The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-06 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the
29th ult., by the Madrid, Captain John Weeks, which
arrived at Southampton yesterday.
Great excitement has been caused in Coimbra by
the imprudence of the military officers and the subse-
quent insults and provocations of the soldiers. The
students of the University had written a congratula-
tory address to the students of Paris, Italy, Vienna,
and Berlin ; it had 406 signatures.
The voyage of Conde DE THOMAR (COSTA CABRAL)
to Cadiz for his children was attributed by the Pro-
gressista press to an intention of opening a direct
communication with Louis PHILIPPE'S family for
political purposes. The Duke and Duchess of MONT-
PENSIER were then in Seville.
The Chamber of Deputies had commenced a dis-
cussion on a project of law for the more rapid " amor-
tisation" of bank notes. Senhor JOSE CABRAL'S sec-
tion of the Cartistas were showing their dissatisfaction
with the Ministerial policy by refusing to work on
committees of the house.
The following are the dates of sailing of the
Madrid :—Gibraltar, April 26, 7 p.m.; Cadiz, April
07, noon ; Lisbon, April 29, 2 p.m.; Oporto, April
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the French papers of yesterday.

As our readers are aware, the National Assembly
met on Thursday, the Provisional Government re-
signed their functions into the hands of the Assem-
bly, and the Republic was proclaimed. We yesterday
gave an account of the proceedings up to three o'clock
on Thursday. The Journal des Dl bats thus conti•
nues the narrative of events after that hour :
" At half•past three o'clock the sitting was resumed,
the reperters succeeded each other at the tribune, and
reported about 600 elections that had been validated.
The election of M. Schmidt, the Deputy for Paris, has
been adjourned; but it was not there that lay the inte
rest of the scene. It was on the concentrated agitation
that by intervals expressed itself in the perpetual cry of
Vive la litpubliquer From time to time some one
would rise suddenly—some one new and unknown—
whu demanded the proclamation of the Republic; and
as soon would this isolated voice he covered and
overwhelmed by a mass of acclamations. One of
provinces
tote representatives of Paris read from the tribune a
project
proclamation, and all the representa
,
rose to put in their claims to
share the act. In fine, there passed in this assembly a
sort of travail d'enjantement—there was a great clamour,
(etct of offe
which seemed to swell its breast, and to demand an issue.
It was a series of explosions which sought their electric
current. It was then that the assembly went forth to
proclaim the Republic upon the steps of the Palais, facing
the bridge that leads to the Place de la Concorde. The
represcuet tives of France stood there. and beneath them
the battalions of the National Guard and of the army
pressing around their dkeipeau.r. The drums beat, the
national hymns were taken up by the people, and it was
in the midst of this unheard and indescribable scene that.
France declared the Republic. It. was without order, it
was without rule, it was a revolution once more ; it was
like a vision passing before our eyes confounded, blinded
by the setting sun, by the drapeaux, by the
reflection of arms. But do we not lire in
the midst of dreams, or rather in the midst
of realities that go beyond the hardiest essay of imagi-
nation? When our looks plunge into this terrible abyss
it seems to us that we enter into a furnace. In this
burning and blazing cauldron all the elements of good
and evil are mingled in a contest of which God alone
knows what is to came. Gold. bronze, iron, boil and
writhe in this inextinguishable flame: out of these waves
of melting metal we see arise a living statue, evoked by
the powerful names of liberty, equality, fraternity. Oh!
you who have created it, what soul are you going to give
it? With what breath is it to be animated? France,
the whole world, regards you: do not disappoint their
hope and their confidet.ce. As to us we shall never
despair. Forms pass away! the eternal substance springs
up again from their ashes—the immortal soul of the
country breaks and scatters its frail envelopes. But
through all transformations she re appears ever shining,
ever unaltered. Monarchy or republic, it is still France
—it was France yesterday, is France to-day, and will
be France to-morrow."
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The following account of the strange attitude
assumed by the clubbists, supporters of the minority
of the Provisional Government, is from the Condi-
tutionnel—

" The Members, to their surprise, remarked in the
passages leading to their bureaux a certain number of
citizens, all wearing on their aims a IN d brus.sard, and
at peering to exercise a sort ot inspection. .1c was soon
ascertained that these were delegates trom club-, and it
was furthermore learned that on the preceding night a
deputation from the clubs, composers of about 350 or 400
persons, met at the Hotel of the Minister of the Interior,
and those delegates were received by the Minister in
his cabinet. They intimated their desire to have a
gallery assigned to the clubs, and required that two
bureaux of the Chamber should be placed at their dis-
posal in order that they might attend the sittings,
take notes, consult and immediately repair to their
clubs to report the operations of the Assembly. It
appears that these demands were most graciously ac-
corded. We are assured that, by way of recompense,
the club where sits the citizen Barbs has decided that
an honorary ticket of admission should be addressed to
the citizen Ledru Rollin. This is certain, that these
delegates appeared to day as veritable inspectors in the
Palms, where sits the Assembly. We shall see if the
Assembly will exercise the supreme power which is con-
fided to it, but at present it hat dly appears to be master
of its own house. Already it has accomplished tin act
of independence in not wearing the costume decreed fur
the representatives of the people."
The Assemblee Nationale has the following notice of
the extraordinary attitude assumed by the minority of
the Provisional Government :

