The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-02 00:00:00

FRAN CE.

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
Last night]:—

It was rumoured on the Paris Bourse yesterday that
he troops of Windischgratz and Jellachich had been
attacked under the walls of Vienna by the Hunga-
rians, and had been defeated with great loss. Letters
were received in Paris from Vienna of the 25th ult.,
which make no mention of the commencement of
;CBS' hostilities against that city.

M. de Tocqueville has been appointed the represen-
tative of France in the conference on the Italian
question.

We read in the Moniteur—" Numerous copies of
a political placard were yesterday posted on the walls
of Paris, and attracted the attention of the passers-by.
This mode of publication, which may have its advan-
tages, has also the inconvenience of being in contra-
vention with the law of 10th December, 1830, which
contains the following provision :—' Art. 1. No
writing, whether by the hand or by printing, en-
graving or lithography, containing political news, or
treating upon political subjects, can be posted up or
placarded in the streets, squares, or other public
places. All acts by public authorities are excepted
from this provision.' This law was explicitly xnanl-
tained by Art. 2 of the decree of March 6, which is
thus conceived :—' Until it shall have been otherwise
enacted by the Constituent National Assembly, all
anterior laws, relative to offences and contraventions
by the press, shall be carried into execution according
to all such provisions as have not been repealed by
decrees of the Provisional Government., —The placard
of which we speak has been taken down, and referred
to justice."

The placard alluded to by the Moniteur is, we
believe, the comparative extracts from the Presse on
the subject of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
"In its sitting of yesterday (says the National) the
Club of Representatives of the l'alais National adopted
General Cavaignac as candidate for the office of
President of the Republic."
The Bien Public publishes the following letter from
M. de Laniartine, dated Saint Point, Oct. 27
" have just read the report of the
discussion on the expenses of the Provisional Govern-
ment. I have a right to think that my honourable
colleague, M. Creton, had not any idea to bring my
character in question, in the words which he pro-
nounced relative to the 374,000 f. of the secret service
money for foreign affairs, the only fund that I had at
my disposal. According to a phrase of his preceding
speech on the same question, M. Creton allowed it to
ba seen that, in his idea, the money could have been
employed to foment against foreign territories at-
tempts at perturbation of invasion, attempts which the
Government and myself, on the contrary, condemned
and neutralised with a sincerity of whwhichl have
proofs in my possession, and of which I want
no other witnesses than the foreign powers themselves.
M. Creton knows, like every one else, that the em-
ployment
of the secret service money of the Depart-
ment of Foreign Affairs cannot be made public, par-
ticularly in a time of revolution. The account wa3
rendered to the King alone, and not in the Council of
Ministers. Nevertheless, lam ready, as M. Pagnerre
declared in my name, to furnish officially and confi-
dentially to the committee, called for by the members
of the Provisional Government: itself, the documents
proving how the 374,000 f. were laid out. I call so
little the sincerity of my colleagues in doubt, that I
desire to reckon the author of the proposition among
the members of the committee, and I want no other
judge against the suppositions of M. Creton than
M. Creton himself."

THE HERRING HARVEST.—Yesterday (Monday)
in rounding the peninsula of Caerlaverock, and revisiting
some of its more central parts, we learnt that the finny
natong, in becoming less exuberant on the Scottish side,
are, perhaps, preparing to take their departure for berths
mu' ne at once warmer in point of depth, and less ex.
posed from breadth to the snares brought into play
durirg the last six weeks along the shores of the Solway.
Altogether, the Solway herring fishery has proved a
great windfall to Caerlaverock, not to speak of other pa-
rishes; and, perhaps, some of our readers will stare
when we state that, what with salting and selling fresh,
hundreds on hundreds of pounds have been cleared, and
may be hereifter, under prompt arrangement, combined
with exertion. Even cottars, for more than a fortnight,
earned from 2/. to 31, per week.—Dumfries Couria.