The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, EVENING, MAY 8, 1848

fo have recourse to such minute inquiry relative to the
earelidates as we Old distineuish t,,r0l
the guide that many electors had to trust to in giving
their votes was public notoriety. But in the case under
discussion such a guide had been found an erroneous
one, and a person designated as a workman in the pre
liminary lists, was afterwards found not to belong to
the working classes. The votes of the electors who
had been thus led into error ought, he conceived, to
return to them intact, with full power to exercise their
right of suffrage as they please]. You, continued the
Hon. Member. addressing the Assembly, you who are
the representatives of the sovereign power of the peopi
—why should you interfere with the exercise of the
right e hich has sent you here ? Ycu have no right to
interfere with the right of voting given to the people ;
you should let them use it with the utmost freedom.—
(Hear, hear.) Hence I propose to you to call on the
electors of tee Seine to proceed to a new election for a
Member in the place of the person whose election has
just been annulled.--(Hear.)
Several other speakers followed, and the conversation
became exceedingly noisy. Indeed, throughout the
whole proceedings the Honourable Representatives
evinced a warmth of manner and an exercise of voice
which would be thought unnecessary, if not indecorous,
in England. At last the President consulted the As-
sembly on the propriety of terminating the discussion,
which was replied to affirmatively.
The Assembly then proceeded to declare their opinion
by a show of hand,. The first being declared doubtful,
a second was proceeded to, and that being also not suffi-
ciently decisive, a ballot was ordered by the President.
The votes were then given with the following result:—
Number of voters
Absolute majerity 357
For a new election
For the 35th candidate
Majority —ll6
A new election was accordingly ordered
The next business before the Chamber was the re-
port of the Provisional Government relative to their con-
duct in assuming and exercising their power since the
revolution of February.
M. Dupont (de l'Eure),' to whom the task of reading
this document devolved, would re quest the Assembly to
permit NI. de Lamartine to relieve him of a task which
would be too much for his strength.
M. de Lamartine ascended the tribune and said—
Citizens, I am about to read to you the report of the
Provisional Government:—
" Citizsn Representatives—At the moment when you
are entering on the exercise of your sovereignty—at the
moment when we deliver back into your hands the powers
d'urgence which the revolution had entrusted us provi-
sionally, we owe you, in the first place, an account of
the situation in which we found, and then one of that in
which you yourselves found, the country. A revolution
broke out on Feb. 24, the people overturned the Throne,
and swore on its ruins to reign from that time forward
alone and altogether by itself. It charged us with the
task of provisionally providing for the necessities and
dangers of the interregnum which it had to traverse,
in order to arrive wi.h order and without anarchy at
its unanimous and definitive reign. Our first thought
was to abridge that interregnum, by immediately
convoking the representatives of the nation, in
whom alone exist right and strength. Plain
citizens, without any other call on us than that
of public danger without any other title but our
devotedness, almost trembling, to accept, and most
anxious to restore the destinieswhoi:ehrhathdebeeri dictatorshipconfieled
to us fur the good of our country, wit had only one am-
tboititihe m,
sthoavtereefigsttpiey o
e, rit!, delivering
the re ople. The Throne being
overturned, and the dynasty dep,aorptti,n.g—i(fiLtoouedxiapllpe,iatuwsea.:
net we who proclaimed the Republic—it proclaimed it.
write down p
what the cry of the sAe fl b
we e- thedid mouth
was
to of
na-
tion called for."—(Renewed applause.)
The President wished to remind the Assembly that
however legitimate and justly called for might he the
expression of its approbation, still a document Lice the
present ought to be listened to in the deepest silence.
M. de Lamartine in continuation—" The first thought
after the proclamation was directed to that which wary
most important—the re-establishment of order arid
se-
curity in P:tris. In that task, which would have been
more d,fficult and mere meritorious at another time
and in another country, we ware aided by the co-Opera.
tion of the great body of citizsiis ; whilst it still told,
with one hand, the musket with which it had just
burst like a thutiderstroke on the King and his family,
with the other it protected the life and property
of the inhabitants—preserved from injury the public
monuments. Each citizen at Paris was at the same time
the soldier of liberty and the volunteer magistrate of
order.—(Profound applause.) History has enregistereci
the innumerable acts of heroism, probity, and disinter-
estedness which characterised the first days of the Re-
public. Hitnerto flattery had been lavished on the
people in speaking of its virtues—posterity, which never
flatters, will find no expressions adequately strong to do
justice to the dignity and bearing of the people of Paris.
It was that people which inspired us with the idea of
the first decree destined to assign its true signification
to the victory—the decree for abolishing the penalty of
death in political matters. It inspired that decree,
adopted it, and signed it, by the acclamation of 290,000
voices on the Place de de Ville and the neigh-
bouring quays. Not one cry of anger protested. France
and Europe comprehended that God had h:s inspirations
in that crowd, and that a revolution inaugurated by
greatness of soul, would be pure as an idea, magnani-
mouse as a sentiment, holy as a virtue.—(Appluuse.)
