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

LATEST FROM PARIS.

STATE OF PARTIES.
PARIS, MONDAY, 6 30 P.M.
I am assured that the government is endeavouring
to effect a rapprochement with the ultra-democrats.
The pretence is the fear of a monarchical reaction, not
only frarn the tendencies of the moderate party, but
from the notorious sense of the whole country. The
municipal elections have signalised the reac-
tion throughout the whole of the provinces.
Negotiations have been e.ccordingly opened,
as I am informed, between the hotel of the
presidency and the bureaux of the ultra-democratic
journals. .1n offer has been made to pass to the
order of the day on the report of the Insurrection COM-
• mittee, in exchange for the support of that section of
the press.
A meet;ng of the moderate party will be held this
evening, to prepare for the struggle.
To-day two lha'talions of infantry have taken pos-
session of the ground intended for the encampment
in the ancient Ile Louviers. At cne o'clock above GO
tents were pi•chel.
The Assembly resumed to-day the discussion cf :he
project or law on juries. and afterwards entered on
the debate as to the caution-money of the journals,
which was opposed by M. Louis Blanc and M.
Thouret. Their both entering the tribune at the same
moment MPG' inned some amusement in the l'saembly,
from the immentc difference in their size, M. Thouret
bang of colossal etature.
M. Leon Faucher supported the law. He stated
that no journ :1 of respectability could be conducted
without large capital ; and if it did not by the means
offer guarantees to order and honourable conduct, it
was clear, as was found to be the cane in England,
that they must find the means of existence by appeals
to the worst passions.
The discussion was in progress when oar reporter
left.
The following reflections, of the truth and justice
of will h every one will entertain a lively sense who
has aitntesetl the past and prole, t events of which
this great capital has been the theatre, appear today
in In Preset, which has at length been permitted to
resume its publication :
Let the rev ••• the Net, lot re only behold the present,
let as rnwet, Ors future! TPi! _meshy of the circum-
stance. Ana not been di-ei,ished; the diflienlties have out-
lived the peril—they sunstst quite as they w, re. Wsr is
nelontter in the streets, hut does pesos exist in mel,'s minds?
Men's hands ere disertned, bat their passions are in the lit-
intet initstion disernst is extending; resentroetve are he-
comic d, per; the ex,dintt wounds become more enve-
nomed; mar than ever we are st the weer of a fault, of an
error, silk no pries. ef a complientio^, of an incident. The
g geveinment has for it the force which sr ;Thee, but
it hes sire-.t it the misery which overfl ',VI The govern-
ment of 1e.30 sbo ha., its a iv-a of April, of 'Sley. and of June,
nom wlhielt it isew 4 thy e times vieminue; and yet all that
did not prevent its 'wean:thing oe February 24 to a fourth
alt mitt. Three these already the republic has miraculously
esesped the attempts of Anti!. May, and June ; will it be as
frasunate the fou th tine.? It is to be eyed so; but too
much dtpraAenes must not be placed on it, in order not to
slumber nn in ,Sne.l,Ull r.ntimism, in order nut to en
trench one's'elf &hind a fstal egotism ! The only means
of escaping the terrible/rem fume...4n( a 24th of February of
the new pinme. whit's 94th of February would be the vie •
tory of ti o //retirees range, is to net as if that vietney wee
imminent and inevitable ; it is to spare nothing to conjure ft
away. so +s. a hstev,v may happen, to have no Selieet Of It,
progeh. We shall give the rineeple. To amnesty the
executive p .wire the first art of which was to strike as so
heavily ;11 nut liberty and cur fortune ;10 aid it with all MT
efr.ste. t•i'l mph over the gray difficulties against which it
straggle. "di ,fully. shell be the only vengence which we will
take for the evil which ham been done to us, for the greater
eril of which perhaps the idea end the hope were conceived,
forth. imou nee damage whieh hne been caused us, and
which we Omend not no.. have recalled to mind if it had not
been eaten" d round as to mews than 300 ;31EilieS, not hav-
ing any other means of living but by their labour.
runs. n. New teen. —; Three per Cents.. 421:
_ ,
e ye! covs., 70; —; Fount, —. Eelgian
Pm., INn, —; Da. 1542, ; Do. ' Three. —; Two-and-a
N dye Reeth‘. —-• • rvllePle Loan —; Tremors
own. posh mann. Iron;' esentege on ?swarm. 30 days,
2524 taper , 25 321 cents; ee days, 25 20 paper; 23 171 rash.
H.te Pons mAy...— Po. and twiesiat, 475; Paris sad Rouen, 440;
Rouen net ,fs.rs. 70025; avisrnw, awl 31.wwilles, 221 23 ; Stras-
bourg and We., 07 to; 'cotes Y.,-son, .01; dulicr, ape, Boa-
; Roreeaux, 400; North, 375.

