The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-11 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

"The general then determined to t.;l{e posies ion of
ti-e portion of the bridge adjoining the right bank.
Some tiralleurs and acertain number of chas-ears sue-

eeeded after great Efforts in silencing the two guns
which the enemy had brought to le ar on the bridge;
they forced 1,000 Romans, who were on the left bank, to
take refuge in the houses; and cease fit ing„
"Our tiralleurs were then able by means of fascines
and sand-bygs to temporarily enabli6h the bridge for the
passage of the infantry, and three unririnies had soon
taken up their position on the haft bank, and were im-
mediately placed in a state to repulse the attacks of the

enemy.
"This night the Roman troops have again attempted
a sortie, but the firmness of our troops obliged them to
retire without their attempt being attended with any

result.
"Such, Monsieur le Ministre, is the present state of
affairs here. The day hos been a glorious one. Our
troops have never all been engaged at once; they were
successively renewed; nevertheless, the greater part of
them were-under arms from two o'clock in the morning
until six o'clock in the evening. They carried positions
hich appeared impregnable, tad the potsossien of which
will have immt nse influence on the result of the siege.
"The number of our wounded amounts to 165, it elud-
ing seven officers; you will shortly receive a regular and
detailed list on this subject.
" When I shall have received the different reports from
the commandants of the different corps, I skill be better
able to speak precisely ; I can now only give the leading
facts of the different actions of the 3d of June. I shalt
be happy to call the attention of the Government to the
soldiers who have so boldly carried the French flag en
that meworable and glorious day.
" I am, with respect, &0.,
(Signed) " 0 UDINOT DE REGGIO."
It would appear frotn the following letter, published
in the Debats, that General OUDIMOT has also been
endeavouring to obtain possession of Ancona, but
that he shrinks from anything like a collision with
the Austrians, or from in any manner provoking their
ire. The letter is dated Trieste, the 28th ult :
"It has already been wate:d that M. Belveze, the
French naval com.nandant on that station, had been to
Ancona, and after an interview with the authorities, had
caused M. I)oualt to be reinstated in the post of consul,
.and his flag to be hoisted. After that had been accom-
plished M. Belvrze had another interview wiTh M. Mat-
(ion, the president of the municipality, and observed to
him that the Austrian troops were advancing rapidly
towards the town, but that st means of safety was open
to him by acc, piing the protection of the French flag.
and admitting 150 or 200 French troops to garrison the
place until General Oudinot could send a larger force
lie declared his firm belief that the Austrians wnultf
make a halt when they learned that the French flag was
hoisted on the walls of Ancona. The off,r was refused
by M. Mattioli, who said that be would rather be buried
beneath the ruins of the place.
" On the following day, the 24th, the Austrian army
was in sight of the town; the Pontifical fag was hoisted

in the surrounding villages. In the morning the custo
teary summonses were sent to the place, but were indig-
tiantly rejected. The attack by land was then prepared,
whilst an Austrian squadron came to anchor in the
roadstead. In the evening the French steamer Panama
left the port, taking in tow the English brig-of-war
Frolic, and both anchored out of reach of the guns.
" The conciliatory mission of M. Belveze was thus
terminated, hut General Brentz, an Hungarian officer,
o whom an asylum had been given on board the Pa-
nama, at the moment he was about being "arrested,
landed, and had an interview with Mattioli. He re-
peated to him the arguments used by the French com-
mandant, and pointed out to him how much the
ate of Venice depended upon that of Ancona, and
how much Hungary was interested in the Austrians not
occupying that side of the Adriatic. M. Mattioli ad
initted, when too late, the justice of these arguments, and
consented to admit the French troops ; but it was too
late, the Ft ench commandant now refused the offer. The
Austrians were now within cannon shot of the town.
:d. Belveze had now only one mission to perform—to
' protect any French subjects, and to collect any refugees
who might require his assistance ; and for this purpose
he remained at the disposal of the Consul. The French
steamer Brasier had also arrived from Venice for the
same purpose. The first operations of the Austrians
had commenced ; their squadron had advanced and ex-
changed shots with the batteries. The trenches were
epened on the 26th, without any material impediments
being opposed by the inhabitants. The taking of An-
cona, therefore, is unfortunately, but a question of time,
as is that of Venice."
The attack upon Rome by Gmeral OUDINOT is, it
appears, the result of an intrigue on the part of M.
DE FALLOUX and the Jesuit section of the Cabinet,
which will probably lead to the resignation either
of M. DE FaLLoux and General RULIIIERE, or of the
other members of the Cabinet, including MM. ODI.•
LON BARROT, DUFAURE, DE TOCQUEYILLE, and PASSY.
The Siecle, the organ of M. Dureuac, has the fol-
lowing article on this subject
"No one rejoiced more than we at the entry of M.
Dufaure into the Cabinet. M. Dufaure and his friends
are, in our eyes, the expresshni of political honesty,
combined with a firm determination to do all possible
good for the unfortunate poor. This Ministry appears
to us the last barrier separating us from Socialism. Put
down the third party, put down Daiwa: and his
friends, and then only two combinations are
possible—a Ministry of compression, Falloux, Faucher,
Bugeaud, Thii.rs, Mod. &c., or a Minis rf of expansion,
without limit, Ledru II limn, &e. The first wi uld catke
civil war in Paris; the secolid anarchy in the country,
anti that before eight days, if not within 48 hours.
We a! e so completely impressed with this sad convic
tion that we cannot retrain from proclaiming it aloud.
free it is that the Ministry does not entirely satisfy us.
Why,' it will be asked, have we supported it?' We
answer, because we know that no Ministry could exist
unless supported by the majority of the Chamber and
!he President; M. Dufaure had no other choice than to
unite himself with M. Barrot, as the only means of
attaching to himself a portion of the old mi=jerity. Had
he not done so, a Ministry would have been formed
which in 48 hours would have led us to civil war."
" If it be true, as is said, that a Minister who had
already given in his resignation, did, on the eve of his
retirement, give orders to attack Rome; if others have
accepted the responsibility of the act, then we tell our
ttiettds that there is but one course open to them; they
must repudiate such responsibility, so far as the)
are concerned, and leave it to those who engaged in
such an affair to. get out of it the best way they can.
It little matters to us that M. Barrot aas in
the first instance in hostility with M. de Fel
loux on the Roman question. A President of the Coun-
eil cannot, as of old. pretend that he did not know all.
If there ha other parties guilty, no matter how high
their rank, justice must be dine. It M. Barrot did
know, and did approve an act of this nature, we can only
pity him for blindness and weakness, while we pretest
against conduct which is of a nature to leave an in fface-
aide stain upon the whole lite of a statesman. Let M.
a
Dufaure consider what his mission is. There are only
two courses before him. He must either form a homo-
geneous Ministry, and that will reject all sort of
with men mltmeeddi up
Pely its
resign.
is
In unfortunateh,
must
immediately
first case he renders himst if possible for the present. I
identification
o ltaly,
or he
the second possible for the future."
The same journal publishes the following reply of
M. DE LE-SEPS to the letter of General OUDINOT,
addressed to him on the 30th. In the instructions
of M DROUYN DE L'Hurs, it will be seen that M. DE
LEssErs had full powers to treat with the Roman
Republic :

