The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

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AQUATICS.
PAUL'S WHARF REGATTA.
This annual match came oft yesterday for a purse of sove-
reigns subscribed by the inhabitants of Castle Baynard,
Queenhithe, and their vicinities. Owing to the very inaus-
picious state of the weather, the attendance was nothing to
equal that of former occasions, and the rowing, which was
very spirited, was rendered severe work.

First Heat.
G. Careless and J. Clarke ... (Light Blue) 1
R. Holloway and G. Ferguson .. (Dark Blue) 2
W. Norman and Edward Armstrong (Pink)
The course was from Queenhithe up to the Temple and
back, twice round, finishing at Paul's Wharf. A good start
was succeeded by the winners taking the lead and keep-
ing it.

Second Heat.
T. Sheen and B. Coxlade (Green)
J. Bartlett and J. Bradcock (Red) 2
Q. Wheeler and W. Bond . .• ••• (Yellow) 0
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Distance as before. Won by a length and a half, the
winners going away with a slight lead shortly after the
start.

Grand Heat.
T. Sheen and 13. Coxlade ... ... (Green) 1
J. Bartlett and J. Bradcock (Red) 2
G. Careless and J. Clarke ... ... (Light Blue) ()
It. Holloway and G. Ferguson ... ... (Dark Blue) 0
It was a very spirited race. They all went off well, im-
mediately after which red took the lead, closely waited upon
by green ; the latter then challenged red, and, after some
sharp rowing, passed them.

ROWING MATCH BETWEEN GOATLY AND
COOMBES AND MILLS AND ROYAL.
Several hundred persons assembled yesterday on Thames-
bank to witness a portion of the race between Goatly, a
famous oarsman of bygone years, who is now verging on
fifty years of age, and James Coombes, the brother of the
champion, and Mills and Royal, of Thames-bank, for 101.
aside. The race emanated from the contest this veer at the
Horseferry for a purse of sovereigns, subscribed by the
residents of St. Margaret's and St. John's, West-
minster, which was won by Goatly and his partner,
and the challenge of their opponents was imme-
diately accepted. The weather was extremely boisterous,
and the water particularly rough in the course they had
selected—from Vauxhall Bridge up round a boat off Mr.
Lentell's, the Old Swan, Battersea, and back—so rough,
indeed, that although the boats in which they rowed were
covered in it was feared by the greater part of the specta-
tors that they would be unable to keep them afloat. They
started at six o'clock, both getting away and well to work
at the same moment, and continued scull and scull up to
Ranelagh House, where, in order to avoid a barge in their
course, Goatly and ;his partner went outside and began to
make the shoot over to the Red House. Their adversaries
who had continued on in their straight course, kept near
the Middlesex shore, until off Royal's, the Thames-bank
Pier, before they crossed. At the Red Mouse, Mills and his
partner were three or four lengths ahead, and continued in
advance until their arrival off Cremorne Gardens, when the
wind blew in such terrible gusts that their boat was unable
to live in the rough water and went down, the men sus-
taining no other harm than a ducking, and being imme-
diately taken into a cutter. Goatly and Coombes
rowed the remainder of the distance, to claim at their
leisure.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Clergyman of the Catholic
Church and Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—A benevo-
lent pastor, residing in Belfast (whose name is withheld
by his own desire), was applied to by a poor woman of
his parish who had been afflicted for four years with an
awfully bad leg with 16 wounds, and so extremely pain-
ful that she could not place her foot on the ground.
Feeling for her poverty and sufferings, this humane
gentleman presented her with a supply of Holloway's
Ointment and Pills, which soundly healed her leg in
about five weeks althuugh she had been in the Dublin
hospital for seven months, and had consulted several
medical men in Ireland. Sold by all Druggists, aod
at Professor liolloway's Establishment, 244, Strand,
London.
MILLBANK PRlSON.—Yesterday the Bill in the
house of Commons for amending the Act regulating the
prison at Milbank (6 and 7 Vic., cap. 2G), was printed. At,
present the management of the prison is under " inspectors,'
but " visitors " are now to be appointed ; and on the passing
of the Act the functions of the inspectors to cease and de-
termine.

