The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-19 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 13th have arrived.
The conduct of NARVAEZ continues to be of the
most arbitrary character. He has established a reign
of terror in Madrid of as atrocious a character as
that established by ROBESPIERRE during the first re-
volution. Parties are arrested without regard to age,
class, or circumstances, and lodged in the criminal
gaol, where they are forced to associate with thieves
and murderers, and are driven off, tied together in
rows, to places on the sea coast, from whence they are
transported either to Africa or the Philliphine Islands.
Mr. BLIAVER has presented to the „Duke of bOTO•
MATER a note of remonstrance agait.st the practice
of these horrible cruelties—this note has been very

received by the Minister, and in consequence M►.
BULWER has refused to accept an invitation to a
diplomatic soirée given by NAavaez.
_

The grand review has been postponed sine die.

The Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER con-

nue in Madrid.

The KING has had a fall from his horse, and in-
jured his arm. It is hoped that the accident will not
be attended with any serious consequences. Mr.
BULWER was not present at the reception of the
Duchess DE MONTPENSIER.

MADRID BOMA, APRIL 13.—Three per Cents., 21
cash ; Five per Cents. 13k paper ; Passives, 44 paper ;
Cuupuns, 9} paper ; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 104 paper;
Exchange on London, 43 50-100 at 60 days. After
Bour3e, Threes, 21 cash, 20i paper ; Fives, 13} cash ;
eassives, 4i.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Paris was in a great state of excitement. Early
in the morning the rappel was beat, and the
whole of the National Guard turned out, and
took up positions for the defence of the Hotel de Ville,
the Bank, the Bourse, and the hotels of the Ministers.
The pupils of St.Cyr,who act as officers of ordonnance
to the Provisional Government, were constantly gal-
loping about from the Hotel de Ville to the various
posts of the National Guards. The Boulevards were
lined with National Guards, ranged four deep, and
the general and staff-officers, as they passed, addressed
r.utne words to each company, appealing to their
patriotism to protect the Provisional Government.
To these appeals the response invariably was, " Vive
Republique," "rive le Gouvernement Provisoire,"l
" A bas les Communistes." It was said that the Go-
vernment had received information that it was the
intention of the Communist authors of the abortive
demonstration of Sunday to renew their attempt yes-
terday, under pretence of preventing the entry of the
regular troops into Paris; that they intended to at-
tack the Hotel de Ville, the Treasury, and the Bank,
and to commence a general system of plunder. There
is reason to fear that there was but too much cause'
for this alarm. An unsuccessful attack was, it is
said, made upors the Hotel de Ville during the
course of the morning by Communist supporters of
M. LEDRU ROLLIN, and two of the posts of the
National Guard were attacked in the Rue St. Denis,
but the assailants were repelled. The Communists en-
deavoured to persuade the workmen on the Strasburg
Railway to join them, but the workmen refused. Two
young men attempted to address the people in favour
of Communism, and for this purpose mounted on the
steps of the Bourse. They were, however, so roughly
handled that they thought it prudent to withdraw.
Several of the leaders of the Communists, among
others BLANQUI and CABET, have been arrested, and
the Provisional Government has closed several of the
clubs. Up to five o'clock no collision or disturbance
had taken place. The regular troops were then
marching into Paris, and the National Guard had
been withdrawn, but with orders to be in readiness at
a moment's notice.

The Monde Republicain says—" The Communists
did not cpen their clubs on Sunday evening, and it
was even said that some of their chiefs would run
great risks it they showed themselves in public."
The Moniteur contains a proclamation signed by
all the members of the Government, congratulating
the citizens on the demonstration of Sunday.
Another decree declares that the law rendering the
magistracy irremoveable is suspended, and this is
followed by a series of decrees dismissing a great
number of public functionaries of the first order.
One hundred generals, colonels, and lieutenant-
colonels in the army have been put on half-pay.
By another decree the octroi duties (or town dues)
on meat are abolished throughout France.
Thursday will be a general festival in Paris. The
Bank, the Bourse, the Courts, Tribunals, and all
public establishments will be closed ; commerce will
be suspended, bills falling due being payable the
following day.
Nothiog can exceed the hatred borne to M. LEDRU
itorl.o, his commissaries and his party, throughout
the provinces of France. The Perigord of the Dor-

dogne says, " A. striking fact has just occurred at
Diontron. M. CHARLES MONTAGUT, the Government
commissary, being at a banquet which was offered to
him by the inhabitants, proposed a toast to the health
'of M. LEDRU ROLLIN. The entire assembly replied
with the cry of Vive LAMARTINE:
The following admirable article, which is attributed
to the pen of M. TRIERS, appears in the Constilu-
tionnel, on the subject of M. LEDRU RoLLIN's last
Bulletin :

