The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-25 00:00:00

THE SVN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,

but nonsense succeeds Letter than sense with not a few
people in this world, and therefore it is not always wise
to leave a statement unanswered because it is nonsense.
It is because Ireland is not a province in reality that we
contend she ought to be no longer a province in form ;
no longer provincially treated, provincially governed.
The system tends to stamp that character upon her,
contrary to truth and fact.q It places her in the anoma-
lous, equivocal, and not very resceJtable situation of a
portion, and a most important portiol, of our home
dominions, saddled and encumbered with a sort of non-
descript, halt-dotnestic, halt-colonial government, anti
tricked out with the c'eap finery and tawdry trappings
of a provincial court, as if it was the great Atlantic that
flowed between her and England, not that slender thread
of salt water across which the islands gaze on each other
on clear days."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The votes of the army for the approaching election
for Paris have been taken, and so far as they are known,
they tend to prove that the army is thoroughly and
completely democratic.

The National states the following as the result
of the ballot of the 24th and 27th Regiments of the
Line, in garrison at Orleans, fur a representative of
the department of the Seine :
Eugene
Sue ••• ••• ••• 65
Leclerc
10
Blank tickets ..
... 3

In making this announcement the :National says:
"The 24th regiment fought in the streets of Paris in
June 1848. The civil war had many victims from
its ranks, yet it rejects the candidature of M. LE-
CLERC. Why ? Because wishes no more civil war
—because it will not have as its representative a man
who is patronised by the coalesced Monarchial factions
—that is to say, who is hostile to the Republic."
It is said that M. EUGENE SUE is disqualified for a
seat in the National Assembly in consequence of his
being under the interdiction of a consed judiciaire,
obtained against him in 1827 in the Cour Royal, and
which has not been legally reversed, although it has
continued inoperative since 1829. Other accounts
state that it was quashed in 1829. A deputation has
set out for Sologne to ascertain personally from
M. BUGENE SUE the real state of affairs in regard to
this matter. Should it turn out that he is dis-
qualified, M. DUPONT DE L'EURE will probably be
the Democratic candidate. It is a somewhat remark-
able fact, that although M. LECLERC has written to
the journals denying that he had ever been bankrupt,
as has been pretended, he does not venture to affirm the
truth of the romantic story on the faith of which he was
started as a candidate, neither has he made any pro-
fession,of political faith.
The absurd attempt of those two wiseacres, MM.
BAROCHE and CARLIER, to prevent the sale of the
Evenernent, has added immensely to the popularity
of that journal. The proprietors advertised on Mon-
day the shops where it could be procured, and on
Tuesday those shops were visited, the numbers seized,
and the sale prohibited. These measures, however,
only tended to give a more immediate and rapid cir-
culation fir the opinions of the Evenement, for when-
ever it could be procured it was read aloud to the
bystanders, who, having heard it read, made
way for another congregation. The police
were present, but with a wisdom and prudence
which it would be well that MM. BAROCHE and
CARLIER should imitate, they abstained from inter-
fering. The conduct of M. BAROCHE in this case is
worse than a fault—it is a blunder, and a blunder of
the grossest character.,
According to the newly proposed arrangement re-
garding the Paris an4l Avignon Railway, the Minister
of Public Works has proposed to the Budget Com-
mittee to give the Paris and Lyons Company the
works already executed for SO millions of francs,
which sum shall be given to the Lyons and Avig-
non Company by way of snbvention—the leases to be
for 99 years, without guarantee of interest.
Two days ago some m'en were discovered in the
act of setting, fire to trees in the wood of Vincennes.
The Jifoniteur announces that General PELLET re-
tires from the direction of the topographical depart-
ment of the War-office, in consequence of the an-
nouncement of the decree against plurality of
appointments.
The same piper announces that the Government
has presented to the consideration of the Council of
State, a Bill on an improved mode of recruiting the
army.
The National states that M. BEDIER PRAIRIE, a
French merchant residing at Pondicherry, who had
engaged a certain number of Coolies to go to Rennin,
had had the vessel on board which the Coolies were
shipped seized by the English collector of customs at
Cocanada, and had been himself detained as a priso-
ner five days. The pretence was that the Coolies
were English subjects, which is denied by M. BEDIER
PRAIRIE, who, with all the French citizens and
authorities at Cocanada, protested against the conduct
of the Fenglish collector. Redress will be demanded
of the English Government.

The E-nglish journals having announced that ex-
tensive excursion parties were being organized, for
the purpose of visiting Path during the Whitsuntide
holidays, the Constitutionnel thinks it useful to call
the attention of English travellers to the change
which has been lately made with regard to them, in
the old passport system. A pass is now given,
for the cost of five shillings, by any of the
consular agents, and which pass is valid for
a month, and dces not require the visa
of any of the authorities in France, but merely its
production. The Constittstionne/ states that, not-
withstanding the, instructions sent to the Channel
ports for the due observance of the new regulations,
they are not fully carried out, the commissionnaires
(touters) of the different hotels, persuading tra-
vellers that the visa is still necessary to their passes,
in order that they may extort money from
them for procuring that formality. Travellers
are cautioned not to submit to this imposi-
tion, and to refuse, on any account, to allow the pass
to go out of their own possession, all they have to do is
to show it when demanded. Should the traveller wish
to prolong his stay in France, after the month has
expired, he has only to exchange his pass for a regular
passport. The Minister of the Interior has it in con-
templation to send down a police agent to Boulogne
with a special mission, to send any of these commis-
sionnaires to prison who are found carrying on this
system of extortion.
PARIS BOURSE, APRIL 24.—Latest prices.—Five
per Cents., 89f. 15e. ; Three per Cents. 55f. 50e. ;
Bank of France, 2,195 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6% Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 12% East Indian, s%—Great Inctian
ninsula, 114 —Namur and Liege, 6!4.