The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-30 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
It is certain that Louis BLAND. ,11,s succeeded
in effecting his escape. It appears that On Saturday
morning on quitting the National Assembly, he called
a hackney coach and proceeded to St. Denis, where
he arrived at half after seven. He took his place in
the first train that started for Belgium, and on his
arrival at Ghent was arrested for want of a passport.
He was set at liberty by order of the Belgian Go-
vernment on Monday, and proceeded to Ostend, from
whence he sailed for Dover, where he arrived i❑ the
course of yesterday. Nothing has been heard of
CAUSSIDIERE since he quitted the Assembly on
Saturday morning.
General CAVAIGNAC, in reply to the request pre-
sented to him on behalf of CHARLES ALBERT for per-
mission that Marshal BUGEAUD should take the com-
mand of the Piedmontese army, stated that he could
enter into no engagements in the matter until he had
received the answer of Austria to the offer of media-
tion.

General CAVAIGNAC has, it is said, returned a posi-
tive refusal to the demand of M. TOMMASSEO, for
French intervention in favour of Venice.
The 2lioniteur contains the decree for the postal
reform, which is to commence on the Ist of January,
1849. The postage, whether prepaid or not, will be
the same. Registered letters will be subject to
double postage. Postage stamps will be issued in the
same manner as in England, and may or may not be
used at the option of the writer. The privilege of
franking will not be abolished. According to the
terms of the decree, the law will not include foreign
letters.:
In
.the sitting of the Assembly on Monday the
reading of the second report on the Constitution was
postponed, in consequence of the illness of M. AR-
MAND MARRAST.
M. CRESPEL LATOUCUE gave notice of the follow-
ing motion demanding inquiry :
" Whereas the decrees of June 24 and 26, 1848, do
not give and could not give to the head of the Executive
Power the right to suspend or to arbitrarily suppress
the liberty of the press, and as the laws of the state of
siege themselves do not in any case deprive citizens of
the guarantee of a regular trial, the National Assembly
declares that to the tribunals alone belongs the right,
even in the period of a state of siege, to punish offences
committed by the press."
In the course of the sitting the following letter from
the Mayor of Lisle was read to the Assembly :
" Lisle, Aug. 25, 1848.
"Citizen President,—Order having been grievously
troubled yesterday in this town, in consequence of the
measures rehicll. I had to take to subject the national
workshbps- to,the nigialskof task-work; and my own
person having Aten from the violence of the
workmen, not, possible for me to quit the post
which Government has confided to me until tranquillity
shall have been completely restored here. In conse-
quence, I find myself under the necessity of soliciting
a prolongation of the leave of absence which the National
Assembly has accorded me. I hope to be able to return
to Paris in a few days to resume my place in the Assembly,
Salut et fraternite.
• 4110 NET PULLET, Mayor of Lisle,
"Representative of the People."
Some curious statements were made in the course
of the sitting on Monday on the subject of the papers
found in the Tuileries in February. M. SENARD, the
Minister of the Interior, declared that although
some of those papers were at first shattered and de-
stroyed, the Government had, in the month of April,
taken steps for the preservation of those which re-
mained, and that they were now carefully sealed up
and deposited in the archives of the Republic. A
proposition was then brought forward by a Member,
to the effect that a Committee of the Assembly
should be appointed to examine the documents ; but
no resolution in that respect was definitively adopted.
In the course of the discussion M. TASCUEREAU ex-
plained that the documents and letters published by
him in the Revue Retrospective had been given to
him partly by M. LEDRU Rocusi, and partly by a
secretary in the department of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
During the last week 1,493 insurgents have been
tried, of whom 855 have been set at liberty, 612
transported, and 26 sent before the courts-martial.
Eight days ago the number of those transported ex-
ceeded by about 200 those set at liberty; now those
set at liberty exceed the two other classes by 15 or
20. The whole number set at liberty is 2,945; the
number of transported 2,735 ; and of those sent be-
fore courts-martial about 190.
It appears by official documents that the total cost
of the Ateliers Nationaux of Paris, up to the 23d of
June last, was 14,174,987 francs.
The Committee of the Assembly have approved of
the proposition of M. MONHOLD, for the deportation
cf the convicted insurgents to Algiers.
The accounts from the wine districts are satisfac •
tory, and the last advices from Algiers state that the
colony is perfectly tranquil.
The inauguration of the branch lines of the Great
Northern of France Railway from Lisle to Calais,
and to Diinkisk_o whi,'l4,,r.4)s‘3s4r2ine;`' "41`f1Fh cof
fixed for Sept. 2 for Calais, and Sept. 3 for Dunkirk.
These two towns are preparing fur the occasion grand
fetes, to which they expect to see many persons from
the English side of the Channel. The fetes will
begin at Calais on Saturday, the 2d, at ten in the
morning, and will terminate by a grand ball ; and
will begin the next day at Dunkirk at the same time.
The Northern of France Company, to render the
access to these two places easy to every one, has
considerably lowered its fares for the occasion. The
Northern Railway Company has just paid, by anti
cipation, to the treasury of the Republic a sum of
3,000,000 f., which, by the terms of the late arranges
tnent, need not be paid before three months.
On Wednesday the ci- devant Comte DE ST. AI,
DEGENDE had the misfortune to shoot the ci-devant
Prince DE BEAUVEAU dead on the spot. They were
out together in a boat on the lake of Mareuil shoot-
ing wild fowl.

