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London, England, 1848-05-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid papers of the 4th have been received.
The Madrid Gazette publishes an official report
from the Governor and Captain-General of the
Philippine Islands, announcing the complete suc-
cess of the Spanish expedition against the pirates of
Balmguingui. The island, with its seven villages
and the forts, mounted with 124 pieces of cannon,
fell into the power of the Queen's troops. More
thin 450 of the pirates were put to death. The
QUEEN had rewarded General CLAVERIA, Captain-
General of the Philippine Islands, with the Grand
Cross of the Royal and Military Order of St. Fer-
dinand.

The Gaceta publishes a bando, by which Madrid
is relieved from the state of siege in which it has
been placed since the 26th of March.
Senor ESCOSURA has escaped from Cadiz, on board
a French

MADRID BoLsa, MAY 4.—The funds were rather
improving; which may be owing to the approach of the
dividend. The Three per Cents. were reported at 22
buyers, a sellers.. Five per Cents. 141 buyers, sellers.
l'a,asive Debt 5
90 buyers, sellers. Coupons, 9 sellers.
London 40.
Bank Shares, buyers, 96 sellers. Exchange on

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

After the vote of thanks 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 callieg me to this assembly, I have never
abandoned the idea fully determined on beforehand, 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 bee❑ 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 TTRTCEUS, exciting his
fellow-citizens to strike fur freedom by his soul-in-
spiring lyrics, and now overwhelming with the most
pungent ridicule the Marquises of CARADAS 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 he 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 MARRAST 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 Memorial of Pau, of the 4th—

" The receptions of Abd-el-Bader commenced yester-
day. M. Begue, mayor of Pau, with his deputies, went
to pay him a visit. Abd-el-Bader, 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 have 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 bad 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
hire to apply to the Government for my being shortly
set at liberty.' Colonel Daumas having informed Abd
el-hader 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 Debate has the following observa-
tion on the attack made by BABBES in the Na-
tional Assembly on the authorities of Rouen :
" M. Barbi: 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. Barb*s 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 spoke 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. Barth protested against what he called
the slaughter at Rouen! Let us not complain of that.
Light must, in tact, 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. Senart 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 cught to be the principal guardian, were at-
tacked, why did he not find a single word to protest against
such language? lie who boasted the other day of having
alone caused the rappel to ne boaten 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
tor 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 Reforme, the organ of LEDRU ROLLIN, is the
only journal which ventures to say a word of ap-
proval of the conduct of BARnEs.

The Committee of 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 yeasterdav
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,
",herefore, be appointed by an executive committee.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
SITTING OF THURSDAY, MAT 9.

The President took the chair at halt 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.

M. PEUPIN, the reporter of the committee, pro-
ceeded to read the report. It stated that there
were two principles in presence ; ene 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
favour of the second, it was said, that as long as the con-

stitution remained undecided the power subsisted in the
a. reatter":i.
hands of the Assembly, and ought not to be delegated to
autily. intermediate party; that all such superfetation was
..!leets. and in fact injurious because useless; that much
".0 would be lost in the committee reading the reports
and documents .
ft fromedmiffialciautiftnygto s say
whetherthe
the ministers; that
was
ought tocommitteeit
junction
"6:12 alone in council, or in con-
after considering the ministers. The committee,
of the two propositions, ' most maturely the various points
fourteen to four, decided
had at last, by a majority of
the Government ecided
that in order to have
ought to be strong,nominated ,united, and active, the Ministry
by the National Assewhiithout any intermediate body,
honourable reporter coil" itselL—Mear, hear.) The
tion of the committee, (I'deid by reading the resolu-
Assemely should nominateeed.aring that " the National
absolute majority, nine Miniiirteeet by ballot, and by an
cable, each with a portfolio,
andrsaresponsible and revo-
folio, to act as President. The tenth without port.
account of their acts to the Asse whole to render an
tribly,"_
cries of " Tres hien.") (Approbation,
M. Brunet proposed that the discussion
adjourned until the constitution was fixed,
the
be
31inisters continuing to hold their portfolios. present
M. Vincerque considered that it would produce the
utmost confusion were there appointed a committee and
then a ministry of that body.
M. I)urrieu spoke iin 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 ,

