The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-10 00:00:00

SPAIN .

Madrid
public hes an official report
The Madrid Gazette p .
Gene& of the
and Cai tau'-
papers of the 4th bay -e been received.
from the Governor
against the pirates of
suc-
cess of the Spanish expedisith
its seven villages
and the forts, mounted with
Philippine Islands, announc'tni s'
Balmguingui. The id, tioi l the complete sue-
slan
124 pieces of cannon,
More
fell into the power of the Queen's troops.
than 450 of the pirates we re put
to death. The
QUEEN had rewarded Genet 'al CLAYERIA, Captain-
General of the Philippine L lands, with the Grand
Cross of the Royal and Militt u 7
Order of St. Fer-
dinand.
The Gaceta publishes a 'ha nclo, by which Madrid
is relieved from the state c f sit ?ge in which it has
been placed since the 26th ()f Ma rch.
Senor Escosuas. has esca ,ped !from Cadiz, on board
a French ship.
MADRID 80184, m-
AY 4.- —The funds were rather
improving; which may be ow tug to the approach of the
dividend. The Three per C eats. were re at 22
buyers, i sellers.. Five per C was. 144 buyep orters, I sellers.
Passive Debt 54 buyers, i sell era. Coupons, 9 sellers
Bank Shares, 90 buyers, 96 :sellers. Exchange et.
London 40,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
After the vote of thank 3 had been passed to the
Provisional Government, in the sitting of Monday, it
was proposed to appoint the intermediate Govern-
ment, and, after a most stormy scene (it cannot be
called a discussion), it was agreed to refer the ques-
tion to a committee of 18 members, one to be chosen
by each of the 18 bureaux of the Chamber. The
President, in the course of the sitting, read the fol-
lowing letter from the venerable poet BERANGER
" Citizen President,—l thought it my duty to forewarn
the electors of the department of the Seine, that I could
not accept the honour of a seat in the National Assembly.
Notwithstanding the deep gratitude I feel for the num-
ber of voices calling me to this assembly, I have never
abandoned the idea fully determined on betorehand, of
declining a trust for which neither serious meditation
nor study has prepared me. What I have not till now
dared to do, not wishing to cause a new convocation of
the electoral body, an annulled election, which makes
this convocation inevitable, offers me an opportunity of
doing, and, therefore, I deliver into your hands the trust
which has been confided to me, and which will none the
less remain in my eyes the greatest glory of my life.
Have the kindness to assure the National Assembly at
the regret I feel at not being able to take part in the
completely democratic work it will have the honour to
accomplish. " BERANGER."

The Assembly, to their honour be it spoken, unani-
mously refused to accept the resignation of the great
chansonnier to whom France owes a debt of gratitude
which she can never repay. BERANGER iS, in fact, the
founder of the Republic; for when, under the restora-
tion, the priests and aristocrats rode roughshod over
France, and trampled her liberties in the mud,
BERANGER alone stood forth as the representative of
the French people, now, like TYRTGtJS, exciting his
fellow-citizens to strike for freedom by his soul-in-
spiring lyrics, and now overwhelming with the most
pungent ridicule the Marquises of CASABAS and
the Jesuits missionaries, friars, and monks—

" Black, white, and grey,
With all their trumpery,"
who sought to restore the halcyon days of the droits
de Seigneur, and of the droits des pretres, until at
last be had rendered the people so enthusiastic, and
their opponents so utterly contemptible, that in July'
1830, three days sufficed for the destruction of a
dynasty and the complete annihilation of the effects
of seventeen years of reaction.
M. ARMAND Al ARRAST has intimated, through his
friend M. CLEMENT THOMAS, that he will not accept
of any office in the intermediate Government, but
will confine himself to the exercise of his functions
as Mayor of Paris.
We read in the Mirnorial of Pau, of the 4th—

" The receptions of Abd-el-Kader commenced yester-
day. M. Bigue, mayor of Pau, with his deputies, went
to pay him a visit. Abd-el-Kader, in warm terms,
expressed his respect for the inhabitants of Pau, and
his admiration of the scenery, of which he had a pro.
spect from the windows of his prison. His words were
these:—' Wherever I hare been the trees are green,
but yours are much more smiling.' A great many
ladies were presented to him, and he received them
with the greatest gallantry. These visits seemed to be
very agreeable to the ex-Emir, and he conversed freely
with his guests ; but in all his conversation the word
liberty was, at every instant, upon his lips. Thus,
when Madame J. Lestapic was presented to him
as the wife of an officer who had fought against
him at the pass called the Iron Gates,' and who had
been elected by the people to be one of their
representatives, he said, The husband of this
lady is a brave man; and since he has become a repre-
sentative of the people, let her write to him, and desire
him to apply to the Government for my being shortly
set at liberty.' Colonel Daumas having informed Abd
el-Kader that a great crowd was assembled at the castle
gates anxious to see him, he requested that it might be
admitted into the court-yard. This done, he appeared
at the window, and, in the Oriental style, bestowed be-
nedictions upon the people, which Colonel Daumas in-
terpreted, and which were received with unanimous
tokens of sympathy."

