The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-21 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We hare received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The rage of the parti-pretre at their defeat exceeds
all bounds; it is positively absurd, and M. THEIRS and
M. DB MONTALEMBERT can only be paralleled by the
NEWCASTLES, WINCHELSEAS, and HARCOURT LEES'S
oflB29,When Sir ROBERT PEEL carried Catholic Eman-
cipation. On leaving the Assembly on Monday, M.
THIERS spoke of the Executive as a thing " That
thinks itself independent, and that makes promises
which that cannot keep ;" and at a meeting of the
club of the Council of State, which took place in the
evening, over which the Duke of MONTEBELLO pre-
sided, and at which M. MOLE was present,
M. THEIRS spoke with great violence. He
made a bitter attack on the members of the ma-
jority who had voted against his opinions; and he
added that "France would ultimately find herself
placed between anarchy and the most stupid, the most
ridiculous, and the most petty of despotisms." He
spoke of the present Government in most contemptu-
ous terms, as weak, stupid, feeble ; creatures who
would fain ape the Empire; and with respect to the
representatives who had voted with AI. DE PARIEU,
he spoke of them as the complaisantes of the Ministry.
This violent language excited great astonishment, li
and about fifty of the members left the meeting, de-
claring that they would never return to the club of
the Conseil d Etat. The Committee declare that :if
there is any more meddling with the Bill on the part
of the Ministers, they will throw up the conduct of it,
and the parti-pretre openly avow themselves the parti-
sans of anarchy, as against the present Government—
thus carrying out the principle on which they have al-
ways acted, viz., to make every government impossible,
with a view of establishing on the ruins of all
that most anarchical and immoral of all governments,
a sacerdotal tyranny maintained by a reign of terror.
If the present state of things should continue, we
trust that Frenchmen of all parties will unite and
crush at once and for ever the intriguing parti-pretre.
There can be no peace for France whilst that party
exists.

In the meanwhile the PRESIDENT is visiting every
day the various barracks in the neighbourhood of
Paris, and is received with enthusiasm by the sol-
diery, and yesterday in the Assembly the Prince DE
LA MOSEOWA, the son of Marshal NET, demanded
that the Assembly should adjourn the further discus-
sion on the law of public instruction, in order to de-
cide on the Bill for augmenting the pay of the non-
commissioned officers of the army, which had been
introduced by thi Government. This proposition
was received with shouts of laughter by the Members
of the Right, and at once rejected ; the incident, how-
ever, cannot fail to render the parti-pretre unpopular
with the army, more especially as it is well known
that they have determined to reject altogether the
Government proposition.
The following official notification of the intention
of the Government to erect forthwith a monument to
the memory of Marshal NET, on the spot where he
fell, appears in the journals of yesterday :

"TO THE PBESIDEBT 07 THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
" Paris, Feb. 20.

"Monsieur le President—The Constituent Assembly
ratified the decree which orders ' that a monument be
raised to Marshal Ney on the spot itself where he was
shot.' You have considered that the moment had arrived
for executing this project which so well translates one of
the most profound sentiments of the country. I asked
myself if it would be necessary to ask for a special I
credit fur the execution of this monument, and I
doubted not that an assembly presided over by
one of the most illustrious defenders of the
hero of the Moskwa (M. Dupin) would receive
such a proposition with sympathy. On reflection I
recognise that the ordinary credit allowed for works of
art will be sufficient. It appears to me that such a
monument, by the nature of the souvenirs it will
awaken, ought to be of a severe aspect, and of grand
simplicity. That such is the spirit of the law is proved
by the selection of the desert place where the Marshal
fell, without other witnesses than his executioners, for
the situation of his monument. You have not desired
that the monument of the bravest of the brave should be
considered as the public mark of an irritating souvenir,
but as the sign of rehabiltaition long proclaimed by tire
public conscience. It becomes necessary to mark some-
where the expression of regret felt by so many hearts,
and no place could be so appropriate as that where the
Marshal fell. The monument will represent the Marshal
showing his breast, and uncovering his heart to death. I
need not say that I have selected for this work one of
our greatest statuaries. The work will be worthy of
the sentiment which has dictated the decree of which
you have ordered the execution.
" I am, with profound respect, Monsieur le President,
" Your very humble and devoted servant,
(Signed) " FERDINAND BARROT."
The Ordre, which speaks from the inspiration of
M. THIERS, fully bears out all that has been said as
to the violence of his language at his club and in the
Assembly ; it states that M. THIERS declared " that
the disunion in the ranks of the majority with respect
to the Public Instruction Bill would have for effect
to place the country between the danger of frightful
anarchy and that of a. little ridiculous despotism."
He also spoke of the Government as one which de-
sired to singer l'Empire. However absurd this may
be, it is most assuredly better to singer rEmpire than
to singer the Restoration, as M. TRIERS has been
doing of late. NAPOLEON is certainly a worthier
model than M. DE FRATSSINOUS, and M. THIERS was
himself once'of that opinion, but as age and infirmities
creep upon him the ci• devant brilliant historian of the
Revolution, the Consulate, and the Empire is fast
degenerating into a PERE LoBIQUET.
The Moniteur contradicts in the most positive
manner the various reports relative to a chanEe of
ministry, and which, it adds, had not the slightest
foundation.

The Republicans of Bruyeres, in the department
of Vosges, have returned the whole of their candidates
to the municipal council of the town.
General CASTELLAN, appointed to the command of
the 12th, 14th, and 15th military divisions, arrived at
Tours on Sunday last. Immediately on his arrival
he reviewed the troops in the Champ de Mars, and
issued a general order the same evening, recommend
ing the strictest discipline and subordination.
General LAPENE, commanding the department of

the Drome, has issued a proclamation in virtue of the
state of siege, forbidding all political banquets, meet-
ings, processions, or demonstrations of any kind,
contrary to public order, to the constitution, or to
religion or morality.
The Pantheon gun-brig has been ordered to pro-
ceed to La Plata.

A letter from Toulon of the 16th inst. states that
the 20th, 66th, and 68th Regiments of the Line,
forming part of the army of Italy, have been sent to
Algeria.
PARIS BOURSE, FEB. 20.—Latest Prices ;—Five per
Cents., 95f. 5c.; Three per Cents., 57f. 50c.; Bank of
France, 2,255 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 20.

Boulogne and Amiens, 63i ex div.—Paris and Rouen, 22
—Paris and Strasbourg, 6.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 15th have been received.

On the 14th General NARVAEZ read to both
Chambers the communication from the QUEEN'S phy-
sicians. He presented himself first in the Senate,
which met at two P.M., under the presidency of the
Marquis of MIRAFLORES ; and after the admission of
a new senator, who took the oath, General NARTAEZ,
who was in full uniform, stated that he had an in-
teresting communication to make respecting her
MAJESTY'S state, and read a letter he had received
from the Duke of HIJAR, inclosing another from the
QUEEN'S physicians. The latter stated that, from
the symptoms that had presented themselves, they
were of opinion that the QUEEN had very probably
entered upon the fifth month of her pregnancy, and
that she was going on satisfactorily.
The Chambers were to be prorogued on the 16th.
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 15.—The funds are in de-
mand. The Three per Cents. are reported at 29 7-16,
buyers, 9-16 sellers; Five per Cents. 12 15-16 to
13 ; Coupons, 7i ; Passive Debt, 3} to 4. Exchange
on London, 50 35.