The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived.
The Gageta contains an official announcement of
the appointment of Senor ORLANDO to the Ministry
of the Finances, vice Senor BELTRAN DE Lis, whose
resignation has been accepted.

MADRID BOLSA, JUNE 16.—Three per Cents.,
22 22i cash ; after Bulsa, 21k 22 cash ; 22i paper;
Five per Cents., 13k paper; after Bulsa, 13 cash ;
Passives, 4i- paper; after Bolsa, 41 cash ; Coupons,
8i cash; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 70 paper. Ex.
change on London, at 32 days, 41 cash.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
In the debate on the subject of Ateliers Nationaux
M. VICTOR HUGO made a speech which attracted
considerable attention, in consequence of the inuendos
contained in it that the Government were keeping up
these Ateliers Nationaux for purposes of their own.
M. VICTOR HUGO said—
" I do not rise to add to the bitterness of the division
amongst us ; we are now submitting to a solemn and
decisive proof, and I would not in any wise embarrass
the Government, or create the least obstacle to the birth

of a Republic that we all wish to be great and pure
hereafter, but I must state that which is apparent in the
Ateliers Notionaux, that an immense power is exci►ted at
an entire loss, when the country has most need of la-
bour and capital. The result has never been absolutely,
unproductive, but it has been unfortunate : for the idle-
ness of opulence, which existed under the ancient mo-
narchy, the idleness of misery has been substituted,
for the idlers of the dynasties the idlers of the republic.
—(Bravos.) I would not impute to the Government an
idea that they have not had ; they could nut transform
into janissaries of disorder for the benefit of a dicta-
torship the honest and intelligent ouvriers of Paris.
Woe to them who could have such an idea, ior on the day
when the people should discover it they would not only
be severe, but they would be terrible. To put an end :o
these suspicions, and banish these disasters, the Ateliers
IVationaux must be immediately transformed into a use-
ful institution."

The Communists still continue to use the name
of LOUIS NAPOLEON as a rallying cry for the dis-
orderly. The Moniteur du Soir gives the following
account of a collision between the police and the mob
which took place on Monday :
" On Monday evening numerous crowds were formed
ee the Place de !Tote' de Ville, who by degrees began
to
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posed chiefly of those men who appear. to be engaged
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de Vide in a state of insensibility, and serious fears a were
entertained for his life. Strong patrols of the
force came to the aid of the police, and by repeated
marches and countermarches dispersed the crowd and
restored order, alter making several arrests. Among the
individuals taken into custody, seven or eight of them
were men who had already been in the hands of justice
for various offences, and they were all found to have
arms concealed on their persons. They have all been
committed to prison to take their trials."
The Messager has the following :—" A new Pre-
tender is spoken of in the person of the Prince of I
LEUCLITENBUItG, the son of Prince EUGENE, and a 1
relation of the Emperor, of Rolm.".
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The Committee of Secret Service Money yester-
day called before it the Members of the Executive
Government, to demand explanations of the manner
in which 1,200,000 f. had been disposed of in the in,
terval between the 24th of February and the Ist of
June. M. LEDRU Ror.LIN, through whose hands, as
Minister of the Interior, this amount of 50,0001.
sterling passed, was the chief object of their inter-
pellations ; every effort was made to resist inquiry,
and the traditions of the monarchy were appealed to
as to the privilege of the Executive to dispose of such
funds without rendering an account. The Committee,
however, declared that under a republic such secresy
and irresponsibility are inadmissible, and M. LEDnu
ROLLIN M. RECUR; were ordered
to supply to a subcommittee
tee the vouchers necessary
to showthe
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been disposed of.

The report of the Finance Committee has been pre-
sented to the Assembly. It is against the proposi-
tions of the Minister of Finance, whom it accuses of
blunders and of miscalculations. The report calcu-
lates the deficiency of revenue for the year at one
hundred and fifty million francs.

The receipt of the direct taxes, which for the month
of March was 57,580,100 f., and for the month of April
42,007,000 f., fell during the month of May to
22,992,400 f. The extraordinary impost of 45c.,
though liable to be immediately exacted, has not been
better paid than the ordinary tax. Of the 191,270,000 f.,
to which it amounts, only 61,585,600 f. were recovered
on the Ist June.

A letter from Napoleon Vendee (formerly Bourbon
Vendee) says—

"One of the officers of the 46th regiment of the line,
with his company, being detached on the coast, surprised
an English vessel at the moment when its crew was oc-
cupied in disembarking muskets destined to arm the
Cnvuans of the country. About 3,000 stand et' arms
were seized and transported to Napoleon Vendee."
We can scarcely credit this statement. If it be
true, we trust that the English Government will at
once, and unasked, put the Alien Act in force
against those foreign intriguers (for the arms must
have been purchased by foreign intriguers located in
England) who abuse: our hospitality by plotting
against the peace of a friendly Power.

The Finance Committee, at its meeting yesterday,
fixed the salary of Ministers at 36,000 f. per annum.
Under Louis PHILIPPE the salary of a Minister was
80,000 f., with the exception of the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, who had 100,000 f. M. TIHERS de-
fended high salaries on the ground that low salaries
were aristocratic, as none but rich men could accept
high places under Government.

