The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

NIIVOIIT (lOLE Of Witter), May 8.-We Dad • dull
trade to-day fur Wheat; prices are fully le. per qe. lower
than lest week. Bewley in short su ply, and ramie ls. per
gr. more money Other grain no
eet,.
Noewicit, May 13.-Out market today wee well supplied
with Wheat by the growers an es the Barley awing ts
finished in many districts, is wry gestsesl. end
we art anticipating very 1 es ; prime moseried 2a.
per qa Flour was in slow , at fkl. pee saok loda-
tion. Barley was in fair demead at late prima. Bala
Peas, and 0 its, remain the um*. The prices eaten% are:
Wheat, white, per qe , 60s. to 65e.; red, 46a. to 48'.
Barley, twitting, 30a. to 32x.; grinding, Wi. to 30s. Beans,
22.. to Ws.
345. to 30s. Peas, :b. to 38s. Oats,Flour,
325. 4d. to 335. per seek of 2801 a, Ira on board at Yar-
mouth, purehae re finding sacks and claiming one month'a
discount; retail, Is. 10d. per stone.
NurttsoltAll, May 6.-Tlie condition of Wheat and other
rein is much improved of late. Our supply at mark, t m-
ail his been less than last week ; and
whybuers of which insist
upon a decline of 2s. per quarter, ls but partially
submitted to by holders. Barley is also skirt, but this grain
fetched fully as much money. Oats and Beans are more
in depend, at la • rates.
Prigannoitouog, May 6.-We haver a good supply of
What to-day, sod its CODditiOnis much improved ; but there
B • very short supply of spring grain offering. Wheat is 2s.
to 3s: lower than last week, Barley Is. dearer. Oats fully
mairitsin their price. Beau., Is. to 2e. dearer. C errancy to OM
growers : Wheat, now, 40s. to 42e. ; fine, ifis. to 505.;
old, 48.. to new
; fine, 525. Barley, to to 30e. ; fine,
3.41. Oat'. new, 17s. to 18s. ; fine, Ws. to 22... ••old, 21te.
to 305.. Beans, old, 454. to 505.; new, 365. to '33s.
Prrwoitru, May 6.-An extremely dull trade for Wheat
new
,
at about former rates. The supply of malting Barley is
nearly over. The demand for seed has rendered grindlag 1
and secondary qualities scarce. In other grain little doing.
Br SDISIO, May 6. -We had • good supply of Wheat to.
day, and in good re
ductiono but trade was remaineddull
et 2a. to 3s. p r or. re in price, and much
unsold. Ally escriptions of goring corn were in short supply,
and g, ls. per qr. dearer thin last week.
SAfFRON WALDEN, May 6.-Barley as before. Wheat,
from ls. to 2s. per qr. cheaper. Oats oat the advaace. Beans
and Pests as on last market-day.
SONDFDLAND, May 8 -The weather has become bright
and dry. but the wind hangs in the east, which causes it to
be somewhat cold, and not so genial as is usual at this ad.
vanced period of the year. Field work is in very brisk
°paean, and the 'semen, bring fully employed in finishing
spring cropping, brings
small supplies of grain to market.
We are also without any arrivals coastwhe or foreign, except
equals of Four. The demand for Wheat to-day was fully
eu to the supply, and a clearance was won made at last
week's rates. nil best samples are worth 60a. to 62.4.; good
average pintas, 475. to 49e ; and inferior qualities. 445. to
46e. :flu re is a moderste demand for south country Wheats
at thew rates. Malting Barley is alma neglected, and
pr
nominally 30s. to 31s. Beans at 38s. to 38s. and
eas at 84.. to 36e. are dull sale. Oats are free sale, at
reel
225. Four is steady in supply and price. South
eminery is charged 371. to 335. ; and home-lade, 3,is. to 36e.
per seek; Ameri..an, 233. to 305.; and Indian Meal. 16s. to
17s. per barrel.
