The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1848.

Well, the murder is out at last—to the mind
of Middlesex at least the Reform 13111 is a failure, a
humbug, and a delusion. Gradually the suspicion of
this has been creeping into the comprehension of the
reflective. The great experiment in legislation
which was made in 1832, and which has now during
sixteen years been; subjected to a prolonged and
deliberative trial, has proved in an eminent degree
unsuccessful. The measure is repudiated even by
those who were formerly among its most enthusiastic
supporters. It is spat upon and cast aside like a
broken reed even by the man who first pronounced
its watchword of victory in the unreformed House of
Commons, that watchword being " The Bill, the
whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill." Of
ourselves it is surely unnecessary for us to
observe that all confidence in the Reform Bill—as an
effectual amelioration to the people and as a security
of good government—has long ago evaporated. Had
it been otherwise, we should certainly have been the
victims of a political ophthalmia. A blindness the
most incurable, or an ignorance the most incorrigible
sould alone have accounted for such an insane per-
petuation of credence in the efficacy of a notoriously
bad, because a manifestly abortive and inefficient
measure. Granted that the Reform Bill was a step
in the right direction—a step dictated by the noblest
motives of patriotism—a step which appeared at the
"'roe to be most judicious in the estimation of the vast
majority of the Liberals of the United Kingdom ;
so far
are we from casting any blame whatever upon
the Ori
ginators of the Bill itself, that we acknow-
ledge our thorough participation with themselves in
regarding
:te r a
results with the most sanguine expecta-
tions.to the Reform Bill, let us say at
once, distinctly, decidedly, and without any reserva-
tion whatever--
e have been deceived. Mr. Hume
and the advocates of the
new
proclaimed as much. They movement have already
have all been deceived. ;Yet have been deceived. We
us repair as rapidly as
possible this stupendous blunder in legislation.
After allowing sixteen yews
of probation to
elapse since the passing of the Ac
Par-
liamentaryt Reform, it cannot be said theta we ue
precipitate in demanding a more useful
and compre-
hensive innovation.
Yesterday a preliminary meeting of the Liberals of
Middlesex took place at the requisition of the Sheriffs
for the purpose of deliberating upon the be,t method
of facilitating the cause of real and practical reform.
The meeting was convened in the Riding School Aca-
demy, Albany- street, Regent's Park, with Mr. Sheriff
Cursrrr in the chair, and was under the auspices of
the author and leader of the new movement, the old
sad tried friend of the multitade—Jour= Hums. If

in nothing else, the assemblage is worthy of
consideration from the circumstance of its having
directly led to the association of the
more rational and intelligent Chartists and the
more dispassionate and cordial among the Radical
Reformers. From that union, if properly sustained,
may spring the boon of success, and hence are we
disposed to regard with a peculiar interest the cha-
racter of the proceedings in yesterday's discussion.
To demonstrate the utter futility of the Reform
Bill as a remedial measure, it was scarcely necessary
for the late representative of Coventry, Mr. W.
WILLIAMS, to enumerate so many items in our ex-
penditure. Nevertheless, we are rejoiced that that
Honourable Gentleman demonstrated to his auditors,
with such an irresistible lucidity of argument,
the deplorable fact that both Earl GREY
and Lord Joux RUSSELL had been mis-
taken in their calculations, that the Reform
Bill had not sent to the House of Com-
mons " the real representatives of the people," that it
had not secured to the people the expected blessing of
" cheap and good government." When it is remem-
bered that out of 1,062,000 electors in the United
Kingdom, 163,000 return just 329 Members to Par-
liament, while the minority are returned by the
remaining 900,000, it is most certainly needless to
remark that the people are far from being yet enabled
to make the laws through the medium of their re al
representatives. When, moreover, it is borne
in
recollection that whereas under the old bo-
roughmongering system in 1830, under the
unpopular administration of the Duke of N \ elli
018ngton,
the current. expenditure of they was 52a,
while the expenditure for the present year,
.under
the administration of Lord Jour(
.RUSSELL himself,
amounts to 59,350,000/.—being an increase expen-
of the Reform Bill of
diture since the passing
7,350,0001.—it is idle to remark that the Govern-
ment can neither be considered as good or as cheap.
From the unanswerable force of these statistics—and
from the damning comparison of the effects of a
boroughmongering Parliament, and a so-called Re-
formed Parliament, have originated the movement
just ventured upon at the intentions of the Hon.
Member for Montrose. The intentions of this
movement can be fully recognised from the first
resolution, proposed by Mr. W. WILLIAMS, and
seconded by Mr. Hexer HILL, of Uxbridge ; the
resolution being as follows :

