The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-03 00:00:00

SUN, LONDO'N, FRIDAY EVENING, MARC El 3,

prevail to a great extent among the least educated
part of the community, who are said scarcely to re-
gard them in the light of sins." So that by enlight-
ening the minds of the poor Welsh, we should be
Also purifying their hearts, by dissipating the dark•
ness of ignorance we should be scaring the obscure
birds which love that darkness—vice, and lade
corum, and all kinds of immorality and licentious-
ness. Let the philanthropists bethink them-
selves of the old saying that " Charity begins
at home," and so transform their expeditions to
Terra del Fuego into adventures into the obscurer
corners of Glamorganshire, their pincushions for the
aborigines of Australia, into horn• books for the little
children of Carnarvon. GOD knows there would be
more decency, more consistency, more patriotism,
and more Christianity in such a distribution of their
bounties. Meanwhile the exertions of the Govern-
ment must not be abated, for it must he remembered
that while ameliorative measures are being prepared
the evil is rapidly increasing.

According to a letter from Aix la-Chapelle of the
27th, the events of Paris had produced an extraordi-
nary sensation there.

" The French newspapers had been eagerly seised,
and alarm was already felt respecting the measures
which the Prussian Government would not fail to
take on the first intelliizence of the events. It ap.
peered certain that the Landwehr bad been called out,
and it was feared that young men of from 18 to 20
years of age would be likewise summoned. An army
of 30,000 men was expected to arrive before the ex-
piration of a week."

A letter from Turin of the 14th states that the
relations between Sardinia and the Cabinet of
Vienna were daily becoming colder. The Austrian
Commissioner, sent to Turin for the purpose of ar-
ranging certain commercial and financial differences,
has returned to Vienna without having been able to
obtain any satisfactory result. Ten thousand men
had just been set on foot, and two new contingents
convoked.

The Madrid journals of the 25th ult. bring no

news.
The Three per Cents. were done at 291 at 50 days
the other securities were not quoted.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The accounts from the proTinces continue to be
favourable, ith the exception of Rheims, where
some serious excesses had been committed.

In Paris all was quiet, and everything presented
its ordinary appearance.
The Moniteur contains the following twelve new
decrees, issued by the Provisional Government :
The First—After promising an abolition, at some
future period, of all taxes affecting food, continues
as a temporary measure all the present imposts, with-
out exception, and calls on all good citizens to pay
their taxes. The same decree promises that the Pro-
visional Government will present to the National
Assembly a Bill for the abolition of the stamp on
newspapers, the octrei and the salt tax, and will
modify all other taxes
2. Abolishes all titles of nobility.
3. Annuls all condemnations for political offences
against the late dynasty.
4. Proclaims freedom to all religions, and calls on
the clergy to make use of the formula Deus Saluatn
Itze Rempublicarn.
5. Places the Palace of the Luxembourg at the
disposal of M. Louis BLANC and M. ALBERT, as Pre-
sident and Vice-President of the Commission with
respect to alb rights of workmen.
6. Promotes Major-General CAVAIGNAC, the new
Governor-General of Algeria, to the rank of General
of Division.

7. Promotes Colonel BRICE to the rank of Major-
General.

8. Dissolves the Municipal Council of Paris.
9. Forbids the distribution of placards or notices
without the name of the printer.
10. Places the Petit Luxembourg at the disposal
of M. DuPoNx (us L'Euae), the President of the
Provisional Government.

11. Appoints M. A. BARBES Governor of the
Luxembourg.
12. Restores the rank of Generals of Division and
Generals of Brigade.
Eiris was perfectly tranquil.

M. ARMAND MARRAST has been appointed National
Administrator of the property belonging to the
Crown and the Civil List.

The Council of State, the Academy of Medicine,
the Literary Association, the Syndicate of the Stock-
brokers, and the Tribunal of Commerce have given
n their adhesion to the Government. Even in La
Vendee the Republic had been proclaimed without
resistance.

