The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-22 00:00:00

statement;---' The funeral of the National Guards, who
were killed by musket shots by the clubbists is the
passage Moliere, took place this day. A deputation of
twenty members of the National Assembly was present.'
It was only on the proposition of the President, sup-
ported by the unanimous adhesion of the Assembly, that
the National Representation figured by delegates in this
sad ceremony. The Executive Government did not
convoke any deputation of the legions of the baulieue,
nor of the legions of Paris ; it has not even
made known the names of these brave National Guards
who died for the defence of order, the laws,
and the Republic. Not a member of the Go-
vernment went to cause the voice of the afflicted,
and grateful country to be heard over their tomb. The
factious Barbes, Huber, and Blanqui, who believed that
they had dissolved the Assembly of our Representatives,
dismissed in their decrees the National Guard of Paris
and the departments. They placed every National
Guard clothed in his uniform out of the pale of the law.
The Executive Government, which ought now to govern
us, has not, thank God, gone so far as that; but by re-
fusing to the funeral of the National Guards all the
honours it merited, it has given a new proof of its in-
gratitude for those who defend order and the laws at the
price of their blood, and a new proof of weakness to-
wards the factious. Several journals have, like us.
opened a suh!!eription for the families of the National
Guards of the banlieue who were killed in the Rue
Saint Martin, and for those who were only wounded.
Let the National Guards respond to this appeal
even by the smallest contributions. We beg M. C.
Thomas, General of the National Guard of Paris, to
nominate from the staff and the legions a commission to
whom the funds raised may be remitted, and the em-
ployment of them be regulated."
The following order of the day has been addressed
to the National Guards of the Seine by General C.
THOMAS, Commander-in-Chief:—
"Comrades,--Called by the confidence of the National
Assembly, and of the Commission of Executive Power,
to the great honour of commanding you, I should per-
haps have refrained from accepting so grave a mission,
if I had not been certain to find in the sentiments of
patriotism and devotedness to the Republic which
animates you a co-operation always as spontaneous as
it is intelligent. I will remind you that it is in the midst
of gravest events, and when the energetic intervention of
the National Guard has saved the country from anarchy,
that this command, the first of all in my estimation, has
been confided to me. This souvenir, which will be al•
ways present to me, will guide me in the accomplish-
ment of my duties, and the confidence in me which you
have so spontaneously displayed will not be misplaced."
M. ANTONY THOURET has addressed the following
letter to the Debats:—

" Monsieur,—l hare just read the report of M. Marrast,
Mayor of Paris, to the Executive Committee. I was witness
of all the facts which it discloses, and I am the first to
render justice to the courage and sang-froid of the Mayor
of Paris in so terrible a moment. I regret only that he
has forgotten to mention in that document a name which
had, at that moment, an official character. After having,
with my parson, defended in the National Assembly the
President Buchez, whom I forced to quit the hall at
the moment when he was on the point of being basely
assassinated, I was dispatched by him to go and defend
the Hotel de Ville with the Mayor of Paris, who might
not have been informed of what was passing. I arrived
at the gate of the Hotel de Ville at the moment when
the armourers' shops on the quays were being pillaged.
I passed the gate freely, without mentioning my name,
and I entered that municipal fortress more easily than
a man can enter a private house. Let the armed force
charged to defend the Hotel de Ville explain this appa-
rent treason! I had at my side M. Delespaul, represen-
tative of the people, and citizen Brun, both of whom can
attest the verity of what I have just stated. However,
when I informed the National Guards scattered over the
place of the invasion of the National Assembly, they
loaded their muskets, expecting a command, a direction,
a word to tell them to co-operate aad lend assistance
where it might be required! When I arrived at the coun-
cil chamber, I fulfilled my mission to the courageous
Mayor of Paris. I drew up a proclamation which he signed ;
I had it printed; and, in half an hour, at the moment
when the conspirators were flinging out of one of the
windows lists of a Provisional Government, I was throw-
ing from another those proclamations, which brought
upwards of 50,000 men to the neighbourhood of the
Hotel de Ville. The Mayor of Paris ought to remem-
ber that I gave him an energetic account of the situa-
tion of Paris, which I had just traversed. I said to
him that our duty was to gain half an hour, or die to-
gether in defence of that Republic of which we had
achieved the conquest on the barricades of February !
Half an hour after, we were all safe ; we encompassed
the conspirators, and we lived I If I give these details,
the reason is, that at the moment when some Republicans,
an instant astray, attacked the National Assembly elected
by universal suffrage, France ought to know that there
are old Republicans, firm, prudent, generous, who have
fought for twenty years for a republic of order, per-
suasion, love, and not for a republic of the sabre, of
communism, and terror I Health and fraternity."

