The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

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IRELAND.

ARREST OF MR. C. CAVAN DUFFY.—SEI-
ZURE OF THE NATION."—ARRES i* OF TILE
PROPRIETORS OF THE TRIBUNE."—SUR.
RENDER OF MR. MARTIN, PROPRIETOR OF
"THE FELON."
DUBLIN, SATTRDLY, 10 P.K.
This evening Mr. Duffy was arrested, and brought
to College-green police-office, charged under the
recent act with felony. The informations were read
over, which were not objected to by Mr. Duffy, and
he was committed for trial. Bail was offered, but
refused. The police seized all books and papers
found in the Nation office, which remain in their
custody.
Mr. D. Hoban, printer, and Mr. It. D. Williams and
Mr. K. J. O'Doherty, proprietors of the Tel/nose, were
also arrested and committed to Newgate, charged
with an offence under the new felony act.
At twelve o'clock to-day Mr. Martin surrendered 1,
himself to Sergeant Prender, of the police force, at the
office in College-street. Ile inquired for the acting
officer, and Sergeant Premier having presented him-
self, Mr. Martin said : I understand a warrant is in
the hands of the police for my Barest, and I surrender
myself." lie was immediately brought before the pre.
sidin.); magistrate, and, after a brief investigation, was
committed to Newgate in the " black van." A few
of his friends were allowed to visit him in prison.
The commission will sit on Tuesday, August 8.
At seven o'clock yesterday a number of policemen
presented;themselves at the Felon-office, with a war-
rant for Mr. Martin's arrest. The immediate object
of inquiry not being "on the premises," the police
forthwith, by virtue of a search warrant, seized on all
papers of every kind, and conveyed them away.
The two gentlemen reported to have cottributed
the " perilous stuff " for which the proprietor now
suffers, addressed letters to Mr. Redington and the
Attorney-General, in which they offered to surrender
at discretion on condition that Mr. Martin be suffered
to escape unhurt. Mr. Reilly assumed the entire re-
sponsibility, and undertook " to surrender to you or
any other officer of the English government when-
ever and wheresoever you may appoint," I rovided the
warrant against Mr. Martin were withdrawn and the
Felon exonerated from prosecution. Mr. Lilor, tin-
' der date from the " Felon-office, Trinity-street," in-
forms the Under-Secretary that the impeached articles
were not written by the proprietor, and were pub•
fished " in opposition to his expressed opinion." A
curious domintims is that of Mr. Martin over his own
property. The self-sacrificing spirit of Messrs. Reilly
and Lalor is very heroic, but the authorities remained
ominously silent.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