The red flag, presented for au instant, not as a symbol
of menace and disorder, but as a momentary flag of
victory, was put aside by the combatants themselves, in
order to place the Republic under the protection of that
tri-coloured, flag which had defended its cradle, and
carried the glory of our armies over every continent and
sea. After having established the authority of the Go-
vernment in Paris, the next step was to have the
Republic acknowledged in the departments, in Algeria,
and in the army. Telegraphic dispatches and couriers
sufficed. France, the colonies, the troops, of their own
accord, acknowledged the Republic. There was no
' resistance from any quarter. Our second thought was
for the exterior. Europe, in a state of indecision,
awaited the first word of France ; that first word was
the abolition de facto and de jure of the reactionary
treaties of 1815, liberty restored to our foreign policy,
the declaration of peace for territories; of sympathy for
nations, of justice, good faith,and moderation for govern-
ments. France by that manifesto disarmed her ambition
but did not disarm her ideas—she let her principle of
action shine forth fully. Her war went no further.
The special report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
will show you what this system of open diplomacy
has produced for France, and what it will, in all likeli
hood, still produce fur France. That policy commanded
the Minister of War to adept measures in harmony with
that se stem of armed negotiation. He established, with
energy, discipline which had been shaken; he called
back, with honour, to Paris, the army, a moment
removed from our walls, when the people were given
arms for themselves. The people thenceforward in
vincible, soon demanded, with loud cries, that their
brothers in the army should be restored to them—not as
a security, but an ornament to the capital. The army
in Paris was tio longer anything but au honourable gar-
isou, destined to prove to our brave soldiers that the
capital of the common country belonged to all her chil
dren. We, in addition, decreed the immediate formation
of a council of defence, and the formation of tour dis-
tricts of observation—that of the Alps, the Rhine, tho
North, and the Pyrenees. Our navy, confided to the
guidance of the same Minister, was placed tinder
the command of officers who soon bi ought it
to such a state of discipline as vigilance de-
manded. The fleet of Toulon went to show our
colours to the friends of France on the shores of the
Mediterranean. The army of Algiers had not an hour's,
not a minute's hesitation the Republic and the
country were confounded in their thoughts in the same
sentiment of duty. An officer whose republican senti-
ments and talents were pledges alike to the army and
to the revolution, General Cuvaignac, received the com-
mand of Algeria. Corruption, which had penetrated
into the most sacred institutions, obliged the Minister of
Justice to effect certain purifications called for loudly by
the public voice. It was necessary to separate promptly
the judicial situations from everything political. The
Minister with grief, but with an inflexible hand, effected
the separation. In proclaiming the Republic, the cry of
France had riot proclaimed merely a form olgovernment,
it had proclaimed a principle.. The princ pie in question
was that of practical democracy, equality by rights, and
fraternity by institutions. The revolution accomplished
by the people ought to be organized in our opinion, for
the profit of the people, by a continued series of frater-
nal and tutelary institutions, calculated to confer
regularly on all conditions, individuals, dignity, in-
structionmorality, elements of labour, corn
s;nd accession to property which should
suppresstort,
assistance,
th
man
ag,ee:o servile nhaetnigeh(tif
opt rpolo%tsueir„ei, n
vanti
ee lreivgahtte,
thethe
working
duty,
elevate and enrich the one without degrading the other;
and well-being of the tirst-born to property. To
as to
t go reat
causeer
the heaviest
to
distribute to preserve property and render it more fruitful by mul-
dtitpsltyriibnugteit
tahnedtadxiveisdiino
weight to fall on the strongest; to create by the State
the work which should happen to fail by the fact of
capital being intimidated,
bread; •fi
France should remain without ire ue, to examine,
gsuietharCia wayysat
. so that not a workman in
with the workmen themselves, the practical and true
matical, of the various systems, in order to discover the
true application. Such was the idea of the Provisional
s
phenomena of association, and the theories, still proble-
Government in all the decree of which it confided theto the Minister of
ePxuebclicut Works, and finally to the Committee at the
Luxembourg, a laboratory of ideas, a preparatory con-
gress of labour presided over bi on to the Minister of Finance,
~y
two members of the
Government itself.—(Great applause.) The tall of
the monarchy, the disorder of the finances, the mo•
mentary declassification of an immense mass of work-
men from the various manufactories ; the public debt of
nearly a milliard, which the fallen Government had
accumulated ; the industrial and commercial crisis which
prevailed everywhere on the Continent, and which toak
place at the same time with the political crisis of Paris ;
the enormous accumulation of railway and other shares;
in fine, the imegination of the country, whioh always
goes beyond the truth in peri,.ds of political disturbance
or social terror, had dried up the capital that gave work
—had caused specie to disappear—and had suspend, d
tree amid voluntary labour, the only labour sufficient for
35,000,000 of people. It was nee, scary to supply the,
want provisionally, or be false to all the principles, all the
sentiments of prudence, all the necessities of succour.
put forth by the It-public. The Minister of F nance will
tell you how these difficulties relative to labour ant:
credit were met, whilst waiting for the moment, at lengte
come round, when confidence restored to men's mind.,
should restore capital into the hands of the manatee-
' tuners and wages to the workman. The Department o.
