The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-01 00:00:00

TO THE INHABITANTS OF LA CROIX ROUSSE.

" On the complaint which has been made to us by
Mesons. Charpentier and La Chapelle, alai, that certain

ill-disposed persons had abused their names by affixing
them to a placard, tending to misrepresent and injure the
authority of the Magistrates, and to ascribe sentiments to
the inhabitants of this town which they have never enter-
tained, we publish the following :
" Men of Lyons,—We, Charpentier and La Chapelle,
aine, declares that we protest against an address to the in-
habitants of Lyons, dated the 23d of November, 1831,
commencing with the words Perfidious Magistrates,' and
ending with let not its lustre be obscured.'
" As this address expresses sentiments which have never
been ours, and which, we venture to say, are not those of
our comrades, it is due to our honour and our patriotism,
to protest against an act which is so much the more base
that we never put our names to it.
" Done at the Hotel de Ville of Lyons, this 23d of No-
vember, 1831.
" CHARPENTIER and LA CHAPELLE.
" The Mayor of La Croix Rousse, fIICIIAN."

" Men of Lyons!—Circumstances which we all deplore
have caused a suspension of labour. The good spirit of
the population has. secured us from the distressing conse-
quences which might have resulted from it. Public order
prevails, tranquillity exists among us, and already the ge.
neral wish is, that the workshops should be re-opened.
".Manufacturers, chiefs of workships, and artisans, let
each of you have confidence ; obliterate the past, and the
city shall soon present again the picture of its former har-
mony, and of its happy activity.
" In consequence, I invite all the inhabitants to re-open
their warehouses and workshops, and to resume the course
of their daily occupations.
" Hotel de Ville, Nov. 21.
" The Mayor of LYONS.
" BOISSET, Adjoint.
" Approved by the Prefet of the Rhone,
" DU MOLART."

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRECURSECR.

" Lyons, Nov. 2 t.
" is our duty to explain to you, that in the
course of the events which have just taken place at Lyons,
no political or seditious insinuations have had any influ-
ence. We are entirely devoted to Louis Philip, King of
the French, and to the constitutional charter. We are
animated by sentiments the purest and most fervent for the
prosperity of France and for public lihrrty, and every fac-
tion which would attempt to injure them meets with our
cordial detestation.

'We pray you to insert this solemn declaration in your
next number.

" The Chiefs of Sections of the Silk
Weavers of Lyons,
" BOUVERY, " SIGAUD, fill aine,
" BRET, " CHARMER,
" L A BORY, " MASSON-SIBUT,
" BIOLLAY, " L. BONARD,
• "CH. BOFFERDING, "TARGET,
" FALCONNET, " JOUANARD,
" BLANCHET, " BROSSE."
" B. JACOB,
" Lyons, Nov. 24."

Five o'clock p. m.
It is now two late and too dark to work the tele-
graph. No despatch of that kind has reached Paris
from Lyons to-day. At least none has been suffered
to transpire, and with the Minister's professions of
frankness, this silence may be regarded as a negative.
The Government has adopted the most energetic
measures for preventing a similar explosion in other
great towns to that which has broken out at Lyons.
Marshal Mortier, Duke of Treviso, has received
orders to set out for Strasburg, to assume the com-
mand of the military division of which that great
town is the capital. Molitor is under similar orders
for Marseilles ; Soult is by this time at Lyons ;
Gerard is with army of the north at Maubeuge ; and
here in Paris, the military staff being complete, the
absence of the Marshal gives rise to no apprehen-
sion. Thus the armies of France will be formed
into so many distinct corps under the orders of the
Marshals I have named, for the purpose of simpli-
fying the administrative duties of the war depart-
ment, and rendering it unnecessary to maintain a di-
rect correspondence between the chiefs of a great
number of small detachments scattered over the
provinces and the head of the War-office in Paris.
The Marshals in command of separate corps d'armee
will be intrusted with a large discretion, and they
alone will now communicate with the Government,
receiving communications in their turn from their nu-
:nerous subordinates.