" That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Commons'
House of Parliament, as at present constituted, does not
fairly represent the population, the property, or the in-
dustry of the country; that the disclosures made before
Committees
of 1835-1842, and also during the present
session, prove that the return of its Members has been
extensively influenced by bribery, corruption, coercion,
and intimidation; that the Reform Act has not realised
the just expectations of the country ; that since the
passing of that Act the public expenditure has not only
been more extravagant, but has exceeded by many mil-
lions sterling the expenditure of the last session of the
unreformed Parliament; that the system of taxation is
so contrived as to favour the aristocracy, and to throw
the pressure of its burthen unjustly on the industrious
classes of the people."
GOD prosper a cause, say we, conceived in a spirit
so righteous, enforced by arguments so rational, and
inspired by principles so pacific and generous, as the
one with which the name of Mr. llumE has here
become identified. Without extravagance or rashness
on the part of its promoters the cause must ulti-
mately prove triumphant.

wlhere can be nothing more formidable to the
tranquillity and welfare of any nation, by which all
its hest interests may be more hazarded, and the consti-
tutional liberties of its people more endangered, than a
refusal by those who are called upon to discharge
the important duties of jurymen to decide fairly and
impartially between their SOVEREIGN and the pri-
soners who may be charged before them, according to
the laws of the land, and the recognised and well-
known rules and precedents, in accordance with
which those laws have been interpreted. When
justice has been evaded, and the majesty of the law
brought into disrepute, owing to the misconduct
of some one or more of those who have car-
ried their political principles into the jury-box,
and decided in accordance with their own personal
predilections, rather than with what their sacred ob-
ligations demanded, the first and greatest palladium
of the national liberties—the trial by jury—is seri-
ously endangered, and a repetition of such conduct
is calculated to inflict the deepest injury on the
kingdom in general, and an indelible stain on the
parties themselves, who have so grievously miscon-
ducted themselves. While juries return just and
conscientious verdicts there can be no possible
pretext for any interference with the consti-
tutional tribunals ; for the substitution of courts-
martial for the ordinary courts, or of a military
code for the common and statute law of the land.
But the moment there is any wavering or tampering
with the juryman's oath, so soon as parties permit
themselves to be influenced by any considerations
whatsoever, other than those which should find ad-
mission to their deliberations, an excuse is afforded to
those who might be disposed to introduce the most strin-
gent measures, and who would find an apology for their
infringement of the popular liberties in the dereliction
of duty thus evidenced. When what was erroneously
termed "A Coercion Act " was introduced by her Ma-
jesty's Government on the first assemblage of the new
Parliament, iHNovember last, Ministers were censured
by some for not having established some new tribu-
nals for a summary adjudication on offences in the
proclaimed districts, but they expressed their con-
viction that Irish juries would firmly and unflinch-
ingly discharge the duties they owed to their country,
and that there was no occasion for casting so grave
an imputation on the body of gentlemen who consti-
tuted the panels from which the several juries
would be selected. The proceedings before the
Special Commission in the most disturbed counties
in Ireland, and since then at the assizes throughout
the entire counties, proved that this confidence
was not misapplied. But could the same statement
be now repeated ? Could any member of the Cabinet
declare that he still entertained the same opinion that
the course of justice would not be impeded by conti-
nuing the same powers to juries.? We fear that the
result of the recent trials of Messrs. SMITH O'BRIEN
and MEAGHER must necessarily produce a great al-
teration in those opinions, and that should any new
enactments unfortunately be required, they would
necessarily be of a more stringent and coercive cha-
racter than those which were formerly deemed to be
sufficient ; and yet it is said that in the former case
but two persons, and in the latter case a single
individual only, dissented from the judgment
of their brethren, and from the plain and common-
ruse view of the subject. Thus a deep slur and a
heavy
xcep?Otingsraa is cast upon a great, and, with but few
, we believe, a strictly honourable and
conscientious body, through the act of three of their
number.

