The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-16 00:00:00

"A SEIZURE BY WEEK.

"Tl-e 17oi 2. du Peuple was seized yesterday. The in-
criminated articles are:—

" 1. An article commencing with these words,—'Acts
of the counter-revolution—the proconsulate—and finish-
ing thus :—The government will end like a bravache de
corned;e in the midst of hooting& and hissing.:
"2. An article, commencing by these words:—'Let
all hesitating minds look about and learn. The danger
is not above but below;' and finishing thus, 'Below, re-
spect for law—above, conspiracy.'
" The Government has resolved upon killing the Voix
du People, as it has already killed thi ee or four Repub-
lican organs. Baste! The Voix du People has yet three
weeks to live. Three weeks ! in time of revolution it is
on age! more is not necessary to save the Republic, and
to render a coup d'etat impossible."
An electoral meeting of democratic Socialist elec-
tors of Paris was held on Thursday evening. The
police did not interfere, and the proceedings passed
off in an orderly manner.
The demccratic Socialist committee intend to
bring forward as their candidate in the Hautes Py-
renees M. DEvinnE, son of M. DEvunr, condemned
by the High Court of Justice of Versailles ; in the
Ariege, M. PILHES, brother of one of the persons
condemned; in the Haute-Loire, M. F. MaIGNE.,
brother of another condemned person ; and in the
Nievre, M. C. GA➢IBON, brother of the M. GAMBOE
who was condemned.

M. LOUIS BLANC has addressed tha following let-
ter to the editor of the Patrie :
" Sir,—You have stated that a let'er of mine, which
arrived in Paris on Friday, advised a manifestation.
This, sir, is completely false, and the audacity of the
vilirma•ions which I found on this point in the Napokon
and the Patrie would be enough to confound one, if ot,e
could be at all astonished at anything on the part of
certain persons.
. . _

I shall tell you, sir, what I think of an inzeute. I
think that you and the others have, at this moment, in-
terest in exciting one, and that it will serve wonderfully
the odious sy:tem of provocation practised in this re-
gard towards the people.—l have the honour, &c.,
"Louis BLANC."
M. Tumour' has arrived in Paris as Ambassador
from Greece to the French Republic.
The Prefect of the department of the Haute Vienne
has suspended from the exercise of their functions 50
communal schoolmasters out of 175 in that depart-
ment. The Attorney-General of Bellac and his
substitute, together with three justices of the peace,
have been dismissed at the recommendation of the
Prefect.
The steam-frigates Gomer and Asmodee have been
ordered to proceed to Belle Isle, to receive on board
the insurgents of June remaining there, and to convey
them to Bona, in Algeria.
The discussion on the Education Bill occupied the
Assembly during the whole of the sitting of Thurs-
day, and was again adjourned.
Intelligence has been received from Smyrna, stating
that the French fleet had been forced to put back
there in consequence of stress of weather. It again
set sail for the Piraeus on the 234 January.
The following are the principal items in the weekly
return of the Bank :

Francs.
Specie in Paris ... 326,787,918
Ditto in branches 138,795,177
Bills in Paris portfolio 40,492,358
Ditto in branches 67,838,531
Bills lying unpaid i❑ Paris ... 1,683,839
Ditto in branches... 1,573,199
Bank Notes in circulation in Paris 313,880,000
Ditto in branches... 71,493,300
Credit to Treasury ... 83,217.969
Private credit accounts ... 74,329,232
Ditto in branches ... ... 24,946,231
The specie has increase upwards of two millions
more.
The specie in the Bank coffers is 465.383,276
Bank notes in circulation... ... 464,718,975

