The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1848.

tary achievements of CARLO ALBERTO, and his cordial I
co-operation with Pro Norvo in the reform of the
institutions of Italy, form of themselves his noblest
and least perishable panegyric. Yet in despite of
the ability and patriotism of these distinguished
Monarchs, we are satisfied that the ambition of the
King of SARDINIA is most inimical to the cause of
Italian independence, and the ambition of the King
of PRUSSIA. mast destructive to the hopes of German
nationality. The hand of destiny may be guided,
however, in the one instance by the Provisional
Government of Milan, and in the other by the
Federal Parliament at Frankfort.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

statement:—' The funeral of the National Guards, who

were killed by musket shots by the clubbists in the
passage Moliere, took place this day. A deputation of
twenty members of ,the National Assembly was present.'
It was only on the proposition of the President, sup-
ported by the unanimous adhesion of the Assembly, that
the National Representation figured by delegates in this
sad ceremony. The Executive Government did not
convoke any deputation of the legions of the banlieue,
nor of the legions of Paris ; it has not even
made known the names of these brave National Guards
who died for the defence of order, the laws,

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
At the conclusion of the sitting of the National
Assembly on Friday, M:q. ARMAND MARRAST and
BrrnmoNT were elected Vice-Presidents of the
Chamber.

On Saturday the Assembly met at twelve o'clock ;
M. SENARD, one of the Vice-Presidents, in the chair.
M. Degoussee stated that the Assembly had invited
the questors to choose a distinctive mark, to be worn by
the representatives at their sittings, and in great solem-
nities, when the representatives were obliged to appear
in a body before the people. The questors had agreed
to adopt a special tricoloured ribaad, with the fasces
of the Republic, surmounted by a hand of jus-
tice, which they proposed to the Assembly to
wear at their usual sittings in order to prevent
strangers from entering the hall. They, moreover,
recommend the adoption, for great ceremonies, of a
tricoloured scarf, similar to that worn by the represen-
tatives of the people during the first Revolution. M.
Degomea observed, that it was very light and could
easily
fit in the pocket. The scandal of the 15th of May
(a'lde
dhe) may be repeated; sedition, although van-
quished,may still raise its head, and circumstances pre-
sent themselves in which the representatives of the peo-
ple may have occasion to place themselves at the head of
the National Guard to protect the Republic, and it was
indispensable consequently that they should be distin-
guished by some badge.
The Chamber adopted the insignia recommended by

and the Republic. Not a member of the Go-
vernment went to cause the yoke of the afflicted,

and grateful country to be heard over their tomb. The
factious Barbes, Huber, and Blanqui, who believed that
they had dissolved the Assembly of our Representatives,
dismissed in their decrees the National Guard of Paris
and the departments. They placed every National
Guard clothed in his uniform out of the pale of the law.
The Executive Government, which ought now to govern
us, has not, thank God, gone so far as that; but by re-
fusing to the funeral of the National Guards all the
honours it merited, it has given a new proof of its in-

Public attention in the Irish metropolis appears at
present to be concentrated on the approaching trial of
Mr. MITCHEL, which will take place at Green-street
some day this week, most probably on Thursday
next. The bill of indictment was sent before the
grand jury on Saturday, and is to be taken into con-
sideration this day. As there can be but little doubt
that a " true bill" will be found in the first instance,
the great struggle ,will take place before the petty
jury, and the efficiency of the new Act will then be
tested ; and it will also be seen how far an " Irish
jury" can be trusted to return a conscientious verdict
in accordance with the evidence presented before
them, and uninfluenced by any other consideration
in a political case. It would seem to be the general
impression that the result will entirely depend
upon the composition of the jury. Should
any true confederate be sworn in, it may
be taken for granted that the example set by

gratitude for those who defend order and the laws at the
price of their blood, and a new proof of weakness to-
wards the factious. Several journals have, like us.

opened a subscription for the ramilios of the National
Guards of the banlieue who were killed in the Rue
Saint Martin, and for those who were only wounded.

