The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-20 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Ma drid journals of the 14th have arrived.
Tho 3 Gacela contains a decree, dated the previous
day, I,vhich enacts that Don HENRY DE BOURBON
Shall be deprived of the honours and distinctions of
an In fante of Spain, as also of all ranks, honours, or
decor ations. The documents which have led to this
meust are are, says the decree, to be communicated to
the upreine Tribunal of Justice, that proceeding'
may be taken in accordance with the laws. The
motit -es of the decree are, it is further enacted, to be
fined to the Cortes in their next sitting, that they
may, do what is necessary with respect to the succes-
sion..to the Crown. The cause of this severe decree
is ted to be that the Prince addressed a proclama-
tion to the Catalonians, in which he attacked the
Govt rnment, the QUEEN, and the KING.

Tee Gaccta also publishes a royal decree on the
subj(.!ct of arranging the public debt.
t ,e preliminary exposition abounds in remarks upon
the 8 acred nature of the public debt, the determination
of tilt a Government to grapple with the subject, &c. But
the i nain facts it contains are these—Senor Bertran de
Lis 5. tates " that a project of law f,ir the arrangement
of tt .e debt had already been examined and sanctioned
at a Council of Ministers, and *as, about to be presented
to tb e Cortes, when just and grave considerations, which
cans+ 1:1 the cessation of the Legislature, frustrated the
desig :n, and obliged the Government to postpone it."
aother fact is the announcent that " tbe Govern-
meret is resolved that the Four and Five per Cent. Stock
shed . cease to bear interest from the Ist January, 1849,
anti its equally decided to offer to the national and foreign
creditors the satisfaction of their just credits in the
manner which our economical state permits," &c.

'rne Royal decree is as follows :
"Tin conformity with what the Minister of Finance
has!-nroposed to me in accord with the Council of Mi-
rs, I have decreed the followinc,
commission is established, which without any
clei!ay shall occupy itself in forming a project of law fur
the :arrangement of the consolidated and non-consoli-
datecl debt, both internal and external

" Art. 2. In order for the fulfilment of this charge,
and to avoid delays and obstructions, the commission
shell confer directly with the Finance Minister on the
bares, on which the arrangement may have to rest, and
shall also have the power to ask for itself at the respec
nflices all the data and documents which it may
think: necessary.
" Art. 3. The members of the commission shall be
Don Ramon Santillan, ex-Minister of Finance, and
Senator of the kingdom, who shall fill the charge of Pre-
sid nit; Don Antonio Hompanera de Cos, ex-Minister of
the Rome Department ; Don Manuel Sanchez Silva,
Deputy to the Cortes ; the Director-General of the Pub-
lic Debt, and Don Joe Borrajo, employed in the Fi-
nanco Department, who shall discharge the functions of
Secretary.
" Given at the Palace the 11th of May, 1848. Signed
by thin Royal hand. The Minister of Finance,
" MANUAL BERTRAN DELIS."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The remaining twelve members of the Committee
appointed to draw up the constitution were nominated
by ballot at the close of the sitting of Thursday ;
they are—Martin (de Strasburg), liroirhage, Co-
querel, Corbon, Thouret (le l'Allier), Gustave de
Beaumont, Dupin, Vaulabille, Odilon Barrot, Pages
(de l'Arriege), Domes, Considerant.
The composition of this Committee is more than
moderate—it is Orleanist ; and we could have wished
not to have found in the list such names as those of
Duns, the personal friend and legal adviser of the
ex-KING, and therefore the person of all others most
likely to maintain relations with him still,
and of DUFAURE, a former colleague of
GUIZOT, of TESTE, and of MOLE. It is
well that all parties should be represented on
such a Committee, but the Monarchists have in this
instance obtained more than their fair share, and
DUPIN and DUFAURE, moreover, are to be con-
sidered rather as the representatives of persons than
of parties. _

The Constitutional Committee as finally arranged
is thus composed :—MM. Cormenin, Armand Mar-
rast, Lamennais, 'Vivien, Tocqueville, Dufaure,
.Martin (of Strasburg), Woirhage, Coquerel (Pro-
testant Minister), Corbon, Thouret (de l'Allier),
Gustave de Beaumont, Dupin, Vaulabille, Odilon
Barrot, Pages (de l'Arriege), Dornes, and Con-
siderant.

