The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-26 00:00:00

AMERICA AND MEXICO.

The Acadia, Captain Stone, has arrived from
Roston and Halifax. She left the former port on the
12th, and the '.after on the 15th instant. She brings
dates from New York, to the 11th inst., but the stews
is unimportant. The Courier and Enquirer for Bu-
rope gives the following shirt summary
The state of the war question with Mexico is an-
@hanged. The rumours of peaeq have received no official
confirmation—indeed they have been in some sense
officially discouutenaneed, if not denied; yet our con-
viction is unchanged, that Mexico, through Mr. Trist,
has made overture., of which the substance is, that the de.
mands heretofore made by the United States shall be ac-
ceded to. The latest dates from the el' yof Megico arc of
the 13th ult., at which time Mr. Trist was still there, and
there he will probably remain, until the Congress of Mexico,
sitting at Queretaro, shell sanction or revoke the proposals
of the Mexican commissioners. If these be sanctioned, it
may be assumed, we think, with certainty, that the govern-
ment of the United States will eeify the proceeding..
Meantime, Canaries is is no halite with the legislation
so earnestly called Joe by the administration, in order to
the prosecution of On war. The bill forlevying ten addi-
tional regiments regulars is yet undecided in the senate,
where i: was iftteldUCEd last December and in the house
the Loan hill, though reported, is yet entouehrd ; but a re.
solution for provioing a portion of the expenditure called for
by the war by direct illation was rejected by a decisive vote.
It is, the reMre, estahliehed as the policy of the administra.
tion that loans are to iiffh the sinews of the war, in addi-
tion to such rever.ue as may be derived from Mexico.
The loan now to be proposed has been reduced from
eighteen aed a half to sixteen millions of dollars; but at six
per cent. the loan ean..ot ce new.tiat. dot par in t,te present
state of our nioncy markets, within the last fort-
night these have become easier, and United States stocks
have improved in pfiees.
Exchange on England is tending upwards, and beet city
bills may be pt..t, ri at from 10; to 104. Ocher hills, however,
equally tined, perhaps, bur le s known—may be had at or
under 10. While the rate is under 104, ruin cannot be
shipped to advant ate; but if the cotton shipments shall still
be held back, and little other produce goes forward, bills
will he scarce, tat., w ill advance, and then again shipments
of coin may reeommenee.
In Canada the par,..ment is announced to meet on the
25th inst. As the opposition, or nitical., as they are called
in the Caned& paler.. have the majority, a charge in the
personal of the Rove race. council, in the chief 'dime of the
province, will oe.e.r.
The Sarah Sands, propeller, with news a week
later than that by the Acadia, arrived at New York
on the 10th. Hut little effect has been prAueed on
the markets by her at-vomits. The Isaac Wright,
from Liverpool. had oleo arrived.
In commercial matters, the same paper makes the
following remal ks :
Con • -The news per Arr.alia mined some th.appte. event, and
Ow remit is a &elite. of l art rent per lb. nu amst link
blot a. -•r.t.r. our :AS. r. p0.,.t .I.e made t ha. I, ,en ,n. ...AI. -there
being but little egwrt the n.ule been m' tt onkel.% to
the Wants of the dry. flu. Ataalil'a 'war has acera..uatt s still
wither demesalan, and rates are only matte at a nahteli- lan former
rain. _ - .

The news per steamer Aradi, was nnueenr. ••• and we
Veda., one nont.krlov.. en earn. ttur r e.n d eastern
millers tune tolow one or two lot. of lax at. Of own, t static of
cid l much tleermw,l, and shippers are talang the v. w Yes-
terday there was :Loch tanaiewf to sell, and reduce •eiees were

Fervour...—Shur,. It I:mt thin. hoe I,ecu '.e.e fret •ht ,•:reine for
C..;, foram, soil rutre h •,....righ It r... 1.1, ert To farm .t : ...ttoo. leer
of 11.. 3-thd ; beef. trr. ?....; Ire( nut port., per hrl., 1.. , Ito .r. ts. kl. ;
• toltestine, le. lid.; le air g eeoo, per t•o), 2ds. to 2:I.: eroin, 3d.
t.N., to Gd.
The other market. were al-o dol.

