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

tress into furnished lodging-houses is considerably re•
duced, and their situation become less precarious. In
our preceding bulletin their number was 31,480, but it is
reduced to 27,308; 17.977 are at work; 9,331 are un-
employed. Calm has succeeded to the agitations which
seemed, for a moment, to threaten the security of the Re-
public. There arrived in Paris during the last week 6,381
Frenchmen and 743 foreigners. Within the same space
of time there have been granted only 2,301 passports to
French citizens, and 819 to foreigners; 583 were gra-
tuitous. The prisons contain nearly the same number of
ordinary prisoners; but have only 4,058 accused of
taking part in the insurrection of June; 2,909 having
been discharged since my first bulletin. From the 26th
of August to the sth of September, there were only nine
suicides. The attempts upon property, during the same
period, amounted to twenty, and the number of petty
thefts to eight per day upon an average. Only one at-
tack upon the person has been signalised, and the result
of this was a very slight wound. The total number of
victims of the days of June at this time amounts to
1,445. From the Bth of August to the 3d of September,
three convoys were sent off to Havre with prisoners
convicted of taking part in the insurrection of June,
amounting to 1,005. The prisons and hospitals were
never in a more healthy state. The receipts of the
theatres and public balls are progressing satisfactorily.
From the 28th of August to the 3d of September these
receipts amounted to 79,604 f. 97e,
" Dated Sept. 8. " DUCOUX."
The experiment of a "Ten Hours Bill" for adults has
completely failed in France, and the Assembly has
been obliged to repeal the famous decree of LOUIS
BLefic of the 2d March. The new law which was
passed by the Assembly on Saturday fixes the hours
of labour at twelve under ordinary circumstances,
but allows the Government, in certain exceptional
cases, to grant permission for labour,tolbe pursued for
more than twelve consecutive hours. It was pro-
posed to allow workmen to work over time for extra
wages, but this proposition was rejected, as was a
proposition made by the Abbe SIBOUR for compelling
abstinence from all labour on the Sunday.
M. DE CORMENIN has resigned his office
of President of the Committee on the Constitution,
and has retired from the Committee altogether,
in consequence of a serious difference with his col-
leagues, arising from the following circumstance :
As soon as the report of the Committee on the Con-
stitution was presented to the National Assembly, M.
DE CORMENIN, under his pseudomyne of " Timon,"
published a pamphlet, in which, as is his wont, he took
infinite credit to himself and lampooned the whole of
his colleagues. The Committee met on Friday for
the first time since the publication of the pamphlet,
and M. DUPIN attacked M. DE CORMENIN with the
bitterest sarcasm; he was followed by M. CORDON,
an ouerier, but a man of great talent, who has
already created for himself a position in the Assembly,
and who declared that he would resign, as his dignity
would no longer permit him to remain a member of a
Committee of which M. DE CORMENIN was President.
M. ARMAND MARRAST at once declared that every
member of the Committee partook of the sentiments
of M. Coanos ; hereupon M. DR CORMENIN tendered
his resignation, which was immediately accepted.
There are upwards of fifty candidates for the three
vacancies in the representation of Paris. The Con-
stitutionnel supports the claims of the Ministerial
candidates, MM. ROGER (du Nord), EDMOND ADAM,
and ACHILLE FOULDE. The candidateship of LOUIS
BONAPARTE occasions considerable uneasiness to the
Government. On this subject the Reforme says—
" A journal, which it is said derives its information
from official sources, has published the following:—
' Prince Louis Napoleon is brought forward as a candi-
dote for the Assembly at Paris, and in two departments
at the same time. To those men to whom Providence
has given the too rare blessing of good sense a candi-
dateship of Louis Napoleon would present nothing of a
serious character. That gentleman hasalready given a
of
proof of his talents. The follyhis first attempt
could only be equalled by that of his second. The pre-
tension of Louis Bonaparte not existing by itself, it is
simply necessary to inquire at present under what mask
it is brought forward. It will not be difficult for us to
point it out, and we shall do it. Louis Blanc, since his
arrival in London, is said to be constantly with Louis
Napoleon, and has succeeded in exciting him to action.
It is said that he has written to all the clubs in which
he has friends remaining, and that in consequence the
name of Louis Napoleon is to be substituted on all the
lists for that of M. Kersausie. These relations may
serve to form a definitive judgment of the two men.
Louis Blanc would attain his purpose by any means, and
Louis Bonaparte would humbly resign himself to serve
as a pretence for no matter whom.'
"As the journal which gives the above has been
hitherto remarkable for its reserve and for its judgment;
if it is, as report says, in communication with the Go-
vernment, the accusation which it makes is grave, and
may lead to a serious discussion.
" Louis Blanc, who has left the country to escape a
