The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived.
The dispatches the Spanish Government has re-
ceived from M. ISTURITZ have excited considerable
alarm in the minds of NARVAEZ and SOTOMAYOR.
These dispatches state that not only had Lord PAL-
MERSTON refused to see Count Almlsm., but that his
colleagues had unanimously agreed to support him in
.lemanding the most signal reparation from the
Spanish Government, if it should fail in substantiat-
ing the charges it had brought against the British
Envoy.
The news of the Carlist successes in Catalonia is
confirmed. FORCADELL, the Carlist commander in
that province, was for a long time second in command
to CABRERA, in Arragon, and it is said that CA-
BRERA himself is on the frontier, and is about to enter
Spain.
The Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER were
expected to arrive at Cadiz on the 15th.
General O'DONNELL, the late Governor-General of
Cuba, who is at present in Paris, has been sent for by
General NAzvAxz, and it was supposed that he was
to be offered a seat in the Cabinet.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The return of ➢i. THIERS for Paris produced what
those who make mountains of molehills, and who wish
ill to the gt eat democratic experiment now going on
in France, choose to dignify with the name of an
imeute, but which we should designate as a mere
election row. It was natural to suppose that the
return of the author of the Laws of September, and
the advocate for the erection of the detached forts,
would be received with dissatisfaction by many of the
old Republicans. Some of the friends, too, of Bi. 'TRIERS
were imprudent enough to boast that he would be
elected Dictator, and would rule with a rod of iron.
It is not, therefore, very surprising that during the
course of the evening a mob should have as-
sembled in front of that gentleman's dwelling,
and should have indulged themselves in hooting and
hissing until the arrival of a detachment of National
Guards, when they dispersed. Those who wish to
magnify this into a terrific outrage can never have
witnessed an election row in England. What was
this row, in which not even a window was broken,
in comparison to the scenes exhibited in Westminster
every night for a fortnight during Sir MURRAY
MAXWELL'S election ? How harmless are the elec-
tioneering doings of the gamins of Paris, when
compared with those of the lambs of Nottingham !
And yet the Orleanists in this country endeavour to
magnify this into a terrific outbreak.

Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has been
elected for the department of the Yonne and Sarthe,
as well as for Paris.

As we some time since hinted, it is now evident
that the soi-disant ultra-republican and communist
imeutes, such as the attack of the 15th of May, are
the work of the Orleanist party. The grand ban
quet of Vincennes, which vvas to have been held on
Sunday, has been put oil, in consequence of the dis-
covery, by the real and honest republicans, of certain
dynastic intrigues in connexion with it. The Demo-
cratie Pacifique declares that the agitation and alarm
which has existed in Paris for some days is owing to
the intrigues of the Pretenders. The writer
goes on to state that he has himself ob-
served men join the groups of workmen on the
Boulevards, and entering into conversation with
them, hint that it was necessary to choose a saviour
of the Republic. We want, they would say, a man
of energy to place things on a proper basis—we
must choose either Louis NAPOLEON, HENRY V.,
or JoINvILLE. If any one near looked suspiciously
at these dynastic touters, or put any questions to
them, they held their faces down and sneaked off.
The banquet of Sunday was to have been exploited
by these dynastic incendiaries in the same manner as
other recent manifestations have been. One dynastic
partizan alone bought 25,000 francs' worth of tickets,
which would, no doubt, have been distributed among
the purchased partisans of the fallen dynasty. This fact
is sufficient to account for the presence of the Prince
DE JOINVILLE in Paris. On this latter subject the
Commerce says—
.' A report was spread in the course of Wednesday's
sitting of the National Assembly that the police were in
search of a high personage, arrived in the morning at
Paris by diligence from London. We think it right to
Abstain from mentioninr, the names which were circu-
lated with this news; but, from information which we
have reason to believe to be correct, we can allow our-
selves to go so far as to announce that this personage
has been arrested."

The Revolution mentions a rumour that the person
arrested, alluded to by the Commerce, is the Prince
DE JOINYILLE.

The final result of the poll in the department of
the Yonne has been received, and it appears that M.
RAMPON LEcHIN and Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON Bo-
NAPARTE are the successful candidates. The fol-
lowing is the final state of the poll :—M. RAMPON
LECHIN, 18,034; M. Louis BONAPARTE, 14,628 ; M.
FERRET, 13,462 ; M. ALEX. DumAs, 3,458. The
two former have been returned.
General CLEMENT Tuomas has tendered his resig-
nation as Commander-in-Chief of the National
Guard, but the Executive has refused to accept it.
At the meeting of the National Assembly yester-
day, M. CAUSSIDIERE took his seat for Paris. The
business transacted by the Assembly up to the hour
of post was of little interest.
The report of the Finance Committee, drawn up
by M. BINEAU, on the Government Railway Bill,
was distributed on Thursday to the members of the
National Assembly. On the question of expropria-
tion, the report declares that the right of the State

