The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

T. SUN, LONDON,

MONDAY EVENING,

M. MORIN (de la Drome) has presented a proposi-
on for the establishment of a property tax.
The Committee charged to examine the different
questions relative to the affair of the La Plata treaty
has concluded that part of its work which relates to
the subsidies consented to by the convention of the
12th of June 1848, in favour of Monte Video, and
has charged M. LARRABURE, its reporter, to demand
urgency from the Assembly for the grant of an ex-
traordinary supplementary credit of 153,598 f. 41c.0n
the estimates of 1850, for the payment of that sub-
sidy during the second six months of 1850, and of an
extraordinary credit of 850,000 f. on those of 1851 for
the payment of the said subsidy during the first six
months of 1851. The Committee has postponed
until its next sitting the commencement of the dis-
cussion relative to the ratification of the treaties be-
tween France and the Argentine and Uruguay Go-
vernments.
The Paris correspondent of the Indipendance of
Brussels, writing on the Bth, says :—" There has
been a good deal of talk to-day of a letter received
by a young member of the right, stating that an in-
terview had taken place between the Duke D'AUMA.LE
and Count DE CRAMBORD at Milan. The former, if
the receiver of the letter is to be believed, declared
himself completely subjugated; and even added this
familiar phrase, which is singular as an eulogium—
' The Prince completely humbugged me' (Le prince
m' a completement blaguei). You will believe what
you will of this strange piece of news ; I repeat only
what is said." The same writer also says :—" It ap-
pears that the affair of M. CHANGARNIBR and M.
LEDRU ROLLIN (the invasion of England by the
former at the head of 12,000 men, to establish a Re-
public), will give rise to discussion in the tribune or
the press. It is affirmed that M. JULES PAYEE,
who was present at the nocturnal interview of the
general and the ex-Minister of the interior of the re-
volution, is to give explanations."
The Bulletin de Paris says :—" We learn from a
good source that the Prince DE JOIN VILLE has writ-
ten to a person of some importance, that neither he
nor the Duke DM NEMOURS, nor the Duke D'AU
MALE, had authorised any one to consent in their
names to the fusion, or to anything relating to it.
This letter is said to have arrived in Paris two days
since. The Anion, therefore, at the present time, re-
sembles those carriages which want nothing but the
consent of the parties whom negotiations wish to bring
together."

Ve find the following in the Assemblie 2Vationale:
—" Count DE DIEITICHSTEIN, who, until the
events of 1848, tilled with so much distinction
the post of Austrian Ambassador at the English
Court, has been for the last two days at Paris.
The visit of this diplomatist is, it is said, con-
nected with the project of the incorporation of the
non-German prcvinces of the Austrian monarchy
into the Ceram Confederation. This project it
is not now possible to realise in presence of the oppo-
sition of the great Powers, but the persevering will:of
the chief of the Austrian Cabinet is too well known
for any one to feel astonishment at seeing him persist
in his idea. Prince DE SCIIWARTZENBERG waits
until circumstances will allow him to resume with
advantage his project of incorporation; and at present
he wishes to induce France, if not to co-operate, at
least to renounce any formal opposition to it. Such
appears to be the object of the mission of Count DE
DIETRICIISTEIN."
t USINESS outiE iN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, 97!1 —Central of France (Orleans
and Viorzcu), 17%—East Indian, 16—Luxembourg, 15%—.
Ditto, 31,4—Namur and Liege, 7—Northern of France, 1134
—Paris aut Strasbourg, 10%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 6th have arrived.
The Gaceta publishes a royal decree regulating
the rece.pts and expenditure for the present year,
subject to such changes as may be made by the
Cones. The reductions on the last budget amount
to 30,5e7,00 reals (nearly 8 millions of francs), and
the augmentations to 12,015,000 reals. In addition
to. these augmentations, however, a credit of 20
millions of reals is opened for the interest and sinking
fund fo! the last six months of the year of the public
debt, tie regulation of which is in the course of set-
tlement, and a further credit of lye millions of reels
for the arrears of interest and for the sinking fund of
the Treasury debt for the last six months of 1849.
These credits are to be opened only in the event of
their ling sanctioned by the Cortes. The budget
of receipts is diminished to the extent of four millions
of reals on the post-office revenue, and increased to
the extent of 4,500,000 reels in the revenues of
Puerto-Rico. In the budget of receipts will also be
included the extraordinary receipts of thirty millions
arising from the sale of national property. Another
reduction of 32,962,886 reals is mentioned, as shown
by Report No. 3, and an augmentation of 8,498,243
reals, as shown by report No. 4, and for which credits
are opened.

