The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-23 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Although the Assembly has consented to take into
consideration the demand of urgency made by the
Minister of the Interior for his repressive Bills, it is
not by any means certain that he will be enabled to
carry them. It is clear that there is a schism in the
camp ot. the majori,y;:M. LAROCIIEJACQUELIN spoke
against the Ministerial measures on Thursday, and
should the section of the 'Whites of which he is leader
make common cause with the Reds, as they did on
the question of imposing a stamp duty on transfers of
stock, they will most assuredly again beat the Thiers-
Mole-Berryer coalition, of which the Ministers are the
tools. The journals have all declared, with wonderful
unanimity, against the law on the press, and notwith-
standing the statement of the Cowrrier Francais, that
the editors of the principal journals of the Moderate
press had had an interview with the Minister of the
interior, it would appear they were never consulted.
That statement, and the official contradiction of it,
are so curious that we give them :
The Courrier Francais says :
" The editors of the principal journals of the moderate
press had yesterday a corlerence with the Minister of
the Interior on the Bill which was to be presented on the
press The Minister of the Interior, in the absence of
the Minister of Justice, informed them of the principal
provisions of the Bill. The gentlemen of the moderate
press observed to the Minister that the Bill wculd pro-
duce an affect altogether opposed to the desire of the dc-
finders of order, and various arguments were adduced in
support of that affirmation. The Minister expressed
his regret that these observations had not been pre-
sented before it had been drawn up in council. It was
replied to the Minister that the press bad not considered
it right, to interfere before being consulted, and that it
had w aited to the very last moment to be applied to
The committee of the moderate press who were present.
were, M. Berate (Debate). M. V eron (Constitutionnel),
M. LINA (Union), M. Forcade (Patrie), M. de Valetta
(AssembMe LVationale), Latour Dumoulitt (Courrier
Francais.) The journals of the moderate press, in their
meeting in the morning had declared unanimcusly that
they could not support a measure on the press opposed
to the object which the moderate press desired to attain.
The result of this deliberation was stated to the Mi-
nister. It is to be hoped that the Bill will be submitted
to a new examination." _ _

Surely M. LATOUR DumouLnr, who it was said re-
presented the Courrier Francais at that interview,
must know whether or not any such interview took
place, and whether or not what is stated by his own
journal vs having passed at that interview is correct,
yet the fact is officially denied by the minister in a
"communication" contradicting of the comments made
by the National on the statement which appeared in
the Courrier Francais. The following is the "com-
municated" note which appears in the Patrie and the
Illonitcur du Soir:—

•• The National cf this day slates that the Minister of
the Interior convoked yesterday the editors of the prin-
cipal journals of the moderate press to communicate to
them his new Bill on the press. The National then en-
ters into a long comment upon what it calls this truly
polite attention. The statement cf the National is com-
pletely incorrect. It is not true that the Minister or any
other member of the cabinet convoked the editors of the
journals or made any communication to them. The
truth is as follows :—Yesterday at the commencement
of the sitting the Minister of the Interior was informed
that some members of the moderate press of Paris were
desirous of speaking to the Minister of Justice, or in his
absence with the Minister of the Interior. The Minister
of Justice being absent, the Minister of the Interior
went to the editors who were desirous of speaking to
him. Ile met these gentlemen in one of the lobbies of
the assembly, where a sort of conversation took place.
The Minister listened to the observations which were
presented to him, and promised to transmit them to his
colleagues, which he did immediately. The laws which
were presented to-day would have been presented yester-
day, if the entire sitting had not been taken up with the
discussion of the Stamp Bill."
The Constitutionßel, the Ministerial organ par
excellence, has merely the following relative to the
proposed law on the press :
" Some journals pretend that the Government con-
sulted the different organs of moderate opinion before it
prepared the new law upon the press. The story is com-
pletely inexact. Several proprietors or editors of news-
papers went y esterday to the Chamber to make some
observations concerning the new measures ; but the
Minister to whom they addressed themselves replied it
was too late, as the Council had already decided. Thus
was not only the moderate press not heard—it was net
even consulted."
Not one word in defame of the measure does the
Ministerial journal venture to offer. The Journal
des Dtbats declares, that all chiefs of parties equally
dislike the press, and would, if they could, fetter it ;
and with regard to the proposed measure, it adds—
" We believe that the measure proposed will he more
than inefficacious, and that it will produce the very
contrary effect to that intended by Government."
The National describes the introduction of these
measures as the commencement of a solemn duel. " On
the one side is Paris—Paris, the capital of the revolu-
tion Paris, brain and the heart of France, Paris,
• I the
the sanctuary of the genius of progress, Paris, the
city of the States General of 1789, of the Convention,
the city which, by a mere gesture, sent fourteen
armies to victory on the frontiers, and at the same time
crushed in the interior the rebellion of the partisans
of the past—Paris, which triumphed over the restora-
tion and over the monarchy of July ; on the other
side is the chief of the executive power, M. Louts
BONAPARTE, not alone, but worse than lone, for he
is not strengthened but weakened by the assistance of
those men of fatality and of misfortune, who have
been successively the ruin of every cause in which
they have been engaged, who brought about the fall
both of legitimate and of quasi-legitimate royalty."
The article then goes on to describe M. LOUIS BONA-
PARTE as _

