The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

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N 0.465.1 LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 24,1848. [3d.

the Place des Victoires, during the night. Great I
fires were lighted and maintained in these places.
The demands for passports at the Prefecture of
Police were so numerous, that all the employes of the
department were insufficient to perform the business.
One of the government journals says that 120 per-
sons were arrested and brought to the Prefecture of
Police on Monday:
The NaGood gives the following, written at one
o'clock yesterday mornir g :
All tumult has ceased in the quarter Saint Martin.
The troops are stationed from the Boulevard Boone Nouvelle
to the Porte Saint Martin. They will probably pass the night
before the fires that are lighted there. Tlie Place du Marche
des Innocens is covered with soldiers. Patrols par in all
the adjoining streets and meet with no opposition.
The only information we hare been able to collect on what
has passed is this The combatants successively occupied
the Rues Tiquetonne, Bourg l'Abbe, Great tat, and
Transnonian. Not more than thirty or forty were armed.
Their ammunition was soon exhausted. The most deadly
combat took place in a house in the Rue de Beaubourg,
where five persons had been abut in. Their companions
tried to liberate them. A combasot the very muzzle of the
guns took place between them and the municipal guards.
A municipal guard was killed, another wounded,
and a young man was killed; but the prisoners re-
mained in the power of the guard.
The same journal supplies the following reports:
About 3,000 students met on Tuesday, at the place fixed
for the' meeting of the deputies, and were extremely ease
perated when they found the banquet would not take place.
After indulging in severe censures on M. 0. Barret, they
returned to the Quartier Latin. Same of them, who had
committed no act of violence, were sudaenly surrounded by
about 60 municipal guards, on the Place Pantbeem, near
the Pebleetuum A yonag man wee severely
wounded in the side with a bayonet. Some persons were
observed pointing out the students to the guard, and an eye-
witness, who was himself very ill-treated, assures us that
these individuals, who had accompanied the students, had
made themselves conspicuous by crying " A bas les riches!
A bat les Hotels!"
Some other student. having gone to the Bastille, and sung
the" Meru:Weise, and saluted the Column of July by crying
" Honour to those who died for liberty," were assailed by
a band of agents of police, who, without any provocation,
attacked them with sticks shod with iron. Many of them
were severely wounded.
A general, it is said, chanting a party in the Rue d'Alger
at a barricade, we, disarmed, and had h!s:epaulettea stripped
off; he was ulttrwards rescued by two persons from the
chateau.
At the o'e'o:k the drum, of the National Guard, escorted
by some of that body, beat the rappel on the right bank of
the Seine. They were followed by Loge numbers of "young
men, singing the " Marseilleise," and crying Vise la
Reforme."
At the time we write, it is reported that the agitation is
considerable in the quarters of Prouvaires and Marais. It is
said that 2,000 men are assembled in the Rue St. Louis, pre-
ceded by a drum and a flag. The crowd in the Rue St.
Honore and the adjacent areas is considerable. The troops
of the line are behaving with the greatest moderation.
The artillery occupied the whole of the Pont Nsuf and the
quays. The canons are levelled before the Hotel dee
Invalided.
A squadron of cuirassiers have arrived from Malan. The
shops on all the Boulevards were shut at an early hour, and
some lamps were broken. A post of the soldiery in the
Champs Ripka has been burned.
The gates of the Church of the Assomption have been
torn down. The ministry of the marine was attempted to be
forced. The persons employed in the ministry of war are
confined in that establishment. It is said that many barri-
cades are formed in the Rues Transnonian and Maubuee.
Our correspondent writes that, yesterday morning
all hackney coaches, cabs, omnibuses, and every
description of public carriage had disappeared from
the streets and the public stands. Probably the cause
of this was the fact that several of these were
seized by the populace on Tuesday evening, to form
barricades, and, in some instances, were burned.
The iron railings in several parts of the town have
been torn down to supply weapons to the populace.
This has taken place at the Hotel of the Minister of
Marine, in the Place de la Concorde ; at the churches
of the Assomption and St. Hoch, in the Rue St. Ho-
nore, and other places.
The President of the Chamber of Deputies, not
having noticed to the Chamber the impeachment
which M. 0. Barret had delivered to him at the mo-
ment the Chamber was about to adjourn, the hon.
deputy rose to demand when the impeachment would
be laid before the bureaux. The President thereupon
appointed Thursday for the purpose.
The Theatre Francais and the Italian Opera were
closed on Tuesday night.
P.S.—Our correspondent, at the moment of closing
his dispatches, received a report that fighting was
going on between the populace and the troops in the
Faubourg St. Martin. The rappel for the national
gum d was beating throughout the quarters of the
Madeleine.

