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LATEST FROM PARIS.

FRENCH REVOLUTION.

We have news from Paris to noon yesterday, at
which time tranquillity continued. Business had
been resumed, and the people of all classes were se.
Goading the efforts of the provisional government in
the re-establishment and maintenance of order. There
had been, however, considerable uneasiness produced
by the immense assemblage of the operative daises
the preceding day, in the Champs Elysees, and
their march to the Hotel de Ville. The object of
this dem-- -*ion appears to have been a vague
- their

idea of improving condition by abridging
their hours of labour, without, however, abridysug
their wages! It will require much firmness and tact
on the part of the government to tranquillise this

movement.
Throughout the departments of France the army,
magistracy, bench, bar, commercial chambers, and
other public bodies had given their adhesion to the
repubhc.
Marshals Soult, Molitor, Sebastiani, Bugesud,
Reille, and I)ode de la Brunerie, had sent in their
adhesion to the new government, as had Generals St.
Yon, M. Guizot's colleague in the War Department,
Fabvier Schramm, Aqua, late Governor of Paris,
Grouchy, Freya], Montholoo, Feucheres, Oudinot,
Achard, Goargaud, Lahitte, Paixhans, &c.
M. Dupin had been superseded by M. Baroche in
the functions of Attorney-General in the Court of
Cessation.
M. La Rochejaquelein, the celebrated Legitimatist
Deputy,had addreued his adhesion to the Provisional
Government.
The ancient peers of France who had served nuder
the various governments, in presenting themselves at
the Hotel de Ville, were very coldly. received.
A large proportion of the foreigners who had
quitted Paris in a momentary panic last week were
irmrly returning, and a considerable number of
French proprietors who had been staying in the
provinces were arriving in the capital.
Contrary to all expectation, Paris, instead of being
deserted, will be more crowded than ever.
'lt is affirmed that a letter from M. Flahant, ambas-
sador from France to the court of Austria, has arrived
at the Ministry of the Interior, requesting M. Guizot
to support M. de Metternich in a demand he has just
addressed to the Pope. It appears this demand con-
sists of nothing less than of obtaining from his holi-
ness the authorisation to march the Austrian troops
through the states of the church, to assist the King of
Naples to get rid of the conotituticm-he has just been
compelled to grant his subjects.
A letter from the Due d'Aumale, ex-governor of
Algeria, has arrived at the ministry of the war de-
partment, in which M. Guizot is congratulated, in the
warmest manner, upon the energetic attitude ho had
assumed in the affair of the banquet.
M. Pacquier had quitted the Hotel du Petit
Luxembourg. The inscription " Chancery of France"
has been effaced, and the national flag substituted,
with the inscription " Liberty, Equality, Fraternity."
The previsional government declares the abolition
of all titles in France in the following proclamation:
FRENCH REPUBLIC.

" LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY."
The provisional government, considering that equality is i
one of the great principles of the Fnitch republic, and that ,
it ought, in consequence, to be immediately carried into
effect, decrees as follows :
All the ancient titles of nobility are abolished, and the ,
qualifications which were attached thereto an prohibited. ;
They cannot be used publicly, or figure in any public do- ,
cument whatever.—Signed by DUPONT DE L'BVRE, LAMAR. ,
TINE, L. BLANC, GARNIIIR PAGES, ARAGO, ALBERT, CaE-
uinvx, FLOCON, MARIE, LEDRU ROLLIN, mem-
bers of the provisional government.
Nothing can exceed the satisfaction which has been
produced by the announcement that Lord Normanbs,
in a second interview with M. Lamartine, in con-
sequence of instructions from Lord Palmerston, '
had stated that England had no intention of
throwing any impediment in the way of the
provisional government, and that the same friendly
relations would continue to be maintained between
the countries as heretofore. We have also been
assured that it was further intimated that England
would not consent to any intervention by foreign
powers with the internal concerns of France.
It hasbeen decided in the Ministry of War," says
the Reforme, " that an army of the Meuse and an
army of the Rhine shall be immediately formed. The
denomination of troops of the line is to be replaced by
that of troops of the republic. It has been already
proposed to replace the schakos by cocked hats, and
to give to the soldiers white pantaloons with large
stripes."
The late garrison of Paris having been to a great
extent disarmed and disbanded, and having become
more or less obnoxious by the partial collisions of
some regiments with the people during the revolu-
tion, were wider orders for other quarters. The
numbers of the respective regiments who had been
engaged against the people are to be changed, so
that all trace of their participation in the recent
melancholy events may be lost. Some un-
easiness respecting the state of the treasury
having been expressed, most of the employA in the
public offices had waived, entirely or partially, their
claims for salaries, and the example of General Thiard
in at once paying his taxes about to become due
seemed likely to be universally imitated.
The Soriete .Republicaine Centrals, at its third
sitting held on Tuesday, and composed of about
1,000 citizens, decided upon two addresses to the
government ;—the one demanding the absolute
suppression of the deposit of caution-money for
journals, tl e stamp-duty and postage upon them
the second, decree abolishing all the laws, decrees,
edicts, regulations, ordonnances, &c., which put the
least restriction upon the right of association and
holding meetings.
One hundred and ten hogsheads of wine, found in
the cellars of Neuilly, had been removed to Paris,
and distributed among the hospitals, for the use of
the wounded, amounting to 428, of whom 350 were
civilians, and 78 military.
The Bourse was still shut. It was reported at
the Passage de l'Opera that the syndicat of the agens-
de-change bad decided that the amounts at which
' bargains should be arranged in the Three per Cents.
, should be fixed at 70f. 50c. There did not appear to
be a disposition to submit to this decision, which, if
maintained, would render the settlement impossible.
The influential members were about to have a
meeting, to come to some decision.

