The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER, 20, 1848:

long since, it has been impossible to obtain a grave
without previous disturbance and mutilation. In a very
recent instance the searcher was repeatedly employed.
An old inhabitant well remembers that the areas of
which I have spoken were made in self-defence—to pre-
vent the obstruction of light, which was gradually en-
croached upon—and also to hinder the coffins falling
through the ground-floor windows. The above areas
projected on an average three feet six inches into the
' grave-yard,' and were about four feet in depth. Since
the removal of the boards, and the substitution of a
brick wall, two feet have been gained in the entire length
and height of the ground; and the areas have been sunk
to a depth varying from eight to sixteen feet. Thus has
a little more space been gained to deposit fresh centres
of infection for the living, by thd most unjustifiable dis-
turbance and mutilation of the dead!"

While such atrocities are perpetrated in the heart
of the chief city of this great and opulent empire,
can the pamphleteer remain passive, or the popular
representative be silent, or the journalist be unmoved ?
Such would be altogether impossible. The natural
sympathies of humanity would in these circum-
stances excite the most lethargic from their apathy.
It is, consequently, with profound gratification that
we record the exertions of those who are striving to
aid in the great labour connected with the diminu-
tion of the mortality of the country. Questionable
improvements are being continually made throughout
the metropolis, such as those of pulling down the iron
pillars of the Quadrant, or of constructing a labyrinth
of arcades in the centre of Leicester-square ; the in-
habitants of the capital cannot rest satisfied with this,
they must have better drainage and better ventila-
tion. The new and useful class of Street Orderlies
may be to the streets of London what the shrimps
are to the ocean ; but beyond these there are leviathan
difficulties and colossal abominations which will
require an immediate and permanent removal. Before
the Parliament assemble on the Ist of February,
1849, it is to be hoped that the Government will
have taken these matters seriously into their conside-
ration.

If it be considered desirable that profitable em-
ployment should be afforded to the labouring popu-
lation of Ireland—that its waste lands should be
reclaimed and rendered productive—that a judicious
system of home colonization should be introduced,
by which the active and industrious men, who are
now flying by thousands from our shores, might be
induced to expend their capital and their labour in
their native land, the Government should forthwith
decide on the measures to be adopted for that
purpose. The works must be undertaken either
directly by the State for the national benefit
or due encouragement must be afforded to private
capitalists who may be willing to embark in the
speculation. The objection alluded to by Mr. WASON
in a former letter to the direct employment of labour
by the Government has hitherto been suffered to
prevail, and although the vast advantages that would
result from such a course are manifest to the most
superficial observer, no practical steps
Shave been
taken. An obstinate adherence to an abstract principle
has contributed materially to the present wretched
and pauperised condition of the country-
Had the myriads employed, under the La-
bour-rate Act, in breaking up the roads in Ire-
land been sent to drain the bogs and to reclaim the
mountains, many thotsands of acres would ere this
time have been rendered productive, and a consider-
able portion of the expenditure would speedily be
returned to the Exchequer. At that period the doc-
trine that it was impolitic for the State to employ the
people was necessarily disregarded; but undue weight
was given to that which declared the impropriety of
any interference with private property, and millions
of pounds sterling were absolutely wasted that might
have been saved to the nation, had a balder and more
decided policy been adopted. It Is too late to deplore
the errors of that day, but surely some benefit should
be derived from our dearly bought experience, and
we should avoid similar mistakes, which would now
indeed be wholly inexcusable.
If, however, impolitic counsels must still prevail,
if the " One-eyed men" can still obstruct the mea-
suree of Government, it is essential that the impedi-
ments which have hitherto prevented private capi-
talists from entering on the undertaking should be
removed without any unnecessary delay. We have
already pointed out almost insuperable diffi-
culties in the uncertainty as to the titles that
can be given to the lands, and in the delays and
espouses attendant upon their deduction so that, the
mere legal expenses would swallow up almost
fig tho volna esc •h. lands in their
present state, and, after all, the purchaser or
lessee has no certainty that himself or his
children will be: suffered to reap the fruits of his
skill and industry. The Legislature can alone
Apply an adequate remedy in this respect. If, as we
have already suggested, Commissioners
appointed who should be empowered to
convey lands now lying waste and unpro-
ductive to those who would be willing to
undertake their reclamation, and to covenant that
within a certain period they should be brought into
cultivation,;these difficulties would be completely re-
moved. A perfect title would be given at a
cheap rate, which could not be excepted to, and no
persons could possibly be injured thereby. Incum-
brancers and remainder-men would have the same
remedies against the purchase money (which might
be impounded until all claims were investigated), or
against the reserved head rent, that they now
have against the lands themselves—and they could
not reasonably require or wish for more—it would,
indeed, be unjust if such per sons could obtain the
benefits derivable from the enterprise of others.
Mr. Wesort has pointed out another difficulty
which is most undoubtedly calculated to deter capi-
alist3 from entering into the project. There is, to
say the least of it, a possibility that the pro-
duce of the lands might be absorbed in the
future rates for the relief of the poor that
,night be assessed thereon. There could, surely,
be no objection to adopt the course sug-
;ested by that gentleman, and to bring in a law
providing that the rates should only be levied on the
present value of the lands. These steps must be
taken before any hope can be entertained that a gene-
ral movement will take place in the desired direction,
And before capitalists will regard the reclamation of
waste lands as a prudent and beneficial mode of
investment.

