The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1848.

Because France has to accomplish the sublime
work of her regeneration, of her regeneration moral,
social, political, industrial, educational and philo-
sophical—because France has to construct out of the
ruins of her dynastic past the fane of her constitu-
tional future—because her new-born Legislature, the
Legislature born from the womb of the entire nation,
evinces a certain degree of premeditation in the fulfil-
ment of its august destinies—because her Senate de-
liberates, her statesmen muse, and her orators are
wrapt into the inspirations of prophecy upon the
tripod of her tribune—the young Republic is reviled
era a dreamer, and its lawgivers are scouted as char-
latans. Were the journalists of England, without ex-
ception, to participate in this fashionable derision it
would he indicative of a decay in the intelligence of
the nation, and would he derogatory to the character
of the lirizi.sh Press. For ourselves, we have no sym-
pathy in thefts petty ebullitions of jealousy. For our-
selves, we look beycnd the waters of the channel with
feelings of awe rather than with emotions of ridicule.
For ourselves, the spectacle which is at present
visible in the palace of the National Assembly is a
spectacle more awful than frivolous, more divine than
lowly, more suffused with the spirit of eternity and
grandeur, than of meanness or evanescence.
That such have been the sentiments with
which we have regarded the progress of
affairs in France since the revolutionary
explosion of February we need only refer, in testi-
mony, to the comments contained in The Sun since
the downfal of the Orleans monarchy. Without
one interval of hesitation we have maintained the
dignity of the political events which have transpired
in the Frer.ch capital. We have never truckled to
the vogue of a fortnight ; we have never con-
descended to caricature the principal actors in the
Revolution; we have never viewed the agonies of the
Republican crisis as the fit subject for the indulgence
of mirth or for the exercise of w itticism. Because
ARAGO had gained glory as a philosopher we did not
think ourselves justified (for that reason alone) in
travestying his acts as an administrator; and the
result of his career as Minister over the joint depart-
ments of War end Marine proved that in so doing
we had done wisely—his brief exercise of authority
over the maritime and military powers of the Re
public being scarcely less successful in it:, operation
than the glorious and memorable administration of
CAnNoT—of CARNOT, who exalted the science of
war into a system of philosophy. Again, while
almost every lip was curled and every hand raised in
scorn at the advent of LAMARTINE to the chair
of Government, simply because LAMARTINE had
boundlis.brows in his youth with a garland of poetic
bay, we were by no means reluctant in regarding
the fame of the bard and of the statesman as, in an
eminent degree, compatible. We appreciated those
noble ejaculations with which, on the 4th of March,
he bad himself responded to the deputation of students
headed by M. EDWARD DITONT—" As to this epi-
thet of Poet which my enemies are perpetually hurl-
ing at me, in the hopes of causing my destruction, I
accept it, gentlemen; and if it be the will of YROVI.•
DENCE that some few rays of glory come to illumine
the last years of my life, I shall still rejoice
to find myself guilty of the crime of poesy !
What, then, are we doing at this very mo-
ment, gentlemen, what is our country doing at
this very day, if it is not the most sublime of
all poetry We remembered, moreover, that
C,ln" was a statesman, and yet that CANNING
wrote Yerses in the Anti-Jacobin. We remembered
that Easaum was a statesman,`and yet that ERSKINE
wrote love-songsws ahenasubaltern. We remembered
ni wa
that Mkzen
that BELLARIAINB statesman and penned sonnets ;
was a statesman and wrote epi-
grams ; that Mit:roil was statesman, and sung the
marvels of Paradise and a
Pandemoniumth in the 12 books
of his "celestial epic." Bearing
LAMARTINE
in recollection
we were not disposed to consilers sa theinz as an
impracticable man solely because heAmwof
fst
histo
introduce the " ode" into the poetic literatthefi
minigreaatesat
country, if we are to believe the dictum of
of Frenoh critics now living, M. JULES
that our opinion was very far removed from rashnessn
his been shown by the glorious results of his three
months' administration, those three months in which
he abolished royalty, inaugurated the Republic, esta-
blished universal suffrage, abrogated the laws inflict..
ing capital punishments for political offences, created
the Garde Mobile, which on the 23d of June proved
the salvation of the Revolution, and for the good of
his mother-land sacrificed the glory of his popularity
and *le elevation of a dictatorship.
APar. from the men themselves, the mere
otitißo24ll or the klepublie lave been mentioned jw