WAHNINOTER, May 6..-A small supply of Wheat; the
best qualities declined fully 4s. per qr. ; common, 3s. Top
price, for best white Wheats, was 50s. per qr. • good red.
48s. ; moderate, 445. to 461. ; poor samples, 40.5. Though
thereswas not much Barley in market, former prises were
obtaicied wick difficulty. Oats stationary. Beans, best tick,
46a. per qr.. being 2. la. ; common feed, 40s. to 425. Peas
and Rye without alteration.
Wipengsraa, May 6.-In Wheat a decline of Is. to 21.
per quarter was submitted to. Best, heavy, 5.5 e. to 575. ;
moderate, from 51s. to 53e. per qr. The best malting Bar-
ley, Is. per qr. less money. Oats remained firm, at the
seuce of l ast market ; white, 28s. per qr. ; Scotch.
265. ; gmall &dood sweet, teed, 225. Beans and Peas were fully 2s.
per qr. below late rates.
Whiacen, Mai 6.-We are not overdone with supply of
grain tit any kind to-day. With weather as fine as be
wished for, the Wheat trade rules very dull, at 2a. per qr.
less money. Oats and Beans each in demand at better prices.
Prices, to the growers: Wheat, floe white 611bs. to 621b5.,
46s to 495. per qr ; red, 455. to 47.. ; goiid runs, 60110. to
lillin., white, 40e. to 461. ; red, 435. to 45+.: common,
67115 i. to. 59ffis., white. 41s. to 435. ; red, 40s. to 4'3.
feed, Oats,
fine nesir soling, per stone, 101 d. to Ild. ; good, new,
10d. to 101 d. Beans, new, 35e. to 375. per qr.
Woaceeren, May 8.-Wheat, 16e. 3d. per beg of 9 wore
101bs. ; white Wheat, 18e. 6d. to 191. 6d., being a reduction
of 2s. per quarter front last week's rates ; little doiag
last
in
other descriptions of grain, and prices nominally u
week.
Yona, May 6.-The weather is now fine and warm,
hadd
more favourable for the growing crops. We have a
small show of Wheat at market to-day, which met • slow
sale at a decline of Is. to 2s. per qr. The demand for Malt-
ing Barley being nearly over, prices are; unaltered. Beans
and 04s are in limited supply, and sell in retail at our
quotations: Wheat, white, 50s. to 545. per imp. qr. • red,
475. to_,sos. rley, malting, 32..8eau, 31,, t,„
365. Rye, 34.. to 375. Malt, 60s. to 625. Oats, 104. to
11d... per stone of 1411 m. Hour, 365. to 40e. per sack of

the interregnum interregnum which it had to pate over In order to arrive
with order and without anarchy at Its unanimous and
definitive reign.
Our first thought has been to shorten that interregnum
by immediately co
nvoking. the national repreeent•tion, in
which alone rests right and power. More, citizens, without
any call than that of public+ danger, without any f
ur other
than that of Our devetl.oll, trembling to accept, but ged to
re-establish the depository i f the destinies of the eountm
we have had but onu ambition—that of abdicating the
dictatorship in favour ot the sovereignty of tee people.
The throne oast down, the dynasty flying into voluntse/
exile, we did proclaim dos republic, and it proclaimed I
by the mouth of an entire people. (Luud and reiterated op-
plc se.) We only wrote down the cry of the nation. (Re-
newed applause.)
The Pak/01)14NT: Citizens, despite the justest motives you
may hove for applauding such noble thoughts, it is my duty
to remind the neernasly and the public that all signs of an-
probation or disapprobation are prohibited.
M. LAIIAZILLIS continued:
Our first thought, as well as the first want of the country,
after the prociemmons of th üblic, w
e repas tre.establide.
ment of order in Paris; a work which would have been
more difficult and more meritorious in other times, and in
which we were Mist, dby the dozen.. Whilst still holding
in one hand the gun by which royalty had been overturned,
this maguanimous people supported with the other
the conquered and the wounded of tie opposite party,
protecteu the life and property of the inhabitants, and pre
served the public monumenis. History to registered the
mamma as acts of heroism, probiiy, and disinterestedotse
which darecteneed these first days of the republic. Up to
that time the people had sometimes been flattered by being
told of is virtues: posterity, which fitters not, will find ex-
pressw• ns wanting to depict the dignity of the people of Paris.
