The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1848.

scouted as treasonable, bated for its democratic ten-
dency, the Anti-Corn-law League rose, expanded,
and ultimately became triumphant. So must it
ultimately be with the League which is ust
consolidating itself for the furtherance of the
Reform movement. Mr. COBDEN will have to
pass through another ordeal before he can achieve a
new victory as stupendous as the one obtained by him
against the legions of monopoly. There are many
amongst the little decimated squad of Protectionists
who flatter themselves with the idea that RICHARD
COBDEN has been lucky rather than great, that his
orations were meretricious claptrap rather than un-
adorned and irresistible eloquence, and that now that
the question of free trade is settled, and that the
agitation of the League has subsided, he, the Oracle
of Free Trade, and the Leader of the League, is no
longer formidable. They flatter themselves, these men,
that COBDEN is only a second ICARUS, that he
has been carried by favourable circumstances
to an unsuitable altitude, that his waxen wings have
melted, and that he is now falling into the abyss of
a congenial obscurity. Those who remember the
career of RICHARD COBDEN during the years 1641,
1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845, those who preserve a
recollection of his masterly speeches in the provinces
and in the metropolis, in the hall at Manchester and
in Covent- garden Theatre, on the platform and on
the stage, from the hustings and from the floor of
the House of Commons, will know how such mis-
representations should be received, and how the
character of this distinguished Reformer should
be vindicated from slander and estimated
by his compatriots. Here, however, is an op-
portunity afforded to the Honourable Member for
the West Riding of Yorkshire for testifying himself
the falsity of these aspersions and inuendoes. JOSEPH
Hu has already appeared upon the platform before
the unrepresented and the represented citizens, and
has boldly staked his reputation in advocating the
cause of the million. Under the guidance of such
men, and aided by the fact of a rational amalgamation
between Chartists and Radical Reformers, the move-
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the circumstance that out of the 658 represen-
tatives who constitute the House of Commons, a
majority of 330 is returned by boroughs with a
population of 3,127,000, while the minority of 328
represents the remaining population of 23,870,000—
giving in one instance a Member for every 9,400,
and in another for every 73,000 persons. Surely
those statistics alone should be sufficient to rouse the
indignation of the country, and to afford the requi-
site impulse to the grand movement of reform now
on the eve of its commencement. While the whole
European Continent is convulsed with the progress
of democracy, assuredly England should not alone
remain impassive to the demands of the age, isolated
in the fraternization of nations, or stubborn in the
maintenance of abuse.

We have repeatedly directed the public attention to
the evils resulting from the manner in which prose-
cutions are carried on in this country, and recom-
mended that the practice should be assimilated to

that which has been carried on with so much benefit
to all parties in Scotland. The necessity of a public
prosecutor has long been fully recognised. In many
instances there has been a complete failure of justice,
and criminals have escaped in consequence of the in-
dividuals who have been aggrieved by their conduct

being unable or unwilling to advance the funds ne•
cessary for carrying on the case effectively agains.
them. There is at least the possibility of such a resul

in every case entrusted to the care and attention of
private parties. A session scarcely passes at the
Central Criminal Court, or an assizes in any county

town, in which the presiding Judges have not to
deplore delays and difficulties interposed in conse-
quence of some of the cases not being ready for in-
vestigation when brought before the Court, and in
others, that they themselves are compelled to depart
from their legitimate functions to ascertain the facts
from the several depositions that have been
returned, and not only to judge with impar-
tiality between the Crown and the prisoner,
but to examine the several witnesses on behalf

of the prosecution, and to extract from their lips the
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evidence necessary to sustain the charge. The
greatest inconvenience is sustained by the Court, the
juries, the parties who are called on to act
as prosecutors, and even by the very pri-
soners themselves, in consequence of the sys-
tern ; for although in some cases guilty men
may escape the punishment due to their crimes, in
others innocent men may be, and too often are con-
victed, because the arbitrators of their guilt or inno-
cence—the juries, on whose decision their future fate
depends—are disposed to make allowances for defi-
ciencies of evidence, which might otherwise lead to
acquittal, because there was no properly instructed
counsel to bring the case before them in a complete

