The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-23 00:00:00

revolutionary firebrands—from all which we gather that
Lugo is still in possession of the insurgents, who have been
joined, and aided, and assisted by. many recruits, including
among them several of the soldiers of VILLALONGA.'S own
army, and that the insurrection is spreading from
Lugo, as from a centre, over the whole of Galicia.
Catalonia also is in a very disturbed state. Attempts have
been made to gain over the garrison of Barcelona, and procla-
I mations have been circulated in the barracks headed "Con-
stitution of 1837," and "Prince Henry for Queen Isabella."
No outbreak, however, had taken place, although if anything
can cause an outbreak, the following bando, issued by the
Captain-General of the province, the sanguinary Don
MANUEL BRETON, Will most assuredly do so:—
" The disturbers of public order still endeavouring to de-
prive us of the tranquillity which we have the happiness to
enjoy, and it is so necessary to maintain in this populous and
commercial capital, I order the following ;
" First and only Article.—Any person belonging to any
class that shall spread news tending to disturb order, shall
, immediately be delivered up to the military commission,
which shall permanently sit in the royal citadel of this city,
in order verbally to judge the accused, and, after obtaining
prcof of the ()fleece, condemn him to to shot."
Anything more tyrannical and violent than this never
before was issued even by a Spanish Captain-General ; and
the past conduct of BRETON shows that he is fully capable of
carrying out this bando to the very letter. The whole popula-
tion of the province i 3 at his mercy, for, be it observed, the
court-martial, composed of his creatures, is to judge what is
to be considered as "news tending to disturb order." He
seems to have taken the French revolutionary tribunal as
his model, and to be ambitious of acting the part of FOUQUIER
TINVILLE on a small scale. Several persons have already
been arrested on suspicion, among whom are several, who in
184,3, proclaimed the Central Junta.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 14.--e The Funds are higher to-
day 11/0 per cent., which would appear inexplicable were the
Bolsa of Madrid like that of any other place. The Three
per. Cents. are 31% cash, and 311 i for the 30th inst. ; thirty-
three millions done. The other funds are not quoted.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday. They all
attack the Debats fur its article of Saturday, in which it
more than insinuated that LECOMTE had been excited to the
commission of his atrocious attempt by a political con-
spiracy, of which he was the mere instrument. As might
have been expected, all the Opposition papers are indignant
at this attempt to give a political complexion to the crime of
the assassin, and even the Ministerial papers disavow the
Journal des Debats on this occasion. The Moniteur officially

contradicts the assurance given by the Journal des Debats,

that anonymous letters had been. received by the authorities
in some of the provinces, stating that the attempt was to be
made, and the Epoque, the Ministerial organ, thus comments

on the article in the Debuts :
" The Debats has created a phantom in the honest but
puerile idea that royalty and the Government required this
phantom for its defence. The Government and France have
no need of such evocations. Their strength is in the
country, and the country does not require to be alarmed.
For the last five years its reason and its wisdom have been
alone appealed to, and for five years it has more than at any
other period given its contidence and its adhesion to the Go-
vernment. But there is in this something more serious; we
are told of optimism, and of culpable and fatal indifference;
we are told that the blow which would have struck the per-
son would have also touched the institution, and fur the pro-
fit of present royalty the Debats has not hesitated to bring
the safety of that of the future into question. Yes, the pre-
sent King has saved royalty, and this is not the first time
we have stated the same ; he has also saved liberty, which is
the consequence of order ; but now, should the King be struck
by the arm of an assassin or by the hand of God, royalty and
liberty would Lot be shaken, fur all France would rise to de-
fend them. Those know little of the great King who governs
us who think to flatter him by telling him that he has only
founded his personal royalty. Louis Philippe wished to found
a dynasty, and he has succeeded. That is the reason ashy
he remains so calm whilst the balls are whistling past his
ears. He knows that they might kill the King, but could
not destroy royalty. The Count de Paris, supported by the
Duke de Nemours, would lose nothing of the strength of
Louis Philippe. And what, good God I would be a constitu-
tional Government if it were otherwise, if it were always
necessary to have a great man to render a nation strong and
prosperous, if it did not draw its vitality from its own con-
stitution. That after a revolution a man of genius should be

necessary may be readily conceived, but it would be a con-
demnation of it to say that he was always necessary. The
country, more•ver, is perfectly tranquil. Look at the Bourse,
that thermometer of the emotions of the capitalist, who has

such a dread of revolutions; it has been scarcely affected by
the two shots of Lecomte. If they had been successful the
great capitalists would have thrown all their milliprts into
the scale to prevent a fall, because they are convinced, from
the knowledge which is acquired by having great interests
at stake, that their millions would be of no value without
order in France—an order on which the peace of Europe

depends. These capitalists have more inseinst than many
political men. They invest their millions in railroads on
the soil of France, because they know that it is not on that
soil that the volcano of revolution will burst forth. France
is Galin, calm as the King, and both have reason to be so, for
the one has patiently founded a dynasty which the other has
resolutely adopted.'

