The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

lIER MA J I E SFT,.Y'SY I.is THEATRE.D. The tioibility,Gentrr, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public are respectray informed that there wilt be a Grand EXTRA NIGHT on THURSDAY next, the 11th of May, ou which occasion Madlle. JENNY LIND will appear as Maria in Donizettes Opera, entitled LA LIG - LIA DEL TIEGUIMENTO. n Eit bll s s.LY THEATRE. madame TADOLINI. It is respeetfully announced that this celebrated Artiste has ar rived and will appear forthwith in the part originally composed for her, Donizetti's Opera of LINDA DI CHAMUUNI. T "_ I-LEA.T RE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. LAST NIGHT BUT SIX. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. LAST GRAND MORNLYG PERFORMANCES. The public is respectfully informed that previous to the departure of the Equestrian Troupe, FOUR GRAND MORNING PERFORM- A . ..it:Es wilt be given on the following days, viz. :—Wednesday the 101. h, Friday the 12th, Monday the lath, and Tuesday the 16th inst. 'First Price as usual. No second Price. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. ILEA JIAJ EST Y'S TILLATKE. The Nobility Gentry, Subscriber; to the Opera, and the pub lic are respectfully informtd that TO-MORROW EVENING will be performed, Donizetti's Opera, entitled LCCItEZIA BORGIA. Lucrezia, Mdlle. Sofia Cruvelli, Orsini, Mdlle. Schwarz; Gen naro, Signor Garioni ; Gabetta, signor Bouche; and Alfonso, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the grand Ballet entitled ALMA. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-ottlce of the Theatre. The Free List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Doors oven at half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. LAST NIGHT BUT SIX. THIS EV I N ING The Festival of Flowers—The Gitanos—The Pyramid of Decan ten —The n'our Quarters of the Globe, &c., by Malls. Caroline Ma thilde, Palmyre Anato. Coralie Ducos, Amaglia, &c. ; MM. Fran con', Loisset, Newsome, Andre, Montero, Auriol, Leclair, Le Petite Loisset, &c. TO-MORROW MDLLE. PALMYRE ANATO'S BENEFIT. Doors open at halt-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management et Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be peformed the Comedy of THE PROVOKED HUSBAND. Sir Francis WronOtead, Mr. Farren ; Squire Richard, Mr. Keeley ; John Moody, Mr. Webster ; Lady Wronghead, Mrs. Glover ; Miss Jenny, Mrs. Keeley ; Lady Townly, Mrs. Nisbett. Alter which, a new Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Horace Walpole's mysterious production. and called THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley; the Marquis Vincenza, Mr. J. Bland ; Theodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Illp polito, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds ; Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield_ To conclude with HIS LAST LEGS. . tae manager, Mr. fanen ; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, .13ox-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Redford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank _Matthews, 3liss Turner, Ste. To conclude with a new Piece, entitled THE FOUNTAIN OF LEA ; or, the Child of Air. boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. oren at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed TUE SCARECROW. Principal characters by (FFls.Buckstone, Selby, Granby, and Chs.ries ; Mrs. C. Jones, Miss 1 ce,and Mrs. Fitswilliam. .titer which, an entirely new a nd original Classical Extravaganza, e n titled 'THESEUS and ARIADNE. ; or, the Marriage of Bachus. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, H. Hall, S. Smith, F. Cooke ; Miss litzwilinun, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. mar. namara. ess Boxes, 55.; tipper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, 18. No path pt-iee to any part of the house. The .."ew B o x-otilee, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the yublir e. vc ry day, trom Ten till Stx. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell, 33, o.d Bond-street. Second Appearance since 1845 of 51. Achard, and First Appearances in this Country et Mdlle. Desiree and .31. Julien Deschamps (of the Theatre du Gymnase, Paris). THIS EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at Eight o'clock with A new Comedie-vaudeville, entitled SUZANNE DE CROISSY. Croissy, M. Julien Deschamps; Chamailtae, M. Montaland ; Jeau, Josset ; Belgrade, M. Chatelain ~,Suzanne, Mdlle. Baptiste. To be followed by CHRISTOPHE LE CORDIER. Christophe Cordier, M. Achard; Le Vicom.e Charles D'Annezay, M. Jourdain ; Chignard de Clapieres, 31. Tourillon ; Patiirtn, M. Lucien ; Madame Rigaud, Madame st. Ange ; Madeliene, Mdlle. Desiree. To conclude with VEUVE PINCIION. Philippe, M. Achard ; Catherine, Mdlle. Desiree. i;oxes, bs.; 3s. fid.; Amphitheatre, 35.; Gallery, 2s Boxes and Stalls may be obtain d at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33. Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN (ot the Palais Royal, Paris).—The sur prising and interesting performances of ROBERT HOUDIN, having been received with the most enthusiastic adm , ration, be will con tinue his extraordinary SOIREEs FANTA,TR/UES at the St. James's Theatre, TO-MORROW and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evening, comprising Automates, Prestidigitation, Magic, and original experiments, invented by Robert Houdin. Also, Second Vun Escamotage de Roberts Houdin, ills, and Suspension Ethereene. Doors open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at half-past Eight, and terminate before Eleven. Boxes and stalls, may bo had at Mr. MITCHELL'S Royal Li brary, 33, Old Bond street and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven to Five. PRINC V E SS'S THEA.TItE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland-place. THIS EVEN LNG, Will be performed A DAY AT DOVER. After winch, a new Farce entitled MICHAELMAS DAT ; a Ro- Mance of the Thames. To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled ESMERALDA.; or, the Hunchback of _Notre Dame. Esmeralda, Mdlle Auriol. Ores.; Circle, 55.: Bexes, 45.; Pit, 21. ; Gallery, Is. „OPAL SURREY Under the direction of Br. Kerschner. THIS EVENING. Will he presented THE THREE RED MEN. Alter which, THE ifirSH TUTOR. To conclude with TIIE BRIDE OF THE BLEEDING HEART .7klanager anal Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrothcr. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Last Week but One of Mr. Van Amburgh's Engagement. Immense hit of the Easter Spectacle. Overflowing houses to wit ness the celebrated Mr. Van Ain Mrgli and his unequalled collection of trained animals, amongst which will be faund the greatest no ♦elty ever seen, a Black Tiger, the first ever known to mingle with other animals, and has hitherto been comidered untameable. THIS EVENINi, Will he presented a grand romantic Spectacle, written by Boyle Barnard. Esq., expressly to introduce Mr. Van Amburgh in his astounding performance, bounded upon a passage hi Eugene Sue's celebrated novel of " The Wandering Jew," and will be produced un der the title of MOROK, THE BEAST TAMER. Armand Dugard, Mr. Van Amburgh. The Spectacle will be succeeded by an incomparable routine of Mr. Batty's Scenes of the Arena, in which Signor Chianti' and Mdlle. arietta Orsinago, from Italy, will have the honour of appearing. To conclude with a Legendary petite Spectacle entitled, THE GOLDEN-FOOTED STEED ; or the Charmed horse of the Valley. During the recess the Theatre has been entirely re-decorated. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authent: etted by toe name and address c. the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHEIL.—SoN OFFICE, MAY 7. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 49 ; Highest, 70; NooD, 72. BAROMETER, 30.12. WIND S.S.W.; fine clear sunshiny weather. MAY S. Tuv.amostvrta, Lowest, 4 9 ; ili;*i.est, 71 ; Noon, 66. A.F.O3IETER, 30 1. WIND W.S.W., linht bre, ze, and fine sunshiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 21 mm. after 5 I Evening 45 .. min. after 5 4_1 . 