and perfect manner.
But there is another paint of view in which the
system must be regarded, in which its consequences
are still more injurious. We repeatedly find cases in
which the power thus allowed to private parties, of
preparing any prosecutions they may think proper
without any test or check being applied, is grievously
abused, and made subservient to the gratification of
their vindictive or malevolent passions. Few persons
have been so fortunate as to pass through life with-
out being placed at some period in a position in
which an enemy could make a charge. If a person
appears as witness in any court of ju,tice, or
is required to make an affidavit, a charge
of perjury may be preferred, in fact,
the instances are innumerable in which prosecutions
may be instituted without the slightest possibility of
a conviction, and however triumphant may be the
vindication of the accused, he will still be subjected
to a certain stigma and reproach for having been
placed as a criminal in the dock ; he will in addition
thereto have to submit to the expense and annoyance
of preparing his defence, bringing up his witnesses,
feeing counsel and attorney, &c., &c., all of which he
must defray out of his own pocket, for whatever may
be the result, as it is beneath the dignity of the Crown
to pay costs, and the proceedings, although really the
work of some malicious scoundrel, are carried on in the
name of the Crown, he is left wholly without remedy,
unless the very problematical advantage of being
permitted to bring a civil action for damages for the
malicious prosecution may be considered as such.
A case which occurred at the Old Bailey on Wed-
nesday last, and which was reported in The Sun of
the same day, affords a strong illustration of this de-
scription of grievance. Three gentlemen of respecta-
bility were placed in the dock, charged with feloni•
ously forging and uttering a will. When the case
was called on, the Learned Counsel who appeared for
the prosecution, stated that although he had caused
inquiries to be made for the prosecutrix, and
her witnesses, he was informed that none of them
were present. Under these circumstances the case
was allowed to stand over for half an hour, during
which time these gentlemen were detained in the
dock, exposed amongst the felons and criminals by
whom they were surrounded, to every person who
chanced to visit the court. At the expiration of that
period they were again brought forward, and there
being no appearance against them,',.they were ac-
quitted. Then, indeed, their talented counsel made a
startling statement, clearly showing the real causes to
which their appearance as criminals might be as-
cribed, and pointing out a strange instance of neglect
on the part of the grand jury, who found a true
bill. Of the three gentlemen at the bar, two
were sons of the testator, whose will it was
alleged they had forged, and the third was a highly
respectable solicitor, who had married the sister of
the other defendants. The chief originator of the
charge was a person who had married a niece who
formerly lived in the service of the testator, and, it
was stated, "that the result of that marriage had
been the constant ill-usage of the unfortunate woman
by her husband. The parties who had preferred the
charge had never gone before the grand jury.
The will had never been produced or brought from
Doctors' Commons—the witnesses of it were not
summoned, and yet the grand jury hadfound a true
bill,—showing that they conceived there was a
prima
_facie case, which, if not rebutted, would
be sufficient to convict the parties charged.
Well, indeed, might the Learned Judge who
presided at the trial express his astonishment
at so strange a proceeding, and well, indeed,

might that grand jury make a presentment of the
utter uselessness of inquiries before grand juries, and
state their opinions that such bodies ought to be
abolished. If all others were to act in a similar
manner to themselves, the sooner the system is
abrogated the better. Grand juries were intended to
protect innocent persons from being exposed to ex-
pense and inconvenience, and from having their fair
fame and reputation injured by appearing publicly in
court on criminal charges. Had the jury in question
intended to provide an unequivocal testimony of the
inutility of the institution, they could not have
afforded a stronger one. Every grand jury, how-
ever, will not neglect their duty in so glaring a
manner, and so long as public prosecutions may be
instituted by private individuals, their existence is
absolutely necessary, as some protection, although, as
it appears, an inadequate one, against such frivolous
and unfounded charges. When, indeed, a public prose-
cutor is established, by whom (or by his deputies),
every charge must be investigated before it is brought
into Court, and who will be responsible that there is
at least a prima facie case against the party ac-
cused, then the necessity for a grand jury will
become very questionable, and it may very possibly
be safely dispensed with.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
The Gageta contains a decree, dated the previous
day, which enacts that Don HENRY DB BOURBON
shall be deprived of the honours and distinctions of
an Infante of Spain, as also of all ranks, honours, or
decorations. The documents which have led to this
measure are, says the decree, to be communicated to
the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, that proceedings
may be taken in accordance with the laws. The
motives of the decree are, it is further enacted, to be
explained to the Cortes in their next sitting, that they
may do what is necessary with respect to the succes-
sion to the Crown. The cause of this severe decree
is stated to be that the Prince addressed a proclama-
tion to the Catalonians, in which he attacked the
Government, the QUEEN, and the KING.
The Gaceta also publishes a royal decree on the
subject of arranging the public debt.
The preliminary exposition abounds in remarks upon
the sacred nature of the public debt, the determination
of the Government to grapple with the subject, &c. But
the main facts it contains are these--Senor Bertran de
Lie states " that a project of law for the arrangement
of the debt had already been examined and sanctioned
at a Council of Ministers, and was about to be presented
to the Cortes, when just and grave considerations, which
caused the cessation of the Legislature, frustrated the
design, and obliged the Government to postpone it."
Another fact is the announcent that " the Govern-
ment is resolved that the Four and Five per Cent. Stock
shall cease to bear interest. from the Ist January, 1849,
and is equally decided to offer to the national and foreign
creditors the satisfaction of their just credits in the
manner which our economical state permits," &c.
The Royal decree is as follows :
"In conformity with what the Minister of Finance
has proposed to me in accord with the Council of Mi-
nisters, I have decreed the following :
"1. A commission is established, which without any
delay shall occupy itself in forming a project of law for
the arrangement of the consolidated and non-consoli-
dated debt, both internal and external
" Art. 2. In order for the fulfilment of this charge,
and to avoid delays and obstructions, the commission
shall confer directly with the Finance Minister on the
bases on which the arrangement may have to rest, and
shall also have the power to ask for itself at the respec•
tive offices all the data and documents which it may
think necessary.
" Art. 3. The members of the commission shall be
Don Ramon Santillan, ex-Minister of Finance, and
Senator of the kingdom, who shall fill the charge of Pre-
sident; Don Antonio Ilompanera de Cos, ex-Minister of
the Home Department ; Don Manuel Sanchez Silva,
Deputy to the Cortes ; the Director-General of the Pub.
lic Debt, anel Don Jose Borrajo, employed in the Fi-
nance Depai:tment, who shall discharge the functions of
Secretary.
" Given at the Palace the 11th of May, 1848. Signed
by the &lel handt The Minister of Finance,
" MANUAL BERTRAN DELIS."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The remaining twelve members of the Committee
appointed to draw up the constitution were nominated
by ballot at the close of the sitting of Thursday ;
th?y are—Martin (de Strasburg), Woirhage, Co-
querel, Corbon, Thouret (de l'Allier), Gustave de
Beaumont, Dupin, Vaulabille, Odilon Barrot, Pages

