The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-04 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, lB4B.

The town is perfectly quiet. The judicial investigation
is going on."
The following is reported as the explanation of
General CAVAIGNAC to the Committee of the As-
sembly on the suspension of the journals :
" The journals cannot seriously believe that the Go-
vernment wishes to prevent them from free discussion
during the debates of the National Assembly upon the
Constitution. The idea of the suspension of the Consti-
tutionnel is nothing but a fable. The Council of Minis-
ters have never entertained any such idea, and conse-
quently the Minister of Justice...cannot have to oppose a
measure which has never been thought of. It was only
from necessity, and for the public safety, that some
journals have been thus attacked. The Republic is but
in its birth, and the Executive Government cannot tole-
rate journals which attack its very principle of life. Be-
sides, at every act of the executive power since the state
of siege, the Assembly is perfectly at liberty to mark its
disapprobation, and when it has done so the executive
power will immediately stop." The General further de-
clared that he had not addressed himself to the Com-
mittee of Legislation, because that Committee had only
to occupy itself with the laws, but to statesmen who
were to judge of the state of things in a political point
of view.—" We are not"—said the:General, in conclusion
—" in a normal, but in an exceptional state."
On Saturday the National Assembly was engaged
in discussing the report of the Committee on the
Constitution, which recommended that the state of
siege of Paris should not be raised during the dis-
cussion of the Constitution. General CAVAIGNAC
spoke in favour of the conclusions of the Committee,
which were ultimately adopted by a majority of
529 to 140.
The bureaux of the National Assembly proceeded
on Friday to their monthly organization. Almost all
the presidents and secretaries were re-elected. The
principal change was in the fourth bureaux, where
M. LEDRU RoLLIN, as president, and AI. CHAUFFOUR,
as secretary, were opposed by M. DUPIN and M.
MoRTIMER FARNAUX. Both of these last-named
gentlemen were elected by large majorities. .
A prisoner named VINCENT, confined at the Con-
ciergerie, who has lately written a letter to the
Riforme affirming that " he had received money from
the Legitimist party in the affair of June for carrying
haters, and seen sums distributed to others," was on
Friday visited by the Procureur of the Republic,
and M. Finslow, Judge d'lnstruction, who asked him
to reveal what he knew. VINCENT persisted that all
he said was true, but refused to give the slighest
information as to the persons implicated, unless he
got a formal promise of pardon from the Government
for any offences 112 might have committed, that of
desertion included. lie said that he had besides
written a letter on the subject of what he knew to
the President of the National Assembly and to M,ll.
I'stounnoN and LAGRANGE, representatives. Under
the circumstances, the law authorities did not
think that anything further could be done in the
matter.

cries of Vive la Republique ! accompanied the cry of
Vive General Cavaignac! The whole was over about
two o'clock, having lasted three hours. The heat was
excessive.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. SEFT..2.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Northern of France, 7 ex int.—
Orleans and Bourdeaux, cx int.—Paris and Lyons, 4:%
—Ditto, ditto, 4—Paris and Strasbourg, Ili—Rouen and
Havre, 8.

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

By letters from Vienna of the 27th ult. we learn
that the preceding day, which had been fixed for the
burial of the workmen who were killed in the late
riot, had passed off quietly. A considerable number
of students had attended the funeral. Arrests con-
tinued to be made; the number of persons already in
custody was 58. It appears from an official report
that 17 constables had been wounded, but only one
seriously. The wounds received by the National
Guard in the collision with the workmen are slight.