4 t., • " ,, F • ''',.. di. '. ,• , • t.' 4 . eIT4, 1 ,, ,715 , ...01 OM • ' 4 , 4. ~., . All\ • P I4IS:' : : ---lbj: : ) _..7%.,Nr , ', e' . • ' - 4 1 1. IN - .; DI „. C'. A ‘, " ~,,,,, - ,f 4 • rit , a,i ' - —ilit.. , l - , .tr ~.. I, ''" — lftory ' t "!,, -"' - r. . , ..... ;s4' telli3l4 7-,:ii-----AL LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1848, On Saturday the Provisional Government solemnly abdicated from its dictatorship, resigning into the bands of the national representatives those powers which had been confided to it by the acclamations of the people—po wars, born like order from cha o s, emerging like light from darkness. Saturday, y 6, 1848, witnessed not only the formal abdication of the statesmen of the interregnum, it was rendered a day still more memorable in the calendar of the Republic by the explanatory reports delivered from the tribune of the Assembly by the Ministers of the different departments of administration. As Pro visional Minister of the Interior, M. LEDRU ROLLIN endeavoured by an assumption of integrity to justify the proceedings of his arrogant and unconsci eans p tious emissaries. M. CREMIEUX, in hi s ca p acit y the lenity, Minister of Justice, exp l a ined wa th b e ut the imperturbable resolution evi nced i u d a magistracy, and the solicitude -with which that vast and responsible body of admi nistrators had been and purified under his particular of " his noble friend, the CitizenSp eaki n A g L.B a E s it t .r h7 , :‘,I. c olleague ii oui s ofß LA Democracy—hisexpatiatedG es to as to the Organization of jabour,and endeavoured illustrate Ministry the necessity for the establishment of a pollistircja-1 oefonTseoieilneaensdofPrmo-. gress. Subsequently, th e CARsior, the Provisional Minister of Public Instruc tion, of M. GARNIEE. PAGES,IithuLo NProvisional Minister the Provisional of Finance, and of M. Bev deliberately pubbiriately and satin- of Commerce, were ne factorily shrived , to the 3nddindignation Saving, he 'Never, the alternate curiosity Legislators. addr i:ers" with evinced in the " rumeurs et cituchotei n y „ ' which the Deputies interrupted the LEDBAT Rows, or the exhaustion of voice of M. which compelled M. GARNIEB. PAGES to reserv e o l f c t h e e pero ration of his discourse for the columns niteur—the explanations of the Provisional the Gover nment would not have risen above an interest at once evanescent and mediocre, but for the circumstance, the man, and the oration by which they were intro duced. When the venerable Dtrtorn (de l'Eure) craved the indulgence of the National Assembly in conse quence of the abatement of his physical energies, when he entreated its members to permit the substitution of one of his colleagues as the deliverer of the pre amble to the different reports prepared by the Minis ters of the Provisional Government, and when, above all, President BUCEIEZ announced the name of that illustrious substitute by demanding a hearing for the Citizen LAMARTINE—no marvel that the Palace of the National Representatives resounded with their en thusiasm. For LAMARTINE is recognised throughout Christendom as the high priest of the political religion of France. With his name are identified all those beneficent acts of moderation which have proved the salvation of his country and have covered with an imperishable glory the councils of the Provisional Administration. His voice was not more audible when he apostrophized the tri colour from the staircase of the Hotel de Ville with the pikes of an infuriated rabble at his breast, and their swords brandished before his noble and unblenched visage, than it has been in every one of those benign proclamations which have, from time to time, testified to Europe the purity, the amenity, and the disin terestedness of French republicanism. His hand was not more visible in the composition of his celebrated manifesto to the diplomatists of the eastern hemisphere than it has been in each of those memorable deerees which have afforded practical testim onies of the reign of fraternity. In spite of this, LAN/ART:NE on behalf of himself and his provisional associates ap pealed for forgiveness to the National Assembly. "Citizen representatives," said he, "bestow . upon us an amnesty for our involuntary. d,tctatorship— Aranestiez noire dictature incolontatre. An am nesty I Yes : the amnesty of France will be her eternal gratitude. Without following the orator throughout his brilliant address, a translation of which will be found elsewhere, we cannot but direct attention to a few of those sudden ebullitions of eloquence with which he stirs up the whole soul, enthralls the senses, and entranc es th e imagination of a multitude. It was in a splendid m oment of inspiration that, referring to the abolition of the punishment of death as the first act of the people after their emancipation on the 24th of February, he exclaimed—" France and Europe com prehended (in that a c t) th a t G OD h a d i n truth h i s in spirations in the crowd, and that a revolution in augurated by gr ea t ness o f sou l , wou l d b e pure as an idea, magnanimous as a sentiment, and holy as a virtue—La France et L'Europe comprirent que DIEU avait sex inspirations dans la foule, et qu'une re volution inauguree par la grandeur d'ame serait pure comme une idee, magnanime comme un senti ment, sainte comme une vertu." In a con enial spirit he spoke of the people during the crises of the Revolution thus :—" Each citizen at Paris was at one and the same moment a soldier of liberty, and a spontaneous magistrate of order— " Cheque citoyen a Paris etait a la fois soldat de la liberty et magistrat volontaire de l'ordre." Remem bering, indeed, the glorious conduct of those citizens during the three days of February, and long after wards, posterity will corroborate the panegyric of LAMARTINE ; and, bearing in recollection two inci dents of this final Revolution—the abolition of capital punishment, and the reverence paid to the marble crucifix of the Tuileries—the historian will date the close of that famous month of February as the epoch in which the predilection of the humane romancist was realised—" The cross shall re place the gibbet !" 4 Congratulating himself and his compatriots upon the result of their recent endea vours, M. DE LAMARTINE thus gives articulate mean ;rig to his emotions :—" Thanks be to GOD, who has never more evidently manifested his intervention in the cause of the people and of the human mind—thanks be to that people itself, which has never more majestically revealed its treasures of reason, of civ ism, of generosity, of patience, of morality, of that true civilization which fifty years of imperfect freedom has matured in its soul, we have been enabled to accomplish, very imperfectly without doubt, but not without good fortune, a portion of that immense and pe rilous labour of which events have imposed upon us the responsibility. We have founded the Republic, that government declared to be im possible in France, unless accompanied by foreign JL. , r411 , 1 , 1, we have shown the Republic to be happily compatible with European peace, with internal tranquillity, with voluntary order, with individual liberty, with the sweetness and the serenity of the manners of a nation to whom hatred is an abomination, and to whom har mony is a national instinct." In a preceding portion of his harangue, this great orator had pre-explained his meaning as to the source of the proclamation of the Republic, and he had done so in these vivid and burning words—words that moved the heart of the Assembly as the sound of the trumpet stirs the heart of the war horse— " The throne subversed, the dynasty self-exiled, we did not proclaim the Republic : it had been already proclaimed by th? mouth of an entire people : we only recorded the cry of the nation." Of the many passages of this oration, however, which appear to us suffused with the glory of a superb elo quence, the last perorative sentence appears to us to be the very noblest. It is the sublime aspiration that History, in recounting the great deeds just accom plished by France, will apportion her eulogiums with justice. " May she," exclaimed LAMARTINE, " in- dead of the obscure and perishable names of men who have devoted themselves to the com• mon safety, inscribe upon her pages two names alone—the name of the people who have saved all, Ind the name of Goo who has blessed all, upon the foundations of the Republic." Nobly, bravely, generously, sublimely, has the Provisional Govern ment abdicated with that farewell aspiration en its lips--on tile lips, at least, of its illustrious leader, the poet, statesman, orator, historian, LAMARTINE. The United Irishman has again appeared, and on this occasion without having been subjected to the indignity of a lawyer's revision, as a guarantee for the moderation of its contents, and for the safety of the parties who would in any manner aid or assist in its publication. One printer, or we should rather say machine-owner, only in the Irish metropolis could be found with sufficient hardihood to endorse the politi cal acceptances of Mr. MITCHELL without such a col lateral security, an d h e , it appears , was on ly enabl e d to print half the usual quantity of matter. Eight pages, therefore, only appeared on Saturday, and the falli ng o ff i s not limited to the quantity alone, but th e qua li ty h as also deteriorated very consider ably, at least i n th e op i n i on of all those who admire a good, high-spiced, unequivocal, se diti ous , o r treason able article. In the l a tt er respect, it place of b e i ng f u ll y up t o th e mar k in the form er a l ternative , involves the editor e himself g eand this, althou g h he was indulge allowed to in to T the full e x t en t o f hi s his own discretio n (M r. Mi influence s l.'s di scret i on !! !) the unfettered by any external n Notwithstanding the bombast and fury whatsoever. y, there a a n high sounding language and pretended fearlessness, is a manifest withdrawal from the position d two short weeks ago, before the Crow n assumed but Govern ment Security Bill had as yet become the lanwiof.th: land. When mere