Previously to the 32 George 111., cap. 60, it had
frequently been ruled that the only question for the
consideration of a jury, in cases of libel or
defamation, seditious writing or speaking, were
the fact of publication and the truth of the
inuendoes by which the meaning cf the va-
rious passages objected to were explained or qua-
lified, and that the Court alone was competent to
decide whether the matter of the publication was or
was not libellous or seditious. By that statute, bow.
ever, the functions of juries were very considerably
enlarged, and more precisely ascertained. It provided
that on every trial of any indictment or information
the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not
guilty, and shall not be required or directed by the
Judge to find the defendant guilty merely on proof
of publication, and of the sense ascribed thereunto
into the record. As the Attorney-General well
stated to the jurors, the law had wisely made them
the judges of whether the defendant was guilty of
sedition or not; but, though it had left them the
judges of the charges, it did not leave any
wild discretion to find that that is not sedition, which
in paint of fact, is sedition. Although the jurors
were to place their own constructions on the motives,
and probable consequences of the sentiments put for •
ward by the defendant, they should be guided
by what had ever been recognised and
known as sedition at all former periods.
A more moderate definition could scarcely be asked
for than that put forward by the Right Honourable
Attorney- General. He says, " that sedition is to
advise that which, if committed, would be treason."
Trying it by this
test--and one mc,re favourable to
the defendant could hardly
be selects d--can any one
say that the allusion to an Irish 11,4 +public did not ,

bring him within the law—or his advice to the peo-
ple in certain events to up with the barricades and
invoke the God of Battles ? To persons of plain and
ordinary capacity those statements would seem to
warrant but one interpretation. An Irish jurcr,
however, has been able to discover another, and on
his oath to declare that they did not come within the
scope of the law.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The night of Tuesday passed off quietly, but the
authorities very properly keep a considerable military
force under arms for the preservation of order. There
were large detachments of National Guards on duty
at the various mairies, and strong pickets paraded the
streets all night.
The Executive Committee of the Government do
not, it is complained, proceed with sufficient energy
in their measures for the discovery and punishment
of the guilty. The fact is, they are paralysed by the
presence of LEDRU ROLLIN, JULES FAVEE, and
FLOCON, who were so mixed up with the conspiracy
that it is almost
compromiseimpossibl them.
e to institute any inquiries
which
The Constitutionnel remarks in very strong lan-
guage on the speech of LEDRU ROLLIN to the mob while
they were in possession of the assembly, and thus re-
plies to the defence made for him by his friends, that
it was to gain time that he made that speech :—" To
gain time for what ? M. LEDRU RoLLIN, who was
earnestly implored at one o'clock to order the rappel
to be beaten, did not deem it necessary to give such
orders. Besides, M. LEDRU ROLLIN promised the mob
that it should not be deceived."
CsussimEra, the Prefect of Police, who was mixed

