The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

dividend on the amount expended in giving whole-
some, well-ventilated, and comfortable abodes.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 13th have been received.
The organs of the Orleanist faction have been
singing "a song of triumph" over the speeches of
Lord STANLEY and the Earl of ABERDEEN on the
Bulwer and Sotomayor correspondence. They look
upon it as an Orleanist triumph, and certainly the
presence of Al. GUIZOT in the House of Peers during
the whole of the debate gives it much of such an
appearance. His presence in the House was impolitic
as well as indelicate, inasmuch as it betrayed too
openly the source from which the inspirations of
Lords STANLEY and ABERDEEN emanated. M.
GCIZOT, it is evident, is attempting to play over again
the same of 1840.
The financial crisis in Madrid still continues.
Another imeute was expected, and every one was
leaving the city.
General ZABALA has been banished to Ceuta.
SALAMANCA has left Madrid, and is gone to the
Balearic Isles.

MADRID BOLBA, MAY 13.—Three per Cents, 211
cash; Five per Cents., 14 paper; Coupons, 8i paper;
Bank of St. Ferdinand, ex div., 80 cash. Exchange
on London, 30 days, 41 cash.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Executive Government has published a decree
appointing General CAVAIGNAC, Minister of War. It

is said that BLANQUI and HUBERT, who had both been
arrested, have, in consequence of some mysterious
agency, been suffered to escape. Had they been
brought under examination their revelations would,
it is said, have compromised many persons connected
with the Government. A letter appears in the
Reforme, signed " Raspail, fits," hich affirms that
neither of the Raspails is in custody. They were
both arrested, but were immediately liberated.
General COURTAIS has been several times interro-
gated by M. CREMIEUX. The General, who is in a
most depressed state of mind, denies all participation
in the conspiracy. It is said that he refuses to take
any food.
The parties already arrested amount to up-
wards of 200. The preliminary proceedings
against the accused commenced yesterday.
In the course of the day a man addressed the people
on the Boulevard Montmartre, endeavouring to excite
them to march to Vincennes and rescue the prisoners.
He was immediately arrested by the people them-
selves, and handed over to the care of the authorities.
At the close of the sitting of the Assembly on
Wednesday evening, while the operation of casting
up the votes for the Committee on the Constitution
was proceeding with, the Executive Committee en-
tered the Hall, and the President said—
I invite the Members to take their places, as the
Executive Committee has some communication to make
to them. .

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This having been effected with some difficulty.
The Minister of the Interior—l have to state that the
measures taken by the Executive Committee have been
most successful. Every thing is tranquil, and the whole
population is animated with the very best sentiments.
General Cavaignac is named Minister of War,
and M. Trouve. Chauvel, our colleague, Prefect
of Police. The Republican Guard, which this
morning, at six o'clock, occupied several posts,
has quitted them all without contestation. The
Government has given orders to disband them, in order
to proceed to their new and regular organisation.
There are other measures which I have to propose.
The Republic has been solemnly proclaimed, and received
throughout the whole of France with cries of enthu-
siasm. It is not enough to prevent the return of any
monarchical restoration ; energetic measures must be
taken to maintain the Republic so proclaimed. Guilty
hopes must be put an end to. The Republic ought to be
moderate, and ought to find its force in its very modera-
tion. It ought to prevent the recurrence of such ex-
cesses as you have witnessed, and to stop the guilty at-
tempts of the madmen who want at present to attack the
Republic, dreaming [of an impossible restoration. It is
with that object that we propose to you the following
decree ;
"The National Assembly, considering that', the right
of meeting and association exists only on condition of
being pacifically executed, and that all armed meeting
is subversive of order, and dangerous for public liberty,
decrees :
" Art. 1. That all armed meeting is forbidden.
"Art. 2. That whoever shall be found in a meeting
bearing arms ostensibly or secretly shall be punished
with an imprisonment of three months to two years."
The Government, continued the Honourable Minister,
does not at present propose any law relative to tumultu-
ous meetings or seditious cries, because, on those points,
there exist laws which will be strictly executed, until
they be revised by the National Assembly. The Go-
vernment, however, with a view to prevent all culpable
attempts, has charged me to present to you the follow-
ing decree :—`• The National Assembly decrees that
the territory of France, which has been interdicted for
ever to the family of Charles X. by the law of 1832, is
equally interdicted to Louis Philippe and his family."
A Voice on the right—Bravo
The Minister of the Interior—We also propose to
you to pass a decree to accord recompenses from the
State to such National Guards as have been wounded,
and to the families of those who have been killed in de-
fending public order and the National Assembly.—
(Loud approbation.)
The President—A telegraphic dispatch has just been
receive from Lille, contradicting the rumour that any
movement had taken place in that town like that of
May 15.
The Minister of Justice—l have also to lay before
you a bill relative to the attributions of the Executive
Committee. I propose to you to vote it d'urgence. It
runs thus :
Art. 1. The members of the Executive Power shall
not be obliged to take part in the deliberations of the
Assembly.—(Marks of surprise.)
art. 2. The Minister shall be bound to appear at these
deliberations.