A steamer will leave Cadiz for the Spanish West
Indies on the Ist of every month.
MADRID BOLSA, MAY 6.—Three per Cent 3., ;
Five per Cents., 15g. Exchange on London, 50 90.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
It is evident that the partizans of the Elysee are
anything but sanguine as to the disposition of the
Assembly to revise the Constitution in such a sense as
shall secure to the PRESIDENT the prolongation of his
powers. In the Constitutionnel we find the following,
which may be considered as at the same time a threat
to the Assembly and a bid for democratic support :
" In 1852, it is agreed by every one, and the Socialist
party has announced it to us, that the law of May 31
will be the standard of revolt; the great revolutionary
emeutc will have its mot d'ordre, and we know that
in all the sanguinary days of our history it was only
necessary to have a mot d'ordre and a standard for a
civil war to break out. In presence of the ardent and
invincible respect of the National Assembly for the
litter of the Constitution, may not the President of the
Republic also feel fresh scruples, and in his patriotism
be alarmed at sanguinary collisions? May ho not, by
his Ministers, demand from the National Assembly
the repeal of the law of May 31? We believe that
this law, which found a strong majority to vote it, will
again find one to maintain it. But in that case let
the majority beware! The National Assembly would
create for itself a new and difficult situation in the
country. On one side the revisiori of the Constitution is
objected to ; on the other, carrying even to the blindest
stoicism this adoration of the text of the Constitution,
the revocation of the law of May 31 would be refused,
a law which, cn the day of voting, would light up an
immense conflagration in every part of the country.
That conflagration would not certainly be to be feared
if there existed between the two powers, between the
National Assembly and the President of the Republic, a
powerful accord of ideas and of action. But, if, after
having accomplished its own object, the National As-
sembly leaves us there, exposed to every kind of con-
flict, and to the most frightful catastrophes, we at least
ask from it the repeal of a law which is only useful to
itself. Could the National Assembly, under such cir-
cumstances, at the eve of a re-election, render us any
assistance Certainly not. Would the Executive
Power and the Government, on the eve of changing
hands, be Swell armed enough to defend us from assas-
sination and from pillage ? Certainly not. The Na-
tional Assembly, therefore, holds in its hands the lives
and fortunes of society; it cannot wish that it should be
destroyed. To sum up, then, let the National Assembly
revise the Constitution for the safety and prosperity of
France ; or, if that be not voted, let the law of May
31 be revoked in order not to increase our dangers."
M. DE LAMARTINB, in the Pays, declares himself
an advocate for the revision of the Constitution, pro-
vided such revision shall be made legally, and shall
not be made in the exclusive interest of any man or
any party, and that it shall be preceded by a return
to universal suffrage, thus leaving to the people at
large the free exercise of the sovereign right to ap-
point a constituency, with full powers to revise the
Constitution on safe republican bates.
" Much regret is felt at Grenoble," says the Bulle-
tin de Paris, " that a great number of the officers of
the National Guards should have given in their resig-
nation, in consequence of the suspension of the
Colonel ; for the Government will probably feel it-
self compelled to disband the whole of the National
Guard of the place." Out of 168 officers of the
National Guard of Grenoble, 102 resigned.
The llioniteur of Sunday contains a decree dissolv-
in the National Guard of Grenoble.
The Legislative Assembly postponed the further
discussion on the Western Railway Bill to Monday,
in order to consider the proposition of M. SCHIECHER
for lowering the fares of third-class carriages one
fourth.