The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-27 00:00:00

FRANC E.

PARIS, FRIDAY, HALT PAST
After M. Lamartine's determination to have M.
Ledru Rollin in the executive commission, a spirit
of distrust prevailed between the Assembly and the
Executive, of which the latter became immediately
sensible, and one of its first acts was accordingly to
demand from the Assembly a decree defining its
powers.
It required, first, that its members should be ex-
empted from sitting in the Asumbly ; and, secondly,
that they should be entrusted with the entire safe-
guard of that body. A project of law, embodying
these propositions, was as usual referred to a com-
mittee of the assembly.
The members of the Executive Commission signified
their intention of resigning in a body if the decree
above-mentioned were not adopted by the assembly.
The reporter selected by the committee to whom
this project of decree was referred presented to the
commission such a form of report as would avert the
threatened resignation, which was rejected. After-
wards it was agreed that the attendance of the mem-
bers of the executive commission in the assembly

should only be required when eManatione were to be
demanded, and then on the express requibitioa of at
least 40 members, but that part of the project which
entrusted the safeguard of the Assembly to the Exe-
cutive Commission was rejected by precisely the same
majority. Upon this M. Martin (de Strasbourg) yes-
terday resigned his office of reporter, and the As-
sembly named M.Labordaire reporter. The safety and
freedom of the Assembly is entrusted to the President
and Questors. A report will probably be brought up
to-day.
The committee of finances t 4 which the govern-
ment project for the confiscation of the railways has
been referred, have appointed a subcommittee, all
the members of which are known to entertain an un-
qualified hostility to the project which they regard
as an indefensible attack on the rights of property
and a breach of national faith, so far at least as re-
gards the finished lines. The rejection of the measure
therefore may be considered as certain.
The cases of those unfinished lines of which the
companies are unable to fulfil their contracts with
the state will be matter for special consideration.

STATE OF THE BANE OF FRANCE up to May 25, with
the corresponding items of the preceding week :

...•/....I=6
Week eliding Week ending
May 18. Bitty 25.
1. C. F. C.
Capital ... • 87,900,000 0 67,900,1100 U '
Capital new fused tanks
tteserve
Reserve of new Bred backs. 2,580,09 14 2,980,650 14
Rvserve In real property .......
Bank notes in ciredatiustl 302.241,230 0 302,113,750 0
Do. branch banks
Bunk note. of new fused banks -
Bills to order
Account current of Treasary,ereditor 20,588,06 40 *561,363 31
Divera account* current
Receipts, payable at sight
Ite.sluicount of but half.year 728,692 37 728,692 37
Dividends payable 176,747 42 175,090 23
Discounta, sundry interesta, and ex-
pens., 3,595,105 78 3,631,868 73
Bank of Algiers All= net yet invested
in Treaaury bawds 1,107,223 69 1,106,923 69
Draft. of the brunch tanks payable . 1,990,976 43 2,733,820 34
Sundries 178,199 SI 499,404 86

614,852,657 50 625,06.5,0e2 80
AMTS.
Coin and
Club In thtVeneh beaks.--
Dille over due 10,237,736 74 17,205,290 39
Bibs and aomptances Is Pads 159,200,237 62 147,241,105 69
1/o. do. in branch banks 174,255,370 79 D 4,635,161 14
Advances on bullios
Advance,' on French public hinds 19,154,682 90 29,059,042 90
Due by the branches for their notes In
circulation 11,753,250 0 100,990,550 0
Stock (orating omen* • 19,000,000 0 10,000,000 0
Stock, disposable holds
Investment 01 new fused • In
public funds 19,744,493 0 12,744,499 0
Bank buildings and furniture
Interest In Algiers Bank
Interest In, National Discount Bask 2. 0,000 0 200,000 0
Dishonouredbills, or to be reimbursed 26,468,59 J 68 21,742,078 59
Expenses of management
Sundt len
Advanced to the State 50,000,1100 0 50,000,000 0

814,652,657 50 625,065,082 00

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF THE
EXECUTIVE POWER ON IIIE EVENTS OF

