The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

NERRE :-

"Paris, July 6.
"Sir,—Your journal of the day before yesterday con-
tains an article which we cannot suffer to remain unan-
swered. As long as we formed part of the Government
we thought it necessary to maintain silence in presence
of all the attacks of the journals. At present our duty
is to reply when facts are disfigured, and when public
opinion may be set astray to the detriment of order and
truth. We consequeutly declare to you that all the
details contained in your article tn a plan of barricades
which the Provisional Government are said to have ar-
ranged against the National Guards, and which the
insurgents of June borrowed from it, are all false. We
give the most formal contradiction to all the statements
yuu have made on that head. We pray you, in the in-
terest of the public, still more than in ours, to publish
this declaration in your next number.
" Accept, Sir, the assurance of our distinguished con-
sideration.

" GARNIER PAGES.
" PAGNERRE."
To these denials the Journal des Debuts makes the
following reply :

" We fully admit the double contradiction of M. de
Lamartine and of M. Garnier Pages, and we are happy
to register it; only it comes somewhat late, and it is not
to us that it ought to be addressed. If we have been led
into error, it is by a journal which has always defended
M. de Lamartine, which defends him still, and which M.
de Lamartine has more than once made the depository of
his thoughts, the Bien Public. The following is the
manner in which that journal expressed itself on July 2,
in en article on the insurrection of June:—' Now to this
vague, confused, undetermined, and undisciplined army
of the agitation must be added the reinforcements
which the Republic was sure to furnish. First of all,
the barricade bataillon. After the revolution of Fe-
bruary, in the midst of the apprehensions of the victors,
and in the fear of an offensive reaction of the monarchy,
a corps was formed, charged to study the formation of
barricades, their military arrangements, their inclination,
the strategic points, where they ought to be raised and
connected together .in all the streets, in all the open
places, and at all the barriers. A map of detached
torts by the aid of paving-stones, and in the interior of
Paris, was drawn up, shown, and taught to a company
of men who had almost all passed through the baptism
of insurrection, but, when the danger was dissipated,
this company was dissolved; in place, however, of dis-
persing, it remained organised, and passed almost to a
man to the party of the insurrection.' Did we say any-
thing else? A body has been formed, called the barricade
bataillon, in the fear of an offensive re-action on the part
of the monarchy. That body had been charged to study
the whole strategy of barricades; maps were prepared for
its use; the warfare of the streets was taught to these
men. The corps was, in truth, dissolved, but it re-
mained organized, and passed almost to a man to the side
of the insurrection. Once more ; it is the Bien Public,
the journal of M.de Lamartine, which so expressed itself
in its number of July 2, and no one lent it a contradic-
tion. Will it be said that we added that this battalion
had been formed under the auspices of the Government?
But is it not evidently what results from the article in
the Bien Public;? A body was formed and organized—
by whom? It had been charged with the task of study-
ing the strategy of barricades—by whom ? A map was
drawn up for its use—by order of whom ? It was after-
cards dissolved—by whom ? We believed, and we
were justified in believing, that the barricade ba-
talion was of the same nature as so many other
irregular bodies, such as the corps of montag-
nards, for instance, the formation and existence
of which the Provisional Government, without any
doubt, was aware of and tolerated. In making these
observations our object is to place our sincerity under
cover, and by no means to call in question the contradic-
tion of M. de Lamartine and M. Gamier Pages. We
were mistaken; so much the batter! We regret only
one thing—that a rectification which it was so easy to
address to the Bien Pailie did not prevent our error.
Without doubt it is, not to us that M. de Lamartine
makes allusion in speaking of the madness of calumny.
We have been often calumniated in the most odious
manner; we never calumniated any one, and M. de La-
martine less than any other! Men calumniate those
wnom they hate; we do not hate M. de Lamartine—we
pity him. What his position might have been, and what
it is, only produces in our mind one sentiment—that of
a deep and bitter grief r
M. MARIE has, as a member of the late Provisional
Government, also addressed a note to the journals,
denying all knowledge, on his part, of the existence
of a " Battalion of the Barricades."

In the sitting of the Assembly on Friday, General
CAVAIGNAC announced that the state of siege in Paris
would continue for some little time longer, and that
there were 50,000 troops of the line in Paris and its
neighbourhood. In the same sitting the law for re-
imbursing the holders of Treasury bonds, and the
depositors in the savings' banks, was passed. The
savings' banks depositors are to be paid in Five per
Cent. Stock, at 80 ; and the Treasury bond holders
in Three per Cent. Stock, at 55.
The Gazette des Trilrunatio gives the following, on
the subject of the rumoured " infernal machine" plot
for the assassination of General CATAIGNAc
" \\re will not make ourselves the echoes of the alarm-
ing rumours to which the change in the programme
of the funeral ceremony in honour of the defenders of
public
,order? who fell victims in the insurrection of n
June, asgiven rise in Paris. It appears that nume-
rous warnings, emanating from different sources, but
reaching the authorities too late to make it possible
to verify the exactitude is a sufficiently complete manner,
caused it to be feared than an attempt of the nature of
that of Fieschi might be directed against the Members
of the National Assembly. Such, it is said, was the
motive which caused that of the programme relative to
thegemoral of the bodies of the Tictims from the Place de