DEATH OF MARSHAL BUGEAUD.
FALL OF ROME.
We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
Marshal BUGEAUD died at six o'clock yesterday
morning of cholera after great suffering. He was
attended in his last moments by the Archbishop of
PARIS. In the course of Saturday morning he was
visited by the Minister at War and by General
CHANGARNIER. The Marshal expressed to thetn a
wish to see the PRESIDENT of the Republic, who im-
mediately hastened to his bedside. The Marquis of
NORMANBY visited the dying Marshal in the course
of the afternoon.
It was said in the hall of the Assembly on Satur-
day that M. PASSY, the Minister of Finance, had been
attacked by cholera, and was dangerously ill.
In the Legislative Assembly, on Saturday, a vio-
lent attack was made on the Government by the
Mountain for not having produced the dispatches
received from General OUDINOT. M. DUFAURB, in
the ab-ence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
declared that they should be published in the after-
noon. An attempt was made by M. LAGRANGE to
nave a night sitting, but the proposition was re-
jected by a large majority.
At a late hour on Saturday evening the Patrie
published the following official report of General
OUDINOT to the French Government :
"GENERAL OUDINOT TO THE MINISTER OP WAR.
"head-quar:.ers, Villa ramtili, June 4, 1849.
" Five A.M.
" Monsieur le liinistre—The diplomatic negotiations
opened by M. de Lesseps have, as you know, slackened
since the 17th May the active operations of the expedi-
tionary at my of the Mediterranean. The engineers and
the artillery, aidtd by numerous infantry, have made
gsbions and icsc'nes,
" A bridge err eted in front of St. Paolo has enabled
us to t sablish ourselves in the cathedral of that name,
which, by putting us in communication with the Albano
road, permits us to be there in advance of any foreign
troops. Our position there is the stronger from the fact
of the soldiers having constructed at the head of the
bridge an outwork capable of receiving a battalion.
" The incessant devotion of the officers, aubAterns,
and soldiers or the marine has enabled us to supply suc-
cessively the insg4alues of provisions and the great park
of artillery, of watch ttie last pieces arrived there on the
Ist of June.
" Our troops had occupied the Monte Mario, or Sacred
Mount, which commands the Upper Tiber, the Vatican,
he Fort ot St. Angelo, and the roads to Ancona and
Florence. The enemy, who had worked at it with ac•
tivity for several weeks, suddesly abandoned it, and
some hours atterwards the 13th Light Infantry and the
13th Infantry of the Line occupied it without firing a
shot.

