The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-16 00:00:00

his native tongue. During the recent visit of the
National Guards to London how many hung back
ashamed to exhibit the ignorance, which, for the
moment, was unaffectedly deplored ? how many
are there unable to avail themselves of a trip to the
continent from the same cause, and who cannot enjoy
what would otherwise be a delightful recreation, from
inability to make themselves understood by the inha-
bitants of the country in which they may be sojourn-
ing for the moment.
Now that a knowledge of French and German
will be required from every officer in the
army an additional inducement will be sup-
plied to others to learn these languages
practically and efficiently. Many are beginning
to avail themselves of the advantages afforded
by a continental education, where these languages
can be almost imperceptibly acquired without any
neglect of other branches of learning, and where the
true tone and accent can alone be attained. Many
well-qualified persons are now taking pupils in some
of the German towns, where peculiar facilities exist
for imparting sound instruction to the rising genera-
tion. A reference to our advertising columns will
show an unexceptionable instance. We doubt not
that such opportunities will be anxiously sought after,
and that those who have the means will gladly afford
their children the benefits of a short residence in " the
Fatherland."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The PRESIDENT and his advisers have followed up
their coup d'etat with a high hand. They have
adopted the simple plan of completely silencing their
opponents by seizing all the opposition journals,
with the exception of the National, and of arresting
the opposition Deputies en masse. It behoves us,
therefore, to be exceedingly cautious in crediting the
statements which appear in the Paris journals, as they
are necessarily one-sided. The following are extracts
from some of the Ministerial journals :
"An attempt was to have been made by the insur-
gents to seize the person of Louis Napoleon.
" The exact account of the treatment of M. Lacrosse,
the Minister of Public Works, by the mob, is
this :—He was seized, separated from the officers
who had accompanied him, and menaced unless
he shouted Vice la Constitution! and Vice la Re-
publique Romaine! The Minister held firm to the
last, kept his hat on his head, and refused to join in
the cry. He was torn from his horse, his clothes rent
to tatters, and in all probability he would have been
murdered but for he interference of M. Etienne
Arago.
"The conspirators, it would seem, had actually drawn
up a list of their Ministry. It is said that Sergeant
Boichot was to have been named Minister at War in
the new Government of the Convention.
" As to the rumoured escape of Ledru Rollin to
Belgium, another report is prevalent. It is said
that when 4 the soldiers entered the Conservatoire, and
the conspirators made a precipitate escape by jumping
through the windows, Ledru Rollin's hat was found
on the table, with the forage-cap of Sergeant Rattier.
The former is supposed to have absconded in the
direction of Lyons; if so, he is probably the repre-
sentative referred to by M. Dufaure, when addressing
the Chamber."
The following is a rather striking account of the
reception given to LOUIS NAPOLEON and General
CRANGARNIER by the people on Wednesday :
"It wanted a few minutes to 5 o'clock P.BI. yesterday
when the President of the Republic made his appear-
ance at the head of a crowd of generals, amongst
whom were General Changarnier and General
Castillon, on the Boulevards. He proceeded to
the Place de Bastille,: traversed the 4, Faubourg
St. Antoine, and returned to the Elysees by
the rue Rivoli. He was received everywhere with marks
of the greatest enthusiasm. But it was General Chan-
gamier to whom, during his first visits, that the most
enthusiastic affection was exhibited. I never beheld
anything to surpass the burst of enthusiasm with
which he was hailed. Young and old, women and boys,
ran up to him and grasped his hand, and from the
windows along the Boulevards you saw handkerchiefs
and hats waving to welcome the man on whose skill,
energy, and most admirable moderation the safety of
Paris depended. As the dragoons galloped past the
Boulevard des Italiens, about six o'clock, I distinctly
heard many of them shout Vive Napoleon 1 Vice 1 'Em-
pereur ! as they stood up in their stirrups, and waved
their swords over their heads."
The Red Republican journals which have been
stopped from further publication, were six in number,
viz., the Peuple, the Tribune des Peuples, the Re-
forme, the Democratie Pacifique, the Republique, and
the Vraie Ripziblique.
The manner in which these journals were stopped
is most disgraceful to that party which has arro-
gated to itself, how justly let its conduct in this
instance testify, the title of the party of order
and of moderation. Some persons belonging to
the first legion of the National Guards of Paris
(this legion is composed exclusively of the aris-
tocratic portion of society, who reside in the Bel-
gravia of Paris), entered the establishment of M.
PEoux, who is one of the largest printers in Paris,
and wha prints among other things several journals
with the politics of which he of course has nothing to
do, and broke his presses, scattered his types, and
destroyed his property. In consequence of this wan-
ton conduct on the part of these refined frequenters
of the salons of the Ely see, M. PROUX is ruined,
and sixty persons are thrown out of employment.
The same persons then proceeded to the printing
establishment of M. Boule, Rue Coq Heron, which
they completely gutted, destroying types, furniture,
fixtures, in fact everything but the bare walls. By
this act of destruction 200 workmen are thrown out
of employment. The Siecle, in relating these dis-
graceful transactions, recalls the attention of its
readers to the fact that during the two revolutionary
months of 1848, under the administration of the Pro-
visional Government, when there were in Paris
neither regular troops nor an organized police, and
when the people armed were masters in the streets,
no such atrocious invasions of the rights of property
occurred. This brutal impatience of contradiction,
this savage hatred of intellect, which goes to the
length of destroying even those material instruments
which are used for diffusing its inspirations, is, it
appears the exclusive characteristic of the gens comme
it faut.

