The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-03 00:00:00

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LATEST FROM PARIS

DECREES AFFECTING THE COLONIES.
RIOTS AT MARSEILLES.
Since the receipt of the summary of foreign intel-
ligence, which will be found in another page, we have
received the following from our Paris correspondent :
PARIS, TUESDAY, 6 P.M.
On this, the eve of the abdication of its exceptional
and even questionable powers, the government loses
none of its wanted activity, an activity which seems
to approach to a condition of morbid and nervous
restlessness. Today they have been occupied with
the business of the colonies, as though they were to
continue in office these twelve trion'.he to come. Mere
is a resume of a brood of decrees which have been
adopted within the last two or three hours. I give
the principal heads, without the details:
In the colonies in which slavery is abolished, the aged and
infirm shall be kept on the habitations the workshops of
which will core ent to give a quantity of work equivalent
to their maintenance. The aged and infirm that may he
abandoned, shall be en.rusted to such honest families as will
take charge of them, with equitable remuneration, until
proper asylums can be provided for them. Ah.indoned
orphans shall be placed an farms, or other establishments,
where they may receive education, sail learn a trade. In-
fant asylums shall be opened in various villages.
There shall be established in every commune of each
colony elementary free schools for boys and girls. None can
dispense with sending to these schools children above the age
of six and under ten, unless he has them instructed under the
paternal roof Parents or guardians who shall, ether three
notices, neglect to send their children to these .chools shall
be liable to an imprisonment of from one to fifteen days.
The establishment of these public free schools does not
exclude private schools.
A normal school of arts and trades shall be established in
each colony. A lyceum or college shall be founded at Gua-
deloupe, and communal colleges may be founded elsewhere.
Vagrancy forbidden and punished in all the French
colonies.
There shall be a new assessment of all personal taxes after
the emancipation in the colonies.
The tax-payer may be authorised, but not compelled, to
pay this tax by three days' labour.
The number of representatives of the people in the Na-
Ronal AseathlY.-0011. be 3 far Martinique, 3 for °nada-
'Gime, 1 for Guyana, 3 fur the Ile de la Reunion, lln
Senegal and its dependencies, and 1 for the French e•-
tithlishments of India.
The colonies may appoint deputy representatives to the
number of 2 for Martinique, 2 for Guadeloupe, I for Guyana,
2 for Ile de la Reunion, I for Senegal, 1 for India. Thew
will take their seats only in the absence of the members
themselves, end will receive, in this case alone, the indemnity
granted to the latter by the decree of sth March.
The elections in the colonies shall take place in as short a
time as possible after the general emancipation by which
slaves become French citizens.
Savings banks, in imitation of those of France, shall he
established in the colonies, under the guarantee of the re-
public, and under the sup, rintendenco of the administration.
The colonial councils of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and of
French Guiana, and of the Ile de la Reunion, the general
councils of Senegal, and of tee French establishments of '
India, are suppressed. The functions of delegates are
equally suppressed from this day.
tinder the appellation of national workshops there shall
be established in the colonies workshops, to he organized by
the minister of the navy and of the colonies. Every
individual having no work shall be employed by hie accep-
tation of the conditions determined by the minister's decree.
A jury shall be established in all
.the colonies in which
slavery is abolished.
The attempt which I mentioned my letter of this
morning to overthrow the constituted authorities at
Marseilles, and to establish a system of terror, was
defeated by the firmness of the government commis-
sary and the zeal of the national guard and the re-
gular troops.
On receiving information of what was intended,
twelve companies of the national guard were called
out and distributed over different parts of the city.
In the course of the evening bands of armed men,
calling themselves Enfans de la 3fon,:ayne, as-
sembled to the number of several hundreds, and came
to an agreement to commence an attack at one in the
morning. The national guard, on learning this, begun
to make arrests of men who were met armed with
loaded muskets ; and, a force of 500 troops of the line
having joined the national guard, all the projects re-
solved upon, amongst which was One to burn the port,
were defeated. In one place the civic force and the
troops arrested 20 men, who were in charge of SO
loaded muskets, intended for the insurrection, and a
large quantity of ',words, pistols, and powder, for the
seine purpose. The persons arrested were all com-
mitted to prison, and in the morning the government
commissary issued a proclamation, exhorting all
honest men to abandon the perturbatora, who were
leading them into a senseless and criminal course, and
declaring that he was resolved to maintain order.
In consequence of the financial crisis in Austria, I
learn that NIM. Rothschild, not having received the
neeesesary funds, have declined to pay the Austrian
dividends due on lit May. This news, which was
spread on the liourse today, created a considerable
sensation.
The Chargi- d'Affaires of Portugal has announced
to-day to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that his
court has authorised him to establish with the French
republic official relations on the most amicable
footing.
I learn that M. Dupin is to be dismissed from
his office of Procureur-Gcneral of the Court of Caaaa-
lion, and will be replaced by M. Martin, of Strasburg.
M. Albert, member of the Provisional Govern-
ment, has resigned his functions of president of the
Commission of National Rewards. Ile alleges, as the
motive of his resignation, the grave and important
labours of the National Assembly. The Govern-
ment has decided, on the proposition of M. Albert,
that the care of the distribution of these rewards shall
devolve on the Mayor of Paris.
It is not the Archbishop of Paris, but his brother,
who is elected a member of the National Assembly.
The aazettc de France publishes a list of the mul-
tiple ejections known at present, which we give
below:
Lamartine.-10 elections: Paris, Dijon, Rouen, Macon,
11wdeaux, Quimper, Itennes, l'erigueux, Lille, Marseilles.
Armand fdarrast.-4 elections: Pans, Pau, le Mans, Tou-

