The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-06 00:00:00

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474.] LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1848. [THRBEPENCE.

Among all the reforms which have bees mentioned,
nothing has been said respecting the detestable pass-
port system.
Count Rambuteau, late prefect of the Seine, has
enrolled himself in the national guard of the let
arrondissement of Paris.
A miniature revolution has taken place this morn-
ing, in the regime of the Paris omnibuses. The con-
ductors have assembled, and ordered all these ve-
hicles, without exception, to stop running ; have
sent them off their stands, forcibly stopped
them in tho streets, and compelled the pas-
sengers to evacuate them, and carried away
the wooden houses (bureaux de controle), erected
on the Buulevaids. The objet of this move-
ment is to enforce an increase of wages from three to
four francs per day. There is no public force to re-
press disorders of this sort.
On the arrival of the news at Berlin, of the move-
ment in Paris, the King of Prussia recalled Baron
d'Arnim, who is provisionally replaced by Count
Hatzfeldt as charge d'affaires.
It will be remembered that the Infante Don Hen-
, rique, exiled from Spain for political causes, has been
for some time domiciled at Toulouse, with the
duchess and his wife. The Infante has addressed
the following letter to the provisional government:
Tot:Loves, FEB. 29.—Gentlemen,—A great and glorious
event has occurred in France. The nation has again asserted
its forgottea rights, and consecrated them by a new revolu-
tion, which renders her worthy of the great name she has
always borne in the history and in the sympathy of the
Latium To a majority, libiweldde, and eareopt, which,
judging the French people by it itself, endeavoured to deprave
the honest and democra•ic manners of the country, France
has responded by the imprescriptible use of her suvereignity.
Glory to her !
I should be wanting in the principles I have always
professed, and my most inmost convictions, if, on so
solemn en occasion, I, the constant victim of a
faction which still oppresses my country, but of which
the last hour will soon arrive, were not among the first to
salute the notional government that France has founded, and
applaud loudly the cra of happiness which is about to open
on all the nation., c shl particularly no Spain.
My most ardent d..ire is to see France and Spain closely
allied, and that the tic; that nature has formed shall here-
after he indissoluble. Such is my most heartfelt wish, and
that I am sure of that democratic p..rty in Spain to which I
am proud to belong, and whose ranks I have never deserted.
Thus I am resolved to accept no post in my country until
my hopes shall be realised. And it I could save myself from
the anathema that the people have fulminated with just
reason against the greater number of kings, I could also
render myself worthy of their attachment and confidence, so
that without being alarmed at my origin, they may ever
consider me as one of their most devo ed children, one of
their moat zealous defenders. I am only ambitious of the
glorious title of citizen. (Signed) Examen MARIA.
The provisional government yesterday received the
Court of Cessation.

The members of the Court of Cessation were fol-
lowed by the Professors of the Faculty of Medicine
of Paris; M. Carnot, Provincial Minister of Public
Instruction, was among the members of the pro-
visional government who received the deputation.
A decree appoints a commission for national recom-
penses, of which the citizen Albert (an operative),
member of the Provisional Government, is president.
This committee will hold its sittings at the mairie of
Paris.

Another decree deo'ares that, inasmuch as no
French soil can be admitted to be trodden by a slave,
a committee is appointed to prepare, with as much
expedition as possible, an act for the emancipation of
all slaves in the French colonies. The following are
the members of this committee:—

Victor Schoelcher, president,
Mestro, director of the colonies,
Perrinon, chef de battalion of mirine artillery,
Gatine, avocat aux conseils,
Gaumont, ouvrier horloger,
Secretaries, C. C. Wallon and Percin.
These decrees will appear in the Moniteur to-
morrow. _ _ _ _ _