forms or terms of contumelious reproach. The
mode in which the proceedings of the Legis-
lative Chamber itself is conducted, the cries
of " La cloture," the ringing of the President's bell,
the demands of precedence for the tribune,—every de-
tail in the system has been referred to in the language
of ridicule. The planting of the trees of liberty—the
singing of the Marseillaise, the chaunting of iTfourir
pour la Patric, the " fraternizing " of the
ouvriers in blouses, the bourgeoisie in the uniform of
the National Guard, the Garde Mobile, and the
regular army—the rattle of the rappel—the
phraseology, the costumes, the official routine, the
casual amusements, the private interviews and public
demonstrations of the French Republicans have been
employed as the themes of burlesque and epigram,
of poetical pasquinades and deliberate misrepresenta-
tion. Abstracting somewhat from the ephemeral
character of the festivities which have hitherto marked
the progress of the Republic, we do acknowledge
that there is something too solemn in the joy of a
great nation rising to proclaim its independence to
admit of our indulgence in any coarse and idle sneers
at such harmless tokens of popular exultation. Re-
cently the evidence of happiness in the political
sensibility of the French people has extended from
Paris to the departments. The Pas de Calais has
been the scene of these rejoicings. A splendid fete,
half civic, half martial, has just terminated in the
noble city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, which, taken in
connexion with the late festivals of the metropolis,
is indicative of the sentiments which inspire the
thirty millions of the French population. Amidst
these spectacles of deliberation in the National As-
sembly and of enthusiasm in the streets, a grand
structure is rising up—the structure of the Re-
publican Constitution.

Legislators, like actors, when the metropolitan
houses close for the season, proceed to fulfil their pro-
vincial engagements, and, as tragic actors occasionally
amuse our provincial brethren by appearing in farce,
and as low comedians on such occasions are permitted
sometimes to act high tragedy, so do the stars of the
legislatorial firmanent not unfrequently appear in the
provinces in a line of character perfectly different
from that in which they have acquired their fame on
the metropolitan boards. The great Protectionist
leader bath followed the example of his histrionic
brethren. Lord STANLEY is out on a starring
exhibition, and commenced the first of a series
of provincial engagements on Thursday last at
Manchester, where he officiated as Chairman of the
Liverpool and Manchester United Agricultural
Society. It might have been expected from the
Protectionist performances of this accomplished
artiste on the metropolitan boards that we should
have had a repetition of those bitter denunciations of
the principle of competition with which he was wont
" to split the ears of the groundlings" in the chapel
of St. Stephen; that remembering the wonders of
Tamboff, he would haveagain protested against the
iniquity of extending the range of rivalry against
which the British farmer has to contend ; but
whether it is that free-trade principles are en-
demic in Manchester, and that Lord STANLEY from
inhaling the air has caught the infection ; or whether,
like histrionic stars, he takes advantage of his pro-
vincial engagements to " case-harden" in a new
character before venturing to face a metropolitan
audience in it, certain it is that the speech of my
Lord STANLEY, on Thursday, was altogether in
support of the principles of free trade and unlimited
competition, and that never were the agriculturists
more severely rated for their ignorance, their bigotry,
their wilful neglect of their own interests, and their
obstinate opposition to all improvement, than they
were by the leader of the party of the "Farmers'
Friends." lit appears that for many years past there
have been separate agricultural societies for Liver-
pool and fur Manchester, which are now united, and
that this is the first meeting of the united society.
In alluding to this union Lord STANLEY, after
stating it as his opinion that at the earliest stage of
agricultural improvement small societies may be best,
as being more calculated to arouse the spirit of
rivalry and competition in the first instance, thus
proceeds :