up in the conspiracy, has resigned his office of Pre-
fect and also his post as Member of the National As-
sembly. Seventy-five persons implicated in the
conspiracy baie been arrested and sent to Vincennes.
Among them is Colonel SAIssET, one of the staff of
General COURTAIS, and implicated in his crime. The
club of BLANQUI and that of the Societe des Droits
d'Homme have been shut up. All discussion by
armed bodies of men is forbidden. The corps of the
Montagnards is dissolved.
The lLfoniteur :publishes the following official ac-
count of the putting down of the emeute :
" The day through which we have passed has been full
of the most terrible emotions, but it may entail the hap-
piest consequences if the public sense only knows how to
draw from these circumstances all the results which they
contain. From nine o'clock in the morning the Commis-
sion of Executive Power, assembled at the Luxembourg,
has prescribed all the measures, which were at the same
time to have baffled the attempt of the conspirators. to
have assured the deliberations of the National Assembly,
and to have preserved the repose and security of the
capital. Unfortunately the orders, issued with all the
necessary exactitude and energy, were slighted, and
not executed as they aught to have been. The
Commission of Executive Power did not cease for a

single instant to watch over the public safety, and its
vigilance was, after five in the evening, crowned with
complete success. The National Guard, culled to-
gether by the rappel, which was beaten in all the
legions, met in enormous masses, to cut off all the ap-
proaches to the Palace of the National Repre4entatives.
The clubbists, intimidated by these measures, quitted in
the meantime the Aesembly which they had violated,

and went off to the Hotel de Ville, into which they pe-
netrated after a short resistance. Having met again in
one of the halls, they proclaimed a Provisional Govern-
ment, which was soon replaced by a second, but which
did not last longer than the first. Scarcely had this pre-
tended Government been announced, when, in conse-
quence of orders given by citizen Marrast, Ma} or of
Paris, the members of this Government of conspirators
were placed in arrest. Entrusted some moments after
to the care of citizen Zd. Adam, adjunct to the Mayor of
Paris, the guilty ones awaited, in one of the halls of the
Hotel de Ville, the fate to be pronounced upon them by
the authorities. This evening the Commission of Exe-
cutive Power took all the measures for transferring the
conspirators to the fort of Vincennes, under an escort
which might answer for them. At eight in the evening
all Paris had returned to the most complete security.
The conspiracy has been put down, and it will be pu-
nished with all the severity of the law. So terminated
this day, which opened in so formidable a manner, and
which should so strengthen the Republic, for the au-
thorities will know how to punish the conspiracy as it
deserves to be, and to put a proper limit to contrary
hopes, which, perhaps, this senseless attempt may have
encouraged."
The Presse gives the following account of the
arrest of BARIUM, ALITZILT, and TUORE
" At the moment at which the 4th legion was pro-
ceeding by the Rue de Rivoli to the National Assembly,
a man presented himself before the ranks, waving a
Poniard, and shouting-Five Mir best' Thin Luau bras
immediately seized and disarmed by two officers, who
led him to the post of the Ministry of Justice. The
persons who witnessed this uttered the warmest cries of
approbation. At six o'clock Barbes was at the Hotel de
Ville, it is said, drawing up a proclamation,which was car-
ried to be printed, and by which the different administra-
tions were distributed among his friends, when two cap-
tains, and about ten National Guards of the 3d and 6th
legions, entered the salle. 'Barbes! Where is Barbes!
We must have him!' was their first cry! No, no! to
arms!' cried some men with red belts. You shall marck
over our dead bodies sooner than have him!' A greater
number of National Guards then entered, and endeavoured
to go into the salle occupied by three members of the
Provisional Government. The sentinels posted by Barbes
offered great resistance. Barbes was seized by the
collar, and dragged off to prison by officers of artillery
of the National Guard and an officer of the staff. The
indignation was profound. Barbes was pale and dis-
couraged. lie did not walk, he was dragged. Several
times in passing swords were raised against him. In
the same manner Albert was led away. His features,
which were entirely discomposed, displayed great emo-
tion. Thor 6 was next seized. He appeared less dis-
couraged than the others, and was dragged in a similar
way to a place of safety. Each of the three was lodged
in a separate place of confinement,"

