The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Cnsiderable sensation was produced in the lobbies
of the National Assembly, on Monday, by a state-
ment made by M. ANTOINE BONAPARTE, that the
Minister fur Foreign Affairs had received a telegraphic
dispatch announcing that the Paps had died from the
effects of poison, on his way from Portici to Caserta.
M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT, who arrived at the As-
sembly shortly afterwards, declared that he had only
just left the Foreign-office, and that no dispatch of
the nature alluded to had been received there. Still,
as the o official evening journals contained
no contradiction of the report, which had
been circulated by a member of the BONA-
PARTE family, in so authoritative a manner, the
quasi contradiction of M. GUSTAVE DE BRAU-
moNT was considered as not at all satisfactory. The
National, in relating the circumstance, asks whether
M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT is likely to be better in-
formed than M. ANTOINE BONAPARTE, and then pro-
ceeds as follows :
" The news of the violent death of the Pope received
a ready credence from the chiefs of the representatives
of all parties. This readiness of belief would be inex-
plicable were we not aware that all the letters written
for the last two months from the head-quarters of our
army predict that if Pius IX. does not abdicate and re-
tire to a convent he will never eater Rome alive. The
name of Ganganelli .is in the memory and on the
lips of every one. The Cardinals and the
clerical party were determined that Pius IX.
should net enter Rome until the French army should
have evacuated it. They knew him to be weak, irreso-
lute, and greedy of popularity. They feared lest he
should make concessions to DOpular opinion, and they
have, therefore. for nine me I:ths.:past had recourse to
every species of threat, maniaivre, and intrigue to pre-
vent his return to the Vatican. Pius IX., however, has,
notwithstanding, determined to return ; hence the im-
placable auger, the profound irritation of this Court of
Red and Brack men. who assume the guise of courtiers,
the more effectually to become dominators. There is,
therefore, nothing improbable in this report of a palace
catastrophe. The manners of Italy have progressed
during the course cf the last two centuries, but the Court
of Rome has not followed this movement of civilization;
it even glories iu having resisted it."
The Roman correspondent of the Patrie, who is
evidently in constant communication with the chiefs
of the clerical party, declares somewhat ominously
as well as categorically, "Pius IX. will not go to
Rome. He will go to Terracina, thence by the
Marches to Loretto, and so to Bologna." Bologna,
it will be remembered, is occupied by the Austrians,
and a change from Portici to Bologna will be, as far
as Pius IX. himself is concerned, merely a change
of gaolers.
The Committee of the Assembly on the law of
electoral meetings has determined to postpone the
presentation of its report until after the election of
the 28th. There is every probability that M. EMILE
DE GIRAEDIN will be the Democratic candidate,
General CHANGARNIER had, it appear, given
orders for a review to take place at the Champ de
Mars on Monday, without consulting the PRESIDENT
of the Republic, who, on learning the circumstance,
countermanded the review.

The Presse has the following in the course of its
weekly article on the state of trade:—
" During the last fortnight, in which we have not
examined the commercial situation, calm has become
somewhat re-established in transactions, but the attempts
made by certai❑ political parties to frighten commerce
has not yet been forgotten. Reserve is observed, and
we must not hope that affairs will resume much ac•
tivity before the new election, fixed for the 28th,
shall be terminated. It is now known what were
the real causes of the crisis, of which the conse-
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quences are still so severely felt 'in most of the branches
of trade of Paris ; the provinces and foreign countries
are for nothing in the falling-off of business ;it was
caused by the Parisian merchants and commission agents,
who, after the election of the 10th of March, withdrew
their commands from the manufactories of Parts, as

also from those of Flanders, Alsace, Rouen, Lyons, and
St. Etienne. Some of them have been led by the tax-
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aggeration of their political opinions thus to suspend
their affairs; others have followed this example by a

sort of panic, and if public tranquillity had received the
slightest injury, commerce would hare been very long in

reCovering-fro-m. the shock. But in all parts more cor-
rect ideas on the situation are beginning to be
entertained ; little by little business habits are re-
sumed, and those who have caused consternation every-
where, by proclaiming that all was lost and that France
wag on the eve of a new political convulsion, aro now
severely blamed.

The Government has refused to accept the modifi-
cations proposed by the Committee of Assembly in
the Bill for regulating the apppointment of mayors.
A letter from Toulon of the 3d says that the Caton
steamer had arrived with the intelligence that the
Mediterranean squadron was, on the 31st ult., in the
Bay of Naples, where it was to remain until further
orders. The Caton brought dispatches from Vice-
Admiral PeasEvAr. DESCHENES, commander of the

squadron. The steamer Salamandre had also arrived
at Toulon from the Piraeus with dispatches from the
Minister of France at Athens. The Salamandre left

on the 26 th tilt., and at that date nothing was settled
in respect to the Greek question ; but the English no
longer maintained an aggressive attitude and the news
of the acceptance of the mediation of France had pro-
duced a good effect.

There-was but little speculation at the Bourse.
The Five per Cents. opened at 89f. 25c., and closed at
89f. 60c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 55f. 60c. ;
the New Roman Loan at 78i.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Arm, 9.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 12;1, - East In-
dian, 54—Luxembourg, 1)--Namur and Liege, 634
Northein of France, 12'/—Paris and Strasbourg, 5%.