The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-28 00:00:00

)oth for the crime of forgery, and for an attack
upon the personal character of the Sovereign.
The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on
Tuesday with the Fortifications Bill. M. GUIZOT
mpported the measure in a long and able speech.
GARNIER PAGES opposed the Bill, and proved
ery- clearly that following the examples of
:ortified towns in Germany, cited by M. GUIZOT,
,vould be to reduce Paris to a level with these
;•loomy fortresses, in the cultivation of arts,
sciences, and letters. M. THIERS followed M.
3rARNIER PAGES, and was speaking when the
mails left for London. As reporter of the Com-
mittee he was in favour of the Bill. A summary
of the speeches of MM. G unoT and GARNIER
PAGES will be found in another part of Time Sun.
M. TRIERS, not having concluded the delivery of
his speech, we reserve any report of it till to-
morrow.

The ablest opponent of the plan for fortifying,
or rather brutalizing, Paris, yet known to the
public has appeared in the person of Malame DE
GinArtmx, the accomplished Avife cf M. E. LE
GMARDIN, for some time a member of the
Chamber of Deputies, and editor of the daily
journal La Prcsse. We regret that want of space
prevents us from transferring her brilliant expo-
sure of the consequences of surrounding Pail,
with walls and fortresses, to our columns. But
we must find room for an extract or two. Hear
t'iis lively and patriotic Frenchwoman :

With us this question is not only a political question
it is a question of nationality, humanity, and spirituality ;
and we view with terror a project which tends to stifle in
Paris the nascent reign of intelligence.
A man of wit, M. Emile Deschamps, has said, " Of an
Athens ycu are about to make a Ignite:age." The re-
mark is a charming and true one.
Be sincere: do you know of any fortified town in the
whole world where the mind'uorks ? There is none. Now,
la specialite, as traffickers say in our day, the Parisian
.speriallie is the immense manufacturing of ideas; Parisian
labour is a labour entirely intellectual. The other cities
trade, apply themselves to politics or industry—Paris is the
,nly city that thinks. Paris is a philosopher; make
a soldier of it. • Don't thrust it into an armour ; its heavy
cuirass would embarrvs its walks in ito reveries on the
destinies of the world. Don't put a helmet on its head;
ideas dread-iron, and dare not arise beneath a heavy coif-
figure. Bonaparte, who knew the helmet's effect on the
brain, never were but a little hat. It is not a war of
France with forei.:n States that threatens. but a more ter-
rible battle, because it causes the loss of all others—a sul-
len and fatal struggle, a clandestine duel between violence
and reason, and between brutal force and thought.
Madame DE GIRARDIN next proceeds to show,
that to fortify Paris is to overthrow the Consti-
tution, by proving it to be impossible that at y
King could be otherwise than absolute in an at-
mosphere of saltpetre. To fortify Paris, and to
desire LOUIS PHILIPPE to remain a Constitu-
tional Sovereign, would, she contends, be about
as reasonable as to give a drum to a child and

bid him make no noise, or to open a cage, and
desire the bird not to fly- out, because it is a
prisoner on parole. Madame DE GIRARDIN is
perfectly right. No monarch in a fortified capi-
tal, capable of giving laws to the nation by an
act of its mere volition, could resist the tempta-
tion of making himself absolute. With the

mounting on the last gun on the ramparts of
Paris expires the constitutional freedom of France.
This morning, at half-past twelve, Lord Granville went
in state to the residence of the Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs. When the Ambassador's equipage came to tl-e
door a footman alighted to inquire of the porters if M.
Guizot was at home, and was answered in thr negative.
The Minister had, in fact, just set out for the Tuileries;
Lord Granville immediately returned back.
Ten minutes afterwards Count Appony, the Austrian Am-
bassador arrived, and did as Lord Grenville had done. As
he was crossing the Place de la Concorde, His Excel-
lency perceived the Prussian Ambassador, who was like-
wise going to the Foreign Office. The two carriages
drew up close to each other, and Count Appony doubtless
_informed his collongue that M. Guizot was not to be seen,
for the Prussian Ambassador immediately turned back.
BERNE, JAN. 21.—The revolt having been suppressed
by the energy of the Government, the attempts of the re-
volutionary party show thcsrnselves in another manner.
A new Sarnian league is formed which proposes to attack,
by every possible means, the liberal course of thzi new
Vorort, or at least to create such embarrassments that
foreign diplomacy may have a pretext so interfere in our
affairs.—Le Commerce.