THE INSURRECTION OF JUNE.
We continue Ike-publication of these interesting docu•

rrionts;—

DEPOSITION OF M. LEDRU-ROLLIN. MEMBER OF

THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT (JULY 5).
The attempt of the ;sth of May had several characters; I
can only give general appreciations. I believe that the
cruder number of those who invaded the Assembly had for
their only object to carry there a petition, and to read it at
the bar. They wished to carry it out by force, and were pro-
bably ignorant of the decree of the evening before, which
forbade them to do it. The police was badly conducted I
must confess. At the moment of the invasion, I came to
the rails with M. de Lamartine, and used all my efforts to
prevent the crowd from entering. Some one came to in-
form me that a considerable mass was proceeding to the
other gate, by the Rue de Burgoyne, and that it was
les defended than the one at which I was. I ran to
that gate. I spoke to the insurgents, and forced them to
retire; but they entered by the foot of the hall. Blanqui
and R.' spail had certainly a pre-determined intention of pene-
trating into the interior of the Assembly_ Buries seemed to
me to have been excited by degrees. He had been told that
the e were 300,000 men in the manifestation ; that it was the
people, the sovereign people. Barbei never saw anything
beyond, The people was his idol. Then came Blatiqui,
man who was excessively dangerous, a man of whom I have
always said that his heart contained gall and bile instead of
b'cod. Huber pronounced the dissolution. I think_ that
Blanqui and Huber were agreed together for pronouncing
the dissolution. As for me, I have been shamefully
calumniated. I know nothing of these projects. My coo-
duct:diring the sitting is known by every one. I was be-
seeched to take the Presidency, but I refused, and my obsti-
nate resistance to the besettings of which I was the object,
is well known. I descended into the court; I was then
met and surrounded by men who wished to conduct me It
the Hotel de Ville. I declared that they should not bri4
me there alive. I even took out a pistol to shoot myself
with, if they did not cease their violence towards me. When
the hall was closed, I got on horseback along with M. de
Lamartine (I had not even my hat on). They wished to
stop me, saying that there was fighting in that quarter of
Paris. I should have felt it sweet to die for the Republic.
I arrived. I took measures, and caused the arrest of the
factious, who were deliberating very quietly. Caussidiere
had given me his word of honour, and I trusted in his
loyalty. I have seen Sobrier twice. Sobrier was one
day presented to me. I did not know him more than
many other men of the same kind. I isolated myself.
I belonged to no society, secret or public, having always
had for my principle to conspire only in the face of the
sun. Sobrier came to the Ministry, and complained of
being watched by my orders. He said that they committed
a great mistake in not having confidence in him ; that he
had all possible respect for the Assembly, and that if needful
he would assassinate Blanqui, whose intentions were hostile.
The ateliers nationaux were the subject that caused the
gravest pre-occupation to the Government. Towards the
20th of May it was resolved to close them. All the measures
that human prudence commanded were taken for that
purpose, but all the orders given were not strictly
executed. It bad been agreed, for example, not to admit
any more into the ateliers. Two mayors of Paris, never
theless, allowed themselves to inscribe new names, and their
destitution was decreed. You know that the delegates sent
a deputation to the Executive Commission, and what reply
was made to them by M. Marie; it was then that we gave
the order for arresting fifty-six delegates and Pujol. This
order was not executed, and the Prefect of Police answered
that he had not their address. As for the events of June
23, it has been said that the Executive Commission was
wanting in foresight. I repel this reproach, and declare that
all the measures of precaution had been taken. Our orders
were formal, but they were not executed. Thus, we wished
that the garrison of Paris, and of the Banneue, including the
Uarde Mobile, the reinstated Garde Republicaine, and gar-
diens de Paris, should be raised to 60,000 men. As difficul-
ties were made, this number was reduced, first to 56,000, then
to 50,000, and at last to 45,000 men. General Cavaignac
said that he could not disgarnish the rest of the country.
Twenty thousand men were at last agreed on for Paris, and
5,000 for 'Versailles, St. Denis, &c., in all 25,000 effective
men. ;Besides, Lamartine proposed to bring up:20,000 men
from the army of the Alps, which was done. I recollect that
the anxiety of M. Lamartine about the strength of the troops
was such, that he frequently demanded how our orders in
that regard had been executed ? There will be a question
some day ofknowing whether or not there were really 25,600
men in Paris in the month of June. As for me, I cannot be-
lieve it. From all points of Paris there were complaints on
the 23d of not having enough of troops. We differed es-
sentially on the means of defence to adopt on the 23d of
June. There were two opposing systems. General Cavaignac
required that the army should be under his direction ; that
it should be massed together, and then directed against the
points allacked. The Commission :thought, on the
contrary, that it was necessary to attack each barricade as
soon as it should be raised, or even only commenced. It
persisted for a long time in its opinion, and only yielded
with regret in abandoning to General Cavaignac the conti-
nuation of the military operations, while it retired to the
Presidency where it might co-operate with him. Towards
half-past three o'clock General Cavaignac went out to see
how things were going on ; he was to be absent but for one
hour at most. He did not return till nearly nine o'clock at
night, and I shall never be able to tell of the tortures 1
suffered during his absence. All the mayors of Paris sent
to me to demand reinforcements; they all complained of not
seeing any troops; the National Guard cried out treason, and
I was there alone—alone at the Presidency, in mortal and
indecisive anxiety. In the absence of my colleagues, I took
upon myself to write to the Prefects to demand all the
forces, without distinction, which were in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris. I dispatched orders to Admiral Casy for
him to demand troops immediately from Brest and Cher-
bourg. At the return of General Cavaignac, I avow I
showed great vivacity. From all I have said, I think I can
conclude that there were not more than eight or ten thousand
men engaged in Paris on the first day of the insurrec-
tion. It is at least certain that having asked General
Cavaignac, towards two o'clock in the morning, how
many troops there were in Paris, he answered me that
he did not know. My advice was to recommence the attack
at daybreak, and to send two battalions to General Demesne.
General Cavaignac was not of the same opinion. They com-
menced to skirmish about three o'clock in the morning. The
accusations brought against us, in consequence of the absence
of troops, were such, that an officer came to tell that the com-
mission was loudly accused of treason, and that they must
be shot. Events seemed to me so serious, that I was obliged
to think of employing cannon. I ordered guns to be brought
from Vincennes. The cavalry left at eleven o'clock to get
them. By what fatality was it that they did not return till
next morning near ten o'clock? In truth, it is difficult to
understand how eleven hours were necessary to go to Yin-
cennes and to return. Colonel Martinprey was charged with
this expedition, and.was to bring back with him two infantry
regiments, which were at Vincennes. General Cavaignac
said, " The honour of the army requires that I should persist
in my system. If one only of my companies be disarmed, I
shall shoot myself ; let the National Guard attack the barri-
cades ; if they are beaten, I would prefer to retire into the
plain of Saint Denis, and there give battle to the emeete."
Q. To what cause do you attribute the absence of the
20,000 men, on whose 'presence the Executive Commission
thought they could count?
A. I cannot say. I lived in the conviction that 20,000
men were in Paris.