(de I'Arriege), Dornes, Considerant.
The composition of this Committee is more than
moderate—it is Orleanist ; and we could have wished

not to have found in the list such names as those of
DurtN, the personal friend and legal adviser of the
ex-KiNci, and therefore the person of all others most
likely to maintain relations with him still,
and of DUFAURE, a former colleague of
GUIZOT, Of TESTS, and of MOLE. It is
well that all parties should be represented on
such a Committee, but the Monarchists hare in this
instance obtained more than their fair share, and

Durix and DUFAURE, moreover, are to be con-
idered rather as the representatives of persons than

of parties.
The Constitutional Committee as finally arranged
is thus composed :—MM. Cormenin, Armand Mar-
rast, Lamennais, Vivien, Tocqueville, Dufaure,
Martin (of Strasburg), Woirhage, Coquerel (Pro-
testant Minister), Corbon, Thourat (de l'Allier),
Gustave de Beaumont, Dupin, Vaulabille, Odilon
Barrot, Pages (de l'Arriege), Dornes, and Con-

siderant.
M. CORMENIN is the political writer who, under
the signature ;of " Tirnon," has become so famous
for his sketches of the Members of the Chamber
of Deputies. ARMAND MARRAST, the Mayor of
Paris and a member of the late Provisional Govern•
meat, was, until the revolution of February, the
editor of the National. lie was the friend of AR-
MAND CARREL, and is distinguished by the same
manliness of character, honesty of purpose, and un-
swerving devotion to republican principles. La.-
MENNAIS, the celebrated author of the "Paroles d'un
Croyant," has been a priest, and under CHARLES X.
was one of the most intolerant and bigoted, but at
the same time the most talented and energetic

of the supporters of the parti-pretre. After the
revolution of 1830 he became an ultra-Republican,
and is now a Socialist. lie has, in fact, been
everything except an Orleanist. VIVIEN 13 an old
Deputy of the Centre-Gauche. TOCQUEVILLE is the
celebrated author of the " History of Democracy in

America." Of Dereues and of Dune we have
already spoken. MARTIN was a Member of the
Centre-Gauche in the old Chamber of Deputies. Co-
QUEREL is the celebrated Protestant minister of Paris,
and has since his election to the Assembly appeared
to attach himself to M. ODILON BARROT, who, he it
remembered, proposed the regency of the Duchess of
ORLEANS. M. Coanox is the editor of the Atelier,
and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Assembly. He
was most firm and courageous in his opposition to
the irruption of the Communists mob into the Cham-
ber on Monday. M. TUoURET is a lawyer. M.
GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT was an influential
member of the Centre-Gauche in the last
Chamber, and is the personal friend of
M. TRIERS. M. VAULABILLE is a man of Liberal
principles, who has acquired some celebrity by his
" History of Two Restorations." M. DORsES is one
of the most accomplished of the writers for the
National, and may be considered as a disciple of M.
ARMAND AIARRAST ; and M. VICTOR CONSIDEBANT,
the editor of the Democratic Pacifique, is the leader of
the Fourierists, a man of considerable talent, polished
manners, and who may be considered as the head of
the Peace Sccieties of France.
The Abbe LACORDAIRE, in his picturesque white
costume, no longer graces the Assembly by his pre-
sence. Finding his duties as a legislator incom-
patible with the proper performance of his clerical
, functions, he resigned his seat in the Assembly on
, Thursday.
Considerable blame has been thrown upon M.
BUCHEZ, the President of the Chamber, for his
apparently vacillating conduct in the presence of the
mob on Monday. In consequence of these imputetions, M. DEGOUSEE, one of the Questors of the
Chamber, has felt it his duty to address the following
letter to the editor of the Aational
Mr. Editor,—Several journals, ignorant no doubt of
the deplorable facts which occurred on the 15th, incri-
minate the conduct and the acts of the worthy President
of the National Assembly. The truth ought to be
known, and my duty is to explain it to you.
" As soon as the Chamber was entered by the rioters,
the President, finding that his orders had not been at-

