The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-17 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived. They
contain no rews of interest.
The Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER continued
at the Palace.

MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 10.—Threes, 211 i ; Fives'
13j. Exchange on London, 42 50.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDING* AT PARS.

We have received the 'Paris papers of Saturda3,

aud yesterday,

The daring and open atttlapts of M. LEDRU
RoL-
Lill to seize the direction of the .Republic, and hand

the people over to the band c.f plunderers with whom

he has link:sd hire f, are beginning to excite feelings

of alarm in the minds of all. Never, during the

worst periods of the reign of trror, were such in.
tentions avowed as are now openly advocated by M

LEDIte itoLLIN and his supporters.

The old Na.

tional Guard of Paris and the National Guard of the
provinces do not seem at all inclined to submit
quietly to be plundered by M. LEDRU ROLLIN and
his crew of idle disorderlies ; and, fortunately for
France, for Europe, for the world, M. LAIIARTINE is
there, who will boldly withstand all attempts that
may be made at " the organization of plunder."
However much inclined M. LEDRU ROLLIN may be
to play the part of MARAT, he will not find a BRISSOT
in M. DE LAMARTINZ. As a proof of the tyranny
which M. LEDRU Roz.z.n4 is prepared to practise, we
quote the following address, which was extensively
placarded over Paris on Saturday :

" BULLETIN OF THE REPUBLIC. No. 16.
" MLNISTRY OF TILE INTERIOR.

" Paris, April 15, 1648.
" Citisens,—lt is not in a day or in an hour that we
have been enabled to pass from the *Lase of corruption
to that of law. An hour of heroic inspiration has suf-
ficed for the people to consecrate the principle of truth ;
but eighteen years of falsehuo I opposed :o the regime of
truth obstacles that cannot be overturned by a breath.

The elections, it they do not cause social truth to
triumph—it they are but the expressions of the interests
of a caste, extorted from the confiding loyalty of the
people—the elections, which should be. the safety of
the Republic, will be its ruin; of that there can be no
doubt. There would then be but one means of safety
for the people who made the barricades—it would be
to manifest a second time its will, and to adjourn the
decision of a false national representation.
" Will Franco force Paris to have recourse to this
extreme, this deplorable remedy 9 God forbid I As
France has confided to Paris a great mission, the
French people would not render their mission in-
compatible with the order and calm necessary to the
deliberations of a constituted body. Paris looks
on herself with reason as the representative of all
the population of the national territory. Paris
is the advanced post of the army that combats for the
republican idea. Paris is the rendtsvous, at certain
hours, of all the generous wishes of all the moral power
of France Paris will never separate her cause from
the cause of the people who suffer, wait, and re•
_ .

claim from one extremity of the country to another.
It anarchy works in the distance—it social influences ,
pervert the judgment. or hetray the wilt ot the masses
of the people, dispersed and scattered, the people ot ,
P iris believe and declare themselves guardians of the
interests of the whole eution. Upon certain points wealth
reclaims its privileges, and threatens us with the pain
of defeat when we would only persuade.• Let the people
of the provinces unite with .the people of the towns,
and let the people of the towns unite with that town
which, in the name of all, and for the common glory,
have conquered the principle of a happy and noble fu-
ture. Everywhere the cause of the people is the same
—everywhere the interests of, the poor and of the
oppressed are identified. Should 'the Republic rive
way in Paris, it would fall Wet only in France, but
throughout the universe, which, with its eyes fixed upon
us, is heroically agitating for its deliverance. Citizens,
you must not be forced to violate yourselves the principle
lof your sovereignty. Between the danger of losing this
conquest by the fault of an incapable assembly, or that
L of a movement of popular indignation, the Provisional
Government cannot but warn you, and. show you the
peril that tbreateus you. It bee no right to do violence
to your minds, and to disturb the. principles 'of public
law. Elected by you, it coil neither prevent the evil
thet weillq follow Ole ill ellen rstoud exercise of a sacred
rieht, nor arrest your enthusiasm the dey when, seeing ,
your inistak.e you would change in its form the exercise
of this right. But what ituan and what it oughi to do
is to se:lighten you On the ceu,reuences of your sae.
Of old, the representation of the country saved the
country by proclaiming the country to be in danger.
In a nation like France, the idea of danger can only
demoralise those who have not a French heart. The true
Frenctunae loves the idea of danger, because it is for him
the idea of victory. Eh Bien! it the country is not in
danger, it the enemy be not at our doors, it the combat
be nut in our ranks, there is an intellectual combat, a
moral danger that. a great mural courage and a great
taith in ideas can alone remove. Citizens, have courage.
Let us detach ourselves from material interests, ill un
derstoud, front marrow interests of locality. Let us save
ourselves from enemies who flatter us in order the bet
ter to strangle liberty, which is our shield. Let us save
the Republic at all hazards. It depends on us to save it
without convulsions and strife."
" Never," observes the Constitutionns4 on this as-
tounding document, " never at any period slid the coup.
ter-revolutionary spirit itself attack with more audacity
the liberty of election. What I on the eve of a day when
vfuatticotnioenearmaies
a whole people is about to exercise its rights for the first
time, you place all the Committees of France under the
ssteoofthciis"? citizens? What cannon of Paris. You tell them, in the name of the
capital, Your vote or your life.' Why this the depri-
menaced with the dewholeWhat independent the
deprivationriati nation
privation of its sovereignty. The
bulletin prays the citizens of the departments to allow
themselves to he persuaded, and so save Paris the pain
of vanquishing—whom All France, if she be not

The manner in which the Commissaries sent by I
outNl. Lhissnianustrlutcottiotnt: into the the provinces are carrying
Ile is doing his best to
with the the 'greatest discon-
tent.Rto disgust the great bulk
of the population
not, after all, he a
who ireampruiayb.lic. Is it impos-
sible that M. LI:DRU ROLL
Royalist in dir=guise,
rdneseuaxu,vaiDs,igs,n_ce_.:
Liberty read in
order to disgust the world with her.ving
The Presse says—
Gi:;ll}a'ercro:Troblye7taGuubearne,t, Toulouse,i2isle
Amiens,B°
we receive letters complaining in the severest
the deplorable choice and revolting acts of the terms
of
series sent from Paris, to convert the departments mtomtihse
Republic. No resistance burst out at first, and now the
reaction extends everywher4. Whose fault ir, this?
We have interdicted to ourselves all blame against the
Government until the 'meeting of the National Assem-
bly; re, therefore, will merely is.y the question 'adore
our readers without an@vvering to, it. Is the fallen Go-
vernment regretted? No. 1., a Regency desired? No. Is
the re-establishment of legitimacy looked for? No.
Well, then, what is wanted? The Republic—liberty,
equality, fraternity, but not agents without morality,
experience, or cousideration—not despotism without war,