Let the National Guards respond to ibis appeal

even by the smallest contributions. We beg i C.
Thomas, General of the National Guard of Paris, to
nominate from the staff and the legions a commihsion to

whom the funds raised may be remitted, and the em-
ployment of them be regulated."
The following order of the day has been addressed
to the National Guards of the Seine by General C.

the questors.
Here the President read to the Assembly a letter '
signed "Denissel, Deputy of the Pas de Calais," ten-
dering bis resignation as member of the Assembly.
M. Denissel having risen, declared that the letter was
a forgery, and on his demand it was sent to the Minister
of Justice, to institute proceedings against the forger.
After several notices had been given by different
Members,
M. Dabeaux demanded that the decrees of the Pro-
visiunal Government—of which he did not question the
legality—should be submitted to revision by the Com-
mittees of the National Assembly, which would give
them the legal sanction. Several courts of justice, ler
instance, refused, he said, to recognise the abolition of
arrest for debt, and continued to apply that penalty,
M. C! 6:nieux, Minister of Justice, was of opinion, that
the House could not deliberate on such a proposition.
The floe. Mover, he said, appeared to have forgotten
that the Provisional Government had been invested with
its powers by the entire people, and that all its measures
had been iuspiri d by public reason and the wants of the
country. Those decrees were laws executed by the
courts of justice, and he did not know of a single instance
in which they had been disobeyed. The revision of
those decrees was impossible. Tnere were two decrees
certainly of which the Assembly could not pronounce
the revision—the one proclaiming the Republic, and the
other instituting universal suffrage, hi virtue of which it
existed. The Assembly had the power to reverse and
modify all the laws and decrees of the Provisional
Government, but their revision, he repeated, was im-
possible.
The proposition of M. Dabeaux was rejected.
M. Ducoux rose and said, that on the 15th, when the
factious forcibly entered the Legislative Hall, the As-
sembly expected to learn from the Government what
attitude the young Republic had assumed towards foreign
Powers. lie did not wish to compromise it by any in-
opportune discussion; but as the foreign question greatly
contributed to maintein uncertainty in the public mind,
he thought such a discussion would tend to remove it.
The press, for instance, mentioned the conclusion of an
offensive and defensive alliance between four great
Powers; he had reason to believe the report unfounded,
but its contradiction would have greater weight in the
mouth of one of the members of the Government. He
accordingly proposed that the interrupted discussion on
the affairs of Poland and Italy be continued on Tuesday.
M. Lunartine replied that the Provisional Govern-
ment had not hesitated an instant with regard to the
attitude the Republic should assume towards foreign
Powers. He was happy to state that none of the sinister
provisions entertained at the time had been realised,
and when the fatal invasion of the Legislative Hall took
place on Monday he was ready to give the Assembly all
the explanations it desired, being fully conscious that
the measures the Provisional Government had resorted
to would meet the approbation and calm the apprehen-
sions of the country.
The Assembly afterwards decided that the interpel-
lations relative to Poland and Italy should be resumed
on Tuesday.
The President next invited the representatives of
the people to meet at seven o'clock the next morning in
their hail, to proceed thence to the Champ de Mars; and
the Assembly adjourned.
The Minister of Commerce and Agriculture has
addressed the following circular to the Prefect of

THOMAS, Commander•in-Chief:—
" Comrados,—Called by the confidence of the National
Assembly, and of the Commission of Executive l'ower,
to the great honour of commanding you, I should per-
haps have refrained from accepting so grave a mission.
if I had not been certain to find in tho sentiments of