" On the 31st of May, M. de Lesseps had concluded a
conveuiiou with the Rowan authertties, to which he
wished that I should put my signature. But military
honour, in accurdaece with my instructions, prevented
me from attaching my name to an act which was opposed
to our entry into Reine. In a late dispatch I had the
honour of informing you, that on the Ist of June I in-
timated to the T. iutnvirate that the verbal truce agreed
to by M. de Lesseps should cease to have its course 24
hours after m) notification.
I gave immediate notice of the same thing to all the
advanced posts of the enemy. At the request of the
chancellor of our embassy, M. de Gerando, I consented
to deter the direct attack of the place till Monday, the
4th of June. That diplomatic agent was informed that
those of our cmuntr) men who wished to quit Renee would
find at ret. Paul, a sycuie asylum.
" Neverthelt ss, the more rigorous investment of the
place becerne immediately necessary, in order that we
might undertake the first operations in the formation of
the trenches. The general of division, Vail:tint, com-
manding the engineers, could not seriously commence
his works as lung as the enemy was able to oisturb them
by the possession of the Villa Pamfili, the church of St.
Pancruzio, and ihe Villas Corsini and Valentiui.
" In taking possession of one of these positions we
were forced to take successively the others. This was
done. Two columns, the one commanded by General
Molliere, and the other by General Leveellant (John),
received orders to commence the attack on the 3d of
June, at three o'clock A.M. The one took possession of
the Villa Mattei, near the Villa Santucci, and the other
of the Villa St. Carlo.
" At this point of junction, General Regnauld de St.
Jean d'Atigely was to take the command and centralise
the action. Generals Rosto!au end Guerrillers had orders
to concentrate themselves and support the movement.
" Although the Villa Pamfili was surrounded by a wall
four metres high and half a metre thick, although the
enemy had raised there in several places numerous bar-
ricades, althougu it was de!ended by abut 20,000 men,
it was carried with great rapidity. Upwards of 200 pri-
soners, at whom ten are officers, had been taken at five
in the morning; three colours and a caisson of 200,000
cartridges were also in our power.
" The church of San Pancrazee adjoining the park of
the Villa Pamfili, had soon to undergo the same fate; we
were established there by force at seven in the morning.
During that time two companies were dislodging the
enemy from a vast edifice, situated at 300 metres from
the depot of the trenches, and about 600 metres from the
walls of the place.
necessarily
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tioy"TherimiTdthbe
i.eetoccupationonme meaner,
that of
ro the
th 0 churchcha te
aouf
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oft
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rectan-
gular edifice, and built of cut stone of remarkable
hadsoli-
a nentrenched
energy
soldiersin
and ability of our officers were requued to dislodge
them from it. This result was obtained at about ten
o'c4l:lAck.
lmost simultaneously, the Villa
oit, Valentinaandis
a
dgal l th ine and
like
im-
portance
large farm, which is a sort of dependence
r e
situated *a elevation,thesaßmoensin
comp werehen carried
manner.
"However,
the ma
of the positions, could not resolve to leave us
in peaceable po4ses*lon of them. From the morning to
seven in the evening, columns of attack, supp, rted by
the fire frern the ramparts, made constant efforts to re•
take and prteerve the threebuiidiffi'grse. toSh
them,elhadls
whichserc-
ceeded several times in setting
lobliged us sometimes to leave theta, but were again im-
mediately retaken by us. The valour of our soldiers
was in this grave situation so much the more admirable,
that, faithful to our resolution not to
before Monday, we had nut tired a single shot in reply
to the fire from the ramparts.
For one instant the
attack
Garibaldi,theendea.
city
Horn tn troops, led on, it is said, by
voured to turn use towards our left, by making a sortie
aid not 0110
Villa Paintlii. The ardour of (ir soldiers w
on the plateau which leads from the Vatican to the
this streuipt of the enemy to succed. It was immedi-
ately stopped.
constantly patrolled the left bank of the Lower Tiber
in bight ~f the ramparts.
' Div,rbions were made by our troops; the cavalry
"On the other side, the brigade of Sanhar, which had
b• en for some few days at Tonto Mario, had received
orders to take possession of Pontemolle,
one arch of
which had been destroyed, and which every one believed
to be mined.
" This idea determined the general to make 20 volun-
teers of his army swim across the river, their muskets
and part of their clothing being sent across by a raft
constructed on purpose. This operation was not attended
with the success that was expected from it.

" Rome, June 1.
" Monsieur the General-in- Chief,--Your two letters
of the 31st of May, of which I dispatched copies to the
Government, reached me, the one at seven o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, the second at six o'cli,ck this morning,
reply have followed, with de-
The following is my
votedness and self• denial, the directions of the Govt. rn-
ment of the Republic. The day on which, in the pre-
sence of witnesses, you created such a scandalous
scene that my sang froid and determination alone pre-
vented it from being converted into a violent contest—
the day on which, setting me completely aside, you re-
plied to my confidence by commanding your officers
secretly to commence hostilities, unexpectedly and under
the shadow of night—on that day my determination was
irrevocAly fixed. I deposited in your hands, the day
b fore yesterday, at eight o'clock in the morning, at
three o'clock in the afternoon, and at six o'clock in the
morning of the 30th, three notes, of which Ilikewise send
copies to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Those docu-
ments will prove that, anticipating your projects, J had
taken measures to prevent your executing them.
You have assumed that, having addressed an ulti-
matum to the Roman authorities, the declaration I made
you that my mission was terminated, and that hostilities
might be recommenced at the moment of the expiration
of the terms fixed, was absolute and indepiaident of every
new event. But I told you in full time, and I repeat
to
you, that nine hours before the conclusion of the final
term (which was 24 hours) the Roman authorities had
replied to our ultimatum; that they had sent me a counter
project, which common sense, the elementary principles
of diplomacy, and a still more
powerful motive (hu-
manity) commanded us to take into consideration. You
have scarcely had time to cast your eyes on this dc:t!u-
mt.nt as well as on the letters of the Roman municipality,
of the President of the Constituent Ass( mbly, and of the
Roman Executive G ,verninent. You have returned me
the manuscript by M. Espiren:, your first aide de-catnp
The latter has apprised me that you were too much
occupied with the details of your service,
and wi:h the
orders to be given to the army, to examine it at preseht
with sufficient attention. You nt xt assembled Generals
Vailtant,
Regnault St. Jean d'Angely,. Molhiere, andTitian,Tan, the chi. fof your staff. In the ir presence, not-
withstanding
your cries your insults, and 3 our menacing
gestures, I calmly readall the documents, as well as (by
daily notes address, d to you. My repreaentatiors
having become useless, and having formally refused to
sanction your attack by night nithout previous notice to
the Roman authorities, an unprecedented act. which
might have caused the massacre of the French colony at
Rome, I withdrew. I think it necessary to remark here,
that all the persons present at the meeting observed a
most becoming attitude towards the official representa-
tive of the Republic, with the exception, of General Reg-
nault St. Jean d'Atigely. Ettlection, together with
some energetic and enlightened advice, has caused your
order. to recommence hostilities to be ri yoked at the
last moment. But those orders did not arrive in time to
prevent the occupation of the Nlente- Mario, whereyou met
no resistance, bemuse I was enabled previously to apprise
the Romans by M.
Leduc, my private secretary, that,. they
reed not
feel uneasy at your movement, which was merely
intended to secure certain positions which the foreign
armies marching against Rome might take possession
of against you. Had it not been for this notice, and
my return to Rome, the- tocsin would have been rung—the
garrison and the
population of the city, even to the
women of the Transtevere, armed with their knives,
WQUIci have attacked Monte Mario. I know that our