In the National Assembly on Thursday the autho-
risation demanded for the prosecution of MM.
LEDRU ROLLIN, VICTOR CONSIDERANT, BOICHOT,
and RATTIER was granted, and in applying for
it M. GRANDIN, the Attorney-General, was guilty
of an act which goes far to prove that the so-
called insurrection was mainly a "got up" affair—a
successful 29th of January. In moving for the au-
thorization, M. GRANDIN produced a placard, which
he stated had been posted in the neighbourhood of
the Conservatoire of the Arts et Metiers during the
time the Mountain was sitting there, and which was
signed by 120 members of the Mountain, against
whom he stated that he reserved to himself the right
of presenting a requisition at a future opportunity.
He then proceeded to read the names attached to this
placard, and several members of the Mountain who were
present, and whose names appeared affixed to it, denied
all knowledge of its existence, and stated that not
only had they never affixed their names to it, but that
they had never authorised any person to make use of
their names in any such manner. Hereupon extreme
agitation arose in the Assembly, and some of the
more zealous supporters of the Ministry gave us a
peep of what was going on behind the scenes, by
exclaiming, " You signed the act of accusation against
the PRESIDENT—it is just as bad as the placard."
This is the key to the enigma. The Government has
determined to crush all those who wish to oppose its
Cossack predilections, and the President BONA.
PARTE has been too long the intimate of the Eng-
lish Tory aristocracy not to be well instructed in
the traditions of the SIDMOUTH regime. There
can be but little doubt that this placard is an
infamous forgery—no one appears to have seen it
save M. GRANDIN, who, as was aptly observed by
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reaux to consider the proposition for leave to prose-
cute LEDRU ROLLIN and his companions. They re-
assembled at five o'clock.
The following is a report of what took place after
the presentation of the report, recommending that
the authorisation should be granted :
M. Tamisier rose and warmly eulogised his friend
Considerant, who had fcr twenty years defended the
cause of pacific democracy, and whose name would out-
live the laws and acts of the present time.
M. Bac said that when a year since he had ascended
the tribune to defend Louis Blanc, he felt alarmed at
the future which was opening to the country. A part
of the Assembly were in prison; during the past year
several condemnations had takan place—the military
courts-martial had been at work, and yet the country
been —(lnter-
was not at all more tranquil than it bad .

ruption on the Right.) -
A Voice on the Right—And whose fault is that?
Another Voice—You have provoked civil war.
M. Bac—Justice would accomplish its mission, but he
besought the Assembly not to pronounce its opinion
beforehand; its only right was to judge. The real cause
of the agitations which had prevailed was to be found in
the misery of the people.—(Loud interruption.) Remove
the causes of that misery, and they would be less disposed
to lieton to the voice of agitator& If M. Ledru Rollin