The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-28 00:00:00

rious days has been such as was to be expected from
men long accustomed to struggles for liberty. Thanks
to your fraternal union with the people and the
schools, the revolution is accomplished. The country
will be grateful to you for it. At the present hour
all the citizens form part of the National Guard : all
are bound to co-operate actively with the Provisional
Government for the regular triumph of public liber-
ties. The Provisional Government reckons on your
zeal and your devotedness to second its efforts in the
difficult mission which the people have conferred
upon it
" The Members of the Provisional Government,

" DUPONT (de I'Eure), " CREMIEUX,
" F. ARAGO, " LEDRU-ROLLIN,
" MARISA " GARNIER PAGES.
" LAMARTINE,
" LOUIS BLANC, FLOCON' Secretaries."
" ARMAND MARRAST, AUBERT,

" IN TIIII NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE.

"The Provisional Government decrees :
« M. Dupont (de l'Eure) is named provisional Pre-
sident of the Council without fortfolio. .

" M. de Lamartine, provisional Minister of Foreign
Affairs.

" M. Cretnieux, provisional Minister of Justice.
"M. Ledru-Rollin, provisional Minister of the In-

terior.
" M. Michel Goudchaux, provisional Minis ter o
Marine.

" General Bedeau, provisional Minister of \Var.
"M. Carnot, provisional Minister of Public Instruc-
tion (public worship will form a division of this
ministry).
" M. Bethmont, provisional Minister of Commerce.
" M. Marie, provisional Minister of Public Works.
" General Cavaignac, Governor-General of Algeria.
" The municipal guar& is dissolved.
" M. Gamier Pages is named Mayor of Paris.
" MM. Guinart and Recurt are appointed deputies
to the Mayor of Paris.
" M. Flotard is named Secretary-General.
"All the other mayors of Paris, as also the deputy
mayors, are maintained as mayors and deputy mayors
of arrondissements.
" The prefecture of police is placed under the de-
pendence of the Mayor of Paris.
" The maintenance of the security of the city of
Paris is confided to the patriotism of the National
Guard, under the chief command given to Colonel
de Courtais.
" The troops of the first military division will unite
with the National Guard.
"A. CREMIEUX.
LI.MARTINE.

"DUPONT (de I'Eure).
"LEDRU-ROLLIN.
" ARAG O.

" MARIE.
" GARNIER-PAGES.
" Members of the Provisional Government."
"IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE.
" The Provisional Government decrees :
" The Chamber of Deputies is dissolved. The
Chamber of Peers is prohibited from meeting.
" A national assembly will be convoked as soon as
the Provisional Government shall have regulated the
measures of order and police necessary for the vote
of all the citizens.

" LAMARTINE, LEDRU•ROLLIN.
" LOUIS BLANC, Secretary.

" IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE.

"The Provisional Government decrees :--
" The meeting of the ex-Chamber of Peers is in
terdicted.

"DUPONT (de I'Eure). "AD. CREMIEUX
" LAIkIARTINE. "MARIE.
"LEDRII-ROLLIN. " ARAGO."

" Everything that concerns the direction of the
beaux arts and the nzusees, hitherto in the attribu-
tions of tne civil list, will constitute a new divi-
sion of the Ministry of the Interior. The jury
charged to receive the paintings for the annual
exhibitions will be named by election. Artists
will be convoked for this purpose by an early de-
cree. The exhibition of 1848 will be opened on
the 15th of March.

" LEDILU ROLLIN."

"Colonel Dumoulin, formerly aide•de-camp of the
Emperor, is charged with the chief command of
the Louvre and the particular surveillance of the
library of the Louvre and the National Museum ;
M. Felix Bovier is to assist him. (The Minister
of Public Instruction.)

" CARNOT.
"LAMARTINE, AD. CREMIETJX."

"The Provisional Government appoints M Saint-
Amand, captain of the Ist Legion, Commandant of
the Palace of the Tuileries.

"AD. CREMIEUX, GARNIER PAGES,

LEDRII ROLLIN, DUPONT (de l'Eure)."
All the above decrees, &c., are dated the 24th.

