The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1848.

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behalf of the Poles in the course of every twelve-

months, it is either a monstrous error or a heinous
misrepresentation to term the Poles wilful burdens
upon our community. They are so far from
being voluntary sojourners in England that
their return homewards brings them to the horrible
alternative of banishment to the wilds of Siberia, or
death by the hands of the executioner. They must
stay here or perish. There remains to them no other
resource but our benevolence. Of this a terrible
example was instanced un Saturday evening by Lord
DUDLEY COUTTS STUART, when addressing himself
to the Committee of the Association. Repeating what
he had already stated on a previous occasion, the Noble
President reminded his auditors of the case of " the
Polish Refugee, who, not long since, kept a shop in
Piccadilly, and who having, this summer (impelled
by a sort of mad desire of revisiting his native country)
ventured into Russian-Poland, was immediately cap-
tured and hung !" The inference to be drawn from this
terrible illustration is obvious. The Poles are com-
pelled to remain amongst us from obedience to the
common dictates of self-preservation. A few of them,
it is true, are enabled by good fortune to obtain
employment sufficient to earn their own subsistence ;
but the majority are deprived of every opportunity
of gaining a livelihood by the exercise of their skill
or their intelligence. Nor is this surprising, when
we reflect upon the extraordinary number of our
own people who find it altogether impracticable to
obtain work in their native country. Therefore it is
that the Poles look to the sympathies of
England for aid and sustenance in the midst
of their tremendous calamities. And if ever
any men were entitled to the charity of their fellow-
creatures, these noble• hearted but ill-doomed refugees
from Russian Poland are—by the sublime right of our
common humanity. The victims of a conquering
and spoliative despotism, they are expelled from the
land of their nativity, not for crime but for virtue—
the lofty virtue of their undying patriotism. They
come to us for shelter in the,days of their great na-
tional tribulation. They fly for help to England, to
that England which has the glorious prerogative of
affording refuge to the guiltless outcasts of the nations
of the globe. Shall they receive protection but
be denied bread ? Shall they look to us
for our vaunted generosity and find only freedom
to perish with hunger ? What then becomes of that
memorable and impassioned boast of the great orator
—that the moment the black slave presses his foot
upon the shores of England, his chains fall from him
and he breathes the air of liberty ? That liberty is
surely little better than a hideous mockery which is
embittered by the pangs of famine, and recompensed
by the planks of a gratuitous coffin !

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
Manager, Mr. BUNN.
GENERAL REDUCTION OF PRICES.
The repealed representations that have been made to the manage-
ment respecting a reduction of prices, in order to meet the exigencies
of the times, hAve led to its present adoption. In complying with so
general an expression of public feeling, it is only necessary to state
that precisely the sane character of performance will be given, sup-
ported by the same artistes, and aided by all the gorgeous parapher-
nalia of the establishment, 'resenting a series of att, actions on a
scale uf admission suitable to all classes, v ithout :.ny precedent In so
splendid a Theatre.

SCALE OF ADMISSION.
Dress Circle in the Grand Tier Six Shillings.
First Circle •.••• • • • • • ....... Five Shillings.
Upper Boxes • ••.••••• • • .• .• Four Shillings.
Pit• •••• • • • • ......... •• • • Half-a-Crown.
Lower gallery ..............One Shilling and Sixpence.
Upper Gallery .. • . • • .. One Shilling.
Frivate Boxes, One and Two Gnineas ; Stalls, Seven Shillings.
Half-price at Nine o'clock.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; First Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit
s. 6d.; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
THIS EVENING,

The Entertainments will commence with a Grand Opera, entitled
HATDEE! or, the Secret. .

Loredano, Mr. Varna Reeves ; Maigenio, Mr. Whitworth ; Andrea
Donate, Mr. Herberte; Ilaydee, Miss Lncombe.
To conclude with a Grand Ballet-Pantomime, settled
THE PERI.

Doors open at Half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven.
The Bex-office is open from Ten till Five, tinder the directlex of
Mr. John Parsons.

THEATRE. ROYAL, HAYMARRET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brernpten.
The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during
the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations, alit the
whole re-decorated.