preventive imprisonment, Louis Blanc, accusid, pro-
scribed, is placed in a situation which ought to be sacred
to every man of honour. It is, therefore, impossible, but
there must be some proofs of his co-operation, and we
regret that the letters have not been published, which de-
nounce, in our opinion, a f uasi- complicity against the
Republic.
" We do not, in fact, believe in the powerlessness of
the Bonapartist intrigue, and the ambition of Louis
Napoleon, although he has twice fallen into ridicule, and
his half-drowned fortune appears to us more redoubtable
than ever.
" Let facts be studied—let the fears, the fatigues,
the disorder, and the discouragement of public opinion
be considered—let us regard, on the side of those fatal
barricades, where on one side and the other so many
energetic citizens have fallen—let the decimated
fauxburgs, unarmed and plunged in mourning, be exa-
mined, and it will be understood that the wounded re-
volution has not the strength of its first days; that with
the blood it has lost the vigour of its enthusiasm. Be-
tween misery and despair there is, therefore, a place for
pretenders, and since the knights of the lily themselves
dare to raise again their banner, so often proscribed and
torn, it would be wrong to regard as madness the
chances of a standard which reflects our former glories.
Enemies should not be despised, for it is the means of
allowing them to strengthen themselves, and it is better
to speak the whole truth than to slumber in a fatal op-
timism.
" The general situation of affairs is changed. The
people we well know are deeply devoted to the Republic;
but misery and balls have crushed them, and the revolu-
tion is weakened. The Republican iourgeoisie still love
rights and liberty, but as its fortune has been compro-
mised, it is now in doubt; it no longer feels the religion
of the law or civic pride.
" This is the naked truth; add to those general condi-
tions certain facts which are highly significative. Look
at the contract which has been entered into between the
Clubs of the Institute and of the Rue de Portier. M.
Malleville, named vice-president in a Republican assem-
bly, is a proof that the old dynastic intrigues are again
rising, and already taste of power. Is not M. Malleville
the lieutenant of M. Thiers, who is to save our finances,
and is not this the same M. Thiers who was, ten years
since, the chief Minister selected by the Prince of Bou-
logne for the Napoleon combination?
" Events are therefore favourable; men are ready; the
Republic has been struck in its press, its army, and in
its men; the comes the great citizen who declares that
he this time accepts the suffrages of his partizans,
and it will be soon seen what will remain of the young
Republic.
" The election of Louis Bonaparte would be, therefore,
a misfortune for the new
.Government, for it would faci-
litate an intrigue under his name, and strengthen our
present calamities.
"We look at things without passion and without
anger, and if the National Assembly, which has just
voted the unanimity of the democratic republic, has
really and truly at heart to defend its work, and not to
undo it, it must know how to take a decisive step, and
must raise itself to the height of the great policy of
public safety.
4` What it has done with so much rigour against mis-
guided workmen gives it but too much right to decree
revolutionarily, although no crime has been committed, a
,necessity for temporary exile-
"lf it does not know how to defend the republic on
this occasion it will prove that its unanimous adhesion
was not serious, and that it is invaded by the spirit of
former days.
"As to the participation of Louis Blanc in the new
attempt which is to be made, we defer our judgment
until it shall have been officially stated. It is neces-
sary to have serious proofs when a man islaccused who
has given
so many pledges to the cause of the people
and of the revolution, and we have already heard so
many stories and fables recited that we cannot come to
a conclusion against a friend without a full certitude of
facts."

Count MOLE, who has avowed himself a partisan
of the Regency
of the Duchess of ORLEANS, has
started for Bordeaux, where the Legitimatists have
started M. RAVEz, a former President of the Cham-
ber of Deputies in the time of CluaLEs X.

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The hostile attitude assumed by Germany, as tes-
tified by the vote of the German Parliament on the
armistice with Denmark, has occasioned considerable
uneasiness in Paris.
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Besancon, and Strasburg. _
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General LANIORICIXRE has announced that it is the
intention of the Government to present to the Assem-
bly a project of law revoking the decree which pre-
vents the transportation of the insurgents to Algeria.
The elections for the C)uncil-General, which are
taking place in Corsica, says the Constitutionnel,
have occasioned dreadful disturbances. At Orezza, a
little village not far from Bastia, not less than fifty
persons, a letter says, were killed. At Vescovato, also,
there were scenes of disorder ; one man was killed
and four wounded. On August 31st, Bastia enjoyed
the most perfect tranquillity.
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