M. DE LAMARTINE has just published a pamphlet
in defence of his conduct while a member of the
Provisional Government. It has created tie greatest
sensation, and the first edition was sold oft in the
co-irse of a quarter of an hour. It is in the form of
a Letter to the Electors of the various constituencies
Soho returned him as their representat:ve to the
National Assembly.
After commencing by declaring that " that popu-
larity which had greeted him everywhere without
cause, has withdrawn from him without motive,"
he proceeds to treat successively the following
points
"It is alleged that I have been ardent in Pursuit of
my ambitious projects, and feeble in the rxercise of
power during the three months I formed part of the
Provisional Government;
"That I entered into conditions with terrorism;
"That I made arrangements with communism, and
intoxicated the people by promising them the organiza-
tion of labour;
" That I conspired with the persons now detained at
Vincennes, and furnished Sobrier with arms for im-
proper purposes ;
" That I aided in attempts of armed propagandism
against Governments to which I promised peace and
honourable conduct ;
"That I compromised the safety of the Republic by
net ordering our forces at once beyond the Alps and
the Rhine ;
" That I was an accomplice in the manifestation of
the two added thousand men on March 17th ;
That I was hesitating and uncertain on the 16th of
Aprrsi ;
"That through pusillanimity I refused, after the
meeting of the National Assembly, the solo power which
the Assembly was disposed to confer on me, and which
two millions of votes seemed to point me out for ;
"That by this refusal I led the Assembly to form a
Committee of Government, without unity of will and
without firmness to meet the difficulties of the moment ;
" That I formed an alliance in that Committee with
men of opinions contrary to my own and to the mode-
rate Republic ;
" That I paid my debts with the money of the Re-
public, and that I purchased property with the fruit of
try peculations, &c."
The political charges against M. DE LAMARTINE
have been and will be again frequently discussed, and
I is eloquent speeches in reply to those charges are
well known. With respect to the last charge, it is
the first time we have ever heard it brought against
M. DE LAMARTINE, and we are surprised that those
who have brought it forward should for one moment
imagine that any sane man would believe it possible that
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE could be guilty of pecu-
lation. In our minds the charge excites merely dis-
gust against its fabricators. It needs no reply. M.
DE LAMARTINB, however, has condescended to notice,
and to reply to it, and this he does in a manner that
completely sets the question at rest.
After declaring that it is impossible for a man in
power to take any part of the public money, so nu-
merous are the formalities which attend every sum
obtained from the Treasury, he goes on to say :
" The truth is, that I have not had the handling of
any other funds than 293,0001. of secret service money
assigned in the usual way to me as Minister of Foreign
Affairs to be expended in missions, information, and
useful influences of every kind, at a moment when it was
necessary to see everything with the eye of the Republic,
to supply the suspended action of the agents of the mo-
narchy in foreign countries, and when I was at the same
time Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of a dicta-
torial Government. That was the only sum of money
of the funds of the Republic from which I could possibly
dLduct these imaginary sums said to be sent by me to
foreign countries, or appropriated to pay my debts.
If my accusers will not believe in the mcral impossibi-
lity of my pretended peculations, they will at ieast be-
lieve in the impossibility of the arithmetic of their state-
ment
" But I shall proceed further. On the Ist of last Ja-
nuary, fifty- three days before the Republic, my general
fortune consisted of about 2,500,000 francs, as well in
land, houses, furniture, as in money invested and literary
property. My debts amounted to 650,000 f. Nothing is
more easy than to verify these figures.
" ' But you had,' it is replied, not less than 1,100,000 f.
of debts in 1847, and now you have only 600,0001'. of
the same. You have, therefore, paisi off 500,0001., and
you must have done so out of the public money!' There
is but one little difficulty in that, which is, that these
500,000 r. were paid off by me six months before the Re-
volution; and out of what funds did I pay them in
1847? Out of 300,0001. paid me by the publisher of
L'Histoire des Girondins,' and out of 450,000 f., the
price of my patrimonial estate of I'eronne, near Macon,
sold by me at that period. Go and learn its particulars
—the property sold, the persons who purchased it, my
notaries, my publishers, my creditors, the deeds and
receipts, will reply to you more peremptorily than any-
thing I can say.
"As to the movement of my disposable fortune since
the day when the Republic was established, and from
my accession to power up to the present day, here it is
—I was obliged to borrow 110,0001. in order to pay
105,0001. The lenders, publishers, creditors reimbursed
are there to attest the exactitude of these assertions. I
am ready to produce this testimony to the most incre-
dulous. Tho names of the parties respond for the mo-
rality and sincerity of the acts. Thus, it is evident that
the source of my partial reimbursement in 1848 is not in
the public treasury, but in they strong box of my creditors
and of my friends.
"I blush to bring. forward these figures ; but the
people have a right to inquire into the reputation of their
representatives. Let us therefore go farther.
"I had concluded, shortly before the 23d of February
at different dates, with publishers, capitalists, and news-
paper proprietors, contracts for the turning to account
ray literary works, past, present, and to come, amount-
ing in all to the sum of 540,0001. I hoped, from the
fruit of my assiduous labour, to pay in a few years my
creditors, preserving my patrimony to a family numerous
and dear, and to the numerous families of farmers who
live on my capital. The care of public affairs and the
crisis, which I could not consent to take advantage of
against the honourable and generous parties concerned,
forced me to rescind all these acts, and will force me to
reimburse the advances which I had received. It is,
ITvheeb./;loitzt
therefore, 540,0001. additional which I have sacrificed
voluntarily to the revolution. Such are my profits by
the Republic!"
In the French provinces trade is reviving.
of a return to a more favourable state of things for
edvuidieinatorseynslapytso;
our town. The strangers and travellers who flock to
years, and
Havre from the month of June had hitherto been
edecaln'Aprr:inndt isosuetnzealt
completely absent from our hotels. It has been re-
marked with a lively-satisfaction that for some days
hotels
are now becoming filled,
FRASCATI'S are taken."
nearly all the apartments at
past they have arrived in graesatinnumfolarmeresr. The
The Observateur d'Avesnes says:— A large spin-
ning factory of Guise is now buying up all the wool
that can be found in the neighbourhood. We under-
stand, also, that almost all the manufacturers of the
arrondissement of Verviers have taken back the
greatest part of the workmen whom they had sent
away after the revolution of February."
Yesterday, at the review, General CAVAIGNAC was
loudly cheered. The sight was a noble one, between
70,000 and 80,000 men being under arms, of whom
about 19,000 or 20,000 belonged to the Na-
tional Guard, only one battalion being called
out from each legion. The General, at the
head of a numerous staff, went down the lines
with General Da LAMORICIERE by his side, and then
had all the troops to file off before him. Numerous

