The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-06 00:00:00

INING, OCTOI3ER 6, 1848,

and of a great public danger. It only retires before
vote of the Assembly. In restoring into your hands
the authority with which you had invested them, the
members of the Executive Commission re-enter into
the ranks of the National Assembly, to devote
themselves with joy to the common danger and
to the safety of the Republic."
From that moment, citizens, become once more
a simple representative, I offered my services to
General Cavaignac, as the, chief who worthily re-
presented the Republic. On quitting office I said
to him, " I am not among those who on falling
from power take refuge in the Opposition. I am
rather one of those who sustain the Republican au-
thority in the hands of their successors as earnestly
and as cordially as in their own. Count upon
me to day as fully as yesterday." My
friend General Negrier was present when I said this
—he was soliciting that order which was to conduct
him to a glorious death. These were the last words
which he heard me utter. Whilst I wept, whilst the
Archbishop of Paris went to offer his life to God as a
ransom of peace ; while so many generous and volun-
tary victims, generals, officers, soldiers, citizens,
children of the Garde Mobile, hastened forward to be
decimated under the fire of the insurgents, Calumny,
already taking possession of my name, accused me of
complicity with those balls, every one of which I
would gladly have received to have spared the blood
of a single citizen, or of a single soldier ! . . . .
Such are revolutions I . . . Their greatest
phenomena are not their crimes, they are their errors
I am far from accusing any one, since nobody can be
considered as culpable on account of an obscurity of
judgment at a time when the whole world is covered
with night and darkness.
Citizens I Behold the light ! Recognize your friends!
Those parties who cherish an evanescent resentment
against the Republic endeavour, above all things, to
calumniate the moderate Republicans. They know
well that the Republic can only triumph by modera-
tion; that the French soil will not allow itself to be
dismembered during one hour by the influences of
Communism ; that the French soil will not sustain
for fifteen days the hideous mechanism of the scaf-
fold; that the French soil will vomit forth the blood
with which the plagiarists of the Reign of Terror
would willingly saturate it—seeking I know not
what savage grandeur in excesses and in crime—not
knowing how to discover glory in moderation and
virtue ! It is in these men that must be recognized
the worst enemies of the Republic ; for the sole
danger of the Republic is its name. It is the sou-
venir of 93 which these men are striving un-
ceasingly to recal to recollection, when all true
Republicans, like ourselves, are striving unceasingly
to bury those recollections in oblivion. But 93 was
not the Republic ; it was the Revolution. Shall
then a few months of our history be allowed to ca-
lumniate the government of liberty among us for
ever ? Shall the blood spilt during those few months
be permitted to spread over and pollute a whole cen-
tury ? No! We will prove to the world that we
can at once conquer and preserve the Republic—that
reign of all. The Republic, inspired by Washington,
will triumph over the Republic of Babceuf, of
Robespierre, and of Danton Another age,
other thoughts ; other thoughts, other men.
That is the true law of societies. The choice which
you have made of your representatives to the Na•

tional Assembly is a guarantee of the triumph of the
popular and regular Republic, such as we understand

it to be. It is the honesty of the people which you
have sent to the National Assembly in those repre-
sentatives. The honesty of the people—it is its safety !
The National Assembly will save France. Our only
glory will be the thought that we have foreseen and
evoked it. Attach yourselves more and more de-
votedly to the National Assembly : it is your sove-
reignty : it is worthy of you. Only give it time:
Impatience is the destruction of good intentions•
The government of an age is not constituted in three
months.

Citizens I accept my farewells! Named ten times
by you as a signification and not as a man ; con-
founded henceforth in the ranks of the simple repre-
sentatives; descended from a power too high for my
ambition, and never wishing to rise to that altitude
again—forget me, but do not accuse me I Perhaps
on one day I have indeed merited your suffrages—it
is on that day when I sacrificed them to concord. As
for myself, I shall bear you in remembrance all the
(lays of my public life. Each time that I cast into the
urn a vote of good intention for the people, of firm-
ness against the factions, of safety for the country, for
family, for property, for conscience, for society, I
will say to myself that I cast in your thoughts with
my thoughts I I will say that two millions of citizens
vote with me for this unanimous Republic, which in
your eyes as well as in mine, implies the interests of
all, legitimated by the rights of all, and defended by
the hands of all, in the most free and the most power-
ful of Governments.

