The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-03 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Pays has the following in reply to the malicious
insinuations of the Assemblee National as to the ob,
ject of the visit of M. DE PERSIGNY to England. The
Pays says—
" M. de Persigny will be back in Paris in three or
four days at farthest. Much has been said and invented
relative to this journey, and even things exceedingly
malevolent for the President of the Republic have been
imagined. Thus, it was asserted, that M. de Persigny
had gone to London to conclude a presidential loan.
That was altogether unfounded, and men (were sur-
prised to see that rumour accepted by honourable
journals who did not perceive that such insinuations
against the Prince to whom the nation has confided
the chief authority, could only injure themselres.
We are living at a period when authority has been
gradually stripped of all the attributes which imparted
to it that prestige by which respect and submission
to the laws . exist. Let those persons who profess' to
defend that authority at least leave to it its last pre-
stige, that of dignity, veracity, and honour. According
to information which we consider sure, the President has
no thoughts of a loan either in France, or, still less, in
Ragland. He has no doubt spent a large part of the
sum allowed him by the Assembly last year, but it is
well-known that the distributions of assistance and the
expenses useful to his Government sufficed with the
arrear to nearly swallow it up. When these funds are
exhausted, it will be the poor who will suffer; the nu-
merous solicitors, the old soldiers in want, who flock to
the Elytio, must wait until the generosity of the nation
will permit the President to again accord some aid to
their old age and a feeble recompense for their former
services. As to M. de Persigny, he will return from
London, we think we can state positively, without having
been in any way occupied about international politics or
a Napoleonian loan, since he positively went there only
for his own private affairs."
Count Mom' has addressed the following letter to
the Bulletin de Paris, dated Champlatreux, Ist Oc-
tober :

•
Sir,—Several journals have copied an article signed
by you in the Bulletin de Paris, and which I cannot
pass over in silence. I read therein, M. Mol4 is not
only the disinterested adviser of the President, he is
the bond oflunion of the Conservative party, and if he re
fused a year since, at a similar period, the Presidency of the
Council, it is because he thought he could serve France
more usefully in. the position of mediator, listened to by
all, than in an official situation.' Never, Sir, have I been,
or ever will be, the adviser of any Government, other-
wise than as a responsible Minister, or as representa-
tive of my country in the tribune. If the President of
the Republic, at a period to which you allude, had dote
me as he did other members of the majority, the
honour to request my co-operation, I should not have
communicated it to any one, and still less the motives
which would have dictated my reply. There is, Sir,
one part alone of the article which I do not disavow; it
is that in which you say that I am far from thinking of
retiring from political life. It is not under circumstances
like the present that a man, even of my age, when he has
devoted his whole life to the country, should think of re-
pose. So long as my strength remains unimpaired, and
thank God I teal it so at present; so long as the electors
shall confide their mandate to me, I shall remain one of
the advisers and one of the representatives, the moat
disinterested and most devoted of France. Ail to the
union of the party of order, and the accord of all the
shades of opinion of which it is composed, I call for
them with my warmest wishes as I regard them as the
indispensable condition of the safety of the country; I
shall labour for that object with all my efforts, but as a
simple workman. The work is too great for any
one to allow himself to assume any other part. I beg,
sir, that you will insert this letter as soon as possible in
the Bulletin de Paris. I do not read that publication,
and it was only by the article having been repeated by
the other journals that it came under my notice; this
will account for my not having replied to it sooner.—
"Accept, &c.,
"MOLE."
M. de BOURGOING, the French Ambassador at
Madrid, has arrived in Paris. _ _

The Nepaulese Ambassador, JUNG BAHADOOR, left
Paris on Saturday, for Marseilles, en route for
Calcutta. The day before he gave a last sitting to

MM. CLAUDIUS JA-CQUAND aIIdDANTON for the full-

length portraits which they are making of him. Be-
fore his departure, the Ambassador presented M.
JACQUAND with 10,000 E, and M. DAN TON with
5,000 f. for their services. The two works of art
in question are to appear at the next exhibition at
Paris, and then to be forwarded to Nepaul. One
of the Ambassador's suite, who is an enamel painter,
has, during his stay in Paris, taken copies of several
pictures and portraits to serve as models for works
to be executed when he arrives in bis native country.
The Moniteur states that the French Consul at
Palma has written to the Minister of Marine to say
that a ship, 200 tons, had been found abandoned on
the coast by some peasants of Formentara, and taken
into the port of Ivica. It was in good state, com-
pletely rigged, and had its anchor and even boats ;
but the only living things discovered on board were
a fowl and a cat. There were no provisions, no
papers, except a certificate of health given at Leghorn
in 1842 to a man named Elvira. The only thing
which could give any clue to the nationality of the
ship were that a strip of a Tuscan flag was found on
board, and that the build of the vessel appeared to be
Austrian, Sardinian, or Tuscan. It was supposed
that the ship came from Algiers. It bore every ap-
pearance of having been very recently abandoned.
The Moniteur publishes the regulating price of the
hectolitre of wheat. The price for the Ist class is
15f. 94c.; 2d class-Ist section 14f. 76c., 2d section
15f. 45c. ; 3d class-Ist section 16f. 43c., 2d section,
15f. 96c., 3d section 141. 68c.: 4th class-Ist section
14f. 5c., 2d section 141. 23c. ; giving a general ave-
rage of 15f. 14c., and as that of last month was 14f.
14c., there is an increase of lf.
PARIS Bovass, OCT. 2.—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 92f. 40c. ; Three per Cents.; 57f. 40c.;
Bank Actions, 2,2701.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 2.
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Boulogne and Amiens, 8143—Dutch Rhenish, 3—Namur
and Liege, 7% Northern of France, 14% Paris and
Rouen, 2414 ..... Paris and Strasburg, 7% Rouen and
Havre, 10%.