The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

THE SUN

the capital when the streets, the squares, the
' quays, and the bridges, were crowded with battalions
of the 80,000 troops which form the garrison of that
beautiful city, and which manoeuvred among the
dense masses of unarmed citizens. Occasionally, it is
true, a gunmaker's shop was sacked ; spikes were
torn from the iron-railings ; an omnibus or a pia ;re
was overturned to form an artificial obstruction ; and
the flagstones of the pavements were thrown up into
barricades—but more generally the mob amused
themselves with the peaceful demonstration of their
numerical strength, ;and revealed by the fervour and
unanimity of their outcries, the resolutions by which
they were animated, and the extremities to which
they might be driven in the event of those resolu-
tions being contemned. Bodies of civilians,
without weapons of any description, marched
at intervals along the causeways (sometimes
in compact companies of six thousand men), singing
the Marseillaise or the Parisienne, or the famous
chorus of the Gitondins, Mourir pour la Patrie ! As
the evening of Tuesday closed in, these movements
and clamours were redoubled both in energy and
number, and those who remained in-doors listened
in the profound darkness (for most of the lamps were
either broken or extinguished) to the trampling of
many thousand feet on the roadway of the Boulevards
as the insurgents beat time in their march to the
measure of the great national hymn :
"Aux armes, citoyenne ! Formez yes bataillons!
litarchons qu'un sang impur abreuve nos salons."
Amidst all this perilous agitation the night-air
resounded throughout Paris with the cries of a people
too much in earnest to slumber; those cries were—
" A bas Guizot! A bas le Ministb.e! La tete de
Guizot! A bas l'homme de Gand ! Vice la Re-
forme ! Vive la Ligne !" It cannot be imagined,
even by the most credulous, that such an outbreak is
merely the ebullition of an idle passion on the part of
a miserable or infuriated rabble. ODILLON BARROT has
proved it to be otherwise by the Impeachment of the
Cabinet " which he submitted to the Chamber of
Deputies on Tuesday. That impeachment is so ad-
mirable, so cogent, so accurate, so resolute, that we
shall here lay it clause by clause before our readers.
"We propose," say the Deputies of the Opposition,
signed to the number of fifty three. "'We propose
to place the Ministry as Guilty—
" 1. Of having betrayed abroad the honour and the
interests of France.

"2. Of having falsified the principles of the con-
stitution, violated the guarantees of liberty, and at-
tacked the rights of the people.
" 3. Of having, by a systematic corruption, at-
tempted to substitute, for the free expression of public
opinion, the calculations of private interest, and thus
perverted the representative government.
"4. Of having trafficked for Ministerial purposes in
public offices, as well as in all the prerogatives and
privileges of power.
" 5. For having, in the same interest, wasted the
finance: of the State, and thus compromised the forces
and the grandeur of the kingdom.
"6. Of having violently despoiled the citizens of
a right inherent to every free constitution, and the
exercise of which had been guaranteed to them by
the charter, by the laws, and by former precedents.
" 7. Of having, in fine, by a policy overtly counter-
revolutionary, placed in question all the conquests of
our two revolutions, and thrown the country into a
profound agitation."

in consequence of this noble and spirited im-
peachment—an impeachment so inexorably true and
damnatory—in consequence of the resolute behaviour
of the populace, and the calm determination they have
evinced to elicit certain constitutional concessions
from the Government, M. GuizoT and his colleagues
were yesterday compelled to deliver in their resigna-
tions, and immediately afterwards Count MOLE was
summoned to the Tuileries for the purpose of forming
a new Administration.

So ends the Ministerial career of GUIZOT-a
statesman who is as immaculate in principle as an
historian, as he is profligate in action as an adminis-
trator. With a genius formed for nobler desti-
nies, he has degraded his name among those of
the most licentious Ministers of the age. He has
not only tarnished his reputation by his connivance
at the peculations proved in his own creatures, he
has not only winked at the venality of those who—
._

" Gather .gold in slimy ways,"
by appraising the influence of the State, and huckster-
ing the offices of the Legislature, hut he has risen
to an almost tyrannic elevation by many tortuous
and infamous devices, and has at last been hurled
back into obscurity and insignificance by the wrath
of an outraged and infuriated people. After an in-
surrectionary movement so extraordinary as that
which has recently taken place in the metropolis of
France, it would be frivolous to expect that the Pari-
sians will instantly abate their enthusiasm, and re-
turn to their ordinary and domestic avocations. The
spirit of revolt which has been so furiously
heated of late must long seeth after so
remarkable an ebullition. Especially must this pro-
longation of the popular rage be expected when the
rumoured remark of Marshal BUGEAUD (recently ap-
pointed the Military Governor of Paris) is borne in
recollection. "Je mitraillerai la canaille d'une bonne
rnanierel" exclaimed the conqueror of Algeria when
he heard of the rise and progress of the insurrection.
That insurrection has ended triumphantly fur the
people—as is shown by the resignation of GUIZOT--...
but the very success achieved by the citizens of Paris
proclaims that the movement has not terminated, but
that numerous and comprehensive reforms have
become inevitable.

