The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

NEWS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, MONDAY, 11, A.M.
I announced yesterday, says our Paris corre-
spondent, the substance of the 'decree of the Pro-
visional Government relating to the elections. That
document appears in the Moniteur this morning, as
follows. There wiil be one deputy for every 40,000
individuals, and fifteen for the colonies

The provirional government, wishing to deliver at as
early a period as possible into the hands of a definite go-
vernment those powers they now exert in the interest, and
by the command of the people, decree
Art. 1. The electoral cantonal assemblies are convocated
for the 9th April next to choose the representatives of the
people, at the national assembly, which is to dictate the con•
stitution.
Art. 2. The election will have for its buffs the population.
Art. 3. The total number of the representatives of the
people will be nine hundred, including therein Algeria and •
the French colonies.
Art. 4. They will be divided among the departments in
the proportion indicated in a table subjoined.
Art. 5. The votes will be direct and universal.
Art G. All Frenchmen who had attrined their twenty-
first year, and who have resided for six months in a com-
mune, are electors; providing they are neither suspended in,
nor deprived of, the exercise of their civic rights.
Art. 7. All Frenchmen who have attained their twenty-
fiftn year, and who are neither suspended in, nor deprived
of, the exercise of their civic rights, ore eligible.
Art. 8. The voting will he the ballot.
Art. 9. All the electors will vote at the chief lieu of their
canton, by certain and list. Each bulletin will contain as
!luny names as there shall be representatives to choose in
the department. No one can be named representatives of the
people unless he has two thousand votes.
Art 10. Each representative of the people will receive an
indemnity of 25 francs per diem during the time of the
session.
Art. IL An instruction of the Provisional Government
will regulate the details relative to the execution of the pre-
sent decree.
Art. 12. The National Constituent Assembly will open on
the 20th of ApriL
Art. 13. The present decree shall be immediately sent into
every department, and published and posted in every com-
mune of the republic.
Given at Paris, in the council of the government, March
5, 1848.
The members of the Provisional Government, Armand
Marrast, Gamier Pages, Arago, Albert, Marie, Cremieux,
Dupont (de FEure), Louis Blanc, Ledrn Rollin, Flocon,
• Lainartine.—The Secretary-general of the Provisional Go-
vernment, PAO NE YAM.

It is announced that the entire personel of the corps
diplomatique will be changed. I stated yesterday
that the Duke d'Harcourt, or Citoyen d'Harcourt, as I
he is now called, would go as ambassador to London.
One of the journals of this morning says that his des-
tivation will be Madrid. I have no reason to retract I
my statement of yesterday. It is said that the Citoyn
de Boissy (late Marquis) will go as ambassador to
Rome, and General Thiard to Berne.
Twelve thousand five-franc pieces, bearing the
name and emblem of the republic, will be issued from
the mint to-day.
As a specimen of the principles of commercial
communism which the revolution is rapidly establish-
ing, our correspondent translates from La Presse a
document, by which the proprietors of that journal
announce their adoption of the principle of allowing
all persons they employ to share in common with
themselves the profits of the property. This has
already been done by the directors of the Great
Northern Railway.
" There is," he adds, "another feature by which
this revolution is contrasted with that of 1789, and
distinguished from, if not opposed to, that of 1930.
The people, reputed rceptics and scoffers. have placed
the revolution of 1848 under the safeguard of the
altar. In the sack of the palaces, the chapels and
the oratories were held inviolable. A crucifix
picked from the floor of a bedroom, was borne with
reverence to the Church of SL Koch, and the crowd
of insurgents as they deposited it in the temple ac-
i knowledged on their knees the divinity of the Saviour."
The l'rovisional Government have publicly called
on the clergy of all denominations to invoke the bene-
diction of the most high on the French people, and to
pray for the enlightenment of that assembly in whose
hands the future destinies of France are about to be
placed.