While a single charity of comparative insignifi
cance is begrudged to the Polish refugees simply
because those unfortunate men are foreigners, it
would be well to remember the splendid
acts of munificence recently displayed by a
distinguished foreigner towards our own suffering
population. While preparations are making for the
ball to be holden in the Guildhall of the city of Lon-
don on Thursday evening, it may not be inappro-
priate to remind our contemporaries of the aiu rn
realised for the Brompton Hospital for Consumption
by the artistic and beneficent genius of Mademoiselle
JENNY LIND, and to call to their recollection also
the four hundred pounds presented only the other
day for distribution among the poor of Dublin by
that wonderful songstress and most noble-hearted
woman. With these facts living in our remembrance,
we say with our whole soul, GoD speed the Polish Ball
on Thursday

TH EWEA T HER.—S u N OFFICE, NOTMEBBIL 12.
TIBBILOMNTER, Lowest, 38; Highest, 44; Noon, 43.

BASOMETER, 30 43.
WINN N.E.; cloudy and slight rain.
NOVEMBER 13.

rdERMGMETUR, Lowest, 37; Highest, 43; Noon, 44,

BAROMETER, 30.47.
WIND W.; hazy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAT.
Moraing .. 55 nth f. after I Evening .. 22 min. after 3

Three important railway statements have just been
published, in addition to those which have already
appeared. The directors of the " Great Western," the
" South-Western," and of the "Lancashire and York-
shire" Companies have afforded full and explicit in-
formation, to their respective shareholders and to the
public generally, of the position and prospects of the
vast undertakings that have been confided to their
control and management. Every person may now
judge for himself how far the directors have been
warranted in their estimates of future income,
and may make his own calculations as to the
probable amount of dividend to be received on
the sums which he may have already invested, or
may desire to invest, in the stock of any or either of
these companies. The great desideratum has been
obtained—accurate data are now afforded. There
can no longer be doubt or difficulty as to the various
matters that should be thoroughly known. There
cannot be the whispered insinuation, " the shrug,
the hum, or ha," by which the fears of timid parties
were excited, and themselves induced to sacrifice
their property. The mists have been dispersed, the
obscurity enlightened, and to every rumour or
surmise that may be hazarded by those anxious
to depreciate the value of railway stock, the
true state of affairs—set forth so clearly and explicitly
—the incontrovertible facts, may be replied to the
shame and confusion of the calumniators. We con-
gratulate the community in general on the improved
aspects, the more favourable prospects opened to the
railway world, so widely different from those that bad
been put forward on the semi-official authority of the
Weekly Share List. A simple comparison of the
statements "conjectural' and "real"—the former
viewed through the distorting medium of pre
judice and distrust the latter by the pure and
natural light of trath—will speedily convince the
most sceptical how unsubstantial was the foundation
on which rested the recent pa-,ic, and the general
want of confidence in railway resources and railway
management. It will also show the extr, me lengths
to which the opponents of those great monuments of
national industry and national enterprise ventured
in their efforts to damage the property of the share-
holders.

statements of the prospects of the company, founded
upon the above data, but which, of course, every
lerson may judge of for himself before he is in any
degree influenced : he will have the same materials to
guide him as to the accuracy of the estimates that
the company had in framing these tables. We
shall now only give the conclusion, which
is, that " without any progressive or other in-
crease of traffic over the Great Western
lines coming from its extensions, nor any additional
receipt in respect of rent, &c , there would, after
every allowance, and providing for every demand, be
a disposable balance of 701,2501. per annum, which
would give a dividend of 61. 105. per cent. on the
amount of paid-up capital. And if the increase on
the gross revenue should amount to 1,6501. per week,
by no means an improbable contingency when the
advantage; alluded to are made fully available, or if
the working expenses be reduced to 371. per cent.,
even without any increase of traffic, the earnings will
be sufficient to pay 7 per cent. to the shareholders on
the estimated stock or share capital.
This is, indeed, satisfactory, and we heartily con-
gratulate the parties interested therein. A consider-
able improvement in the quotations of the stock ne-
cessarily followed the publication. On a future occa-
sion we may again refer to the above and other
statements, which want of space forbids our doing
this day.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

