Tribunaux contains a note, alto-
gether erroneous, relative to a person named W--,
one of the insurgents not long since pardoned, and who,
that journal states, formed part of a plot discovered by
the police, and in consequence of which eleven persons
were arrested. However dramatic may be the details
given in the account allued to, they contain nothing true
either in fact or form."
General CLIANGARNIER reviewed four battalions of
the Republican Guard on Sunday, in the square of
the Louvre.
The Napoleon publishes the 'following explanation
of the cause of the visit of General MAGNAN to
Paris :
"It is usual after the inspections that each general
officer charged with that annual :mission should come to
Paris to confer with the Minister of War, and to settle
the table of promotions in the army. General Magnan
has accordingly arrived, like most of his colleNues.
Immediately, and without further information, the
Evenement, the Assemble Nationale, and the Liberte,
hasten to attach a political meaning to that journey, and
announce boldly that it has reference to a grave mea-
sure—the removal of General Changarnier. The Mo-
niteur has contradicted this ridiculous announcement."
In the same journal we find the following com-
ments on the ridiculous rumours of contemplated
coups d'etat, to which the red and white coalition have
given such active circulation during the course of the
last few weeks :
" LES COUPS D'ETAT.—For the last year one or twice
a month insurrections are got up in cold blood against
pretended projects of a coup d'etat with which the diffe-
rent shades of public opinion are being unceasingly
alarmed. These periodical alarms, got up against the
Government for the profit of certain men and of cer-
tain ideas, have a purpose which it is not difficult to
divine ; riot and insurrection have need of pretexts;
and as it is impossible to tire out the moderation of
the President, they seek to irritate parties, and to in-
flame their passions. Let us be allowed to quit fictions,
and to say the whole truth. We appeal to all honest
hearts, and to all upright minds. Is there a man
who, being placed in the same position as Louis
Napoleon, would have acted with more prudence and
modesty? Is there a political chief whose head hies
been so litt'e effected by homage, ovations, and power?
Does one think that the President did net know what
the peasantry who elected him said, and who en-
couraged him with their cries to declare himself
master, and to overturn the order of existing things ?
Is it imagined that he was ignorant still more of
the wishes of the army ? Recall to mind the ovations
of which he was the object in his excursions through
the departments. We appeal to all the ocular witnesses.
Although Louis Napoleon had not gained any battles he
was everywhere received as a liberator. Henry IV.
coming to pacify France, Napoleon, after Austerlitz and
Jena, were not received with louder or more enthusiastic
acclamations, than was Louis Napoleon at Amienr,
at Noyon, at Tours, at Epernay, at Sens, and at
Troyes. Let one recollect, moreover, how great was, on
all solemn occasions, the cordiality of the people of
Paris, and the sympathy of the army. Well, we say
without any fear that we shall be accused of flattery,
few characters would have been sufficiently strong.,
sufficiently tempered, nc t to have been intoxicated, daz-
zled at least, by so many striking marks of homage.
Louis Napoleon, he must be done that justice to, was
rendered more confused than proud; he did not consider
himself to have as yet merited them.
" If the President had ever thought of making a coup
d'etat, what more favourable occasions than the 10th
December, the 29th January, and the 13th of June ?
On one side, the acclamations of the people, and the
dangers which society had run; on the other hatred,
disloyal attacks, calumny, heaped without ceasing on th at
nephew of the Emperor; all favoured the highest preten-
sions—all would have then seemed just and legitimate.
Nevertheless, what have we seen? The President, faithful
to his system of prudence and moderation, has resisted
the etrainement of his partisans as the hatred of his
adversaries. He neither wished to triumph with the one
nor to avenge himself on the other. He hat thought it
wiser and more worthy of himself t,) study conscien-
tiously the wishes and desires of the country. Certain
of his own intntions, he is nevertheless modestly dis-
trustful of himself. He has allowed the skilful to govern,
awaiting, from experience and from time, the free
exercise of the power which each cne had been so de-
sirous cf placing in his hands. And it is when so many
facts speak in favour of Louis Napoleon, that they are
indirectly exciting against the power which he holds
from universal suffrage all the inimical passions, all the
prejudices of parties, all the calumnies of factions! What
is asked of the President of the Republic? Protesta-
tions—oaths. The examples which he has given f
the last year are worth more than all protestations—
than a'l oaths. Let them cease to incriminate his in-
tentions in the guilty hope of bringing about a new
crisis. Even although a Constitution that is perfectible
in its nature does not demand a blind respect, nobody
respects the Constitution more scrupulously, and the
elect of universal suffrage has the right and the power
of imposing on others that which he imposes on him.
self. Let it not be said that it is his right to make ••
will of the nation evail."
In the course of an article headed " Par guoi et par
qui," the Napoleon thus explains a passage in its
tiret number, which had given great offence to the ma-
jority of the Assembly. It says—
" It was not our intention to attack any one in our first
two numbers; we only wished to state facts. On the
correctness of the premises depends always the solution
of a problem. We did not advise the President of the
Republic to disdain all the ancient parties, and not to
account for his conduct to any one but himself; we
merely endeavoured to demonstrate, by the evidence of
the past, that he had an intrinsic strength wbich he did
not owe to any of them. We stated that it' he bad
shown himself conciliating, and even desirous to
an•icipate the wishes E f all those who had been hos-
tile to him, it was not from weakness he did
so, but because his reason 1,,(1 him to do it;
and on the other hand, if he vindicated his rights,
it was not from pride, but from the appreciation
cif the duties of his mission. The governments which
have only a borrowed force pay court to all parties, to
betray them afterwards. Those which are conscious of
their strength, seek them (the parties), in order to unite
with them and to get them to join in the public good.
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facts and principles which are assuredly subjects of con-
' troversy; but no ono can see in them an attack on the
dignity t f the Assembly, nor a wish to retrench upon
legitimate rights."
On the 7th a number of steam-vessels arrived at
Toulon from Civita Vecchia, bringing with them
portions of the troops from Rome. The officers and
men expressed great delight at being relieved from a
very disagreeable service.
PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 21.—CLOSING PRICES.—
Rentes, Five per Cents., 94f. 25e. ; Three per Cents.,
57f. 50c. ; Bank of France, 2,360 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCLIANGE, J. 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 123/4 ex in.—Dutch Rhenish, 21—East
Indian, 0/4—Northern of France, Oil dis. ex in.—Orleans
and Bourg, 3Y4 —Paris and Rouen, 23 Paris and
Strasbourg, 6;i Rouen and Havre, 934—Sambre and
Meuse, 3LA.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
The Progressista amendment proposed to the bud-
get had been negatived on the preceding day by the
Chamber of Deputies.
MADRID Boum, JAN. 14.—N0 operations in stocks
are quoted. Three per Cents. are quoted 28i, 9.16
buyers, f sellers ; Five per Cents, 12k, 3-16 buyers'
i sellers; Coupons are reported at 7i sellers, and after
the close to Passive Debt, 3 15.16 Ex•
change on London, 50 30.