The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The question as to the appointment of the Inter-
mediate Government continues to occupy the atten-
tion of the French people. Had M. LEDRU RoLLIN
conducted himself with ordinary decency, there can
be no doubt but that the members of the Provisional
Government would have been unanimously re-ap-
pointed as members of the Intermediate Government.
LEDRU ROLLIN, by his own " open and advised
speaking and writing," and by the overt acts of his
commissaries, has so disgusted every lover of liberty in
France, that the great majority of the Members of
the Assembly are all but pledged to their constituents
to deprive him and his agents of their power to do
mischief with the least possible delay. Against this
deprivation the fine, chivalrous, honourable
feelings of LAMARTINII revolts. He has de-
fended the cause of liberty against LEDRU ROLLIN
and his " Tory mob" most successfully—he has every-
where by the force of moral courage beaten the men
of violence, but he will not inflict upon their chief
the open and public shame of a dismissal, and there-
fore, in opposition to his friends, he stands out for
the re-appointment of all the members of the Pro-
visional Government. LEDRU ROLLIN himself is, as
might have been expected, furious. The Reforme of
yesterday thus threatens vengeance:—
" The prattling press (it says) is making a great noise
about questions of a President, of Ministers, and of a
commission of Government. We are accustomed to all
these chronicles. Formerly Guizot and Duchatel were
quoted; to-day the bourgeois amuso themselves in dis-
cussing Ledru Rollin or Lamartine. As regards us, we
rememer the barricades of February, and it signifies
little to us what calculations may be made, or what mis •
chievous ostracism may be preached. We are certain
that the Con.stituante (Assembly) will not choose to
drown the acclamations of the people, and that after rife
examination it will bow before the men who nobly and
valiantly did the service of the revolution. But if the
Constituante, the daughter of the election, disown the
Revolution, her mother, we shall let the delegates pass—
but we shall give notice to the people. Under the
Monarchy we fulfilled that duty; we shall do it under
the Republic."
The Democratic Pacifique makes an appeal ad
misericordiarn on behalf of M. LEDRU ROLLIN, and
implores the Assembly to re-elect him, because "LA-
MARTINE and LEDRU Rar.mie balance each other, and
both are necessary to a general conciliation."
The Messager of Saturday says—
" A meeting of a great number of representatives took
place to-day in one of the bureaux of the Chamber, fur
the purpose of settling the list of Members who are to
form the commission of the executive power up to the
moment at which the new constitution shall be pro-
claimed. The names of M. Lamartine, M. Arago, and
M. Marie obtained the assent of all those who are of
opinion that the commission ought to consist of only
three Members. The Deputies who desired five Mem-
bers proposed to add the names of M. Bethmont and M.
Marrast. The names of M. Garnier Pages, M. Flocon,
M. Louis Blanc, M. Ledru Rollin, and M. Albert were
generally set aside."
The Patric of Sunday says—
" There was a vet), numerous meeting to-day of the
representatives of the people in the Salle des Con-
f&-ences, to discuss the question of candidates for the
Executive Committee of Government. An important
portion, viz., the Extreme Left, met in the 17th bu-
reau. MM. Etienne Arago, 13arbes, Emmanuel
Arago, Frichon, Trenchant, Caussidiere, Flocon, Louis
B:anc, Albert, and Ledru Rollin were present. It was
proposed at this meeting that the Executive Committee
should consist of all the members of the Provisional
Government, and to support et proposition for a Com-
mittee charged to draw up a project of constitution
totally unconnected with the members of the Provisional
Government, who, it was proposed, should remain in
power until after the vote of the constitution. M.
Lamartine, it was said, will propose to his friends to
support this proposition. In another meeting of eighty
deputies, it was proposed, and unanimously carried, to
form an Executive Committee of MM. Lamartine, Ledru
Rollin, Arago, Marie, Bethmont, and Marrast. At the
same meeting it was proposed and carried that ' a com-
mittee of representatives, of whom the members of the
executive power should form a part, should be ap-
pointed to draw up a constitution.' At a third meeting
the majority was inclined to support the plain of select-
ing by a simple vote by ballot."
Save the small fraction of ultras who met in the
17th bureau, the rejection of LEDRU ROLLIN, LOUIS
BLANC, and FLocoN, has been unanimous.
The Sieele publishes a communication from a
Member of the National Assembly, which says that,
in order to get over the difficulty, two combinations
present themselves :
" The first, which will be proposed it is said, by M.