In the same journal we find the following letter
from one of the National Guards :
" Will you be kind enough to take a note of the fol-
lowing fact, for the account which you will have to give
of this memorable day? It was with the open complicity
of General Courtais that the Assembly was invaded.
We, die National Guards of the 10th Legion, who, with
_ _

the co-operation of the Garde Mobile, re-established the
representatives in their seats, will give you numerous
proofs of it. The General, against whom the exaspe-
ration was extreme, and who was assailed from all
parts with the cry of Down with the traitor!' having
made a sign that he desired to speak, said, In the
name of the people, I order the National Guard to
leave!' A National Guard then cried, You are no
longer General of the National Guard—you are a
traitor, and in the name of the people I degrade
you!' So saying, the same National Guard tore off
his epaulettes, whilst another wrested from him his
sword, on which he had placed his hand. An instant
after he was driven from the Assembly with cries of
Down with the traitor!' The National Guards and the
Gardes Mobiles immediately distributed among them
portions of the epaulettes of the infamous general. The
stars, in particular, remained in possession of the Garde
Mobile. It was then that M. Lamartine ascended the
tribune, which M. de Mornay defended with courage.
National Guards and Gardes Mobiles!' he cried in a
firm voice, ' you have just saved the country! All
France thanks you by my voice! It also thanks the
army, which henceforth forms only one with you. The
Government of the Republic, a moment eclipsed, re•
sumes its Eclat and all its strength, thanks to your
energy. May the criminal attempt of the factious men
condemn them for ever!' These words were interrupted
by cries of Vive la Republique! Viva la Lamartine!
Vive l'Assemblde Nationale!' This passed at half-past
five o'clock. At six o'clock the National Guard and the
Garde Mobile evacuated the salle to protect the ap-
proaches, and from all parts repeated cries of • Vive
l'Assenablie Nationale!' were heard."

The Commerce accuses Louis BL.ticc of being one
of the conspirators, and pays as little attention to his
indignant denial as did the Chamber itself. It
says—
" It appears that Louis Blanc had premeditated the
coup de main which brought France within an inch of
destruction. For in the great entrance hall of the
National Assembly, when, at about four o'clock, he was
haranguing the chiefs of the sections, he exclaimed:--
' Citizens! you are stronger than the tempest, and the
demonstration you are making to-day is not one of those
which shake, but of those which throw down.' These
are the very words that came from the mouth of the
author of the Organization du Travail,' who only a
quarter of an hour before had in like manner harangued
the crowd from the balcony of the Secretary' office of
the Assembly."

, At the close of the sitting of the National Assem-
bly on Tuesday, M. VICTOR CONSIDERANT addressed
the Assembly. He said that some of his colleagues had
• drawn his attention to the announcement which had
appeared in some of the journals, that his name ap-
peared in one of the lists of the Provisional Govern-
ment which some of the conspirators had intended to
proclaim at the Hotel de Ville :—" The sincerity of
my principles is well known," continued M. CONSI-
DERANT, " I detest anarchy. It is true that one of
the agitators said to rae yesterday, We have placed
your name on our list.' I replied, Are you mad ?
Whom do you take me for ? Rather than accept
your proposition, I would suffer myself to be killed
on the spot.' " This explanation was received with
loud applause.
M. CHARANIAULB then remarked that the re were
two names of persons connected with the 'Govern
anent on those lists, viz., M. LRDRU ROLLIN and N.
FLocoN, and he should be glad to hear from them a
similar energetic disavowal.

