The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

cussion :

" The disarmament was greatly advanced in the Bth
Legion, and was going on without any difficulty; but
in some quarters it was not complete. To effect this, it
was necessary to make further search with the concur-
rence of the Gardiens de Paris. The Boulevard Beau-
marchais remains still to be inspected. In several places
considerable quantities of arms have been discovered;
particularly. on the Quai Valmy, where 200 muskets
were found in one depot. In the 9th Legion, the dis-
armament is completed. The magistrates have obtained
7,500 muskets, without reckoning those which, after the
tight, were found in the houses which were occupied by
the insurgents. And yet only 7,086 muskets had been
delivered out by the authorities. In the 12th Legion
the operation is terminated, and a great many more
arms have been recovered than bad been regularly given
out. In the other arrondissements the disarmaments
have been only partial. In the lst Legion 11 companies
have been disarmed, and 1,500 muskets brought in.
In the 2d Legion only two companies have been dis-
armed completely, but there were to be also some par-
tial disarmaments; but the operation was not finished
on Thursday. In the 3d Legion there were to
be only some partial disarmaments; but some of these
remained to be done, particularly in the streets near the
Clos saint Lazare. In the 4th Legion the operation
was not finished. One company had completely dis-
armed. In the sth Legion the disarmaments were to be
partial, but in this seven or eight companies are of neces-
sity to be disbanded. In the 6th Legion a complete
disarmament of six companies is to be effected. In the
7th Legion the operation is to be only partial. A great
number of arms have been found in wells and on roofs
of houses, and it is expected that a much larger quan-
tity will be discovered. In the 10th Legion the disar-
mament is partial only, and has been made without any
difficulty. In the 11th Legion the operation is not
finished. Four companies were disarmed completely,but
the arms have been partially returned. In general the
disarmament was not met with any resistance, and has
been done with the greatest facility. We are
assured that the meeting recognised the neces-
sity of a new law for meeting the various
objections that presented themselves. It was con-
sidered desirable that no citizens living in fur-
nished apartments should be armed. At the same time
the attention of the Mayor of Paris was called to the
passports with money for the expenses of travelling to
be delivered to workmen applying for them in order to
return to their own countries, and it was resolved that
the Prefect of Police should be requested to make the
necessary arrangements. The mayors entered into the
details of the service of the ateliers nationaux, and of
the relief to be given to the workmen at their own
homes. In all parts the ateliers nationaux have disap-
peared, and relief at home if afforded, in concurrence
with the Bureaux de Bienfaisance, to all who are in
want of it. In some arrondissements the gratuitous
services, in this distribution, of the National Guards
have been required and accorded, in others salaried
agents are employed. In most of the arrondissements
the late brigadiers of the ateliers nationaux earnestly
desired to be employed in the distribution of relief
at home, but the mayors have all rejected their offer,
being resolved not to leave a germ of the organisation
of the ateliers nationaux. In general the relief
has not exceeded Bf. a week, and it was agreed that it
should be distributed with the greatest discernment, so
as not to become any obstacle to the resumption of
work. The meeting received with satisfaction an ac-
count that the paper manufactories had resumed acti-
vity, and that the cabinet-makers bad received some
orders. The mayors stated, that they willingly received
applications for work, and would act as mediators be-
tween the masters and the men in any questions which
might arise, and would strike out of the relief-list all
such men who might refuse to take such work as was
offered to them. Finally, several of the mayors have
called to the attention of the chief administration em-
ployment of women. It would be desirable if the mayors
of arrondissements were enabled to distribute work at
home to such women as are in need. This would be a
means of reducing, by real work, the assistance granted
by the Administration. The meeting, before it broke
up, on the proposal of one of the mayors, expressed a
wish that measures should be taken by the Government
to revive work and assist the necessary resources."
General BEDEAU has at length consented to accept
the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs.

M. PROUDRON, the Socialist Member for Paris, and
the proprietor of the journal called the Representant
du Peuple, the gentleman who recently proclaimed
the doctrines that " property is theft," and " family
a prejudice," has proposed that there should be a
confiscation for three years of all rents, whether of
lands or houses, with a third of the interest received
by mortgagees, and of the incomes derived from the
public funds, &c. ; one half of this he would give to
the state, and the other half to the shop-keepers,
lodgers, and all who are in want. In commenting on
this scheme of wholesale plunder, the Constitutionnel
says :
" The question is no longer for the writer to sustain,
as if for a wager, the detestable paradox, that property
is a robbery ; the question is to carry his views into
practice, to take back from the landlords the third of
their revenues for the advantage of their tenants, their
farmers, their debtors, and the State. But of two things,
one—either M. Proudhon really is of opinion that pro-
perty is a robbery, and in that case the robbers ought
to be made to give back, not the third, but the whole of
what they have unlawfully taken from the public ; or M.
Proudhon is not convinced of the truth of his doctrine,
and then his plan is nothing more than a proposition of
legalized robbery. It is at the same time a leaven of
hatred flung down amongst those who would have to
lose and those who would have to gain in the execution
of this plan of spoliation. M. BarlAs, on May 15,
wanted to take a milliard from the rich ; the insurgents
of June inscribed pillage as the device on their flags.
M. Proudhon proposes to decree at the same time a
forced taxation and legal pillage I Such is the whole
groundwork of communism 1
" We shall not attempt to discuss this odious extrava-
gance. It is much better at the present moment to ap-
peal to the good sense of tenants, who will certainly
comprehend that at a period when the financial situation
of the country is recovering itself, from the mere fact
that the Government has announced its intention to
faithfully keep all the engagements •of the state; a re-
spect for all private engagements is the paramount duty
of all good citizens, of all sincere friends of the country
and of the Republic. If it is wished that credit should
revive, that labour should be reanimated, that the con-
dition of the working classes should be ameliorated, and
that money should get into circulation; that the pros-
perity of France should resume its course, it is necessary
that the rights of the landlords should be protected not
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yield to the exigencies of their badly-disposed tenants,
were subject to all kinds of threats and ill-treatment. In
some places furniture was removed in open day in spite
of any remonstrance or resistance; in others, intimida-