The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-29 00:00:00

HURSDA Y EVENING, JUNE 29, 1840.

M.
Sarrans ascended the tribune and was about to
speak, when
Several voices exclaimed, "No discussion ! No dis-
cussion !"
M. Sarrans—l admire the courage of the National
Guard, and of the army, and I execrate the criminal at-
tempt which has been the cause of so much bloodshed,
but I protest against the wholesale proscription which is
now about to be practised. Let us not forget what tools
place during the first revolution—also in an evening sit-
ting—the Assembly voted a severe punishment, en
nhzese, on those who had violated the sanctity of its
place of meeting ; and when the sentence had been car-
ried into execution, discovered that it was the Repub-
licans who had been struck, whereas it was the Royalists
that ought to have been proceeded against.—(Murmurs.)
M. Pierre Leroux—l considered this measure to be
One of extraordinary gravity. It concerned a great
number of persons, and yet the Assembly is acting un-
der the influence of passion. When I asked my fellow-
citizens to nominate me a representative, I did not sup
pose I was coming to an Assembly moved by its personal
feelings of resentment, but to a legislative council.—
(Violent murmurs.) Look at the situation which you
make for those who are occupied with the social ques-
tion; you declare, " No concessions to insurrection; no
discussion after the victory."—(Agitation.) You are 900
in number, but you will never have any wisdom in your
deliberation.—.(Interruption.) Here are five days that
civil war has been raging—do you suppose that they
who caused it were cool-headed—were in their senses?
(Oh, oh.) No, that is impossible; consult medical men,
consult physiologists—and they will tell you that it is
impossible. Here we have amongst us more than one
minister of religion, and not one of them has ever asked
to speak on the subject which occupied us all; but you
are not an assembly of grave men; you do not really
study the question.—(Loud interruption, loud cries of
" Order, order.") The decision which you have to
come to is the more grave, that the causes of this hor-
rible civil war are but imperfectly known. Why, I
again ask, have not the men of religion amongst you
spoken?
A Voice—And the Archbishop of Paris!
M. Pierre Leroux—No, we have not heard the men of
the gospel!—(lnterruption.)
A Voice—They have acted.
Another Voice—And been killed!
M. Pierre Leroux—l am told he is dead; they have
acted! I admire that martyr, and bless him with all
my heart. Yes, they have acted, but they have not
spoken, because they could not do so with any consis-
tency in an assembly which is wanting in coolness and
wisdom.-- (Rent-wed interruption.)
The President—The Hon. Representative fails in re-
spect to the Assembly--I call him to order.
From various parts—" No! no! recall him to reason!"
M. Pierre Leroux—With these interruptions you
render it impossible for me to continue; and it you do
not permit rue to speak according to my conscience, I
must send in my resignation.—(l-ter.ewed interruption;
the House being evidently tired of toe Honourable Gen-
tleman.) Ho went on to say that the Assembly ought
to take into consideration the sincerity of the men who
fought amongst the insurgents. He then spoke of the
corruption and selfishness which he said existed par:-
ticularly amongst the upper classes of society, and
which he attributed to the inequality of property.
He inquired if the Republic was to last, and replied that
it must continue; or, if not, France must cease, after
such violent changes as had taken place, to hold her
rank amongst nations. lie concluded a long and Nery
discursive speech, which was evidently distasteful to the
Assembly, by declaring that he should propose an amend-
ment.