words c o uld not by a pssn lit have been regarded as an act of treason, Mr. - CIIBLL declared that be would speak high treas on ; b u t now that his wish m a y be g ratified, at least to the extent of felony, he pursues a more prudent course, and has undoubtedly studied the provisions of the law with the most critical and attentive considera tion,to understand how far he may go wite s u o t a b s e cly being en tangled in its meshes. He still sneers at the distinguished Nobleman who so worthily fills the viceroyalty of Ireland, but " Heti! mihi quanto muiabus ab illo llectore." He no longer calls upon the multitude to smash in Dublin Castle, or gives instructions as to the most approved method of waging war against the mili tary and police. lie is now contented with address• lo g G. W. F. VILLIERS, Englishman, as if in condo lence, because the Irish will not gratify him (?) by rising T in open r e b e lli on . This i s no t a ll . H e tr i es to snea k f ro m his former topics under th e gu i se o f a quarre l w ith hi s quondam associates. It appears that Messrs. O'BRIEN and Mx "HER were by no means p re p a red to "go the whole hog" with the prosecuted patriot, and that th e i r differences are of older standing than either the Li mer i ck demonstration, or even than the * In his Derniers J ur s dun Condamne, Victor Hugo has uttered that prophetic sentence—that sentence pro phetic of the revolution of February. atrocious attack upon the memory of O'CONNELL, which so highly exasperated the people. Mr. MIT CHELL says—" The truth is, that before any o f us went to Limerick at all, and before the objectionable paragraph was printed in the United Irishman, Mr. O'BRIEN intimated to me his aversion to any public association with me, and his strong wish that I should not accompany him and Mr. MEAGHER in their proposed tour to the south, in which they con templated the holding of meetings at New Ross, Waterford, Cork, and Limerick. lat once yielded to his wish, and undertook to use the leisure which must intervene before the trial in visiting some towns of Ulster, in company with my friend Mr. MARTIN. Mr. MARTIN, however, being confined to his house by an accident, and not being able to make any preliminary engagements, I accepted an invitation to some meetings in England, and actually went to England, but was suddenly recalled by the Attorney-General, who required my presence in Dublin. I then went to Limerick on the special invitation of the Committee of the Limerick Re pealers." So then, after all, JOHN MITCHELL was an unwelcome intruder upon the territory of his asso ciates—the other members of what was once the triumvirate who probably anticpated the warm re ception he would receive from the Southerners. He then enters fully into the nature of the differences, and fairly reveals the dissensions that really existed among the members of that apparently happy family the Irish Confederation, and which led to the threatened resignation of Mr. O'BRIEN on Monday last—a resignation which he was only induced to recal upon being assured that Mr. MITCHELL and his fidus Achates, Mr. DEVIN REILLY, would wholly withdraw from the society, and leave him without a rival near the throne. This was acceded to, and letters were sent in by those gentlemen, stating—and certainly in fair and moderate terms—the true reason of their withdrawal. The truth, however, did not suit the managers of the Confederation, and the resignations were ascribed to the Limerick occur rences—a line of conduct which Mr. MITCHELL con siders by no means justifiable. Two circumstances are now perfectly clear from the publication to which we have adverted ; first, that the differences and dissensions that exist among even the leaders of the Confederation, and the " Young Ireland" party generally, are such as to render them utterly feeble as a body, and to prevent the possibility of any real danger to the well-dis posed and loyal inhabitants of the country ; and, secondly, that the new Act has proved more effica• cious than even its most strenuous advocates could have expected, and that so long as its salutary pro visions are in force the writers in the United Iri s h. nian and the Nation, the declaimers in the Confederation and at the various meetings throughout the country, " et hoc-genus omne," will take good care to keep themselves free from the penalties that may be incurred for " open and advised speaking and writing," and that they will prefer remaining in Ire land even under what they are pleased to term " the Saxon domination," to making a voyage at the national expense to the British settlements at Norfolk Island or Macquarrie Harbour. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1848 SPAIN. Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been received. An ex-Deputy named PASCUAL has been arrested on a charge of conspiring against the Government. The grand review and annual procession of the Dos de May passed off without disorder. The Bolsa was closed. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and of yesterday. Theyesult of the election:of President on Friday we gave in The Sun of Saturday. It was not announced to the Chambers until six o'clock. It was then proposed to proceed to_the election of Vice-Presidents, secre taries, and questors. This was vehemently opposed by the ultra party, who moved the adjournment of the Assembly to the next day, their object being to gain time, in order to bring the Clubs to act on the _t• • 44—mot;„,, Tn thi, however, they were unsuccessful. The ballot pro ceeded, and the following were the results : For the Vice-Preside nt, the number of members voting was 727, and the votes were thus distributed:— M. Recurt, 633; M. Cavaignac, 575; M. Corbon, 397; M. Guinard, 378; M. Cormenin, 319; M. Senars, 315. The election for the six secretaries gave the following Peupin, 365; M. Robert, 333; M. De georges, 325; M. Myatt, 322; M. Lacrosse, 287; M. l'ean, 252; M. Dlathey, 208; M, Vignerte, 200; M. E. Lafayette, 198; M. Ham, 177; M. Froussard, 113. The six first, havinc , obtaieed the sufficient number of votes, were declared duly elected. The definitive bureau of the Assembly being now con stituted, the temporary President and Secretaries yielded up their places to their successors. Bucht z, the definitive President, then addressed the Assembly, thanking them for the honour conferred on him. "I accept this honour," he said, "as a duty, and I hope that you will render my duty an easy one. Never, in fact, in any assembly was there such an au thority as in this, for you have been elected by millions of suffrages; you represent the unity of France; you have manifested her full and entire will in proclaiming the republic.—(Hear, hear.) We have pledged our selves, being elected by all, to pay attention to the wants of all—(Hear)—and particularly of the poorer classes, for whom no one bas ever done anything.—(Applause.) We shall not act like the fallen Government; we shall not shut our eyes; we shall not adjourn the questions which we ought to discuss.—(No, no!) All of them shall be resolved, slowly perhaps, but with the wisdom and experience of men representing a great nation— tßravo!)—a nation slow to act, but always acting in a determined, positive, and complete manner.—(Loud applause.) It now only remains for one to thank our worthy Senior Deputy, which I do most heartily. I now declare, that as the bureau has been installed, the National Assembly is definitely constituted : Vive la Republique!' " The whole Assembly then rose, and repeated several times the cry of " Vive la Republique!" The following Members were then elected questors:— Degou44, 439 votes; M. Bureaux de Puzy, 338; General Negrier, 296. The sitting was brought to a close at half-past twelve. The Vice-Presidents, Secretaries, and Questors, all belong to-the Lamartine-Marrast party. The President, in addressing the Chamber, used the title Citizen, and the Moniteur, in its official re ports, invariably now substitutes Citoyen for Monsieur. Citizen BudHzz, in the exercise of his right as President of the Chamber, has laid it down as a rule that there must not be any manifestation of approbation or disapprobation among the Members— thus depriving strangers in the galleries of all excuse for interfering in the discussions, as was their wont during the first revolution. On Saturday the Assembly met at half-past one o'clock. Some returns of new members were reported, and declared valid. A discussion arose. on the election of Abbe Fayet and M. Demoie for the Lozere; and it was decided that an inquiry should be instituted as to the circum stances of the case, bribery being alleged against these two gentlemen. M. Martin (of Strasburg) stated to the Assembly that, having been appointed reporter by the bureau to whom the circumstances connected with the election of M. Schmidt as one of the thirty-four representatives of the Seine had been submitted for examination, he bad to declare that the bureau was of opinion that the electors had been led into error by the epithet of ' workman' affixed to that person's name, and that in consequence a great number of votes had been given contrary to the intentions of the voters; M. Schmidt, it appeared, was in reality an author, and could not, by person ,t. r n of , the tahiem in personsanmo not for f of f r S rt ih teu m r i n d e t d. any possibility, come fairly under the denomination of workman. It appeared, beside, that more than one had to recommend the bad stood for the honour for rretphreesenting Paris, and that many votes were intended amongst bur A ea f u person A 8 s w lenr a h whose yn consequence n e e tin neeul figuredthet he After some discussion for and against this opinion, ethic: t A i° L — m ( b A ly gi d t e a c ti l ° ar n. e ) d the election of M. Schmidt to be null and void.