The Journal des Debats has the following observa-
tion on the attack made by BARBES in the Na-
tional Assembly on the authorities of Rouen :
" M. Barbis came forward to speak in the name of
the people. That is a pretension which we cannot al-
low. We do not see in what M. Barbs should have a
right to call himself the delegate of the people more
than any other Member of the National Assembly. M.
Barbes has evidently made a mistake ' • he meant
that he spike in the name of some club or other, of
which in tact he brought the style of language to the
tribune. We recognised words which we saw
placarded up the other day in a proclamation on
the walls of Paris, and torn down by the
hands of the people themselves. Much is said against
classes, but who re establishes them ? Who is it that
odiously separates the nation into burgeois and men
of the people? Who is it that endeavours to keep up
continually amongst citizens fermentations of hatred and
discord? M. Bari is protested against what he called
the slaughter at Rouen! Let us not complain of that.
Light must, in fact, be thrown on the business, and as
they deserve must be treated the calumnies thrown on a
whole population, which only used its right of legitimate
defence, and which replied only at the last extremity to
the most desperate provocations. M. Sinart commenced
that defence, and it will, no doubt, be completed by the
National Assembly. But why did not M. Ledru Rollin
speak? When the defenders of the public peace, of
which he ought to be the priFicipal guardian, were at-
tacked, why did he not find a single word to protest against
such language? He who boasted the other day of having
alone caused the rappel to no beaten in Paris to collect the
National Guard, does he consider the Hotel de Ville of
Paris more sacred than that of Rouen ? The interven-
tion of M. Barbes had the effect of collecting together
the unanimity of voices for the thanks addressed to the
Provisional Government. We think there is fair cause
for this expression of thanks. It is much that France
has been able to pass through these last two months
without civil war ; we believe that the greatest part of
the honour is due to the country itself, and that society
has maintained itself much more by the force of cohesion
and the maturity of civilisation existing in it, than by
the direction imparted to its acts; but, in fine, they who
were at the head of the Government had to fulfil a

laborious and terrible mission, and they acquired the
right of hearing it said that they deserved well of their
country."

The Reform, the organ of LEDRU RoLLIN, is the
only journal which ventures to say a word of ap-
proval of the conduct of BARBES.

The Committee of 1 appointed by the National
Assembly to consider the question of the formation of
the intermediate Government, remained in delibera-
tion until two o'clock in the morning before agreeing
to the report which they should present to the As-
sembly, and which will be found in the subjoined re-
port of the proceedings which took place yeasterday
in the National Assembly, up to the hour of post. It
will be seen that the Assembly has determined, by a
majority of 25 against the direct nomination of the
Ministry by the Chambers. The Ministry will,
therefore, be appointed by an executive committee.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
SITTING 03 THURSDAY MAY 9.

The President took the chair at half past eleven.
Very few members were present until near twelve
o'clock.

The order of the day was the report of the Com-
mittee charged with the task of examining the various
propositions made relative to the constitution of an
Executive Government ad interim.

It. PEUPIN, the reporter of the committee,
pro-
ceeded to read the report. It stated that there
were two principles in presence ; one that the
Assembly should appoint in public sitting an Exe-
cutive council, which should name the nine
Ministers; the second, that the Assembly should name
direct the nine Ministers with portfolio, and one other
without portfolio, to act as President. In favour of the
first it was argued that the Assembly ought not to de-
scend to the task of governing—that the Ministers ought
to suffice—that thus there would be greater expedition
in the acts of the government, and that their responsi-
bility would be more complete when having to do with
committee of five than it possibly could otherwise. In
time would be lost injurious
favour of the second, it was said, that as long as the con-
stitution remained undecided the power subsisted in the
and documents
s of the Assembly, and ought not to be delegated to
nawnaanysdinatemramtteedriaoftfe party; that all such superfetation was
uselet,s, and in
con-
jugation with because useless; that much
in the committee reading the reports
emanating from the ministers; that it
after considering
fonfutrhteeentwotnprofopuors,itions
ought to alone in council, or in con-
sit difficultyl to say whether the committee
meost maturely the various points
decidedministers.
in The committee,
without
and ctive, t
, had at last, by a majority of
' oughtthe G Government rn
bement
nominated,stro ng , that order to have
reading
Hinetearrm,
rAterssceorantllyudietdaetibia.—"( intermediate
amtei
Ministry
body,t
ry
declaring
by
" the National
el. st
agresponsible tYe ballot, and by an
htehaer.)resTolhue-
tbiyonthoef Honourablethe National r
ecommittee,
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nth and aAhsasnelmutbelymas
jheoruiltdy,nnominienamteindisirtee
revo-
cable, each with a portfolio, and
folio, to act as President. The whole without port.
to render an
account of their acts to the Assembly. ".(Approbation
—(Approbation
cries of " Tres Bien.") ,
M. Brunet proposed that the discussion should be
adjourned until the constitution was fixed, the present
Ministers continuing to hold their portfolios.
M. Yincerque considered that it would produce the
utmost confusion were there appointed a committee and
then a ministry of that body.
M. Durrieu spoke lin favour of the Provisional Go-
vernment as best calculated to carry on the affairs of the
Government until the constitution was decided on.
M. Lherbette was of opinion that the question ought
to be decided at once. Nothing could be more injurious
than for the matter to remain in abeyance.
M. St. Godin remarked on the opinions brought for-
ward by the preceding
_speakers; and after weighing