The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-05 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

By the Peninsular and Oriental steam-ship Tagus,
which arrived at Southampton yesterday, we have
received intelligence from Lisbon to the 29th ult.
The tranquillity of Lisbon had been uninterrupted.
The dismissal of the Spanish Minister from England
had created a 'great sensation in Lisbon.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

DISSOLUTION OP THE ATELIERS
NATIONAUX.— ABANDONMENT
OF THE RAILWAY PROJECT.
We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The lifoniteur contains the following decree dis-
solving the Ateliers Nationaux, for the appearance of
which we had been prepared by the announcement
made by General CAVAIGNAC to the National As-
sembly during the sitting of the day preceding :
" IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE.
" The President of the Council of Ministers charged
with the Executive power, determines—
" Art. 1. The Ateliers Nationaux of the department
of the Seine are suppressed.
" Art. 2. Succour will continue to be given to la-
bourers without work, under the surveillance of the
mayors of the different arrondissements.
" Art. 3. The same measures will be successively ap-
plied to the Ateliers Nationaux of the different places of
the territory of the Republic.
" Art. 4. The Minister of Public Works is charged
with the execution of the present decree.
" The President of the Council charged with
the Executive Government,
" E. CAVAIGNAC.
" The Minister of Public Works, Recurt.
" Paris, July 3, 1848."
The following five decrees are to be proposed to
the Assembly by M. GOUDCHACX, the Finance.
Minister :

. loan of 150 millions, concluded between the State
and the Bank of France.
" 2. The repayment of the deposits in the savings.
banks in rentes at the price of the present day.
"3. The reimbursement of bons du tresor issued before
the 24th of February on the same terms.
"4. Modifications proposed in the droits d'engistre-
ment of donations and successions.
" 5. A loan of five millions of francs to the Builders'
Society."
,The announcement of the financial policy of the
new Ministry seems to have given great satisfaction,
with the exception of that portion of it which relates
to the repurchase of the railways by the State. M.
GOUDCHAUI, while announcing that it was not his in-
tention to carry out the project of his predecessors for
the immediate purchase of the railways by the State,
declared that in his opinion the State had an un-
doubted right to expropriate the railways, should the
public necessities call for such a measure. While
on the one hand, the Debates, the Siecle, and the
other organs of the railway interest, express their
dissatisfaction at the admission by the Finance Minis-
ter of the existence of any right on the part of the
State to expropriate the railways under any circum-
stances, the supporters of the late Government attack
M. GOUDCHAUX with much severity for not at once
proceeding to the repurchase of the railways.
On this subject the National says—
" The Government does not contest the principle of
the repurchase of the railways presented by the former
Minister of Finance ; it merely postpones its applica-
tion. We must frankly avow that on this point it has
been wanting iu decision and firmness ; the course it has
adopted is but a compromise between a principle, the
justice of which it admits, and the feelings of a certain
part of the Assembly, and, as is always the case on such
occasions, it misses its end in both cases. It compromises
the principle by deserting the application of it, and
equally endangers the fate of the companies by allowing
the dread of expropriation to hang suspended over their
heads, and thus paralyses their means of action. In pre-
sence of a future of such uncertainty, how can those com-
panies who stand in need of a loan venture to contract
it? How can they feel authorised in making another
call on their shareholders? And this is not all. The
principal argument brought forward by the companies
against the repurchase, was the respect due to contracts
entered into by the State. If they are to be respected in
favour of companies they should be equally so in fa-
vour of the State. Conaegnently any company which

rcay be bound by its engagements to pay nineteen mil-
lions into the Treasury, ought to do so. And the same
with many other engagements. The statement of the
Minister of the Finance is completely silent on this im-
portant point. A great number of the companies are,
according to their own avowal, completely unable to
proceed with their undertakings, and yet it is absolutely
indispensable that the lies should be brought to a ter-
mination. Of two things one must be done, either the
State must come forward and assist those companies, or
they must throw up their contracts. In the first case we
cannot anderstand that they can do so, as they pretend
not to have sufficient funds to carry out a principle
which is so just and at the same time so profitable; and
in the second, it would be to return by a roundabout
and brooked path to the very Bill which is now laid
aside. We, therefore, cannot but consider the abandon.
ment of the projected repurchase of the railways as un-
justifiable both in point of principle and in its practical
consequences."
The inquiry into the causes of the late insurrection
is still continued, and every day revelations are made
which tend to increase the number of those impli-
cated.

