The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-07 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

PARIS, THURSDAY, 5 P.M.
It is difficult to predict anything that occurs here.
The popular movements defy all the rules of proba-
bilities. The present week has been looked forward
to with apprehension and anxiety, as an epoch of
violent popular manifestion and noisy attroupernents,
to be occasioned, as was expected, by the elections of
the superior officers of the National Guard. The
coarse of events, however, has taken precisely the
opposite turn.
fhe attroupements, noise, bellowing of national
songs, beating of drums, forcing the unfortunate
clergy and their assistants to parade the streets,
giving benediction to poplar trees, and forcing
the inhabitants at night to illuminate their
windows, because some dozen of gamins broke
up the pavement of their neighbourhood, and planted
(these trees; all this continued until Sunday night
last, to the infinite annoyance of all peaceably-dis-
posed persons. Since then, however, little or
nothing of this kind has afforded ground of reasonable
complaint, apparently in consequence of a firm
proclamation issued by M. Armand Marrast,
the Mayor of Paris, in which the determi-
nation of the government to put a stop to these
proceedings was distinctly announced. Since then all
has been comparatively quiet. The operatives seem 'I
to have returned to their workshops. There have
been neither attroupements nor processions, nor trees
of liberty. Industry would seem to have returned to
its regular channels, and we have enjoyed four days
of almost uninterrupted tranquillity and order.
But:all this, contrary to all expectation, has failed
to produce the slightest favourable influence at the
Bourse. Confidence is further than ever from being
established. Securities of every kind have fallen
more rapidly than ever. On Saturday the Threes li
closed at 391. Yesterday they closed at 321, being a
fall of 7 francs nearly on 391, which is equiva-
lent to 171 per cent., after four days of tranquillity'
and order. To-day, however, an improvement
took place, and the closing prices of the Threes
were 36, and those of the Fives, 52t. The cause of
this is:considered to be the favourable turn which the
election of the superior officers of the national guard
(has taken. The bank shares are still kept under
1,100, by the feare, as it is understood, of a forced
loan.
This afternoon the students of the College Bourbon
(now called the Lyeee Corneille) revolted against
their superiors, and marched to the Hotel tie Ville to
protest against a decision of the proviseur of the col-
lege, who declined to grant to the son of M. Guizot a
prize he had recently gained, in consequence of his
relationship to the ex-minister.
This proceeding was hailed with acclammation by
the populace, as the procession passed.
nars, Aran. 6.—New Loan, —,• Three per Cents., 36; Do.
Pies per Cents., 52f ; Four-and-nalf, ; Pours. 48 Belgian
Ptres, 1840, —. Or. 1842, ; Do. 'Duryea, —; Do. Two-and-a,
Half, N •plcs Itentm, —. Roman Loan, 30; Tresaury
Banda,49 30; Bank Starm, 1070 ; knehanlye on London, no trans-
oedema.
Paris and Orleans, 423; Paris and Rouen, 290 ;
Bourn Ind Ilan., 160; Avignon and Marseilles, 197 50 ; Stras-
bourg and `tile, 70; Centre %lemon. 200; Amens and Boulogne,
; Bordeaux, 382 30 : Ne.tb, 310.
It

ITALY AND SWITZERLAND.—No Italian mails ar-
rived in Paris to-day. Colonel Luvini, the envoy of
the Swiss Confederation to the Provisional Govern-
ment at Milan, left Berne on the 2nd.
The bankers of Berne have given notice to their
clients that, in the present condition of Europe. they
cannot give cash for bills, &c., payable in foreign
countries, until they may themselves be embed to
realize such receipts at Berne.
SAvoY.—The intelligence which I sent this morning
of the proclamation of a requblic at Chambery, on the
authority of a letter received at Lyons, is again con-
troverted, as appears by the Lyons journals of
the 4th.

GOVERNMENT MEASURES FOR THE
SAFETY OF PARLIAMENT.
This morning one of the metropolitan magistrates
attended at the New Houses of Parliament, and swore in u
special constables the whole of the workmen employed under
Mr. Barry, to the number of between seven and eight
hundred persons. The officers of both houses were also sworn
in to act as special constables on Monday next, it they should
be called on to do so. It is determined to erect a barricade
in New Palace-yard, to protect the entrance to the house
by Westminster Hall and the Committee Rooms. A strong
police force will be also in attendance, to prevent the approach
of any procession which is likely to impede the approach of
peers and members to the Lords and Commons.

DEATH OF LORD RIFERSDLLE.—This nobleman, i
an Irish peer, and a resident of the county Cork, laas paid
the debt of nature. His lordship was brother of the Bishop •
of Killsloe.
RESIGNATION OF MR. ALDERMAN H ETCHES
01:01188.—This gentleman has sent his resignation of the
office of Alderman for Bread-street Ward (to which he was
elected in 1843) to the Lord Mayor, which resignation his
lordship will officially announce at the nest meeting of the
court of aldermen. Mr. Lawrence, builder, is the only candi-
date at present announced for the vacant gown.
INDIAN MAIL.—The steamer Sultan, with the
second portion of the last Overland India Mail, arrived this
day at Southampton.
FOREIGNERS AND THE Cnannters.—The follow-
ing is from a morning paper of yesterday,:—" We have
heard it rumoured that there are a few foreigners who are
making themselves busy in respect to the chartist demon-
stration about to take place under Mr. Feargus O'Connor.
We Englishmen leave foreign nations to settle their affairs
without interference of any kind on our part, and we feel
assured, if it should turn out that there is any truth in the
above-mentioned rumour, that the police and special con-
stables will know how to deal with such gentlemen in eases
where they may be found meddling with unlawful proceed-
ings in our concerns."
Agemr, Kinert 30.—A letter from
mis port announise there, on the the
English steamer Tartarus, Capt. Webster, from Constatt.-
no*, haring en board Lord Cowley, late ambaasadot of
England at the Porte.