The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-12 00:00:00

GREECE.

By the Levant mail, we have received Athens jour-
nals to the 29th ult., and Constantinople to the 26th
ult. The Greek Government has made known that
the insurgents dislodged from Hypates, and inces-
santly pursued, have been obliged to cross the frontiers,
after losing a great many in killed, wounded, and
prisoners. At Palechori, also, the rebels have been
defeated. General AuricK, Ambassador of the French
Republic at Constantinople, arrived at Athens on the
25th, and left on the next day for his destination.
According to the C'ourrier Athi;nes, he had an inter-
view with the KING unknown, by his MAJESTY'S
desire, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

WINDSOR CASTLE AND TOWN APPROACHES IM-
POVEMENT BILL.—In a Parliamentary raper, printed on
Saturday, an estimate is given of the charges to be in-
curred under the Bill for improving the approaches to
the Castle and town of Windsor, and a statement show-
ing whence the funds are to be raised. It appears that
the estimate for building a bridge over the Thames, to
form part of the communication from the South-Western
Railway station to Windsor, &c., is 83,4201, and that
the Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Com-
pany have agreed to pay 60,0001., and the Great Western
Railway Company the sum of 23,7001., making 2801.
above the estimate for improvements.
An acceleration of the mail trains between London,
Rugby, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, ,id Derby, York,
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, will take place from and
after Sunday, the 18th June. The down night mail
train will continue to leave London at nine P.M. mid
Rugby at 12.5 A.M., and will from thence be accelerated
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1 A.M., and London at 4.30 A.M. (the present time). By
these arrangements the letters and evening phpers from
London will reach Newcastle-upon-Tyne upwards of one
hour and a half earlier than at present.—Newcastle
Journal.
STATE or THE TIMES.—The times are so bad
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ble
they will net take in ple,'ges, it being next to impossible
that a great number of pawnbrokers have notices that
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to get rid of unredeemed property.
received 1,600 signatures of voters.--Leeds Mercury.
The Sheffield requisition, calling upon the Parlia-
mentary represensatives of that borough to resign, has

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.

The recent elections are the subject of comment in
all of them.

The National thus acknowledges its defeat in
Paris :

