The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDESDAT, MAT 24, 1848.

Alarming intelligence has arrived from. different
arts of Christendom in the midst of the festivities of
tle racing season. Seldom perhaps has the Derby
r) ay beenred in by tidings so startling as those
.-hieuh haves morning reached our shores from the
mtinent. From Austria we learn that the Eit-
sz9Li. has fled from Vienna, accompanied by the
itiPtss and several of the principal members of
imperial ram*. From Athens we hear that most
= the provinces of Greece are in open insurrection.
From Russia, that the Asiatic cholera has again
i,roken out in Moscow. From Spain, that Sir
Bux.wsit has received his passports from
sae office of the Duc DM SOTOMITOR, toge-
ther with the intimation that only twenty-
four hours are allowed him for his departure from
41Adlid,— a message which has hitherto been always
regarded as tantamount to a declaration of war.

From Northern Italy the accounts are sufficiently
unforturve in regard to the army of Liberation, if
only in tie circumstance that NUGENT and RADETSLT
have united their forces in spite of the skilful
manosuvres and chivalrous audacity of King CARL°
ALIMITO. In Prussia the Government still continues
in a state of deplorable embarrassment, in reference
noi pally to the recal of the Oc own Prince ; while the
majority of the independent sovereignities of Ger-
manq are regarding with jealousy the progress of the
ambitious intrigues of FRRDRILICL WILHEL3( in the
Federal Parliament at Frankfort. Denmark is
still fighting for the integrity of its dominions,
anti the naval forces of Sweden and Norway com-
bined kre preparing to aid in the deliverance of
Schleswig from its invaders. France is still balanced
between Moderation and Communism. Belgium
alone remains in a Ale of comparative quiescence,
and Poitugal is beitag gradually irritated into a re-
volution by the shameless concentration of Power in
the grasp of the Cabranst?.
Of all these remarkabli occurrences the one which
appears to us to be of the most imminent import-
ance to ourselves is the abrupt dismissal of our
Ambassador from the Court of Queen Islamma. By

that insolent proceeding on the part of the despotic !
Administration of NARVAEZ, the position of Spain
f
and England, in relation to each other, is altogether
changed—whatever Lord PALMERSTON may (from
motives of diplomatic delicacy) have said to the con-
trary in the House of Commons last evening. A
positive rupture it may not be, but, without any
question, the effect of it will be a decided estrange-
ment between the two Cabinets. England can never
submit without indignity to the insult which has thus
been offered to her SOVEREIGN through her Majesty's
representative. Silence at such a moment would be
more disgraceful than indifference at a flagrant insult
to the national flag. It would degrade England in
the eyes of Europe. It would be an evidence of poli-
tical poltroonery. And coming after the haughty
missive of the Foreign Secretary, recommend-
ing a constitutional policy to the Ministerial advisers
of her Most Catholic MAJESTY, it would be as con-
temptible as the cowardice of ACRES after his war-
like oath, " Odds daggers and bullets !" Of this we
are satisfied, that the reputation of England is in safe
keeping in the hands of Lord PALMERSTON, the Noble
Viscount being about the very last man who would
yield to the insolence of a VALExcia. or a SOTO-
MAYOR. Whatever may be the consequence of recent
occurrences at Madrid, the sagacity of Lord PALMER
STON will not be so far baffled, or the character
of Sir HENRY BULWER be so far compromised,
as to lead to the abasement of Great Britain
in the estimation of the European nations.
Of that there can be no question whatever. And
here we would especially protest against the as.
sertion now current in the Spanish capital, either
that the conduct of Sir HENRY BULWER is con-
demned, without any exception whatever, by the
English journals, or repudiated by any one member
of her Majesty's Government. Even when Lord
LANSDOWNE commented most severely upon the
correspondence between the British Ambassador at
Madrid and the Spanish Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, he distinctly asserted that to his thinking Sir
H. BULWER had been actuated throughout by a soli-
citude to forward the wishes and to fulfil the
intentions of his Government, and that however pre-
cipitate his first note to the Due DE SOTOMAYOR
might appear in the eyes of any one resident at a
distance, he made no doubt that his Excellency had
thought differently (and with justice), from his long
acquaintance with Spanish diplomacy, and from his
immediate cognizance of events as they transpired
around him. Of the falsity of the assertion that the
conduct of Sir HENRY BULWER has called down upon
his head the indiscriminate animadversions of the
English press, the columns of The Sun are suffi-
ciently demonstrative ; for we have throughout re-
cognised the services of this distinguished Ambassa-
dor, and appreciated the probity and eminence of his
diplomatic reputation.
While the relations between Spain and England
continue in this dubious position, it may not be un-
interesting to transcribe a brief calculation of the
maritime power of the former country—the calcula-
tion being taken verbatim from one which has re-
cently appeared elsewhere. Here is the estimate :
" One line-of-battle ship in commission, and one dis-
mantled; five frigates in commission, one disarmed;
four corvettes in commission, one disarmed, two build-
ing; six brigs in commission; fire schooners in commis-
sion, one disarmed; five packet-boats, armed; nine ves-
sels of smaller dimensions in commission, and fourteen
steamers, viz., one of 350 horse power, one 300, one of
2.50, two of 200, one of 190, three of 160, two of 100, one
of 70, two of 40."