The tranquillity of the capital remains undisturbed.
The guards, however, have been doubled, and other
measures have been taken for anticipating the effects
of any sudden commotion.
I have just seen a letter from Rouen, bearing the
date of the 27th of November, in which it is said,
"We are here quite tranquil. In the workshops we
hear commentaries on the events of Lyons, but up
to tut. moment nothing like a spirit ul disturbance
has shown itelf. This tranquillity certainly does
not proceed from the absence of very serious suffer-
ing among the weavers and the dyers, particularly
the former. The spinners, who are the only class
employed in great numbers together in large manu-
factories, although not on high wages, are tolerably
well off, and there is no probability of their com-
mitting themselves by any excess. At the great
theatre to-night, the piece announced for represen-
tation was Napoleon, or Schoenbrunn and St.
Helena. In the excess of their prudence the autho-
rities of the town have given orders for its suppres-
sion. It is to be replaced by an opera.
The accounts from Lyons, of every shade of po-
litical opinion, are unanimous in their praise of the
moderation displayed by the working classes.
The troops, before leaving the town, succeeded
in throwing the contents of the powder magazine
into the Rhone. As a proof of their moderation, an
advertisement recommending the convocation of the
primary assemblies has been disavowed by the work-
men. You are aware that such a convocation has
for some time been the cue of the Carlist party;
and on this occasion it is said to have been sug-
gested by one of the most active of its organs, the
Gazette de Lyons.
At the weekly reunion at the Tuileries on Sun-
day evening, the character of the operations con-
templated by the Government was spoken of in a
way which may best, perhaps, be expressed by the
single term " energy." About M. Casimir Perier
there is, no doubt, a certain degree of harshness;
and as to Soult, it is to be feared that no com-
punctious visiting of nature would restrain him from
the cold and unimpassioned exercise of what he
conceives to be his duty. The qualities which seem
to be necessary for the discharge of the delicate and
important duties which now devolve on them, ap-
pear to me to bear a singular and striking analogy to
those which a surgeon requires for the most delicate
of all operations—the Calsarean,—prudence, gentle-
ness, delicacy, tact, and the savoir faire. For my
part, I am disposed to place a very high degree of
confidence in the councils of the French Cabinet on
this great emergency, and to entertain the most san-
guine hopes that they will succeed in carrying the
country happily and successfully through the serious
dangers with which it is now threatened.

From the bulletin of this day's Stock-market,
which accompanied this communication, you will
see that there is little or no movement either way.
This can only be regarded as the result of the un-
certainty in which matters are left by the want of
any definitive intelligence from the scene of the late
disturbances.

In the course of the day I have seen one of the
Members of the deputation from the British Board,
who assures me that the proclamation for opening of
the Session of Parliament has not yet been followed
by any order for their recall. L.

The great Reform meeting of the county of
Tipperary took place last week. Upwards of 10,000
persons were present.
THE GHOST-SEER.—This singular romance,
which is now published in the Standard Novels, was
written in Dresden, in which town Scutu.Ertbecanle ena-
moured of a beautiful lady, who has been designated by
some of his biographers as " FRAULEIN A ," and
who, for a time, not only held exclusive possession of his
heart, but also influenced his writings. She was the ori-
ginal of the Princess Eboli, in the play of Don Carlos ; and
it is probable that his passion for her might have suggested
that important part of the " Ghost Seer," which delineates
the mad love entertained by the Prince for the lady whose
fascinations first enthralled him, as he saw her under the rays
of the setting sun, praying in the evening solitude of the
church in Venice. The " Ghost-Seer," is indeed, just such
a story as we can imagine SCIIILLER telling—picturesque,
mysterious, worthy of the Venice in which its scenes are laid.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKW 0 OD' S MAGAZINE.

" Sotheby's Homer" is an eloquent and acute
specimen of criticism ; full of feeling and a nice
apprehension of the beautiful. Of course Pro-
fessor Wilson is the author ; the bantling is his
undoubted legitimate offspring ; eyes, mouth,
lips, nose, brow, figure, all are as like the father
as they can possibly be. The Professor, however,
in his notice of the different Homeric trans-
lations, lays too great a stress on the merits of
Cowper, and the demerits of old Chapman.
The evangelical writer of the Task—exquisite as
that poem is in its way,—has nothing in
common with Homer ; we wonder he was not
frightened out of his wits by 'merely reading,
much less translating him. Chapman, though
quaint, old fashioned, and occasionally repulsive,
had much of the true Homeric spirit in his
composition : in his happier moments his verses
have a sonorous grandeur and energy of expres-
sion, that no other translator of the Iliad has
yet attained. " Parliamentary Reform and the
French Revolution," though eloquently and
forcibly penned, should take for its motto
the words of the Litany " Battle, murder, and
sudden death." It is the production of an
alarmist of the wholesale school. " Narrative
of an Imprisonment in France during the Reign
of Terror" is one of the most stirring, effective
narratives we have ever read. It cannot be read
without a heart-thrill. " Fragments from the
History of John Bull," is a weak imitation of
Arbuthot's delightful allegory. We say weak,
for it lacks every thing that it should possess, to
render its resemblance to the original complete ;
it has neither wit, lightness, nor simplicity ; nei-
ther continuousness of allegory, nor propriety of
diction. " Curliana" is just readable, nothing
more. 'We have no space for extracts.