BetRIO:. Feb 10.— Flo te ; Saki of MO h. 'A.. ,nehlaing
tees.sin bromic with 'opine ion. of Gem ' et., wore nn.l- 25*.
bS doh, Corr.: or 1,..he1a lei re —all :ncluding
wasters mired, at to o:c. Rye : hat( •of 'nil •ricre made
1/1t l'rovikione eah.biteil m. chat•¢•. Freight- were inactive.
PM hews brought by the Sarah Sonde came thisniat'i Ly ti legrapig,
Mt was received too late to produce an. PLIACTLI.: egret upon the
Merkel foe te.day.
NALTINORP, F.lt. 10.—The steamy', now. mu duly 'r-
eeved ty telekraph ru fir, any had a •crokney to moetoe (tie market
kr brtett.tott., s km.coril •hoe no animation al •ever. torn :
The Market was irur ter, nnl ,lec were oiq tun limited
tWent. WI i-kry eihnikni d dull, at.d we could enrol' t orate. worth
"Porting. Prank... : market was quite ustattLed by the
• maw. new., ear,. qwently rater were eery '.;taltrd.

•
CINCINNATI, I(l.—Plqur : Tran•avi, I in flour
• ht: id.' we have only In tinter &aka et 31`0 Turrela at
• wig. About 1,000 fur coot.:ry bronch. Wtuad urn doll. Carr: sales of
ranks were made of houduotne qual4y at le. Barley
rAt quiet At 4Se. to 4.1 c. : roles of 400 head we+. made at
6!le. There on no eu.eve in Cork worth reporting. Weather
liar. and river in fair boating order.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 10.—The market has been held in
crofter by the on n,,t of ito for la, but no 4.4.inges base
taken place in prix PHur io quiet, but firmly 1.,1.1, dolu.
intklitglisies. Corn nuul i 4,14 to the utent of WO burets, a t 2 del

FURTHER PARTICULARS
FROM PARIS.

When the second edition of the Daily Netr4 reached
the City, with the intelligence which will be found in
our first column, some influential persons, as we are
informed, ex pressed themselves d Jubtful of its accuracy,
on the in•sumed fact that no one could leave Paris, or
travel by railway, and that they were certain that,
had it been possible, they should have received intelli-
gence. Now, as there is no mystery as to how this
news reached us, we will quota the private letter of
our correspondent :

" PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.

" In the confusion and alariii amidst which we are
placed here, and the difficulty, approaching to an
impossibility, of finding any means of communication,
expeditious or otherwise, with England, I have
adopted, as before, the only practicable expedient—
that of rending a riding courier to Boulogne. You
know, of course, that the mails are suspended. My
despatches of yesterday morning still remain in the
post-office here, no mail having been expedited."
This courier reached Boulogne in safety, and our
agent there immediately engaged u pilot to deliver
the despatches at Folkestone. The weather was so
boisterous that not even a steam-boat, we be-
lieve, ventured to put to sea. The pilot, unable
to make either Folkestone or Dover, bore up for Deal,
where he succeeded in landing. Thence our agent
transmitted, by Electric Telegraph, the substance of
the news referred to. The messenger himself has since
arrived, bringing the Paris newspapers and the letter
above quoted.

The following appeared in the National of yes-
terday (Friday):
PROCLAMATION OF TIIE PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT.

TO TILE ERENCII PEOPLE,
A retrograde and oligarchic government has been
overturned by the heroism of the people of Paris.
This government has fled, leaving behind it traces
of blood, which will fur ever forbid its return.

The blood of the people has flowed, as in July
but, happily, it wil not have been shed iu vain.

has secured a nutioual and popular government in
accordance with the rights, the progress, and the a''r
of this great and generous people.
A provisional government, chosen by the acclama-
tion and at the call of the people and some of the
deputies of the departments in the sitting of the 24th
of Feb., is for the moment invested with the care of
I organizing and securing the national victory. It is'
composed of MM. Dupont de l'Eure, Lamartine,
Cremieux, Arago de l'lnstitut, Ledra-Rollin, and
Gamier l'ags. The secretaries to this government
I are MM. Armand, Marrast, Louis Blanc, Fj•rdinand
Flown, and Aubcrt.
These citizens have not hesitated for an instant
to accept the patriotic mission which has been
imposed upon them by the urgency of the occasion.
When the capital of France is under fire, the mis-
sion of the provisional government is that of public
safety. All France will understand this, and will
give the assistance of its patriotism. Under the po-
pular government now proclaimed by the provision -I
government, every citizen is a magistrate.
Frenchmen, give to the world the example which
Paris has given to France. Prepare yourselves, by
order and confidence in yourselves, fur those strong
institutions which you arc about to be called upon to
give yourselves.
The provisional government desires a republic,
subject to the ratification of the French people, who
are to be immediately consulted.
Neither the people of Paris, nor the provisional
government, desire to substitute their opinion for the
opinions of the citizens at large, upon the definite
form of government, which the national sovereignty
' shall proclaim.
The unity of the nation, formed henceforth of all
classes of the people which compose it:
The government of the nation by itself :
Liberty, equality, and fraternity for its principles:
The national device and pass-word to be " The
People :"

