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    THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . Believine the e vents now transpiring in France to be of the _greatest importance to the working classes Of this country , we are anxious to make this _dep-, rt-Eeo . of < _* _urjournalfomethinu mce than the t . sua ! _abride _tnsnt of ' _visws : ' wa desire , in fact , to rank _xMstcy of the Republic , —this will explain why -his tpeek weeive several documents we could not Snd _ssrcnfor in cur lest number . THE L 4 TE CONFLICT AT _RSCKS . Tbe _flowing address was issued last week by Blan < _% yas Club : — TO THE PR 0 V 1 H 0 SAL Q _-. _YHBFKSi ' T . C £ _* _rcn « , —The counter-re volution has already hithed itselfio the blo _^ rl . ifthe _people . Justice , _Itnmed-a-. e juf . tie * on the _assassins ! For two tn . mths past the Royalist bourgeoisie of Rouse hk » Conspired In secret S St _Brt-tbolomew against thr ¦ Working classes . It bad ready an immense provigion « f cartridges Tbo authorities were srrare of it .

    . Words of _d- > ath have _te-n heard from time to time , the _precursory _s-rKotoHn cf tbe eatqstropbe _., ' We mast to for l _^ ese _canoi _^ _tcj . * 'XI fav . t _afinir _a-cec cts eanaVles ) C < ntciC « , in : ratn . who in F _= brlHTy . _BllCr ttttefi _6 H _) S ' resistance , compelled the Civic _Gasrd to _sui-mic to _tht-Sipublic . Ci _' _izensof _ihetr _^ i 6 lonal government , how come * it that twa months b « = v . _parsed withont tke working _population ol R _iarn and th . _» neighbouring valkjs having oe- n organised ss _Sstfonul Guard * ? How comes it that the aristocracy alone possessed crgsni * a ti <> n am arms ? How comes it at the moment ofthe ex-= a'lon of its fearful conspiracy it found betort it _octrmed _besams alone ? _Si « _-cor > cs it th = t the - * 6 tb _Regiment of the _Irne _, the _fittel bero = s of tbe Faabourg de _Taise in 1831 , was quartered tn Rouen ?

    Bow comes it that the _parrison was at tha orders of _penerals declared enemies ofthe _Republic , —of a _Ganeral Gerard the creature and the ome damnee of Louis Fbi

    They thirsted foT a bloody vengeance , these assassins ofthe fallen _dynasty ! They wanted ru Ai . rll massacre to esasole them for a _second July . Tbej hate not needed to wait Ion- ; . Ia these days of April , scarcely t * _-o month * after tht revolution 1 This wet qa : ck work , _cilizjos of she Pro-TisionsI Government . And _nofjiog was wanting to comp lete this new scene _ofAptil _Se ' tfcer _grapeshot , nor balls , ner demolished * B 0 ttS 6 I , nor & Rtate Cf Siege , nGr the ferocity of the mill _, tary , nor theinsalt to the bodies of tbe dead , nor _lV > o unan'aons insulting _language of the _papers , those dastardly worshipp . _rs offeree ! The Rue _TrantDsnain bas been _E-u _rpssse-1 ! Those who read the recital of theBe exploits of _ferissnSs may im _isin-2 themselves _retnraed to _ihate Caul days which formerly covered France wi : b _Bonrnisg end with shame .

    The executioners are the fame—the same tbe victims Oa ths one side the frantic _bourgeoisie pushing on from Vhlnd to tbe canU _& e Vhe foolish soldiers whom tbey bad filled with wine and _hatred : on the other , nnhappt workmen filling without _deftncB beneath the balls and luyoi . ets of r . _ssass _' ns _. To complete the r ! _" 5 etn _* * lsn _8 e , loot a t the _Caur Royale —the judges of Louts Philippe falling , like a hyenppaefe . upon _theramaant of tbo ma « encre , and filling dun . _gexnS with two hundred and fifty Repablicans . At tbe head of this _irqiisiticn is Prank Carre , tha execrable _Procnrenr-Gsntralof tbe _C-art of Peers , —this oth . r _Lanbirderoonr , who , in May , 1839 . _d-.-manged with frenzy ths heads of th * _insurgents . Warrants are eent as f & r * s Paris for the srrtst of the patriots who fl d before thit _Rojaliit prescription . I )

    It is a Rnyalist -error that now reigns at Ronen . _., yoa nit know it , cit _' t-ns of the _provieional g verntnent ! The Civic Guard of Ronen has ifj cted with tury tbe Re . public of ths mo » tb of February . It is the Rspubl ' c » ealm . t which it blasphemes—it is tho Republic it d- - _siicsti overthrow _. All tb . 8 _Republicans of eld date b .-. _ve twfn thrown into irons ; your own agents are menaced with death , _deptiTeJ of their places , guarded . The municipal rnagip . trues _Lemasson aud Duraad , hare been dra ged _elonj ths streets—tre fca > onet on their hearts , their dresses Urn to wg » . Th _: y aie in prison by the authority of tht rebels' It Is a Roy alist insurrection that hat triumphed in the old _capltil of Normandy ; and it is _jan , Repub i can _Gorernment , who protect tha rebel assassins . It this treason , or is it _cowardice ! Are jou . mere stepping _atoseg , or are joa tha _acconp'ici-s !

    _Pightine hai pone on ; you k now it well ; aad yoa _allsw the bizh sad mighty deeds of tho murderers to be _gloiimsly _TtutiteJ on higk ! In yoar eyes , as in that of kings , is tbe blood of tbe people uv ra wettr—good for _caojiht tat to wash the choked streets _froa \ time to time ? _ESlCB , th _BD—BitJCefrotr , jour edifies that de . _tistablelio in _thr'e words which vou have inscribed _tajan teem—liberty , equality fraternity I If yonr wires or your daughters , brilliant and delicate creatures , who drag ahout in sumptuous equipages tbeir _indolence , all glitteriLR with silk and gold , had been flung all at once at your feet , theif bosotng turn by thr gt . ee ! ot pitiless enemits , what a howl of grief end _Teigesnee yoa weuld cause to re-echo to tbe Tery _extremities ofthe world ! ¦ Well , then , _ro ! go an I tee _stre _' ehed cpon the stones of ; onrfcosp t * U . upeju tha straw of ihe garrets , the _co-jres of murdered neraen , their br a ? _ts piereed by balls of the bourgeoisie : those breast * , mark jou , that hate _borae and _sncVl- _'d workmen , the sn eat of whose

    _fejtr _fattens _those very bourgeoisie . ThB Women Of the people are worth ss much as your own wires and daughter ? ; SRd tbeir blood cannot , and mnet rot , r- _m-. in withont bting aTengel . _Justiee , then , _jastUaupju ths assassins ! We de .