tended to, gave me power to adopt measures to rescue
the Assembly.
" An hour afterwards I gave the President an account
of what I had done. I told him that our colleague M.
Perree, major of the esi arronlissement, was assembling
that legion and marching to the deliverance ot the
Assembly. I added, that I had given orders in all the
may pries to have the rappel beaten, and that the As-
sembly would soon be surrounded by sixty thousand
men. An hour passed over. I told the President that
he had only one thing to do—remain in his seat, tempo-
rise, and gain time. I told him that the heads of the
columns of National Guards were now in sight. The
tumult and disorder in the Chamber were now at its
height. A horrible attack might be committed. I re-
peated to the Citizen Bucher, that halt an hour more
was all that was wanted; that he might even give a
counter order, in order to satisfy the rioters, for that
the counter order would come too late to prevent the
arrangement which had been already taken. ' Are you
certain,' said the President, that all that you have
ordered has been executed ?' My reply was, • I am
certain of it,'
"You know, sir, how, in a few moments afterwards,
the President was violently thrust from his seat; how
the sitting was momentarily suspended. The President,
and the Vice-Presidents, and several Deputies, went to
the hotel of the President, in order to call for all the
national forces.
"M. Bucher and one of my colleagues went a few
minutes after to the Executive Committee to concert
with it relative to a meeting that night in some other
place if the crowd could not be expelled from the
Chamber.
The President on leaving had delegated full powers
to us, and we had used them with activity and energy.
e on my soul and my conscience, and as actor in and
witness of the facts which I point out to you, I declare
that the President did all that it was in human power to
do; I think that the Republic owes to his coolness and
his intelligence the termination of an attempt which,
had it succeeded, would have led to incalculable mis-
fortunes.
" The calm and dignified attitude of all the Repre-
sentatives powerfully seconded the will of the President.
(Signed) "DEGOUSEE, Questor."
The following is the official report of AI. ARMAND
INIARItAST, the Mayor of Paris, on the subject of the
attack on the Hotel de Ville on Monday. It is ad-
dressed to the Executive Committee :
" Citizens,—I now, in writing, agreeably to your de-
sire, give you the facts which I have communicated to
you verbally, of what took place at the Hotel de Ville
ou the 15th. I shall thus rectify many errors which
have been publicly reported.
" At the moment when the tribune of the Assembly
was invaded by the authors of a criminal attack against
the sovereignty of the people, I was informed that
they intended to proceed to the Hotel de Ville to pro-
claim a Provisional Government. My duty called me to
aly post, and I proceeded there. 1 arrived two hours
before the insurgents, and immediately ordered every
measure to be taken to prevent their entering. The
first legion of the National Guard was ordered to place
itself in column at the entrance of the place from the
quay, and the Colonel commanding at the hotel took
the necessary measures for its defence.
" The column of the people, preceded by their
standard, soon came in front of the ninth legion. They
announced that the Chamber had been disaolved, that
the Executive Government no longer existed, and that
the National Guard, the Garde Mobile, and the army,
had proclaimed a new Provisional Government. After
some parleyings, a shot was tired at the officer second
in command at the Hotel de Ville, who was at the head
of his legion, and who energetically refused a passage to
the rioters. The resistance of Commandant Beaumont
was not, unfortunately, seconded with sufficient unani-
mity. A.;chef de &Walton of the National Guard
ordered his men to unfit bayonets; the Colonel of the
9th hesitated, and unfortunately this momentous hesita-
tion was taken advantage of by the insurgents to gain
the place. My deputy, M. Adam, had gone round to
inspect the ditlisrem, entrances. lie returned to me, and
said that Culunel Rey, who was in command, would
have to answer for what he did, or fur what he
neglected to do. I must add that Col. Rey harangued
tne crowd for some time, addressing himself ni par-
ticular to Barbes, and refused to open the gates. A
few minutes after, however, they withdrew, the gates
were opened, and the crowd rushed'in. The leaders at
once cried out Where is Marrast? we must first get
rid of him.' I was at that moment in my cabinet,
which I had not quitted, accompanied by some members
of the Assembly, and protected by fifty men, resolved,
like myself, to resist by force, whatever might be the
issue of the struggle. The courts were filled by two or
three thousand people; they directed their steps towards
the room in which the deliberations were carried ou on
the 24th February, and they opened, in the midst of the
most indescribable tumult, a discussion on proper names.
" During this time I had given orders, by the ushers,
of the hotel, to the 6th and 7th legions to come, at'
double quick time, to the Hotel de Ville. I had signed
a proclamation which informed the National Guards of
the true state of affairs; I had written to you, citisens,
to demand fresh reinforcements, and to order those ar-
rangements which were necessary to turn out the mob,
which had not yet got into the hall, and to take into
custody others at a convenient time.
The legions arrived opportunely. Barbes and his
accomplices went into another room, which they bad
guarded by armed men. They showed themselves at
the windows to the crowd on the place, and we heard
cries of 'Vive Barbes,' Vive Louis Blanc,' Vive
Albert.' General Foucher soon after came into my
room, followed by his staff. I ordered him immediately
to bring in his battalions of the National Guard and the
Garde Mobile, and to begin by clearing the courts and
the staircases of the crowd, at the same time that he
surrounded the room in which the leaders of the move-
ment were assembled. My deputy, M. Adam, went him-
self into that room, and made the first arrest. Orders
were immediately given not to allow any one to leave
the hotel, and to guard all the outlets by which Barbes,
Albert, and the others might attempt to escape.
e Citizens Lamartiue and Ledru Rollin arrived at this
moment at the Hotel de Ville, and were soon after fol-
lowed by General Clement Thomas. Officers of the
National Guard declared to us that they would take on
themselves to arrest every one who had invaded the
hotel ; but as there were several of them Members of
the Assembly, a written order would be necessary.
That order was signed by me, and by the two above-
named members of the Executive Committee. The
commandant of the Bth bsttaliou had already arrested
Barbes. The superior officers of the artillery and of
the National Guard secured Albert, and every one used
the most energetic efforts that those Deputies should
But experience any rouge treatment from those whose
indignation had been justly roused by their conduct. At
the same time search was made in the Hotel, and 150
other individuals arrested. This number was increased
in the evening to wore than 200.
" You see, citizens, that if by an act of Ns eakness, or of
complicity—by a fault or by a crime—the insurgents
were able to instal themselves in one of the rooms of the
Hotel de Ville, they were not for an instant masters of
the place. I never ceased to command there, and to give
orders; and the doubts which had for a moment beea
thrown on the minds of a -small body of the National
Guards having been removed, my deputy and myself
had thus nothing to call our attention from securing the
arrest of the guilty,
" I think it right atondadspa
the 9th Regiment, of whom I have spoken above, has
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sent me his resignation. I have also received those of
Colonel Yautiez, and of au ensign named Suery. As to
Colonel Rey and his agent, they have been placed under
arrest. " AIeMAND MARRASI'.
.. May 18."
The last garrison of the Caussidiere Guards has
surrendered, and the Temple is at the present mo-
ment occupied by the National Guards.
among the papers seized at Sonatas's are some
drafts of decrees, purporting to issue from the Com-
mittee of Public Safety :___.
" FIRST DECREE•
"In the name of the regenerate people of Paris,
foander of the
,Republic in February and May, 1848,
the Committee of Public Safety declares—
.. Text the National Assembly, composed in great part
of reactionaries, hes violated its trust.
.. That it has squandered precious time, while the
misery of the people required prompt measures.
e That it refused to create a Ministry of Labour.
"That it amassed arms in the house fur its defence
when it should, have depended oa mural influence de-
rivedin Paris, and accorded
eleut the power of convoking them and the
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judicial powers, and gives the police into the hands of
the working classes,
as well as magisterial functions.
The bourgeoise are forbidden to appear in uniform
or in arms.
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to 3 600 francs,
francs for 1,000 250
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when the contribution
progressive scale. A similar decree
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according to a Pr
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which he says that he hasagain found refuge in that
asylum which for seventeen years she itered him from
publish a letter from