THE 15ra OF MAY.
Several days before the 15th of May public mani-
festations which were to take place were much talked of in
Paris, but all the information obtained induced the belief
that these manifestations would be pacific. The conspiracy
that broke out later did not show itself by any tangible in
cation.
These projects attracted the attention of the commission.
Somany ethers of the same nature had been prisiously
announced, which in reality had not even been conceived,
that althoush they gave it that attention ',hied their duty
imposed on them, the commission did not entertain in re-
ference to it any serious uneasiness.
A preceding event even tranquillised the commission. On
Friday, the 12th of May, a first petition was brought to the
Assembly, and the petitioners, who, it was said, were to pre-
sent themselves with menacing intentions, had, without
offering any resistance, stopped at a great distance, so that
the whole ended in a mere promenade, and in the presenta-
tion of the petition in the ordinary forms.
The manifestation of Monday, the 15th of May, seemed to
be about to present the same character. The reForts on the
clubs tended to confirm this supposition.
" This manifestation," said one of these club.," will be pa-
cific and calm. The chile, the masses understand, that it is
bet by extremely prudent conduct that they can regain their
posi.ion."
At the Club Centralisateur, Huber, its President,declared
that he feared much, and that if it lay in his power to op-
pose it, he certainly should.
The police report of the 14th of May, from which this in-
formation is taken, adds : " A citizen proposes to seed to
the clubs and trade corporations to make a last effort. If
the manifestation cannot be prevented, let all join it in a
mass, but let it be made known to all Paris, by the public
journals and by placards, in short by all possible means, that i
this manifestation is quite pacific, and that its sole object is
to obtain intervention in Poland, and to take from the fear-
ful or reactionary bourgeois all fear and all pretext for taking
up arms."
Such was the general appearance of the reports.
It was, however, the duty of the commission to he on their
guard; and this duty was performed with zeal and activity.
The following are the facts: On Sunday, the 14th May,
the commission called to the Luxembourg the Minter of
the Interior and the Under Seczetary of State of the same
department, the general of the national guard, tho general
of the garde mobile, the general commanding the first mili-
tary division (Paris), and the Minister of War.
The object of this meeting was to agree on the measures
of defence that the following day might require. The three
generals, the minister, and his under secretary, obeyed the
injunction, and the discussion commenced.
The mob was to assemble at the Bastille. Its avowed ob-
ject was to walk in procession throughout the whole length
of the Boulevards,and to carry a petition in favour of Poland
to the National Assembly. With this the commission were
perfectly acquainted. The definitive measures were then,
we admit, clearly traced. To attend to the point of depar-
ture and the lines of the Boulevards, to guard carefully the
Place de la Concorde and the bridge. This was to be done
and to this effect it merely required to call in the police and
the armed farce.
The general of the national guard received from us orders
to command in each legion for the next day an armed re-
serve ready to march at the first signal, and to direct it with-
out delay to all the points that might be threatened, and
especially to the Place de la Concorde and the bridge. The
conflict, if a conflict was to ensue, could not in reality take
place elsewhere.
On hie side, General Tempaure received orders to hold at
the disposal of the palace of the National Assembly three
battalions of the garde mobile, and to keep in reserve and
ready to march the other battalions distributed in the differ-
ent barracks.
Gen. Faucher received orders to hold at the military
school, and also ready to march all the troops available—
infantry, cavalry, artillery. But he was not to order them
out unless in case an attack by an armed force should render
it an imperative obligation.
The citizen Minister of War thought, and we were of his
opinion, that it would be expedient to give the necessary
orders to the troops in garrison at Versailles, St. Germain,
Melun, Orleans, and Rouen, that they might immediately
repair to Paris at the first requisition. It was in conse-
quence decreed that this measure of precaution should be
taken.
These arranzements taken and duly understood by all par-
ties, the council i.djourned.
The execution of all these orders would obviously have
' brought out an imposing military force, and given the alert
to a form still more imposing, whisk in a few hours would be
' in presence of the factions.
It still remained for the commission to demand of the
police an intelligent, active, devoted, and especially honest
(loyale) vigilance. This vigilance the commission required
of the magistrate whom the republic had placed at the head
of the prefecture of police, and who alone, or almost alone,
could in reality perform this social obligation.
There the commissien expected to find not only vigilance
but an active force in the intervention, according to the ne-
cessities of the event of those auxiliary corps, organised not
doubtless for riots, but for order, by the names of Monta-
guards, republican guard, and garde Lyonnais..
Such will for the commission the day of the 14th May.
They deemed it advisable to terminate it by placarding on
the walls of Paris a proclamation against riotous mobs;
" The commission," said the proclamation, "will not fail
in their duty of maintaining with vigour the public peace
wherever it may be endangered." The commission may here be
allowed to observe that their provisions for the defence were
more than sufficient to equipoee and combat the manifesta-
tion which took place on the morrow. In this respect they
sincerely believe they were not in default.
You will, however, soon perceive that they did not stop
here; that after having given orders, they scrupulously
superintended the execution of them. This will be evident
front Ste day of the 15th.