The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-04 00:00:00

DEPARThIRNTAL ADMINISTRATION.

" Brave Inhabitant,' of Paris ! Dear Fellow-Citizens !
The Municipal Commission, by investing me provisionally
with the Prefeitture of the Seine, haa intrusted to me
functions at once delightful and- diffiCult to fulfil. Who
can flatter himself with being worthy of the rank of first
Magistrate of a population whOre heroic conduct has juat
saved France, freedom, and civilization—of a population
that embrace« within its bosom all that is most worthy of
distinction in commerce, property, the magistracy, the
sciences and the arts ? But it is you, of whom it is im-
poosihie to pronounce an adequate eulogy, or whose into.
rest+ can be sufficiently promoted.. Industrious citizens
of every profession,—.you whose spontaneous efforts, with-
out a guide, witl.out a plan, have found means to over-
come oppression, without polluting victory with one. single
stain,-.-you have been found ingenious and sublime in
danger, generous and modest in the midst of triumph.
Ah ! lielleve the when I acknowledge that from amongst
yon I have learnt the full extent of my duties, by. being
taught to appreciate the full extent of your sacrifices,
" A detailed report of all the glorious actions of this
day, and more particularly of tke losses and the misfOrtunes
they have occasioned, is in preparation. Already public
beneficence is engaged in repairing them. We will not
remain behind in Seal.

" Electors of Peril, who, for the third time have called
me by a free exercise of your suffrages to the honnur of
representing you, may I venture to hope for your continue►!
support in the new functions with which 1 have just been
invested ?

" Inhabitants of the espital,—.Your magistrates do not
wish to make you feel their presence but by the good they
perform. You, on yeuraide, will second their endeavours ;
you will add double honour to your triumph, by ()hien,-
jog that calmness and order which accords so well with
success. Assist us in rendering yourselves happy; this
is the only recompenco we will ask for our labours.
" ALEXANDER DELABOrtDE,
s, Paris, July 30." " Provisional Prefect of the Seine."

A private letter from Paris, dated Smutty, contains the
following particulars :—" I have just been relieved from
guard. I was on duty at the Palace of the Duke of Or-
leans. I have been placed sentinel at the door of his sa-
loon. His affability is very great : people of eminence
have been flocking round him continually till very late at
night. Ile has repeatedly shown himself to .the people,
smiling and bowing most courteously, and throwing pro •
clamations to the enthusiastic crowd : his confidence in
the people is very great. He crossed our ranks repeatedly,
notwithstanding the casualties to which he mutt hive been
exposed froni being surrounded by so many armed men,
unaccustomed to handle such 'heavy arms, and most of us
exhausted with fatigue and sleep. I have seen him repeat..
edly gently lift with his hand the Sloping musket, armed
with shot and bayonet, which impeded his passage throtigh
our mis-shaped ranks, kwoman, of most extraordinary
heroism, wire allot at the Guards for hours, aided in
in taking a post from them, and who even charged on
a piece of cannon, and was principal in taking it, trim
introduced to the Prince, and surrounded by the gin.
rious body of the 'Hole Polytechnique. He compli-
mented her, hut I could not hear his words--we were
requested to present arms when she passed before ns.

Among the various trait/ of heroism the following came
under tnyrtutice ,--A soldier was brought in to the Hotel
de Itijle et &Albion, Rue St. Thomas du Lonvie, in
littek4hasilug Mid 11044 broken. .-.lle exhibited the •
greatest sang froid imaginable while at the hotel. Ile
conversed freely.with every person around, and expressed
anxiety only for his mother. After the surge n
dressed his leg, he smoked a cigar, every now an 1 then
exclaiming, Vive /a Charts.' A cousin of .h s, wise,
had been fighting, came to see him, immediately em-
braced him much affected, and offered him money, whicl.
he refused. He ►hook hands with the English gentlemen
around him, observing, ' Antrefaisje haissais lea Anplais,
mais a present le 1 s estinte de tout man corm.' Ile
was a good..looking man, about S 5, who hail served MI.
der Napoleon."

A barefooted Parisian insurgent, passing by a dead
Swiss soldier in one of the streets, and seeing that he bad
on a good pair of shoea, coolly observed, that as dead men
could not want shoes, he would borrow them fir a %Limon.

"TRIBUNAL OF COMMERCE OF THE DEPART. MENT OF THE SEINE.
" DELIBERATION or Ton 31sT' or JULY, 1830.
"'[he tribunal having assembled to-day in extraordinary
sitting, Al. Vases', its President and Member of the Cham-
ber of Deputies, communititteel a resolution fraluerl on his
own report y the Municipal Commission of Paris, dated
thiti day.
" The resolution is thus worded—
The Municipal Commission of Paris,—having con-
sidered that since the 96tb of July all mercantile commu-
nications and circulation of bills bad been suspended in the
city of Paris by superior force;
" "Ihat wince the 28th of July the Tribnnil of COM.
coerce has suspended its audiences; that the co isees, being
called 'Upon for the defence of the common cause, h lee been
corded to suspend the course of their businiss and of their
pay inetitel
‘• And considering the requisitions addressed to it by
the trading community of Pans :
" After having heard the President of the Tribunal of
Commerce, and marshland the urgency of circumstances._
darees—
" ' Art. I.' That the term of acceptances payable in
Paris, and due between the 26th of July and the 15th of
Aug., inclusive, shall be extended tea days, so that the bills
due on the 26th of July will only be payable on the 6th or
August, and so on.
" Art. 2. All' protests, claims on responsibility, and
prescriptions relative to commercial bills, mentioned in
Art. 1, are likewise suspended.
" ' Hotel de Ville, in Paris, July 31.
" LOBAU, AUDRY, DE PUYRAVEAU,
DE SCHONEN, MAUGUIN.'
" The Tribunal, having deliberates', acknowledges that
the- legitimate 'defence of our rights and liberties, called
forth by the Ordinances of the 25th of July; that the
necessity of resisting violence and military force having
compelled the whole population of Paris to arm them-
selves; that the city, having been placed in a st4te of
siege, the course of business has been interrupted, the,
shops and warehouses have been closed, the tribunals have
ceased to administer justice ; and thus, all cumin, icial
transactions having been forcibly suspended, and communi-
cations interrupted, the payment of bills on the day of their
being due has become impracticable; that superior force
his interfered ; that the necessity of the case is of an im-
perious kind ; that it authorizes a course which, though
deviating from the ordinary rules of trade and the pre-
scription of the laws, insures against effects which would
prove injurious to all.
" Considering these motives, the Tribunal ordains, that
the decree of the Municipal Commission of Paris, above
referred to shall be transcribed into the register of its deli-
berations, and that conformably to the decisions of' the said
decree, all protests for non-payment of commercial bills due
from the 26th of July to the 15th of August next, inclu-
sive, shall oply be made on the eleventh day after the date
of their becoming due, preparatory to the legal proceedings
to be foundell on the same.
" The Tribunal further determines, thlt it shall re-
sume the usual course of its audiences from Monday next,
the 2d of August.
" That it will administer justice in the name of Louis
Philip of Orleans, Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom,
invested iu that capacity with the sovereign powers.
" The present decree shall be prints I and published, so
that no one may remain ignorant of its contents.
(Signed) " It. VASSAL, President,
" And by all the Judges composing the
Tribunal of Commerce."