Such is the naval force upon the strength of which
Spain has dared to beard_ the puissance of England.
It yet remains to be seen, however, whether the pro-
ceeding of the Duc DE SOTOMATOR towards Sir
Hilmar BIILWER can be regarded as a sufficient
cauau.s belli.

A question of some importance arose last night on
the motion for bringing up the report on the Chester
and liolykead Railway Bill. Generally speaking, it
is considered advisable that railway companies should
not las permitted to interfere with other means of
transit, mere especially that they should not become
the proprietors of steam-packets, it being possible that
if such were the ease they might be enabled to im-
pose restrictions and impediments in the way of rival
companies, which would have the effect of creating a
monopoly in that respect highly prejudicial to the
public. In this particular instance, however, the
Committee to whom the Bill had been referred de-

parted from the usual course and sanctioned the
establishment by the company of a line of packets
between Holyhead and Dublin. Without at all en-
tering into the question of the propriety of the prin.

ciple heretofore adopted, it must be admitted that a
very strong case was made on behalf of the company
for its relaxation in their favour. The nature and
circumstances of the intended railway must be borne
in mind. It differs very materially from the great
majority of those that have already heea constructed,
or are in course of construction in this country,
where the termini are situated in populous districts,
which would afford an amount of traffic sufficient
to pay a remunerating dividend on the necessary
outlay. Few, however, of the passenge:s to Holy-
head go thither for the purpose of making any pro-
longed sojourn. It is merely a stage in the transit
between England and Ireland, and the more rapidly it
can be passed the better. As the Right Honourable
Baronet the Member for Tamworth (who had been
chairman of the Committee) truly remarked, " The
Irish metropolis is the real terminus of the line."
The railway will, when completed, form the most
rapid mode of communication between the countries,
shortening by nearly four hours the time in which
the journey may be made—from London to Dablin,
et vice versa. It is, therefore, very desirable that
the conveyance for the entire distance
should be under one control and management,
so that every arrangement with respect to the periods
of the arrival and departure of the several trains fad
packets should be made in the most convenient and
suitable manner. The packets might otherwise be so
managed as to occasion a delay of some hours at
Holyhead, which would not only be expensive and
inconvenient to the passengers, but would altogether
neutralize the advantages which the railway directors
might be enabled to offer as as inducement to select
their line in preference to any other route.
But it is not merely on private grounds that the
question should be decided. It is a matter of national
importance that the time within which communications
can be transmitted between London and Dublin
should be reduced to the very utmost degree. When
first-class steam-packets are placed upon the station
and the electric telegraph is laid down along the line,
intelligence
be received from or conveyed to
Ireland in little more than three hours, while the
whole journey may be performed in less than twelve
hours ; so that a person who has breakfasted in one
metropolis may dine in the other on the same day.
Nothing can be better calculated to bind more closely
the links by which the sister kingdoms
r . are con-
nected, and to cement more firmly thumoneisting
between them, than this practical
of time and space ; affording _ annihilation
such extraordi-
nary facilities for social and commercial in-
tercourse. What stronger argument could be addressed
to those who prate of separate nationalities, and who
desire the dismemberment of the British empire.
The national barriers will, if not wholly removed, be
at least thereby rendered insignificant, and that which
should be the chief object of the Legislature, viz.,
the perfect amalgamation of both countries, and the
assimilation of their laws and customs, will be greatly
promoted.
In addition to these great advantages, there is
another that should not be lost sight of. It is more
than probable that Valentia will eventually be made
the port of debarkation for the Western Hemisphere.
When the projected lines of railways are carried into
execution, we may hope that the passage from Lon-
don to New York may be made in little more than
seven days, and communications received through
electric telegraphs in even 20 hours less than that
time. It is needless to expatiate on the vast benefits