Art. 3. When the members of the Executive Corn-
aaittee are to be called to the Assembly, they are to be
so by a resolution come to in public sitting, and only to
give such explanations as may be required.—(Murmurs.)
Art. 4. The members of the Committee shall be heard
whenever they deem it necessary.
Art. 5. The President of the Assembly can have the
rappel beaten to call out the troops; but to the Execu-
tive Government alone it belongs to take military mea-
sures tor the general defence and security.—(Explosion
of murmurs.)
M. Bernard must remind the Assembly that they had
already decided that when any proposition and decree
requiring to be passed forthwith (durgence) was pre-
sented, tour-and-twenty hours' notice was to be given.
He must demand that this be now carried into effect.
The Minister of Commerce—lt is only by inadver-
tence that the Minister of Justice had neglected the form
just alluded to.—(Laughter, agitation.)
The Minister of Finance, in consequence of what was
now passing, at present gave notice that he should, the
next day, present a bill durgence to authorise the State
to resume possession of the railways.—(Sensation.)
The Minister of Public Works said that it had
been found necessary to send troops during the day to
certain points of the Northern Railway to prevent an
attempt of the workmen to stop the circulation. The
measure taken had been crowned with success, and the
circulation had not been impeded. He wished to give
notice that the next day he should present a Bill
d'urgence for extraordinary credits for the execution and
repairs of roads and canals. The national workshops
would be down in it for three millions. The number
of workmen on the lists of the State was now 115,000.—
(Hear, hear.) The men at present did nothing that was
of real utility, and the Government wish to employ them
on bontifids works. The men from the provinces would
be sent back to the departments, but the workshops
must still continue to be kept up for some time longer.
He wished to state that National Guards had come
spontaneously from Cambray, Amiens, and Meaux, to
support the Republic.
M. de Remusat should propose that an expression of
gratitude to these men from the Assembly be mentioned
on the minutes of the sitting.—Agreed to.
A long and angry discussion ensued on the point
of order ; the greater number of the speakers con-
tending that the Executive Committee had not the
power of introducing measures without notice. At
length the order of the day motive was on the motion
of M. CREMIBUI, agreed to in order to afford an op-
portunity of proposing a measure for the amendment
of the regulations. The following are the votes pro-
posedFT
or
re rtehpea i
mo fp nationalf r ot
hated s
to be taken for national works :
theft. 1,000,000
navigation". of Manse ... 1,500,000
For ditto of tl;e.'Seine and Marne ... 80,000
For the Navigation of the Lot 500,000
For the building of the Ecole Poly technique 3,500,000
For the Ecole Normal ••• ... 50,000
For the Ateliero Nationaux .. 3,000,000
At ten o'clock the result of the.isallot for the Com-
mittee of the Assembly on the formation of the con-
stitution was declared ; six Members only of the
eighteen, MM. CORMBNIN, MARIUS; LAMBNNAIS,
ViTIEN, DX TocQuxviLLE, and DUFAXIIE, had the
sufficient number of votes.
Before the public sitting the representatives as-
sembled in their bureaux, to again consider the
subject of the incompatibilities. There are three
systems brought forward:-Ist,
to suspend during the
session the salaries of such representatives as hold
Government places; 2d, to allow salaries to be
received, but on condition of the 25f. a day being
given up ere L • and 3d, to declare that th •
S an absolute