Q. What is your opinion on the situation of Paris, and on
the attitude of that portion of the population which took
part in the jnicute ?

A. I think that if prompt measures be not
taken, the contest will recommence. It is necessary to
revive credit, labour, and industry. This opinion I held in
the Provisional Government, where I was in a minority.
Gamier-Pages has been an obstacle. He thought it neces-
sary to administer the finances of the Republic as in ordi-
nary times. (M. Ledru-Rollin enters here into detailed dis-
quisition on the finances. He cites the measures taken by
the French Republic from 1790 to 1791. He says that it was
then necessary to create 1,70(3,000,000 of paper money. He
recalls the recollection of the creation of the territorial inun-
dates, which amounted to no less than two milliards,
700,000,000. The necessities of this epoch, regard being
had to the actual value of money, will require a measure 01
the same nature, and on a much greater scale. According
to him, paper money is the only means of saving the
finances of the country.)
DEPOSITION OF GENERAL CAVAIGNAC, PRESI-
DENT OF THE COUNCIL (JULY 11).
General Cavaignac, President of the Council, declares, first
of all, that he does not appear before the Commission to
justify himself, even should that appear necessary in conse-
quence of certain depositions. He has, in truth, but little
anxiety as far as he himself is concerned; but the dignity of
his position would not allow him to accept of the debate on
such a ground; and far from defending himself, he should
not hesitate to cover with his own responsibility those who
acted under his orders.