, .
brave soldiers would have maintained them4elves the e, mended the city, tt e Rena ate, were compel ltd toyEeux, Herr Voce., Herr SoieneEE, Herr H. SieloN,
but the consequences of an attack and of a desperate surrender. and Herr BECHER.
assault might have struck our noble c .untry to the heart. The French nation generally by no means approves The President of the National Assembly—l now de.
Having quitted the head quarters, toter having handed 1 cfc' the c iteiwn en the Government, and a protest has clare Messrs. Raveeux, Vogt, Schuler, H. Simon and
you my last note and enlightened you on the inconve- been drawn up against it, which will be sent Becher the ptooisionel regency of Germany, and invite
nience to be apprehended from the immediate entrance into all the departments of France for gig- them to come together. I demand from. the German
of the French army into Rome, where you might come people a ready obedience to the orders of this Regency.
May the lacer restore the greatness and unity
promise the interests which I had to defend, I drew up nature,. and which must, unless he is afflicted
alone a new plan for an arrangement entirely conform- • openthe eyes cthe
with judicial blindness, f P
Germany.—(Great cheering.)
able to the directions I had received from the Govern- DENT as to the inevitable result of his adoption of the Herr Raveaux—We cheerfully accept the post which
ment of the Republic. This plan, adopted by the Exe- crooked and deceitful policy of M. DE FALLOUX and
.you have conferred on us ; we shall, w ith a courageous
cutive Government after some discussicn, has been ap- his Jesuit friends. and firm hand, hold the reins of Government. We
proved unanimously (less three votes) by the Constituent The interpellations to be addressed to the Ministry shall ever endeavour to realise the idea of a united, free,
Assembly. I handed you a copy before signing it, to-day on the subject of the Italian and the Austrian and great Germany. We do not, indeed, possess the
accompanied by a declaration. I commenced by reading questions are expected to give rise to most animated means at the disposal of other states, but when you
to you my instructions of the Bth of May, couched in the discussions. Neither M. DUFAURE nor M. DE stalid byourside, couragewenhtaeveenceof the
cnouGghertmoabnegninatoiounr
following terms:— TOCQUEVILLE were aware, it is said, of the orderswork, and in the quintessence
"I The facts which marked the commencement of the which had been given to attack Rome. Those orders
we have a powerful support. With you we shall stand
or fall —(lmmense applause.)
French expedition directed against Civita Vecchia being
had been dispatched at the instigation of-M. DE
of a nature to complicate a question which at first pre- „ The Assembly then adjourned.
sented itself under the most simple aspect, the Govern- eneou.a by kI:DROVYIN DE L'llues, a few hours .
It is reported that a revolution broke out at Stut-
gNKalarstd,iGotnoatniotAhrseeseteionitghbn,liiysne,
and
not
hdn
es
that
hqaute
authorityntchee oifc the refusal
had
(tient of the Republic have csnsidered that it became ne- only before the latter gentleman retired from office..
cessary to place beside the military chief charged with M. LEDRU ROLLIN is convalescent;
.M. LEO,
teen d Getman
beeno f et hx
e-
the direction of the forces sent to Italy a diplomatic FAUCHER, has gone to the Eaux Bonnes in the Py-
agent, who, devoling himself exclusively to the negotia- renees for a month. pelted and a Provisional Government oranized.
wins and to the relations to be established with the Ito-o- The cholera had somewhat diminished in Paris g
man authorities and population, might devote all the yesterday, but the number of deaths were still up-
attention and all the care necessary in such serious wards of 500 per day. The total number of deaths
matters. Your tried zeal, your experience, the firm- up to Saturday night was 11,100.
loss and spirit of conciliation of which you have given The Moniteur publishes the following official
proof on more than one occasion in the course of your
note:—
career, have pointed you out to the choice of the Go-
" The number of victims to the cholera has been much
vernment for this mission ln order to give
exaggerated for some days. The following account shows
you more precise and more detailed instructions, we
should possess certain information in which we are
the number ot deaths in private houses and in the civil
cient relative to what has been passing for some dues clefi-
aud military huspitels since the commencement of the
epiderny
in the Roman states. Your correct an 1 enlightened
Days. Private Hospitals.
judgment will inspire you according to circumstances. Houses.
" DRouYN DE L'IIUYS: March 7t031 .. 131 ... 435 ...
"As to your declaration, Monsieur the General in- April Ito 10 ... 143 ... 460 ...
Chief, to consider as not having been drawn up the 11 to 20 ... 289 ... 393 ...
arrangement which was regularly signed yesterday, be • 21 to 30 ... 264 ... 28) ...
tween the Roman Executive Power and me, it is for our May Ito 10 ... 671 ... 559 ...
Government to preeounce on it; and, according to esta- 11 to 2J ... 997 .. 751 ...
...
blished usage, you cannot infringe it in any respect 20 to 31 ... 735 ... 592
before its ratification bas been agreed to or refused. June 1 ... 77 ... 58 ...
... 64 . 6 .. 3
When you shall judge it fit, in virtue of Article 2, to 3 ... 2 ... 1321 .. 133 ..
paint out, before the season when the fever commences, 4 ... 318 ... 132 ..
more healthy cantonments than those at present occupied 5 ... 379 ... 160
by the Fieneh army, be so good as to inform me, in
order that they may be taken without difficulty, and, if
necessary, with the aid of the inhabitants. I render
justice, Monsieur the Geueral-iii-Chiel, to the son of an
illustrious Marshal. Your military ardour has been
worked on and turned to account; you have, without
knowing it, rendered yourself the iustrument of a con-
spiracy conducted by the enemies of France. My vigi-
' lance has known how to thwart in time the dark scheme,
of which I am acquainted with all the threads, and I
have been able to save the honour of the army, the .
honour of France. By your affair of April 3011 you
endangered a Ministry. By causing the 30th of
May, which would have been another April 30th
, on a larger scale, I prevented you from blindly obey•
ing those who by their perfidious counsele had ltd
you away a first time, and desired at present to ruin
France. If you do not consider me a sufficiently good
Frenchman, you will perhaps think that those persons
who have replaced me at head-qtiarters are better than
I; amongst others, the official agent of Russia at the
Holy See. Father Vaure, a Prussian General who is the
envoy of Radetzky, the Able de Bretnont, &c. I have
the honour of informing you, Monsieur the General-in-
Chief, that all the persons who shall be provided with a
pass signed by me are authorised to proceed to the des-
tination marked down in their papers. I venture to hope
that you will not in any way oppose this measure of
public order, or the free entrance and departure of cou-
riers carrying the public and private correspondence.
All personal intercourse ceases between us, but the official
relations in writing are still to subsist.
" Receive, Monsieur, the General-in-Chief, the assu-
ranee of my high consideration.
" DE LESSEPS,
"Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the French Republic in mission at. Rome.
" P.S. The Triumvirate has just transmitted to me a
copy of the letter which you addressed to it this morn-
