The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The proposition for increasing the pay of the at
present underpaid sub-officers of the army is exciting
the ire of the parti-pretre and the Legitimatists, who
imagine that there will be nothing left for the Jesuits
to plunder under the hoped for restoration, if the pay
of the army be increased.
The Ordre, the organ of this party and of XI.
THIERF, has the following on this subject :
" It is no., however, the idea of -offering a just remu-
neration which has inspired the authors cf the project
of law, as well as of the rival proposition put forward by
kontagnards. Hence it is that we can see no other in-
tention than that if gaining over the army. The army
entertains, we will say, too high an ilea of its dignity
to set its fidelity up to auction. Its fidelity belongs to
:he country, and to the cause of social order, already
so valiantly defended, and it will not attach
itself specially to any particular personal am-
bition, or to any anarchical f iction, fir the sake of un-
worthy bribes. Hitherto the army has remained
intact amidst the general confusion caused by the revo-
lu,ion of February. It became not merely as act of
prudence but of imperative duty to abstain from laying
hauds on the only surviving institution, seeing that
it is the very one which serves as a bulwark to the
country and to society ; that it is, in fact, our sheet
anchor in the midst of general dis urbance which will
happen, however, in the National Assembly, as the dis-
cusions which took p!a!e yesterday in the bureaux and
the choice of members of the committee cicarly indicate.
What if the Assembly reject these insidion, propositions,
and postpone to more favourable times the consideration
cf what may be usefil and practicable in the way of
ameliorating the condition cf the army ? Is it not to be
feared that anarchists will take advantage cf the re fad
to put forward unreasonable designs, and to calumniate
the intentions cf the Assembly ? The Assembly is,
ro:vettheless, resolved to look to the general interest
only, sure that;the army will equally comprehend it."
The army, we imagine, will not suffer itself.; obe
cajoled by these quasi promises of the parti pretre,
which mean nothing. The army, in common with
the people of France, have too vivid a recollection of
the doings of the parti pretre between 1815 and 1830
to believe in their promises ; the reply to all over-
tures from that party should be, on the part of the
Army, NET
The Assemblee Nationale, another organ of the
parti pretre, has had recourse to the old tactics of the
party, and is engaged in concocting and propagating
rumours of an intended comp d'etat. It has been as
serted that a Minister stated publicly that ".the Assem-
bly was lost in the esteem of the country, and that it
would shortly be necessary to come to an end with it."
That Minister is said to be M. ACHILLE FOULD, and
M PISCATORY (ex-man of all work to M. GuizoT)
is the person who states that M. FOULD made use of
the expression ; a statement, however, the truth of
which N. FOULD absolutely denies.
The National gives the following version of the

affair :
" It is surely time for the men who direct the affairs
of the country t) permit it t breathe in peacr. A few
months ago disquieting rumours disturbed the public
mind. Since then the majority of the nation, devoted
to the conet tutior, has been expecting to see issue
from the regular working of the institetions the pro-
gress which is evidently necessary. But here, in the
midst of the universal calm, new alarms are dissemi-
nated, and the meagre stream of publics prosperity is
disturbed at its source. For the la,t two days Ewe.
nacing rumours are afloat ; filly appia,s incurable :in
certain regions; and because the Preside! t if the Re-
public is named Napoleon, there are people who wan t,
right or wrong, to have him Emperor. Acquainted,
like every one else, with these rumours, we kept silerd,
for we feel no pleasure in producing disquietude; but
other jourtaP, who do not deem themselves bound
to a like reserve, have spoke". The Assemblee Na-
tionale has the Lillowing lines, which merit explanatii
--` Some thing ext-aordinary is passing in certain
re-
gions of the politca,l world. It appears that an impor-
t tnt page of history is being sket.Med. Difficultiele.re
being explored, the means of action reckoned, and the '
p;a,le of each personage at the decisive moment settled.
We shall have to come back on the st-ange rumours-
which are in circulation. The Estafette if last night.
confirms them, and Vie Opinion Pub!ique seemed yes-
terday to desire t t them be a !ticip.tsd by the fo!-
lowing language :--` If the Patric thinks that, in order
to allow another place, which we shall freely call the
Empire, to be occupied, the Right would agree to vote
always with the shades of the majority willing to make
that concession, it is mistaken. In that case we should
reply, like Al. de Montalembert, non possumus, and
we should be with those who would el( fend the inde-
pendence a the national will against enterprises awl.
adventures.' Let us add that the demi-official organs.
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Nationale. It must also be stated that M. Abraham
'Dubois, one of the most ultra if tho majority, yesterday
confirmed iu the most marked manner, in the 13th.
bureau, these alarming rumours, for he affiimed,
speaking against the Bill relating to the increased pay of
the sutsuflimsrs, that he had beard the fAlowing words
f:om the mouth of one of the Ministers:—` The National
Assembly is lost in the esteem of the country; it will be ,
necessary to shortly come t 3 an end wilt it.' This
s•atement produced the utmost indignation. Cett lin
f,►ks, eonscqueLtly, dream ef an 18th Brumaire—be it
so; try that coup dotal; allow your last s'alte; the
te,tion will hold against you and will gain. It has
gained more difficult matcher. At the nuie of an at-
tempt to be made against the national represet.t dim:, it
would reply by the noise if the tocsie, sounded in Paris,
in every town, in every village in France. It would
take up-arms for the defence of the constitution, and if
it fund an enemy in its path, he would be crushed like