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

proclaimed himself Primate. He has, it is believed, the nations who, in the opinion of the Frenc
fled into Belgium. publicans, have established their freedom.
Every day fresh evidence comes to light to prove The Provisional Government and the Members
the connexion of certain members of the Executive of the National Assembly took their seats about.._ns
Government of the Republic with the anarchical half-past nine, after which the different dePutawtl°ee__
outbreak of Monday. It appears that SOBRIER had filed before them. Among the deputations
obtained his arms and ammunition from the Provi- several of foreigners, principally Poles, Gar°
sional Government. The Liberte says— Italians, and Belgians. A small party of Irish, con-
"
The question is asked, how it came to pass that arms sisting of not more than twelve persons, and carrying
and ammunition could be ordered for the citizens Caus- a little green flag, though not included in the pro
sidiAre and Sobrier at the same time. What, then, was gramme, made their appearance, and, after sorn e
this Sobrier that, by the same order, on the same paper,
and signed by the same person, by order of and for the demur, were allowed to follow the others. The
Minister of War, the direction of artillery received an troops then began to defile, and continued,
injunction to deliver on the night of April 14-Ist, to M. intermission, till past three o'clock. Then came the.e
Sobrier, Rue de Rivoli, 16, 400 muskets and two parcels
of 10,000 cartridges each, at eleven at night; 2dly, to grand chariot of commerce and agriculture, and tia
France'
M. Caussidiiire, at midnight, 700 muskets and 30,000 deputations of the different trades peculiar to Far:
cartridges. The order from the War department is in and especially to Paris ; and they were still pThe
the hands of M. Portalis, the Procureur- General." in front of the estrade at half-past four o'clock.
Several of the clubs have sent declarations to the
illuminations of the evening promise well. The! 1".._
journals stating that none of their members took
upon a most magnificent scale, and the weather is
part in the deplorable attack on the National Assembly
uncommonly favourable.
on Monday last. While the fete was going on the Goverttlnt44:
A detachment of five hundred Poles, expelled from
ceived accounts which induced them to belly:.
the Prussian territory, arrived in Paris on Friday.
that the Communists had an intention of taking
The Provence of Aix states that the national
vantage of the National Guards and troops he
workshops of that town have been closed, having been
engaged in the Champ de Mars, to make attack
an enormous charge to the town, and bringing in
upon Vincennes for the purpose of releasing Batts;
nothing. An attempt was made by the discharged
and the other prisoners. A regiment WM jail° a
men to blow up the powder magazine, hut it fortu-
diately ordered off for that place, but it is to be boPe
nately failed, by the activity and energy of the
that the alarm is a false one.
National Gtard. At Arles also, where 1,400 men
had been discharged, with a recommendation to Accounts have reached Paris this evening thtbeart
Lyons is in the hands of the Voraces and °
seek work in the country parts, disturbances have emeutiers. Many outrages had been committed, suooe
taken place, the crowd having broken the windows
it is stated that they have even attempted. to hang ha
of the Mairie, and endeavoured to set the build- of the mayors of the place. Details are wanting'
ing on fire. Seven or eight men were arrested, and the next accounts were looked for with anxiety.
1,0
on the arrival of the Procureur of the Republic ten BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT
more. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 2.9'I
n good
The establishment of these national workshops has Ließoeu,l3 rt osne
;iodriliimerinenost, 614—Luxembourg,s, i
and
gyioo! ;7 234
proved, as every tyro in the science of political ez diy.—iLiParis and Orleans, 22—Sambre and Istense,4*
economy must have known they would prove, a gross
and Most dangerous blunder, aggravating a thousand-
fold the evils which it was pretended they were to
remedy, and rendering the payment of wages
eventually impossible by destroying the wages fund.
The Minister of Public Works was compelled in one
of the Bureaux of the Assembly, on Friday, to ac-
knowledge this unpalatable fact. He said, " that the
system of ateliers nationaux, instituted at the moment
of the revolution, when it was necessary to do some-
thing for the numerous workmen out of employment,
was no longer calculated to give satisfaction to any
party ; he proposed that all the men so employed
should be set down to useful works. .He would take
the youngest, and propose that they should be en-
rolled in the army—others might be sent home to
their departments, on being allowed a sum of money,
—the greater number he would propose to employ
in reclaiming waste lands and digging canals—the
rest he would have employed on railways.
The partizans of the Orleanist dynasty were very
busy on Saturday in endeavouring to circulate a
rumour to the effect that M. LAMARTIXR had re-
signed his office. The wish, we believe, was father to
the thought, and we have little doubt but that the
rumour itself originated in London. We may take
this opportunity of expressing a hope that the pro-
visions of the new Alien Bill will be impartially ap-
plied by her Majesty's Ministers, and that Brompton-
square will be no more permitted to be an Alsatia for
intriguers than Leicester-square.