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spoken in a direct manner against the decree, but had
attacked the Assembly and society in general for the late
dreadful insurrection. To reply to him was in fact im-
possible, and consequently he should propose to the
House to close the discussion.— (" Yes, yes," from the
greater part of the Assembly.)
The President—l shall now put that question.—(Cries
from the left of "No, no." "We have not all received
the report.")
The President—Notice was given early in the day that
the document could be received at seven o'clock.
Some confusiou ensued, but afterwards the Assembly
decided that the general discussion was closed. The
articles were then brought forward.
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exercised. He understood perfectly well the feeling of
mingled sorrow and indignation which actuated the per-
sons whose friends had perished; but were there not
others who had also, in the course of their lives, suffered
equally? Had not he who now spoke to them lost a
brother, who fell pierced with sixty-four bayonet
wounds?—(At Lyons we think it was in 1832)—still I
should not, said the Hon. Representative, even when my
affliction was the deepest, have allowed myself to be
mastered by passing what the Assembly seems inclined
to do at present. call on ye,u not to act when in your
present state of irritation. We ought not to vote as we
are disposed at present, we ought to respect (Great
tumult.)
A Voice—Respect what?
M. Caussidiere—Justice!
The same Voice—No, but assassins! That is what
you want.—(Great agitation).
M. Caussidiere—Let it not be said that they were
acting as if through a hatred of humanity.—(ol3, oh!)
I must declare that the insurrection has been made in
the name of the democratic and social Republic; these
three words I acknowledge alto as my creed. Yes,
there are amongst them assassins—there are amongst
them men who have distributed money, but there are
also men of perfect sincerity,
.whose ideas have carried
them too far—men whose brain was turned.—(oh, oh!
interruption.)
A Voice—There were poisoned balls, too!
M. Caussidiere—You are told, It you do not remove
or kill these men, others will kill them." Such an ob-
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to the curse he was about to utter, stopped short, amidst
a burst of indigcant disgust from every part of the As-
sembly. Great tumult arose, and cries of " Such lan-
guage does not suit the tribunes.'" burst forth.]
A Voice—Use that language in the clubs.
M. Caussidiere-1 say that there has been exaggera-
tion of ideas, passion, and conflict, all from a maunder-
standing.—(lnterruption.) I say that there has been
error.—(Rene wed interruption.)
A Voice—What, you term murder an error
M. Caussidere—Yes, there was error in the origin.
Feb.l The Republic was not placed on 2 5 on
,a proper
basis. Preserve your prisoners, and if you fear to see
them shot by the people, defend them. It will be enough
to place the scarf of a representative at the door to pre-
vent the people or the National Guard from giving way
to excesses.—(Cries of "Order, order:.')
A Voice—The President is wanting in his duty in
allowing the National Guard to be thus insulted.

M. Caussidiere—l only mean to observe that I know
the National Guard too well to fear anything from that
body. I ought to know them, for they gave me an im-
mense number of votes.
A Voice—Ay, but they would not give any to, you
now.

M. Caussidiere—l respect the utility of the National
Guard, and I have no fear of any attack being made on
the prisoners. After the victory humanity resumes its
right.

The President—Now that the Hon. Representative
has completed his phrase, is is evident that it is most

Assembly, were on Monday at their own
request, sent to the scene of combat. Their mili-
tary bearing excited the admiration of the National
Guard and of the army. The detachments
of the Garde. Mobile arrived successively at the As-
sembly, carrying the flags they had taken from the
barricades of the Faubourg St. Antoine. General
REY halted the detachments before the gates of the
Chamber, and afterwards conducted those young
men to the President and to General CAVAIGNAC,
who praised them in the warmest manner for their
courage. One of them, belonging to the battalion
of the Marine Mobile Guard, was recognised by
several representatives as having displayed extraor-
dinary courage in the attack of the Place de la
Bastille. Another Garde Mobile, a boy between
16 and 17, named DELRAY, of the 9th battalion, was
mentioned to the President for having himself cap-
tured five insurgents, five muskets, and five flags, on
different barricades in the Rue de Reuilly. Being
taken ill when at the Palace, he could not go to the
President. The President, accordingly, went to him,
and, kissing him with great warmth, said, " Since
you cannot wait on the President, the President of
the National Assembly waits on you !" On the
Boulevard, another Garde Mobile, also bearing a flag,
wept when military honours were paid to him.
The quantity of ammunition and arms seized in
the Faubourg St. Antoine has been enormous. It
was to the inhabitants of this faubourg that LEDRU
ROLLIN distributed arms during the time that he was
Minister of the Interior.
We resume the report of the sitting of the National
Assembly on Tuesday from The Sun of yesterday.
The sitting was resumed at half-past eight. The at-
tendance of representatives was exceedingly great, and
the public tribunes were crowded.
The President—l have to read to the Assembly two
letters which I have received since we last met. This
is the first:—
" Monsieur le President,—l deeply regret to have to
announce to you that the representative of the Haute
Loire, M. Charbonnel, my relation, died of his wounds—
(Sensa -A,a; marks of griefi)—at a quarter to six o'clock."
[The signature to this letter was not named.] This is
the other:—" Monseigneur the Archbishop of Paris ex-
pired to-day, at four in the afternoon. He had become
insensible for Some time, but recovered his senses a little
before his death. He was able to address his clergy,
who were round his bed, to recommend them to redouble
their zeal and devotedness in their mission of zeal and
self-denial, and to pray to God that his blood might be
the last shed in France in such circumstances "—(Pro-
longed movement, general marks of regret.)
The discussion on the Transportation Bill was then
brought in.