The Constitationnel says—
" It is difficult to form an idea as to the termination
or the result of the examination into the affair of the
late insurrection. Never was any judicial inquiry so
complicated or so extensive. Besides the individuals
arrested during the combat, and which amount in number
to about 8,000, there are more than 2,000 who are more
or less implicated as accomplices, and against whom
proceedings will be taken ; and as the examination pro-
ceeds, fresh revelations may increase this number, so
that it is impossible to say where it will stop. There is
nothing, however, surprising in this'statement, when it
is remembered that upwards of 40,000 insurgents were
engaged in the lamentable and guilty acts of the three
days, either in erecting barricades, fighting against the
armed force, or in committing isolated acts of assassina-
tion.
"The difficulties of the examinations are, moreover,
increased by various circumstances. A great number
of men taken behind the barricades with their hands
blackened with powder have since been able to remove
many of the apparent proofs against them, and the pre-
cis veriaux hastily taken at first may not always be suf-
ficient to establish their identity. On the other hand
the witnesses, are not easily found again, and many ob-
stacles arise to the prompt and complete revelation of
the truth. To these elements of uncertainty may be
added the groat Dumber; of recommendations as to cha-
racter emanating from the most respectable persons, and
particularly from representatives of the Assembly, and
which, we regret to say, are not always given with that
circumspection which on such an occasion is so im-
portant.
" In presence of those inevitable embarrassments, the
delegates of the military authority redouble their zeal
and activity. The central committee, which sits at the
Palais de Justice, is occupied incessantly in arranging
the reports of the sub-committees; -but it is not ex-
pected that their labours can be completed before the
end of this week."
General CAVAIGNAC announced his Lintention of
raising the state of siege of Paris yesterday.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN is accused of being an
agent of Russia, and it is said there is ample evidence
to bring the charge home to him.
Some disturbances occurred at Mulhouse on the
27th ult., when the late events in Paris became known
there. Some operatives employed in the commercial
workshops in the town struck for higher wages. The
authorities, however, adopted all the necessary pre-
cautions, and the National Guards having turned out
in considerable numbers, patrolled the town, and dis-
persed some rioters, who were shouting " Vive Na-
poleon I" One of them having resisted the guards,
received a bayonet wound, which has endangered his
life.

The charge against M. EMILE DE GIRARDIR is
that he, as an agent of the Russian Government,
endeavoured to produce disturbances in France, and
it is said that there is in possession of the prosecution
evidence amply sufficient to lead to his conviction.
The servant of the Archbishop of PARIS, who was
wounded by the side of his master, died of his
wounds on Sunday.
General BEDEAU has, it is said, refused to accept
the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. M. JULEs BASTIDE
continues, therefore for the present to discharge the
duties of Foreign Minister.
The celebrated CHATEAUBRIAND is at the point of
death.