"What is this publication? It appears in a semi-
periodical
manner. It is posted on the walls. It is
printed on white paper, a colour exclusively reserved
for official placards. It has reached its sixteenth
number, and has never been signed. Is it a journal, an
expression of individual opinion? But the decree which
abolished the caution money and the stamps has not
authorised the suppression of the name of the responsible
editor. Every journal remains under the guarantee of
the responsibility of the party who signs it. The
Prefect of Police would not allow private handbills to
usurp the colour which constitutes the ostensible cha-
haenayd unfitlaesuchn to put
proclamations. Every-
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thing, therefore, seems to indicate that this Bulletin
emanates from an official source. And, nevertheless,
when one sees that the document is anonymous, it
cannot be believed that M. Ledru Rollin is the
author of it. He signs boldly; and then what
oculars are his? When one has read this pro-
clamation, one can scarcely believe that it can
be
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of Government would dare to put
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indescribableaclvi document ?
What if the departments do not cause to triumph in
the elections what you call la orerahl sociale, there will be
only one means of safety, which would be for the people
of Paris to manifest their will a second time, and to ad-
journ the decisions of a false national representation.
Paris rightly regards itself as the representative of all
the population of the national territory ; and, if it can-
not persuade, it will have the pain of conquering.'
Such are 3 our priticiple,s and your threats. Never at
any period did a counter-revolutionary spirit make a
more audacious attack on the freedom of elections.
What! Is it on the eve of the day when the whole
people are about for the first time to exercise their
rights that you place all the committees of France under
the cannon of Paris ! You tell them, in the name of the
capital,' Your vote or your life 1' for what you say is to
wish to deprive the country of the political lite to which
it has just given birth ! It is the dismissal, esi masse, of
the citizens. The idea had been entertained of threat-
ening the dismissal of independent functionaries ; but it
had never been imagined to threaten an independent
nation with depriving it of its sovereignty. This,
however, is what is dune by the bulletin, in begging
the citizens of the departments to resign themselves to
persuasion, and to spare Paris the pain of conquering.
And to conquer whole ? The whole of France, if
it be not wise! From whence proceeds, we ask, this
monstrous doctrine which makes Paris alone the supr, me
interpreter of the will of all the tuition? In what law is
it written that a city, however enli&htened and patriotic
it may be, shall transform itself into the supreme arbiter,
in a political sense, of all the great State of which it
forms a part ? By uttering such a blasphemy the lie is
given to all the liberal expressions delivered by the Pro-
visional Government to the deputation which came to it
to demand the postponement of the elections. " The
will of Paris," all the Members of the Government,
including M. Ledru Rollin, replied, " cannot have the
authority of the will expressed by the whole nation."
That truth has been reiterated under every form, and
now it is sought to force on the whole body of French
citizens the reforming and dictatorial power of Paris.
But has Paris any right to use such language towards
France ? Paris does not wish for the impious dicta-
torship which is attributed to it, and it authorises no
one to take it on himself in its name. The citizens of
Paris only see in France brothers, and not vassals who
deperd on its political justice. The national guards
of Paris, that is to say the whole population, do not
consider they have received arms to conquer their fellow-
citizens in the provinces—to make slaves of those Who
are beyond the boundaries of their city. These words
of the bulletin will be, thank God, repudiated by
France as by Paris. The concord which is in their
hearts will destroy the odious germ of division. At the
same time that Paris believes in the Republican feeling
of departmental France, the latter confides in the
liberalism and loyalty of the Parisian population.
Never have the department heard Paris boast of posses-
sing, alone, the formula of social verity, and imposing
on the other parts of France the tyrannical alternative
of either rallying round it or compelling itself to be
conquered. Where is your social verity ? Who gives
to one more than to another the right of bring a judge
of it ? Beyond the national sovereignty expressed by
the majority of the citizens of all France there is only
the doctrine of divine right ! The divine right of
whom ? Paris does not say that she possesses it. In
whom is it then? Where is this Messiah of social verity?
We only see it too well—the dictatorship of Paris will
be yours, anonymous dictators of the Bulletin This is
why we say that those men of pretended violent cl, mo-
cratic opinions are only in reality purely counter-revo-
tionary. Trey say that Paris may wish to change the
form of the electoral rights. But th it form is universal
suffrage. To change is to restrict it. The first per-
spective then which dictatorship shows is a diminution
of liberty; but what is that diminution, since before
restricting that liberty by a new I.w they suppress it by
violence? To sum up, this bulletin, which appears to
emanate from authority, the duty of which is to make
the rights of the couutry respected, and to secure by
concord the safe ty of the Republic, this bulletin exagg, -
rates, to the length of the absurd mid the odious, the
rights of one part of the population; it annuls the rights
of the other; it sows the seeds of division and civil ear;
it contains the most absolute denial of national sove-
reignty, that is to say, the negation of the Republic
itself, which is the free and sincere government of all by
all, and not by one man or by a minority. If this bul-
letin is the private work of a citizen, we ask whether
laws no 1 tiger exist?"
The Beforme publishes the following address to
the Government, from the delegates of the Cor-
poration of Workmen assembled at the Champ de
Mars :

