The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-17 00:00:00

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a presentiment of the opinion truly republican, that is to say
free, to provoke an explanation, on its• part, relative to the
line of conduct it intends to pursue in those elections from
which is to spring, freely also, the republican government of
France. And now I no longer speak to you in my name.
But a few hours ago we were all discussing this question in
our council, and we all unanimously declared, what is, in
trot", in nature, in the rights of the sovereignty of the
nation, of which the first guarantee is the sovereignty of the
conscience of the individual,—we declared, I repeat, that
government neither couldnor would influence the elections—
(great applause)—that, as individuals—for none of us would
have accepted the government had it been necessary to re-
nounce the rights of a citizen—that, oas individual', we
should recommend cur friends, and make kelvin our own
opinions, but that, as a government, armed with any portion
whatever of public power, we should blush at those very re-
proaches we addressed to thole governments which preceded
us, if, instead of that corruption which has, by the scandals
it has caused, crested the very revolution to which the re-
public owes its birth, we this day employed another species
of corruption, the worst of all, that of fear and of the moral
oppression of conscience. (Bravo.) No; it is from a pure
I and free source that the republic must and will spring.
Tranquilise yourselves, citiseus, and bear these words to
! your fellow-citiseoe without. (" We will; we will.") I de-
sire, we all desire them to and an echo in the public opinion
of Paris and of all France. We wish them to make known
to the republic the real sense of some words which have been
ill-interpreted, and which had neither the meaning nor the
extent attributed to them, and to let all citizens cease to he
alarmed at those words which may often give a false exprer
sion to the thoughts, in the multiplicity of signatures and of
affairs which my colleagues have to transact in the tumult of
events which surround us. Know it well, and repeat it to
these who are without, the governmental ilkhe+ republic feels
the two-fold necessity of troinquilising thopublie mind, once
in this conversation we hold togethecosed once again by a
proclamation to all the citizens of France—(applause)—a
proclamation which will (mantra its principles on the nature
institutions truly liberal, truly moral, truly conservative
of the rights and interests of all citizens, without exception.
A MEMBER—We are happy to hear such words. All
France should hear them.

this body of troops in not yet decided on, but General
Negrier in mentioned.
Serious disorders have taken place at Lille. Several
manufactories, threatened with destruction were
saved by the energetic attitude of the authorities
aEI National Guard.
'Tho Prt'Ule announces that the 24th regiment of
the line, at present at Verdun, has been ordered to
I'aris.

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The price of bread in Paris during the second
fortnight of March was fixed—the first quality at
31c. per kilogramme, and the second at 240.
The measures decreed by the government with re-
gard to the bank of France were favourably viewed
on the Bourse; it was only regretted that they had not
been adopted immediately after the revolution, as
the financial disasters that occurred would probably
have been obviated. Speculators, however, looked
forward with much anxiety to the reply of the provi-
sional government to the national guard, which was
not known at the clo4e of business.

PAW% WOWS 14. New Lean, —; Th,“ per Cents., 00;
Pleas, 73; Rottruend-lialf, num, Vivi% 1040,
70 ; do. 1512, ; Do. Threes.—; —; Du. Twoond.a.llalt, —;
Naples Ranted, —. Roman Loan, —. Treasury Bard's, --.
Hank Rheims, 1,450. kottonure au London, rmht, 23 75.
ii.ciArs vs.—Park. and Orleans, 714, *Rollin, 405;
Bonn and User,. 205; Avignon and Marseilos, 300; ntrasbourg
MA Rile, A; 54. ilentrs Pierson, 217 44 ; Arol.lll and Boulogne, —.
Dortaux, 400; Nerd, 1134 25.

M. LAW ARTINII —Tou wish republic and liberty to be one
word. (Yes, yes.) Otherwise the republic-
would be a lie,
and we wish it to be a truth. (Bravo.) We desire to have
a republic which shall make itself be respected and loved by
all, and (eared by none but the enemies of the country or of
the institutions. (Bravo.) We wi.th to form a republic
which may be the model of modern governments, and not
the imitation of the faults and misfortum of past times. We
adopt their glory, but repudiate their anarchy and errors.
Help us to found and to establish it. Vote according to
your conscience ; and if, as I do not doubt, your comciencee
are those of good citizens, the republic will be founded by
your votes as it has been founded, by the arms of the people
of Paris. (Bravo.)
The deputation withdrew, to the repeated cries of
" Long live Lamartine." " Long live the Provisional
Government !" " Long live the Republic !"
M. Istaritz, the Spanish ambassador to the court of
London, has, on his passage through Paris, had an
interview with M. Lamartine, in which he repeated
In the name of the Queen the assurance of her desire
to continue her friendly relutior.s with Prance, as
already stated by her eh.rrpf el'aPiree.
General ltedeau, commander of the first military
division, has renounced the whole of the salary
chargeable on the Ministry of the Interior, and aban-
doned the third of his pay as general, for so long a
time as the treasury may be in a state of embaraas-
meat.