M. CORMENIN is the political writer who, under
the signature ,of " Timon," has become so famous
for his sketches of the Members of the Chamber
of Deputies. ARMAND MARRAST, the Mayor of
Paris awl a member of the late Provisional Govern-
ment, was, until the revolution of February, the
editor of the National. He was the friend of AR-
MAND CARREL, and is distinguished by the same
manliness of character, honesty of purpose, and un-
swerving devution to republican principles. LA-
MENNAIS, the celebrated author of the "Paroles d'un
Croyant," has been a priest, and under CHARLES X.
was one of the most intolerant and bigoted, but at
the same time the most talented and energetic
of the supporters of the parti-pretre. After the
revolution of 1830 he became an ultra-Republican,
and is now a Socialist. He has, in fact, been
everything except an Orleanist. VIVIEN is an old
Deputy of the Centre-Gauche. TOCQUEYLLLE is the
celebrated author of the " History of Democracy in
America." Of DUFAURE and of DUPIN we have
already spoken. MARTIN was a Member of the
Centre-Gauche in the old Chamber of Deputies. Co-
QUEUE'. is the celebrated Protestant minister of Paris,
and has since his election to the Assembly appeared
to attach himself to M. ODILON BARROT, who, be it
remembered, proposed the regency of the Duchess of
ORLEANS. M. CORDON is the editor of the Atelier,
and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Assembly. He
was most firm and courageous in his opposition to
the irruption of the Communists mob into the Cham-
ber on Monday. M. THOURET is a lawyer. M.
GUSTAVE DE BEAUAIONT was an influential
member of the Centre-Gauche in the last
Chamber, and is the personal friend of
M. TETHERS. M. VAULABILLE is a man of Liberal
principles, who has acquired some celebrity by his
" History of Two Restorations." M. DORNES is one
of the most accomplished of the writers for the
National, and may be considered as a disciple of M.
.ARMAND MARRAST ; and M. VICTOR CONSIDERANT,
the editor of the Democratte Pacifique, is the leader of
the Fourierists, a man of considerable talent, polished
manners, and who may be considered as the head of
1 the Peace Sccieties of France.

costume, t•ume
eAb ,
hboeleLnAgceoraDAtas in his picturesque
graces ,
the
Assemhlyhy white
hispre-
sence. Finding his duties as a legislator incom-
patible with the proper performance of his clerical
functions, he resigned his seat in the Assembly on
Thursday.
Considerable blame has been thrown upon M.
BUCHEZ,' the President of the Chamber, for his
apparently vacillating conduct in the presence of the
mob on Monday. In consequence of these imputa-
tions, M. DEGOUSEE, one of the Questors of the
Chamber, has felt it his duty to address the following
letter to the editor of the National

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" Mr. Editor,—Severul journals, ignorant no doubt of
the deplorable facts which occurred on the 15th, incri,
minate the conduct and the acts of the worthy President
of the National Assembly. The truth ought to be
known, and my duty is to explain it to you.
" As aeon us the Chamber was entered by the rioters,
the I'resident, finding that his orders had not been at-

