The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-15 00:00:00

This little circumstance, and the lesson it contains,
ought to be treasured up by Lord PALMERSTON, for
the guidance of himself or his successors in all future
dealings with the Government of Portugal.
The French Consul• General, M. FaatiN, has been
dismissed, and a French officer, who served in Don
PEDRO'S army, has been appointed in his place.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The grand national fate, which was to have taken
place yesterday, has been postponed to the 21st.
M. LEDRU ROLLIN has withdrawn his resignation.
It appears that he insisted on the appointment of
either M. JULES FAvits or M. FLocom to the Minis-
try of the Interior. This was resisted by his col-
leagues of the Executive Committee. M. LEDRU
ROLLIN threatened to resign. His colleagues re-
mained firm, and M. LEDRU ROLLIN gave way.
Considerable alarm was excited in Paris on Satur-
in consequence of the announcement of an intended
demonstration on the part of the clubs in favour of
Poland. It appears that a numerous meeting of the
friends and defenders of the Polish cause took
place on Thursday evening in the Rue Ta-
ranne. M. DE LASTEYRIE presided, and MM.

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sand citizens proposed to go to the National Assembly
to demand prompt and energetic assistance for the
Polish cause. This communication produced great
emotion in the Assembly. All the persons present,
both French and Poles (among the latter was Count
SitottzEwsm, Vice-Marshal of the Diet of Posen,
known for his liberal propositions to the States-Ge-
neral of Prussia), spontaneously prayed the delegate
to thank the clubs for their good will, but to say that
they beseeched them, on behalf of the Polish cause,
to prevent any demonstration of the kind. Con-
vinced that their cause is that of liberty, civilisation,
and humanity, and that it already possesses all the
sympathies of the representatives of the French
people, they would await, they said, with confidence
the decisions of the National Assembly. The follow-
ing communication was addressed to the clubs on
Friday by the Central Polish Committee :
" Citizens—You have announced your intention to pre-
sent to the National Assembly
.an address having for
object to testify solemnly before the world the ardent
sympathy which we all feel for our brothers, the Poles.
In their name, we thank you for the generous intention,
and we at the same time beseech you to give to that pa-
triotic proceeding such a character, that order may not
be troubled, and that the population may not have cause
for any disquietude. Your address, carried to the
Chamber by the presidents of the clubs, and delivered
by them to such representatives as they may ask for,
and who will afterwards present it to the Assembly,
already so well disposed towards the Polish cause,
will be received by all with favour, with gra-
titude, and cannot but powerfully contribute to a useful
and generous determination. But if this same address
be carried by a numerous body of citizewnhsicehvenwwoueride
they to stop a great distenee from the Chamber, there
would be in suck manifestation a cause for uneasiness,
for trouble, perhaps for irritation,
very seriously injure the holy, cause which you and we
wish to serve. The representatives the most in favour of
Poland, they who have inscribed their names to speak
on Monday in her favour, would then perhaps hesitate to
advocate her cause, through fear of appearing to obey an
injunction, or to yield to intimidation; the Government
might consider itself obliged to resist the movement; and
in fine, if the great and noble manifestation which we
hope to obtain from the Assembly took place, it might
produce on Germany, and on the world, less effect than
we expect, for it might be supposed that it was not
spontaneous. In your generous patriotism, which ex-
tends to Poland as to France, you will admit, we hope,
dear fellow-citizens, that this act of the National Assem-
bly, in order to possess all its power, ought to have in
appearance as in reality all its spontaneousness, and you
