The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-21 00:00:00

be called to a combat, the Guard-in-Chief would only give a
small number of orders, which he would take care to render
clear and precise; but as the circumstances of the battle and
the movements of the:enemy may require time to modify
the first arrangements, it is necessary to inform the National
Guard that when an officer of the staff shall bring an order,
he to whom such order is addressed must demand-1. His
name and production of his commission, if the staff officer is
not known. 2. The name of the officer, general, or superior,
by whom such order is sent; and 3, the hour and place
when the staff (Aker quitted the general or superior officer
whose order he brings. The National Guard must never al-
low itself to be approached nearer than 50 paces by nume-
rous armed groups."
His Excellency the Marquis of NORItIANBY presented
his credentials on Saturday to General CAVIIGNAC, as
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on a
special mission.
The Minister of Finance has published a decree, grant-
ing to those shareholders of the Paris and Lyons Rail-
way as may engage to pay up the instalments to com-
plete the 250 f. on each share the right to make the pay-
ment in Treasury Bonds issued by the Republic, on the
same conditions as were granted to the subscribers to
the New Loan. When the term these bonds have to run
shall be less than six months, the interest on them shall
be accounted for to the holder at 5i per cent., and when
beyond that period 6 per cent.
The Moniteur contains a decree of the Executive Go-
vernment, dated the 18th, setting forth the terms and
conditions on which associations of workmen may enter
into engagements with the State for the execution of
public works.
On Friday morning another batch of insurgents
amounting to 945, were embarked on board the Ulloa,
from Havre, and taken to Cherbourg.
The affairs of Italy are commented on in almost all
these papers. The Presse says:—
" The Ambassador of Sardinia. M. de Brignoles Sale, has,
it is said, announced to M. Bastide, that the Sardinian Mi-
nister has protested against the armistice, of which the text
has been published. If this statement be true the fact is
very grave, especially in conjunction with what is passing
at Genoa, where the Government every day assumes a more
decided character of opposition against all that surrounds the
King. It is no doubt this new complication which has given
rise to the rumours which have been current, of the abdication
of Charles Albert, in favour of his son, the Duke of Savoy.
But, however, deplorable the situation of Charles Albert may
be, and by whatever political and personal difficulties he may
be surrounded, we do not believe that for a single instant he
has entertained the idea ascribed to him. The Duke of Savoy
is very popular in the army; Charles Albert, on the
contrary, by the fault of his generals more than by his own,
has lost in tour days the popularity which his concessions to
his people and his entry into Lombardy had procured
him. It is not then impossible that new embarrassments
and new misfortunes may make a reality of what is at pre-
sent only an unfounded rumour, sent forth as a feeler by in-
terests which it is not easy to make out amidst the confusion
which prevails at this moment from one end of Italy to
another." The Constitutionnel gives as positive the state-
ment of the Sardinian Ambassador having protested against
the armistice. That journal says :—" We learn that at a con-
sultation of Italian juris-consults it has been declared that
General Salasco exceeded his powers in signing the armis-
tice, as he had of his own authority given up fortified places
and compromised the Government."
We read in the Courrier Francais :
" It may be remembered that we mentioned some time
since that an Austrian Envoy had passed through Paris on
his way to London, and that it was the same who had pre •
viously visited the head-quarters of Charles Albert. We
are now enabled to give some details of the negotiations which
are taking place. It appears certain that in spite of her sue- •
cesses Austria will give up Lombardy to retain possession of
the Venetian territory, but on two conditions; the first being
that Lombardy shall not be united to the Sardinian States,
and the second that she will be no longer answerable for the
Lombardian debt. Independently of these personal arrange-
ments, Austria, remembering the neutrality which the King
of Naples has preserved at so many risks and perils, stipu-
lates in favour of his second son as King of Sicily, the inde-
pendence of which country will be recognised. Such, we are
assured, are the bases of the negotiations now pending, and
they have been admitted by M. de Gagern, the representative
of the Diet of Frankfort. As to Venetia it will not only form
part of the Austrian monarchy, but also of the Germanic
Confederation ; it will send deputies to the Parliament at
Vienna, and to the Assembly at Frankfort. The German
standard will be hoisted on the citadel of Venice, by the side
of that of Austria."
The National has the following on the subject of
Italy, which may be considered as an official announce-
ment of the intentions of the French Government :
" It was announced in the Spectateur Republicain, a few
days ago, that General Welden had been disavowed by
Austria and recalled. This news to the present has not been
confirmed, and we have reason to believe that the invasion
of the Legations, interrupted a moment by the heroic defence
of Bologna, follows its course. On the other hand, we have
not yet learned that Austria has accepted the Anglo-French
mediation. Be that as it mav, we hold it to be inadmissible
that France can fill the functions of mediator so long as the
ustrians occupy the Papal States. Nothing could autho-
rise their aggression, as nothing can authorise their remain-
ing upon a territory whose independence is guaranteed by
treaties. If our Government should enter into negotiation
with Austria in such circumstances, it would be sanctioning
the brutal abuse of force by Austria. Before a step be taken
by diplomacy, and that irrespective of the decision of
Vienna, whatever it may be, with regard to General
Welden, the Legations must be evacuated. In making this
demand France does not raise any exorbitant pretension, and
we trust that the wisdom of Germany will save us from
supporting our too just observations by a direct act."
In a separate article the National announces—
"lt is said that Venice refuses to accept the armistice of
Charles Albert, and does not feel bound by the prudent
King of Piedmont. There is reason to believe that the Sar-
dinian fleet which blockaded Trieste and defended the ap-
proaches to Venice has been recalled. In this situation the
French Government has duties to fill. The defence of our
countrymen requires that the French flag be shown in the
Adriatic, and it is certain that at this moment our desire is
fulfilled."
The discussion on foreign affairs which was expected
to have come on in the Assembly on Saturday has been
postponed.
It is stated in one of the journals that Mr. J. B. Dil-
lon, one of the chiefs of the insurrectionary party in Ire-
land, has arrived at Havre.
By a decree of the Executive Government, dated the
18th, the sequestration which had been placed on the
Orleans and Centre Railways has been removed, and
their management restored to the respective companies.
The Minister of Finance has published a decree grant-
ing to those shareholders of the Paris and Lyons Rail-
way as may engage to pay up the instalments to com-
plete the 250 f. on each share the right to make the pay-
ment in Treasury Bonds issued by the Republic, on the
same conditions as were granted to the subscribers to
the new loan. When the term which these bonds have

