The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-05 00:00:00

two manufactories of arms, of which the authorities I
were ignorant, or affected to be so. The ateliers na- I
tionaux were recruited from the body of delegates of
the Luxemburg, which had been dissolved. It is well
known hat was the spirit which animated the members
of the ateliers nationaux; we desire to make known an
assertion of Emilie Thomas, who said that the ateliers
nationaux were anxious to congratulate AI. Lamartine
on his connexion with M. L-dru Rollin, and his thereby
supporting the Assembly. Such are the facts with
regard to the 15th of May, and they are in perfect ac-
cordance With the measures taken for the movement then
in course of preparation; for, in the papers seized at So-
brier's, we have discovered full proofs of the conspiracy,
The attempt was consummated: on whom ought to fall
the responsibility of that attempt? The Executive power
answers that orders were given; and that no Govern-
ment, perhaps, can be exempt from mistakes, or from
treason. The Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard
says that orders were given to the 4th Legion to assemble
on the bridge, but that the president of the Assembly
gave orders that they should only occupy the foot pave-
ments; and that if the Guard ,Mobile offered no resist-
ance it was because General Tempoure, who com-
manded them, left his post. that he might be a spectator
of what was going on in the Assembly. If the com-
mandant of the National Guard did not cause the rappel
to be beaten, it was because the prefect of police told
him it would be useless; that there was no necessity for
it, and that it would only cause needless alarm to the
population. Orders had been given to assemble the
troops iu the garden of the Palace of the Assembly; but
these troops, no ono knew why or how, retired towards
the esplanade of the Invalided. At length the doors of
the palace were opened it is true, but only to give
entrance to 25 delegates, and it was impossible to pre-
vent the whole crowd from entering with the dele-
gates. If you address yourself to the Minister of
War, ho will say to you, that some one went to the
Luxembourg to seek orders; that is, that he had not
sufficient authority to give them. If he advised the
rappel not to be beaten, it was in the fear of placing the
representatives' lives in danger. On his side, the general
of division replies that he removed the troops by order
of the Commander-in-Chief. Neither in the report nor
in the papers of the executive power is anything found
which proves that the general command was given to M.
Courtais. A magistrate placed at the Prefecture of
Police, according to the executive commission, has the
care of watching and preventing an emuete. He should
have applied to this surveillance and to this repression of
the newly•formed cotpa--Montagnards, Gerdes' Repub-
licaines, arid others. This confidence of the Govern-
ment in M. Caussid'are is strange, after his refusal to
take part in the deliberations of the Executive Commis-
sion. No evidence exists of communication this day be-
tween the Luxembourg and the Prefect of Police; only
there is a report from him, in which he says, that the
demonstration was directed by men of whom he was as
sure as of himself.

