The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-05 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, M.

may be bound by its engagements to pay nineteen mil-
lions into the Treasury, ought to do so. And the same
with many other engagements. The statement of the
Minister of the Finance is completely silent on this im-
portant point. A great number of the companies are,
according to their own avowal, completely unable to
proceed with their undertakings, and yet it is absolutely
indispensable that the lilies should be brought to a ter-
mination. Of two things one must be done, either the
State must come forward and assist those companies, or
they must throw up their contracts. In the first case we
cannot understand that they can do so, as they pretend
not to have sufficient funds to carry out a principle
which is so just and at the same time so profitable; and
in the second, it would be to return by a roundabout
and crooked path to the very Bill which is now laid
aside. We, therefore, cannot but consider the abandon-
ment of the projected repurchase of the railways as un-
justifiable both in point of principle and in its practical
consequences"
The inquiry into the causes of the late insurrection
is still continued, and every day revelations are made
which tend to increase the number of those impli-
cated.

The CinstiMtionnel says—

" It is difficult to form an idea as to the termination
or the result of the examination into the affair of the
late insurrection. Never was any judicial inquiry so
complicated or so extensive. Besides the individuals
arrested during the combat, and which amount in number
to about 8,000, there are more than 2,000 who are more
or less implicated as accomplices, and against whom
proceedings will be taken ; and as the examination pro-
ceeds, fresh revelations may increase this number, so
that it is impossible to say where it will stop. There is
nothing, however, surprising in this statement, when it
is remembered that upwards of 40,000 insurgents were
engaged in the lamentable and guilty acts of the three
days, either in erecting barricades, fighting against the
armed force, or in committing isolated acts of assassina-
tion.
"The difficulties of the examinations are, moreover,
increased by various circumstances. A great number
of men taken behind the barricades with their hands
blackened with powder have since been able to remove
many of the apparent proofs against them, and the pro-
cis veriaux hastily taken at first may not always be suf-
ficient to establish their identity. On the other hand
the witnesses are not easily found again, and many ob-
stacles arise to the prompt and complete revelation of
the truth. To these elements of uncertainty may be
added the great number of recommendations as to cha-
racter emanating from the most respectable persons, and
particularly from representatives of the Assembly, and
which, we regret to say, are not always given with that
circumspection which on such an occasion is so im-
portant.
" In presence of those inevitable embarrassments, the
delegates of the military authority redouble their zeal
and activity. The central committee, which sits at the
Palais de Justice, is occupied incessantly in arranging
the reports of the sub-committees; but it is not ex-
pected that their labours can be completed before the
end of this week."
General CAVAIGNAC announced his lintention of
raising the state of siege of Paris yesterday.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN is accused of being an
agent of Russia, and it is said there is ample evidence
to bring the charge home to him.
Some disturbances occurred at Mulhouse on the
27th ult., when the late events in Paris became known
there. Some operatives employed in the commercial
workshops in the town struck for higher wages. The
authorities, however, adopted all the necessary pre-
cautions, and the National Guards having turned out
in considerable numbers, patrolled the town, and dis-
persed some rioters, who were shouting "Vive Na-
poleon !" One of them having resisted the guards,
received a bayonet wound, which has endangered his
life.

The charge against M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN is
that he, as an agent of the Russian Government,
endeavoured to produce disturbances in France, and
it is said that there is in possession of the prosecution
evidence amply sufficient to lead to his conviction.
The servant of the Archbishop of PARIS, who was
wounded by the side of his master, died of his
wounds on Sunday.
General BEDEAU has, it is said, refused to accept
the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. M. JULES BASTIDE
continues, therefore, for the present to discharge the
duties of Foreign Minister.
The celebrated CHATEAUBRIAND is at the point of
death.

