The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-24 00:00:00

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PR17841A.-By the Cologne Gazelle of March 22,
we have news from Berlin to the 20th inclusive.
The Poles had been set at liberty, and had celebrated
the event with a great triumph accompanied by the
people.
B kVARIA.-By the Gazette d'Augsbourg of the
19th of March we receive accounts from Munich to
the 18th. The King had abolished certain seignoral
rights. At 7 P.M. it was said the city had been
a prey to considerable agitation during several hours.
10,000 were made patroles in the streets. A report
was prevalent that a coup-dc-main had been arranged
by some agitators, but that the townspeople would
not sanction it, and had sent to the King declaring
their devotion. It was said some strangers had pur-
chased arms and ammunition. The students and the
troops were detcrmised to oppose all attempts at
anarchy. The Baron de Vergen had been named
to treat at Vienna and Dresden, in accord with M.
Gagern and Lerbach, as to the national representation
at the confederation. . . .

ITALY.—By a letter from Rome we hear that they
are suffering from the effects of the financial crisis of
France. Genoa has withdrawn its credit from the
Roman bank. Torlonia will not give money for any
paper on Paris, even that of Rothschild. It is hoped
thus will soon pass off. The Roman princes who are
shareholders in the bank have declared it shall not
suspend its payments, but the panic is great. It says
a great misfortune has occurred, the head of the
apostle St. Andrew has been stolen from St. Peter's,
most active search is being made for it. The civic
guard is applying itself to discover it with great zeal.
The chapter of St. Peter's has offered NO piastres
reward.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

REPORTED ABDICATION OF
THE ICING OF BAVARIA.

REVOLT IN LOMBARDY.

[We publish, in another page, an article from the
Daily 21'eses, upon the respective merits of cheap and
dear newspapers, which notices a few of the various
instances in which the former have been enabled not
only to compete with, but to defeat, the gigantic com-
bination which has been formed against them. We
have to-day a further illustration of the success of
the Daily Netes,which published, in a Second Edition,
this morning, intelligence of the revolt in Lombardy,
and of the arrival at Paris of a telegraphic despatch,
announcing the abdica'ion of the King of Bavaria,
some hours before the same news appeared in any of
the high-priced journals.]

PARIS, THURSDAY, 5 PAL
Another calamitous commercial failure has taken
place to-day, the bank of I)'Eichthal and Co. has
stopped. the house had a large German connexion,
particularly with Munich, and its failure is considered
to be the greatest commercial disaster which has yet
occurred.

All the Russians residing in or visiting nail bare
received an order to leave it by to-morrow.
Count d'Appony remains for the present, although
his departure is expected.
I have just learned that government has received
a telegraphic dispatch, announcing that the King of
Bavaria has abdicated ; no dates or other particulars
are given, the telegraph being interrupted by weather.
I learn also that despatches have been received in
Paris, announcing the important fact that Lombardy
is in high insurrection.
It is stated that the movement commenced in
Bergamo and Bresebia, and ensued at Milan ; it is
added that the tri-colour flag was waving over the
duo;no of the chateau.