PARIS, SUNDAY, 6 30 r At.
The Bien Public publishes to-day its answer to the
Journal des Dilutes, respecting a statement that a bat-
talion of barricades bad been formed after the revola-
tion of February, under the auspices of the Provisional
Government. The Bien Public admits that it stated
that such a battalion was formed, but denies that in
making that statement it intended to convey the im-
pression that it was formed with the cognirince or
under the auspices of the government. It was formed
spontaneously by the insurgents themselves, says the
Bien Public, to provide against any reactionary
movement of a monarchical character.
Le Bien Public, which it will be remembered is
the personal organ in the press of M. Lamartine, gives
the following in its leading article of to-day, which
may therefore be regarded as a sort of semi-official
answer of M. Lamartine to the various charges cir-
culated against him by all political parties, the effect
of which has been to precipitate him, with a sudden-
ness that has scarcely an example, from the summit
of power and popularity to become the object of the
most odious suspicions that can be entertained against
a public man :
THE TRUTH AS TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMISPION.—The
,Circle contains, to-day, with respect to the letter of M.
Lamartine to the Conaiituiiennel, an article in which the
conduct of M. LmnartMe and the acts of the Executive
Commission are involuntarily improperly represented.
As to what concerns M. Lsmartine, we shall not reply ;
time, we are sure, will sufficiently reply for him.
If we regret the unjust and contradictory prejudices
with which his come is for the moment enveloped, deprive
for a long time, or for ever, the country of hie services, it is
not on his amour t, it is on account of our opinions. If every
man is useful, no man is necessary, and we will cot predict
the ruin of the republic because one good citizen is
set snide by the ostracism of deceived opinion. Opinion
will undeceive itself and will repent ; we know it will one
day smile at the pr, fendu poem mysterieuz (the expression
of the Siede) concluded between M. Lamartine and
such of his colleagues as were supposed to dissent from him
in the executive commission. It will be seen that this pact.
was only the bond of political good min e, which took for its
principle thatthe spirit of concord could alone firmly found is
the National Assembly a republic of unanimity. It wi I
understand that, without this policy the National Assembly,
still feeble and menaced on the first days of its existence,
would have been divided into a majority and a minority,
embittered one against the other from the morrow of its
inauguration, inetead of protecting, with all its combined
force, against the dangers which threatened the .cpublic,
order, and the national representation.
This is in our opinion all the dark mystery of the policy of
good sense, patriotism, and self-denial of M. losmartine.
Was it then so difficult for him to hold his position, sur-
rounded by popularity, and to wait until this popularity
should change it for him into permanent power ? The least
ambitious person could have understood this. Why should
M. Lsmartine, then not have undenitoeci it? Had he,
then, no little intelligence ? But M. Lamartine was
anything but ambitious. He has been a patriot, even
to the sacrifice of himself. He has consented to pulverize
(" ptdveriser"l his name, as he himself said at the tribune,
to preserve the National Amenably. That was his sole
crime. History will pardon it.
As to what concerns the Executive Commission, is it true,
as the Sled* pretends, " that it is to a great extent responsi-
ble for the events which have thrown the capital into con-
steroatinn, at !emit by its inaction, and that it had not, in
the moment of danger, neither the courage to utter the cry
of alarm, nor the force to prevent," &c.
To this we shall not reply to-day. We will wait until tbs
Commission of Enquiry replier in the face of day. The
Commission will, at the same time, state if the Executive
Commission did not foresee in truth the events of the 23rd
June ? If. having foreseen them, it did not prepare, a long
time in advance, the military forces necessary to prevent ee
render them abortive ? If it did not give positive orders to
its ministers ? If it did not order troops to and around Paris
to protect the National Assembly and the National Guards
against the chances of n collisi en ? If it did not repeat them
orders and insist on their execution ; If it were not in sea-
sines on the subject the evening before? If it failed in
personal courage, or united resolution on the day when its
members themselves exposed themselves to the fire of the
insurgents to give an example ?
f fin case the commission should answer no to all these gime-
tions, we ourselves declare the Executive Commission guilty
above all, and deprived of the dignity of government as to
all title to the consideration of the country.
But if it should answer yea! the members of the
Executive Commission have done all this, and yet Pens was
unprotected four days instead of four hours, and the blood of
the brave National Guards has been spilled Then we shall
ask in our turn by what reversal of distributive justice the
Executive Commission is lost in public opinion, and why
others, neither more nor less implicated in these events, see
in the ascendant? Or rather, we will ask nothing, for we
well know the errors and injustice of opinion, and we ap
prove the stoic indifference with which the Executive Com-
mission has submitted not to condemn others in seeking its
own justification.
We are besides convinced that there is no one amongst the
higher orders of the existing authorities who accuse it; each
has done his duty ; the battle was inevitable; the executive
commission supported it until mid-day on Saturdey—that is
for the first thirty hours, and the most decisive; that the
misfortunes of civil and social war should only rally good
citizens around the existing authorities, nobly personiied in
their military chic", as (around the civil power when the re-
public shall have regained its calmness.

We have received letters from Spain which state
that Navarre has been declared in a state of siege,
and which also contain a copy of a proclamation of
Gen. Elio to the inhabitants of Navarre, and the
Basque provinces, which is in substance the same as
that of Cabrera.
Letters received in Paris say that an engagement
took place within four leagues of Barcelona, between
Cabrera and the royal troops, in which the latter
were defeated. No details are given.

ITALY.
The Piedanmtese Gazette, of the sth, states that
there is about to be formed in Lombardy a vast camp
of instruction for Italian volunteers.
The senator F. Cons has taken possession of the
Duchy of Parma, in the name of Charles Albert.
The Patria, of the Ist, says that General Durando
has arrived in Florence.
The if venire d'ltalia, of the 4th, says the third
division of the army of Piedmont, under the orders of
Gen. Sonnaz, has crossed the Adige, at Doke, con-
sisting of 6,000 men. Great preparations were said
to be making for the attack of Verona.

Anucx's.—The concluding ball of the mason is 1
to take place oa Wednesday next. instead of Tbursday, as
originally intended, this Baroness Bronco, having appointed
the latter night for her grand ball at the Russian Embassy.
The whole of the ladies patronesses purpose attending the
ball,
ball, so that a brilliant reunion is anticipated.

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