It is said that M. DUPIN intends to propose that
General CAVAIGNAC shall be appointed President of
the Republic for 15 months. General CAVAIGNAC is
adopting the most energetic measures to prevent the
renewal of any outbreak in Paris. The army of the
Alps is on its march to Paris, and the first brigade is
close to the capital, where an encampment is to be
formed of 40,000 men. On this subject we find the
following in the Constitutionnel :

"The measures taken by the Government to prevent a
renewal of the disorders which have recently afflicted the
capital are the subject of general attention. The fol-
lowing is the information we have gathered on this point,
and the E cactitude of which, we think, may be relied on.
"The third division of infantry of the army of the
Alps, commanded by General Magnan, continues its
movement on Paris; the first brigade, under General
Regnault, is now at only a short distance from the ca-
pital. This mass of eleven battalions will form a per-
manent camp near St. Maur, a position which will be
highly advantageous, as it will allow them to act in the
rear of the insurrection should it again raise its head.
" The troops in Paris will be divided into seven bri •
gades, and confided to as many generals. There will be
in addition two generals of division invested with the
command, one of the right, and the other of the left
bank of the Seine. It is said that General Neumayer,
so well known for the firmness he displayed during the
disturbances at Lyons, will be appointed to one of these
commands.
" All these forces, with the cavalry and artillery at-
tached to them, will form an effective body of about
40,000 men, and will bear the name of the Army of
Paris,' and will be placed under the immediate com-
mand of the Minister of War, in order that every possible
celerity shall be secured to the transmission and execu-
tion of the orders on which may depend the safety not
of Paris alone, but of the whole of France."
The same journal recommends the formation of a
military depot and arsenal at the fort of Mount
Valeria, in the west of Paris, in order that in case of
an entente, the defenders of the Republic and of so-
ciety may be certain to have an ample supply of am-
munition. The present arsenal is at Vincennes, the
communications between which and the capital are,
in cases of egieute, invariably cut off by the Faubourg
St. Antoine.
Dr. NEREAIT has analysed some of the brandy said
to have been poisoned, and has found it to consist of
a small quantity of spirit largely diluted with water,
and coloured by a strong infusion of tobacco. The
qualities of this mixture, Which is ordinarily sold in
the low spirit shops of Paris, are most deleterious,
producing for the time mental aberrations.
The project for the new Constitution will, it is
said, undergo several important alterations. Already
in the Bureaux many modifications have !been pro-
posed and carried.
The gardens of the Tuileries were opened to the
public yesterday for the first time since the insur-
rection.

The National Assembly met at two o'clock.
The order of the day was the ballot for a questor
of the Assembly, in the place of the late General
NEGRIER. The operation, which lasted upwards of
an hour, gave the following result :

Number of voters

Absolute majority 355
M. Laboissiere obtained ... 255
General Lebreton 205
General Lafontaine
Col. d'Hauteville

No member having obtained the requisite majority, a
new ballot was ordered to be proceeded to. This was
accordingly done, and then, in order to save time, the
urns were taken to one of the bureaux to be examined.
M. Corbon presented the report of the committee on
labour relative to a proposition presented by M. Alcan
for the purpose of encouraging associations amongst
the working classes. The committee, in accord with
the author of the proposition, had made some changes
in the articles. "The moment was now come," the re-
port said, " in which the Assembly ought to seriously
take into consideration this important question of the
working classes." The body (the workmen) must be
made to understand that the ideas which had been lately
brought forward against competition in labour were
altogether false ; it was an utter impossibility that the
labouring classes could obtain employment with-
out being subjected to the competition which
a healthy state of society must inevitably produce. The
Hon. Gentleman concluded by reading the articles of the
Bill in question, which grants a credit of 3,000,000 francs
to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, to be ap-
plied as encouragement to associations of workmen,
established for industrial or agricultural purposes, with
the approbation of the Government; should any disputes
arises amongst the associations, they should be referred
to the councils of prud'hommes.
Ordered to be discussed after the Bills presented the
day before by the Minister of Finance.
M. Carnot, Minister of Public Instruction, presented
a Bill demanding 10,000 f. for the re-impressment of the
scientific works of Laplace.—Referred to the bureaux.

M. Betiard presented a report on the Bill granting
2501. a year to each of the Gardes Mobiles who had been
decorated in consequence of their gallant conduct during
the insurrection of June. The Committee, ho said, to
which this measure had been referred, fully approved
of it.