tended to, gave me power to adopt measures to rescue
the Assembly.
" An hour afterwards I gave the President an account
of what I had done. I told him that our colleague M.
Puree, major of the 31 arrondissement, was assembling
that legion and marching to the deliverance of the
Assembly. I added, that I had given orders in all the
mayories to have the rapped beaten, and that the As-
sembly would soon be surrounded by sixty thousand
men. An hour passed over. I told the President that
he had only one thing to do—remain in his seat, tempo-
rise, and gain time. I told him that the heads of the
columns of National Guards were now in sight. The
tumult and disorder in the Chamber were now at •its
height. A horrible atteck might be committed. I re-
peated to the Citizen Buchez, that half an hour more
was all that was wanted; that he might even give a
counter order, in order to satisfy the rioters, for that
the counter order would come too late to prevent the
arrangement which had been already taken. ' Are you
certain,' said the President, that all that you have
ordered has been execated ?' My reply was, I am
certain of it,'
"you know, sir, how, in a few moments afterwards,
the President was violently thrust from his seat; how
was momentarily suspended. The President,
and
ice-Presidents, and several Deputies, went to
V4.of the President, in order to call for all the
t theh o theotttienl
nati,mal forces,
" -M. Buchrz and one of my colleagues went a few
minutes after to the Executive Committee to concert
with it relative to a meeting that night in some other
place if the crowd could nut be expelled from the
Chamber.
"The President on leaving had delegated full powers
to us, and we had esed them with activity and energy.
On my soul and my contcience, and as actor in and
witness of the facts which Lpoint out to you, I declare
that the President did all that it was in human power to
du; I think that the Republic owes to his coolness and
his intelligence the termination of an attempt which,
had it succeeded, would have led to incalculable mis-
fortunes.
" The calm and dignified attitude of all the Repre-
sentatives powerfully seconded the will of the President.
(Signed) "IYEGOUSEE, Questor."

The following is the official report of 11. ARMAND
MARRAST, the Mayor of Paris, on the subject of the
attack on the Hotel de Vile on Monday. It is ad-
dressed to the Executive Committee :

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" Citizens,—I now, in writing, agreeably to your de-
sire, give you the facts which 1 have communicated to
you verbally, of what took place at the Hotel de Ville
on the 15th.
,I shall thus rectify many errors which
have, been publicly reported.
At the moment when the tribune of the Assembly
was invaded by the authors of a criminal attack against
the sovereignty 01 the people, I was informed that
they intendd to proceed to the Hotel de Ville to pro-
claim a Provisional Government. My duty called me to
my post, and I proceeded there. .1 arrived two hours
before the iasurgents, and immediately ordered . every
measure to be taken to prevent their entering. The
first legion of the National Guard was ordered to place
itself in column at the entrance of the place from the
quay; and the Colonel commanding at the hotel took
the necessary measures for its defence.

