The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-24 00:00:00

SARDINIA.

The King of SARDINIA has published a general
amnesty for political offences.

A letter from Rome of the 11th says :—" We feel
the contrecoup of the financial crisis of France ;
Genoa has withdrawn its credit at the Roman Bank;
TORTONIA gives no money on Pali, not even on
ROTHSCHILD. This crisis, it is hoped, will only be
temporary; and the Roman Princes, who are share-
holders in the Bank, guarantee that they will not
allow it to suspend its payments, but the panic is
great, and everybody desires to withdraw his funds,"

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
On Wednesday a grand demonstration took place
in the Champ de Mars, where a tree of liberty was
planted on the same spot on which the tree of Liberty
had been planted in 1790. At one o'clock a deputa-
tion of workmen proceeded to the Hotel de Ville, to
request the presence of the Minister of the Interior at
the ceremony. M. LEDRU RoLrAN at once proceeded to
the Champ de Mars, where he was received at the Ecole
Militaire by Colonel ALLARD, Director of the Works.
He then proceeded to the foot of the tree of Liberty,
and addressed the vast assemblage as follows :
" Fellow Citizens—l thank you in the name of the
Provisional Government for having thought of renewing
here a great event—that of the Federation of 1790.
These thanks I not only address to you in the name of
France, but in the name of Europe, in the name of the
whole world. This theatre of the Federation, the
Champ de Mars, recals the glorious past. France, di-
vided into castes, into aristocracies, into provinces—
coming at the call of the people of Paris to abjure, on
the altar of the country, the ardent hatreds and the
resentment of ages, and to form one single nation—the
French nation.—(Applause.) There is another recol-
lection, that of the Champ de Mai, where the nation,
threatened by foreign invasion—where the indignant
people rose to defend its nationality. At that period
Europe, deceived and submitting to the will of its mas
ters, believed that we wished to invade it, and we had
Waterloo I To-day we reply to it (sublime answer) by
sending it liberty.
"Our resolution was accomplished in three days, and
the effect of it is such that from to-day all Europe may
declare herself free. The two bsnks of the Rhine re
sound to the cry of arms, tired of an odious yoke.
Austria—that land of pleasure, which Metternich
treated like another Venice—Austria is aroused, and de-
clares her independence. The other countries will fol-
low the example we have given, and the dust of thrones,
where royal indolence slumbered, will soon be blown
away by the breath of the people.—(Applause.) We
have reason to be proud—l repeat it—for to the defeat
of Waterloo we need now only to oppose a cry of liberty

and deliverance. Hail to the-e, tree f glorious symbol of
that deliverance and that liberty ! Hail to thee ! with
joy I foretel it. On the very spot where, sixty year
since, men fraternized in the name of liberty, on this
spot we shall soon see assembled around thee deputations
from every part of the world. We are strong to-day,
because we rely upon liberty; because we trust to you,
intelligent workmen, who have brought about the revo-
lution, and who wish to see it bear fruit.—(Applause.)
Now, my friends, let us return to our labours, and let
our blended voices join in the shout which has made the
heart of the world vibrate—'Vive la Rodublique I' "
Cries of " Vive la Republique," " Vive LEDRU
Romax," followed this speech. An old invalide, an
old soldier of the armies of the Republic, seized the
hand of the Minister and pressed it to his heart,
without being able to pronounce a word, so great
was his emotion. An officer of the army also ad-
vanced towads the citizen LEDRU RoLTAN, and, with
tears in his eyes and a voice trembling with emotion,
expressed the sorrow of the officers and the men at
being absent from Paris. He demanded the recal of
the army.
LEDRU ROLLIN replied by an eulogium in honour
of the army, and said he should only be satisfied
when he beheld the army, the people, and the
National Guard fraternize at a banquet on the Champ
de Mars.
The Minister of the Interior then retired amidst
loud cries of " Vive la Republique !" " Vive LEDRU
ROLLIN !"
The Moniteur publishes several additional official
acts of the Provisional Government. The head-quar-
ters of the National Guards of Paris and its environs
are transferred to the palace of the Tuileries—the
Pavillon Marson, which was the residence of the
Duchess of ORLEANS, being appropriated to that pur-
pose. A grant of 500,000 francs is appropriated to
the preservation of the palaces and other public
buildings, which formerly formed part of the Lisle
Civile, but which have now fallen into the domain of
the Republic. The sum of 250,000 francs is placed
at the disposal of the Minister of Public Works, for
the construction of a provisional hall for the Na-
tional Assembly. The hall, which is in the court of
the Chamber of Deputies, has been already com-
menced, and is making rapid progress towards com-