to England, to Ireland, to our Transatlantic colonies,

and to the United States from such a result. Ireland
will then be made the high road for visitors from the
old to the new world. What the maritime genius of
" WAGmoax " effected for the Eastern Hemis-
phere in opening new and more expe-
ditious routes must speedily be granted
to the Western. It cannot be postponed.
The Chester and Holyhead line will form a very ma-
terial link in the chain of communication, and every
power should be conferred that may aid in producing
the great result. Under all the circumstances we

THE SUN, LONDON%

are convinced that public opinion will confirm the
statement of the Right Hon. President of the Board
of Trade, " That if ever the House were to permit
railway companies to become steam-boat proprietors,
and the double power to be enjoyed, it ought to be
in this particular case."

SPAIN.
Madrid Journals of the 18 th have arrived.
The Spanish Government had on that day sent Sir H.
BLTLWER his passport, with orders to leave Madrid in
24 hours. This is another part of the plan of reaction
to which we have before alluded, and is the conse-
quence of Orleanist intrigues. It is a somewhat
curious circumstance that since the expulsion of
Louis PHILIPPE from France Queen ISABELLA has
been acknowledged by Prussia and Austria, and that
for the first time for sixteen years there is at the pre-
sent moment a Spanish Ambassador at Madrid and a
Spanish Ambassador at Vienna.
The military revolt at Seville on the night of the
13th was a more serious affair than the Government
organs choose to acknowledge. After some fighting
in the streets, the insurgents, consisting of four com-
panies of the infantry regimeut of Guadalajara, and
about 100 cavalry, retreated from the town in the di-
rection of Huelva, taking with them two field pieces.
During the row the alarm of the Duke and Duchess
DE MONTPENSIER was excessive, and everything was
prepared for their embarkation upon the river Guadal-
quiver at a moment's notice.

There are now few regiments in the army that
the Government can implicitly trust. Almost all
have been tampered with, either by Carlists or Pro-
gresistas.