" The coitimtl-at the people, preceded by their
standard, soon ceine in front of the ninth legion. They
announced that the Chamber had been dissolved, that
the Executive Government no longer existed, and that
the National Guard, the Garde Mobile, and the army,
had proclaimed a new Proviional Government. Atter
some parleying's, a shot was tired at the officer second
in command at the Hotel de Ville, who was at the head
of his legion, and who energetically refused a passage to
the rioters. The resistance of Commandant Beaumont
was not, unfortunately, seconded with sufficient unani-
mity. A
,chef de tataillon of the National Guard
ordered his men to minx bayonets; the Colonel of the
9th heeiteted, and unfortunately this momentous heeitas
Lien was taken advantage of by the. insurgents to gain
the place. My deputy, M. Adam, had gone round to
inspect tei different entrances. He returned to me, and
said that Colonel Rey, who was in command, would
have to answer for what he did, or for what he
neglected to do. I must add that Col. Rey harangued
the crowd for some time, addressing himself in par-
ticular to Barbes, and refused to open the gates. A
few minutes after, however, they withdrew, the gates
were opened, and the crowd rushed in. The leaders at
once cried out ' Where is Marrast? we must first get
rid of him.' I was at that moment in my cabinet,
which I had not quitted, accompanied by some members
of the Assembly, and protected by fifty men, resolved,
like myself, to resist by force, whatever might be the
issue of the struggle. The courts were filled by two or
three thousand people; they directed their steps towards
the room in which the deliberations were carried on on
the 24th February, and they opened, in the midst of the
most indescribable tumult, a discussion on proper names.
" During this time I had given ,orders, by the ushers
of the hotel, to the 6th and 7th. legions to come, at
double quick time, to the Hotel de Ville. I had signed
a proclamation which informed the National Guards of
the true state of affairs; I had written to you, citizens,
to demand fresh reinforcements, and to order those ar-
rangements which were necessary to turn out the mob,
which had riot yet got into the hall, and to take into
custody others at a convenient time.
" The legions arrived opportunely. Barbes and his
accomplices went into another room, which they had
guarded by armed men. They showed themselves at
the windows to the crowd on the place, and we heard
cries of Viva Barbes,' Vive Louis Blanc,' Viva
Albert.' General Foucher soon after came into my
room, followed by his staff. I ordered him immediately
to bring in his battalions of the National Guard and the
Garde Mobile, and to begin by clearing the courts and
the staircases of the crowd, at the seine time that ho
surrounded the room in which the leaders of the move-
ment were assembled. My deputy, M. Adam, went him-
self into that room, and made the first arrest. Orders
were immediately given not to allow any one to leave
the hotel, and to guard-all the outlets by which Barbes,
Albert, and the others might attempt to escape.
" Citizens Lanaartine and Ledru Rollin arrived at this
themselves
leGs utaor d
arrest declared
every tosmoueroevad:eetertha"anwi tdwhootei
.bhu
moment at the Hotel de Ville, and were soon after fol-
lowed by General Clement Thomas. Officers of the
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ntivnesae:det Elebekdsesreastrhoyonef.
hotel
to; Assembly, bert as
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above-
namedT
members of the Executive Committee. The
commandant of the Bth battalion had already arrested
Barbes. The superior officers of the artillery and of
the Nationmostal
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not experience any rough treatment from those whose
roused by their conduct. At
itnhdeigsanmateiotaimheadsebaere'cnhju'usatsly made in the Hotel, and 150
other individuals arrested. This number. was increased
in the evening to more than 200, • •
" You see, citizens, that if by an, act of weakness, or of
complicity—by a fault or by a crime—the, insurgents
were able to instal themselves in one of the rooms of the
Hotel de Ville, they were not for an instant masters of
the place, I never ceased to commend there, and to give
orders; and the doubts which had for a moment bees
thrown on the minds of a small body of the National
Guards having been removed, my deputy and myself
had thus nothing to call our attention tram .securing the
arrest of the guilty, and sparing the effusion of blood.
" I think it right to add that the chef de batuillon of
the 9th Regiment, of whore I have spoken above, has
sent me his resignation. I have also received those of
Colonel Yautiez, and of an ensign named Suery. As to
Colonel Rey and his agent, they have.beee placed under
arrest. " ARMAND MARRAST.
66 may 18."
The last garrison of the Caussidiere Guards has
surrendered, and the Temple is at the present mo-
ment occupied by the National Guards.
Among the papers seized at SODRIER'S are some
drafts of decrees, purporting to issue from the Com-
mittee of Public Safety :
.‘ Flan DECREE.
"In the name of the regenerate people of Paris,
oRf evpuubblliicc
sianfekt'yebdreucalaryreas—nd May, 1848,
the
h t n
Committeeeh ra of ft
e the
National Assembly, composed in great part
of reactionaries, has violated its trust.
" That it has squandered precious time, while the
misery of the people required prompt measures.
" That it refused to create a Ministry of Labour.
" That it de
amassed arms in the house for its defence
when it should havedepended 0 A moral influence de-
rived from zeal and devotedness.
towerp of op
to the President the
That it continued oconvPoking atiniedmacacnodrdtehde

National Guard.
" That it violated th© liberty and the sovereignty of
the people as proclaimed at the barricades, by interdict-
ing their right of petition.
" That it ordered the people to be fired upon who
came peaceably to present a petition in favour of the
Poles.
" In consequence,
" The people of Paris, the advanced sentinel, charged
with watching the execution of the commission given to
representatives, declares that havinc, violated their
mandats they are deprived of power, and' has constituted
a Committee of Public Safety, composed of the following
nine members:—(a blank was left)—which committee is
invested with unlimited power fur constructing and
organizing a veritable democratic republic, and fur smo-
thering re-action by the most energetic means if it should
dare to show itself.
" THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
OF PUBLIC SAFETY."