" Out of the eleven candidates presented by the Na-
tional to the suffrages of the electors of the Seine, one
only, and it must be admitted that the just considera-
tion which he enjoys, the universal esteem whieh sur-
rounds him, had made him the candidate of all par-
ties—one only. we say, has issued from the electoral
urn. Our clefeat is complete, we admit; but, if we
pass condemnation as to persons, we are less dis-
posed to consider ourselves as conquered as to prin-
ciples and ideas. It is sufficient to cast a regard on
the list to comprehend in what embarrassment the
victors are placed to appreciate their triumph. How
disengage, in fact, the veritable opinion of Paris, from
this incredible melange of names, doctrines, pas-
sions, all opposed to each other, and some noto-
riously
hostile? How imagine that the Parisian electors
are at the same time socialists, like MM. Prondhon and
P. Leroux; conservative monarchists, like M. Thiers;
revolutionists, like MM. Caussididre and Lagrange; re-
publicans, like M. Goudehaux ; imperialists, like M. Louis
Bonaparte; and peer of France, like M. Victor Hugo?
This strange list shows the confusion of men's mind, be-
trays the disarray of intelligences, but is only an acci-
dent of the situation; it is elsewhere that the veritable
sense of the country must be sought. It will be found,
not in a partial election, but in the ensemble of the selec-
tions made by the whole nation. The Assembly which
has issued from the universal suffrage is there to reply
to us, and to say if in fact we have been mistaken in our
line of policy. It is to the republican majority of the As-
sembly that we have given our concurrence. Expressing
as it does the national will, universally consulted, it contains
in our eyes the right of sovereignty temporarily dele-
gated by the people. It is in virtue of this right that it
has appointed an Executive Committee. The members
of that Committee, responsible and revocable on the in-
stant, only exist by the majority. The day on which
they should cease to fulfil the conditions imposed on
them, the day when their intelligence or their force
should not be equal to their duties, they must fall. At
present, like us, the republican majority which elected
them, though placing the utmost confidence in their de-
votedness, is but ill satisfied with their conduct, and de-
mands more vigour of action, a more decided iniative.
In confiding to them the care of governing, the ma-
jority by no means intended to abdicate the right of
demanding from them an account of the manner in
which they exercised the chief power, no more than
we have renounced, strongly in favour as we may
be to the persons, our right to criticise their,
conduct. In fine, our situation is exceedingly simple,
exceedingly clear, and the result of partial elections can-
not modify it. Sincerely and absolutely devoted to the
cause of the republic, we are, and we have always been,
independent of men, whoever they might be. Persons
are nothing—the principle alone touches us. That prin-
ciple commands us to consider as the expressiou of the
Sovereign will what the republican majority of the As-
sembly decides. Thus, with it, and like it, we will sup-
port the Executive Committee as long as it will be faith-
ful to its mission, regarding it as our duty to warn it or to
blame it, or, if necessary, to combat it, if it be not more
in harmony with the authority from which it emanates?,
The France Nouvelle, a new journal, of which M.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS is the principal editor, has the
following :
" Among the new corners, M. Thiers and M. Victor
Hugo seem to us called on to play a double part in the
Chamber. M. Thiers is the sword which cuts the knots
of 'questions. M. Hugo is the sword which will cut the
Montagne in two. M. Thiers and Victor Hi go are two
very different men. M. Thiers is the man of the moment,
the minute, the second; M. Hugo of the future, and the
future in such tines as these is to-morrow. M. Thiers
then is the man of to-day—M. Hugo the man of to-
morrow. M. Thiers is the figure, the calculation,
the fact, logic, clearness, the compass. the square, the
rule—he is the man who weighs a Republic, and tells
you exactly, It is worth so much.' M. Thiers is
the man of business of a nation. He is attractive,
lively, active, restless, talkative ; long in speeches,
and yet brief in words—a great deal of physiog-
nomy, rapid gestures, a shrill voice ; little, but be-
come a good deal bigger since M. Louis Blanc; giving
to all that he touches a sort of grace peculiar to him ;
well informed, speaking well, thinking exactly,—play-
ing with words and struggling against ideas—insinuat-
ing himself everywhere. thanks to the smallness of his size;
full of discernment—capable in a word of becoming an
admirable tool in the hands of Providence. M. Thiers
will save us from bankruptcy. M. Hugo is thought.
He is exactitnde in the idea, as M. Thiers is exactitude
in the fact. He is the man who goes to the bottom of
the cause, and who divines the result. M. Hugo is the
physician of a country. He every day feels the pulse of
the crowd--he sees all the crises of the social malady—
and he hears the heart of France beat. He knows what
words must calm; he says at times a mot which turns
out to be the mot of the situation; one of the first he
understood the danger in seeing the nation bleeding,
and he swore to stop the haemorrhage. M. Hugo will
save us from the guillotine. We have seen with plea-
sure these two men arrive at the Assembly—one of
whom will prevent ruin, the other death."

The election of Prince Louis NAPOLEON is, how-
ever, the one which has excited the greatest astonish-
ment and alarm. In the department of the Charente
Inferieure the peasants went to the poll with cards
in their hats with the words " Vive Napoleon !"
" A bas la Ripublique !" This fact, as it appears to
us, explains the whole proceeding. It is hatred to
the Republic, not love to Prince Louis, that has
secured for him his return. The reactionnaires wished
to test their strength. They dared not propose the
Prince DE JOIN VILLE as yet--the attempt would have
defeated itself. Neither would they venture to pro-
pose the Count DB CHAMBORD, who, of all the pre-
tenders, is the only one who has any pretence for
his pretensions. It was necessary, therefore, to find
a candidate who had aforetime come forward as a
Pretender, but whose claim to the throne was not
one whit snore valid than the claim of en Orleanist
Prince, and accordingly Prince Louis NAPOLEON
was fixed upon, and started without his knowledge,
and against the wishes of the members of his family
at present residing in. Paris, who have sent the follow-
ing notice to the newspapers in respect to the rumours
afloat with respect to their relation
It is not true that he is at Paris. It is not true that
consequently it is not true that the
Executive
xe is
cuatit Auteuil consequently
had deliberated in arresting him.
The citizen Louis Bonaparte came here publicly imme-
diately he heard. the news of the revolution of February;
v eCu toemt
he quitted Paris at the end of twenty-fours, at the re-
quest
of the Provisional Government. Ile has since that
remained very quietly in London, where he could have
learnt but yesterday the news of his nomination to the
National Assembly."

out fully the view which we have taken :
The following, which appears in the Presse, beam