It would seem that Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTEY is
resolved—notwithstanding the well-natured ob-
structions raised by Parliament--to make himself
eminently and memorably ridiculous. With an un-
wholesome idea of the responsibilities devolving
upon himself as the representative of Youghal, the
Honourable Gentleman has persisted in gorging the
House of Commons with a monstrous catalogue of
monster charges, in a monster speech, upon a
monster motion. Fortunately, or rather unfortunately,
we suspect, for the fame of Mr. ANSTEY, the House
was more leniently disposed towards his address yes-
terday evening than on the occasion of its first com-
mencement. It heard him out to the consummating
invective and to the very last attenuated and perora-
tive slander. We doubt much whether the quietude
evinced by the llonourable Gentlemen the Members
of the Representative Chamber of the Legislature,
was not attributable to that relish which is experi-
enced by most Englishmen in any thing approximat-
ing to an assault.land battery. A row is sine.
thing quite after the heart of a, Briton,
especially if the assailant and the assailed are
alike conspicuous for their pluck, and still more
especially if the belligerents are preposterously ill-
matched in regard alike to their strength and their
dimensions This was precisely the case in the pre-
sent instance when the accuser, Mr. ANSTEY, ex-
hibited a very laughaVie pugnacity, and when the
accused, Viscount PAY.ZIERSTON, betrayed no decided
disinclination whate'ver to stand the consequences of
the onslaught.

Atter the tremendous " yarn" spun by the
lionouraVie Member for Youghal yesterday after-
noon—.a speech crowded with abusive personalities
amr.tstretching over seven'mortal columns—we shall not
'.teary our readers with an enumeration of the many
ludicrous tales with which the hue of his narrative: is
variegated. Many, indeed, of his allusions and state-
ments were made so loosely and irresolutely in tone
and language, that we are disposed to imagine that
the orator had only indifferently conned the brief
Placed in his hands by the Hon. Gentleman the Mem-
ber for Stafford—for, as Mr. SMELL very hap-
pily observed yesterday, " It is obvious that
ANSTET eloquence is the result of URQUILART
inspiration." Prom Adrianople to St. Petersburgh,
from the Dardanelles to Affghanistan, from the
island of Carac to the mountain ranges of Texas,
from the year ONE to the year 1848, the facts
or fictions of the Honourable Gentleman the
Member for Youghal have been very indus-
triously culled, and very indifferently collated.
The finger of contumely is pointed to the
Noble Lord, her Majesty's Chief Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, even in reference to periods and
occurrences antecedent either to his bodily or offi-
cial birth. He, it would seem, is more peculiarly ac-
countable for original sin than, perhaps, any other of
the children of ADAM. Poor Mr. DYCE SOMBRE! to
be proclaimed a lunatic by law, while Mr. ANSTET
, is
allowed to crack his biscuits in at Bellamy s, and
Mr. TTEQunaur may, if it so please him, crack his
jokes (supposing so lugubrious a gentleman ever to
have any) within the shadow of St. Margaret's
Lord 4.l4ausxozi could scarcely have spoken in a

tone of more ineffable dignity, or of more withering
and unutterable disdain. Let us imagine to
ourselves the feelings with which any man,
however insignificant his services to his country,
would listen to a prolonged accusation like that arti-
culated yesterday against the Noble Viscount—let us
imagine to ourselves the indignation with which any
Klan, however humble, would hearken to one
against whom he had never even wagged a
finger injuriously, :traducing his whole career, and
distorting every action and motive of his existence ;
and we shall be enabled to appreciate the self-com-
mand of the Foreign Secretary in meeting the charges
levelled against him in a tone so deliberate and unim-
passioned. " I will endeavour," said he, "to avoid
the use of language which I think is only disgrace-
ful to those who employ it—(Loud cheers)—
language at variance with the rules of this House
—(Cheers)—with the courtesies of society, and
with the practice of gentlemen.—(Continued cheer-
ing.) In such language, Sir, I at least shall cer-
tainly not express myself. I must, however, be per-
mitted to repel in terms the most comprehensive, in
language the most positive and complete—the charges
•f every kind and description which the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman and the Member for Staf-
ford have brought and asserted against me this day.
—(Cheers.) Sir, if it were not out of respect for
this House, and on account of what I feel to be
due by a public man to the country—if the ques-
tion were merely a question between myself and these
two Members of Parliament; then, Sir, I doubt whether
I should condescend—(Tremendous cheering)—
I doubt, I say, whether I should condescend even to
contradict and to disprove those assertions.—(Cheers.)
But, Sir, not only do I repel with the indignation, and
scorn, and disdain, and contempt, which are the only
appropriate sentiments which a man in my position
can express for charges so false and unfounded as
those which have been this day adduced against
me ; but I declare to this House that if it be their
pleasure to institute an inquiry into the whole of my
public conduct, from the first day when I entered
the public service down to the moment in which I
am now speaking—that there is not a document, not
a public or official document in the records of the
Foreign-office—there is not a private letter or a con-
fidential communication in my own possession, which I
will not with readiness and with pride submit to the
examination of such a Committee—of a Committee,
if it be so decided, formed exclusively of my political
opponents.—(Cheers.)"
'We congratulate the Noble Viscount on the self-
possession evinced by him on an occasion so sin-
gularly trying to his equanimity, and we lament that
any young Member like Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTEY
should have had the ineffable temerity and the con-
summate arrogance to violate in a manner so pecu-
liarly flagrant the proprieties
.of Parliamentary de-
corum.

Our accounts from Madrid of the 17th instant are
destitute of interest.

MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 17.—The Three per Cents,
were done at 29, at 50 days ; Five per Cents. at 17i
for the sth of March ; and the Debt without interest,
at 6, for cash.

MARKET NE WS:-( THIS DAY.)

MEAT MARKETS.

SOUTHALL, FEB. 23.—Prime Beasts and Sheep moved
off steadily, at very full prices ; the demand was in a
sluggish state. Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 4s
to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 4s to 5s per Sibs.,
to sink the dials.

ltomFoan, FEB. 23.—Beef sold briskly at an advance
of 2d per Blbs. All other kinds of stock supported last
week's prices. Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s
to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 43 10d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 8d
per 81bs ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 18s to 253. each.
LEWES, FEB. 22.—Beef from 3s 8d to 4s 6d; Mutton,
4s to bs 2d; Veal, 43 to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d
per 81bs. A moderate supply and a steady trade.