;h B.

The Grand National Fête came off yester-
day, and it passed off as well as the best
friends of order and of the Republic could
have wished. The weather was superb—bright
and sunshining without being oppressively hot.
At half•past four the rappel began to beat in the
different quarters of Paris, and continued every
quarter of an hour until six. It then ceased, the
National Guards beginning to make their appear-
ance, and detached pickets of dragoons and cuiras-
siers having already taken up their stations at various
points along the boulevards, the Place de la Made-
leine, the Place de la Concorde, and in front of the
Palace of the National Assembly.
In the Place de la Concorde, as early as six, a con-
siderable crowd had already assembled, and chiefly of
well-dressed persons. Tables, chairs, stands, benches I
—everything that could give a vantage ground to the
spectator to view the ceremony better, were disposed
about in great profusion.
Although seven o'clock was appointed as the hour
for the representatives of the people to leave the
Chamber for the Champ de Mars, they did not start
until half-past eight ; they did not all bear the same
distinctive mark of Deputies ; some merely wore on
the left breast the broad red ribbon and rosette which
was adopted after the attack of the 15th, others a
more ornate article of the same form, but embroidered
in gold and terminating with gold fringe ; whilst
others exhibited the tri-coloured scarf across the
shoulder agreed to by the Assembly in the sitting of
the day before. A few wore it under their coat, so
that a small portion merely appeared across the
breast. Some Deputies wore both ornaments.

GERMANY
AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.

FRANKFORT.
OPENING OF THE GERMAN FARI°
MENT. 18 'ill
The German Parliament opened on the
not ,clelte
CO
0,
There were about 320 Members present,
half the number of which the Parliament is ola
sist. The authorities of Frankfort have s`,l°r of
every necessary measure for the preservaltbs
public order. On the I6th the Senate issile
following proclamation : tßill
"In a few days the first German Parats-gg co-
be assembled in our city. The future destinies °rear
great country are about to be determined by its
lutions. 0141
" As the task which is imposed upon this toe- r sr-
• o
great, so also is the obligation great which Is„. Doll°
upon our city, to use all the means that are in 1."
to maintain its tranquillity and to preserve orderie cil
" Every attempt made to disturb the peace of
apt tw
must lead to the conclusion that there is a desirl.ool
conform to the resolution of the preliminary' Fg'rlbei°°;
in accordance with which our city was chosen 0 "nerfec'
of Parliament, because it was declared to be inttrirb
peace and tranquillity. Every attempt to dhise Foe'
peace must bring in question the strength and t"-
of the Constituent Assembly itself. AV!,
" Whoever prizes the honour of our city" Ofi-11
expects to find, in the free and spontaneons resciefeld,
of the representatives of the people, the united •to
'
went of our common country—and whoever feed aecial
for Germany, will, we are perfectly convilicehb 011,0
with the inhabitants of the city and the nogc)t,ooS,ie,
0
to save, during the great days that are aboo irds`c,
upon us, the honour of our city, to discharge thebyools(
to the country, to which each person is bound:o.'o°
taming order and tranquillity, and by opPos's ,haf
energetically to every anti-Germanic tencleset,' e
" The demonstrations that have taken P,7"heys ;r,
the last few days do not destroy this hope. ee,el-1
not, we are confident, again happen. Shoewe' eiPh
ead
this expectation, which we share in coo2o39ders
honest persons, prove abortive, then the le"outrsrho
accomplices in tumults, the instigators to such cost
as well as their dupes, shall learn to their oelnnied,:oe
our burgher guard, who have with an une%l3/nreet
now well-tried devotion, not hesitated to ad
got
criminal attempts with generous language l'l3- cloo°:00
able patience, shall now, if they are forced "'hoe bti,
shrink from making use of the arms thatref's'
entrusted to them for the protection of life an (
'°eetll3° Frankfort, May 16, 1848." , d 0
jt
On the 17th there was • • arl rs
a prelituln-
,„ nere•
the members held in the Hall of the titilft tYth-
was attended by about 300 members, ancli; meet
determined that all the members sh°lll- °Pe°
tlae
next day at three o'clock in the Hall of the !Ito t
and from thence proceed in solemn Pr°eess:l/06)
place of meeting—or the temporary tlf
house—the Church of St. Paul, which iS e"-
posite to the celebrated Hall of the EruPer°l* °be
at the same time determined that the oldest t
should be chosen as the president of the dill. r IVO
rAt
On the 18th the opening' of the Germs- p-
s nse. •+lo'
took place. After having met at the -e the to
the members proceeded between the line' o
aced
of
ot
tional Guards, who were drawn up on b
the Church of St. Paul. The sitting COI2IIII ,•
four o'clock. arereisl.iod
tye
The hour fixed for the opening of the - t perlhedii
liament was four o'clock, but long before sh,.
doors of St. Paul's Church (the German /"of Per 010
were surrounded by an immense multitudeiorter,i'po;
most of them respectably dressed; and tit,,cketsibat'ces to
three that portion of the public to whom nap'
been distributed were permitted to take their
the gallery which runs round the centre of 01;05
St. Paul's Church is an edifice which forrower Post
terior a perfect circle, and the entire of the 004, be;
distributed into circles of seats, all turning nolPl7doot,
may be termed the centre, which was once ervres'ooo
has now been converted into a throne and bleresl
with a tribune in front for the orators, aril of 0°11; Os
for the official short hand writers. Out6jue ad la fort
circle are pillars which support the gallerhreerseery
spaces between the pillars seats have beer'. reportr
foreign ambassadors, for the ladies, for th, wept
09 et
the press, foreign as well as domestic, 1111;e0 00 ill
tinguished strangers to whom the colllPlll,ce tb bail
of giving them admission to some better Pi. of tli,ertasl
to be found in the gallery. From the, rcN9f,, the ,11,00°
in g a species of tapestry was forma'
tricolour, and over the President's c,b,itel.,
Germany, with these mottoes on each s:dc't