incompatibility between public functions and a seat in
the Chamber. The two first propositions being con-
sidered as half measures, have not found so much
favour as the last, which it is thought will be defini-
tively adopted by the Assembly.
Colonel HINFREY, of the sth Cuirassiers, has been
appointed Governor of the Luxembourg.
LOUIS BLANC IS still at liberty, although there are
strong grounds for suspecting that he was actually
with the conspirators during the two hours that he
was absent from the Assembly on Monday. The
general opinion is that he was in the Hotel de Ville
when the Provisional Government was proclaimed,
and that having managed to make his escape he posted
away to the Assembly with all possible speed, to show
himself, and to proclaim his innocence. The follow-

ing letter found in the Hotel de Ville in the room oc-
cupied by BA MIES may perhaps throw some light on
the doings of M. Louis BLAIMC on Monday. The
letter is not signed :

" Rue de l'Arbre, Sec.
" I write to you that you may net be alarmed. lam
with Albert and Louis Blanc. We come from the As-
sembly, which is dissolved. We are to have a sitticg
this night at the Luxembourg. I salute you.
" Your HUSBAND."
On Monday (says the Messager), while General

COURTAIS was giving orders to the Garde Mobile on
the Pont de la Concorde to sheath their bayonets, M.
GOODCHAUX, the late Minister of Finances, who was
at the head of his company, drew out a pistol, and
vowed he would shoot the first man who would obey
this word of command.
By the resignation:of MM. BELANGER and CAUS-
81,„gg, the annu lation of the election of M.
SCIIMIT, and the option of MM. CAVAIGNAC, CRE-
MIEUX, BASTIDE, RECURT, BETHMONT, DUPONT DE
L'EURE, MARRAST, PAGUERRE, and F. DR LASTEY-
EjE, for other departments, the electors of the Seine
will have to elect twelve representatives.
On Monday last, at the moment when the column
entered, after having forced the Pont de la Revolu-
tion on the square situated at the end of the Rue de
Bourgogne, two windows opened at the first floor of
one of the houses, and several ladies elegantly dressed
in black appeared, and immediately cried "Vive la
Pologne 1" "Vive la Republique Democratique !"
From time to time persons very well dressed appeared
on the balcony, and, with much gesticulation, cried
to the operatives, " Friends, our end is to establish
a democratic Republic, this evening at the Champ de
Mars at six o'clock !" But the operatives appeared
little disposed to attend to this order.
From the above it would appear as if there were
some Monarchists, either Orleaniat or Legitimist,
connected with the conspiracy ; and the mysterious
escape of BLANQUI favours this supposition.
The following proclamation from the Prefect of
Police to the inhabitants of Paris was posted up on
Tuesday' afternoon :
" Citizens,—The events of May 15 are known to
you. The calm and courageous attitude of the re-
presentatives of the people, the salutary interven-
tion of the sedentary and moveable National Guards,
the loyal concurrence of the army, and the im-
partiality of justice, are guarantees to you for the
maintenance of public order and liberty! The magis-
trate, whose special duty it is to superintend the
police of the capital, has fulfilled his duty. He
answers for the security of your homes and your
families. His action was imperceivable in all
these great movements, but he, nevertheless, was
incessant in the performance of his duties. The Repub-
lican principle dues not admit of preventive measures,
but it is the duty of a Government to make use
of all the repressive means which are authorised
by the law. The law will suffice for whatever
may arise. The national approbation was never
more unanimously accorded at any epoch of our his-
tory. The National Assembly, the National Guard, the
National Army, all join in impressing upon the Republic
of 1848 a sacred, inviolable, indestructible character!
Union! confidence! order! devotedness! These are the
duties of all. Rely upon me as I rely upon you. You were
with me at the barricades of Liberty, and I will be with
you at the barricades of Order. Let us leave justice to
take her regular course against the real culprits ; let us
all, on our parts, apply ourselves to the task of
leading back to the right path a misled mul-
titude of deceived workmen, of a people seduced
by generous notions. While the Government is acting,
as sou may be assured it is, in putting down the pertur-
bators, let us apply ourselves to enlightening the people
as to their true interests, in pacifying their minds; and
in this painful trial our Revolution, our Republic, will,
believe me, come forth victorious.
" CAUSSIDIERE."
M. JEANDEL, of the 7th company of the Ist
battalion of the 2d, legion of the National Guard,
entered, on Tuesday morning, the offices of