    _rasna . — Firstl y . —The dis 5 olarion and tha _disarming of the bSlfgtoU guard rf Hou n . Seconrtly , —Tbe arrest acd trial of tbe generals and _cmctrsof the bourgeois gnard , acd of the troops of the line , who ordered and _directed the massacre . Third y , —The arre 6 t _* nd trial of those _sol-disant racmlrers of ih _^ _Cour : of Appeal , creatures named by IJOUfB _Pbil-ppe , who , _scting in tie _estae and for the in . _temtsof the victorious Royalift faction , _haveimprisoaed t * a * tegitima : e tnatiuiates of this town , and filled its dungeons with Republicans . Fourthly , —The immediate dismissal frem Paris of all fee _troops ofthe line , whom , at tbis _v <; ry momtnt , the reactionists are _preparing , et fratricide _baDtjnetB , for a St _Bartholomew o' the _Pa'HUn workmen . In the name ofthe _dntral Republican Society , the members efthe Bureau : —

    L . Auguste _Elafqci _, _Pres-. _dest , C . _LiCisssr , DM , P ., Vice-P _.-etident , FLOTrr , Treasurer , PltESE _Bebacd , * _* ( Lokose , > _Secretarte ; . a . _Robest , ) _LtCSiUBStCDZE , _^ , _CsorssE _, M Pujol . V , _Hemhers of the Javelot , Jan ., i " _Bureiti . _Bscckie , \ _PoXStiTEk _^ S ., In reply to the above document Ernie ofthe pare , * published a letter signed * E . H . de la Pierre , Sub Lieutenant of Cba _^ eurs a Cheval , * from whicii we are the following extract : —

    A most incredible _viWcation by A . Blanqui , _Laca-Borc , and otbfr leaders of a too notorious club , was dl a - tribaifcu _jeiterfiaj in all quarters of Paris , The olc * ca ' umny that the _armj' turns to pour its sbotupoB its brethren of the public is repeated ia erery line . The good sense of the _fublic will do justice upon so gross ao indignity . Is thero any need for our declaring that war lathe streets is hateful to u _» ? Erery one knows that in HO instance hes the Sr » t fire corns _itbm our _IflnllB . Our sense of duty , our lore for Franca , have ever betn our only guides , aad it is not the least painful of the sacrifices we tre bound to make to our eoust _^ to be _fcreed to defend oar lires and onr honour os _soldiers against unhappy men towards _rrbom we have co animosity , and whom , tbe insensate _provocations of _faWo friend " an ! ambitions and shameless men let loose upon ns .

    The following is the copy of another placard Issued by the Society of the Rights of Man and of tfce Citizen , ' signed amongst others by the celebrated Barbes—SoCIErE DES DEOITS DE I'HOMHE ET DU CiTOYEN . — This society bts for itt objtct—first , to _defend the rights of tbe people , the exercise of wbich hat been restored to _tfeeta b ? the revolution of February — pecondfy , to draw frota this _reflation all its _seeial _consequence ! . As its _poiat of departure , the society takes the _Dsclarationot the Rights of Haa as laid down in 1793 , by _Robespierre It _easues that , ia a political point of Tiew , the Republic 0 B 8 an 4 indivisit le , cempreheE _^ a the inalienable laws oi _fea people . In a social point of Tiew _, the old Conititu tioti is _abalUbed , and that which is called to replace It unit rest on equality , solidarity and fraternity the _fundamental principles of the new socit _. 1 _coatract . Consetjuently , tbe social revolution now at its _cemmenc-err . ent places itself between the _Parias and the privileged of

    thancient state of society . To the first it say « — be united but calm , for in ibis lies your strength . Your number is such that it must suffice to manifest your will and make you _obtais ell you desire . It is also such that you _CSnaot desire anything but what _isjast . Your voice and your will _sre the voice and tbe will of God . To tht others it _ssys the old social form has disappeared . Tbe _rdga ' of privilege and exploitation is passed , In tbe point of view of the ancient sotnl form , if the privileges with which yoa wire invested were acquired in a legal _ms-rntr _, do not avail _yourselresof them ; these laws were your owe work ; the immense _majority of y en ? brethren were strangers to tkem , and therefore ere lot bound to respect them . Rally , then , together , for SOU have need of the pardon of those whom yon have so Icngescrificed . If , in spite of tbis promise of pardon _, jou persist ia _remaining isolated in order to defend the eld _social form , you will find in the vanguard , on the e ay of _srnfiict , our sectionsorganised , and your brethren * iUno _loneer hold towards yoa the language of pardon ,

    Inlth & t of justice . The _defecates of tbe society , _TutiH , Napoleos , Lebow . Hcbeb , _CHirritoH , Biibes Substqnently tbe followine proclamation was issued by Caussidtere . the Prefect of Police ;—FttTECTUBE of Police . — Citizens , —Dork rumours circulate for some days in a ? Z ranks of society . "fTritten frTerbulpr . _ivocwionaareEd'iresBed by one part of the population to the other . The duty of tbe Prefect o Police U to watch at ail toes over tae seeuriiy of

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    _ci-. iz » sa _* _-c tfce tr tnquillly «> f Paris . The agitation excited by these appeals to disorder has called forth my _sslieitude . I hope ibat real repnb'teans wili understand hat to-day more than ever the government should reckon on their energetic support . At the _monient when thc _representatives of tbe people are about to unite , * rhen the gravest questions are about to be discussed , whm republican institutions ate about to be . _cime realiliep , to receive with the acclamations of popular sentiment the consecration of the pure and de . liberate _judgment ef the representatives of the people , and assure its wslfare , when in short all the powers which _conptitote humanity are about to sanctify the republic , our idol , shall we , citizens , form two hostile

    _naraps and show the world , which has its eyes on Prance , thst at the toot ot our monument * , where we hive inscribed 'Libere , _Eguliie _, _Fraterniie , ' chil . drsn of tbe same common mother are in arms against eoch other ? Your magistrates , citiz : ns , he , above a'l _, t ' _-iat you have _callt-d to tho post which he could enly occupy to _conduce to tho utmost of his means to the common security , will not believe such aa error . The _atrugif'e of arms , when the arena of free _discussion is _opened can enly be tho work of traitors to the republic , or madmen _wisMor to bring the _disorot-rs of their own imae nation into the social « SStem . But thO _TCptthliC renounces Ihem for b-r children — she bas _onljgiren birth ti _m-m of patriotic and generous minds , and it iB to real republicans she will confide her destinies . '

    The _Atelieb . _Citizen Albert ' s organ , contained ths _followiss article addretBed

    to the _REraonoxisTS . If you are dissatisfied because tbe popular element is aot sufficiently represented in tbe Constituent Assembly we are of your opinion . If jou are dissatisfied because _trUd _Rei-ublicans , because able Socialists have n t seen their _nrnnrs issue irem tbe urn , we are ef vour opinion . If you are dissatisfied at beholding the narrow and imouissant _Li-eralism ofthe old dynastic _Lt ft re . appearing on tbe _political scene with a numerous cortege , we are of ycur opinioa . Add not _rnsly we are of your oplDion , bot wc _bdong to yourselves if yeu wish to act on the _majority , nnd oblige it b / all tfee means of the press , the spoken word , and association , to realise oil the institu tions which the time demands . W _? belong to you to orevect the light from being hid under a bushel , to cause

    _fvery idea to be brought forward , « pd to show what it is worth by _bi-ing subjected to the tes' of pub'ic discussion . We fe > loog to yon to give au additional impulse to tho wheel of progress , to _eanse the revolution of Pe . bruary to keep its promises , the sovereignty ofthe people to remain a verity , tho _worklDg elasses to at last possess lha Instruments of labour . But il there are any r-m ngst you who are _unwilling , or who do not know how to make use of tbe powerful means given to every one by the liberty to speak , to write , to meet—if there are any who are _inclined to proceed under the Republio as thsy were _forced to _proceed under the Monarchy , by an app-al to nrm «; if thers aire any who think of snch means , we are not with them , wa are against them ; we shall con sider them as enemies , end we shall treat them as usurpers of the sovereignty _beloneiag to the people .

    LAST ACTS OF THB PROVISIONAL _GOTERHHENT . Tbe provisional governrttrofc showed to the very last tbe same activity which , during tbe two months of its existence had astonished the world . On the lastday ofitstenu'c of _powrr , it issued proclamations _oider ? , and decreets oa every _imaginable branch of tb « administration . We select a few . The city of Paris is ordered to continue tho rue Rivoli to the roe St _Aoteine . and is authorised to raise nine millions of francs for tbat purpose . The officers if rhp Garde R _? pnblicaine ( a body of ultra-democrats . ) have _thfir grades _^ _cor-ferred _, and rank given ro tbpjn . as if tbey were in the _regular army . The new coinage of tha Republic ig regulated and ar ranged , and an _announcement is made thnt the

    _eni- _'iivingof the dye and matrix will be public competition . The _g-vemors of tb . e ex-royal _palages are henceforth to be called _administrators , and their _sauries are fixed at 3 000 franca as the maximum , and 2 0 _ftO _francs as the minimum . The old system of courts-martini _i-i dnre away with , and a new one instituted _Cottrn and wool are allowed to te im _pc-tpd by land Ob well as sea ) on payment of a duty of _30 f . per 100 kilogrammes . The law for the recruitirig of the army ia applied to the colonies , and 10 distinction ir to be made between coloured people * _ind _rUhers . The maritime inscription is also spoiled to the colonies , and ateliers nationaux are to bs established for the benefit of the emancipated _nezrots . Lastly , a great number of magistrates are dismissed .