their different arguments, declared that he was in favour
of appointing an Executive Committee, in order to save
as much as possible the time of the National Assembly.
M. Bac said, that he was of opinion that the Assembly
could not itself exercise the sovereignty; which it de-
cidedly must do, if it appointed the Ministers direct.
No, it must, in preference, delegate that sovereignty to
a certain number of its Members, who assuming to them-
selves the responsibility of their conduct, would relieve
the Assembly of that burden. But he thought that for
the present no decision ought to be adopted, and in con-
sequence he should support the proposition of M. Dur-
rieu, to postpone the matter altogether until the Assem-
bly was better acquainted with the men who composed
it, the Provisional Government, who deserved the full
confidence of the country, being still entrusted with the
chief power, as they had been since the revolution.
M. Vezin, one of the majority of the Committee, ex-
plained at some length the reasons which had influenced
his colleagues in corning to the decision just stated to
Assembly. He added nothing, however, of importance
to what had been already said.
M. J. Favre thought that all question of persons
ought to disappear, and that of principles only be con-
sidered. He conceived it impossible for the Assembly
to make a good choice of Ministers. It was now only
four days in existence, and yet it could presume to de-
cide, by ballot, what men were best calculated to fill the
responsible position of Ministers ! But even supposing
that the nine Ministers were named, was everything then
done? The Hon. Member spoke for some time longer,
recommending in the strongest manner the appointment
of an Executive Committee, with power to appoint the
Ministers.
The Abbe Lacordaire ascended the tribune, and
excited great interest, partly from his great reputation
as a preacher, and partly from his white Dominican
dress. After alluding to the two propositions which had
been made, the one for the appointment of a Commis-
sion de Governenient, and the other for the direct
appointment, by the Assembly, of the members, he
stated that there was. evidently, in the present
case, a question of persons as well as of prin-
ciples. For his own part, he was inclined to support
the proposition made yesterday by M. Dome's,
and that he was even ready to go further, for he was
ready to sign that gentleman's proposition, and to accept
freely the five names which he had introduced into it.
He did not, for his own part, pretend to a Republican
de veille. Ile at once admitted that he had been a
Monarchist, and that he was only a Republican des
lendemain. He did, however, on that account imagine
that the old Republicans de la Veille should be excluded
from power, because they were a small party. On the
contrary, he thought that the parties who fought the
battle of the Republic and conquered ought not to be
excluded from a share in the Government which their
victory had established. He would, therefore, support
the appointment of a Commission de Gouvernement, such
as had been proposed by M. Dornes. [The Reverend
Gentleman was listened to with great attention, and
loudly cheered in several passages.]
M. Odillon Barrot said that all persons in that as-
sembly felt profoundly the necessity of acting for the
good of the country and for the happy establishment
of the Republic. All, therefore, aught to look with
the utmost interest in the grave subject now before
the House. He, for his part, felt more at ease in
discussing the question, from its being one of con-
stitutional principles and not of persons. It would be
a mere fallacy to name an executive committee, as
whenever the ministry was attacked the attack would
pass at once from them and rest on the committee. And
it was vain to suppose that attacks were not to be made
on whatever ministry might exist, as for thirty years
that he had been a public man, he never knew a case in
which a ministry pleased all parties. It was considered
an
pointexeciunt
executive committee,
he a
thatpoi n t
therebyt of
the
thet ministrye
Assembly an d
would be relieved from the disagreeable task of dis-
missing them; but the Assembly would still dismiss them
indirectly, because in certain cases it would withdraw its
confidence from them. Would the Executive Com-
mittee be independent? He thought not; it would be
always in the midst of assemblage, subject to interroga-
tion. Party conflicts would arise since the gentlemen
composing the Committee could scarcely be expected
not to defend themselves when attacked. The Hon.
Deputy then referred to an observation which he
had, he said, heard some gentlemen allude to—that
the Provisional Government ought to be re•elected as
a recompense for the sacrifices and devotedness which
they had given proof of during the late momentous
events. For his part, he considered the expression a
moat unhappy one. What a recompense to hon. eitizens
for having faithfully served their country ! A recom-
pense for having carried the principles which they
gloried in—those of the republic 1 For his part he did
not do these gentlemen the injustice to think such
language could sound pleasingly to their ears; he be-
lieved them superior to such considerations. In conclu-
sion, he should say that the National Assembly ought is
nominate the ministers direct.—(Cheers.)
M. de Lamartine would not have ascended the tribune
were it.not that be thought the views of M. 0. Barrett
erroneous. There were two distinct parts in the ques-
tion, one relating to the mechanism of a constitutional
Government, and the other relating to principles.
These, when considered, would mutually throw light on
each other. How could a Minister, charged with
an important department, come forward when some
grave conjunction took place, and ask the ad-
vice of the Assembly ? And yet that should be done
if the Minister took his mandate from the Assembly
direct. Would not there be danger for the
home affairs, for the foreign policy, for the diplo-
matic relations of the country? What was above all
necessary, was to insure the future from all dangers.
Could that be done by shackling the proceedings of the
persons appointed Ministers? From his own experience
he was obliged to reply in the negative. The Hon.
Member dwelt for some brief space on this point, which,
he said, had been most ably treated by M. J. Favre, and
then referring to the position of himself and his col-
leagues, declared that they had the utmost confidence in
each other, and would be most unwilling to be separated.
He concluded by declaring that he was decidedly in
favour of the appointment of a committee to super-
intend the conduct of the Ministers who might be ap-
pointed.—(Loud cheers.)
After some remarks from M. Arnot and AL F. Las-
teyrie, no other Member expressed a desire to address
the Assembly.
The President said, that in addition to the two pro-
positions just debated, a third had been handed in, to
have the Provisional Government continued in their re-
spective places. If no Member wished to speak on that
point, he should put the question that the debate be
closed.