Letters from Madrid, of the 10th, Rey that the Duke
do tffuekshurr went on the eve to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, to communicate to the Duke de Soto-
mayor the circular of M. de Immartine, relative to
the policy which the French republic intends to adopt
in regard to foreign powers. The Minister of Foreign
Affairs, the Duke de Sotomayor, after having atten-
tively listened to the reading of this document, told
the I de Glucksberg he would give it an answer.
Two important circumstances guarantee the
continuation of tranquillity 'in the capital and
provinces. The minister of the interior declared,
in the sitting of the Chambers of Deputies of the 9th,
that the events of France, as well as those of any
other country, could have no influence over the in-
ternal affairs of Spain, and would occasion in that
country no change of p ,licy or system. The Pro-
gressist press, on its part, Ms ) declares, to avoid all
misinterpretation of its sentiments, by the organ of
the StWio, that the throne of Isabella has nothing to
fear from the Progressist party.
The Chamber of Deputies was then discussing a
project of law to authorise the government to estab.
lish a penal code.
It was also presumed, in the Senate, that the dis-
cussion relative to the pr.* ct of authorising govern-
ment to suspend the Art. 7 of the constitution would
be terminated that day. The articles of the amend-
ment were to be discussed on the ensuing day. M.
Santaella was speaking, at the departure of our
cowrie r.

M. Duvergier d'Hauranne has published an ad-
dress to his constituents, the electors du Cher. It
occupies five columns of the Conslitutionnol.
Not satisfied with the reduction of the day's work
to ten hours, as regulated by the committee of the
Provisional Government, the operatives are now en-
forcing a further reduction to nine hours, the wages
being undiminished. Yesterday a hand of above a
thousand paraded the Quartiers St. Martin and St.
Denis, aid visited several factories. A deputation
of some thirty entered each factory, and forced the
muter and the men to subscribe an obligation
to limit the day's work to nine hours. The master
was also informed that he must neither reduce his
number of men nor close his establishment undo pain
of the destruction of his machinery. In one ease which
fell within my own knowledge the master remonstrated
saying that he had already complied with the regula-
tions of the government by hmiting the day to ten
hours. The deputation, smiling at his simplicity, in-
formed him that they were themselve, in this case,
the government, and would not fail to enforce obe-
dience to their decrees. The master was compelled
to submit.

Advice. from Naples, of the Bth, say that the
ministry which was then spoken of was to be com-
Need as follows: Foreign Affairs, Prince Cariati,
President of the Council; War, Winspear ; Interior,
Savarese; Agriculture and Commerce, Cianciulli •
Finances, Valet." ; Justice, Cacalk ; Public Works,
Guisa.

Advice/ from Forli say that Cardinal Ferretti left
Rome on the 6th, unknown to any one.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

DEMONSTRATION OF THE
NATIONAL GUARD.

TURIN.—By letters intent, of the let March, the
Ch; valier J. Provino di Collegn3 has been ri.instated
in the enjoyment of ail the rights belonging to one of
the king's subjects.
Advices from Rome, up to the 6th inst., say that
all was perfectly quiet in that city, but that the news
from France still excited the most lively interest. In
the court of the French embassy the Duke de Broglie
read the four first decrees of the French republic,
amidst universal applause. The constitution was
expected for the 11th inst., and is demanded on all
sides with impatience. All place the grevtest
relience in Pius IX., who has not allowed himself
to be alarmed by the news from France ; he thinks
alone of promoting the welfare of his country.
Ltetwati.—The fonr battalions of the civic guard
were convoked for the evening of the 7th ; they were
to be on duty successively till a late hour of the'
evening, to form patrols, and to occupy the principal
posts.
On the preceding day a courier was said to have
arrived from Rome, with dispatches concerning a
political league between Tuscany, Rome, and Turin.
These dispatches have most probably retarded the
departure of the Marquis Tanay de Nerli, secretary to
the embassy of Tuscany, for Turin. It was generally
thought he would leave on thatday. The steamer which
arrived on that day at Leghorn, from Naples, an-
nounced that Monsignor Code, ex-confessor of the
king, had been arrested at Castellamare.
Tho Patric of Florence, of the Bth ir.st., says that
a subscription has been opened at the French legation
of Florence for the widows and orphans of the victims
of the days of February.