FOLKESTONE.—The Lord Warden steamer arrived
this morning, with 97 passengers, including Prince
Louis Napoleon and an aide-de-camp .of Louis
Philippe. The latter stated that nothing is known of
the ex-king's retreat. In Paris it was generally. be-
lieved that he had reached England. There is a
rumour that Louis Philippe is at the Chateau d'Eu,
I too unwell to be removed.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 11 A.M.
The impatience occasionally manifested by the
operatives is gradually subsiding.
Individuals among them, possessed of more infor-
mation and shrewder minds, control the rest. The
workshops are filling. Trades people and mechanics
begin to present themselves to their customers and
employers to complete their jobs, suddenly left un-
finished on the 22nd and 23rd. The hotels of
the ministers have the external aspect of
public business without tumult. At the Hotel
des Affaires Etrangeres the voitures of foreign
ambassadors and diplomatic agents are seen from
time to time. At the Hotel of the Interior, deputies
and commissaries from the provinces, and agents
from the mairies are busily going to and fro. At the
Ministry of War, Marshals of France, Lieutenant-
Generals, Field Marshals, Military Intendants, and
numerous inferior grades are crowding with their
adhesions to the republic and tenders of their
services.
One of the first to present his adhesion to the re-
public, at the Ministry of the Interior, was M. Na-
poleon Duchatel, the brother of the proscribed ex-
Minister of the Interior.
At the Ministry of Public Works, all is activity.
Innumerable measures are taken to occupy the unem-
ployed operatives upon the most important public
enterprises, and especially on the great lines of
railway.
It would be endless to enumerate the adhesions
which every morning's mails bring from the provinces.
This morning, the mere announcement of these occu-
pies two closely-minted columns of the National.
The uniformity of the proceedings in all the pro-
vincial places, great and small, in adopting the revo-
lution of Paris is singular, and indicates in a striking
manner how perfectly prepared the public mind
throughout France must have been for such a cataa-
trophe, strange and unexpected as it seemed.
The partisans of the revolution already begin to
manifest the sense they entertain of the importance
of an alliance between France and England. The
exultation with which the announcement of the