It was that people which inspired us with the first
decree destined to give its real signification to its victory, the
dare, for the abolition of death for political offences. It
umpired that decree, adopted it, and signed it by an &edam-
tilli of two hundred thousand voices on the square and
quays of the Hotel de Ville. France end Europe felt that
• tevoletiou inaugurated by greatness of miud would
be pure as an idea, 'magnanimous as a sentiment,
end holy as a virtue. (Great applauw.) The red
flag tor • moment preeented, nut as • symbol of
threat and disorder, but as a temporary flag of victory, was
put aside by the people themselves, in order that the republic
'eight be covered by that tricolor flag which had shaded the
milk, and borne the glory of our armies upon ever, oonti
sat and on every sea. After having established the
authority of government in Paris it was necessary W
have it recognised in the departments, the colonies, In
Algeria, and in the army. Telegraphic despatches and
waters were sufficient for this. France, the oelonies, end
and the army recognised their own thought in the republic.
There was no raistance either of • hand, of a voice, or of a
free heart a France on the installation of the government.
Our second thought was for the foreigner. Europe, undo.
tided, was awaiting the first word from France. This flat
word was the abolition by deed as by right of the reactional
treaties of 1815, liberty returned to our external policy, the
dale:alien of peace to territories, sympathy with notioneel
justice. loyalty, and moderation to governments. Franco,
in this manifesto, disarmed her ambition. but did not disarm
her ideas. Her principles shone forth aid that was all its
war. The repot of the minister of foreign affairs will tell you
what of legitimate for the influences of France this system
of open policy has produced, and is to produce. This policy
commended to the Minister of war measures in harmony
with this system of armed negotiations. It re-established
with energy the discipline which had scarce been shaken,
and it called back into Paris the army for a short time re-
moved from from within its wall in order to allow the people
to arm itself. The people, henceforth invincible, ceased nut
to demand with loud cries their brothers of the army, not as
a surety, but as • decoration of the capital. The army was no
more in Paris but an honorary garrison destined to prove to
our brave soldiers that the capital of the country, belonged to
all its children.
We decreed, moreover, the immediate formation of a
council of defence, and the formation of four armies of ob-
servetion—the army of the Alps, the array of the Rhine,
the army of the not th, the army of the Pyrenees.
Our marine, confided to the hand• of the same minister,
as the second arm of France, was embed under its chiefs, in
• discipline, commanded by the sentiment of its watchfulness.
TM fleet of Toulon goes to show its colours to the triends of
Frame on the shores of the Meuiterranean.
The army of Algiers had neither an hour nor a thought
of hesitation. The republic and the country mingled them-
selves in its eyes in the same sentiments of duty.
A chief whose republican sentiments, and whose talents
were his gages of faith for the army, and the revolution,
General Cavaignac, has received the charge of Commander-
in-Chief in Algeria.
The corruption which had penetrated into institutions the
most holy obliged the Minister of Justice to operations de-
manded by the cry of the public. He proceeded at once to
separate justice from politics. The minister caused with
pain, but with inflexibility, this necessary separation.
In proclaiming the republic, the voice of France hes not
proclaimed simply • new form of government. She has pro-
claimed a principle.