Public Instruction and Worship, placed in the same hand,
was, as respected Gov, rumen, a manifestation of inten-
tion, and for the country a forecast of the new situation

which the Republic was determined to enter into, for
recessity of a s, sern nations I instruction
and of more real independence. of worship, equal and free
before the human conscience and the law. The Minis-
ter of Agriculture and Commerce—a deportment quite
separated by its nature from political matters—could
only prepare with zeal, and sketch out with sagacity, the
new institutions called on, to turn to better account the
first of useful arts; he stretched forth the hand of the
state to the suffering interests of commerce, which you
alone can restore by security. Such were cur dif-
ferent and incessant solicitudes. Thanks to Provi-
dence, who never manifested in a more evident man-
ner His interference in the cause of the people and
of the human mind—thanks to the people themselves,
who never better exhibited the treasures of reason,
generosity, patience, morality, and real civilisation,
ehich fifty years of imperfect liberty have elaborated
in their souls—we have been able to accomplish,
though very imperfectly, no doubt, yet still not without
some success, a part of the immense and perilous task
which events flung on our shoulders.—(Cheers.) We
have ft,unded the Republic, that government declared
impossible in France on any other conditions than a
foreign war, a civil war, anarchy, prisons, and the scaf-
feld; we have shown the Republic to be perfectly coin
petible with peace with Europe, with voluntary order,
with liberty of the subject, with gentleness and mildness
in the habits of a people for whom hatred is a heavy
punishment. and harmony a natural instinct; which
have promuleated the great principles of equality,
fraternity, and unity; which must, by developing them-
selves every day more and more in our laws, made by
all and for all, accomplish the unity of people by the
unity of the representation. We have renderesl the
right of the citizen universal, by rendering universal
the right of election, and universal suffrage has re-
sponded to our decision. We have armed the whole
people in the National Guard, and the whole people has
responded to us, by consecrating the arms which we be-
stowed to the unanimous defence of the country, of
order, and of the laws. We have passed forty-five days
without any other executive force than the moral autho-
rity, the rights of which the nation was pleased to re
cognise in us; and that people consented to let itself
be governed by words, by our counsels, by its own
generous inspirations. We have passed through more
than two months of crisis, of cessation of work, of
misery, of elements of political agitation and social
anguish accumulated in innumerable masses throughout
a capital of a million and a half of inhabitants, without
property being violated, without a life being menaced by
anger, without a single proscription or political impri-
sonment, or a drop of blood shed in our name having
cast a shade of sadness on the Government in Paris.—
(Great cheering ) We may redescend from that long
dictatorship on the public street, and mix ourselves with
the people, without any one being able to ask us ' What
have you done as a citizen?' Before calling the
National Assembly to Paris we completely assured its
security and independence by arming and organizing the
National Guard, arid by giving it for its protectors the
whole armed people. Factions are no longer possible in
a Republic, where there are no divisions between political
and non-political citizens, between armed and unarmed
citizens. Every one has his right, every one has his
weapon. In such a state of things, insurrection is no
longer the extreme right opposed to oppression; it would
be a crime. He who would separate himself from the people
is no longer of the people. This is the unanimity which
we have made; perpetuate it, for in it consists the common
safety. Citizen representatives, our work is accomplished;
yours commences. The presentation even of a plan 01
government, or of a project of a constitution, would be
on our parts a rash prolongation of power, or an en-
croachment on your sovereignty. We disappear now
that you are assembled to receive the Republic from the
hands of the people. We shall only allow one counsel,
one wish, and that in our title of citizens, and not as
members of the Provisional Government. That wish,
cittaens, France participates with us. It is that you
lose not time—that principal element of human affairs.
Atter having absorbed in yourselves the sovereignty, do
not allow a fresh interregnum to weaken the springs of
the country. Let a commencement of government issue
from your bosom. Do not permit the power to float
for a moment, precarious and provisional, over a country
which has need of government and security. Let a
committ, a on a constitution, emanating from your suf-
frages, introduce without delay, into your deliberations,
the simple mechanism, brief and democratic, of the
constitution, the organic and secondary laws of which
you can discuss at your leisure. In the mean time, as
members of the Government, we remit our porters into
your hands. We also submit to your judgment with the
fullest confidence all our acts; we only ask you to take
into account ail the difficulties we have had to en-
counter. Our conscience reproaches with no intentional
wrong. Providence has favoured our efforts. Grant us
an amnesty for our involuntary dictatorship. All our
ambition at present is to return to the tranquillity of
good citizens. Then only the history of our dear
country will write down with indulgence, aid in a grade
far below the things effected by France, the recital of
those three months passed in a sort of vacuum between
a monarchy which had fallen to pieces and a republic to
be established ; and in place of the obscure anti for-
gotten names of the men who devoted themselves to the
common safety, may only two names be inscribed on the
historical page—that of the people who saved everything.
and of God, who threw a blessing on everything con-
nected with: the foundation of the Republic !"—(Tre-
mendous cheering, which was renewed three several
times.)
