The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 510 P.X.
An excitement, in which cariosity has a much larger
share than alarm, and which is not unmixed with a

certain malice, prevails in Paris to-day. The univer-
sal subject of conversation is of course the approach.
ing conflict in the Assembly.
I am told that the proceeding of Gen. Cavaignac
has been provoked by the announcement which had
been made in certain circles, that M. Barthelemy St.
Hilaire is about to publish a memoir on the
events of June, in which the conclusions will be
favourable to the late Executive Commission, and most
Isompromising to General Cavaignac. His present
is to anticipate this publication by bringing
purposeevv:rd the debate in the Assembly.
A message was sent yesterday by telegraph to
Macon, toe the recall of M. de Lamartine, and it
'is said that the telegraph was actively at work
throughout the day, summoning back to Paris all
those members of the Assembly, of the 'government
party, who have lately gone to the departments
to promote the election of General Cavaignac. In
fine, it is expected that most of the absent
members will return before Saturday, when
there will probably be a house of above 800.
The question raised is grave. It is nothing less than
the re-opening of the wound which was skinned
over by the decree of arrest against MM. Canssidiere
and Louis Blanc. The June insurrection is again
brought before the tribunal of public of opinion,
through the solemn instrumentality of the National
Assembly, but the parties in presence are now not as
formerly, the insurgents and their alleged accomplices,
Louis Blanc, Ceusaidiere and their associates, on the
one hand, and the outraged majesty of the nation on
the other; but they are the late Executive Commis-
sion on the one hand, consisting of MM. Lamartine,
Gamier Pages, 'Ara Rollin, and Marie, and some
of their ministers, and Gen. Cavaignac, the Minister
of War under that commiesion, on the other. The
question is not, as before, as to the penalty to be
inflicted on the insurgents; it is even more
grave ; it is to decide whether the blood spilled in
June is to be laid at the door of the late Executive
Commission or at that of their Minister of War, Gen.
Cavaignac. The latter complains, and not without
apparent cause, that his name has been the object otthe
most odious and caluminous charges in society and in
the press ; that it such charges were made by parties
out of the Assembly he would disregard them, or, at
least, not notice them in the tribune ; but he declares,
and declares truly, that they have been the common
topic of diseuvion in the coutoirs and the Sallee des
Conferences; that no reserve has been maintained; that
members of the Assembly have expressed them-
selves openly ; that, in a word, he has
been charged with being the guilty cause of
the bloodshed in June. He has, in his
usual soldierlike and straightforward manner, named
some of the parties to whom he alludes, MM. Gamier
Pages. Duelerc, Pagnerre, and Barthelemy St. Hilaire,
to which he r ight have added, with equal truth, MM.
de Lamartine and Ledra Rollin. The question now
to be discussed is, then, the following : The prognos-
tics of the June insurrection were glaring; statesmen
the least practised could not be blind to them. The
Executive Commission saw the coming storm; its mem-
bers affirm, and have affirmed long since, that they
gave orders to their Minister of War, which, if duly
executed, would have averted the tempest, but that
these orders were not executed by Gen. Cavaignac,
and that the catastrophe of June consequently, ensued,
Such being the questions which have been raised, and
the discussion of which will be opened on
Saturday, it will not be wondered at that the utmost
excitement prevails in Paris. The interpellations of
the government have not been confined to the tribune;
demands for explanation have been pat forth in their
official organ of tie press.
Last night the club of the Salle Montesquieu held
a meeting on the subject of the presidential election,
at which M. Mathieu (de la Drome), member of the
Assembly, and a Mentagnard, delivered a epeech in
favour of the candidateship of M. Leder' Rollin. In
the course of his address he uttered the following,
which produced a great sensation, and has been much
commented on this morning. "If M. Louis Bona-
parte is named, it is you alone, people of Paris, that
can deliver us from the monarchy."
A letter from Tunis states that the [difference be-
tween the Bey and the French coned has been ad-
justed. The difference arose from the refusal of the
farmer-general of the taxes to pay some indemnities
to French residents, on the pretext that he had no
money. Admiral Baudin bad an interview with the
Bey, in which satisfaction was given to him, and he
immediately re-embarked for Malta.
M. Edmond Adam, who was adjoint to M. Marrest
as major of Paris, and is at present chief secretary of
the prefecture of the Seine, has fought a duel
with CoL Rey, who commanded the Hotel de Ville
on 'the lath of May, and who, having just been
acquitted of the charge of complicity in the insur-
rection of that day, has been set at liberty. The
duel arose from Colonel Rey having charged
M. Adam with being the cause of his arrest. M.
Adam has received a slight wound in the side.
Another duel hu arisen out of the debate yes-
terday. General Baragaay d'Hilliers having inti-
mated that M. Goudchaux had presented an
amendment on the project of law on the Treasury
Bonds from irterested motives, M. Goudchaux
answered, " Vous avez menti." I have just learned
that thednel hubeen fought, and a shot interchanged,
without injury to either party, and so the affair ter-
minated.
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Flee per Cents., 64 ; laud Caen, 04 23 roars, Belgian
Flees,77L;
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Bends, —. Bank abates, 1515; frac:hangs on 11304031. $0 days
23 474 ; 90 days, 25 40. cash.
Rart.ways.—Paris end Orleans, 570; Paris and Rouen, 347 50;
Sousa sad Havre, 137 30; Avignon and Marseilles, —; Stras-
bourg sad Bale. —; Centre Vieraon, ; Antlena and Boulogne,
; Bordeaux, 361 30 ; North, 536 74.