the dissentients at the late trials of Messrs. SMITH
0 BRIEN and MEAGHER will be closely followed;
and, indeed, it would be almost a gratuitous waste of
the public time to bring on the trial under such cir-
cumstances. In order to give the " prosecuted
patriot," however, the best possible chance his quon-
dam associates are using overt' exertion to deter the
Crown counsel from exercising their undoubted
privilege of setting aside any persons whose avowed
opinions might lead to a reasonable expectation that
they would come into the jury-box with prejudiced
minds and biassed feelings, so as to be unfitted to
pronounce fair and impartial judgment on the
questions that might be submitted to their
decision. The old and hacknied cry of packed
juries has therefore, been resorted to.
The Council of the Irish Confederation has issued
a notice, calling on the association to hold a special
meeting yesterday (Sunday), at three o'clock, for
the purpose of expressing the opinion of that body on
the unconstitutional and despotic practice of packing
juries, while a requisition to the Lord Mayor has
been got up, calling upon his Lordship to convene a
general meeting of the citizens of Dublin for Tues-
day next, " that they may have an opportunity of
expressing their strong condemation of the practice of
packing juries for the trial of political offences." In
both of these cases, it will be seen that it is spoken of
as an existing " practice," whereas it is perfectly
notorious that for many years back even the privilege
of setting aside jurors has been but sparingly resorted
to, and there has not been the slightest interference
with the jury panels, which are wholly prepared by
the High Sheriff or his subordinates.
However deeply to be censured any improper
tampering with the lists would be on the part of the
Government officials, we cannot see that the setting
aside of men whose sentiments were known to be
such that a verdict could scarcely be hoped for would
subject them to any well-grounded reproach; indeed,
if they omitted to take such a precaution they would
manifestly be unworthy of the position in which they
are placed, and would suffer the administration of the
law to become paralysed in their hands. Would it
be said in England that a Crown prosecutor had
packed a jury because he had objected to
the names of any number of persons who,
however estimable in other respects, openly professed
such opinions respecting capital punishments—that
however strong the evidence and overwhelming the
case, they could not return a verdict that might have
the effect of consigning a fellow creature to an igno-
minious death upon a scaffold, believing that even
perjury itself would be better than any participation
in what they might conceive to be a legalized murder?
The case in Irelana is perfectly analogous. The
praises that have been lavished on the dissenting
jurors sufficiently testify that those who have ex-
pressed such unqualified approbation of their conduct
would themselves be prepared to act in a similar
manner if the opportunity occurred. There should
be no violent partizans either for or against
the prisoner. He has the power of pe-
remptorily challenging twenty jurors, and
as many more as he can assign any valid or substan-
tial ground of objection to. This will guard against
.he possibility of any party who entertains a personal

patriotism and devotedness to the Republic which
animates you a co-operation always as spontaneous as
it is intelligent. I will remind you that it is in the midst
of gravest events, and when the energetic intervention of
the National Guard has saved the country from anarchy,
that this command, the first of all in my estimation, has
been confided to me. This souvenir, which will be al•

way s present to me, will guide me in the accomplish-
ment of my duties, and the confidence in me v% hich you
have so spontaneously displayed will not he misplaced."
M. ANTONY THOURET has addressed the following
letter to the Debats:—

" Monsieur,—l haie just read the report of M. Marrast,
Mayor of Paris, to the Executive Committee. I was witness
of all the facts which it discloses, and I am the first to
render justice to the courage and sang-froid of the Mayor
of Paris in so terrible a moment. I regret only that he
has forgotten to mention in that document a name which
had, at that moment, an official character. After having,
with my person, defended in the National Assembly the
President Buchtz, whom I forced to quit the hall at
the moment when he was on the point of being basely
assassinated, I was dispatched by him to go and defend
the Hotel de Ville with the Mayor of Paris, who might
not have been informed of what was passing. I arrived
at the gate of the Hotel de Ville at the moment when
the armourers' shops on the quays were being pillaged.
I passed the gate freely, without mentioning my name,
and I entered that municipal fortress more easily than
a man can enter a private house. Let the armed force
charged to defend the Hotel de Ville explain this appa-
rent treason! I had at my side M. Delespaul, represen-
tative of the people, and citizen Brun, both of whom can
attest the verity of what I have just stated. However,
when I informed the National Guards scattered over the
place of the invasion of the National Assembly, they
loaded their muskets, expecting a command, a direction,
a word to tell them to co-operate and lend assistance
where it might be required! When I arrived at the coun-
cil chamber, I fulfilled my mission to the courageous
Mayor of Paris. I drew up a proclamation which he signed;
I had it printed; and, in half an hour, at the moment
when the conspirators were flinging out of one of the
windows lists of a Provisional Government, I was throw-