were

But, in addition to those necessary enactments, there
Mhould also be a general inducement held out, and
every possible encouragement afforded to the specula-
tor. If the first operations be profitable, if parties
realise considerable sums by their speculations, many
thers will be stimulated by the hope of gain to enter
upon the path that might lead to such pleasing results.
Proverbs might be cited in almost every known lan-
guage as to the advantages of the first step which it
is admitted generally constitutes the chief difficulty.
Mr. WASON has stated an offer that had been made to

the Government, by which, if accepted, this " first
step" would have been taken, and it is hard
to conceive upon what grounds the proposition
could have been rejected. He states " that

a party practically acquainted for years
past with the subject offered to guarantee the Govern-,
ment to the extent of 20,0001. from any loss arising
from the reclamation of land under his care. He re-
quired no salary. What he asked for his services was,
that he should have the right of purchasing the
land, when reclaimed, at the exact sum it had cost
the Government." It further appears that every point
of his calculations were laid before the Ministry, and
that there could be no possible question thereon.
Every information was thus placed within the
reach of others. It was stated plainly and distinctly,
like the specification of a patent. No loss could possibly
accrue. The guarantee that was offered was amply
sufficient, and yet it was rejected through the malign
influence that has hitherto prevailed, and retarded
every beneficial measure by which Ireland might be
rendered self- supporting.

EXPENSES or CORONERS' izictuzsTs.--Prom
to November 30th, in the present year, Mr. %vat f—J
the Coroner for the western division of the county, heja
425 inquests; the fees, mileage, and disbursements o
which amounted to 1417/. 3s. 4d. In the same time
Mr. Baker held, in the eastern division, 400 inquests,
at a cost to the county of 1,316/. 17s. Bd. From Mfty
to July 31, Mr. Bedford held, in Westminster, 74 in-
quests' the cost of which was 2331. 16s. 7d. From
March to June Mr. Higgs held, in the duchy of Lan-
comer, 9 inquests, at a cost of 121. ss. sd. Total cost,
2,7691. 13s.

TB! LIBRARY or THI EAST INDIA COMPANY.-
ease of books, addressed to the Library of the East
India Company, and presented to the East India Board
by the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh, has ar-
rived in this country by the steamer Camilla, from the
Russian capital, for delivery at its destination.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The following was the state of the poll for the
election of President, so far as the same was known
up to yesterday morning :

Napoleon. Cavaignae.

Votes officially verified by the
Committee of the Assembly 3,483,889 ... 824,042
Votes from departments where
election complete, but returns
not verified
Partial returns

~. 1,104,747 ... 240,706
... 1,058,660 ... 361,048

Total •.. 5,647,312 1,429,766
The following is a complete list of the new
Ministry :
MM. Odilon Barrot ... President of the
Council and Minister of Justice.
Drouyn de Lhuis ... Foreign Affairs.
Leon de Malleville ... Interior.
Hippolyte Passy ... Finances.
Leon Faucher .. ... Public Works.
... Commerce.