    OPENING OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . On Thursday , tbe 4 'h of May , the National Assembly was formally opened . All Paris seemed determined ta _consider this _sole-nnfty as an _oceesion to make a _holie / ay , ard nf _wr did the weather shine m _^ re propitious to their wishes . The sun shone forth gloriously all day , _wh'lst a gentle _bruize tempered the heat , which won d otherwise have bsen oppressive . The preparations to do honour to the solemnity _eommenced at an early hour in the mornino ; . About nine o ' clock the drums beat to arms , and tbe various leei nn 3 of tke National Gnard having assembled .

    they proceeded to take up their _slatioas , _lining the who ' e W _* y fr-m the Ministry of Justice in the Place Vendome , whence the cortege 8 < _artrd , np to tbe Chamber of _Deput ' e ' . being _intcrspirsed here and _tkere with a battalion or two ot the Garde Mobile . Two fine _regiments of the line , tbe llth ml blst , a _sapprb rpciment of Lancers , and an equally fine one of _Dragoons , likewise _assembled in the Place _Yendoma . in order to form part of the procession . As these _trroos marched np to their posts , they were _entbnsiastica'ly cheered by tbe National Guard ? , who * ? demonstrations of regard they seemed to return with f _q'jal eood-wH .

    Ahnut baff _nast twelve o ' clock lhe _mf-mrersof the Provisional Government le _^ t the Ministry of Justice- Tbe line fixed for the procession was up the Ruede la Paix , along the _Brulevards , _di . wn the Rae _Royale . _acrass the Place de la Concorde and ths bridfo tn the Cbair b ? r . Tbe whole way was lined on both sides by National Guards , while thc _Btreets and _windows w * _re crowded by happHooking _spectators . Fi < _-f . fc came a fquadron ef tbe cavalry of the National Guard—a splendidly mounted body of men , follow- d by a party of lancers ; then came the _members of the Provisional Government , on foot , and surrounded by a numeron _? and brilliant staff .

    Nothing could bo mors enthusiastic or unanimous than the cheers with which they were received , and they seemed to receive with _pleasure , as thoy _walked _slon _a bareheaded , these _te-timrnials in their favour , now tbat tbey were about to resign into the bands of the popular Assembly their arduous and laborious _dn'ies . Their _carriages followed behind , and the whole party was escorted by lancers . As tbe procession moved on , tbe ait- resounded with _eriert of * Vive la Reoublique , ' ' Vive la Gouvernement _Provisoire . ' The only members _pirticularised were MM . L * martineand Marrast , for whom many erieB were raised . The cortege was cbsed by several bfat & lir . ns f-f tfee National Guards and tne troops wbich had lined the streets , _atd who fell in turn into the line of march .

    All the approaches ot the Chamber were occupied at any earl ? hour ; and even a patient crowd of aspirants for the places _reserved to the public without tickets _parsed tbe n _* _iakt in the open air to make sure of entering in the morning . _Araons the _fifal of the _memhersof the ex-Chamber of _Dpputies who arrived , were MM . Odilon Barrot , _Billault , Bereer , _Isambart , and Larralit , _Genersl Subervie , MM . St Albin , Dupin , Blui de Bourdon , Leon _Faucber , Berryer , Tschereao , _Bcuiaix de la Meuithe , Lunean , and Flavin . Shortly afterwards the px . Marquis _dela _K-chejaquf-lln , tbe ex Viscount de Falloux , MM . Leon de Malleville , Cormien , _Gisiza-Bizoni _, Vivien , the ex-Count de St Priest , and several others entered . In the crowd three

    priests , in _theirjecc ' esia 3 tical habits , were to ba seen , among whom the most remarkable was the Abbe Fournier , tbe _Legitimist Cure of Nar . tes . A great sensation w . v create d bythe entry of the celebrated Abba Lacordaire , in his white Dominican habit . For some minutes every eye was turned upon him . lie appeared _aba'hed by the general _gsze and hasti _' y retreated to one of the moat remote seats in the Chamber . On the entry of the celebrated p- et Beranger , a great number of the members went up to him . and shook him cordially by the hand , among the foremost of whom were M Dupin and M . _Berber . Only one bishop was present , and he was not in his full ecclesiastical habit . Of the new members , with the exception of those whom I bave mentioned above , the persons who appeared to excite most curiosity were M . Barbes . the ciWenue politique—a fine ,

    soldier-like man j M . Emanuel _Arai-o , whose recent exploits at Lyons pained him some no ' oriety ; the Abbe Lamennais ; M . _Wollowski , the professor of the Ecale des Arts et des Metiers ; and M . Lucien Marat , the son of Mura' ' , _Kintr of Naples-, and nephew of _Nipaleon . Tho _appctrance of _Astooin , the coal porter , whom the electors ci Marseilles have chosen to send as tbeir representative to the National As embly , in preference to M . Thiers , was _easerly looked to ; but every one was disappointed to find that instead of an orthodox _poriefaix , be _ea " a h icd _.-ome _ypnng man , of good address , and rather recherche in his habHments . One of the remsrkab ' e parte of th ? whole affair was the absence in appearance or costume of the members who had been elected undert he title of cuvriers The two _gallerit-s at each side of the clock , at the end of the hall , were occupied by the bloused pnbiic ,

    The gallery set aside for the corps diplomatique , was occupied b y the _ErtglUh ambassador and Lady Normanby , his lordship being the only ambassador present , and L . _idy Normanby being the only lady in the _ambassadors' gallery . _Jy-rd Normanby was not in bis official costume . Th < re were also U the same gallery the Ministers for tbe United _Sta'es , for the Republics of the _Equador , New Granada , aad for Tuscany , M de Thorn , the ehancellier and charge d _' _affeireg "f the Austrian embassy , the charge d'affaires of Haiti , Mr _Edwardr _^ of tbe British embassy _, etc . & o- In other galleries weire some ladies , wbo were stated to be __ the wives and families of the members of the Provisional _GsTernment . At ten _Bainutes past one M . Audry . de _Puyrenean , the oldest member , vook the chair -as provisional president ofthe Chamber . He w & g _.-nsjjsted by MM . de St Beuro , _Aylon , Freaaau , As _$ aiiin : J . ar >

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    geaunol , Ferruilot , and Avoud , as provisional _secretaries . Shortly afterwards the cannon of tbe Inva lides announced that the members of the provisional government had arrived afc the Chamber . The President immediately directed the members to take their placeB and to preserve silence . Jast at this time a _lareobody ofthe colonels and officers of the National _Guardaopeared at the door in full _oastume , but M . Chateau Renaud , the Governor of the Palais Bourbon , immediately appeared , and prevented them from entering . Upftn this a strange seme took _olace . The officers endeavoured to force their way ,

    but the _gevernor declared loudly that _noperson with arms could enter the hail of the National Assembly , and that if any attempted it , they would pass over his body . This declaration produced great cheering , with cries from tbe members intkeiouseof 'he is rieht . ' A scene of great confusion followed , the officers still pressing forward , and bayonets were seen at the dour . At length the President ordered the doors to be closed , and after a _short _discussion a compromise was entered into , by which the "fleers were to remain in the antechamber , and to be a guard of honour to the members of the provisional government on its entry .