ing, and their reply. The step which you have taken is
deplorable, because it exposes to the open day a political
difference of which our Government is alone the judge,
and which for the time being ought to have remained
confined to ourselves."
The following article which appears in the Credit,
in reply to the insinuations which have been made as
to the sanity of H. DE LESSEPS, will throw some light
on the disgraceful intrigue of which that distinguished
diplomatist has been the victim :
" M. de Lesseps arrived at Paris in four days and
three hours from Remo. It is the first time that a di-
plomatist has passed over that distance so rapidly. M.
de Lesseps 'ended at Antibes, and performed the dis-
tance between that place and Aix (50 leagues) in five
hours. He had calculated his departure from Antibes
so as to arrive at Aix at the moment when the mite-
poste from Marseilles to Paris w.•uld pass through. His
servant le quested the courier to °retir relAys of horses
at the different post-houses, and he thus followed the
mail to within a league of Orange, where two of the
wheels broke at the same time. The postillion was sent
forward at full gallop with orders to tell the courier to
wait for the gentleman for whom he had ordered the
relays of horses, who, he was told, was no other than
• the Minister Plenipotentiary representing the French
Republic at Rome. On hearing the name of
M. de Lesseps, the courier replied that he would wait
24 hours for him, if necessary. But in ten minutes after
M. de Lesseps rode up on horseback, with his port-
folio under his arm, and without any covering on his
head, his cap having fallen off in his haste. He said
with a laugh that his arrival in that state at Orange
would occasion much pleasure to those who had an in-
terest in representing him as a madman. Thanks, how-
ever, to God, his robust constitution is in no danger of
suffering from such exertions. In four days from his
leaving Rome, and in less than a month from his depar-
ture from from Paris, the diplomatist was knocking at
the door of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic.
without, however, being able to obtain admission. It
we are well informed, and we believe we are so, M. de
Lesseps had already presented himself three times at the
Elysees, receiving on each occasion a fresh appointment,
which was, however, regularly broken. The third time
M. de Lesseps observed to the officer on duty, who had
odd him that the Prince had not yet had had time 1'
read his dispatches, and that he could not see him until
he had done so—' When, after the vote of the Consti-
tuent Assembly, on the 7ih of May, the President of the
Ref üblic considered he required my services, he was able
to find time to receive me, and to band me the instructions
and the powers of the Government.' M. de Lesseps
went no more to the Elye4e, and the ex-agent of
the Minister of Foreign Affairs will not go there again
until he is invited to do so by the chief of his depart-
ment. The following curious fact we can guarantee, as
we received it from an eye-witness:—At his first visit to
the Etyi4', at six o'clock in the morning, M. de Lesseps
was kept waiting during the whole time that the Council
was sitting. Of all the Ministers, one alone recognized
him as they came out, and that was M. de Falloux, who
went up to him and welcomed him back. M. de Lesseps
said to him, Yea have had at Rome a 30th of April,
in which France was nearly drawn into an abyss. It is
now wished to recommence that day on a larger scale.
It is wished to place the country on a ground where the
most skilful foot all not tail to slide in the blood.' M.
de Falloux replied to this remark, which was made with
a frankness little used by diplomatists, by increased
amiability, and by a pressing invitation to M. de Lesseps
to come to a soirée which was to take place at his house
that evening. M. de Lesseps went there for the
purpose of showing to the crowd, who would not fail
to throng the Miuisterial saloons, that he was not so
mad as it was wished to make it be believed. For
the space of one month he had only four times slept in
a bed, and since his departure from Rome be had never
lain down, but no sign t f fatigue was visible. The di-
plomatist conversed in the most amiable manner with the
ladies, and assured theta that all the monuments of
Rome remained in their original condition, and had not
been subjected to any of toe acts of Vandalism which
had beet, charged to the account of the Roman Republi-
can Governmi.nt. M. de Lesseps determined to observe
the greatest reserve on subjects connected with his mis-
sion, and confined himself to making vague and general
replies to his numerous questioners, when M. de Falloux
took him by the arm, arid, leading him into an adjoining
saloon, he, in the most gracious manner, reproached him
with such a rigid silsnce on a subject on which so much
curiosity was naturally telt by all his guests. What !'
said M. de Lesseps, is it than you, a member of the
Government, who reproaches me with acting with dis-
cretion 1 Well, then, since you are curious, it is for you
to say to what point I may gratify public curiosity. Put
any question to me you like, I promise to reply frankly,
without reserve, and without ambiguity.' ' Are you of
opinion,' said M. de Falloux, without hesitation, that
France should recognise the Roman Republic?' You
put to me a question,' replied M. de Lesseps, which,
under existing circumstances, before so many people.
and among whom I recognise the representative 'of
Austria, would be of a nature to crush a diplomatist who
has iu his heart anything except a deep love for his
country and his head— mil, thing more than the re-
membrance of having fulfilled an important duty. I
will, however, reply in the same unhesitating manner
that you
have asked the question. Yes, France ought
to recognise the Roman Republic ; and it is I, a man
of peace, I who at Rome, as at Barcelona, risked my
life to prevent bloodshed,—it is I who affirm to you be-
fore the Aa.trisn representative beie present, and who
will not contradict what I say, that the only means of
avoiding the horrors of a general war before six months
are over is to immediately recognise the Roman R.- -
Public ; to make known that recognition to the Cabinet
of Vienna, and to negotiate with energy and with faith
the justice, the humanity, and the right of the cause, for
the evacuation of the Roman States by the Austrian
troops.' After this frank declaration, M. de Falloux
with increased amiability reconducted his visitor to a
group of ladies, and M. de Lesseps in passing through
the crowd met with repeated marks of sympathy ; one
hand was silently held out towards hi:e, which he shook
—it was that of the reprrssntative of Austria."
M. DE Lessees intends starting as a candidate for
one of the vacancies which have taken place in the
representation of Paris. His avowed object is to be
enabled to offer his explanations as to the Roman
negotiations to the National Assembly. The Jesuit
section of the Government evidently dreMs the effect
of these explanations, and in order if possible to pre-
vent any debate taking place in the Assembly. on the
subject, it has persuaded the PRESIDENT to issue a
decree referring the acts of M. DE LESSEPs relative
to his mission to the Council of State.
It was rumoured in Paris last evening that General
OUDINOT took possession of Rome on the sth. He
attackcd.and carried the Foote Mole and the Pincio
on ;the 4th, and as these two points, together with
those of which he via* previously in possesgon, com.

