The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

EVENING SUN.

LETTER FROM PARIS.
it is so long since I referred to the Republicans of
issis and their movements, that you will probably have
i..gun to think that the party is extinct. Such a conclu-
,‘n would have been founded in error. I do not.be-
tere that since the funeral of General Lamarque, now
; ine years and three weeks since, so formidable an array
o,* that class of citizens has been beheld, as on this day,
the funeral of M. Garaier Pages, a lawyer of cele-
!ss!ty, but much better known as the leader of the Repub-
s'an party in the Chamber of Deputies. So early as 10
(...slock this forenoon groups of people and numerous sar-
Issas de ville with the detachments of Municipal Guards,
:may • and, infantry, began to occupy that portion of
Rue de Provence which lies between the Rue La-
to and the Faubourg, Montmartre, and in which
lie deceased had resided. The Boulevard des Italiens,
jae Rue Lepelletier, and the Rue Grande Batteliere pre-
ssatedd in a few minutes a similar appearance. The
arch of Notre Dame de Lorette, situate at the end of
t'ls Rue Lafitte, to which the remains of the defunct
'sore to be conveyed, was, as well as all the avenues
sling to it, crowded. By twelve o'clock the streets I
named were choked up with people, through whom,
th much difficulty, patrols of Municipal Guards forced
~;,:sr way. Notwithstanding these circumstances, I re-
., irked to a person sent to " observe" the crowd, that I
nld not recognise among those so assembled either the
e7irneymen tailors or the " schools" (students). " They
17i in position," said he, " and will fall in. They have
-senibled in force at the Place de l'Ecole de Medecin, the
the l'Odeon, and 'the Place de la Bourse, :and will
sin the prooeSsion on its route."
Determined to see how matters stood, I did not attempt
0.-, enter the church, but proceeded along the Boulevards
_Ss; Italiens, Montmartre, Poissonniere, desßonnes Nou-
vjles, and St. Denis) to the Boulevard St. Martin, above
te theatre of that name, where the nature of the ground
,slabled me to see half a mile in each direction. The
,!stance between the church to which the body of the
;.‘4lp.a.sed was borne to the spot just mentioned is consi-
rably more than a mile. The entire of that line was
.s.eertheless occupied, the centres of the boulevards, as
•..4AI as the spacious pathways, by men of all classes and
.sTades. There was not perceptible among them that
hich is called excitement, but there was a gravity quite
Variance with the expression of mere curiosity.
At twenty minutes past one o'clock I could, from the
eiinence on which I was placed, see the head of the
esocession emerging from the fine trees which still line
;tic Boulevard Poissonniere. It soon assumed the ap-
!:sarance of a solid dark mass, occupying. apparently the
:issire space from side to side, and such, in fact, was its
~.,p(.arance during the ensuing twenty-five minutes.
When the procession reached the place in which I had
•eo-:4sslved to wait for it, I found that it was headed by a
•lozen Sergens de Ville. A couple of dozen National
wards followed. Then came the mourning coaches,
-,(1 then the hearse, the pall borne by General Excel-
. -,ans (I was told, but he was not on the side next me),
' Stirling (of the National Guards), M. Carnot,
ad M. Davie(d'Angers), the sculptor. Immediately
s•rer the hearse marched the people, I suppose I must
es, and here the matter became serious, several hun-
dred persons (of whom 120 were deputies), and other
.!',spectable-looking men, came first, but rather irregu-
...i sly. To these succeeded 20.000 others, marching in
s...:nothing that looked very like order, from six to twelve
virca-st; but of these 5,000 at least were in sections, con-
- kting of seven men each, every one of whom wore the
sicied flower called " immortelle " in his button-We.
'that which was not the least formidable feature in the
:Asir was, that the mass, if I may so call a long line of
;non seven or eight abreast, was flanked throughout by
."-fational Guards in uniform.