"The places taken in the Assembly by the four mem-
bers of the Provisional Government, their attitude in
the sitting, struck all serious minds. They occupied the
first bench of the extreme gauche, and this bench seemed
cut out expressly to separate them from the majority of
the Provisional Government. They were seated in the
following order :—Messrs. Louis Blltic, Ledru Rollin,
Flocon, and Albert ; behind them General Cuurtais took
his place, end talked frequently with them. This posi-
ti‘n taken by these tour Republicans indicates frankness
at least, if not an adroit policy. Whatever may be their
hopes, is it not to be feared tor them that the represen-
tatives of the people may not ratify this sort of separa-
tion that they have nee. pikd. and oblige them to seek in
another part of the chasabsbr another bench fitted fur
four p'sces ? For as the principal danger of the situa-
tion is in this group of the extreme gauche, it is upon the
political horizon the black spot v+hich presages and
carries the tempest, and we will not abandon our post as
long as this peril is not incurred.'
The Ikfurine, in describing the appearance of the
Chamber, says—" At the extreme gauche, upon the
summit of the mountain, were seated BARITES, EM-
MANUEL, and ETIENNE ARAGO,CAUSSIDIERE, BAUNE,
and MARTIN BERNARD." The last is one of the
heroes and orators of BLANQUI'S Club.
The Sikle has the following:—

"In proclaiming the Republic, does the Assembly
give its full adhesion to all the acts of the Provisional
Government? This question, which every one asks
himself to-day, appears to us to be settled for the
present. Three times at the commencement of the
sitting, in the ceremony of installation which preceded
the verification of qualifications, three times it was
attempted to confound with the cry of " Vive la
publique" a homage rendered to the Provisional
Government; three times did it fail. The Assembly
mrefusing an eager praise as it would a
reproachd grave,withu reflection, and reserving its opinion
until after an account shall be given of its acts. By
this conduct it shows that if it has recognised the ser-
vices rendered, that if it was disposed to forget faults, it
would tr)t, notwithstanding, c,,n,,tit to withhold their
examination. We cannot but commend this attitude.
The firmness of the repre,enta,tives of the nation attests
that they feel the value of unity and resolution in the
Government. We have to day a sovereign assembly,
we shall soon, doubtless, have a Government."
The National has the following :

At a preparatory meeting a number of the repre-
sentatives have fixed on the following as candidates,
we propose to our political friends:—
Vice Presidents MM. Guinard, Cavaignac, vih‘o‘ niPrcsident—M. Trelat.
La-
mennais, E. Arago, Perdigvier, and Recart.
" Secretaries—MM. F. Pvat, Felix, Mathez, Babaud,
Lrau.
ie Vignerte, Robert (des Ardennes), Emile
Questors MM. Chavallon, Trouver, Chauvel,
Ducoux."
eraivre,

The following is the report of the Afternoon sitting
stsheemlboluydkEt acclamations, again
, and cries
:
G over nment w main greeted on
eee
n\t,rraa(
nltvicoiesni
atAhl
of " Vive la Republique !” arose side.orati°"
of
their eTit rhh
The Assembly own proceeded every
to hear reports from
the different bureaux of the returns which had been
subjected to their examination.
M. d'ollivier—l demand that, as each representative is
admitted, he shall swear r fide ity to the Republic, one and
A Voicindivisible
—The political oath has been abolished !
Another Voice—Abolished ! By whom ?
M. Cretnieux• the Minister of Justice—Citizens, for
the last sixty years, the scandal ot so many oaths having
been violated has excited the greatest
political indigna-
tion. The Provisional Government telt the necessity
of putting an end to this scandal.—(Cries of " bravo!") li
and es first act was to declere that he who was invested
with any pubic functions, and particularly with the
honour of representing the people in this Assembly,
should comprehend that be must be truly Republican.—
(Cries of " Yes, yes! Excel/tear) Citizens, your
applause tells me what are the sentiments ot your hearts;
ot what use is it, therefore, to demand that they should
be on your lips?—(Applause.)
M. d'ollivier—it to imsosAble for me to allow the
' remark of the Minister of Justice to pass without my
protestingagainst
it. It has beets said that the political
oath has been abolished, but why should a frank, loyal,
and energetic personal adhesion be abolished?—(Cries of
Bravo;" " Vivo la Republique.) I am happy in
having called forth this manitestation, and in ail cases I
insist that personal adhesions should be permitted.
A Voice—We have all adhered by crying " Vive la
Republique."
Another Voice—Before the citizen had demanded it
our acclamations had sufficiently preyed our energetic
adhesion.
M. d'ollivier—l withdraw my proposition.
M. Ducoux—lt is not by the mockery of an oath, but
by acts, that the members of the National Assembly
will prove their attachment to the Republic. We wish
nut only for a Republic, one and indivisible, but for a
democratic Republic. --(Cries of " Yes, yes," and ap-
plause.) It is not, I repeat, an oath, but acts that are
required. I therefore set aside all political oaths—they
can only again deceive us.—(Approbation.)
The chamber then proceeded to hear the reports on
the returns, which, as all that was in general required
was for each representative ,to prove being of the neces-
sary age (25), and a French citizen, were not of any
great interest. A short discussion arose on the return
of Milboux, returned for the Ilaut. -Marne, against
which it was alit ged that the lion. Deputy was a Bel-
gian. Tnis he admitted, but declared that he had been
a naturalised Frenchman for upwards of seventeen years.
The document proving this fact was then handed in and
read from the tribune, after which the election was de-
clared to be valid.
Of the 34 returns for the Seine, 33 were declared
valid; but that of NI. Schmidt, having been objected to
on the •
ground of false representations, was referred to a
special committee.