As the Honourable 'Member withdrew to his place he
was warmly felicitated by his friends, and on his ar-
riving close to M. Dupont (de l'Eure) the old man
embraced him with transport.
The President—l think that the best mode of proceed-
ing will be to follow the line of succession adopted by
M. de Lamartine.—(Assent.) I therefore call on the
Minister of the Interior to present his report.
M. Ledru Rollin, Provisional Minister of the Interior
—Citizen representatives,—Called to the Provisional Go-
vernment by the wishes of the people, I owe you an
account of the administration of the Department of the
Interior, which was confided to me.—(Movement of
curiosity.) You will not expect from me long details.
Ready as I am to reply to all your interpellations, I
confine myself to a rapid exposé of our acts, and of the
motives by which they were dictated. Carried to the
Government by tho triumph of Republican principle, for
which I have combatted all my life—for from my Mid
to this day I have never varied—l have resolutely de-
fended its maintenance. The deep faith which I have
always avowed to it when it was persecuted cannot but
be strengthened by its striking and glorious victory at
Paris, and "its unanimous acclamation throughout all
France. Convinced that the safety of the country
depends on the complete development of all the conse-
quences of the revolution, I have watched over it
with a jealous care. I have wished that on all
points of the territory it should be respected
and understood. At the same time it was necessary,
by prompt and decisive measures, to prevent any attack
on order, and to reunite the cord of the administration
which had been violently broken. This twofold idea
suggested the sending into the departments commissaries
invested with unlimited powers.—(Murmurs.) Unli-
mited powers! This necessary word has been laid hold
of to direct against me the most violent attacks. In or-
der to judge of ir, it is necessary to go back two months,
and then it will be understood, and it will be also com-
prehended, that on the day following the revolution,
surrounded by the conquerors trom the barricades, I
could not without bring guilty of treason confide to other
bands than theirs the deposit and the defence of liberty.
—( Approbation.) Full of ardour, of devotedness, and
of civic faith, they would penetrate the country with
the idea which they had rendered triumphant. Doubt
less many among them were not administrators.
Who can contest that point ? The question
does not lie there. Soldiers were necessary to continue
and propagate the victory, and particularly to render it
durable and pacific. That faults have been committed
is very possible. When I was informed of them I did
not hesitate to revoke them. But let any one bring
forward, in the midst of this great and rapid movement,
a single serious attack against the rights of citizens by
those firm awl courageous men, whom it has not been
feared to designate as Pro-Consuls. The citizens have
replied to it by giving their votes to the greater number
of those who are now assembled among you. More-
over, the instructions sent by me, and which have
served as the pretext of so many outcries, were
indispensable. I should not have written them, had
they not been created by the force of circumstances
a cule, Being the emanation of a revolutionary pun-
dt!, I could not transmit a regular and limited
authority. Placed in face of unioreseen events, I
should have been guilty of weakening my agents by
rules above which the safety of the country
had raised us. I moreover knew, and I have
said it, that the moral responsibility which ac-
companies the momentary exercise of great power
prevents and corrects the abuse of if; that it is necessary
to give beforehand the means of overcoming all obsta-
cles, in order that obstacles shall not present themselves.
—(Hear, hear.) My public instructions, the firmness or
which had more particularly for object to remove for
ever guilty hopes, have been every day explained by my
correspondence. I am ready to submit to the Assembly
the voluminous documents of that labour, and I have no
fear of its finding one dispatch which does not bear the
imprint at once of an ardent desire to make the revolu-
tion triumph, and of a constant desire for conciliation,
order, and peace.—(Applause). It is to the attainment
of this twofold object that all my efforts nave been di-
rected. I should have been inconsistent with my former
lite, I should have given the lie to the doctrines which I
have constantly professed, if I had not been at the same
time the man of the revolution who .would transform
society and the country, and the man of the government
who accomplishes progress by the power of ideas,
and proscribes all appeal to disorder arid violence. It is
thus that in a few days I caused the National Guard of
Paris to be armed and equipped, and endeavoured (at
least by making known my wishes) to do the same with
that of the departments, persuaded that a disciplined
musket was ao instrument of order, because it was the
symbol of the dignity of the citizen.—(Cries of " Yes,
3 es.") I provided tor the organization, the clothing, and
the support of the Garde Mobile; to the creation of this
sedentary corps destined to maintain order in this grt at
city; to the formation of a new institution, that of the
Gar diens de Paris, connecting by an indissoluble bond
the tnuuicipel and the judicial police, and placing public
security under a constant surveillance. In the du)s of
trouble and uneasiness I watched unceasingly; it is by
an absolute devotedness to my duties that I replied to
the infamous calumnies of which I have been the object.