M. FLOCON replied. It i true that the names of I
certain members of the re;ular Government were ,
placed by the factious in thr lists. If the members
of the Government have not thought it necessary to
repudiate this attempt to compromise their situation
and their dignity, it is because they have treated it
with contempt, believing thit no one could be de-
ceived by it.
The Journal des .Mbae contains the following
summary of the occurrences in Paris on Tuesday
Paris has been tranquil. The measures adopted by
the authorities and. the good sense of the population
have produced this fortunae result. At six (,'elock in
the morning the rappel was beaten in the several dis-
tricts. The National Gnarls who had not participated
in the noble demonstrttion of Monday hastened
to relieve their comrades at the mairies. The
points of the capital nost exposed to distur-
bances— such as the Hotel de Ville, the Palais Na-
tional, the Louvre, the National Assembly, the Tuileries,
and the Luxembourgh—e wzooncaelutpiineadrdb?Gaanrdeimlpilitnieg,l
4113sPohsfedthoeiline. 12th Legion, of which M. I
faonrdc et,r
troops
Bar Lei was the colonel, wis remarkable for the number
of men under arms, and for their discipline. They
were marched to the Rue St. Victor, the head-quarters
of the Montagnards, whon.iit was determined to disband.
The presence of the National Guard was electric. The
Montagnards surrendered without offering any resist-
ance. At the same time tie 2d Legion proceeded to the
Prefecture of Police to clsarm the Republican guard.
This operation was not st quickly performed, but still it
was accomplished. At . o'clock the 11th Regiment of
Infantry and two battaions of the Garde Mobile re-
lieved the 2d Legion cf the National Guard, which
marched 10,000 strong to the Luxembourg. In that
quarter the measures sf security were most strictly
observed. All the streets adjacent to it were guarded
by the 11th Legion, arri the thoroughfare was closed.
The pupils of the Poytechnic, Central, and Normal
Schools, with those of Alfort, formed an imposing corps
for the internal defence of the Palace. At 6 o'clock,
the most perfect trauqiillity being established, which
continued throughout tie night, the National Guards
returned home.

_
The Monzteur publishes a decree by the National
Assembly, declaring that the National Guard, the
Garde Mobile, and ths troops of the line have merited
the thanks of the country, and voting the thanks of
the National Assembly to the delegates from the
provinces who assisted In the defence of the national
sovereignty. Two other decrees order the pro-
secution of COUSTAIS, BARBES, and ALBERT, and
charge Captain ALLARY, of the Ist legion of
the National Guard, with the custody of COUR•
TAIL Another decree appoints M. CLEMENT Morass
Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard. There
are two decrees accepting the resignation of M.
GUINARD, as chief of the staff of the National Guard,
dismissing M. SAISSEL, as sub-chief, and there is also
an important order by the Minister of the Interior
revoking the appointments of all the commissaries-
general of the departments from the 18th inst., their
functions being without object now that the govern-
ment is in the hands of the National Assembly. We
also find in the Monzteur the following proclamation
to the French people from the Executive Govern..
ment

" Citizenst—A crime has been committed against the
National Assembly. Some factious men have attempted
to violate the scvereignty of the people. In presrnce of
this attempt your representatives remained calm and
firm; the majesty of right has triumphed over brute
force. The Assembly, for an instant disturbs d, has
resumed its labours. It sits in the micht of you. still
great, still strong, ever ready to insure the triumph of
the Republic, and to realise for labourers the just
hopes which the revolution had Oven to them. Crime
is vanquished. The National Guard, the Garde Mo-
bile, the army, all the forces of Paris and the banlieue,
drove before them the insensate conspirators, who
masked their plots under the notate of iland.
Citizens !—Your victory is hallowed, for the blued
of your brothers has not been shed. Remain
still armed at your posts ready to defend, as you so
well have known him to do, the Republic against
anarchy. The men who have sullied the temple of the
constitution henceforth belong to justice. Justics• is in
action, the Government is vigilant, and the culprits are
in custody. Have faith in the future, for the future has
never been wanting to those who have fidelity and
courage, and your fidelity and courage have been put to
the proof."

Signed by the Executive Commission.