offensive to the National Guard. In consequence, I call
him to order.—(Approbation.)
M. Caussidiere—l demand from the Assembly a more
cool and reserved investigation than it now appears in-
clined to grant. I demand that Commissioners be named
to inquire separately if there he good reason fur trans-
porting such or such a citizen.
M. Vivien, the president of the Committee on the
Bill, said that he understood that there were a number
of amendments, many recommending the employment, at
least partially, of the usual forms of justice. With the
number of prisoners already taken between five
thousand and six thousand—ghat course would be impos-
sible to make use of the usual forms of justice. All that
could be done was to examine most carefully whether
the persons in custody had heen guilty of the culpable
acts attributed to them. The prisoners were to be con-
sidered as prisoners of war—(Yes, yes)—and ought to
be punished as such. They were, in fact, political pri-
soners, and ought to be, in consequence, specially pro-
vided for. It was, in fact, that consideration which had
caused the Committee to change the usual word deporles
into that of transporlds, which would include the idea
of civil death, like the other. It was, in fact, necessary
to remove these men from the country if it was intended
to prevent a recurrence of similar dreadful convulsions
hereafter.—(Hear )
A vast number of amendments were proposed, but
the following were the only ones adopted. On Article
l it was decided that the date for the individuals found
with arms in their hands should be on and after the 23d
of June, in place of the 22d ; that " they should be
proved to have been concerned in the insurrection ;"
and, lastly, that " their wives and children should be
allowed to accompany them."
This last amendment proceeded from M. Leroux.
For Art. •2 it was decided that " the investigations
commenced before the courts-martial should pursue
their course, even after the state of siege had ceased to
exist ;" that "to have distributed arms or ammuni-
tion ;" and that " such liberated or escaped convicts as
had taken part in the insurrection " should be included
in the cases to which the article applies.
On Arts. 3 and 4 of the Bill no change was effected,
and the measure was thus adopted with only three or
tour dissentient voices.
The moment the President had declared the Bill to
have passed,
General Cavaignac ascended the tribune, and said—
The authority which the National Assembly had in-
trusted to five persons, having, from exceptional circum-
stances, been committed to one, and the insurrection
which led to that decision having ceased, I have the
honour of informing the Assembly that to-morrow at
the opening of the sitting I shall remit into its hands the
extraordinary powers which I have held for some days.
—(Cries of No, no, it is too soon.")
Great agitation followed this announcement, the As-
sembly appearing quite horror-struck at the prospect of
being thus left to itself.
General Cavaignac again ascended the tribune, and
said—The Republic ought to be jealous of according its
power; tut also each man here ought to be jealous to
show that he does not desire it longer than circumstances
require.—(Loud approbation.)
The President then announced that the representa-
tives were to be present the next day under the peristyle
of the Palace to pass in review the National Guards
from the country.
The public sitting would be resumed at twelve o'clock.
The representatives then withdrew in great agitation
at a quarter past twelve.
ELECTION OF GENERAL CAVAIGNAC AS
PRESIDENT.