    At hali'past one o ' clock , toe drums announced the entrv of the provisional government into the Chamber . The { members were preceded by the officers of the Chambers in bourgeois dresses , but wearing the sashes of office . The members of the provisional government marched three abreast . In the first rank was the venerable president of the provisional government , Dupont ( de l'Eure ) , who appeared very frail , supported on the one _sid . . by Lamartine , and on the other by Louis Blano . 1 hen tollowed Arago , Cremieux , and Marie ; after tbem came Ledru-Rollin , and Garnier-Pages , and N . Flocon and Albert came last . On their appearance on the floor of the Chamber , the whole ot the members received them with immense shoutinc and cries of ' Vive le

    Gouvernement _Provisohe ! Vive la Republique ' . ' whioh lasted for Beveral minutes , and was echoed ba < : k by the persons in the public galleries and crowd outside . The scene was one of great enthusiasm _., Tho provisional government was followed by fome of the _Nationel Guards , who remained close to the tribune . When the provisional government had entered well into the Chamber , the cry of ' Vive la Roptablique !' again rose , - and after tbe sound had ceased it rose a third time louder than ever , tbe representatives the whole time accompanying the cry with clapping of hands . The members of the provisional _governmeat then took their seats on tbe front seat on the left hand of the President . After _remaining there for a few minutes ,

    The _PRevisnNALPrkswent rose and said : The sitting is opened ; I call upon the _citizsn President ofthe Provisional government . Citizen Dupont ( de l'Eure ) , followed by the other members of the provisional government , then proceeded to the tribune , and read tbe following speech in a very feeble tone of voice : —

    SPEECH _CJ THE PBS 01 DENT OP TUB PEOVIBIOKAL GOVERNMENT . Citizen _itVprejantaltoej ofthe People , The provisional government of tbe Republic comet to bow before the nation , and to render a signal _homsge to tho supreme power with which you are invested _. Elect of the _people ! we welcome you to this great _ca . pitai _, wbere your presence excites a Ecntlmtnt of happineBB and hopo will n _» t be _deceived . Trustees of the national sovereignty , yon are abcut to found new _insiitutiona upon tbe broad basis of demo _, cracy , ond to give to France the only constitution that can suit h r— . 9 Republican constitution . ( Here the whole Assembly rose , and with tbeir right basils raised , cried . ' Vive la R-pabiique !'

    But after having proclaimed the great political law which is about to erganUe _definitively the country , like us , _citlzau representatives , you will proceed to regulate the _possible and efficacious aotion of tbe government in the relations wbicb tbe _BtceseMea of labour _establish ameng all _cit- ' zens , and whieh ought to bave for basis the sacred laws of justice and fraternity . ( Renewed cheering , and cries of 'Vive la Republique ! _' ) In fine , ths time bas arrived for the provisional go . vernment to r _^» ign into your bands the unlimited power witb Wbicb the Revolution had _invested it . Tou know that , with regard to _ourselves , tbis dictatorshi p was only a moral power , exercised iu the midst of thoso difficult _ciroumstances through wbich we bare passed . Faithful to our origin and our personal conviction , wa hava not hesitated to proclaim the Republic of February .

    To-day we sball inaugurate the labours of the National Assembly to the cry that should always salute it— ' Fivo la Republique !' The cry was again repeated with the greatest enthusiasm by the Assembly . Citizen Dapont ( d l'Eure ) having left the tribune . M . Cremieux ascended it in his turn , and informed the Assembly that its session was opened , and tbat ita labours commenced on that day . He afterwards called on the president to request the representatives of tbe people to retire into their Standing Committees to verify their powers . _Citizen de Puiraveau having trar Emitted that request to the Assembly , it adjourned amidst cries of ' Vive la Republique' and * Vive le _Gjuvernemsnt Provisoire . ' At three o ' clock , tbe deputies having completed the verification of tbeir powers , re-entered the hill when the Pr _< sident called on Citizen Bouchard , the chairman ol the first committee , to communicate to the Assembly the result of ita labours .

    Cit !« n Biucbard having ascended the tribune _, proposed the admission of a number of deputies whose election was found valid by his committee . _Citizen Demosthenes Ollivier next rose and demanded that , after the admission of every member , he should mount the tribune , and there , in the pre . sence of the Assembly , take the oath of allegiance to the Republic . A number of members here interrupted the speaker , crying , ' The oath is abolished ! ' By whom V _nsked Citizen Ollivier , ' do yuu place the power ofthe provisional governmint above that ofthe National _AssemWj V ( Cries , ' The oath is abolished , and for ever . ' )

    Citizen Cremieux , the Minister of Justice , then rose and said , that the oath ef allegiance bad been the _pecasion of so much scandal during the last sixty years , and had excited such universal _indignatl n , that the provisional government had thought proper to abolish it . ' The oath of every true Republicin , ' added the Minitt _^ r ' is in his heart , and not t n his lips ' The Assembly received that declaration ofthe Minister with great applause , and ratified , by its unaniramis approbation , the measure adopted by the _provisional government , amidst deafening cries ot ' Vive la Republique , ' and ' Vive le Gouvernement Proviso-re- ' Of the thirty-fonr returns for the Seine , thirtythree were declared valid ; but _thnt < f Submit , having been objected to on the ground of false _representations , was referred to a special committee .

    Citizen Bzrger thea ascended the throne , aud said : _Cit-zecs , ia the name of the deputies of the Seine , 1 propose to the National _AeBembly the solemn pro . damatlon of the RvpnbHo . ( Thunders of applause . ) Citizens of Franee , let the whole world know that the _Republic _solimnly proclaimed with _c-nthusissm , is , and will remain , the form of the government of this eonntry . ( Reaewed applause ) Let us never forget this gre _^ t day , In the name of the country let men of all opinions no longer form but ono family ; tbat this day may be truly the fete of concord and of fraternity , ( Cries of 'Vive in Republique ! ' from all parts ofthe _Chamber . ) _Citizen Clement Thomas : I demand tbat tbo _proclamation which has just buen _proposed should ba mado in the name of all the representatives . If we bad been consulted beforehand we should all have approved of it ; it should , therefore , be done in the name of tho National Assembly .

    CIi : zea Berger . —I am happy In seeing the members of the National _Ansembly wish to unite themeslvce to the representatives of the Seine , Citizen Ducous —I unreservedly applaud tho feel _, ing which has dictated the proclamation : and no ono more tban myself was more anxious to proclaim the _Republic one and indivisible ; but per . mit mo to observe that it is not in an incidental manner that so _Jmpertant aa act should be aecomplisbed . Tbe Republic will be great and durable eaoDgb for ua to be able to procJafm it at a solemn momeat ; let the incident _wblth haa Jutt taken place bo , therefore , regarded as au expression of a movement which we could not contain ; but I demand that the democratic and fraternal Republic should behereafter proclaimed with all the solemnity befitting such an important act , ( Loud applause . )

    Citizen Ti « _kebxe . _~ I demand that in the rniuu tes o the sitting it sball be _expretalj mentioned that our acclamations for tbe Republic were unanimous . A Voice . —Tbe Republic _lsa / ait accompli . I cannot comprehend tbat it conld be pat in question Citizen _Etiesse AbaOo , —The people proclaimed it before you . _Citiseo Emmanuel _Abaoo . — -No postponement . L ; t onr _acclumitions be raised at once , and proclaim the Republic forthwith . ( _Crii-Bof _'Yes _. yes _. ' ) Citizen Degopsseb .- —It has been said that the artillery of the Invalides and In the Champs _ElyBees would _announce the proclamatioa of the Republic . The people are assembled there to await it with a noble impatience . Let us not make them wait any longer . ( Approbation . ) •

    A _Vuicu . —As yet it has been ouly proclaimed provislonally . _Citinen HnaE —After the fact should come the light . Cltiz b _Bibbes . —We have only to proclaim thc Republie after the po _» ple . L-. t us all cry ' Long _ijV 8 tne j _^ . public—om-, _inditiBibl _' , & nd social !' Citizen Tbelat . —The Republic is a fact which has been preparing for many long years , a necessary , a scientific fact . The proof of its necessity ia that It i » proclaimed in this Chamber , adjoining tho other where it was combattcd two months since . The greatest proof is , that even thoso who thea protested against it do so no longer . If there are any citizens here who think of another form o . ' government . ( ' _jjrCj no » i yivo ] a Republique . " ) ' ¦ _¦& Republic , therefore , iu like the sun —blind is he who does not see it .