the Commune de Paris, which were occupied
by an indignant crowd. In a room adjoining
M. SOBRIEE'S apartment, he found four papers,
containing five decrees numbered 1,3, 4,6, and 7 ;
they were presented yesterday in the Chamber by M.
AvoND. In the first, it is said:—" Looking at the revo-
lutions of February and May,1848," which would lead
one to suppose that the Commune de Paris was sure of
its revolutionary success. Another decree says :
" Whereas the National Assembly is composed
of reactionnaires, and since it has not decreed
a Minister of Labour, on the part of the people,
it must be dissolved:' The sixth decree assigns
three months for the organisation of labour.
In the first decree, there are words in pencil
on the margin from the hand of SOBRIER. The Com-
mune de Paris, and the Vraie Republique, which was
conducted by M. THORE, have ceased to appear.
It was reported that M. TROUTE Cneuver„, a Pa-
risian banker, and former Mayor of Le Mans, had
been appointed Prefect of Police of Paris.
On Tuesday M. Louis "italic appeared in the
Chamber at the beginning of the sitting. After
spending a few minutes in reading the Monileur, he
slipped away. He returned about five o'clock, and
was hooted by the National Guard as he passed.
According to the printed lists found at the Hotel
de Ville, in the room where BARBES was ar-
rested, the following were to be the Ministry
of the new Government :—Raspail, President of
the Republic ; Cabet, Minister of Foreign
Affairs ; Blanqui, Minister of the Interior ;
Barbel, Ministerial President, without portfolio ;
Ledru-Rollin, Minister of War ; Albert, Minister of
Progress ; Thore, Mayor of Paris; Caussidiere, Mi-
nister of Police. All these nominations were signed
by Barbis on separate lists. Another list was as
follows, but it was not signed :—Caussidiere, Inte-
rior; Flocon, Foreign Affairs ; Louis Blanc, Progress
of Commerce and Agriculture; Albert, Public
Works; Victor Schcalcher, Marine and Colonies;
Pierre Leroux, Justice; Cavaignac, War; Huber,
Finance ; Prudhon, Public Worship and Public
Instruction; Sobrier, Prefect of Police. Ledru
Rollin, Barnes, and Blanqui were to be the executive
power; and Thore Mayor of Paris. The following
paperi
rb table in
the N
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theHatooiteniAssembly,ladeVille:—
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those of the people.
In consequence, the people having manifested their
wish to have for provisional government the citi-
zenstee remain‘pveospl leef
having
n to°i a
other d
Barbee, Ledru- Rollin, Albert, Louis Blanc
Raspail, Pierre Leroux, and Thort these citizens
are nominated members of the Government. Citizen
Caussidiere is maintained as delegate of the Republic
in the Prefecture of Police. The National Guard
receives the order to return to their respective dis-
tricts."
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY—Suns/4a OF MAT 18.
The President took the chair at twelve o'clock.
All the approaches to the Chamber had asswmed
their ordinary aspect.
The President said that as the first business before
the Assemby was to ballot for the twelve members re-
maining to be appointed on the committee on the con-
stitution,propose that Hon. Members should
vote at once in the Chamber, and that the examination
he should
of the bulletins, which occupied such a length of time,
could take place in one of the committee-rooms.—
Agreed to.
place, and did not last more than
20 minutes.
The President had received a communication from
the Abb Lacordaire, declaring that in consequence of
The ballot then took
his finding it impossible to reconcile the performance of
member of the Assembly, he, in consequence, prayed
the President to announce his resignation ot the func-
tionshis religious duties with the demands. on his time, as a
of representative of the people.—Accepted.
M. Senard said that he had a proposition to make to
rtheneeAwsesdemwbilyth, wiihvicohur.he quite certain. would be
National Guards had lost their lives in the defence of
In the late events several
the Republic. Their funeral obsequies were to take
place that day at three o'clock, and he
dt shouldtwopr_oposo
to the Assembly to send one Vice-Prest a Secre-
could, if they pleased, be
—(Hear, hear.) The names
drawn by—Agreed to.
taries, and twenty Members to ferns part ot the cortege.
The Members were aocordiagly drawn as mentioned.
A Member moved that a vote of thanks be passed to
the National Guards of Cansbray, who sent forward a
body of men to Paris for the defence of the Republic.--
Agreed to,
possie, toy
praying a petition from Limoges,
Another Member
praying the National Assembly, as
soon as bl
put an end to the state of anarchy, which for three weeks
had existed in that neighbourhood.'—Referred to the
bureaux.

