The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-08 00:00:00

surd, syllable -mongers as incurable, as any in the Coun-
cil of Five Hundred, are in possession of the Tribune.
One only passa„.l,e in M. Pierre Leroux's voluminous dis!
course appeared to us to have the slightest relation to
the time in which he lives, and that only by inference.
It was when he described " the Constitution of Sieyes,
pillaged by a conqueror, disfigured, changed, re-model-
led, and fabricated to his own usage, until it suited him
to alter it for another." The Constitution of M. Armand
Marrast will probably have a similar fortune before long;
but General Cavaignac will, we think, hardly prove its
Napoleon, because that great man had at least the sense
to get well into the saddle before he indulged in such
arbitrary persecutions of opinion as those into which the
present chief of the French Government has prematurely
suffered himself to be betrayed.
ADVERTISER.—The fickleness and caprice of the
populace have been proverbial from time immemorial.
There are few great names in history who have not had
personal exrerience of this truth. Grecian and Roman,
as well as English and French history, abounds with
examples of illustrious men being the idols of the popu-
lace one day, and the objects of their execration the
next. We have had a recent instance of the fickleness
of popular feeling. Who could have believed that La-
manioc, the man whom, in April last, all France re-
turned, amidst the loudest acclamations, to the National
Assembly—a man whose name was on every lip and
who possessed a home in every heart—who could have
believed that such a man should, by the middle of June,
have falkn to the lowest depths of unpopularity—his
name loaded with obloquy, and his very person
all but shunned in the public streets ? He has
just published a vindication of himself. It is a
most triumphant defence. It will put his ac-
cusers to silence, if not to shame. Lamartine meets
every charge preferred against him with all the direct-
ness and boldness of a man who glories in the conscious-
ness of his entire innocence. Some parts of his defence,
in addition to their being the most complete which an
accused man ever offered for himself, are remarkable for
their eloquence and the nobleness of mind which they
display. Lamartine has been charged with being ac-
tuated by ambition, in acquiring and maintaing the posi-
tion of head of the French Provisional Government. lit
shows that so far from aspiring at the distinction, he
never dreamt that it was to be open to any one. The
overthrow of the Monarchy and the proclamation
of a Republic took him quite as much by surprise as they
did Louis Philippe himself. Referring to the memorable
scene in the Chamber of Deputies, in the midst of which
the Orleans dynasty was overthrown and a Republic
proclaimed, Lsmartine graphically describes the part ho
acted in that extraordinary drama. " I remained," be
says, " isolated, pensive, silent, upon my bench, con-
templating that abrupt catastrophe which did not leave
one time enough to measure its profundity. Moved even to
sadness by this calamity, and this new birth over-
whelming a throne in a revolution, my heart struggled
within me against my reason. Several of the people
and of the Deputies—though they may now have for-
gotten the circumstance—approached me, and 'wiz*
my arm in order to rouse me from my abstraction,
summoned me energetically to throw myself between
anarchy and my motherland, calling me by name, and
impelling me towards the tribune. From that tribune
M. Odillon Barrot had just descended, from the ex-
haustion produced by his efforts to save the monarchy
from destruction. A muzket was levelled at my head
from one of the galleries, but an unknown hand struck
up the muzzle. In a few syllables I proclaimed myself
to be in favour of a Provisional Government—a Govern-
ment which should grasp the crisis on the instant, so as
to bring it under control. This Government gave
augury, it is true, of a republic, but it reserved to the
National Assembly that which I had expressed im my
first words—that of which it could never be deprived,
whether by faction, by seduction, or by acclama-
tion—the full and sovereign sanction of the definitive
form of government, such as might be suitable for the
acceptance of the nation." There is no appearance of
personal ambition here. Neither was there the least
ground to suppose that Lamartine was actuated by any
personal considerations in the incidents which followed.
" The voices," says he, " of the people and of those De-
puties who still remained in the Chamber, summoned me
to designate myself the members of the Provisional Go-
vernment. I refused. M. Dupont (de l'Eure), the
natural dictator of public esteem, was carried, in spite
of his modesty, to the chair of the Presidency. He read
the names which a tumultuous sitting bad selected for
the formation of a Government. We could not recognise
in this sitting any other authority besides the authority
of danger and devotion. This danger and this devotion
formed our only title. They prevented us from resign-
ing power, irregular though it was, into the hands of
anarchy. • I accept this power by reason of the
blood which flows, and which must be staunched at
all price.' Those were my words: I find them re-
corded in the Moniteur. We marched at once to the
Hotel de Ville, at the head of a procession of the
people. We were carried under the shelter of sabres,
and pikes, and bayonets, into the rooms stained with
blood, encumbered with the dead and the wounded, even
to the little table where the Government was organized.
Even at that hour the great struggle commenced outside
between the two republics ; the one violent, inexorable,
dictatorial, terrorist—in word, in act, and in colour; the
other moderate, pacific, legal, unanimous, constitutional ;
between the republic which you wish, and that which
you do not wish." It is clear from this, that the posi-
tion, as the head of the Provisional Government, which
Lamartine was thus called to fill, so far from being one
which was likely to minister to a man's ambition, was a
situation of the most imminent personal danger. For
some time after he accepted the office, his life was in
constant peril. He went about, attending to his duties,
with his life in his hand. Arid the return now made to
him for all this—for the fatigues he endured, the anxiety
by which he was harassed, and the personal danger to
which he was hourly exposed, is to have his character
aspersed in the most heartless manner. Such are the
rewards of patriotism I