The President immediately observed that the impressions
of the President of the Council are in no manner biassed by
the testimony already received. The wish of the Commission
of Investigation is to receive from him such information as
may enlighten it in its mission.
After this explanation, the President of the Council gave
some explanations.
The figures given by the Minister of War were correct.
There were about 30,000 men in Paris, or the immediate
neighbourhood. The system of defence adopted by the
General in the days of June, were based on the conviction
that it would be dangerous to distribute the troops. The
experience of July, 1830, and February, 1848, made him feel
the necessity of not engaging the military in the streets, but
to keep them tcgether in a body strong enough to enable
them to make the insurgents give way before them. The
slightest check to an army is fatal in cases of this descrip-
tion ; notwithstanding the most formal orders, a battalion
was placed at great risk on the Place des Yosges, in a com-
promising position, which incurred a severe reprimand from
the Minister of War, notwithstanding the incontestible bra-
very of the commander and men of that battalion. A second
example occurred, which might have been attended with the
most serious consequences : above all things, to insure the
safety of the honour of the flag is the sure guarantee of defi-
nitive success. The result of the events confirmed this

opinion.
On the day of the 23d, added General Cavaignac, I was
only then Minister of War, it was surely in my own option to
court death if I thought fit ; I proceeded in the direction of
the Faubourg du Temple, which was menaced: General La-
moriciere accompanied me.

On a question put specially by the President, General
Cavaignac replied that the regiment of engineers from Arras
was only sent for during the last days of the struggle, and
that there was no resistance mane, no delay iu the execution
of the orders given.

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TESTIMONY OF GENERAL LAMORICIERE (JULY 11).
I have nothing particular to tell you respecting the causes
of the attentats. If the insurrection had succeeded, it
would have been the loss of a battle of society (bataille
sociale), and the triumph of the programme of the 15th of
May.
1 have no doubt whatever that in the ateliers nationaua'
there was a culpable understanding with the insurrection. l
am morally convinced of it. Moreover, at the barricades o
St. Martin, I beheld some of the directors (centre maztres)
of the ateliers nationaux.
signed ‘. ',ALAN NE: have req_uested General
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arrested
bearers of money and cartridgrihelse
facts.
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to you.
M. Flottard ordered two individuals of the Ecole Centrale
to be set at liberty. They were bearers of money. I was
afterwards informed that one of them changed his domicile
secretly in the night. I
was struck with the military skill which had been em-
ployed in the construction of the barricades; and I must say
that, to suppress the insurrection, 1 was happy in finding the
admirable devotion of the National Guard, the Guard Mobile,
and the army. The assistance of the pompiers was of the
greatest service to me. I may here mention an incidentconfi ioi
gra that
occurred. A Lieutenant-Colonel of the National Guurd cameatt ti
to me, demanding assistance to suppress
a
which
pompiers,
burstlsh o out behind
outthefire; an
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c adse st. I sent a body
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3 returned the
insurgents fired upon them, killing two, and wounding three.
I have heard many regrets expressed, that there were not
more troops in Paris. It must be remembered that too large
a display of troops in Paris at that moment would have raised
a universal cry against the Government) that it would have
been accused of provoking the people.
What made the struggle se long wasp
thatmeasures were

not resorted to on the very first day, as are usually adopted
in a city taken by assault. From the moment that circum-
stances allowed it, and even rendered such steps necessary,
the whole aspect of affairs was immediately changed.
A great change, moreover, was visible when the represen-
tatives joined us. They kept up the moral courage in t lie ranks.
We immediately regained the upper hand, and did not sustain
much loss.

We had abundance of ammunition. We fired about two
million cartridges. • fmust explain why I complained of the
want of mortars. I had batteries enough, but as each bat-
tery consists generally of two mortars and four guns, mortars
were therefore expected, whilst each battery consisted of six
guns without the mortars. It was Illontpensier who made
this change, by suppressing 'the two mortars. General
Cavaignac, not aware of this circumstance, could not account
for my reiterated demands.

STATE :OF :THE MANUFAC-
TURING DISTRICTS.