INSURRECTION IN WURTEMBERG.
A peasants' war has broken out in Wurtemherg. The
castles of Niederatetten Ochriugen, two signorial resi-
dences of the Princes of Ilohenlohe, have been burnt to
the ground, and so has the ancient castle otlaxthauaen,
as well as the castle of Assumstadt, the family re-
sidence of the barons of Ellrichshausen, and the
castle of Schwaiggern, the residence of Count
Neipperg, son-in-law of the King of Wurtemburg,
The lives of the inhabitants have been spared.
Two thousand men have beta ordered, in all haste,
from Ludwisburg and Heilbronn, to quell this in-
surrection.

CHINESE JUNE.—A communication, dated Jersey,
March 14, says, the Chinese junk,
.from New York, is just
arriv -d here ; some say short of pru,sioms.
Tint BBIDOE AT TILE FALLS or NiAGAILk.-1
have been intensely interested to day in listening to a de-
scription, from a well-informed and eornpetent source, of tke
great bridge over the gorge that separates the dominions of
the queen from those of the prnident. If any thing could
be wanting in the attraction of the country about Niagara to
turn thither the tour of the multitudes in the pleasure season,
this bridge will supply it. Its thousands of tons of weight
of the strongest iron-cord that the ingenuity of the iron-
master con desire, find a safe support in wrought-iron
anchors, built in the solid rock, one hundred feet below the
surface, an that, before it could yield, the very rock-bound
earth would forsake its tenacity. A large wooden frame-
work is to he placed so that no undulating motion can be
experienced. In full sight of the cataract, the surge of angry
waters far beneath, the sullen storm-beaten rocks all around,
the quick locomotive will put forth all its quickness to rush
beyond the peril of its journey. This glorious work is already
begun, the money for its cost paid in and available, the ex-
cavations commenced, and the contractor is to pass on horse-
back by the middle of next June. Its firmness is to be such
that, with all the burden of a powerful locomotive and a
long attendant train of can, it is not to vibrate one inch in I
the centre. The railway is to occupy the centre, two car-
riage ways on either side, and two footways. What a mag- !
niticent spectacle this road in full nee will present. A road 1
of this kind ow!. the Menai Straits in Wales is famous for !
the daring displayed in its construction. That over the I
Niagara will soon he world-famed. It will he an iron link
of civilisation between the ruling powers of the world, and
will never be severed. One of the first thoughts that pre-
sents itself in reference to the construction is as to how the
wires are to be thrown across. The steamboat now used
below the Falls is to take over two cables, to which strands of
iron are affixed. These are to be drawn over till two ropes
of iron are drawn over, on which a temporary pathway is to
be placed; and when I inquired where workmen could be
found that had nerve enough to work effectually under such
circumstances, the answer, so characteristic of American
strength of action, was, "Oh, there am always plenty of
Yankees who have both the courage to work there and the
ingenuity to work well." The great railway in Canada,
which is to connect with this mighty work, presents some ad-
mirable features. Its grade is over twenty feet, and a very
large proportion of the distance is on a straight line. On
one line, perfectly straight, ninety miles are laid out. All
the highways of the country are to pus either over or under
the road, by depression or elevation, as to be entirely re-
moved, so that there will be neither obstacle nor hindrance
to a flight which will put more life into the provincial do-
minion of her Britannic Majesty than it has yet seen. " That
same" province of Canada West has yet to see great days.
England expends millions on sections of her great dominion
far less worthy of her notice and fostering care. " The last
link" is completed when this great bridge of the cataract
@hal'. have been completed. From Boston and from New
York an unbroken line is presented, and the day is moon
coming when some correspondent of yours will delineate the
incidents of • thirty hours' journey from the metropolis to
Detroit. Such are the movements and the progreasss in
support of which al! may unite, and which mark ao buy
day.—New reek Courier and Enquirer. 1

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