This principle was a practical democracy, equality of
rights, fraternity by institutions. The revolution accom-
plished by the people ought to organise itself in
our judgment for the profit of the people, by
a continued series of insittu.iors, fraternal and
tutelary, proper to confer regularly to all conditions
of individual dignity, instruction, information, reward,
morality, the element" of labour, support, succour, and that
security of property, which will suppress the sante name of
rroletaire, and which will elevate the workman to the height ,
of his rights, his duty, and the benefit of the first-born of
property. To elevate and enrich the one, without abasing
and degrading the others, to preserve proprrty, and to Ten-
, der it more fruitful and more sacred by *multiplying
matthe
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the
ibewtte.crfat'alinntr.dg updaupoindtcier'silbutlhiuccnoeetegouthi triwenh°gtaxu:arethetioen into
state labour, which has accidentally failed by the fact of an
intimidated capital, lentil Gore shall not be a single work-
man its France who shall stand in need of bread—in fine, coal
study with the workmen themselves the practical
phenomena and truths of association, and the theories still
problematical of systems to search out conscientiously their
application', to collect their' truths, to prove their errors—
such was the idea of the Provisional Government in all these
I decrees of which it confided the execution, or the examina-
tion, to the Minister of Finance, to the Minister of Public
Punishment—in fine, the Commiesion of Luxembourg, labo-
eatery of idea, congress, preparatory and statistical ot labour
and of industry, enlightened by delegate", studious
and intelligent, of all laborious professions, and pre-
sided over by two members of the government itself.
The sudden fall of the monarchy, the disorder of the
finances, the temporary idleness of an immense moss of ope-
rative, the rude shocks which these. masses of unoccupied
hands were likely to have given to society—if their reason,
their patience, and their patriotic rieignation had not been
exercised to a miracle and excited the admiration
of the world ; the exigible debt of nearly a
hun-
dred millions which the frustrated government had
accumulated in the first two months in the repub-
lic; the universal commercial and indu-trial embarrassments
on the Continent and in England, coincident with the poli-
tical crisis in Paris ; the enormous accumulation of railway
charm and other values left is the hands of holders and of
bankers, through the monetary alarm; in fine, the imaginary
fears of the country, which invariably go far beyond the
uuth in periods of political agitation and of social disorder,
had drained the working capital, suspended free and volnn
tary labour—labour alone equal to 3t millions of souls. It
was necessary provisionally to compensate this temporary
deficiency, or belie all the principles, all the pru-
dencies, all the succourable neceattits of the reputoow
ic
The Minister of Finance will acquaint you h
these defections of labour and of credit were provided for,
ence an-
ticipating the moment—at length arrived—when confid
being restored, ropiest will return into the hands of =Laura-
turt rs, and wages into those of the labourer ; and when,
your wisdom and your national power will overcome every
difficulty.
The union of the ministry of public instruction and of
worship into the game hand was, for the government and
for the country, • foreshadowing of the novel situation
which the republic would and ought to take in the double
necessitof public teaching and oiginating in face of the
law a freer and more conscientious r
ezeiciae of free and equal

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security and independence by arming and organism* th.--
armed people.
or of a project of constitution, would have been on=
maNyesiCaSeieeStil:lwirouTitelohnlegrelealpre.:2lshonitifolpotesiow'
sovereignty. We dime; pear as soon es you rim- ai,
receive the republic from the hands of the pawl
One desire, and that only in the name sea„.„,
citizenship, not in that of member. of the Provisional --
mcnt. This wish, citizen reprmentatives, is felt sane& by
kutiararanrincegtb:avtbeyiepiriupsn.ctyipia:Listhelietnmh:eyncotrY.odfoofhenuiomretaun:trinacgies.;eirimmikt:
regniun to cause the springs of the country to be weakens&
' Let • commencement of government spring front yeti
' booms ; do not allow power to float for ore asom.a.
' precis: ions and temporary on a country
wants both power and seeurity ; let a committee of coati.
tutions emanating from your suffrages bring
rations and votes the simple, brief, and democratic rime,„
nisei of the constitution, on the organic and secondary ins
of which you will then deliberate. In the meanwhile .. -
place in your hands our power. We place -
acts also with confidence before your judgmea.
and we only beg of you to take into '
the difficulties we have experienced. Om a 0,,,
science reproaches us with nothing intentionally won g,
Providence has favoured our efforts-pawed amnesty on em
involuntary dictature. Our only ambition-all we Ilk isle
ire-enter the ranks of the good citizens. Then ouly Mg
history of our beloved country will inscribe with indulges.
below, and far from the grist things done by Ftmpge
the recital of those torte months pastd in j
vacuum between a fallen monarchy and a repsblie.
to be eat &Wished, and may it be, amongst the obecure and fen
gotten 111011.11 of those men who have devoted ihemaelm ti,
' the public safety inscribed only in its pages ; that ae
the people, and that of God, who has %plumed all is the
I foundation of the republic.