ASHTON, MONDAY. —The authorities here have spent
another anxious and harassing night. 'The military have
been under arms, divi4ions of county police and special con-
-.tables have been held in readiness at the Town-hall, and
armed patio!, both foot and mounted, have scoured the bo-
rough and its environs front hour to hour. The nature of
intelligence in the hands of the magistrates, it is said, will
justify the same precautions and the same harassing vigils
again to-night. it is said that on Saturday night, after all
are precautions taken, and all the watching, the Chartists or
Confederates held a midnight meeting, but it was beyond the
mere precincts of the town. According to the information
received of it, the meeting took place near Droylsden, about
three miles from Ashton, and the same distance from Man-
chester. Shots were heard from time to time in various di-
rections again last night, and it is conjectured that these,
and rockets which are occasionally thrown up, are used by
the parties as signals. The policemen who were bound over
to give evidence against M'Douall, the Chartist leader, and
against the four men in custody as implicated in the outrage
of Monday night, the 14th instant, have received summonses
to appear this afternoon before-the grand jury at Liverpool
assizes, and their removal to Liverpool for a few days will
take away from the sympathisers with M‘Douall the temp-
teflon to revenge, and their power to destroy the evidence,
which was said to have been their incitement to the murder.
At Manchester the Confederates continue to hold meet.
ings, and at several of them the men apprehended on Tues-
day night, and liberated on bail, addressed the audience. At
a meeting in the Heyrod-street Institution, a building of
their own, on Sunday night, one of those parties, an Irish-
man, named Donovan, repeated a story he had very hu-
morously told several nights before, about his apprehension,
and the collision between the police and his wife, which, he
assured bis audience, was about the warmest engagement he
had ever entertained any idea they should witness in their
struggle for the charter. Thu police, he said, told him they
wanted his arms. His reply was that he had a wife and
family, and his arms were necessary to earn bread for them.
They then explained that it was the fire-arms they wanted.
" Oh, the fire-arms," was his rejoinder, "if it was thi
tongs or poker they were after, they belonged to his wifi's
department of the household' business," and sure enough
the wife was not inclined to capitulate without making
them rather hot to handle. Ile denied that either he or his
associates were in any way implicated in or had any
knowledge of what was going to take place at Ashton. They
had not counselled physical force, nor been privy to its
use. He did not deny that the parties to that affair were
Chartists, and fools would always be found in any agitation.
The Manchester authorities, however, had missed their way
—there seemed to be a conspiracy amongst the magistrates
and not amongst the Chartists, and it was a conspiracy
against all the moral force men they could lay their bands
upon. He assured his friends that so soon as Wednesday's
examination before the magistrates was over, and they were
set at liberty--as set at liberty they assuredly would be—not
a moment's time would be lost in taking steps for an action
against their prosecutors for false imprisonment.—Up to yes-
terday evening all was quiet in Manchester, nor was any dis-
turbance apprehended.
COMMITTAL OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS AT LIVERPOOL.
—Yesterday Murphy and O'Brien, who had been remanded
on charges•of conspiracy, were brought up for re-examina-
tion. Against O'Brien further corroboratory evidence was
adduced, and he was committed for taitil. The evidence
against Murphy was strengthened by a person who' lived
opposite to him swearing that he saw him, through his bed-
room window, examining a number of pikes. This and the
other evidence having been gone over, Murphy was also
committed for trial.

CHARTISTS AND REPEALERS.
Last night several meetings of the Chartists and Confede-
rates took place in the metropolis, and the greatest precau-
tions were taken by the police to rrreven t a public disturb-
ance at any of the places of meeting. At the South London
Chartist Hall, a meeting took place at eight o'clock; but the
speeches delivered were of a common-place character. At
half-past ten the proceedings terminated, and the parties
separated without coming into collision with the police.
A meeting of Chartists and inhabitants of Clerkenwell
and Islington, which was numerously attended, was held at
the Literary Institution, Islington-green, for the purpose of
promoting the extension of the principles of the Charter.
Considerable alarm prevailed in the neighbourhood in
consequence of the publicity given of the intended meeting.
Upwards ofa dozen policemen, in full uniform, were placed
on duty in the room, and a strong force was in the streets,
and also at the station-house, under the direction of Mr.
Superintendent Johnson, of the N division. This was the
first meeting where the police have made their appearance in
full uniform; the object being, that in the event of any trea-
sonable language being used, the speaker should be imme
diately taken into custody.
Mr. RICHARD MoonE was in the chair. He observed that
it was in consequence of Louis Philippe's not having in time
listened to the voice of the people for reform that he was not
in possession of the French throne. They could net expect
to gain the objects of the Charter by any violent means, and
could only succeed in their objects by moral force—(Hear.)
The members of that society were very desirous of obtaining
the Charter, but the only course they would recommend for
success was, to act consistently with the laws and constitu-
tion of the country.
Several other speakers addressed the meeting, but they all
seemed to admit that the progress of Chartism had been, re-
tarded by the recent attempts at physical force.
The assemblage subsequently separated peaceably.