HOTEL DES AYFAIEES ETRASIGERES, Half-past
p.m.—The populace collected here in lary numbers
have just been charged by the Municipal Guard, and
dispersed without any serious result.
Five o'Clock.—There. are now not leas than ten
thousand persons collected round the Hotel des Af-
fairy. Etrangeres. They have been repeatedly charged
with the bayonet by the Municipal Guard, but re-1
assemble as fast as they are dispersed.
The Threes have fallen to 73 50.
Half-past Six.—The etneutes have suddenly been
tranquillized by the rumoured resignation of M.
Guizot. The crowd round the Hotel des Affaires
Etrangeres have nearly disappeared. The troops are
returning to their barracks. It is reported that the
treope of the line exhibited symptoms of disaffection.
RESIGNATION t, M. GUIZOT.

NEW MINISTRY.

A further express from Paris brings a confirmation
of the intelligence that M. Guizot's ministry has ter-
minated, and that the King has charged the Count
Mole to form a new cabinet. We refer our readers
to the report of proceedings in the Chamber of De-
puties.
A very stormy conversation took place in the
Chambei of Peers on the present state of Paris, bat
it led to no result.
I► F. +sing from the Quartier de la Madeleine to the
Plum, Vietoires, oar correspondent found the
streets encumbered by large bodies of people. About
2,000 were proceeding in a body to the Chamber of
Deputies, singing the Marseillaise, and shouting
Vive la Reforme.” Bodies of the national guards,
were patrolling the streets, accompanied by crowds,
shouting Vive la Reforms!" " Five la Garde Na-
tionale."
When our despatch left, the probable names of the
new ministry were thus stated :
M. le Count Mole, President of the Coancil and
Affaires dee Etrangeres.
M. Dufaure, Minister of Interior.
M. Vivien, Garde dee Seeaux.
M. MBank, Marine.
M. Gouin, Agricultutle and Commerce.
M. H. Palsy, Finances.
M. Tocqueville, Instruction Public.
M. Lanyer, or Count Darn, Travaux Public.
Pertefeuille de Guerre—not named.
Three per Cents., 73 70.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
, eirriso OF FEB, 23.
The chamber was opened at two o'clock. All the
approaches were open to the public. The l'lace de la Con-
corde was filled with cavalry. A report was spread. that
the rioten had abandoned the quarter of the Bastille, and
that the barricades hid been destroyed by the Tuitional
guard. The aspect of the chamber was calm, but evidently
occupied with what was passing without.
The left assembled in great numbers, and was conversing
in groups.
M. Vavin, deputy de la Seine, addressed the chamber,
and stated that as deputy of the Seine, and in the name of
his celleguta, ad a solemn duty to fulfil, to demand of
the minister interior information and explanation as
to what was • g in the capital. Within 24 hours the
most grave tr lee had broken out in Paris. The popula-
tion had observed with astonishment the absence of the
Tisdale! guard. On Monday orders had been given to call
them out. A counter-order must have been given in the
night. It was only yesterday, after collisions had taken
place, that the rappel wan beaten. All the day the people
had been exposed to serious danger. If the national guard
bad been called out at the commencement, it was probable
we should not have had to deplore the sad results.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs then stated, that he did
not think it for the public interest, nor proper for the
Chamber, to enter on any debate on the explanation de-
manded. The king had called en M. le Count Mole (cheers
from the letiro form a new cabinet. (Renewed cheers.) He
said such in ptions could not induce him to add to, or
withold anyt.trentthat he intended to say. As soon as
the cabinet sh be felked he should cause public order to
be respected . Lie beat of his judgment, as he had
hitherto done.
M. 0. Barrot, in consequence of the actual situation of
the ministry, applied to postpone the proposition for impeach-
ment which he bad made yesterday.
A conversation ensued thereon, but when our despatch
lett nothing had been decided.
Pants, FEE. 23. New Lean, ; Three per Cents., 73 70 ;
Mee, 110 10 ; Fontend-lialf, —; Fours, 09. Belgian Fives.,
1040, 981; do. 1642, ; Do. Threes., —; De. Four-and-a-Half, —.
Naples Bente*, —. Roman Loan, —. 1 mammy Bands, —.
Bank Shares, —. Eishange on London, sight, 25 50.
RAILWATS.—Paris and Orleans, 1180 , Paris and Bon ;
Boma and Havre, —; Avhrnon and It,
; S
and Bile, —; Centre Viers." 505; Amiens and Boulogne, —;
Bordeaux, —; North, 536 H.

