The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

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mAlor-iasereal, end that the serjeants have themselves re-
hired to give these blanks. It is probable the same pro-
ceeding has been resorted to in the other legions. Does es
remotest endeavour to form a foto, national guard, in a
secret thought which it is easy to foresee ? But, however
that may be, it will be impassible to lead the opinion of the
nation astray relative to the diapositions of this civic militia,
whom affections government has so well estranged that for
some years they have not ventured to convoke it on any
great !solemnity.
It se said that such of the mayors of the arrondisse-
ments of Paris as belong to the opposition, have sig-
nified their intention of resigning their functions if
the government should attempt any resistance to the
intended banquet of the 12th arrondissement.
A report prevails that M. Rambuteau, Prefect of
the Seine, as well as M. Deleeeert, the Prefect of
Police, has resigned.
MM. Gauged and Duchatel had a long conference on
Sunday with the Minister of Justice.
The Paris journals teem with reports relative to
the proceedings which have been taken in connection
with the late violent debates in the chamber. We
select the following from the Preue:
Id. 0. Bernd, and more than 100 members of the
Left, have reproached Mesan. Gunot, Duchatel, and
Hebert with doing in these days what Messrs. Po-
lignac and Peyronnet dazed not to do. This is
an historical truth. The Polignae ministry came into
power en the Bth of August, 1829. General Lafayette
was then taking a journey in Auvergne and Dauphind.
The most ardent speeches were delivered on these occasions.
They must have deeply wounded the Reetoratlon, but they
were not interdicted. At a banquet given at Grenoble, M.
Augustin Finer, brother of M. Casimir Peeler, and M.
Film Faure, now a peer of France and consulter of the
Court of Caseation, were present. But the mast solemn and
emphatic protest against the Polignac Ministry was issued at
Lyons, where M. Pennell', the mayor of this great city in
1830, and afterwards deputy, was at the head of the popula-
tion. On September Bth, a grind banquet was given to the
General at the Isle of Barbs, near Lyons. The following is
a tingle passage from the speech of Lafayette ;—" I am
proud and happy, gentlemen, that my coming to
this greet and patriotic city lug affoeded it another weirdos
for manifesting its constant hatred to oppression, its lose for
Una liberty, its determination to resist all the attempts of
counter-revolutionary incorrigibility." (Unanimous applause)
And yet such great manifestations were not interdicted, and
two months before the revolution, that at Vendanges de
Bourgogne, at which M. Guisot attended, took place.
Several of o,ar Paris contemporaries have the fol-
lowing :
The ministry, on Saturday, had agents employed to bring
up member, to vote. Thus, M. Champeuet, who had only
lately been operated upon for ophthalmia, and was still suf-
fering, and M. Gouty, who was also indisposed, were seen
to arrive, the first with his eyes bound up, and the second in
a black cap.
The National says :
On Friday evening, when the vote which will mark so
sadly in parliamentary hiatory the day of the 1 lth February
was know in the capital, sixty officers of the National Guards
assembled to deliberateon the attitude which it was right to
take with respect to the vote of the chamber, and of the re-
sistance which the opposition is de!ermined to make to the
ministerial ukase which has interdicted the banquet of the
12th arrondissement. The draft of en address to the oppo-
sition was presented to the meeting, an address by which an
offer is made to the honourable members who propose to pro-
test against the arbitrary exercise of power, by going to the
banquet, to escort them, and facilitate their arrival without
disturbance, without disorder, if not without agitation, to
the place chosen for the banquet. It was said yesterday
afternoon at the chamber that this eddy's was about to be
signed in all the legion. of the PariFian National Guards.
Tho funds sustained their prices yesterday in the
Passage do ft/pets, with rather a tendency to rise.
The Threes were done at 74 30.

The usual receptions at the Chateau have been
quite re-established, and the king appears to enjoy
his former health. He drives out each afternoon to
Neuilly, or some of the other royal pleasure grounds
near Paris, where he walks.

Advice* have been received from Naples to the
7th. The report we have already given of the retire-
ment of the royal troops from the Sicilian ports,
including that of Caatellamare is confirmed. No
news had arrived from Messina. Tranquillity con-
tinued at Naples. The solemnity of inaugurating the
new constitution was expected on the 9th inst.
A correspondent at Naples, Feb. 3, writes :—" For
the last week all has been festivity and rejoicing in
this city. The king has employed himself in visiting
the several parishes where distress prevailed, and
left considerable sums with the priests for the benefit
of their poor. The national guard has behaved ad-
mirably, the young men of all the first families
enrolling themselves, and to that force we owe the
security we enjoy. Some thousands of desperadoes
were intent upon pillage, and must lament the order
maintained by the citizen soldiers. A grand ball is
to be given this evening by the Real Accademia, to
which the king and all the royal family are going.
Next week there is to be a ball at court, which will
probably be the last appearance of the queen before her
accouchentent. Sicily is really the king's' difficulty,'
and it is rumoured that his Majesty means to solicit
the mediation of France or England to settle matters.
The amnesty, just published, gives free pardon to the
Romeos, and all compromised for political opinions
since 1830. The Countess of Charleville died sud-
denly, the day before yesterday. She bad taken her
walk in the public garden that afternoon in her usual
health and spirits. Aneurism of the heart was appa-
rently
the disease." The new theatrical censors of
Naples have declared the stage open to all productions
that have been hithprto admitted for the last 25 years,
or that have been or will be represented at Rome,
Florence, Turin, Milan, or Venice ; and also to all pro-
ductions of classical Italian authors. The tragedies
of Alfieri, very few of which had been hitherto per-
mitted, on account of their liberal character, are thus
approved without exception.

We have already stated that the municipal body of
Venice had resolved to present a petition to the Im-
perial Government in favour of political reform. The
Augsburg Gazette, ander the date of Milan, the let
inst., says :
A deputation of fire members of the central congregation
of Venice has arrived this day, to present to the Viceroy a
petition, containing the ezvaul of the wishes and wants of the
nation • they are similar to those which the congregation of
Lombardy had deposited at the foot of tbe throne. The Vice-
roy received the members of the deputation with infinite
goodness, and graciously assured them that his Majesi
the Emperor would always be disposed to listen to all
reasonable desires, when presented under a legal form. But'
eight or ten arrests have taken place here in the higher
I clams of society, though the journals have announced up.
wards of forty. Papers have been found at the residences
of the persons taken into arrest, which not only inculpate
Many individuals of Lombardo and Vienna, but also several
foreigners. Arrests have in consequenee taken place in other
countries than in the Lombardo Venetian kingdom.
Letters from Verona announce the arrest of Count
Emilci daring the night-time. his crime being that
of having transmitted to Milan the money collected
at Verona fur the wounded and maimed of the 3rd
ult. He has been transferred to the fortress of
Legnago.

Letters from Geneva, of the 11th, report that M.
James Fasy, the president of the council of state, and
the other members of that body, had resigned. The
cause of this proceeding is reported to be the refusal
of the grand council to entertain certain measures
against the freedom of the press proposed by M.
James Fasy, in consequence of his having been
injuriously misrepresented in the Journal de Oenive,
u he thinks, by the instigation of some foreign
agent. The grand council, recommending that the
ordinary tribunals should be resorted to to afford re-
dress if the law had been transgressed by the journal
in question, had passed a resolution that the members
of the council of state should be requested to with-
draw their resignations. If this request should not
be complied with, it was expected that another council
of state would be elected.