The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-02 00:00:00

TAB SUN,

SPAIN.

Madrid papers of the 27th ultimo have arrived.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

to American vessels. As the Right Hon. Gentleman
said, " it was all Europe against England in favour
of American ships, and the American ship had al-
ways a good opportunity of getting a full freight in
coming from America to England, because the pro-
duce she brought was the raw produce, cotton and
corn." Well might he add, " that under the two laws
the American shipping had a decided advantage over
the English shipping, and that if the House
rejected the present proposition of the Govern-
ment, it would be inflicting a great blow on
the English shipping, and depriving that interest
of the great advantages now within their
reach." Germany toe, and other lands, will also be
lust to us, by their endeavouring to carry out our
own principle, in fact our shipowners would be serious
losers in place of gainers by the system, so far as the
traffic of the world is concerned. Under these cir-
cumstances there is a failure of the case on the very
first point. The shipowners would not be injured,
but, on the contrary, materially served by the re-
laxation of the law ; and it becomes unnecessary to
argue the second part of the case. The interests of
the shipowners and of the community at large are
not conflicting, so that it is unnecessary to decide
which should give way to the other.

BERTRAND DE Lis has resigned the post of Fi-
nance Minister, because NARYAEZ, during the month
of April, expended on the army just double the sum
voted in the Budget. The post has been offered to
MoN, who, however, declines the responsibility of
furnishing supplies from an empty treasury. The
post has also been offered to ORLANDO and CARRAsCO.
MADRID BOLSA, MAT 27.—Three per Cents.,
21i paper ; Five per Cents., 13 paper ; Passives,
53- paper; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 82 cash. Ex-
change on London, at 30 days, 41 50-100.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
A Committee of eighteen (one for each bureau)
has been appointed to consider the propriety of im-
peaching Louis BLANC.
The Assembly did not sit yesterday. It is said
that the Executive Committee intend to present a
Bill to prohibit the collecting together of large assem-
blages, and to punish those who print, post, or distri-
bute incendiary placards. The printer and writer of
the placard proposing the Prince DE JOINVILLE as a
candidate for Paris are to be prosecuted.
Prince Louis NAPOLEON, who visited Paris incog.
about three days :since, has received orders to quit
Paris.

M. EMILE THOMAS has arrived at Bordeaux.
The Committee on Labour has decided that it
would devote Tuesday and Friday in each week to
the inquiry ordered by the Assemblee Nationale.
The delegates, masters and workmen of each branch,
with the authors of plans and systems, are to be
heard in order, as they may apply in writing to the
Committee. At its last sitting, the Committee heard
a report from M. WALDECK ROUSSEAU upon several
papers sent in, and it acceded to the conclusions of
that report—that is to say, to form three Sub-Com-
mittees, to suggest the resolutions to be submitted to
the Assembly on the three following questions, viz.-
1. The commandite, in manufacturing, agricultural,
and other undertakings, where capitalists advance
money, to have an interest in the undertaking. 2.
Association of workmen. 3. Benefit Societies for
their use. On the motion of one of the members,
the Committee referred to the first Sub-Committee a
plan for the establishing a bank at Paris, to furnish
tools and implements, and to make advances to such
workmen as may hare been domiciled in Paris more
than six months.

Yesterday, being Ascension-day, was kept as a
holiday. The Bourse, National Assembly, and all
the public offices were closed, and there was no busi-
ness doing of any kind.
We read in the Massager :

" A new association of deputies, amounting to up-
wards of 200, has been formed, and will assemble at
the Academie de Milicine, in the RAW du Poitiers. The
object is said to be to establish an honest, moderate re-
public, such a one as we hope and believe the country
almost unanimously desires, and which will exercise a
salutary influence over the proceedings and decisions of
the Assembly. At its first sitting General Baraguay
d'Hilliers was elected President, M. Baze Vice-Presi-
dent, and MM. Berard and Granger de la Mariniere,
secretaries. We have already noticed the meeting of
the Palais National, under the presidency of M. Dupont
de l'Eure, that held at M. Buchez's, and another assem-
bling daily at a house in the Chausbee d'Antin. So
that it appears the National Assembly is divided into
your camps."
At the meeting of the representatives in the
bureaux yesterday to examine the demand made for
authorisation to proceed against M. LOUIS BLANC for
being concerned in the affair of May 15, very little
discussion took place. It was rumoured amongst
the members that the law-officers of the Republic had
for several days been applying to the Executive
Committee for the authorisation, but that it had been
always refused. It was only that morning, it was
said, that after the law-officers had declared that it
would be impossible to go on with the case if the
authorisation was refused, that the Executive Com•
mittee consented. In the bureau; some of the
members declared themselves to be decidedly opposed
to the authorisation, but-in general the bureaux con-
fined themselves to recommending the persons nomi-
nated to the Committee to pay the most scrupulous
attention to every part of the case, and to demand ex-
planations from the Procureur-General. In some
bureaux also the members of the Committee were
directed to ascertain if the prisoners were to be tried
before the ordinary tribunals or before a special court.
MM. BAZE and FROISSARD abstained from voting,
because they were witnesses in the case ; and M. DE
CORMENIN, on account of his old intimacy with M.
Louts BLANc. Amongst the persons appointed to
the Committee are several who gave no opinion on the
matter.

The Executive Government has sent the following,
communications to the journals :
" Prosecutions are ordered against the author and
printer of a placard posted on the walls of Paris, propos-
ing the Prince de Joinville as a candidate for the Na-
tional Assembly. This placard is seditious, because, by
the terms of the decree recently rendered by the Assem-
bly, the French territory is interdicted to all the mem-
bers of the ex-Royal Family."

M. ALPHONSE ADAM, a carpenter, living in the
Rue de l'Ouest, a candidate for one of the vacancies
in the representation at the National Assembly for
Paris, has published in the journals a letter which
says—" I am only a workman, but I can certify
that all true workmen, fathers of families, are greatly
surprised at seeing several journals attempting to
make use of the workmen to serve their own ends.
We wish for nothing but order and employment, and
will always support the National Guard, of which
every one has a right to form part."

The Orleanist reactionnaires have put forward the
Prince DE JOINVILLE as a candidate for Paris. Verily
the intrigue progresses. M. GUIZOT seeks to rule
France from Brompton- square as he already rules
Spain, and hopes soon to rule England. The Reforms
thus remarks on this audacious proceeding:—
" We shall not to-day speak of the Chamber and of its
labours. The political question of the moment is
to be seen posted up on the walls, in large
yellow placards, bearing a signature, and all Paris
is convoked to nominate at the next elections the
sailor Joinville, Prince of Orleans, and a fits de France.
We have seen those placards on the walls of the
Chisteau d'Eu ; on those walls from whence were dis
charged the bullets which slaughtered the people on the
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rise, and who destroyed the Republic. You are strong,
like those who sleep in the illusions of another re-
storation. You will, perhaps, say that we are wrong
in attaching any value to inoffensive placards, puerile
demonstrations, or ridiculous idolatries. You de-
ceive yourselves ; the interests which live on
privilege are no longer under the fear of balls—they
now conspire ; aristocracies form their coteries ; mono-
polists dream of the old reign ; and society, which a
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