The order of the day was the consideration of two
propositions, each presented for the purpose of issuing
a proclamation to the l!rench people, and particularly
the population of Paris, for their conduct in the late
events.

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M. Stornes and M. Berard then read each a draft of a
proclamation, acknowledging the promptitude of the people
to lend efficient assistance to the National Assembly in
its hour of peril, and the determination of the latter to
oarry out the republic with firmness and decidedly De-
mocratic principles.
The Chamber decided that the draft of the procla-
mation presented by M. B‘rard should be first taken
into consideration. A very noisy and confused debate
then ensued on it ; some members wanting to have it
referred to the bureux, others voting at once ; some
discussing it paragaaph by paragraph, and others in its

ensemble. -
M. Flocon maintained that it was contrary to reason
and common sense to adopt a document of such import-
ant as an address or proclamation of the National As-

sembly to the people without the most mature conside-
ration. Every expression ought to be weighed, and the
whole document made, as much as possible, the expres-
sion of the teeling of the whole Chamber. He therefore
should propose that some course be adopted to allow the
Members to take full cognizance of the contents of the
paper.
The Assembly appearing anxious to adopt the procla-
mation forthwith, and great contusion continuing to

prevail,
M. Dupin ascended the tribune, and said that certainly
it was desirable that such a document should be weighed
maturely before being voted. He should therefore pro-
pose some delay ; let the proposition be adjourned, at
least to the end of the sitting.
After some further debate of an exceedingly noisy
character, this course was agreed to.
M. Flocon, Minister of Commerce, presented a Bill for
the institution of the council of Prudhommes to settle all
matters of dispute between masters and workmen.
Referred to the Committee on Labour.
M. Isambert presented a proposition to put down all
political clubs whatever, without exception; but no one
being found to second it, it fell to the ground.
A Member presented a proposition to authorize the
Government to issue notes to the amount of 300 millions
to aid agriculture and commerce.
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
Some discussion then arose on the constitution of the

standing committees, when it was decided that those
relative to the colonies and Algeria should be united

into one.