The Sardinian Minister has demanded of the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs an explanation of
the hostile expressions in the exposé des motifs, rela-
tive to the Garde Mobile. M. BASTIDE declared the
only object of the measure was to defend the integrity
of France.

There has been an enzotte at Nice, in which the
people attacked the office of the Echo, a French
journal, and did considerable damage to the property.
This may perhaps increase the unpleasant feeling
existing between the French Executive and the King
Of SARDINIA.

There was a duel yesterday between M. NA-
POLEON BERTRAND and M. Gown Aux, the son of
the hanker, in which the latter was wounded. The
difference was a political one, BERTRAND being a
Bonapartist and GODCHAUX a Republican.
BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21.
THREE o'CLocu.—This has been another day of
stagnation at the Bourse. Every one is waiting to see
what the Assembly will do with the railways, and
until that question be settled, matters will continue
here in a state of doubt and depression. The Rentes
and Three per Cents. were both weak, and gave way
slightly. Vieille Montagne Shares have fallen
75f. to 2.075. For the Account, the French
Three per Cants. have fallen 50c.; Five per Cents. have
fallen 25c. For Money, the Three per Cents, and Five
per Cents. have fallen 25c. each; Bons du Trtior are at
23 to 24 discount; Bank of France Shares have fallen sf.
Belgian Bank Shares not quoted; Belgian Two-and-a-
l-11dt' per Cents. not quoted; Spanish Actives, nothing
dune; Roman are the same as yesterday; Rothschild's
Receipts, at 71f. 50c. Railway Shares for the Account,
Settling of 30th June :—Northerns have fallen 27f. 50c.;
nothing else done. For Money, Orleans, Rouens, Mar-
seilles, Bales, Bordeaux, Northerns, Nantes, and Lyons,
have all fallen lf. 25c. The rest are the same as yes-
terday, with the exception of the Montereau and Troyes,
which have risen sf.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. Jua 21.
Dutch Rhenish, '/2—Luxembourg, I—Namur and Liege,

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND BOHEMIA.

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The Vienna Gazette of the 16th publishes a tele-
grapic dispatch, received the day before from the
Burgomaster of Prague, which states that the bom-
bardment of the city recommenced that morning,
and was continuing when the dispatch left.
The following letter in the Leipzig Deutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 18th, gives fuller particu-
lars of the progress of affairs between the contend-
ing parties ; it brings intelligence up to the morning
of the 16th :

"On the 13th at mid-day the military had sompletely
the upper hand, and Prince Windischgriitz determined
to restore the communications between the old and new
town. For this purpose he caused the chain bridges
over the Moldau, which had been broken, to be repaired,
and the barricades on the lesser side to be taken by
storm. In this affair several of the troops were killed,
being shot from the neighbouring windows. The fight-
ing here lasted till six o'clock in the afternoon, when
the Cz• ch party demanded a parley, and hopes were
held out that the students and the people would lay
down their arms. The Czech party, however, required
that Prince Windischgriitz and the military should leave
the ciconsequently every idea of accommodation was
abandoned. The rumour was spread on the night of the
13th that there would be a general attack on all the Ger-
man inhabitants of the town. Great fright was caused by
this, and whole families might be seen to fly through the
gates out of the town, leaving their all behind. After
where they concentrated themselves, and where
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followed them, t Parley the people retired to Pod-
skal,
attack them.
and hussars
There a terrible slaughter ensued on both sides; twenty-
sixo
hussars were thrown into the Moldau by the people.
and the battle lasted until the 14th of June, at half-past
nine. On that day General Count Mensdorff arrived
from Vienna, in order to assume the command in chief,
in the hope that as the Bohemians seemed to have taken
a vehement dislike to Prince Windischgratz, the as-
sumption of command by Mensdorff might restore
peace. This was, however, a vain hope; the tumult in-
ereased every moment, the fight was renewed, and the
Czech party obtained possession of the town. Prince
Wipdischgratz then abandoned the town with the mili-
tary and retired to the mountains round the city, from
thence to bombard the town. The Lorenzoberg, the
Maricnschanze, and the Ziscaberg were occupied with
cannon; and the Clementinuw, Carolinum, and There-
sianum strongly cannonaded. Such was the state of
affairs on the morning of the 16th, to which date our
accounts reach. Count Leo Thun had been obliged to
fly in the disguise of a servant."

A letter from Inspruck, dated the 15th, says that
the EMPEROR had been suffering for some days. His
reportsmneern vtesinhawve
from
which
henh
Italy, eis incessantly kept by the various
greatly tried by the extreme excite-
Vienna, Hungary, and Croatia,
and the innumerable deputations and audiences
which he has been compelled to receive and give. It
is expected that the
Imperial Family will quit Ins-
pruck in the course of the week, but the route is not
definitely fixed. It is, however, probable that the
Court and diplomatic corps, with WESSENRERG and
Douulorr, will first proceed to Salzburg, while the
Archduchess SOPHIA and her suite will repair to
Ischel.