LAMARTINE,
Representative of the People.
Paris, 25th of August, 1848.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, THURSDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Highness took their usual
early walk in the pleasure-grounds at Osborne this
morning.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the
younger branches of the Royal Family, walked And
rode as usual, accompanied by the family of her Se-
rene Highness the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg,
Captain Hamilton, R.N., arrived at Osborne yes-
terday evening. There was no other addition to the
royal dinner party.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office trom the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, OCT. 5.
The Washington steam-ship arrived here from New
York this afternoon, after a passage of 15 days; her
mails and two passengers were forwarded to Southamp.
ton, and she proceeds, at nine o'clock this evening, for
Bremen. She has a valuable cargo, but only eight cabin
passengers. At the time we write, 8.45 P.M., the night
is very fine, with a light breeze from tho westward ;
Bar. 29 92.
The American frigate St. Lawrence arrived here on
Tuesday, and proceeded on, at 2 P.M. yesterday, for
Bremen. She is a fine ship, mounting forty-eight
32 pounders and four 64-pounders. She saluted the
royal standard in passing Osborne.
The Court leaves Osborne on Monday next.

THE COMMON Councm.—Yesterday a Court was
held for the dispatch of business—the Lord Mayor in
the chair.—Deputy Peacock presented a report from the
Commissioner of Sewers, recommending the appoint-
ment of a competent medical officer for the City and
liberties, in consequence of the approach of the cholera,
and that the corporation be requested to pay him until
January next, when the City Sanitary Act would come
into operation. He moved the adoption of this recom-
mendation.—Mr. D. Wire said such an appointment
would be an extravagant piece of humbug; and another
member said it was no more than might have been ex-
pected from such proficients in jobbery as were the mem-
bers of the Court of Sewers.—Mr. Richard Langton had
great pleasure in supporting the adoption of the recom-
mendation, which was also advocated by Sir Peter
Laurie.—Alderman Gibbs did not see how the Common
Council could now act in a matter which in January
would be placed by an Act of Parliament in the hands
of the Court of Sewers. Deputy Obbard replied that
the Court of Sewers had no power whatever at present,
and the services of a medical officer might be most in-
dispensable in the apace between now and January.
After some conversation, in which Mr. Kemp, Mr. Norris,
Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. Bower, Mr. Anderton, Mr. Stacye,
Alderman Laurence, and others took part, the following
motion was carried a—" That this Court do agree with
the Commissioners of Sewers, that it is highly necessary
that a medical officer of health be forthwith appointed,
and that a sum for the purpose, not exceeding 1501, be
paid out of the City's cash, and that the Court of Sewers
be requested to nominate two fit and proper persons, of
whom this Court will appoint one to be the medical
officer of health for this city and liberties." After the
transaction of other business, the Court adjourned at a
late hour.

CHELTENHAM ELECTION.—At the Cheltenham
Gii.itty Court, last week, a publican named Gillman
,tit-3,1 George Parsonage for 71., the amount for
cider and refreshments supplied to the voters for
‘Villoughby Jones at the election in 1847. Mr. Par-
sonage was a warm partisan of Sir W. Jones, and can-
vassed plaintiff, who sought to hare his house Opened.
His Honour said that no action could lie because Gill-
man sought to become a party to an illegal act, and
whether Parsonage gave the order or not, his right to
recov,r was vitiated. He therefore nonsuited the
plaintiff.
HORSHAM ELECTION.-At the Horsham County
Court on Tuesday, an action was brought by Mr.
Thomas Stapleton against Charles Fiest, an electioneer-
ing agent, rendered somewhat notorious by the proceed-
ings before the late election Committee, for .5/. money
lent. The defendant pleaded that it was given as a
bribe for his Tote, but his honour decided in favour of
the plaintiff, and ordered the 51. to be paid in a month.
Prince Metternich and his son, Prince Richard
Metternich, and Baron Huegel, have become members of
the Brighton Conservative