I have never seen in this unexampled invective anything
but an additional reason to intrepidly defend a cause
which the fury of some senseless persons wished to com-
promise in my person. I had confidence in the good sense
of the nation, in the justice of the Assembly, and I
thought that, soldier of the revolution, I should suffer
everything for it, and not lose, in noticing odious false
hoods, the precious time which its services demanded.
All my acts, moreover, are public; then free dis-
cussion belongs to you, tuld now that your sovereignty

discharges me from the burden of tiff tins, all privet,
estrum: fied tn. rea,'.. ' C,. 7
pissed through the most olffieul: circum,tattces by re
mining within the limits of my budget. I prepared
and organized in three weeks the application of universal
suffrage, and nevertheless, allow rue to tell you, that if
by some I am accused of some errors in its detail, suffi-
cient allowance has not been made for the infinite and
persevering labour by which I have been able through-
out the whole extent of the Republic to bring into
operation a mode of election which only three months
since was declared to be iinpossib&. For my own part,
I shall be proud of having been the instrument of :itis
first act of virility on the cart of a people recover-
ing its rights. Proceeding on these general prin•
ciples, I should have wished to have introduced
into the mechanism of the administration changes
destined to render it more simple and more demo-
cratic. I thought that those reforms should not be
either isolated or partial, and that they would be more
wisely accomplished by him who would hold a defini-
tive power from your sovereignty. I feared to throw dis-
order into the administrative action at a moment when
it was most essential to preserve its regularity. And
besides--why should I conceal it? lam mere particu-
larly anxious to save the revolution and order. I wished
to preserve to the victory of the p ople its grandeur, its
purity, and its social bearing; I also wished, in defend-
irg it against the snares and attacks of reaction, to
shelter it from the violence of ambition and of dangerous
impatience. "Thus when, replying to an imprudent pro-
ceeding, the whole population of Paris came unarmed to
surround the Provisional Government with its pacific
waves, I unreservedly united myself with this solemn
demonstration; but on the day when some madmen en-
deavoured to•pervert the sense and the result of a similar
manifestation, I did not hesitate to oppose it. It was by
my of ders that the rappel was beaten, and that the Na,-
tional Guard, which is now the country, assembled to mia
with the citizens who were sot armed, and to protest
against any violent attempt.—(Approbation.) This re-
solution, fur from being an effUrt on my part, was only
the eonsequences of the principles which have always
guided me, et/en in the opposition. In my eyes, it was
a great day when the ideas which were destined to con•
qaer the world elaborated themselves. As inflom ble against
ambitions which provoke coups de main as against
reactions which enchain revolutionary movement, I have
always considered that a statesman should march with
a firm step between the dreams of utopists and sec-
tarians, and the rebellious tenacity of egotistical in-
terests. One does not truly rely but on ideas which are
ripe. Veritable superiority consists in distinguishing
those measures which may reasonably be put in practice.
The hand of the people has now torn away the veil.
Doubt is no longer possible fur any one. Imprudent
and culpable would be he who would wish to stop the
revolution by the sterile conquest of political turns.
These forms are but an instrument of liberty placed in
the hands of the nation called on henceforth to estab-
lish itself. For it the path is traced out and the object
indicated. It is to realise in social order the dogma of
equality and fraternity that all our efforts ought to tend.
Supporters of that holy cause, we shall be worthy of our
mission, in accepting it in its full bearing, and by it we
shall not only have restored man to his natural dignity,
but we shall have secured the glory and the happiness
of our common country, and contributed to the eman-
cipation of the world —( Applause.)
M. CREMIEUX, the Minister of Justice, then pre-
sented his report, which did .not produce any great
effect. Still less effective was the address of M.
LOUIS BLANC which followed, and which was, of
course, on the organization of labour. The report of
JL GARNIEB PAGES, the Finance Minister, was
completely inaudible. The Hon. Minister's voice
failed at the commencement, and he completely broke
down before he had concluded.

The President consulted the Chamber as to the
propriety of sitting on Sunday, but a large majority
declared themselves against Sunday sittings. An
observation of one of the Members, to the effect that
the Assembly ought not to suspend its sitrings until
the public safety should have been assured, drew from
Citizen CAUSSIDIERE, the Prefect of Police (a member
of the Ledru and Barbes party), a declaration
that at present the state of public security was per-
fect. The Assembly adjourned at six o'clock. They
have yet to receive the report of Citizen LAMARTINE
on Foreign Affairs. It is said that it was on Satur-
day the duty of Barbes regiment of National Guards
to furnish a guard to the Assembly, but that by ex-
press orders the duty had been transferred to another
regiment.
The Grand National fête is fixed for the 14th.