The Paris papers of Saturday publish the follow-
ing manifesto, addressed by General CAVAIGNAC, as
chief of the Executive, to all the authorities, civil and

military, of the Republic :
" Citizens,—The National Assembly, by a definitive
vote, has just completed the important work undertaken
and pursued by it with so much persevering and scrupu
lows energy. The Republican Constitution is voted, and
its promulgation will convey to the people the knowledge
of the text of the fundamental law which is in future to
govern their destines. In so important a conjuncture,
and called upon as you are to co-operate according to
your functions in this solemn measure, I have been de-
sirous, by an exception, which the gravity of the cir-
cumstance will explain, to place myself in direct relation
with you, and to tell you what new guarantees, what
new force the Constitution will give to your authority.
From the month of February up to the present day the
principle alone was proclaimed, but the law, the written
rule, which is the final consecration of it, was wanting
to the principle. Hence irresolution, persevering hos
tility, end exclusive pretensione, and, finally, the wild
and insensate projects of a small number. The revolu-
tion not being defined, audacious minds took scope,
and because a necessary interval of time was to elapse
between the destruction of the monarchical edifice and
the construction of the Republican edifice, it seemed
is if all was to be done anew, and that nothing
of the existing society was to be preserved. These
fetal theories could only produce bitter fruit, and you
know what terrible responsibility falls on them for the
rice; of sacrilegious preparation or savage aggression,
which, under a borrowed flag, attacked all that is moat
rests, cted, most sacred, and most vital, in human society.
These deplorable crises cause to you and to us serious
difficulties, and when you had to oppose them you
triumphed less by the force which would have been
Igiven to you by a written law than by the inspirations
ef an enlightened censcience, an unlimited devotedness
to your duties towards the nation and the whole of
sod., ty. A powerful and irresistible weapon is eh Lut to
he aided to those which you already possessed. The
Constitution is made, and henceforth the revolution is
defined in its organization and in its law, and whoever,
ising against the new law, should pretend to demand
from the revolution which has been accomplished the dis-
charge of any imaginary debts, will most justly incur
the severities of the law. The fundamental political law
oat placed itself by the side of the eternal law of order
and stability, which is the necessary condition of all
human society. Both are henceforth inseparable.
The existence of the Republic is indissolubly
connected with the maintenance of good politi-
cal and social order. The Republic without
good order, good order without the Republic
are henceforth two facts equally impossible ; and he
who should pretend to separate them, or to sacrifice one
to the other is a dangerous citizen, condemned by reason
and rejected by the country. Endeavour to be embued
with these ideas, and to cause them to penetrate into the
minds of those who assist or surroand you. Founded
on the great principle of universal suffrage, such as
it is defined and determined in its application by the
Constitution of the Republic, the Constitution leaves all
Liberty of discussion, and takes away all pretext for in-
surrection and revolt. For, by what right can the vote
which could not prevail by law be made to prevail by
violence ? And, on the other hand, in presence of this
incessant application' of universal suffrage, what is the
authority which could attempt to corrupt the expression
of it ? Universal revolution is the entire revoltition ;
all the other principles no longer present themselves
hut as consequences, In the first rank of these conse-
quences you all place that which consists in maintain-
ing the Government under the action and inviolable
respect of the majority. In the new state of things which
the Constitution is about to create for the Republic, to
forget these principles would be, en the part of all, a grave
fault, and a crime on the part of any man, who, in-
vested with an authority of any kind, should thus
dispute the very source and basis of this authority. The
first result, the first danger of such an error, would be
the destruction of the power itself whose origin should
have been rejected, and whose value and signification
should have been misunderstood. Drawn up in con-
flict, if we may so express it, with the subversive
theories which may attack property and society (la
famine), and the possible and salutary conditions of
labour, the Constitution had nothing to add to the
power of the eternal principles upon which these
rights repose. It limited itself to the recording, ac-
knowledging, and consecrating them by a solemn de-
claration. Its text, therefore, would add nothing to
your duties in this respect. Every period has its
dangers and its errors. You know these errors and
the dangers of our epoch, and you will continue to com-
bat them with the devotedness which the Republic has
a right to expect from you. The support of the
authority which directs you, and the opinion of the
entire nation, are the sources from which you will
strengthen the courage requisite, in order that you may
not fail in presence of audacious aggressions if they
should again take place. Long political struggles pre-
ceded the Revolution, which is being accomplished
under oar eyes and by our efforts. Parties had been
long in conflict ; the men who composed them were
si prated by energetic dissentiment and profound in-
compatibilities. You will not forget that the revolution
of February is the entire nation beholding without
anger the suicide of!the monarchy, which remained
alone and by itselc. You will not forget that the Re-
public, the obj- ct of the hopes and of the old worship
of a small number of citizens, proclaimed on the day
when all other government, all authority, was wanting
to the country, has been accepted and legitimised by the
acclamation of the entire nation. In what has parsed I
do not see a conspiracy which triumphs and meintesies
itself by violence and exclusion. I see in it the evolution,
eainful without doubt in its crisis, but fortunate and natu-
ral, of a nation which suffered in its wants and its dearest
and most respectable rights. Under the ielleence of
these salutary truths you will remain convinced that
the souvenirs of former struggles, and of the sympa-
thies, or repulsions resulting from them, if they still
subsist, must be t faced and extinguished. You will
devote all your efforts to this work of peace and eL ncili-
ation. The nation has not had the Republic imposed
upon it, nor will it submit to a minority, whatever it
may he. Engaged seriously and irrevocably in a Re-
publican course, it will not cast a look behind. It looks
forward ; it progresses ; but it will see clearly, it
will attend to its own affeirs, and this sentiment
is legitimate; not to, acknowledge this would be to depart
from right, from truth, from public reason. In the post
which you occupy, and devoted as you arc to the new in-
stitutions which ensure the future of the Republic, you
will experience no sentiment of systematic exclusion. In
the choice which you will have to propose or to make, open
the career resolutely to every citizsn who comes to you
with a sincere heart and honest intentions. Examine what
he is worth, and not whence lie comes. Let it suffice for
you that his character guarantees his word. But you
will set aside without hesitation whoever does Hot deserve
from eou the enlightened confidence which you will seek
in your conscience. Apply yourself, therefore, to con-
ciliate men, and to reconcile them to each other. Your
first duty is to serve faithfully the interests of the Re-
public. Nothing will better secure to it convictions and
hearts than the spirit of wisdom and impartiality you may
display in your choice. In the path I trace to you, you
. must expect the most contradictory attacks. Some will
accuse you of deserting the cause and principles you are
called upon to defend and make prevail.
Leave to
ytoofu oactrs
and to time the care of demonstratingwhether
they - have best comprehended the interests of
the Republic. Others, on the contrary, will accuse
you of hesitation, of exclusion, perhaps of duplicity. In
the face of all these obstacles neither hasten nor delay
your march; the feeling that you are doing your duty
will indicate to you the just measure ; do not suffer
yourself to be diverted froae it. Think that the public
life of a functionary belongs to you, and, consequently,
to truth and to error. Do not be eager to defend your-
self against a calumny; know that as soon as one is de-
stroyed another is ready. Devote your time rather to
your country than to yourself. If, in the exercise of your
functions, you have to experience some disgust, some
discouragement, think that all these attacks, all these
calumnies, have no longer duration than your temporary
authority, and that, after that is at an end, nothing will
remain but your acts, which will mark you for rowers
brauce or oblivion, for the gratitude or contempt of your
fellow-citizens. Think that free nations are suspicious
and that it is right that they should be so. More than
one nation has stilled its own liberties under the weight
of its gratitude. It is by this sprit that you will fulfil
the duties which the Constitution is about to
impose upon you. The country is suffering
and some utienlighted citizens, arts but too
much disposed to attribute to the very principles of
the Republican Government the sufferings and prive-
lions which they endure. Apply youreelf to combat
these evil tendencies, neglect nothing to hasten the ter-
mination of these sufferings, and remsmber that con-
fidence in the stability of the present and in the promises
cf the future will restore to the people that well tieing
which awaits only that confidence to revive of itself.
Reckon that the Government will aid your efforts, will
encourage 'you by its approbation, will guide you by its