Such is the democratic government which France
owes to herself, and which our efforts will assure to
her.

Such are the first acts of the provisional government
(Signed), Dupont (de l'Eure), Lamartino, Ledru-
Rollin, Moan, Michel Goudchaux, Arago, Beth-

mont Marie, Carnot, Cavaignac, Garnier-I'agee.
The municipal guard is disbanded.
The protection of the city of }'aria is confided to
the national guard, under the orders of M. Courtaie.

LATEST NEWS.

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.

PARIS, FRIDAY NIGHT.

Nothing important has occurred since morning.
Paris continues tranquil.
The Provisional Ministers have been officially in-
stalled. The National Guard and the armed people
protect the capital.
Many English are leaving and preparing to leave;
others walk about the streets seemingly unconcerned.
Foreign letters were delivered this day.

DAILY NEWS OFFICE.
Since the above was received our despatches have
arrived, containing full particulars.

PARIS, FRID %T AFTERNOON.

The city continues tranquil; the national guard is
everywhere wider arms; it has charge of all the
public establishments of every description, including
the barracks in which the army are confined. The
provisional government are delici ring e,,iiges in great
numbers to the soldiers. Notices arc posted through
the city, authorising bakers and other vendors of pro-
visions to deliver in their orders, signed by the com-
manders of the the national guard in the several
arrondissements. These orders to be punctually paid
by the treasury.
The provisions thus obtained to be distributed
among the armed population who aid the national
guard in the charge of the capital. The inhabitants
generally have been visited yesterday evening and
this morning by the leaders of the people, demanding
arms, for which a written acknowledgement is given,
and on each house where they have been thus surren-
dered the words " Armes donnees" are chalked.
The banks are all closed, and it is not expected they
will be onened for the transaction of business until
next week. the agees-de-change have also suspended
business.
A meeting is to be held today to decide when the
bourse will be re-opened. It will not probably be be-
fore next week.
The moat wren partisans of Louis Philippe and
adherents of Gu;zot rankly acknowledge the admira-
tion with which the conduct of the r ipulace has in-
spired them.
The narrative of all th^t has fallen within oar
knowledge or obe3rvation would fill a volume. In
the Tuileries all objects of art were respected, as well
IN the furniture and decorations of all the apartments
appropriated to public purposes, the only exception t 3
this being the harmless indulgence of triumph ex-

hibited in carrying off the throne and bearing it in
triumphal proetssion through the town. When the
populace entered, a few of their leaders annonnceed to
them rules of conduct, which they willing accepted.
Individuals were posted at the several doors to ace
that no person departing should carry away any valua-
ble. This was scrupulously enforced, even as res-
pected the most trivial articles.
Iu the midst of the tumult the most respectable
persons, ladies as well as gent'emen, mingled without
the slightest molestation, with the populace. In one
instance it happened in the Rue de la Paix that a
gentleman was insulted by on intoxicated working
man, in a blouse, whom the gentleman punished by
some slight blows of Isis cane. The surrounding
populace, witnessing what happened, seized their
offending colleague, and inflicted on him a foi midable
punisment, which would have been much more serious
but for the intervention of the person whom he had
insulted. _

Numerous stories, utterly destitute of truth, are
circulated by the party which espoused most warmly
the fallen government. The following may afflrd a
specimen of these exaggerations :
It is reported that when the king's careiages were
burned, in front of the Pallas Royale, the horses were
also burned.