second conference of Lord Normanby with M. Lamar-
tine was received yesterday by all parties, showed in
a very striking manner the importance which is
attached to the establishment of friendly rela-
tions with England. We have this morning
a still more magnificent example of the prevalence of
this sentiment in the following leading article of the
National, the semi-official organ of the provisional
government, and lately so bitter an opponent of an
Engruih alliance :
The blow struck, the Orleans dynasty banished, the re-
public proclaimed, the first attention was directed towards
the great continental states, whose displeasure will be so
greatly excited by the news of our revolution.
England was but the second nation to be taken into con-
sideration ; for at the very first it was judged, that however
unexpected, however prodigious, might be the advent of the
French republic, it would meet with no extreme repugnance
on her part. And the news we have already received from
the banks of the Thames serves to confirm our previsions.
Under the former monarchy, that is to say eight days since,
the National counted itself among the adversaries of the
English alliance. Yet it did not do le without its reserves,
and in all circumstances it had declared that nothing ap-
peared to it to be more desirable than an alliance between
the two people, but that it could not call by this name that
unmeaning thing which had at last received the ridiculous
qualification of entente mediate ; and, in fact, nothing was
clear, nothing was true in those relations devoid of loyalty
which that late government endeavoured to form. The Or-
leans dynasty had in view neither the welfare of France,
nor that of England ; it was a mere calculation on the pan.,
of that dynastry to secure to itself a support, not so 4, mit
against the weintualities man without (anu the evens has
most positively proved that from without there was no
eventuality to be feared), but against the eventualities from
within. that dynasty borrowed from England a certain
I portion of strengh which it opposed to us; and as, in
definitive, the whole forge they acquired was to be
I employed in • counter-revolutionary manner, it was very
natural that we, the ardent friend, of liberty, should re-
act against any connexion which increased the power of this
fatal dynasty. That is the reason why we fought up against
the English alliance, and the English must now be 'nib-
Meetly enlightened by the events to comprehend that our
conduct has been sincere, and, however' was in fact nowise
hostile to England. And we can now declare that we will
accept an alliance with the great English nation on condi-
tions honourable for both states, and with these guarantees
we have a right to exact.
Another point excited some opposition. It seemed to us
that the French government did not act on an equal footing
with that of England. We were so well convinced that
Louis Philippe stood in need of the hand of England, that
we could not but see in this need the motive of those conces-
sions by which he purchased her support. The private in-
terest of the dynasty was ever there, throwing a stigma upon
every transation. It was a weakness which incited our
indignation, and against which we were ever willing to
protest.
But now, when no dynasty has anything to demand at the
hands of England; now, when it is impossible for us to enter
upon any treaty whatever on any other than upon an equal
footing, it is with joy we hope no conflict will arise between
the two powerful nations which border either side of the
Channel. That weak, uncertain, ill-considered peace which
the Orleans dynasty endeavoured to secure must now be
changed into a peace at once beneficial to all.
This important affair is henceforward left to the decision
of the two nations, and that restores us to confidence. The
expression of the will of France will be impeded by ao
obstacle, and we think that she will, without any restriction,
decide upon maintaining. peace. On their aide, the English
people have sufficient weight with their government for them
to preserve peace also, if they wish so to do; now, we really
believe they also desire to maintain peace. And do we not
know, moreover, that that cause has already met with
the warmest sympathy in England ? And this sympathy will
moat certainly increase and create the double advantage of
influencing the determination of the English government,
and of silencing in France that uneasiness and that rancour
which may still exist.
The force of circumstances is always stronger than the
will of man ; and here the force of circumstances is for
peace. The French republic, occupied in organising itself,
occupied in its endeavours to matte its advent fructify
in favour of the laborious classes of its popula-
tion, would not enter into a war unless the European
nationalities were in peril. On the other hand, there does
not exist in England any government fool hardy enough,
or sufficiently subversive, to compromise the interest of all
by a war.
The neutrality of England appears certain for the time
being. Will this neutrality be converted into eomething of
a more intimate nature, into something more efficacious for
the peace and security of Europe ? that is what time, events,
and men will prove. But what is certain is this, that if the
two great nations join fn any great common aim of justice
and civilisation, they will poise in the scale with a weight
that nothing can counterbalance.

OFFICIAL DECREE.
The provisional government declares that, inavmuch as
every new political system should ineude a new system of
credit and taxes, one of the first laws to be presented to
the national assembly will be a new budget, in which the
provivional government will satisfy the wishes of the people
in ail that concerns indirect taxes, gate duties (octroi), the
stamp duty on the periodical press, sad all other taxes bearing
upon subsistence and the expression of opinion.
But the provisional government thinks it is its most rigor-
ous duty to call to the mind of citizens, that no system of
taxation can be decided upon by the provisional government.
That it is the part of the delegates of the nation to judge
supremely in this matter, and that any other on its part
would imply the rashest usurpation.
The suspension of the most important services would be
risked by it, and it would be almost impossible to think of
facing events of which France and Europe may become the
witnese. For these reasons, the provisional government
thus decrees •
I. All taxes, without exception, will continue to be levied
as heretofore.
2. Good citizens are requested, in the name of patriotism,
not to delay the payment of their taxes.
3. The provisional government engages to present to the
national assembly a budget, in which will be suppressed the
stamp duty on the periodical press, the gate duties (octroO,
salt duties, and a law modifying the system.
4. The municipal council of the town of Paris is dissolved.
We have received the Madrid mail of the 24th,
but it brings no news of any moment.
Kunio, Fes. 24—Three per Cents., 291 at 50 days, ; Four per
Cent, 181 cash; Five per Cents., 17i, March 14th; Purim, ilsm;
Coupons, 12 paper; Bank of M. Ferdinand, 138 paper 132 Bas
After the close Three per Cents., 20j cash, 221 -paper; Five per
Cents., 17 ash; Paeans, Si cosh.

