The Sun. — 1847-05-03 (London, England)

APRIL 26.—Three per Cents. 31% 1/2 money, 31% paper; Five per Cents. 194 money, 191, paper. Debt without interest 5'A money, 6 paper. Coupons 16 money.  We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The Journal des Debats of Friday has the folfowing :  " We announced that, in consequence of the demand of mediation made by the tiovernment of the Queen of Portugal, English forces and a detachment of French forces in the roadstead of Lisbon had been disembarked to protect the person of the Queen and the safety of the capital. This intelligence was premature, and is ~lot confirmed by the later information which we have received. It is only known that the Queen had adhered to the conditions which she had been invited to propose to the party of the Junta." Saturday was the birth-day of Louis PHILIPPE, and there were great rejoicings in Paris in consequence. The National commemorates the anniversary by the following article : ......  "The press has sometimes spoken of the formidable preparations displayed each evening to the eyes of the population for the guard of the Tuileries. The imprudence of a sentry, who allowed his musket to go off when in his hands, and so threw the chateau and all the posts into confusion, again called public attention to these precautions, as ill-conceived as exaggerated. Is it not strange that the Tuileries are transformed into a citadel, studded with nightly patrols, and surrounded with official and non-official sentries, with arms charged and password given. Each day the château is, in fact, occupied, by a battalion of infantry, without speaking of the two posts of the National and horse Municipal Guards? By night there may be reckoned as many as sixty sentries, exclusive of half-a-dozen special guards of the château, who walk up and down in the garden, armed with loaded blunderbusses, and from others who are on service under the Pavilion de I'llorloge. What is most worthy of remark is, that the muskets of the line arecharged, but of the National Guard not. Thus, therefore, in full peace, in the midst of the capital, there exists a permanent camp, armed, and established on a war footing, as if an enemy was in sight. It is not without danger to thus confide loaded arms to the hands of sentries, angd to place citizens at the mercy of soldiers, often ignorant, who do not always evince the necessary discernment and forbearance in the execution of their orders. We may well be permitted to manifest our uneasiness on this subject; fiir it cannot be forgotten that one night, about halt-past ten o'clock, after some altercation, a sentry in the garden of the Tuileries behind the gates of the chateau, fired at a man passing along the footpath of the Rue de tivoli, and killed him, without any formality, and without the murder being reasonably justified by the necessity of legitimate defence."  -It appears that some modification is about to be made in the composition of the French Ministry. The National says— " The most active and most supplicating steps have been forty-eight taken within the last fort • lit hours- with M. N 11. Passy to induce him to accept the finance department, in the place of M. Lacave Laplagne. It is now a long time since M. Guizot has nourished the idea of getting lid of his colleague, but lie has in particular felt the neeesAity of it since the strange justification which M. Lacave•Laplagne presented two or three days back in the Tribune. Should 111. Passv consent to accept the portfolio of Finance, M. Lacave Laplagne would be sent Without any great ceremony to the Court of Accounts." The Union 2lfo.narchique has the following on the same subject : "M. ',nave Laplange, abandoned by his colleagues