    New acclamations of - " Vive la _ReuUulksiip Vivb Liberie , _halite , _Fraternity _R _^ UD _^ . « 6 AU eyes were then turned m Mikm _ffiasgoi _MA

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    bis colleagues , who ultimately joined the rest in ad . hering to tho Republio . ' 0 neral _Codbtjis _. —I como in _ihen & me of the people of Paris . I request the members of the provisional governmont to come out on the peristyle of the _buildiny , aad the representatives of the people to follew tham , in or _« _* er to proclaim tbe Republic . ( Great agitation . ) The whole Assembly rose in Ihe midst of the loudest acclamations of approval .

    PIKAL PHOOLAMATION OF THH REPUBLIC . The provisional government leading the way , the whole ofthe Assembly proceeded outside to the steps in front of ( the buildine , opposite to the Pont de la Concorde . All the _tincera ofthe National Guard , which during the latter part ofthe sitting had occupied the wide space at each side of the _estrade , AB far as the corners of the tribune , toek up their stations close t _> them ; An immense number of National Guards was admitted inside the railing , below the steps , whilst d ; he colours of the different legions were conducted lip with great ceremony to the space between tha pihW , and then disposed at equal dis * _tances on each side of the provisional government . Th wh . _olo of the open area between the Chamber and the bridge , and far down along the quays , on each

    _aidp , was _densely covered wKfi Closely pacited crowds of people , interspersed with large bodies of the Garde Mobile , and other National Guards . Cries of ' Vivo la Republique ! ' arose both from the crowd and the troops standing on the steps - . other cries of' We want the troops Of tbe line ! ' * We want the cloura of the line ! ' burst out from various parties of the orowd . Tbis cry was at last repeated so perseveringly tbat General _Courtais was obliged to desoend the steps and go outside the railing to bring in several colours of tbe line , each under a numerous esoort . The _scene then became ef a more enthusiastic character . Swords were waved on high ; militpry caps were displayed on the points of bayonets ; the bands played national airs ; the cannon thundered frnm the Invalides : and the air waB rent with

    ones © f' Vive la Republique !' The _Republic was proclaimed and accepted unequivocally by tbe National Assembly , in the presence of 200 , 000 of the people of Paris . Wee to those , or to any claKB who shall occasion doubts of ihe sincerity of that acceptation . I bear at every side to day to retract is impossible . The _slightst appearance of reaction will raise Paris in fhtnes and deluge its streets with bl < od . After some time had been spent in allowing the people to give utterance to their feelings of joy at this proclamation _ofijae , Republic , the _represeatatives returned to the had of assembly . The greatest _agitation continued to prevail for some time , nnd , after ene or two other returns were validated , the Assembly adjourned at a quarter-past six o ' clock .

    PROO & _AHATIO'f _* ' fhe following proclamation was posted up on the walls of Paris on Thursday morning _:- _~ The National Assembly , the faithful interpreter of thc sentiments of the people , by whom it has been elected , previous to commencing its labours , — Declares , in the name of tho French people , aud iu tbe face of tbo entire worlc _> , that tbe Republic , proclaimed oa the 24 th of _February , 1848 , is , and _shallr _^ maln , the form of tbe government of Frunce . The Republic desired hy France has adopted the motto , * Liberty , Equality , Fraternity . ' In tho namo of thi } country , tbe _National Assembly _lntreatu Frenchmen of every political party to forget former feuds , and to form in future but one family . The day on which tbe representatives of tbe people mot is for all the cltiz n » tbe feast of conccrd and fraternity . 'Vive _laRopubliqui-l '

    TUB NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . Fkidat , May 6 th . —At one o ' clock , Citizen Audry de Puiraveau took the chair , accompanied by the six youngest members acting as secretaries . There was on the part of the public the same degree of _curiositv as on the preceding day . The galleries were filled with spectators , many of whom were dressed in blouses , aid large groups stationed round the palace . M . Avond , one of the secretaries , having read the procs verbal of the proceedings of the preceding day . tbe chairman of the eighth committee proclaimed the admission of the deputies of the department of the Lot . amongst whom _figured Murat , sod of tbe former King of Naples . Murat was born in Naples , but the comtr ittee , considering him as good a Frenchman as if he was a native of France , proposed his admission , which was unanimously ratified by the Ascembly .

    The admission of tbe BiBhop of Orleans , and other members ofthe department of Loiret , was adjourned until the result of tbe inquiry , instituted into act ) of corruption and sacerdotal influence , denounced by some electors , should brt _knoffn . The deputies ofthe Haute Vienna and Pa « de Ca Iais , were next admitted without any opposition . The Piesident having observed that the majority of tbe members had been admitted , and that the Assembly might proceed to elect its President , a desultory discussion arose relative to tbe _duration of bis functions . Some members objected that , as the house had not yet framed its internal regulations , the functions of tho President should be essentially temporary . Itwas finally agreed that they should be limited to one m"nth .

    Nine Ubles for the scrutineers were then brought in , and the following results were obtained : — M . Buehfz 390 M . Trelat ... 234 M . Recurt ... 91 M . Buchtz was then proclaimed President . The fo ! low _* iB » were elected Vice-Presidents : —Hecurt , Cavaignac , Corbon _, Guinard , Cormenin , and Senard . The _fallowing were elected Secretaries : —Peupin _, Robert , _Dogeorge ( Frederio ) , Pyat ( Felix ) , Lacrosse , and Pean . Saturday . Oth inst . —At one o'clock , M . Buohez tho president , took the chair .

    Thepr sidents of diffrtrentcommittees successively proposed tho _admission of the deputies of several departments , who were proclaimed , with the exception only of two of the members of the department of the Lot , one of whom was Abbo Fayet , bishop of Orleans . These were said to have been returned by the influence ofthe nobles and priests ofthe district of _Marvejols , who had resorted to means of corruption and intimidation to force the peasantry to vote in their favour . Prorureur de la Republique at Marvejols , and the committee had _accordingly been of opinion that an inquiry should ho instituted into the facts relative to those two elections . This proj osition , having been put from the chair , was unanimously adopted .

    Tiie ohairman of the committee to which the elections of Paris were referred for examination next ascended the tribune , lie stated that tbey were found perfectly regular , witb the exception of that of M . Schmit . The circumstances of irregularity having been explained , Citoyen Flocon moved that a new elections should take place . The question being put from the chair , and two trials by _risiog and sitting proving doubtful , a ballot was opened , which gave the following result : — For a Few election 414 _Againstit 298 Majority in favour of a new election —116

    BEPOETS OF IHE ES _FBOYISIONAL OOVrSNMENT . _Citiz-n _LAMABTiNEaac-ndod the _tfibutse , and « ftd to tho _Assembly a general account of the proeeed ' _nzs of the provisional government > iacethe 21 th of February last . That _government , he said , had not proclaimed the Republic ; it bad merely ratified the _choiee of tbat form of government by the people . Struck with tho _msgnauirnlty of tbe combatants of February , it bud decreed the abolition of capital punishments . The red flag proposed at first , not as a symbol of menace and disorder , had been rejected by the population , and the glorious tricolourtd flag preserved ai the national banner , _Theprovlslonal government bad declared the reactionary treaties of 1815 to have ceased to exist ; proclaimed the sympathy

    of Franco fer fori i _^ n nations , and ber respect for their governments ; established four armies of observation on the A ' ps , the Rhine , In tho north , and along the Pyrenees ; and sent tbe fl _^ et , placed under the command of ix . _pertenced officers , to show tho colours of France to the people of Italy . The government declared property to be sacred , and during tbo two months of its _existence no citizen bad suftVred in bis p-rson or property ; no act of repression had been resorted to , not n drop of blood bad been shed ; and the members of the provisional govern _, msnt on re-entering private life might descend on the public square and mis with the people without fearing a rebuko from a single citizen . The whole population of France bad b * cn armed and constituted into National