M. Bemire rendered an account to the Assembly of
the result of the inquiries of the committee appointed
to examine the best mode of voting. Out of the three
practices of asses et Mve, division, and ballot, it proposed
to preserve the first and la.;t, but to change the mode of
taking the vote by division, recommending the plan
adopted in England, by the members leaving their
places, and going to two different places, according as the
members were for or against the question under dis.
cussion.

The report was adopted, after a discussion which lasted
until post Lour,
It will be seen from the above that the Bill for the
re-purchase of the railways by the State had not been
introduced at the time the post left. The general
belief is, that it is founded on the third of the pro-
positions announced three weeks ago by M. GARNIER
PAGES, namely, the fixing of the purchase price at
the price on the Bourse on the 22d of February, and
the payment in 5 per cent. renter, or bons du Tresor,
at par. Of the three alternatives proposed by M.
GARNIER, PAGES, this is the most favourable to the
shareholders. The Bill will not pass the Assembly
without strong opposition.
The bureaux of the Assembly were yesterday oc-
cupied with the Bill presented the day before by the
Government, interdicting Louis PlimurrE, or any
of his family, from entering France. In answer to
questions addressed to him, the Minister of the
Interior declared that the decree had not been brought
forward on account of anything that occurred at
present, but as a simple measure of precaution.
In the course of the discussion, M. lILIERBETTE,
who declared that he approved of the decree, asked
for information relative to the confiscation of the pro-
perty of the Prince of Orleans, which appeared to
him most odious.
The Minister of the Interior said that the Govern-
ment would in a short time bring in a I3ill declaring
what it proposed to do in the matter.
The members appointed to the Committee on the
subject are MM. Bourbeau, Alteroche, Babaud-
Laribien, Woirhaye, l3illault, Isambert, Auberger,
Richard, Maurat, Ballange, and Marchal. Eight
others are still to be named.
By orders from the Prefect of the Police the whole
of the papers of the Club des Droits de l'Homme
have been seized. It is said that several important
documents have been found among them, which throw
light on the conspiracy against the Republic. Five-
and-twenty individuals have been arrested in the
apartments of the Palais Royal occupied by BARBES'
club. From forty to fifty of these people had lodged
and been fed in the Pfdais Royal ever since the 24th
of February. The mystery is from whom the money
came.

It was announced on Thursday in the Salle des
Conferences, that PIERRE LEROUX, one of the prin-
cipal persons concerned in the late events in Paris,
had been arrested near Nanteuil. Two persons who
were with him being pursued by a part of the Na •
tional Guard, who had effected the capture, threw
themselves into the Marne and swam across. Two of
the National Guards did the same, and at the other
side a struggle took place, which ended in the cap-
ture of the fugitives.
The Procureur of the Republic and three Judges
d'lnstruction were busily engaged yesterday interro-
gating BARBER, ALBERT, QUENTIN, and their prin-
cipal accomplices at the castle of Vincennes. There
are eighty prisoners in all.
The late events at Paris have had an effect upon
Rouen. It became necessary to call out the whole
of the National Guard, and for them to occupy all
the principal quarters of the town ; but all became
quiet as soon as it was known that the National As-
sembly had prevailed. Most of the manufactories are
said to have resumed work.

PARIS AND RODEN RAILWAY.—The receipts on the
Rouen Railway for the weak ending 6th May, amount
to 95,029 f. 30c., and oa the Havre Railway to
35,019 f. 60c.

BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, MAY 18.
TEREE o'CLocZ.—The Rentes were weak to-day in
consequence of the feeling that the Government is
feeble, and the Ultra Democratic party in the ascendant.
A slight rise has taken place in the price of Railway
Shares, which is to be attributed to the report that the
terms to be offered by the Minister of the Finances to
the shareholders are rather more favourable than those
originally proposed. Bons du Tresor are at 32 disc.
Exchange on London is 25f. 4.2ic. for one month, mad
25t. 25c. fur three months.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 18.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Luxembourg, I—Northern
of France, 4—Paris and Strasburg, 2.