The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
PROGRAMME or TOE PROCEEDINGS

PARIS, Novi', B T.Y.
I am enabled to send you the full programme of the
proceedings on the occasion of the opening of the
National Assembly on Thursday-, which has not yet
been published here, but which will appear in the
3loniteur of to-morrow. It is as follows :
REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE.
MEEK'S!, EGALITE, FRATERNITE.
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• In the name of the French people, the Provisional
Government decrees ;
1. On the 4th of May, at neon, the representatives
of the people will assemble in the hall of their as-
sembly, at the Palace of the National Assembly.
2. At one o'clock precisely the members of the
Provisional Government and the Ministers will enter
the hall.
3. The President of the Provisional Government
will deliver an address to the representatives. He
will then call to the provisional bureau, as president,
the senior member of the Assembly, and as secre-
taries the six junior members.
4. Tee Assembly thus constituted provisionally,
will be requested by the Preseicnt to retire to their
bureaux 14 the verification of powers.
5. The Assembly will be resolved into 18 bureau;
each to be composed of 50 members, taken on the
general list, in alphabetical order, from the depart-
ments which have elected them.
G. Each bureau will have the verification of the
powers of 50 members; so that the 18 bureaux will
vet ify 900 elections.
7. The pi-aces rerbaux of elections submitted to
each bureau will be classed according to departments,
and in alphabetical order, so that no bureau will have
to decide on any of the elections in which its own
members will be named.
8. lf, by reason of double or multiple elections,
some representatives are found in a bureau which has
to decide on their own elections, they will on that
election be deprived of the privilege of vote.
9. If this distribution of pesters verbaux by depart-
ments reduces to less than fifty, or more than that
number, the elections to be verified, the bureaux will
verify such prates rerbaux as may be referred to them.
10. Each proves verbal will be examined by a com-
mittee of three, chosen by lot.
11. At three o'clock the session will he resumed ;
the uncontested elections will be reported ; and the eke-
tions which may give place to discussion will be only
reported after the definitive constitution of the as-
sembly.
12. The assembly will pronounce the validity of
the elections, and the president will proclaim the re-
' preventatives whose powers have appeared valid.
13. When the representatives thus proclaimed shall
amount to GOO at least, the assembly will proceed to
the election of a president.
14. For this purpose the president will draw, by
lot, nine sections of ecrutatore, each roneisting of
three members. Each representative will write his
vote on paper. One of the secretaries will call the
names of the member& Each representative celled
will receive from one of the members of the bureau
a " bout') do controls," and will deposit his bulletin
in the urn upon the tribune, and the " boulc de con-
troule " in an urn placed on the secretary's deck.
13. The secretaries having aseertained the reveller
of votes given, and checked them by the "
they will then divide the votes in nir.c baskets, each
section of scrutatere taking charge of one basket,
which they will examine, and transmit the result to
the first section, who will make the final examination.
16. These operations will be public, and the
I president will proclaim the result.
11 17. If no representative obtains 461 votes, the
operation will be repeated.
18. The member who obtains most votes will be
Proclaimed presidents
P.:. The preside nt will then elect, by scrutiny of list,
nit vice-presidents, six secretaries, and three questore.
20. In case of equality of votes, the senior to be
preferred.
21. The president, vice-presidents, and secretaries
to be named for six mouths ; quebtora for the ses-
sion ; and other nominations for the whole duration of
the assembly.
22. The provisional president to proclaim succes-
sively the names of those elected, and to call the defi-
nitive president to the chair. The latter to call the
other officers.
23. The presilent will rise and say,
" Representatives of the People,—ln the name of
the republic, ens and indivisible, the National Assem-
bly is definitively constituted.—Vive la Republique!"
24. The President of the Provisional Government
will deliver an address on the situation of the country
on the ?4th of Fe bemire -n4 en the 4th of May. In
the twee , i;, Ile will tee- re-ien inte

