The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

It was rumoured on the Paris Bourse yesterday that
the troops of Windischgratz and Jellachich had been
attacked under the walls of Vienna by the Hunga-
rians, and had been defeated with great loss. Letter:,
were received in Paris from Vienna of the 25th,
which make no mention of the commencement of
hostilities against that city.

M. de Tocqueville has been appointed the represen-
tative of France in the conference on the Italian
question.

We read in the Moniteur "Numerous copies of
a political placard were yesterdayent posted on on the walls
of Paris, and attracted the
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vention with the law of 10th December,
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glBl3no contra
which-
contains the following provision :--' Art. 1. Nu
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rcontaining political news, or
treatingwriting,
placarded in the streets, squares, or other public
places. All acts bly public authorities are excepted
from this provision. This law was explicitly main-
tained by Art. 2 of the decree of March 6, which is
thus conceived :-.—` Until it shall have been otherwise
enacted by the Constituent National Assembly, all
anterior laws, relative to offences and contraventions
by the press, shall be carried into execution according
to all such provisions as have not been repealed by
decrees of the Provisional Government:—The placard
of which we speak has been taken down, and referred
to justice."
The placard alluded to by the Moniteur is, we
believe, the comparative extracts from the Presse on
the subject of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
"In its sitting of yesterday (says the National) the
Club of Representatives of the Valais National adopted
General Cavaignac as candidate for the office of
President of the Republic."
The Bien Public publishes the following letter from
M. de Lamsrtine, dated Saint Point, Oct. 27:--
" Monsieur,—l have just read the report of the
discussion on the expenses of the Provisional Govern.
ment. I have a right to think that my honourable
colleague, M. Creton, had not any idea to bring my
character in question, in the words which he pro
nounced relative to the 374,000 f. of the secret service
money for foreign affairs, the only fund that I had at
my disposal.
According to a phrase of his preceding
speech on the same question, M. Creton allowed it to
be seen that, in his idea, the money could have been
employed to foment against foreign territories at-
tempts at perturbation or invasion, attempts which the
Government and myself, on the contrary, condemned
and neutralised with a sincerity of which I have
proofs in m ossession and of which I want
no other witnesses than the foreign powers themselves.
M. Creton knows, like every one else, that the em-
ployment of the secret service money of the Depart-
ment of Foreign Affairs cannot be made public, par-
ticularly in a time of revolution. The account was
rendered to the King alone, and not in the Council of
Ministers. Nevertheless, lam ready, as M. Pagnerre
declared in
dentially to the committee, called for by the members
my name, to furnish officially and confi
of the Provisional Government itself, the documents
pr6ving how the 374,000 f. were laid out. I call so
little the sincerity of my colleagues in doubt, that I
desire to reckon the author of the proposition among
the members of the committee, and I want no other
judge against the suppositions of M. Creton than
M. Creton himself."

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT IN IRELAND.—To-day
(Wednesday) the new Act to abolish imprisonment for
debt and to recover possession of small tenements in
Ireland, comes into operation. By this statute persons
in custody for debts not exceeding 101. are to be dis-
charged; and henceforth persons ara not to be arrested
for rums under that amount, except in cases of slander,
deceit, seduction, criminal conversation, and breach of
promise of marriage. It is provided by this Act that
tenements or parts of houses where the holding is for not
more than a month, and the rent 11. for the period:lndy
be recovered in a summary way before a magistrate.