The PreAse, after giving the addresses to the KING,
and his MAJESTI'S replies, on his raturn from Foutain'
blear, says :
"In all these expressions it is easy to perceive that there
is not a word tending to transform into a political attempt
the abominable crime of Lecomte. This is an additional re-
ply to the ill-imagined article which the Dtbats published
on Satursay, and against which the whole press protested
yesterday with great reason. This article is an anachron-
ism, and that is the least of its faults. Fortunately, and for
the honour of our country in presence of Europe, which is
only but too much inclined to distrust, the morals of parties
are notably ameliorated for some time. There is not one to-
day, however desperate may be its cause, which would con-
sent to find a last resource in a cowardly assassination.
There was a time when the journals of the extreme Opposi-
tion did not fear to insinuate that the police might not be
strangers to the attempts of a really political character
which then periodically threatened the -King's life, alarmed
the world, and caused 'doubts to be entertained of the future
prospects of the country. Henceforward this odious system
of tactics is given up. The National declared yesterday that
such a course would be ridiculous at present, thus itself
treating as it deserved a discussion to which for a long time
it certainly was not a stranger. The progress of public
reason is therefore evident and incontestible, and the fact
must be stated with pleasure, in place of denying it, as the
Debats did on Saturday in that inconceivable article, which
we have heard blamed by men of sense of all opinions."
The following is the justification of the Journal des
Debats
" It appears that we have made ourselves guilty against
society, perhaps against the dynasty and even the monar-
chical system in France, by having said that we found it
difficult to believe that the crime committed by Lecomte was
purely a private crime, perpetrated under the inspiration of
private vengeance, the motive for which was unaccount-
able. We shall not reply to the silly invectives thrown
upon us on this occasion. Let those who will believe that
in tiring at the King of the French the assassin did not
seek to kill the chief of the state, but only the head of a
family. We, for our parts, do not think that we deceived
ourselves in expressing a contrary opinion, in declaring that
we saw a political crime in an attempt at regicide. We
base our excuse most naturally on the past. Were the at-
tempts of Fieschi, of the Pont Royal, of Alibaud, of Meunier,
of Darmes, and of Quenis-et, private crimes ? Justice, we
trust, will succeed in bringing to light what has passed in
the mind of the wretch who has added his name to this list,
which was, alas ! already too lung. Justice will tell us
whether he conceived his crime in solitude, or whether the
idea came front out of that dark abyss whence have already'
sprung so ninny conspiracies, so many attacks. The magis-
trates will do their duty. tut whether the crime from which
the King has again so narrowly escaped being the victim,
be a private crime, or whether it be, like those which have
preceded it, a prditical crime, the people of France will
equally condemn and mourn over it. It will not, in the one
case more than in the other, have to justify itself or to blush
for it."

Duke PASQUIER, the President of the Court of Peels, and
31. HEBEP.T, the Prccureur-General, were engaged on Sun-
day, at the Conciergerie, in interrogating LECOMTE.
The old prison of the Luxembourg having been pulled
down with the other ancient buildings in the Rue Vaugirard,
workmen were on Sunday employed in converting a room
of the Luxembourg Palace, into a prison, to be used as a
thither o:i Monday, and is now in the custody place of confinement for LECOMTE. Hoedywoasf
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Peers. The Peers met on that day at one, in secret committee,
to hear the Procureur-General's liquisitoire relative to tho
attemptl6 th instant. made
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deserted him. He at first exhibited a great deal of bravado,
issued their arra ISCOMTE'S spirits seemed to have
but latterly he has appeared much depretsed. For two days
he has refused all food, and expresses a hope that he may
die of exhaustion ; his personal appearance also is greatly
altered. Two keepers watch him day and night.
The Chamber of Deputies met on Monday, and when the I
post left they were discussing a proposal of M. DE MORNAY ,
for indemnifying the posting-masters of France owing to the
detriment they suffer from railways.
On Sunday, at one o'clock, the KING, accompanied by the
QUEEN, the Prince, and Princesses of the Royal Family, and
holding the Count of PARTS by the baud, received in the
throne-room the Municipal Corporation of Paris, who
were presented by Count DE RAMIIIITEALT, the Prefect
of the Seine. The Count expressed to the KING the
profound indignation with which the attempt on his
MAJESTY'S life had inspired the population of Paris, and their
affliction that such an act should have taken place. The
Count's expressions were warmly responded to by the accla-
mations of the members of the Corporation. The RING,
much moved, replied to this !striking manifestation by
thanking, in warm language, the municipal body fur their
loyal and affectionate sentiments. The conclusion of his
MAJESTY'S address was greeted with loud cries of " Vice le
Roi! Vicent le Famille Royale!"
Thanksgivings were offered in all the Protestant churches
in Paris, on Sunday, for the KING'S escape. Lord and Lad
PALMERSTON dined with M. and Madame THIERS on Sully.
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rather firmerlower,
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trifling change in the quotations —1 hree per,g was
" f.
The
market closed as follows :—Three per Cents., for cash, 83f 40
account, 83f. 40c.: Five per Cants., for cash, 119 f. 50c ;
for account,
; for,
1191.70 c.; Bank of France Shares, 3,410 f.; Neap.olitan,tou°if.nti
Spanish Threes, 36% ; Ditto Five' and New Loan, not quoted,
RAILWATS,—The Share.msrket was also Ilrtv er, moat of the lines
closing at about the same as on Saturday. For cash—Paris la?
Orleans, 1,210 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,02!,f; Rouen and Havre, 740 'd
Avignon, 900 f Amiens,
; Strasburg and Bale, 225 f. ; Boulogne and t.
505 f,; Northern, 753 f. 75c. ; Horde ux, 613 f. 75c.; Paris aid Lyons,
566 f. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 515 f. ; Nantes, 5451. ; Dieppe, 4601
Montereau, Fampoux, and Vierzon, not quoted.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espeleta), 214—Dutch Rhenish, 6—East %--I,y„, and
Avignon, 2—Luxembourg, a ur and Liege, 11—Paris and
Strasbourg Constituted, s%—Rouen and Havre, 2956—Tours and
3iantes Constituted, 04—West Flanders, 2.

THE HERO OF A LLIWAL.—We have, heard it ru.
moured that in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, Sir
George Wakelyn Smith, Bart., G.C.B , will be invited to offer
himself for the representation of this, his native county.—
Curt/ridge Advertiser.