Royalist persecutions. It is reported that he has
been seen in Brussels.
General CouRTAIS has been removed to the Petit
Luxembourg.
LOUIS BLANC has, by permission of the Govern-
ment, had several interviews with ALBERT at Vin-

cennes.
The preparations for the file in the Champ de
lars were resumed on Wednesday. It is said to be
the positive intention of the Executive Government
that the file shall take place on Sunday next.
The Censtitutionnel says—
" M. Trous,4 Chauvel, who has just been appointed by
the Government to the post of Prefect of Police, was
mayor of Le Mans at the time the Duke de Nemours
passed through that town, and was immediately removed
from his situation in consequence of the bold but very
candid speech which be made on the occasion; and to which
the Duke answered by saying, that he would receive
compliments but not lessons from a mayor. To this dry
observation M. Trou%l Chauvel replied, It is the duty
of a prince to listen to the truth.' M. Trouv‘: Chauvel,
who is an old Republican, has lately filled the office of
Commissary-General in the departments )f the Sarthe,
the Maine-et. Loire, and the Mayenue; he has been able,
by the vigour of his character anti the probity of his
conduct, to maintain peace, good order, and confidence
in those departments. He was unanimously elected to
the National Assembly by the department of the Sarthe.
The choice of the Executive Committee cannot fail to
be generally commended. M. Trouve Chauvel is already
installed at the Prefecture, and M. Cuussidiare imme-
diately offered to put him au courant with all the affairs
of the office."
The .Reforme states that the strangest reports have
Ran current in Paris within the last few days.
Amongst others, it is said that the Duke de Boa-
DEAUX has been seen in the faubourg St. Germain.
It it added that Prince Louis NAPOLEON has again
quitted England to return to Paris. It was like-
wise asserted that General COURTAIS is a Legitimist
in disguise.
The Committee of Labour met yesterday morning
It decided that the members of the bureau should not
perform their functions longer than to June 1. M.
CoRDoN was named President ; M. TOURUET, Vice-
President ; M. DEMESMAT, Secretary ; and M. As-
TOUIN, Vice Secretary. The Committee also decided
that it would meet every day at ten o'clock, and that
the Minister of Public Works and the Director of
the National Workshops should be summoned before
it this day. It also adapted the following resolu-
tions :-1. That one or several sub-committees
should be formed to examine and report on all the
communications sent in. 2. That it should call suc-
cessively before it all persons likely from their posi-
tion to throw light on the question of the organiza-
tion of labour.
The Moniteur contains a very long report from
the Minister of Finance on the project for the re-
purchase of all the railroads. We have only room to
give the the important point. The price of purchase
is proposed to be the average quotation during the
six months preceding the Revolution of February
(24th August, 1847, to 24th February, 1848), and
the holders will receive in payment Fire per Cent.
Stock, also at the average price during the same
period. The report concludes by proposing the fol-
lowing project of law :
" Art. 1. The resumption by the state of the posses-
sion of railways conceded to financial companies, ante-
riorly to the 24th February, 1848, is declared of public
u