"Engaging his responsibility in a crusade against
the press and the ;right of meeting—arming him-
self with the sophisms of M. Polignac and M. Guizot,
and meeting for adversary a people firmly resolved not
to quit the ground of the law, or to ask for other vie-
be afforded by the consti-
ttourtiioesn.,t,han such as may
" The street is calm," says the National in another
part of the same article, the "feelings are calm, the
press is calm. Who then is creating an agitation ?
The executive power, and no one but the executive
power. Instructive contrast, which will not escape
the clear-sighted observation of the country, and
which enables us to judge and to condemn the means
by the end, and the end by the means."
Having described the proceedings in the Assembly,
the National terminates :
" Such has been the first skirmish. But be it under-
stood that the struggle begun to-day will not termi-
nate with the vote for the proposed laws, supposing
the assembly to vote them. This struggle will be prc-
longed without intermission, inexorable, and implacable
to 1852. A challenge is thrown down to universal
suffrage which universal suffrage will take up in due
time."
The journals of all shades, even the Bonapartist
Dix Decembre, condemn the ministerial measure
which the Univers pronounces will be inefficacious.
The Commission formed to take into consideration
the measures to be adopted in the interest of French
manufactures, with regard to the Exhibition to take
place in England in 1851, held its first sitting two
days ago, when the Minister of Commerce made
known the preparatory measures adopted by the Royal
Commission of England. He stated that the Ministers
Plenipotentiary of France, Prussia, Belgium, and the
United States, had been called on to form part of that
Commission, and French interests would conse•
quently have a vigilant and enlightened organ in
it. Several important measures as to the in-
structions to be given to the Chambers of Commerce,
and to the Consultative Chambers of Arts and Menu-
factures, were proposed by the Minister, and
immediately discussed and decided on. The topogra-
phical plan, and the conditions of the competition for
the building destined for the Exhibition, which was
opened to the architects of all countries, is to be sent
Ftoretnhch eCahreahmibteeertsof
who my wish to compete may a
Commerce of Paris, where any,
in-
spect it. The General Committee was afterwards di-
vided into six special committees, as follows :—Com-
mittee of Administrative Affairs and Correspondence ;
on Arts connected with Agriculture; on Mechanical
Arts and Philosophical Instruments; on Chemical
and Metallurgical Arts; on Wove C'toods, and on the
Fine Arts. At a subsequent meeting, the following
geonntilmemiteteneswerrep
were chosen
:—M. CHAS. Durm, M. as Presidents of the above
Committees
HERICHARD DE THUM-, M. COMBES, M. LEGENTIL,
and M. FONTAINE.
A letter from B.rest of the 18th inst. announces
that the steam-corvette Espadan bad sailed from that
port for Senegal. •
A letter from Toulon of the 18th inst. states that
the steam-frigate Mogador had sailed thence with
ammunition and provisions for the French fleet at
Naples. The Valmey three-decker and the ship-of-
the-line Ocean had received orders to proceed to rein-
force the fleet under the command of Admiral PARSE.,
VAL DESCHENES.
The Municipal Council of Dieppe has appointed a
committee to organise a packet service between
Dieppe and a port in England.
PARIS BOURSE, MARCH 22: Latest Prices—Five per
Cents. 90f. 85c.; Three per Cents. 56F.; Bank Actions,
2,212 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON MARCH 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 61A—Namur and Liege, 6t/—
Northern of France, 12%—Paris and Rouen, 20W.

MARCH 23, 1850,

Eastern Counties
P: as t Lancashire ...
eklinburgh and Glasgow
Great Northern 22
Do. %B 6 per Cent....... 7% 5
Great Western ......100
Do. New 17/ ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire —.IOO
Ditto, ditto
Ditt 0. Thirds
Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10
Leeds and Bradford 5'J .. ... 9834 to
London ea North Western...../00 IOSIA ...... to
Do. Fifths
London and S. We5tern.......100 ..... 63
Midland— ... .... ........ —.Wu
Ditto, 50/. Shares ..... ...... 80 ...... 4 -3Z ..-... to
North Staffordshire—
Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 15
south _Eastern
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3.
Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... 13% x.d... to
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 14
ferlt cud North Midland .. 50
Ditto. Pretereaca
FOREIGN RAILWAYS
Boulogne and Amiens 2O ... 6% to
Namur and Liege
Northern of France l6 ..... 12%. to

lII'

Cobro Copper
Unitod hloxicau ......

~E3.

COURSE OF
Amsterdam 12 3% •
Ditto, at sight • ... 12 2
Rotterdam • 124
Antwerp...,,,,,, 25 25 80
Hamburgh .... • • ALB . 13 13%
Altona ...... ..........
Paris, 3 days'sight • 25 57%
Ditte, 3 months .... 25 77%
Marseilles .. .......... 25 80
. 25 77%
Frankfort on Maine.... 121%
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 37%

40
231 to

Vienna, effec. ilo • • 12 0
Tricate, ditto.... 12 0
Niadrid 49%
Cadiz 49 Fs
Barcelona • • • • ...... • •
5evi11e..........