The civil war in Catalonia is assuming its former
repulsive and cruel character. Reprisals, which, in
the end, will terminate in acts of downright butchery,
are becoming the order of the day. Numerous arrests
of individuals connected by blood with the insurgents
have taken place at Olot and its neighbourhood. They
have all been sent to the fortress of San Fernando,
at Figueras, and the Commandant-General of the
above district (Olot) has demanded permission of
General PAVIA to imprison the fathers and mothers,
or the nearest relatives of those who have joined the
Afatines, until they make their submission to the
authorities.
The chiefs MAUSAL, EsTaains, CASTELLS, and
POLAS have decidedly chosen the province of Gerona
as the theatre of their operations.
Nothing but the want of funds prevent the Car-
lists from taking the geld in force in Navarre, Arragon,
and the Basque Provinces.
Senor ESCOSURi has been arrested at Toledo, and
is being conveyed to Madrid under a strong guard.
General Count MAaasoL has been dispatched to
London on a special mission to explain the circum-
stances under which the Spanish Government thought
it expedient to send Sir HENRY BULITER his passports•
SOTOMAYER accuses Sir H. BuLwaz of intriguing
with the Progressists, and of having fomented the
recent revolt in Seville, and states that he has docu-
mentary evidence to prove these accusations. It will
not be the first time that the Orleanist partizans have
backed up falsehood by forgery. Mr. lamer is
left in charge of the British Embassy.
MADRID BOMA, MAY 18.—Three per Cents., 21
Five per Cents., 131. Exchange on London, 42.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes two ordonnances signed
by the members of the Executive Committee of
Government, ordering the permanent closing of the
club Raspail and the club Blanqui.
The Journal des Dibats says—" It was currently
reported last evening that a serious division had taken
place among the members of the Executive Com-
mittee since the evening of the 16th of May, and that
it was not thought possible they could any longer act
together in conducting the affairs of the country."
The Committee on Labour mast on Monday to agree
to their report. They have nominated M. IIVOL•
LOWSKI reporter. _

The Committee appointed to prepare a project for
a constitution meet every day. Its sittings last fre-
quently for five or six hours. M. CORMJNIN has been
named reporter. M. LAbiENNAIS has resigned his
seat in this Committee.

It is said that Sunday had been fixed upon for the
carrying into effect a plot against the National As-
sembly. The conspirators intended to set fire
to the theatres, and in the confusion to seize and
carry off forty members of the Assembly. The Go-
vernment, however, had received information of their
intentions, and adopted such measures as prevented
the conspirators from carrying their intentions into
effect.

We find the following on this subject in the
Constitutionne 1 :

"It might have been remarked that many legions
of Paris had only furnished a very small number of
men for the review. The following is the reason :
In different quarters the National Guards were
invited not to leave home, for that during the fête
a plot was to break out. The plot was, it was said,
to cut several fountains, to set fire to the theatres,
and, during the confusion, to seize about forty repre-
sentatives, marked out beforehand. It was on this
account that the firemen were all uader arms, and that
many were on duty in the mairies of each arrondissement.
The discovery of this infernal project was owing
to the
workmen of the national ateliers. One declared that he
had been offered fifty francs to go with his brigade to
Halle. lie did not hesitate to inform the authorities.
It is positively the fact that the attempt did not take
place only because the authorities had been warned.
In the evening, some men, carrying banners, crossed
the Place de la Concorde, shouting • Vire Barbs !' They
separated, however, on learning that the Garde Mobile
were coming up to meet them."

An attempt, which had nearly proved successful,
was made by BA&DES to escape from Vincennes on
Sunday. He had passed several doors when a Garde
Mobile on duty arrested him and conducted him back
to his place of confinement.
The Constitutionnel says that the Government has
received a telegraphic dispatch from Toulon, an-
nouncing that the workmen employed in the Dock-
yard had revolted, and had obtained possession of the
Government Arsenal.

The outbreaks at Rouen and Lyons were contrived
by the clubs of Paris, and intended to support the
communist movement of the lath of May, had that
proved successful.
It is said that the Prince DB Jourruzas is in Paris.
The publication of these letters of the Prince Ds
Jorvvirs.z by the Presse has created a great sensa-
tion, and is looked upon as the first formidable at-
tempt at a reaction. The National publishes a long

