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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The journals of the reactionary party have, ever
since the return of M. EUGENE SUE, been announcing
" a reform of the Electoral Law," that is to say, an
attack upon the principle of Universal Suffrage, but
as yet no Ministerial measure has been proposed to
the Assembly on the sulject—not that the Ministers
shrink from making an attack on the Cons'itujon—
not they indeed. They have prepared a measure for
the " regulation," as they call it, of Ueiversal
Suffrage, but an unexpected obstacle has arisen in
the way of its proposition to the Assembly. The
PRESIDENT of the Republic does not approve
of it, because the changes proposed will give
the Legitimatists and Orleanists an advantage
over himself and his friends i❑ any future elections.
MM. 'Timm, MOLE, and CIIANGARNIER, have been
endeavouring to persuade him to consent to the pro-
posed alteration, which will disfranchise at least two
millions of votes. General CLIANGARNIER has a per-
sonal interest in this question, as it is well known that
the Legitimatists intend to start him as their candidate
for the Presidency of the Republic in 1852, trusting
that he will be the French General Mosix of the new
restoration.
MM. VIELLARD and ABATUCCI recommend the
PRESIDENT to recal M. DUFAURE, and to adopt
system of conciliation; and I\L DurtN, the President
of the Assembly, gives the same advice : he says that
the time has arrived when all the friends of France
should take their stand on the ground of an
" honest and moderate Republic," and that the Go-
vernment should be composed of " honest and mode-
rate men."
A letter from Toulon of the 30th ult. mentions
that the Viscount DE CLIAVIGNY, condemned to hard
labour for life, for the murder of his wife, died last
week in the hospital of the convict prison.
PARIS BOURSE, MAY 2.—Latest Prices—Five per
Cents., 87f. 70c.; Three per Cents., 54f. 65c.; Bank
of France, 2,0801.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOOK-EXCHANGK, MAY 2.
Central of France (Orleans anti Vierzon), 12%—Dutch
Rhenish, I%—East Indian, 5,41--Northern of France, 12%
—Paris and Roues, 191/4.

GERMANY.
On the 29th ult. the Erfurth Parliament was pro,
rogued by the following message from the Council of
Administration, which was delivered by RADOWITZ
to the House of the People, and by CARLOWITZ to the
House of the States :
" MESSAGE OF THE ADMINISTRATITE COUNCIL.
" The Administrative Council of the Confederate
German Governments has received the statement of the
resolutions which the Parliament assembled here since
the 20th March has passed concerning the drafts of the
constitution, Ste. (Vorlagen), notified and delivered to it
in the name of these Governments in the opening
message.
" With these resolutions, which the Administrative
Council will make known without delay to the Confede-
rate Governments with a view to a closing declaration,
the Parliament has discharged that more proximate co-
operation in the work of the constitution of the Ger-
man Union, which article 4 of the Federal Statute of
the 26th May, 1849, designated to be the purpose of
this session.
" While the Administrative Council accordingly re-
cognises the labours of this Parliament directed to this
end as ended for the time being, but still reserves the
right of reconvoking it (dessen Wiedereinbesnfung
jedoch vorbehdlt), it expresses to those men whom the
first Germau Parliament united here its lively thanks
and its perfect estimation of that sense of patriotism,:
that earnest will, and that assiduous zeal which have
been displayed in the revision of the constitutional drafts,
and in the motions of amendment that have emanated
therefrom.
" The Administrative Council receives these results
in the belief which they strengthen—the belief, that is,
in the successful solution of the great political questicn
which the Confederate Governments have proposed to
themselves under the consciousness of their duties and
their significations of acquiescence, and it (the Council)
accompanies them with the sincere wish that the work
of the constitution in its completion may obtain
that appreciation which, in the true interest of
all parts (i. e., of the federal whole), it has to lay
claim to.
" I hereby, in the name of the Confederated Govern-
ments, declare the session of Parliament closed."
Several of the officers of GEORGEI'S army have
been sent as prisoners to fortresses in Bohemia. The
Emperor of AUSTRIA iS, it is said, about to visit
Trieste, Venice, and Milan. The Cologne Gazette
thus comments on the act of political suicide recently
committed by the boy EMPEROR, at the instance of
his bigotted and priest-ridden mother.
" What Autocratic Austria did not venture to do under
Area ,rnich, Constitutional Ausiria has done publicly and
officially, viz, the recall of the Jesuits; in the official
journal of Verona we read the decree of installation
signed with Radetzlty's own hand, whereby the..e worthit
hive the necessary localities assigned to their cardinal.
Schwartzeuburg is most zealously interested in the mat-
t-r, and dispenses the needful cash with a liberal hand.
Their net is spread widely. Vienna has been omitted,
probably to prevent the young men from coming into
collision with their spiritual power; nevertheless, their
influence has been secured in the highest quarter; the
future father confessor of the Court is to be a member
of the order of the Jesuits."
Baron STUaMER has resigned the post of Aus
trian Internuncio at Constantinople, and is expected
at Vienna in the course of the present month.
The Wanderer says the investigations of the flagrant
plundering of the Jews in the year 1848, in Neustadt,
on the Waag, and near Syered, having been termi-
nated, the injured parties are now to receive indem-
nification. Some villages will have to pay as much
as 10,000 florins, which will be raised by putting in
executions.
The Emperor of AUSTRIA has given orders for the
establishment of dockyards at Pola and Trieste, and
for increasing the navy to six ships of the line, six
frigates, and a proportionate number of small craft.

•
HOLLAND.
TnE HAGUE, APRIL 30.—This afternoon at-hal

past three o'clock, the usual ceremony of betrothement
and exchange of rings, took place at the palace of his
Royal Highness Prince FREDERICK of the Nether-
lands, between her Royal Highness the Princess
LoutAA, eldest daughter of Prince FREDERICK, and
his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of SWEDEN and
NORWAY. His Royal Highness the CROWN PRINCE
proceeded from his hotel to the palace in great state,
attended by a mounted guard of honour. A grand
gala dinner was given on the occasion by Prince
FREDERICK, at which above SO persons sat down. In
the evening the Prince and Princess FREDERICK and
the illustrious betrothed received the congratulations
of those Rho had been present at court.
Yesterday evening the British Ambassador at this
Court, Sir E. DISEROWE, gave a ball to the CROWN
PRINCE. Their Majesties the KING and QUEEN
graced it with their presence.
Vice-Admiral LUCAS, Minister of Marine, has been
appointed Aide-de•Camp extraordinary to his MA-
JESTY.—Dutch Papers, Ably 1.

SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN.
One of the Holstein deputation, Syndic PREIIN,
returned on the 27th ult. to Kiel from Copenhagen.
It was believed he brought with him the conditions
on which a negotiation would be entered into by the
Danish Government. A conference of the Stadt-
holderschaft was to be held the next day, to deter-
mine the further instructions to be given to the de-
putation, with which M. PREIIN will return to Co
p-
WILLISEN had issued the following public
e nuheangeernal
notice :

" Head-quarters, Kiel, April 27.
" The great number of applications for posts in the
Schleswig-Holstein army induces the undersigned to
notify publicly that only German officers can be ac-
cepted, and of theta only those who are provided with
the best testininnials of abilit) and zeal, which must be
submitted for examination before any satisfactory answer
to their application eau he expec! ed. Officers of the Staff
and Artillery will be preferred, and, if selected, will be
placed advantageously. Cavalry officers are among those
least required.
" VON WILLISEN, General in Command."