will avoid all that might deprive it of that character, and
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to the National Assembly. The friends of Poland are
invited to meet at eleven o'clock on Saturday, on the
Place de la &ladle. The procession will inamedie.tely
move on its march along the Boulevards. Measures are
taken for the perfect preservation of order."
Addresses were sent round to all the clubs urging the
members to attend the procession, but notwithstand-
ing all the efforts of the Communists to get up a
demonstration, the affair resulted in a melancholy
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the National Guard were ready to have put down
any disturbance, had such been attempted. M.
BETIIMONT has resigned the Ministry of Public
Worship.
The following is a report of the proceedings in the
Assembly on Saturday :
There was much agitation at the approaches to the
Palais Bourbon, and it was rumoured that a body of
twelve thousand ouvriers intended to force an entry into
the Assembly, to deliver themselves at the bar a peti
Lion in favour of Poland. This report from minute to
minute gained greater consistency and confirmation.
The influence of this was felt in the Salle " des Pas
Perdus," but it was soon allayed by an authentic re-
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M. Bavoax presented a petition in favour of an inter-
vention, armed or unarmed, in favour of Italy and
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M. Vavin also presented the petition which had been
entrusted to him.
The order of the day was then taken—the discussion
on the rules for regulating the business of the chambers.
M. Vivien, the reporter of the Committee, said that he
had to bring 'before the Assembly a proposition made by
several members, that those deputies who had been
elected for several departments should make their elec-
tion before the 15th, and that new elections should be
made. The Commission proposed that the deputies
should make their election before the 20th, and in default
of this new elections should be made before the sth
June.
M. Durand de Romorantin suggested the necessity of
deciding the question of incompatibilities first. A
debate ensued on the question, and it was ultimately
decided that a decision must be given before the 15th.
A delicate auestion then arose on the subject of an
article in the project of the Commission, which gives the
president a right to convoke the electoral colleges.
M. Flocon, Minister of Commerce and Agriculture,
declared it to be a Government question. He thought
that if the President could give an order to the Minister
of the Interior, he will have it in his power to do the
same to all the other ministers. What then would be-
come of the power of the Executive Commission 1' It
would be annulled, de facto.
The article was voted.
The Assembly then continued the debate on its regu-
lations. The proposal for instituting permanent com-
mittees for the examination of questions submitted to
the Assembly was adopted after a long debate,
in the
midst of which M. Recurt came in to announce the post-
ponementin
to the delegates from the depart-
mentstime might be afforded
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till the 21st of the national lite, order that
The Assembly then
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Committee charged with seeking means for ameliOrating
the position of the working classes.
Assembly then voted the creation of a Committee of
legislation, civil and criminal, a Committee of worship,
a Committee of foreign affairs, and a Committee of
public instruction.
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Considerable disappointment was occasioned by
the postponement of the fete to the 21st. The reason
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vote, without debate, the other pro p
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given for the postponement is, that there was not
sufficient time for the delegates from the provinces to
reach Paris by the 14th.
The seat of the Provisional Government has been
Bourbon to the Luxem-
transferred from the Elysee Bou