Bixio
General Rulhieres War.
De Tracy . Marine.
Marshal BUi/EAUD is to take the command of the
army of the Alps, and General OUDINOT devotes
himself entirely to his duties as member of the As-
sembly. It is said that the Post-office was offered to
EMILE DE GIRARDIN, but that he aimed at something
higher. We do not believe that the Post-office was
offered to him ; we cannot imagine that any Minister
would venture, after the exposures which took place
in the Chamber of Deputies about twelve months
since, to nominate M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN to any
office of trust.
M. DE TOCQUEVILLE has resigned the office of re-
presentative of France at the conferences on the
Italian question.
It is said that M. LARABIT is likely to be Under-
Secretary of War, M. CORALLI Prefect of Police,
and M. BOULAY (Meurthe) Prefect of the Seine.
The President, Louis NAPOLEON, has offered the
Post-office to his old tutor, M. VIELLARD, who,
however, has refused the appointment.
The Patric says it is assured that the three names
which M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE will send in
to the National Assembly, for the choice of one as
Vice-President of the Republic, are General BE-
DEALT, M. DUFAURE, and M. DE LAMARTINE.
The National Assembly met on MOnday at half-
past two o'clock, when M. CHARLES ROLLAND was
called to the tribune.
M. Rolland said, that on Saturday evening he had
begged leave to put a question to the Cabinet, but in
the absence of the Minister of Justice be had thought
proper to postpone it until this day. Seeing now the
latter in his seat, he asked him if he had read an article
of the Emancipateur de Cambray, copied in the Gazette
de France of Saturday, containing a violent attack
against the National Assembly, and an incitement to
.hatred of the Government and the Constitution. That
article stated that the Assembly had betrayed the coun-
try, by suffering itself to be forced by the Parisian clubs
to proclaim the Republic.—(Loud murmurs.)
M. Marie, Minister of Justice, replied, that after
reading the articles he found it to contain two scanda-
lous attacks, the one against the National Assembly,
which was entitled to universal respect, and the other
against the principle of the Republic, which all had
sworn to maintain. He had accordingly ordered legal
proceedings to be directed against the editor of the Ga-
zette de France, and justice should be done.
This incident having been dropped, M. Gent ascended
the tribune, and complained of the violation of the right
of ,meeting committed on Wednesday by a public agent
of the Government. On that day the Parisian Electoral
Central Congress was to assemble, when, at the ap-
pointed hour, a Commissary of Police presented himself
in the hall and ordered its doors to be closed. On being
asked in virtue of what law he acted, he replied that the
16th article of the law on clubs required that previous
notice of the intention to open such reunions should be
given to the authorities, and, that formality having been
omitted, he had been sent to prevent the meeting being
held. M. Gent maintained that the Congress in ques-
tion was of an exclusively electoral nature, and that the
authorities had no right to interfere with it.
M. Dufaure, Minister of the Interior, began by
declaring that the alleged violation had taken place with
his assent, and by his order, and that he was con-
sequently answerable for it. On the 13th of De-
cember, that is, after the election of the Presi-
dent, an association, entitling itself the "National
and Electoral Congress of Republican Solida-
rity," was to hold a meeting in the Hall
of Montesquieu. The Commissary of Police repaired
thither at the appointed hour, and, in the absence of the
President, he saw M. Crevot, to whom he read the 16th
article of the law on clubs, which the latter did not think
Droper to resist. On the 28th of July last, added M.
ufaure, the Assembly, by a formal decree, recognised
the right of meeting. It authorised the opening of clubs
with certain restrictions, which are now inefficacious,
and denied the right of the Government to interfere with
preparatory electoral reunions. The clubs bad become
of late so violent that the Government had been obliged
to close several. The factious then resolved to elude the
law, and established electoral reunions. The election of
the President approaching, the authorities confined them-
c.lir.o
without fear of contradiction, that at no time and in no
country was so important an election prepared with
greater liberty. The Government, however, was deter-
mined not to allow the spectacle it bad witnessed during
the present month to endure after the election, and the
measure he had ordered was perfectly legal.—(Yes, yes.)
M. Joly, who followed, said that this was a question of
constitutional law, and contended that the clubs had a
right to form themselves into electoral reunions before as
well as after the election of the President. In conclu-
sion, he protested against the measure, of which the Mi-
nister bad assumed the responsibility, denouncing it as a
violation of the right of meeting, which had been at-
tended for preceding Governments with the most disas-
trous ceasequences.
The Incident here terminated, and the Assembly re-
sumed the adjourned discussion on the proposition of M.
Dufournel, for clearing and planting lands hitherto un-
productive, which was ultimately referred to the Finance
Committee.
M. Lagrange next ascended the tribune, and repeated
his appeal to the Assembly in favour of an amnesty.
God, he said, had set it the example of clemency. God
alone had effected the revolution of February, for he
could not conceive how a handful of revolutionists like
himself could have overturned the monarchy without
Divine assistance. In conclusion he proposed that the
discussion of the question should take place before the
proclamation of the President of the Republic.
The President asked whether any members supported
that demand?—(Cries of " Yes, yes.")
A number of voices on the right—" The ballot."—
(Agitation.)
M. Lagrange declared that if the ballot were resorted
to, he and his trienits, who would vote for the discussion
of his proposition, would publish their names in the
Moniteur.
The President said that the Assembly would proceed
to the ballot, on the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman
being placed on the order of the day for to-morrow, but,
before proceeding to that course, he had to announce to
the Assembly, that the Committee appointed to examine
the'votes for the election of President of the Republic
had gone through all that had reached the Assembly;
there only remained the returns of twenty departments
to be received.
The ballot then took place, when the numbers were—
For the proposition
Against it