Since the foregoing was in type we have received
the following from our Dublin correspondent:
Lieut.-General Lord liardinge left town to-day
fur the south of Ireland, where he will at one- ns-ume
the supreme command. His lordship will fix
his head-quarters at Kilkenny. Major-General
M'Donald has struck his camp at 'flurries, and is
marching towards Abbeyfeale, where Mr. O'Gor-
man is suppo-cd to be at the head of a party.
Mr. Smith O'Brien is firm, collected, and apparently
content. He is not allowed to see any one, even his
most intimate Metres. It is, however, understood
that his intention, when he entered the Thurles
station, was to proceed to his home at Cahirmoyle,
and there to remain until he should have been ar-
rested. He had come to the determination of not
again endeavouring to conceal himself. Ile is under-
stood to have adopted this resolution from the very
commendable desire not to involve those who might
afford him refuge in his guilt, and subject them to
the penalty of treason. lie is said to have
been much moved by the arrest of one or
two humble persons who had hrubeured him.
So long as the risk of outlawry affected him-
self only he would have held cert. Mr. O'Brien
is a man of known obstinacy, and these mo-
lives may have been his; but it is only reasonable to
conclude that he had some grounds for dreading the
effect of the terrible penalty and the great reward in
his case. He is totally silent as to his recent coin-
panicns.
Now that he has been made amenable to the
law, and that public quiet hes been vicdicated against
his insurrectionary proceedings, the public mind is
turned to the probable measure of his puni,hinent.
Recollection goes back to the more respectable
effort of Robert Emmett, and its consequences to the
miserable originator. But in that struggle the insur-
„ente sacrificed many lives; some, as in Lord Kilwar-
den's case, by deliberate assuesinution, though he was
killed in mistake. 'the case of Frost, at Newport,
comes nearer to our time, however, and has been dealt
with more in the spirit of our epoch. Many lives
were sacrificed in the mad outbreak which he
led —jet hie life was not forfeited. le the present
crew, up to this hour, the mad dupes of the wild imur-
rec iohary leaders have moire paid the forfeit of life.
No policem in, soldir r, or loyal subject, has been even
wounded. It ii said that, on the latter ground espe-
cially, hial autborities are of opinion filet Mr.
O'Brien will not sufkr the extrema penalty of the
law.
At the same time it is urged, on the other side, that
persona are now confined, charged with stubbing a
policeman. 'that act, they say, is the legitimate re-
sult of the teachings and exhortations of the party
of which Mr. O'Brien is the head. They will be
placed on trial for their lives, and public safety re-
quires that the full penalty of their crime be meted to
them. How can this, they say, be done, and Mr.
0 Brien not perilled to the extremity ? The case
presents many other embarrassing eircuinstancee, bat
I am inclined to think in rcy will prevail.
It is confidently stated that Mr. O'Brien was im-
plied to his most desperate course by the persuasions
and even threats ot Mr. Doheny, who said if he did
not take the field he would denounce trim as a co-said.
The government have proof of this fact, I ant ereured,
and will remember it to Mr. Duheny.
The rumours of the supposed lunacy of Mr.
O'Brien aro a min very prevalent to-day, but
there is nothing' in his conduct to justify the report.
Mr. Meany of the Tribune, Mr. Brennan of the Feder,
Dr. West and Dr. *Canoe, formerly of Liverpool,
but now of New York, have been fully committed for
high treason. Warrants in the case ot the three first-
named were transmitted to Newgato yesterday, where
they were in custody. The first is charged with hav-
ing " combined, conspired, confederated, and agreed,
with one Richard J. Verner and divers other per-
eons, to levy war against her majesty Queen Victoria,
and deprive her of her royal style, right, and title as
queen of these realms." The Mr. Verner here named is
SPAIN.-the International of Bayonne publishes brother-in-law to John Mitchel, now in Bermuda. The
a letter from the frontiers of Catalonia, which states warrants in the cases of Dr. West and Mr. Brennan
that on the 31st ult. no positive intelligence as to set forth the same charge, but do not mention any
the whereabouts of Cabrera had been obtained, but person not in custody. It is understood that Inal
it was still c neridered certain that he had passed grounds for this step will be found in certain reed's-
the Ebro, and was in the Maestrozzo. Martial, at tem nroposed at a meeting of the presidents of
the heart of a h end of 300, was still in the province clubs,lefore the flight of the leaders. They were
of N'ich ; the brothers Tristan in the y were environs offered fr.'r adoption by Mr. Smith O'Brien, and tined-
of Sublona r and "on the whole," says the Inter- mously ae,reed to, end were signed by the above par-
national, "oho Catalonian insurrection makes new ties, being presidents of clubs. In connexion with
and Bren-
Mgr( se every dey; and if, which is to be feared, the these resolutions, the writings of IVeanY
troops of the Qireen cannot finish with it before the min, and the .recent proceedings in ntte south, will,
eommeneement of the winter, it is positive that it will doubting beg'ven in evidence as overt .aCtil against
be formidable next spring." all the pLties-