.qty.
" Art. 2. The Minister of Finances is authorised to
execute this measure, reserving the indemnity stipulated

in Art. 3.
" Art. 3. The resumption of possession of the different
railways will take piece in the following conditiuns,
viz.

" FIRST CATEGORY.
" Railway of Paris to Saint Germain.
Paris to Versailles (Right Bank).
Paris to Versailles (Left Bank).
Strasburg to Bale.
Paris to Orleans and Corbeil.
Paris to Rouen.
Rouen to Havre.
Montereau to Troyes.
Avignon to Marseilles.
Amiens to Boulogne.
Paris to the frontier of Belgium, with the
branches to Saiat Quentin, Calais, and
Dunkirk.
Orleans to Vierson.
Orleans to Bordeaux.
Paris to Strasburg.
Paris to Lyons.
Tours to Nantes.
" The value of these different railways will be esta-
blished according to the average quotation of their
shares on the Paris Bourse, during the six months pre-
ceding the revolution of the 24th of February (from the
24th August, 1847, to 24th February, 1848). In ex-
change for their shares, the shareholders will receive
Coupons de Rentes Five per Cents., quotation for quo-
tation, according to the average quotation on the
Bourse of Paris during the same six months above spe-
cified.

"SECOND CATEGORY.
" Railway of Andreceux to Roanne.
Lyons to St. Etienne.
The Grand Cotnbe to Alais and Beaucaire.
Abscun and d'Ausin to Denain and

Son:min.
Montpellier to Cette.
Mulhouse to Thaw).
Bordeaux to La Teste.
Dieppe to Rouen.
" For this category the Minister of Finance is autho-
rised to treat with each company separately. The
treaties must be submitted to the sanction of the Na-

tional Assembly.
Art. 4. The companies with whom the Minister of
Finances shall think fit to negotiate, can in a general
meeting of shareholders, convoked for that purpose,
accept by a majority of votes the proposed conditions
of the Ministers, and thus bind the whole of the share-

holders.
" Art. 5. A sum of renter equal to the ♦aluation of
the yailways bought shall be inscribed in the Great Book

of the Public Debt.
" Art. 6. The State, taking the place of the companies,
will reimburse their bunds and loans according to the

conditions agreed on with the lenders.
" Art. 7. The necessary expenses for the carrying on
the railway works by the State, which, according to
previous laws, ought to have been executed by the com-
panies, are placed provisionally to the charge of the

floating debt: _
" Art. 8. The Ministers of Finance and Public Works
are respectively charged with the execution of the pro-

sent decree. -
" Done in Council.
" The Members of the Executive Commission—
" AItAGO, GARNIER PIOES, MARIE, LAMARTINE,
LEDRU-ROLLIN.
" Minister of Finance,