4,464

4,012

Total.

Total
per Month.
566 566
603
687 1,834
544
1,230
1,748} 4,305
1,327
:1301
200 I
457
440
539

8,476

1,771

8,476

The Administration will for the future publish
every day the movement of the hospitals, and the
number of deaths in private houses. This latter
amount cannot be definitively given until the reports
of all the examining medical men have been re-
ceived, and it is for that reason that the deaths on the
7th and Bth have not been published. The following
are the results known on the 6th :
Deaths iu private houses ...
Ditto in hospitals and asylums

... 364
... 133

PRUSSIA.

502

Movements of the hospitals and civil asylums:—
Caso s existing in the morning ... ... 1,120
Admittel during the day ... ... 331

Total

... 1,45

Discharged ...
Dcessed

30 }
168
138

Intelligence has been received at Berlin of the ac-
cession of the Grand Duke of BADEN to the Berlin
German Constitution.

Gen,ral WRANGEL has published an order of the
day threut,Diug to try by court•martial all persons
in ,A hose possession should be found arms belonging
to the late Burgher Guard.

FRANKFORT.
The Archduke JOHN intended leaving the city on
,he 7th.

Remaining in the evening.— L 283
Tnere was nothing done yesterday in the Funds
in the Passage de I'Opera.
tiIiSINEsS VONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JUNE 9.
Boulogne:and Amiens, 6%—Dutch Rhenish, %—Namur
and Liege, 6'34—Sambre and Meuse, 3.

B AJDF42,
The troops in garrison at Heidelberg have refused
:o fight against the iroo.rial troops.

AUSTRIA, Y, and POLAND.