The Moniteur publishes the following decrees :

" FRENCH REPUBLIC.

" LIBERTY-EQUALITY-FRATERNITY.

" The Provisional Government declares—
" That every new system of policy should be based
on a new system of credit and impost.
" That the system of taxation of the French
Republic should have for its object the more equal
partition of public contributions.
" That this justice will have for a natural result
the amelioration of the condition of the public, and a
diminution of the charges which weigh upon labour.
" That there exist at present imposts of which the
suppression is very lawfully demanded.
" That one of the first laws presented to the
National Assembly will be a new budget, in which
the Provisional Government will satisfy wishes which
it partakes, especially those regarding indirect im-
posts, the octroi, the stamp duty on the daily press,
and all other taxes which affect the subsistence of the
people and the expression of opinions.
" The Provisional Government is resolved sincerely
to propose to the National Assembly a budget estab-
lished on the above principles.
" But it considers it to be its most imperious duty
to recal to the citigens that every system of taxation
cannot be determined by a Provisional Government ;
that it belongs to the delegates of the whole nation to
judge sovereignly with regard to that; that every
other conduct would imply on its part the most rash
usurpation.

" it moreover repeats that the French Republic,
though succeeding a Government of prodigality and
corruption, accepts and firmly desires to fulfil all its
engagements, to rest faithful to every contract.
" That in the midst of the passing difficulties inse-
parable from every great commotion, it will be an act
of the greatest imprudence to diminish the resources
of the Treasury.
" That by doing so one would run the risk of
suspending or compromising the most important
services, and be less prepared to make face against
events of which France and Europe may be the wit-
nesses.

" From these motives the Provisional Government
decrees :

" Art. I. All imposts, without exception, shall con-
tinue to be levied as before.

" Art. 11. All good citizens are called on, in the
name of patriotism, to offer no obstacle to the pay-
ment of their taxes.

" Art. 111. The Provisional Government engages
itself to present to the National Assembly a budget,
in which the stamp duty on the periodical papers, tie
octroi, the tax on salt shall be abolished, and a law
which will completely modify the system of indirect
contributions.
" The Members of the Provisional Government."
(Here follow their signatures.)
" FRENCH REPUBLIC.

" LIBERTY-EQUALITY-FRATERMIT.

" The Provisional Government being firmly re-
solved to maintain the free exercise of all religions,
and being anxious to associate the consecration of re-
ligious feeling to the great act of reconquered liberty,
invites the ministers of all the forms of worship
existing in the territory of the Republic to call down
the Divine blessing on the work of the people, and
to pray that both the spirit of firmness and of re-
gulation which founds institutions may be vouchsafed
to it. In consequence the Provisional Government
calls on the Archbishop of Paris and all the Bishops
of the Republic to substitute for the old form of
prayer the words :
" Domino, salvam fac Rempublicam.'
" The Minister of Public Instructiion is charged
with the execution of the present decree."
The following appears in the Gazette des Tribu-
naux:—

"It is announced to us that the company of the
Northern Railway has declared to all the workmen
and agents of its enterprise that it has decided to
admit them to a participation in the profits. The
participation is to be settled in the following manner.
The products are to be divided :-1. To salaries ; 2.
To the interest of the capital, and to paying it off ;
3. The profits, beyond these two chapters, to be
divided between the shareholders and the agents and