ing from another those proclamations, which brought
up wards of 50,000 men to the neighbourhood of the
hotel de Vile. The Mayor of Paris ought to remern •
ber that I gave him an energetic account of the situa-
tion of Paris. which I bad just traversed. I said to
him that our duty was to gain half an hour, or die to-
gether in defence of that Republic of which we had
achieved the conquest on the barricades of February !
Half as hour after, we were all safe ; we encompassed
the conspirators, and we lived ! It I give these details,
the reason is, that at the moment when some Republicans,
an instant astray, attacked the National Assembly elected
by universal suffrage, France ought to know that there
are old Republicans, firm, prudent, generous, who have
fought for twenty years for a republic of order, per-
suasion, love, and not for a republic of the sabre, of
communism, and terror I Health and fraternity."
BLANQUI has addressed the following letter to the
editor of the Constitutionnel:—

Paris :
" Citizen Prefect,—My first and most unceasingpre-
occupation
Government
rate, of the
will
iri provisions vci soi
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e most
to necessary
in the Ministerial department confided tome
shall be to insure the supply, at the cheapest possible
present situation of industry, of which the Republican
neutralize theto
repair the disasters, renders that necessity
pressing. The state of the country is coympsleit l more
re-
assuring. The crops of 1847 were excellent;eY ht e
prospects of 1848, and in particular the winter coma
are brilliant; the meadows are highly promising,
unless disasters occur which cannot be foreseen, agarni-
culture will reap this year abundant fruits, and will
provide for the wants of the people excellent and
rous herds of cattle. Tranquillity and security every-
where prevail. Let us avail ourselves of it to guard
against evil days. Let freedom of trade be or Yaniz,,d
and ever be pure of the culpable excess of speculation.6.'
perils
life.t. l
an d
" Nevertheless, these hopes, however reassuring they
may be, do not diminish in the least duties your and
mine. You will accordingly insure everywhere the
free passage of grain and cattle, protect transac-
tions, enlighten citizens relative to their
realinterests,
and provide supplies of food at the cheapest possible
rate.
"In the fulfilment of that patriotic duty
mine
you may rely
on the co-operation of the Government • '
be wanting to you in the application theof
shall never
measures
necessary to maintain, for the benefit
of the people,
abundance and security.
" The third report on the crops of 1848 will, you
know, reach me in the course of te
the wheat is in flower. I wish you mt onthof June, when
tions it usually contains an
approximate return of the
number of hectares sown for the said crop, including
autumn and spring sowing.
" Moreover, in tuture, all documents of that nature
must be accompanied by partial returns prepared by each
of the mayors of your department,
docu-
ments having served as the basis of
the reports you are
or any other
to forward me. If, at the period appointed to send those
reports to my Ministry, you should
not have received all
the information you demanded, you
oumust not defer the
transmission of the first, but forward all the documents
that may have reached you at that d date, and subsequently
complete them by transmitting those that may after-
wards come to hand.
" Health and fraternity.
" FERDINAND FLOCON,
" The Minister of Agriculture, and Commerce."
The Moniteur aunounces that M. 1 Locori, Minister
of Agriculture and Commerce, is making arrange-
ments for the cultivation of the waste lands and the
general amelioration of agriculture, and that the
rights of all agricultural labourers and the workmen
in manufactories, &c., will be " dem •
ccratically appre-
ciated and satisfied." It is also important
modifications dthat
modifications will be made in the law as to workmen's
livrets, the coalitions of workmen, and the labour in
manufactories. M. FLocoN has addressed a circular
to the prefects of the departments desiring them to
do everything in their power to promote the free cir-
culation of articles of food, and to report to him on
the means of agricultural improvement.
The Bureaux appointed to consider the projet de
loi for extending the interdiction of the soil of France
at present existing as to the members of the Bourbon
family of the elder branch to the family of LOUIS
PHILIPPE, met again on Friday. Prince NaroLEort
BONAPARTE, son of the ex• King of Westphalia, op-
posed the measure, declaring that exile is a useless
precaution, as it generates conspiracy, and almost
excuses it. Nobody, be said, could attribute to him
any sympathy in favour of a family which, in his
view, had caused the misfortune of France since 'B9,
but he thought it his duty to declare that, in his
opinion, Louis PHILIPPE and his family ought to be
left in the oblivion in which the catastrop
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QUIS went further, and stigmatised the proposition as
a mark of weakness. Exile was, he thought, a hurt-
ful measure, and contrary to the spirit of order and
conciliation so necessary for the establishment of the
Republic. The Republic ought to show its strength
by admitting all pretenders from whatever quarter
they might come.
This may be all very humane, but it is scarcely logical
or prudent. If the soil of France be not interdicted to
Louis Pniurrii and his family, then, to be consis •
tent, the Assembly must repeal the law interdicting
it to the family of CHARLES X.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has announced himself as
a candidate for one of the vacancies in the represen-
tation of Paris to the National Assembly. He de-
, clares himself '6 firmly, sincerely, logically republi-
, can," says that "he understands the Republic like
Faamix—he does not understand it without
t WASHINGTON," and adds that "ifbe be wrong in not
I understanding it like Citizen ROBESPIERRE, and like
Citizen LEDRU ROLLIN, he requests that he may not
, be nominated.
The Constitutionnel has the following on the unac-
; countable neglect, to use no harsher term, of the Ex-
' cutive Committee to honour the remains of those
brave National Guards who fell on Monday last in
defending the Assembly against the Anarchists :--
"All the journals yesterday published the following
'