The following proclamation by the editors of the
Democratic Pacifique was extensively placarded
throughout Paris on Friday :
(Proclamation.)
" THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE.
" UNIVERSAL REFORM !

"A general amnesty, the (late) Ministers to be ex-
cepted therefrom, and brought to trial. •
" The right of meeting to be consecrated by an
immediate manifestation ; the immediate dissolution
of the Chamber, and convocation of the primary
assemblies.

" A civic guard, under the command of the muni-
cipal authorities. Abolition of the laws of September.
Liberty of speech, liberty of the press, liberty of
petitioning, liberty of association, freedom of election.
" Electoral reform. Every National Guard is an
elector, and eligible. Parliamentary reform. Re-
muneration of the Deputies; public functionaries to
their mind.

"Reform of the Chamber of Peers. Royal nomi-
nation will no longer be tolerated, any more than
aristocratic hereditary right. Administrative reform.
Guarantees for all public functionaries and employes
against the abuse of favours and influences. PRO-
PERTY TO BE RESPECTED (these words are printed in
large capital letters), but the RIG lITS OF LABOUR TO
BE GUARANTEED. Work to be insured to the people.
" Union and fraternal association between the
heads of trading establishments and the operatives.
Equality of rights by education given to all; asylums
(creches), places of refuge, rural schools, and civic
(or urban) schools. Absolute freedom of religion.
Absolute independence of conscience. The Church
to be independent of the State.
" Protection to all the weak, and to women and
children. Peace and holy alliance amongst all nations.
Abolition of war, in which the people serve as a gun-
carriage.
" Independence of all nationalities.
"France the protectress (gardienne) of the rights
of weak nations.

" ORDER FOUNDED ON LIBERTY (in large capitals).
" UNIVERSAL FRATERNITY (likewise in large
capitals) "
(Signed by the editors of the Dimocratie Pacifique.)
To this is added—

" P.S.—There is a maa in France who accepts
these principles, and who has already proclaimed
them—namely, M. de Lamartine."
On Friday the Chateau of Vincennes was surren
dered to the Provisional Government, and on Satur-
day tranquillity had been so far restored, that ladies
and children again ventured to appear in the streets.
The army has accepted the Provisional Government,
and the provincial towns are hourly sending in their
adhesion. It is said that the people are determined
to restore to France the frontier of the Rhine by
annexing Belgium, and preparations are making for
opposing any attempts on the part of the absolutist
powers to invade France. It is generally believed
that England will recognise the republic, and,
notwithstanding the damage done to the hotel of
the British Ambassador, and feelings excited by the
numerous applications for passports (applications
so numerous that it is physically impossible to comply
with them all at once) the people are generally favour-
ably disposed towards England : it is against Austria
that they are most indignant. The strong fortress of
Mont Valerien surrendered on Friday night, after a
siege of five hours, and all the detached forts are in pos-
session of the Government.

The new Minister of Finance, M. GOUDCHAUX, a
Jew, has confirmed all the clerks in their employ-
ment, and business is going on as usual. The whole
of the ensuing year's taxes (notice for the payment of
which was issued on Monday) will fall into the hands
of the Provisional Government, so that they will be
well in funds to commence with. The million a month
voted for the Civil List has been transferred to the
fund for the relief of the people. The law courts
have resumed their sittings (the Cour Royale being
called the Cour National), and the Post-office and
shops are open. The Palace)of the Tuileries is to be
appropriated as an asylum for invalid work-
men. It is not true that the whole of
the furniture of the Tuileries was destroyed.
It was only the private furniture in the
apartments of LOUIS PHILIPPE. The public property
was religiously respected. Every good citizen is declared
a National Guard, and to them are entrusted the task
of preserving order in the city. A man discovered steal-
ing a silver spoon was shot on the spot. The debtors,
the political and female prisoners detained in the
various prisons of the capital, have been released, food
has been distributed at the hospitals, and the Provi-
sional Government has issued orders to the bakers
and provision merchants to issue rations to the citi-
zens under arms, for the payment of which the
Government will be answerable. The streets are
being partially cleared of the barricades, under the
direction of the students of the Polytechnic School. A
portion of the National Guard has been mobilised to

guard the frontiers. Several of the armed workmen have
been draughted into it--their pay is thirty sous a
day. LAMORICIERE will take the command of the army of
the frontier. A Polish Legion has been formed, and
it is generally understood that if other nations
demand the assistance of France it will not 'be
withheld.