There were various rumours current as to the
formation of the new Executive Government, and
various lists of the new Ministry handed about. The
question has, however, been set at rest by the As-
sembly, in its sitting of yesterday, at which Gene-
ral CAVAIGNAC resigned his extraordinary powers as
head of the Executive Power, whereupon the Assem-
bly passed him a vote of thanks by acclamation.
The Ministers then tendered their resignations, which
were accepted ; and a decree was passed confiding
to General CAVAIGNAC the Executive power, with
the title of President of the Council, and with power
to appoint his own Ministers.
The Committee of the National Assembly to in-
quire into the causes of the insurrections of the
15th of May and the 23d of June, sit daily, and
from the names of which it is composed, the in-
quiry is likely to be a sifting one. The following
are the members of the Committee :—MM. Pou-
geard, Waldeck Rousseau, De Larcy, Delespaul,
Woirhaye, Landrin, 0. Barrut, Beaumont (de la
Somme), Goudchaux, Flandin, Bouchart, De Mor •
nay, Dahirel, -,Lanjuinais, and Latrade. M. Odilon
Barrot is president of the Committee, and M.
Wiorhaye secretary. The Committee proceeds
with great activity. On Tuesday it issued a cir-
cular to all the provinces of the Republic throughout
France, calling upon them to send, as soon as pos-
sible, all telegraphic dispatches which they have
received, every document and order for Govern-
ment which may be in their hands, and, in short, an
account of every political fact, within their knowledge
that can by any possibility have any reference to the
insurrections.
The Siecle, in reply to the Union (the organ of the
Legitimists), repeats the statement that the Count DE
NARBONNE, late aide-de-camp to CHARLES X., had,
with his valet, been shot by order of the Commandant
of Luxembourg, having been caught in the act of dis-
tributing food, ammunition, and money to the insur-
gents in the barricades.
The Assembly passed in review yesterday in the
Place de la Concorde the provincial National Guards.
The following description of the present appearance
of Paris will convey to those who are acquainted
with that city some idea of the dreadful destruction
which has taken place during the insurrection :
" The Quartier Latin, from the Rue de la Harpe to
the Place Maubert, from the Hotel Dieu to the extremity
of the Faubourg Saint Marceau, is the part which has
most suffered. It was there that the combat was most
sanguinary, and the traces of the emeute are horribly
visible. The colonades of the Pantheon are very much
battered ; the statues in the front are many of them de-
stroyed, and others much mutilated. It was in front of
this part that the formidable barricade which defended
the approaches to the church of St. Etienne du Mont
was built, and which was only demolished after a very
severe cannonading.
"In the interior of the building the balls have de-
stroyed two colossal statues, one representing the
Republic, and the other the Genius of Immortality.
One of the copies of a picture by Raphael has been also
destroyed. In the centre of the monument, on a funeral
platform, now lie the remains of General Brea, and
Aide-de-Camp M. Manzin, who were so cruelly assassi-
nated at the Barrier du Fontainebleau.
" The Church of St. Etienne also bears marks of balls.
The hand of the clock has been carried away. The Rue
St. Jacques, near the Rue des Mathurins, and the Bridge
of the Hotel Dieu present the most desolating aspect.
The front of every house is riddled with balls, but those
at the end of the street are the most injured. The bar-
ricades in this place, which was so bravely attacked and
carried by the Republican Guard, necessitated the use
of cannon.
" In the Faubourg du Temple, and in all the quarter
extending to the Faubourg St. Antoine, and from the
Barrier du Trone to the Bastille, and thence to the
Hotel de Ville, the barricades are all thrown down and
the streets opened to communication. The crowd of
visitors to that point is immense. Three houses facing
the canal, opposite the entrepot, are nearly destroyed;
the bridge across the canal is literally festooned with
balls. It is impossible to calculate the number of barri-
cades which have been erected from the Faubourg du
Temple to the Faubourg St. Antoine, and it is almost
incredible how such formidable ramparts could have been
carried in so short a time.
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"In the Rues Fontaine au Roi, Trois Bornes, Saint
Maur Popincourt, Amboise, &c., barricades were erected
at every ten yards. If the struggle had continued any
longer, it would have been most sanguinary, for the
means of defence had been organized in the most formid-
able manner. In the Faubourg St. Antoine they were
equally numerous. The Faubourg is now occupied by
the 7th Regiment of the Line. All the houses have
been searched, and a general disarming has taken place.
The barricade erected in front of the ‘Retrai to de St.
Ferdinand' was a complete fortress.
" The following is the number of cases received in the
various hospitals:—
La Charite
Val de Grace
Hotel Dieu
Hopital Dubois

... 120
... 190
... 400
... 90

5 Clinique ... ... ... ... 78
Saint Lazare ... 63
Saint Louis ... 500
In this number are not included a great many cases
which were brought in, but where death took place im-
mediately after.
" Vast numbers of the National Guards are missing,
and the doubt as to their fate is almost more painful than
the certainty of the worst. In every church funeral ser-
vices are going on from morning•till night, and the same
sorrowful symptoms of the evils of civil war must
necessarily continue unabated for several days. The
number of the dead and wounded to be still seen
carried along the different streets is extraordinary.
All the women, from the highest to the lowest,
aro busy preparing lint for the hospitals. At
every door you see a little group engaged in this work
of charity. Besides this, subscriptions for the benefit
of the wounded have been opened, and the orphans are
adopted by the Republic, by whom they will be sup-
ported anti educated. At night no one is allowed to
move about without a laisser passer, but in the daytime
the extreme strictness of the first two days has been
relaxed. It was only yesterday that the barricades
raised by the troops and National Guards round the
Assembly when the attack of the insurgents was ex-
pected, were taken away. The Place de la Concorde
and the precincts of the Assembly resemble a camp on
the eve of battle. Two regiments of cuirassiers are
picketed all round the place. The artillery and infantry
are bivouacked round the obelisk, and the National