article on the subject. Speaking of the recent pro.
ceedinrs of the Presse it says :--
"Yesterday the Presse, after drawing a very frightful
picture of our present position, and having asked if the
Republic was to hare a President, or three Consuls, or
five Dictators, or a Committee, and being opposed to
each of these plans,
_objections which it considered
serious, it comes to the following significant conclusion:
--‘ The situation is an impasse, out of which we cannot
go without retracing our steps.' To-day the same
journal is still more clear, so clear indeed thatit does
not dare to take the direct responsibility of the idea
which it circulates. It brings the imaginary Citizen
Gilles, who, after arguing on a preceding article in which
France was compared to a sinking ship, concludes, with
the most candid air in the world, with the followinginno-
cent phrase :
If it be to a general shipwreck that the Republican
system is to conduct us, it is better that we should return
to a system winch, in point of fact, has given as seven-
teen years of the greatest tranquillity.
Gustave
" Here then is the question regularly started, and we
head-quarters
c
now know where the enemy is. He has established his
Gilles,theoffi office of thise Press.,a
his mnpdeteitr, T
is the
e
fanfare is brilliant, and will have its effect. The Presse
which knows how desirable it •
is to strike while the iron
is hot, follows up M. Gilles's proposition with eight
letters from the Prince de Joinville to an officer of the
navy, for. the sole purpose, us it assures us, of proving to
the National that the ex-Grand Admiral is not in Paris.
The proof is, in fact, conclusive, and admits of no reply,
for as the last of the letters is dated Claremont, near
London, the 11th May, it is evident that M. de Join-
vine, who was at Claremont on the 11th, could not be in
Paris on the 20th, the distance from England to France
is so great."
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

LAMARTINE'S STATEMENT OF THE FO

REIGN POLICY OF FRANCE.
The National Assembly met at one o'clock yesterday,
and in consequence of a report that an attack was in-
tended on the Assembly, considerable precautions were
taken. Six pieces of artillery were placed in the Court.
Strong detachments of National Guards and Gerdes
Mobiles occupied the precincts of the Hall, and the
quays in the neighbourhood were occupied by cavalry.
General Baraguay d'llilliers (in full uniform)—The
National Assembly had passed a decree, after the events
of May 15, investing him with the command of the troops
especially appointed for the defence of the Chamber.
Ho had, however, in the course of the morning, been in-

