The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-15 00:00:00

the programme of the proceedings at Communist
meetings for the admission of a new candidate, and
of the oath taken by him on becoming a member of
the society :
In the name of the Sovereign people and of the
Executive Council, the sitting is opened.
" To the Candidate presented.—Citizen, before pro-
ceeding further, you swear not to reveal what takes place
here ?
" Answer.-1 swear it.
"To the Candidate.—Listen with confidence and
without fear; you are amongst Republican Communists,
and, consequently, you will begin to live under the era
ef equality. They will be your brethren if you are
faithful to your oath, but you will be for ever lost it
you betray them—they have sworn to it as you have
just done. Listen, therefore, with the greatest attention.
Communism is the true republic—labour in common
—education, property, and enjoyment in common. It
is the sun, the symbol of equality—it is the new faith
for which we have sworn to die ; we know neither
barriers, nor frontiers, nor country; all Communists are
brethren—all aristocrats are our enemies. We wish for
a dictatorship after the revolution to apply our princi-
ples and destroy all aristocrats and consequently to up-
root and overthrow all that is impure. The community
intelligences
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with order. Your brethren and the committee will in-
struct you in all the details. Now, if you fear any fear
of the dungeons, torture, or death—if you feel your cou-
rage fail you, retire! In order to join our ranks you
must brave all those sufferings. Once the oath is taken
you belong to us; you are engaged on your own life and
that of the person who has brought you hither for the rest
of your days. Reflect, therefore, and answer.
" What is the name of the citizen who has brought
you among us?
"Then, addressing himself to the person who has
presented the candidiate, the questioner says,—You
know, citizen, that you answer with your head for the
person you have brought hither, and you are fully
aware of all the consequences?
" What is your age, your profession, and your resi-
dence? Have you never formed part of any secret so-
ciety? Rise—you are about to take an oath to obey
the laws of the association. Swear to march at the first
order of your chiefs, and to combat until death; swear
to devote your fortune and your life to the establish-
ment of the Republic, founded on the principles of com-
munism. If you act with treachery your blood be on
your own head, and not on those who may shed it. Be
just, be virtuous, for that is the duty of a Republican.
" Are you now disposed to unite yourself to us, and
to brave all the perils of such a dangerous mission?—
Yes.
"We accept you—we are all to you if you never be-
come perjured, but if you deceive us you are lost. Will
you, therefore, give yourself up to us for ever ?—Yes,
without reserve."
The Union says—" It was stated a few days ago
that the directors of the Lyons Railroad had entered
into negotiations with the Government, either for a
monthly subvention, to enable them to continue the
road, or for a purchase, on the best terms that could
be obtained. We now understand, but cannot give
the news as official, that this has been concluded on
the following terms :—The Government consents to
enter into possession of the line, giving a rente of 10f.
per annum in the Five per Cents. for every 250 f.
that have been paid up by the shareholders."
The following note has been sent to the journals from
the Government:—
" Several journals had announced that, in almost the
whole of the Banlieue of Paris, the employes of the indi.
rent taxes had met, relative to the application of the de-
cree of the National Assembly of June 22, with such an
opposition that, in order to avoid imminent collisions,
they had considered it necessary to give up the accom•
plishment of their mission. Almost everywhere, on the
contrary, the employes have met with but little resistance,
they were not even obliged to have recourse to the in-
tervention of the local magistrates, and except in the
commune of Grenelle, where, in fact, some marchands-
de-vin, at the instigation of four of their confreres, re-
fused to submit, the decree of June 22 has been in every
other point carried into execution. Measures have been
taken to have the decree applied in that commune, as in
all the others of the department of the Seine."
The club of Republican members de la vielle, which
meet in the Palais Royal, have split among them-
selves. The club when first formed was intended to
support General CAVAIQNAC'S Government, but since
the party of M. TRIERS has obtained so much in-
fluence with the men now in office, many of the
members of the club have refused to support the Go-
vernment measures. In consequence of this, an
important fraction of the club has seceded, and
among those who have left are M. MARIE, M. PAG-
NERRE, M. MARRAST, and some other supporters of
the Provisional Government. These gentlemen have
now established themselves at the Institute, and
have taken the name of the Club of Conciliators.
The intention of the members is to come to an ami-
cable understanding with the club of the Rue de
Poictiers (Limas' party), in order to influence the
decisions of the Government, to support it in the
adoption of sage and energetic measures, and to resist
the ultra-revolutionists.
In the Committee on the Laws of the Press, M.
BERUTER proposed that the writers should sign their
respective articles, and that the printers should also be
held responsible.
The Committee on Labour adopted on Thursday
the proposition of M. AMIN, DE LA BOULIE, and
OLIVIER, tending to guarantee to workmen, in case
of the failure of their employers, the money due to
them for work. The proposition declares that they
are to take precedence of all other claims to the
extent of three months' wages, and that the payment
is to be ordered d'urgence, even without the formali-
ties prescribed by the commercial code.
The National Assembly met yesterday at half-
past two.
M. Babaud Laribiere presented a report from the
Committee of the Interior, on a proposition brought
forward by M. St. Picert, recommending that a statue
be erected to the memory of the late lamented Arch-
bishop of Paris. The Committee coincided in the views
of the Hon. Representative, and proposed to the As-
sembly a Bill to the following effect.—That a statue of
white marble should be erected to the deceased in the
Pantheon, on the pedestal of which should be inscribed
the last words he uttered, " May my blood be the last
shed in this matter;" that, in addition, a slab of black
marble should be placed where ho was struck in the
Faubourg St. Antoine, to mark the spot; and, lastly, that
the expenses be attributed to the budget of 1.848.
M. Montreuil presented a proposition tending to en-
courage the employment of 2,000 workmen in works of
colonisation in Algeria. He hoped that the Government
would see the propriety of encouraging such a plan.
M. Touret, Minister of Agriculture, replied that the
Government was most anxious to forward whatever
plans could give relief to the labouring classes. Since
his accession to power, he had devoted the utmost at-
tention to everything in his department which bore on
the condition of the labouring classes. He should con-
sequently pay every attention to the plan of the honour-
able representative. He took that opportunity of stating
that the next day or the day after he should present to
the Assembly a Bill to insure to the children of the
poorer classes, particularly in the agricultural districts,
a special education to prepare them for some particular
station in life.—(Hear.)
The order of the day was the discussion of the Bill to
encourage associations of workmen to tender for and
execute public works.
Some discussion took place on the probability of
workmen being able to give proper guarantees as to their
ipnotwo.er to fulfil any engagements that they might enter