It appears that M. CAUSSIDIZAE, the late Prefect
of Police, and who is most seriously implicated
in the treasonable attempt of Monday, still
holds out against the public force at the
Hotel of the Prefecture, where he is sustained, it is
stated, by about three or four hundred montagnards.
Not the least apprehension is, however, enter-
tained of a serious resistance, or of the escape of the
perturbators, as the hotel is completely environed
by an immense force of National Guards, Garden
Mobiles. troops of the I;n., and artillery. This im-
posing force, who evidently act with a design to
spare the effusion of blood, is so imposing in its num-
bers, as to set all fears for the results entirely at rest,
The idea of holding out at all against such a powerful
demonstration is, indeed, wholly preposterous. In
other parts of the capital security appears perfectly
restored.

It will be seen that during the course of the sitting
yesterday, it was announced by the Ministers to the
Assembly that the persons in the Prefecture had
surrendered, and that it was now in possesion of the
officers of the republic.
The Moniteur contains an official notice that M.
CAUSSIDIERE, the Prefect of Police, has sent in his
resignation to the Executive Government, and that
it has been accepted. The general secretary of the
Prefecture has also resigned.
A decree is published, which directs that a corps
of 2,600 infantry and 600 cavalry shall be formed for
the special service of the police of the city of Paris,
under the name of Garde Republicaine Parisienne ;
that the amount of pay, and the mode of admission
will be hereafter settled; and that the corps, which
is to be paid by the city of Paris, and placed within
the attributions of the Minister of the Interior, shall
be under the direct orders of the Prefect of the Police.
Then follows the annexed decree :
" The Commission of the Executive Government has
determined—

" Art. 1. The following corps, namely, the Republican
Guard, the Montagnards, the Lionnais, and other similar
bodies are and remain disbanded.
"Art. 2. The men belonging to these corps, and who
can satisfy the conditioas or admission into the Garde
Kepublicaine Parislenne, shall have a right of preference
for a place in that guard. The officers, subalterns,
corporals, and sergeants of these different corps, hut
employed in the new Garde Republicuibe Parisienne,
will be entitled to fifteen days' pay from the present
date, &c."

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fidiere guard are at present installed in the Celes-
tine Barracks, Rue St. Victor.
M. Raisin, Governor of the Palace of the Luxem-
bourg, has been arrested.
There has been another turn out of the workmen
on the Northern Railway. Yesterday morning up-
wards of 1,500 of them struck work, and intimated
that they would not resume until the terms which
they had previously proposed to the directors—
namely, a franc per day of additional wages, and a
larger proportion of the profits than they now
get—were agreed to. They at,the same time assumed
so threatening an aspect that the directors felt it
necessary to send for a reinforcement of troops.
It was generally reported that the workpeople had
commenced to tear up the rails, and that it was
doubtful if the trains would be able to start any
more to-day. This is not the case. The men
merely refused to work. They have committed no
sort of outrage, nor do they appear at present in-
clined ,to be riotous. A very formidable force is
drawn up close to the station, consisting of the 29th
and 34th regiments of the line, the 10th and 11th
battalions of the Garde Mobile, and several companies
of National Guards.
The National Assembly met yesterday at half-
past twelve., ,The President, M. DUCHEZ, in the
chair.
When the proces• verbal of the preceding day had been
re M.
M. Albert Thumine rose and declared that he had
heard with pain, that notbihg was said in the minutes of
the feeling of disapprobation with which the Assembly
had looked on the conduct of the President in quitting
the chair on Monday, when the Chamber had been in-
vaded. He should propose a vote of blame.—(Loud
cries of " No, no," prevented the lion. Representative
speaking, and he at last quitted the tribune.)
The President informed the Assembly that National
Guards had arrived from Havre, Cambray, Melun, and
other places, to afford their support to the National As
sembly.—(Hear.) He thought he should meet the
wishes of the Chamber by proposing that a vote of
thanks be presented to those patriots for their devoted..
ness.—Agreed to unanimously.
The President had also to inform e Asembly that
he had received a letter from M. Cthaussidsiere, stating
that, after what had lately occurred, he begged leave
to tender his resignation as representative of the
people.—(Movement.)
Some discussion Arose on the propriety of accepting

