The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-17 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of Sunday
and letters of yesterday.
During the sitting of the Assembly on Saturday
General ScnuAMM, the Minister at War, presented a
Bill, demandingan extraordinary credit of 3,218,501 f.,
for keeping on a war-footing the army of occupation
at Rome during the first six months of 1851. This
credit, he observed, was calculated on the number of
10,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry. The number of
French troops at present in Italy was, he said, 14,000
infantry and 2,000 cavalry, but the Government ex-
pected to be able to reduce that force to the number men-
tioned above. " In general," continued Gen. SCHRAMM,
"the situation of the Roman States has considerably
improved. Still we cannot as yet predict the precise
moment when the presence of our troops may be dis-
pensed with. In the impossibility at the present mo-
ment of our being able to assign a term to the occu-
pation, we conceive that, as the Assembly granted
the Government the credits required to pay the ex-
penditure of 1850, it will not refuse to grant the funds
of 1851."

On Sunday, at a meeting of the Legitimatist Club
of the Rue de Rivoli, it was resolved to oppose the
motion of M. VICTOR LEFRANC for a revision of the
Electoral Law ; at the same time it was agreed to
watch narrowly the electoral lists, which will be
completed in March, and if it should be found that
any modification of the law was needed to forward
the interests of the Legitimatist party, such modifi-
cation should be then proposed.
At a meeting of the Orleanist Club it was also
resolved to oppose the motion of M. VICTOR LEYRANC.
M. TRIERS and M. ODILON BARROT were pre-
sent, and both spoke.
M. TRIERS made a long speech in favour of the
law as it at present stands, and declared that its
maintenance on its present footing was necessary to
the preservation of the Conservative party.
M. ODILON BARROT supported the new electoral
law, but declared that it was necessary that it should
be distinctly understood whether the law was appli-
cable to the election of President of the Republic, and
to the municipal and general councils of the depart-
ments, as well as to those of the representatives of the
people.

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M. THIERS stronglyopposed the idea that that ques-
tion should be settled by the Assembly, and claimed full
liberty to the Government to do in the matter as
it might think proper, or, in other words, to apply
the new electoral law to the election of the Presi-
dent or not, according to the chance of success.
This language has given great satisfacticn to the Bo-
napartistg, but it does not appear to have been satis-
factory to the Orleanists, as it was resolved that the
Minister of the Interior should be " interpellated" on
the suhj.ct.
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The Constitutionnel has a long article on the re-
cent depreciation in the price of gold, which it con-
tends ought to be treated as a marketable commodity.
PARIS BOURSE, DEC. 16.—Latest Prices.—Five
per Cents., 95f. 150.; Three per Cents., 571. 60c.;
Bank of France, 2,330 E

BUSINESS OWE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 16.
Boulogne and Amiens, 81,x—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 163/I—East Indian, 12—Luxembourg, 1
Namur and Liege, BX—Northern of France, 15 tf. —Orleans
and Bourdeaux, 2.14 -Paris and Rouen, 26% —Paris and
Strasbourg, 91/2—Rouen and Havre, 101,i—Sambre and
Meuse, 31/(3—Tours and Nantes, 4%.