It is said that M. DUMP; intends to propose that
General CATAIGNAC shall be, appointed President of
the Republic for 15 months. General CAVAIGNAC is
adopting the most energetic measures to prevent the
renewal of any outbreak in Paris. The army of the
Alps is on its march to Paris, and the first brigade is
close to the capital, where an encampment is to be
formed of 40,000 men. On this subject we find the
following in the Constitutionnel :
" The measures taken by the Government to prevent a
renewal of the disorders which have recently afflicted the
capital are the subject. of general attention. The fol-
lowing is the information we have gathered on this point,
and the exactitude of which, we think, may be relied on.
"The third division of intantry of the army of the
Alps, commanded by General Magnan, continues its
movement on Paris; the first brigade, under General
Regnault, is now at only a short distance from the ca-
pital. This mass of eleven battalions will form a per-
manent camp near St. Maur, a position which will be
highly advantageous, as it will allow them to act in the
rear of the insurrection should it again raise its head.
" The troops in Paris will be divided into seven bri •
gades, and confided to as many generals. There will be
in addition two generals of division invested with the
command, one of the right, and the other of the left
bank of the Seine. It is said that General Neumayer,
so well known for the firmness he displayed during the
disturbances at Lyons, will be appointed to one of these
commands.
" All these forces, with the cavalry and artillery at-
tached to them, will form an effective body of about
40,000 men, and will bear the name of the ' Army of
Paris,' and will be placed under the immediate com-
mand of the Minister of War, in order that every possible
celerity shall be secured to the transmission and execu-
tion of the orders on which may depend the safety not
of Paris alone, but of the whole of France."
The same journal recommends the formation of a
military depot and arsenal at the fort of Mount
Valeria, in the west of Paris, in order that in case of
an emeute, the defenders of the Republic and of so-
ciety may be certain to have an ample supply of am-
munition. The present arsenal is at Vincennes, the
communications between which and the capital are,
in cases of *mute, invariably cut off by the Faubourg
St. Antoine.
Dr. NEREALIT has analysed some of the brandy said
to have been poisoned, and has found it to consist of
a small quantity.of spirit largely diluted with water,
and coloured by a strong infusion of tobacco. The
qualities of this mixture, which is ordinarily sold in
the low spirit shops, of Paris, are most deleterious,
producing for the time mental aberrations.
The project for the new Constitution will, it is
said, undergo several important alterations. Already
in the Bureaux many modifications have 'been pro-
posed and carried.
The gardens of the Tuileries were opened to the
public yesterday for the first time since the insur-
rection.
The National Assembly met at two o'clock.
The order of the day was the ballot for a questor
of the Assembly, in the place of the late General
NEGRIEIt. The operation, which lasted upwards of
an hour, gave the following result : -
Number of voters 709
Absolute majority 355
M. Laboissiere obtained ... 255
General Lebreton 205
General Lafontaine
Col. d'Hauteville
No member having obtained the requisite majority, a
new ballot was ordered to, be proceeded to. This was
accordingly done, and then, in order to save time, the
urns were taken to one of the bureaux to be examined.
M. Corbon presented the report of the committee on
labour relative to a proposition presented by M. Alcan
for the purpose of encouraging associations amongst
the working classes. The committee, in accord with
the author of the proposition, had made some changes
in the articles. "The moment was now come," the re-
port said, " in which the Assembly ought to seriously
take into consideratifin this important question of the
working classes." The body (the workmen) must be
made to understand that the ideas which had been lately
brought forward against competition in labour were
altogether false ; it was an utter impossibility that the
labouring classes could obtain employment' with-
out being subjected to the competition which
a healthy state of society must inevitably produce. The
Hon. Gentleman concluded by reading the articles of the
Bill in question, which grants a credit of 3,000,000 francs
to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, to be ap-
plied as encouragement to associations of workmen,
established for industrial or agricultural purposes, with
the approbation of the Government; should any disputes
arises amongst the associations, they should be referred
to the councils of prud'hommes.
Ordered to be discussed after the Bills presented the
day before by the Minister of Finance.
M. Carnot, Minister of Public Instruction, presented
a Bill demanding 10,000 f. for the re-impressment of the
scientific works of Laplace.—Referred to the bureaux.
M. Benard presented a report on the Bill granting
2bol. a year to each of the Gardes Mobiles who had been
decorated in consequence of their gallant conduct during
the insurrection of June. The Committee, he said, to
which this measure had been referred, fully approved
of it.

The President announced the following to be the re-
sult of the second ballot fur the ullice of Questor:—
Number of votes ... ... ... 696
Absolute majority .. ... ... 349
General Lebreton obtained ... 317
M. Laboissiire . ... ... 307
General Lafontaine ... ... 71
No Member having obtained the required majority, it
was necessary to proceed to a ballot between the two
first candidates only. The ballot
.was still going on
when post hour arrived. _

(Left sitting.)
At a meeting of the supporters of the Government
held on Monday evening in the Palais Royal, M.
ARMAND MARRAST, Mayor of Paris, in the chair, it
was determined to propose to the Assembly that Ge-