The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-11 00:00:00

For none of these purposes are senators admitted into
the arena of St. Stephen's. They assemble there as
the representatives of a great and free people to deli-
berate on matters which nearly concern the fortunes,
liberties, and sometimes lives of millions. The gravity
of their responsibilities would be sufficient, one might
imagine, to impress every individual representative
with a sense of the duties of his position.
Unhappily it is not always so. The House
of Commons is occasionally, if not frequently, the
witness of most unsenatorial proceedings. To these
proceedings, of which we have of late had a few
samples, it is not our purpose more immediately to
refer. We leave them to the oblivion they well de-
serve, and content ourselves with joining most cor-
dially in the aspirations of the Committee, that the
increased business of the House of Commons may be
accompanied by increased consideration on the part
of individual Members. We shall take another op-
portunity of considering the remainder of the Report.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris Papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
They all comment on the fact of the acceptance by
Austria of the Anglo. Gallic mediation. According
to the Democratie Pacifique that acceptance was
brought about in the following manner :—" A week
ago," says the Democratic Pacifique, " Vienna bad
refused the mediation. The French Cabinet then
inquired from the English ambassador if he had in-
structions I shall apply for some.' We have not
time to wait. We send the following note to Austria :
—" If in 48 hours the mediation is not accepted the
French troops shall land at Venice." ' During the
time that the note was going to Vienna, preparations
for embarking took place at Toulon and Marseilles.
The reply was sent without delay, being an accept-
ance."

The same journal has the following as to the prin-
ciples to be adopted by France as the basis of the
settlement of the Italian question :
"M. Bastide has announced that Austria accepts the
mediation. We are glad of this result, if it can conci-
liate the maintenance of peace with the success of the
Italian cause. But let the French Government take
care, it assumes an immense responsibility. France has
engaged to obtain the freedom of Italy, of all Italy that
rose at our voice ; not only of Lombardy, but also the
little duchies, and above all of Venice, who the first put
trust in the words of the manifesto which the revolution,
all warm from the barricades, flung across Europe. The
question is, therefore, badly placed by the mere fact of
the mediation. Charles Albert is only very indirectly a
party in the question. He was the auxiliary of the
Milanese insurrection which he betrayed at a later
period, and nothing more. The struggle is not between
Charles Albert and Austria, it is between insurgent Italy
and her oppressors ; it is not a difference of one monar-
chy with another, it is a question of nationality."
We read in the Courrier Francais—
" We said this morning, and we repeat it now, that
this is a success for our Republican Government. But
let it not slumber ! It will not be entitled to congratu-
late itself, it will not have a right to complete praise,
until all Italy be freed from the Austrian yoke."

The Siecle says—
" We will not examine if, as M. Bastide said, the con-
clusion of this first period of the negotiations must have
for effect to assure more and more to the Republic the
high rank which belongs to it in the sovereign councils
of Europe. What is true, in our opinion, is, that in that
region the Republic will have the place which it may
choose to make itself by the regular, moderate, and
powerful organisation which it may be able to give itself
in the interior. When it shall have assembled and disci-
plined its forces in the interior, no one will contest it
abroad the rank to which it is entitled—it will display
itself with the radient éclat of the r6le which General
Bonaparte assigned it at the treaty of Campo-Formio.
A will-o'-the-wisp which we regret to have seen glitter
at the end of the declaration of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, is the perspective which he opens of an early
reduction in the public charges, in consequence of
the more and more probable maintenance of peace.
This hope has the same value as the engagement
which was on Thursday inconsiderately inscribed in
the preamble of the Constitution. We do not like
illusions either in manifestos of the tribune or in political
programmes. The last Government made disarming the
motto of its banner from 1831; every year that luminous
point shone in the speeches of the Crown, as the protest
in favour of Poland in the addresses of the Chamber.
This chimera was vainly pursued during eighteen years.
Is it the Republic that will realise it ? We wish it from
the bottom of our heart. In any case there would
be greater merit in effecting it than prudence in an-
nouncing it."

The Assembles National, the organ of the old
GUIZOT Rump, and the all but avowed advocate of
an ORLEANS restoration, affects to sneer at the suc-
cess of the foreign policy of the Republic, and pooh-
pooh's the acceptance by Austria of French mediation.
Before, however, the organs of M. GUIZOT indulge in
any sneers at the foreign policy of the Republic, it
would be well that they should reco Ilect the ridi-
culous attitude which Austria compelled monarchical
France to assume in the affair of the Sonderbund, and
contrast that with the present conduct of that same
Austria in accepting the mediation of Republican
France.