The 5,000 I have particularly mentioned were, it was
Aid, meinbars of the secret societies. The number
,iven) of which each section consisted, looks rather
;s1 the 'organization of the apparently silly Societe des
?I,liJosott.r, each section being a " week. There was evi-
live of drilling in their movements, and here and there
you saw a section composed of men, all of whom were
about the same-appearance, probably leaders, for they
an air of authority. The other sections consisted of
,r.•ery description of man ti be foundinParis,pourtraying
perftction of equality. In the same section you saw
dandy with yellow gloves, and a gamit with only a
baurger on (similar precisely to that worn by the
,-;scar seamen you see in London) and canvas trou-
- Srs. a soiled neckerchief of some sort, and a greasy cap
'sssquette). Next to him was a portly looking person, a
-tVllican, who drank his own beer perhaps ; then a man
'ith an outlandish beard—an artist of course—then a
,sechaeic, then a fierce-looking person, uzi ancieu
rrtili-
i.re no doubt, then a student, &c. Such a motley set
:.,,ver has been seen but in France, and never seen in
since the Revolution of 1830. With the exception
the gandas and the students, to neither of which
mass could anything in the shape of a row come amiss
take them by surprise—with these exceptions, I say,
face of every man in the procession was serious and

-occupied.
ot a single soldier was to be seen. •
Now, I du not desire that you infer from these facts
t7tyt wo are on the eve of a revolution, or of an attempt
one -; but I think you will agree with me that the as-
of 10,000 men, marching in order, with 100,000
.-ors accompanying or looking upon them (nineteen-
sntif:!ths of whom sympathised with them), is, in
-::eh a city as Paris, seeing what we have seen, a spec-
. :le calculated to make a deep impression on the oh-
rver. It was not so much the display of force that
Ack the beholder, as the silence, the sedateness,
perfect union and order that reigned among them,
witi which (if I may venture upon the figure) proved
'neontestibly to all who know anything of Paris, that the
,r)irit is not dead, but sleepeth.

.EASTERN NEWS.
CoNSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 9.—On Saturday, the Bth
7ei taut, contrary to all precedent, all the Government
without exception, were closed; and all the persons
eeiit,ected with them assembled at Tophana, in long and
est eet Council. It is strongly suspected that ill news
'eel been received from Arabia, and that the authority of
eie- Caliph Abdul Medschid had received sonic very
•,e Illy wounds in the Holy Cities themselves. The Wa-
eibites, whose chiefs Mehemet Ali had subdued at the
: ecrifice of immense sums, and of an army of from 15,000
20,000 men, and imprisoned in the citadel of Cairo,
:set afterwards, in compliance with the late treaties, let
s'e' (as eEolus the stormy winds) upon the coasts of
eabia, are said to have filled every thing with anarchy
el confusion. The only force to be opposed to the tor-
..eit of these fanatics is that of the undisciplined and un-
euid hordes of Arnauts, left like an evil legacy by the
t'acha to the Porte, under the direction of the grey-
heirded superintendent of pilgrimages—Osman Pacha,
teed his coadjutor, Shekir Beg, who has been lately pro-
m'eted from the rank of turnspit in the kitchen to that of
eennele and who. in spite of his recent elevation, served
Is patron-as of old upon his late journey to Mecca. Is
then, to be supposed that, under such circumstances,
t!-.0 modern Pharaoh, with all his advantages of armed
''erees, European patronage, and a Numidian conscience,
at all likely to pay, with any regularity, the yearly tri-
bute of 80,000 purses (40,000,000 piastres, or 4,000,000 f.)
te: which the Porte, with the advice of its allies and pro-
eeetors, has lately condemned him, or to perform with
euy especial fidelity and punctuality, the ordinances of
his sovereign lord ? Despite of all foreign counsel and
'foreign patchwork artifice, the whole Othman edifice js
inking to the ground, without any exterior impulse, un-
e'er the weight of the colossal incapacity of its guardians
el defenders. There appears no doubt that it is scarcely
leeeibh3 for all the combined wisdom and state policy of
eta- times to put off the coming bankruptcy and dissolu-
, . even yet a few years. Destruction is evidently ap-
proaching with rapid steps on the Eastern side anarchy
orevails in all the provinces, with the exception of Aidin,
• e. here that terrible Tahir has established upon solid foun-
tione, after his own fashion, the spirit of subjection and
i;ifticlfbld devotion. Even in the central point of Ana-
villa, the Dere Beg (hereditary magnates) refuse to bear
heir part in the burden of the.