E. DUCLERC."

We cannot believe that the National Assembly
will countenance such an act of spoliation in
regard to the lines not yet in operation, which
over-speculation had brought down to ruinous prices
for the holders, and when, to render their position
still worse, they would have to receive stock which
they could now purchase for rather more than half
the price at which it would be given to them by the
Government ; whereas, on the other hand, share-
holders had every reason to hope that on the opening
of the lines prices would recover to, if not go higher
than, par, and meanwhile were receiving 4 per cent.
interest.
The following further details respecting the events
of Monday have been obtained. When the head of
the insurgent column reached the Hotel de Ville, the
Republican guard prepared to resist, but, after some
conversation with Colonel REY and the garrison, the
gates were opened, and the hotel was invaded. A
person who was half. spectator, half actor, gives the
following particulars :
" The invaders immediately set to work to draw up
lists of the new Government without thinking of
anything else. Two young men were so engaged, when
an empluyi entered and asked them with a great as-
sumption of dignity what right they had to be there?
They answered that they were there on the part of
the people, that the National Assembly was dissolved,
and that hey were concocting a Provisional Govern-
ment. At the same moment a number of the insurgents
rushed into the room, whereupon the poor employe
turned very pale and stammered—' Ah! gentlemen, you
are exercising your right, you may continue but no
notice was taken of him. Barbes was worn out by the
fatigue and emotions of the day. He asked for some-
thing, and a person connected with the Hotel brought
him a bottle of Bordeaux and a glass. He took a glass,
and went into an adjoining room with several other per-
sons to draw up a proclamation. Lists of the new Go.
vernment were thrown out of the windows, and the
people shouted—' Vire Bartits !' but so little was public
opinion with us that many made sarcasms on the names.
When an officer of the staff arrived announcing that the
National Assembly was re-established, the crowd which
had just cried—' Vive Barbis !' shouted—' Viva l'As-
sembli:,* Nationale "
Many persons escaped from the Hotel—M. Millar'.
himself enabled two students to do so. When the
National Guard entered the Hotel de Ville, some of
the insurgents protested in the name of the people,
but they were soon put down by threats, and cries of
—" Vive l'Assemblee Nationale !" One of the
National Guards, not knowing exactly in what posi-
tion things were, said that the reason why the new
Provisional Government was not approved by public
opinion was that the name of M. LAMARTINE did not
appear in the lists. "Oh ! there is no objection to
that!" said one, "we will add it !" and taking a pen
he wrote the name. The list then stood thus—
Lamartine, Louis Blanc, Ledru-Rollin, Raspail,
Barbel, Blangui, Cauesidilre, EtienneArago, Albert,

Hubert, Sobrier, Lagrange. The following document
was found :
" The Provisional Government, taking into conside-
ration the wish of the people, declares that it will imme-
diately notify to the Russian and German Governments
the order to reconstitute Poland, and if they do not do
it, the Government of the French Republic will imme-
diately declare war against them.
" The Members of the Provisional Government.
" Paris, 15th May, 1848."
This document bears the stamp of the Mairie of Paris,
but is not signed.
When the President of the Assembly was driven
from the chair, about 50 Deputies met in the salon
of the President to organize resistance. Several
representatives proposed that the Assembly should
retire to the provinces, but M. LE FALLOUX declared
with energy that such an insult ought net to be made
to the Parisian population before appealing to it, and
that the Garde Mobile, who were before the windows,
should be called on. Not being able to persuade his
colleagues to adopt this opinion, M. DE FALLoux
leaped from the window, followed by M. DAMPIERRE
and M. KERDREL, and, addressing the comman-
dant of the Garde Mobile, Called on him to protect the
Assembly. The mobile answered with acclamations.
M. DE FALLOUX then hastened to the side of the
quay, where he met M. WOLOWSIEL They both then
informed the National Gnards that the Assembly did
not consider itself dissolved, and appealed to them for
protection, which the National Guards immediately

promised
On Monday a number of little scraps of paper
with the inscriptions, " Let us commit incendiarism '
Let us burn until we shall have obtained the division
of lands 1" were found on the Boulevard Montmartre.
Other scraps were found in different parts of Paris,
and even in the interior of the Assembly, with the
inscription, " Money is no longer current in France.
Every private property is declared national property.
Family is abolished. A tax of 500,000,0001. is im-
posed on the infamous town of Paris."
The Northern Railway continues to be protected
by 6,000 troops of the line and 2,000 Gardes Mobiles.
A company of the National Guard of the Banlieu,
which also did service there, has been dismissed.
On Wednesday Lyons was thrown into alarm by
the intelligence that the Faubourg 'of Bresse was
barricaded, and that the workmen of the national
workshops, all armed and provided with ball-
cartridges, were in insurrection against the
authorities of the Republic. It appears that
several workmen had been arrested for seizing
and burning some articles belonging to a manufac-
turer. The next morning a body of workmen waited
on M. MARTIN BERNARD, the Government commis-
sary, to demand their release. This was refused.
Some commissaries of police and gendarmes having
gone to make new arrests, the workmen seized them,
and declared that they would detain them until their
own comrades should be released. They then con-
structed two barricades, leaving, however, a sufficient
space for vehicles to pass, and the barricades were
guarded by armed men. Subsequently, however,
they were removed ; but when the last accounts came
away two numerous corps de garde were established
one near the entrance of the Faubourg, the other

