The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-23 00:00:00

SAXON Y.

New and more serious riots took place at Dresden
on the 15th of March. The troops refused to fire on
the people. The civic guard cleared the streets. Ener-
getic measures have been taken to prevent the return
of the disorders. It was stated at Liepsic that a
new Ministry had been formed, composed of M.
BRAUN, Minister of Justice and of Religion ; Von
DER PFORDTEN, Minister of Interior and Foreign
Affairs ; GREGORY, of Finances ; Count of HoL-
XIINDORPP, of War. Some of these nominations
are provisional. This Ministry announced that no
extraordinary Diet is to be convoked on the 20th of
March, and that they agreed with the KING about
the following points :—The soldiers are to swear on
the Saxon constitution ; abolition for ever of the cen-
sorship ; a law establishing the liberty of the press,
with abolition of privileges and bails ; introduction of
trial by jury, and reformation of the system of law-
suits on the basis of publicity and orality of the de-
bates ; right of association ; equality of public creeds;
energetic co-operation for obtaining a popular repre-
sentation near the Germanic Diet.

On the reception of the Viennese events at Leipsic,
the town was spontaneously illuminated, and an ad-
dress of sympathy was sent to Vienna. It was said
also that the troops concentrated around Leipsic were
to be called back.

THE FRENCII REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The National publishes a long article, which may
be taken to be official, urging the Provisional Govern-
ment to hasten forward the elections for the National
Assembly without delay, and showing that any post-
ponement will cilly give time to the intriguers who
have merely " accepted" the Republic as a "fait
accompli" to ripen their plans for retrogradation.
There is every probability, therefore, that the elec-
tions will not be further postponed.
We mentioned yesterday that a deputation of
Savoyards had presented an address to the Provi-
sional Government ; that address contained the follow-
ing remarkable passage :
" Separated by the treaties of 1815, Savoy calmly and
patiently resigned itself to its fate. But every year
numerous emigrants sought in France the material, in-
tellectual, and moral resources they could not find in
their own country. The fraternal reception they have
always met with, the benevolent protection which has
been constantly accorded to them, must needs have in-
spired them with the sentiment that France had remained
a second country to them.
" The geographical position of Savoy, which makes
it a natural frontier of France, the language of its in-
habitants, their character, their manners, and their na-
tionility, which they have taken care to preserve intact
and distinct from the other parts of the Sardinian Go-
vernment, all conspire to bring to the remembratme of
the immense majority of the people of Savoy, that
formerly their country formed the departments of Mont-
Blanc and of Leman.b
M. LAMARTINE in reply said,

" In receiving your adhesion to the Republic, the
Provisional Government believes it is receiving the
homage of a part of the French nation. With respect
to the adhesion that you express to the French nation,
you comprehend your own sentiments. If we repel it,
we should chill our own affections; if we accept it, we
break peace and alliance with the people and Govern-
ments of Europe. Therefore we have said it—and we
wish the words of the Republic to be words of truth—
we will not break the peace of the world. But if, in-
dependent of us, the peace of the world should be
broken by an attempt upon the independence of Italy,
we will fly to your assistance, we would deliver Italy
and join our flag with yours; and if afterwards the map
of Europe should be torn against our will, be convinced,
citizens of Savoy, that a fragment of this map would re-
main in your hands and in ours, and that we would
place the weight of your hearts in the scales in which
the territories of the new European equilibrium would
be weighed."

The National has the following pungent remarks
on the manner in which the English aristocratical and
Orleanist journals have noticed the French Revo-
lution :

" The aristocracy of England is out of humour. What
is passing here astonishes and alarms it. Let the mise-
ries of the working classes be relieved ; but to imagine
them fraught with understanding, to call upon them to
deliberate upon their interests, to acknowledge them to
possess political rights—is what was never before heard of
—it is monstrous? What! within one month, no more, we
see in France, seven leagues from Old England, a work-
man seated in the National Assembly by the aide of a
gentleman I This is a complete overthrow of all pre-
conceived ideas I It is the abomination of desolation.
What, good God, will happen, if, by chance; the work-
man proves that he is imbued with ideas and information
fuller of practical knowledge than those of the gentle-
man What an example for John Bull The English
aristocracy, therefore, feels itself threatened. It has
become disturbed and indignant 1 Its wounded pride
affects its head, and fear disturbs its brain. This is
all simple enough, and we are not surprised at the ma-
levolence with which some of its journals treat the
events the consequences of which they are well aware
of. All that passes here they turn into burlesque—they
pervert words into false meanings—they denaturalise
acts—they calumniate persons."

The Constitutionnel publishes the following strange
paragraph :—" Private letters from Copenhagen, of
the date of the 14th of March, state that as a Russian
fleet was expected to pass the Sound, in order to go
into the Mediterranean to render assistance by force
of arms to the King of NAPLES, the Danes are
actively employed in diliwing pieces of artillery from
the arsenal and mounting them, intending to dispute
the passage with the Russians. An English fleet was
expected hourly at Elsinore, a fortified port situated
at the narrowest part of the Oresond, where it is
probably arrived by this time, with the same object
in view, viz., to prevent the passage of the Russian
fleet."

The financial crisis still continues, and several fresh
failures were announced yesterday.
Letters have been received in Paris from Gallicia
which state that a general insurrection of the whole
of Austrian Poland was imminent.

Intelligence has been received from Algeria to the
13th. The colony was perfectly tranquil.
It was rumoured an the Bourse yesterday that the
Government had determined to take possession of all
the railways, and to make an equitable arrangement
with the shareholders A deputation, consisting of
the directors of several railways, and, among others,
of the Paris and Lyons, had yesterday an interriew