A second decree referred to could not be found.
A third decree abolishes the administrative and
judicial powers, and gives the police into the hands of
the working classes,
according to a as well as magisterial functions.
The bourgeoise are forbidden to appear in uniform
or in arms.
A fourth decree orders capitalists to deposit 200
francs for 1,000 francs income tip to 3,500 francs,
when the contribution must be 250 francs, and so on
progressive scale. A similar, decree
strikes at landholders; and those who ,refuse are to
have their property confiscated and 'themselves out-
lawed.
The organization of labour is decreed in the same
document.
The arrests still continue ; there are at present
upwards of 140 prisoners in Vincennes. BLANQUI,
however, is]yet: at liberty. Some of these journals
publish a letter from him, dated Paris, May 17, in
which he says
that he has again found refuge in that II
asylum which for seventeen years sheltered him from

Royalist persecutions. It is reported that he has
been seen in Brussels.
General COURTAIS has been removed to the Petit
Luxembourg.
Louis BLANC has, by permission of the Govern-
ment, had several interviews with ALBERT at Yin-

c e nn es.
The preparations for the file in the Champ de
Mars were resumed on WedneAay. It is said to be
the poiitive intention of the Executive Government
that the file shall take place on Sunday next.
The Constilutionnel says—
" M. Trouve Chauvel, who has just been appointed by
the Government to the post of Prefect of Police, was
mayor of Le Mans at the time the Duke de Nemours
passed through that town, and was immediately removed
from his situation in consequence of the bold bat very
candid speech which he made un the occasion; and to which
the Duke answered by saying, that he would receive
compliments but not lessons from a mayor. To this dry
observation M. Trout e Chauvel replied, It is the duty
of a prince to listen to the truth.' M. Trouve Charnel,
who is an old Republican, has lately filled the office of
Commissary-General in the departments of the Sarthe,
the Maine-et• Loire; and the Mayenne; he has been able,
by the vigour of biz character and the probity of his
conduct, to maintain peace, good order, and confidence
in those departments. lie was unanimously elected to
the National Assembly by the department of the Sarthe.
The choice of the Executive Committee cannot fail to-
be generally commended. M. Troupe Chauvel is already`
installed at the Prefecture, and Al. Catissid:ce imme-
diately offered to put him au courant with all the affairs
of the office.
The Rtfornie states that the strangest reports have
)eeu current in Paris within the last few days.
Amongst others, it is said that the Duke de BOR-
DEAUX has been seen in the faubourg St. Germain.
It it added that Prince Louis NAPOLEON has again
quitted England to return to Paris. It was like-
wise asserted that General COURTAIS is a Legitimist

in disguise.
The Committee of Labour met yesterday morning.
It decided that the members of the bureau should not
perform their functions longer than to June 1. M.
CORDON was named President ; M. TOURRET, Vice-
President ; M. DEmEsmAY, Secretary ; and M. As-
TOUIN, Vice Secretary. The Committee also decided
that it would meet every day at ten o'clock, and that
the Minister of Public Works and the Director of
the National Workshops should be summoned before
it this day. It also adopted the following resolu-
tions :-1. That one or several sub- committees
should be formed to examine and report on all the
communications sent in. 2. That it should call suc-
cessively before it all person's-likely from their posi-
tion to throw light on the questien'of the
.organiza-
tion of labour.

The Moniteur contains a very long report-from
the Minister of Finance on the project for the re-
purchase of all the railroads. We have only room to
give the the important point. The price of purchase
is proposed to be the average quotation during the
six months preceding the Revolution of February
(24th August, 1847, to 24th February, 1848), and
the holders will receive in payment Five per Cent.
Stock, also at the average price during the same
period. The report concludes by proposing the fol-
lowing project of law :
" Art. 1. The resumption by the state of the posses-
sion of railways conceded to financial companies, ante-
riorly to the 24th February, 1848, is declared of public
utility.
" Art. 2. The Minister of Finances is authorised to
execute this measure, reserving the indemnity stipulated
in Art. 3.
" Art. 3. The resumptionnf posseSsion of the different
railways will take place in the following conditions,
viz.:—

" FIRST CATEGORY.
" Railway of Paris to Saint Germain.
Paris to Versailles (Right Bank).
Paris to Versailles (Lett Bank),
Strasburg to Bale.
Paris to Orleans and Corbeil.
Paris to Rouen.
Rouen to Havre.
Montereau to Troves.
Avignon to. Marseilles.
Amiens to Boulogne.
Paris to the frontier of Belgium, with the
branches to Saint Quentin, Calais, and
Dunkirk.
Orleans to Vierzon.
Orleans to Bordeaux.
Paris to Strasburg.
Paris to Lyons.
Tours to Nantes.