Agreed to.
The President then declared that he should first put
to the vote the question recommended by the committee,
namely, that the Assembly should appoint direct, a mi-
nistry consisting of nine members, with portfolio, and
one with it to act as president.
M. Barbee here rushed to the tribune amidst cries of
" the discussion is closed." It was some time before he
could obtain a hearing, but at last he said that the ge-
neral discussion certainly was closed, but surely any
member had a right to speak on the various propositions
separately.—(Great tumult at his continuing to occupy
the tribune, and cries of " Spoke! spoke!") He held
his post however. At last, during a moment's lull, he
contrived to make himself heard. He was, he said, in
favour of the appointment of the Ministry of the Assem-
bly direct, but without a president; for which he saw no
necessity.—(Continued noise.)
great agitation pre-
vaitfdte, rthseomAe
stsiemme du
b,
lyprrinogceewdheidchto vote by a show of
hands. A first trial being doubtful, the President or-
dered a second. That, also, being without result, the
vote by division was proceeded to, the appel nominal
having been first gone through.

The result of the division was as follows
Number of voters
For the Ministry to be appointed by an Exe-
cutive Committee .... 411
For the Ministry to be appointed by the
Chamber direct ....

Majority

This result was received by loud cries of " Vive
la Republique !"
BOURSE—PARIS, TURSDAY, MAY 9.
THREE o'CLocK.—The Bourse was very much agi-
tated to-day, in consequence of the debate going on in
the Chamber of Deputies. Towards the close a rumour
was circulated that the Commissiox de Gouvernement was
carried, and the effect was an immediate rise of two per
cent. on the Rentes. The Railway Shares participated
in the rise.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 9.
Boulozne and Amiens, 61/2—Luxembourg. I—Paris and
Rouen, 16—Sambre and Meuse, 41/4.