The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-15 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

APPREHENDED DISTURBANCES.
PARis,Novi, 6 P.M.
We are in a calm which developes all the prognos-
tics of a storm. On every hand, to-day, are seen
anxious visages ; rumours of military preparations on
a formidable scale around the chamber arc in every
mouth. Not less than 22 battalions of the Garde
Mobile are at this moment under arms. The

demonstration expected to take place to-morrow,
of which the l'ol.sh question is the pretext, is
assigned as the cause for this ; however it be, it is
certain that the government (if that name can be ap-
plied to the grotesque piece of' political mechanism
by which the affairs of the country arc now ad-
ministered can be so called) is seriously alarmed,
and no precaution will he neglected to assure the
safety of the Chamber to-morrow.
The situation, precarious as it is, has been rendered
still more anxious by the announcement and sudden
postponement of the silly spectacle of the fete of the
Champ de Mars.
I have stated already, that delegates from all the
departments had arrived in l'aris, by invitation of the
government, to take part in the performance; these
delegates, not well pleased to be detained another
week from their homes, assembled this evening, in
the gardens of the Valais Royal, to send a deputa-
tion to the Minister of the Interior, to demand
that the fete should take place definitively on Tuesday
next. M. Recurt required until three o'clock
to consider, and appointed the Place Vendome to de-
liver his answer. At three, accordingly, the delegates
assembled, with banners, in the Place Vendome.
Hag waited more than an hour without receiving
satiWaction, or hearing anything of the minister, a ge-
neral expression of discontent broke out, and the
ministers were loudly demanded.
M. Cremieux, the Minister of Justice, whose hotel
is in the place, was called for by name, and an in-
tention was even manifested of forcing his gate.
M. Cremieux, however, sent word that ho was indis-
posed. A message at length came from the Minister
of the Interior announcing that he could come to no
decision without an order from the Executive Com-
mission, which was then in deliberation.
The delegates then proceeded tumultuously to the
Palace of Elysis Bourbon, where they supposed the
Executive Commission was sitting, for the purpose of
addressing the government directly.
At six o'clock the deputations of the departments
were still in the court of the Elys‘e Bourbon,without
having received any positive answer. It would seem,
however, from some few words addressed by the
Minister of the Interior to some of the delegates in
the court of the Minister of Justice, he had promised
that at all events a review of the national guard
should take place on Tuesday.
In the court of the Minister of Justice there occurred,
at four o'clock, a scene which at first caused much
emotion amongst the spectators. M. Flocon, Minister
of Commerce, who was with M. Itecurt, wiJiing to
explain the cause of the motives of the adjournment
of the fete to the delegates who had entered the court,
one of them cried out. " Well, we won't !" "If
you won't, you shall, all the same !' replied M.
Flocon, jumping down from a chair on which he had
been standing, and approaching the person who had
interrupted him, who raised his hand to strike
M. Flocon. Happily he d'd not do so.
There is also much discontent amongst the dele-
gates, who have been annoyed by a proposition, heed•
lessly made by one of the ministers, to give the dele-
gates, gratuitously, tickets of admission to the theatres
during their stay in Paris.
I learn that it is not true, as stated by some of the
journals, that the army of the Alps has entered Savoy.
The Executive Commission has, it is said, decided
to raise 200 battalions of the guard mobile.
The helkats of this morning says that M. Emanuel
Arago is sent to Berlin on a special mission, as
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.

ROME.—La Palladia of Rome, of sth N lay, con-
tains an address from the Senate to the Pope. This
document, after having noticed the attempt of the
military occupation of Ferrara, as an endeavour
to stifle all reform, and the principal phases of the
Italian movement, renders justice to the sentiments
which dictated the popes allocution in the consistory
of April 29, and, after declaring that the pope must
not forget that he is a sovereign as well as pontiff,
thus proceeds:
The people do not require you, the messenger of peace, to
provoke wars ; they desire that you should not preventtbose
to whom you have enteusted the care of temporal affairs from
undertaking and carrying them out. Thy do Lot demand
the sacrifice of the sentiments of your soul, or
that you should not feel the horror that the
minister of God should do for a war amongst Christians, but
only that you apply yourself to tranquillise Italy, and that
you divest yourself of the idea that your duty compels you to
declare as unjust a war that Italians unanimously undertake
for the independence of their common country. Proclaim,
Holy Father, the right of Italy to recover her independence
and her nationality. This alone would suffice to restore confi-
dence
to your people, and to prevent our enemy from declaring
that you have stamped with your authority the injustice of our
cause. After this we shall always be grateful to yeti if, ie the
benevolence of your heart, and without in the meantime
suspending the military operations, you can succeed, by the
influence of your f acific counsels, in settling the question
on the base of a complete evacuation by the Austrian troops
and the consecration of the independence and nationality of
Italy. The people, if you consent to preside over an
Italian diet to settle our internal affairs, will bkss the grand
pontiff who shall have saved his country.
This passage of the address of the senate gives an
idea of the situation of minds at Rome, and the un-
certainty under which the pontiff is hesitating. Every-
thing shows that this delicate question cannot remain
long unresolved; we wish it may be so, and in such
manner as will preserve at the same time our political
interests and those of Christianity, which are now, by
the force of circumstances, in complete opposition, by
the double character of the pontiff.

SWITZERLANI).—The diet re-assembled on the
11th, M. Ochbensein, in his speech, explained that
the reason of convoking the diet was the fear that the
Austrians would force a passage through Swit-
zerland. The diet anointed a committee of defence
to take all necessary measures on this subject.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Tnis DAY.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

_
OLD COt AT.
The seventh session for this year was opened this morning
at ten o'clock ; the Recorder, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen
Musgrave and Hunter, and the City Sheriffs, on the Bench,
Sev-ral gentlemen who were rumnsoned on the grci.tl pane'.
were excused upon the ground of being ever sixty years of
age. The jury having been sworn,
The Recorder proceeded to deliver bin charge as usual.
He said that there were not fewer than 201 prisoners on the
calendar for trial; but the fact of so large a number being
in custody was perhaps owing to the length of time that
had elapsed since the last session, and also to the fact of
the large male of human beings over whom this court
held jurisdiction. The eases with which those parties
stood charged were, murder, female violation, robbing,
cutting and wounding, and forty-two stood charged with
I larceny from the person. There were also one or two cases
in which it was probable the offences charged would assume
the character of insanity; but in those, and in all other cases
in which the grand jury should find any difficulty, the court
would be ready to render all the assistance in its power.—
The learned gentleman then proceeded to define the law
as it affected the various other classes of caws, and having
done no, the grand jury retired to dispose of such bills as
should be laid before them.

DINNER AT THE MAYSION-HOUSE.-011 Saturday
the Lord Mayor gave a dinner to the judges, queen's counsel,
and serjeants.
APPREHENSION OP THE SWANSEA MURDERERS.—
SWANSEA. Saturday.—The men charged with the late
murder near Swansea bare been arrested. The prisoner
Thomas Martin was apprehended in a wood. Patrick Leary,
Michael Leary, William Norris, and John Norris, were all
apprehended in the neighbourhood of Cambridge. Patrick
Leary, on being identified by a man the police took along
with them, said, " I suppose you want me; I am willing to
go. I am willing to suffer for what I have done." The
, prisoners, upon being searched at the police station, were
I found to have marks of blood upon that, clothing.