workmen, in the proportion of the capital in money to
the capital in labour.
The Managing Committee of the Association for
the Defence of National Labour has addressed the
following circular to the members :
"Gentlemen,—The gravity of the circumstances
imposed new duties on your association. The Re-
public is proclaimed. There is no power svithe:,:,
order. And order is the idea which dominates
association of which you have constitut us tale
re-
presentatives,llpolitical an woh:ieuhi youon.Without order, in fact,
tre founded out of the
pale of a
there is neither consumption, nor labour, nor wages—
no present, no future. Such must be the sentiment
of our associates, and therefore we rely on their co-
operation. Events render it indispensable. They
have induced us to promise to the Mirr.,7.ter of Com-
merce that, to contribute to the maintenance of order
eveiy manuNcturer, Ate., will make it a duty in pro-
portion to his means to create employment. It is
thus that every shop will become a national shop I
and as such will be entitled to the proti,,,etion of all.
But this situation imposer grave duties on industry.
You nobly lindemtactli them when, in the year which
has just passed, you maintained labour, and assured
the nourishment of the working classes. The sacri-
fices which humanity then unposed upon you, an
enlightened patiiotiani now demands. You will not
be untrue to your former conduct, and within the
limits of what is possible you will renew the sacri-
fices previously made, Especially employ your per-
sonal influence that '-our example may be followed
by all, It is thus—it is by these means—that we
shall draw closer the union between all citizens.
And, let us not forget it, the union of citizens is the
peace of the country ; there to-day is the first element
of labour, the first element of public security and
prosperity. Accept, &c.
(Signed) " ODIER, President.
" MIMEREL, Vice-President.
" LOUIS LEBEUF, Secretary.
" JOSEPH PERRIER, Treasurer."
The following petition has been extensively pla-
carded in Paris :

" Petition for a Bill to establish a national pension
fund for every workman that has attained the age of
fifty-five years.
" Every citizen of the two sexes from seventeen to
fifty-five years of age shall be bound to pay each day
two centimes, or 60c. per month, or 7f. 50c. per
annum ; every town or village shall be bound to pay
for the totality of its inhabitants.
" Every workman employing workmen or servants
is bound to keep back this amount from their wages,
and is to be considered responsible therefore.
" Every father of a family who is unfortunate, and
has several mouths to support, shall be de jure
exempted from paying his annual quota until such
time as his family shall be able to work.
_ _

" Are excluded from the advantages of the pension
fund all persons having a revenue above 800 f. a year;
the most severe laws to be made against such persons
as should rob the money of the poor.
"A scale of pension is to be fixed, giving 500 f. a
year at 55 years, 700 f. at 65 years, and 1,100 at 75
years.
" The pension fund is to be for all citizens—thus
bankers, notaries, advocates, in a word, all persons
who may have been favoured by fortune all their life-
time, will have as much right to it, if they become
unfortunate, as the workman who all his life-time has
known only labour and privation.
" What workman is there who cannot save fifteen
centimes per week? Who is there that would not
blush to receive alms when age shall have weakened
his strength and courage ?
" The pension which he will receive will be the
economy of his whole life, and if he throws a glance
backwards, it will be to bless the progress of civilisa-
tion.

" The day on which this law will pass the pay-
ment of the pension may commence, since from the
age of 17 to 55 all citizens will contribute to the
common stock ; and since the funds in place of being
capitalized will be distributed every year. During
fifteen years the State will have little to add in order
to complete the pensions, but after that period it will
every year have an enormous sacrice to make. Let,
during the fifteen years, the twelve millions which
were gven to a single man, be capitalized. Let the
resources of the civil list be added to them, and the
sum'iwill be more than sufficient. If fears are enter-
tained not to obtain a sum sufficient to pay all the
pensions, let the diamonds of the crown be sold, as
well as the articles of value found at the Tuileries.
The most glorious crown of a government ought to
be the happiness of the people.

" MAINCENT.

" Viva la Republique."