- - -
" The value of these different railways will be esta-
blished according to the average quotation of their
shares an the Paris Bourse, during the six months pre-
ceding .the revolution of the 24th of February (from the
24th August, 1847, to 24th February, 1848). In ex-
change for their shares, the shareholders will receive
Coupons de Rentes Five per Cents., quotation for quo-
tation,, according to the average quotation on the
Bourse of Paris during the sane six months above spe-
cified.

" SECOND CATEGORY.
" Railway of Andrezieux to I►vanne.
Lyons to St. Etienne.
The Grand Cornbe to Alais and Beaucaire.
Abscon and d'Anzin to Denali' and
Somain.
Montpellier to Cette.
Mulhouse to Thann.
Bordeaux to La Teste.
Dieppe to Rouen.
" For this category the Minister of Finance is autho-
rised to treat with each company separately. The
treaties must be submitted to the sanction of the Na-
tional Assembly.
Art. 4. The companies with whom the Minister of
Finances shall think fit to negotiate, can in a general
meeting of shareholders, convoked fur that purpose,
accept by a majority of votes the proposed conditions
of the Ministers, and thus bind the whole of the share-
holders.

" Art. 5. A sum of rentes equal to the valuation of
the railways bought shall be inscribed in the Great Book
of the Public Debt.

" Art. 6. The State, taking the place of the companies,
will reimburse their bonds and loans according to the
conditions agreed on with the lenders.

" Art. 7. The necessary expenses for the carrying on
the railway works by the State, which, according to
previous laws, ought to have been executed by the com-
panies, are placed provisionally to the charge of the
floating debt. •
"Art. 8. The Ministers of Finance and Public Works
are respectively charged with the execution of the pre-
sent decree.

" Done in Council.
" The Members of the Executive Commission—

" ARAGON GARNIER PAGES, MARIE, LAMARTINE,
LEDRII-ROLLIN.
‘• Minister of Finance,

E. DUCLERC."

We cannot believe that the National Assembly
will countenance such an act of spoliation in
regard to the lines not yet in operation, which
over-speculation, had brought down to ruinous prices
for the holders, and when, to render their position
still worse, they would have to receive stock which
they could now purchase for rather more than half
the price at which it would be given to them by the
Government ; whereas, on the other hand, share.
holders had every reason to hope that on the opening
of the lines prices would recover to, if not go higher
than, par, and meanwhile were receiving 4 per cent.
interest.

The following further details respecting the events
of Monday have been obtained. When the head of
the insurgent column reached the hotel de Ville, the
Republican guard prepared to resist, but, after some
conversation with Colonel REY and the garrison, the
gates were opened, and the hotel was invaded. A
person who was half•spectator, half actor, gives the
following particulars :

" The invaders immediately set to work to draw up
lists of the new Government without thinking of
anything else. Two young men were so engaged, when
an employe entered and asked them with a great as-
sumption of dignity what right they had to be there?
They answered that they were there on the part of
the people, that the National Assembly was dissolved,
and that they were concocting a Provisional Govern-
ment. At the same moment a number of the insurgents
rushed into the room, whereupon the poor employe
areturned
exercising
your
andur
right, t stammered-' m
y me
or
ue d —m
a'
) col gentlemen, youiatinue !' but noA,h
notice was taken of him. Barbes was worn out by the
fatigue and emotions of the day. He asked for some-
thing, and a person connected with the Hotel brought
him a-bottle of Bordeaux and a glass. He took a Mass,
and went into an adjoining room with several other per-
sons to draw up a proclamation. Lists of the new Go-
vernment were thrown out of the windows and the
people shouted—' Viva Bartes !' but so little was public
opinion with us that many made sarcasms on the names.
When an officer of the staff arrived announcing that the
National Assembly was re-established, the crowd which
had just cried----' Vive Barbis !' shouted—' Vire I'As-
serub;6e Nationale !'"