    Guards , so that } D » nrrecti _.- > n wa _& no locgn 1 possible , for he who separated himself from tbe people ao longer be . longed to the _pcot lo . In resigning their powers into the bands of the Assembly , the _membtrs of the provisional government hoped that ¦ he national representation would _talw intiv _accautit the difficult circumstances in which they had been placed ; _the-lr conscience reproached them with no _oon- _' en _. nable act ; tbey had , it was true , been _favoured by Providence , for if the people had saved the Republic , the Almighty had blessed it . Citizen Ledro Rollik _, _Proviaionol Minister of the Interior . —Citizen _R-presentatlveo— Called te the Pro _vieional _Gevt-rnmont by the wishes of the people , I owe you aa account of the _admministration of the D part ment of tho Interior which was confi led to me —( More _, ment of curiosity . ) * _Jou will not _exp-. ct from me len * details R _^ ad y as I im to reply to all your interptlla . ¦ Ions i _conflne

    , myself to a rapid expose of our acts , and of the motives by which they were dictated . Cjrried to 2 , " _» Moh " iT bj th 6 l rlUmph ° K * P « Mtean _principle , _rfir % a ° eoajbatttd «» » y _lifc-for from my * _J «* toth .. d ., I have never _varled-l have resolutely d fended It . maintenance . The deep faith which 1 have u _strZZ _, h it . wheBit »*> P _^ ecuted cannot bu Part _S T J "' _«*»¦ - _"• - * « _d glorious Tioto ,, at _PrTv , ™ n . U & animoaB »<" _olamation throughout all SS . ;„ ? r , nCed , th 1 tb « _^ ° ( _* e country d . peuda on the complete development of all the consequences of the revolution , I have watched over t wlh a jealous care . 1 have wished that on all _poln s of fhe emtory * should be respected aud understood At mZ Z Z \ IT , neoe T _* by » _" » l * Sfi £ b _£ measures , _topraveat any attack on order , and to < •« . unite the cord of tbe administration whl fa hadbeen violent ) , brok _n . The two fold idea . _ugwt _*^ Si

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    Ing Into the departments commissaries invested with unlimited powers . ( Murmurs . ) Unlimited powers , Tbis necessary word has been laid hold of to direct against me the most violent attack * . Tn order fo judge of It , It is _neoeBsary to go back two months , and then it will be . understood , and it will alio bo oo *» p »' v l"nded , that oa the day following the revolution , surrounded by the conquerors from the barricades , I could not without being guilty of treason confide to other hands than theirs the deposit and the defence of liberty . ( Approbation . ) Full of ardour , of devotedneas , and of civic faith , tbey would penetrate the oountry with the idea whieh they bad rendered triumphant . Doubtless many among

    tbem were not administrators , Wbo can contest tbat point ! Tho question does not lie there . Soldiers were necessary to continue and propagate tbe victory , and particularly to render It durable and pacific . That faults bare been committed is very possible . When I was Informed of them I did not hesitate to revoke the-m . But let any caa Ira ? forward , In the midst of this great and rapid ( movement , a single _fseriousj attach againt the rights of _oltiiens by those firm and courage _, ons men , whom it has not been feared to designate as _Pro-Cuneule . The citizens bave replied to it by glvirg thtir vo ' . _es to tfee _gretter number of those who are now assembled amongt you . Moreover , the instructions sent

    by me , and which hm flvrrsfl R g toe pretest of so many outcries , were Indispensable , I should Hot bave written them had they not beon created by the force of cltcum . _st » noes alone . Being the emanation ofa _revolutionary principle , I conld not transmit a regular and limited authority . Placed in face ot unforeseen events , 1 should have been guilty of weakening my agents by mles above wbicb the safety of the country bad raised us . I moreover knew , aad I have said it , tbat tho moral re . _uponslblllty which accompanies the momentary exercise of great power _presents and corrects tbe abuse ofit ; that it is neceBsary to give beforehand the moans of _overcoming all obstacles , in order tbat _obtacles sball not present themselves . ( Hear , hear ) By public

    instructions , the _firumags of whieh had more particularly for object to remove for ever guilty hopes , have been every day explained b y my correspondence . I am ready to submit to tbe Assembly tbo voluminous documents of that labour , and I have no feur of Its finding one dispatch whioh does not bear tbe imprint et once of an ardent deairo to make the revolution triumph , and of a constant desire for conciliation , order , and peace . ( Applause . ) It la te the attainment of this twofold object that all my efforts have been directed . I sbould bave been inconsistent with my former life , I should have given the lie to the doctrines which I bave constantly professed , if I had not been at the same time tbe man of tbe revolution who would transform bo .

    olety and the country , and tho man of the _government who accomplishes progress by the power of ideas , end proscribes all appeal to disorder and violence . It is thus tbat in a few days I caused the National Guard of Paris to be armed and _equipped , and endeavoured ( at last by making known u > y wishes ) to do the same with that of the _departments , _persuaded that a disciplined musket was an instrument of order , because it was tho symbol of the dignity of the citizen . ( Critsof Yes , yes . ) _Iprovidid for the organisation , the clothing , an-I the support of the Garde Mobile ; to the creation of this sedentary corpt destined to maintain _order in this _preat city ; to thc formation of ft new institution , that of the Oardiens de Paris , connecting by rn indissoluble bond the municipal and the judicial police , and plactag public security

    _under a constant surveillance . Jn the days of trouble and _uneasinesB I watched unceasingly ; it is by an absolute rievotedness to my duties that I replied to the infamous _calumnies of which I have been ths object . I have never seen in this unexampled _inveciive anything but an additional resson to intrepidity to defend a cause which the fury of soma senseless wished to compromise in mj penon . I had confidence in tbe geod sanje ofthe nation—In the justice of the Assembly , _an 4 I thought that , soldier of the revolution , I sbould _buBW everythi' _; g for it , and not lose , in _noticing odious _falsehoods , the precious time which it « services demanded . All my acts mo / cover , are public . Then fr » e _discaesiou be _' ongRtOyou , and notv that your sovereignty discharges me from the burthen of affairs , all private calumny will find me ready

    to confound it . I have _pissed through the most difficult circumstances by remaining within the limits of my bud get . I prepared ana organised in three weeks the _applL cation of _aaivenal suffrage ; aad , nevertheless , all _* Tv me to tell yeu , that if by somo I tm accused of some errors in its detail , _tufficient allowance has not beea Made for the infinite and persevering labour by which I have been able _throughout tha who ' e extent of the Republic to bring into operation a mode ot flection wbich only three months since was declared to bo impossible . Por my own part , I shall be proud of having been the instrument « f this first act of virility en ihe part of the people recover _, log its rights . Proceeding on tbese general principles , I _shi uld have wished to have introduced into the _meehaniem of tbe _admlnistratioa _changes destined to render

    It more _nimpia and more democratic . I thought that tbo « e _ref-irms should not be either isolated or partial , and that they would be more wisely accomplished by bim who wouli hold a definitive power from your _s » vc . _feignty . I feared to throw dimrder into the _admiaisirative action at a moment when it was most essential to preserve its regularity . And _besides—why should I conceal it ? I am more particularly anxious to save tbe revelation nnd order . I wished to preserve to the » _lctory of the people its grandeur , its purity , and its social _besrimt ; I also wished , in defending It against the snares and attacks of reaction , to shelter it frora the violmce ofarobltion and of dangerous impatience . ThuB when , _replying to an _imprudent proceeeMnfj , tte whole population of Paris came unarmed to surround the Provisional