—(C ons i derable agitation.) The question then arose as to how the vacant place was to be supplied—whether by a new election or by admitting as member of the Assembly the candidate who had been next on the list after the 34 names of whom Schmidt was one. M. Bert . ) er observed that the case was perfectly simple. There had evidently been error es in the votin g , m any Schmidts having been candidates, and the vot es a I elected. given to all the person s o f t h at naase being eventually ce ntred in one who , a c cor d i n gly , had been But, was it not evident that if each Schmidt had r e . ceived the complement of votes intended for him one of them wo uld have had a sufficiency to be returned not r And, further , was it not logical that the 35th candidate ? was duly elected and legally entitled to a seat in the Assembly? He certainly thought that no new election was called for, and be consequently should propose to have the nest name in the list after the 34th returned, to have the 35th candidate declared a member of the Chamber. M. Flocon observed that, in this first esercis© of the been found necessary right of universal suffrage, it had to have recourse to such minute inquiry relative to the candidates as would distinguish future elections. All the guide that many electors had to trust to in giving their votes was public notoriety. But in the case under discussion such a guide had been found an erroneous one, and a person designated as a workman in the pre liminary lists, was afterwards found not to belong to ' the working classes. The votes of the electors who had been thus led into error ought, he conceived, to return to them intact, with full power to exercise their right of suffrage as they pleased. You, continued the Hon. Member, addressing the Assembly, you who are the representatives of the sovereign power of the people —why should you interfere with the exercise of the right which has sent you here ? You have no right to interfere with the right of voting given to the people ; you should let them use it with the utmost freedom. — (Hear, hear.) Hence I propose to you to call on the electors of the Seine to proceed to a new election for a Member in the place of the person whose election has just been annulled.—(Hear.) Several other speakers followed, and the conversation became exceedingly noisy. Indeed, throughout the whole proceedings the Honourable Representatives evinced a warmth of manner and an exercise of voice which would be thought unnecessary, if not indecorous, in England. At last the President consulted the As sembly on the propriety of terminating the discussion, which was replied to affirmatively. The Assembly then proceeded to declare their opinion by a show of bands. The first being declared doubtful, a second was proceeded to, and that being also not suffi ciently decisive, a ballot was ordered by the President. The votes were then given with the following result: — Number of voters Absolute majority 357 For a new election For the 35th candidate Majority —ll6 A new election was accordingly ordered. The next business before the Chamber was the re port of the Provisional Government relative to their con duct in assuming and exercising their power since the revolution of February. M. Dupont (de l'Eure),: to whom the task of reading this document devolved, would request the Assembly to permit M. de Lamartine to relieve him of a task which would be too much for his strength. M. de Lamartine ascended the tribune and said— Citizens, I am abont to read to you the report of the Provisional Government:— " Citizen Representatives—At the moment when you are entering on the exercise of your sovereignty—at the moment when we deliver back into your hands the powers d'urgence which the revolution had entrusted us provi sionally, we owe you, in the first place, an account of the situation in which we found, and then one of that in which you yourselves found, the country. A revolution broke out on Feb. 24, the people overturned the Throne, and swore on its ruins to reign from that time forward alone and altogether by itself. It charged us with the task of provisionally providing for the necessities and dangers of the interregnum which it had to traverse, in order to arrive with order and without anarchy at its unanimous and definitive reign. Our first thought was to abridge that interregnum, by immediately convoking the representatives of the nation, in whom alone exist right and strength. Plain citizens, without any other call on us than that of public danger without any other title but our devotedness, almost trembling, to accept, and most anxious to restore the destinies which had been confided to us for the good of our country, we had only one am bition, that of speedily delivering over the dictatorship to the sovereignty of the people. The Throne being overturned, and the dynasty departing into exile, it was not we who proclaimed the Republic—it proclaimed it self by the mouth of a whole people.—(Loud applause.) All we did was to write down what the cry of the na tion called for."—(Renewed applause.) The President wished to remind the Assembly that however legitimate and justly called for might be the expression of its approbation, still a document like the present ought to be listened to in the deepest silence. M. de Lamartine in continuation—" The first thought after the proclamation was directed to that which was most important—the re-establishment of order and se curity in Paris. In that task, which would have been more difficult and more meritorious at another time and in another country, we were aided by the co-opera tion of the great body of citizens ; whilst it still held, with one hand, the musket with which it had just burst like a thunderstroko on the King and his family, with the other it protected the life and property of the inhabitants—preserved from injury the public monuments. Each citizen at Paris was at the same time the soldier of liberty and the volunteer magistrate of order.—(Profound applause.) History has enregistered the innumerable acts of heroism, probity, and disinter estedness which characterised the first days of the Re public. Hitherto flattery had been lavished on the people in speaking of its virtues—posterity, which never flatters, will find no expressions adequately strong to do justice to the dignity and bearing of the people of Paris. It was that people which inspired us with the idea of the first decree destined to assign its true signification to the victory—the decree for abolishing the penalty of death in political matters. It inspired that decree, adopted it, and signed it, by the acclamation of 290,000 voices on the Place do l'Hotel de Ville and the neigh bouring quays. Not one cry of anger protested. France and Europe comprehended that God had his inspirations in that crowd, and that a revolution inaugurated by greatness of soul, would be pure as an idea, magnani mouse as a sentiment, holy as a virtue.—(Applause.) 1 - ca nag, ft crutitc,l F..t au ;natant, DOC as a Sy:lll,A of menace and disorder, but as a momentary flag of victory, was put aside by the combatants themselves, in order to place the Republic under the protection of that tri-coloured flag which had defended its cradle, and carried the glory of our armies over every continent and sea. After having established the authority of the Go vernment in Paris, the next step was to have the Republic acknowledged in the departments, in Algeria, and in the army. Telegraphic dispatches and couriers sufficed. France, the colonies, the troops, of their own accord, acknowledged the Republic. There was no resistance from any quarter. Our second thought was for the exterior. Europe, in a state of indecision, awaited the first word of France ; that first word was the abolition de facto and de jure of the reactionary treaties of 1815, liberty restored to our foreign policy, the declaration of peace for territories; of sympathy for nations, of justice, good faith,and moderation for govern ments. France by that manifesto disarmed her ambition but did not disarm her ideas—she let her principle of action shine forth fully. Her war went no further. The special report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs will show you what this system of open diplomacy has produced for France, and what it will, in all likeli hood, still produce for France. That policy commanded the Minister of War to adopt