We have just been assured that M. Emile de Ge-
rardin, proprietor and editor in chief of La Presse, is
appointed director-general des poster (post•master-
general.
The Duke d' Harcourt will be named ambassador
at London.
The Archbishop of Cambrai has addressed acircular
to his clergy, directing them to acknowledge the
republic.
The Bishop of Rennes has published a pastoral
letter, calling on the curia to advise order and the
immediate payment of the taxes.
The drawing of the conscripts has proceeded quietly,
and even in Brittany, where it is often a cause of
collision, it has passed off quietly. A Breton peasant
in the dress of the country, and in the name of his
compatriots, has waited on the Minister of the Interior
to declare the adhesion of the peasants of Bourbon-
Vendi.e
Bou-Maza, who, as we have already stated, is cap-
tured, had, after his evasion, gone to Nantes, and
from thence, on let March, to Brest, under the name
of Adolphe, and describing himself as one of the
Tunisian pupils who are now at Paris. Two officers,
and two subalterns, recognised him, having seen
him at Vincennes. He at first denied his iden-
tity, but on a physician being gent for to examine his
wounds, he avowed himself, declaring that it was not
his intention to have quitted France. He was
arrested in an auberge.
M. Bugeaud has arrived at Exadeuil, having been
furnished with a sate-conduct by the Minister of War.
Public credit is rapidly being re-established. The
Bank of Orleans has resumed its business, and has
announced that, from the 4th March, it will continue
to discount as heretofore.
The Bank of Bordeaux has announced that it has
received considerable sums of money, which will enable
it immediately to resume its discounting operations.
The republic was
.proclaimed at Marseilles on the
Ist. In the morning all the troops and 10.000
national guards were under arms. At 10 o'clock, the
mayor, surrounded by the municipal council. rind the
I civil and military authorities, went to La Canabiere
between two files, formed by the civic companies.

In presence of officers the order of the preceding
evening was read, which announced a general review
of the troops, and the proclamation of the new go-
vernment.

The mayor also read a proclamation, published by
him, inviting all the citizens to rally round the re-
public and support it with all their energy, and thank-
ing them for the order they had preserved.
The archbishop of Lyons has addressed a circular
to his clergy, exhorting them to show and recommend
obedience to the existing government and fidelity to
the republic, and tells them that the flag of the
republic will always be for religion a flag of pro-
tection.
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Yesterday, at :3 o'clock, General Subervie, Minister
of War, thanked the officers of the staff who, since the
25th of February, had been on duty in his cabinet, for
their devotion and zeal. One of the officers replied, ,
and stated that they only wished to give an
additional proof of their entire devotion to the govern-
ment. " I know it," answered the general ; " and I
can only say that I will endeavour to deal out the
most impartial justice from the simple soldier to the
general of division."
Circular of the Minister des Affaires Etrangen to the
Diplomatic Agents of the French Republic.
Sir,—You have learned the events of Paris the victory of
the people, its heroism, its moderation, its Calm order re-
stored by the concurrence of all its citizens, as if in this in-
terregnum of visible authority reason alone was the govern-
ing power in France.
The French revolution is thus about to enter on its last
stage. France is a republic. The French republic needs no
recognition to exist. It is thus by natural and by national
right. It exists by the will of a great people who only relies
on itself for its title. The French republic, however, de-
siring to enter into the family of regular governments as a
legitimate power, and not as a phenomenon, the disturber of
European order, it is advisable that you communicate to the
government to which you are accredited. the principles and
tendencies which will hereafter direct the foreign policy of
France.
The proclamation of the French republic is not an act of
aggression against any form of government in the world.
orif government have with all people their diversities as
legitimate as diversities of character, of geographical situa-
tion, and of intellectual development, moral and mate-
rial. Nations have, like individuals, different ages. The
principles which rule have different phases. Monarchial,
aristocratical, constitutional, republican governments are the
expression of those different degrees of the maturity of the
genius of nations. They demand more liberty as fast as they
feel themselves' capable of supperting more i they de-
mand more equality and democracy in proportion as they
are inspired by more justice and love for the people. It is a
question of time. A people lose themselves in anticipating the

war. If Europe be mudent and jolt, there is not one of
these words which does not signify peace.
Receive, sir, the assurance of my very high esteem.
LAKARTINB,
Member of the Provisional Government, and
Paris, March 2, 1848. Minister of War.

The Augsburgh Gazette, under date of 'Vienna,
Feb. 25, says: "Letters from Italy give accounts of
'revolutionary scenes on all sides. Blood has flowed
at Bergamo, and disturbances have taken place at
Cremona. At the theatres the Austrian officers were
thrown from the boxes into the pit. At Placentia
several arrests took place at the theatre, all those ar-
rested loaded pistols in their pockets."

We have received other letters and journals from
Madrid of the 28th, besides those which we have
already given. The article of the constitution which
Narvaez proposes to suspend is the 7th, which is to
the following effect :
No Spaniard shall be arrested, nor made prisoner, net
Immediately after this project of law was read, the
taken from his house. No man's house shall be visited
unless in sane case, and in the forms prescribed by law.
Immediately after this project of law was read the
Cbameer met in the bureaux to name a commissioner to
report thereon. It is supposed it will be discussed or even
approved to-day, on account of the ureency of the measure.