It appears from the weekly report of the Prefect of
Police that Paris continues to improve. There
are more foreigners at present in Paris than there
have been since February.
PARIS BOURSE—TUESDAY, Aug, 29.
THREE &CLOM—There has been a fall at the Bourse
to-day, without any exact reason to be given for it. Ac-
' cording to some, the Austrians had refused the French
and English intervention, but the most probable reason
is, the cessation of the " discouuting," which has been
going on for some days, and the near approach of the
settling day, at which it is supposed a great quantity of
stock will be delivered. For the Account, the Frtiench
Three per Cent., have gone down 25c.; Five per Cents.
have fallen If'. 50c.; the Loan has fallen 2f. Fur Money,
the Three per Cents. have fallen 76c.; Five per Cents.
have fallen lf.; Loan, lf.; Bank of Franco Snares have
fallen 10f.; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted. Spanish
Funds not quoted. Roman and Itethtchild'i
Eeeeips
daare
sthe
25 32i; same- as yesterday. Exchl7ange ou London (30
y ), ditto (90 days), 25
BUSINESS DONE IN .FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIM
LONDON STOCK-E.XCHANGE, Atm. 29.
Boulogne and Amiens, s%—Orleans and Bourdeatut
—Paris and Lyons, s—Ditto, 414—Tours and Nantes, 2.

BELGIUM.
The following official contradiction of M. LEDItU
ROLLIN'S representation of the conduct of Belgium
in the Risquons-tout affair appeared in the Moniteur
Beige of Monday :
" In the sitting of the National Assembly of the 25th,
M. Ledru Rollin expressed him.,elf in the following
terms respecting the Risquons-tout affair:—` In Belgium
assembled the majority of the Ministers of the fallen
Government, and they entered into a conspiracy, with.
out meeting with any impediment on the part of the
(Belgian) administrwicn. English vessels appeared in
the Scheldt, and threatened to seize en Antwerp, at the
first movement in the country. I ask if that affair of Bel-
gium, which appeared ,o inexplicable, is not sufficiently
explained; and, above all, I ask whether the Belgian Go-.
vernment, having a perfect knowledge of the facts, has
ever forwarded to the French one any complaint on that
subject? It never has.' We cannot refrain (continues the
Moniteur page) from flnswinz
_the complete Ric?r-
s•The alleged silence of the 13slgian cabinet with
regard to the circumstances which preceded and accom-
panied the invasion of the algian territory. That is
the first error, one altogether inexplicable in the mouth
of an ex-Member of the Provisional Government. So
early as the 10th of March (the invasion occurred on the
99th) the Belgian Cabinet complained to the Provisional
Government of the plot :which was hatching in Paris.
These frequently-renewed complaints were repeated
more warmly than ever at the time of the Risquons-tout
skirmish. M. d'lloffschinidt, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, rendered an account of these complaints in his
i
Gentlemen, we have mstrahnicsessptoeetchhe'lTrOvisional Government
speech in the senate on the 31st March. The following
forwarded
an ex t r arcetmfor
of the Republic, and that Government has given us the
formal assurance that it is a complete stranger to those
ridiculous manoeuvres. In the last conference which
took pace between the Prince de Ligne (the
Belgian ambassador) and M. de Lamartine, the
latter asserted anew the non• participation of the Provi-
sional Government in those acts, and fully acknowledged
our right to repel by force such attempts. In on of
the conferences with our Ambassador M. de Lamartine
begged of him to give the Belgian Government the most
positive and formal assurances of the intention of the
Provisional Government not to make in Belgium or else-
where a republican propaganda. I have received the.
same assurances from the French Charge d'Affaires, M.
Peruier.' It clearly results from this official document
(adds the Moniteur) that not only the Belgian Govern-
ment made complaints, but that the French one frankly
acknowledged the justice of them. No one imagined
thee that five months later a fable respecting English
vessels in the Scheldt, or onarchist conspiracy in
under investigation at
Brussels, would be set forth in order to justify a
necessary to deny that
•as hatched in Brussels by the ex-Minis-
ters—a conspiracy of which the Belgian Government
ae therc Ani
cons
nap tli
a.ece r;pu 3%. assizes, demainlsno i
was the complaisant spectator, if °"t the official protec-
tor ? If the first part of the charge is absurd, the second
is both odious and ridiculous. Belgium has been at all
times a hospitable country for all unfortunates. The
shelter it affords now to the Ministers of the Monarchy
of 1830 it granted formerly tu the men of the convention
and of the empire. And that fact was recently recalled,
in terms as dignified as kind, by M. Quinette, the Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary in Brus.sels of the French republic.
—(Here M. Quinette s words are quoted.)—That hos-
pitality, in some respects traditional, will be practised
by Belgium with the utmost loyalty, without ever al..
lowing it to be turned to the favouring the plots of men
of disorder, or the designs of any kind of conspirators.
Every insinuation contrary to the above declaration is
not worthy of being discussed. We repel it as a ca-
lumny."