A letter from Amiens, dated 3 p.m., on Tuesday,
says :—" The reports spread about disagreements here
are unfounded. The town is quiet, though the people
dislike a republic.

TUE " TIMES " AND "GLOBE."—[We select this
letter es a specimen of a dozen, at least, which have reached
us this day reference to the disgraceful robberies
perpetrated on your columns by the Times and its humble
follower, the Globe, will you allow me, as one of the public
benefited by your exertions, to express my sympathy
with your noble endeavours to obtain the earliest pos-
sible information, and, above all, to cleanse the press of
that grommets which has for so many years disgraced it? This
last point is the crowning glory of the Express. The
careful revision of its law and police reports ought of itself
alone to assure it the patronage and support of every parent
in the kingdom • while the horrible minuteness with which
the disgusting details in the case of " Geils v. Gaits " were
given in the Times is its crowning disgrace, and ought flu
ever to exclude it from every moral house. But the pirati-
cal conspiracy of the high-priced is the subject now under con-
sideration ; and impudent as have been the previous "con-
veying.," none have equalled their last. You should not let
an opportunity slip to enforce on the public mind the fla-
grant offenses of which the Times and Globe have been
guilty, and for which they are morally as deserving of
punishment as is the man who places his hand in my pocket
and takes my money. I am connected with the weekly
press; and I ,bwie that on Saturday night one, at least, of
the Sunday papers waited till the proclamation of a French
republic, first announced in the Daily News and Express,
was confirmed in the Times. And when at length
that :ournal made its appearance with the news, what did
we have ? Why a verbatim copy of that which bad pre-
viously appeared in its cheap contemporaries ! Had the pub
lie that earth in your paper which time alone can give (but
which is now rapidly spreading), the Times would as as-
suredly succumb before your efforts, as ignorance does be-
fore enlightenment. Therefore, I again say, you should by
every possible means make these facts known ; and (if you
will permit me to say so) I think you should have placed yes-
terday's exposé in a more prominent position in the Ex-
press • so that not one of your readers could by any chance
have failed to see and understand the dishonest proceedings
of the Times and the Globe. I enclose my card.—A LOVER
OP FAIR "'LAT.—London, Feb. 29.
EXTRAORDINARY EXERTIONS AND MUTUAL
JEALOUSIES OP THE HIOH•FRICED PAPERS.—On Tues-
day morning the Chronicle punished the news that peace
had been concluded with the liatfirs. The intelligence
appeared on the same morning in the Herald, which, how-
ever, sought to obtain an appearance of priority by intimat-
log that it had appeared in a second edition published at a
late hour on Monday. Nettled at this appearance of having
been outstripped, the Chronicle set to work to tarnish the
Herald's merits by showing that it had been too hasty to be
accurate. The Chronicle actually discovered that the
Herald had called the vessel by which the new, arrived the
Ocean Queen, instead of the Simlah. Leaving the public to
award the palm to either of the amiable combatants as be-
tween themselves, we may remark both had been forestalled
by the Doily News and Express. The news in question
appeared in the earliest impressions of the Daily News on
Monday ; and, to satisfy the hypercritical Chronicle, the
name of the vessel was correctly given. The truth is
that the intelligence came to our hands on Sunday
evening by the usual course, and we published it, as in-
teresting, indeed, hut without being aware we had done
anything out of the common, till we found our high-priced
contemporaries squabbling about which had been first to tell
the public what the public had already learned front us.
Our respected contemporaries, like the riders of two dis-
tanced horses, by their wrangling u to which came in first,
only remind people that both have been beaten.
RETRENCHMENT.—Sir,—When Lord John Russell
prepared his budget for the present session, he no doubt saw,
like his predecesson, that it was in vain to propose reds's-
tion in the salaries of sinecurista, in the pensions of illustrious
individuals, and in other remunerations for real or pretended
past services done to the state. He dared not hint at the
equalisation of probate duties on real property, at an equitable
scale in stamps, or at taxation for Ireland, and at the other
t sutras which presented themselves for diminishing the inters-
of our impositions, but that ne wished to do so,
and that his honest and well- meaning intentions were
smothered by necessity and by a timid and uneasy patriot-
ism, unequal to the charge imposed upon him, may fairly be
concluded from his very jejune and cold statement of our
financial difficulties, and of the immediate call that was to
be made on our purses, to fill up the gap which an unac-
knowledged generosity had left in our not less magni-
ficent resources. Had he, like an intrepid and
straightforward minister, fairly laid bare the sores
which galled us, and, in the face of Irish and
English landholders, boldly stood forth and proclaimed that
they should contribute their fair share to the revenue, he
might, when he saw the rising storm about to burst on his
head from a hoot of powerful opponents, have at once ap-
