The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-02 00:00:00

tOtrll WllWon

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch.

LATEST FROM FRANCE.

The Paris papers of Wednesday evening have been
received.

"-,e accounts from the provinces continue to be
‘ble, with the exception of Rheims, where
bus excesses had been committed.

= all was quiet, and everything presented
appearance.
tear contains the following twelve new
by the Provisional Government :
Ifter promising an abolition, at some
of all taxes affecting food, continues
?asure all the present impost; with-
id calls on all good citizens to pay
same decree promises that the Pro-
ent will present to the National
or the abolition of the stamp on
ctr)i, and the salt tax, and will

la of nobility.
mnations for political offences

1 to all religions, and ctlls on
of the formula Deus Salvam

of the Luxembourg at the
xc cad M. ALBERT, as Pre-
ay the Commission with
o.e:men.
CAVAIGNAC, the new
eria, to the rank of General

LRICE to the rank of Major-
ipal Council of Paris.
/bution of placards or notices
lb printer.
Luxembourg at the disposal
PEuaE), the President of the

/A. BARBES Governor of the

drank of Generals of Division and

iJS AND THE CAPE.
to Resistance, Captain G. Loe,
th last night, has put us in pon-
d correspondence from the Mau-
of December, from the Cape of
A 15th of January (eight days later
,ed yesterday), and St. Helena to the
eft the Mauritius, the commercial affairs
Aost distressed and prostrated condition,
,frire bank failures and mercantile house
Jim England and India. Many of the most
Tercantile firms had been thereby reduced to
—4eggary.
,:he Cape of Good Hope affairs looked remark-
,well and promising. There were no fears enter-

,aed of the violation of the treaties entered into by
Jir Harry Smith, who was still on the frontier,
gathering around him, at every step he advanced into
the before-disturbed localities, fresh assurances of the
preservation of peace and the re-establishment of in-
ternational rights and commercial transactions and
exchanges.
That the Kafir war is at an end may be judged of
from the circumstance of British shipping having been
taken up to convey to England the 90th, 7th :Dragoon
Guards, 91st, 27th, and 62d Regiments.

The nritish squadron on the Cape of Good Hope
station was distributed thus at this date :

The President, flag-ship of Admiral Dacres, Capt.
Stanley ; the store depot ship Seringapatam, and the
Arab, 16-gun sloop, were in Simon's Bay ; but the
latter was to sail the same day (14th January) for
the Mozambique Channel. The steam-sloops Geyzer
and Rosamond (formerly the Eclair) were also at
anchor in the bay.
The Nimrod, 20 guns, Captain Dacres, was cruis-
ing about in the Mozambique Channel.
The Brilliant, 26 guns, Captain Matson, had sailed
for the Mauritius to relive the Eurydice, 26 guns.
The island of St. Helena was very healthy, and
affairs there wrre thriving well. Her Majesty's ship
Wanderer sailed thence on the 27th of January, after
-watering, for the coast of Africa. Her Majesty's
steamer Styx had sent into St. Helena for condemna-
tion by the mixed commission, .a slave prize, being
the twenty-second capture made by that vessel since
she has been employed in the suppression of the slave
trade.

The Resistance has had an almost unprecedented
passage of 33 days only from the island of St.
Helena, and encountered some terrific weather,
amounting, on the 25th ult., to a complete hurricane,
in which she lost nearly all her sails, topgallant-mast,
the head of the maintop-mast, the larboard-waist
netting, and had her stern boat blown right away,
without a sea striking it.
Captain Browne and his ship's officers and com-
pany, late of her Majesty's ship Snake, 16-gun sloop,
wrecked and lost on the Cape station, have come
home as passengers in this ship, to undergo trials by
court•martial for that unfortunate affair; also a few
invalids from Admiral Dacre's squadron, and 16
officers, 520 rank and file, 39 women, and 48 children
of the 12th Regiment.
Three privates died on their passage home.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 28.—The King and the Royal
Family have quitted Lacken, and have taken up
their abode at the palace at Brussels.
The greatest consternation continues to prevail,
and precautionary measures are being taken, of
-which the import is as yet scarcely understood.
The Civic Guard is convoked for this day ; each
legion is to furnish a battalion, and one of the bat-
talions is stationed at the hotel de Ville. With
the exceptions of some few turbulent spirits, who
are always glad cf an occasion to break out, it is
evidently the general desire that everything
here shall be kept quiet, and even men
of the most opposite political opinions seem to
'forget their differences in the prevailing anxiety
to maintain peace. This was signally evinced in
the discussions in the Chamber of Representatives
and in the Senate, when a project of law was brought
forward for immediately a loan, which at any other
time would have called forth the most virulent party
feeling, but which on this occasion was voted unani-
mously both by the Chamber and the Representa-
tives ; and although no mention was made of the
stirring events which are going on so near
us, it was evident that this all-absorbing topio
lroduced this unanimity. A meeting took place late
ast night in the Rue Scours Nivres ; the crowd was
immense, and about ten o'clock they proceeded in a
body towards the Grande Place. The gendarmes
were obliged to interfere and separate the mob, and
several of the ringleaders were arrested. They proved
to be German mechanics.
A great many members of L'Alliance have ad-
dressed the administrative committee of the society,
requesting that, in consequence of the fearful state
of events, a meeting may be convened for the 28th,
that this general assembly may deliberate on the
following points :-
1. To declare solemnly the determination of the
Belgian people to preserve intact, and at the price of
their blood, their national independence, and the in-
tegrity of their territory.
2. To demand of the Government the reform of
organic laws which are opposed to the principles of
the constitution of 1830, electoral reform in
a ex-
tended sense, economy in the expenses of the State
and the abolition of duties which r ,
p ess upon the
working classes and the poor.
The committee immediately rejected the attendance
of the authors of this proposition, and after a short
discussion it was decided unanimously that
the
General Assembly should not take place at the pre-
sent moment, because that it would be wise for the
good citizens to abstain from any public demonstra-
tion which might easily be misunderstood, and be-
cause as yet nothing authorised the supposition that
the Ministry would fail of the duties called forth by
the state of things, or of spontaneously adopting every
needful measure.
M. Van Praet, the Minister of the household,
arrived to-day at Brussels, on his return from Paris.
Prince Peter Napoleon has likewise arrived here,
and put up at the South Station. It is said that he
came from Paris by by-ways.
This morning, at one o'clock, a special train arrived
here from Quievrain, containing four persons, who
came from Paris. It appears that two of them were
private couriers, a high personage of the family of
Napoleon, and a Vienna merchant. The couriers came
from Vincennes, and are bearers of dispatches to the
Emperor of Austria. One of them immediately re-
paired to the hotel Of the Austrian Ambassador, and
speedily after set out for Austria.
This morning the Burgomaster, as a precautionary
measure, assembled the civic guard ; they were
joined by the
chasseur
the 'premier guard, and a
rn
squadron of gendarmes,Atof
the four battalions in seven o'clock the Bur-
gomaster assembled each
the halls of the Hotel de Ville, and made an ener-
getic address to them, in which he stated his entire
o maintain
o
confidence that the civic guard
uld
public order and the national institutions.
dress produced the . The ad-
. desired effect, andns be was 'warmly

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