Surplus of sreeie over notes ... 664,301
At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, M.
LAFOuR put a question to the Ministry on the sub-
ject of the treatment of M. PROUDHON.
M. FERDINAND BARROT, Minister of the In-
terior, replied that the Government pleaded guilty,
but only of indulgence and weakness. A man had
been legally condemned for incessant attacks against
the institutions of the country, and against every
element of society. Proceedings against him were
ordered by an almost unanimous vote of the Consti-
tuent Assembly, end he had been actually condemned
by the public sentiment before his legal condemnation.
Sentenced to three years' imprisonment, M. PROUDHON
should have been removed to a prison situate out of
Paris. Instead of that he was allowed to remain in
Paris to communicate with his family, friends, and
adherents ; and, strange to say, although in the
hands of justice, to continue his incendiary pro-
paganda. M. BARROT had thought proper to put an
end to such a scandal, and carry into effect
the prison regulations towards M. PROUDHON.
The latter was not, however, placed in solitary con-
finement. He was merely forbidden to communicate
with his adherents out of doors, but he could freely
circulate in the prison, and visit his companions. He
had been what is called consigned during forty-eight
hours. He is now in the Conciergerie, closely
watched, deprived of all intercourse with the external
anarchists, but allowed to receive his wife and family.
BOYESSET proposed a vote of censure on the
Government for their treatment of M. PROUDHON,
which was rejected by a majority cf 434 to 169.
PARIS BOURSE, FEB. 15.—Latest Prices:—Five per
Cents., 95f. 35c.; Three per Cents., 57f. Soc.; Bank Ac-
tions, 2,340 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 15.

Boulogne and Amiens, 7 e div. —East Indian, 3 %—Paris
and Rouyn, 22—Sambre and Meuse, 2%.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived. Their
contents are unimportant. The 10th being Sunday
the Bolsa was closed.

PORTUGAL.

The Count de THOMAR has introduced a most strin-
gent measure for the repression of the liberty of the
Press.

On the 6th Count LAVRADIO moved in the Cham-
ber of Peers that since the Chamber would not admit
his interpellation, it should at least declare its indig-
nation at the introduction of the QUEEN'S name into
the affidavit made by Count THOMAR in the affair of
the Morning Post. His motion was negatived by
the majority, Count TROMAR having taken care to
secure the good behaviour of the spectators by re-
inforcing the guard at the door, and filling one-half
of the gallery with municipal soldiers in plain clothes.
The scene which took place in the Chamber of
Peers on the sth, a short account of which appeared
in The Sun of yesterday, beggars description. In the
sitting of the previous Friday Count LAVRADIO had
addressed a question to the President of the
Council (Count TROMAR) respecting the intro-
duction, by the latter, of the QUEEN'S name
into the affidavit made by him in the suit insti-
tuted against the Morning Post. Count TROMAR
replied that he was not prepared at that moment
to answer, and, after some conversation it was
agreed, with the tacit consent of the Chamber, that
the question, or interpellation, as it is called here,
should take place on the sth. An entry to that effect
as made in the Acts, or Diary, and the President,
on closing the sitting, gave out, as the order of the
day for that of the .sth inst., the interpellation of
Ceunt LAVRADIO. When the appointed day arrived,
the galleries of the Chamber were thronged with
spectators. The President declared the sitting
open, and before Count LAVRADIO had time to make
his interpellation, Viscount LABORINE rose to move
that before it could be admitted the Chamber should
lor! consulted as to its admissibility. The President
of the Chamber said that such was the standing rule
of that house. This was denied by the Opposition and
affirmed by the Ministerial members, the altercation
all the while growing warmer and warmer, and cer-
tain indications of displeasure from the galleries be-
coming more and more unmistakeable, until at last
Count THOMAR said, " What the Opposition requires I

is to be well pounded down, and it shall
he by me." All at once there burst forth
from the crowded galleries an 'filt4 of yelling,
hooting, hissing, and stampin • with cries
of " Off, off" (fora, fora), " shtqpi" (pouca
vergonha ), and similar expressions cf
In a moment all was tumult and confusion ; all the
Boers rose from their seats, many persons ran out of
the house in terror, expecting violence and bloodshed,
while to the cries of " Urdu," addr6ssed by fif. y
voices at once to the galleries, the refractory rublic
responded by roaring out, "Keep in order yourselves
below there." In vain did the President argue, im-
plore, threaten ; the spectators were not to be paci-
fied, and it was only after they had bawled to their
heart's content that the noise gradually died sway
and order was restored. The finale of the strange
scene war, that it having been put to the vote
whether the interpOlation should be allowed or not, it
was decided that it should not by 27 votes against 22.