The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

MONDAY.—The President, M. Sensed, took the chair at
half-past eight.
M. SENARD rose and said : I am happy to be able to in-
form you, in a few words, of our situation. On the left bank
all is free ; and even if some slight disturdance should take
place there, there is nothing serious in it. The same may
be said of the right bank; the boulevards and the barriers
are aloe free. The Faubourg du Temple has surrendered,
and the barrier is free. (Sensation.) I' he Hotel de Ville
is also tree. We thus arrive without an obstacle to
the Place de la Bastille; there we find ourselves opposite
the Faubourg St. Antoine, in which serious facts occurred
last night, of which it is my duty to give an account to the
Assembly. Between two and three o'clock I received a visit
from citizen Larabit, accompanied by four individuals, who
called themselves delegates from the Faubourg St. Antoine.
M. Larahit, from the fact of having fulfilled a mission of peace,
in company with the Archbishop of Paris and two of our
colleagues, had come in immediate contact with' the in-
surgents. He gave me all the details of the meeting, and
myself spoke to the delegates, as they called themselves.
Most of them were ignorant of the last decrees of the As-
sembly. The said they could not buy the dear papers. Then
delegates brought with them a declaration, a kind of address
to the President. They put forward in it a demand of an
arrni‘tice ; and on that condition they seemed confident of
bringing the faubourg to renounce continuing the
obstinate: struggle which they had decided to carry on
to the last extremity. For a moment a heavy responsi•
bility weighed on the head of your President. Unable to
consult this Assembly, and assemble it at that hour to ask its
sluice, General Cavaignac and I, in order to derange no
part of the plans of General Lamorieiere, who was charged
with the attack of the Faubourg du Temple, adjoining the
Faubeur St. Antoine, determined to give the following re-
sult to the demand made to me. The demand was thus
worded:
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M. le President,—We do not desire the effusion of the blood of ear
brothers; we hove always fought for the democratic republic. We
do not wish to tarry on the progress of the b'oody revolution now in
course of prepanition, and we wish also to present our titles and
rights as French citizens.—Signed, Tue DELIA:ATLS or TIIR Fsraotao
ST. ANTOINK

This letter also bore the signature of our colleagues Oaly-
Gazalat and Braley. These were also followed by a few
lines from our colleague Larabit, inviting me to admit a de-
mand which seemed to him so just. (Murmurs.) The fel-
lowing is the answer of your President:
Citisens,—lf you are desirous of preserving and fulfilling your
rights and duties as French citizen', destroy. the barricade", the Card-
rale+ behind which we Carl see nought but insurgents. Submit and
retire, like repenting children, into the bosom of the republic which
we have banded, and which we will at any price preserve.
(Very good.) This letter (continued the President) was
given in marl fold to the delegates, who left us at 6 o'clock
so the morning. M. Larabit also left at the same. Subse-
quent to this, fresh attempts have been made at conciliation
by the insurgents. These had, however, a different tenor
from the first, such, indeed, as to preclude the possibility
of giving them the answer already returned. These de-
mands were in fact for an entire amnesty. We were obliged
to answer that these conditions were not to be received, Gen.
Cavaignac adding that he required full and entire submis-
sion, and that, it there were no other proposals than those to
be made, he could not bear them, and it was useless to send

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them.
In the mean time the military preparations continued to
take their course. The calumn of General Lamoriciere,
having terminated its operatic= in the Faubourg de Temple,
received orders to proceed towards the Faubourg St. Antoine,
to act upon one side of the taubourg, whilst the column of
General Duvivier, commanded by General Perrot was to
act against the other. The attack upon this feu
bourg has been ordered for an hour determined
upon. This delay will give time far the preparation
of military arrangements and for the insurgents to make
their submission. The hour decided upon is ten in the
morning. (Sensation in the chamber, all eyes being turned
to the dial placed in the hall, which then marked a quarter
past nine.) The insurgents know that a simultaneous attack
will be made upon two points, in order to carry the barri-
cades; they have time to destroy them if they will. They
know that if at ten o'clock the barricades are not demo-
lished, the two columns will make simultaneous movements,
and, however terrible may be the means which it is necessary
to employ in order to maintain the republic, the result can-
not for a moment be doubted. You now know sufficient of
the necessary details, and I therefore need not go into them
more at length ; a word, however, as to the measures which
have appeared to us indispensable. Three legislative mea-
sures are about to be immediately taken—first, the disarmit.g
of all the National Guard who have not responded to the
call made upon them •, secondly, the dosing of all the clubs
which shall be considered dangerous. (Interruptions, and
some voices “Of all ?") When the National Assembly has given
to General Cavaignac the care of providinfi those measures
which he (Items necessary, 1 do not conceive that the As-
sembly or any of its members are going to criticise what he
does. (Murmurs.)
A Mestnen. We prat,* against such a doctrine; the As-
sembly is sovereign. (Cries of " Yes, yes.")
The PIikSIDENT : These obser rations, these objections, are
admitted, but they ought to be made from the tribune. I
say that General Cavaignac has wished, always respecting
liberty, to maintain order; he has ordered the closing of
those clubs recognised ILA dangerous. The third measure is
relative to several dangerous journals, and especially
with respect to those dangerous to the republic.
Further, as to legislative measures:: T here are two which we
propose to you ; the first is relative to the decree which I
submitted to you yesterday, and which, in consequence of the
observations which have been made to me, has been amended
in some particulars. The second is relative to the nomina-
tion of a commission of inquiry, which shall be appointed in
the Assembly, without any judicial character, charged to die
cover the actual callus of the conspiracy, including the at-
tempt made upon the Assembly on the I.sth May.
Art. I. A commission of twenty-five members shall be
appointed in the bureaux for the purpose of discovering, by
every possible means, the causes of the inaurrection which
since the 23rd June has filled Paris with blood, and to