The Moniteur gives an official contradiction to the
report that the Army of the Alps had been ordered to
enter Piedmont.

The Constitutionnel states that the port of Cher-
bourg is to be put in a complete state of defence.
Besides the immense quantity of cannon with which
the bastions and ramparts are provided, the dyke is to
be defended by floating batteries, composed of old
ships. It was for this purpose that a battery has been
sent from Vincennes.

In the same journal we find the following:—
" We are assured that, at seven o'clock yesterday
morning, the drummers of the 2d leljon took an order
to all the National Guard of the arrolichssement to pro-
ceed, in uniform and without arms, to the customary
place of meeting. At nine o'clock, a great number of
them had answered the appeal, and were at the rendez
vous. They then mutually interrogated each other as
to the motives of the convocation. It was said that the
Colonel, M. Claient Thomas, bad called them in conse-
quence of orders from General Courtais, to make a poli-
tical demonstration. What was the meaning of the de
ministration which was demanded from them? The ex-
planations which were given were various. It was in-
tended, said some, to offer to the Provisional Government
a striking act of adhesion to the Republic; whilst others
pretended that it was intended to offer an expression of
sympathy to M. Lamartine, in reply to a demonstration
made on the pri ceding day by some citiz-ns in favour of
of M. Ledru Rollin. The National Guards, rem, in-
hering that a demonstration of the whole National
Guard had been misrepresented, were unanimously of
opinion that they ought to abstain tram that to which
they were invited, whatever might be the character of it.
Some moments after they were told, again as was said
on the part of General Courtais, that the d ministration
had been countermanded. The National Guards took
advantage of the singular incident which had cowed
them to be assembled to agree to a petition, demanding
that the G. neral-in-Chiet of the National Guard stn;uld
be nominated by election. Did she same circumstances
occur in other legions? Some information might lead
us to believe it; but from enquiries instituted, we have
acquired the certainty that, in several legions, nothing
of the kind took place, However this may be, without.
entering into explanations on the singularity of the inci-
dent, without seeking whether it were really an order of
the chief's, if it were a misunderstanding, or a snare laid
for the National Guard to cause it to take the initiative
of these irregular demonstrations, in order to give excuse
for others id a contrary kind on the following ria)—we
cannot refrain from approving the wise reserve which
the National Guard maintained. The time has passed
for these votes en muse in the public streets. The
people have at present their regular representatives.
All questions are reserved to the sovereign decisii,n of
that great power. The real, the only demonstration,
which the Nal ional Guard has to make in favour of the
Republic is to watch with zeal over the safety of the
Assembly, and to protbct, by its imposing and pacific
force, the lib. rty of the deliberations."
A decree of the Provisional Government, dated
May 5, directs that an amnesty shall be accorded
to all the individuals under prosecution for the dis-
turbances which took place at Valence on the 3d, 4th,
and 14th April, as also for those at Amiens; and all
proc-,edings commenced are put an end to.
On Thursday the 3d battalion of the Ist Legion
of the National Guard gave a banquet to the dif-
ferent regiments of the army arid to the Garde
Nationale Mobile, stationed in Paris, to which
all ranks were admitted. The .most perfect har-
mony pervaded the whole meeting. Commandant
BOURCART proposed a toast to the Republic, the Garde
Mobile, and the army. The Colonel of the 2d Regi-
ment of Dragoons returned it by the following :-
-" To ihe National Guard, our elder Sister I The
Army, her younger Sister, will follow her wherever
she is called to defend and secure Order in Liberty !"
A. private of the Garde Mobile, in well-conceived
terms, proposed a toast to the National Guard and
the Army conjointly. At the conclusion of the day a
subscription amounting to 400 fr. was made, and will
be offered to the commission for receiving and dis-
posing of patriotic gifts.
On Thursday, while the National Assembly was
being opened, M. Thiers was seen, in the uniform of
a private of the national guard, doing duty as sentinel
at the Mairie of the second arrondissement.

We read in the Constitutionne 1 of Saturday—.
"In the fourth number of the Commune de Paris of
yesterday we find the following lines:—' Yesterday
evening, the Minister of the Interior replied to a citiz
who went to ask him the news from Rouen, that all was
appeased, that the investigation and the prosecution which
the magistrates had the infamy to institute against the
people who were mas,acr, d was now directed against tha
hideous armed bourgeoisie, author of this Saint Bartho-
lomew.' M. Sobrier, who has given proofs of frankness
on several occasions by cli,avowing articles which, un
known to him, have slipped into the paper which he con-
ducts, will no doubt do the same with respect to that to
which we refer."
Algiers journals of the 20th have been received.
The Akhbar says—
". The coitriers of. Bona and Oran arrived yesterday at
Algiers, bringing weft them the delegates of the dif-
ferent bureaux of those provinces. The examination of
the ballots will take place to-mon:ow. The result of the
elections of Algeria are not vet completely known to us.
