The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-25 00:00:00

NEWS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, FRIDAY, Il A.M.
The people of France are beginning to learn that
there are other despotigns besides that of kings.
The notorious circular of M. Ledru Rollin has
not proved a dead letter. His pro-consuls already
begin to show that they have no intention of
allowing the powers conferred upon them to be-
come dormant. M. Emmanuel Arago, a brother, we
believe, of the late astronomer-royal and present
Minister of Marine, is the commissary of M. Ledru
Rollin at Lyons. It appears that this functionary
has issued edicts anticipating and surpassing
those of the goverment itself. While the
government has decreed an immediate con-
tribation to the state of 45 hundredths of
the year's taxes (the said taxes meanwhile being
exacted), M. Emmanuel Arago has, by a decree pub-
lished under his sign manual, decreed against his
subjects, the Lyonnais, an immediate impost equal to
four contributions.
By another ukase the pro consul of Lyons ordains
that no one shall go out of the city with more than
500 francs in specie. " Thus behold us," says a
letter from Lyons, published by La Presse,"brought
I back to '93!

" Oar municipal council was dissolved on the 27th
of February. The private authority of individuals
was substituted for it. Whither are we going? God
alone can save France. The most enormous sacrifices
are nothing to us, but arbitrary power crushes us. Since
' the 28th of February we are subject to the will of
an individual. Better live in Russia than under such
a regime."
Letters from Bordeaux report that serious disturb-
eases broke out there on Monday last. The autho-
rity of the government commissary was set at
defiance, and it would appear that he was compelled
to fly for safety. The occasion of this movement was
the dismissal by the government of M. Chevallier,
who had hitherto been the commissary of the depart-
ment, and who had rendered himself eminently
popular in the discharge of his official
duties. On the report that he was superseded
by M. Louis Latrade, the erte of the commerce of
Bordeaux, waited upon him and testified their deter-
mination to maintaiu him in his authority, and to re-
ject that of the new c numissary sent to supersede
hint. This measure was supported by the populace.
who refused to listen to M. Latrade when he at-
tempted to add, ess them. The hotel, meanwhile,
where the new commissary was lodged, was attacked,
anti the fury of the people was not appeased until M.
Chevallier and the Mayor of Bordeaux presented
themselves at the window and assured the people
that M. Latrade had withdrawn. The most disas-
trous consequences were feared if M. Latrade would
net quit Bordeaux.
We hare formerly reported several instances of
disorganisation among the troops, manifested by the
determination of the privates to resist their superior
officers, and to insist upon their dismissal. These
disorders continue, and we have to-day reports of
the complete disorganisation of several regiments in
the provinces.
At Maubeugo the eight curassiers met and de-
mamanded the immediate dismissal of the Lieutenant-
Colonel, a chief of squadron, a captain, and an ad-
jutant. _ -

The colonel endeavoured in vain to reatme order.

The soldiers then went to the prison of the barracks
and released some of their comrades who were confined.
At C.,snbrai a similar requisition was wade by the
Lth Light Company, hut 30 of them having been
confiz.ed is the raison, two of their comrades
attempted to release them. They were ar-
rested by the gendarmerie, wiihout resistance,
but when in the streets refused to be conducted by
the gensdarmes, a considerable crowd assembled, and
some collision between the gensdarmes and the
soldiers took place ; the latter were at last induced by
some of the National Guard and their comrades to
submit quietly.
The Provisional Government, by a decree of 22nd
March, have established a police force under the title
of " Guardians of Paris." Their duties will be similar
to those of the London police; they will not be
armed ; they are to be sufficiently numerous to allow
one for each space of 60 houses. The expenses are
to be paid by a tax on all proprietors or tenants whose
rent amounts to more than 401. a year.
From a general statement of the wounded in the
late revolution received into the public hospitals of
Paris, it appears that the number taken in was 638,
viz. 621 men and 17 women. Of these, up to the
19th. 278 had been discharged cured convalescent,
and 98 died. There now remain 233, viz. 246 men
and 7 women.
On Wednesday M. Bernard, a tailor of Nlontrouge,
went to the provisional government and presented a
gun which bad belonged to the Count de Paris, but
was taken from the Tuileries, and afterwards came
into his possession. It is of solid silver, and beauti-
fully wrought. He had been offered 2,000 francs for
it, but he preferred depositing it in the Hotel de
Vile, as a trophy won by the people. The provisional
government was highly gratified by this act of probity
and right feeling.
The police-officers, whose numbers have been in-
creased three-fold, have, withinthelast few days, seized
a great quantity of muskets, pistols, and other arms,
which had been procured by tLe people on the 23rd
and 24th February, and neglected to return to their
respective mairies. The police have also been equally
active in arresting the men who have set up on the
boulevards and other public places, roulette-tables
and other games of chance, or rather of fraud, whereby
they entice the workmen and others of the same class
of society to play, and thus rob them of the little
money they have to support their families.
The trials of the men accused of acts of pil-
lage and robbery during the days of February
commenced yesterday. Three were brought to the
bar of the correctional tribunal. The first was a young
man named Adams, who had previously been convicted
of theft, and who was the only one arrested of seve-
ral who forced their way into a shoemaker's shop in
the Hue de I'llotel de Vile, and carried off all the
shoes and boots. He was found guilty, and condemned
to six months' imprisonment. The second was a
working man, named Letranger, aged 60, detected in
the act of carrying off thirteen pieces of silver from
the Tuileries. He confessed the fact, but protested
that he did only what he saw many others do. Ho
was sentenced to be imprisoned for three months.
The third was Derdin accused of taking three
blankets from the Hospital of La Charity, but he
maintained that they were given to him by the Sisters
of Charity, and was acquitted.
On the 14th February, when the Duke de Nemours
fled from the Chamber of Deputies, he gave, whilst
changing his clothes, his purse, watch, chain, and
some trinkets, to a man who chanced to be near him.
This man wished to deliver them, but had not time.
This fact having come to the knowledge of the pre-
fect of police, he issuedfa search-warrant, under which
the man attended at the police, declaring he was
ready to deliver up the things, which he had only
detained in order to restore them to the duke, in sup-
port of which he produced copies of letters he ILA
written to the ex-Queen. On this, hie honesty beins,
apparent, he was discharged, and the things deposited
at the police. The man is a working watchmaker.

The news we announced yesterday from Lombardy
is also confirmed. Italy has shaken off the domina-
tion of Austria. At .11ilan, on the 18th, at half-past
one in the afternoon, immediately after the announce-
ment of the news of the great events which had
taken place at Vienna, the people assembled and pro-
ceeded to the palace of the governor, demanding the
immediate abolition of the police, the liberty of the
press, the national guard, a provisional regency, and a'.
national parliament. On these conditions they would
consent to maintain the foreign troops, provided they
maintained a neutral attitude. The police attempted
to suppress this movement; the Mayor Casati, who
has been already conspicuous in several poupular
movements, then placed himself at the head of the
people, who commenced forthwith to unpave the
streets and erect barricades. Men, women, and
children, high and low, rich and poor, priests and
laymen, all joined heart and hand in the work. One
account states, as we reported yesterday, that the
Viceroy had fled; another says that he was blockaded
in his palace by the insurgents.
A report given by La Paine says : "A very serious
and bloody combat has taken place between the popu-
lation and Austrian troops."
The Viceroy Archduke Regnier took flight, but
was seised by the people of Brescia.