The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-09 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Assembly on Thursday, after rejecting, by
considerable majorities, the several amendments pro-
posed in the Law of Public Instruction, passed the
first four articles of the Law. The consideration of
the remaining articles was postponed to Monday.
It was rumoured at the Bourse on Thursday, that
serious distubances had broken out at Lyons.
The Patrie of that evening contains the following
semi-official contradiction of the report :—" Telegra-
phic dispatches received this day in Paris announce
that the departments enjoy the most profound tran-
quillity."
The utmost tranquillity prevailed in Paris up to
the hour of the departure of the post.
M. RICHARDET has called npon Count LEO DE
LABORDE to afford him satisfaction for the vulgar
insult which his Countship (a pattern specimen of
the old nobility) offered to him in the As-
sembly on Wednesday. The seconds have been
chosen on each side, MM. NICOL! BRAYMAND, and
BURGARD, for M. RICHARDET; and MM. DE COISLIN,
DE TURYILLE, and DE TREVENEUR, for Count LEO
DE LABORDE.

All the journals state that the mediation of France,
in the dispute between England and Greece, has been
accepted by both parties.
The expedition against La Plata is detained at
Brest by contrary winds.
M. PEIRAM, a communal schoolmaster, was dis-
missed a short time since by the Prefect of the De-
partment of the Meuse on account of his republican
opinions. His fellow-townsmen of Stenay im-
mediately elected M. PEIRATti to the municipal
council of the town by a large majority.
N. PROUDHON has been placed in solitary confine-
ment, since the seizure of his journal for an article
attacking the PRESIDENT of the Republic.
At the sitting of the Assembly, on Thursday, M.
RICHARDET ascended the tribune for the purpose of
calling the attention of the Assembly to the conduct
of the President, who had suffered: M. LEO DE
LABORDE to offer a gross insult to a Member and to
the Assembly, without calling him to order.
M. DUPIN, the President, declared, in reply, that
he had not heard the interruption of hi. LEO DE
LABORDE (probably the excellent President is deaf
in his right ear), or he should have called him to
order for having given utterance to au interruption
which not only passed the bounds of common decency
but which was conceived in terms the most reprehen-
sible. "If I had heard it," said M. Durnc,
" I should have noticed it severely. I should
have called its author to order, for he
deserved it more than any interrupter in
this Assembly has ever deserved it. I blame it
openly, and I at once condemn the interruption
and its author."

It was rumoured in Paris on Thursday that
the affair between MM. RICHARDET: and LEO
DE LapoßDE.had been settled by the latter apologis-
ing. M. RICHARDET, who had the choice of weapon,
chose pistols, and Count LEO DE LABORDE, who is
an accomplished swordsman, refused to fight with
them, and preferred making a retractation.
PARIS, FRIDAY, FITE P.M.—The Bourse was ani_
mated to-day, and the price if Goverment Stock conti-
❑ued to improve. The Five per Cents. opened at 96f.
40c., and closed at 96f. 50c. The Three per Cents.
closed at 58f. 65c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 8.
Luxembourg,2l4 —Namur and Liege, 7—Paris and Rouen,
23—Tours and :Nantes,