-6‘ Anarchy is reigning at all points, and that which we
see in the streets is the least of all. We no longer
know what is lawful, what is unlawful. We see in-
scribed up,m the walls on every side those three words
—6Liberte, Egaliti, Fraternite,' but there is one word
which seems to have lost all its meaning, all its value,
and that is 'Legslite.' There are no longer any laws in
force. Art. 6 of the law of the 10th of April, 1832, inter-
dicts fcr ever the ascendants and descendants of Napoleon
from entering the French territory. They dare not
repeal this, nor dare they enforce it. What is the con-
sequence? Three nephews of Napoleon are sitting al-
ready in the National Assembly, and a fourth, Prince
Louis Napoleon, is elected at Paris. Will Art. 6of the
law of 10th April, 1832, be maintained against him, in
spite of the 84,000 votes he has received? This is im-
possible. What, then, will be done if it should happen
that any department should elect the Count de Cham-
a rchy
the cannot
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nger
bord, and another department should nominate one of the
Princes of the other branch? In fact, such a state of
The same arbitrary
rule
earcahny pervades
and
anarchy

........____
It is evident that Prince Louis has been put for-
wari by the Legitimists and the Orleanists as a pilot
balloon, to see what chance there would be for the
pretenders whom they respectively support. An
analysis of the poll tends still further to support this
view of the election. Of the army, where it might
be imagined the great Bonapartist strength would lie,
only 2,101 voted for Prince Louis NAPOLEON, whilst
in the Banlieu of Paris, where reside the old nobility
partisans of the Count DE CHAMBORD and the nou-
veaux riches partisans of the Orleans Monarchy,
Prince Louis NAPOLEON polled 25,000 votes.
The following incident in relation to this return
occurred during the sitting of the National Assembly
on Saturday :
"M. Fleeckeren demanded an explanation from the
Government relative to a circumstance which appeared
to him of great gravity. t had, he said, been stated
in private letters that on a regiment of the line entering
Troyes it had been received by the National Guard of
that place. When the two regiments met, the National
the lileosnou of
honourable , Vive Louis Na-
Deputy was
Gina& cried 'Vive la lii,uiblique,' to which the regi-
mpoelneotno.f th(eThliisneremreaprlkierolf bbyer
received with loud marks of astonishment and incre.
dulity.) He would, therefore, demand whether the
Minister of War had received any information on the
subject?
" The Minister of War replied, that the Government
had received no information of the kind, and he did not
hesitate to declare that it was a calumny. It was, he said,
far from his intention to bring an accusation against any
man, unless on very strong grounds; and, therefore, he
had no right to consider as guilty the man whose name
had been brought so prominently before the public ;
but he would declare that he should hold up to public
execration any man who should dare to lay a sacrilegious
hand on the liberty of the public.—(This declaration
was received with a triple salvo of applause, and all the
Aa3nibly rose iu a body and shouted 'Vive la It •epub_
lique.) Honour and glory, continued the Hon. Minis.
ter, be to the citizen, who, faithful to his duties, devotes
his blood, his fortune, his talents, and his understanding
to the service and happiness of his country, but shame

and misery be to him who would dare to speculate on
the difficulties of the time and on the sufferings of the
qouotry, and to make use of a glorious name for the
benefit of his own personal ambition.—(Renewed ap-
plause and cries of Vive la li6dublique.')
" Cries arose on all sides of We will have no re-
action," We reject pretenders of any regime,' We
will neither live Royalty, nor Imperial despotism, nor
military dictatorship ;' whilst others exclaimed that
the affair was an imagined imposition, in order to in-
juro Louis Napoleon. The sitting was closed amidst
great agitation." _

It had been expected that Prince Louis NAPOLEON
would have taken his seat on Saturday, but he did
not make his appearance.

M. TRIERS took his seat on Saturday.

The Executive Commission have given notice that
on Monday they shall make a demand of 100,000
francs a month from the Assembly to meet their cur-
rent expenses, and that they shall consider the refusal
of their demand as tantamount to a vote of want of
confidence. They have been urged to take this step
in consequence of the proceedings at a meeting of 400
deputies, held on Friday, where a feeling inimical to
the Executive Committee, as at present constituted,
was manifested. The National, which has hitherto
been a thick and thin supporter of the Executive, has
a very significant article in its number of Satur-
day :

IF," it says, " the commission is insufficient—if for
the future, and the future means to-morrow—its strength
continues to give way, a change will become necessary,
nay, inevitable. We repeat, that it is yet in the power
of the Executive to postpone its fall. But for that pur-
pose it must draw close and unite ; it must no longer
mask by contradictory measures a deplorable irresolu-
tion ; it must, in a word, march without hesitation in the
way traced out for it by the republican majority."
M. LAMARTINE is rapidly declining in popularity
in consequence of his too open indulgence in those
feelings of hatred and contempt for the middle classes
which he, in common with all of the aristocratic class,
entertain for men who gain their living by their own
industry, and which feeling induces him to join with
communists, et hoc genus (mine, to plunder the hated
industrious middle classes. This accounts for the
ultra-republicanism of all the oi-devant aristocrats and
legitimists. The drones of the hive, whether high-born
or low-born, always seek to plunder the working
bees.