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people,
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himself enabled two students to do so. When the
—" Vive l'Assembl6e Nationale !" One of the
National Guards, not knowing exactly in what posi-
tion things were, said that the reason why the new
Provisional Government was not approved by public
opinion was that the name of M. LAMARTINE did not
appear in the lists. " Oh ! there is no objection to
that!" said one, "we will add it !" and taking a pen
he wrote the name. The list then stood thus—
Lamartine, Louis Blanc, Ledru.llollin,
I3arbes, 131Anqui, Caussidiere, Etienne.Arago, Albert,

Hubert, Sobrier, Lagrange. The following document
was found :

" The Provisional Government, taking into conside-
ration the wish of the people, declares that it will imme-
diately notify to the Russian and German Governmunts
the order to reconstitute Poland, and if they do not do
it, the Government of the French Republic will imme-
diately declare war against them.
" The Members of the Provisional Government.

" Paris, 15th May, 1848."
This document bears tl.e stamp of the -Maine of Paris,
but is not signed.,
Whai the President of the Assembly was driven
from the chair, about 60 Deputies met in the salon
of the President to organize resistance. Several
representatives proposed that the Assembly should
retire to the provinces, but M. LE FALEoux declared
with energy that such an insult ought net to be made
to the Parisian population before appealing to it, and
that the Garde Mobile, who were before the windows,
should be called on. Not being able to persuade his
colleagues to adopt this opinion, M. DE FADEoux
leaped from the window, followed by M. DAMPIEERE
and M. KERDRED, and, addressing the comman-
dant of the Garde Mobile, called on him to protect the
Assembly. The mobile answered with acclamations.
M. DE FALEoux then hastened to the side of the
spay, where he met M. WoLowsKi. They both then
informed the National Guards that the Assembly did
not consider itself dissolved, and appealed to them for
protection, which. the National Guards immediately
promised.

On 'Monday a number of little scraps of 'paper
with the inscriptions, " Let us commit incendiarism !
Let us burn until we shall have obtained the division
of lands !" were found on the Boulevard Montmartre.
Other scraps were found in different parts_of Paris,
and even in the interior of the Asseinbly, with the

inscription, " Money is no longer current in France.
Every private property is declared national property.
Family is abolished. A tax of 500,000,0001. is im-
posed on the infamous town of Paris."

The Northern Railway continues to be protected
by 6,000 troops of the line and 2,000 Gardes Mobiles.
A company of the National Guard of the Banlieu,
which also did service there, has been dismissed.
On Wednesday Lyons was thrown into alarm by
the intelligence that the Faubourg of Bresse was
barricaded, and that the workmen of the national
workshops, all armed and provided with ball-
cartridges, were in insurrection against the
authorities of the Republic. It appears that
several workmen had been arrested for seizing
and burning some articles belonging to a manufac-
turer. The next morning a body of workmen waited
on M. MARTIN BERNARD, the Government commis-
sary, to demand their release: This was refused.
Some commissaries of police and gendarmes having
gone to make new arrests, the workmen seized them,
and declared that they would detain them until their
own comrades should be released. They then cow-
structed two barricades, leaving, however, a sufficient
space for vehicles to pass, and the barricades were
guarded by armed men. Subsequently, however,
they were removed ; but when the last accounts came
away two numerous corps de garde were established
one near the entrance of the Faubourg, the other

lower down.
The Presse says :
" On Monday a party of National Guards of the
12th Legion presented themselves at the Maine of the
12th Arrondissement, and E demanded cartridges;
but, as the men who made 'this demand were
persons wishing for order, M. Boquet, the deputy-mayor,
and the great friend of IlArLe,, refused to give them. At
ten,&-cleck the same night, M. Boquet was seen in the
Rue Saint Jacques escorted by ten men, each carrying
basket of cartridges. During the day, M. Boquet tore
up the order which he had received to have the rappel
beaten. It was Captain Artery who caused that to be
done, in suite of the authorities at the Mairie. It was
also Captain Mery who was ordered to arrest Boquet,
who has, it is said, •been, lodged in the Luxembourg."
We read in the Droit:—