General CAVAIGNAC was amongst the earliest ar
rivals.

The Members shortly after eight o'clock arranged
themselves on the peristyle of the Hall of the As-
sembly in readiness to start. At half-past eight,
General CLEMENT THOMAS dashed up on his white
charger, and, taking off his hat, announced that all
was ready. The representatives then moved down
the steps four deep, and not in any particular order,
the Ministers and Executive Committee taking their
places indiscriminately amongst the rest. M. DE
LAMARTINE and M. FLocoN were amongst the last,
though not together. They were cheered along
their passage, the whole crowd taking off their hats
as they approached. They went on first along the
quay to the Champ de Mars, and were exactly one
hour and a half in reaching the estrade prepared
for them in front of the Ecole Militaire. Every.
thing was in perfect order.
Although the procession, headed by the Govern-
ment, began to move from the Hall of Assembly
soon after eight o'clock, the great agricultural
chariot did not start from the Madeleine till ten,
The procession extended to the Place de la Bastile,
and the end of it did not reach the Champ de Mars
until late in the afternoon.
The accounts from Paris are up to six o'clock this
evening. They describe the file as having been up
to that hour worthy of its name, Fete de la Concorde.
There was not the least attempt at disturbance.
A curious incident occurred during the progress of
the procession from the National Assembly tothe Champ
de Mars. Immediately after the Members of the Na-
tional Assembly came the Mayors of Paris and the
surrounding communes, with their tri-coloured scarfs ;
then were to come the delegates of the departments,
but on arriving about half way down the quay, a
company of about twenty old men bearing a banner
inscribed " Vainqucurs de la Bastille, 1789," appeared
and demanded as the oldest of the defenders of liberty
to be admitted next the Mayor. Their spokesman said,
"we ought to be the first of all I Without us, how
would you have ever had liberty ? It was we who
showed the way to achieve great things." The dele-
gates at once yielded the pass to these glorious old
men, who formed perhaps by far the most interesting
portion of the procession. The Simeons of Liberty
who have lived to see the consummation of the glo-
rious work which 51) years ago they commenced.
After the delegates came, the various trade-corpo-
rations, or, as they are called, compagnons, each with
some production of their calling,
as a specimen of
their skill.
The Provisional Government, the members of the
National Assembly, the magistracy, departmental
deputations, &c., took up their seats on an immense
tehsterasdaemeerecetsetdradine frontthere ofwethree Eacoglreel‘atlllintuaimreher e
. On
the same estrade there were a great number of
General officers and other official personages, besides
a large party of ladies. The estrade was calculated
to hold upwards of 6,000 persons and it was exces-
sively crowded. No description can give any idea of a
scene the splendour of which consisted principally
in the vastness of the multitude who took part in it,
the thousands upon thousands of troops which were
Passed in review, the beauty of the magnificent spot
where the ceremony took place, and the excitement,
the variety, and very confusion of the scene. The
statue of Liberty, which, with its pedestal,
is eighty feet high, and stood in the
centre of the Champs de Mars, had a
good effect from its immense size and its posi-
tion. On each side of it were rows of handsome
booths. At the entrance to the Champ de Mars
were two immense obelisks, with the names of 411