The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-28 00:00:00

MBER 2B, 1850.

sages, would take them all from the Government line.
The experience of Nova Scotia illumtrated that—the

Telegraphic line across that province, was in the
hands of its Government—American speculators in
cotton and corn would buy it at any price. Why ?
Because, when cotton was up a halfpenny per pound;
or corn a shilling per bushel, the knowledge of
the fact was worth millions of dollars to those who
had a few hours priority of intelligence. For the
same reason business men and business letters will
go by the shortest and best route ultimately,
no matter how the members of the Commission
decide." Such were some among the sententious
and suggestive thoughts to which the Provincial Se-
cretary gave utterance within the last few days—
thoughts to the consideration of which we would
earnestly direct the attention of our industrious and
intelligent community. Several of the remarks here
made by that gentleman are of a nature so startling
as to arrest observation, as where he reminds Eng-
land that within reach of a few days steaming from
her shores she has a territory capable of sup-
porting all her indigent and unemployed popu-
lation a territory as large as the United
States, as large as the whole of Europe !
He calls, moreover, to the consideration of the
mother country that in her North American pro-
vinces she possesses land capable, among other things,
of at once relieving her from the burden of organized
pauperism by sustaining the 60,000 able-bodied
people at present maintained by our poor-
rates ! And such are the poasessions which we have
hitherto neglected, and which we are still neglecting,
abandoning its fruitfulness, for the most part,
to a savage state of uncuitivation, allowing it to
remain a tangled wilderness, inhabited by the
wild beasts which are hunted down by the
salaried Nimrods of the Hudson's Bay Company !
England may at length avail herself of the wealth
so long neglected, and so easily grasped, by bearing
these astonishing facts in recollection, when deciding
upon the best route between the two hemispheres,
preparatory to the opening of a permanent line be-
tween the Pacific and the Atlantic.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
ALLAIS, the denouncer of the alleged Bonapartist
plot . for le assassination of General CHANGARNIER
f
and M. Durtst, has, as
.might have been foreseen
from the conduct of the judge on the first day of the
trial, been convicted of calumny. He was sentenced
to one year's imprisonment and to a fine of 300 francs.
Notwithstanding this decision, M. Duris still pro-
fesses his belief in the existence of the plot, and re-
fuses to accede to the demand of the Government for
the dismissal of M. YON. In this refusal he is sup-
ported by the Questors of the Assembly, who insist
upon the right of the Assembly to appoint its own
police force. The matter must come before the As•
sembly for decision, and MM. BAROCuE and CARLIER
declare they will resign if M. YoN is continued in
office, whilst M. DUPIN declares that he will resign
the Presidency of the Assembly should M. YoN be
dismissed.
Overtures have been made from the Elree to M.
ODILON BARROT to take office, but be decline!.
The Minister of the Interior having published a
" communicated" note,lbut without signature, in the
Moniteur denying the existence of an official report,
to which allusion was made in the debate on the
California lottery by M. PASCAL DUPSIAT, that gen-
tleman has addressed the following note to the Mi-
nister in reply :
" You have published an anonymous note, in which it
is said that the report read by me in the debate on Sa-
, turday has never existed. Tnis is my answer. I affirm
that too report has existed, and that it existed at the
moment I addressed my interp4ations. I affirm that
the report was written at the instance of M. Barcche
himself. I affirm that the Minister has read the report.
In fact I showed myself too generous in retiring at the
tribune before the word of one of the members of the
Cabinet. I believe it to be even so now in contenting
myself with no more than a simple denial.
" Accept, &c.,
" PASCAL DUPRAT, Representative of the People."
The crusade against Protestantism threatened by
MM. MONTALEMBERT, DE FALLOUX, and Co., has
commenced. Henceforth Protestant children are to
be refused admission to the public schools and
universities. The fact is thus announced in the

" A plan which we heard mentioned, but to which we
could not attach any credit, appears, however, to ba
serious. The question is said to be nothing more nor
less than to exclude from the public schools all children
whose parents are not Catholics. Special schools will
be appropriated for children of Protestants and other
creeds recognised in France. We are well assured that
this unjustifiable idea is seriously contemplated. The
Bishop of Viviers, and other members of the episcopacy,
are its warm promoters and defenders. The fund ',-
mental principle of 1789, that the state is laical, and that
all Frenchmen are equal in the eye of the law, would be
thus audaciously overthrown, and old religious animo-
sities would be revived. It is a great misfortune for
such an idea to be even spoken of; but what would be
the consequence if it should be realised?"

The Bourse was dull, and the price of public se-
curities declined. The Five per Cents. opened at 951.
50;?.., and closed at 95f. 35c.; the Three per Cents.
closed at 57f. 45c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 870 f.;
Rouen, 6801.; Havre, 271 f. 25c.; Great Northern,
4781. 75c.; Basle, 136 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 397 f. 50c.;
Paris and Strasburg, 356 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes,
248 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TDE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 27.
Boulogne and Amiens, Bs/—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon), 16% —Namur . and Liege, 9—Northern of France,
151/4 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 3—Paris and Rouen, 27%--
Paris and Strasbourg, 91/4—Rouen and Havre, 11.143—
Sambre and Meuse, 3A.

THE SHARE MARKETS,

BRITISH RAILWAYS

Paid. Nominal Prices.

i 0 HO to 11
6 8I 1 —34 dls,

2%
.5% —5% ills.
7%•
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3% -1 P.

10 29 -30
!O 27 -28

[5 8 - 9 p
[5 7 - 8 p

Business done
to-day.

10% %
dit

77% 78U

58% 58

87% N

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