Majority against it
The proposition was consequently not placed on the
order of the day for the next day.
The reactionaries, emboldened by the success of
their manouvres, and wishing to make of Paris a
second Vienna, are now endeavouring to force on the
dissolution of the National Assembly, and to procure
this they will not scruple to have recourse to
any means, however base. Royalist emissaries are
at this moment disseminating among the ignorant
peasantry the most atrocious suggestions, obscure
provincial papers, under aristocratical domination,
are loudly calling for the dissolution of the As-
sembly, and the communications with the reac-
tionary congress, which has been fbr some time past
sitting in England, are more numerous than ever.
We should very much like to know how many
times within the last three months, M. DELESSERT
has crossed the channel.
The National has the following in relation to the
intrigues of the reactionaries :
" The National Assembly is now in a similar posi-
tion to that in which the Convention was placed after
having completed the constitution of An 111. A for-
midable movement of reaction was seen to break out at
that period. All the parties which that terrible As-
sembly had kept under for two years, reunited and
mingled in one common mass their past terrors, their
regrets, their hatreds, their ambitions, and their impa-
tience. Behind them lay concealed the Royalists,
who excited them, and made more noise than the
whole together. The impulse given in Paris spread
itself in the provinces ; the movements extended
throughout France, and the Republic was threatened in
its existence. The political sense of which the Conven-
tion had given proof did not fail it at this moment, any
more than in the difficult scenes through which it had
had to pass. Braving with an imperturbable sang froid
the storm of cries, of pamphlets, and of invectives with
which it was assailed, it decreed that the new legislative
body which was to be formed in virtue of the Constitu-
tion should be composed of two-thirds of the old Con-
vention, and that one-third only should be re-elected.
The result of this firm and wise decision is well known.
The disappointment of the reactionists was great, and
their discontent went the length of insurrection. The
Convention, however, remained firm, and maintained its
will ; General Bonaparte suppressed the insurrection,
and the Republic was saved.
But its dissolutionNationalsimilarAssemblymealsdepriving the
is impatiently called for, and every
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' After summing up the arguments which are used
by the journals who have lately expressed themselves
in favour of the immediate dissolution of the National
Assembly, and dwelling more immediately on the
hypothesis which has been raised by them, that in
the present chamber the new President will find him-
self in presence of a hostile body, the National pro-
ceeds :
" This hypothesis contains nothing of probability.
Does M. Bonaparte find that the country has not suffi-
ciently recompensed the services he has rendered it?
Does he find the Presidential chair so confined that he
wishes to exchange it for a throne? Does he secretly
entertain the design of trampling under foot that con-
stitution which has made him what he is; that consti-
tution to which he has sworn fidelity? Has he resolved
—he who has as yet done nothing for the country, to
make his debut in his polilical career by perjury, usur-
pation, and crime? It if not for us to reply to these
questions. It is for his partisans and for himself to do
so since his honour is deeply concerned in it. If he
should seek one day to realise these suppositions, the hope
of some and the dread of others, then he will doubt-
less have to combat the opposition of the Assembly, and
we sincerely hope that he would be vanquished. It' such
is the arridre pensie of those who call for the dissolution
of the Assembly it will show still more clearly that it
would be dangerous for it to desert its post.
" We, therefore, call on it in the siame of what it
holds most dear; in the name of the liberty which it has
organized—of the Republic which it has founded—of
the repose and of the future of France, to turn a deaf
ear to all the clamours raised arzainst it, and strong in
its incontestable right to valiantly accomplish its duty,
however painful it may appear. The maintenance of our
institutions, the continuance of public tranquillity, the
re-establishment of public confidence, the revival of
credit, and the happiness and strength of the country,
depend on its so doing. If it yields everything will be
lost. It is only by completing its work that the future
fate of France wilt be secured."
Considerable alarm was felt in Paris yesterday, in
consequence of the discovery of a plot to create a
disturbance on the installation of the new President.
The plan proposed by the perturbators is not very
well known, but it is believed to be this :—A proces-
sion is to be formed on the morning of the installa-
tion, which, after rendezvousing in the Place de la
Bastille, is to proceed along the Boulevards and the
Rue de la Pay to the Place Vendome, where Prince
LOUIS NAPOLEON resides; and there he is to be
saluted with cries of " Vive Louis Napcleon !"
" Vive l'Empereur !" Should the affair succeed so
far, further demonstrations are to be made against
the Republic. The BONAPARTE family deny all
knowledge of it, and are using all their efforts to
prevent its taking place. They say it is a weak
invention of the enemy—a thing got up by the
Red Republicans, as the nucleus of a fresh insurrec-
tion; and they accordingly beseeeh all those
who favoured their cause to discourage any such
demonstration by every means in their power.
That the Red Republicans may be implicated in the
plot we can readily believe. Starving men are al-
ways ready to join in any act of violence, as every
change in their condition must be for the better,
but that they are the concoctors of the plot we do
not for one moment imagine. The originators of
this plot, the men who supply the money, the plans,
the arms, are, those who supplied the money, the
plans, the arms, in June—the Bourbonists—(an
arrangement was entered into about a month since
between Louis PHILIPPE and the sister of the Duc
DE BORDEAUX, for the settlement of the claims of
the rival branches)—who, having made use of what
M. Emus: DE GIRARDIN calls the planche Napolio-
nienne, would now fain kick it away. The danger to
Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, President of the
French Republic, threatens from the right, not from
the left—from the Bourbons whom his uncle sup-
planted, not from the Republic, of whom he was the
incarnation.

