The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Painie publishes the following contradiction of
the story originally published by the Assemblee
National on the subject of the supposed declaration of
M. Achille Mould :
" The Siecle and National attribute t) one of the
members of the Cabit et la igua4e he hai never uttered.
The Government repels in the most firmal manner those
foolish and inconside: at a TU53,` ions. It also deplores
the facility with which several jouru a's make themselves
the echo of the most mistaken and malicious st,)rieJ.
They do not understand that they expose themselves by
these falsehoods to the danger cf diminishing confidence
and public credit, the rapid development of which ought
to occasion the most lively satisfaction to all good

citizens."

General Lamoriciere had a private audience with
the President of the Republic yesterday. M. de
Courcelles has also had a long interview with the
President.

The Government has received the intelligence that
the French fleet has left Ourlac.

The Prefect of Police (M. Carlier) has addressed a
circular to authors, editors, printers, booksellers, and
bibliophiles, to apprise them of his intention to estab
lish in the prefecture a central library for the use of
the prisoners :
"It is not enough (says M. Carlier) to prevent them
from reading anarchical journals and bed books, which
too easily find sympathies in houses (f confinement. I
have provided against that danger ; it has ceased ; but it
it is necessary that the minds cf their inmates be occu-
pied, that their morale be suppott3o, and that they be-
come roc)nciled to the riprinciples on which family and
society repose."
The municipal budget, however, allocating no
credit for that object, 111. earlier is obliged to appeal
to the generosity of authors and publishers to realise
a philanthropic idea, which, he says, originated with
the President of the Republic.
" The Presse," says the Moniteur, publishes an
article entitled 'lnconsistencies,' in which it copies
the entire article of the Reforme of the 2d Dec., for
which the editor of the latter was sentenced, two
days ago, by the jury, to fine and imprisonment.
The Presse having printed the article apart from
the report of the trial of the Reforme, inserted in its
number of yesterday, (the Attorney of the Republic
ordered the Presse of this day to be seized in its office
and at the Post-office."
" The Presse," says its editor, " during the fifteen
years it has existed was never the object of any sei-
zure. To-day it was seized by order of the Attorney-
General Baroche, who no doubt is anxious to summon
again before him M. Emile de Girardin. Why was
our number seized ? We did not even take the
trouble of inquiring, fur we are as certain of our
principles as we ars of our intentions. The Presse
already suffered two persecutions, one in June, 1847,
and the other in June, 1848. Their result is known.
Eight months after the editor of the Presse was
summoned to the bar of the Chamber of Peers, in
June, 1847, M. Hebert, Keeper of the Seals, was ob-
liged, on the 24th of February, to fly in all haste
and seek refuge in a foreign country. Seven months
after the Presse was suspended, in June, 1848,
General Cavaignac was condemned by the ballot of
the 10th of December.

" This evening, adds the Presse," At the Passage
of the Opera, the five per cents, which had closed
at 9-11 25c., fell 45 centimes on the report of the sei-
zure t,f the Presse. This measure, which nobody
could account f)r, was generally regarded as a poli-
tical El-ere."