THE CORN TRADE.
GLASGOW, SEPT. 6.—The weather during the past
week has been changeable, and iince yesterday much
ruin has fallen. We have had fair arrivals of Wheat,
both foreign and coastwise, and about 7,422 barrels of
flour from Canada and the United States; of all other
articles the supplies continues canty. Tho transactions
during the week were, to a moderate ex.tt:nt, at last
Wednesthey's currency. This day's market was well
f attended, but the decline of prices at Mark•lane caused
buyers to act with more caution, and to provide for im-
mediate wants only. We quote:—Wheat and Flour is.
to Is. 6d. lower per boll, sack, or barrel respectivOy.
There was a moderate quanity of new Wheat on show,
in fair condition, ruling from 265. to 28s. per 2401 b.
Barley unaltered. Oats Is. per 2641 b., and Oatmeal
Is. 6d. per 2801 b. cheaper. Beans scarce at the extreme
rates of last week. Peas Is. lower per 2801 b. Indian
corn meal without change.
BIRMINGHAM, TRURSDAY.—At Gloucester and Wor-
cester markets, on the 2d, the Wheat trade ruled dull,
at a reduction of 2s. to 3s. per quarter. Barley, Oats,
, Beans, and Peas were all quite as dear, with a good
consumptive demand. This week the weather has again
become unsettled, but owing to the fall in Mark-lane the
transactions in all articles of the trade have been on the
most limited scale. Millers offer from 4s. to Bs. per
quarter under previous currency on Wheat, with which
holders altogether refuse to comply. On other kinds of
corn the turu is in favour of the buyer, but at no quot-
able reduction in price. At this day's market there was
a moderate supply of Wheat, which found a fair sale at
a reduction of 1. to 2s. per quarter on old, and 2s. to 3s.
per quarter on new samples. Barley dull, and Is. to 33.
per quarter cheaper. Oats declined 6d. to Is. per quar-
ter. Beans held for former prices, but no progress could
be made. Peas less inquired for. The millers reduced
the retail price of Flour 3s. 4d. per sack.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial. office for the Governor of Ceylon and
Hong. Kong.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood left town yesterday, for Hickleton Hall, Don-
caster.
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BIRTHS.

On the Ist inst., at Oldbury Rectory, Salop, the wife of the
Rev. J. Purton, of a daughter. _

On the 4th inst., at B. Odynfol, Montgomeryshire, the lady
of
R. M. Bonnor Maurice, Esq., of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Myddleton-square, Mrs. R. Mullen,
of a daughter. inst.,
On the sth in the New Findley-road, St. John's-
wood, Mrs. W. G. Langdon, of a son.
On the sth inst., at West Elam, Essex, Mrs. A. Lewis, of
a daughter.
On the sth inst., at Fitzroy-park, Highgate, Mrs. W. Glad-
stone, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Acre lane, Brixton, Mrs. R. Thurburn,
of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Guildford-street, Russell-square, the
wife of Edward Gregory, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the sth inst., at Brighton, Thomas William, youngest
son of the late Captain T. Innes, R.N.,to Adelaide Sophia
Chicheliana, relict of the late T. H.
ympson, Esq., of the
Bengal Civil Service.
On the sth inst., at St. Mary's Church, Elland, Frederick
W. Cronhelm, Esq., of Crow-wood, near Halifax, to Mary
Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Isaac Thwaite, of
Bradley-hall, in the same parish.
On the sth inst., at Clapham Church, Richard Rarenhill,
Esq., of Clapham-common, to Laura, youngest daughter of
T. Puckle, LKI., of the same place.

DIED.
On the 29th ult., at sea, on the voyage home from Gambia
River, Captain C. Kreeft, only son of Captain J. B. Kreeft,
of Barth, in Pomerania.
On the 31st ult., at Tunbridge-wells, J. G. Horsfall, Esq..
of Bolton Royde, Bradford, Yorkshire. aged 61.
On the 3(1 inst., at Queen's-road, Regent's-park, William
A. Blakeney, Esq., formerly Major in the 87th (or Prince of
Wales's Irish) Regiment, aged 77.
On the 4th inst., at Shrewton Vicarage, Wilts, Christiana,
wife of Mr. E. H. Greene, Ealing, Middlesex.
On the sth inst., Emilia Elizabeth, the wife of G. G. Vin-
cent, Esq., of the Sanctuary, Westminster, aged 63.
On the sth inst., at West Teigumouth, Devon, William
Cartwright, Esq., aged 80.

London: Printed and Published by MURD6YOUNG, at
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Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the young of
aliddlusi, Friday, eeptember 8, 1848.