BARNES has addressed the following letter to the
editor of ./.4 Rev.lutign Democratire and Sociale :
" Dungeon of Vincennes, Dec. 12, 1848.
" Citizen Editor—it appears that my name figures
also on those famous lists of national recompenses, of
which so much has been said within the last few days. I
feel no annoyance or anger against the authors of those
papers for having placed me in company with those who
have been called assassins and thieves. The widow and
children of Pepin, the relations of the heroic Alibaud
and of Dames, carry with them no stain, the contact
with which can soil a .Republican, and I do not know
that any one has made it a crime to Athens to have
adopted and supported, at the expense of the State, the
families of Harmodious and Aristogiton.
" Neither does my modesty revolt against being placed
by the side of certain other pretended malefactors such as,
for instance, Mallon, that unfortunate proletaire' who, be-
fore being condemned to the gullies fur haying fought in
the days of May, 1839, bad been subjected to a preceding
condemnation of five years of reclusion, for having taken
from the ruins of a house, of which he was digging the
foundations, some bits of old iron, estimated (the Procu-
reur-General admitted it to the Court of Peers) at If. 25c.
To fire musket shots against tyrants, and to starer
afterwards martyrdom in a prison, are as powerful, I
imagine, in absolving from all anterior faults, as to:bi,-
lieve in the mission of a friend of humanity, who dies of
the same punishment as you on the cross, and Jesus,
for that sole fact, has given place to the good thief in
that republic from above, which he calls the Kingdom of
his Father.

iir„ in reality, it I hare ay...,
in the struggles of my country, against a Government
which oppressed and degraded it, it was never for the
sake of a recompense ; and as the acceptance of
pecuniary succour would be to commit a theft to the
prejudice of so many other unhappy ex detenus who
have more need of it than I have, I declare, citizen. edi-
tor, that it is against my wish, and without my being in-
formed of it, that my name was placed on those lists.
" Salut et fraternit4►