Thin speech of M. Lamartine was received with
great and prolonged applause. On his return to his
neat, M. Lamartine received felicitation and Emit
applause, M. Dupont (de l'Eure) embracing him with
fervour.
The PASO:DEIST then rose and said: I am sorry mate
allow a few moments for the emotion which you lest; hit
we are obliged to enter into the report of what has ham
done. I think, citizens, that in order to bear the more et
the Citizen Provisional Ministers we ought to follow theme.
anion iedicated in the port just read to us by Citizen
Laulartine. Yes, yes." re)
Then the first minister toes
called upon is the Citizen !COWES' of the leterior. I lathe
him to mount the tribune where the assembly will be hem
to hear him.
M. Lznau-Rottis, provisional minister of the intake:
Citizen representatives,-Called to the Provisional Germs
Inept by the voice of tee people, I have to give you an as
count of the administration Cl the department of the iatsa
rior, which has been confided to me. (Signs of cariosity,)
You do not expect loug details from me. Head, b
answer all your interrogations, I shall confine myself m
rapidly placing belore you our acts and the motives wise
inspired them. Brought to power by the triumph of ete
republican principle, for which I have cuiven all my Ids
(lor from my first entrance into public life up te
this day I have never changed), I have resolutde
defended its maintenance. The profound faith with weed
I have devoted myself to it when it was persecuted meld
only be strengthened by its glorious vicory at Paris, saint
unanimous reception throughout France. ConvinAtel
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welfare of the country consist al in the complete
meat of all the consequences of the revolution, I bare
with a jealous care watched its preservation. I have de
aired that throughout the country it should be respected
and understood.
At the same time it was necessary by prompt and chain
measures to prevent any overthrow of order, and to rejon
the threads of the administration so violenty broken.
This twofold thought led to sending into the departments
commissioners entrusted with unlimited powers. (Sothis
of disapprobation.) Unlimited powers ! That neeeiny
word has been abused in order to direct against me the avert
tack to two months since, and then it will In
' understood ; then it will be seen that the morrow d
the revolution, surrounded by the conquerors from*
barricades, I could not, without treason, confide to what
hands than theirs the depository and the defence of liberty.
(Marks of apprubmion.) Full of zeal, devceion, and cid
faith. they were to inspire the country with that idea rebid
they bad made to triumph.
Doubtless some among them were not administrant,
Who will dispute this ? That is not the question. We ant
have soldiers to continue and to propagate a victory, tad
especially to render it lasting and pecific. That errors has. :i
been I
committed, is possible. When this knowledge ha
reached me I have not hesitated to pronouns@ as
words of recall. But can you cite to me mit
this great and rapid movement one single pp
blow to the rights of citizens committed by
firm and courageous men who have been
termed proconsuls. The citizens have answered this quis
Lion by investing the majority of them with their=
and they now Sit among you. For the rest, the
sent by, me, which have been the pretext for eo meamda
carnations, were indispensable. Hal I not writtaliffisita
therupoeynntawthobueyldwr,diaresvd:_aswpwl:hellichg
above-(M.
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mit an authority regular and limited. Placed in the fiat
ea a sudden, I would have been culpable to weakens,
the :momentary exercise of a great power, in fawns*
and correcting abuts, it is necessary to give in silvans*
means to vanquish all obstacles in order that obstacles MI
not present themselves. (Hear, hear.)