" But the spirit of rivalry once excited and brought
into action, the extension of the range of the society, in
my lodgment, tends to increase the amount of the
stimulus, and the extent of the competition.— (Hear.)
L brings the competitor into c tithe with his neighbour,
and into a range of an intinitelt• superior description to
that which it was in hi% power to attsin in Lis own lcss
limited rang( ; and his views and feelings being thus
r~iEeit, Ire 2nahes e/Torts torards a higher scale or e.rcet
lerce, (Indtho.tc dji)rts must ever L Aus.ceeded by the
meal th,:t cticct which the compaitor has in view."

Could Ric! UID COBDEN himself have laid down the
advantages of free- trade and unlimited competition
more broadly than my Lord STANLEY has done ?
Apply these principles to the question of free trade—
" The extension of the range of the spirit of rivalry
tends to increase the amount of the stimulus, and
the extent of the competition, and by raising the
views and feelings of the person so entering into such
competition, induces him to make efforts towards a
higher scale of excellence, which efforts must ever
be succeeded by the attainment of that object which the
competitor has in view." An excellent and a truthful
principle, but one which we should scarcely have ex.
pected to find enunciated by a Protectionist leader,
inasmuch as it completely answers all the Pro-
tectionist arguments. Cninpetition produces
efforts towards a higher scale of excel-
lence, which efforts must be successful; but protec-
tion avowedly checks competition, therefore protec•
tion prevents the attainment of a higher scale of ex-
cellence. We thank the Protectionist leailer for his
syllogism, and recommend him to follow out his own
principles (whether of competition or protection) to
' their legitimate consequences. his remarks towards
' the conclusion of his speech are such as when made
' by RICHARD COBDEN (for they are almost all bor-
rowed from RICHARD COBDEN), during the course of
the Anti-Corn-law agitation, used to draw down upon
him the' indignant denunciations of the Protec-
tionists as a libeller of the farmers, and a
sower of strife between landlord and tenant
"Though much has been done, much remains to he
done," says my Lord STANLEY—an admission and
complaint made by RICHARD COBDEN any time
during the last ten years. Every one remembers the
great outcry which was raised against Mr. COBDEN
by Mr. TATTON EGERTON and the Cheshire squires
on account of his observations on the ill-drained rushy
farms of that county ; we find the same complaint, in
nearly the same words, made of the same farms, at
this meeting, by my Lord STANLEY, in the presence
of Mr. TATTON EGERTON, who by his silence
admits the truth of the accusation. How
indignant was Mr. GEORGE BANKES against
the members of the Anti-Corn-law League
for venturing to insinuate that a landholder might
neglect his duty. What will the Cursitor Baron of
the Exchequer say to the more than insinuation of
Lord STANLEY—" While on the one hand justice
requires I should thank those landlords who have
liberally come forward to assist their tenants in their
attempts to improve, and shown so great a desire
for their welfare and the prosperity of agriculture by
their presence this day, I must also express my
regret that we have not the pleasure of seeing a
larger proportion of the landed proprietors of the
country." In fact, in every sentence he utters, my
Lord STANLEY bears testimony to the truth of some-
thing that the members of the Anti-Corn-law
League have said, and, to crown the whole,
he unwittingly admits that it is owing to
what they have done that we are indebted
for the present improved state of our agriculture.
"I am bound to say that, within my own knowledge
and observation," says my Lord STANLEY, " there
has been a general improvement of farms, in the ge-
neral agricultural system, in the science adopted; and
in the practical application of the science to the land
on the part of the tenant-farmers in Lancashire and
Cheshire, there has been a very great and marked im-
provement during: the course of the last twelve years."
It is now just about twelve years since Mr. VILLIERS
first commenced agitating in Parliament the question
of the repeal of the corn-laws. We congratulate the
members of the Anti-Corn-law on the: testimony
thus tardily borne to the truth of their principles and
the
success of their efforts, by the most talented and
the most eloquent, but the most reckless and the most
unscrupulous of their former opponents.