We have received the Madrid mails of the 17th
instant. The pregnancy of the Duchess of Montpen-
sier, which we announced yesterday, occupied much
of the public attention.
It was expected that the Infanta would go to
Madrid with her husband, in the month of April,
preparatory to her confinement, it being considered
desirable that the probable inheritor of the throne
should be a native of Spain. Another report, how-
ever, was, that the confinement of the Duchess would
take place at Pau, in the Pyrenees, where a palace has
been for some time in preparation. The financial
measures of M. Beltran de Lys was actively pro-
secuted.
A decree was published, forbidding the conversion
of Treasury Bills into 4 per cent. bonds, without the
report of the Committee of Liquidation.
The sudden rise of the fends, which we reported
yesterday, was ascribed to the confidence inspired by
the Minister of Finance.
Great indignation is expressed at the fact that the
Duke of Rianzaree,:the husband of Queen Christina, is
largely in errear to the Exchequer, while the furni-
ture of the poor is unrelentingly sold when their
taxes are unpaid.
Sanchez Silva has proposed that arrears of taxes
shall be payable in 3 per cent. bonds.
The greatest animation still continued on the
Boles. Each day twenty or more operations were
done in the Threes, at continually and steadily
rising prices. The other denominations of stock
were also beginning to be less inert.

The Patric of Florence, of the 15th, states that
Major Ponticelli has been visiting the fortifications
of Lucca, by order of the government, for the pur-
pose of putting them in a state of defence. A rumour
was current at Florence that Parma was in open
revolt, and the people victorious.
A letter of the 13th, from Milan, states that, on
the preceding day, an attempt was made to assassinate
Count Thun, who received two stabs with a poignard
and several bruises, but happily escaped with his
life, having had strengh and courage enough to
knock down one of his assailants, beat two of them
off, and secure and deliver over another to the patrol.

The following is an extract from a letter just
received from Leghorn : " I rejoice to announce
to you that the Grand Duke has given a con-
stitution to Tuscany. The news has just ar-
rived here, and whilst I write the fortress is
saluting and the bells ringing. It is understood
to be more democratic than that of Piedmont ;
indeed it could not well be otherwise, as there are not
the elements for a purely aristocratic chamber in
Tuscany. I avail myself of a steamer starting for
Genoa to send this."

Advicee from Rome, of the 13th, have arrived, and
brings the confirmation of the anticipations we
lately expressed. Immediately on the arrival of the
news of the constitutions granted in surrounding
states, the Pope called arround him several of the
most eminent theologians, to demand their opinion
upon the possibility of granting a constitution con-
sistently with the rights of the church.
The advice received being favourable, the Holy
Father immediately convoked a secret consistory,
composed of all the cardinals present in Rome, to
which he put the same question, and whose answer
is reported to be favourable. The constitution, in fine,
is decided on. Nothing definite was settled as to the
mode of carrying it into effect ; but it was
said that a mixed commission, ecclesiastical and
laical, would be appointed to prepare a draft of the
constitution, which would be published with all con-
venient speed. Various reports were in circulation.
Some, that there would be two chambers ; the higher
consisting of Roman princes and cardinals ; the
second, of members of the council of state, &c. Car-
dinal Lambruschini supported the measures sa being

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quite indispensable in the present state at Italy, and l
the only means of establishing union and concord
between the superior clergy and the people.

The Gazette de Cologne gives the following, under
the date of Berlin, Feb. 16 :
The Ramis& Ambmsedor accredited at our Gout M. de
lifeyendorf, no longer makes it a secret for any one that
30,000 seen of the Russian forces are now amenshled on the
frontiers of Galicia, and ready, on the first Mang. to march
on to whatever spot the Austrian government may think
proper to send them.