The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1850.

Give all thinkers ' ample room and verge enough.' and
virtue and talent will assert tl,e'r noble eupremsicy.
The majority are interested in the propagation of sound
principles. Socialism will not, I believe, extend its
slimy contortions because the penny stamp is repealed.
Property will Le more secure if zn;nd can cheaply commu-
nicate with mind. Religion and morals will not be the
less secure, because my letters to you can be advertised
without a tax for the use of the state, and because the
paper on which they are printed pays no tribute to
Caesar.'"

With this apposite inquiry we, for the present, take
leave of our judicious friend, commending him, espe-
cially at the present moment, to the attention of those
who concur with, and are assisting to put in practice,
Mr. ROEBUCK'S concluding exordium in his recent
speech on the diffusion of knowledge.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The fete in honour of the proclamation of the
Constitution took place yesterday, and went off ad-
mirably, notwithstanding the efforts of the reactionary
journals to provoke the people to an outbreak, or to
iuduce them to refrain from attending, so that the
fete might be a failure.
The Assemble. Nationale, of Saturday, published a
long story of a plot concocted by the Socialists for
throwing fulminating balls among the crowd during
the display of the fire-works, with the intention of
creating an emeute. The Nationale advised the
people to abstain from attending the fete. The fete
was,_ however, very well attended by the bourgeoisie
of Paris, and, to the great disappointment of the re-
actionaries,

The people would not rise
In spite of their prayers and their prophecies."
There were no fulminating balls, there was no
emeute, and "all went merry as a marriage bell."
The Boulevards and the streets were crowded by
persons in the best possible humour with themselves
and with every one else. The illuminations were
general and brilliant. The Republican journals were
not published yesterday on account of the fete.
The Patrie says—
" The commission formed to examine the mode of re-
vision of the electoral law had another sitting on Satur-
day. It is thought that the Bill, drawn up according to
its views and decisions, will be presented to the Legis-
lative Assembly to-morrow (Monday). The Govern.
ment will demand urgency, which there is no doubt will
be admitted, and on the following day a committee will
be appointed in the bureaux to make a report on the
measure which is so earnestly desired."
This demand of urgency will not be granted with
the ease with which the Patrie would fain induce its
readers to believe that it will be. The Ordre, the organ
of M. ODILoN BARROT7distinctly announoes that that
gentleman and those who usually act with him will
resist this demand for urgency, on the ground that as
there can be no general election for two years, there
can be no reason for demanding urgency on such a
subject. The same journal says—
" The truth, as we have already said, is, that M.
Odilon Barrot and his friends will not throw any ob-
stacle in the way of a wise, efficacious, and necessary
reform of the electoral law, but that neither he nor they
will lend themselves to the overthrow of the constitution
without even knowing what is to be put in its place."
The Duke DB BROGLIE has drawn up the proposed
law, and the expose des motifs explaining its object.
The whole of the Democratic candidates for the
Soane et Loire have been returned by larger majori-
ties than on the 10th March.
Adepacretwouenuttss,wwerheiorhecsevtaiteed
tlhaast nightf r most of the
fetesthe o
in
nhooou r of
the proclamation of the Republic had everywhere
passed off with tranquillity.
The votes for the Paris election of the army of
Algiers have been received, and here, as everywhere
else, &aim Sun has an immense majority. These
votes were taken on the 27th April, and were as fol-
lows :—Eugene Sue, 79 ; Emile de Girardin, 2 ;
Ledru Rollin, 1 ; Fernand, Foy, 1. Several of the
regiments were prevented from voting by the autho-
rities, or the numbers polled for Eugene Sue would
have been much greater.
The French Five per Cents. advanced yesterday in
yesterdayatBBf.6astoB. 81. 40c.,
the Passage de l'Opera. After being down to 88f. 30c.
and,o n
going
Friday evening, t
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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Mar 4.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6h—Central of France (Orleans
It. h7eysc opened. closed
and Viereon), I2N—East Indian, 514—Ditto, 224—Great
Indian Peninsula, 554—Ditto, I%—Namur and Liege, 6%—
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2.