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

SPAIN.

Gen'eral VILLALONGA has been appointed Captain
General of Navarre.

The state of the money.market in Madrid is
deplorable.

A military banquet, which was to have been held
on the 29th, has been put off in consequence of appre-
hended disturbances.
MADRID 130L8A., APRIL. 29.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 22 and 21i cash, and were 22 buyers after
the close. Five per Cents. 13,1, buyers, sellers. Pas-
sive Debt 54 buyers, a sellers. Coupons, 9 sellers.
Bank Shares, 96 buyers, 100 sellers. Exchange on
London 41 50.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The Moniteur publishes a decree granting an ex.
traordinary credit for war purposes (believed to refer
to an intention of immediate interference in Italy) of
three million two hundred thousand pounds sterling.
The Moniteur also publishes a valedictory address to
the people from the Provisional Government, in
which the members of the Government inform their
fellow-citisens that they will this day return into
their hands the power which had been confided to
them, and thank them for their cordial co-operation
and support in the midst of their arduous duties. A
programme of the proceedings to be adopted is also
published in the Moniteur. The members of the
Provisional Government were to meet at twelve, at
the Ministry of Justice, and from thence to go on
foot to the National Assembly, passing through the
lines of troops and National Guards. On the meet-
ing of the Assembly, at one o'clock, a salute of 21
cannon would be fired from the Invalides and the
Champs Elysees. A signal would be given at the
moment the Republic was proclaimed by the Assembly,
and the troops and National Guards were to present
arms, and the bands to strike up the national airs.
The same honours were to be renewed, at a given
signal, when the Assembly should be constituted.

An order has been issued to the commander of the
troops to cause the National Guards, and troops of the

line, artillery, &c., to be called out to unite in and
give increased splendour to the national celebration.
The spacious line of road, commencing at the Place
Vendome, leading up to the Rue de la Paix, along
the Boulevard de la Madeleine, the Rue Royale, and
the Place de la Concorde, to the Chamber, will be
lined by National Guards and troops of the line.
Artillery will be stationed in the Champs Elysees, and
on the esplanade of the Invalides.

The Chamber is ordered to be placed under the
special safeguard of the National Guard. A battalion
will be placed within it and around it each day at
noon, and this duty will be confided successively from
day to day to the several battalions.
The following is the programme of the business for
the day before the National Assembly :

" NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
" ORDER OF THE DAY FOR THURSDAY, MAY 4.
" AT MIDDAY.

" Public sitting.
" Meeting of the representatives of the people in the
hall of meeting.

'AT ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY.
"Introduction of the Provisional Government and Q
the members.
" Installation of the provisional bureau.
"Immediately afterwards, meeting in the committee.
rooms.

"Examination of powers.
" AT THREE O'CLOCK.
"Return to the public sitting.
" Verification of powers.

" Ballot (if there should be occasion for it) for the no-
mination of a President, six Vice-Presidents, six Secre-
taries, and three Questors.
" Installation of the definitive bureau."
The following is the farewell proclamation of
the Provisional Government to the people :
" Citizens,—To-morrow the National Assembly will
open. To-morrow the Provisional Government will
replace in the hands of the representatives of the people
the power which the acclamation of the people confided
to it. In laying down our functions, citizens, we wish to
offer you all our thanks for the devoted assistance which
your patriotism has afforded us. We wish, by way of
adieu, to say a few words of union and concord. You
have presented to the world, in difficult times, a beauti-
ful and great spectacle. In this immense city public
peace in the midst of the most illimited liberty, constant
respect for the authority of the people in the persons of
the citizens whom the people had proclaimed on the
barricades on the day of the great revolution. Be
united before the National Assembly. Our Republic will
live by concord, by fraternity. Let there be no reaction,
no violence. '1 he calm of force, the maiesty of the Re-
public, your very attitude condemns all provocations,
from whatever side they may come. You have cou-
rageously aided us to pass the difficult times. Show to
the world, which admires you, that after having founded
the Republican Government, you have the will, that is
to say, the strength to consolidate it. The disturbers
will understand that, adopted by all, the Republic is
thenceforth unassailable. Royalty, citizens, is for ever
vanquished. No more privileges, but equality—no op.
portunity for division, but fraternity. People, the Go-
vernment of the Republic is the Government of all. Let
us surround it with all our love. Let us form a fascine
of all our wishes. Let the flag of the Republic rise pure
and glorious—the symbol of concord for us, of hope for
all nations.
" Done at the sitting of Government, May 3, 1848.
"The Members of the Provisional Government."
The Constitutionnel gives the following list of
double elections :

M. Lamartine has been returned ten times, vis., for
Paris, Dijon, Rouen, Macon, Bordeaux, Quimper,
Rennes, Ilrigreus, Lille, and Marseilles.
M. Marrast, four times: fur Paris, Pau, Le Mans, and
Toulouse.

Cormenin, four times: for Paris, Laval, Auxerre,
and Marseilles.
N. Bastide, three times: for Paris, Melon, and Macon.
Bethmont, three times: for Paris, Chateauroux,
and La Rochelle.
Cr6mieux, twice: for Paris and Tours.
M. Marie, twice: for Paris and Auxerre.
31. Ledru Rollin, twice: for Paris and Macon.
Arago, twice: for Paris and Perpignan.
M. Dupont (de I'Eure), twice: for Paris and Evreux.
31. Gamier Pagaiti, twice: for Paris and Evreux.

* Li. new transla i,)n of this strikinz effusion has, we
perceive, just appeared in a unazature volume. Pp. 136.
London, 1848. ii. G. Clarke and Co.

Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have been re
ceived.

It appears that the QUEEN was induced to relin-
quish her claim to her arrears of income at the instance
of Queen CHRISTINA, into whose pocket the said
arrears had in some mysterious manner found their
way. Mr. BULWER has received a note from Lord
PALMERSTON, censuring him for permitting the con-
tents of his dispatches to transpire through the news-
papers, but warmly praising him for his spirited
reply to the Duke of SOTOMAYOB'S insolent note. A
warm remonstrance has, it is said, been presented by
the French Government to the Spanish Ministry, and
a Ministerial crisis is expected.
M. DE LESSEPS, the newly-appointed Charge-
d'Affaires of the French Republic, left Bayonne for
Madrid on the Ist inst. At Bordeaux he had inter-
views with the Chamber of Commerce of that place,
and promised in the name of the Provisional Govern-
ment to exert himself to induce the Spanish Cabinet
to make concessions calculated to increase the com-
merce between the two countries. According to the
directions of his Government, he is to put himself in
communication with the Chambers of Commerce of
Baycnne, Marseilles, and Perpignan in the same
manner as he did at Bordeaux, for the purpose of
obtaining information calculated to further his
mission.