The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-20 00:00:00

EVENIN G,

O'CONNELL. In this period of insurrection and
anarchy, when the voices of so many unprincipled
demagogues are audibly invoking the demon of strife
and bloodshed, when ruin seems to impend over the
deluded population of Ireland, when the pacific aspi•
rations of the Liberator are fading away in the
memories of his countrymen, shall not this Govern-
ment bestow an honest recompense on him who was
so long and so effectually the " Head
Pacificator of Ireland." Such a proceeding
would redound to the glory of the Cabinet
at this supreme moment of anxiety. The
rewards bestowed upon the Pacificator of Ireland,
would be auspicious of the discomfiture of Irish
rebels. Let the Ministry bethink themselves of this—
it is no idle honour to be afforded the opportunity of
bestowing a guerdon upon a distinguished pacificator,
at a time when pacification has become so urgent.
Not, however, that this guerdon belongs exclusively
to the Administration. The people should participate
in the satisfaction of a memento emanating simul-
taneously from themselves and the Government.
With how much cordial goodwill shall we ourselves
become the medium of this token of national regard
for THOMAS STEELE, by receiving instalments to-
wards an appropriate testimonial.

Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
The Gaceta publishes a decree authorising the
Bank of St. Fernando to purchase all the silver pro-
duce of the Spanish mines.
It is said that the Duke of MONTPENSIER had ad-
vised the adoption of a more liberal system of
government, which advice had so irritated NARVAEZ
and CHRISTINA, that the Duke has been exiled to
Seville for his pains.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 14.—Three per Cents, 21 ;
Five per Cents., 131. Exchange on London, 43 50.

THE FREINVII REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The regular troops were arriving hourly, and the
public tranquillity had not been interrupted up to the
hour the post left. Paris would be garrisoned by
40,000 regular troops to-day.
The illonileur publishes the following decree :
" The Provisional Government, considering that the
subsistence of the people ought to bo one of the first
pre-occupations of the Republ►c, and that it is of especial
importance to diminish the price of articles of food
which can add to the physical force of the labourers—
Decrees :
" Art. 1. In Paris the octroi duties on butchers' meat
is suppressed.
" Art. 2. The duties will be replaced by a special and
progressive tax on proprietors and tenants occupying
tenements of the value of 800 francs and upwards ; and,
secondly, by a sumptuary tax on carriages de luxe, on
male domestics a here there is more than one in a family,
and on dogs.
" Art. 3. The Minister of Fir.ances is authorised to
apply this decree with the least possible delay to the
towns of the departments."
By another decree an ad valorem duty on wine en-
tering Paris is substituted for the present octroi
duty.
Another decree of the Provisional Government
regulates the calling out of the National Guards.
It enacts that, considering that the beating of the
rappel for the turning out of the National Guards
unnecessarily frightens the public, injures trade and
labour, and fatigues the National Guard unneces-
sarily, it is henceforth ordered that the rappel shall
only be beaten in Paris by the express order of the
Minister of the Interior or the Mayor of Paris, and,
under exceptionable circumstances, by the mayor of
the arrondissement.

Several functionaries who held office under the
Monarchy have been dismissed. M. SAURIAC, the
Commissary of N. LEDRU ROLLIN, who was twice
expelled from Montauban by the people, has resigned.
Orders have been issued for the arrest of BLANQUI,
and of others engaged in promoting the cause of
plunder and disorder. The club over which CARET
presides has been closed.
General CIIANGARNIER has been appointed to the
command of the regular troops in Paris.
The file to celebrate the fraternization of the troops
and the National Guards is to take place today in the
Champ de Mars. Rumours are rife that an attempt
is to be made by the Communists to assassinate At
DE LAKARTINE, and the more enlightened of the
members of the Previsional Government.

The Provisional Government has published the
following programme of the fele :
" NATIONAL FETE AND DISTRIBUTION
OF COLOURS.

