The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

Scots on offer sold readily at 4s per Sibs. For most
breeds of Sheep—the supply of which was tolerably ex-
tensive, the time of year considered—the sale was firm,
at full rates of currency, the best old Downs selling at
53 per 81ba. In Lambs comparatively little busibe,s
was transacted, yet prices were mostly supported. There
was an improved demand for Calves, at an advance in
the quotations of quite 2d per Blbs Pigs were steady
at late rates. Much Cows ruled dull, at from 151 to 18/
each, including their small Calf.
Per Sibs. to sink the offal.

5. d. to s. d
Inferior Beasts..... 3 0 3 2
second quality -... 3 4 3 6
Prime large Oxen.. 3 8 3 10
Prime Scots •• • . • . 3 10 4 0
Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 8
Prime small ditto .. 3 10 4 4
Buckling Calves ..17 0 24 0
Inferior Sheep .• • 3 10 4 2

s. d. to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 G 4 8
Southdown Wetlier 4 10 5 0
Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0
Large Hogs •.•••• 3 10 4 2
Small Porkers • • 4 4 4 6
Quarter old Pigs • l6 0 22 0
Lambs •• ... .

TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
I Sheep. Calves. Pies
9.680 f 455 390
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. 1 Pigs.
408 1,790 204
SCOTCH.—Beasts, 150 ; Sheep, 3'90.
NEWGATE AND LEALENUALL.
These markets were very firm, at full prices.
At per stone by the Carcase.
a. d. to s. d. I s. d. to F. d.
Beef ,Inferlor— •• 2 8 210 ( Mutton, interior 3 6 310
middling .. •• 3 0 3 2 middling.. 4 0 4 4
primelarge •• 3 2 3 4 I prime .... 4 6 4 8
prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork., large.-- •• 3 6 4 2
Ve41.............. 3 4 4 4' 5ma11........ 4 4 4 6
Lamb. 4s 00 to 5s Od.
BOROUGH HOP MARI:CET.

Beasts.
1,185

A fair quantity of new Mops hiT;..7.rTv7d this week
from Kent and Sussex, of good colour. The Sussex
qualities have sold at from 90s to 955, and the Kent
ditto 95s to 103 s per cwt. Picking is now becoming
pretty general, and a large supply of new Hops may
shortly be expected here. For yearling and old parcels
we have scarcely any demand, and prices have a down-
ward tendency. As this year's produce is expected to
be good, the duty has advanced to 205,0001. Yearlings
—Sussex pockets, 21 5s to 21 10s; Weald of Kent
ditto 21 6s to 21 12s ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 21 lOs
to Si 5s per cwt.

DEFENCE OF LA MARTINE.
(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)

The Manifesto which I addressed to Europe, as a
programme of the Republic, was accepted spontane-
ously and simultaneously by France, by the peoples,
and by the Governments. The justice and modera-
tion which were therein expressed at once placed
right on the side of France, and that right surpassed
armies. All the Foreign Powers responded to the
Manifesto by a prudence of language and by a re•
spect for the moderate revolution, such as prevented
the general conflagration of the Continent. What
homage was evinced towards us, for example, at
Berlin, at London, at St. Petersburgh, at Madrid,
at Brussels, at Frankfort, everywhere ! Scarcely a
few days had elapsed, when the different peoples of
the Continent, fascinated simply by the attraction of
ideas, detached themselves from absolute institutions
and gravitated towards our principles. In Ger-
many and in Italy seventeen partial revolutions re-
plied to ours. We had no cause either to inflame,
or to agitate, or to combat. The name, the attitude,
and the reserve of the Republic, fought for us pacifi-
cally. A commencement of harmony began to be
consolidated between ourselves and the various con-
stitutional Powers. France only wished to maintain
the place which it occupied in the world ; who would
dare to refuse it so much ? Above all, who would
do so, when France assumed its true role as the
sympathetic missionary in the incitement of the pro-
gress of humanity through the influences of freedom.
In order that our capabilities might correspond
with the situation which we had already assumed, I
immediately demanded from the Government three
armies of observation ; one army of a hundred and
twenty thousand men upon the frontiers of the Rhine
and of the North ; one army of five thousand men at
the foot of the Pyrenees; and a third army of sixteen
thousand men at the foot of the Alps. The two
former were only a forethought, the army of the
Alps was an act.
Italy rose to vindicate its legitimate independence.
The King of Sardinia went to fight for her in Lom-
bardy. We neither provoked nor encouraged the
war against Austria. The question was peculiarly,
and above all, Italian. I felt that it would not be
just or judicious to transform it into a French ques-
tion. Had our arms adventured beyond Savoy we
should have appeared in the light rather of conquerors
than of auxiliaries. We should thereby have alarmed
the German population; have re-formed against our-
selves the coalition, and have provoked a general war
without leaving ourselves a single ally. Behold, then,
the attitude which I caused our diplomacy to assume
in my written instructions, a policy which I after-
wards confirmed at a later period by my language in
the tribune, a language which received the approbation
of the National Assembly.