to run shall be less than six months the interest on them
shall be accounted for to the holder at 51 per cent., and
when beyond that period 6 per cent.
The discussions in the Assembly on Friday were en-
livened by a smart personal rencontre between MM.
BAUME and TURCK. In giving evidence before the
Committee of Inquiry, M. TURCK had stated that he had
heard M. BAURE declare on the 23d and 24th of June,

that the insurgents would not be put down till they had
killed four or five hundred of the Members of the As-
sembly. M. B&UME .declared that this assertion was
"an infamous and odious calumny ;" but M. MACK re-
plied, however that might.be,' it'was strictly true. The
President stopped both speakers, and adjourned the
subject till the general discussion.
M. Louis BLANC in the course of the same sitting
complained bitterly of the conduct of certain journals,
which hid garbled the evidence given before the Com-
mittee, by publishing only such portions of it as tended
to inculpate him, and carefully suppressing everything
that might tell in his favour. He concluded by giving
notice for Monday of a decree prohibiting the publica-
tion of these documents in the journals until after the
discussion shall have taken place in the Assembly.
The following is the weekly report of the Prefect of
Police on the state of Paris:—

" Citizens,—The emotion which hasoccwupayiedantdhempaukbinligc
mind during the last few days is giving
room for a ieeling of security of which no serious cause ought
in point of fact to, disturb the duration. Vague rumours,
alarming reports hawked about by malevolence, and aug-
mented by tear, cannot long prevail against the evidence of
facts. If it were true that men were capable of restoring in
France a form of government justly abhorred,.that would be
madness; for anarchy in our days would not lead kings to
their thrones—it would only serve to precipitate the instiga-
tors and accomplices of these fratricidal struggles into an
abyss. Without doubt, the stoppage of industry and the stag-
nation of trade do not cease so quickly as each of us
of
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desire • but the miseries which the revolution of February
may have' added to, though it did cause them, would only
increase tenfold through our discords, and the workmen would
be indefinitely condemned to privations which, with order,
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to reign," the Republic has substituted its motto, " Union is
strength. The elements of the public fortune, the symp.
toms of a slow, but continued return towards a normal state,
assume every day a less contestable character. Facts and
figures exist ; and bad faith itself cannot prevail against them.
The workshops are being re-opened, and the workman re-
ssumes the place which he had too long lost. The move-
ment which is taking place in all branches of industry is
even remarked in those of luxury, which the receipt of orders
is again causing to become active. Renewed briskness dis-
plays itself in the ports, and the arrivals of July have greatly
exceeded those of the month of June ; the single port of the
canal St. Martin received last month 15,000 tons more than
in the previous month. The markets are always abundantly
supplied, and the price of bread is within reach of every
purse. At the date of our last return, out of 27,301 work-
men residing in furnished hotels, 16,925 were in work.
At this time, out of 29,074 there :are 20,771 who have em-
ployment. The number of workmen remaining inactive is
only 8,303 instead of 9,432. The Mont-de-piete from the
Bth to the 15th has received in redemption of articles pawned,
314,077 f. ; the sums lent by it amounted only to 306,8201.
The number of persons returning to Paris increases pro-
gressively—on the Bth by 4,394, and is the last week by
5,974. Instead of 710 foreigners alighting at the hotels, they
amount to 765; only 628 have left the capital. In the course
of the six days, from 9th to the 16th, 2,615 passports were
given to French citizens, of which e 67 were gratuitous, and
560 were granted to foreigners. The prisons on the 14th
contained 3,279 ordinary prisoners, and 8,069 implicated in
the affair of June. The sanitary state of the prisons is
and
perfect. Of all those of June three only have died—two from one from a pneumonic affection. From
their wounds,
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9th to the 17th there were eight
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sentinel, was wounded by a ball
Mobile, while on duty as
n hand. The total number of the victims
upon the person has been signalised. A soldier of the Garde
fired by an unknown
of June amounts to 1,415.La5t
night a second convoy of
945 prisoners of
June was sent off to Havre. The moral and
physical state
of the men sent away
leaves nothing to be
desired. Clothes, linen, and shoes were distributed to those
who were in want of them before their departure. Their