The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-04 00:00:00

" PROCLAMATION.

" Citizens,—The Committee, appointed by the Go-
vernment to inquire into the grievances of the labouring
classes, entered on its functions this day. On the
benefits, lately occupied by privileged legislators, the
Peers of Franco, the people seated itself in turn, by way
of taking material possession of its right, and marking
'des discussed before us the
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interests which are dear to you, with the calmness and
dignity becoming free men. We have heard their
wishes, and in order that they may be speedily realised,
we have agreed that each profession should choose a
delegate to attend the Government Committee.
" Until the Government Committee be completed by
the choice of the delegates of the different professions,
we will proceed to settle the questions relative to the
hours of labour and the abolition of job work.

" Now, citizens, hasten to resume ;our labours. Bear
in mind that every hour's delay is a treasure lost to the
country. You are one of the bases, and the object of
the special solicitude, of the Provisional Government of
the Republic. It loves you confide in it, and rest
assured that it desires you happiness as impatiently as

you do youne!vcs.
" The people has gained by its courage an ever-
memorable victory, and will immortalise its triumph by
its wilidotn.

(Signed)
" The Members of the Provisional Government."

Tho Democratic Committee of Paris waited, on Wed-
nesday, on the members of the Provisional Government to
assure them of its co-operation, and present to it some
observations relative to the choice of certain public func-
tionaries. Messrs. Arago, Gamier Pages, and Armand
Merrast replied to the committee that they had already
revoked a number of appointments which had been made
in the hurry of their first inetallatien. They thanked
the committee, and invited it to watch with a severe eye
over the rights of the citizens, adding that they were
happy to be able to rely en its co-operation.
M. Cleinieux, Minister of Justice, returned the fol-
lowing reply to the address, presented to him by M
Corrnenia, in the name of the Council of State:—
" Citizens of the Council of State, the Provisional Go-
vernment receives and accepts the assurance of your co-
operation and the expression of your devotedness to the
Republic. In this great and noble country unity
constitutes force, and centralisation imparts to all the
branches of the administration a vigour of which
the results are immense. The Council of State, a su•
perior and central power, possessed at its origin exten-
sive and constitutional prerogatives. Its political power
has been of late curtailed, and its administrative mission
considerably augmented. The Council of State may no
doubt become. under the constitution, which the
National Assembly shall shortly vote, an important
branch of our Republican Government, particu-
larly if, as w e hope and desire, the National Assem-
bly decrees he establishment of a single chamber, the
expression of the suffrage of all citizens, to represent
the nation. This time, at least, it shall not be
a mutilated representation, chosen by a nearly imper-
ceptible number of privileged men, who, for the most
part, shored among themselves all the advantages of
what it had been agreed to call the Representative Go-
vernment. It will be, gentlemen, the Government of
the people by the people, or, what is the same thing,
by those the people shall hare elected itself, in the full
enjoyment of its right of sovereignty."
"Citizens, you are no doubt actuated by a frank and
loyal desire to serve the Republic.—(Yes, yes.)
Royalty, so often dethroned during the last half
century, has finally succumbed, less from the effects of
the anger than the contempt of the people. Corruption
has killed it more than bad faith. Yes, it is
from the upper regions of society, the leprosy
with which they wished to cover France—a
country so noble, so loyal, and so pure—emanated.
(The Minister was here interrupted by loud
ac-
clamation.) They att •mpted to revile us in the eyes
of the world, we, the chivalrous people, the sons of that
land of honour and of every exalted sentiment. Con-
tempt arose, the people assumed an imposing attitude
end royalty vanished for ever from the soil it had pol-
luted. Nobody is better aware than you, gentlemen,
who closely approached the regions of power, of the dis-
regard e ntertained for the people in those royal residences.
Who cared fur its interests, its sufferings, its misery,