The Great Western statement follows the order
adopted in that of the London and North-
Western, to which it bears a considerable resem-
blance. Nu information that could be desired is with•
held, and the clearest explanations are afforded
on every point on which they could be
required. Frons the general summary it appears that
on " the main line and branches producing revenue,
including pleat for all the lines," there had been ex-
pended, to the 30th June last, 9,313,3201., and that a
further outlay of 130,0001. would only be required
after that date, making a total of 9,443,3201. thereon;
that on branch lines in course of construction, but
which were not producing revenue on the 30th June,
there had been expended to that date 955,9231, and
that 495,0001. was then required, making a total of
1,450,9231. One of these lines, however, the Berks
and Hants Railwway (from Reading to Basingstoke,
fifteen miles in length), has since been brought into
profitable occupation, it having been opened fur
general traffic on the lit November inst.
On the railways purchased but not yet producing
revenue, there bad been expended 310,116/ , and that
a further sum of 2,666,3841. would be required,
making a total under this head of 2,976,5001. Of the
subsidiary undertakings, in which the company are
interested by subscription, contribution, or guarantee,
there had been already paid 1,011,9141, of which,
however there had already been raised towards
these subscriptions, under a guarantee sanc-
tioned by the resolution of a general meeting
held in August, 1847, 549,6601, leaving a
balance of 462,2541. actually paid by the Great
Western Company, and 765,918/. still to be paid.—
Total, 1,228,1701. On the railways, or portions of
railways for which powers have been obtained, but
which have not yet been commenced, there has al-
ready been expended 259,5461., and there are existing
liabilities to be defrayed to the extent of 80,544/.—
making a total of 350,0001.—which, we fear, may be
looked upon as absolutely lust, or at least will remain
totalhte
outlay
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completionav of
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3. u6dBio oe
:f wholly unproductive until the time (if ever) when
theseT several branches will be constructed.
910 .tcalling
in
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t
in the present state of the Railwayo
above amount of 350,0001., which suns the
directors
h m
lOuul2tshiLye,seodrecl2 0
iidn,3eed3sooln nrequire a
would
further proceedings will be taken in Market,
reference thereto
until they have been respectively brought under the
cTohnes i deration
additional of the
capitalg en general
that would be required of the
ui
shareholders.red
heat,
therefore, been excluded from the summary of capital
provided or to be provided. On he whole, it appears,
that there has been expended under every head
1 l ,311,0691., and that there is still required 4,137,8441.,
mak inglthe total of 15,448,9131., and not 18 463 919/
as stated in the Weekly Share List.
Alter giving these facts, the company have prepared