.State, and in their autho-
`.-y of tax-gatherers of the district, instead of exacting
-.,e tenth part, exact no more than the sixtieth or seven-
. ietie part of the produce of the land, in order not to drive
ete people from despair into rebellion against the Govern-
ment at Constantinople•
idginsotinragnueeis,huetdter want
In consequence of the incredmibolree
of ideas, and brutality of theh wishedasashwell
resent that h
of the common Turks, t sheen
am:imps of state andcgovern-
eade them of Christian
i haser' s
eesnt policy, for which they were so littieo_rprtehpearfeacrri,
!:: the eflhet of the robe of Drjhaenrirtg_fe
h pultan himself
eels in Virgil's Georgics.
any of his Ministers has theleast
and adminis-
Nelt
conception of the
eee-eachical posi-
eee of the empire, or of the extent,. g
eem, configuration, population, produce,
and
,!Iven in
trative condition of the respective provinc.
ffnorance and
'flatters of the very greatest importance,
la
here meould
.:orelessness have reached a pitch which elsew
:Ippear perfectly fabulous. Not even the 11 mister of,
ar, or the Commander-in-Chief of the land force
and much less any one else), has any know
ledge of the'
audition of the defensive resources of the monarchy.
".0 one (I give an example) has any idea of boy/ many
(!annon the Government possesses, or where they are to
e.; found. Even the number of regiments is unknown
et Gem% or in a subordinate situation. Raouf Pasha,
ile Grand Vizier, was not long ago quarrelling with his
einstoehar as to whether there were thirty-six or only
~.airty-one effective regiments. After a long contest the
ettter put an end to the dispute with the remark that for-
:•norly in the Ottoman Empire there wore none at all,
.:30l that it was victorious for all that. After the insur-
.•ection in Diarbeltir it was considered advisable on the
eart of the Porte co place the citadel of Aleppo in a state
,F defence, and cannon were conveyed over there from
nstantinople at a great expense, when more than twelve
eWnirable pieces, left behind by the Egyptians in the
eeeses of the Taurus, were allowed to rust, forgotten
end unheeded, not far from Aleppo. When the remark
11.1 made, and the question asked, why these ready
eeees had not been made use of, the answer returned
that these pieces of cannon had been quite forgot-
And yet, in the face of the powerless and miser-
condition before them, the pride of the Mahometans,
.::d their blind confidence in the maintenance of the
nspirc, and their everlasting superiority over the king-
doms of the infidels, are unshaken and untouched.
Abdul Medschid is about as much as nobody here;
• end from the Church of Islam, which now rules in Tur-
eey, neither concession or conversion is to be expected.
Turks laugh in their sleeves at the lecture given
sum by the Whim.. The Egyptians, in the very ex-
e'• Dig of their tyranny, extracted from the,Einir &whir
filpAally 25,000 purses (12,500,000 piastres, or somewhat
.;fore than 3,000,000 franci). The deputies of the Sat-
een now demand of his successor 42,000 purses (21,000,030
7?istros) yearly contribution, of which sum ',the new
rinea declares himself ready to levy 35,000 purses
• 1,750 •
'
000 piastres, or 437,500 francs), as reasonable and
Aq. The people,
'~~t written promises however,i have good English muskets
in*give these „3,e0, mis their hands, and refuse even to
e c,-.port of silks alonell37 duty of 12 per cent. upon.
,onactecording to their opinion,
•:NO?0 purses, with whic;,'ngs in a yearly revenue of; •
Lee' Government ought to e
aYltutsuierycorteill3d.,-
nt
fltvlicitly upon these statements ; and,