On Friday, the report from the Committee de
Comptabilite on the proposition relative to the in-
demnity to the President of the National Assembly
was distributed to the members. The Committee
recommends that a supplementary sum of 6,000 fr. a
month shall be allowed to the President, in order to
enable him to give grand fetes, which, like those
already given, encourage trade, and are important in
a political point of ♦iew, by enabling men of all
parties to meet, and by showing that calm and
security exist.
The Marquis DE BRIGNOLE, Ambassador Extraors
dinary of Sardinia, has remitted to General CATAIG•
Nac the reply of the King of SARDINIA to the
credentials of M. Sant DE Bois LB COMTE, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
French Republic at Turin.

The Marquis RIDOLVI, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Tuscany in England,
who has been charged with a special mission to the
French Republic, has been presented by the Minister
of Foreign Affairs to General CAvAIGNAC.
M. J. DB MoacoLrra has remitted to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs letters accrediting him as Charge
d'Affaires of the State of Nicaragua.
The following is the weekly report of the Prefect
of Police on the state of Paris :

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but little reflection, has succeeded a most perfect
Confidence has revived on all points. A slow but inealra*
testible progress has beea manifest in all the branches een.
industry. The season still induces litany families to
re-
main in the country, but they will soon return to the
capital, bringing with them their accustomed habits of
luxury and movement. How then can any fears for the
future be entertained in the presence of so many causes
of prosperity! Has Paris ever, at any period, under any
government, offered more respect to persons, more
security for property? Every event brings with it a
now guarantee for the consolidation of our young
Republic. A brilliant review assembled on Sunday
last, the population, the National Guard, and the
army, all of whom were of one heart, and with one
voice enthusiastically acclaimed the Republic, and
hailed with sympathy the worthy chief of the Govern-
ment. Another more recent and significant act has
strengthened the hopes of the friends of Liberty. The
National Assembly, at its sitting of yesterday, decreed
by a unanimous vote that at the head of the Constitu-
tion there shall be written—The French Republic is
Democratic, one and indivisible 1 This unanimity of the
delegates of the people is an irrefragable proof of their
energetic and free determination to persevere in and fe-
cundate the work of the glorious Revolution of Febru
ary. Nothing equivocal therefore can any longer re-
main. The impatience of some, and the concealed
animosity of others, would be equally fatal to the Re-
public and society. Pretexts would not justify inten-
tions, and all the world would be ready to repel a
hypocritical and disloyal aggression. In spite of the
comments excited by fear upon the state of the Savings'
Bank, the receipts of the past week show an incontes-
tible improvement. The amount of the deposits, which,
on August 27th, was 34,600 f., was on September 3d and
4th, 42,950 f., paid in by 474 depositors, of whom
96 were new. The amount of the reimbursements
at the Mont-de-Piite, from August 23d e
September
4th, was 36,857 f., and of the loans onlyof
quently the repayments, instead being *
less than the
advances, as, during the preceding weeks,
ar exceeded them
by 2,o33f.—Orders from the departments
'the manufactories of articles of luxury participatee arriving.
in
this resurrection ; of which the best proof I can give the following table, which has been submitteelvteoyou
by the inspector of the office of guarantees at the Mint
of Paris. The goldsmiths' work ordered and finished
during the last five months produced the following re-
ceipts (1) : April 9,000 f., May 11,000 f., June
17,000 f., July 19,000 f., August 36,141 f. These figures
are more eloquent than words. New buildings, which
had, for a: long time, been languishing, have resumed
their activity. Several have been commenced, and the
city of Paris is preparing for additional constructions,
i
which will augment the mprovement already re-
alised. The receipts for the Droits de Petite
Voirie may be considered as one of the indi-
cations of activity, more or less great, of the construc-
tions carried on in Paris. The amount of these receipts
had considerably diminished during the months which
immediately followed the revolution, but have shown a
marked increase in July and August. The number of
permissions granted, which fell in the month of April to
46, was in May 87, became in July 190, and in August
2sl. The number off workmen who were driven by die- ,