" Monsieur le Redacteur,—l am neither at Brussels
nor at London, but in Paris, where I read your journal.
I can very well understand, that after having aided the
Government to ruin me, you should attempt to fling me
between the legs of that same Government, to cause it
to stumble in its turn. Indulge in your warlike tactics
as much as you please. I say nothing against it; but
give us no retrospective calumnies, or if you do. you
must allow me to strike in and contradict them. I was
not arrested one single instant. Monsieur, you know
that very well; and your doubts on the subject may be
exceedingly diplomatic, but they are not very severe. I
was neither arrested, nor consequently let go; if they
had held me, they would have held me well; certainly
it is long enough since they have been anxious to hold
me ; I have for guarantee of that desire, the cordial
hatred of all the members of the Government—a hatred
of which M. Caussidiere, that tap-room Suffetius, gave
on Tuesday a very tolerable specimen in the tribune.
That hatred does me honour, for it comes from persons
who have all destroyed the revolution ; and in that re-
spect it is flattering for me to furnis them with the
only subject of unanimity that they have been able to
find. One observation more—you, like other journals,
have copied from the Droit a pompous list of important
article seized at my residence, quite in the style of April
1834, and may 1839 ; numerous letters ; scarfs with
gold fringe ; lists of conspirators ; proclamations—
nothing is wanting in the inventory of this precious
booty. Letters ! I have allowed myself to receive some
—a great crime truly! Scarfs with gold fringe! In
fact, we had red arm-bands with copper fringe, for the
commissaries of the club; what an enormity! Lists of
conspirators! capital! Why, these lists of conspirators
are the regular registers of the Central Republican
Society, containing the names of citizens of all opinions,
from white to red, and passing through all the inter-
mediate shades. Proclamations! Still better: these
proclamations are copies of the manifesto published by
the club relative to the massacres at Rouen—a manifesto
placarded on May 2(1 in Paris, gulled off to the number
of 40,000, and copied into several journals. I am
delighted to see the law authorities and the monarchical
journals assume so decidedly the fashion of acting of the
last reign. On with you, gentlemen! Continue! The
regency cannot be far off !"
On the subject of illegal discharge from arrest of
several of the persons arrested on Monday last by the
National Guard, we find the following in the Gazette
des Tribunaux :
" Mention has been made of illegal discharges from
imprisonment on the night of the 15th. The following
are facts, of which we can warrant the exactitude. In
the evening of the 15th, after the search made at the
residence of M. Sobrier, 30 persons were arrested and
taken to the Tuileries, where 50 others, arrested at
other parts, were in custody. By order of Saint-
Amend, Governor of the Tuileries, these 80 persons
were conducted to the Prefecture of Police by 300
National Guards of the Bth Legion, whose com-
mander received the usual acknowledgment of
their being deposited. A moment after an
order came from the Executive Committee to
keep the persons arrested at the Tuileries, and above
all not to send them to the Prefecture. It was too
late, and M. Saint Amend transmitted to the Execu-
tive Committee the receipt which had been given at the
Prefecture. When, on the following day, on M. Du-
pare, a lieutenant of the second legion, who had been
active in the arrests made in the Rue Rivoli, appeared at
the Prefecture to inquire where the prisoners were con-
fined, the Commissary of Police declared that he had
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the citizens arrested, was one who seemed to apprehend
that his wife would be distressed at his absence, and re-
quested one of the National Guards who belonged to the
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yesterday from the tribune, that no person bad bad any
communication with the prisoners."
A warrant for the arrest of the ex-Abb6 CLIATEL
has, it is said, been issued, in consequence of his
having delivered an ultra-revolutionary harangue in
the Place de la Madeleine on the 15th. This person
gained great notoriety some years ago by founding
what he called the " Eglise Franaise," of which he