advice and instructions. Like you, it feels ail the value
of the return of confidence, which is the foundation of I
public credit. 'The tinaighti of the country are also
turned to events abroad. In possession of good cyder at
home, it is made uneasy by the agitations the commo-
tions, the struggles created by the change of ideas in
neighbouring nations. Say to ail aroumi you who will
listen to you, and be not afraid of deceiving them, that
thanks to the loyal and generous principlk-s of policy
traced out by the National Assembly, the Govern-
ment of the Republic is confident that it will reach
the term of its provisional authority without seeing
any disturbance of those pacific relations which all
its efforts have tended to and succeeded in
maintaining and consolidating; and that it will
hequeath to the definitive power a state of sffairs by
which the maintenance of peke will cost nothing to the
honour or the interests of France. The National As-
sembly hes willed that religion should be called upon to
consecrate the solemity which is being prepared. The
Government anticipated this idea. and assured itself of
your concurrence in realising it. The Constitution
guarantees to every citizen the free exercise of his own
mode of worship, and professes the eternal law of re-
spect for men's consciences. You will find in all the
ministers of religion a readiness to answer your appeal.
They bail with sincere homage the establishment of the
Republic. They find in it the application of all the prin-
ciples of liberty, equality, and fraternity, revealed to the
world by the Gospel, and carefully inscribed in the Con-
stitution. They will piously raise their thoughts towards
God, who protects the nation and the Republic. They
will thank Him for his benefits, and pray to him for
new blessings upon the common country. You will
have to render''an account to the Minister under whose
orders you find yourself placed of the measures you
shall have taken for the promulgation of the Consti-
tution. _ _

" The President or the Council of Ministers charged
with the Executive Power,

" CAVAIGNAC."
In the sitting of the National Assembly on Satur-
day there were no less than 33 applications from dif-
ferent Deputies for leave of absence. M. LEIERBETTE,

In a most intemperate speech, opposed the granting
these leaves of absence to Deputies, who only applied

for them in order to go into their respective districts
to canvass for General CAVAIG7I4p.
The Assembly divided on the question, when there
appeared—

For granting leave
Against it .
Majority .. -140

Since the above vvEs written we have received in-
telligence from Paris up to dx o'clock last evening,
at which hour the city was perfectly tranquil. The
fete bad passed off without the slightest disturbance,
amidst cries of Vive la Republique ! Vive Gamy* gnac !