It appears that the late manifestation, which has
ended so disastrously for the conspirators, was origi-
Aially fixed for the 12th or 13th, it being wished
that it should correspond with the anniversary
of the insurrection of the 12th of =May, 1839, at the
head of which were Midis and Blanqui. But the pre-
parations were not complete, as the expected reinforce-
ments from the provinces had not arrived. Consequently
the manifestation was postponed till the 15th. The
,plan for the insurrection of Monday last was perfectly
combined. At the moment of the departure of the
so-called Polish manifestation, and during its
passage from the Bastille to the Madeleine,
a certain number of persons more intimately
initiated in the plot foul( a more direct route,
and, to avoid the Pont de la Rivolution, proceeded
in small groups of two or three each along the quays
on the left bank of the river. Arriving in the place de
la rue de Bourg^gne long before the column coming by
the Boulevarts, Linty took possession of the court-yard of
the Assembly, and sent pretended delegates into the hag
of sitting. Others in much greater numbers, remarked
for the ardour of their communist opinions, remained in
the purlieus of the Hotel de Ville, waiting for the procla-
mation and arrival of the new Provisional Government.".
The funeral of the National Guards killed in the
Passage Moliere, on Monday, took place on Thursday,

and was attended by a deputation from the National
,AssemblY. M. CORMENIN pronounced a panegyric,
over their grave.

The Assembly met yesterday at half-past one, and
the early part of the morning was consumed in
listening to the personal explanations of M. BUCHEZ,
M. ETIENNE 'ARAGO, and other officers of the
Assembly and the Government in relation to the
events of Monday. The discussion, which was
assuming a very acrimonious character, was brought
to a conclusion by
General Clement Thomas, who expressed his annoy-
ance at fading honourable citizens who had shown
marks of courag,e and devotedness in the trying circum-
stances of May 15 exposed to calumnies. He should
not pursue the subject, Mit. would conclude by moving
an address from.the Colonels of the eighteen Legions of
Paris, and the banlieur, in reply to the vote of thanks
passed to them by the National Assembly. The Gallant
Member then read the address which is of a most loyal
character, and expressing a firm determination to put
down all perfidious attempts at re-action.—(Luud cheers
followed the reading of the aticess.)
The Chamber then passed with acclamation the order
of the day, and the matter ended.
After some discussion the draft of a proclamation to
the French people from the National Assembly was
voted.
The Minister of Finance presented two Bills, to close
the accounts of the budgets of 1646 and 1847.
M. Vivien stated that the Committee on the standing,
orders were of opinion that, in the case of Bills presented
by the Government, it was not necessary to insist on the
24 hours' notice, which was imperatively demanded for
propositions or Bills from other Members.
The Minister of the Interior presented two Bills—one
demanding '.500,000f. for hospitals and other charitable
institutions; and the second a Bill authorising certain
works to be commenced, and departments to meet the
wants of the labouring classes. He took that occasion
to declare that the capital was perfectly tranquil, and
that the population was actuated by the best possible
spirit towards the National Assembly.—(Hear, hear.)
In answer to a question from an Hon. Member, the
same Minister declared that the ;state of Limoges was
now improved, as the population was employed and
order re-established.
The Assembly then proceeded to ballot for two Members
to fill the vacant .places of Vice-President.
BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, MAY 19.

THREE o'CLocK.L---The Railway Bill presented by the
Government is considered rather better than was to be
expected, and has ,had a rather favourable effect on the
price of shares. The• Rentes are steady, but very little
business has been done.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 19.
Boulogne and Amiens, •6t, —Dutch Rhenish, :h—Namur
and Liege, 3%—northern of France, 4.