hostility, or who has proved himself a warm political

opponent, from being placed on the jury. The right
will doubtless be exercised to the fullest extent,

and no person could reasonably object to the
person on trial for so doing. Neither should the
Crown prosecutors be blamed for refusing to leave
the matter in the hands of any who would not come
into court without any predetermination as to the
decision they would finally arrive at. We are con-
vinced that the Attorney-General and his coadjutors
will act in this case, as in all others in which they
have been concerned, with strict justice and impar-
tiality, and that they will adopt no unfair or under-
hand means to obtain a conviction, but we also
believe that they will act with vigour and
efficiency. and, so far as they are con•
cerned will prevent the administration of jus-
tice from being brought into disrepute, and the
majesty of the law from being slighted and despised
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might have been expected if they suffered themselves
to be intimidated from the proper discharge of their
duties, or influenced by the clamour and outcry of the
members of " The Irish Confederation."

proclaimed himself Primate. He has, it is believed, the nations who, in the opinion of the Fren ch E
fled into Belgium. publicans, have established their freedom.
Every day fresh evidence comes to light to prove The Provisional Government and the AlLsrabt 're
the connexion of certain members of the Executive of the National Assembly took their
abo at
set is abo
half-past nine, after which the different deputatioing
Government of the Republic with the anarchical
wera
outbreak of Monday. It appears that Sonaieu had filed before them. Among the deputaticois
obtained his arms and ammunition from the Provi- several of foreigners,ncip principally Poles, (•
,t) con-
sional Government. The Liberte says— Italians, and Belgians. A small party of In ,
3-ermallos
sisting of not more than twelve persons, and ci trrying
" The question is asked, how it came to pass that arms
and ammunition could be ordered for the citizens Caus a little green flag, though not included in ti le pro;
sidiere and Sobrier at the same time. , What, then, was gramme, made their appearance, and, after sera
this Sobrier that, by the same order, on the same paper,
demur, were allowed to follow the others. The
and signed by the same person, by order of and for the
Minister of War, the direction of artillery received an troops then began to defile, and continued, without
injunction to deliver en the night of April 14-Ist, to M. the
intermission, till past three o'clock. Then came
Sobrier, Rue de Rivoli. 16, 400 muskets and two parcels
grand chariot of commerce and agriculture, And the
of 10,000 cartridges each, at eleven at night; 2dly, to .•
M. Caussidiere, at midnight, 700 muskets and 30,000 deputations of the different trades peculiar to France,
cartridges. The order from the War department is in and especially to Paris; and they were still pass
„,it'ge
the hands of M. Portalis, the Procureur-General." in front of the estrade at half- past four o'clock. I"
Several of the clubs have sent declarations to the illuminations of the evening promise well. Tb ey sre
journals stating that none of their members took upon a most magnificent scale, and the weat her iS
part in the deplorable attack on the National Assembly uncommonly favourable.
on Monday last.
A detachment of five hundred Poles, expelled from While the fete was going on the Government ree
ceived accounts which induced; them to believe
the Prussian territory, arrived in Paris on Friday. that the Communists had an intention of taking ad-
The Provence of Aix states that the national
vantage of the National Guards and troops bein,g
workshops of that town have been closed, having been engaged in the Champ de Mars, to make an aback
an enormous charge to the town, and bringing in
upon Vincennes for the purpose of releasing lialso°
nothing. An attempt was made by the discharged
and the other prisoners. A regiment was ileoe;
men to blow up the powder magazine, hut it fortu• diately ordered off for that place, but it is to be hope
nately failed, by the activity and energy of the
that the alarm is a false one.