Prince Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has quitted
Paris for two days, in order to avoid taking any part
in the public promulgation of the Constitutkm. This
studied insult to the Republic on the part of the
Russian candidate for the Presidency is suggestive,
and must open the eyes of all but the wilfully blind
to the real character of the pretensions of Prince
Louis.

M. LloN, who signs his name " Count Leos, son
of the Eurtutox," has addressed a long letter to the
Assemblee Nationale, in reference to an article which
had appeared in that journal about a story of a secret
will of NAPOLEON, which M. LEON supposes to have
been made in his interest. The following is an extract

The snow continued falling heavily during the
whole day.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse `,on
Saturday at 42f. 30c.; the Five per Cents., at 64f. 55c.;
the New Loan, at 641. 75c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, at
575 f.; Rouen, 365 f.; Havre, 1651.; Great Northern,
342 f. 50c.; Avignon, 1501; Vierzou, 217 f. 50c.; Bor-
deaux, 3621. 50e.; Paris and Strasburg, 327 f. 50e.; Tours
and Nantes, 311 h 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 355 f.
COURII AUTHENTIQUE.-PARIS, Nov. 11.-Five per
Cents., 64f. 15c. 30e. 25c. 35c. 25e. 20c. 30c. 64f. 25c.
30c. 35c. 40c. 50c. 45c. 55c. 64f. 60c. 65c. 70e. 60c. 65c.
50e. 55c. 64f. 60c.; ditto, New Loan, 1848, 64f. 70c. 750.;
Four per Cents., 50f. 50c.; Three per Cents., 421. 42f.
10c. sc. 42f. 41f. 95c. 42f. 421. 10c. 20c. 25e, 30c. 35e.
30c. 25c. 42f. 20c. 30c.; Bank Actions, 1,325 f. 1,3301.
1,335 f. 1,340 f. 1,3301. 1,3351. 1,340 f. 1,350 f. 1,355 f. 1,350 f.
1,352 f. 50c.; Romans, 631 64; Belgian Five per Cents.,
1840, 772 764; ditto, 1842, 772; ditto, Four-and-a-Halt
per Cents., 724; ditto, Two. and- a-Half per Cents., 384;
Hayden Loan, 200. Exchange on London, one month,
paper, 25f. 52ic.; money, 251. 52ic.; three months,
money, 251. 40c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Tint
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 5%-Orleans and Bouraleaux, IN.