BLAratur has addressed the following letter to the
euitor of the Constitutionnel :
" Monsieur le Ridacteur,—l am neither at Brussels
nor at London, but in Paris, where I read your journal.
I can very well understand, that after having aided the
Government to ruin me, you should attempt to fling me
between the legs of that same Government, to cause it
to stumble in its turn. Indulge in your warlike tactics
as much as you please. I say nothing against it; but
give us no retrospective calumnies, or if you do, you
must allow me to strike in aad contradict them. I was
not arrested one single instant. Monsieur, you know
that very well; and your doubts on the subject may be
exceedingly diplomatic, but they are not very severe. I
was neither arrested, nor consequently let go; if they
had held me, they would have held me well; certainly
it is long enough since they have been anxious to hold
me ; I have for guarantee of that desire, the cordial
hatred of all the members of the Government—a hatred
of which M. Caus6idiere, that tap-room Suffetius, gave
on Tuesday a very tolerable specimen in the tribune.
That hatred does me honour, for it comes from persons
who have all destroyed the revolution ; and in that re-
spect it is flattering for me to furnish them with the
only subject of unanimity that they have been able to
find. One observation more—you, like other journals,
have copied from the Droit a pompous list of important
article seized at my residence, quite in the style of April
1834, and may 1839 ; numerous letters ; scarfs with
gold fringe ; lists or conspirators ; proclamations—
nothing is wanting in the inventory of this precious
booty. Letters ! I allowed myself to receive some
—a great crime truly! Scarfs with gold fringe! In
fact, we had red arm-bands with copper fringe, for the
commissaries of the club; what an enormity! Lists of
conspirators! capital! Why, these lists of conspirators
are the regular registers of the Central Republican
Society, containing the names of citizens of all opinions,
from white to red, and passing through all the inter-
mediate shades. Proclamations! Still better: these
proclamations are copies of the manifesto published by
the club relative to the massacres at Rouen—a manifesto
placarded on May 2d in Paris, pulled off to the number
of 40,000, and copied into several journals. I am
delighted to see the law authorities and the monarchical
journals assume so decidedly the fashion of acting of the
last reign. On with you, gentlemen! Continue! The
regency cannot be far off!"

On the subject of illegal discharge from arrest of
several of the persons arrested on Monday last by the
National Guard, we find the following in the Gazette
des Tribunaux :
" Mention has been made of illegal discharges from
imprisonment on the night of the 15th. The following
are facts, of which we can warrant the exactitude. I❑
the evening of the 15th, after the search made at the
residence of M. Sobrier, 30 persons were arrested and
taken to the Tuileries, where 50 others, arrested at
other parts, were in custody. By order of Saint-
Amand, Governor of the Tuileries, these 80 persons
were conducted to the Prefecture of Police by 300
National Guards of the Bth Legion, whose com-
mander received the usual acknowledgment of
their being deposited. A moment after an
order came from the Executive Committee to
keep the persons arrested at the Tuileries, and above
all not to send them to the Prefecture. It was too
late, and M. Saint Amand transmitted to the Execu-
tive Committee the receipt which had been given at the
Prefecture. When, on the following day, on M. Du-
pare, a lieutenant of the second legion, who had been
active in the arrests made in the Rue Rivoli, appeared at
the Prefecture to inquire where the prisoners were con-
fined, the Commissary of Police declared that he had
never seen the 80 prisoners brought in the preceding
evening, that no one of them had been brought before
him to be interrogated, and that probably they were no
longer in the Prefecture. What had become of them ?

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The following fact may lead to supposition. Among
the citizens arrested, was one who seemed to apprehend
that his wife would be distressed at his absence, and re.
quested one of the National Guards who belonged to the
escort to go and tell her what had happened. This Na-
tional Guard was kept out on duty till five in the morn-
ing, when he went to perform his promise; but, on an-
nouncing the cause of his visit, he was informed that the
prisoner had arrived at home four hours before, and was
then asleep. Wo have to add that, after the column had
left the Prefecture, there were found in the place where
the prisoners had been put, several poignards, stilettos,
and other sharp instruments, which were kept to be pro-
duced in evidence."
In the same journal we find the following on the
subject of the permission given to M. Louis BLANC
to communicate with the prisoners at Vincennes :
" A journal has announced that on the morning of the
16th M. Louis Blanc applied for and obtained a permis-
sion to communicate with Barbels, Albert, and Sobrier.
This is true, but the following are the circumstances:—
A permission was given to M. Louis Blanc to communi-
cate with the prisoners after they had been interrogated;
but the Procureur-General and the Procureuro the
Republic were unacquainted with it. M. Laudrin, on
becoming informed of what had been done, declared
that no such communication could possibly be allowed,
and sent a counter order to Vincennes. M. Louis Blanc had
already arrived there, but MM. Picot, Haton, and Ber-
trand, tb" examining magistrates, were there, and, de-
claring that they alone had the power of granting such
permissions, peremptorily refused to admit M. Louis
Blanc, who was obliged to retire. The Minister of
Justice, therefore, could with truth declare, as he did
yesterday from the tribune, that no person had had any
communication with the prisoners."
A warrant for the arrest of the ex-Abb6 CIIATI3L
has, it is said, been issued, in consequence of his
having delivered an ultra-revolutionary harangue in
the Place de la Madeleine on the 15th. This person
gained great notoriety some years ago by founding
what he called the " Eglise Franaise," of which he