The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-21 00:00:00

I cannot discover with certainty what is pas
headed, but the common rumour is that a deromini,
tion is to be got up in favour of the insurgent /xi
Boners. A meeting of 2,000 women it is said tees
place to-day in the Faubourg St. Antoii.e,:a which it
was resolved to go in procession with a pEtition to
the assembly. It is said that this measure has beet
recommended by the club of the absolute deem,
crate, and that it is, like the Polish asir
on the 15th of May, a mere pretext
another explosion. The person who has undeebiet
to present the petition is Dernosthene thick; the
republican Montagnard.
M. Marring is re-elected president of the a=iztatily
The evidence of the insurrection committee exclad4
every other topic of domestic news in the early put
of today. The first volume has just been distributed.
Notice has been given that questions will be patty
day to the government on its foreign relations, and
especially on the recent events in Italy. It is expected
that a debate on the subject will take place on Mao.
day, which will be the counterpart of the late debate
in the House of Commons.

The statement of the affairs of the Bank up to
Thursday night is considered hue iu a very
able light as rw.ards the situation of the Back it'd(
It shows the amount of bullion gradually increasing
since the 20:h April, when it fell to the lowest
amount, 88 millions.
The Sardiniar. ambassador co' municated yeater.
day to M. Bastide the protest of the Piedmont's's
ministry against the armistice of the 101 Auger,
signed by Salasco. It is said that a meant:allots of
several of the most eminent turista of Italy has
dared its opinion that Gus. Saiaseo had exceeded 111,,
powers in delivering up cn his own authority hat.
tkd places end engaging the government. A rep*
was circulated last night and this morning thateharies
Albert had abdicated in favour of his eldest son.
Mr. J. B. Dillon, ate of the chiefs of the Irish is.
surrection, has arrived at Havre.
The quarries round Paris were searched on the
night of Thursday by the national guard andgea.
darmerie of the Banlieu, being supposed to be the
asylum where insurgents had taken refuge and were
cone( aled.
The prefect of police has just published Lis period.
ical bulletin, in which he says that the number of
unemployed operatives in Pas is is reduced to 8,301
The offences against property are and rebberies6
per day. The total number of victims of the iLsurrees
Lion of June now amounts to 1,415.
'The 'Mairpis of Normarhy pre al nted his credentials
this morning to General Ca. aignse, ae ambasgidor
extraordinary and plenipotentiary on a special
mission.
Tile Minister of Finance has published a decree,
granting to those shareholders of the Paris and Lyons
ltsilway as may engage to pay up the instalments to
complete the 2.70:1:. on each share the right to make
the payment in Treasury Bonds issued by the republic,
on the same conditions as were granted to the sob.
scribers to the new loan. When the term which
these bonds have to run shall be less than slx months
the interest on them shell be accounted for to the
holder at 51 per tent., and when beyond that period
6 per cent.
A second division of the insurgents doamrd to
transportation was sent off on Thursday night by the
railroad to Havre, starting from the station at
Asniives. It comprised 405. They were guarded
by the armed force all the way to Havre, and mail
they were fast on board the Ulloa. They were em.
barked yesterday morning in the Ulloa, which left
immediately afterwards for Cherbourg.

SUNDAT, 11 AN.
There is but little to communicate this morning.
The troops, which were drawn up in order of battle,
in the environs of the assembly, when I closed my
despatches, yesterday continued in their positions
until half-past six, at which hour they began to re-
turn to their quarters. No popular demur stration took
place nor was there any apparent cause for this military
display. The real cauee of the military preparations wen
the one assigned in my letter of last evening. Thereat-
tion continues to assume front day to day more
serious dimensions. The prevailing discontent among
all classes at the present state of things, the general
commercial prostration, the wretched condition of the
operative classes, the impossibility of maintaining
order without a state of siege, all conspire to create a
general feeling in favour of some strong form of govern-
ment which will revive continence and credit, and give
assurance to capital. One hears in every quarter
and from every class, from the financier at Tortoni's,
or the Bourse, to the humblest café of the Faubourg!,
the persuasion expressed in every form of strong bin.
gunge, that if some strong and settled government be
not established before winter it is impossible to eity
what horrors may not ensue.
The councils of war have commenced the trials of
the insurgents sent before them. Several have been
already sentenced to the galleys for life.
M. Vivien is appointed to prepare the report on the
constitution and its new preamble. It is expected it
will be presented to the assembly about the Ist Sep-
tember.
The state of alarm in which the capital has been
kept was augmented yesterday by the publication of
" instructions fer the transmission of orders," addressed
to the national guard by General Changarnier, in

which he says :
If, contrary to our hopes, the national guard shall again
be called to a combat, the guard-in-chief would only give
a small number of orders which be would take care to render
clear and precise, bat as the circumstances of the battle and
the movements of the enemy may require time to 'Wily
the first arrangements, it is necessary to inform the wind
guard that when an °nicer of the staff shall bring an order,
be to whom such order is addressed must demand-1. His
name and the production of his commission, if the 'MS
officer is not known. 2. The name of the officer, general, or
superior by whom such order is sent ; and 3, the hour and
place when the staff officer quitted the general or superior
officer whose order he brings. The national guard most
never allow itself to 12^ approached nearer than 50 pica by
numerous armed groups.
Prior to the election of President of the Assembly,
M. de Lamartine had publicly declined to all >w him-
self to be put in nomination, and had declared to his
friends that his health requiring a temporary relaxa-
tion from business, he could not accept the presidency
if elected.
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In our correspondence of Madrid of the I.lth, Wen
are quoted from the north of Spain which contain the
important intelligence than an insurrection in the
liberal sense has broken out in Catalonia. According
to these adv ices, a corps of 400 insurgents, commanded
by a chief called Nlolins appeared on the 7th on the
plain of Bardona, with the war cry of " Liberty for
' ever, and down with the government." On the same
day, Molina disarmed the carabineere of Mcsnon and
Badalona, two considerable towns at three hours die
tance from Barcelona. In the evening he went by
Semboy to Villanova. The young men of Barcelona
go oat by parties of 100 to 150 to join Moline. On the 9th
he had 700 men. At the same time another movement
took place in the " Campo de Tarregoue.' Col. Bald-
evis has caused the whole of the young men of hens
to rise, and mast be at this moment sufficiently strong
to demand reinforcements of the authorities of Tarra-
gona. On the 10th the two chiefs had received into
their ranks a great number of soldiers belonging to the
army. A great number of the troops in the garrison
has joined the insurgents. Universal apprehension is
felt in Catalonia. Even Vigneras has demanded rein-
forcements.
The Duke of Sotomayor had left Madrid for Paris
as ambassador.
Mr. Weisweiller was preparing to leave fo:. London
on business relating to the muss of Almadon.
Reports of a change in the ministry continued to
circulate. According to which MM. Seijae, Rios Bosas,
and Count Nlirasol, would replace MM. Arazola, Bravo,
:Murillo, and Figueiras.