The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-17 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of Sunday
and letters of yesterday.
During the sitting of the Assembly on Saturday
General SCHRAMM, the Minister at War, presented a
Bill, demanding an extraordinary credit of 3,218,5011.,
for keeping on a war-footing the army of occupation
at Rome during the first six months of 1851. This
credit, he observed, was calculated on the number of
10,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry. The number of
French troops at present in Italy was, he said, 14,000
infantry and 2,000 cavalry, but the Government ex-
pected to be able to reduce that force to the number men-
tioned above." In general," continued Gen. SCHRAMM,
" the situation of the Roman States has considerably
improved. Still we cannot as yet predict the precise
moment when the presence of our troops may be dis-
pensed with. In the impossibility at the present mo-
n-.ent of our being able to assign a term to the occu-
pation, we conceive that, as the Assembly granted
the Government the credits required to pay the ex-
penditure of IESO, it will not refuse to grant the funds
of 1851."

On Sunday, at a meeting of the Legitimatist Club
of the Rue de Ricoli, it was resolved to oppose the
motion of M. VICTOR LEPRANC for a revision of the
Electoral Law ; at the same time it was agreed to
watch narrowly the electoral lists, which will be
completed in March, and if it should be found that
any modification of the law was needed to forward
the interests of the Legitimatist party, such modifi-
cation should be then proposed.
At a meeting of the Orleanist Club it was also
resolved to oppose the motion of M. VICTOR LEFRANC.
M. THIER9 and M. ODILON BARROT were pre-
sent, and both spoke.
M. Tunas made a long speech in favour of the
law as it at present stands, and declared that its
maintenance on its present footing was necessary to
the preservation of the Conservative party.
M. ODILON PARROT supported the new electoral
law, but declared that it was necessary that it should
be distinctly understood whether the law was appli-
cable to the election of President of the Republic, and
to the municipal and general councils of the depart-
ments, as well as to those of the representatives of the
people.
M. TRIERS strongly opposed the idea that that ques-
tion should be settled by the Assembly, and claimed full
liberty to the Government to do in the matter as
it might think proper, or, in other words, to apply
the new electoral law to the election of the Presi-
dent or uot, according to the chance of success.
This language has given great satisfaction to the Bo-
napartists, but it does not appear to have been satis-
factory to the Orleanists, as it was resolved that the
Minister of the Interior should be " interpellated" on
the subject.
The Constitutionnel has a long article on the re-
cent depreciation in the price of gold, which it con-
tends ought to be treated as a marketable commodity.
PARIS BOURSE, DEC. it—Latest Prices.—Fiva
per Cents., 95f. 150. ; Three per Cents., 571. 60c.;
Bank of rance, 2,330 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 16.

Boulogne and Amiens, BM—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 1634—East Indian, 12—Luxembourg, 1—
Namur and Liege, B%—Northern of France, 151,, —Orleans
and Bourdeaux, 2%—Paris and Rouen, 261k—Paris and
Strasbourg, 91/2—Rouen and Havre, 10%—Sambre and
Meuse, 31/B—Tours and Nantes, 4%.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived.

There was a Ministerial crisis on the 9th. All the
Ministers had resigned, and it was at one moment
considered certain that a Mos and O'DONNELL
Ministry would be appointed. NAEVAEZ bad a long
conference with the QUEEN in the evening, at the
conclusion of which the Ministers withdrew their re-
signations and consented to remain in office.
Sir WlLLiera PARKER'S fleet is expected at Bar-
celona from Port Mahon.

MADRID BoLsA, DEC. 10.—Threes, 34i ; Fives,
12i. Exchange on London, 50 30.

PORTUGAL.

Adviccs have been received from Lisbon to the 10th.
The dispute between the Government and the Bank
continues unsettled.

The Diario do Governo of the 9th contains the first
instructions issued by a Portuguese commission, just
nominated by Royal decree, to promote the trans-
mission of Portuguese manufactures and products to
the Grand )exposition in London. The commission
names the 30th of January as the last day it will
receive, at the great room of the Lisbon Arsenal, such
articles as are sent in. It will then select those it
thinks proper, and the Portuguese Government will
pay the transit charges to London and back to the
arsenal at Lisbon, where the owners are to receive
them again. The Portuguese Commission laments
that wines and spirits should be excluded by the re-
gulations drawn up in London, but promises to apply
to the linglish Royal Commissioners for an excep-
tion in favour of those principal articles of Portu-
guese produce.