measures in harmony with that s) stem of armed negotiation. He established, with our walls, energy, discipline which had been shaken; he called berako:ve forwd honour, to Paris, the army, a moment m when the people were given a The people thenceforward in vincible, soon demanded, with loud cries, that their rracitfhro m themselves. brothers in the army should be restored to them—not as a security, but an ornament to the capital. The army in Paris was no longer anything but an honourable gar rison, destined to prove to our brave soldiers that the capital of the common country belonged to all her chil dren. We, in addition, decreed the immediate formation of a council of defence, and the formation of four dis tricts of observation—that of the Alps, the Rhine, the North, and the Pyrenees. Our navy, confided to the guidance of the same Minister, was placed under the command of officers who soon brought it to such a state of discipline as vigilance de manded. The fleet of Toulon went to show our colours to the friends of France on the shores of the Mediterranean. The army of Algiers had not an hour's, not a minute's hesitation the Republic and the country were confounded in their thoughts in the same sentiment of duty. An officer whose republican senti ments and talents were pledges alike to the army and to the revolution, General Cavaignac, received the com mand of Algeria. Corruption, which bad penetrated into the most sacred institutions, obliged the Minister of Justice to effect certain purifications called for loudly by the public voice. It was necessary to separate promptly the J udicial situations from everything political. The Minister with grief, but with an inflexible hand, effected the separation. In proclaiming tho Republic, the cry of France had not proclaimed merely a form of government, it had proclaimed a principle. The principle in question was that of practical democracy, equality by rights, and fraternity by institutions. The revolution accomplished by the people ought to be organized in our opinion, for the profit of the people, by a continued series of frater nal and tutelary institutions, calculated to confer regularly on all conditions, individuals, dignity, in struction, wages, m orality, elements of labour, corn fort, assistance, and accession to property which should suppress the servile name of proletaire, and elevate the working man to the height of possessing the right, the of the first-born to property. To duty, and well-being elevate and enrich the one without degrading the other; to preserve property a nd render it more fruitful by mul tiplying it and dividing it amongst a greater number; to distribute the taxes in such a way as to cause the heaviest weight to fall on the strongest; to create by the State the work which should ppen to fail by tho fact of •dated s o that not a workman in capital being intinst France should remain without bread; in:fine, to examine, with the workmen themselves, the practical and true phenomena of association, and the theories, still proble matical, of the various systems, in order to discover the true application. Such was the idea of the Provisional Government in all the decrees of which it confided the execution to the Ministe r of Finance, to the Minister of Public Works, and finally to the Committee at the Luxembourg, a laboratory of ideas, a preparatory con gress of labour presided over by two members of the Government itself.—(Great applause.) The fall of the monarchy, the disorder of the finances, the mo mentary declassification of an immense mass of work men from the various manufactories ; the public debt of nearly a milliard, which the fallen Government had accumulated ; tke industrial and commercial crisis which prevailed everywhere on the Continent, and which took place at the same time with the political crisis of Paris ; the enormous accumulation of railway and other shares; in fine, the imagination of the country, which always goes beyond the truth in periods of political disturbance or social terror, had dried up the capital that gave work —had caused specie to disappear—and had suspended free and voluntary labour, the only labour sufficient for 35,000,000 of people. It was necessary to supply that want provisi ona lly, or be false to a ll the p rinci p les, all t he se ntiments of prudence, all the necessities of succour, put forth by the Republic. The Minister of Finance will tell you how these difficulties relative to labour and credit were met, whilst waiting for t he moment, at length come round, when confidence restored to men's minds, should restore capital into the bands of the manufac turers and wages to the workman. The Department of Public Instruction and Worship, placed in the same band, was, as respected Government, a manifestation of inten tion, and for the country a forecast of the new situation which the Republic was determined to enter into, for the double necessity of a system of national instruction and of more real independence of worship, equal and free before the human conscience and the law. The Minis ter of Agriculture and Commerce—a department quite separated by its nature from political matters —esuld only prepare with zeal, and sketch out with sagacity, the new institutions called on, to turn to better account the first of useful arts; he stretched forth the hand of the state to the suffering interests of commerce, which you alone can restore by security. Such were cur dif ferent and incessant solicitudes. Thanks to Provi dence, who never manifested in a more evident man ner His interference in the cause of the people arid of the human mind—thanks to the people themselves, who never better exhibited the treasures of reason, generosity, patience, morality, and real civilisation, which fifty years of imperfect liberty have elaborated in their souls—we have been able to accomplish, though very imperfectly, no doubt, yet still not without some success, a part of the immense and perilous task which events flung on our shoulders.—(Cheers.) We have fkainded the Republic, that government declared impossible in France on any other conditions than a foreign war, a civil war, anarchy, prisons, and the :car% fold; we have shown the Republic to be perfectly coin• patible with peace with Europe, with voluntary order, with liberty of the subject, with gentleness and mildness in the habits of a people for whom hatred is a hesvy punishment, and harmony a natural instinct; which have promuleated the great principles of equality, fraternity, and unity; which must, by developing them selves every day more and more in our laws, made by all and for all, accomplish the unity of people by the unity of the representation. We have rendered the right of the citizen universal, by rendering universal the right of election, and universal suffrage has re sponded to our decision. We have armed the whole people in the National Guard, and the whole people has responded to us, by consecrating the arms which we be stowed to the unanimous defence of the country, of order, and of the laws. We have passed forty-five days without any other executive force than the moral autho rity, the rights of which the nation was pleased to re cognise in us; and that people consented to let itself be governed by words, by our counsels, by its own generous inspirations. We have passed through more than two months of crisis, of cessation of work, of misery, of elements of political agitation and social anguish accumulated in innumerable masses throughout a capital of a million and a half of inhabitants, without property beingviolated, without a life being menaced by anger, without a single proscription or political impri sonment, or a drop of blood shed in our name having cast a shade of sadness on the Government in Paris. — (Great cheering.) We may redescend from that long dictatorship on the public street, and mix ourselves with the people, without any one being able to ask us What have you done as a citizen?' Before calling the National Assembly to Paris we completely assured its security and independence by arming and organizing the National Guard, and by giving it for its protectors the whole armed people. Factions are no longer possible in a Republic, where there are no divisions between political and non-political citizens, between armed and unarmed citizens. Every one has his right, every one has his weapon. In such a state of things, insurrection is no longer the extreme right opposed to oppression; it would be a crime. He who would separate himself from the people is no longer of the people. This is the unanimity which we have made; perpetuate it, for in it consists the common safety. Citizen representatives, our work is accomplished; yours commences. The presentation even of a plan of government, or of a project of a constitution, would be on our parts a rash prolongation of power, or an en croachment on your sovereignty. We disappear now that you are assembled to receive the Republic from the hands of the people. We shall only allow one counsel, one wish, and that is our title of citizens, and not as members of the Provisional Government. That