The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived. Their con-
tents are devoid of interest.
MADRID Boise, Aun. 17.—Threes, 194 i ; Fives,
10i i ; Exchange on London, 46 paper.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following decree:—
• The President of the Council charged with the executive
government, considering the decree of the National As-
sembly, dated June 24, 1848, and which runs thus—Art. 2.
Paris is in a state of siege. Art. 3. All the executive power
is vested in General Cavaignac. As also the decree of June
28, as follows
:
•" The National Assembly confers the executive power on
General Cavaignac, who will take the title of President of
the Council of Ministers ;

"Considering that the journals—the Representant du
Peuple, the Pere Duchene, the Lampion, and the Vraie Re-
publique—by the doctrines which they profess against the
state, family ties (la famille), and property, by the violent
excitations which they ferment against society, the public
authorities emanating from the sovereignty of the people,
against the army, the National Guards, and even against
private persons, are of a nature, if tolerated any longer, to re-
vive agitation in the heart of the city, disorder, and war;
" Considering that publications profusely and frequently
gratuitously spread in the streets or the workshops and in the
army are instruments of civil war, and not instruments of
liberty, decrees—
" Art. 1. From this day the Representant du Peuple, the
Pere Duchene, the Lampian, and the Vraie Republique are
and shall remain suspended.
" Art. 2. It is forbidden to any editor, printer, or publisher
to edit or publish the said journals, until they shall be duly
authorised so to do.
" In case of contravention of the above decree, the journal
so published shall be immediately seized, the presses put
ander seal, and the parties so offending proceeded against ac-
cording to law.
"Art. 3. The present decree shall be made known to all
editors, printers, and publishers, and the Prefect of Police is
ordered to attend to its execution.
Signed

"CAVAIGNAC, President of the Council.
" SENARD, Minister of Interior.

" Paris, Aug. 21."
In accordance, we presume, with the treaty lately
entered into between the reactionnaires and the Com-
munists, M. EMu DE GIRARDIN, in the Presse, takes
up the cudgels on behalf of his allies, who have declared
that "property is a theft, and family a prejudice." He
published the Presse yesterday with the following in
'place of a leading article:—
" Our friends, who have not yet had time to forget that
the :Presse has been already, suspended for 42 days, will, we
doubt not, on-hearing of the recent suspension of some other
journals, appreciate our motives for confining ourselves to the
mere narration of facts, without any comment, until the day
shall arrive when we shall be able to exercise our right of
discussion with freedom, without which all moderation
would appear suspicious."
The . following letter, purporting to have been ad-
dressed by the Bourbon Pretender of the eldest branch
to one of his partisans in Paris, has been extensively
circulated among the Legitituatists:—
" Mon cher Monsieur,—l have just read a letter pretended
to have been addressed by me to the President of the National
Assembly, printed and published in Paris at the end of May.
I know also that various other letters have been circulated,
which are calculated to lead to the belief that I have re-
nounced the pleasurable hope of again seeing my dear
country. Not one of those letters came from me. What
is true, nevertheless, is my love for France, my profound
sentiment of her rights, of her interests, and of her wants
in these present times, and my disposition to devote my-
self entirely, and even to sacrifice myself to her, should
Providence deem me worthy of this noble and sacred
mission. Frenchman above all, I have never suf-
fered, I never will suffer, that my name be made use of to
cause division and trouble, but if the hopes of the country
are again deceived, if France, at length wearied of all these
experiments, that keep her suspended perpetually over an
abyss, turns her eyes towards me, and prononnces of her own
accord my name, as a pledge of security and safety, as the
true guarantee of the rights and of the liberty of all, let then
this generous and beloved France remember that my hand,
and heart, and life, and all are at her service, and that she
can ever reckon upon me.
" I renew to you, my dear Sir, the assurance of my eom-
plete affection,
" HENRI,
"Petit fils d'Henry IV., et de St. Louis.

_
" Froksdorf, July 1, 1848."
At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday the President
announced that notice had been given of an application
on the part of the Government to prosecute a Member.
The Member alliided to is understood to be M. TURCK.
The Assembly was engaged up to the hour of post in
discussing the Debtors and Creditors Bill.
These were considerable. assemblages of workmen
near the Portes St. Martin and St. Denis on Monday
evening.
The club of the Rue de Poitiers has decided to pre-
sent to the Assembly a resolution to the effect that the
Assembly shall decree that the Committee of Inquiry
has conscientiously and loyally fulfilled its mission, and
that its report shall be referred to the Executive Go•
vernment, to take what steps in it that it may consider
necessary.
The National has the following on the affairs of
Italy :
" The cause of Italy is not lost; the war of Kings is
finished, that of the people commences. The annexation of
Lombardy, and of -Venetia to the Sardinian States, which
has never existed de facto has now ceased de lege with the
power of the Albert intrigae. At the news of the
disgraceful armistice of Vigevano a new and com-
pletely independent Provisional Government was esta-
blished at Venice, and M. Tommasco has just arrived at
Paris to demand the immediate assistance of France. In
Lombardy the late Committee of Public Safety of Milan
has constituted itself into an insurrectionary junta at
Lugano, and at this time must have established
itself on the Lombardion territory. General Gari-
baldi, who, during ten years, defended Monte Video
with so much bravery, has given in bis adhesion to the
junta, and has just gained a striking victory over an Aus-
trian corps on the banks of the Lago Maggiore. After a
combat on the 15th, which lasted upwards of three hours,
the volunteers of Garibaldi remained masters of the field.
The Italians only lost three men killed and one wounded.
The Croatians lost upwards of thirty on the ground, and fled
in all directions. In consequence of this affair half the pro-
vince of Como has been retaken from the Austrians, and
great hopes are entertained that in two days more the whole
province will be freed from them. Apina
_still keeps in the
mountains."
Corers Authentique.—PAßis, Auo. 22.—French Five per
Cents., 71f. 75c., 72f., 71f. 75c., 72f. 25c., 72f., 72f. 25c.
New oal], 71f. 75c. 50c.; Three per Cents., 44f. 44f. 25c.,
43f. 75c., 44f. 44f. 25c., 44f. ; Treasury Bonds 23ff.; Bank
of France, 1,62af. ; Neapolitan, 73f., 73f. 50c. 25c., 73f. ;
Roman, 64f., 63if.; Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 78if.;
Ditto, 1842, 78i if., 79f.; Ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
71if. ; Obligations of the City, 1,090 f., 1,095 f. ; Spanish
Three per Cents., 23. Exchange on London, one month,
money, 25f. 35c.; three months, money, 25f. 25c.
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