lower down.
The Presse says :
"On Monday a party of National Guards of the
12th Legion presented themselves at the Mairie of the
12th Arrondissement, and demanded cartridges;
but, as the rn, n who made this demand were
persons wishing for order, M. Boquet, the deputy-mayor,
and the great friend of Bart 4, refused to give them. At
ten o'clock the same night, M. Boquet was seen in the
Rue Saint Jacques escorted by ten men, each carrying a
basket of cartridges. During the day, M. Boquet tore
up the order which he had received to have the rappel
beaten. It was Captain Mery who caused that to be
done, in spite of the authorities at the Mairie. It was
also Captain Mery who was ordered to arrest Boquet,
who has, it is said, been lodged in the Luxembourg.'
We read in the Droll:—
It appears that the late manifestation, which has
Inded so disastrously for the conspirators, was origi-
zany fixed for the 12th or 13th, it being wished
that it should correspond witk the anniversary
of the insurrection of the 12th of May, 1839, at the
head of which were 13artire and Blanqui. But the pre-
parations were not complete, as the expected reinforce-
ments from the provinces had not arrived. Consequently
the manifestation was postponed till the 15th. The
plan for the insurrection of Monday last was perfectly
combined. At the moment of the departure of the
so-called Polish manifestation, and during its
passage from the Bastille to the Madeleine,
a certain number of persons more intimately
initiated in the plot took a more direct route,
and, to avoid the Pont de la Rivolution, proceeded
in small groups of two or three each along the quays
on the left bank of the river. Arriving in the place de
la rue de Bourgogne h,ng before the column coming by
the Boulevarts, they took possession of the court-yard of
the Assembly, and sent pretended delegates into the hall
of sitting. Others in much greater numbers, remarked
for the ardour of their communist opinions, remained in
the purlieus of the Hotel de Ville, waiting for the procla-
mation and arrival of the new Provisional Government."
The funeral of the National Guards killed in the
Passage Moliere, on Monday, took place on Thursday,
and was attended by a deputation from the National
Assembly. M. CORMENIN pronounced a panegyric
over their grave.
The Assembly met yesterday at half-past one, and
the early part of the morning was consumed in
listening to the personal explanations of M. Bucuzz,
M. ETIENNE Aascio, and other officers of the
Assembly and the Government in relation to the
events of Monday. The discussion, which was
assuming a very acrimonious character, was brought
to a conclusion by
General Clement Thomas, who expressed his annoy-
ance at finding honourable citizens who had shown
marks of courage and devotedness in the trying circum-
stances of May 1.5 exposed to calumnies. He should
not pursue the subject, but would conclude by moving
an address from the Colonels of the eighteen Legions of
Paris, and the banlieur, in reply to the vote of thanks
passed to them by the National Assembly. The Gallant
Member then read the address which is of a most loyal
character, and expressing a firm determination to put
down all perfidious attempts at re-action.—(Loud cheers
followed the reading of the address.)
The Chamber then passed with acclamation the order
of the day, and the matter ended.
After some discussion the draft of a proclamation to
the French people from the National Assembly was
voted.
The Minister of Finance presented two Bills, to close
the accounts of the budgets of 1846 and 1847.
M. Vivien stated that the Committee on the standing
orders were of opinion that, in the case of Bills presented
by the Government, it was nut necessary to insist on the
24 hours' notice, which was imperatively demanded for
propositions or Bills from other Members.
The Minister of the Interior presented two Bills—one
demanding 500,000 f. for hospitals and other charitable
institutions; and the second a Bill authorising certain
works to be commenced, and departments to meet the
wants of the labouring classes. He took that occasion
to declare that the capital was perfectly tranquil, and
that the population was actuated by the best possible
spirit towards the National Assembly.—(Hear, hear.)
In answer to a question from an Hon. Member, the
same Minister declared that the state of Limoges was
now improved, as the population was employed and
order re-established.
The Assembly then proceeded to ballot for two Members
to fill the vacant places of Vice-President.
BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, MAY 19.

THREE o'CLocx.—The Railway Bill presented by the
Government is considered rather better than was to be
expected, and has had a rather favourable effect on the
price of shares. The Rentes are steady, but ♦ery little
business has been done.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. MAT 19.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Dutch Rhenish, %—Namur
and Liege, 3%—Northern of Fraace, 4.

IRELAAD.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING

The Dublin Police Commissioners have issued a
cautionary proclamation against the assemblage of
processions in the streets.
It is stated that the confederate clubs are to defy
the authorities, and march to-night.
The Government have made arrangements to en-
force the proclamation, and a collision is apprehended.

HATMARICET TLIEATRE.—Those popular and ac-
complished artists, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, return
to the Haymarket boards for a brief period. They re-
appear on Monday in Mr. Lovell's effective play, The
Wife's Secret, which made .so decided a hit as to be
played every night of the Keans' last engagement. Sir
Bulwer Lytton's comedy, Money, is, we believe, in prepa-
ration fur them. Mr. Kean will be the Evelyn, and Mrs.
Kean the Clara Douglas—much of the old cast being
also re-arranged for the play.
ACCIDENT AT A PIANOFORTR MAXElell.—Yester-
day Mr. W . Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, on the body of Thomas Loncall, aged 19. The
deceased was an apprentice to Mr. Cadby, the pinano-
forte maker, of Liquorpond-street, and whilst standing
at work in the factory on Wednesday last one of the
racks filled with timber gave way and buried him under
it. He expired on Thursday last from the effects of the
injury received. The jury, therefore, returned a ver-
dict of accidental death, with a recommendation that the
frames or racks should be made stronger in future. The
foreman of the factory undertook to have the recom-
mendation of the jury attended to.