wish, citizens, France participates with us. It is that you lose not time—that principal element of human affairs. After having absorbed in yourselves the sovereignty, do not allow a fresh interregnum to weaken the springs of the country. Let a commencement of government issue from your bosom. Do not permit the power to float for a moment, precarious and provisional, over a country which has need of government and security. Let a committee on a constitution, emanating from your suf frages, introduce without delay, into your deliberations, the simple mechanism, brief and democratic, of the constitution, the organic and secondary laws of which you can discuss at your leisure. In the mean time, as members of the Government, we remit our powers into your hands. We also submit to your judgment with the fullest confidence all our acts; we only ask you to take into account all the difficulties we have had to en counter. Our conscience reproaches with no intentional wrong. Providence has favoured our efforts. Grant us an amnesty for our involuntary dictatorship. All our ambition at present is to return to the tranquillity of good citizens. Then only the history of our dear country will write down with indulgence, ned in a grade far below the things effected by France, the recital of those three months passed in a sort of vacuum between a monarchy which had fallen to pieces and a republic to be established ; and in place of the obscure and for gotten names of the men who devoted themselves to the common safety, may only two names be inscribed on the historical page—that of the people who saved everything, and of God, who threw a blessing on everything con nected with the foundation of the Republic !"—(Tre mendous cheering, which was renewed three several times.) As the Honourable Member withdrew to his place he was warmly felicitated by his friends, and on his ar riving close to M. Dupont (do l'Eare) the old man embraced him with transport. The President—l think that the best mode of proceed ing will be to follow the line of succession adopted by M. de Lamartine.—(Assent.) I therefore call on the Minister of the Interior to present his report. M. Ledru Rollin, Provisional Minister of the Interior —Citizen representatives,—Called to the Provisional Go vcrnment by the wishes of the people, I owe you an account of the administration of the Department of the Interior, which was confided to me.---(Movement or curiosity.) You will not expect from me long details. Ready as I am to reply to all your interpellations, I confine myself to a rapid exposé of our acts, and of the motives by which they were dictated. Carried to the Government by the triumph of Republican principle, for which I have combatted all my life—for from my delnit to this day I have never varied—l have resolutely de fended its maintenance. The deep faith which I have always avowed to it when it was persecuted cannot but be strengthened by its striking and glorious victory at Paris, and its unanimous acclamation throughout all France. Convinced that the safety of the country depends on the complete development of all the conse quences of the revolution, I have watched over it with a jealous care. I have wished that on all points of the territory it should be respected and understood. At the same time it was necessary, by prompt and decisive measures, to prevent any attack on order, and to reunite the cord of the administration which had been violently broken. This twofold idea suggested the sending into the departments commissaries invested with unlimited powers.—(Murmurs.) Unli mited powers! This necessary word has been laid hold of to direct against me the most violent attacks. In or der to judge of it, it is necessary to go' back two months, and then it will be understood, and it will be also com prehended, that on 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 devotedness, and of civic faith, they would penetrate the country with the idea which they had rendered triumphant. Doubt less many among them were not administrators. Who can contest that point ? The question does not lie there. Soldiers were necessary to continue and propagate the victory, and particularly to render it durable and pacific. That faults have been committed is very possible. When I was informed of them I did not hesitate to revoke them. But let any one bring forward, in the midst of this great and rapid movement, a single serious attack against the rights of citizens by those firm and courageous men, whom it has not been feared to designate as Pro-Consuls. The citizens have replied to it by giving their votes to the greater number of those who are now assembled among you. More over, the instructions sent by me, and which have served as the pretext of so many outcries, were indispensable. I should not have written them, bad they not been created by the force of circumstances a se. Being the emanation of a revolutionary e, I could not transmit a regular and limited authority. Placed in face of unforeseen events, I should have been guilty of weakening my agents by rules above which the safety of the country had raised us. I moreover knew, and I have said it, that the moral responsibility which ac companies the momentary exercise of great power prevents and corrects the abuse of it; that it is necessary to give beforehand the means of overcoming all obsta cles, in order that obstacles shall not present themselves. —(Hear, hear.) My public instructions, the firmness of which had more particularly for object to remove for ever guilty hopes, have been every day explained by my correspondence. lam ready to submit to the Assembly the voluminous documents of that labour, and I have no fear of its finding one dispatch which does not bear the imprint at once of an ardent desire to make the revolu tion triumph, and of a constant desire for conciliation, order, and peace.—(Applause). It is to the attainment of this twofold object that all my efforts nave been di rected. I should have been inconsistent with my former life, I should have given the lie to the doctrines which I have constantly professed, if I had not been at the same time the man of the revolution who would transform society and the country, and the man of the government who accomplishes :progress by the power of ideas, and proscribes all appeal to disorder and violence. It is thus that in a few days I caused the National Guard of Paris to be armed and equipped, and en d eavoure d ( at least by making known my wishes) to do the same with that of the departments, persuaded that a disciplined musket was an instrument of order, because it was the symbol of the dignity of the eitizen.—(Cries of " Yes, yes.") I provided for the organization, the clothing, and the support of tl , s Garde Mobile; to the creation of this sedentary oorps destined to maintain order in this great city; to the formation of a new institution, that of the Gardiens de Paris, connecting by an indissoluble bond the municipal and the judicial police, and placing public security under a constant surveillance. In the days of trouble and uneasiness I watched unceasingly; it is by an absolute devotedness to my duties that I replied to the infamous calumnies of which I have been the object. s I have never seen in this unexampled invective anything but an additional reason to intrepidly defend a cause which the fury of some senseless persons wished to com promise in my person. I had confidence in the good sense of the nation, in the justice of the Assembly, and I thought that, soldier of the revolution, I should suffer everything for it, and not lose, in noticing odious false hoods, the precious time which its services demanded. All my acts, moreover, are public; then free dis t cussion t lelongs to you, and now that your sovereignty . • discharges me from the burden of affairs, all private calumny will find me ready to confound it. I have passed through the most difficult circumstances by re maining within the limits of my budget. I prepartei and organiz 'd in three weeks the application of univers suffrage, and nevertheless, allow me to tell you, that it by some I am accused of some errors in its detail, suffi cient allowance has not been made for the infinite al.d persevering labour by which I have been able throueil out the whole extent of the Republic to bring into operation a mode of election which only three months since was declared to be impossible. For my own part, I shall be proud of having been the instrument of this first act of virility on the part of a people recover ing its rights. Proceeding on these general prin ciples, I should have wished to have introduced into the mechanism of the administration changes destined to render it more simple and more demo cratic. I thought that those reforms should not be either isolated or partial, and that they would be more ' wisely accomplished by him who would hold a defini tive power from your sovereignty. I feared to throw dis order into the administrative action at a moment when it was most essential to preserve its regularity. And besides—why should I conceal it? lam more particu larly anxious to save the revolution and order. I wished to preserve to the victory of the people its grandeur, ha purity, and its social bearing; I also wished, in defend irg it against the snares and attacks of reaction, to shelter it from the violence of ambition and of dangerous impatience. Thus when, replying to an imprudent pro ceeding, the whole population of Paris came unarmed to surround the Provisional Government with its pacific waves, I unreservedly united myself with this solemn demonstration; but on the day when some madmen en deavoured to pervert the sense and the result of a similar manifestation, I did not hesitate to oppose it. It was by my orders that the rappel was beaten, and that the Na- Lionel Guard, which is now the country, assembled to mix with the citizens who were not armed, and to protest against any violent attempt.