----
RAPID IMPROVEMENT OF MACHINERY.
Last year We had a Telking Machine.
This year we have had Mr. Chisholm Anstey.
Gracious Goodness ! wht‘t shall we have next year ?
—Ftuish.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

At noon the result of the election for Paris was
officially declared in front of the Hotel de Ville. It
was as follows :
Electors inscribed ...
Electors voting
Louis Napoleon ...
Fould
Raspail

... 400,8C4
... 240,667
... 110,752
... 78,891
... 66,963

The above are returned. The following had the
greatest number of suffrages after the successful can-
didates :
Thor‘ 64,480
Cabet 64,375
Roger (du Nord) ... ... 61,482
Edmond Adam ... 54,507
Benjamin Delessert fils ... 49,337
Bugeaud ... 48,590
Emile de Girardin . . ... 26,885
Although RASPAIL, the Socialist candidate, is, no
doubt, a mistaken man, yet he is as undoubtedly a
man of principle, and sincerely believes that the adop-
tion of Socialism would be for the benefit of his
country. But with regard to DELESSERT, the chief of
the spy department of the police under Louis Pus-
LIPPE, to BUGEAUD, the gaoler of the Duch( ss of
BERRI, the butcher of the Rue Transnonaine, the or-
ganizer of the massacres of Africa, and now the de-
voted liegeman of HENRY V., the chosen of the Legi-
timatists, the slave of the parti pretre, and to
EMILE DE GIRARDIN, the destroyer of ARMAND CAR •
nal., the associate of the DUJARRIERS, DE BEAUVAL-
LONS and DR CASSAIGNACS, the jobber of peerages,
who, JuDes-like, has accepted the Republic solely for
the sake of betraying it ; they are mere self-seekers,
and it is with unfeigned delight that we find their
names at the bottom of the poll.
The following article on the elections, which ap-
pears in the National, may be supposed to speak the
sentiments of the Government :
"MM. Bonaparte, Fould, and Raspail have been
elected. This result has little surprised us, and does not
give us the least uneasiness. It is, however, useless to
deny that it does not respond to our wishes and our
sympathies; but, such as it is, we accept it as the mani-
festation of universal suffrage, and on that ground it is
entitled to our respect. Not that we regret that the
majority of our fellow-citizens should have given their
votes to candidates whom we reject; but, as we said on a
former occasion, our political education is not complete;
opinion has its failings, and the public mind its errors.
Let us not feel irritation at the kind of vertigo which
carries away people who were but as yesterday called
upon to perform one of the most difficult acts of political
life—let us rather seek, by pointing out the right road,
to prevent their falling for the future into the false paths
into which they have for a moment been led. Who will
ever be made to believe, for instance, that M. Raspail,
the apostle of doctrines rejected by the general senti-
ment of social preservation, represents the opinion of the
majority of Paris, with M. Fould, the man of figures,
the high priest of crown pieces, the ardent and fanatic
adorer of what is called the haute banque ? And Louis
Bonaparte? He looks higher still; he represents a
political idea, does he not? What idea? Apparently
that which he has found in the historical cocked hat of
his uncle. Supposing there had been one, you may be
sure that he had only taken the hat.
" We are not at a loss to explain to ourselves that in-
structive emotion which seizes men at hearing a famous
name, or that fanaticism which is inspired by a re-
nowned memory. The feeling proceeds from a noble
principle ; but it is blind, and for want of a man it some-
times happened that it is placed on a mannequin. In the
cruel leisure which was imposed upon him by the Holy
Alliance, Bonaparte said, when at St. Helena, a grey
great coat, and a cocked hat raised on the end of a
cane would in an instant raise the whole of Europe.'