formed by the President and the Minister of War that
he must consider himself under his orders in everything
relating to the service just alluded to. He had now to
state that be could not accept the responsibility of acts
of which he had not the direction. It was not the mere
keening of the door of the Chamber, or of the gate of
the Palace, that he considered was entrusted to him, but
the power of calling on such troops as he might deem
requisite. In consequence, be begged leave to tender
back to the National Assembly the command which had
been entrusted to him.—(Movement.)
M de Larochejaquelin, finding that no person
seemed inclined to alluee to the incident just spoken
of, deemed it his duty to allude to it. The Na-
tional Assembly
shad passed a decree conferring on Ge-
neralgileaY dHilliers the command of the forces re-
quired defence of the Chamber, and now they
that this decree was revoked and another order
o f e
established! He must protest against any one
wtrhe nt Bo forg told
d Baraguay
presuming to interfere with the decrees passed by the
Assembly.—(Hear, hear.)
General Cavaignac (Minister of War) wished to say
two words in explanation. All that had been done was
to place in the hands of the Minister of War the com-
mand of all the forces of the kingdom, as always had
been practised. He had no desire or intention to inter-
fere unnecessarily with General Baraguay d'Hilliers, but
it was evident that there could not be two independent
commands, one in that officer's hands, and the other in
the hands of the Minister of War. All that he (General
Cavaignac) had done was to vindicate his rights as com-
mander-in-chief.
The President declared that he had not the slightest
idea of depriving General Baraguay d'Hilliers of a place
which he had filled with the greatest energy and ability,
and to the evident advantage of the Assembly. In the
morning General Cavaignac had come to him (the Pre-
sident), and inquired if he were not the commander-
in-chief of all the army—in France, in Paris, as well as
elsewhere—over the troops defending the National
Assembly as well as others. The answer given was,
that undoubtedly he was, and that he could always give
such orders as he might deem necessary for the safety of
the Members—that the general in command had full
power over his own attributions, but still that he was
evidently under the command, like all other generals in
the service, the orders of the commander .in-chief. " Iu
using such language, continued the President, "Iby no
means intended to prejudge any question ; and I declare
to the Assembly that I am horribly vexed, deeply
grieved that I should have caused pain to persons with
whom I have been for years on the most intimate terms."
--(Hear.) He felt he was acting as the interpreter of
the views of the whole Assembly when he expressed
the regret they would feel if General Baraguay d'Hilliers
persisted in his determination to resign the command
confided to him.—(Hear, hear.)
General Baraguay d'Hilliers did not understand the
command which he had received in the light which the
President and Minister of War appeared to consider it.
He must repeat his former assertion, and declare that he
could not accept the responsibility of ensuring the de-
fence of the National Assembly, if the power committed
to him was not left at his own disposal.—(Great agita-
tion.) He certainly should persist in giving in his resig-
mation.—(Continued agitation, in the midst of which, in
striking the bell against the bureau, he had the misfor-
tune to break it, as was evident the moment after by the
cracked sound which it sent forth.)
The President should propose to the Assembly to vote
that the resignation of the Gallant General be not ac-
cepted.—(Confused cries of " Yes! yes!" " No! no!"
agitation.) Well, then, he should propose that the re-
signation be accepted, and that a vote of thanks be
passed to the General.—(Hear, hear.)
The question was then put, and the Assembly decided
by a very small majority that the resignation, which the
General persisted in tendering, should be accepted. It
then passed unanimously a vote of thanks to him for his
services.
The order of the day was the interpellations on the
affairs of Poland arid 'rely.
M. d'Aragon declared that, after the new revolution
which had taken place at Vienna, he did not intend per-
sisting in the demand for explanations which he had
made—he thought it better to leave the Executive Com-
mittee fully at liberty.—(Hear, hear.)
M. Wolowski said that he was requested to express, in
the name of the Polish refugees now in Paris, their horror
at the dreadful attack which had been made on the 15th
on the Assembly, under the pretext of a desire to obtain
sympathy and assistance for Poland. The Hon. Deputy
then at great length defended the Polish cause, in lan-
guage similar to that which he employed on the 15th of
May, when the crowd burst in. He concluded that the
National Assembly would declare that the independence
of Poland should be set forth to the world as one of the
great objects of its foreign policy.
M. Vavin thought that it would be an insult to the
Assembly to make any appeal to it in favour of Poland,
the rights of that country being fully acknowledged.
He believed it to be alike for the interest of Franco and