—(Approbation.) This re solution, 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 con quer the world elaborated themselves. As inflexible against ambitions which provoke coups de main as against reactions which enchain revolutionary movement, I have always considered that a statesman should march with l i a firm step between the dreams of utopists and sec tarians, and the rebellious tenacity of egotistical in terests. One does not truly rely but on ideas which are ripe. Veritable superiority consists in distinguishing those measures which may reasonably be put in practice. The hand of the people has now torn away the veil. Doubt is no longer possible for any one. Imprudent and culpable would be he who would wish to stop the revolution by the sterile conquest of political forms. These forms are but an instrument of liberty placed in the hands of the nation called on henceforth to estab lish itself. For it the path is traced out and the object indicated. It is to realise in social order the dogma of equality and fraternity that all our efforts ought to tend. Supporters of that holy cause, we shall be worthy of our mission, in accepting it in its full bearing, and by it we shall not only have restored man to his natural dignity, but we shall have secured the glory and the happiness of our common country, and contributed to the eman cipation of the world.—(Applause.) M. CREMIEUX, the Minister of Justice, then pre sented his report, which did not produce any great effect. Still less effective was the address of M. Louis BLANC which followed, and which was, of course, on the organization of labour. The report of M. GARNIER PAGES, the Finance Minister, was completely inaudible. The Hon. Minister's voice failed at the commencement, and he completely broke down before he had concluded. The President consulted the Chamber as to the propriety of sitting on Sunday, but a large majority declared themselves against Sunday sittings. An observation of one of the Members, to the effect that the Assembly ought not to suspend its sittings until the public safety should have been assured, drew from Citizen CAUSSIDIERE, the Prefect of Police (a member of the Ledru Rollin and Barbes party), a declaration that at present the state of public security was per. fect. The Assembly adjourned at six o'clock. They have yet to receive the report of Citizen LAMARTINE on Foreign Affairs. It is said that it was on Satur day the duty of Barbes regiment of National Guards to furnish a guard to the Assembly, but that by ex press orders the duty had been transferred to another regiment. The Grand National fete is fixed for the 14th. The Moniteur gives an official contradiction to the report that the Army of the Alps had been ordered to enter Piedmont. The Constitutionnel states that the port of Cher bourg is to, be put in a complete state of defence. Besides the immense quantity of cannon with which the bastions and ramparts are provided, the dyke is to be defended by floating batteries, composed of old ships. It was for this purpose that a battery has been sent from Vincennes. In the same journal we find the following : " We are assured that, at seven o'clock yesterday morning, the drummers of the 2d legion took an order to all the National Guard of the arrondissement to pro. coed, in uniform and without arms, to the customary place of meeting. At nine o'clock, a great number i.t them had answered the appeal, and were at the rendez vous. They then mutually interrogated each other to the motives of the convocation. It was said that the Colonel, M. ClCuent Thomas, had called theta in conse quence of orders from Genetal Courtais, to make a poli tical demonstration. What was the meaning of the de monstration which was demanded from them? The ex planations which were given were various. It was in tended, said some, to offer to the Provisional Government a striking act of adhesion to the Republic; whilst others pretended that it was intended to offer an expression of sympathy to M. Lamartine, in reply to a demonstration made on the preceding day by some citizens in favour of of M. Ledru Rollin. The National Guards, remem bering that a demonstration of the whole National Guard had been misrepresented, were unanimously of opinion that they ought to abstain from that to which they were invited, whatever might be the character of it. Some moments after they were told, again as was said on the part of General Courtais, that the demonstration had been countermanded. The National Guards took advantage of the singular incident which had caused them to be assembled to agree to a petition, demanding that the General-in-Chiet of the National Guard should be nominated by election. Did the same circumstances occur in other legions? Some information might lead us to believe it; but from enquiries instituted, we have acquired the certainty that, in several legions, nothing of the kind took place. However this may be, without entering into explanations on the singularity of the inci dent, without seeking whether it were really an order of the chiefs, if it were a misunderstanding, or a snare laid for the National Guard to cause it to take the initiative of these irregular demonstrations, in order to give excuse for others of a contrary kind on the following day—we cannot refrain from approving the wise reserve which the National Guard maintained. The time has passed for these votes en masse in the public streets. The people have at present their regular representatives. All questions are reserved to the sovereign decision of that great power. The real, the only demonstration, which the National Guard has to make in favour of the Republic is to watch with zeal over the safety of the Assembly, and to protect, by its imposing and pacific force, the liberty of the deliberations.' A decree of the Provisional Government, dated May 5, directs that an amnesty shall be accorded to all the individuals under prosecution for the dis turbances which took place at Valence on the Bd, 4th, and 14th April, as also for those at Amiens; and all proceedings commenced are put an end to. On Thursday the 3d battalion of the Ist Legion of the National Guard gave a banquet to the dif ferent regiments of the army and to the Garde Nationale Mobile, stationed in Paris, to which all ranks were admitted. The most perfect har mony pervaded the whole meeting. Commandant BOURCART proposed a toast to the Republic, the Garde Mobile, and the army. The Colonel of the 2d Regi ment of Dragoons returned it by the following:- -"To the National Guard, our elder Sister 1 The Army, her younger Sister, will follow her wherever she is called to defend and secure Order in Liberty !" A private of the Garde Mobile, in well-conceived terms, proposed a toast to the National Guard and the Army conjointly. At the conclusion of the day a subscription amounting to 400 fr. was made, and will be offered to the commission for receiving and dis posing of patriotic gifts. On Thursday, while the National Assembly was being opened, M. Thiers was seen, in the uniform of a private of the national guard, doing duty as sentinel at the Mairie of the second arrondissement. We read in the Constitutionnel of Saturday— "ln the fourth number of the Commune de Paris o yesterday we find the following lines--' Yesterday evening, the Minister of the Interior replied to a citizen who went to ask him the news from Rouen, that all was appeased, that the investigation and the prosecution which the magistrates had the infamy to institute against the people who were massacred was now directed against tha hideous armed bourgeoisie, author of this Saint Bartho lomew.' M. Sobrier, who has given proofs of frankness on several occasions by disavowing articles which, un known to him, have slipped into the paper which he con ducts, will no doubt do the same with respect to that to which we refer." Algiers journals of the 30th have been received. The Akhbar says— ., The couriers of Bona and Oran arrived yesterday at Algiers, bringing with them the delegates of the dif• terent bureaux of those provinces. The examination of the ballots will take place to-morrow. The result of the elections of Algeria are not yet completely known to us. We believe, however, from the information we have re ceived, that we may announce the nominations of citizens Didier, Leblanc, De Pi epois, Ledru Rollin, De Rancey—the latter, in a manner less positive." The same journal says-- "Yesterday morning we WI stuck up on the pillsrs of the houses which surround the Plaice du Gouverve merit a communication couched in thele terms— " By order of the Provisional Gover ntuent,—The sion of Citizen Couput is terminated. (Signed) " CAVAIGNAC, Governor-Genera l. " Algiers, April 28." By the side of this placard the put.lic read the following : " Citizens,—l leave incomplete the missico which wa s confided to me. The Governor-General ha.