We now see how truly this remark is verified, at least
as far as regards France. ,Happily opinion is change-
able with us, and soon recovers from its surprise. Be-
fore a fortnight is at an end, the grey greatcoat and the
cocked hat will be on the ground, and nothing left stand-
ing but the cane."
The return of M. RIYET for Lyons is confirmed,
and that of Count MOLE for Bordeaux is announced.
For Lisle the contest between Louis NAPOLEON and
Colonel NEGRIER is very close. The following was
the state of the poll according to the latest ac
counts :

Negrier ' 17,018
Louis Napoleon . ..
De Genoude
General LEFLOT, the Ministerial candidate, has been
returned for Finisterre.

It is said to be the intention of the Bonapartists to
get up a grand triumphal procession on the occasion
of the entrance of Louis NAPOLEON into Paris.
This intention has created serious alarm, which has
not been decreased by the collection of mobs
at the Porte St. Denis, at the Bourse, and
in the Rue Rambuteau, which have been

dispersed by the military. Considerable rein

forecments of troops entered Paris on Wednesday
,vening, and th:'y are all kept in barracks ready for

action.

It is considered that the result of the Paris elections
will lead to some change in the Ministry, and both
lied Republicans and Reactionaries are making offers
of asitistance to General CAVAIGNAC. The Reds re-
quire the admission of LEDRU ROLLIN and FLocoN
into the Cabinet, the abolition of the 45 centimes ad-
ditional impost, and the appointment of Ledru
Rollin-nominated comtnissiaries to the prefectures
of the various departments. The Reactionaries require
the appointment of MM. DUFAURE, LEON DE MALES-
VILLE, and General BEDEAU as Cabinet Ministers,
and the adoption of what they calla moderate line of
policy, the meaning of which is, that General
CAVAIGNAC may be nominally President, on condition
that M. TRIERS is Viceroy over him.

The Irish rebel Donitir has arrived in Paris.
These papers publish the following account of the
disturbances at Elbceuf

" The agitation which has been apparent for the last
few days amongst the workmen at ElLasuf began on
Monday last to assume a more serious character. The
cloth dyers in that place had been in the habit of re-
ceiving 35 sous per day of eleven hours, and by work-
ing extra hours, at the rate of 25 centimes per hour,
their brought it up to 21. or more. Since the promulga-
•ion of the law fixing tho minimum of the day's
labour at 12 hours, several of the masters made
known to their workmen that they would continue to
pay them 2f. per day, but that they must consent to
work twelve hours; if they objected to this the wages
would only be 35 sous as before tha revolution. As to
the weavers, they before the revolution worked 13i hours
a day. After February the day's labour was reduced to
11 hours, without any diminution of wages; and now the
manufacturers demand 12 hours' work without making
any change in the payment. According to this last ar-
ran►ement the workmen would receive the same pay
for 12 hours as they did before the revolution for 13i
hours.

"On Saturday last many of the manufacturers in-
formed their workmen that from the Monday following
they would be expected to work twelve hours. Some of
them submitted, others left, and others were heard to
utter threats against their masters. Monday passed over
pretty quietly until seven o'clock in the evening, the
time when the day's work was finished at the old time of
eleven hours, when large crowds of the workmen began
to assemble, and some of the youngest amongst them
were excited by the more ill-disposed to throw stones at
several of the manufactories where the extra hour's
work was continuing. The disturbance, thus commenced,
was not long in gaining strength ; the crowds increased
and went to several of the principal establishments,
where the glass was smashed in, and the most violent
threats were made use of against the masters and
against those workmen who had consented to work for
the twelve hours.
"The National Guards were called out and instantly
assembled. At the same time the delegates of a club,
known under the name of the Socieill des Travaillenrs,
went to the Maisie and offered to restore order if they
were allowed to act. Their services were accepted, but
it was soon seen that they had not the slightest influence,
and they were requested to retire unless they wished to
expose themselves to be treated in the same manner as
tho rioters.