I said—We ought to prepare ourselves for three
eventualities in Italy.
Will Charles Albert, unaided among all the mas-
ters of Italy, be victorious ?

Will Charles Albert call for our assistance ?

Will Charles Albert experience reverses?

Supposing Charles Albert to be alone triumphant,
so much the better I Italy will in that event be eman •
cipated without our interference.

Supposing the fate of Italian independence is pro-
longed, and that Charles Albert makes an appeal to
our generous aid, we should reply to that appeal, and
we should descend from the summit of the Alps to
succour him, justified in so doing by the right of our
alliance and by the coincidence of our motives with
the aspirations of Italy.
In fine, supposing that Charles Albert abstained
from asking our assistance, and supposing that the
safety of his own dominions, and of those different
provinces which had been conquered, or which had of
themselves proclaimed their independence, were me-
naced in consequence of his reverses, then likewise
we should descend into Piedmont, not as conquerors,
not as agitators, but as armed and disinterested me-
diators. Europe could not in that event accuse us
either of ambition or of impatience. The right of
proximity a title to all mediations. Europe would
respect that right in our instance. Its plenipotentiaries
would follow, and march in accordance with, the move-
ments of our troops. The principal powers of Christen-
dom would combine with us, in establishing mat-
ters upon a sufficient basis, upon a foun-
dation compatible with the events inaugura-
tive of the independence of Italy. 1 quitted
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time when
Charles Albert was still triumph—ant. I am ignorant
what counsels have guided my successors. Two of
the eventualities which I had foreseen and dis-
cussed have since been realised ; but the interior
situation of our Government is altered, and evi-
dence, perhaps, something less of temerity. Of this
I am still ignorant. The responsibility of our
Italian policy fell from my shoulders on the occasion
of my official resignation on the 24th of June; never-
theless I have implicit confidence in the cir-
cumspection of the Government, and in
the wisdom of the two great powers of
Europe. I believe that negotiations will afford
a compensation for the absence of victory. To
affect Europe in such a manner that she should, to-
gether with the new French Republic, decide unani-
mously as to the future condition of Italy, has always
appeared to me as the remote perspective of these
occurrences, and as a guarantee of alliance and peace
for the whole world.

THIRD ACCUSATION.
I delayed the
,elections in order to prolong the dic-
tatorial power of the Government of which I was a
member!

My only reply is this—Read the accounts con•
tained in the .Moniteur of the five or six days
during which the dictatorial faction of the
anarchist clubs of Paris plotted against the
Government for the purpose of inducing us to
adjourn the period fixed for the elections. You will
there find an explicit refutation of this absurd
calumny. During three months I had only one
thought—the National Assembly ! the prompt and
substantial consignment of power into the hands of
the Republican representation ! On the 17th of
March what was my reply to the club of the Na-
tional Guard ? I transcribe it :—" Citizens ! of all the
dogmas which have survived the grand subversion of
thrones or of governments, there is only one dogma
which is imperishable in our estimation, it is that of
the national sovereignty—(Bravo, bravo)—it is that
of the national sovereignty, that sovereignty which
we ourselves will never imperil, and which we will
never allow to be endangered, either in our name or
in yours."
On the 17th of March what were my words in the
Proclamation destined by us to be the disavowal of
all such ideas of usurpation ? I transcribe again
(from the printed reports in the Moniteur):—" Raised
by acclamation to power during the interregnum of
the people, we have never desired, and we will never
desire any other dictatorship than that of absolute ne-
cessity. If we had refused the post on account of
its danger, we should have been guilty of cowardice ;
if we remained here one hour more than is positively
necessary we should be guilty of usurpation. You
alone are powerful. We number the days which
must elapse, and we have hastened by every means
within our reach the time in which we shall resign
the Republic into the hands of the nation" And
further on :—" A few days more of magnanimity,
Theo d f e
Republica pivouinbl i
ca n
receive
of
will
patience,and
Republic
u balni thefd
sr N t
or
mon as
strong
arms
r As-
semblymtthe,
nation 11"
And,, again, on the 17th of 3:,arch,
reply tce the manifestation of what is my
a hundred thousand
men, w'nose pretended spr.:Hesmen called upon us to
postpon e the elections,l' This :—" Citizens ! I do
not w4.sh, out of a feeling of respect for our inde-
pendence, to decide in any manner upon a decree
whict tends to declare to the nation that Paris aspires
to monopolize the Republic, 'upon a decree which
would oblige us (in the isolated name of the capital,
and u. oder the pressure of a multitude well-
but still imperative by
intentio, led, it may be,
reason of its very nn• tubers) to assume the dictator-
ship of the Repui of that Republic which the
entire Jlished in this metropolis by their
est.
vict peopleory—b that 41
victory which was gained for the
advantage of e whole of France, and not for the
exclusive ber
command ly ,fit of a few citizens ! . . . If you
and to prc Vi to deliberate under the pressure of force
tine the outlawry of the whole nation
which cl
~
.oes ,ot happen to reside within the walls of
Paris,
to (-kph\ re their exclusion from the representa-
tion
:*()),1 tho constitution during a period of
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