bourg.
The Communists are making vigorous efforts
to excite disturbances, but thanks to the common
sense
of the immense majority of the people of
France their efforts are ineffectual.
The following placard was posted on the walls of.
Paris on Saturday, but was in many places torn down
with marks of indignation :--
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Government engages to guarantee the existence
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labour to all citizens. It recognises the principle of as-
sociations of workmen, in order that they may enjoy the
guarantee
legitimate fruits of their labour. The Government

gives to the workmen, to whom it belongs, the million
of the civil list.

" GARNIER-PAGES, LOUIS BLANC."
" TO THE WORKMEN.

" The promises made on the barricades not being ful-
filled, and the National Assembly having in its sitting of
the 10th of May refused to create a Ministry of Labour,
the delegates of the Luxembourg refuse to be present at
the Fite de la Concorde.
" LAGARDE, President.
"PRESNARD, GODIN, LAVOYZ, Vice-Presidents."
The following placard was also posted up, and like
the preceding was torn down almost immediately :
" Poland is being massacred, and you are invited to
our fetes. The programme of the fete of the Champ de
Mars fixes a place for the German, Italian, and Polish
deputations in the procession of the approaching so.
lemnity of the Republic. It is just that the Italians
who are the victors over their oppressors should take
part i❑ the triumph of the French people, and the Ger-
mans who by means of the Republic have gained con-
stitutions may mingle their cries of joy with those of
their brothers on the banks of the Seine. As to the
Poles, we do not F^e how they can take any part in the
rejoicings of the Champ de Mars, for whilst torrents of
blood are flowing in their unhappy country, whilst
Posnania is a prey to a) band of assassins who slaughter
women and children, profane the churches, and burn
cottages; whilst in Gallicia the Government is arming
a part of the population against the other part, and at
every moment massacres provoked by the agents of
Vienna and St. Petersburgh are expected, whilst Cra-
cow is bombarded and the Czar is bringing up masses of
troops and sequestrating the corn and the cattle of the
peasants to feed those troops, and takes the implements
of labour, under pretext that the people may convert
them into pikes and scythes, and having sent a part of
the population into Siberia and into dungeons, wishes
to make the rest perish by hanger, it is indubitable that
the Poles owe ,their invitation to the fete of the Champ-
de-Mars only to a mistake. It was rather to a funeral
mass that France should have invited our brothers of
the North. Their place is at the foot of the altar. It is
there that they must implore God, their sole protector,
for the salvation of their country and the repose of their
slaughtered nation.
(Signed) Several true friends of Poland.
From the following extract from the Union it
would appear that there is a split among the Com-
munists themselves, which will tend to render them
even still weaker than they are at present. The Union
says :

" It is difficult to keep oneself au courant to the strug-
gles and dissensions which incessantly agitate the ter-
rorist clubs. If we clearly understand a declaration
published by the Commune de Pads, the manifesto by
which M. Barbes announced that the Societe des Droits
de l'Homme would be reconstituted on the same bases as
before the establishment of the Republic, has caused a
profound scission in the midst of the club, and we shall
now have two Soci6te; des Droits de l'Homme—one,
that of M. BarUi, organised in armed sections, and
quite ready, on the first opportunity, to fall on social
order ; and the other, as regards the spirit which ani-
mates it, also retrograde but pacific. We subjoin the
manifesto of the seceders. It is curious, and shows once
again that anarchy is endemic in secret societies. It
shows also the manner in which Liberty, Equality, and
Fraternity are there treated :

"'CLUB PACIFIQUE DES DROITS DE L'BOMME.

" The Societe des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen,
constituted on arbitrary bases, and in opposition to the
democratic principles which alone ought to direct it, has
seen its power usurped by members who have imposed
themselves on it, and who have compromised its inde-
pendence. Different acts emanating from the executive
committee, illegally constituted, have caused energetic
protests, and it is in vain that a groat number of section-
noires have demanded the execution of the regulations
and a legal election. A brutal refusal was given to their
just protest. In presence of these facts, the sectionnaires
who have raised their ♦oice will not accept the responsi-
bility of acts which emanate from a power they do not
recognise. Consequently, they declare that, from the
Bth of May, they have constituted themselves into an
independent club, under the name of Club Pacifique, et
Organisateur des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen.'
The club takes the declaration des Droits de l'Homme
et du Citoyen of '93 for its profession of faith. It will
adopt a progressive and social course in its discussions,
and all the extreme democratic questions will be accepted
at the tribune.

" ' G. PELIN, President,
" ' A. LEYDET, Secretary. "

A private letter states that great indignation was
felt in the department of the Aude, of which M.
BARnEs i 5 one of the representatives, when the pro•
clamatio❑ of the Societe des Droits de l'Homme,
which was placarded in Paris with his sanction,
became known. A petition was immediately got up,
and most numerously signed, calling on him to
resign his post as representative, as the electors of the
Aude were deceived when they gave him their suf-
frages.
The modern terrorists are mere servile imitators
after all. They have failed—miserably failed in their
attempts to get up " massacres," after the fashion of
the MARATS, DANTONS, and RODESPIERRES of the
last century; and now, they are attempting to get up
an imitation of the alarm of the old terrorists at a
foreign coalition.

