The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid papers of the 25th ult. have arrived.
The finanical difficulties of the Government con
tinue to increase. _ _

The Carlists in Navarre are concentrating their
forces and preparing for an outbreak. It is said that
they have entered into an arrangement with the Pro-
gresistas for a fusion.
The Bolsa was closed.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
At the opening of the sitting of the Assembly on
Thursday the President, M. SENanD, said—
I claim your attention to a grave proposition, fully
deserving your solicitude. You, no doubt, remarked
that last evening I indicated 'to you a single nomination
to be made to-day, from a feeling which you all appre-
ciated, for you knew that another Member of your
board was to be replaced. You felt that before appoint.
ing a successor to General Negrier. the Assembly
should pay its debt to his memory and family. General
Neg tier, with whose military career and heroical devo-
tion you are all acquainted, was born in Portugal of
French parents. lie was brought from Lisbon by
Marshal Lasnes. It was our colleague, General
Subervie, then aide-de camp of the Marshal,
who accompanied him into France. The General has
left a very small patrimony to his family. Noble-minded
and munificent, his heart and purse were always open
to relieve his less fortunate and necessitous cumrades,
and his widow and two children actually possess no
means of existence. The former is only entitled to a
small pension of 1,500 francs per annum. His daughter
is married, and his son, nineteen years of age, whom I
pressed this morning in my arms, has enlisted as a
volunteer in the ith Regiment of the line. He was
studying to fit himself for the Military School of St.
Cyr, and was on the point of passing his examination.
I accordingly propose to you to vote the following
decree:

" THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
" Considering that General Negrier, who has met
with his death in fighting for the maintenance of order
and for the defence of the Republic, was at the same
time general of division, commander of a corps d'armee,
representative of the people, and questor of the National
Assembly ;
" Considering besides that it is necessary to provide
in a special manner for his funeral obsequies and for the
fate of his family, decrees as follows:
" Art. 1. The heart of General Negrier shall be de-
posited in the Invalides, and his body taken to the city
of Lisle, which claims it.
"Art. 2. The son of General Negrier, now enrolled
as a volunteer in the 7th Regiment of the line, and having
already passed his first examination for St. C 3 r, is nomi•
nated sub-lieutenant.

" Art. 3. A pension of 3,000 f. a year, reversible to
their two children, half to each, is accorded to the widow
as a national recompense.
" Art. 4. This pension may be received in addition to
the pension to which Madame Negrier is entitled as
widow of an officer killed in fighting for the Republic."
General Cavaignac next ascended the tribune, and
announced to the Assembly that Admiral Leblanc having
refused to accept the Ministry of Marine, M. Bastide
had been transferred to that department, and General
Bedeau appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The ballot for the election of the President next coin-
menced, and gave the following results:—
Number of voters ... 790
Absolute majority ... ... 396
M. Marie obtained ... 414 suffrages
M. Dufaure ... 297 ~
M. Lacrosse ... ... 61 „

M. Marie, having obtained the absolute Majority,
was proclaimed President of the Assembly for the en-
suing month.
M. Senard next took leave of the Assembly. The
Chief of the Executive power, General Cavaignac, and
he had not quitted each other during the crisis. The
General wished him to remain with him, by offering
him an important post in the Cabinet. He at first re-
fused it; but, considering that the citizen, like the
soldier, should not hesitate to devote himself and repair
to the post of danger, he had subsequently accepted.
He then pledged himself to do everything in his power
to give to the Administration a firm and decided im-
pulse, to re-assure the citizens, and baffle the designs of
the factious. He vacated his seat with regret, and
would ever feel grateful for the high honour the As-
sembly had conferred upon him by elevating him to that
exalted station.

M. Senard next ascended the tribune, and presented,
as Minister of the Interior, a project of decree, which,
he trusted, the Assembly would see the necessity of
voting that very day. The decree required a credit of
3,000,000" to enable the Government to relieve the fa-
milies of the National Guards who had fallen in defence
of order and the law, and to defray the expenses of the
citizens of the different departments of France who had
abandoned their homes to fly to the assistance of their
Parisia❑ brethren.

The credit was granted by the Chamber without any
discussion. _ _

The Minister of the Interior afterwards presented a
second decree, demanding another credit of 1,000,000 f.
for the Mobile Guard of Paris, which was also granted.

A member here laid on the table an address of the
Provincial National Guards, who came to the relief of
Paris, adhering to the appointment of General Cavaig-
nac as chief of the Executive power, and offering their
support to the Republic.
Another member next stated that General Lafontaine,
a representative of the people, whose death had been
announced in some journals, would be able in a few days
to resume his legislative functions.
The President then reminded the Assembly that the
project of decree relative to the national workhouses was
at the order of day.
General Cavaignae, however, asked that the discussion
be postponed until Monday, which was agreed to.
The Assembly, after regulating its next order of the
day, adjourned at five o'clock.

The election of M. MARIE to the office of Presi-
dent of the Assembly is an act of grave significance.
It is in fact an act of grave censure by the National
Assembly of the late colleagues of M. MARIE. That
gentleman, it will, be remembered, was the only
member of the late Executive who had the courage
to present a law against tumultuous assemblages,
and, unaided by his colleagues, he carried the law
through the Assembly in one sitting. He it was also
who firmly refused to enter into any transaction with
the insurgent workmen of the Ateliers Nationaux,
and it is said that the National Assembly seized the
first opportunity that presented itself to mark its ap-
probation of the line of conduct pursued by M. MARIE,
and to separate him from his colleagues. M. LEDRU
ItoLLIN was present at the sitting of Thursday. This is
the first time that he has attended the sittings of the
Assembly since the day on which the insurrection
broke out. M. LAMARTINE and M. LEDRU ROLLIN
have not been arrested, but it ig said that they are
gardes a sue by the police, and that any attempt to
escape would cost them them their lives.

The ronstitutionnel states that amongst a mass of
papers found in the lodgings of Lieutenant DEFLOTTE
were discovered several letters from M. LAMARTINE,
together with a passport signed by him, and another
by LOUIS BLANC.

There can be no doubt but that some of the members
of the late Government are deeply implicated in the
late transactions. It appears that the Executive had
information of the intended outbreak some days
before it happened, and General CAVAIGNAC, as Mi-
nister of War, had directed telegraphic dispatches
to be sent off to the provinces ordering considerable
reinforcements of troops to be sent to Paris. Those
dispatches were never transmitted.
_ _

The National Guard of Rouen on their return from
Paris signed a petition to the National Assembly, de-