Martin, of Strasbourg, consists in creating a committee,
or intermediate council of Government, of which the
members will be limited in their power to the deciding,
under their responsibility, of political questions, and to
the nomination of Secretaries and Under-Secretaries of
State to direct the several ministerial departments. This
committee will be composed of three or five members.
There will be, in fact, two Governments, of which the
one will be a superfcetation—that of the directors, and
that of the Ministers. Another plan, which will be
strongly supported, is this—that the Assembly should
name directly, and by ballot, as many Ministers as there
are ministerial departments, taking them, in as far as
prudence will permit, from among the present members
of the Provisional Government, and giving M. Dupont
(de l'Eure) the office of President of the Council. This
plan is on the supposition that the Assembly is itself the
Government, and has only occasion for Ministers. It
is also proposed that hereafter the Assembly should ap-
point a committee of Government of thirty-six mem-
bers, to be divided into as many sections as there are
ministries, to consider what reforms are practicable, and
to examine the accounts of the Ministers."
The accounts from the provinces are favourable.
Tranquillity has been restored at Limoges, the
Provisional Government having dismissed the,Conamis-
sary PARROT.
The members of the Provisional Government
quitted their official residences on Saturday.
The .sth of May being the anniversary of the
death of Napoleon, a grand funeral service was cele-
brated in the Church of the Invalides. Several mem-
bers of the Imperial family were present, namely,
Jerome Bonaparte, and his two children ; Napoleon
Bonaparte, Deputy for Corsica ; and Princess Ma-
thilda Demidoff; Joachim Murat, Deputy to the
National Assembly ; and Pierre Bonaparte, son
of Lucien, and Deputy of Corsica. Among the others
present were—Marshal Molitor, Governor of the
Invalides; General Petit, Deputy- Governor ; Generals
Fabvier, Gourgard Friant, Montholon, Chatry-
Lafosse, &c.
The Duguesclin, 00-gun ship, was launched with
complete success, at Rochefort, on the 3d instant.
The steam corvette Colbert, of 320-horse power, was
launched at Cherbourg, on the .sth, without any
accident.
The illoniteur publishes a number of diplomatic and
consular appointments. M. Benoist Champy was
nominated Minister of the Republic in Hanover; M.
Ferdinand Dervieu, attache to the London Legation ;
M. Hersant, Consul at Dublin ; M. Blancheton,
Consul at the Cape of Good Hope ; M. Cesar Famin,
Chancellor of the French Legation in London ; M.
Hauser, Vice-Consul at Rabat, in Morocco ; M.Bel-
langer, Vice-Consul at Massourah, in Egypt, &c.
In the sitting of the National Assembly on Mon-
day, the question as to the appointment of the Inter-
mediate Government had not been determined at the
hour at which the post left. The following is a
report of the proceedings up to the hour of post :
The President took the chair at half past one.
The internal arrangements of the Hall have been
the truiht:uoannren
sfrpteleormvms
revolution
position
dohuta
otohr
echangedtahreeo better.since Saturday, the tribune and Pre-
sident's chair having been brought forward about thirty
feseatt,iirsdoaays, tforoemnabinledi tphoesitrieesentatives sitting at the
to
had
Pages,ardß conclude
lifels linister
statementof oFinance,eft unfinishedascendedstration that theea e ec_
It was quite avedryt.he
Coudrhetlralyteired that recent
the eountr
capable of mathematical
to
t thebhe
n financialdremp tocn y-.
system of the late Govern-
plungedeavoured to effects
mein, if pursued
or
utter ruin. He had en-
a few years longer, must
larly with a view to relieve
considerableth reductions, particu-
-wcahpicithulated the differentera't plans which ho
pressed
onetrorer classes of the
ih)eeepviyi
t)b uhredreen
The Honourable
de-
claring that they were called for by the nwecoesinsi°tietshosf'
had brought forward during the last
the
crisis. After dwelling for some time on these points,he
concluded by declaring that whoever
succeededlaim
would find the finances in a better position than he had
received them.

M. Arago, Minister of War and of Matrinee ad interim,
i t
then read his report on the state of h
said that the first thing that attracted thea attention
He
f the Provisional Government, after the revolutiontt
February, was the necessity of providing for the
oebruary,
safety of the country. I. n consequence, a council
of doicpct il
v; -, , ;,,;,pointed, and . lour armies of
r.hservation fornt,,J ;. *.‘ the Alps, the North, the
Rhine, and the Appeoioes. The Honourable Minister
then entered at great length into the composition of
the various branches of the service, and the measures
taken to remedy the wants which were there perceptible.
Not less than 180,000 muskets had been distributed i

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