The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

The other ships of the !quadron were distributed as
detailed on the arrival of the Finny.
The Star is ordered to the eastward to ba paid off.
APPOINTMENT.

WOOLWICH, JULY 22.—Lieutenant John Bythesea
(1849) has been appointed to the Arrogant. 46. screw-
f. igate, Lisbon, vice Rice, to the II li:ings, ;2, ilag-shit ,
East Indies.
The Inflexible steam-frigate, CommanCer P. el 6 il.
Dyke, is filing fast with en eyeellent .crew, and 114
compleLed the etcplisite number of stoker::. o.ar se-,;tart,
1 bombardiur, and 16 privates of the R0.,,,e1 Alarrire Ar-
tillery from Portsmouth, end 1 drarnmer, of vie Wool.
with divigion, embarked on board the kflexield ou-Sa-
Witty, for service in that ve4sel.
Cowin:lt:der Leopold Heath has arrived at Ports-
mouth, and taken up his commissioa and aisumed the
command of the Niger :.crew-sloop. She completed her
crew in a very short time after she w.,.s commissioned—
a proof that sailors can soon be found to join under a
favourite commander, pveit although the service they
engage to fulfil may be on the coast of Africa.
• The Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir Henry Blackwood,
Bart, at Portsmouth, has had her three mast) con-
demned, and she has burn taken into dock to be cop-
pered, her former sheathing being in a very defective
state.. These alterations will occupy so long a period
that it is expected the Rodney, 92, or the Culling wood,
80, will be-curomissionel to receive the officers itnd crew
of the Vengeance. The Royal Marines of the Woolwich
diviiion drafted to serve in her are at present accommo-
dated on board a hulk at Portsmouth. ' i

First Lieutenant Wilson and Second Lieutenant Night-
ingale and a detachment of the Portsmouth division have
been selected for service in the Fox, 42, Captain George
Lambert, commissioned at Portsmouth.
Eighty men of the Chatham division of Royal Marines
are expected to arrive at Woolwich to do duty in the
garrison here, and at Deptford dockyard.
His Excellency the Marquis of Norrnanby and suite
arrived at Dover'at 7 o'clock on Friday evening last, and
embarked immediately on board her Majesty's steam-
packet Vivid, Captain Smithett, who left the port under
a salute from the heights for Boulogne. The Vivid is
underorders to be at:Calais on Monday. ready to embark
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who crosses
on Tuesday morning, the 22d inst., to Dover.
PrormouTn, JULY 20.—The brig Cygnet will go from
Hamoaze on Tuesday into Barn Pool to have her com-
passes adjusted. She takes the August mail to the coast
of Africa, touching at Madeira.
The Diligence transport is appointed to sail on Mon-
day with stores for Bermuda, and with one sergeant, one
corporal, and 20 rank sad file, Royal Marines, fur the
flag ship Wellesley, 72, Captaii*G. Goldsmith.
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The lazaretto frigate Lavinia, under charge of Mr.
Davy, assistant master-attendant, arrived ,from Liver-
pool on Friday, and was towed by the Confiance at am-
vessel from the Sound into Hamoaze, where she will be
placed in ordinary.
The Albion on Friday was reported out of the hands
of the shipwrights.
Mr. Tozer, late master of the Diligence transport, is
superannuated on 601. per annum.
The Dockyard Artillery, under Lieutenant-Colonel
Henderson, finished their annual drill last Saturday with
light field pieces firing blank cartridge, and went through
their various evolutions with much precision.
The Vulcan steam-vessel, purchased from the Revenue
Department by Messrs. Keene, of London, 326 tons over
all, 126 horse-power, lett Many Pier on Friday for
California. She has a complement of 16 hands, is in
ballast, and conwys Mr. Danton to Rio Janeiro, and
about 17 other passengers to the Guld Region. On her
voyage she coals at Madeira, at Rio, at Sandy Point, in
the Straits of Magellan, at Valparaiso, and Panama.
The Vulcan is intended to trade between San Francisco
end the Isthmus, and will be followed by another boat
belonging to the Messrs. Keene, which will be placed on
the same station.

