The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-25 00:00:00

MALTA.

The gunpowder trade is very brisk in Malta, as
there are several Sicilian agents in the island, who
are purchasing largely.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The speech of M. DB LAIikIiTINE is commented
on in all of them, and it obtains all but universal
approval. His announcement of a direct promise
from the King of Prussia` to organize the Duchy of
Posen on a basis of Polish nationality, cannot but
gladden the hearts of all true friends of the cause of
Polish regeneration. The reference of the several
propositions made by different members of the
National Assembly to the Standing. Committee on
Foreign Affairs, ana the resolution approving the
foreign policy of the Government, recommending it
to pursue without pause measures for the reconstitu-
tion of Poland (both which propositions are certain to
be carried), cannot but materially strengthen M.
LAMIRTINE.
The reactionary party are, as we said, they would
be, most active in Paris intriguing for a restoration.
We find the following in the Moniteur du Soir of
Tuesday :
"For souse days past thecoryphees of the reactionary
party, and particularly of those of the Regency, who
now walk with their heads erect, spread the most dis-
gusting reports on the state of Paris, and yet Paris was
never more tranquil.
" The smallest inconvenience attendant on those
alarmist rumours which are propagated with the moss
perficlioui intentions, is to induce the National Assembly
itself
alone surround itself with & military force which of
alone is sufficient to cause a mischievous emotion in the
public mind, and to' irritate the National Guard, by
being so frequently called on, as we repeat, there is
nothing in the state of the capital to warrant each pro-
ceedings.
" Another manoeuvre, also put in practice for the pro-
motion of senseless or guilty hopes, consists in represent-
ing the Executive Commission as divided among them-
selves, and inducing the idea that a dissolution of that
committee must be imminent.
" In face of such odious tactics, which can have no
other object than to destroy trade and credit, by keeping
up uneasiness and mistrust, now that all good citizens,
united by a love of conciliation and concord, only de-
mand that the Republic should be allowed to found
'itself peaceably on the .liroad bases of fraternity, demo-
cracy, and universal suffrage; we can declare, in the
most formal manner, that all the decisions of the Execu-
tive Committee have been come to unanimously since it
has been in existence, and that there has never been any
serious dissension between the members of whom it is
composed.
"Let the. well-meaning portion of Paris, that is to
say, the immense majority of its population, who wish
for order, but order with its progress, reassure them-
selves, and let them continue to lend their energetic
and loyal co-operation to the National Assembly, and
to the Executive Committee which has been chosen
by it.
" The manoeuvres of reaction, new exposed to the light
of day, will soon fall powerless before the irresistible
force of that good accord, and the alarmists will see their
idle fears vanish before it."
The tactics adopted by the reactionary party prove
the source from whence those tactics emanate. All
that is done by the reactionary party in Paris is done
in obedience to orders emanating from the partisans
of the Orleans family resident in England. How
was the throne of July acquired f By an organized
system of " enormous lying," persevered in for years
and backed up by corruption. It was preserved by
similar means, and by similar rrieans it is hoped that
it may be regained. There is a. club in Paris pre-
sided over by the Dake Dickeys, the father of the
Duc Da GLUCKSBURCIII, the " fai ally" Ambassador in
Spain, and attended by all the 'old Dynasties, which
is the medium of communication between the
" Conservatives" of France and the " Conservatives"
French and English in England-
The Droit has the following :--
" The authorities were informed that for several days
past certain plotters of disturbances, preparing new
schemes, had installed a telegraph by means of lights in
several houses near the Hotel de Ville and the Prefec-
ture of Police. Thus on Saturday evening lights appear-
ing and disappearing, and being ia.oved in certain direc-
tions, indicating signals preparod in advance, were
ear
rliecodour:o n the summit of a ho use near the Place du
C°tubhrssnaetelet. The vigilant research of the authorities
have made known the authors and motives of this noc-
edsiPs°tunrdaceee's took place, at Lille on Monday.
A number of persona assembled and proceeded to
the.
house of a manufacturer name cl DZLESPAUL, who
was very seriously ill-treated. A rope was passed
round his body, by which he was dragged through
the streets. A small party of Vibe National Guards
fortunately arrived on the spot, and by their energy
rescued M. DELESI.I.UL. o.a eof the National
Guards was struck very severely by a stone, on which
he fired at his assailant and lodge O' a ball in his thigh.
The arrival of reinforcements of iq ational Guards and
troops of the line at length restore sl order.
Several attempts have been mat le, fortunately with-
out success, by the emissaries of t be Parisian clubs to
excite disturbances in Bordeaux.
. The disturbances at Lyons have( :t .ased. On this sub-
ject we read in the 211oniteur—"/ dL TABOURRT, sub:
atitut du Procureur de la Republique at Lyons, has