The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-12 00:00:00

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(From the Courier Francais of Wednesday.)
One of the contributors to this journal, who is at the
present making a tour in *the provinces, has sent us the
following statement from Lyons, dated the 7th of Septem-
ber :—" I saw Lyons when it bore the recent marks of
civil war and of the deplorable days of April. Our civili-
-ation must certainly have advanced to an extraordinary
dCq „. for already these marks are almost entirely effaced.
I asceitd'ed Croix-Rousse, I visited Fourvieres—all
those fortified monni'S7jns which girt this manufacturing city
like a circle of fire. The are certainly a few houses da-
maged, some of them having siL;:ir roofs entirely destroyed,
but in no part is there visible any Wig like the ruin which
generally accompanies the siege of a large city. The
greatest havoc appears to have been committed near the
Pont Lafayette, about the faubourg de la Guillotier. One
can perceive that the mine has been used, and that the
petards have done their work in destroying doors and blowieg
up houses. However, the most material part of the destruc-
tion is being repaired. Though the persons bolding property
in Lyons have been left by Government without assistance and
without indemnity, they have nevertheless taken on themselves
the business of effacing the vestiges of those deplorable days.
Lyons affords no cause for despair, in a physical point of
view. It will in the course of time repair its disasters.
But what is its moral situation ? Have the days of April
decided, by a bloody solution, the old and difficult-to-be-
settled quarrel of master and workman ? Ask the manu-
facturers, and thsy tell you that it has,—that their position
before this municipal battle was insupportable,—that the
society of the Mutuallistes imposed laws upon them,—and
that it was impossible any longer to bear with the insolence
of those men, encouraged by journals devoted to the sole
object of exasperating the quarrel. Before the days of
April (say they) the workman acted like the master—im
posed on us the law which he himself had made. Now we
conduct business more amicably with him ; it is rarely the
case that we fail in coming to a good understanding toge-
ther. Notwithstanding this, if you look to the political
aspect of Lyons—if you regard the physiognomy of the
workmen, you will discover new symptoms which announce
that the contest is only suspended until favourable circum-
stances shall arise for the renewal of the conflict. There is in
Lyons an immense display of military force, and a still greater
display of police force. When you arrive by the steam-boat,
the port of disembarkation is immediately filled by gendarmes
and police officers, who seize your passports, examine with
ssempulous attention the characteristic signs of your &scrip-
dm, and even go so far as to put questions to you. If you
walk through the town you find it full of soldiers. In the
night namerous patrols parade the streets in all directions.
Finally .assu perceive detached forts, and all this is for the
purpose of ,restraining—what ?—a population of workmen,
a class of peoisle entirely cosmopolite, who might go, car-
rying their inties.try along with them, to Switzerland or to
Italy, and who afe not specially bound to the territory of
Lyons. It is, then, only to the citizens, to the peaceable
population of Lyons,' to that population which is bound to
the territory, that-these ,detached forts can prove terrible.
Yet the Ministry and the Prefect say, and say so with
truth, that this class is enOrely devoted to the Govern-
ment. For the last two months the manufacturing interest
has not been so actively employed as it was a year ago.
This arises from several causes. In the first place, this
want of employment may be said to b,is produced by great
increase in the price of the raw materials, and of silk,
the value of which has lately received an augmentation
of 30 per cent. Then the harvest has entirely failed
in the south. There has been at the sane time a sort
of monopoly effected by a Piedmontese liaise, which,
having the controul of the market, has suddenly
raised prices. To these causes, others may be added. The
United States of America used to take a great quantity
of silk from Lyons, but the financial crisis which that
country has undergone has had the effect of causing her to
suspend her orders for the present. The situation of Spain,
essentially a consuming country, has given a blow difficult to
be withstood to the Lyonese manufactures. A very great
number of manufactories have suspended work, and conse-
quently the workman suffers great privations. He com-
plains—but the sad and bloodylesson which he has received
keeps him quiet. Seine of the workmen expatriate them-
selves. As for the master-manufacturers, they are suffi-
ciently attached to Lyons by their interests. I do not
know of any important houses having left this city—the
focus of so much industry. Any statement which may
have appeared in the journals different from this, is wrong.
Money is abundant at ' Lyons—credit is perfectly re-esta-
blished : looking only at the exterior of things, all seems
peaceable. In an early letter I will let you know what is
the state of opinion here, and the course pursued by the
different military, administrative, and municipal authorilies."
(From the Temps of Wednesday.)
The Quotidienne, in its paper of yesterday, contains the
following news :—" It is said that Baron Werther last
Saturday received directions to send a note to the French
Government, requiring that the Prussian Consul at Bay-
onne should be restored to the exercise of his functions.
The note is drawn up in the most peremptory terms, and
appears to have been prepared in the private Cabinet of the
King of Prussia, who has felt the depriving of one of his
agents of his functions without notice, and without any
proofs against him, as a personal offence." We take the
statement to be true, but the Quotadienne, whose news is
drawn from so pure a source, will doubtless not fail also
to inform us of the reply of the French Government.
(From the &winches des Pyrenees of Wednesday.)
The following news has been sent us from the frontier,
dated the 3d of September. It is said that Don Carlos
yesterday traversed the high road to Villabona, eomingfrom
Navarre, and directing his course towards the coast. It
is also said, and we believe there is no doubt of the fact,
that yesterday the Carlist Custom-house officers of Oyar-
zun seized and burned the galley commanded by Laris, and
belonging to Sieur Zeberio d'Alaun, at a very short dis-
tance from Irun. Two families from Madrid, who were in
the galley, have returned to Oyarzun. The conductor and
his mules, seven or eight in number, have been carried into
the montains by the Carlists.