The Bunk of France has announced its intention
not to limit its discounts, and it has prolonged the
time for payment of bills falling due ten days longer
It has also put down 100,000 f. for the wounded. M
DE ROTHSCHILD has given 50,000 f., and expressed
his determination not to leave Paris. Everything is
doing to prevent the people from committing excesses.
All pawned articles under ten francs are to be
redeemed for the owners by the Minister of Finance.
The Bourse will not be open till Tuesday.
The following has been published by the Director
of the General Post-office :

" Paris, Feb. 25.
" Citizen Governors,—l hasten to announce to you
that the mails which were detained yesterday (the
24th) at the Bastille by the barricades of the Rue
Charanton quitted Paris early this morning for their
destination. I receive by the couriers arrived this
morning the most satisfactory accounts of the depart-
ments through which they passed. Everywhere the
proclamation sent yesterday from Paris to communicate
the brilliant triumph obtained by the citizens of
Paris, and the installation of the Provisional Govern-
ment, was received with the liveliest sympathy. The
statements of the couriers conclude with the follow-
ing information :—A company of the line has arrived
from Amiens, and stopped at Enghein. From Lille,
movements of troops stopped at St. Denis. Lancers
have entered Rambouiilet, and infantry Versailles.
It was said that a regiment from Beauvais was ex.-
pected at La Chapelle St. Denis..
_ .

" The Provisional Director-General of the Post-
office,

" ETIENNE ARAGO."
" P.S. The Princesses were met near Dreux by
the courier of Brest. No new movement of troops.
I have received this instant a packet of ministerial
dispatches, in arrears '24 hours, probably because it
was not possible or prudent to send them on.
" E. ARAGO."
We read in the National—" Alarming rumours as .
regards property are spread. The authors of these
false imputations can only be enemies of the Govern-
ment which the people has just acquired by its glo-.
rious victory. It is also said that grave misunder-
standings separate the members of the Provisional
Government. We can affirm that the most perfect
union has not ceased to exist between the devoted
citizens who have accepted the mission of organizing
public powers, and of presiding over the establishment
of the republican constitution now demanded by
almost all the departments."
The members of the Provisional Government are
firmly resisting all attempts that are being made to
coerce them. The people attempted to force them to
accept the red flag as the national colour, instead of
the tri-colour.
The Presse says—
" Five times during the day M. de Lamartine ad-

dressed the people assembled under the windows of
the Hotel de Ville. It is thus that you are led
from calumny to calumny against the men who
have devoted themselves, head, heart, and breast
to give you a real republic, the republic of all rights,
all interests, and all the legitimate rights of the
people. Yesterday you asked us to usurp, in the
name of the people of Paris, the rights of thirty-
five millions of men, to vote them an absolute republic,
instead of a republic invested with the strength of their
consent, that is to say, to make of that republic, im-
posed and not consented, the will of a part of the
people instead of the will of the whole nation. To-
day you demand from us the red flag instead of
the tri-colour one. Citizens I for my part, I will
never adopt the red flag; and I will explain in Si
word why I will oppose it with all the strength of
my patriotism. It is, citizens, because the tri-colour
flag has made the tour of the world, under the Re-
public and the Empire, with our liberties and our
glories, and that the red flag has only made the tour
of the Champ de Mars, trained through torrents of
the blood of the people.' "
At this part of the speech of M. DB LIMARTINE,
in that astonishing sitting of sixty hours, in the midst
of an irritated crowd, every one was suddenly affected
by his words ; hands were clapped, and tears shed,
and they finished by embracing him, shaking his .
hands, and bearing him in triumph. In a moment
after, fresh masses of people arrived, armed with
sabres and bayonets ; they knocked at the doors ;
they filled the sailer. The cry was that all
was lost ; that the people were about to fire on
or stifle the members of the Provisional Government.