The following observations in the National, on the
subject of the English alliance, are important at this
moment :

" The blow having been struck, the Orleans dynasty
expelled, and the Republic proclaimed, the first at-
tention was directed towards the great continental
states to whom the news of our revolution will cause
such great displeasure. England was only thought
of afterwards, for every one at first thought that the
advent of the French Republic, however unexpected
and prodigious it might be, would not meet with
great repugnance, and all the accounts which reach
us from the banks of the Thames confirm this anti-
cipation. Under the ex-monarchy, that is to say, a
week since, the National reckoned the English
alliance amongst its opponents. Nevertheless,
from that time it had made its reservations ;
and under all circumstances it declared that no-
thing appeared to it more desirable than an alliance
between the two nations, but that it could not give
that appellation to the connexion to which was af-
terwards given the ridiculous appellation of entente
cordiale. In fact, there was nothing clear, nothing
real in those relations without good faith, which it
was sought to link together. The Orleans dynasty
neither sought the welfare of France nor that of
England—it was simply a calculation made to secure
to itself a support, not so much against eventualities
from abroad (events have fully proved that there
were no eventualities to be dreaded from abroad) as
against those at home. It borrowed from England a
certain degree of strength, which it opposed to us ;
and as, in the end, all the force which it acquired
was destined to be used for a counter-revolutionary
object, it was natural that we, the ardent
friends of liberty, should react against a con-
nexion which might increase the power of
that fatal dynasty. It is for this reason that
we have exclaimed against the English
; and the English must be now sufficiently en-
lightened by events to see clearly that our conduct
was sincere, and not grounded on any hostile feeling
against England. We are therefore now at liberty
to declare that we accept an alliance with the great
English nation, on conditions honourable to both
countries, and under guarantees which we have a right
to demand. Another point still excites our opposi-
tion ; it appears to us that the French Government
does not treat with the English Government on the
footing of equality. We so strongly feel that Louis
Philippe required the help of England, that we can-
not recognise the motive for the concessions by which
he paid for that support. The private interest of the
dynasty was always at the bottom of them. It was
a weakness at which we feel indignant, and against
which we have always protested. But now that no
dynasty has anything to ask from England,
now that it is impossible for us to treat otherwise
than on grounds of equality, we joyfully express our
hopes that no conflicting points may arise between
the two powerful nations who border the Channel.
The feeble and uncertain peace which the Orleans
dynasty had attempted must be changed into a solid
one, advantageous to all. This great affair is hence-
forth placed in the decision of the two nations, and
that inspires us with confidence. The expression of
the will of France will not be shackled by anything,
and we think that it will be, without any restriction,
the maintenance of peace. On their side, the English
people have sufficient weight in the determination of
their Government to have peace if they wish
it; and we confidently reckon on their doing
so. Do not we moreover know that our
cause already excites warm sympathy in Eng-
land ? It will be clearly expressed, and will have the
twofold advantage of influencing the determination of
the English Government, and of putting an end to
any uneasiness or angry feeling which may exist
with us. The force of circumstances always exercises
power on the will of man, and that force is in favour
of peace. The French Republic, engaged in organ-
izing itself, and in causing its advent to turn to the
advantage of the working classes, will not undertake
a war except in the event of European nationalities
being threatened. On the other hand, there cannot
he in England any Government so rash, so subversive
as to compromise all its interests by war. The neu-
trality of England appears therefore to be secure for
the time. Whether that neutrality may be changed
into anything more efficacious for preserving the
peace and security of Europe will be the result of
time, of men, and of events; but what is now certain
is that the two nations, if they unite for a great com-
mon object of justice and civilisation, will have a
weight which nothing can counterbalance."
The National contains the following:—
" M. Pierre Napoleon Buonaparte (son of Lucien)
bad addressed the following letter to the Provisional
Government :
" To TITS MEMBERS OP 'THE PROVISIONAL GO..
TERNMENT OF THE FRENCH REPUDLIC.
" Gentlemen,—The son of Lucien Buonaparte—
nurtured in his republican opinions—and, like him,
passionately devoted to the greatness and happiness
of France—l, a child of the country, place myself at
the disposal of the eminent citizens who form the
Provisional Government. The sentiment by which
I am governed is that of patriotic enthusiasm, and the
conviction that the prosperity and future prospects
of the Republic were resolved the day on which the
people placed you at the head of affairs. Like my