this dismissal, but it was at last decided that the Assem-
bly had no Ul.l3lile•S uibeu.a thu rcsigna,tam Ot
member, unless under some very extraordinary circum•
stances, and that in consequence the resignation was
accepted.
M. A. Avond proposed, as the National Guard, the
Guard Mobile, and the army had, by their conduct
on the 15th of May, deserved a mark of the great,
satisfaction and confidence of the National Assembly,
that if the fite of Sunday next should not be again
postponed, the whole of the representatives should
proceed in a body to the Place de la Bastille and from
thi•nce-

[A loud burst of disapprobation here interrupted the
speaker, and he was at last obliged to quit the tribune
without making his proposition known.]
M. Vivien expressed his surprise that Honourable
Represematives should bring fora ard propositions with-
out giving the required notice of their intention. The
regulations ought to be b,tier übserved.--(Hear.)
The matter then dropped.
M. Senard had to state to the Assembly the result
of the inset iptions made by the representatives for
the 15 standing etnumittues, The number of
names inscribed' had been exceedingly dispro•
portionate, as those put down for justices had
amounted to 217, whilst those for Algeria had
been not more than 31, and for the colonies, 24. As
each standing committee was to consist of 60 members,
it had been round exceedingly difficult to establish them
with that precise number. The Committee on Labour
had, however, been. already formed, and had that morn-
ing held its first sitting. He had, in consequence of the
difficulties alluded to, to propose that the matter be re-
ferred to the Committee on the regulations, with a view
to some modifications being effected in the :num-
ber of the persons composing each Committee, until
such time as the representatives composing the National
Assembly should know each other more intimately, and
be better able to work well together.—Agreed to.
The returns for Corsica were announced. Amongst
them were the names of Pierre and Napoleon Buona-
parte. The return of Louis Blanc for the same depart-
ment was declared to be null and void, in consequence of
mal-practices on the part of some of the voters ; and
M. Abatucci was declared to be elected in his place. That
gentleman, however, immediately after announced that
he had decided to sit fur the Loiret, where also he had
been elected.
The Assembly then proceeded to nominate by ballot,
and by an absolute majority, eighteen members to com-
pose the committee on the Constitution.
The result was not known at post-hour.
(Left sitting.)
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.
THREE O'CLoCK.—The rise which commenced yes-
terday continued to-day, but towards the close of
business there were some symptoms of weakness. Not-
withstanding the alarming rumours with respect to the
disturbances on the Northern Railway, the prices did
not give way. The Bons du Tresor were done at 30 dis.,
Vieille Montagne, at 2,250, the Quatre Canaux at 785.
For the Account, the French Three per Cents. rose one
per Cent.; Five per Cents. are If. 50c. Fur Money, the
Three per Cents. rose 75 cents.; Five per Cents. rose
If. 50c.; Bonds du Tresor are at 30f.; Bank of France
Shares maintained yesterday's prices, after having been
20f. higher; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted; ditto
Two-and a-Half per Cents. not quoted; Spanish Stock
not quoted; Roman is at 53f. 35c., and Rothschild's Re-
ceipts at 70f. Railway Shares for cash :—Orleans have
risen 7f. 50c.; Rouen, 5f.; Versailles (Right Bank),
5f.; Havre, 5f.; Bale, 2f. 50c.; Lyons, 2f 50c.; North-
erns, Stra,burgs, and Nantes, lf. 25c. each. Marseilles
and Bourdeaux remain as yesterday. The only line in
which any business was done for the Account is the
Northern, at 345 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. MAY 17.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6 —Luxembourg, a% —Northern
of France, 31/2.