Letters from Neufchatel, of the 2nd instant, supply
the particulars of the revolution, which we announced
yesterday as having taken place in that principality.
It will be remembered that Neufchatel, one of the
cantons of the Swiss confederation, has not been like
all the others, a republic, but was a principality, of
which the King of Prussia was the hereditary
sovereign.
The revolution, which had been for some time fore-
seen as an inevitable result of the impolitic measures
of Prussian Government, broke out on March 1. From
1,200 to 1,500 men entered it in the evening : they
were the patriots of Chaux de Fouds.
They entered in the most perfect order and with-
out any effusion of blood. The populace received
them with cries of " Switzerland for ever."
The Republic for ever." "The Confederation
for ever." The government was without sup-
port, the different populations of the canton on
whose fanaticism it relied did not answer to their
summons. The patriots of I,oele, of Val de Travers,
and of Vignolle, arrived and sent some parties to dis-
arm some villages whose opinions were suspected.
The federal flag was hoisted, and now floats on all the
towers of Neufchatel. A provisional govercment,
composed of the most influential persons, has been
formed. The members of the former government
having refused to resign, have been arrested, a mea-
sure rendered necessary by the fear of a re-cation on
the part of the troops who have been dismissed.
Two federal commissioners, delegated by the Vorort,
M. Schneider and de Nidan, Counsellor of State and
Vice-President of the Diet, and M. Migy, a judge,
have arrived at Neufchatel, and have acknowledged
the Provisional Government

ALGIERS.—We have received the Moniteur Al-
gerien of the 29th ult. It contains an announcement,
by the Governor General the Duke d'Aumale, of the
news received front Paris. There aro two notices.
The first is of a despatch dated Paris on the afternoon
of the 24th viz., toe abdication of the King, and the
nomination of the Duchess d'Orleans as regent, with
' the following note:
The Governor-Oeneral knowing the patriotism of all, adds
nothing to this news. Nothing can change our duties, or
affect our duties to France.—H. D'ORLEANS.—Algiers,
Feb. 27.
The second notice says :
The Govenior-General has not received from France
any offi.ial communication; but he is informed that the
follow ing dcspalea has been addressed to all the prefects
and sub-prilects. (Here the Governor-General publishes a
' despatch, announcing the formation of the Provisional Go-
yeniment.) The Governor. General can only repeat what he
said yesterday; nothing is changed in our duties towards
France; the population and the army will wait with the
greatest calm tor the orders of the mother country.
Algiers, Feb. 28, ten at night. H. D'ORITANS.

FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS OF THE THREE
DAYS OF FEBRUARY.
A mostimposing spectacle was on Saturday presented
to the view of the population of Paris. The funeral honours
were paid to the citizens who died for liberty on the days of
the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of February. It is almost impossible
to form an idea of the immense concourse of people at-
tracted by this sad solemnity. The National Guard was on
foot, augmented by citizens, without uniform, who had
hastened to have their names inscribed on the civic lists.
With this guard marched detachments of the line, of the
Dragoons, of the Artillery, of the Cuirassiers. There were
hundreds of deputations of every profession—of the press, of
the schools, all the high constituted bodies of the magistrature,
of science, of arts. and of letters. At noon, the provisional go-
vernment arrived from the town hall, followed by an immense
cortege. The funeral service was then commenced at the church
of the Madeliene, where the different deputations had already
taken their places. An immense catafalque surrounded
with tripods, on which were burning pale dames, occupied
the centre of the church. Divine service was celebrated
with pomp by a numerous clergy. The artists of the 'lyric
theatres had been invited to this ceremony they performed,
en clear, the Marmillaire, a piece from Guillaume Tell, a
passage from the Creation of Haydn—a chorus of Noise.
he Orpheonists and the Children of Paris (two musical so-
cieties) were likewise heard.
At two o'clock the service was over, and the cortege began
to march on to the column of July, at the Beside, by the
line of the Boulevards. The dejfle lasted two hours; the
top of the cortege reached the Bastile at three o'clock.
Nothing can enable those who were not present at this
astonishing manifestation to form an idea of the spectacle
we have just witnessed. The windows, the roofs of houses,
the pavements, even the highway of the Boulevards, were
crowded with citizans, who idated the collie with their