The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-28

been taken provide for the perfect security of that
colony He then entered into detail Of the
taken guaranty the security Of the frontiers and to
the Of Algeria, well as of the distribution
of arms made to tho national guard. The number of
muskets delivered to that force amounted to 4460s0;
Paris alone had received upwards of 100 900 You
know citizens, continued NJ. Arago, whence came the
innumerabe bayonets which the 10th of April
rolled like avalanches from all points Of Paris towards
the Hotel de Vile to defend order and liberty. loud
appause They from the arsenas of the republic
which had given arms to ALL for the national guards in
uniform and in blouse prese nted themselves with equal
ardor to say the emeue On passe pdsr Renewed
applause The minister then continued to review the
acts of his administration and concluded that part of
his expose by presenting statement of the forces
Of the country The republic he said is able pre-
sent to its enemies, should any appear eeeps force
Of So 900 and 5000 cdrai y, and population all
ready to take up TO defend its Independence Gap
pause.) The minister then proceeded to give
count of his acts dd interim Minister Of Marine.
The Assembly received with repeated marks of appro-
baton the passage in his report relative the suppress
sion Of Jogging in the navy but the fatigued and
remarks scarcely audible He concluded by assuring
the Assembly that the republic might rely with conf
dence its navy for in any combats it
might have to sustain in support Of the honor of its
flag. loud appause)
THE REPORT ON PUBLIC WORKS
M. MARIE, Minister of Public Works, next assembled
the tribune, and read short report. When the
luton burst out, he observed the country under
An immense mass of railway and other shares weighed
the money market and impeded every kind of bust
state Of things in fact existed which had
y stopped manufactures, had checked all money trans
actions had parayzed credit and thrown vast Of
the population out of employment The provisional go
vernment, seeing this, found themselves called on
establish national workshops in order to afford
of living to the poor classes To supply work for
thousands was by no means an easy matter but by
ergy and the government had succeeded
in their efforts The creation Ind of nation
al workshops were the object of many criticisms. 1t
said that the work done in these workshops of
utility and that the wOrkmen had adopted habits of
dleness but he the minister) could not be sensible
to these objections, for he knew what noble and
shrinking misery the funds destined to the workshops
had relieved After all however, the question was not
whether the system adopted the best possible for
the employment Of workmen. That was the great
question of the future and he had only to occupy him
self at that moment with the present. What he had
done for the to address instructions to the
engineers des and to the commissa-
ries in the departments to begin work all points at
once. He had endeavored to establish the greatest
possible number of national workshops and works on
canals had been also undertaken. He turned his at
tenton to the administrative system of the different
branches of the service Having only provisional
authority, he could not think of changing the princ
pie on which that system was based Radical reform
could only be undertaken in calm times but,
thelcss he had suppresse division and two bureaux
he had taken the places given to favor which had
perhaps been purchased at the price of conscience
and he had endeavored to create q simple and more
the whole whilst securing the proper discharge of the
different branches of the service, effected saving of
nearly 12OOOoOfr. in the personnel alone. As to
the railways in of execution, by the funds
of the companies alone, he had need to speak
of them for he had no means of action and
no rights over them Measures respecting them
would be proposed to the Assembly, and it would
be for it to decide thereon.
| IMPORTANT REPORT FOREIGN POLICY OF FRANcr
HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS 1S4S.
NJ. De LAMARTINE (Minister of Foreign Afars) ther
read the report relative to his department in the fol
lowing words Citizen Representatives of the People
There are two kinds of revolutions in history those
of territory and those of ideas The former consist
in conquests and the overturning of natonates and
empires the latter in change of institutions To the
first is necessaryto the second most dear
peace the parent of labor and liberty Sometimes,
however, the notifications which a people operates
within its own breast become an occasion of Dispute.
ude and aggression against it the part Of other
tons or other governments, or become of irrta
ton and violent shocks amongst neishborng States,
law of nature wills that verites shall be contagious
and that ideas shall tend to find their level like
water. In this latter revolutions participate, SO
to speak in the two natures of the movements which
they have defined they pacific like revolutions of
ideas but they may be forced to have to
like revolutions OF territory their foreign attitude ought
to correspond with these two necessities in their stua
ton; they inoensive but still they exist their poll
cy may be character by these two d.
plomacy These considerations citizens ha from the
first moments Of the republic influenced the acts and the
words of the provisional in the ensemble
and in the details of the direction of foreign affairs t
wished and it declared that it wished for three things
the republic in France; the natural progress of the
liberal and democratic principle avowed. recognised
defended in its existence and in its right and in fine
peace, if honorable and peace possible
those conditions. (Cheers) We about to show
you what have BEEN from the day of the foundation of
the republic to this time the practical results of
this attitude of dsnterested dcvotedness to the demo-
cratic principle in Europe combined with this respect
for the eral involabilty ofterrtores natonaties
and COVER 1t Is the first time in history that
disavowed and purely spiritual principle has presented
itself to Europe, organised, armed and allied to another
principle, and that the political world trembes and
modes itself before the power not of nation but of
an idea In order to measure the power of that idea
in all its extent they must back to 1915 The hon
minister, however, begged the Assembly to dispense
with his going through all the historical details relating
to that PERIOD and permit him to bring forward at
1880 broke out. (Cres of Yes, yes.') He then
depicted the state of debasement in which the late
government had placed the country by its sys
tenn Of foreign policy; and then coming down to the
revolution Of 1s4s the honorable minister continued
thus Thus, after reign of eighteen years and
diplomacy that was supposed to have been able be-
it interested the dynasty delivered France
over to the republic more confined and hampercd by
treaties and limits more incapable of movement more
destitute of influence and external negotiation more
surrounded with and impossbities than at
epoch of the monarchy bound by the letter, often
violated against her the treaties of 1915 excluded
from oil the East the accomplish Of austria Italy
and Switseriand the eompiaisant hePmate Of England
Lisbon, nseiessiy compromised at Madrid obseguious
at Yienna, hmid at Berlin hated eat 81 Petersburgh
diseredited for bad faith at London deserted by the peo
pie of erery country her abuse of democratic prici
pies face to face with moral coalition rallied from
all quarters against France which left her aerna-
tive between making foreign against all or sink
ing into the subaltern position Of secondary power,
and jealousy watched by the whole European world
the republic, finding France in these conditions Of is
ISOLATION and inferorty, had two lines of conduct to
take to rise in arms against all the thrones and
territories of the continent, tear up the map Of
Europe declare war and send forth the democratic
principles sword in hand without knowing whether
IL would fall soil prepared to receive it, or
ground where IL would be browne in blood. The al
formative TO declare republican peace and French
fraternity to all nations to show respect for govern
ments laws characters manners, wills territories and
nations to raise very high, but with friendly hand
the principle Of independe and demo- through
out the rid, and say to nations without forcing
hurrying events. We de not arm the new idea with
fire and sword ike barbarians only arm it with
its own brilliancy. We impose no people forms or
limitations premature or perhaps incompatible with
their nature BIT u The liberty Of any part cf Europe
lights up from ours, PROSTATE nationaes, inraded
rights. legitimate aud depressed ndependenciss spring
up, constitute emseires by their hands, into
the democratic family Of nations aud make appeal 10
The defence Of rights, 10 the conformity Of institutions
then France is there Republican France is not only
lhe country she is the soldier Of The democratic prnci
pie for the future ~ (Cheers) IL is this last princi
Pile citizens that the provisional government thought
II their duty to adopt unanimously until the nation,
embodied in you should take in hand its destinies
What have been the results the continent of those