The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday
The new El_ectoral Bill has excited the deepest dis•
gust in the minds of the people of Paris. They will
not, however, give to the reactionaries the opportu•
pity they so ardently desire of drowning the Republic
in the blond of its supporters by any premature at-
tempt at outbreak ; they are at present in the right,
and their leaders are unceasing in their warnings to
them not, by any imprudent act, to put themselves in
the wrong.
The National publishes the following warning :
"A man who is not, and who never will be,
either an orator, a diplomatist, or an administrator—
who is as ignorant us a petty officer under the old
regime, but who has, nevertheless, managed to
assume a high position in the political world,
and who aims at a position even still more exalted—a
man, in short, to whose existence a state of political
calm would be annihilation, and who, in order to
mount higher, has need of popular troubles, has for
the last few days been in the habit of openly saying—
' The impatient must be forced to come out into the
street ; if the Electoral Bill will not provoke them,
other projects must be presented which cannot fail of
effect it. We want an emeute, for the sake of carry-
ing measures requisite for the safety of society, and
we will have it.' We give this as a warning to the
people of Paris."
The most obnoxious part of the Bill is that which
requires three years' residence, and which, with regard
to workmen not assessed to the personal tax, renders
a certificate from their employers necessary. The
Voix du Peuple says—
" This three years' residence, which is to be proved
by inscription on the personal tax role for those who pay
this tax, cannot, with regard to domestics, workmen,
&c., be proved except by the certificates of their mas•
ters, who thus dispose as absolute sovereigns of the
electoral rights of their clerks and workmen. Now
amongst the few workmen who are domiciled three years
in the same commune how few again are there who work
three years under the same employer, so that the effect
is to strike off from the electoral lists nearly the whole
working population. The same observation applies to
artists, artisans, small dealers, and other moveable sort
of professions, who, not paying the personal tax, will
have no means whatever of proving domicile. In feet,
one-half of the whole body of electors will be cut off."
M. ODILOX BistaoT and his friends have deter-
mined to support the Government measure. This
important adhesion is thus announced in the Ordre,
the organ of the Barrot party :
" The committee and the Government have wisely
disdained both the suggestion of those who would have
them tear up the Constitution and the menaces of anar-
chists who pretended to interdict any sort of modifica-
tion of the confused, ab,urd, and dangerous regime
created by universal suffrage without rule or limits. The
new law may be amended in its details, but, taken alto-
gether, it bears the character of a serious aiid necessary
reform, while the preamble protests honestly against all
idea of attacking the Constitution. This is enough to
enlist our support; as we fieely expressed our scruples
before we knew the resolutions of the committee, so do
we, now that the character of the reform is declared,
offer our firm and sincere concurrence. If it be true
that the factious are working in their secret clubs, and
that they pretend to intimidate the Assembly,, they will
find the majority resolute, the two powers united, and
the nation ready to repress anarchical attempt directed
against their representatives—that is to say, against the
nation itself."
The Bulletin de Paris of Wednesday had the fol-
lowing :
" The President of the Republic intends to visit Fon-
tainebleau in the course of the week. A special train
has been commanded on the Orleans Railway, and verbal
invitations have been given to several members of the
Assembly, and to some superior officers cf the army,
through the medium of one of his aides-decamp. The
hour of meeting is fixed for twelve o'clock precisely, at
the Elyets."
It was, however, yesterday officially announced
that the intended visit to Foutainbleau had been post-
poned.
The Presse states that five of the regiments com-
posing the garrison of Paris, that were to have
quitted the capital on Wednesday morning to occupy
other quarters, received a counter order as they were
preparing for their march. The troops were con-
signed to their barracks.
Yesterday was observed as a holiday at the Bourse,
but the following fluctuations in the price of stock
took place on Wednesday evening, in the Passage de
l'Opera :—Upon hearing that the previous question
had been rejected, and urgency voted by large majo-
rities, the Five per Cents. rose to 88f. 80c. ; when
the evening journals, however, gave particulars of
the new Bill, with a report of the discussion that
followed, they ran down to 88f. 25c., but soon after
got up to 88f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY 5.
Orleans and Bourdeaux, 2A—Paris and Orleans, 2914—
West Flanders, 114,

SPAIN•
Madrid journals of the 4th inst. have been received.
It is said that Senor ISTURITZ Will not take his de-
parture for London until the Spanish Government
shall have received the intelligence of the appoint-
ment of an English Minister to the Court of Madrid.
MADRID BOMA, MAY 4.—Three per Cents. 30i,
Five per Cents., 12 5-16, both paper. Exchange on
London, 50 45.

GERMANY.
two days ,the Princes'
A letter from Erfurt of May 6, published in the
Cologne Gazette,
.says :-111
Congress will commence its sittings. The policy of
Cassel is decided; the ELECTOR will attend. Thus
all the princes are now expected, and each will be
accompanied by a responsible Minister. After the
Congress a conference of Ministers will be held. The
attitude of Austria is meanwhile expectant. No one
thinks she will concede a single point. The right
of one state to transfer its mandate to another,
and the right of this state to represent its neighbour
in the Diet, and exercise delegated powers, is indeed
roengeutuicohns.t
f usttrhiea
Diet
made 30th Oct., 1816, and.
deny. In the preliminary
confirmed 14th November of the same year, the fol-
lowing passage occurs :—"Every plenipotentiary who
holds the plenary votes of several states of the con-
federation shall give them singly and in the specified
order." This "specified order" is laid down in the,
4th article of the Bundesacte, on which Austria
takes her stand in calling the present assembly.
Prussia contends, it is true, that this order is abro-
gated, lout only in the same sense in which she de-
clares the other portions of the Act to be so, and thus
demonstrates the position of Austria to he utterly un-
tenable. She will only hear of a treaty of a new
congress at which each state shall present itself, ar.d
where all may approach to an cgreement from lode..
pendent positions. This is the only ground on which
and its publication is thus
Prussia can stand : concede but a finger-breadth to
the Diet and the union falls to the ground. A formal
princesprotest aognaitnhsitsthseuci,iii:cut:ar note is prepred. It ht s,
Archbishop of
however, been determined to take the votes of the
of Trieves ; Daappaa,
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The Prussian Stoats Anzieger publishes a declara-
tion, signed by the four Roman Catholic bishops of
Cologne; ARNOLD!, Bishop
Bishop of Padderborn ; and MULLER, Bishop of
Munster; and addressed to the Minister for Religious
Affairs, relative to the taking the oath to the Consti-
tution by those public functionaries who are ecclesi-
astics. The bishops state that they cannot permit
the priests to take any oath to the Government