father, who never violated his vows, I plight my /
own, through your medium, to the French Re• I
public.
" Receive, gentlemen, this
profound sympathy, and a
..estation of a
to be put to the nom^•
..ution which only asks

s' ' (Signed)
- ' PIERRE-NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

"'Paris, 29th Feb., 1848:"
The Constituticrnnel says—
" The following fact merits to be cited :—On the
night of Thursday, when the people were still under
the impression of the victory which they had gained,
an individual posted up at the corner of the Rue
Richelieu a written paper, containing the name and
address of the persons with whom MM. Guizot,
Duchatel, and Hebert had taken refuge. That in-
dication was followed by an appeal to vengeance.
Already the crowd was gathering round the spot full
of emotion, when a patrol of workmen advaneed,
with a corporal of the National Guard at its head.
The latter approached, read the placard, and cried
out—' My friends, they who make such dastardly
denunciations have not fought in our ranks!' and he
tore down the paper amidst the applause of all.
" We are informed that, in addition to the library,
pictures, and rich furniture saved at the chAteau of
Neuilly, the silver plate was also rescued from the
flames. This plate, valued at about 1,200,000 f., and
which now becomes the property of the nation, has
been also deposited at the Mairie of Neuilly."
The following is from the Memorial de Rouen :

" We learn from an authentic source that several
members of the Royal Family arrived at Eu in a
pitiable condition. The Duchess of Orleans came
with her two children, but without any attendants,
covered with mud, and almost without clothing. The
keeper of the chateau and his wife were obliged to
furnish them with garments and other supplies. As
soon as the report of their arrival reached the town,
the National Guards turned out en masse, and went
to ;the Palace, every issue of which they guarded,
protesting their resolution not to quit their post, let
whatever might happen, until the Princes were in
perfect safety. It was, in fact, rumoured that they
were pursued by a furious band, determined to mas-
sacre them. They afterwards, under an escort of the
National Guard at Eu, embarked at Treport.
The Duchess DE MONTPENSIER (says the Ami de la
Religion), having lost her way at the Tuileries in the
confusion of the KING'S flight and the entrance of the
people, was met by a physician of the Court, and by
him enabled to rejoin her family.
Galignani of Thursday has the following news from
Belgium :
" The King and Queen of the Belgians and their
family came from Lacken to Brussels on Sunday, be-
tween two and throe o'clock in the afternoon. At
three o'clock the King presided at a Council of Mi-
nisters. Their Majesties and family did not return to
Lacken, but will remain for the present at Brussels.
The King received in the course of the day Lieut.-
General Prisse, the Military Governor, and several
other persons."

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THZ
I ONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MA RCIE 2.
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Boulogne and Amiens, B;zi —Namur and Liege, 41/4 ex
int.—Northern of France, s%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 31A
—Paris and Lyons, 2.7—Rouen and Havre, 114—Sambre
and Meuse, 6A—`Vest Flanders, 1.

ALARMING ACCIDENT.
(FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)

RUGBY STATION, INlAncit 2.—An accident occurred
to-day on the London and North-Western line, at
Weedon. The draw-bridge over the water was omitted
to be closed, and an engine, with a luggage train, which
could not be stopped soon enough, has fallen in, and the
traffic on both lines is stopped for the present. There is
not less than eight passenger trains delayed in conse-
quence, and the passengers have to walk across planks
to the other side and get into an up train to come on
here, and the first train has just arrived since the acci-
dent, half-past seven, several hours over due.

The soldiers from tho barracks at Weeden have ren-
dered tnvery assistance.
There has been no train from here to Derby since
three o'clock, and how long we shall have to wait no one
can inform us.

P. S. I have just hoard that no one is hurt, and that a
boat laden with bricks was going through the bridge,
and the engine tumbled into the boat which' sunk to the
bottom.