    Government with its pacific waves . I unreservedly united myself with this _sol . nin demonstration _; but on the day when eome madmen endeavoured to pervert the 6 ense and tbe result ofa similar manifestation , I did not hesitate to oppose it . It was by my orders that the rapptl was beaten , and that the National Guard , which is cow the country , assembled to mix with the citizens , wbo were not armed , and to protest against any violent attempt . ( Approbation , ) This resolution , far from being an effort on my part , was only the consequences of the principles which have always guided me , even in the opposition . In my eyes , it was a great day when the _ideas which were destined to conquer tbe world elaborated _fbemnelve 9 . As Ir flexible against ambitions which provoke _cotipj-de-mam as against reactions wbich enchain revolutionary movement , I have always considered that a statesman should maroh with a firm step between the dreams of _utopists and sectarians , and the rebellious

    tenacity of _egotistical interests- Oae does not truly tfely but on ideas which are ripe . Veritable superiority con . _sists In _distinguishing those measures which mny _reasonably be put in practice , Tho hand of the people bas now torn away the veil . Donbt la no longer possible for any one . Imprudent and culpable would be he who \ Tcald wish to stop the revolution b y the sterile conquest of _peliti al forms . These forms are but au instrument of liberty placed in tbe hands of the nation , called on henceforth to establish itself . For it the path ia traced out and che object indicated . It is to resltao in eoc ' al order the dogma of equality and fraternity thst all our fF . _rle ought to tend . Supporters of that holy cans \ we shall be worthy of our mission , in accepting it ia its full hearing , ond by it we shall not only have restore * m » n to bis natural dUnlty , but we shall bave secured the glory and tho happiness of our common country , and contributed to the emancipation of the world . _'Applaud . )

    Cit ' _zsn Cremieux , the Miaister of Justice , next lead a long speech on the principles which had dictated bis ad ministration , and declared that it _wasonly by diminishing the numbers of tribunals aud judges that any important economising could be realised ia _kls department . _Citiz-n Louis Blanc . —Citizens , representatives of the people—On the 29 th of February , those whom _thecourse of events had called into pow « r ( a power by no m ans an enviable one , certainly , for it _tvafi the government 0 ' tempests ); thoso , I say . found themselves _assembled , when , all of a sudden , they saw tho Place de _l'Qottl de Ville invaded by an ardent mtiltitude , A flag floated in the air , and on that flag tbis was what was written : — Organisation of Labour ; Creation ofa Ministry of

    Progress . ' Admirable result ! It W 89 thus , itwas in this capital , which still felt the _quiverings of the combat , on tbese pavements , on which the peopio had just marked tbeir route with their blood , it was tbui that they came to demand that which proved that their great preoccupation was that of order . ( Applause . ) For wbat did th . y come to demand ? They oame to demand peace , _madeprol-fic by labour ; the creation of a ministry of progress , whose business it would be to pre . vent violence by study , and to render revolutions for evar _impoeaible . What eould the provisional govern . m ? nt do t What hod it done ? It had reserved the _important que » tion for a special ministry to be created _-, but that which it at oDce granted was a comKiseion of the _government for the labourers , and that tbo Palace

    of the _Luxembeurg should bo the Beat of its labours . Two men were _cbosen for that labour—> the one my noble friend the citizen _outricr Albert , the other _waamjBelf . Wo directdd our attention to tbe present position of _affaire , and what did we see ? Ou thc one hand , thc ruin of the rich becoming imminent , and , perhaps , inevitable , On tbe other , tbe distress of the people he . coming more and more _aggravated every day , and tho Impatienoo of their desires violently irritated . And what was onr mission ? Wa went into that difficult situation without a budget , without a _foldier . If , by ohar . ee , our words were not listened to—If tho ? gitn . tion which had been suppressed for the moment wero renewed—we should have been rendered r . sponsible for it . If , on tho contrary , it was appease '' , might we not bave been reproached with being dangerous innovators 1

    ( Cries of ' Yes , jes' . ' ) Did wo not run the risk of having too prolonged a cry of distress ! ' Speeches are not necessary ; we cannot wait , for wo suffer , and we are hungry . ' TheBe were the dangers ' we had to ruu . Yet we did not hesitate . On the day following a revolution such oa ours , every _cllte _^ n ia a _BoWlef ; and when every _citizen is a soldier , how should any one shrink before peril ? We have , then , been witnesses of a sublime spectacle , which must remain in history as an immortal proof of enlightenment and reason . We have ; seen citizens _running lo ns and exclaiming , ' I bare a wife , f have children ; give me bread . ' Aad when we replied to them , 'Walt ; ' and , when we besides , told them < vf our want of power to assist them , these men bave retired , their hearts moved , and crying ' V . re la _Repetbligue ! ' We have _seeD , passing one after the

    other , oil . the Industries ; we have seen them passing bcar ' _ttg' 9 ' giKi of distress , claiming loudly the intervention ei _ithe-stete ; so that the very force of affairs im . ijj ) tf « d u [ iincinB 4 ; . mission which had not been given to ut

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    —ithe mission ef interfering between the masters ¦ ¦ , the workmen , in order that they might go hand id j ; hand together . Well , we have obtained that result . Is Ha our archives , which we preserve with pride , for _th ( ' th (( are tbe archives of concord and fraternity . But we ha ha ) not only conciliation to _effect ; we had associations ts tt _rsallse . When workmen _camf ? _» o u » _% _* _tomand ti tfii means of associating together , yoa know what we dlrjdlt At Olichy , which , in former times , was onl y fnhat _> itQEta , by prisoners , what do you now see t Tou onl y see ] _# lg ) bourers giving each other tbeir hand . Formerl y , y 0 y 0 l read over tho gate ' Debtors' Prison , ' To . _dsy _everfer ono will _substluto in his _beftrt these words , 'Tbener is a debt which every one owes to all—the social deblebi of bread and labour . ' ( Hear , bear . ) Wo have gathere _d on the question of labour a great deal of _iaformatlonom wbicb will be communicated to you , and you will e » !» mine it in all its details . Suffice It for me to say , thahai tbe two fundamental ideas of our work—whether i' i concerns commerce or a griculture , or the banks or ththn

    establishments of customs—tbe two fundamental ideaea are , association and disinterested intervention , tbe papal _clflc and tutelary _Istervenlion of the state . We do _doboi pretend Jbat tbe state sbould become the onl y _vndnttriei ofthe kingdom ; but we wish it to be understood , thaia _, the state has a great duty to fulfil Ih what regards tbososu who suffer . What we wish is , that the state shonld bi bn the tutor bi tt edit , giving credit not only io tie ibzMn but to the poor . What we have demanded Is , that _thehe state sbould be the protector of tbe poor , and theiieln tutor . I do not know , from ths bottom of my heart , li ( j _vnaay of thot > e who now hear ma would be disposed tete _: contradict me . The cry boa been put forward of' _Taiicke care of tbe war of those who possets nothing , a /? a ' emu those who possess . ' This Is a cry which has not _issuededl from thi hearts or mouths of any one . Association isaiai noble and _beantiful _thing , sot becauso it will _displaceCC ! _richts , but _beosuss it will make then _universal , hy _mak-It .. Ing them fruitful , and because it will raise the level _etel ! the people and of humanity . ( Cheers . )

    Citizon Cabnot , the Minister of Public Instruotioa _^ , was afterwards heard , and was _saccefded by _Citfjeaia Gamier Pages , the Minister of Finance , who pnly par . r . ttally made bis statemen t , when overcome by _exhaustions , he obtained leave to postpone the remainder of hie ro-3-port . Citiren _Betbhoht , tbe Minister of Commerce , depo . ) . sited oh the table thc expose ot the state of bis _departments , and tbe Assembly afterwards adjourned to Monday . _MBPD & r _, May 8 . —At 12 o ' clock , CllUsn Buch ' . * , theie President , took the chair . Citizen Gaenieb Pages than delivered his statement t and was followed by Clt ' zm Abaio , Minister of War , andd * if _ABie . Minister of Public Works .