" The authorities displayed the greatest firmness, and
the National Guard, who had assembled without the
rappel being beaten, were most zealous in their exer •
tions. Measures of repression were instantly adopted,
and the rioters fled in all directions befure the armed
force. At nine o'clock the streets were cleared, and
some of the National Guards were allowed to retire.

"The prefect had sent off en express to Rouen, when
a body of troops were put under orders to be ready to
march at a moment's notice. This display of activity
and force proved to the badly disposed that they bad no
chance of success in causing any further disturbance in
a town tho prosperity of which depended on the pre-
servation of order.

" A judicial inquiry has been set on foot, and several
of the ringleaders have been arrested, and there is every
reason to hope that the disorder will not be renewed.
"A proclamation has been issued by the prefect, ad-
dressed to the workmen, pointing out to them the folly
of their conduct, and assuring them that all acts of vio-
lence would be punished with the utmost severity of
the law." _

The National Assembly, yesterday, agreed to the
9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th articles of the Constitution,

BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY. SEPT. 21.
THREE O'CLOCK.—The Stock Market opened with
firmness to-day, but towards the middle of the day there
was a sudden panic, in consequence of a rumour that
disturbances were expected to• night, and that General
Cavaignac had resigned. The consequence was a fall of
fully 1 per cent. on the French .Rentes. The market
closed very weak. Bons du Trisor not quoted; Bank of
France Shares have fallen 15f. Exchange on London,
thirty days, 25 27k; ditto, 90 days, 25 17g.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

----.I6NbS7&siOCK-EXCHANGE, SErr. 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 57(1—Northern of France, 67

Orleans and Bordeaux, I—Paris and Lyons, s—Paris and
Rouen, 1614.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the the 16th have arrived.

The Espana comments on the absurdity of which
General PAVIA has been guilty in systematically
underrating, in his dispatches, the Carlist forces in.
Catalonia, by which he has deceived the Government
and the public, and suffered the insurrection to become
formidable.

The run on the Bank continues, but NARvezz,
under pretence of keeping the passages clear for the
public who are desirous of getting change, has occu-
pied the approaches to it with police, who prevent
persons from passing—an ingenious method of avoid-
ing a suspension of cash payments.
MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 16. Three per Cents.,
19 9-16 buyers, sellers. A small operation was
done in Five per Cents. at 111 cash; they are quoted
at 10# buyers after the close. Coupons, 7 sellers?
Passive Debt, 3, sellers. Bank Shares, 48 sellers.
Exchange on London, 48.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

FRANKFORT.

INSURRECTION- GREAT LOSS OF LIFE

In The Sun of yesterday we briefly mentioned
the fact that, on the 18th, Frankfort had been the
scene of a fearful insurrection, which had not been
suppressed until several lives had been sacrificed.
We now proceed to give further particulars. The
German Parliament met at ten, and was guarded by
Austrian and Prussian soldiers, from 2,000 to 3,000
of whom bad arrived from Mayence. Great quiet
prevailed during the reading of the protocol of Satur-
day's proceedings.
SCHAFFRATH reclaimed against the protocol. An
important omission had been made. Whilst they had
debated about according the Ministers permission to
speak, and were in considerable doubt on the subject,
the President had warned them not to be led away
by their passions. These words had led to further
altercation, and the President had then added, " I
will not let my right of debate, and of stating my
opinion, to be taken from me." This last declaration
ought to have been protocolled.—Agreed to at once
by the President.
SCHODER reclaimed also. After the majority of
the two Committees, or at least its reporter, HERR
WruaM, had declared the withdrawal of the second
part of the Committee's motion (i. e. for the imme-
diate continuation of the war, provided the King of
DENMARK would not immediately enter into nego-
tiations of peace with the Central Power), HERR
SCHLEER, as far as he remembered, had declared that
he and his party would take it up. He demanded
that this declaration of ScuLEER be included in the
protocol.—Agreed to.
BLUM had two reclamations to make :-1. The
declaration which he made on Saturday from the
rostrum had been inaccurately noted. He had said
that against all Parliamentary rule, and against the
usages of that Assembly, his party had been forced
to vote simultaneously on two distinct motions.—
(The discussion was here interrupted for a moment
by the beating of the generale without, in conse-
quence of an attempt made by the people to expel
the Prussians frOm the city.)-2. BLum objected
that it was stated in the protocol that a twofold
division had taken place on a certain motion, but
it had not been stated that this had resulted from
strangers having mingled among the members ; and
in the only official document that recorded the pro-
ceedings of the Assembly, this ought to have been
included.

