The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Republican and Legitimatist journals con-
sider the speech of the PRESIDENT ut Cherbourg as a
" bid" for the empire, and comment upon it accord-
ingly. The Opinion Publique and the AeselnAlsie
Nationale call upon al the friends of order to rally
round the National Assembly should the Plum.
DENT attempt to interfere with its privileges. As
the Assemblie Nationale is supposed to represent the
sentiments of General CIIANGARNIEB, the article in
that journal has more than ordinary significance.
The Republican journals, in commenting on this
speech, speak more in sorrow than in anger. The
Siicle, in alluding to the expression of the PRESI-
DENT "If there is a town in France which ought
to be Napoleonienne it is Cherbourg," and to his
hints that the public works at Cherbourg could not
be finished " unless by their giving him the means
to accomplish them,' says
" We wish we could suppress the painful impression
made upon us by these expressions, which imprudently
suggest dangerous and subversive theories from the
mouth of the chief magistrate of the Republic. We
must speak frankly. M. Louis Bonaparte, in provoking
political changes, that is to say revolutions, has forgotten
the high mission with which the people have invested
him, and which, above and beyond all is a mission of
order and of peace; be has forgotten the loyal words
pronounced by himself upon the day of his advent to
power. It is certainly afflicting to see compromising
friends push their seal and ignorance of what is passing
so far as to propose in their newspapers, or in the meet-
ings of a secret society the overthrow of the Republic
and the erection of an hereditary empire; yet, after all,
these anarchical aspirations are only important because
they are allowed to remain unnoticed by the public tri-
bunals. Bat that the chief of the executive power and
the eandataire of the nation should proclaim, with al-
most puerile perseverance, the pretension to change the
form of government; that he should, as it were, offer a
bargain, undertaking to terminate certain public works,
in exchange for a prolongation of powers, presents to
our eyes, we must say, a sad spectacle; and we would
willingly hope that, in the ardour of improvisation and
the momentary excitement of a banquet, and perhaps
also under the perfidious influence of courtiers and flat-
terers, M. Louis Bonaparte has allowed himself to be
hurried beyond his intention."
The incautious proceedings of the friends of the
PRESIDENT have greatly alarmed M. TIIIER3 and the

Burgraves.
The Corsaire announces that—

" M. Thiers is returning post haste from Germany,
to prevent being attempted the rash experiment which,
in a letter to a friend, he says he forese.s will be made,
unless prevented by good advice."
These journals give some curious particulars relat-
ing to the Society of the 10th Decomber. It was
founded by General PLAT, and numbers 7,500 mem
bers in Paris. M. ROMIEU, the ex-editor of the &a-
polean, and the author of a work entitled " The Era
of the Caesars," in which he lauds the absolute go-
vernment of an emperor chosen by Praetorian Guards
as the best of all possible governments, is the chief.
It is divided into 300 brigades of 25 men each, who
receive 15 francs a month when not on active duty,
but when they attend to escort or cheer the PRESIDENT
through the streets or to get up a cry of " Vire Na-
pollon," or "Vise 1 'Empereur,' they receive a franc
and a half a day. The source from which this money
is derived is unknown.

The PRESIDENT attended mass on board the flag-
ship at Cherbourg on Sunday, after which the ships
were exercised. He dined on board the Friedland,
and entertained at dinner the following English naval
officers :—Admiral Sir C. J. Ommanney, K.C.8.,
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., Rear-
Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., and Rear-Ad-
miral Sir Edmund Lyons, G.C.8.; Captain Chads,
, Captain Michael Seymour, Captain W. H.
Hall, and Captain Rodney Mundy.
The PRESIDENT was presented with a gold medal,
signifying his election as an honorary member of the
Royal Western Yacht Club.
The greater number of the English vessels left
Cherbourg on Sunday night.
The Moniteur publishes the following telegraphic
dispatch :

" CHERBOURG, SEPT. 8,
" HALF-WAIT SEVEN IN THE MORNING.

" Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, the President
visited the arsenal, and inquired minutely into the
amount of works which still remain to be executed in
order to terminate the port.
" At twolva o'clock he went on board the Friedland.
All the vessels were dressed out with limp; they saluted
the President as he passed with all their artillery.
Everywhere an immense crowd encumbered the Trays,
and %sitnt ssed this magnificent spectacle. Af er having
successively visited several vessels, the President went
on the mole, the gigantic works of which filled him with
admiration. Ho afterwards went on beard the Mintrve,
where is established the gunners' school, and witnessed
some ball-firing at a mark.
"In the evening they offered a ball in ore of the
large rooms of the arsenal, which was decorated with
remarkable taste. Several thousand persons were pre-
sent.
" Everywhere, at the arsenal, on board the fleet, on the
mole, at the ball, the President was saluted with unani-
mous and most warm acclamations."
M. DR PERSIGNY has gone to ,join the PRESIDENT
at Cherbourg.
M. DE LAROCHEJACCJELIN has written a letter to
the editor of the Ordre, to say that it is not true that
he was badly received by the CJunt DE CHAMBORD at
Wiesbaden, or that he requested the Prince to blame
the line of policy of the majority of the Legitimatists in
the Assembly. He adds, that it was not he, but
others who spoke of the necessity of the party taking
a new and more independent attitude. He declares
that the Legitimatists will give proof that they have
resolved so to do.

The Ordre says—" The most devoted servants of
the Orleans family have been for souse days past in
consternation. It appears that the health of the
Queen of the Belgians causes great disquietude. It
is said that she has had an affection of the chest,
which is so grave as to require the greatest care. It
is not even impossible that the ex• Queen of the
FRENCH hill visit Ostend to give maternal attention
to her daughter.
Accounts from Toulon state that letters received
from the province of Constantine announce the de-
cline of cholera in that place.
The steam corvette Viloce left Toulon on the sth
for Civita Vecchia with the mails and a number
of military passengers. A detachment that had
been under orders to embark on board the ViSloce
for the army of occupation of Rome has been counter-
manded. It was thought likely that that army
would be still further diminished. The steamer
Eclaireur had returned from Tunis, and reports the
disappearance of the cholera there. The steam-cor-
vette Le Roland, recently built, was launched at
Toulon on the sth.
The Council-General of the Seine-et-Marne has
adopted a resolution expressing a wish that the re-
mains of Louis PHILIPPE shall be brought to France.
PARIS BOURSE, SEPT. 9.—Latest Prices.—Five
per Cents., 93f. 30c.; Three per Cents., 57f. 75c.;
Bank Actions, 2,290 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7'%—Central ot France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 13% —East Indian, 9!,i—Northern of France,
14 LA —Paris and Roues, 231,x.