    _Citizan _Ll _. HABTit'E , Minister of Foreign Affairs , said | tbat Franee had proclaimed three things in Feoruarj— - her wish to establish a Republic in France ; her deterraV . nation to promote tbe progress of the democratical printciple in Europe ; and a desire to maintain an honourablee peace . He _dlsclaimed-all ideas of conquest ; bat if any ? _penple sbould assert It * nationality , and enter tbe family r of nations , Franca , the soldier of democracy , was ready ? to assist it It i % _claimid its aie , Citizen _Dosne « next rose , and proposed a resolution to > the following effect : —* The National Assembly being definitively constituted , _occep's the depot of the _extraordi- - nary po * en _c-nferred _. n tbe _provisional government on i

    the 24 th of February lost , aud declares that its _memberss have deserved well of tbe country for the important _services they have rendered . The Assembly being now in-. vested with the sovereign authority , declares the provi . > sional governmen t to have ceased to exist , and in virtue * oi its right to _ewrcise the executive powers by delega .. tion , It decrees the institution of a Government Committee , composed of tke five following members— ' Here Citizsn DorneB was loudly interrupted and prevented from mentioning the names . The tumult at last roue to such a pitch that the President was obliged to cover himself , and the sitting was suspended during half au hour .

    When the sitting was resumed , Citizen _Dornes again Boa _nded the tribune , and _oonsented to omit the _name » of the Commissioners , but persisted in the proposition to appoint a Government Committee , which would appoint ministers responsible und _revscable , Anothir ruetnter moved that thanks be voted to tho provisional government , and tbe Assembly retired into its standing committee to examine tke proposition of Citizen Domes . The President wss about to consult the Assembly wben Citizen Bart es ran to tbe tribune and declared that , previous to granting the provisional government a bill of _indemity _, he would protest in the name of the people against _seversl of its acts ; tbe mureUr of the workmen of Rouen hy tho National _Cruerds . Here a terrific explosion of murmurs arose , and cries of' Order , order I'from all parts efthe house .

    Citizen Babbes waited atthe tribune until silence was restored , and added tbat tbe Assembly could not vote thanks to the provisional government without bringing its members te account for the abandonment of the Belgians , the Italians , the Poles , and tbe principles of tbe revolution , _Citisen Bichabd protested against the words ot il _. Bar ! es , and insisted en tbe Assembly voting immediately thanks to thc Provisional ( ijrtrnment , Cit zen Sewabi > followed in _defines of the _government . Cit zen Babbes demand _^ d that an enquiry be instituted into th _<> massacres of Rouen by an attorney . general of the Republic , and not _oy Frank Cane , nnd other persecut . r . < of tho people . ( ' No 1 No ! exclaimed tho _Asflem .. My . )

    The Assembly subsequently voted that the provi . sional _government bad deserved well of the country . The vote waa almost unanimous . Citizen Baric ; , Citizen _Dnrrieu , and another rising- alone against it ToceDiT , May 9—The business of the day opened with the reading , by M . Peupin , of the report of the committee appointed to consider what sort of in termed ! _, ate form should be established as a substitute for the provisional _rov . rnment till the _Assimbly sbould haTe _adop'ed a _drfiuitive constitution . The report recommenced the direct appointment by the National Asseo bly of the ministers to the different depirtrnmtB , _instead of a 'commission du _^ ouvememeut , ' which , without holding any fiirect office , would exercise the sorerc / ga authority « f appointing aud removin g the m ' _nistrv—the ministry being at the same ) time responsible for its acts

    to thc National Assembly . A _succ- _'ssioi of new and unpractised speakers succeeded each other without throwing much light on the subject . Citizsn Jules Pavre _, an advocato and man of great talent , warned the _As-embly against the dangers of direct notRlaation , and declared his opinion that no ministry wonld be able to govern Franco which tierlvcd its authority directly from the Assembly , and it there were notan itnmediatu power Eu _^ re calm iu its character than the Assembly . Alter cume the celebrated Abbe _Lscordaire , _wbose speech was listened to with great attention . He strongly advocated the claims of the ultra . Republicans , who , he said , had made tbe revolution , to a share in the Executive Government , Citzens O . Barrot and Lamartine followed , and on the mo _' . _ion being put , it was decided by a majority of twenty six , thst tbe Ministry was to be _appointed by nn executive committee

    Tho correspondent of the Times states that the interim Executive government is to be thus composed : —Mk '» Lamartine , Lediu-Rollin , Arago , Marie , Garaler-Pa _, ; e 3 .

    TUE _CfifJBS . On Saturday night luat all the Republican Clubs in Paris voted , by acclamation , a resolution , of which the object is to call on the National _Assembly immediately to interfere actively in the _affairs of Poland and of Italy . The Pre 38 R _arioiirices the arrival of Prince _Tzutor _}^ k > . in Pans ( much chagrined , it _Bass & id _, by the unfavourable turn which Polish affairs had taken in the Prussian provinces . )

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    "" j _ajwv um \ ivmviiuaa _" _vMGERMANY . The moderate and constitutional party at _Berlia are stated to have gained the victory over the radicals and republicans at tbe elections j _Jst _excluded . On the other hand , it is admitted by the CuL 'ONE Gazette that the working classes havo succeeded in electing a great number of their fellow _operatives a « the electors in the second degree tf the members of tho Constituent _A _^ _s _« _'IlbIy in Berlin , for ouch the next Diet in that capital may be called . Tbere have been serious disturbances at Treves Barricades were erected , but on the artillery being brought _againt tht m the insurgents surrendered . § _Carlbruhe , May l .-Our city is still in a state ot siege , six cannon mounttd on Ludwig ' _s Quay on the

    _m I -TO tf 2— _Kry serious attempt was made by the populnce yesterday evening to create an _enwute and _pillage the houses , but tho firmness and activity ot the Civic Guard prevented it . A number of persons have _bieu arrested at Stut-* " 2 it i " accused of naviQ g _biea _conaeei _-ei 1 Hecker .

    WAR BETWEEN DENMARK AKD GERMANY . _ENTIUNCK OF THE _PIU'SSUS TROOPS INTO _DBKHARir . _IIambi-ksu , Way 4 . -Iatelligence has arrived ct tho crossing the Danish frontier by the _Prussiao troops , who entered Jutland at aix o ' clock in tho moraine of the 2 nd _insla-it at Konigsau , near _Mding . _Lteneraj Wr » r . _« el _immediately issued a proc _. amation , which hsd bien previously prepared , in the Danish language A force of 5 , 000 or 6 , 01-0 vf , 1 ' _/! lnr _^ n , ' ' _<* rP _3 . are _advancing ¦ \ le under the Duke of _AngUBtenbur-f ; at tW if b lt , 8 SUted ' th < 3 PrU 33 ian _uead' 1 _*

    THE WAR IN ITALY . Unfavourable _mtellis-ence was received in _Vv _* on lmday from Northern Italy . It appears that General _JNuKent was advancing rapidly from the Fr . oul , at tbe bond _i . i 12 , 000 men . The surrender ol Udme was fully c ntirined . The occupation of _several leas important places in the Frioul by the Austrians is also announced , Letters from Trieste ol che 26 th ult ., announce the capituIatioH , on tho _pneyious day , ot Palma Nova to the Austrians , _wboeotoed the town . _L-ettei-3 from the head quarters ol Charles Albert at _Semma _Campanna , dated the 2 _BH _stafe that on the _evening of that day Peschiera h *& been completely invested

    The Milan Gazette of the 2 r , d announces afurtier advantage gained by the Picdmonteie army over t !»« Austrians . _Itsais : — ;

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 13, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13051848/page/6/