The Sun. — 1848-10-03 (London, England)

FRASER.  We rejoice to find Fraser coming forward to vindicate the much-abused Provisional Government of the French Republic of February from the accusations which the reactionaires in the Assembly, headed by Thiers and Odilon Barrot, have brought against it, with the double object of ruining their political opponents, and of producing such a state of anarchy and distrust as to render a republic impossible. In an elaborate review of the " Report on the French Insurrection in June"—a report which trespassed far beyond the bounds of the inquiry confided to the committee ; Fraser boldly declares that the real objects of the attack of the reactionary and monarchical party—the men of the Provisional Government— stand on higher ground than they did before. He thus sums up the marvels which the Provisional Government, or rather M. de Lamartine, who was the soul of the Provisional Government, accomplished by moral means alone : " Without an army, with no other force than their moral influence, these men succeeded in creating some kind of order out of such complete disorder ; and without shedding a drop of blood, or infringing on the liberties of one of their fellow-citizens, by their welltimed concessions, kept hostile factions in comparative repose, until a more legal authority could be substituted for theirs. For these services they are entitled to the gratitude of their country, whatever may have been their legislative acts. Most of their decrees have been revoked one by one, and almost the only remaining vestige of their administration is the abolition of the pain of death for political offences : but this is of itself a title of glory, when we consider under what circumstance it was pronounced. It is, thanks to them, that France can point with pride to the bloodless annals of the first days of the Republic. We may also safely affirm that the triumph of order over anarchy in the late insurrection was mainly owing to an admirable measure of the Provisional Government,—the establishment of the Garde Mobile, whereby twenty thousand deserters from the cause of the Barricades were enlisted in the defence of order. The toleration accorded to certain men, the support given to certain clubs, are in vain brought forward as proofs of guilty connivance, when, by the very documents before us, we see how impossible it would have been to oppose them. The Provisional Government could as easily have replaced Louis Philippe on his throne, as have closed one of those clubs, whose armed bands could dictate laws to the seeming dictators. The Republican cause, during eighteen years of conspiracies and hazardous attempts, had recruited adherents, whose demands, it was evident, would become a source of inconceivable danger whenever the day of triumph arrived. These desperate allies could not be discarded with impunity on the morrow of victory ; and had the imprudent experiment been tried, there can be now little doubt as to what would have been the result."  This is excellent, and it is true ; and the suffrage of Fraser more than counterbalances the pigmy assaults of those who in the English reactionary press, in obedience to the inspirations of the Tory aristocracy, write as if cet excellent Aberdeen were still in office and could reward them for doing the dirty work of the clique at Claremont. The other political article in the Fraser .of this month is entitled " United States' Aggrandisements and Projects on the side of Mexico." The writer of this paper shows, by the most irrefragable documentary evidence that the designs of the United States on Mexico have been of long standing; that, as far back as 1805, a project was broached for the conquest of Mexico, and that the different Governments of the United States have steadily kept the object in view ever since. " The Convent Witch" is an elaborate review of Meinhold's recently published work, " Sidonia von Borcke, die Klosterhexe." We have also reviews of Harold and of Amymone, and biographies of Major-General Sir John Hunter Littler, and of Hector Berlioz, the great French composer. " The Inundation of Pest" is a Hungarian romance, of which we have the two first chapters; and " Yeast" is continued. One of the pleasantest articles in this number of Fraser is entitled " Publishers and Authors," and is full of amusing gossip about Dryden and Tonson, Lintot and Pope, Cave and Johnson, and in fact about all the celebrated publishers and authors who flourished in the first half of the last century.  SUICIDE by a