The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-10 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
FAILURE OF THE CUBAN EXPEDITION.
The Hibernia was signalled off Holyhead at half-
past eight this morning. She has telegraphed the
failure of the piratical expedition to Cuba.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We havo received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Ministry were defeated on Friday in the at-
tempt to make the Transportation Bill retrospective
by a majority of 16, the numbers being, for the
Ministry 313, against them 329. There is also every
probability that they will be defeated in their attempt
to increase• the salary of the PRESIDENT ; five
only of the fifteen- members of the Committee
to whom -the Bill is referred, are, favourable to it ;
The RepubliCans, the tiers parti and the party of M.
ODILON BARROT are oppoied to it, and the greater
number of the Legitimatisti, have determined, in spite
of the entreaties of M. BERRYER to vote against it.
Should it be thrown out, not only will the Ministry
resign, but it is said the PRESIDENT also ; and they
will hear of no compromise such as a temporary grant
Ito pay off the PRESIDENT'S debts; they will stand or
tall iw ";the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing .but
the Big."
The numbet of Members who voted in the diffe-
rent bureaux on the Bill for the increase of the PRE-
SIDENT'S salary was 531, of whom 226 voted for and
305 against the increase.
The Ordre says:—
" We have received from M. Odilon Barrot and several
of his. former colleagues •the •positive assurance that,
when in the Ministry, they never came to any resolution
or engagement which can be now invoked in support of
the demand for an addition of 2,400t000f. to the al-
lowance to the, President pf the
M. E. DE LA. GRANGE (de Is Gironde) has pre-
sented the following proposition relative to the thea-

tree f--
" Until a special law shall have been presented on thea-
tres, no new house can be opened, nor any new piece
represented. without previous authorisation, in Paris
from the Minister of Interior, and in the departments
from the prefects." •
The director of the Evinement, who was charged
with publishing a seditious libel, was acquitted on
Saturday by the jury of the assize court of the Seine.'
The PRESIDENT of the Republic, accompanied by
his orderly officer, and attended by an escort, passed
along the Boulevards at half-past nine o'clock. on
Sunday morning, on his way to the Northern Rail-
road, whence he proceeds to Creil, to preside over
the opening of the branch line from that place to St.
QTheuentin.
Blois Journal announces that Ann EL-KADEit
is lying dangerously ill in the chateau of Amboira.
IHJSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON. STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 8.
Dutch Rhenish, 24—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2%—Paris
and 'Orleans, 30—Rouen and Havre, 9.

GERMANY.
The prossi:n.decree regulating the press was pub-
lished on the 7th. ,
It contained 14 art;:ntes or paragraphs supplying
the provisions supposed to deficient in the law of
last year.
The chief points are the restorai.lou of the system
of caution-money, varying in amount, wording 'to
the frequency of publishing and the, impo,74llce of
the locality where the journal appears. Non- poti.".l"!
papers are exempted, and dangerous and hostile
journals are deprived of the privilege of transmission
by the post-office.
The introduction of journals from other countries
may be prohibited by the Minister of the Interior.
The most important provision states that certain
offences against the articles of the decree are not to be
tried by -a jury, but according to the old system.
A letter from Stutgardt of the sth states that the
Committee of the National Assembly had resolved to
send an address to the Government for the convoca-
tion of an extraordinary sitting to deliberate on the
proposition to impeach the Ministry.
The Universal German Gazette of the 4th pith-
fishes in a supplement two ordinances from King
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS of Saxony, one against the.
right of meeting and association ; and the other
against the liberty of the press.
The Prussian Moniteur of the 6th inst. contains ap.
ordonnance from the King of SAxortr, convoking the
Saxon States for the Ist of July. They are to be
composed as under the Constitution of September 4,
1831.- Another ordonnance takes off the state of
siege from Dresden, existing since May 8, 1849.
The Saxon Government published, on June 5, a
notice declaring that the decision of Jan. 3, 1849,
suspending the punishment of death, is hencefor-
ward to be considered null and void, and that the
said punishment is, fur, the future, to be in force for
all crimes which merit it, as had previously been the
case.