The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-19 00:00:00

arrests have taken place, and which have caused a
very unfavourable impression in the public mind.
The Bolsa was closed during the Whitsuntide holi-
days.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
We have receiled the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
All was quiet in Paris, and the affair of Prince
Louis NAPOLEON appears to have been entirely for-
gotten by all parries. It was a bad game badly played
by all parties, and Prince Louis NAPOLEON has, at the
eleventh hour, acted wisely in withdrawing himself
and not sufferirg the great name he bears to be

prostituted to the anti-social purposes of communists
and reactionawires. In the provinces, however, there
had been serious disturbances produced by the intri-
gues of the parti•pretre and the reactionnaires.
The weekly statemmt of the affairs of the Bank of
France, which otght to have appeared in the Moni-
teur of Friday, appears in the Moniteur of Saturday.
From these returns it appears that the metallic re-
serve in the Pans establishment has increased 5 mil-

lions, and in the branch banks 3 millions. The
amount of bills becoming due in Paris continues to
decline, being at present 117 millions, or 121 millions
less than last week ; in the branch banks the amount
is 141 millions, )r 8 millions less. The overdue bills

amount to nearly t millions, cr 1 more than when
the preceding mums were published. The protested
f
bills amount in Paris to nearly 30 millions, and in
branchnthe
being together about
one m
eek. The amount of
notes in circulation at Paris is 280 millions, or 5 mil-
i bankslio week.
less tc l
thanl
millions,last

lions less than last week, and in the branch banks
78} millions, or 7 millions less. The account current
of the Treasury is set down at 17 millions, being a
diminution of 2 millions. The metallic reserve now
amounts to 146 against 359 millions of notes in cir-
culation.

In the sitting on Friday the Minister of the In-
terior introduced a Bill for the purpose of granting a
credit of 300,000 francs for a revision of the list of
the National Guards liable to be called into active
service in France, according to the laws of 1831 and
1832 ; also to authorise the calling out of twenty
men out of 100, when unmarried and from twenty to

twenty-five years of age, with the understanding that
the were at present to remain at home.

ihis Bill adds at once 100,000 men to the French
army, and the object of this addition is not concealed