MONEY and COMMERCIAL N E WS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were
3,000 inks, without any change in prices. American
sorts realised 3d. to 54d. per lb. Railway Shares were
flat.

The letters and papers from the West India Islands,
received on Saturday afternoon, justify the apprehension
that the financial crisis in the colonies is not yet over.
The shock of the failure of the Barbadoes Bank is
scarcely over, when the Planter's Bank of Jamaica suc-
cumbs, and with the prospect of sustaining heavy losses,
owing to the unfavourable position of its debtors. There
can be no doubt that the West India interest generally
is at present extremely depressed.
Grain of all ,deseriptions is decidedly lower today,
wheat having fallen 4s. to ss. per quarter, and other
articles in proportion.
The following is an extract of a letter from Norfolk
dated Saturday :—" Wheat, owing to the fine weather,
is certainly 2s to 4s lower per quarter today.
We have had a very fine week with the exception
of Thursday night, when we had a heavy tempest
passing over us all night ; but since that, much spring-
sown wheat and early•sown Barley were carried in
fine condition, fit for immediate use, and it now looks
very much indeed like dry. The mercury is higher
than at any period of this summer by far, with a north-
west wind, and if we get it fine all next week there
will then be no corn unharvested, and the farmers will
also get a large quantity of second crop hay stacked in
excellent order. The potatoes keep going ; in short,
they cannot get better, for where we heard of this it
is only the young potatoes throwing up shoots which
should be prevented if it is desired to preserve what are
grown good."

There is an exceedingly quiet market to-day for the
Public Si curities. Consols have been firmer, however,
on account of the fine weather, being 86 to 861 for
Transfer, and 86 to q for Account. As yet_there is no
indicatio❑ of open sales for tho Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and parties are still in the dark as to whether
the two millions will be sold publicly from the Commis-
sioners' box in the Stock Exchange, or privately dis-
posed of as occasion offers. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. are 86i to 87, and the Three per
Cents. 86 if to 861. Bank Stock is worth 196 i. Ex•
chequer-bills have been 30s. to 31s. premium for those
of March, and East India Bonds 20s. to 22e. premium.
There has been a moderate business done in the
Foreign Stock Market. Portuguese Four per Cents. have
realised 22 to 22+, Peruvian Bonds 30, Chilian 86, and
Mexican 164. Spanish Stock is merely nominal at 12
to for the Five per Cents, and 23 to for the Three
per Cents. Dutch Two •and a-Half per Cents. have been
44,1, and Russian Ex-dividend 97i to 98i.
Jo Railway Shares there is not at present any de-
cided change, but at the current rates a fair business is
doing.

ONE CLOSIN9
P 1,:n4 or BRITISFI FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FItI( t hrs.
Batik Stock
3 ler Cent. Reduced Antis.. B6 % % 86
8 per Cent. Consols Annuities B6 86 LA 86 86
New 34 per Cent. Arens...... 86714 87 863
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,0001...
Consols for Account..., B6 86% 86
Exchequer Bills. 2%d. & 2d.
1,000/. March ......
500/. Match
500/. June
Sinai% March .. 30 31 p
Small, June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS

miE
O'CLOCK.

CLOSING
rnlcEs.