The Ilamburgh brig Matilda, Cap:lila Frantzen, ar-
rived in the Suund to-Jay with sugar from Purto Rico.
She reports the 17th of February, lat. 49.50., long. 8.40,
the barquo Eliza, Cardiff, for Constantinople, and same day
the Norwegian barque Bellona, bound to the westward.
For the last eight days the Matilda has had easterly winds.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday
General Count PULE, a distinguished officer of the
empire, died on Saturday.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic was at the Hip-
podrome on Sunday, to witness a balloon ascent.
He was very well received.
The Journal des Debats has the fulloiving on • the
Scleswig-Holstein question :
The Minister of Foreign Affairs explained, in Fri-
day's sitting, that the act lately passed at Lsedon, en
the affairs of Denmark between France, England, Rus-
sia, and Sweden, was not a treaty containing a guaran-
tee, but simply a protocol expressing a wish to the Are ct
that the possessions now joined to the crown of Den-
mark should be maintained in their integrity, and that
the question of' succession t ) the throne be regulated to
that end. A desire, so expressed, may, it appears to
us, be looked on as afuit accompli. It is altogether in
conformity with the wishes of Denmark herself; it could
only meet with opposition Loin certain powers of Germany,
ut since the conclusion of the peace with D,nniark, Prus-
sia has withdrawn from the struggle; the insurgent du-
chies remain abandoned to their own fence, aid cannot
make a long resistance. The pacification of Schleswig
and Holstein will be one of the greatest steps towards
the re-establishment of order in Europe. If we use
these words, it is not because the protocol agreed to at
London was approved of by Russia, and probably
Austria, at the same time as Feauce and England; it is
because it represents the term of that revolutionary and
propagandist period in which Germany had entered for
two years. The explosion which the dreams of German
unitarians produced after the revolution of Paris may be
remembered. The aspiration towards national unity had
its legitimate side, and yet men see what it has come to.
But to that Germanic sentiment was added a passion, in-
finitely less legitimate, of territorial aggrandizement.
In the first revolutionary assemblies of Germany no-
thing less was spoken of than to require back Alsace
from us; they spoke also, still in the name of unity, of
aiding Austria in the war against Italy; and, in tine, it
was under that influence that the King of Prussia sup-
ported by his armed intervention the insurrection of the
Duchies against Denmark. There was in that question
two sides—one, the revolutionary and Germanic one,
the agitation kept up by the professors and persons of
the university; and the other, the Imperialist side, the
ambition of the King of Prussia to become the head of
the unity when reconstituted. In these two points of
view the invasion of the Duchies by the Prussian troops
was an act of shameful aggression; it was so considered
by all Europe, except. Germany, and we are bound to
render justice to the government of the early days of the
republic, that on this occasion it had the good sense not
to depart from the monarchical tradition."

The following additional returns are published by
the Siecle to show the effect of the new electoral
law

NUMBER OF ELECTORS.
Under the Under the
old law. new law.
Toulon ... ... 14,000 3,357
Reims ... 11,872 4.069
Bayonne ... ... 4,036 1 712
.Mulhouse 5.300 1,500
Verdun ... ... 3,400 1,800
Vendome ~. ... 2,244 1,422
Lops le-Saulnier ... 2,482 1,106
Epinal ... 2,352 1,262
Chateau-Gontier ... 1,963 65$
Epernay ... 1,592 949
Sainte Menehould 1,126 790
Vouziers ... 724 449

Two frigates sailed on the 17th from Toulon for
Tunis, in consequence of a telegraphic dispatch from
Paris.

The Mediterranean squadron has received orders
to proceed to Cherbourg, where it will be reviewed
by the PRESIDENT.
PARIS BOURSE, JULY 22.—Latest Prices.—Five
per Cents. 96f. 55c. ; Three per Cents. 58f. 30c. ; Bank
Actions, 2,395 f. •
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDONSTOCK-EXCHANGE.. JULY 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 73/—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 143/ ex in.—East Indian, 7% ex in.—Luxem-
bourg, 21j,—Northern of France, 14N, ex in. and ex div.—
Orleans and Bourdeaux, 27., ex in.—Paris and Rouen, 231
—Paris and Strasburg, 6%—Rouen and Havre, 9% —Touts
and Nantes, 4!„i ex in.