by the Minister of the Republic :
" The first end," he says, " which the Government
has it view is to lighten by 100,000 men the expenses of
the war department. France, in fact, insured in a per-
manest and seriously military reserve, will be able,
without danger, to reduce the effective of her army to
that extent, and to send back her young soldiers, after
they lave been completely instructed, to their friends.
A pacific thought and economy is the first character of
the measure which we propose to you; but, nevertheless
France has another object which ought to fix your at:
tentior. The Executive Commission preserves the firm
hope of maintaining peace. France cannot at the same
time assist, without watching, at changes made in other
territories. She cannot tolerate that any increase in the
power her neighbours should weaken her own power,
without a compensation to herself. Such are, citizens, the
general motives which have inspired the project of de-
cree submitted for your deliberation. It remains for us
to justify the amount of allowance demanded."
The meaning of the ominous passage given in
italics is generally supposed to be that the consent of
France to the incorporation of Lombardy with
Piedmont, can only be purchased by the cession of
Savoy, Nice, and perhaps Genoa, to the French
Republic.
The Constitutionnel of Sunday thus comments on
this important document :
" Among the motives given by the Government fer
this measure we find the following:—' The Executive
Committee retains the firm hope of the maintenance of
peace. Nevertheless France cannot witness changes in
territorial limits without acting with foresight. She
cannot tolerate that a neighbouring state should increase
its power without her deriving any compensation for it,
and by which act her own power becomes weakened.' It
is probable that when this decree shall be examined in
the bureaux, the Government will be called on to give
complete explanations on the subject of this declaration.
Italy at this moment reconquers from Austria, by a
victorious revolution, ber independence and her na-
tionality. In order the better to concentrate her forces,
and to be able to oppose an impregnable barrier to any
oppression which may come from the north, and from the
east, a vast state of Upper Italy is being formed by the
free and voluntary union of the people of Lombardy,
Venice, Parma, Placentia, and Modena, with Piedmont,
whose valiant army protects them. This union is being
realised, not by the will of any particular parties, but
by the spontaneous vote of the people themselves. A
feeble majority opposes this act of good sense of Italy.
At the same time the struggle continues, Verona and
Mantua aro still in the hands of the Austrians, and a
part of the Venetian provinces is covered by their troops.
The Russian armies, the rear guard of Austria, com-
mence. it is said, to be on the move.
" There is much reason for surprise that the French
Republic, which has a powerful interest in the formation
of a great state in Northern Italy, instead of grounding
a giving prompt assistance to
liberty, should on the contrary make
a first appeal made to the warlike population of France
almost hostile to it, and speak of a
~..t4ohnseeaonf
causee va el naotnfugiautl
Italian
sl
bi t
conquest to be made before speaking of a service to be
rendered.
" In order to form a just opinion of the whole pro-
posed
policy of the Executive Committee with regard to
Italy, we shall wait for the explanations which will be
given in the bureaux. But while the Neapolitan Go-
vernment is exercising on its own subjects, and contrary
to the cause of liberty, such unjustifiable acts of vio-
lence, and the Piedmontese Government, on the contrary
is combating with so much courage and success for the
cause of revolution and liberty, is it not strange that the
first threatening words of our Government should be
addressed, not to the power which commands at Naples,
but to that which fights in Lombardy?"
Serious troubles have broken out in the department
of La Creuse, at Gueret, in consequence of the at-
tempts made to enforce the collection of the 45 per
cent. additional impost laid on by the Provisional
Government. In the sitting of the Assembly on Sa-
turday, the Minister of Finance gave an account of
this outbreak. He said that while the mayors and
local authorities were engaged in inquiries as to the
means of lightening the burden imposed by this tax,
those persons who arrogate to themselves the title of
exclusive protectors of the poor interfered to prevent
the execution of their good intentions. What did
they do ? They converted a tree of liberty into a
gallows, with a rope prepared, while the tri-colour
was displaced by a black flag, and they declared that
any citizen who paid the tax should be hung. A
crowd of country people flocked to the town of
Gueret, and while an excited discussion was going on
between them and the National Guards, two shots
were fired, and a National Guard and a Pompier
were wounded. The National Guard immediately
returned the fire, and ten were killed and five
wounded. Such is the official account from the
Minister of Finance.
M. Keyor.r.z, the representative of La Creuse, and
Commander of the National Guard, gave an expla-
nation of the occurrences that had taken place, vary-
ing little from the Finance Minister, but ending
somewhat more doubtfully. He said the department
of La Creuse was very poor, and property was ex-
tremely divided. Nearly all the little proprietors
were obliged to work as masons, their chief trade, and
they used to come to Paris in the building season ;
but, on account of the suspension of employment they
passports, and they cannot pay the
additional been
refusedtax
0f45
per cent. The people are in the
greatest misery. The collision that had taken place
was brought about by the arrest of a man who had
posted a placard on the chapel door, threatening death
pay the
effected, the tocsinthe 45 additional centimes.
toAt whhoeisver ldarwreosut
was sounded in the neighbouring vil-
lages and the peasantry incited to revolt
Seven hundred men marched on Gueret to deliver
the prisoner. Then it was that the National Guards
were called out. At first there was hope of bringing
about a reconciliation, but towards evening the ex-
asperation of the country people became frightful—
the Bens d'armes endeavoured to disperse the crowd
as quietly as possible, when from the latter were
fired three shots, and the National Guards returned
the fire. Tile crowd immediately dispersed, and the
National Guards returned to Gueret. M. FATOLLE,
having thus stated the facts, proceeded as follows :
" All is not over. I must tell you that, before you
accuse the National Guard, you have yet to learn
whether the emeute has not by this time been re-
newed, and revenge been taken. All that we do
know is that the insurrection is spreading, and that
the tocsin is sounding."
Several voices—" You must not say that."
M. FkroLLz—" If I am to credit a correspondence,
efforts are making to raise the country people, and to
march them on Gueret."
Several voices—" No. They will not sticceed."