louse.
Cormenin.-4 elections : Paris, Laval, Auxerre, Marseille.
Jules Bastide.-3 elections: Paris, Melon, Mason.
Bethment-3 elections : Paris, Cliteauroul, La Rochelle.
Cremieux.-2 elections : Paris, Tours.
Marie.-2 elections : Paris, Auxerre.
Ledru Rollin.-2 elections: Paris, Macon.
Arago.-2 elections : Paris, Perpignan,
Dupont (de l'Eure).-2 elections Pans, Ewen:.
Gamier Pages.-2 elections : Paris, Evreux.
Pagnerre.-2 elections : Paris, Versailles.
Ayliee.-2 elections: Alencen, Auch.
Agricol Perdipuier.-2 ejections : Paris, Avignon.
Degousee.-2 elections: Paris, le Mans.
It will be seen that amongst the members of the
Provisional Government, M.M. Louis Blanc, Albert,
and Flocon, and amongst the ministers, M. Carnot,
have only been elected tor one place.
The club of M. Blaequi has put publicly in circula-
tion a petition to the Provisional Government, in
which, after some violent denouncements of the pro-
ceedings at Rouen, the following demands are urged:
1. The dissolution and disarmament of the national

guard of Rouen.
2. The arrest and trial of the general and oh -
of the national guard and troops of the line who
ordered and executed the massacres.
3. The arrest and trial of the soi-disant members of
the " Cour d'Appel " named by Louis Philippe, who,
acting in the name and on account of the royalist
victorious faction, have imprisoned the legitimate
magistrates of the city, and filled the gaols with re-
publicans.
4. The immediate withdrawal from Paris of the
troops of the line, who at this moment the re-action-
aries prepare, in fratricide banquets, for another St.
Bartholomew of the Parisian workmen.
Another number of theletin of the Republic
has been issued this afternoon from the Ministry of
the Interior, and is now being posted through Paris.
In this it is sought to attenuate the importance of the
disturbances which have broken out in Rouen and
other cities. It is pretended that these facts are only
the natural consequences of the political shock given
by the revolution.
It then enjoins confidence in the institutions, as-
serting that the revolution will not retrograde, will
not not stop before it has accomplished all it pro-1
missed—before it has ameliorated the lot of the masses
for whom it was made.
"Every societylit says) which, in presence of the,
great principles which France has proclaimed and
sealed with its blood, that shall still endeavour to con-
centrate
in a little circle of privileged persons all
well-being and enjoyment is become impossible.
All governments in France since 1789 have pro-
mised to secure a future to the operatives and to in-
crease the general comfort by diminishing public
charges.
None could or would keep the promise.
Let us hope its fulfilment is reserved for the re-

public. - ,
of ourselves or
No more distrust, no more doubt
our cause. All the democratic consequences of the
revolution of February are henceforward ours,—mad-
ness alone can deprive us of them. I
Let us repose on the national assembly the care
of carrying out the popular wish, which, knowing the