The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

Affairs, and penetrated even'to the reception-rooms, with
cries of Vive la Republique. !"A bas Girardin r They
seemed much excited respecting an article in the Presse,
which had, it appears, strongly attacked the Provisional
Government. They spoke vehemently, and with threats,
against the spirit of that journal, and against the endu-
rance of the Government for tolerating such attacks
against itself, and leaving them unpunished. They
seemed to demand a sort of tacit authorisation to go, and
impose silence by violence on the liberty of the press
in the person of M. de Girardin. I had much diffi
culty in calming them, and convincing them that the
character of the Republic consisted precisely in that
abosolute liberty of control over the acts and the
men of the Goverment, provided it did not degenerate
either into attacks against tho fundamental institutions
of society or into provocations to civil war. Even
injustice,' I said to them, is a right of the press.
Write, reply, discuss, blame, but do not touch either
the author or the instrument of free thought.' My
words are in the Moniteur. The young men with-
drew and proceeded to mingle themselves with the
groups which were collected in the Rue Montmartre,
and to spread abroad my words, and to persuade the
crowd to retire peacefully. I went there myself a mo-
ment after, accompanied by a single officer of the Na
tional Guard out of uniform. There was then no other
public force in Paris, except the words of some men loved
by the people. The two following nights I returned
and mingled with the groups more or less menacing,
which were collected under the windows of M. de Gi-
rardin, to watch, unknown to him, and, if necessary, to
oppose with my person the movement of irritation
against him."

That is a truly heroic refutation—•heroic because it
reveals that, unknown to M. DE GIRARDIN himself,
unknown to the world at large until now, LA-
AIARTINE, under the cover of night, risked his life
and his popularity, at the very time when his
life was most precious and his popularity most
wonderful, to shelter with the voice of his genius,
and with the daring of his bosom, the very man
who was every day calling upon the people to revolt
against his Government. If ever an act was heroic
—that act of LAMARTINE is marked with the traits
of the most true, the most earnest, the most un-
selfish, the most antique, and the most elevated
heroism ! It is a valiant and manly contradiction of
a mean and ignoble slander. History will not for-
get the incident—it will sparkle like a diamond-
virtue amidst the blood and blackness of the Revo-
lution.

The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris when
the post left.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

After the speech of M. MauGuiN, and the expla-
nations of M. BASTIDE and General CAVAIGNAC on
the subject of foreign affairs, were concluded, the
National Assembly resumed the adjourned debate on
the report of M. Limns on the proposition of M.
PROUDIION ; the latter addressed the Assembly-for
three hours in support of his principles of communism
and organized plunder. At the conclusion of his ad-
dress, which was listened to with great impatience,
M. SENARD, the Minister of the Interior, ascended
the tribune, and declared that the Government had
never imagined that the tribune of that House would
ever have been so disgraced, or France so insulted, as
they were by the apology for crime of every sort, and
the excitement to revolt and to every bad passion
which had just been uttered. It was proposed by
another member that the speech of M. PRUDUON
should be excluded from the Moniteur, and that
all journals reporting it should be prosecuted.
This, however, was opposed by M. DUPIN.
TIIIERS, having received the assurances of the
Assembly that there was no necessity for his making
any reply to the speech of M. PnouDnoN, proposed
the following resolution :
The National Assembly—considering that the pro-
position of the citizen Proudhon is an odious attack on
the principles of public morality; that it is a flagrant
violation of the right of property, which is the basis of
social order; that it encourages a delusion, and appeals to
the ♦ilest passions; considering, further, that the outline
of it has calumniated the revolution of February, in
wishing to render it an accomplice of the theories which
he has developed in the tribune—passes to the order of
the day."

On a division, there appeared—
For the resolution ... ... 691
A gainst it ... ... ... '2

The names of the Members of the Assembly who
were absent from the division of those who voted in
favour of the resolution and those who voted against
it are to be published iu the Oironiteur.
The following announcement on the subject of the
new loan appears in the Moniteur :
" The Minister of Finance, considering that the pay-
ments by anticipation for the loan have reached a very
great extent; considering that it is advisable to maintain
the sums accruing from the loan in a just proportion
with the wants of the service, and not to withdraw
abruptly from the movement of affairs too much capital,
decides as follows:

Only Artiele.—Tho faculty of paying by anticipa-
tion at a discount of 4 per cent., the coming terms of the
loan, accorded by Art. 11 of the order of the 25th of
this month, is suspended. " G OUDCHAUX.
" Paris, July 31, 1848."
The Journal des Debuts publishes a contradiction
of the rumour to which it gave circulation on the
previous day that a Provisional Government had been
formed in Rome. There is no truth in the statement.
The Vice-President of the Provisional Government
of Milan, GOVRIEUI, arrived in Paris yesterday, with
an address signed by all the members of the Provi-
sional Government, soliciting the intervention of
France to secure Italian independence against
Austria. He had a long interview with General
CAVAIGNAC.

The Revue des Deux Mondes says that a French
squadron is to be sent immediately into the Adriatic,
and that the expedition into the Legations, upon
which M. LUCIEN MURAT has been sent by the
French Government, is in reference to the inter-
vention.

BOURSE.—PARS, AuG. 1.
TnnEE o'CLocx.—The news from Italy created great
uneasiness upon the Bourse; and the decree published
in the Mon iteur of this morning, suspending the pay-
ment of 4 per cent. for instalments for the New Loan,
paid in advance, was not able to prevent an additional
decline. For the Account, the French Three per Cents.
have fallen 25c.; Five per Cents. have fallen 50c. For
Money, the Three per Cents. have fallen 50c.; Five per
Cents. have fallen SOc. The Coupons of the Loan are
not quoted. Bons du Trfisor are at 22 discount. Bank
of France Shares have fallen 20f. Belgian Bank Shares
not quoted. Belgian Five per Cents, are as yesterday.
Spanish Funds not quoted. Roman has fallen 2 per cent.
Rothschild's Receipts as yesterday. Exchange on Lon-
don (30 days), 25 271; ditto (90 days), 25 20. Railway
Shares participated in the fall.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. Alto. 1.
Northern of France 5 th—Tours and Nantes, 2%.