The PRESIDENT did not object to BLum's reclama-
tion, but endeavoured to extenuate the offence thus
committed by strangers.
BLum said he, in the name of his party, could aver
that strangers were seen sitting on the same benches
with Members of the Right, and were seen to go
away from those benches, and one, whom he could
mention by name, was the Duke of AUGUSTENBURO.
—(Loud chef-I.s from the Left, and still louder from
the people's gallery.)

The PRESIDENT declared if any further interrup-
tion ensued he would clear the galleries.
WIGARD combated this, and had words with the
President. After mutual recrimination the matter

dropped.
HARTMANN complained of the President having
declared a majority, after the sense of the House had
been taken by rising and sitting, which eventually
proved to consist only in two votes.—(The Presidial
board here seemedon
at a
the
protocol.
n o nplus. ) The fact, he said,
should beentered

However, SoIRoN thought that it could not be pro-
ocaotd
perhapse,bu fresh 11 tbywa2
of explanation he would say
hen:bers had in the meantime
tt l
come in—(Cries of " Oh, oh !")—or perhaps some had
voted differently.' (Oh, oh.)
BERGER would have it entered upon the protocol
that Herr VON GAGERN had presided the whole of
the morning, but when HEcEscuzu requested a
hearing he bad given up the President's chair, and
had voted.

The PRESIDENT said he had simply left the
chair because he kad intended to speak on the
question of the armistice. He then read a paper to
the effect that the Duke of AUGUSTENBURG had not
been exactly on the Members' benches, but in a part
of the House where he could not possibly be mis-
taken in the division. He read an announcement
also from SCIIINIERLING to the effect that, after fiEg-
at ANN had resigned his commission to form a minis-
try, the Administrator had prevailed upon part of
the ex- Ministry, provisionally, to resume office until
a new Ministry should be formed, which will be
shortly the case. In the meanwhile, SCIIMBRLING
would take the War, Foreign, and Home depart-
ments ; DUCRIVITZ, those of Finance and Commerce.
BERGER said, he bad seen that Austrian and
Prussian troops had been called in to guard the Par-
liament. He had heard that artillery was stationed
in Bockenheim. He did not see this was necessary.
Now that they had a Provisional Minister of War, he
would ask him why they were surrounded with bayo-
nets ?—(Cheers from the Left.)
SCIIMERLING at once came forward. The events
of yesterday, he said, were known to most of them.
The Senate had found it necessary, after the havoc
committed on Saturday, and the threats held out in
the people's meeting of yesterday, to address the
Central Power, praying it to give that extra support
to the National Assembly, which it was incapable of
supplying on its own part. The troops that had ar-
rived in Frankfort at 3 A.m., had only been called in
at the request of the Senate of Frankfort, for the
defence of the National Assembly. The Senate had
declared that the defence of the National ;Assembly
was the affair of the empire and of the Imperial
Ministry. The Imperial Ministry had not scrupled
for a moment to respond to this call of the Senate :
it was the holiest duty of the Central Power to defend
the Assernbly,—(44
Oh, oh," from the Left.) The
Imperial Ministry, therefore, make a specific decla-
ration that it will take upon itself, and make itself
responsible for the arrangements necessary for the
defence of the Assembly. No one else had been
found ready to take this responsibility upon himself;
and therefore no one had a right to interpelate the
Ministry in this matter; and, to be brief, he believed
that most of those present would agree with him that
an attack on the rights of the Assembly was an act
of high treason.—
(The Left were perfectly quiet.)
RunL (of Henan of the Left) then moved, "in
consideration, 11 that the National Assembly no
longer enjoys the confidence of the German people;
2, in consideration that this could not originally have
been foreseen ; 3, in consideration that the only
way of obtaining an exponent of the peopl.fs will Is
to institute a new election—a new election shall be
instituted, to commence on the 18th of October
next, though the labours of the existing National
Assembly should not in the meanwhile be sus-
pended. (Signed DIETOC/I, Mona, WESENDOUCK,
BLUM, Scnarrnkrn, and a host of others.)—Urgency
not granted.