pletion.
Several officials, who had been dismissed by the
old Government on account of their Republican
opinions, have been reinstated in their respective
offices.

The Atelier club, one of the most influential and
republican in Paris, has published an address, de-
claring, with regard to the elections in the National
Guards, that considering that the present list of
officers was elected under the late Government, and
in an anti-democratic spirit, it ought to be revised as
soon as possible ; and considering that immediately
after a revolution it is most desirable to have officers
influenced by ardent feelings of republicanism, in
order to prevent the retrograde intrigues which are
to be feared, it therefore rejects unanimously
the indefinite adjournment of the elections.
The address then alludes to the proposition
which has been made to keep the regular army at a
distance of 50 kilometres from Paris, it rejects it also;
because such a measure would be disastrous to the
country which surrounds the capital, whose agricul-
tural prosperity depends, in some measure, on the
army ; because the proposition shows a want of con-
fidence in the Provisional Government, whose acts
have merited approbation ; because the proposition is
injurious to the reputation of the army, whose device
should henceforth be, according to a saying of CAR-
NOT'S, passive obedience before the enemy, and obetx-
Janee raisonnee at home ; and, lastly, because all true
Republicans should wish to see the brave soldiers of
the Republic coming to Paris to renew their zeal and
their patriotism at that centre of liberty.
The Constitutionnel, in the course of a long
article on the debate in the British House
of Commons on the subject of the navy
estimates, say -" We perceive with satis-
faction that the declarations of the British Minister
are altogether of a pacific character. Hitherto the
only intention he has announced has been a desire to
preserve peace and to cultivate more particularly
amicable relations with France. The French Provisio-
nal Government is, on its side, animated by the same
sentiments with regard tAi England. The Revolution
of February was brought about under circumstances
favourable to the union of the two people. The
fallen Government had broken the English alliance
by the disloyal conclusion of the Spanish marriages.
This fault, one of the greatest of the reign of Louts
PHILIPPE, has been repaired by the fall of the mo-
narchy. The new Government has found itself in a
condition openly to repudiate this act of policy,
accomplished to the detriment of the interests of
France, to serve purposes purely dynastic. England
has thus been in some measure associated in the de-
velopment of our liberty."
The financial crisis still continues. The announce-
ment of the failure of the great banking-house of
D'EICIITAL and Company, had produced a very
depressing effect upon the Bourse.
Great complaints are made of the doings of M.
LEDRU ROLLINS' Commissioner at Blois. He has been
issuing a series of decrees of the most extraordinary
character. By the first he establishes a National
Discount Bank at Blois, of which the capital is to be

hereafter settled. By the second he empowers th
bankers of Blois not to pay the deposits which proprietor
or capitalists may have entrusted to them before
the 15th of May, but he gives the depositors the
right, if they choose to avail themselves of it, to re-
quire the payment of their deposits, on condition that
they will immediately transfer the whole amount so
restored to them to the National Discount Bank;
and the thirds suspends all prosecutions for the pay-
ment of debts till the 15th of May. This last decree
enjoins all huissiers and avoues to refuse their aid to
;hose who may wish to enforce the rights which the
laws allow to creditors. Besides this, the special
commissioner for the department of the Loiret, acting
under the authority of the above general commission,
issued a decree, dated the 17th of March, by which
he gives a forced circulation to the notes of the Bank
of Orleans, limits the emission to the sum of three
millions, authorises the issuing of notes of 100 f., and
orders the Bank to publish a periodical statement of
its accounts.