W.e belteve,
weever'how from -the information we have re-
ceived, that y announce the nominations of citizens Didier, Leblanc, De I', iois, Ledrii Rollin, De
Rancey—the letter in a manner less positive."
The same journal says_
"Yesterday looming we saw stuck up on the pillions

or the hones w job surround the
Her do Governs.
, .! t,.rnizi—
•"
By older ot the Provi!.iozial Goverument,--The is'
sion of Citizen Couput is terminated.
(Signed) "CAVAIGNAC, Governor-General.
" Algiers, April 28,"
By the side of this placard the public read the
following"
leav' incomplete the mission which
confided to me. The Governor- General has addresseg
Ott
the following letter to me:—' Sir,—l inform you,
according to the orders of the Provisional Government
your mission has terminated. In consequence,
yon
be kind enough to• return to me the lettre de scrim'
which was given to you by the Minister of the Interior,
and which d tiny
5 also
41 the object of your mission, b;
that in which I invited you to proceed to the aecomPos.,
went of it. Receive, etc. (Signed) The Govern
nio
General, C. CAVAIGNAC. Algiers, April 28!
obc.dierce to the orders of the Provisional Governrae7
I have remitted my powers to the Governor-Gene/A
Returned to private life, I shall not the less purs4
the constant object of my efforts—the assimilation
Algiers to France. Vive la Republique!
(Signed) 66 conrlo.
Paris was in a state of uneasiness in conseVell
of the apprehensions entertained of an outbreak °
the part of the Clubbists. , the
There are now no less than three members Be
Tie iloßonaparte family in the National Assetnbly. of
Lucien Murat, the son of the unfortunate F:ingsrt,
Naples, who has been elected for one of the 4eP of
ments in the south, Pierre Bonaparte, the SOll
Lucien, and Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, the s°,l3 „
Jerome, have been elected representatives for n.
sica. The other members for Corsica are g• 'iarybil •
tucci, the former deputy; M. Pietri, the Commist —4
oe-•
General ; M. Conti, the Procureur-General; and et
Louis Blanc. The returns from Algeria are n071,.'
complete. Those whose elections are known WA De
Didier, Leblanc de Prebuis, Ledru Rollin, end
Rancey. On'
The following additional returns of deputies, c
b bed°
pleting and correcting the accounts already
have been received : •

AlN.—Guigne de Champvans. °
Duo
ALPES (BASSES).—Leydet, Denois,for tb-
Chaix. (These names were given by error as "-
Hautes-Aipes).
BOUCHES-DU-RHONE.—Cormenin.
COTE-D'OR.—:Mire.
Doris.—De Montalembert.
LOT.—Carlat.
LOZERE.—RenOURTd.
MAYENNE.—Roudet, Cormenin.
MEURTHE.—Fe.y (Eul.6 1..), d'Adelswaert.
MORRIHAN.—L'Ab, 6 D-nlane, De Saint-GOT-Asa/_,
PYRENEES (BAssEs).—L'Estappis, Etcheveri'
SEINE-ET-MARNE.—Georges Lafayette, 097,:4014
ng
fayette, Drouyn de L'Huys, J.de Lasteyrie,
J. Bastide, Pottalis, Auberl, 4, Er. 13avoux.
SEVRES (DEUX).—Desire Machin.
TARN.—Tonnae. a It
VIENNE (HAUTE).—Dumas, Maurat-Ballag-6011/
(avocat), Friehon, Texier, Brunets , tbej
(avocat). (l'he official return is not yet conWe',4ooP'
disturbances at Limoges having interrupted the
of the votes).
YONNE.—Rampou, Sechin, Bezine.
rule°
The subject of the appointment of an inte—
Government is now occupying the public st.te°:the
of France. M. LAMARTINE is desirous of bsOrstecl,
whole of the Provisional Government re-ePP° 080
but the great body of his friends, including thiel the
who next to himself is the most looked up t 4 retest
moderate party, M. ARMAND MARRASZ P 0,04
Bo 4.
against the re-appointment of MM. laDit" oros.4'
LOOP BLANC, FLOCON, and ALBERT. 31. rellen
(de L'Eure) has expressed a wish to be, hi,
fretn the anxieties of office on account O' f the de:/
age. The great majority of the deputilsraisselP
partments have determined to demand th° i 1'1" 104
N. LEDRU ROLLIN and his coulinissar üblieSis
persist still in thinking that the moderate Pd to th°
party in the Chamber will, without regar nt cOll
scruples of M. DE LAMARTINE as to his prese_,A
leagues, appoint an executive committee, color
follows :

m.MM..