the hands of the assembly the powers which had
teen conferred on them by the acclamations of the
people.
25. Each minister will then deliver a report of his
acts up to the 4th of May.
The Minister of the Interior has published the fol-
lowing bulletin, dated the 29th :
"When the tongue of the republic stings you," said J.
P. Richter, " console yourself by this reflection, that wasp.
do not choose the worst fruits.' The experience of life
proves each dry how true is this idea, expressed
in so original a manner by one of the greatest
German writers. Yes, it is the best fruit that insects seek
without ceasing, and with avidity ; yea, it is the
citizens that have beat served the holy cause of liberty and
democracy, which ere exposed to the most cruel, the meat
bitter attacks, end often by those who, in the days of the
struggle, crisis, or denim, they have taken under the pro
tectou of their po:mlarity in proclaiming in advance the
principles of union, concord, and fraternity. In the midst of
the most severe shocks, of thy greatest political tempest of
modern times, not a drop of blood has flowed after the change
of fortune, as rapid as decisive, brought about by a struggle of
a few hours. Au immense population, still intoxicated with
the smell of powder and the extasies of triumph, quitted
its barricades, put down its arms, and resumed its work at
the first request of men who still enjoy it. conflence. The
greatest toleration has existed for all. The eleLtion., this proof
so complicated, this first application of universal suffrage,
looked forward to with so mw:h anxiety, have
parsed over without the least inconvenience, and
the National Asseml ly is about to receive from
the Provisional aivernwent the destinies of Francs.
Let them calumniate, then. The people, so intelligent and
sympathetic, know and will know, how to discover their
real friends ; they will underAtand to what dearth co reason-
ing the reactionary party is driven to be utilised to have re.
coutse to assertions as absurd as they arc cowardly and
mendacious, with a view of rendering odious or 11119.
petted those men who are devoted, body and soul.
to the common good, and those who have consecrated
to the public welfare their days and nights, and
who have Frown ten years older by two months of 1110:l-
-eant occupation, and the immense responsibility undertaken
by them, and on whom they would cost the reproach of
having followed, in their conduct and their habits, public or
private, the follies and ussges of a corrupt alit dispicabie
court. The people will smile with contempt and pity, for
they know dm real value of the fruit wad the wasps who
attack it.
P.S. It is confidently stated that the Bank of Franco
has engaged to make a new loan to the treasury, of
from twelve to fifteen millions of francs, rendered
necessary for the expenses of the army of the Alps.
which the news from Italy shows may at any mo-
ment have to enter upon a campaign.
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Mae I.—New Iran, —; Three per Cents., 414; no.
nye per (5-nta., 704; Emir-and-11a% —; Fours Belgian
Fire., 1310, 714 ; Do. 1612, —; Do. Threes, —; ho. Two-and-a.
Hall; ; N Rental, GO ; Roman Loan, 581; Tremor,
Bonds, 31; Bank Shares, 1460; hoc :wire on London, nu Don.,
motions.
KtlLWATol.—Paris and Orleans, 330; Paris and Rouen, 403;
Bolton end Ilan., 200 ; Arionnn and Nls r e dire, 200 ; Stroa.
boor( en•: li3le, 417 50 it'cntrn Vierzon, 330; Amiens and Boulogne,
—; Bordeaux, 393 ; North. 343 43.

Il Contemporaneo, of Rome, of the 22nd, says:
News from Ferrara is expected with impatience, in order
to have details of the attack on the fortress and the move-
ment of our troops. It is said that, as troops arrive, they are
marched on Ferrara or Bologna. It is thought the 20th of
April is the day fired for the attack. It appears that the
object of the Austrians, if they could have succeeded in
making terms of capitulation authorising them to take away
their arms and baggage, was to march for Verona, to
strengthen the position of the Austrian troops.
The Patric, of Florence, of the 24th April, says:
What ! the Venetian government demand assistance of
France, forgetting that the regeneration of Italy is summed
up in the declaration that Italy will, by herself, accomplish
We must not hold this language it it be belied by our
acts. The war of independence is not yet terminated, and
we doubt not of victory, but it must be a victory dun to
Italian arms slow.
The Paeria of Florence, of the 24th, says :
A letter from Vicenza announces that Austria had pro-
posed
to Charles Albert to cede Lombardy, .01 condition •hat
tits Piedmontese troops should not pas, the Mineio, 'o which
Charles Albert replied that he did not undertake the war to
conquer some provinces, but to free the Italian soil from the
presence of a foreign power.
Toe same journal says, under date of Bologna,
the 22nd :
General I)urando has passed the Po with 6,000 troops of
the line. Another body of 6,000, under tieneral Ferrari,
will enter next week the Venetian territory, and take up a
position between Padua and Vicenza. The whole force of
Durando is 17,000.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
By an arrival at Hull, we have news from Ham-
burg to midnight of the 29th ult. The Danish troops
had retired upon Gravensteen, and several ships of
war had been driven down Flensburg Bay by the
Prussian fire. The Hanoverian. were to commence
hostilities against Alsen on the 28th. 'the Great
Belt is effectually blockaded by the Danes. It is
feared the Schleswig-Holstein Cunal is closed to
British shipping.

IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND,

GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATIONS.
DISTURBANCES AT LIMERICK.
DUBLIN, MAY 1.
The Privy Council is sitting, and it is expected that
it will be determined to proclaim the county Lime-
rick. Serious disturbances took place at Lime-
rick on Saturday night. The populace (Old Ire-
lenders) attacked the Sarsfield Club, where the
Young Ireland soiree was held. The members of
the club fired, and one man fell. The
military and police were called out. Mr.
Smith O'Brien was seriously injured, and has resigned
his seat for Limerick. The Lord-Lieutenant has
issued a proclamation, prohibiting the meeting of
the CJuncil of Three Hundred and the formation
of a national gnard. Mr. Mitchell has pleaded in
abatement to the ex-officio information,on the grounds
that the proceedings under the hills of indictment
otiginally found against him had not been set
aside nor vitiated by nolle prosequi subsequently
entered.

SHIPS SEIZED BY THE DANES.
We learn from our adrices received this morning,
that the following vessels, in addition to those we have al-
ready given, Lave been seised and laid under embargo at
Copenhagen :—The brig Bertha, Gran, of and from Memel,
for Cork; ship Selma, Doske, of Memel, from D intric, for
London ; and brig Sophia, Brandt, of and for Memel, from
Hartlepool.
Letters from Stockholm mention that—" Six ships of the
line are being fitted out at Landscrona. Thirty Prussian
vessel/ had been brought in from the Baltic, and sixteen
were expected from Elsineur. Among those were vessels
from Bordeaux and the W. st Indies, with valuable cargoes
on board, awl carry day the number increases. The bringing
in of these vessels, and the blockade of the Prussian ports,
will soon clear the seas of Prussisn vessels. The preparations
for continuing the war are carried on with the greatest
energy, and the Prussian vessels taken will be of great ser-
vice for the transport of troops and materials of war to the
scene of operations."
From Hamburg the following intelligence hex also
reacted us:
" :APRIL 2.6.—The Anna, Holm, of Fanoe,
from Antwerp, for Hamburg, put into Fanoe, previously
to the 22. id inst., and was detained by the authorities, her
parrs showiae, that had arms on hoard.
" 27111 —C..ptsin Muntendam, of the Dutch vessel Jr...
cobs, trona Ho•nburg, for Hobroa, arrived here, reports
that, as he was leasing the SchleswitHolstein Canal yes-
terday, a gun was fired by a Danish ship of war lying off,
and he was compelled to put back. To his remark that Lo
carried a neutral SIT, and was bound to llobron, it was
replied, that no vesiel, to whatever nation it might belong,
would he allowed to pan.
" Danish ships lying in the harbour at Altoca
have been laid under arrest."—tihipping Gazette.

DEATII 01' .3.1 R. GREVILLE, 2ND LIFE GUARDS.— I
It is our melancholy dutr to announce the death of
tha Z'.a Lthl Gantlet
which event took place at lour o'clock yesterday ninrning,
at the Cavalry Barrack., Knightsbridge. The particulars
connected with the unfortunate gentleman's death are as
follows: On the 6th ult., whilst riding along Piccadilly on
horseback, the animal suddenly stumb'ed and fell over on
his left aide with the unf...rtunate geetleman on him, having
been unabl, to extricate his fast from the stirrups. Saver a
persons went to his assistance, and on being
tricattd from his perilous position it was found
that his left lag was fractured midway between the knee
and aucle joint, and the broken Lone protruded through the
fifth. Ho was instantly conveyed to St. George's Hospital, i
when the necessary means were taken to set the limb, which
was done by Mr. Cutler, the surgeon of the institution. As
there was ne apparent danger, he was afters; aide, at his own
rint:ises, t,,,;.,eermeovneodt:it
notwithstanding
nduianrgteiries
wasatthaettelndirdh .isabylbgee;bnar-
eminent members of the faculty, he gradually sunk and
died, as above stated, from the effects of the injury. Infor-
mation of the death has been lot warded to Mr. St. Uteri
Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, who has nod his
warrant forlicldiniCan inquest.on !Lt. quest:Ay
. eremitic

SHIPPING.

MAILS ARRITIID.—DubIin. 3; Waterford, 2; Donagha-
dee, 1; French, 1; Flanders, 1.
Loaning, May 2.—Wind this day at noon, E , light
breeze, and fine clear weather.
YARMOUTH (ISLE OF WIOHT), April 30.—The schooner
Ebenexer, from London, got on the ching:es, on the 28th
instant, hut has since been enlisted off.
Jaust:r, April 'B.—The Judy, of and fur this port, from
Plymouth. struck on the Manguirr Racks, near this place,
on the 23rd instant, and was afterwards abandoned ; crew
saved.
BRISTOL, April 30.—Pert of a vessel's boat, marked
" Orb, of Newcastle, John Boon," was picked up near
Lundy, on the 25th instant.
DEAL, Mai l.—Attired from the river and sailed: Creole,
Dominica; Duke of Norfolk, Jamaica; John Anderson,
Bermuda; William Ilerchnen,Rinowski.