Guards of the departments are to be seen lying on
matresses and bundles of straw on the pavements. The
Champs Elysees are also full of troops."
Different versions have been given of the massacre
of General BREA. The Journal des Debuts gives the
following as the correct one :
" The general had advanced with his eide•de-camp to
the barricade, in order to deliver some words of concili-
ation to the insurgents. He was on horseback. The
men on the barricades cried out to him, Come closer ;
dismount from your horse, we cannot hear you.' With-
out hesitating a moment they did so, and advanced. A
band of the insurgents immediately surrounded them,
and dragged them inside the barrier, saying that they
would shoot them immediately unless they gave orders
to the troops to give up their arms and ammunition. The
General energetically refused. The insurgents gave him
a❑ hour to reflect. At the expiration of that time,
meeting with a similar energetic refusal, they carried
their, threats into execution, and threw the bodies on the
top of the barricade. What would have been to be ex-
pected from such wretches if Paris had fallen into their
hands ?"
The funeral of the victims is to take place on
Friday.
The prisoners are represented as being many of
them very depressed, they imagine that they shall be
shot. The rallying sign of the insurgents was a
small osier wand that each of them kept concealed in
his sleeve, those borne by the chiefs were forked at
the end. Evidence has been obtained that besides
their general plan of operation, the insurgents
had a revolutionary government ready organized.
When the sedentary National Guard, the Garde
Mobile, and the line entered the Faubourg. St.
Antoine, they saw the walls covered with red bills
containing the following: —" Victory will give
wealth to all true democrats. A defeat will be
the conflagration and ruin of the Faubourg St.
Antoine."
The Constitutionnel says that the Bourse was opened
as usual at one o'clock on Tuesday, but that there
were present only seven or eight brokers and a few
loungers. At a quarter after one the Commissaire
de la Bourse having declared the forced absence on
public services of the fifty brokers, declared the
Bourse closed, no quotations having been made. The
same journal states that in the Faubourg St. Antoine
alone 25,000 fire-arms of all species have been
seized, for the legitimate possession of which it is im-
possible to account. In most of the houses traces of
the occupation by the insurgents are to be seen. On
the tables are remains of gunpowder, of wine, and of
brandy, and on the floors large stains of blood.
Troops and National Guards from the most distant
parts of France continue pouring into Paris. The
army of the Alps, under General OUDINOT had set
out, but returned on hearing by telegraphic dispatch
of the suppression of the insurrection. The National
Guards of Lyons and of Bordeaux are en route for
the capital. Everything continues quiet in the pro-
vinces.
The Constitutionnel gives the following account of
the proceedings of the insurgents at Belleville during
the four days they held possession of that place :
" Since Friday evening Belleville was blockade d by
the insurgents, when on Sunday morning a troop of 300
came and disarmed the post of the marie. They imme-
diately established another post, drove away the mayor
and his adjuncts, and invested one of themselves with
the municipal functions. The new mayor made the
drummers of the National Guard beat the generale,
taking care to make a hundred or so men in blouses
accompany them, calling the people to take up
arms and erect barricades, and threatening it
they refused to use against them the most violent
measures. Notwithstanding their threats they met with
no support among the inhabitants. Seeing that they
had no success, they themselves took to forming barri-
cades ; in fact, they made a great number along the
whole of the Rue de Paris, as tar as the fortifications
Romainville. One of the most important was erected
at the entry at the Rue Pyat and the Rue Saint Lau-
rent, fronting the Barrier de Belleville ; and another
was formed in front of the marie ; but it was only of
secondary strength, and consequently not in a state to
arrest any serious attack. The construction of other
barricades behind these was principally intended to
guard them from an attack of cavalry or of light
troops, coming from Bondy or Vincennes, by the Ro-
mainville Railway. The dread of an attack on that
side seemed to give them great uneasiness, for they
were afraid every moment of hillg turned by the
troops, and being blocked up without a means of
escape. They remained till yesterday morning (Mon-
day) in this position. Yesterday, the news of the ds-
feat of the insurrection in the Faubourg St. Antoine
and the Clos St. Lazare, seemed to thin their ranks
considerably. They might have been seen passing up
the Menilmontant•road, and that of• the Barrier de Belle-
ville, to go and seek an asylum, and secrete their arms
in the country parts. At the same the inhabitants of all
these communes, exposed to the attacks directed against
the insurgents, left their dwellings, taking with them
their wives and children, their linen, and their provi-
sions, to go and establish themselves in the country till
they might return to their homes. This they were soon
enabled to do, for the troops completely put the insur-
gents to the rout. The great barricade was sapped, and
the troops thus got possession of it easily, putting the
rebels to flight, and taking many of them prisoners. The
troops then completely occupied the streets, and were
received with the greatest enthusiasm by the inhabitants.
Many of the arms were recovered, and a general dis-
armament was taking place of those who had not an•
swered the call of the National Guard.
" General Lumoriciere was accompanied, in one of his
visits to some of the prisoners taken in the late insur-
rection, by M. Thiers. On learning who was the person
who accompanied the General, one of the prisoners ad-
dressed M. Thiers, telling him that he had killed four-
teen persons with his own hand, and only regretted that
his victims were so few.