ADmitE.‘,,LIRGAnoIIsATR,
slP:emsbideern.
s.t
GARNIER PAGES,
MARIE,
The Provisional Government has accepted ado
resignation of General DUVIVIER, the Compf,9
Generathe Garde Mobile, and has appointed
rOME in his place. Obi
The Provisional Government has decided tbitio'ilb
National Guard of Paris Anal alone be charge' ear
the duty of mounting guard at the National Aloe
bly. This is supposed to be in consequence:o
troops and Garde Mobile having been 9 n 7.00
called upon by the President to assist in guards
Assembly. •
al As#
A tribune has been set apart in the Natl°llo
sembly for the delegates of the clubs. I'e
places in it for from thirty to forty persons. A,r
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS:. 4,.,
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. 111." qsgi
Boulogne and Amiens, 64—Namur and Lierno .
Northern of France, 33/4—Paris and Rouen, 15
Havre, B—Sambre and Meuse, 4%.

GERMANY-
AND 141,0,
THE NORTHERN STA-

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4,' bel
PRUSSIA.
The official decree of the King of fiLliaratlee!
been published, announcing the recognition ue0004;
ISABELLA of Spain by the Prussian G°ll 003
Don ANTONIO REMON MARCO DEL VAL/IB_,
accredited ambassador to the Prussian Ceu:tetil
We extract the following from the "a
ear'
Cologne of the sth inst. :
g Ore Z 0
"The postal communications with Treve-ngertorer,
interrupted; the letter bag is borne by Ws.° -- Oa
..",," di:
gate of the city, and then dispatched by a Int:frora IV
back. Yesterday's number of the Gazette of ocao-..0$
not reach us in the usual manner. We had to fve e%tobuo
private opportunity half a sheet, from whi,cll, ntallracsil
the following;—"freves. May 3.—The quo' -01,41-jo.
has been most seriously disturbed since Yelltve,giOleile)
ing. The appearance of a battalion of the 26th .I.'-oceitiio
Infantry.and the much-to-be-regretted distiirtollectilfer
took place the day before yesterday, at the ,ebis,,oolll
the Maximen barracks, have occasioned ,;0% Ave
since yesterday, in the afternoon, proYe'"ooooef
spoken by the 26,k were rumoured about 60101, 11l
burghers; the hoick and white flag was 01110100'0;
threats uttered against the spirit ot our poPeeeto Is 0'
the evening, men belonging to the 26th were a tbs.a
ing arm in arm through the streets, and in °door,
intoxication. At ten the drum beat to "00 'or
burgher guard; at eleven the bells rung. .011 0
marched to the Dlederichstrasse, a few gt11:1:„rotiVI
and several citizens wounded; two daeg-balll Or
The 16 hole night was spent in making the 0 illi
The burgher guard was under arms i,ll raaPpralj
place. In the morning the bells egale,,,-- den Al
Governor of the Rhenish province and 41' orde'
Schreckenstein, happening to be at Treveg'd theifal,4
inquiry should be made, and were it pvireitatenof
had given the provocation, they should be ;e u'oldi
removed from the town. All the sh°o sk-remo
According to a private letter, dated
rttlienerscS.,
than fifty barricades were raised. The LI?'" be!'" '
is, that he will pardon all, provided tla.
cooi
were removed; but that otherwise he WO • '
the troops to fire on the town.'"
POSEN. no), • )00
General WILLISEN will not return t° Le Th otte trll
eof:,/
place is filled by General PpuEL.
nib
powers all but unlimited for the reclbraolt 4/iff
the Polish part of the Grand Duchy
to Voig...j
once obtained, General PFUEL will repair une
and thence to St. Petersburgh, to Intl" .
exact state of affairs. Pie,
Prince CZARTORYMET has returned to (P. ill
In the duchy of Poien, the city of 0111810 letpi
circle of Buk) has been taken by statotkril
Prussian soldiers. The Poles lost Ma" 0000,1
Xionz the insurgents fought heroically.
, ii Asf
scans had forty soldiers killed and fir* 00
The insurgents are annihilated. Seven 0
Poles have been taken prisoners. t t dt9,l
News from Posen (May Ist) states -I°o4 jr
combats of Graetz and Xionz, which b Aro'ol,
bloody, a real battle took place on the Sfhter, 0/
Miloslaw. The town was first taken by log: .011
troops; the Poles succeeded in "Pfliforce_,.o
The Prussian troops, having received rel_ Or,
retook the town ; but the Poles deor:orelif
once more, though the Prussians
~Nv :heir
~!stoilis
six thousand strong, not to speak 01
st joilriptiii
Every one of these fights was 111°,1 those oil
The Poles of the city of Posen, and s'ivisioooo
grand duchy, protested against any
the AO! fool;
duchy, and refused to take a part in
_....t. A:toel
Ist May for the Frankfort Parliament' ron.!. ri
'nation of MIEROSLAWSItI has called
of cha
ise •C';‘l,llglif
Bthuekgeinseruanldienrsuarrrmecs.tionT.heTphoeliswhhi°seitiu:!nolron:j.°l4opr
has repaired to the camp. STEFANS%_ r
appointed Dictator of the Grand Dual,'

utif
AUSTRIA. ftinO
Baron ZANINI has resigned the office °lib
of War, in onseqnence of a difference 11