The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-04 00:00:00

ambition

FRANCE.

All the Paris papers of yesterday comment on the
programme of the foreign policy of the Red Republic,
enunciated at the tribune of the Assembly on Monday
by M. Ledru Rollin. Of these by far the most im-
portant (as exhibiting the policy which M. Lamar-
tine would wish to see pursued) is the following
commentary from the Bien Public :—" e have
confidence in the negotiations of the Cabinet. The
terrible tempest which has just passed over Europe
has swept away the absolutism of pretensions.
Prudence is henceforth the necessity of Governments.
We hope, then, that diplomacy will succeed in
resolving. the question of Italy pacifically and
equitably. Yes, pacifically, for if cur army had entered
Lombardy, according to the promises of M. de Lamar-
tine, it would only have been to treat of peace more
rapidly, more efficaciously, at the mouth of our
cannon. Yes, pacifically, for we cannot accept,
with M. Ledru Rollin, the system of wars of pre-
caution—if it be not even dishonouring the name of
r system, to call thus that desperate policy, that
national wrath thrown blindly on our
trontielg
at the greatest sacrifices of taxes, blood, tears,
requisitions, and for what ? For an hypothesis,
without any other probable result than to change
that underhand and continued work of ideas which
makes Europe the intellectual ally of the French
nation. There is, besides, no policy easier than that
of musket shots. It is the policy of vulgar states-
men and diplomatists in embaraassment. War
dispenses with genius ; it is the brutal expedient of
mediocrity. It frees governments from the necessity
of resolving questions ; it enables them to impose
silence on theories, to adjourn the most terrible
problems of society. It replaces the droit au travail
by the right to get the throat cut."
The Prefect of Police has just published the fol-
lowing address to the inhabitants of Paris :
" Citizens !—The capital continues to enjay the
most perfect tranquillity and the greatest security.
The accounts from the departments are of a nature to
of
consolidate this happy state things. On all sides, in
fact, work is being resumed; most of the factories and
workshops have resumed their operations, and some of
theta have again become as activef as in the most pros-
perous years. The last decree or regulating the hours of
work gaverise to some difficulties,u but these are daily
subsiding. Under these circto m:tepees theauthorities do
not forget that it belongs b them to cause commercial
and individual freedom to
drespected in an equal
degree, and that they are boue
jorities of peaceable workmen to protect the ina-
laigainst the sometimes
tyrannical dictation of turbulent minorities, This
duty we will endeavour to perform without either
amicable artiality or
arrangements will insure peace and
regularity among the men employed in every
branch of industry. These ameliorations, citizens,
would be but a sterilesame progress unless they
were extended at the
to both political
and moral order. The old contending parties now
understand and proclaim the necessity of conciliation.
this word
aonndci conciliation have in
But what effect would tihf
coming from the lips
Oruustrust divisionsstill
dwell in the bottom of men's hearts ?
can only perpetuate mistrust and
public misrery. By
the side of those wo would destroy the Republic by
their impatience and exaggerated ideas, there are
others who would willingly stifle Democracy under
pretence of rendering it moderate. The true friends
of liberty cannot coincide with either the one or the
other. The revolution of Feburary sought not either
terror or privileges, and it is only by marching
steadily in this path that we can save the Republic
and society. The supplies brought to the markets
are all that can be desired. We announced in our
last bulletin the increase in the goldsmiths, work and
jewellery. We can now prove it by the account fur-
nished us from the Mint.
Gold. Silver. Intrinsic values.
July 56k. 141 gr. 6151,. 375 gr. 278,815 f.
August 105 k. 067 gr. 1,183 k. 950 gr. 516,837 z
Sept. 129 k. 807 gr. 1,353 k. 750 gr. 615,878 c
This movement in the dealing in luxuries is a happy
indication of that which must have been made in most
of the other branches of industry. In drapery and
in general in woollen goods the progress has been
sensible. In bronze works, plated ware, and even in
cabinet work, which has been greatly suffering, a
large number of men have been recalled into employ-
orders from abroad. The
ment and are executing
great works of public utility, of which we made men-
tion in our last bulletin, are still being carried on
with activity. Important manufactories in different
quarters of the capital are daily requiring is flesh
workmen. At all points there is manifested a ten-
dency to a resumption of business, which was for a
time suspended by the agitations caused by the elec-
tions. The amounts of the deposits in the Savings'
Bank were on the 24th and 25th ult., 39,667 f. by
384 depositors, of whom 88 were new, The sums
lent on pledge by the Mont de Piete amounted to
528,922 f., and the redemptions to 499,240 f. There
has been a progressive improvement, though slow, in
the condition of the workmen. Out of the 28,761
who inhabit the furnished lodging-houses there are
20,892 who have work. Thus the number of men
out of work is reduced to 7,869. From the 18th to
the 28th ult., there entered into hotels and furnished
lodgings 7,950 French and 1,346 foreigners. From
the 23d to the 29th there were granted 1,708 pass-
ports to French citizens and 647 to foreigners.
From the 20th to the 29th ult., two convoys
conveyed to Havre 695 prisoners in the affair of
June. The prisons contained 3,391 ordinary pri-
soners. At this time they have only 542 involved
in the affair of June. The number of simple thefts
is upon the average 7 a-day; that by house-breakers
since the 20th ult. is 22. The number of the deaths
in consequence of the affair of June is up to to-day
1,454. The public health was never in a more satis-