heightened by so many virtues ? (New acclamations.)
There is accordingly an end to Royalty, for we can see
no form under which it would be re established. They
all had their day. Is it the old French Royalty we
could regret? The lust King of the third race was
swept away by the tempest, raised by iniquities, heaped
up during ages, and under so many reigns. Is it the
Royalty of glory ? It could not guard itself against
despotism. Is it restored Royalty? You may remember it
gentleman, labouring to revive the past with an extraordi-
nary assurance, which a breath of the people dispelled.
We next had a Royalty, the offspring of a revolution,
which the too confiding nation accepted. What a trial
wa, reserved to us fur the last I Citizens, all Royalties
are at an end in our laud of freedom. The Republic
remains to us. The people have reconquered it, and we,
its first elected representatives, have proclaimed it. The
Republic, that is the country, France, all citizens, the
nation, the p. ople, for the Republic is the universality of
the aitieeni, united for the triumph of the coun-
try. Citizens, let us all cherich that Republic,
ehose name resounds so gratefully —so sweetly
in our cars ; let us cherish it with the same ardour, for
there can be no shades in our love of the Republic. In
a monarchy shades may exist. One loves a king more
or leas, or not at all, or conditionally, for a king does not
represent the country. But how can any citizen lore the
Republic, that is die country, more or less than the
other? We must sacrifice to it our fortunes and cur
lives; it possesses the same rights over all, and the hap-
piness of devoting oneself for her cause constitutes the
first virtue of the citizen—patriotism."
This speech was received with cries of " Vive la
Republique."
The Monileur publishes a decree, extending to the
department of the Seine and Seine-Inferieure the de-
cree published for Paris, relative to the delay granted
for the payment of hills falling due between the 22d
February and 13th March.
Yesterday the banking houses of Paris resumed
discounting operations, anti all, in imitation of the
Bank of France, paid the bills presented to them.
A most affecting scene, which we trust will occa-
sion the early passing of a law to put down duelling,
took place at the tomb of M. ARMAND CARREL.
The friends of M. ARMAND CARREL repaired on
Thursday to the Cemetery of St. Maude, where his
remains are interred, to render an homage to his
memory. The National Guards and schools were
represented at the ceremony by deputations,
and M. ARMAND MARRAST, a member of the Provi-
sional Government, attended in its name. After a
speech from the Mayor of St. Maude, M. EMILE DB
GIRARDIN, by whose hands M. CARREL had fallen,
stepped forward and deplored in affecting terms the
fatality which had deprived the country of the
services of a citizen, whose loss was never so
cruelly felt as at the present moment. " There
is, however," added he, " homage still more
flattering due to his memory, that is, to
invite the Government, which has acquired so
much glory by abolishing capital punishment, to com-
plete its work by proscribing duelling." When he
had concluded, M. DE GIRAUDIN was embraced with
affection by all the persons who surrounded him. M.
ARMAND MARRAST, in his turn, delivered a short ora-
tion over the tomb of M. CARREL, and cordially shook
M. DE GIRARDIN by the hand. The procession then
left the cemetery and returned into town.
The intelligence of the proclamation of the Re-
public in France had produced the deepest sensation
at Berne, and many refused to believe it. In the
evening of the 27th, the Vorort was to hold an
extraordinary meeting to consider the expediency
of the immediate recognition of the French
Republic. It was also believed that the Diet
would be convoked, and that the Government would
propose to it to place the frontiers, bordering on the
Austrian and German States, in a condition to repel
all invasion on that side.
Letters from Naples of the 23d ult., state that Lord
Alreero and the. French Ambassador would sail on
that day for Palermo, to endeavour to adjust the dif-
ference between Sicily and Nap!es.
The funeral of the citizens who died for their
country in the three days of February is fixed to
take place this day. It was to be solemnly celebrated
in the Church of the Madeleine, whilst other funeral
services were to be performed at the same time in all
the other churches in Paris. The bodies, 170 in
number, were to be deposited in the vaults of the
column of July, next to the remains of the corn-
batants
of July, 1830. The procession is to be