M. DE LAMARTINE was called for. He was sup-
plicated to go once more for the last time to address
the people. He was raised on a step of the staircase,
the crowd remained for half an hour without consent-
ing to listen to him, vociferating, brandishing arms of
all kinds over his head. M. DB LAIIIRTINE folded
--
his arms, recommenced his address, and finished by
softening, appeasing, and caressing the intelligent
and sensible people, and determining them either to
withdraw; or to become themselves the safe-guard of
the Provisional Government.
The Provisional Government has announced that
the drapeau tricolour is the national flag of the
French Republic, and it has published an appeal to
the people not to think of abandoning either the
Three Colours or the Gallic Cock.
The Provisional Government has been proclaimed
at Dijon.
It was reported at Paris that Neuilly was burnt.
Nothing has been heard of the ex-Ministers. They
were assembled at M. DUCHATEL'S when they heard
of the KING'S abdication, and immediately fled.
The KING had, it was said, gone to Eu, with the
intention of embarking, at Treport, for England.
It is said that the QUEEN and the Princesses
escaped with him from the Tuileries.
The directors of the Havre Railroad have placed it
at the direction of the Provisional Government.
The officer charged with the care of As-DEL.•
K.ADER has been changed.
Prince Louis NAPOLEON arrived at Boulogne on
Saturday, and immediately set off for Paris to tender
his services to the Government.
M. LAMARTINE7 with a view to save such of the
ex-Ministers as may fall into the hands of the people,
had proposed the abolition of the punishment of
death, but his proposal had been rejected.
There was a rumour current in Havre yesterday
that Louis PHILIPPE was dead ; it was, however, not
credited. The probability is that he would embark
at Treport for Portsmouth.

In the cabinet of M. Bmiitots, the Aide-de-Camp
to Louts PHILIPPE, there was found (on the.
capture of the Tuileries), the list and number
of the troops and their stations in Paris, and aho
the number and stations of the pieces of artillery-
destined for the defence of the streets, together withl
a correspondence on the subject betwen the Due lAN
MONTPENSIER and General TIBURCB SEBASTIAN'',
showing that the arrangements had been made as
early as the 10th February.

ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE DB NEMOURS IN LONDON..
—The Duke DE NEMOURS, accompanied by his sister
the Duchess of COBURG KOHART, and by Count
Jeasuc, arrived in London, at the Embassy in Man-
chester-square, last evening, having landed at Dover
yesterday morning. One of his children accom-
panied him, but his wife, the Duchess DE NEmousta
(cousin of Prince ALBERT) had been lost,: it was
said, in the streets of Paris. He himself escaped in
disguise, and had not had time to provide himself
with even a change of linen. He knew not what had
become of the other members of the Royal Family.
M. DELBSSERT, the ex-prefect of police, accompanied
by Madame DRLESSERT and the Duke DE hIONTE.•
BELLO ex-Minister of Marine, have also arrived in
London. There is every reason to fear that M.
GUIZOT has fallen into the hands of the people.
BURNING OF THE INDIAN MAIL.—It is said that
the Indian mail, from England, en route for Mar-
seilles, was seized by the people, in the neighbour-
hood of Paris, and burned.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Fizz. 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10—Namur and Liege, 6—Northern
of France, 71,4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2% —Paris and
Lyons, 3%—Sambre and Meuse, 5 2/4 .

Accounts from Messina of the 17th state, that the
greatest agitation reigned in that city when the new
constitution had been rejected. A great number
of the people from Palermo had just arrived with
artillery to assist the people of Messina. They were
preparing to attack the marine fort, which has a
strong garrison. Some assassinations had been com-
mitted in the town under barbarous circumstances.

Great excitement was occasioned in Brussels on
the receipt of the intelligence of the proclamation of
the republic in Paris.
The Brussels Herald of Saturday says—" The