from M. LEON'S letter :
" Since the death of the Duke de Reichstadt, armed
with the letter of General Bertrand, which I quoted in
my letter to Citizen Louis, I have incessantly demanded
of the Bonaparte family the communication which is due
to me of the paragraph which concerns me in the secret
will of the Emperor Napoleon, my fethtr, and have re-
ceived only continual and hurniliaiing refusals. In 1840
I took a journey to London, to demand it of the ex-King
Joseph. Tilt most base intrigues and olious calumnies
were opposed to me, anti even my life was put in peril,
as I was on the point of fighting a duel with Citizen
Napoleon Louis Bonaporte. At last came the days of
February, which again brought into light all the prin-
ciples of eternal justice. I have taken advantage of this
to require from General Montholon the authentic act
passed berore M. Tabourier, the notary of Paris, which
you must have observed in my letter to Citizen Napoleon
Louis Bonaparte. General Montholon then made me
a verbal promise to transmit me the paragraph above
referrt d to. But, since the days of February, some men
have changed their principles according to the current of
events, and Count Montholon, the friend of the Em-
peror, as you call him, and his principal testamentary
executor, now declares to me that, considering the
circumstances, it is impossible for him to keep the pro•
mice he gave me. This is not all. Citiz .n Napoleon
Louis Bonaparte has not even deigned to answer my
letter; and emissaries, whom I can name, if necessary,
came to visit me on his behalf, to sound my intentions
and offer me money; but, when I again insisted upon
having a communication of the secret will of the Em-
peror, they all retired. Then came partisans, advisers,
and, strange to say, Count Montholon himself, request-
ing me to be patient, and promising me everything on
the part of Citizen Louis, but not doing anything that
I had demanded of him. Thus they set my silence at a
price upon which they bargain."
The club of the deputies of the Rue Taitbout (the
Mountain), having adopted M. LEDRIT ROLLIN as its
candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, has
sent the following address into the departments :
" Citizens I—We desired unity of government, and
still do wish for it. We have voted against the prin-
ciple of a Presidency, but since the majority has car-
ried it, since the Constitution admits of a President, we
must carefully abstain; we must all now concert to bring
into power a man who represents our principles, and will
make thou triumph. We have but one word to say on
the importance of the choice which the electors are called
upon to make ; the existence of the Republic depends
upon itl The candidates who appeal to you for your
suffrages are know to you; you are acquainted with their
true worth. One puts forth a name—a dynastic remi-
niscence; the other pledges to reaction. Without intend-
ing here to discuss the merits of all, we say that our first
thought is, that we must place at the head of the Re-
public—a Republican I for we must preserve, develope,
complete the Republic ; for it must live quand meme ; it,
must, in fact, have those democratic and social institu-
tions, without which it would be only a mere form, an
empty word. Under the circumstances, Citizen Ledru
Rollin is the man who merits all our confidence, and who
will be able to unite all the different shades of demo•
cracy. We have no need to recommend to the esteem
of the patriots the claims of the man who, together with
the people, proclaimed the Republic, and organized uni-
versal suffrage. If Citizen Ledru Rollin has not yet
been able, either in the Provisional Government, or in
the Executive Committee, to apply all our principles,
and realise all our ideas, it has been because he was pa-
ralysed by a majority devoted to contrary principles and
ideas, You know our doctrines by our votes in the Na-
tional Assembly and by our declaration to the people.
If you adopt this programme, vote for the man who has
signed it, and the whole of whose efforts will be contri-
buted to its realization. Health and Fraternity !
" In the name of the representatives of the Club Tait •
bout,
" The members composing its bureau—Lamrnenais,
Felixrna lr'dy, pat,eßy
juivh,irTieh. r,BeMac.tl,lieu (DrSme), Martin,
Br,
The Moniteur publishes the following official pro-
gramme of the ceremony of the promulgation of the
Constitution on the Place de la Concorde :
" An altar will bo erected in front of the gates of the
Tuileries leadirg from the Place. At half-past eight
the National Assembly, accompanied by the Executive
Government, will leave the Chamber and take their
places on the platform erected for them at the right of
the altar. The platform on the left will at the same
time be occupied by the members of the Diplomatic
Corps, of the Court of Cessation, the Council of State,
and the other constituted bodies. Salvoes of artillery
will announce the departure of the National Assembly
from the Chamber, and will be repeated at intervals
during the whole day. Behind the platforms, seats will
be placed on the terrace, for the accommodation
of persons provided withl tickets, and the en-
trance to which will be by the gate op-
posite the Rue Castiglione. At nine o'clock
the clergy will leave the Church of the Madeleine, and
will proceed to take their places on the steps of the altar.
A platform will be placed at the foot of the altar, from
whence the President of the National Assembly, sur-
rounded by the Executive Government and the Bureau
of the Chamber will read to the people the text of the
Constitution. Immediately after this has been done, a
l'e Deum will be chanted, during which the Archbishop
of Paris, assisted by several prelates, will celebrate mass.
Phis being finished, the clergy will again form in pro-
cession and retarn to the Church of the Madeleine. The
National Guards of Paris and of the Departments pre-
viously stationed according to the orders of the military
authorities, arid under the command of General Chau-
gamier, will begin to file off, marching round the Place,
and passing the platform on which the National As.
sembly and the Executive Government will be seated.
After the filing off, the National Assembly, accompa-
nied by the Executive Government, will return to the
Chamber."
Up to ten o'clock yesterday morning all was quiet
in Paris. The different legions of the National Gnard
were all under arms, and the only circumstance which
had transpired, at all indicative of any desire to re-
new attempts at disorder, was the assembling of a
party of men in blouses, to cheer the 6:h Legion of
the National Guard as it passed—the said 6th Legion
having been partially disarmed after the June insur-
rection, on account of the suspicious conduct of many
of its members. The Government having received
information that it was the intention of the clubs to
assemble on the Place de la Bastile, and make a
counter-manifestation during the promulgation of the
Constitution, caused the Place to be occupied, early
on Sunday, by two battalions of infantry, two batta-
lions of African chasseurs, and two pieces of cannon.
Up to ten o'clock, however, the clubbists had not
made their appearance.
The ceremonial of the proclamation of the Consti-
tution was proceeding in the Place de la Concorde
according to the programme. The crowd assembled
was no';, great, and as the weather was bitterly cold
and the snow falling fast during the whole morning,
no fears were entertained of any etneute.
In its sitting on Friday the Municipal Commission
decided that the -fetes for the inauguration of the