" One of the insurgents, who has been taken to the
Abbaye, boasts of having killed 22 persons in the Fau-
bourg St. Jacques. The monster was accompanied by
his wife and child. Several women caused themselves
to be remarked by their cruelty: one of them carried
the head of an officer on the point of a sword. The
wretch was killed by a Garde Mobile. Another woman,
who cut off the head of a captain, was conveyed to the
Abbaye..

" bl. Brissot-Thivars, son of the " Chef de la Salubrit 6'
at the Prefecture of Police, and chef de bataillon of the
Garde Mobile, delivered thirty of his unfortunate
brethren in arms, who had been confined by a potter of
the Rue de la Roquette in one of the immense ovens
which serve to make pottery. M. Brissot-Tlaivars was
lucky enough to arrive a quarter of an hour after the
oven was lighted, and before the men had sustained any
great injury."

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 28.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6141—Namur and Liege, 114—
Sambre and Meuse, 21/2.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

Advices from Berlin of the 25th state that M.
AUERSWALD, brother of the ex-Minister and civil
governor of the province of Prussia, having adhered
to the propositions made to him by M. HANSEMANN,
the latter has been enabled to place the following list
of the new cabinet before the KING, so that the As-
sembly will he enabled to proceed to business in a re-
gular manner :
M. Auerswald—President of the Council.
M. Schleinitz—Foreign Affairs.
General Tchreckenstein—War.
Kuhlwelter—Home.
M. Hansemann—Finance.
M. Milde--Commerce and Public Works.
M. Robertus—lnstruction and Public Worship.
M. Maerker—Justice.
The resignation of M. CAMPHAUSEN has broken
up the first Cabinet which bas undertaken to govern
Prussia on constitutional principles. Three of his
colleagues, ARNIM, SCIIWERIN, and KANITZ, had
abandoned their posts immediately after the scenes of
the 14th, and their withdrawal created a gap which
M. CAMPHAUSEN doubtless found it no easy matter
to fill up. It has been hinted that his retirement was
accelerated by a difference with the KING about a
communication received by the latter from the Em-
peror of RUSSIA, which the Prime Minister wanted
to see, and which the KING insisted was a private
letter. That such a disagreement may have occur-
red in the present disjointed state of affairs, whilst
the KING and his advisers are alike unschooled in
the duties of their new positions, is not unlikely, but
it is obviously inconsistent with the fact that M.
HANSEMANN, whose political sentiments are of a more
decided colour than those of his late colleague, has
succeeded in forming a Ministry on a more exclu-
sively Liberal basis than that which has just been
broken up. Differences within the Cabinet itself
there doubtless were, but not greater, we believe,
than we are accustomed to remark between members
of the same Government in England. M. CAMP-
HAUSEN quits office because he Ends himself unable
to govern the country.
An important improvement has taken place on the
railway line between Berlin and Brunswick. Hitherto,
in consequence of the bridges over the Elbe not being
completed, the trains halted at Magdeburg, on the
right Elbe bank, whence passengers and merchandise
were conveyed in omnibuses and carts over the two
arms of the river, and through the town to the Mag-
deburg and Brunswick station, by which great incon-
venience and loss of time ensued. The bridges are
now complete and open for traffic.