The Russian General Prince PASKIEWITCH arrived
at Cracow on the 23d, to resume the command of the
Russian army of invasion. He issued a proclama-
tion, in which he declared to the Hungarians that, in
consequence of the appeal of their lawful monarch,
w ho had claimed the assistance of his imperial master,
he had taken the supreme command over the Russian
trot Ts united with the Austrians, in order to restore
order.

It appears that WELD EN was removed on account
of his refusal to serve under the command of a Rus-
sian general.
According to the latest accounts from Presburg,
an important battle was on the eve of being fought,
no doubt on the right bank of the Danube, with the
corps under G ORG EY, amounting to some 50 or 60
thousand men at Raab. The Russian column at
Piesburg amounted to 160,000 men, with 36 guns.
Those who follow the accounts of the Russian
movements will perceive that five or six thousand
men, with 12 guns, must have been left by this corps
at Tyrnau, or some other place ; the whole corps
with the cavalry amounting to 22,000 men, with
48 guns. All the Austrians troops are to cross
over to the right side. Still later news from
Piesburg represents great activity in moving the
troops, and a stir, as on the eve of battle. In fact,
it is clear that GOKG ERZ will not long remain inac-
tive at Raab. Jellachich was at Semlin. At Hra-
dish, 15,000 Russians were expected to replace the
troops marched to Tyrnau and Presburg.
Eleven Russian battalions have entered Neustadt,
An unfortunate apothecary, named AUG AL, residing
at Presburg, was condemned to death for decorating
with flowers a portrait of KOSSUTH. His sentence
was commuted to eight years' hard labour in irons.
An unfortunate editor of a newspaper named
N AMRICHTER has been hanged by the Austrians St
esburg.
A heavy cannonading was heard at Jablunka, on
the 25th, in the direction of t:"ilicia, it was supposed
to be caused by an action between DEMBINSKI and
the Russians.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 4th and sth have been
received.
It was rumoured that MoN and PIDAL were about
to retire from the Ministry; probably the former
finds the opposition of the smuggling interest to hii
proposed modification in the tariff too strong for
resistance.

MADRID BOLSA, JUNE s.—Three per Cents., 25
paper; Five per Cents., 10i paper; Coupons, 5i
paper ; Rink of St. Ferdinand, 74 account; Exchange
on London, 50 40.