A party of twenty-five Polish emigrants left Paris
eight days ago, with the intention, if possible, of
penetrating into Poland, and raising the standard of
revolt.

A party of Belgians were to leave Paris to-day for
the purpose of proceeding to the Belgian frontier to
proclaim the republic of Belgium. They posted pro-
clamations all over Paris, calling the Belgian Repub-
licans to arms.

A meeting of Austrian subjects was held yesterday
in the Place Vendome, to consider what they were
to do in the present circumstances. Some of them
brought the yellow and black flag, with the
crowned Austrian eagle in the centre, to the place
of meeting ; but as soon as it was seen by
the bulk of the meeting it was saluted
with groans and hooting. The flag was
wrenched from the hands of the unlucky person
who carried it, and burnt in the middle of the
square, the meeting declaring, amidst great cheering,
that they would henceforth acknowledge no flag but
that of the liberty of Germany, namely the German
tricoloured flag of black, gold, and red. A consi-
derable tumult followed, in consequence of a division
of opinion in this respect, a portion of the meeting
declaring that the Austrian flag ought to be main-
tained as a symbol of the union of all the states of
which the Austrian empire consists; but ultimately
the supporters of the tri• coloured flag carried the
day. A great number of the Germans and Austrians
present intimated their intention of leaving Paris,
and directing their steps towards the Austrian fron-
tiers to assist their countrymen to re• conquer their
liberties.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has forwarded to
the Minister of the Interior an account of the pecu-
niary claims made by the English workmen who
were expelled from Rouen at the Revolution. The
Minister of the Interior has ordered the Government
Commissary at Rouen to verify those claims in concert
with the English Consul.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23.
THREE O'CLOCK.—Prices are in general lower to-dal
both for the Rente and for Railway Shares. The Three
per Cents. opened at 501., went up to 50f, 50c., and then
closed at the opening price, being lf. lower than the
day before. The Five per Cents. opened at 71f. 50e.,
went up to 52f., and closed at 70f. 50c., or If. 75c-
lower; Bank of France Shares are at the same price,
namely, 1,6501.; Belgian Fives, of both 1840 and 1842,
ire also unvaried, at 671.; as are City of Paris Bonds, at
1,0151. ; Roman is better, at 58i ; Veille Montagne
Shares rose 50f. to-day, closing at 2,050 f. In
Railway Shares, the buoyancy which was so
remit' k able the day before, by no means con-
tinued. The plan attributed to the Provi-
sional Government, of ex-propriating all the lines, en
certain conditions, and giving Five per Cent. Rents to
the shareholders in return, did not seem to meet with
so much favour to-day. Buyers who purchased the
day before seemed to think that they had acted precipi-
vitely, and in consequence most of the lines show lower.
prices. Orleans are 17f. 50e. lower, closing at 695 f.;
Lyons, 12f. 50c., at 302 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 10f., at 340. f.;
Strasburg and Nantes, 6f. 25c., at 342 f. 50c. and 335 t. ;
Northern, 5f., at 3401. ; Marseilles, also 5f., at 275E4
Vicrzon, 2f. 50c., at 247 f. 50c.; Rouen are sf. better,
closing at 4251.; and Havre 7f. 50c., at 2221. 50c. Bons
du Tresor can only be negotiated at 30 per cent loss.
Exchange on London, for paper at three months, 15
261'. 50c. The failure of the banking-house of DIAL
d'Eichtal and Co. was much discussed to-day and re-
gretted. It was, besides, hoped that for the moment all
,urther suspensions in the Paris houses bad ceased.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE