The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1848.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY MORIIIXO.
The event of yesterday wee the election of M.
Marie to the Presidency of the Assembly, which I
announced in my despatch of list evening. In many
respects this election is significant. The Assembly
desired to extricate the individual member of the late
Executive Commission, who was eminently the
representative of moderate opinions, the firm
advocate of order, and the wetter of go-
vernmental authority, from the severe rebuke
implied in the unceremonious measure by which
that commission was thrust aside by the As-
sembly on the outbreak of the late insurrection, and
it took this first opportunity of doing eo by raising
him to the most honourable post vacated by the pre-
sent Minister of the Interior.

M. Bastide has been appointed Minister of Marine
instead of Admiral Leblanc, who has declined to take
office; and General Bedeen replaces M. Bastide as
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
There are three generals of the army of Africa now
in the government—Generals Cavaignac, Bedeau, and
Lamonetere ; and a fourth general, Changarcier, will
have the command of the national guard.
One of the standards seised by the garde mobile
on the barricades, and deposited in the assembly,
bears the inscription " Pillage for three hours."
The insurgent prisoners proclaim the meet detest-
able principles with all the energy and enthusiasm of
a religious faith. Several of them have in this way
declared that all proprietors were robbers, and that
such was the principle for which they fought and
died.

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An anonymous letter, or address, which ap-
peared in the official part of the Moniteur a few days
since, has excited much attention and not a little
indignation.
This document is addressed to the inhabitants of
Paris by one of their fellow-citizens, and signed "a
combatant of June." It was separately printed on
I slips and sent to the different journals in the same
manner in which the government is accustomed to
send official documents which they desire to have
widely circulated. It bore the imprint of the press of
the National Assembly.
Yesterday it was posted as a placard in all quarters
of Paria, but not like a government document as when
inserted in the Moniteur, but on blue and yellow
paper, the government documents being, as is well
known, distinguished by white paper. It is conjectured
that this manifesto was the expiring breath of one
of the socialist members of the late ministry, who at
the moment of leaving office availed himself of tl.e
Moniteur to give it an authorative circulation. The
following are extracts from the document we refer to:
PARIS, Jose 27.—A few days since you appeared to be
divided into as many camps so there were among you passions
and interests. Every day some new want created a new
division. A volcano has burst under your feet; the cannon
has thundered ; the hand of God lies heavy on you ; you,
brothers, have fought amongst yourselves, and killed each
other ; and you have found in presence of danger, in union
that which will never fail to anion, power. I have seen you
all united against being led away, against madness, against
the criminal attempts of conspirators and anarchists fur the
common safety, for the safety of the republic. Inhabitants of
Paris, a republican government can alone sustain such
struggles without falling. It is only in the name
of all and with the common oonaent that the diseased
arm can be removed to preserve the head and the heart.
Union should not only create power but reason, judgment,
patience, and justice. What would be union if neither just
nor rational? Let this cruel lesson be read to the profit of
all! Let us be humble before the rivers of blood
which have flowed, and this union born of force;
and may reason—that sovereign reason, that France
has always found in extreme danger—preserve her. Unite
yourselves, then, not for or against the past, of which none of
you are innocent, but for the future, all of the rights of which,
all the duties, all the guaranties, lie in three words,' Libene,
Egalitf, Fraternitie.' The conquests of the republic should
secure, should increase, the material welfare of those whom
the order of things had forgotten, but the realisation of these
material conquests can only be effected after more valuable
conquests, because by these alone can they be assured. I
speak of the conquest of those moral and political rights
which consecrate the equality of all the citizens in the
country, and which in a few years, if we please, will make
Republican Franca the greatest, the most envied, and the
mu at loved of all nations.

The only Paris journal which palliates or ex-
tenuates the horrors perpetrated by the insurgents
for the last week is that which is understood to ex-
press the sentiments of M. Ledru Rollin, and of
which M. Flocon is the ex-editor.

I mentioned yesterday a meeting of the members
of the moderate majority, at which it was resolved to
support any ministry who would adopt certain mea-
sures considered necessary to the restoration of order.
This meeting, which took place in the Ruede Poitiers,
and was attended by • large number of the ex-de-
puties and the moderate party of the new deputies, re-
solved that the following measures were indis-
pensable, and such as would alone entitle any
government at present to their support.-1. The
rigorous disbanding and disarming of those national
guards who refused to co-operate in resisting the re-
cent insurrection ; 2. The maintenance of a garrison
in Paris strong enough to resist such attempts as
those of May and June; 3. The immediate dissolu-
tion of the ateliers naVonaux ; 4. The temporary
closing of the clubs; 5. The provisional maintenance
of restrictions on the press.
A committee of seven were named, who put them-
selves immediately in communication with General
Cavaignac, and it is understood that the ministry
which his just been formed has received their ac-
I quiescence.
The following is the latest report of the superior
officers killed and wounded in the insurrection:—
General Negrier—killed. General Brea—assassi-
nated. General Francois—killed. General Reg-
naud—killed.—General Bourgea received a ball
in the thigh ; amputation is impossible and
his recovery very doubtful. General Corm
wounded in the leg; his state is satisfactory.—
General Damesme : his leg has been amputated.
There are some hopes of his recovery.—General Du-
vivier : wound in the foot—more serious than was
first supposed.—General Foucher : wounded in at-
tacking a barricade in Faubourg du Temple.
Thus nine general officers have been killed or
wounded. The number of colcnels and superior officers
put hors de combat is immense.
On Tuesday a sentinel observed a cabriolet in
which were two men, pass by him, which attracted
his attention. Thinking the springs were more
depressed than they would be by the ordinary
weight of two men, he caled on the driver to stop
and, after some difficulty in which it became neees
sary to call on other soldiers, he did so. The men
were obliged to descend, and on searching them and
the cabriolet, a large sum in gold, of Russian
coinage, and a considerable quantity of cartridges were
found. When interrogated, they pretended not to
understand French, and made the sentinel understand
that they were Poles. A National Guard addressed
them in Polish, but no reply ; in English and German,
no better success was obtained. They were arrested,
and taken before the Commissary of Police. They
were armed with dagger-pistols.
A great number of the balls extracted from the
wounded of the National Guard and the army were
composed of pieces of iron, which, by a refinement of
cruelty, were pierced, and a piece of copper wire
introduced which projected on each side. In many
cases this has prevented the extraction of the ball,
and the wounded have consequently died.
On Wednesday there were at the Conciergstio
1,685 prisoners, who had been arrested on the buds
codes or in the houses.
The report that General Bedeau had suffered am-
putation of the leg, is unfounded : he is in a satisfactory
state.
The usual weekly account of the Bank does not
appear in the Moniteur of this morning; but a diM-
dend on Bank shares of 30f. for the first six months
of 1848 is declared, and officially published in the
Moniteur.
The body of a man who was a most furious dema-
gogue, and who was president of the Club des Droits
de Plionirnei attended by large numbers of the
workin classes, and who had acquired the soubriquet
of "Tate de Bronze," has been recognised at the
Morgue. He was killed at the barricade in the Rue
Rochechourt.

At five o'clock yesterday not more than 100 pri-
soners remained confined in the cellars of the
Tuileries. As every 100 of the original number were
interrogated, they had their arms bound behind their
backs, and were sent off under escort to the Ecole
Militaire, in the Champ de Mars, where they are to
be individually and more closely examined.
On Tuesday, as some national guards were search-
ing a house in the Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine,
found in a cellar 37 armed men, with 167
muskets, and instruments for casting balls, in their
posseacion. The men surrendered without resistance.
A druggist, near the Barriere Fontainebleau, hay-
Mg boom denounced to a oompaa,y of the zultional

guard for making acme of the gunpowder used by
the insurgents, the company went to his shop to in-
quire into the matter. His wife threw herself at the
feet of the captain to demand pardon, and mean-
while the man committed suicide by stabbing him-
self in three places with a dagger.
The Marseilles papers announced the capture of
Achmet-Bey, ex-Bey of Constantine, and long a de-
termined enemy of France.
A letter from Lyons, dated in the afternoon of
Tuesday, the 27th inst., says : " We are not yet
without disquietude u to the disposition of the work-
men. The Voraces have still even pieces of cannon
at the Croix Mousse, and will not give them up.
General Gellman has given them till this evening. It
is feared that this disarming will cost dear. The
general has received unlimited powers. He believes
that he can count sufficiently on the army not to have
need of the national guard. The aspect of the city
is tranquil at present.

ITALY.—Advices from the bead-quarters of the
Sardinian army of the 22nd, say that on the 20th an
attempt was made to recover the plateau of Rivoli
by a column of 3,000 Austrians. They were repulsed
and put to flight, with the loss of 400 killed and
wounded,

We have advices from Milan to the 25th. It ap-
pears that a body of Austrians had made a sortie
from Mantua on the 21th, and were repulsed with
considerable loss.
Advices from the fleet off Trieste of the 16th June
say that the continuance of the blockade would speedily
cause a revolution there. The city was already
declared in a state of niego
Letters from Venice of the 20th June say that the
provinces were menaced with attack at Mazzorbo,
Malghera, Tresina, and Brondolo by a corps of 15,000
Austrians. The garrison of Venice cot slated of
20,000 men, and the city was well provided. General
Pepe had the command.

The Madrid math, with the journals and cor-
respondence of the 25th, have arrived. Carlist move-
ments in Navarre continue to be reported, but
nothing official on the subject had been published.
Insurrectionary movements were also reported in
Catalonia.

A Queen's messenger had arrived with an order
for the retirement of Mr. Otway, keeper of the
archives of the embassy, and his assistants. Mr.
Brackenbury alone remained as consul.