The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-12 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

PARIS, TIIEPDAY, 5 P.M,
No news of general importance has transpired since
the morning. I am enabled to confirm, in the most
positive manner, the information I yesterday sent you
of the mobilization of 200,000 of the national guard.
The decree for that purpose has been actually adopted,
though not yet published. It will doubtleee appear
in the .Ifoniteer in a few days; the decree also au-
thorising the Bank to issue fifty-franc notes, as I
mentioned to you yesterday would be the case,'
twenty-franc notes, and perhaps even smaller pape.,
would soon follow.
A deputeion waited on the Provisional Govern-
ment yesterd iy. to beg that an appeal should be made
toemployers not ,o engage foreigners; that all foreign-
ers employed under government should be dismissed ;
and that the applicants should be authlrised to es-
' fattish a society, having fur its object this general
exclusion of f,r( igners. M. Armand Marrast gave
the applicants the following most spirited and proper
rebuke :
The government cannot interfere in private affairs; every
citizen it, in particular. free to have near him those who
merit his confidence. The principles of the republic do not
apply merely to such or such a territory : they embrace
the alliance of nations, like the fraternity of citizens of
the same country. One of these principles es liberty, and
.r you would injure it by obliging a citizen to choose the men
—who are to surround him in one place rather than soother.
The Provisional Government, therefore, can only express
wishes, and hope that masters will obey sentiments of pa-
triotism. Any dire-t intervention of the government is not
possible. By the simple fact of the proclamation of the re-
public you are authorised to constitute a society which should
be charged to receive, to recommend, and to place citizens;
by this simple measure you would have no need of the in-
tervention of the goer, rnment to abolish the bureaux de
placement, for it is evident that applications would be made
to you in preference. Constitute therefore an association
which shall both protect your interests and afford easy
means of obtaining iulormstion as to the persons whom it is
desired to employ. I am sorry, both for you and for the
honour of our country, to perceive some had senti-
ments expressed in your address with respect to foreigners.
The republic desires liberty for all, equality for all, fra-
ternity between all men, and an alliance between all
Teatime. If nnif eunately republican France, which ought
to have wore liberal ideas, should give the example of send-
ing away foreigners for the simple reason that they are
foreigner., we should, besides a shameful violation of our
principles, be exposed to reprisals on the part of foreign coun-
tries. 11. e you know how many workmen we have in Eng-
land'? Th. re ore 22,000 ; in Spain there are 19,500 ; at Monte
Yid. o, 12,000. If you dismiss foreigners you would do in-
jury to your brethren abroad ; and the government would fail
is its most rigorous duty, that of protecting Frenchmen
wherever they may be, who would curse the imprudence of the
government it they were victim,. They would have the right
to say to us, Are we nut Frenchmen ? By what right do
you strike tar When we have fellow-citizens abroad, we must
think of them as much as if they were without protection.
Here there is misery, hut at least 'here we speak the tame lan-
guage, we help one another; but abroad the Frenchman has
no protection but his nationality, and if we do not
aspect that of others how can we make his respected ? I
know by experience whet is the pain of absence from one's
country ; and if I could forget my duties as a republican, my
own souvenirs would make me reject every thought that
could tarnish the holy idea which attaches to hospitality. It
a had sentiment, it is a selfish sentiment, and be convinced
that an act of selfishness is never committed which does not
till on the man who commits it. I only reproduce here the
sense of a proclamation signed by all my colleagues of the
Provisional Government. We have been solicited sire-dy by
peer.; And tro:teve. a, who Is'' a part of their ork, to send
away the natives of Savoy. We did no' consent, and yet we
are very desirous of doing all th•et is in our power to show our
constant wilted:tide in behalf of those who labour and who
suffer. Abandon, then, this idea; do away with every nen.
burnt or na?row personality. You must expolse that senti-
ment from your hearts, and must only entertain great and
generous ideas. All the good that you do, even to a single
one of your ii Bow-creatures, it will be blessed and recom-
pont el— it will inftllibly he rendered to you or one of your
fellow-citizens.
A general improvement was manifested to-day, in
every de-criptiun of security •at the Bourse. The
Threes closed for cash at 41; ; the Fives at 61. Bank
Shares rise nearly 100 francs, and the railways gene-
rally partooe of the rise.
The chief cause of this was considered to be the re-
sult of an interview which took place between M.
Gamier l'ages and the syndic of the Bourse, who
was sent for by that minister for the purpose
of giving a disavowal, in the strongest and most
explicit language, of any intention on the part of the
government to make a large issue of paper on the
security of the state forests, or to absorb the Bank of
France. Both of these reports were generally circu-
lated and credited, as I mentioned in my letter of last
evening, and operated most injuriously on the market.
With respect to the bank, fef. G. Pages avowed the
desire of government to cause all provincial paper to
disappear, and to be replaced by notes of the Bank
of France, so as to produce a uniform paper currency
for the whole' country, and this measure will un-
doubtedly be effected. With respect to the project
of issuing 1,000 millions of paper on the security of
the stale forests, the minister gave his solemn assu-
rance, that no such measure would be adopted.
The measure for the expropriation of the railways
also formed part of the official communication.
The minister avowed that it is, and had been long
since, the opinion of nearly all the members of the
present government, that the railways of the country
ought never to have been possessed by private corn-
ttnie,, and they were consequently of opinion that,
u possible, they ought to be recovered by the state.
It was evident, he said, that a large portion d
the unfinished lines could not be completed by
the companies, and must either be abandoned or
?°mPleted by the state. If a portion passed
into the hands of the state, the rest must almost in-
evitably do so ; bat, in accomplishing this object, the
mat scrupulous regard would be paid to the rights of
the shareholders and of third parties.
It is understood that the project of appropriation is
reedy, and will be transmitted by M. G. Pages to the
Provisional
Government, through the minister of
public works,
in a day or two. An alternative, or
Mbar several, will be proposed to the shareholders,