Knothermotion virlis—" The posting of the Aus-
trian, Prussian, and other troops round St. Paul's,
appeared an act of treason towards the National
Assembly—(Laughter)—and a measure calculated to
weaken the Central Power • the troops that had been
called in from Dilayence should be sent back again,
and the deliberations of the Assembly in the mean
time suspended." Urgency not allowed.
Then followed an allegation against the President
for having offended against sec. 36 of the order of
business.

ViscuEß moved that the names of the Members
who have announced themselves on any question, be
read aloud by the President, and slowly enough fur
the Members to be able to take them down.—Amply
supported by the Left and Left Centre, and discussion
granted.
A thundering noise was now heard at the door of
the Assembly; all was, in an instant, in commotion.

Reports flew about of a stone having been throw i in
at one of the windows. The Members quickly re-
covered their composure. A few of the mob who
had passed the outer door were ejected. The Pre-
sident rang his bell, amid cries of "places places,"
and the debate was resumed. Clamour is still heard
outside ; something again disturbs the quiet of the
Assembly ; BLuai s voice is heard calling to the
Right benches, "No comedy here !"
VISCHER'S motion was carried.

EISENMANN said he had received letters from
Hungary, and he could assure them that the Gerinans
in Hungary were not only put to the sword, but
were even burnt and impaled. He would bring the
affair speedily before the Assembly ; in the meanwhile
he entreated the committee which had the consi-
deration of his motion to be prompt in giving their
report.
Silcox then moved that, as the resolution passed by
the National Assembly on the Kith ult. was not to
the mind of the people, and that, as the National
Assembly was bound to speak to the people, not in
diplomatic language, but in such language as
the people understood—(Laughter)—the National
Assembly should draw up a popular exposition of its
motives in acting as it had done.
Urgency disallowed.
Nothing resulted from the debate. The House ad-
journed at a quarter to two, P.M.
While these things were going on within the House
the insurrection was progressing without. At one
o'clock barricades were commenced in all directions,
and at two o'clock the troops, having received re-
inforcements from Mayence, commenced to act
against the insurgents. Their fire was replied to by
a brisk fire from the barricades. The firing lasted
from half after two until six o'clock, at which hour
half a battery of Darmstadt artillery entered the city
and commenced firing at the barricades. The firing
continued until half-past eight, when the insurgents
were completely defeated.
The slaughter has been terrific on both sides.
Among the slain is Prince LICIINOWSKY.

At half-past nine a placard was posted declaring
the city in a state of seige so long as the riots should
last. The various unions are suspended, and their
assembling is forbidden. Every one who appears
armed (without proper authority) is to be punished
according to martial law.

(Signed) In the name of the Imperial Ministry,
SCHMERLING.
The soldiers bivouacked for the night in the Horse
Market.

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