The President announced the following to be the re-
sult of the second ballot for the office of Questor:—

Number of votes
~,
Absolute majority
General Lebreton obtained
M. Laboissiere
General Lafontaine

... 696
... 349
... 317
... 307

No Member having obtained the required majority, it
was necessary to proceed to a ballot between the two
first candidates only. The ballot .was still going on
when post hour arrived._

(Left sitting.)
At a meeting of the supporters, of the Government
held on Monday evening in the Palais Royal, M.
ARMAND MARRAST, Mayor of Paris, in the chair, it
was determined to propose to the Assembly that Ge.

neral CAYAIGNAC shall continue head of the Executive
Government for four months after the passing of the
Constitution. The Thiers and OdiHon party will op-
pose this motion.

- The financial project of M. GouncifAux was yes-
terday discussed in the Committee of Finance. One
of the principal questions considered was whether the
conversion of the Bons du Tresor and the deposits in
the savings' banks should be obligatory, or at the choice
of the holder. M. BERRYER defended the obligatory
system, as proposed by M. GOUDCHAUX. MM.LEON
FAUCHER and DESLONGRAIS thought that the holders
ought to be allowed their choice. M. LEON FAUCHER
was of opinion that it should be proposed that interest
at the rate of six per cent. should be allowed to
all those who would agree to leave their money in
the savings' banks and Bons du Tresor undisturbed for
more than six months. This plan, which would have
the advantage of retaining a portion of the floating
debt, and would facilitate at a future period the con-
tracting of a loan, was supported by MM. THIERS
and GARNIER PAGES. The plan of affording assist-
ance to the Builders' Society, as proposed by M.
GoupcuAux, was considered dangerous in principle.
The general opinion appeared to be.that a more effec-
tual plan of relief would be to assist the discount
banks.

The insurgents still continue to infest the; neigh-
bourhood of Paris, and to attack, isolated pickets of
troops and single travellers. They attacked a small
post at Ramonville on Monday, but fled after one of
their comrades had been killed by the fire of the
soldiers.

BOURSE.—PARis, TUESDAY, JULY 4.
THREE o'CLocE.—The prices of yesterday were wel]
sustained to-day, and a good deal of business was done.
The railways participated in the improvement.

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LompAnD AND PIEDMONT.

The union of Lombardy and th provinces of
Padua, Vicenza, Treviso, and Rivigo with Sardinia,
was voted at Turin on the 28th, A Constituent As-
sembly will be convoked to form the basis of a new
constitutional monarchy with the dynasty of Savoy at
its head. The Salique law is adopted.

A letter from Brescia of the 26th ult.' states that
a party of Tuscan prisoners having left Mantua on
the 22d, escorted by 600 Austrians and 100 Italian
soldiers, the latter deserted in a body to the Piedmon-
tese. They stated that there were not more than
6,000 men at Mantua.

The Osservatore Triestino of Sunday, the 25th
ult., publishes the following official notification of the
Military Commander of Trieste :
" Notice is hereby given, that the Commander of the
Sardinian squadron anchored off Pirano, having, on the
evening of the 22d June, stopped and visited the Greek
brigantine Tombasi, Captain Sottiri Chili, from Ibraila,
which, as coming from a place where the cholera is
raging, is subject to quarantine. The squadron itself
is declared contaminated. Wherefore all vessels, barques,
and persons communicating with the same squadron,
until the 26th June inclusive, will be subjected to a qua-
rantine of five days."

The Piedmontese Gazette of the 30th announces
that a new attack had been made by the Austrians,
2,000 in number, upon the position of the tStelvio, on
the 28th. The Milanese volunteers, about 450 strong,
with four pieces of cannon, drove them back, after
an engagement of eight hours.
The Risorgimento of the 30th has advices from
Bozzolo of the 25th. The preparations for the at-
tack of Verona were begun on the 25th; SOO Hun-
garians had been made prisoners by the Piedmontese.
A rumour was current that RADETZKY had left Ve-
rona with part of his army, to efkct a diversion on
the Oglio. The Venetians, it is said, have retaken
Caorte.