The Moniteur gives the names of the Commission
appointed to report on the project for allowing
100,000 f. a month to the Executive Commission. As
this is to be a Cabinet question, it is worthy of re-
mark that the majority is in favour of Government.
M. MAR/UST is to draw up the project of a con-
stitution.

A crowd assembled on Saturday evening, at the
Porte St. Denis, but on the approach of the Garde
Mobile, shortly after eleven o'clock, they dispersed,
but shortly afterwards re-assembled. The rolling of
the drum soon announced that a summons was being
made to the people to disperse, and in a few minutes
afterwards all the streets leading out on the open
space opposite the Porte St. Denis and the Boule-
vards, were occupied by the troops; orders were
given to let no one pass, and thus agitators and
curious spectators found themselves completely
hemmed in. No one was allowed to pass until day-
light, and thus agitators and spectators were kept out
all night in the streets. This is an excellent plan,
and if generally adopted would effectually keep away
all idle spectators whe go out of mere curiosity, and
who always constitute more than three-fourths of
tilt se assemblages.
The following election returns have been made
from the departments:—
Charente Inferieure—M. Louis Bonaparte.
Basses Pyrenees—M. Barthe.
Mayenne—M. Thiers.
Gers—M. de Panat.
Orne—M. Thiers.

. The following letter, dated Wednesday, has been
sent to General CLEMENT THOMAS by M. D'ALTON
SHEE

" Citizen General,—Under a Republic with universal
suffrage, the functions of colonel in the National Guard
are above all things political. Two months ago, on ac-
count of my democratic opinion, I was nominated in the
14th arrondissement by nearly 7,000 electors. To-day
the same arrondissement, called upon to elect eleven
representatives, has given to M. Tillers, who loves not
the Republic and its adherents, the same number of
votes. This is in my eyes a sufficient warning. De-
voted to the maintenance of order, no danger would stop
me from fulfilling the duties which my rank imposes on
me ; but to do this I must be in a community of princi-
ples with the men I command. It seems to me to be
absurd for me to place my devotedness at the service of
men of the past. I have the honour, in consequence, to
present to you my resignation. Accept, General, the
expression of my regret, and the assurances of my con •
sideration."

In commenting on this letter the Constitutionnel
observes, that it is not so long since M. D'ALTON
SHEE was a much more devoted " man of the past"
than ever M. Tuizas had been. It will be recollected
that, until within the last two years, M. D'ALTON
SHEE was a warm supporter of M. GuizoT. The
Government, it is said, intend to propose to the
Assembly to annul the election of Prince Louis
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, on the ground that being a
naturalized Swiss he is a foreigner, and therefore in-
capable of sitting in the Assembly. Paris was per-
fectly quiet yesterday.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 16.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6;4—Northern of France, 414
—Paris and Strasbourg, 2.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA,

The following bulletin from Marshal RADETSKY
gives the Austrian version of the late battle :

SIXTH BULLETIN.

" Field-Marshal Radetski communicates the follow-
ing from his head-quarters at Rivalta, under date the ht
June:—The day before yesterday I assaulted Goito with
the first division of the army, but as this tete de pact was
very strongly defended by entrenchments armed with
16-pounders, and the enemy offered a stout resistance,
the army being besides not sufficiently concentrated to
continue the attack with effect, I thought it better to
discontinue the action and spare the brave troops and
distinguished officers, who would have been sacrificed
with little probability of an advantageous result. The
division of Prince Felix Schwartzenberg, who received a
shot in the right arm, was for a short time in possession of
the suburb of Goito, but on account of the superiority of
tho enemy's artillery, could not hold it. We have to
lament the loss in this action of the brave Colonel Doll
and Lieutenant-Colonel Freysauff, who were both se-
verely wounded by one and the same cannon-bill. The
enemy had upwards of 15,000 men within his entrench-
ment, and even made offensive attacks from his right
wing; but the first.division maintained itself against him
in the position they had taken up, with the most deter-
mined valour.

