The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-04 00:00:00

7•Yrs,
It is in your ranks that he has become illustrious; in
fallowing him on the road of honour and of glory, you will
show yourselves faithful to that sentiment of discipline
which Ins never abandoned the French name.

FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
Hu the French republic to fear a new coalition ? Can
the French republic be crushed by a league of the powers
Such are the two questions on the order of the day ; they are
serious ; they must be replied to ; for they weigh on the future
of the revolution, on the victory of the people. No, the French
republic need not fear a new coalition. It is not because the
hearts of kings have changed—it is not because the hatred to
the people and to thought is not still living at the bot-
tom of those hearts, which are rendered rotten by feudal
traditions and the pride of blood • but the redoubtable
trials which dynasties have traversed within the last fifty
years, and the new revolutions which open beneath their
feet, terrify them. The kings are afraid ; they dare no more
sound the charge, and brandish the sword, to keep up the
police in their dominions, cbeek and gag the sigh and thought,
surround their frontiers with jealous custom-houses which
allow to pass neither tie book of philosophers, nor the cry of
distant revolts, nor the journal, this great voice of free
nations—such is to day_ all the policy of these tottering chiefs
who tormerly said—" Time and the earth are ours! " How
besides could they send forth armies of invasion, leaving be-
hind them, around them, their people who moan and
who see from afar the bright aurora of liberty ? Let Nicho-
las forward his squadrons, and the Vistula will swallow
them up; let the infamous destroyer of °Mikis, let Met-
ternich, throw a single phalanx on the Rhine, and Lom-
bardy will have its vespers like Sicily; let Prussia place
two regiments in line for the battle, and this monarchy
would soon fall between the faithless of the Duchy sf l'osen
and the revolted of the Rhine. Yes, the great powers are no
longer as royalties and governments, anything but spectres
decked in jewels ; alone, the people are living, and all the
dungeons will soon be opened! Such is the result of pro-
pagandism, of that long battle which France has sustained
for silty years by the intellect and the sword. As in the
times of our fathers, moreover, the French nation will suffice
to itself—it has ideas to render fecund ;it has the phalanx
to sustain the s hock of twenty coalitions. Thus tho republic
has no reason to dread the alliance of kings ; we have at-
tached the Orr ek fire to their flanks, and they burn on their
thrones. Let us watch, however, and take care—France
must be as a sentinel!—la Reforms.

THE PARIS PRESS AN]) THE PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT.—NEWSPAPER STAMPS.
On Thursday evening, at six o'clock, the editors of most
of the Paris journals were received at the Hotel de Ville, in
the name of the Provisional Government, by citizen Gamier-
Pasti:s, Mayor of Paris. Tho object of the visit was to present
certain observationsfelative to the decree which maintains the
present stamp-duty on journals and ether periodical publica-
tions. The stamp-duty and caution-money on journals were
considered by the gentlemen present not as mere fiscal mea-
sures, but as reactionary and oppressive exactions which
the republic ought to have at once abolished. M. Dur
rieu, principal t dttor of the Courtier Francais, in the
name of hi. colleagues of the press, having explained their
views on this important point, M. Oarnier-Pages proceeded
to state the motives of the government in issuing the
decree :
The provisional government," he observed, " recog-
nises fully, in their widest extent, the great principles of the
liberty of the press. It wishes to see that right not only ad-
mitted de jure, but txercised de facto, without any preventive
laws, or restrictive measures, or political impediment, or
fiscal hindrance. The provisional government consider, it
to be one of its first duties to present to the constituent as-
sembly a decree to abolish the stamp-duty and caution-
' money imposed on journals. But in the difficult circumstances
in which we are placed, the thought of nll good citizens
ought to be directed t a one objcet only—to save and defend
the republic. The regular exercise of the public services is
one of the first conditions of every government. The com-
plete collection of the taxes and imposts can alone ensure re-
gulari.y in those services, civil and military. In conse.
tinence, the provisional government, appealing to the pa-
triotism of the several journalists, calls on them to support,
for some time I.nger, a tax, no doubt exorbitant, but the
payment of whith is essential .o the public service. The
principle of complete liberty is at present fully admitted,
and the provisional government cannot suppose that its in-
tentions will be suspec•ed,—it, which draws all its force front
the people, from the public opinion, from the press,—which,
in fact, depends with confidence on these great elements of
reason and justice. "
Alter the address of M. Gamier-Paces, of which the
above is only the substance, M. Piignerre, secretary-
general of the provisional government, read to the edi-
tors the draft of a decree, declaring that, "during the
ten days preceding the convocation of the primary as-
s, &nits, all journals, placatas, and political writings
should be published without the stamp duty." This
exceptional measure, he said, will have for result to
furnish to public opinion the widest source of com-
munication and publicity, in a restricted period.
during which a Coestitutnt Assembly, ready for grand
' dissussions, is to rise up in the midst of republican France.
The gentlemen of the press then withdrew.

The Madrid mails of the 26th have arrived, and
bring a report of a formidable and unexpected Carlist
movement at Igtialada, the largest town of tie Catalan
principality, governed by 1,600 men. It was suc-
cessfully entered, on the night of the 21st, by 300
Matinee, and at the same time by two other parties of
insurgent";
At the Boles business was unusually animated,
the Threes rapidly riming to 30, wit', suddenly