"Citizens,—Our manifestation of' yesterday has given
rise to counter revolutionary rnanceavres, to a thousand
false reports, and even to-day certain journals counte-
nance them by their absurd and dangerous commentaries.
On the other band, the false rumours which had pre-
ceded our arrival at the Hotel de Ville, gave rise there
to a misunderstanding which it becomes our duty and
our dignity to explain clearly. We commence by affirm-
ing upon honour that in assembling at the Champ de
Mars, we had no other objects than these—
" 1. Tu elect 14 from amongst ourselves to compose a
part of the etat major of the National Guard.
" 2. To prove that the ideas of organisation of la-
bour,and of association so courageously sustained by the
teen who are devoted to our cause, are the ideas of the
people, according to whom the revolution of February
would have miscarried, if it failed to have for effect to
put an end to the exploitation of man by man.
.; To effer to the Provisional Government, after the
views, the support of our patriotism
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on our banners, the text of the petition presented by
our deputies at the Hotel de Ville, the unalterable calm-
liesS of our demeanour, and the offering brought by us
to the Provisional Government of the Republic.
" How, then, does it happen that the Natio' al Guard
was extraordinarily convoked, and in arms, as in a day
of danger? How does it happen that, before the arrival
at the Hotel de Ville of our friends and representatives,
the citizens, Louis Blanc and Albert, our delegates,
met a reception which had all the characteristics of dis-
trust?
" We now know the cause, and will tell it to you.
" Precisely because they knew that our manifestation
was calm, truly republican, and favourable to the con-
solidation of the popular revolution of February. The
reactionaries spread about the story that we wanted to
overthrow the Provisional Government for the sake of
the citiz,,n Blanqui, in order to excite against us all
those who see in the existence of the Provisional Go•
vernment the guarantee of order and of liberty. At
the same time the emissaries of reaction Spread the
monstrous calumny that Louis Blano and Albert had en-
couraged us to cut d(rAn v:olriitly tad Yrovtsional Go-
vernment—a calumny against which we protest with
all the strength of our indignant mind. It we had
wished to overthrow the Government or to change it we
should not have assembled unarmed in the Champ de
Mars ; we should have taken measures to have mus-
tered, not one hundred thousand, as we were yesterday,
but two hundred thousand, which we could readily have
done. We should not have made the eollection among
ourselves which we carried to the Hotel de Ville, and
we should not have concluded our petition with the
words Vive le Gouvernement Provisoire.' This it is
which it is well for us to make known to all. We must
also denounce, as a ta,,of of the manoeuvres employed
by certain agents of rtaction, the report which was
circulated, that an attempt had been made on the lite of
Citizen Louis Blanc—a report propagated, doubtless, to
cause disorder; but of the falsity of which we were soon
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whom it had placed confidence, notwithstanding all that
might he said by the reactionary party. Let it, then,
be well known that there was nothing in the movement
of Sunday to create alarm. The people know their
strength; and it is permitted to them to remain calm.
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" We confide this protest to the Provisional Govern-
ment, and we beg it to make it public.
(Signed) LAGARDE, President of the Central
Committee,
DUMON, GODIN, Vice-Presidents.
A. LAFAURE, Secretary,
(Delegates of the Trades)."
" The delegates of the workmen of the Ateliers Na-
tionaux equally protest, in the name of their brethren,
assembled on Sunday at the Hippodrome, against the
calumnies of which their meeting has been the object,
and unite their voices to those of all the delegates at the
Luxembourg.
(Signed) GUSTAVE ROBERT, Vice-President.
The National has the following correct explanation
JACQUE,
of the manifestations of Sunday :
AUGUSTEDDeEIefIarIjT, Secretary."
" It has been artfully given out that there were two
manifestations—one in favour of the Republic and of the
Provisional Government—the other in favour of counter
revolutionary reaction. That is false. The truth is
this: independently, and by the side of the meeting at
the Champ de Mare, there was a plot against the prOTi.