My public instructions, the energies of which had always
for their object the destruction for ever of all culpable lupe,
have been every day explained by my correspondence. I
am ready to submit to the assembly all the volumbious Ma.
menus of this labour, and I do not fear that it
will find a single despatch which is not enema&
at once with an ardent desire to make tie revolutiselY
umph, and a constant thought of coneilietioo, o
oublerder, sail
peace. (Applause.) It is to accomplieh this d per
' pose that I have consecrated all my efforts. I would has
failed in &lithe antecedents of my existence-I would laws
lied to all the doctrines which I have constantly profened-
if I ot been at the same time the man of the Reeolatim
who s
wish d to transform society anti the county,
and the man of government who accomplished prossw
' by the power of ideas, and who proscribed all aerate
1 violence and disorder. It was for this reason that in ais
days I caused the national guard of Paris to be maid a a
equipped, and endeavour. d (but succeeded leas than I eta
have wished) to arm those of the departments, persuadeidai
I disciplined force is au instrument of order, b• cause nista )
symbol of the dignity of the citizen. (Bear, Ma
Ivihatvaenp:Lidpeadmfeolrythoehaotrgoanisaf
rwiratioin:micleofthisin:is,anbdinsaiat' vaingsw
I ounce of the guild motile, for the creatiod of asa
tiouary corps destined to maintain the peace of this
I great cite, for the formation of an innitutia
an indissoluble knot the municipal and the judiciary paw,
sad placing the public security under the shelter of a can
scant sutvrill.
In there danceais of trouble and inquietude I watch witbeat
teasing. It us by an absolute :devotion to :my duties LW
i I beat respond to the infamous calumnies of which I hareems
the object. I have never seen in this profligacy withal
example anything but a stronger reason to deka
intrepidly a cause which the tury of some Meow
would have compremised in my person. Iha
of de
ve code
&ace in the good sense of the nation in the justice
assembly, and I have thought that, soldier of the revolutle,
I ought to suffer all for her, and not to lose, !"
endeavouring to rebut those odious falsetiolds, t
precious time which your service now claime togetkY d al
For the remainder, all my actions are public, thi ir free t'''
cussion belongs to you, and now that your sovereigetY be'
deranged me from the burden of affairs, eh private causal
will thud me ready to confound it.
I have passed through the most difficult circumstances,.
ing within the limits of my budget. In three weeks I tis,.
prepared and organised the application of universal sulfere
and, allow me to say, that it any accuse me of error in W.
details, they have not taken sufficient account *
the infinite persevering labour by means of went
I have been aerie over the en:ire republic to peeing I
mode of election which, three months since, was deelassille
possible. Foe me I shall be proud of having been the bile
ment of this first act of mauhood of a people receive:deer
rights.
Proceeding from these general principles, I could WO
wished to itiroduce into the mechanism of the adminiamili
changes destined to render it more simple and mom WI
medic. I thought that reforms could be neither iselellif
partial, and that they would be more wisely a
......Eir
that which will bold a definitive power from your
1 feared to bring trouble into the administra"Ne-7111
at the moment when it was most essential to pec
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its regularity. Moreover, why should I
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it ? lam above all anxious to SAVO the revolution Ws I
serve order. I have wished to preserve to the popular OS
its grandeur, lie purity. its social influence.
and di
I hem
wished, while defending it against the mares
of a re-actiun, to protect it from violent ambitions M
goons impotence.
Thus, when, answering to an imprudent step, thee
population of Parse came without arms to press the
eional Government by ite pacific number., I jot • ned ift
metes in this solemn demonstration; but on the dal'
some mad men endeavoured to i ervert the sense lad!
of such a manifeetation I did net hesitate to cambial
This resolution, far iron being illt effort hi
en my part,
been the consequence of principles he
which have hi
guided me ev-n in opposition. Nothing can really
but that which is ripe in ideas. Real superiority me_'
lMs
distinguishing those which can reasonably be mniT
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N. Cuznieusoniu , .c.. dioto
and he gave an account of the principles whi o
cdannietration. lie spoke of the
tank agiunr elf 1"-‘,..
inifiodmermagthe
6otrawld eeeinte. mais,:anludrei7thwe,wepaiyediuswit°:;:.