Constitution shall take place on Monday (this day), Tha Austrian Ministry of Justice has received a
and on the 26th. On the first day they are to consist of note from the Imperial Ministry of Justice at Frank-
gratuitous performances in all the theatres, of open fort, in which the non-punishment of LATourt's mur-
air concerts in the principal public squares by the derers is animadverted on. The note contains the
bands of the Nz.tional Guard and of the army, and of
illuminations. On the 26th there will be grand in-
door concerts, gratuitous performances at the theatres,
and two displays of fireworks. Charitable distribu-
tions will be made to the poor during the two days

following passage :
" lhe Imps rial Ministry looks forward with confidence
to the fulfilment of its wish, that the Ministry of Justice
may please to furnish it as soon as p,ssible with a to.
presentation of facts, and that with respect to the free
pardon and amnesty it may keep within those limits
without which the authority of law cannot be maintained
in Germany, nor our fatherland be guarded against
plunging into a sca of blood and horror.
The Imperial Minister of Justice, R. IklOllL.
" Frankfort, Oct. 14. " D. MErrENILTS."
JELLACHICSI is still in the city with his body-guard,
but the Croats are encamped outside. It is reported
at Olmutz, that of the 500 National Guards of Brunn
who came to the assistance of Vienna, 180 were
killed, and that at the taking of the station of Meid-
ling, on the 28th October, 1,600 men were killed.
Accounts from Itatibor, of the 7th inst., say that a
Colonel of the Staff of Prince WilipiscHunATz had
just passed through, the bearer of a dispatch for Field
Marshal SCSILIEK, at Cracow. According to these
dispatches Colonel Simomowicu, who commands from
15,000 to 20,000 of the Imperial troops, making an
irruption from Gallicia, had attacked the Hungarians;
but the latter had repulsed and driven him from
Tyrnau to Goeting, a distance of 20 miles. In con-
sequence of this defeat SCHLIER had retired on
Moravia, and Prince WINDISCIIGKATZ has sent to his
assistance two brigades, nearly all cavalry, which
troops were forwarded by the railway to Ludenbourg

and Prerau.
Troops have also been sent against Presburgh and
Pesth. It is said that WINDISCHGRATZ intends taking
the command in person against the Hungarians. The
Croats have plundered the houses of friends as well as
foes, and they hold a market every day in their camp,
at which they sell the proceeds of their robberies to
the Jews.
The Schlesische Zeitung contains accounts of
serious disturbances which took place at Lemberg on
the Ist and 2d instant. A quarrel between soldiers
and National Guards gave rise to a violent conflict,
in consequence of which the troops were consigned to
their barracks. The National Guards, assisted by
the mob, made attacks on the soldiers, and barricades
were constructed ; the withdrawal of the troops from
the town was also demanded by a deputation, and
the restoration of order guaranteed in that case.
The Commanding-General, however, demanded the
immediate removal of the barricades. Thus
matters stood on the morning of the 7th,
when there seemed a disposition to yield to
the conditions imposed by the General; but the
conduct of the mounted National Guards led to a re.
newel of hostilities ; a great many persons were
wounded, barricades were reconstructed, and the toc-
sin sounded. The armed people were concentrated
during the combat in the University, and planted a
red flag on one of the barricades. After a few hours
the barricades were swept away by the artillery.
Unluckily the quarter of the tow❑ in the vicinity of
the University, the University itself, the splendid
town-hall, and a great many other houses took fire by
the rockets. At noon a deputation from the Com-
mittee of Safety appeared before the General, offer-
ing the surrender of the town under the following
conditions :
" 1. The dissolution and disarmament of the Acade-
mical Legion.
'• 2. The re- organization of the National Guard under
the surveillance of the Imperial General.
" 3. The registration of all foreigners."
In case those conditions should not be fulfilled in
the shortest possible time, the town was to be placed
in a state of siege, according to the declaration of the
Commanding-General, HAMMERSTEIN. When the
courier left order was restored in the town.

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