"On yesterday I had the whole army united at Goito,
and I should have commenced offensive operations but
for the rain, which fell in such torrents in the afternoon
and last night, that all the communications near the Po
sad Mincio aro in such a state that the artillery cannot
be brought up, and I must wait to-day, and perhaps to-
morrow, before I continue operations. The enemy is in
a similar impossibility of moving.
"In this position I and my army await with imps.
tience the moment that will allow us to renew offensive
movements.

According to accounts just arrived from Paiva, the
brave garrison of Peschiera was obliged to capitulate on
the 30th ult. Further details will follow.

(Signed) "ARCHDUKE JOHN."
VIENNA, JUNE 6.—The Diet has been summoned
to meet in Vienna ! The Burgher Committee have
issued numerous proclamations and addresses to the
workmen and the citizens and various classes of the
inhabitants. They commend the workmen for the
moderation which they have manifested, and state
that numerous grievances which have been laid be-
fore them have been investigated, and that all per-
sons who are unable to obtain employment, either
in agriculture, manufactures, or private occupations,
shall be furnished with the same on the public works.
They must, however, bring certificates from their
former employers, stating that they are unable to
give them work any longer.

The Committee also state that they have minutely
investigated the charges brought against Count
HOYOS, Commander-in-Chief of the whole National
Guard, relative to the transactions of the 26th May,
and the result of these investigations is that no charge
whatever can be brought against Count HOYOB for
having now, or at any former time, violated his duty
or overstepped the laws ; and the less so since, in con-
sequence of his mission to Inspruck, on the 17th of
last month, and the furlough then obtained, he no
longer had the chief command of the National Guard.
Signed, Vienna, May 30, 1848, by the Committee
of the Vienna Burgher and National Guards and
Students for the maintenance of peace and order, and
for securing the rights of the people.—Wiener
Zeitung, June 6. •
It is said that the EMPEROR has sent to Vienna a

proclamation confirming the concessions of the 15th
of May, and offering to return to Vienna on the 26ch
June to open the Assembly in person, if he can have
his perso,)al security and the maintenance of peace
and order guaranteed to him.
Another rumour current in Vienna was that the
EMPEROR had expressed a desire to abdicate, in which
case the Archduke CHARLES would succeed him, who
it was said had determined also to renounce his rights
in favour of his son FRANCIS JOSEPH.

PRUSSIA.

The Prince of PRusstA has arrived at Potsdatn.

PoseN, JUNE 6.—lt is scarcely possible to con-
ceive the state of fanaticism and violence which still
prevails here. Numerous acts of the most barbarous
and inhuman description are continually being per-
petrated. The authorities endeavoured to repress
them by every means in their power, but the deep-
rooted hatred which subsists between the Poles and
the Germans bursts out on every occasion. A few
nights ago a journeymen tailor coming home from
a journey, being a German, was refused admittance
into the public. house. At length he succeed in find-
ing a lodging. Unhappily a fire broke out in the
middle of the night. The Poles instantly seized the
unfortunate man, fanned the fire, and threw this un •
offending stranger into the midst of it. Scenes like
these will never suffer the national hatred to
expire. It is asserted that Russian agents are
very active in widening the breach between the Ger-
mans and the Poles. The city of Posen itself was in
a very perplexed state. By the division of the Polish
province it has become, instead of a provisional capital,
a frontier fortress. If the German part of the coun-
try be added to the neighbouring provinces its com-
plete ruin will be effected.

It appears that there is a division of opinion,
whether Posen can be regarded as German or not.
The Communal authorities have in consequence drawn
up a petition from which the following data are ex-
tracted :

1. From the last official census, it appears that the
city of Posen contains about 42,000 inhabitants, ex-
clusive of the military, of these 24,000 are Germans
and 18,000 Poles.

2. Posen contains 1,191 real estates, of these 783
of the value of 6,934,000 dollars, are in the hands of
the Germans, and chiefly in the provinces, the re-
mainder, of the value of 685,000 dollars, are in the
hands of the Poles.

3. The civil right, according to the revised state
ordinance of the 17th of March, 1831, is vested in
1,030 persons, of these 720 are Germans, and 330 are
Poles.

4. The number of burghers eligible as representa-
tives is 430, of whom 315 are Germans, and 115 are
Poles.

5. Seventy-six different kinds of trades are carried
on in Posen, of which 32 are not followed by Poles,
There are in Posen 2,133 mechanics, of whom 1,442
are Germans, and 691 are Poles.—Cologne Gazette,
June 10.