"The following dispositions have been adopted by the
Provisional Government for the fete of fraternity, to
take place on Thursday, the 20th April.
"At seven o'clock the National Guards and troops
will be assembled, and will occupy the posts assigned to
them from the Cirri Marigny to the Bastile, and along
the quays.
" At 8 o'clock the members of the Provisionary Go-
vernment will meet at the Ministry of War; they will
proceed at half•past eight to the estrade placed at the
Arch of Triumph.
" At the moment of taking their places a salute of 21
guns will announce the commencement of the feast.
" The colonels of the different legions and detach-
ments of the army, the chefs de bataillon of the Garde
National Mobile, the colonels of the Garde Republicaine
and Civic Guard, accompanied by their standard-bearers,
will be assembled in front of the estrade.
" At nine the distributing of colours will commence.
" Each colonel will ascend the estrade and receive
from the hands of one of the Members of the Pro-
visionary Government the colours to be delivered to him.
" During the distribution minute guns will be fired.
" The defiling will then commence by battalions in
mass, and by platoons.
" Behind the members of the Provisionary Govern-
ment will be placed—
" The members of the Council of State, the deputa-
tions from the Court of Cessation, the Cour des Comptes,
the Court of Appeal, and the other tribunals, general
officers of the army and marine, under-secretaries of
state, the adjuncts to the Mayor of Paris, the principal
functionaries of the Administration, a deputation from
the corps des polity et chumfees, a deputation from the
Council of Public Instruction, deputations from the Go-
vernment Commission fer the workmen, from the
wounded of February, and ancient political condamnes.
" Salvos of artillery will announce the termination of
the defiling, and the departure of the Provisional Go-
vernment.
" In the evening the city will be illuminated.
(Members of the Provisional Government.)
" Paris, April 18."
The Provinces still continue in a disturbed state.
'We have been favoured with the following extract of
a letter, dated St. Etienne, April 17, 1848 :
" Since my last letter of the 14th, we have been
here in constant agitation. As you know, there were
five convents burnt in St. Etienne, and several more
in the neighbourhood.
" In the conflict, which took place at the Refuge
between the National Guard and the mob, there
were unfortunately eight men killed, and the rabble
is now so exasperated against the Guard, that it is '
probable the National Guard will be obliged to dis-
solve.
1 " The officer, Lieutenant GRANDVILLE, of the
Horseguards, who ordered the guard to fire on the
populace, has been compelled to leave town in haste,
as his life was endangered.
" 'We have here a regiment of Hussars and a foot
regiment, and we trust they will be enabled to main-
tain peace. The Commissary of the Government,
who arrived here on Friday, does all in his power to
keep the town quiet, but many have serious appre-
hensions, as the great bulk of the workmen do not
earn any wages, and the manufacturers refuse to
take any orders for the present."
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19.
TIIREE O'CLOCK.—The market . has
and prices have all advanced. Three Tho per Cents.
75c., and
opened at 411. 50c., were done at 421 .a and 40
closed at 41f. 75c., being a rise of 11. The Five per
Cents. opened at 611. 50c., went up to 62.1._, and then,
after touching 60f. 25c., closed at 61f. , 5e.,1 or 75. c.
better. It will be seen by these prices that tie varia-
tions have been more numerous than have been seen of
late; in fact, the market had a more healthy appearance,
and looked more like bowl fide business doing than
since the Revolution. Bank of France Shares present
an improvement of 25f., closing at 1,140 f.; Belgian Stook
continues firm, the Five per Cents. (1840) remaining
at 611., as they were the day before; and those of 1842
at 61if., or i better. Bons du Tia.sor are again better,
having been to-day negotiated at 39 per cent lo:s.
Scarcely anything was done in miscellaneous securities
Railway Shares are all better, particularly Orleans,
which have advanced 30f., closing at 480 f. Lyons and
Strasburg are 6f. 25c. better, at 3121. 50c., and 351 f.
25c. Versailles (Left Bank) and Rouen 5f., at 105 f.
and 310 f.; Northern and Nantes, 3f. 75c.,
and 338 f 75
• 0. ;Bale If. 25c., at 811. -3C. ,at 3371. 50c.
e- • Havre, Mar-
seilles, and Bordeaux' are all unchanged, at 170 f., 195 f.,
and 3901. A report was current to-day at the Bourse
that the Moniteur was the next day to contain a decree
affirming the necessity of the State taking the lines into
its hands, but it was not possible to trace the rumour to
any certain source; the decree was to leave the question
of terms still undecided. French ;old continues to go
down in value; it was to-day et only 301. The charge
for cashing a I,ooof. note is also lower, being only at
from Elf. to 10f. 1