The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-09 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLI

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
These journals all comment on the state of affairs
in Prussia, which they consider as very grave. They
all, from the Legitimatist Opinion Publique to the
Republican National and the Socialist Presse' pro-
phecy the downfall of MANTEUFFEL and the King
of PRUSSIA. The Opinion Publique hints at the pro-
bability of the abdication of the MONARCH, the Mi-
nisterial Constitutionnel expresses its alarm at the
strength of the war party, the Union declares that
" the real difficulties are now commencing for the
King of PRUSSIA," and adds—'' GOD grant that after
having assumed a menacing attitude against his
powerful allies, he may not be obliged to have recourse
before long to their friendly intervention !"
The National thus comments on the prorogation of
the Prussian Chambers—
" We will not exaggerate, as they do at the Bourse,

the probable conseciueeces of this measure. The Pros•
scan nation has three or four times already allowed itseh
to be insulted in the person of its representatives. It
will no doubt endure this last affront, but the Royal au-
thority is gradually undermining itself by such proceed-
logs. The few words by which an incapable Minister
can always get rid of Assemblies to whose respect he
has forfeited all claim, lose their prestige, and leave
the desires, sentiments, and opinions of the country
just as they were. A concealed irritation and a bitter
memory survive their constrained obe3ience. The elements
of resistance accumulate, hostile convictions gain ground;
oppression, becoming heavier, wears away and crushes
its foundations; the divorce of the dynasty and the
people is pronounced in every heart; and when the
propitious moment comes, the decree is carried into ex-
ecution. For these reasons we clap our bands for joy
at this new act of authority, which increases the depth
of the abyss between the House of Hohenzollern and our
Prussian brethren. May they not forget the 4th De-
cember, and be over mindful of the days of March."
We read in the Presse—
" The Minister had no alternative but to retire, or
have recourse to those measures which the constitutional
regime authorises, but which, nevertheless, in most
cases, are the prelude to coups d'etat or revolutions.
On the morrow, December 4, the Minister announced to
the Chambers that they were prorogued to the 3d
of January. This gives a month's respite. The Ca-
binet reckons on obtaining absolution for its indignity
by the insolence of accomplished facts. It will not
succeed; it will only fill up the measure and make the
cup run over. Ah! you fancy a national movement can
be stifled 'by adjourning the Chambers. Do not deceive
yourselves. Your destiny is to go as far as you can, to
employ every means, and tail at last. Atter prori.guing
the Chambers you will dissolve them; after stifling dis-
cussion in the Parliament, you will try to stifle it in
the press, you will suspend the journals, proclaim mar-
tial law; and if, as we believe, your soldiers will not
follow you, you will call in the foreigner, you will cull
on the Diet which your have resisted; you will exhaust
the whole arsenal of repression, and when you have
broken all your weapons, you will fall powerless before
the public reprobation, before the conscience of that
people whom you want to abase, and ,who will stand up
against you."
The supporters of the politics of the defunct Re-
forme have recently started a journal called the Vote
Universel. This journal has been repeatedly prose-
cuted during the period of its brief existence, but in
spite of prosecution it still lived on ; in order, how-
ever, to effectually destroy it MM. BAROCHE and
CAELIER have caused its editor, M. CHARLES DR
LESSEPS, to be arrested on a charge of being con-
cerned in the Lyons conspiracy, which conspiracy is
a mere police-concocted sham. However, M. DE
LESSEPS has been kept in confinement a fortnight
without even having been examined by a magistrate,
and is now ordered to be transferred to the prison of
Lyons. In a letter which he has addressed to the
journals, he says—
" I defy not only the courts of Lyons, bat all the tri-
bunals in France, to find that I have any relation, I will
not say of a political character, but any relation of any
kind, even as a private individual, with the department
of the Rhone, the city of Lyons, or with the departments
which surround that city within a circumference of forty
leagues. The circle is large; but still I believe that I
do not advance too much in declaring that during my
whole life I have neither written nor received a letter
trom it. At all events, I affirm the fact as respects the
last three years to the present day. Surely this is
peremptory;

Hundreds of persons have been arrested on the ac-
cusation of being concerned in this pretended plot,
concerning the details of which not one word has been
given to the public. The police are exhausting the
patience of the people by their conduct in this
natter, As is justly observed by the &isle," the plot
of Lyons is covering France with misery and with
tears, and is exciting the worst passions."
The Committee of the A.,sernbly has reported
against the proposition of M. VicToß LEFRANC for
the amendment of the electoral law.

The Bill for the establishment of baths and wash
houses for the poor was passed on S sturclay by a ma
jority of 345 to 27g.

The Moniteur publishes the law recently passed by
the Assumbly, by which the public are to be allowed
the use of the State telegraphs throughout Franck.,
for the purpose of sending private communications.
The law comes into operation on the Ist of March,
1851.

The Moniteur also publishes the law passed two
days ago relative to the credits demanded by the
'Government for the extraordinary levy of 40,000 men.
A decree appears in the Moniteur, authorising the
Minister of Finances to proceed to public sale, by
sealed tenders, of 1,5421547 f. of Five per Cent.
Rentes, and of 493,217 t. Three per Cent. Rentes,
arising from Caisses d'Epargnes and the Lyons
Railway. The adjudication is to take plate on the
23d of December next.
BUSINESS DO, f 11'1 FOREIGN RAIL,A AYS
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7—Central of France (Orleans
and Vier4on), 15%--Great Indian Peninsula, I;7l;l—Namur
and Liege, 71A Northern of France 144 Paris and
Strasburg, 8% Roueu and Havre, 91/8 Sambre and
Meuse, *4.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 23 have arrived.
The Chamber of Deputies had urijourned for two
days in consequence of the Ministerial crisis.
MADRID BoLSA, DEC. 2.—The Three per Cents.
have Wien to 33k, and a kind of panic prevails on our
Bourse, owing to the Ministerial crisis, and other
causes of anxiety.