The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-22 00:00:00

ployol words of conciliation. He then asked be-
fore what authority he had the honour to appear.
Before the citizen chief of Commune de Paris,'
answered Sobrier. The old man and the wit-

ness who deposed in his favour, were then called
on to give their names and addresses, and, after
some protests of the accused, Sobrier exclaimed,
Aliens ! For this time be off with you, and do not
!begin the same work again !' Whilst this was pass-
ing in the large saloon, the windows of which open on
the balcony of the Rue de Rivoli, strange scenes
were occurring in the other rooms. For example, a
voice cried from an adjoining room to the armed
men in the ante-chambers, Montagnard—one, two,
three—let them pass ! Montagnard, an order to be
executed, &c. As soon as the accused, having ob-
tained a permission to pass, was set at liberty, our
informant, who was also obliged to demand a pass,
heard the observation, We have frightened him
terribly.' Now, we ask, what is the authority of the
citizen Sobrier ? By whom is he delegated ? What
is this garrison of three hundred men, in blue blouses
and red sashes, whom he calls his Montagnards, who
protect all the approaches to the journal La Conanune
de Paris ? In what times do we live ?"
We are happy to find that the best feeling exists
between the National Guard and the army.
The Messager says, that on Wednesday, the Pro-
visional Government received numerous deputations
from the National Guard, demanding authorisation
to go out in corps to the villages in the environs of
Paris to meet the regiments of the line arriving for
the review, and bring them triumphantly into
the city. To this it was answered, that the army
could not as a body enter Paris until after the elec-
tions, as it was necessary that there should be no
ground for suspecting that this first great act of the
sovereignty of the people could be in any manner

influenced. The delegates of the National Guard re-
tired convinced of the reasonableness of this
determination, and yesterday there were nume-
rous petitions signed for the recal of the
troops after the elections. In several of these
petitions the National Guards offered each of them
to quarter one soldier of the regiments to come in
to-day for the review, and consequently they would
not be obliged to return to their cantonments before

:o-morrow. The Garde Nationale Mobile have.

through their officers, expressed their willingness, i❑
case of any new alerte, to be first called out without
taking the citizen soldiers from their occupations.
" We know full well," said the bearers of this offer,
" that if we became engaged with superior numbers,

the National Guard would hasten to support us."
Yesterday morning, on this offer being make known,
many officers of the National Guard went to the
barracks of the Gardes Mobiles, and fraternised with
their officers. In the Rue de Clichy were seen more
than two hundred officers in the two uniforms walk-

ing arm•in-arm up to the Batignolles. Within the
last two days twenty-five waggon loads of muskets,
escorted by detachments of National Guards, have
been brought from Vincennes, and deposited at the
different Msiries at Paris, to be delivered out to the
National Guards.

The National Guards of Havre are signing an ad-
(lress of thanks and congratulation to the National
Guards of Paris, for their recent manifestation in
defence of "order in liberty." The address con-
cludes as follows :—" National Guards, France con •
.emplates you with gratitude ; she may now without
fear confide to your patriotism the safeguard of her
representatives. All your brothers in the provinces
would be proud, like us, to march at your summons,
if the inviolability of the National Assembly should
ever be menaced."

M. QUENAULT, Councillor at the Court of Cassa-
tion, has addressed the following letter, dated April
18, to the Minister of Justice :
" Monsieur le Ministre—The decree of this day, in
destroying the fixity of judicial situations, removes
from society one of its last guarantees, and strips
the various law functionaries of their dignity. It
does not suit me to preserve the functions of a coun-
cillor at the good pleasure of a minister, or to permit
the office to be slighted in my person by a measure
which I deny your right to order. In consequence,
1 have the honour of sending you in my resignation
of my functions as councillor at the Court of Cassa-
tion.-1 am with respect, Monsieur le Ministre, your
very humble servant,

" QUENAULT."

M. DITARCOURT is, we understand, appointed
Minister from France to Rome, and M. DE TALLINAY
Minister to London. _ _ .

A letter from St. Gaudens states that the forest of
Eoux had been set on fire and was nearly consumed ;
and, that another tract of plantation, separating
Chaun from St. B6ut, had been in part burnt down
some days before. At the time the letter was written,
the latter wood was burning to an extent of 10 or 12
kilometres (6 or 7 miles). The forest of Marignac
also has been set on fire, but a heavy rain has extin-
guished the flames.
Bands of thieves are laying waste the country
around St. Etienne. These malefactors have directed
their designs of devastation particularly against reli-
gious houses, under the impression that they must
contain money. They entered a convent at St.
Jenest-Lerpt, and, finding nothing of value that they
could take away, destroyed the furniture, and did as
much damage as they could. They also visited con-
vents at Villard and St. Priest, and, after breaking
the furniture to pieces, set fire to it. At Latour
the nuns gave their unwelcome visitors drink, and
thus gaining time, were saved by the population com-
ing to their aid.
At Lyons the troubles still continue.
Accounts from Algiers state that the Governor-
General had declined starting as a candidate for the
representation of the colony in the National Assembly.
The M oniteur publishes the following return of
the state of the Bank of France up to Thursday
evening, the 20th of April :

51,265,750 58
37,473,385 00
22,890,104 09