to exercise it is inalienable, and that the clause of re-

purchase, set down in the cahier des charges of the
companies, does not prevent the State in any way
from employing it. During the first fifteen years
the State has a right to expropriate the various lines,
and at the expiration of that period it has the right
to repurchase them. The two operations are per-
fectly distinct, and the creation of one does not by
any means suppress 'the other. But by the very fact
of the two rights existing, it is necessary that there
should be not merely a simple advantage to the treasury,
but a public utility clearly proved, an incontestable
an imperious necessity, to authorise the
surtagteen
to make use of its right of expropriation in place
of waiting for some years for the period when the
right of repurchase commences. Also, even if that
necessity and urgency were shown in the clearest
way, the expropriation could not be effected except
on payment of a fitting indemnity fixed by a jury:
The report then examines the financial position of

the several companies, and comes to the conclusion I
that, with the exception, perhaps, of two or three,
they can all meet their engagements and carry on
their undertakings successfully . In a special para-
graph, the report declares that railway and other
financial companies are perfectly compatible with the
Republican regime, and that associations which
unite together even the smallest amounts of capi-
tal for a common work are altogether demo-
cratic in their tendencies. The committee, refer-
ring to one of the principle motives put
forth by the Minister of Finance for imme-
diately taking possession of the lines, namely, to
be thereby enabled to give to the works all the
activity which the resources of the Treasury would
permit, comes to the conclusion that such motive is
not well founded. It expresses itself thus on the
point . •" Almost all the lines now in course of con-
struction are under the riginte of the law of 1842, so
that it is the State which at present executes the
earthworks and works of art. On such lines, that is
to say, on the Strasburg, the Vierzon, the Bordeaux,
the Nantes, and the Western, the State can at once
impart such activity to the works as the want of the
country demand. It can open workyards on as many
points as it pleases; it has for that no other limits
than the resources of the Treasury. In taking back
from the companies the concessions which had been
made to them—concessions which involve no other
work than that of the iron way and the stock—
the State would no doubt have commands to make
to give to the forges and machine factories ; but these
commands, if they have not yet been made by the com-
panies, would be given just as well by them, whilst on
the other band the State could not do so itselebut by
diminishing so much the sums which otherwise it
could apply to earthworks and mason-work." In
another part of the report the Committee declare that,
being convinced that no sufficient reasons exist to
warrant the expropriation, it will not discuss the in-
demnity offered by the State; still it thinks right to
show that the companies would lose enormously by
the terms offered by the Minister of Finance. This
it does by separately examining what each company
would receive for its line. In conclusion the Com-
mittee declares that, looking at the heavy deficiency
which must arise to the Treasury for the present year,
and taking into consideration the large amount of the
public debt now existing, it thinks it would be unwise
to add to the liabilities of the State the 623,000,000 f.
which the railway concessions place at the charge of
tile companies, and in consequence it recommends the
National Assembly not to adopt the Bill.

The Minister of Public Works was on Thursday
occupied with the drawing up of the amendment on
the Railway Bill. The Committee decided that the
indemnity offered by the State shall be according to
the rule laid down in the Bill, but by forming the
average on the year, in place of the six months which
preceded February 24, for the following lines :—St.
Germain, the two Versailles, Bale, Orleans, Rouen,
Havre, Northern, Vierzon, and Bordeaux. The in-
demnity shall be applied on an average of eighteen
months for the Strasburg, Lyons, Nantes, Troyes,
Marseilles, and Boulogne. M. LEITANC was named

reporter.
The Finance Committee was on Thursday occu•
pied with the question of credit, founded on landed
property, and with the question of mortgage banks.
The majority pronounced against the establishment
of mortgage banks, the notes of which, if issued at
the same time with those of the Bank of France, arid
to a large ameunt, would not obtain the credit neces-
sary for their circulation. Notes, it was observed,
in order to be readily taken, ought to have the gua-
rantee of being immediately payable, whereas the
mortgage notes did not Fresent any such facility, and
would not consequently remedy the present position
of the landowners. It was in general agreed that
the position of the landowners could not be amelio-
rated by the creation of mortgage notes, the circula-
tion of which, if Forced, wouli necessarily lead men's
minds to think of the inconveniences of the old as-
signats. The same question of a mortgage bank was
els? discussed in the Sub-Committee of Labour, but
no decision was come to.
The Droit announces that M. DUPONT DE L'EURE
has divided in equal portions among the hospitals,
bureaux de bienfaisance, and the poor of his arron-
dissement, the whole of the sums allotted to him for
the three months' Presidency of the Provisional
Governtnent.