The Reforme has the following, under the head of

"NEWS OF THE COALITION:-

"An aide de camp of the Emperor of Russia had
arrived at Vienna, charged with a confidential mission
for the Emperor of Austria. Similar negotiations have
for some time been going on at Berlin, and even at
London, with a view of renewing the coalition against
France. This we extract from a Vienna letter of the
6th. Independently of the camp of Nuremberg and of
Ulm, a camp of 60,000 men will be established between
Cobourg and Schwernfurt. In Belgium the Ministry
have sent orders to the military governors of provinces
for the immediate rappel to arms of the militia of 1847.
They are to repair by the 28th to the camp of Beverloo.
On the other hand the coalition continues to develop it-
self. Already has the Danish Government invoked
the intervention of Russia. A letter from Ber-
lin, of the 9th, assures us that the Russian
Cabinet had demanded explanations on the sub-
ject of the entry of the Prussian troops into Jutland.
This diplomatic intrigue, this mask of war will
soon fall. The Russians have now a pretext for enter-
ing Prussia. This good King of Berlin is capable of
pretending to our Minister of Foreign Affairs that he is
the victim of Russia and of his good disposition towards
Poland. In the meantime the consul of Sweden makes
known to the Senate of Hamburgh that his Government
has resolved to assist the Danes with 10,000 troops, and
all the Swedish marine. Each plays his part skilfully
in the camp of the coalition. The Confreres are not
less able, in the Diet of Frankfort. Nothing can equal
what is passing there, and if the Germans allow them-
selves to be blinded it is their own fault. The bourgeois
of Cologne, urged on by the King of Prussia, have ad-
dressed a petition to this assembly, demanding the
neutrality of Belgium, which they say, 'resists with
calmness and firmness without example the storm that
has burst over Europe.' The delegates have supported
this petition with ardour, announcing the approaching
difficult negotiations of the Belgian Government. The
spirit of hostility against Republican France—the in-
trigues of the reaction are then, as we cease not to re-
peat, manifest—and our ex-son in law, Leopold, takes
to his own share in them. Once more it is time to
look to it." ,

We will undertake to say that there is no truth
whatever in the above statements of the Reforme.
Neither M. LEDRU ROLLIN nor M. FLocox will
venture to repeat them in the Assembly. These
false alarms are circulated Mr a purpose. On Satur-
day M. BLANQUI recommended his followers to ab-
stain from attending the fete. " There are two cur-
rents in society (said he) : it is the current of reaction
which prevails at this moment; the Ministry in which
our own men are placed is itself carried along by the
torrent. But wait; five or six weeks, and then the
wind and tide will be for us. Already many of our
adherents who had quitted us have returned."
On Friday evening about one hundred working
engineers of the Northern Railway presented them-
selves at eight in the morning at the station at Paris,
and declared to the chiefs of the establishment that if
they were not allowed to work an additional hour per
day, with an increase of salary, they would tear up
the rails. Information of this having been given to
the National Guard of the 3d Legion, a detachment
was marched to the station, and it was shortly after
joined by a detachment of the Garde Mobile. Before
these forces arrived the men had withdrawn. 'Yester-
day the men suspended their work, and assembled at
the station of La Chapelle, to await the decision of
the directors.
We copy the following from the Presse :
" Yesterday evening the inauguration of the • Club
des Femmes' took place in the ancient Concert Spec-
tacle.' An immense crowd of curieux et curieuses were
in attendance long before opening the doors. There was
much difficulty in obtaining silence when the proceedings
commenced, not from the fair members themselves, but
from the ungallant men who should have been auditors,
and who, if they went expecting some ridiculous exhi-
bition, must have been disappointed.--The Presidente,'
after long and vain efforts, at length succeeded in
obtaining silence, and, what is more, applause. She
explained the object of the club to be, the organization
of the labour of women, not in taking for its principle
that which Lad been attempted with so little success as
to the labour of men, but in adopting, as bases, sister
hood and the development of the capacity and skill of
each member. This allusion to the absurd theories of
M. Louis Blanc was received with unanimous applause.
The club has obtained from the Government the promise
of places as workshops, of which two will be opened this
week. Every woman having no particular !trade will
gain one franc a day, and work will be given according
to ability. The others will gain more or less according
to their abilities and industry. Every month the profits
will be divided, and every year prizes will be given to
the most industrious. The club will provide a cooking
place, at which every member will be provided with a
dinner of soup, meat, vegetables, and bread, at four sous.
The presidente was loudly applauded, and the plan of the
club much approved. The only incident that gave birth
to a little merriment was an observation of the fair