The following news, corroborative of the above, ap-
pears in the Resorgirnento of Turin :
The Viceroy of Lombardy, having left Milan at 6 o'clock
on the morning of the 17th, like a fugitive, escorted by 500
hussars, met at Cassano with the courier, who was the bearer
of the latest news from Vienna. The following proclama-
tion wu posted up at Milan, on the 17th :
" The president of the Imperial Government hutens to
announce to the public the contents of a telegraphic despatch,
dated Vienna, 15th inst., r, ceived at Zilli on the same day.
and at Milan yesterday evening. His imperial and royal
majesty bus decreed the abolition of the censorship, the
speedy publication of a law on the press, and the convoca-
tion of the German and Slavonic states, as also the central
congregations of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. The
assembly will meet at the latest on the 3rd July next.
(Signed) HARTL."
On the 18th, M. Cassati. chief magistrate of Milan, went,
at the head of two or three thousand persons, to demand
the liberation of the individuals arrested in the course of the
latter months. This demand having been refused the magis-
trate retired, end immediately the people assembled on the
squares and hoisted the tricoloured flag of Italy (white, red,
and green). Several streets were unpaved, and the tumult in-
creased. A traveller, who left at two o'clock, saw several pieces
of artillery drawn out with lighted matches. At a short
distance from Milan he heard the report of a cannon.
Another account says that the Hotel of the Police
was carried by storm and burnt, and a provisional
government installed, under the presidency of the
former Podesta Casati. At Brescia, a similar move-
ment broke out on the same day, and the insurgents
made a prisoner of the Austrian general. The entire
province of Bergamo was in revolt.
The above news arrived late this afternoon, and was
not generally known in Paris.
Balinese at the Bourse was fiat; the Threes fell to
50, and the Fives to 70i ; Bank Shares, 1,630.
The project of the government respecting the rail-
ways, which I mentioner, in my letter of this morn-
ing, is, I am informed, as follows :
Government proposes to take into its own hands all
the unfinished lines ; the shareholders will be re-
quired to pay up their full amount of capital, and will
then receive five per cent stock at par.
We have learned, from quarters the correctness of
which can be relied upon, that the demonstration
made on Friday at the Hotel de Ville, by the 20,000
operatives, was got up by the government, at the cost
of 500,000 francs. Each operative was paid two francs,
and the officers five francs.
Notwithstanding the flattering reports issued daily
in the bulletins of the Ministry of the Interior, we
learn that the proclamation of the republic has en-
countered the most formidable resistance in several
of the departments and of the chief provincial towns.
In tome of these it required all the despotic authority
enforced by M. Ledru Rollin on his commissaries to
get it proclaimed.
It is said that a project is entertained for trans-
ferring the Biblietheque Royale, now called the
Bibliotheque Nationale, to the luileries.
It has been contemplated for a considerable time
back to erect a new and more spacious building for
the royal library, the old building being in all res-
pects unsuitable and insufficient. The Palace of the
Tuileries would undoubtedly be a building worthy of
each a purpose.
By letters from Ems, we hear that the Duchess
of Orleans was living there in complete privacy.
Besides her two sons she had but few persons with
her, amongst whom was the Count de Mornay. Her
mother, the Duchess-Dowager of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, arrived on the Bth,to assist and console her
daughter, who on her arrival was destitute of the
commonest necessaries.
Yesterday a grand demonstration took place in the
Champ-tie-Mars. Great numbers of workmen, accom-
panied by innumerable flsgs, assembled around the
"Tree of Liberty," which had been planted the previous
day, and which the clergy of Gros Caillou had conse-
crated. In compliance with the wish expressed by a
deputation who waited on him, M. Ledru Rollin, Mi-
nister of the Interior, went to the Champ.de-Mars, and
addressed the people. He thanked them in the name
of the Provisional Government, in the name of France,
and in the name of the whole world, for having had
the idea of renewing on that spot the great souvenir
of the federation of 1790, when France, divided
into castes, aristocracies, and provinces, came, on the
appeal of the people of Paris, to abjure on the altar
of the country old hatreds and divisions, in order to
form henceforth only one people, the French people.
There was, he said, another souvenir, that of the
Champ-de-Mai, when the people, threatened by
foreign invasion, rose with indignation to defend their
nationality. At that time Europe, being deceived
by its rulers, believed that they intended to in-
vade it, and the French had Waterloo. But that
day they at wend the sublime reply by sending
it liberty ! A "s !mentioning the effect caused by the
revolution in German" and in Austria, and after
stating that other nations would follow their example,
M. Ledru-Rollin said :
We have the right to be proud, for to the defeat of Water-
loo we have only to oppose a cry of deliverance and liberty !
Salutation to thee, 0 Tree ! glorious symbol of that deliver-
ance and that liberty! Salutation to thee ! I predict it with
joy—in this place in which sixti years ago people came to
fraternise in the name of liberty—ta this pleas we shall soon