National Guard. At Arles also, where 1,400 men that
Accounts have reached Paris this evening
had been discharged, with a recommendation to Lyons is in the hands of the Voraces and other.
seek work in the country parts, disturbances have emeutiers. Many outrages had been committed, all
taken place, the crowd having broken the windows it is stated that they have even attempted to hang one
of the Mairk, and endeavoured to set the build- of the mayors of the place. Details are wanting, but
ing on fire. Seven or eight men were arrested, and the next accounts were looked for with anxiety.
on the arrival of the Procureur of the Republic ten BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT V3-'",,,,
more. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 20. and
The establishment of these national workshops has Boulogne and Amiens, 614—Luxembourg, 3/4-ICalnor
Liege, 314—Northern of France, 45 —Paris and Lyons/
proved, as every tyro in the science of political ex div.—Paris and Orleans, 22—Sambre and Meuse,4%-
economy must have known they would prove, a grcss
and most dangerous blunder, aggravating a thousand-
fold the evils which it was pretended they were to
remedy, and rendering the payment of wages
eventually impossible by destroying the wages fund.
The Minister of Public Works was compelled in one
of the Bureaux of the Assembly, on Friday, to ac-
knowledge this unpalatable fact. He said, " that the
system of ateliers nationaux, instituted at the moment
of the revolution, when it was necessary to do some-
thing for the numerous workmen out of employment,
was no longer calculated to give satisfaction to any
party ; he proposed that all the men so employed
should be set down to useful works. He would take

the youngest, and propose that they should be en-
rolled in the army—others might be sent home to
their departments, on being allowed a sum of money,
—the greater number he would propose to employ
in reclaiming waste lands and digging canals—the
rest he would have employed on railways.
The partizans of the Urleanist dynasty were very
busy on Saturday in endeavouring to circulate a
rumour to the effect that M. LAMAILTINE had re-
signed his office. The wish, we believe, was father to
the thought, and we have little doubt but that the
rumour itself originated in London. We may take
this opportunity of expressing a hope that the pro-
visions of the new Alien Bill will be impartially ap-
plied by her Majesty's Ministers, and that Brompton-
square will be no more permitted to be an Aleatia for
intriguf rs than Leicester-square.
The Grand Sational Fête came off yester-
day, and it passed off as well as the best
friends of order and of the Republic could
have wished. The weather was superb—bright
and sunshining without being oppressively hot.
At half•past four the rappel began to beat in the
different quarters of Paris, and continued every
quarter of an hour until six. It then ceased, the
National Guards beginning to make their appear-
ance, and detached pickets of dragoons and cuiras-
siers having already taken up their stations at various
points along the boulevards, the Place de la Made-
leine, the Place de la Concorde, and in front of the
Palace of the National Assembly.
In the Place de la Concorde, as early as six, a con-
siderable crowd had already assembled, and chiefly of
well-dressed persons. Tables, chairs, stands, benches
—everything that could give a vantage ground to the
spectator to view the ceremony better, were disposed
about in great profusion.
Although seven o'clock was appointed as the hour
for the representatives of the people to leave the
Chamber for the Champ de Mars, they did not start
until half-past eight ; they did not all bear the same
distinctive mark of Deputies ; some merely wore on
the left breast the broad red ribbon and rosette which
was adopted after the attack of the 15th, others a
more ornate article of the same form, but embroidered
in gold and terminating with gold fringe; whilst
others exhibited the tri-coloured scarf across the
shoulder agreed to by the Assembly in the sitting of
the day before. A few wore it under their coat, so
that a small portion merely appeared across the
breast. Some Deputies wore both ornaments.
General CAVAIGNAC was amongst the earliest ar-