Brazilian Bonds —
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... •• B6
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 16%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 3O
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto 3 per Cent ....• 20%
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ...
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 44%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 70% 71

PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 3%...... %
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2% —
Belfast & County Down 17%......
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction .... ... 20
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 .. ... ..» —
Bit ming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 13/. 145...
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.— 10
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5
Bristol and Exeter B5

Ditto, Thirds .... ..... 25
'Buckinghamshire... 141. 4s.
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares .. 83/ ......
Do. New 101. Pref..... 24... .. 2%
Ditto,Clydesdalejunc 50
Chester and Holyhead... 47% —
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast June. 30
Dundalk & Enniskillen 20
East Anglia, 254 L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18
Do., 31.105.
,„•
Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 1334% x d.....• 13%x d
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent.
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 ..6L 13s. 4d.... par
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d...
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent.
Do. Quarters
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1
Ditto, Class B (L &
and B.) 2O
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 17%. ....
Do. crip (6 percent.) 10 ...... • •••• -
Ditto, ditto
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent...-.
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 614 ......

Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 414--
East Lincolnshire ...... 23 . — ... ..••••• —
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... .. . .
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/2 .. _.
Edinburgh and Northern 25
Ditto, New.. 64
Ditto, Newport l3
Ditto, ditto, New 33/4.
.... _ ...............
Ex..tter,Yeovil, & Dorch 2t,
Ditto, New ... 2lB .• - •••
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle .........• ..81.65. 8d.... .o.
.........
Glasgow,Kilinar., & Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New ... ...... ... 40
...
Do. Preference Consol. 15 • ..... •• •• • • •••••
Great Northern
Do., London and York 21/2. _
..... ,
........
i ;mat South. and West. —•
(Ireland)
Great North of England 100 ....-230 ......... •-•••
230
Ditto, New, 40/ 4O
Ditto, ditto..
.. —
Ditto, New, 301 3O
............... --
Ditto, New, 151 l4 .. .. 31
Great Western 9O ... .. 801/2 81 x.d. .. 81 x.d.
Ditto, 1/4 Shares 5O
Ditto, 1% Shares —
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, New 171........ 13 ...
Huddersfield and Manch. 28
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby • 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, 4 Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle 5O
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, 1/2 Shares ...... 43 ... ..
Do. Quarter Shares... 17172 12%14
Do. Fifth5...
Do. Sixteenths 61.4 4 -"j
Do. Thirds (Reg.) l3 ..... 334 4
Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 21,4 234
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 ......
Ditto 1/,', (late Hud-
dersfield and Shelf.) 38
Do.( Wal; efield,Pon te-
tract, and Goole) ... 50
Do.( W. Riding Union) 6 - ..
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
D 0.% Shares (A)... 914 .. —
Leeds and Bradford 5O
Leeds, Dewsbury, 8;c.... 50 . ..... -
....
Do., Half Shares 221,4 — •••
Do., (blue) Scrip.-- 2,4.....
Leeds and Tbirsk ....•50
Ditto, New ...... .....- 30
Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 3%
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport . 31,2
Liverp., Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction... 2%......
London & Blackwall...l3/. 6s. 8d....
1/o. Extension ..... ... 22%...... ....••
London, Brighton, and
27/4 x d 27%x.d
DD Do.
Gl.' SouthrueaT. aCeno°t n.35.s C0a5t.........
Pe. er-rc. et. ..t...9 55(i :..
..
..
. --
Di Ditto,a 0 dNi tetiov . .5.1...:
guar.lBs2 50 -
6 per cent.
London and Greenwich 12/1584d... ............
Ditto, Preference... 18/ 17a 2d...
London and N. Western 100 115% 1141/2..... 1141,2
Do. Quarters (L. & B.) 22 — ..... •
Ditto, New
Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2
Do. 40/.Shares(L.lll) 25
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 9
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 9
L 0
D1:040...
B,Nlocsfs
v.. (1
%5A7.010.15. &ter.nE..l..
........
452011/4......
.. . : ...............
Do. New 40/. .. 34 ......._..3-9 38...1A.....!
.............. 39i4 x.d.
Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50
Ditto ditto ••• •••• •••••
Ditto, Thirds
11/. I3s. 4d 4% dis.... 43' d'
Do., New Scrip, 1848, A li.
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls ...I/. 13s. 4d —
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil -. . . -... 114......
Londonderry &Coleraine 271. -.-. »°"«°"""' --
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 25 •••••• •••• ••• ••

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