The report then proceeded to speak of the insurrection
of June, and the causes which bad in particular contri-
buted to its coming to a head. Between May 15 and
June 23 fortunate modifications had been made in the
administration ; the troops had re entered Paris, a law
on attroupements had been obtained, the public powers
had shown more vigilance. How, then, was it that there
had been new disasters ? Was it true that disquietude
was kept alive expressly to prevent confidence from re-
I turning, and te organise misery everywhere ? The
chiefs of the insurrection were at Vincennes, but their
spirit survived among the concoctors of insurrection. At
Bellville a club cast balls, and the club of the Montag-
nerds covered the walls with incendiary proclamations ;
that body thereby revealing itself, though, having been
dismissed, .it no longer legally existed. Two placards
insulting the Representatives, were stuck on the
walls, and on the 17th of June other placards,
calling M. Caussidiere to the head of the Republic,
and announcing the organisation of the banquet at
twenty-five centimes, were affixed. The excitation of the
clubs, according to M. Arago, had alone caused the civil
war. A witness, placed at the head of the administra-
tion of a railway, had stated that in that company the
engine drivers earned 5,000 f. and upwards a year, and
yet that all these men had joined in the insurrection on
June 14. A letter was intercepted, directed to Blanqut
at Vincennes, stating that a plot was in preparation;
that fire and murder would be had recourse to, if neces-
sary; and that he might be sure of being set at liberty.
Mobs assembled every evening in the Rue St. Denis and
that neighbourhood, and everything announced that
something was about to be attemptel. Every man having
been armed by the Provisional Government, there was
but little difficulty in procuring the means of combat.
The report traced the manner in which the national
workshops were organized, and declared that the briga-
diers who paid the men were the principal instigators.
Yet the police appeared to know nothing of what was
going on! The insurrection had its manufactories of
powder, its chiefs, its organization, and the police
remained passive. Eves on June 22 the republican
guards who had been previously dismissed received
their pay, and appeared the day atter behind the barri-
cades. In May, M. Trouve Chauvel, the Prefect of
Police, informed the Executive Committee that the na-
tional workshops were the hotbed of the agitation, and
the men of the Droits de I'flomme were the principal
agitators. The report then, arrived at the day when the
insurrection broke out, declares that the object of the
movement was nominally a democratic and social re-
public; but in reality pillage—it was, in fact, a savage
war carried on with poisoned balls.—( Movement.) To
complete their task, the Committee would notice the
political men it found compromised in the insurrec-
tion. M. Trelat, on being examined by the Committee,
had declared that ho considered M. Louis Blanc as
the author of all the evil that occurred in June, as the
insurrection was only an application of the theories
professed by him at the Luxembourg. M. Tis at had
added that he had been his friend, but that since the
events he had not dared to speak to him. M. Louis
Blare had declared to the Committee that on the
evening preceding the insurrection he visited the work-
shops of the tailors founded by him at Clichy. He pre-
tended that those men were animated by the best imten-
tions, but a great number of them were found amongst
the insurgents. As to M. Causidiere, several witnesses
declared that in several groups of insurgents regret was
expressed at his absence, and complaints were made that
he had not sent his orders, as it was not known what to
do without him.
M. Causidiire said that if he had gone he should not
have returned.
31. Bauchart—M. Mauve's, 'examined by the Com-
mittee, stated that he had seen M. Causidiere go over a
barricade in the Rue St. Antoine, accompanied by his
Montagnards; at least he believed they were Montagnards
from their ill-looking faces ani accoutrements. M. Boson
said that he saw M. Causidiere near the church of Saint
Paul; he passed near him with M. Mauvais, to be quite
sure that it was he. The committee had endeavoured to as-
/ certain the source of these testimonies, and why they had
mile so late. It learned that they had been communi-
cated to several persons who had related them second
hand; but the first witnesses had protested their vera-
city. On the other hand, several representatives had
affirmed in a certificate that they saw M. Caussidiere at
the Assembly during the days of the 23d, 24th, 25th,
and 26th June. But it was said that some of the signa-
tures to the certificate had been obtained by M. Caussi-
diare saying to some of his colleagues, " Gentlemen, it
is pretended; that I was seen out of Paris, in a neigh-
bouring town, during the days of June—can you affirm
that I was in my place in the Assembly during the four
days of the insurrection?" It certainly appeared from
the Moniker that on the 23d M. Caussidiere had
uttered an exclamation interrupting a speaker who was
in the tribune. The short-hand writer who was
employed at the moment in taking down the de-
bates proved that his turn of duty had not come on
until after two o'clock. Hence it did not rigo-
rously result from that certificate that M. Caussidiere,
though present in the Assembly, was not also in the
Rue St. Antoine. Another representative, M. Proudhon,
was also signalised by several witnesses. On the 25th
June he was seen on the Place de la Bastile, and was
met on the other side of the barricades by two of his
colleagues. M. Proudhon had given no other explanation
of the employment of his time, than that he had re-
mained two hours in admiration of the sublime horror
of the cannonade.—(oh, oh, and laughter.) When in-
terrogated as to his presence in the taubourg, M.
Proudhon had answered that the emeute was socialist,
but that he had condemned it as inopportune. A deputy
also had heard M. Proudhon take the defence of the
insurgents.
M. Proudhon said that that deputy had not spoken the
truth.
M. Bauchart expressed censure on the conduct of a
man who, amidst the horrors of civil war, could go to a
terminating
in conclusion,
this painful
record combat as to a spectacle.—(M. Proudhon struck his
bureau violently, which drew forth cries of " Order !"
from all parts.) The Hon. Reporter then announced
that the secret associations' formed at Paris, and their
connexions in the departments, would form the subject
of
dissensions,
re,,termi
he
" let it be permitted to us to repeat the words of hope,
an oothfer our report.
cpiovriti.
"
the last pronounced by a glorious martyr, May my
of the
blood be the last shed. Yes, let the wish
Archbishop, dead at the foot of a barricade, be granted,
and let his blood be the last poured forth in civil war.
Let those who substituted violence for the expression
of the national will, know that they were misled by
fatal counsels, and that such conduct, instead of
serving the Republic, would lose it. Who was the
workman who would not consider it a misfortune to
have on his blouse a drop of the blood of General BIC,
or of the heroic Archbishop of Paris? Though," added
the reporter, " the Committee has made a distinction
between the attempt of the 15th of May and that of the
month of June, it is evident that both had the same cause,
the same origin. The 17th of March, the 15th of April,
the 15th of May, and the 23d of June
were connected
together, and resembled each other—they were warfares
against order and against the National Assembly. The
Government had known how to establish order ; the
Committee hopes that it will know how to maintain it ;
and that thus our great country may accomplish its
noble destinies."—(Great movement for some time.)
The President The report shall be printed and
distributed.

Numerous voices—And the documents. All the docu-
ments which support it.—(Loud cries of " Yes, yes,"
from all parts of the Chamber.)
MM. LEDRU ROLLIN, CAUSSIDIERE, and LOUIS
BLANC successively ascended the tribune, and de-
clared their innocence, and the Assembly adjourned
at six o'clock.

M. SEGUIEE, First President of the Court of
Assize, and one of the oldest judges in France, died
suddenly on Thursday from the rupture of an
aneurism.

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