- .
The origin of this was probably the fact that the
famished peop!c on the night of Thursday roasted
the flesh of the horses of the troops which had been
killed, and fed upon it. They might have broken
into any butcher's or baker's, and obtained other
ft,od.
We are assured that a forrible scene was exhibited
at the HOtel de Ville on Thursday night. The mem-
bers of the provisional government sat there to decide
upon the course to be adopted in the actual situation
of the capital. Individually the peat majority of
them were opposed to the establishment of an unmiti-
gated democracy. The populace, however, filled the
hall, and completely overpowered them by demon-
stration of their inflexible purpose of seeing a republic
in is most democratic form resolved on. In vain it
was attempted to adjoin(' the question till minds I
should become calm. Evely proposition of like na-
ture was met by menacing shouts directed even against
the most popular of the members of the government.
M. Dupont (de Mute), who made many attempts to
defeild the proposition of a republic in its less demo-
, erotic shape, was compelled to silence by the most
deafening shouts of " Dupont i la fenetre," and was
so exhausted by fatigue and excitement that he twice
fainted. M. Marie met with no better success. The
anxieties he underwent had such an effect on his
countetinnee, that on leaving the meeting his own
son could not recognise him. The populace willed
that a pure democratic republic should be formed,
and that every male above a certain age should be
eligible to the National Guard, and empowered to
wily arms. Every attempt to oppose this, in how-
ever mitigated a form, was the signal of renewed
shouts of "Dupont 1 la fenetre !" "Marie a la
fenkre." The popular will prevailed, and resolutions
were passed in accordance with it.
A terrible catastrophe took place at the " poste do
garde," opposite the Valais Royale, in the Rue St.
Honore. We stated yesterday the fatal obstinacy
with which the unfortunate men occupying that
post visited every summons to surrender, and
leave it, even though their personal safe ty was I
guaranteed to them. Ultimately utter interchange of
fusillade and much loss of life, fire was applied to the
guard-house, which placed its occupants in the hor-
Mile alternative of either being burned to death or
being shot on issuing from the door. Some chose the
latter fate, and fell under a shower of balls. The re-
mains of more than twenty persons were, we are
assured, taken out of the smouldering ruins of the
conflagration.
Yesterday morning a large number of the armed
populace, accompanied by some detachments of the
national guard, marched to Vincennes, to seize RIM
fort, and to provide themselves with arms and ammu-
nition from its arsenal.

The hostility of the populace to the English was
manifested, by their destruction of the British arms
erected over the doors of the tradesmen of the British
embassy. The chop of Roberts, the apothecary, in
the Rue de la Pala, encountered the especial hos-
tility of the populace. The arms were not only torn
down, .ut the w:ndowe and everything in them en-
tirely destroyed.
We were told that some threatening manifestations
were made at the gate of the British embassy in ti.e
Rue Faubourg St. Honore, over which the British
arms are sculptured. It does not appear, however,
that any act of positive outrage was committed.
The ministers appointed by the provisional go-
vernment took possession of their various officiai re-
sidences yesterday, at one o'clock.
The streets duriag the day were crowded with pro-
menaders of both sexes, with all the appearance of a
festival.

The report of General Lanso-ici4e being wounded
is correct. The wound was, however, slight.
In order to satisfy the general wish of the people,
the provisional government have decided that all po-
litical prisoners shall be set free.

PARIS, 5 O'CLOcK.

M. Ledru Rollin has addressed to the prefects of
departments a circular, informing them that a repub-
lican government is formed, and that the nation will
be called upon to give it its sanction, and requiring
them immediately to inform him of the state of public
opinion.
All the foreign letters that could not be previously
delivered in Paris, owing to the state of the capital,
were this morning brought on the backs of men to
the post-office, and have been delivered.
A proclamation has appeared that 21 battalions of
national guards will be immediately organised.
Another proclamation calls on all soldiers, who
have quitted their corps, to return immediately under
penalty of being considered deserters.
About twelve o'clock a large body of armed men
went to the Hide] of the Minister of the Interior and
exhibited an intention of entering the bureaux. but on
being addressed by M. lA-dm-Rollin, they went away.
The populace, woo were without arms, having ex-
pressed their intention, as before mentioned, of going
to Vincennes to procure them, the Minister of the
Interior induced them to desist, stating that it would
be ruinoss to the kingdom, as the arms would be
broken and injured. He stated, moreover, that there
was no fear that the arsenal of Vincennes
would be employed against the people. The
provisional government having this morning sent M.,
Fiocon to take possession of that post in the natne of j
the nation, he was received with bravos and cries
of " Five la republique."
At the request of M. Ledru-Rollin the populace
started for the Ecole Militaire, to be organtsed as I
National Guards, and hold themselves ready, if net d
were, to go to the frontiers.