for the good of humanity to have Poland reconstituted
into an independent state. lie therefore should propose,
that with a view to aid the Executive Committee in the
furtherance of their policy with respect to Poland, the
National Assembly should vote a declaration to the effect
that it considered it necessary for the security of Europe
to restore Poland to her place as an independent State.
M. Sarrdus defended the cause of Poland, but thought
the best mode of proceeding would be to apply to the
Diet of Frankfort in favour of Poland.
M. Richard also addressed the Assembly at some
length in favour of Polish independence.
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte considered the cause of
Poland was an eminently French question, but he did not
think that the declaration just spoken of ought to be
passed, unless the National Assembly was prepared to
at once order a large levy of men for war, With-
out that eventuality being looked at as a pro-
bability, it would be useless to pass the de-
claration, nor could be approve of an appeal
to the Diet of Frankfort, as there would then
be two great assemblies treating, independently of the
Executive Committee. What he thought ought to
be done was, to formally call on Prussia and Austria to
place Posen and Gallicia in such a position as the treaties
of 1815 had decided.on. That course, he thought, was
the first that ought to be had recourse to. Should such
means fail, there was evidently war at the end of the
negotiation, for in all diplomatic matters war or peace
was the ultimatum. To do less than what he suggested
would be ingratitude, to do more was not at present re-
quired. lie should conclude by proposing that "the
National Assembly should send a communication to the
Prto.olish legiConracc
Courts of Prussia and Austria, calling on them to act
dhe ce fto
~Ptrosheec'Honourable Deputy also demanded
withhtoa
Tdh treaties
The Minister of War considered that France ought to
constituted in Gallicia,Fran caes.
appeal to the great cause of justice alone in favour of
Poland. To demand the execution of the treaties of
1815 might lead to war, which he did not think the
Assembly was prepared to vote for. To pass the decla-
ration just proposed would, in all probability, have the
effect of showing to Europe what were the views of
France relative to Poland; but he thought that it should
be clearly understood that it was by moral force that
France should at present endeavour to act on the various
nations of Europe, and not by force.
M, de Lamartine began by expressing his firm con-
viction that the French Republic would succeed in
settling all the questions now pending with Europe,
without giving offence to any power. The Provi-
sional Government had not wasted the time after
the revolution in February, but had at once shown
its sympathy with Poland by passing a decree for the
organisation of a Polish legion in France. The events
had advanced too quick to allow that matter to be pro-
ceeded with. The lion. Deputy here referred to the
correctness of the presentiments which the Provisional
Government had exhibited in the manifesto which it had
issued to the various Powers in Europe. [He here read
a portion of the well-known manifesto of the foreign
policy of the Republic, in which it is declared that
France would make war on no power, but that it would
support every country that might, in the effort to recover
its liberty, call to it for aid.] The promise made in that
document to bring all the questions that might arrive
intact before the National Assembly had, he said,
been fully kept. He then alluded to the va-
rious attempts of invasion that had been made on
and Germany, and declared that they
Go-
vernment.
lfe next spoke of insurrection in Italy, and
had been S
madeaYc' contrary to the wish of the French
declared that France bad no intention whatever to inter-
fere in any part of that eoeuntry.. Haorveeadr seeevtesratlhedm:
patches, declaring that
. Itt.h
He
a
thenn referredu to Poland,
rareserve peace. M. de Lamartine
could, with the desire to p
which had been sent to the
here read the instructior!se
ue
public at the northern
and maintained that F nce had done as much as she
diplomatic agents of tn
peace with
both of them, and would
France wished for
equitable condition to effect that
consent to every
dition of all was the reconstitu-
tionobject ,• but the first condition Courts. They were to tell Prussia and Austria that
manner as would satisfy all
of Poland in such
to yrelate the events which
Honour-
able Deputy then proceeded*the revolution of Berlin, and
occurred at Posen a
r'ehre Provisional Government had
read a dispatch which t
that Court, expressing the utmost
friends of moderation andalibert united. The
sent to its agents at
ed
made relative to the return of
promises which he ha
d to their establishment there
the Poles to Posen, an
conduct of the Icing, the dis-
patchon just conditions. The
A d a most untoward effect in the
surprise that the King f Prussia had not observed the
stated, had produced
the Provfsional Govern-
the terms of friendship w lc
with Prussia. The dispatch
ment desired to keep. UP
against the Poles in
alluded to the severities manifestedhe sentiments of humanity
public mind in France, anhd chould not but tend to affect
Posen, and appealed
fallen into its power. M.
to prisoners that might have
of M. d'Arnim to this
de Lamartine also read the reply
the
King of Prussia was
dispatch, in which he declaresthe
promises which he had
which ought to direct all acts stets of a Government relative
fairly and loyally carrying
werehad been shown than was in-
sad that no more severity
of the rights of Prussia;
dispensable for the maintenance
King
was actively and
the reply also protests that t
such measures as ap-
made; that the prisoners out
treated with humanity,
constantly occupied in effecting
peared to him to respond
to the question of waging
he declared that to at-
temptlwar for Poland with Gertmhaen to aid aid Poland, but to effect
i The spread of liberal principles to do so would no
to the terms laid down in the
treaties of i 815 . Referring
!her annihilation.
r when more humane
,land he asked, think of the e
could be made use
land more certain measures of aid
,t
neglect the cause would effect for Poland more than any appeal to arms.
Ilatter
t:if? France would certainly
use of Poland would he
• d without having
gamerecourseto that dreadfal alter-
tPoland; but every means yshonuold be attempted beforec
'war was thought of. The ca
I
!native.

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