= addressed the following letter to me:—` Sir,—l inform you, that according to the orders of the Provisional Government, your mission has terminated. In consequence. you Will be kind enough to return to me the !titre de service which was given to you by the Minister of the Interior , and which defined the object of your missio n, as sl5O that in which I invited you to proceed to the uccom?lish rnent of it. Receive, etc. (Signed) The Governo In r- General. C. CAVAIGNAC. Algiers. April 28.' obedience to the orders of the Provisional Government' I have remitted my powers to the Governor-Gen eral. Returned to private life, I shall not the !less pursue the constant object of my efforts—the assimilation of Algiers to France. Vive la Republique! (Signed) " COVI'V'T 0 ' Paris was in a state of uneasiness in c olusequen ce of the apprehensions entertained of an outbreak on the part of the Clubbists. There are now no less than three members of the Bonaparte family in the National Assembly. Besides f Lucien Murat, the son of the unfortunate Kitig °E Naples, who has been elected for one of the &Part ments in the south, Pierre Bonaparte, the son of Lucien, and Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, the son Jerome, have been elected representatives for Cer— sica. The other members for Corsica are M. Abate tucci, the former deputy; M. Pietri, the CommissarY" General ; M. Conti, the Procureur-General; and ll' Louis Blanc. The returns from Algeria are not yet •ros complete. Those whose elections are known are Didier, Leblanc de Prebois, Ledru Rollin, and D° Ban cey. The following additional returns of deputies , ce rn : pleting and correcting the accounts already publisbea= have been received : Aix.—Guigne de Champvans. Jv ALPES (B&ssEs).—Leydet, Denois, Duch a. A 6 Chaix. (These names were given by error as for to Hautes-Alpes). BOUCHES-nu-RHONE.—Cormenin. COTE-D'On.—Maire. DOUBS.—lle Montalembert. LoT.—Carlat. LOZERE.—Renouard. MAYENNE.—Boudet, Coratenin. MEURTHE.—Fory (Eugene), d'Adelswaert. MORBIHAN.—L'AbLe Deblanc, De Saint-Georgeo* al. PY R ENEES (BASSES).—L'Estappis, Etchevery, Libtr SEINE..ET-MARNE.—Georges Lafayette, Osca r „ o p, fayette, Drouyn de L'Huys, J. de Lasteyrie, C1351/1"- J. Bastide, Portalis, Auberge, Ev. Bavoux. SEVRES (DEUX).—Desire Machin. TARN.—Tonnac. VIENNE (HAUTE).—Dumas, Maurat-Banage , (avocat), Frichon, Allefire, Texier, Brunet, C °ll lo (avocet). (The official return is not yet con3Plel e ' co rd disturbances at Limoges having interrupted the of the votes). YONNE.—Rampou, Sechin, Bezine. The subject of the appointment of an interniedil Government is now occupying the public attetttito° of France. M. LAMARTINE is desirous of having te t whole of the Provisional Government re-aPPet sa but the great body of his friends, including the 1-the who next to himself is the most looked up W h .. ./ te st moderate party, M. AEMAND MARRAET, P:41( against the re-appointment of MM. LED LOUIS BLANC, FLOCON, and ALBERT. M. Dij i ; T :01:1 (de L'Eure) has expressed a wish to be re'lo,r— -from the anxieties of office on account et. the ° de age. The great majority of the deputies e t. j ts ], of partments have determined to demand the c iew-ss Many M. LEDRU ROLLIN and his commissaries' Republica persist still in thinking that the moderate ;ntbe party in the Chamber will, without reg aru scruples of M. Da LAMARTINE as to his present A - 0 leagues, appoint an executive committi , corePeee' follows : M. DE LAMARTINE, President. M. ARAGO, M. MARRAST, Members. GARNIER PAGES, MARIE, The Provisional Government has accepted of 1 1 resignation of General DUVIVIER, the Commande r °, the Garde Mobile, and has appointed General Th is PONE in his place. Th e Provisional Government has decided that th e N a tional Guard of Paris shall alone be charged the duty of mounting guard at the National Ass e l i o bly. This is supposed to be in consequence ~di troops and Garde Mobile h av i ng b een Yeste'i s be called upon by the President to assist in guardia Assembly. A 9 A tribune has been set apart in the National so sembly for the delegates of the clubs. Th ere places in it for from thirty to forty persons. AT BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS A LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. NAY 6. s y; Boulogne and Amiens, OA—Namur and Liegeo epd Northern of France. 3 , 4—Paris and Rouen,ls--M" Havre, B—Sambre and Meuse, 4%. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STAT'' PRUSSIA. „ e bio The - official decree of the King of Pitliss'- s o l been published, announcing the recognition °' oi est . ISABELLA of Spain by the Prussian Ge Tern • the' Don ANTONIO REMON ZARCO DEL VA L I accredited ambassador to the Prussian Court. to di We extract the following from the Gaze Cologne of the sth inst. : W i t i r " The postal communications with Trees a re , t o • 6 interrupted; the letter bag is borne by messeogniorei gate of the city, and then dispatched by a 10 11 % I f es i l l f back. Yesterday's number of the Gazelte o f '„e" gli tife., - t not reach us in the usual manner. We had w Pottv, 1 private opportunity half a sheet, from which / e m ir t0 .. . 1/- the following:—"Freves, May 3.—The quiet °Tv ef' n i has been most seriously disturbed since yesteritoev.:sl, ing. The appearance of a battalion of the 26th Il e g, e s i 11 11 ' c io Infantry,and the much-to-be-regretted disturbers " e r took place the day before yesterday, at the ell . $lO the Maximen barracks, have occasioned tlu''' wort, since yesterday. in the afternoon, provekilopg, c i spoken by the 261 h were rumoured about :IA Is burghers; the black and white flag was tle i , l / t r ios•Ajg threats uttered against the spirit of our poplim"; 0 el' o f the evening, men belonging to the 26th were sev, t ote hi ing arm in arm through the streets, and le li ' ll oot, t i intoxication. At ten the drum beat to e,e r ' h " 0 tlr re i :J, burgher guard; at eleven the bells rung. T he g o , marched to the Dlederichstrasse, a few guos_ n " - u slti g e. and several citizens wounded; two dange:;o o so The whole night was spent in making 7 ‘ , iss,r' - $0 The burgher guard was under arms in. t`l.," x , _id place. In the morning the bells again 11 :gners: A ot Governor of the Rhenish province and the '' - er g ' Schreckenstein, happening to be at Treves, tie trill inquiry should be made, and were it proved : e diS t o l, froiveo had given the provocation, they should be le 3w 0 0 04 removed from the town. All the shops e r f u j, ~° f According to a private letter, dated the ~,Th'sr than fifty barricades were raised. The Genea _ a d is, that he will pardon all, provided the 'Se", were removed; but that otherwise be would "- ___ the troops to fire on the town." P 0 SEN . General %VILLISEN will not return to P°l e t 1 "1 place is filled by General PFUEL. The 1 : 1$ ,;tio ° 0 0 powers all but unlimited for the reorgsn i , 0 the Polish part of the Grand Duchy. 113 ,iilie t y ) once obtained, General PFUEL will repair t° ,, n and thence to St. Petersburgh, to make exact state of affairs. Prince CZARTORYSKI has returned to 1 1 ' .-- o (00 In the duchy of Posen, the city of stc Gr a f fn . bid circle of Buk) has b een t a k en by " - i p. f ro ? Prussian soldiers. The Poles lost twee* ? The J t jek Xionz the insurgents fought heroically o tia tir d sians had forty soldiers killed and fifty b pG The insurgents are annihilated. Se° IY Poles have been taken prisoners. t A fter e 4l News from P osen (M ay I s t) s tates th- 1 0 4,j combats of Gr ae t z an d Xi onz , whi cli not h o bloody, a real b a ttl e t oo k p l ace on the ° be V,/ Miloslaw. Th e t own was fi rs t taken by t eill° V troops ; the Poles succeeded in exP. 4 . 00 9 The Prussian troops, having received rein; sheik, retook the town ; but the Poles drov e t oor a ott once more, though the Prussians we .t _r eir oo' six thousand strong, not to speak of ta t o rtl i ° l ol# Every one of these fights was most th ose 0 /1 The Poles of the city of Posen, and a ll . • ion § Wl' grand duchy, protested against any eiec duchy, and refused to take a part in tb : . P„ c et a i Ist May for the Frankfort Parliame nt' o.oo:4 0' mation of MIEROSLAWSILI has called t7lO, . ; too Ole the general insurrection. The wh co • h ß a u s k re i p s ai u re n d de t r o a t r h m e sc . am T p. he s P i c E l r is A h rl i s i x at l la i :prov isl° ati r appointed Dictator of the Grand Duchy' pv AUSTRIA• of dc,o l9y Baron ZANINI has resigned the on ce of War, in consequence of a differe°'