rivals.
The Members shortly after eight o'clock arranged
themselves on the peristyle of the Hall of the As-
sembly in readiness to start. At half past eight,
General CLEMENT THOMAS dashed up on his white
charger, and, taking of? his hat, announced that all
was ready. The representatives then moved down
the steps four deep, and not in any particular order,
the Ministers and Executive Committee taking their
places indiscriminately amongst the rest. M. DE
LAMARTINE and M. FLocoN were amongst the last,
though not together. They were cheered along
their passrge, the whole crowd taking off their hats
as they approached. They went on first along the
quay to the Champ de Mars, and were exactly one
hour and a half in reaching the estrade prepared
for them in front of the Ecole Alilitaire. Every.
thing was in perfect order.
Although the procession, headed by the Govern-
ment, began to move from the Hall of Assembly
soon after eight o'clock, the great agricultural
chariot did not start from the Madeleine till ten.
The procession extended to the Place de la Bastile,
and the end of it did not reach the Champ de Mars
until late in the afternoon.
The accounts from Paris are up to six o'clock this
evening. They describe the fete as having been up
to that hour worthy of its name, Fete de la Concorde.
There was not the least attempt at disturbance.
A curious incident occurred during the progress of
the procession from the National Assembly tothe Champ
de Mars. Immediately after the Members of the Na-
tional Assembly came the Mayors of Paris and the
surrounding communes, with their tri- coloured scarfs ;
then were to come the delegates of the departments,
hut on arriving about half way down the quay, a
company of about twenty old men bearing a banner
inscribed " Vainqueurs de la Bastille, 1789," appeared
and demanded as the oldest of the defenders of liberty
to be admitted next the Mayor. Their spokesman said,
"we ought to be the first of all ! Without us, how
would you have ever had liberty ? It was we who
showed the way to achieve great things." The dele-
gates at once yielded the pass to these glorious old
men, who formed perhaps by far the most interesting
portion of the procession. The Simeons of Liberty
who have lived to see the consummation of the glo-
rious work which 59 years ago they commenced.
After the delegates came, the various trade-corpo-
rations, or, as they are called, compagnons, each with
some production of their calling, as a specimen of
their skill.
The Provisional Government, the members of the
National Assembly, the magistracy, departmental
deputations, &c., took up their seats on an immense
estrade erected in front of the Ecole Militaire. On
the same estrade there were a great number of
General officers and other official personages, besides
a large party of ladies. The estrade was calculated
to hold upwards of 6,000 persons and it was exces-
sively crowded. No description can give any idea of a
scene the splendour of which consisted principally
in the vastness of the multitude who took part in it,
the thousands upon thousands of troops which were
passed in review, the beauty of the magnificent spot
where the ceremony took place, and the excitement,
the variety, and very confusion of the scene. The
statue of Liberty, which, with its pedestal,
is eighty feet high, and stcod in the
centre of the Champs de Mars, had a
good effect from its immense size and its posi-
tion. Ou each side of it were rows of handsome
booths. At the entrance to the Champ de Mars
were two immense obelisks, with the names of all