Eventually, on Art. 1, authorising such associations to
be formed,
M. Benard proposed as an amendment that " the Mi-
nister of Public Works should be authorised to grant
to associations of workmen such public works as there
might be to be executed, either by concession or by ad-
judication, as he might deem most suitable ; also, that
he might have the power to determine on what condi-
tions and guarantees such works should be entrusted to
the said associations."

This amendment was adopted, thus rendering the
Minister of Public Works judge of the eases in which
the said works were or were not to be adjudicated or
conceded.

M. Flocon was bringing forward a sub-amendment to
,be amendment just adopted, when post hour arrived.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 14.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7'4—Namur and Liege, 3%
Northern of France, s%—Paris and Lyons, ‘l2.Sainbre
and Meuse, VA.

SWITZERLAND.
NEUFCHATEL A REPUBLIC.
We find the following in a letter from Berne, dated
,he 10th instant :

" The Diet has to-day been occupied with a question
which, after the affair of the revision of the federal com-
pact, is perhaps. the
intimately
most serious of all that has come be-
fore it this session, connected with European
rights and international laws. It is to pronounce the
federal guarantee of the constitution, which has defini-
tively itransformed Neufchatel into a republic, forming
the 21st canton of the Confederation.
" After a dignified and mature discussion, inwhich se-
veral deputations pointed out from official documents that
the sovereign state of Neufchatel had a right to con-
stitute herself agreeable to her own ideas, in her relations
with Switaerland, the guarantee was pronounced by all
the states. No one, in fact, voted against it, since the
Deputy for Schwytz himself, after declaring that he
joined in the satisfaction felt in the political changes
which had made Neufchatel a canton exclusively Swiss,
confined himself to keeping the protocol open until he
had received instructions on the subject. What more
particularly characterised the affair was, that all the
Deputies expressed their satisfaction at an event which
removed Neufchatel from Prussian domination."

The Duke and Duchess of Nemours, accompanied
by their interesting family, visited th© Royal Surrey
Zoological Gardeas yesterday, afterwards returning by
railway to Claremont.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—We are
well supplied with wheat, and having a continuance of
very fine weather, the trade rules dull, with only a
limited sale at a decline of ls. per quarter. Not much
passing in oats and shelling, and prices receding. Beans
,remain as last stated.