"A AREEs."
The Mogilair publishes decrees appointing Admiral
BAUDIN a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. It
also publishes a decree promoting 6 commanders in
the navy to the rank of post-captains, 15 lieutenants
to the rank of captains of frigates, and 33 ensigns to
the rank of lieutenants.
It is doubtful whether the examination of the votes
for the Presidential election will be completed on
Thursday. Should fit not .be so, the installation of
the President will be deferred.
In the National Assembly yesterday, after the
reading of the minutes of the previous sitting, M.
LAGRANGE mounted the tribune on a motion of order.
He protested again against the mode in which the
question of the amnesty had been put on the previous
day, and denied that he had had any intention of in-
timidating any person. He then referred to the po-
sition of the insurgents who had been transported,
and said that they had been condemned en masse,
without trial, and without examination. He therefore
called on the Assembly to declare a complete amnesty
before the proclamation of the President of the Re •
public.
M. GUIGNIER DE CLIAMPSANS opposed the motion,
and M. DE LAROCHEJACUELIN moved the order of
the day, which was ultimately agreed to.
After the motion of M. LAGRANGE on the subject
of the amnesty had been rejected,
M. MARRAST announced that the Committee ap-
pointed to examine the electoral returns for the Presi-
dency of the Republic had received on that day the
returns of eight other departments including Corsica.
The Committee would probably be able to appoint its
reporter on Wednesday or Thursday, but it was not
yet possible to fix a day for the proclamation of the
President.
A Member here observed that he had every confi-
dence in the Government which so loyally accom-
plished its mission, but he was afraid that it did not
possess the moral power necessary to discharge its
duties with effect.—(Murmurs.) He accordingly
called on the President of the Assembly to state what
measures had been adopted for the maintenance of
tranquillity.
M. MARRAST replied, that the good sense exhi-
bited by the population was a sufficient guarantee of
the maintenance of order, and that no time should
be lost in proclaiming the first Magistrate of the
Republic.
Colonel DE VIRNON, Commander of the Republican
Guard of Paris, has addressed the following order of
the day to the men under his orders :
Paris, Dec. 16, 1848.
" Republican Guards,—We are approaching the worst
days of winter; distress, rendered more severe by the
want of employment amongst tradesmen and manufac-
turers, creates sufferings the more intense as they are
the more concealed. It is your duty to anticipate such
distress by discovering and consoling the objects. Brave
soldiers, listen to the dictates of your heart, whose echo
lam at this moment. It addresses itself to your sym-
pathies in favour of the misfortunes of your brothers!
You will not, I trust, be insensible to them, for I know
your generosity, which is equal to your courage. Make
a collection amongst yourselves, and devote a tenth of
your pay to charity. Invite beneficence to the thresh-
hold of your barracks. Open an asylum in your quarters,
where untortunate operatives, without work and without
resources, may find shelter against the severity of cold,
and against the anguish of hunger."
The National confirms the statement (which ap-
peared exclusively in The Sun more than a month
since), that General ZARCO DEL VALLE, the Spanish
Envoy, had failed in obtaining the recognition of
Queen ISARELLA by the Emperor of RUSSIA. ZARCO
DEL VALLE left St. Petersburgh on the 17th.
A rumour having been circulated, and even ap-
peared in some of the public journals, that the bank-
ing-house of Farrore Laffitte, No. 1, Rue Laffiitte, in
such is not the ,cawsee, aanrde
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lation to do so. On the contrary, it appears that
the firm is widely extending its concerns, as from the
numerous failures this year, not only in Paris but in
every part of France and the continent of Europe, the
numerous clients of those firms which have failed,
have had recourse to the firm of Farrore Laffitte,
which had only sustained a temporary diminution of
business at a period when half the tuonied men in
Europe were in difficulties.

BOURSE—P.Ims, TUESDAY, DEC,. 19.
THREE O'CLOCK.—There was a complete panic at the
Bourse to-day. The cause of this sudden revulsion
was a report, very currently believed, that the Bed Be-

publicans had determined to get up a disturbance on the
day of the installation of the President. No less than
115,000 f. Five per Cent. Rentes, and 15,060 f. Rentes of
the Loan, were discounted, but without arresting the
downward tendency of the market. For the Account
the French Five per Cents, have fallen no less than 3
per cent. Bons du Tresor are not quoted. Exchange
on London (30 days) 251. 30e. Railway Shares
remained pretty steady, notwithstanding the fall in the
Rentes.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 19.
Boulogne and Amiens, B—Luxembourg (10/.), 214—
Northern of Franee, 8414—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3—Paris
and Lyons (101.), s—Paris and Rouen, 193/4—Paris and
Strasbourg, 3—Rouen and Havre, 91/4—Tours and Nantes, 2.

The new Grand Duke, by liberality and energy,
is gaining the affection of all. Due praise must also
be given to the clear-sighted exertion of the Minister
VON JARED. The animating spring of the Darm-
stadt Government is, however, the President GA-
GERN, now at Frankfort; nothing of importance is
done without his advice.

The Mayence agitators, who are everywhere
sowing the seeds of discord and anarchy, do not
meet with much success All begin to see clearly
that the only aim of these men is anarchy and
devastation.