pealed to the people, and surely he would not have appealed
in vain ; or, if he had succumbed, at all events, in leaving
office, he would have left the reproach, not on himself, but
on the nation, who was Billy enough to bear without resist-
ance the load superimposed upon it. But it is not yet too
late. Fortune aids him. The general discontent has received
a powerful impulse from the stand that a neighbouring po-
pulation has made against the encroachments of regal and
ministerial tyranny. Be may yet take up 'the cudgels
against his powerful but shuffling adversaries, and, so far
from requiring additional contributions from the English
people, if he but adopts the numerous hints which he may
gather from the opinions of assemblies held in all parts of
the country, his success is sure. And in addition
to the suggestions for equalising taxation, surely much in-
crease of revenue may be derived also from paring down
or suppressing altogether enormous sinecures paid out of the
public purse. What if he were to ask the Dowager Queen
and the two pensioned kings to content themselves with less
than they now draw from our treasury ? We shall be told,
in the usual hackneyed phrases, that we are bound to keep
oar engagements. This is our answer. Then why did
ministers, after promising that the income tax was to last
but three years, not keep faith with us ? And, let it be said
without offence, her Majesty's ministers would have done
well in these ticklish times not to advise the purchase of
more palaces merely to satisfy the sporting propensities of a
German prince.—SENSE.
ATTORNIES' CERTIFICATE DUTY AND LNCOME
TAx.—Sir,—There never was a more fitting time than the
present, when the government is about to raise the income
tax from three to five per cent., for the attornies, as a body,
to bestir themselves, in order to get rid of a heavy annual
impost which none of the other learned professions is
called upon to bear, and which at all times has been
felt to be a manifest injustice. 81. a year, in the case
of a country attorney, and 121. in that of a
London practitioner, in addition to the usual taxation
of the country, and 1501. paid for stamp duties before the
commencement of practice, is a serious matter; and, before
any government either levies a new tax, sr incenses an old
one, which will affect the community at large, it ought to de
justice to the solicitors, by the total abolition of the certifi-
cate duty. With Lord John Russell's new income tax in
full operation, let us see how thousands of attorneys, who,
from the nature of their pursuit, are obliged to live in e
inspectable house, and otherwise to maintain what is termed
a decent appearance in society, will stand affected. After
mach exertion of body, and great anxiety of mind, arising
from the competition to which they are exposed, and the
reduction by succe 'sive governments of their fees (for it is
not now, as it was in times past. when the attornies were
few in number, and the fees were fixed at a higher scale),
they are enabled to return an income of 2001., which, in
the ease of a married man with a family, is, without any
deduction, barely sufficient for his support. But whether he
exists or starves is of no consequence to the government,
which demands from him no less than one-eighth
part of that little sum—viz., 81. for certificate duty,
101. for income tax, 31. for window tax, and 51. for
parochial rates and xes. And for what is this extra
income tax required? Why, to raise the revenue of
the country to meet the expenditure, instead of cutting down
the latter to the resources of the former, as an honest man,
in reference to his own affairs, would do. But governments
cannot conduct their business on the principles of individuals.
They net only depress the energies of the people, by adding
unnecessarily to their burtbena, but, for accomplishing
their object, must endeavour to deceive them into sub-
mission, by representing the possibility of a war with
France! A French invasion ! Au English invasion of France,
in the present distracted condition of that country, would
be nearer the mark. My fellow-solicitors and countrymen,
let us be up and doing, and, by every constitutional means
in our power, strive to stop this progressive system of taxa-
tion, which, if allowed to proceed, will, sooner or later, be
satisfied with nothing less than every penny we earn by the
exertion of our intellectual faculties and the labour of our
hands. It behoves the solicitors especially to demand, as
an act of justice which has been so long delayed, the extinc-
tion of the certificate duty. Some petitions on the subject
have already been presented to the house, and I would ad-
vise one to he sent, without delay, from every town in the
country where an attorney is to be found.—A COUNTRY
SoLicrroz.-Bt. Ives, Hama, Feb. 26, 1848.
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE PROFOSED INCREASE OF
THE INcoME as the exemption of real property
from legacy duty is defended on the ground of each property
being liable to a heavy tax on transfer, I venture te pro-
pose that ea equivalent rata of duty on rands: shall be im-
pomd en fended and all other property, and than that the
lweiey duty shall be also imposed( as real property. It is
, pre that from this two sources, a sublUtute may be
obtained for the proposed increase, or (if our establishments
' could be reduced) for some of the present amount of the in.
estate W.—C. L.