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

Authentic intelligence has been received of the re-
treat of the Austrian corps commanded by PocuNElto
from the confines of the Banat back into Wallachia.
PUCIINER upon presenting himself before Orsowa,
found that place, where the common boundary of
Wallachia and the Banat strikes the Danube, already
in possession of the troops of BEM. The Magyars
v‘ ere in such force that PUCIINER thought it more
prudent to tall back than to risk an attack. He there-
fore embarked himself on the 14th with several
Austrian officers, military baggage, and a number
of fugitive families from Orsowa, on board
a couple of steamers, which landed them
at Tarnn Severin, head town of the dis-
trict ut Mehedintz, in Little Wallachia. Peca-
IS ER'S corps amounts to twelve thousand men,
with fifty-tour pieces of cannon. Minute details ore
given concerning this backward movement of the
Austrians in a series of reports from the civil Go-
vernor of the district of Mehedintz to the Ministry of
the interior at Bucharest. Severin and Czernetz were
crowded with refugees. Or: the 15th 150 Austrian
infantry and 200 cavalry, the vanguard of the re-
treating corps, reached the former place. One of the
cleft Governor's reports incloses a letter from General
MALAcnowsav, explaining the necessity he was in of
failing back into Wallachia. The retreating troops
were followed on their march by a crowd of fugitives 011
toot. The Austrian army had formed a camp between
Czernetz and Severin. Meanwhile the Hungarians
entered Orsovva on the 16th with only 200 hussars.
The Hungarians, after occupying Orsowa, sent out
500 men to occupy all the picquet posts as far 23
Burtsurova and Kloschkami. Their officers pre-
sented themselves before the tete de pont of Bachn4
with a white flag, and desired that some one should
come over to speak with them ; whereupon Lieu'
tenant BRETIANO advanced at the head of ten Wel'
lachian soldiers and with a picquet of Turkish cavalry
The Magyar officers then informed him that having
come to an understanding with OSMAN BET, the
Turkish commander of the island fortress of New,.
Orsowa, they came to take possession of the picquet
stations on the confine. The commandant of Orsowa
had warned the Wallachians that he had orders from
the Hungarian Government to pursue the Austrians
into whatever territory they might retreat.
The cholera has broken out in several parts of Si-
lesia and Poland, and is making great ravages aMOl3g
the Russian troops.
Kossura and Count BATRYANT have protested
against the Russian invasion.
The Minister, ZANIES, has sent orders to all the
commissioners of the Hungarian frontier to organize
a crusade there ; they are to effect this by proclama-
tions, religious fetes, and popular meetings. Every
functionary, ecclesiastic, and patriot is to select some
part of the country where he is to excite the people
and organize the landsturm; the national guard is _
be exercised and to form the nucleus of the landsturm'
Signals of alarm are to be placed on the mountain
heights, colums of fire by night, and crimson flags VI
day, are to be the beacons of the insurrection. Al,
the bridges are to be destroyed, every issue barricaded,
all the streams dried up, in order that the enemy s
troops may not be able to procure either cattle or
provisions. The proclamation promises an indemniti,
to all persons who may suffer loss in consequence eh
these measures.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE GERMAN NA-
TIONAL ASSEMBLY IN STU TGARDT.—
ELECTION OF A REGENCY FOR GER-
MANY.
One hundred and four members of the above As-
sembly (just four more than the number required to
form a house) met on the 6th instant in Stutgardt, in
the hall of the Second Chamber of Wirtemburg, by
of the Government. Amongst the mem-
bers were 13 from Austria, 19 from Prussia, 13 from
Bavaria, 10 from Saxony, 21 from Wirternburg, 7
from Baden, 4 from the Electorate of Hesse, 4 from
the Grand Duchy of Hesse, 2 from Schleswig-Hol-
stein, 2 from Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1 from Olden-
burg, 1 from Saxe-Weimur, 1 from Saxe-Altenburg,
1 iron S( ewarzburg• Itudolstadt, 1 from Reuss, and
1 from Nassau. Amongst the more distinguished
members are Giskra, Hartmann, Jacoby, Raveaux,
Count Reichenbach, H. and L. Simon, Termii,
Homer, L bland, Fischer, Prince Waldburg, Zeil,
Lowe, Hagen Forster, and Schuler.
The Members were escorted to the Chamber from
the Town-hail by the civic guard of Stutgardt ; and,
on their entrance, were vociferously cheered by the
persons in the public gallery.
Herr Lowe, the President of the Assembly, opened
the proceedings of the day with the following brief
speech :
" On the occasion of the opening of this sitting the
Members present are indeed few, but they arc fur a
certainty animated by the old spirit. I cannot refrain
from expressing to the noble people of Wirtewbu, g an.
E 0 their Government our warmest thanks for the cordial
reception they have given us. We have chosen this city
as the seat of our labours, because we know that it is
equally imbued with liberal and patriotic sentiments and
with the love of order—characteristics which it has ever
maintained. We have quitted Frankfort in order to be
the better enabled to fulfil our duties. The fate of the
German nation rests will this Assembly. We left
Frankfort without being able to express our thanks to
the inhabitants for their friendly demeanour towards
us. Let us now fulfil that duty, and at the same time
show our gratitude to the population of Stutgardt.—
(Here all the Members rose.) I now declare the sitting
(lewd."
HERR LOWE was then elected First President, by
a majority of 101 to 3.
The following " urgent motion" of the Committee
of Thirty was laid before the Assembly, and, after a
short discussion, all but unanimously adopted :
That the National Assembly ad )pt the following
resolution :
" In consideration that the Governments of Prussia,
Saxony, and Hanover have presumed (sick angemasst
haben). in opposition to the constitution of the empire,
as finally established by the National Assembly, to pre
pare the draft of another imperial constitution, and to
ottruyer au imperial law of election for the next diet of
the empire; in consideration that no German Govern-
ment have the right to force laws ou their people, much
leis on the entire German nation; in consideration that
the imperial law of election for the next Diet has been
filially' voted by the National Assembly, and promulgated
' as the law for all Germany, by the provisional central
power, which has been recognised by all German Go•
rvenraents; the Nation Assembly resolve:—
" 1. That the electoral law promulgated for the next
diet by the Governments of Prussia, Saxony, and Han•
over is null and void.
"2. That any attempt to enforce such a law in Ger-
many be considered as high treason against the sovereign
German nation.
"3. That all persons, particularly civil and military
fan-tionarii s, be deemed guilty of that high treason it
they co-operate, in any way, in the carrying out of that
electoral law."
The following motion of the Committee of Thirty
was also adopted :
"In consideration that it is the duty of the National
Assembly to maintain and carry out, in opposition to all
sepAratLt attempts, the constitution finally agreed to
and promulgated ; in consideration that the provisional
ctntral power has refused to enforce the constitution and
the decisions of the National Assembly appertaining to
it ; in consideration that the condition of the country
nee. ssitates the induction, as speedily as possible, of an
executive power which may oarry out with a strong hand
,he constitution of the empire ; in consideration that the
election of a stadtholder of the empire, as prescribed by
resolution of V.e 19th of May last, is under present
eircurnsta Ile- s, fur the time being, impracticable, the
National Assembly resolves—
" 1. fli st until tte api,ointment of a stadtholder, a
regency of five persons be chosen by the National As-
sembly, by an absolute majority of votes, such regency
to be responsible to the National Assembly for the
carrying out ut the Constitution and the execution of
the decision of that Assembly, alod to possess in other
respects the privileges as well to fulfil the duties con-
ferred on aid pre,critied for the provisional central
po. er by the law of the 28th of June, 1848. The ap
poin ment of th.! regency is to btu revoked.
"2. lilt the central power cease to exist from the
moment the regency is appointed.
3. That the National Assembly designate the fol-
lowing points as the basis of operation of the regency:—
" A. The speedy formation of an imperial army, and
the organization of the arming of the people for the
carrying out of the Constitution.
"B. The maintabing of the external interests or
Germany pa, ticnkily by x;:alously continuing the war
in Si•nieswig-Holstein.
"C. To ufv.: on the elections for the Diet to be con-
vene,l on the 15th of August.
" D. Convocation t.> the seat of the National Assembly
of the plenipotentiaries or the States which recognise the
Constitution.
The Assembly also resolved that its President be
empowered to promulgate the foregoing resolution as
the law of the German nation.
At the commencement of the afternoon sitting it
was announced that two new Members arrived—erne
from Austria, and the other from Weisbaden. The
Ass:pmbly then proceeded to erect a regency, and
finally chose the following individuals :—Herr RA-